It was a good job the trees were so tall, otherwise there would be nowhere to hide from the Tyrannosaurus that was after them. Yuri and Chito sat on a branch that was high out of reach for the massive carnivore. That's not to say it didn't try, as its jaws were snapping at the air nearby where Sayori was hanging from a vine.

Chito looked over to Yuri. "We have to help her somehow. Can't you do something?"

Yuri was watching the Tyrannosaurus' teeth as it snarled and snapped. "I wonder if it would make a good knife…"

"Hey! Aren't you going to try and help her?"

Yuri snapped out of it, turning to face the much smaller girl. "I'd rather not do anything that involves 'trying' when we're dealing with the largest predator to ever walk the Earth." She looked around, taking further stock of the situation. "Sayori's pretty far out on a limb, so it would be dangerous to try and climb out there to help her. We don't want to fall."

"Oh… yeah, I guess you're right." Chito lowered her gaze. "Then what are we going to do?"

Yuri looked down at the ground at the Tyrannosaurus' feet. "Um… we're going to… uh…"

"NATSUKI PUNCH!"

Natsuki appeared, punching her fist into the dinosaur's leg. It turned to face her, looking down at her tiny frame. It opened its mouth and, a second later, Natsuki was gone. Yuri turned pale, Sayori screamed, and Chito started crying. Then the T-Rex exploded, chunks of meat and bone flying in every direction. The heavy head hit the ground and the legs fell away from each other as the tail flopped around, everything twitching from the sudden disconnect from the brain.

A tall, powerful Natsuki stood in its place, covered in red from her head to her toe. She wiped the red from her face. "I need to stop being the one who gets slimed." She was already shrinking down to her normal size as she spoke. "Okay, everyone! It's safe to come out!"

Yuri and Chito climbed down from the tree, and Sayori dropped to the ground where she went into the mud up to her knees. Yuri pulled Sayori out, then quickly went about trying in vain to dry out her book. They started looking around them in earnest, hoping that the others were somewhere nearby. As it was, Natsuki was their only defense. They desperately needed Vezon and Ford back, and they were all worried about Monika.

Sayori, covered in mud, decided it was her job to lead. She chose a direction and started running, waving at the others to follow her. "Come on! We can't stay here!"

Literally on the other side of the next tree in the direction Sayori had started running, the others were standing on top of a ridge. Monika turned back to look at them and waved. They climbed up the ridge to Monika's side and found themselves looking out over a vast valley of green. It stole their breath away, especially Chito's.

"Where are we?"

Vezon started counting off his fingers the possibilities. "Several million years in the past, Jurassic Park, Dinosaur Planet, the Great Valley… who knows, who cares? I'd like to spend as little time here as possible."

Chito was overwhelmed by it all. "Where I come from, there's not enough life. Here, there's too much."

Vezon nodded. "I'm starting to understand what Thanos was talking about."

"Who." Monika looked up at him questioningly.

He just shrugged. "Come on. At what point are you guys gonna start getting that I make pop references like it's breathing? I'm like Deadpool in that respect."

Sayori pumped her fist in the air. "I loved that movie!"

Ford shook his head. "I can't imagine a Deadpool movie working."

Monika shrugged. "Eh, it was pretty good."

"Really?" Ford looked thoughtful. "I'll have to see it sometime."

Vezon produced a DVD box from somewhere in his cape. "Got a TV and a DVD player?"

"No way, really?" Ford shook his head and started laughing.

Yuri leaned in to take a look at the plastic box. "You happen to have this one movie. Why? How?"

"Look, I just do what I tell myself to do. I don't really think things out." Vezon hid the movie away in his cape, and none of them were really sure if he had pockets or something. "And right now, my me is saying to get a velociraptor. Well, a deinonychus, but what you're thinking of when I say velociraptor."

Sayori looked out over the green sea of trees, then looked up to Vezon. "Why is your you saying to get that?"

"Because having a dinosaur would be badass. We could put a saddle on it and one of you could ride it. Preferably while holding a flamethrower."

Ford nodded. "That sounds really impractical, as well as impossible, but also really cool."

Natsuki let out a huff. "Boys."

Vezon eyed her sideways. "Did you just assume my-"

Interrupting everyone's thoughts, a gigantic winged creature swooped down from overhead and wrapped its clawed feet around Sayori's shoulders, lifting her off the ground and flying away. Startled, none of them were quick enough to grab hold of her or the reptile, and soon it was well out of their reach. Sayori's shouts to them were already too distant to make out.

Vezon waved at everyone to get behind him. "Don't worry, I'll knock it out of the sky with my laser eyes!" He stared at the pteranodon, but all it did was let go of her. They watched as she fell several hundred feet into the jungle below. "Oh, yeah, that's right. All I have is future vision." The mirage disappeared and they saw that it was still holding on to her.

And then it dropped her for real.

"Oh, poor soul. You have died a tragic death."

Sayori looked up. All around her was darkness, save for the beautiful lady in front of her. Seated in a regal throne of sorts, her long blue hair falling down around her shoulders. She was wearing a wondrously beautiful dress, and her hands were clasped in front of her like a prayer.

The woman's eyes opened. "And so you pass to the next world. Poor young soul taken too soon."

Sayori pulled herself up to her feet. "I'm… dead?"

"Yes." She bowed her head apologetically. "You were dropped from the sky by a terrifying pteranodon. But that world is behind you now. Ahead of you is a choice. You may ascend to heaven, or…"

"Or?" Sayori wasn't sure how she felt about the 'or'. There was really only one 'or' to heaven so far as she knew, and it wasn't a great choice.

She leaned in close to Sayori, whispering like it was a secret. "Well, to be honest, heaven is really boring. I'd take this other choice. It's really fun. There's a whole other world I can reincarnate you in, but there's more! I can give you a special item or power! Anything you can think of or want! Any one thing you desire to take with you!"

Sayori stepped back, clearing out her ear, since the girl had quickly gone from whispering to shouting in excitement. "Anything I want? Gee, there's a lot of things I want. I suppose I shouldn't waste this opportunity on a cookie, though."

"Well, whatever you pick, don't take too long. I've got a lot of souls to redirect." The beautiful lady lounged back in her seat and pulled out a bag of chips, opening it noisily.

Sayori perked up. "Ooh, can I have one?"

"Is that your wish?"

"No."

"Then no."

Sayori looked dejected.

"Can you just pick something already?"

"Hmm…" Sayori looked around, trying to think of what she wanted the most. Then it hit her. "Oh, I know!"

There was a moment of silence, and then, "And…?"

"I want to be able to teleport to wherever my friends are!"

"Okay." The lady paused. "I feel like that breaks the rules somehow, but I'm not sure how, so it's probably nothing. Your wish is granted!"

"Yay!"

And in a bright flash of light, Sayori disappeared.

"Come on! She landed over here!" Monika rushed recklessly through the jungle toward the spot she saw Sayori fall through the treetops. "She could be hurt or in danger! We have to get there faster!"

Natsuki shouted ahead to Monika from several dozen meters back. "Stop running! You're gonna get yourself killed! You're going to run into a velociraptor or something and it's gonna kill you!"

Monika ignored her, and then immediately ran into a clearing where she found herself surrounded by velociraptors. "Oh shit!"

Natsuki ran in behind her, bumping into her back. "Ow! You fuck- oh shit!"

Yuri ran in behind her, bumping into Natsuki into Monika. "Oof! Oh shit!"

Ford and Chito managed to stop just before the clearing. Ford lifted his weapon up, aiming it at the raptors. Another one appeared beside him. "Oh… shit."

Vezon walked up behind them. "I don't think we're going to stay much longer, really. Let's just get a deinonychus and leave." A swirling red portal appeared in the air in front of Vezon. "Oh. Shit."

Sayori came flying out of the portal, screaming at the top of her lungs. "OH SHIIIIIT!" She collided with the raptor next to Ford, sending it flying to the other side of the clearing. Jumping back to her feet, she spotted the others. "I made it back! Yay!"

One of the raptors, a large female with a blue streak along its back, ran around the other girls and leaped on to Sayori, knocking her to the ground. Natsuki grabbed the raptor, her small body exploding into the muscled titan she could now become, and threw the dinosaur away. Monika and Yuri ran back to the safety of Vezon, grabbing Sayori's hands and dragging her behind them. Ford and Chito retreated to their tower of safety as well.

The raptors circled, coming in from every direction. Vezon swatted them away, punching on or two of them. Yuri slashed a the air with her knives, but couldn't quite reach their attackers. Natsuki shrunk back down to her normal size, and she and Sayori shielded Chito from the danger around them. Ford fired into the green around them, though he was conscious of how little ammo he had left and the fact that he wasn't likely to hit them with how fast they were moving.

Vezon growled through the noise of the fight. "How much longer are we going to be here?"

Monika crawled under the bottom of his cape and climbed up his back, looking at the glowing blue timer under the back edge of the mask. "It's… oh dear. We've got ten seconds!"

Hearing Monika's warning, Natsuki and Sayori grabbed hold of Vezon's leg, hugging Chito between them. Ford backed up and linked arms with Yuri. Yuri's face turned red, but she managed to reach out behind her and grab Natsuki's shoulder.

Natsuki shouted back to Monika. "We're ready!"

Five seconds remaining. Monika looked around to see the raptors circling. Soon, they would be clueless as to how their prey had escaped. Then, through the underbrush and tall ferns, Monika saw the large female running towards Vezon's back. Her eyes went wide as it jumped in the air, aiming to land right on top of her. The beast landed on Vezon's back, its weight pressing down on top of Monika, and-

*pop*

Eight bodies of various size fell to the ground with a crash.

Monika pulled herself up, aware that they still had a velociraptor among them. She looked around for the dangerous reptile, hoping Vezon was already dealing with it. Instead, she saw the creature looking around in confusion and fright. It had just been transported away from everything it knew in an instant and now it was… where were they?

It was dark and damp, with a pale fog rolling around them, but very clearly they were in a town of some sort. There were buildings on either side of them, and they could see a cobblestone street at one end of the alley. The other end of the alley was obscured by a blue police box, which told Monika where they were.

"London? We're in London?"

Vezon stood up slowly. "Really? I've already been here. Hasn't changed at all."

The air was suddenly filled with the sound of air raid sirens. Behind the loud blaring, they could hear the approach of noisy airplane engines. The cacophony only served to frighten the raptor more. Naturally, it worried all of them. Monika doubted even Vezon could take a direct hit from bombs dropped from an airplane. She didn't want to think of what would happen if one hit her.

"Yeah… hasn't changed a bit."

Ford backed away from the raptor, but it seemed like it wasn't interested in them anymore. Nevertheless, he grabbed Sayori and pulled her behind Vezon, keeping his weapon trained on the dinosaur. "Did someone say London? You said your mask just makes portals through space, right? If this is London, then how did we go back to the second world war?"

Natsuki had retreated to the police box with Chito and was trying to get inside. "Come on, we have to get to shelter! Someone help me open this!"

Monika looked around for Yuri, only to find her on the ground, knocked out from hitting her head. "Oh, that's great." She hauled her friend up and dragged her away from the open street, towards the police box. "He's right, this has got to be World War II. The Germans are bombing London right now. Are you sure your mask doesn't transport us through time as well?"

Vezon wasn't answering. He was eyeing the blue police box with suspicion. "I think… we should probably go somewhere a little different. You realize what this is, right?"

Ford turned and looked it up and down briefly. "Yeah, it's a police box. What's your point? You get in trouble with the law last time you were here?"

"Uh… not any Earth laws, anyway. Well, maybe immigration." He shook his head. "This is the Tardis. It, uh… it's a space ship. Kind of." Upon hearing those words, everyone stopped and stared at him in disbelief. He glared at the raptor. "Oh, stop it, you didn't understand any of that."

As if in admission of its lack of comprehension, the raptor was the first to look away.

Sayori looked at it, very interested, but only marginally more comprehending than the dinosaur. "So it's a spaceship. Not very aerodynamic."

"It also goes through time. Or, well, it did… until I kind of stole the thing that makes it do anything."

…

"Vezon, why would you do that?"