Hey guys! So here's the extra chapter, AND WHAT DA FLIP?! At least 7 reviews for the last chapter?! U GUYS ARE JUST DA BOMB! So, I will reply to ur reviews, but here are the three winners to the one-shot chappie:

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GOLDENSABER!

TIMBERPAW

aannd

SHIEGO627

Thanks to all the other people who bothered to try to put in their OCs, but just as a side-note, I might also use SarahBara's OC as a side character in the one-shot. So anywho, here r the replies to ur reviews:

PureSaberHeart: Aw, thank you so much! Yes, I'll try to continue this all the way up to Ice Age 4, but this story will only go up to Ice Age 3, Ice Age 4 volume will be in another story. I'll try to cherish my first hater comment...somehow...although I doubt it...

GoldenSaber: Yup, they're my second favorite characters! First is Buck though! X3

SarahBara: Yup, u get two virtual cookies for spotting it! *presents the holy virtual cookies* Thnx for the reviews!

Shiego627: Lol, is it THAT obvious? Thnx for updating an OC and hope to see u soon again!

TimberPaw: Yeh, he sometimes does, but we wouldn't luv him any other way! XD Thnx for uploading an OC, luv ur awesome reviews and hope to see ya soon again!

Some1 u dont no: I could go on another big rant about how f***ing annoying you are, but I'll keep it short and simple so the message can hopefully go through to you better, okay? First, please, go burn yourself, because you'd be doing everyone a huge favor. I won't pipe the f**k down no matter how many times you tell me to, because it's my story and I can do whatever the heck I want with it. F**k off and read something that you do like since Diego and Shira is f**king perfection, or grow a f**king pair and write your own story if you think mine is so crap.

Italics means telepathic communication

Warning: OC pairing, Don't like, DON'T READ!

Disclaimer: Don't own the Ice Age franchise or any of the characters in it; that all belongs to Blue Sky

"Help! Help!"

If Taura had her way, she would have just went back with Diego and Sid to the path leading to the boat and try to catch up with the migrating animals and hopefully Manny would come back and find them. Unfortunately, Diego and Sid ran off chasing those two possums who still thought it would be a genius idea to keep mocking Diego and Sid while they ran away from them. Taura would've just left them, but two things worried her: One, Diego and Sid might go on running for a long time that they would end up getting lost and it would probably take them 'til nightfall to find the migration; and Two, if Diego did somehow catch them and ended up eating one of them, Taura was worried that those marsupials might have some sort of disease on them and the last thing she needed was an even GRUMPIER Diego with an upset stomach. Not like she would even dream of nursing him of course! Hehe, as if!

As she followed after the two fuming males, the possums somehow led them straight back to Manny and hid behind another...female...mammoth! Her fur coat was mainly peachy and had a darker shade of reddish-pink on her legs and neck. She also had a poof-y tuft of fur on her head with the same reddish-pink tone and had green eyes with elongated eyelashes; her tusks were more curved and smooth than Manny's.

"Well shave me down and call me a mole rat!" Sid yelled with glee and pointed at Ellie "Ya found another mammoth!"

Said female mammoth gasped in surprise and looked around "Where?! Wait a minute, I thought mammoths were extinct?" She then looked at the weird group of animals in front of her with confusion, who all looked at her with weird looks. Taura looked at Diego with a disturbed look and whispered mentally "Uh...she's kidding right?"

"What are you looking at me for?" The She-moth asked them with the same confused expression.

"Uh, I don't know...maybe because you're a mammoth?" Manny suggested with a raised eyebrow.

The She-moth's eyes widened in surprise and scoffed with an easygoing grin "Me?! Don't be ridiculous, I'm not a mammoth, I'm a possum!"

"Right, good one. I'm a newt!" Manny joked slowly before continuing and pointing at each of his friends "This is my friend the badger and his wife," Diego smiled friendly to the female mammoth but then his eyes widened in shock and annoyance at what Manny said and he frowned at him angrily but his mammoth friend simply continued with an amused smile. "And my other friend the platypus!"

Sid smiled for a minute before he started pouting and pointed immaturely at Diego "Why do I gotta be the platypus? Make HIM the platypus!"

Taura felt her chest constrict at what Manny said before she glanced nervously at Diego and uncomfortably shuffled an inch away from him, since he was too busy frowning at Manny. "Dear lord, I hope they don't actually think we're..." Taura mumbled nervously in her head, but let that sentence linger and continued listening to the conversation.

The two possums jumped onto the she-moth's trunk and glared at Manny while one of them huffed "This guy giving you trouble sis?"

"'SIS'?!" The four exclaimed in surprise, looking at the trio in front of them incredulously. The she-moth simply smiled friendly, as if the statement that the possum said was an ordinary thing.

"That's right! These are my brothers!" Ellie chirped happily before pointing at each of themselves "Possum, possum, possum!"

Taura felt her jaw-slacken in surprise while the other three boys stared in shock, Manny then voiced Taura's exact thoughts:

"I don't think her tree goes ALL the way to the top branch..." He muttered to them nervously as he glanced at the she-moth who continued to smile happily while her brothers lounged care-freely on her tusks.

Sid whispered to Manny while looking at the mammoth with a disturbed face "Manny, brink of extinction is a bad time to be picky!" A sudden grin appeared across his lips as an idea lit inside his head. Sid then nudged Manny eagerly and whispered excitedly "Hey! She should come with us!"

"Are you insane?!" Manny whispered heatedly as he glared at Sid "No way!"

Sid shrugged with a cheeky grin and commented nonchalantly "Okay..." Taura glanced nervously at Sid because she definitely knew that when Sid took on that tone, nothing good could come from it for the victim, or in this case Manny. Sid waddled forward confidently before declaring "Manny would like me to ask you if you would like to escape the flood with us!"

From the back Manny stuttered with shock at what the sloth did as he glanced incredulously from the sloth and back to Diego and Taura, who glanced at him with a nervous smile and shrugged. The two possums hopped off of Ellie's tusks with angry faces and marched towards Diego while one of them growled "I'd rather be roadkill!"

Diego glared back with an equally heated glare and growled "THAT can be arranged!" Both of them had their faces merely inches away from each other and were growling with fury, Taura then decided that she needed to step in before things got ugly.

"Back away Diego, pretty sure that those two would taste horrible anyways!" Taura tried to calm him by placing her paw in front of his chest and gently pushed him back. The two possums had their 'sister's' trunk curled around them both as she gave Diego a sheepish smile.

"Ha, funny! Lemme have a little word with my brothers..." Ellie chuckled nervously as she dragged the growling duo away from the saber, not leaving their eyes away from Diego until they fully turned their backs away. While the three were whispering away, Manny then whacked Sid upside the head very hard and glared at him with an annoyed frown.

"Why did you invite them?!" He whispered heatedly with angry eyes as he placed his face threateningly close to Sid's.

Sid rolled his eyes exasperatedly "Be-CAUSE! You might be the only two mammoths left on earth!" He said as if it was the most obvious fact on earth, while shaking Manny's tusks as if it would get the message across better.

"He has a point..." Diego reluctantly added in, while looking up at Manny with encouraging eyes and Taura nodding eagerly at Manny and patting his leg with a reassuring smile. The three only wanted what was best for Manfred, and while Taura was SURE she would miss his sometimes grumpy attitude (note her sarcasm), who knows? This female might be just what's best for him!

Manny glared at them all stubbornly before scoffing incredulously "I'm sorry, when did I join this dating service?!"

Before the four could argue even further, the three 'possums' came back and Ellie friendly replied "My brothers and I would be delighted to come with you!" to which Manny groaned in defeat and pain.

A heated glare that was quickly becoming familiar from the two possums was sent again to Diego as one of them chided "IF! You treat us nicely!" In reply, Diego simply growled at the two disdainfully and narrowed his eyes even further at the annoying duo. "See that?!" The same possums exclaimed while pointing at Diego accusingly "Th-th-that is the total opposite of nice!"

"Maybe we'll have ourselves a little SNACK before we hit the road." Diego snarled aggressively while walking away, while Taura gave him a scolding look to which he ignored.

"You want a piece of us? Let's go!" The other said intimidatingly and then suddenly, everything went back into chaos...

Taura sighed annoyingly and rushed to help Diego get the annoying critter off his head: one of the possums hopped on his brother and leaped on Diego's head, painfully pulling at Diego's eyelids as some sort of rein. The other was excessively whipping at Sid with his tail when Sid tried to help Diego and Taura finally managed to rip the other possum off of Diego's head, only to then watch as Diego tried to eat the brother whole while he held his mouth open with his arms.

"You know what's the best part?" The possum smirked mischievously to his brother while holding Diego's mouth wide, "We're carrying diseases!"

A sudden loud rumbling paused everybody in their tracks, even the two brothers in their antics. They all glanced up at the sky and ground nervously as the land around them seemed to quake dangerously, threatening to rip apart or crack at any moment. Taura looked at Diego with a deadpanned expression and drawling "I think now would be a good time to spit him out Diego..." before he then did as she said and spat the possum out with a disgusted moan.

"Okay!" Manny called out with an annoyed tone as he glanced at Sid heatedly before ranting to the others "Thanks to Sid! We're now traveling together and like it or not!" he said as he glared at the possums, one of them sheepishly rubbing the ground with his feet while the other rolled his eyes in boredom, before continuing as his voice got louder and louder "We're gonna be one big happy family! I'll be the daddy, Ellie will be the mommy and Diego and Taura will be the uncle and aunt who eats the kids who get on my nerves!" As if confirming what he said, Diego growled and leaned threateningly towards the two with a glare before Manny continued with an angry shout as he walked off, "OW LET'S MOVE IT BEFORE THE GROUND FALLS OUT FROM UNDER OUR FEET!"

The other three followed after Manny and the two possum brothers hopped back on their sister's tusks, only they then heard Ellie whisper to her brothers with a confused tone "I thought fat guys were supposed to be jolly...?"

"I'm not fat!" Manny snapped at her angrily while looking at her over his shoulder "It's this fur that makes me look big...it's poof-y!"

"Oh-hoho, okay!" She chuckled loudly in understanding, before whispering conspiratorially to her brothers "He's fat."

After a while, the now larger group of mammals managed to catch up with the large herd heading towards the boat. They were now surrounded by cliff-like structures of grey rock and the area around them lacked the grassy tundra back at the water park and now mainly consisted of dirt roads and bushes. Fast Tony was as usual hopping and bouncing about here and there, trying to sell his products to random walkers. Taura thought it would've been an easy walk: just an extra three members to their weird group while they took a simple walk to the boat. Of course, per usual, Taura thought wrong.

It seemed that the possums, who Taura later found out were Crash and Eddie, and Ellie were rather...paranoid, about walking around in broad daylight and they always tried to find different camouflage disguises like bushes, trees and even trying to hide under rocks (which was a rather difficult task for Ellie).

The three heard a strong whistle behind them and looked back to find Ellie with big frightened eyes as she crawled on the floor hurriedly while holding a bush on her trunk and tail. She gave one quick panicked glance across the area and quickly hid behind a thin tree that barely hid any of her!

Manny closed his eyes and groaned annoyingly "Oh, we'll never make it at this pace" He then called out to Ellie while rolling his eyes and walking away "Ellie! It's okay, you can lose the camouflage, you're safe!"

They all heard a faint "okay!" before they then all continued walking with the migration. Later on, Ellie was walking behind them with her brothers in play and chasing each other. Looking back at those two, Taura was reminded of the times Kraz and her would play like that, just chasing each other and trying to grab each others tails. Taura quickly shook her head from those thoughts and continued walking with a stoic expression. Taura couldn't continue lingering her thoughts on the past, she had a family now! Not exactly the perfect family image that one would imagine, but a loving one nonetheless! They would all risk their lives for each other and there is nothing more she could ask than that!...As she thought that however, her thoughts then steered towards a certain gold-pelted saber next to her while her eyes followed Suddenly, one of them called out with a fearful yelp:

"HAWK!"

Taura looked up to the sky with a confused frown and sure enough, there was the silhouette of a hawk circling the sky. The possums started to run around in circles with panicked shouts before they suddenly hopped into the air and landed back on the ground with their backs, their arms poised in some position while their tongues rolled out of their mouths. "Are they playing dead...?" Taura thought with a confused tilt of her head, it sure looked like a weird death-act.

When Taura looked at Ellie however, she felt herself letting out a giggle at the ridiculous position Ellie was in too. "Okay, I take it back. THAT sure looks like a weird death position!" Taura thought amusingly. Ellie was also on her back with her tongue sticking out of her mouth, her eyes clenched shut and her legs were frozen in mid-air. Manny walked over to her with a raised eyebrow and gave her a weird look.

"What are you doing?" He asked her slowly,

"Playing dead!" Ellie whispered with a muffled voice, her eyes still shut. Manny stood there for a moment with an incredulous look before deflating exasperatedly and rolling his eyes. Sid looked at her with a surprised grin and walked over to Manny.

"Manny, why don't you do that?" Sid asked him with a clueless smile

"Because, I'm a mammoth!" Manny snapped at him angrily, making Sid's smile widen with a mysterious twinkle in his eyes.

"But you'd do it for treats right?" Sid said suggestively, only making Manny's brow furrow even further with annoyance. Ellie blinked one eye open and stared at Manny hopefully.

"Is he gone?" Ellie asked him in a quiet voice.

Manny looked up to the sky and saw the hawk glide around for a few seconds before it finally left over the cliffs. Manny looked down at her again and sighed "You're safe, get up."

As soon as Manny said that, the three let out a huge sigh of relief and got up on their feet. Well, the possums were able to do that, but Ellie only managed to crawl to her knees and needed a little help from her brothers who ran to her and pushed her legs up.

"Phew!" She breathed out while looking at Manny with gratitude "If you weren't here, that hawk would've swooped down and snatched me up for dinner! That's how uncle Wilton went!"

When Ellie said that, Taura felt her eyes look over her large form. She didn't think that Ellie was fat, but she felt herself snort at the idea of a hawk trying to 'swoop down' and lift Ellie back up. Sid circled a finger next to his head and whistled in a gesture to suggest 'nut job!' before he noticed Manny glaring at him and nervously waved at Manny with a sheepish smile.

Manny and Ellie walked up ahead while Diego, Sid, Taura and the possums stayed behind. Crash and Eddie went back to their wrestling routine: chasing each other while trying to grab each others' tails or ears. It was sort of adorable to watch...if the two didn't threaten to flick boogers at each other. Soon the tussle escalated into a small mud-ball fight! The twins were running and dodging here and there while flinging small piles of mud at each other that they would scoop from the ground. Sometimes, Crash and Eddie would even use the other three mammals as a shield of protection from a lone mud-ball. But after an incident where one of them nearly had their tale chewed off by an angry Diego, they learnt their lesson and decided to just stick to using Sid.

"INCOMING!"

Taura jolted in surprise and looked around in panic, but by the time she did that, it was already too late.

SPLAT!

A small pile of mud was flung to the scarred side of her face and hit dead on with a large splatting sound. Taura stood there for a moment in shock, the mud dripping down her already brown face and then slowly turned around with a very pissed face and saw both Crash and Eddie stare at her in shock like a pair of kids who got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. After a small tense moment, they both pointed at each other with their muddy hands and yelled out "He did it!" at the same time.

But instead of running at them while screaming at the top of her lungs like they expected her to, Taura simply started to smirk and headed towards a mud patch at one of the corners of the cliff side. Diego and Sid looked at her retreating figure with amused expressions at each other because they both knew what was going to happen, while Crash and Eddie both sighed in relief and started to walk away with smug faces.

Normally, they would've laughed at the mud-faced tigress, but Ellie always scolded them that they were able to play around, but they were not allowed to play pranks on a girl. Which was why in the beginning they didn't spit any rocks at Taura and as long as Taura didn't tell Ellie about their accidental mud-fling at her, then they were in the clear. Unfortunately, they didn't expect Taura to retaliate...

SPLA-PLAT!

Both brothers felt something wet and hard fling into their turned backs and the mere force caused them to fall to the floor...hard. Crash and Eddie picked themselves off the floor with painful groans and looked at each other to find a very large patch of icky, wet mud covering the entire back area of their bodies. When the sound of loud giggling reached their ears, they both turned to find Taura laughing her head off at the ridiculous amount of mud on the back of themselves. Crash and Eddie looked at each other again for a moment and then both started to grin deviously.

"Oh it's on sister!" Crash declared while grabbing a pile of icky mud from the floor and flinging at Taura, only this time she caught it with her paw and started to run around and outright laughing while flinging mud at the two possums. Soon, it was an all-out mud war...

Somehow, the rocky landscape lead to another lake, only this time it was covered with thousands of jagged ice layers floating right next to each other creating a wonky ice surface for the weird animal group to walk on. Diego thought that Taura would've stopped playing with the possums back at the cliffs, but it seemed like the twins were now officially her new pair of best friends. "Why is it that she always makes friends with the weird and annoying ones...?" Diego groaned mentally as he shook his head at her current antics, who would've thought that she was the playful type?

Taura was now running and skating around with the possums, all three of them laughing their heads off in glee as they sometimes flew through ice ramps naturally made in a few of the ice layers. Diego however was slowly walking and carefully placing his paws away from possible wet puddles, his slow pace making him the last in the line. Manny looked back to find Diego a few feet away from them and still walking in his slow pace, making him sigh in annoyance.

"Diego, there are whole continents moving faster than you, let's go!" Manny yelled at the saber, "We've gotta catch up with the others!"

Diego nodded and started to walk faster, but then glanced nervously at the two puddles on either side of him and moved slowly for a minute. As soon as they passed him though, he then continued walking at a faster pace. Taura would've asked him what's wrong...but in her defense, those ice ramps were just too hard to resist!

"Whoohoo!"

The only other three animals who weren't too busy trying to catch up with the others were Taura and the possums, who were too busy trying to outrun and out-flip each other as they ran around laughing and yelping with happiness as they ran and slid around the ice. Taura was giggling like mad as she ran next to a ramp where the possums flipped and landed over with a sprint. She then decided to slow down and try to catch her breath while Diego walked next to her and shook his head at her.

"Hey, knock it off!" Diego snapped at the running possums.

Eddie latched onto his sister's leg as he stopped mid-run and then caught his brother's tail as he whizzed by, who then stretched back and stood next to his brother.

"Oh cry me a river buck-tooth tiger!" Crash rolled his eyes at the boring saber "Try to have some fun!"

Taura nodded in agreement with a shit-eating grin before hopping off the ramp and running after them again. Diego glared at her for a moment before hopping off the ramp also, mentally sighing in defeat "Traitor.." to Taura.

"Can't you see this ice is thin enough without you three wearing it down?!" Diego scolded them as he looked down at the ice anxiously.

Sid waved his paw at the worrying saber with an easygoing smile, "Aw Diego, c'mon! The ice may be thin, but it's strong enough to lift a ten ton mammoth and a nine ton possum!" Sid said nonchalantly as he pointed towards Manny's large form.

Diego simply grunted at Sid and continued forward, still at the same slow pace. Back up front, Manny suddenly heard a suspicious rumble underneath him. He froze for a moment and took a suspicious look to the area around them, only to see nothing. He was about to continue walking, when that sound came again. Manny stopped walking completely this time and stared at the ice around them again, only this time with more panicked eyes. He then jolted in surprise when the two possums and Taura whizzed through his legs.

Taura was giggling like mad as she chased them while the other two boys were cackling mockingly as they skated on their fronts across the ice, yelling out "you'll never catch us!". However, Taura suddenly slid down on her side as well and caught the two by their tails with her mouth. But that didn't stop Crash and Eddie from wrestling each other while dangling from her grinning lips. Suddenly, all hell broke loose...

CRRAAAAAAAAASSSSSHHHHHHHHH!