CHAPTER 4

ARRIVAL

In The Great Valley, it was a beautiful day. The bright circle was shining down brightly, and there were a few white puffies floating in the sky. There were two swimmer dinos, one male and one female, grazing on the lush green grass of the valley.

Suddenly, there was an explosion of light that appeared 20 feet away from them, which surprised the two dinos. Then a misty blue circle formed. Both dinos just stared in fear at this strange blue circle. Then, seconds later, a black mass shot out of the circle and came skidding to a halt 50 feet away. Both dinos cried out in a panic as they ran away as fast as they could from this strange sight.

Inside KITT, everybody was recovering from their reemergence from the time vortex. Kitt kicked up some dirt as he skidded to a halt roughly 50 feet away from the vortex, which immediately closed up behind them.

"You were right, Michael. That WAS a rought re entry!" Devon commented from the front passenger seat.

WHOO WHOO "I TOLD you so, Devon!" KITT said matter-of-factly.

"Whoa... What a RUSH!" RC commented from the back seat.

"Well, no matter! We seemed to have arrived at our destination..." Devon said as he looked outside.

"KITT, scan the area for our friends..." Michael ordered.

KITT activated his outside scanners and extended his range until he found what he was looking for. "I've got them, Michael! About three quarter miles due south west." KITT said as he displayed the amourphous blobs on his inner monitor.

"Well, then, let's go say 'hello', shall we!?" said a smiling Michael as he stepped on the gas to make KITT speed off towards where the dinosaurs were gathered.

Near his sleeping place, Grandpa Longneck was spending the day telling stories and teaching things to his grandson Little Foot and his young dinosaur friends.

He was in the midst of telling a story from his youth when he was interrupted by the two swimmer dinos.

"MR. LONGNECK! MR. LONGNECK!" the male screamed as he ran up, followed closely behind by his female partner.

Grandpa Longneck allowed the male swimmer to catch his breath for a minute or two before he spoke. "We just saw a big long black rock appear from a circle of blue light way up on that hill we just came from!"

"Yeah... We think it's the same black rock that came here not too long ago!" the female chimed in.

Grandpa Longneck's eyes grew wide as he glanced back at the stunned faces of his charges. "Lead the way!" he said to the two swimmers, who nodded and turned to head back towards where they came from.

Moments later, the swimmers and Grandpa Longneck were almost at the top of the hill, with Little Foot and his gang not far behind.

Little Foot heard a familiar sound in the breeze. "Do you guys hear that!?" he asked.

"Yeah... Me hear it!" Petrie answered.

"I can hear it, too!" Chomper said as well.

"That sound sounds awfully familiar..." Ruby said as she put a hand to her earhole.

Then they all saw the form emerging from the top of the hill. Ducky gasped when she saw what it was. "I do not believe my own eyes!" she said.

"Could it be???" Little Foot cried.

"It IS!" Chomper cried in joy. "It's KHIT!!"

"...And MYK'L!" Little Foot also cried once he saw the familiar form of the two footed being emerge from the creature they now recognized as KITT.

The smiling Michael had indeed stepped out from the driver's seat of KITT to wave his hand at the group of dinos. "MY OLD FRIENDS, HELLO! HOW ARE YA!!?" he cheerfully said.

Chomper immediately ran up with Little Foot not far behind. Michael got down to one knee and extended his arms to allow Chomper to give him a warm hug. "Hey, little buddy!" Michael OOMPHed as Chomper crashed into him.

"I'm so glad you're back!" Chomper exclaimed.

"It's good to BE back!" Michael replied.

Chomper then relinquished his hold from Michael and ran up to KITT. "I missed you, Khit!" he cried as he hugged KITT's left front wheel.

KITT made his WHOO WHOO.... WHOO WHOO sound before answering. "Hello, Chomper!"

Then it was Little Foot's turn to give Michael his own greeting. Michael reached out and hugged Little Foot's neck, and gave him a small affectionate noogie; which made Little Foot back off, slightly annoyed.

Grandpa Longneck sidled up to Michael and bent his head down to face him. "I must say, this is quite a surprise!" he began. "After you left The Great Valley, we never thought we'd see you again... or khit, for that matter..."

"Well, we were able to perfect our time travel experiments to the point where we can maintain a stable enough time field to go anywhere we want! Naturally, we thought we'd come here and SURPRISE you!" Michael grinned.

Grandpa Longneck chuckled. "And 'surprise' us you did! Although I'll never fully understand your 'time travel exPAIRments', we ARE glad you're here! Will you be staying long?"

"'Bout two or three days..."

"Well, that'll give us the chance to catch up on a few things... We can also show you some of the wondrous things in The Great Valley you and khit haven't seen before..."

"Yeah! Like Saurus Rock... and Threehorn Peak... The Secret Caverns... and..."

Grandpa Longneck laughed again. "I see my grandson's as eager as I am to show you everything there is to see in our valley!"

Michael smiled again. "We'd like that! We're not alone, though. We brought some friends with us..."

"Oh?" Grandpa Longneck said curiously as Michael made a motion in KITT's direction.

All of the dinos were astounded to see other creatures like Myk'l emerge from KITT's body and cautiously approach from behind.

"You all remember Devon Miles?" Michael gestured towards the Englishman.

Devon smiled and nodded. "How do you do?"

"And this young man here is Reginald Cornelius the 3rd!" Michael said as he tapped his shoulder.

"My friends calls me 'R.C 3.'. But you can call me 'R.C.'." RC smiled.

Cera cautiously approached the newcomer. "Humpf! I must say, I never saw a mammal with your hyde colour before! You're almost as black as KHIT over there!"

RC smiled. "I like to think of myself as being pretty special... There are actually quite a few of us where I come from."

Cera humpfed. "I'll bet."

"And last, but not least, this fine young lady here is Bonnie Barstow!"

"I take it all back, Michael! They DO talk!!" She said in astonishment.

"So I guess that means you believe me NOW, don't you!?" Said a smirking Michael.

"Totally!" admitted Bonnie.

Petrie floated up to face Bonnie. "Hi, Bah-knee! You Mykl's mate?"

"No!" Bonnie immediately said. "We're just friends..."

"You have mate back home?"

"Not at the moment..."

"Me no have mate, either! But maybe SOMEDAY..."

Bonnie chuckled. "You're a cute little fella, aren't you?"

"Me not little! Me BIIIIIG flyer!"

Spike came up to Bonnie, stood on his hind legs and gave her an affectionate lick on her face, just like a big friendly dog would. Bonnie cried as she was bowled over. This brought forth laughter from all those gathered.

"Petrie's right when he says he's 'big'!" Little Foot said when the laughter died down. "We've ALL grown since you've last seen us, Myk'l!"

"I don't see any difference!" Devon commented.

"Actually, Devon! I'm detecting a thirty to thirty-five percent increase in mass in all of the dinosaur children since we last saw them." KITT said. "They ARE, in fact, growing up!"

"See? TOLD you so!" Little Foot proudly said.

Grandpa Longneck then made introductions all around to RC and Bonnie.

"And now that we've all been introduced, we were in the midst of story telling when you arrived. Care you join us, and perhaps exhange your own stories with us?" Grandpa Longneck invited.

"We'd love to!" Michael said. "But first, KITT's changed since you've last seen him. We'd like to show you what improvements we've made to him."

"Now THIS I've gotta see!" Cera commented.

Grandpa Longneck nodded. "By all means!"

"Ok, KITT! Let's show 'em your 'stuff'!" Michael said as he walked over towards KITT, who already opened his driver's side door to let Michael in.

"With pleasure!" KITT said.

Michael engaged the engine, then stepped on the accelerator to make KITT speed off towards the east. When he judged he was far enough for the sake of the demonstration, Michael made a quick U-turn and sped back towards the assembled dinos, kicking up dirt and grass in the process.

"All right, KITT! Let's show 'em your SUPER PURSUIT MODE!" Michael said as he pressed the appropriate green coloured button behind the panel that opened up for him, thus engaging the necessary transformation to KITT's outer body.

Once the transformation was complete, KITT took off like a rocket speeding towards the group of gathered dinos, pushing Michael well into his seat.

The dinos only saw a big black blur as KITT shot past them headed towards the west. He disssapeared over a nearby hill in an instant.

"WWWOOOOW! I've never SEEN khit run that fast before!!" Chomper said in astonishment.

"You ain't seen NOTHIN' yet!" RC commented.

A few minutes later, everyone saw KITT speed back towards them.

"Ok, KITT! Emergency breaking time!!" Michael said as he pressed the red coloured button marked "Emergency Breaking System". The side panels on either side of KITT opened up, which caused him to stop quite suddenly directly in front of the group of assembled dinos. All of the young ones OOOOHed in amazement at KITT's performance.

"TA DAAAAAAH!" Exclaimed KITT as he came to his sudden stop.

The four footed children cheered and the two footers applauded as Michael emerged from KITT and took his bows. Grandpa Longneck simply flashed an impressed smile at what he had just seen.

"Show off!" Bonnie muttered under her breath.

"Michael???" RC said in surprise after he overheard what Rebecca said. "Well, maybe a little..."

"I meant KITT!" Bonnie corrected.

RC simply rolled his eyes.

All of the dinos saw that KITT had changed shape somewhat, which they deduced was what allowed him to move at that super fast speed they just witnessed. Little Foot tried to remember to ask Myk'l later how khit manages to change form like that.

"I LOVE the new and improved khit! I do! I do!" Ducky commented.

"Me, too!" Ruby also commented. "The improvements khit were given are definately GOOD improvements!"

"Gee, Myk'l! That was GREAT!!" Chomper exclaimed.

"As good as that was, Chomper, that's the LEAST of what KITT can do!" Michael said.

"Huh???" Cera said in confusion. "What could be better than THAT!?"

"Watch!" Michael said with a smile.

He then climbed back into the driver's seat. By this time, KITT had reassumed his original shape all on his own. Michael then pressed the button marked "C" on KITT's console. Some of the dinos recoiled as they saw KITT's "head" open up and dissapear into his lower backside.

"What do you think!?" Michael asked.

"How'd khit do THAT!!?" Little Foot asked.

"Just a little feature called 'convertability', my longneck friend! Come here! Let me show you!"

Little Foot and Chomper were first in line to see what Michael wanted to show them. The rest were forced to look over their shoulders.

"You see this button?" Michael said as he pointed. "That's the letter 'C'. 'C' for 'convertible'!" Michael smiled.

"COOOOOLL!" Chomper exclaimed as he smiled back.

Grandpa Longneck chuckled from up above them. "I must say, I am quite impressed by what you and khit have shown us here today. Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to complete my story telling lesssons before it gets too dark."

"Lead the way, big guy!" Michael smiled.

With that, Grandpa Longneck headed back towards his nest area with his charges in tow. The humans followed from behind, and KITT followed them under his own power, the drone of his powerful engine echoing throughout The Great Valley.