For a moment, all was still. The tyrant dinosaur stared at the team, unsure how to react. She had just finished quenching her thirst and was on her way back to her pack. They had brought down a hadrosaur a few hours earlier, and she was still full from that meal. Besides, these strange...mammals, assuming her sense of smell did not deceive her, were too small to be of interest.

Then they took something out of one of the weird sacks they had on their backs and held it out to here. A moment later, the smell of flesh filled her nostrils.

The female carnivore may have been mostly full, but the scent was enough to whet her appetite. Instantly, her attention focused on the team...who swiftly began to back into the time portal.

A moment later, and they were back in the present.

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The team slowly coaxed the female tyrannosaur toward the holding pen. Just a little closer and she would be secure.

Unfortunately for them, the staff had begun to move Matilda out of her holding pen, in order to try and clean her. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, except that, due to the positioning of the oens, Matilda was able to get a good look at her neighbor.

Her nostrils flared. A moment later, her pupils dilated.

Then, before the staff and team could realize that anything was wrong, she roared.

The new arrival, upon hearing the roar, turned to face the resident female and hissed. She immediately regretted this, as Matilda was significantly larger than her, even though both adolescents were sexually mature. The hiss had only seemed to provoke the larger female, who soon charged the smaller carnivore. The new arrival barely managed to evade the attack, before starting to run away.

Unfortunately for the staff, away meant into the rest of the park.

Immediately, security mobilized, but the dinosaurs already had a head start, and they had no idea where they were going. Hopefully not toward the elephants again.

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From the hilltop, the various proboscideans of the park watched as the two tyrant dinosaurs charged off into the distance, the smaller one trying to avoid being attacked by the larger one. Much to the surprise of the trunked animals, though, it appeared that Matilda wasn't trying to kill the new arrival. But why? Why wouldn't she do that?

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Al lifted up his head as the two tyrants raced by, followed by a fleet of jeeps and Tristan on an ATV. He observed the chase for a moment, which was briefly interrupted when a Maarapunisaurus emerged from the tree-line and reared up, forcing the two predators to back off, before the hunt resumed. Eventually, though, the chase disappeared from his sight, and he soon returned to resting.

Nearby, Suzanne sighed, before getting out more antibiotics - the allosaur still had quite a long treatment ahead of him.

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At T. rex Hill, Bob was loading up a tranquilizer rifle. Terence was still acting aggressive, and now that his family had been removed from his pen, they could safely sedate him to try and see what was making him so aggressive.

At least, that was the plan. Then, suddenly, two tyrannosaurs charged out of the nearby forest and began to head toward him. Taking cover, Bob groaned in annoyance - was park security really this incompetent? Did they need to consider additional training? Was it too much to ask for them being able to catch Matilda and the new arrival before they got here.

….Why had they gone here, anyway?

Then the smaller of the two tyrannosaurs darted into Terence's exhibit...just as Terence finally came out of the undergrowth.

As Terence saw the new arrival, he bellowed, causing her to stop. Matilda, meanwhile, came to a halt by the trailer they had been planning to carry Terence in.

For a moment, everything just seemed to stop, as Terence stared at the new arrival, who stared back at hm.

Then, as the security team and their followers finally arrived, Terence's expression softened, and he started making several strange bellows. Even stranger, he splayed out his arms and showed off the colorful feathers on them. The female, meanwhile, watched him intently, expression changing from confusion to one of careful analyzation.

The team, meanwhile, could only watch on, confused, as the giant carnivore made exaggerated movements, shaking his arms and tail, and even walking in a circle. NOt a hint of his prior aggression was present, and he instead focused on the female, who watched him intently.

Soon, however, the new arrival stopped watching Terence, and instead examined his surroundings, in particular how he had arranged the bones and plants around him. As she examined the long-empty shell of a turtle, something finally seemed to click together for Bob and Tristan, who carefully moved away from the two dinosaurs.

The rest of the team, still utterly confused as to what was happening before them, turned toward the two.

It was Michelle who finally asked the obvious. "What's going on?"

"Terence is interested in girls," responded Tristan, a small smile on his face.

"So," questioned Vera, not catching onto what was happening?

"That weird set of movements he was doing? It's a mating dance."

It took a moment for Vera to realize what she had just been told. "...And his seeming obsession with making his exhibit into a nest of the strange?"

"Maybe tyrannosaurs act like Bowerbirds?" offered Bob. "That would explain why he seemed to want everything arranged in a specific manner."

A low bellow from the exhibit interrupted the conversation. On the other side of the fence, Terence pulled away some bushes, revealing a dead cow that had been offered to him as breakfast. Lifting it with ease, he offered it to the new arrival, who sniffed it for a moment before digging in. After wolfing down one bite, she turned attention back to the male tyrannosaur...and rubbed her neck affectionately against his, making a sound that heavily resembled purring.

As the humans proceeded to smile at the cute gesture, Matilda made her way into the trailer meant for her brother. Her work here was done.

Normally, she would be rather aggressive to the new female - competition was still competition. Allowing her brother to secure a mate, though, was a good enough reason to let the aggression subside - if he reproduced, then some of her genes would be passed on in his offspring. And with the amount of food available to them, ensuring enough offspring were born to capitalize on the abundance of resources was important. Thus, it was in her best interests to ensure that her brother had offspring as soon as possible.

Still, as she curled up inside the trailer, watching from a distance as Terence embraced the newly arrived female, Matilda felt a tinge of unhappiness. She really wanted to be a mother.

Hopefully, the park would bring back a male for her - her biological clock was already ticking.

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After the tyrannosaurs' finished their courtship ritual, the team backed down for a while. Terence and his new mate had retreated into the forest, though they would not mate for at least a day - besides, Terence was still somewhat cautious around his new girlfriend. He may actually be the larger of the two, but on average, female carnivores tended to be more aggressive than males.

As the team took stock of the situation around them, reports came in from the rest of the park - it seemed other dinosaurs were also starting to get amorous. Theo and the male Alamosaurus, in particular, were getting rather aggressive. The Torosaurus, along with the other Triceratops in the park, were beginning to joust again. Joining them were the two bulls that had just been rescued, though one of them had decided to bow out of the fighting. At least, he had decided to concede for the moment.

Eventually, though, the time came for the team to return to the past. As the portal opened, though, they were greeted with a surprise. Before they could enter the glowing light, a small herd of nodosaurs marched through. The team did not need to name them - the only nodosaur from the southern parts of the United States at this time was Glyptodontopelta.

Unknown to the humans, the portal had opened to the remains of a dried lake, roughly a mile from where they had first opened the portal. The armored dinosaurs, having recently been forced from their native territory by a drought, had been heading toward the greenery the team had seen earlier, hoping to find water. Arriving at the empty lake, they had attempted to dig for water, until the light opened up before them. Confused but curious, they had wandered through the portal, and found themselves in the present.

The team quickly guided them into a pen, before entering the glowing vortex.

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In Prehistoric New Mexico, night had begun to fall. Already, the myriad dinosaurs had begun to bed down, waiting for the light to return. Seeing no other option, the team set up camp, taking turns keeping watch until a fire was made. Dinner was soon held, with marshmallows as dessert. Before turning in, they set up several traps for small animals, hoping to rescue every creature they could, for the coming apocalypse would leave few survivors.

Hundreds of miles to the west, the Mariner's crew was also turning in - they had yet to successfully rescue a single prehistoric animal, and it was better to turn in now than risk diving at night.

Yet while both groups of teen's were turning in, Nigel's team was still active. For them, things were starting to get interesting.

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As meteors filled the skies, the team gathered around the fire. Nigel and the younger recruits had chosen to set up camp on an ash field, in the hopes of being able to continue observing the Torosaurus herd. They had found the group again and were watching as the giants prepared to bed down for the night.

On this night, though, they would not be able to rest easily.

Without warning, a tiny shape darted toward the herd and took a snap at one of the juveniles. Having wandered out of the reach of the adults, the young dinosaur was an easy target. Yet luck favored the ceratopsian, and it managed to shake off its attacker, before running toward its mother.

As the team watched on, they noticed a second small shape emerge. It soon became apparent that the shapes were raptors. The red, black, and white hunters were a pair of Dakotaraptors, and they did not want to be denied their meal.

Immediately, the herd formed up, bearing its horns toward the predators. As they continued their offense, though, the team noticed that the youngster seemed to be getting weaker. Using night vision goggles, they examined the tiny dinosaur, and realized that the wound was not a small one. The odds were likely that the juveniles would survive its injury...but it would be too weak to keep up with the herd, making it easy pickings for the carnivores. Additionally, the carnivores were more agile than the adults, and it would only take one slip-up for the hunters to finish their attack.

It appeared the young dinosaur was doomed to die...unless the team had something to say about that.

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