Disclaimer: I don't own anything 'Ice Age' related other than my OC Lois, voiced by Anne Hathaway.

Note: For those of you who don't know Anne Hathaway, her picture and the picture I drew of Lois is available in my profile.

Safe runner, thank you for the shout out, I've noticed I misspelled a couple of things.

Fiat Noctum, don't worry about Lois she and Diego will not get together, being two different beings, and I have other plans for them. She's bascially just Buck's rookie, like a daughter to him, and a guide to Diego so he'd be able to reunite with his herd.

I agree that Diego should stay a bachelor, it's just strange seeing him with another saber.

Buckminster, he's a hard character to portray, but we all love 'im.

Soon enough, haleygirl28, soon enough you shall find out about Diego's fatigue.

Pineapples, Chapter Four

The family of mammoths walked onto the trail of which was once said by a certain weasel to be the safest place on the entire dinosaur kingdom, clear and away from any carnivores. The opossum twins were there, sitting on each of Ellie's trunks awaiting the discovery of where their other commrades might be. Worried that they might instead run into unwelcoming native species of the utopia.

"You two should be more careful," lectured Manny from the twin's recent accident of nearing falling into a river of lava, "You know you can't fool around in a place like this."

"We weren't trying to." one replied sadly, "Eddie and I were just excited to see Buck again."

"Well we didn't see him, and you two nearly died. Be more careful--OW!"

The twins giggled to themselves when the mammoth stubbed his toe on a rock on the path. Ellie noticed this and bit her bottom lip. So much irony has been happening lately that the irony itself is nearly coincidental. She worried that Sid and Diego had gotten off to a bad start, but she had to think positive unless the irony turns into reality again. They continued down the path.

On the other hand, no one had noticed the presence of a familiar weasel swinging from vine to vine until one snapped and it sent him flying past the group and into a bundle of bushes. The twins gasped in surprised with grins on their faces and hopped off of Ellie's trunks to aid their old friend, while the trio of mammoths stared in awe.

Before the twins could reach the cluster of plants, leaped out Buck, his dagger held tightly in one hand. Everyone froze as the wide eyed weasel's lone ocular examined it's surroundings. Straightening up, Buck gave the crew one of his friendly smiles.

"Good to have ya' back, mates."

The twins beamed with joy, "Dude, we missed you!" cried Eddie.

"Manny didn't, but we sure did!" sniffed Crash. They earned a glare from Manfred, "Hey!"

"Touching," Buck dramatically wiped a stray tear away from his face, "But how did you get here, I thought I sealed the entrance?"

"Apparently, there's other ways in here. The herd and I fell through the ground during an earthquake." replied Manny.

Peaches finally spoke, "And now Uncle Sid and Diego are missing."

Ellie gently gave a small pat to her daughter's head, "We know baby, but we'll find them."

"Right you are, lass!" Buck was quicker before you could say, 'Diego's got the flees!' and was already halfway down the trail. He had his dagger held over his shoulder, and he spoke in his usual English accent, "Of course we can start looking for the sloth and the tiger tomorrow. Instead, we should find somewhere to camp for the night."

The opossums was already in pursuit, giving each other high-fives and sharing jokes with each other. Peaches followed behind them with a giggle, and Ellie, then Manny.

Just as the horizon was fading into night, the group found a place where they can camp, and with the finding of sticks and branches they were able to create a campfire. Everyone surrounded it, and Buck took his usual spot on a boulder for story time. The weasel was in the point of beginning his story when a familiar pterosaur (the one that Buck had used to fly as an airplane) perched itself on top of Manny's back, startling the mammoth.

"Get off me!" Manny cried, waving his trunk over his head to rid of the dinosaur. Said pterosaur obeyed and landed on the boulder beside Buck.

"Alright Pett, what is it you want?" Buck muttered, and got a response of dinosaur gibberish.

The herd could not understand it, but the Buckminster seemed to. He explained to the pterosaur what he was currently up to, and soothed the flying creature when it got emotional. Until finally, it gave a cheerful chirp to the weasel, and settled down to listen to his story.

"Whoa, you speak dinosaur?!" beamed Eddie.

"No, not really." Buck replied, "Dinosaurs has these clicks of when they're about to do something, Pett isn't actually mentally stable - he thinks I'm his mum."

The twins looked at the oblivious pterosaur strangely.

"Can we please move onto another topic?" Manny asked.

"Yes, anyway, about the pineapple I was going to talk about..."

Manny raised a brow, "Didn't you already tell us you woke up one day married to a pineapple?"

"Yes, I remember, and no, this is different. This one includes me," the weasel gestured to himself, "waking up one morning thinking I had a baby pineapple. You see the difference?"

At least the Buckminster was still the strange weasel he was. Ellie was interested, "And then what happened?"

"Well, I went out to hunt, and when I came back she was gone." Buck shrugged, "Strange really."

Strange it was. With a couple more stories, from Buck's heroic adventures, it was the usual night of sleep but no sleep at all for Buck. He kept watch beside his sleeping pterosaur, carving a petite pineapple from a good portion of clay he had found beside the river they were camping by. However, like all fearless heroes, there was always their rival. For Buckminster, it wasn't just Rudy, but many more. He was well known in the dinosaur kingdom, being the hero that he was, and while he tried to make others happy by helping them, there were some who wanted to rid of him as well.

Typical, for your average weasel hero. Even more, when you've got a pineapple for a wife.

Tell me what you think! I must say, Buck reminds me of the Crocodile Hunter... a lot.