Chapter VII: The asteroid nears...

(1100 miles above earth)

By now, the asteroid nearing earth could be detected by everything that remained of the space program. They all knew that it, followed by the coronal mass ejection (CME) would wipe out every single living organism on the planet. But Littlefoot and his friends were completely oblivious to this. Even if they were aware of it, they wouldn't know where to go. How to survive. The asteroid was projected to hit somewhere in the western Pacific Ocean. They didn't even know if they were going to survive as it was with what they'd been through...

(Back in the northern New Mexico desert)

Meanwhile, things weren't looking good for Littlefoot and the others. They'd been walking down a remote dirt road that lead to who knows where, and Ducky still wasn't over Spike's death, and neither were the others. Plus, it turned out that because the meteor shower from before went through a band of radiation, Cera had serious radiation poisoning. And she didn't know it. Earlier, she had begin to feel extremely weak, which made it hard for her to go on. Still, she did her best to pull through.

Littlefoot was in front of all of them, doing his best to lead them somewhere safe, even though he had no idea where they were heading. Suddenly, Ali spoke up from behind him.

"Littlefoot?..." she said.

Littlefoot then turned his head around, and started towards her, so now Chomper was in front now. He was still bleeding on the back of his head, and now it was beginning to cause dire physical stress on him.

"What is it, Ali?" Littlefoot asked her. He noticed that blood was still dripping from her upper neck.

She was starting to whisper softly, now. "Littlefoot, there's... something I need to tell you." Littlefoot could hear the nervous tone in her voice.

"Ali, you can tell me anything, We're all friends here."

"That's just it, Littlefoot. There's something I need to say to you... in case we die."

He seemed confused. He was thinking what Ali might say to him, when it hit him.

He thought, "Wait... is Ali trying to tell me that she..." For some reason he couldn't finish that thought. He was starting to blush.

"Littlefoot... I want to be more that friends with you... I... love you."

That snapped him out of it. They both stopped in their tracks, and eyed each other to seemingly no end. Now the two longnecks were simply standing there, not saying a word to each other.

Finally, Littlefoot replied. "Ali... ever since the day we met, I knew there was something different about you."

They started walking again, about four feet away from the group.

"Every day since you and your herd left, I felt a great pain inside me. I didn't know why. Now I do. I... love you too."

They were both staring into each other's eyes, deeply. They knew that both of their lives had just changed for the better. And as they walked along, they embraced each other, and knew things would certainly be different after that day, December 21, 2012.

However, unknown to them at the time, their moment wouldn't last forever. Natural disasters were still tearing apart civilization on a biblical scale. Cities were being leveled by earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and even electrical storms with massive lightning striking and shredding the cities. And now the asteroid was even causing tsunamis in the Atlantic Ocean, because of its gravity, which had wiped out everything that remained of New York City. Boston was destroyed, Washington D.C was in rubble, and Baltimore looked as if it were hit by a nuclear weapon because of the tsunami.

Still, Littlefoot and the others had their own problems to face. Although they were out of the radiation cloud left by the meteor shower, their problems were far from over, and more was still to come...

(5:24 am)

By now, the first glimmers of sunrise began to show above the mountains in the New Mexico desert. Littlefoot and his friends were still heading down the dirt road which led to seemingly nowhere. And Littlefoot was beginning to wonder if taking the path was a good idea at all. They were all tired, wounded physically and emotionally, and completely out of breath.

After going on for so long, after hours of exhaustion, Littlefoot could suddenly see their first sign of hope. He saw what looked like a suburban area, surrounded by a field of grass and plants. Lucky for them, it was completely deserted; evacuated and unscathed.

"Hey guys! Look!" Littlefoot said to them. They looked up, and saw what he saw. A large town with trees, grass, and maybe even people. It didn't look touched by the natural disasters, so that ensured them that it was safe.

"Come on! This way!" Littlefoot shouted, as they ran towards it. When they arrived at the field, they all spread out and then ate some of the grass growing there. It went on for several minutes. After going through what they did, they needed the energy.

However, what happened next was something none of the could've expected. Over a period of several minutes, many dark grey clouds began to accumulate in the sky. Then they heard thunder. Right then, they knew this wasn't going to be good...