Inside the small, red-roofed, blue colored Inn, Yoshi and Dr. Hoshi both sat on the stools by the bar table while the elder Ankylosaurus woman sat on a comfortable chair nearby. The atender was a young adult male orange Ankylosaurus, surprisingly looking a bit like Peppy Ankylosaurus.

Yoshi nudged Dr. Hoshi, and whispered, "Hey doc, is it me, or does the bartender look a bit like Peppy...?"

Dr. Hoshi gave Yoshi a shocked expression. 'Yoshi, you didn't know? This bartender is Peppy's older brother, Geppy Ankylosaurus! You see, he was born a few minutes before Peppy. And thus, he's the oldest member of Peppy's generation of Ankylosaurus - henceworth, why he has this job as a bartender." After explaining this to Yoshi, Dr. Hoshi turned around to see Geppy standing in front of him, smiling.

"Why, old Harryhausen! It's been a long time, huh doctor?" Geppy laughed, wiping the inside of a medium-side glass. "How's my younger brother, Peppy, doin'?"

Dr. Hoshi looked worriedly at Yoshi, and then turned back to face Geppy. "Well, you see...that's why we're here."

Geppy's happy-to-serve-you smile quickly turned into a concerned frown. "Something's wrong with Peppy, huh? Did he get too many bonks on the head again?"

Dr. Hoshi took off his lightblue glasses, placing them away and putting his right palm on his forehead, shaking. "It's worse than that, Geppy. Your brother has been...kidnapped."

Geppy gasped, dropping the glass, which shattered into many tiny pieces on the wooden floor. Everyone inside the Inn gasped, while the elder Ankylosaurus woman sighed and got up from her chair, leaving the Inn.

"You see, Geppington..." Dr. Hoshi began to explan, with everyone (including Yoshi) getting close to the highly intelligent purple Yoshisaurus to hear the explination of Peppy's kidnapping, "All was well a few days ago, until an armada of enemy Primi Koopas attacked Yoshi and Peppy...Peppy was taken, and Yoshi was determined to get him back...


Meanwhile, King Morton and his gigantic Koopa armada are heading out of the Triceratops Cove, and are approaching the entrance to the fiery volcanoes of...the Lethal Lava Volcano area of Dinosaur Land.

"Ummm, boss, is this such a good idea?" Asked a random Primi Koopa in the army, scratching his head with his bone in his right hand, "I mean, what if we all burn up in the volcano's heat?"

King Morton let out a sigh, and turned around to face his army. "I told you already, for the seventh time, we are going to alert all rulers of this entire continent so that I don't have do deal with that pestering, green Yoshisaurus."

"Yeah, about that...why did we kidnap a dull-minded Ankylosaurus for?" A random snake-like Cobrat in the army pointed out, bringing up the matter of Peppy.

King Morton shook his head. "Enough questions for now. We have to go and spread the news to all of the leaders." The powerful, tyrant King of the Koopa marched forward into the blazing heat of the first volcano of the Lethal Lava Volcano area, and his wary army followed, trying to withstand the strong heat.


Back in the small, red-roofed, blue-colored Inn owned by Geppy Ankylosaurus in the small and sparsely populated Ankylosaurus Village in the vast desert barren area of Ankylosaurus Land, Dr. Hoshi has finished explaining the situation of Peppy's kidnapping. Geppy lets out a sigh, and he throws away the remains of the broken glass into the nearby garbage bin.

"So what you're saying is that they're planning to use my brother for an unannounced cause," Geppy paused, rubbing his chin. Dr. Hoshi nodded back, and Geppy looked down at his own, orange feet. He sighed. "Poor Peppy...I know his frequent stupidity and peppiness can sometimes annoy me, but...he's my brother." Angrily, he slammed his left fist on the table, startling Dr. Hoshi, Yoshi, and everyone else in the Inn. "And I won't let my brother suffer such a horrible fate!"

It was then that the elder Ankylosaurus woman walked in, and she approached Geppy, as well as Yoshi and Dr. Hoshi. "There is a way, but...you'll have to go through a very difficult path." She pointed at Yoshi.

Yoshi tilted his head, confused. "I don't get it. What are you tryint to explain?"

The elder Ankylosaurus woman coughed a bit, ad she then patted Yoshi on the back. "Young Yoshisaurus...you'll have to go to the sacred tomb of King Ankylosaurus, who is forever trapped inside his Pyramid. You'll have to go southwest from here to reach it, and that's accross the sprawling desert. I advise that you get as much supply and rest here, because once you go out into the desert towards the pyramid of the king of Ankylosaurus Land, you'll never come back..."

Yoshi gulped, but he got over it, nodding as he listened carefully to the wise elder Ankylosaurus woman. Dr. Hoshi and Geppy both looked cautiously at each other, and then suspiciously eyed the elder Ankylosaurus woman. Everyone else listened in awe as the elder Ankylosaurus woman explained to Yoshi on how to progress further through Dinosaur Land by going through the dry deserts of Ankylosaurus Land...