Welcome back everyone. Uni is back so it's gonna be pretty hard to update, but I'll try to be as consistent as I can manage. Now, here's the next chapter, enjoy!
To Levi-Hall-9279, thank you and I'm glad you've been enjoying so far! It only gets better from here, so make sure to stick around.
The two rafts sailed well into the evening, with the team only reaching the other side of the mountain thanks to unfavorable winds before night came. Though they were still on course, the winds had slowed the little convoys down. To top it off, the ocean was getting choppy as the moon began to rise. Jack's whispers about Cunning had also returned, but they remained surprisingly and mercifully quieter than before.
"We should really get more Mizus," Raf suggested as he leaned over the edge of the boat. He wasn't the greatest with sea sickness.
A weary Jack grunted something resembling a "yeah" as he continued to steer the boat along the coastline, now arriving near the smaller swamp. Nearby, Miko was also having the same issue, though she was out further from the coast.
"Man, night sailing is really not fun," she puffed. The lack of sail on her raft meant she wasn't as hindered by the wind as her friends, but that also meant she had to put in way more work to keep the raft moving, relying on paddles and the rudder to direct its movement and keep the momentum. Thankfully, the sea was choppy in the direction towards their base.
"If I don't have biceps the size of Bulkhead's after this, I'm gonna be mad," she ranted to herself as she gave herself a rest from paddling, allowing the sea to take over.
"And how are you two lovebirds doing?" the Asian teen asked her feathery friends. She'd kept the doors of the trap open just in case they needed the Argys in a hurry, so they resigned to sticking their faces out and letting the wind flow.
Raven chortled happily as Miko scratched behind his head. She was beginning to warm up to the giant birds of prey by the minute, making her even more excited to find a high level one.
As she petted the carrion bird some more, she noticed a shape moving in the water. Peering over the edge, she wondered if it was a Megalodon. With some experimenting, she found that normal sharks didn't mind the boat so long as it didn't capsize or shoot at them, though she refused to test it with an Alpha. So, she had gotten more comfortable with sailing in open ocean, as the sharks would just go on about their day. At most, they would stalk or threaten her on the surface with some teeth gnashing before rejoining their pack.
This shape wasn't doing anything of the sort. It stayed deep, where Miko could barely make out its silhouette in the dark moonlit waters. From what Miko could currently gather, this animal was much bigger than a Megalodon...
"Ooookay, maybe it's time to head back near the coast," she nervously muttered as she got on the paddles and rudder again. She waved a torch at her friends as she hollered, "Guys make way! I'm coming in closer!"
The house boat slowed down, allowing for Miko to start pulling in closer. Looking back over the edge, she noticed the shape was gone, no movement to be detected. Sighing with relief, she was startled by Raven and Dove's shrieking as she looked back down.
Just in time to see a giant brown missile come up from the depths under her raft.
CRASHHHH!
"SCRAPPPPPP!" the girl screamed as she was tossed into the air like a ragdoll. The Argents were just as surprised as they started flapping their wings on instinct, escaping through the open dinosaur gates and into the air.
"MIKO!" shouted the boys as all the pack animals aboard the house boat scrambled to their feet. Everyone aboard watched Miko flop backwards back into the ocean along with the remains of her raft. Beside her, a huge fin the size of a small sailboat stuck out from the surface.
"Get her out of there!" Jack ordered the Argentavis, using a whistle and pointing to where she landed while Raf was already boarding Razor Wing. The Argys were already scrambling to fly down and retrieve their alpha, but she hadn't surfaced yet...
Below the waves, Miko regained her vestibular senses after the wild jolt she had just experienced. Kicking her way towards the surface, she stopped cold as she looked beside her.
Locking eyes with the puny creature, the Leedsicthys' giant black eye stared at the little organism with indifference. The only thing it wanted to do was get rid of a potential challenger to its massive self. It hoped that the foolish one near the land stayed there after witnessing how easily it dismembered the other of its kind.
Disregarding the human in the water, the largest fish in natural history swam away as if nothing had happened. It had sent its message, and it would do the wooden creature well to heed it.
Miko watched the abyssal titan retreat back into the dark waters with a mix of awe and fear. She could have been eaten at any moment, and there was a period where she was genuinely scared for her life as she looked into the giant black saucers. But the disinterest in its eyes was hard to miss, and she had a feelign eating her wouldn't be worth the energy expenditure to something so large.
Her lungs rudely reminded her to suspend her disbelief before she drowned as she kicked her way to the surface and took in gasps of air. Once she surfaced, she heard Raf's voice call out, "There!" as the heavy wingflaps of Dove filled her ears.
The giant carrion bird dropped Miko on the hardwood floors of the house boat as she started coughing up water. Jack and Raf were beside her instantly, helping her expel the fluid from her body.
"Easy, just keep coughing," Jack advised as the teen finished her coughing fit.
"Thanks for the quick save guys," she thanked, sitting up against a railing.
"Anytime, we're just glad you're okay," Raf said with a thumbs up. "What was that though? It looked like a giant whale and gave us a heart attack."
"Yeah, you gave us a heck of a scare. And I really do mean US." Jack jolted a finger over at the animals who had formed a circle around them, faces creased with concern.
Miko took a bite out of the cooked meat Jack offered her. "I'm alright guys, chill out. You're teaching the dinosaurs how to have anxiety," she joked. "I didn't get a good look at it with the spyglass, but it wasn't a whale. It was this weird fish and it was huge! Like bigger than the Brontos that we see on the beaches," she hammered off excitedly.
"It could have swallowed me whenever it wanted to, but it just kept staring at me with these huge black eyes. He just swam off after a while, so I don't think he cares about eating humans. He was giving the house boat the stink eye though," she noted, still in awe at the sheer size of the creature.
That last bit of information unnerved the boys. The last thing they wanted to do was trek back to their house on foot just because an angry fish capsized their boat.
"Maybe we should stay here for the night. At least until we can see more than a few inches into the water," Raf suggested. Poor visibility might have been what made the big fish so bold in the first place, so sticking to land until the sun came back seemed like a smart idea.
Jack mulled the idea over in his head. "Alright, if Miko's fine with it, we can wait it out until the sun comes up."
The Japanese girl nodded at them. "Hey, my health only went down by 40 because I stayed underwater for too long. I'm all for it." A smirk streaked across her face. "Plus, who knows what's out here? Maybe we'll find some new animals."
Though Jack was apprehensive about going back in the swamp, he knew this was much different than last time. Now, they had some more muscle to help protect each other. So a few moments later, the caravan of prehistoric pets bar a scared Razor Wing stepped off the houseboat and into the marshy swamps.
Knockout's feathers stood on edge as he remembered the humid and wet terrain. He advised his fellow Raptors to be extra cautious, lest the jumping ones snatch them away without warning. The pack remained extra vigilant at that news.
The Sabers and the Argys may not have been familiar with the area either, but seeing the biggest pack in the tribe as apprehensive as they were told them all they needed to know.
The team trudged forward with torches in hand, passing by some Dimetrodons that were sleeping the night away, as well as a few giant frogs as they bounced around.
As they passed between some marsh trees, they came to a clearing with what looked to be a waterfall. Up ahead, they spotted a Sarco brawling with something in the water. Out of curiosity, Raf threw one of his torches near the battle to see the opponent.
What the team saw was not what they were expecting. The animal fighting the Sarco had a long snout filled with needlelike teeth. It was roughly about the size of a Carno, but a bit smaller and thinner. White stripes ran up and down its green back, where they ended at its tan underbelly. By all means, it looked like a mini-Spinosaurus without the spine.
"Hey Raf, didn't Helena's dossier talk about these?" asked Jack.
Flipping through the book, the science whiz found the dossier they were looking for. "Yup, right here. That's a Baryonyx. And it says here that... oh, this guy might be a bit of a gem. Check this out."
Passing the book around, the three humans read up on the strange dinosaur, and were impressed by Helena's observations. The strict aquatic diet of the Baryonyx allowed for it to heal almost supernaturally quick, and it would do fantastically in both water and land protection thanks to its nimble yet lethal stature. The diet would have been a problem had they not harvested and stored a beached Megalodon's meat in a preserving bin.
"Let's go catch us a fisherman," Jack said as he readied a bola. It's a stretch, but he reckoned the Spinosaurid was just small enough to still be bola'd.
Just as he said that, the Sarco went down with a deep bellow as the Bary gave its neck a rough shake, ending the struggle with the swift motion. Instead of feeding on its kill, the piscivore had no interest in the corpse as it started walking away, leaving the body for the scavengers.
"Here goes!" hollered Jack as he moved Arcee forward, just enough to gain the Baryonyx's attention as it gave a sucked in roar. The dino came charging straight forward, but soon fell on its feet as Jack threw the bola. Once the fish eater was on the ground, the other two started firing on the beast with tranqs, the other dinos ready to hold it down should it escape.
The Baryonyx could do nothing as it tried to claw and scratch its way out of the trap, its world starting to go dark. 22 tranq arrows later, it stopped struggling as the head fell to the ground, loud snores coming from its snout.
"Well, that went way smoother than I pictured anything in the swamp ever going," Jack quipped as he put away his crossbow. "Now all we need is fish."
"I can head back and grab the meat with Whisper," Raf proposed.
As soon as the words left his mouth though, a familiar lunging sound came from his right. The only thing the youngest human could do was widen his eyes and turn his head before he was snatched off the back of Whisper, much to the Sabertooth and the entire tribe's shock.
"RAF!" screamed Miko as the Kaprosuchus started making off with its prize. "We gotta get him back!" she hollered as she kicked Knockout and the pack into high gear, the light of his torch getting smaller and smaller...
"Hang on buddy!" called Jack as he too whistled the Sabers to follow and leave the Baryonyx behind, hoping beyond hope that they would find their friend in one piece.
Raf struggled to break free from the iron grip of the Kapro as he felt panic and pain starting to build in his chest. He had dropped his torch a ways back, so he didn't have anything to swing at the reptile as it started to tighten its grip.
"Ahhhhh!" he screamed out. Desperately, he brought his left arm to his face and activated his implant. His right hand was caught in the prehistoric gator's mouth, so he used his nose to tap the icon he needed in his inventory.
Raf thanked Miko inwardly for making them all swords before they had set sail, as he now grasped the steel weapon in his left hand and started swinging.
"Let go of me!" he demanded as he brought the blade down on the Kapro's head. When it didn't release him, he did it again, and again, and again, each time feeling the grip on his abdomen loosening. Finally, with one mighty stab into its brain, the crocodilian stopped moving as it slumped to the ground, the death grip instantly evaporating once the body hit the floor.
The youngest member of Team Prime painstakingly rolled out of the reptile's mouth, his sides on fire from having been chewed on like a carcass.
"Urghh! Everything's on fire!" he moaned as he lay on his stomach, trying to recover as much health as he could. "This isn't looking good," Raf muttered to himself, glancing to his last 42 health on the implant interface.
"Okay, just need to stay calm. Jack and Miko will find you, we'll tame that Baryonyx, and we can all flip off the swamp while heading back to see Spitfire and the rest," he tried to calm himself.
Unfortunately, the night was still fairly young, and he couldn't afford a run-in with another aggressive animal. Tired, he sat beside the crocodile corpse for some time, attempting to regain his health by patching up his wounds.
"Please let the sun come up faster," he whimpered as he shakily got to his feet, sword still in hand. He hobbled his way over to a rock, using his pickaxe to gather what he needed for a torch. Grabbing the bare minimum he needed, he assembled another torch to see what was around him. He immediately regretted his decision.
The fires of the torch lit up the area around him, scaring away some of the smaller creatures of the night. But a series of hisses sent a shiver down the boy's spine as he looked to his left. Approaching from just inside the torch's light radius, four gargantuan snakes slithered into view, baring their fangs and hissing at the free meal they had just stumbled upon.
Raf tripped backwards in fright, holding the torch in one hand and his sword in the other, waving both wildly in an attempt at intimidation. "Stay back! I'll do what I did to that Kapro to you guys too!" he yelled, though this only egged the legless predators on.
The Titanoboa quartet started closing in until they were within striking distance. Cocking their heads back, the ancient snakes got ready to release a mouth full of venom into the squishy little human.
"Nghhhh!" Raf hollered, but not from pain. The middle snake reeled back in agony as the blade of the sword cut into its neck, nearly impacting with its head. The other 3 constrictors angrily hissed at the human, with one getting right up into his face and feinting a bite.
In an incredible display of agility, the Titanoboa moved its head back before Raf's blade could connect, instead going around his back before wrapping itself around him. In seconds, the yellow shirted teen found himself in the coils of the snake, feeling the oxygen leaving his lungs as it squeezed harder.
"This is the end," he thought as his vision began blacking out. No Jack or Miko to come help with their family of prehistoric pets. No Spear or Fang to bail him out of this mess. No Bumblebee or Autobots to save the day and bring them all home...
"I'm... sorry... guys."
With that, his hand went numb as the torch dropped from his grasp.
HHRRAGHHHH!
The loud roar caught the Titanoboas by surprise, as they had let down their guard once their prey had been strangled. Just as the coiled snake was about to begin its feast, the crashing of trees warned it that something was coming. Unfortunately for the constrictor, it was not fast enough with undoing its coils, as a giant metallic horn pierced its scaly hide.
The snake instantly loosened its grip as the horn was elevated, dropping the human and impaling the boa even further as the attacker swung its head from side to side before tossing it away. The other snakes hissed at the new attacker as it shone in the fallen torch light.
The herbivorous beast shook its head to and fro, the large yellow light on its frill lighting up the night even without the fire as light. Its black body was tensed in a defensive posture, seeking to shield the strange organic creature as best it could. It used its shield-like head as a ward as the yellow lights running along its body flicked dangerously. It brandished the three horns on its head with vigor as it bellowed again at the attackers.
The TEK Triceratops was not completely sure why it was doing this. The legless ones had caught another meal, big deal. Everything had to eat after all. But the young bull Trike was confused when it heard a strange voice within its ventral processor.
"Got to... help Raf!"
The herbivore had originally chosen to ignore the messages. Perhaps it had eaten some bad plants during grazing that afternoon? It was probably the side effects. They would surely be gone by morning. But then, the beeps started.
"Beep boop boop beep bop!"
Something about the strange noises triggered something within the Trike. Experiences it hadn't remembered, species it had never encountered, but in the center of it all were the strange metallic bipedal creatures, and the small organic ones. Most importantly, the same organic that was now being choked out by the giant serpents.
"Need to... save him! Please, save Raf!"
So now the Trike found itself standing in a battle that was not his, defending a creature he had only seen in these strange hallucinations. It was committed to its cause now though, and he intended to follow through.
One of the Titanoboas made the first move, the one who had been hit in the neck by Raf's sword. The gargantuan reptile attempted to do the same trick its fellow boa had done to the squishy one and wrap its coils around the chest. The TEK Triceratops had watched what they had done though, and knew what was coming. Possessing speed and agility that was impressive for its size, the technorganic called the snake's feint, instead stepping on its head with its left front leg.
The reptile didn't even comprehend where it had made its mistake until the front foot came smashing down on its cranium, crushing the brain and leaving a foot shaped indent in its skull.
One down, three to go.
The bull roared as it felt a pain come from its side. Swinging around, it saw one of the other boas had flanked him while he was squishing his friend, now biting and coiling his tail.
Angrily, he brought his short metallic tail off the ground as the snake held on, trying to inject as much venom as it could manage. The reptile had the wind knocked out of it as the Trike went up against a nearby rock. With maximum effort, the black and yellow beast slammed the serpent against the rock repeatedly until its strength gave out.
The boa slumped to the ground, its stamina drained from the beating against the rock. When it looked up, the tired snake gave out a pained hiss as two sharp horns impaled its body. The dying serpent gave a final wheeze before its head fell in a droop.
The bull Triceratops swung its head, ridding its horns of the carcass as it searched for the other two snakes. With them nowhere to be seen, he sniffed the ground before his optics went wide.
Both snakes had managed to sneak up behind him again and take his rear while he was impaling their friend. Using the distraction to their advantage, the reptiles had made their way to the center of his body, and now had him in their grasps.
The Trike panicked as it smashed its body into trees, rocks, and even rolling on the ground in attempt to get the dangerous predators off, though the snakes held fast through all the punishment. The bull could feel himself getting weaker, the servos and muscle within him beginning to lose their function. He needed something sharp, and fast.
"Raf!" Miko called into the night. They had spent nearly an hour searching for their missing friend. Jack had ran back to the house boat to try to find something to help in their search, so Miko was scouting alone with the Sabers and Plume.
"He has to be here. He's gotta," Miko told herself. She knew her friend was resilient, but he'd been out there for so long with only his wits and tools to rely on. She hoped something hadn't found him in his injured state, otherwise he would be easy pickings for any hungry scavengers.
A crashing against some trees alerted her to a disturbance near the jungle side of the swamp. Thinking it was her friend in trouble, she booked it towards the source of the noise, only going faster as she saw the faint glow of a torch light.
"Raf! Buddy! Is that you out there?" she beckoned as she reached the sound's origin. Glancing around, she wasn't able to see anything even with her own torch. "Maybe it's just the animals," she said aloud, thinking the torch was the one he had dropped. "He's definitely been here though."
The Smilodons and the Utahraptor sniffed the torch, trying to hone in the scent of their missing Alpha, when a tree was heard being uprooted beside them. Backing away sharply, the pack animals were startled when the tree collapsed in front of them.
Turning to the source, Miko saw a strange yellow glow moving wildly. As she cautiously approached, she caught a full glimpse of the mechanical Triceratops as it tried to jeer 2 snakes off himself, one of them bleeding severely.
"Get him guys!" she whistled. Despite the situation with Raf's disappearance, she couldn't leave something this awesome to die to some flimsy snakes.
Grabbing her new sword from her inventory, the fearless girl ran into the fray, slashing at any scales she could as Plume and the cats tore in with teeth and claw.
The combined assault was enough to liberate the Trike from its captors as it felt the pressure loosening. The TEK creature quickly brought itself back upright as it watched the strange pack of swift hunters tear through the legless ones, a small organic coordinating their assault.
The Trike had little time to process the strange occurrence as its world started to shake violently, the effects of the venom finally coursing their way through completely.
As it gave into the sweet bliss of sleep, a certain yellow Autobot somewhere on the ARK began to follow suit yet again.
"Sorry kids, that's all I can do," the scout strained before stasis took him once again.
Miko jumped out of her skin as she removed her sword from the throat of a Titanoboa. Beside her, she heard the crashing of a large object as she whipped her head back towards the TEK Trike. It had apparently been lulled to sleep, the venom of the snakes having been too much for it to stand. Laying on its flank, it slept like a baby, loud snoring and all.
Bringing her torch light up to inspect it properly, Miko was impressed that more of these TEK animals existed. She was sure Arcee was just an anomaly, but here stood yet another biomechanical beast.
"That's badass," the middle teen commented as she inspected the flank of the dino, seeing her own reflection staring back at her. Not only that, the torch allowed her to see the yellow light of the frill as it reflected off a certain pair of nerdy glasses behind her...
"Raf! Oh man, come on champ, stay with me!" Miko shouted as she discovered Raf's unconscious body beside the glasses. Immediately taking action, the girl planted him firmly on Plume's back with enough space for her to sit too. The Raptor could take it.
After very briefly shoving a stack of Mejoberries in the Triceratops, the pack took off like a rocket, navigating as fast as they could back to the house boat. As they entered back into the swamp though, they found themselves seemingly running in circles, the mangrove trees providing no landmarks for them to use whatsoever.
"Come on! Where is that stupid boat!" groaned Miko aloud. Raf's torpidity was still crazy high from being suffocated, and his health was still ebbing away.
"Whisper, Strife, use your big noses and sniff our way back. We don't have much time," she said with urgency.
The Sabers sniffed for a moment, trying to remember where the boat actually was, when they cocked their heads up in alert. Instead of growling though at what Miko thought was a predator, they simply stared forward, eyes wide open.
"Really not the time to be dreaming guys, we've got a kid dying here!" she reminded them.
As she did so though, a long reptilian snout entered her torch light. After the last few encounters with ancient crocodilians, Miko already raised her sword, battle cry erupting, when she heard a shushing sound coming from behind it.
"Chill out! You want the whole Kapro population to know we're here?" Jack harshly whispered as he stepped out from behind the Baryonyx with Arcee. "Come on, the boat isn't far. We need to hurry though, otherwise the medical brews I made are gonna spoil."
Miko apologized and firmly nodded, following behind the lights of the TEK Raptor's body, their new Baryonyx keeping pace beside her. Its strange growls and gurgles weirded the pink streaked girl out a bit, but she was glad Jack had managed to add a new member to their growing prehistoric cacophony. Now they just needed to save their fellow Alpha...
Arriving at the house boat after what seemed like an age, Miko gently set Raf down on the hardwood floor as Jack went to fetch the med brews. All the while the dinosaurs huddled around with worry once again, concerned if their Alpha will pull through. Mr. Cuddles even licked his face several time in an attempt to rouse him awake to no avail.
Miko took a proper look at the boy's injuries now that she had the chance, and her face paled as she saw the pointed gashes and marks in the side of his abdomen from the Kapro. She also noticed though that parts of his body were bruised in a line, something only a crushing constrictor snake could pull off. She cursed herself for not being faster.
"Alright, it took me ages to find out that dollops meant 4 and handfuls mean 10, but I managed to throw enough together for 5 medical brews," the team leader informed as he returned. "Let's hope Rockwell's miracle drug is worth its salt," he added skeptically.
Carefully, he pulled the conveniently made glass bottle from his inventory containing the red liquid, and poured it into Raf's open mouth. Waiting a few seconds, they didn't see much change in the boy's status.
Miko's face was laced with anxiety as she pleaded, "Come on bud, stay with us!"
"Wake up champ, we need you," pleaded Jack as well as he added another few glasses worth of brew to the unconscious boy's mouth.
"Rrrgh," he began to groan. Though barely audible, it was enough for the two older teens to give double sighs of relief as Miko opened Raf's stats, finding his vitality increasing by the second.
"Ohhh man, that was scary," Miko chuffed.
Jack let go of a breath he didn't know he was holding. "More like heart attack inducing. I thought we lost him for sure." He then went back inside to put the last medical brew away for the next emergency they have. "Good thing that worked, I went through so many water skins trying to cook that stuff."
Miko chuckled at the light humor as they now just sat around and waited for Raf to wake up. The dinosaurs had seen their masters' relief, so they assumed that their young Alpha would be alright. Together, the unusual prehistoric family of sorts waited for the teen's awakening, which just so happened to happen just in time for dawn to come over the horizon.
"Owwww," grumbled Raf as he sat up. Still believing he was in the swamp, he felt for where his sword had fallen at to defend himself, when he felt the hilt of it slide under his hand.
"You dropped this, Gramps," Miko joked as she smiled across from him. Jack was behind her petting the apparently new Baryonyx when he noticed he was finally awake.
"Hey Killer, nice of you to come back to the land of the living," he japed as he tossed a piece of fish meat at the Spinosaurid, who gobbled it up with glee.
The Spanish teen blinked away the remaining grogginess as he sat up on his feet. When he opened his implant menu, he was surprised to find himself at 270/270 health again. "How'd you find me?"" he inquired.
Jack nudged the girl in the arm, stating, "I don't know. Care to enlighten us Miko?"
His rescuer nodded. "Well, Jack had gone back to the boat to make Rockwell's weird medicine, so I took a few animals to look for you for like an hour. After a while, I saw a torch on the ground, and when I got there, there was this huge mechanical Triceratops duking it out with some of the giant snakes."
Surprised and intrigued, the two boys urged her to go on, when she seemed to have remembered something. "Oh! One second," she said before jumping on Dove and flying back out to the swamp.
Some time passed, and the two guys got to work with whipping up a new raft while they waited for their friend. Then, from the mangrove trees, they heard some light footfalls coming towards them. They would have readied their weapons, had the new creature not been accompanied by the sound of leathery wings as Miko returned.
The TEK Triceratops majestically parted the trees as the emerging sunlight danced off its metallic torso, the built-in yellow lights accenting the natural light. His yellow frill glowed like a radiant sun in the early dawn.
"Is that... the Triceratops you found near me?" asked Raf in awe.
Miko smirked. "Yup, and if you see here," she started as she pulled up Raf's shirt, startling him, "He's probably the reason that you're still breathing. When I found him, he was fighting off two snakes after he killed another two. My guess is he came just in time to stop you from being strangled."
The Esquivel boy acknowledged her words with wonder as he walked up to the black and yellow Trike. "You know, he kind of reminds me of," he started as he held his hand out to the creature.
"My thoughts exactly," Jack chimed, clearly seeing the resemblance as clear as day. "All that's left is to do the deed."
With an affirming grunt, Raf went into the Trike's radial menu and went to change its name. With pride, he finished typing in the name and stepped back. "It's good to have you back Bumblebee."
Bumblebee gave a bellow of approval as he stomped his feet, asserting his proud stature. At level 238, he was most certainly a force to be reckoned with.
Trotting onto the boat, Bumblebee greeted the other animals with low grumbles and garbles, much different than the feverish speak of the pack animals. He especially took a peculiar interest in Arcee, whom he knew was similar to him as far as technorganic comradery.
He also couldn't help but... feel he had seen the blue and pink TEK Raptor before. Unknown to him, the strange nostalgia was reciprocated by Arcee.
Seeing the new addition getting acquainted alright, Jack coughed to garner his friends' attention. "Right, so me and Raf managed to make you another raft while you were out. Just, stick to the shore, alright? The last few hours have given us enough panic attacks."
"Right, right," complied Miko sheepishly. Until she was able to riding Mizu, she preferred the air. "We've been getting stalled long enough. Let's go home."
Putting the two Argys on her raft, the teen unfurled the sails as the winds blew more favorably towards Herbivore Island. Team Prime sailed into the sunrise as Raf quickly flipped off the swamp.
