The Dino Rogue

"Talking"

:Talking through the Dino Daggers:

"Phone calls or recordings"

'Thoughts'

Tyranno and the other Dino Knights ran as fast as they could to Uluru, which was a large rock formation comprised of reddish brown rock surrounded by miles of flat desert.

"There it is, Uluru," Allo pointed it out as though he were introducing a friend to someone.

Rena looked up at it in awe. "Whoa, cool,"

Brachio nodded "Uluru, also known as Ayers rock, is a sandstone rock formation,"

"… and the locals believe it is home to all kinds of spirits, although it's actually chock full of life force," Allo interjected just as the ground trembled and a geyser of life force spurted out of the top of Uluru rock, making it look almost like a whale.

"Ah, Fossils, it's started already,"

"Thought we'd find you here," They all looked around at the sound of Styraco's voice and saw the Cerazaur brothers bounding towards them.

"Glad you made it," Tyranno did a quick head count. "We're still missing Tricera, Sabre, Ptera, Naomi, Theo and the Dino Weapons,"

Allo looked at Tyranno and asked in a deadpan tone "Dino Icthyo is here too?"

Tyranno looked at him "Yes, weren't you paying attention when I said all of us were here,"

"…she still mad?"

Tyranno sighed and said "Let me put it this way, we literally had to drag her kicking and screaming out of the ocean when she found out you were still on the same planet as us let alone that we needed her help finding you,"

Allo hissed between his teeth. "Sounds like 'little sister' is still pretty steamed,"

Rick looked up at Allo "Dino Icthyo is your sister?"

Allo shook his head. "No, not really, that's just something I call Theo when she's out of ear shot or I want to rile her,"

"I'm right here…" Theo and the Dino Weapons ran up and Theo crossed her arms and glared at Allo. "…and just where in the tar pits have you been?"

Allo held up his dino claws to try to placate the female Dino Knight. "I know you're angry, you have every right, but right now we need to keep that life force away from the Dragozaurs,"

Mammoth looked up at the sky "Speak of the devils…"

They all looked up and saw a myriad of familiar glowing pods falling from the sky to crash to Earth close to Uluru rock.

When the dust cleared a squadron of Dragozaurs stood up and looked around. One of them saw where they were on the ground and the geyser on life force was at the top of the butte and shouted out "Hey, we missed!"

"Gee, that's too bad," the Dragozaurs looked at Tyranno as he looked around at everyone as they grouped together. "Alright everyone, power up!"

They all transformed into their Knight forms and shouted their usual battle cries.

"Dino Tyranno, Power of the Ancients!" Tyranno's sword materialized in his hand when he was fully transformed. "Mega Blade Broadsword, Dino Knight ready!"

"Dino Brachio, Power of the Ancients!" Brachio caught his ax as it shot out of his back when he transformed. "Ax of Valor, Dino Knight ready!"

"Dino Stego, Power of the ancients!" Stego rotated his plating to test it out. "Stego Skeletal Revolution, Dino Knight Ready!"

And so on and so forth until they were all ready to fight and all combatants charged at each other. The exception to this was Allo, who was still in his dino mode when he ran up to a group of three Dragozaurs and knocked them all down by ramming into them before snapping the neck of another one in grabbing range with his jaws.

One of the one he had knocked down looked up at him while the other two struggled to their feet. "Hey, who is this guy?"

One of the others, one with a deeper voice, said "Looks like a new Dino Knight,"

The third one, this one had a more screechy voice, asked "Where did he come from?"

Dino Allo released his captive, looking almost disappointed. "Seriously, they don't remember me?"

Tyranno called over from where he was working his way through a mob of Dragozaurs with his sword to get to Dark Dragon. "I think you need to leave survivors for that, Allo,"

Dino Allo shrugged "Oh well," then he roared "DINO ALLO, POWER OF THE ANCIENTS!" Allo transformed into a tall Dino Knight, his Knight form was much like Tyranno's original one except the crest on the Allosaurus' head folded along his shoulders, like a color on a shirt, and his helmet was shaped differently.

Something came out of his back and unfolded into a scythe with a large wickedly curved blade which he spun in his hands to display his skill with the weapon.

"SCYTHE OF THE STORM, DINO KNIGHT READY!"

As soon as he was in his Knight form Allo charged forward, slashing at the Dragozaurs and making life force—what the Dino Knights and Dragozaurs had in place of blood—spray everywhere and be absorbed by whatever it landed on.

The humans that were watching were both awestruck and horrified by this; usually the other Dino Knights just beat up the Dragozaurs until they retreated, with the exception of the few times when they destroyed one of their foes—like the Drago clones or Gigano Dragon—but Allo was cutting through the Dragozaurs like wheat and severely injuring them, even killing one or two if the fact some of them blew up and disintegrated was anything to go by.

Kaito clenched his fists "Now I see why the others were worried when they found out he was back,"

Rena nodded her agreement "Yeah, he's just plain brutal,"

"I don't know, the others seem to be rather aggressive too," Naomi covered her mouth to keep from screaming when she saw Brachio get knocked down and stomped on by a Dragozaur until Sabre wrapped his whip around its neck and launched it towards a crowd of Dragozaurs that were closing in on Tricera. "Why are all these dinosaurs fighting each other?"

Rick put a hand on her shoulder to calm her, and to pull her out of the way when a Dragozaur fell next to them. "Those aren't dinosaurs, they're Dragozaurs. They travel from one planet to the next and feed off the planet's life force until everything on that planet dies and now they're on Earth,"

"And the only thing that can stop them from destroying Earth is the Dino Knights!" Kaito finished.

Naomi was appalled; it was bad enough these extra-terrestrials were trying destroy the Earth but any fossils she had ever dug up—especially the Dino Knights—were like family to her and to hear they were in danger…

"Oh, we'll see about that…" Naomi clenched her fists and marched out of her hiding spot; as mentioned before the Dino Knights were like family to her and like an over protective mother she would do her best to protect them.

She ran right up to where a Dragozaur was stomping on Brachio to prevent him from getting up and pointed at him shouting "Hey, you there!"

The Dragozaur looked at her confused "Huh?"

Brachio uncovered his head from when he was shielding the vulnerable area from his earlier pummeling and looked at the woman "Naomi, don't…"

But Naomi continued with her fist held up towards the Dragozaur. "JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? YOU CAN'T JUST CRASH LAND ON OUR PLANET AS THOUGH YOU OWN THE PLACE AND SLOWLY KILL IT BY TAKING ITS LIFE FORCE! "

She was about to say more when the Dragozaur put his foot down from where it had frozen mid step when she started yelling at him and said "Oh look, it's another one of them humans. I wonder if they really taste as bad as that one guy said they do?"

Another Dragozaur stomped up to them "He lied about destroying the human that yelled a lot, then he left again and when he came back he was dressed as a giant panda bear, maybe he lied about everything else,"

"Guess I'll have to try one and make sure," the Dragozaur opened his jaws and lunged for Naomi who screamed in terror until Brachio tackled the Dragozaur to the ground.

"Run Naomi!"

"Uh… r-right," Naomi ran back to where the kids were only to be followed by the second Dragozaur.

Kaito and Rick, being gentlemen, had pulled the girls behind a rock when they heard an explosion followed by a yelp. When they looked to see what had happened they saw the Dragozaur limping away with life force oozing out of his leg and Diana atop her horse holding a smoking gun.

She looked at Naomi "Next time you want to try that you might want to make sure you can back it up,"

Naomi smiled nervously and nodded "Right,"

Diana cocked her gun and spurred her horse out onto the battle field. The horse swerved around the fighting Dinosaurs as if he does it every day.

By this time, Tyranno had made his way to ledge Dark Dragon was standing on, watching everyone fight. "Hello again, Dark Dragon,"

Dark Dragon just chuckled "I was hoping you would come, Tyranno. I have a little surprise for you and your crew and it just means all the more that you will get it first,"

Tyranno held his sword at the ready, every sense he had was telling him something was wrong. "Why do I get the feeling I'm not going to like this surprise"

Dark Dragon chuckled again "Well, since you're here how about I give it to you right now?"

He opened his wings and a swarm of Gloom Bats flew out. Tyranno cried out in surprise when one latched onto his face. He tried to pry the bat off but its claws held tight and he was starting to feel weaker.

At first Tyranno thought the bat was draining his energy but his energy was the same, now that he thought about it it felt like the time Dino Ramph reformed him and Tricera into Ultimate Dino Knights only he was getting weaker instead of stronger.

'What's… happening… to me?'

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The other Dino Knights and Kaito looked up when Tyranno shouted and saw him fall off the ledge he was on, trying to pry something off of his face as Gloom Bats swarmed around him.

"Tyranno!"

Rena looked up when Kaito shouted and saw what had happened. "Oh no,"

Tricera ran over to try to catch Tyranno and saw his friend was getting smaller as he fell and that's when it hit him; Tyranno was shrinking! "Hang on, Tyranno, I'm coming!"

Tricera sprinted over and got there in time to catch Tyranno, but he had already shrunk to the point where it was like holding a toddler and he was still shrinking. Tricera also noticed Tyranno was changing as he shrunk.

"What's happening to you Tyranno?" Another bat latched onto Tricera's face, forcing him to drop Tyranno as he clawed at his face to get the bat off.

Dark Dragon laughed darkly "The same thing that will happen to all of the Dino Knights,"

The bats swarmed around all of the Dino Knights who did everything they could to keep them away.

Arch froze when he heard a feminine scream behind him and prayed it wasn't who he thought it was as he turned around to see… "THEO!"

Dino Icthyo clawed at her face to get rid of the bat that had latched onto her like a leech as her body glowed like it normally did when she powered up and she started to shrink and change.

Arch growled and ran over to her shouting "Don't you fucking touch her, you filthy bats!"

While he sprinted to his crush's rescue, the other Dino Weapon's went to help the other Dino Knights.

Pachy went over to Brachio and shifted into his Spike Sword weapon mode and linked onto Brachio's arm so he could slash at the bats while Kenty went to Stego so he could use his Skeletal Drill weapon mode.

Triblades was swinging his sword to fend off the bats and any Dragozaur that tried to take advantage of the distraction the bats provided when suddenly there was an explosion off to the side and one of the bats that was flying towards his face exploded.

After he watched the mangled flying mammal fall and saw another bat fall to the same fate he turned in the direction the explosions were in and saw a young woman—younger than Naomi but older than Kaito, Rick and Rena—on a horse shooting the bats.

"Don't let them latch onto yer noggins! That's how they got the rest!"

Triblades watched her ride off to shoot at more bats. "Who was that?"

Allo sliced a few bats in half with his scythe and said "That's Diana, she's my… Ah!" a bat managed to drop down from above and latch onto his forehead.

Diana turned when she heard Allo shout and shrieked in horror when she saw the Gloom Bat attached to his face. "ALLO, NO!"

"Diana, stay back," Allo wheezed as he fell down on all fours as the Gloom bat did to him what the other bats were doing to the others.

A few feet away, Arch and Theo lay on the ground next to each other because a bat had grabbed onto him while he was focused on saving Theo, they were now half their normal size and still shrinking fast.

In a fit of desperation, Kaito ran over to where Tyranno and Tricera had fallen and was about to try to shake Tyranno awake but stopped; it wasn't a Dino Knight he saw on the ground, it was a tall, well-built man wearing clothing that was much like Tyranno's armor.

Despite the appearance, he somehow knew who it was but he couldn't believe it. "T-tyranno?"

The man slowly and moved his arm to look at Kaito with vibrant green eyes. "Kaito?"

Kaito jumped, it even sounded like Tyranno, which left no doubt about it; this was Tyranno. "Tyranno is that you?"

"Yes Kaito, it's… me," Tyranno stared at Kaito for a moment before he realized something was wrong, not only did he feel strange but either Kaito grew an awful lot or Tyranno had shrunk.

Tyranno looked down at his hands and gasped, he had human hands, Tyranno was human!

Just on the other side of Kaito they heard screaming that sounded an awful lot like Tricera's. They both looked and saw a tall man with dark hair and brown eyes sitting up looking himself over and running his hands over himself like he had fire ants crawling over him.

"AHH! What happened to me?"

Kaito stared at the man, trying to make sense of everything. "Um… Tricera?"

Tricera looked at Kaito. "Kaito, help me, I'm human! How did I get like this? Wait, maybe I'm dreaming," Tricera pinched himself and looked around. "No, maybe this might work…" he slapped himself.

Tyranno grabbed his friend's wrist before he could slap himself again. "Tricera, calm down,"

Tricera gawked at him "Tyranno, you're human too? Now I know this is a dream," he grabbed Tyranno by the shoulders and shook him "Quick, hit me! I wanna wake up!"

Tyranno refused to hit his friend but someone else came up and clocked Tricera across the head so that he fell down.

The man who had hit him, a tall man with dark hair and blue eyes, stood over them and simply said in Allo's voice "For the record, he did ask for it," he wandered off to the side muttering "Damn, I've been waiting to do that" while he shook his hand.

Tyranno and Kaito watched him go before looking around to see what was happening to the others.

In the midst of the battle, Theo had sat up and started screaming like she had had a horrible nightmare she hadn't fully woken up from and when Arch tried to comfort her and saw they were both human he looked about ready to cry.

Brachio saw what had become of their affected comrades and immediately took charge of the situation. "Dark Dragon is trying to turn us into humans. Sabre, get the humans and anyone that has been turned human to safety,"

"On it!" While twirling his whip to keep the bats away, Sabre gathered the humans and the Dino Knights that were turned human and lead them to an alcove in the side of Uluru. "Stay here you guys, we'll deal with the Drago-dorks,"

Another bat latched onto Mammoth while he was trying to keep them away from Brachio and they flew up at him instead.

In the midst of all this Stego was starting to lose his cool "That's it, I've had just about enough of this! Stego Skeletal Revolution!" Stego caused a small cyclone that swallowed up most of the Gloom Bats and pushed them back towards their master, leaving only a small amount for them to deal with.

While the remaining Dino Knights were fending off the Gloom Bats, two Dragozaurs forced their way past Sabre to the humans and the Dino Knights that were turned human.

Out of habit, Theo started forward, ready for a fight, but Tyranno told her not to.

"Theo, get back,"

Theo stopped but it was too late, the Dragozaurs recognized the human woman before them as the female Dino Knight that always made fools of them.

One of the Dragozaurs grinned and stomped up to Theo. "Ha ha, not so tough now, are you, Dino Ictheo?"

He swung his tail at Theo as the woman braced herself for impact, knowing that in her smaller, weaker form it would severely injure her, maybe even kill her, but there was nothing she could do about it.

"THEO, LOOK OUT!" a flash of purple appeared in front of her and they all heard the Dragozaur's tail hit something with an audible crunch sound.

Theo's eyes widened in horror as she saw Arch in front of her, crying out as he was thrown against a nearby boulder. He slumped to the ground unmoving and that's when it hit her; Arch had taken a hit meant for her and now he was hurt, badly.

"ARCH!"

She ran over to him to see if he was alright along with the others that were in the alcove. "Arch! Arch! Answer me dammit!"

Theo tried shaking him roughly to rouse him so Rick and Rena pried her fingers off of Arch while Allo held her away from him. "Theo, calm down, you might make his injuries worse,"

Theo struggled at first but stopped when she saw they were right.

Diana dismounted from her horse and held out the reigns. "I know First aid. Could someone hold Zodiac for me while I check him over?"

Rick grabbed the reins from her and she knelt down in front of Arch and examined him. "Hmm, not bleeding out of his ears… got a 'goose egg' forming on his head here but it doesn't look too serious…" She took a small flashlight out and shone it in his eyes.

"…he's showing signs of a mild concussion, but that's not enough to put him out so why isn't he more responsive?"

She ran her hands up and down his arms and legs and flexed his joints to check for injuries until she came back to his torso and ran her hands up and down it, causing him to cringe and whimper.

"That hurt?"

By now the other Dino Knights had driven off Drago Wing and the Dragozaurs, forcing Dark Dragon to go with them, and came over to where the rest of them were.

When Pachy and Kenty found out what had happened they were worried about their fellow Dino Weapon. "Is he going to be okay?"

Diana stood up and went to retrieve a first aid kit for her saddle bags "My guess is he injured his rib cage, but there's no way to be sure until he's properly looked at. I can't do much for him here but if we had a way to carefully move him we can tend to his wounds more properly at my place,"

Kaito rubbed his neck "Shouldn't we, um… get him to a doctor?"

Rena elbowed Kaito in the side "It's not like we can take him to a hospital, Kaito,"

Ptera swooped down and landed next to them, luckily she was able to out fly the Gloom Bats. "What's going on?"

Mammoth-who was now a tall man with dark hair, tan skin and pale blue eyes- told her "Those Gloom Bats somehow turned us all human,"

Ptera looked at all of her now-human team mates in disbelief and Tyranno nodded. "The Dragozaurs tried to attack Theo and Arch acted as a human shield and now he's hurt… badly. Diana here says she can help if we had a way to safely get him to her place. Think you can carry him, Ptera?"

Ptera considered for a moment whether or not she could carry a severely injured person without hurting them more before she looked at Diana and said "Where do you live?"

"Well then, I guess I don't need this just yet after all," Diana put the first aid kit back in the saddle bag and pointed towards the mountains "My house is up by the High Country, across Briar Bowl and…"

Ptera looked at her like she suddenly started speaking a foreign language so Allo looked at Stego and Brachio "You guys remember the quarry you found us in?"

Brachio nodded "Yes,"

Diana covered her mouth "Sorry, forgot you lot aren't from around here. That quarry is actually practically in our backyard, if that helps,"

"I'll show you where it is, come on, Fly Girl," Stego took off running to get a head start while Ptera carefully picked up Arch.

"Come on, Arch, let's get you fixed you up," She cradled the injured young man in her arms like a baby as she took off.

Tyranno called Stego back "Stego, bring Diana with you so she can show you guys where she lives and be able to help Arch as soon as you get there,"

Diana looked at them then at her horse "What about Zodiac?"

Rick held up his hand to volunteer "I can bring him back, I'm good with horses,"

Diana looked him over, saying "I wouldn't doubt that, but do you know where to go?"

Rick hesitated then let his hand drop down to the back of his neck "Guess not,"

Allo went up and took the reins from Rick "I'll bring him back, you guys go ahead, I'll catch up,"

Diana smiled at him "How much did you learn from those lessons you were eavesdropping on?"

Allo adjusted the saddle's stirrups to accommodate his longer legs. "More than what those spoiled brats you were giving the lessons to did,"

"Oh come on, those two are not…" she started to defend whoever they were talking about but gave up "Okay, they are spoiled brats but as long as their father pays what he owes, and doesn't sue us for trespassing if we so much as touch his fence there isn't much I can do about it,"

Stego stomped up to Diana. "You coming or not?"

Diana hesitated before climbing onto the Stegosaurus' back and holding onto one of his back plates as he took off.

Once they were gone the remaining Dino Knights divided the group of humans and Dino-humans amongst themselves to see who would ride with whom; Naomi rode on Sabre's back, Mammoth and Rena rode with Brachio, Rick rode with Toro, Tricera rode with Centro, Theo rode on Kenty's back, and Styraco carried Tyranno.

"Well, this is awkward," Tyranno wasn't used to riding on another Dino Knight's back like this; usually he was the one that let their human friends ride on his back.

Styraco said over his shoulder "I know, but try to bear with it until we get there,"

And with that they all took off in the direction Stego had gone, following Allo on Zodiac at first but they all passed him when he suddenly turned and started cantering up a path that wound around the side of Uluru rock.

Tyranno saw this and shouted "Hey, Allo, where are you going?"

Allo called over his sholder as he slowed the horse to a trot. "There's still life force gushing out up there. I'm going to try to stop it like we came here to do,"

"Hold on, we'll help,"

Allo stopped Zodiac and tried to hold the bay gelding steady when he started to trot in place and chomp at the bit. "No, I can handle it, you guys go see how Arch is doing, I'll be right there,"

Tyranno thought about it and nodded "Alright, let's go,"

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Meanwhile

Diamond Ryugu was furious as she bellowed at her troops. "YOU INCOMPETENT FOOLS! HOW DARE YOU FAIL ME YET AGAIN!"

As usual Drago Wing kissed up and begged. "Please, your Eminence. It wasn't my fault…"

"SILENCE!"

Dark Dragon merely stood there calmly. "Actually, it wasn't a complete failure. More than half of the Dino Knights' forces has been turned human, one of which was severely injured by one of the Dragozaurs, and it is only matter of time before the rest of them will join their comrades in a state in which we can destroy them at our leisure,"

Diamond Ryugu's glowing green eyes curled as she smiled in the shadows. "Hmm, it would seem this plan wasn't a complete loss after all, aside from the fact you bunglers lost the life force!"

Drago wing cowered but Diamond Ryugu was too busy thinking out loud to pay him any heed. "With the Dino Knights as pitiful humans their destruction will be all too easy and then the Earth's life force will be mine! ,"

She chuckled darkly to herself before giving an order "Dark Dragon, I want you to return to Earth, find the Dino Knights and complete your task,"

Dark Dragon smiled "With pleasure… and you will do well to remember your end of the bargain for when I do," He slowly sunk into the now liquid floor beneath him.

Drago Wing looked at his Mistress with concern "Your Greatness, you said you only agreed to those terms because Dark Dragon and the Dino Knights would destroy each other. What if Dark Dragon pulls this off?"

Diamond Ryugu said in a low threatening tone "How many times must I tell you to SHUT UP before you actually do so?"

Drago Wing flinched when he realized she was really getting pissed off at him and bowed "Forgive me, your majesty,"

AN: chapter 3 folks, hope you enjoyed. Comments, suggestions etc. are welcome. Any flames with be fed to Dark Dragon or Diamond Ryugu.