Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Ty the Tasmainian tiger characters but I do own the Bush rescue kids.

Bush rescue next generation.

Chapter 4: Ray's lament.

Ray felt his heart race and thump inside his tightened chest as he skidded to a halt at the doormat of his home. He had raced all the way into the Aussie jungles as fast as he could and he was shattered to find that life in the usually peaceful rainforest where Ranger Ken used to work was quiet...Too quiet.

Ray looked around wearily as he heard nothing at all. No birds, no bats. Not even a creepy raven squawking. This worried and frightened the Tasmainian halfbreed further! Ray saw that his mother's favourite lavender bushes and flowers had been crushed and the Rainforest was very dark and damp. He even saw that the fine oak which basically made up the house had been destroyed! The large window that was at the right side of the house had been smashed as well!

Ray put his hands on the door and shouted urgently to see if his parents were inside, really fearing the worst "Mum, Dad! Youse in there!?"

Ray heard no reply and he begun to bash down the door desperately. Deep down, he blamed himself. If he hadn't of left then he might have been able to rescue his parents!

Soon, Ray had finally broke down the door and dashed inside. Only to find that everything had been shattered and knocked over...

Ray felt hot tears blur his sight and he barely managed to see through them before he dashed into the living room only to find a few things that explained everything of what he was experiencing.

On the floor, he saw a few knocked over bookshelves on the floor and some ripped paper. There was a huge smash in the window where something obviously barged in. He saw one of his father's prized boomerangs laying on the floor among a cluster of books, paper and other pieces of remaining furniture and he saw a ripped piece of red fabric that came from his mother's shirt.

The Tasmainian dingo carefully walked over to his father's boomerang before carefully picking it up in his grasp as he carefully traced a finger over one of the edges as he pieced together what had happened here.

It appeared that just after Ray left, some big machine of some kind had attacked and his mother was the first victim. Ray looked up the stairs and saw that the railings of the stair banisters had been smashed backwards as if someone was tossed into the banister. This must have been his father's point of entry.

His father, Ty, must have run down the stairs to see what was happening but only to have been shot at and whatever the robot or something was, it shot at him a fair few times but his father had jumped on him, judging by the paw prints looking instinctively like his father's on the rather damp floor boards, and tried to buy some time for Shazza to get away but it wasn't enough and, despite his fathers's efforts, both him and his mother were kidnapped. Ray looked down at his father's single boomerang that sat upright in his gloved hands and his lips quivered before he broke into sobs and he shook his head, not wanting to believe this happened.

Ray sniffled before he opened his clover green eyes, which laminated the darkness of the darkness of the outside world and the room. He never wanted his parents to have been captured and it hurt him deep down that it was all his fault. He should have been there and he wished that he hadn't yelled at his father and that he could take it back...

"Mum...Dad..." Sniffed the Tasmanian dingo as he continued to fight back more incoming sobs that had invaded his strong body. Ray looked up from his terrified, distraught state before he frowned in determination. He needed to know where his family had gone and who took them. Tears were still dripping neatly from his eyes, forming plain, neat streaks as they slid down his cheeks, dampening his maize fur but that was the least on his distressed mind.

Without another thought, Ray quickly grabbed a photo of his mother and father before rushing out the door and back to Barramungee to meet up with the others, but to his surprise, he saw that his friends were in a similar state of shock as each of them stood in the middle of town, looking as if they had been crying their socks off theirselves.

"R-Ray!" Yelled Timmy before running into his cousin's embrace and he wailed as he buried his muzzle in Ray's hoodie, dampening it "Our folks are...Gone!"

"C'mon, Tim. I'm 'ere. Its gunna be alright." Ray comforted as best he could as he wrapped his comforting arms around Timmy's slim body and after rubbing the little yellow furred Tazzy tiger's back multiple times, he calmed down a little a fell asleep against his cousin's chest with little tears still in his shut eyes as sobs still racked his tiny body and Ray laid Tim down in his arms and picked him up before rocking him slowly as he held him close.

"It ain't just our folks, Rovah." Spoke One-eyed Jack as his cybernetic eye flashed twice within two seconds before returning to normal "Everyone in Southern rivers had been taken from their homes and appeared to have shown zero mercy."

Luca sighed shamefully as he looked towards his two cousins and asked with a solemn tone of voice, his own heart breaking into a million pieces and giving up all hope "Well...What're we gunna do now?"

Ray looked with a desperate frown at his friends, his clover green eyes sparkling with guilt and utter determination. It told them all the same thing: We're going to leave and save the day.

Dipper sighed sadly before telling his saddened teammates as he hugged his arms together and curled his beaver-like tail around his webbed feet "Alright. We'll go and get things ready to search for our folks..."

Everyone looked towards the platypus with saddened looks marring their muzzles/faces. Dipper could see that everyone was emotionally wounded by this sudden shock and he knew deep down that they needed time to gather themselves up because they could not leave in such a depressed state.

"But when we get a good nights rest..." Dipper added to his previous statement before he began to walk away, turning his back on the depressed group of teenaged animals and he looked back at them with his voice certainly cracking "...Be ready."

With that, the platypus walked off down the road towards the beach where he originally came from. It was apparent that everyone was shaken badly and needed time to gather their senses since it would be a wreck if they had left now and like this. It broke all of their hearts that their beloved family members had been taken from their lives and Ray knew that he was responsible and the sad thing was that nobody knew this...

The Tasmanian dingo sighed shakily before he hugged Timmy closer and shut his eyes as he hugged his little cousin as if he never was going to let go of him but after a moment, Luca rested a hand on his cousin's shoulder and frowned at him with true determination within his Sapphire blue eyes.

"Wanna bunk at my house, Ray?" Offered Luca gently as he tried to hide his sadness yet persuade his depressed cousin for his own good, his brown fur blowing slightly from the rather strong winds that blew behind him "I don't think that Tim will cope very well once he wakes up."

Ray hesitantly nodded. He didn't want to be alone but he didn't want to bunk with Luca either. He was forced to agree since Luca was right on the fact that little Timmy wasn't going to be calm when he awoke and Ray didn't think that he could handle a crying cub by himself and needed help once this happened. Luca also did not hide his sadness so well since the frown was on his muzzle and this told Ray all he needed to know.

Tanya the tazzy devil suddenly came forwards and requested shyly as she sadly looked to the ground in fear "Um...May I please come with you guys?"

Luca nodded once and before he knew it, everyone but Jack and Dipper had been invited to sleep in Sly and Naomi's shop/house hold. He knew that at times like this, teamwork needed to be involved and nothing felt right about this.

Without any of the adults to help take care of them, the Teens just felt empty but Ray knew that it was time for him to take matters into his own hands. It was going to be him who saved the parents and nobody else was more qualified to do this job, despite the fact that nobody but his family cared enough about him to call him a hero.

Soon, the small group began their depressing trek to the shop of Sly the Tazzy tiger and Naomi the dingo. They felt nothing but pain and sadness and if they didn't buck up soon then they were doomed to become heartless, negative citizens. One-eyed Jack watched his team leave as he stood on a nearby roof and he looked up at the dark cloud filled skies before asking quietly to himself, pain filling his own heart "What 'ave ya done, ya gumbyss?"

With that, Jack leapt off of the roof and went to find his own place to sleep for the night...But, without the comfort of his parents to protect him, he feared that he wouldn't get any rest this night. Neither will the others, he feared.

A/N: Sorry if this chapter was rather depressing. I was just trying to make it effective. Anyways, next chap will be more cheerful and I hope I'm doing good with this fanfic.

In the next chapter we'll see Ty and the others and it will be revealed who captured them and who the machine was.

I would adore reviews and the music that would seem suitable to this chapter would be: World's Most Emotional Music Ever: Mellon Udrigle.

-Chloemcg