A/N: To those wondering, yes I do make jokes about Sailor Moon episode 67... I had to... Anyways enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 15: Land Before Swine
It was just a normal day in the Mystery Shack, the girls were hanging out in Serena's room.
"So did you hear about the police cruiser?" asked Marina, "They don't know what did it."
"Oh yeah! It's really weird!" said Serena.
"Let me guess, Dipper's trying to figure out what did it." Said Lila.
"Don't you know it." Said Serena with a laugh.
They all heard music.
"Where's that music coming from?" asked Amelia.
"Mabel's probably just dancing around with Waddles again." Said Serena.
Serena's stomach rumbled.
"You girls want get something to eat?" asked Serena.
The other girls shrugged and went to get a snack elsewhere, unaware of the storm that going to brew in the house.
When the girls were leaving the ice cream shop, they ran into Mabel.
"So where are you headed?" asked Serena.
"To buy a Huggy Wuvy Tummy Bundle for Waddles, it works for pigs!" said Mabel.
"So who's watching Waddles." Said Marina.
"Grunkle Stan." Sighed Mabel, "I know he doesn't like him but I'm sure he'll do a good job."
"Yeah…" said Serena.
"See you later." Sid Mabel.
"We should go back." Said Serena.
"Oh come on what's the worse that can happen with Stan taking care of Waddles?" asked Riley.
There was an awkward silence.
"Let's head back." Said Riley.
As they headed back to the mystery shack they heard a terrible screech in the air.
"What was that?" asked Serena.
Marina looked up and saw the thing in the sky.
"No it can't be…" said Marina paling.
"What is that?" asked Lila.
"It's heading for the Shack!" said Serena.
They got to the Shack just at whatever it was had swooped in and took waddles.
Stan who heard this turned around and stared in shock.
"Grunkle Stan! What did you do!" yelled Serena.
That was when Dipper and Soos came out of the Shack along with Hotaru wondering what was going on.
"Did you all see that!" said Dipper.
"We did…" said Serena.
"It took Waddles." Said Stan in shock.
"DINOSAUR!" yelled Marina who started freaking out, "THAT WAS A FREAKING DINOSAUR!"
"Actually that was pterosaur, they're compete unrelated to dinosaurs." Said Amelia.
"I DON'T CARE!" said Marina, "I mean if we met one of those long neck swimming things everyone would just say "Oh it's a dinosaur" well it's the same thing here!"
Before anyone could ask more about her strange fear Mabel showed up.
"Hey what's going on?" asked Mabel, "What's with the awkward silence?"
They all stared at Mabel and then Mabel got the feeling.
"Where's Waddles?" asked Mabel.
"Good news is you're getting a puppy." Said Stan.
"What happened to Waddles." Said Mabel.
"Pterodactyl ate your pig." Said Soos.
"Soos!" scolded Hotaru.
"What! What happened! What happened to Waddles! Grunkle you didn't leave him outside, did you?" asked Mabel.
No course not…" said Stan who began to tell her a story about how the pterodactyl bust into the house while Stan fed Waddles the richest of creams and then took Waddles after a valiant fight.
"Oh Grunkle Stan you tried to save him." said Mabel buying.
However with the exception of Soos everyone glared at Stan.
"Hey wait." Said Amelia.
She pointed trail of yarn, "Was Waddles wearing a sweater you made him?"
"He was!" said Mabel who gasped, "We can use that to find him."
"I don't know…" said Stan.
"He's right! There's might be horrifying dinosaurs there too!" said Marina.
"Okay…just tell us what your problem with dinosaurs is." Said Lila.
"It's all when I was a little girl." Sighed Marina.
(Flashback)
"All right you want to watch the Dinosaur movie?" asked Bud.
"Oh boy! A place they being Dinosaurs back to life! It will be fun!" cheered a very young Marina.
2 Hours later…
Marina was crying her eyes out, as Gideon's cries also priced the air.
Bud face palmed realizing it was a bad idea to show her a movie where Dinosaurs killed people.
(End of Flashback)
Everyone stared at Marina.
"You're more scared of Dinosaurs than Gideon?" asked Dipper, "all because of a movie."
"I was little…" said Marina, "I know I'm probably the only person whop has an irrational fear of dinosaurs from that movie."
"Well you and Randall Monroe." Said Amelia.
"Who?" asked Marina.
"Never mind…" said Amelia blushing a little.
"He I'm sure they're more scared of you than you are of them.' Said Serena.
"And if not you can always transform and shoot at them with your beams." Whispered Lila.
"Good point." Sighed Marina.
"All right! Lt's go save Woggles!" said Stan.
"Waddles." Corrected Mabel.
"Him too." Said Stan.
And so they got Soos' truck ready for the plan to get Waddles Back and maybe catch the pterodactyl.
"Are you sure I can do it?" asked Marina.
"It will be fine!" assured Amelia.
"Come on, you've been fighting longer than most of us." Said Lila.
"Yeah but it was only against Gideon." Pointed out Marina.
However Dipper, Serena and Mabel were talking about something else.
"Look this is going to be a big mission, I think we can handle Marina's fears…" said Dipper, "But I don't know about Soos, I mean he has a tendency to screw up."
"Oh Dipper…" said Serena in a certain.
"When has Soos ever screwed up." Said Mabel.
Dipper began to list various times, like the time he broke a Crystal Ball, the time he broke a window and the time he accidently killed a fairy.
The two sisters looked at each other realizing Dipper was right.
"Break to him gently." Said Mabel.
Dipper nodded and went to break to him.
Unfortunately it didn't go as planned with Soos giving him a t-shirt of "Pterodactyl-bros." so he didn't have the heart to tell him.
Although the fact he was saying the "P" in pterodactyl didn't help either.
And so they followed the yarn in a very crowded truck.
"Is this even safe?" asked Dipper.
"If we run into the cops I already have an excuse lined up." Said Stan.
"Grunkle Stan…" sighed Serena.
Thankfully they found their location, which was an old abandoned church.
They got out of the cramped truck and entered the church.
Turns out Old Man McGucket was there.
"Grandpa?" asked Amelia.
"Oh hello Amelia and her friends What brings you here?" asked Old Man McGucket.
"Grandpa? Did you see a pterodactyl fly by?" asked Amelia.
"Glad you asked." Said Old Man McGucket, "I was here with my hourly hoedown."
"How can you be related to him again?" asked Stan.
Amelia glared at Stan.
"Then this big wingrly critter flew and stole my spoons!" said Old Man McGucket, "It flew down there!"
He pointed to a deep hole in the ground.
"It's looking pretty hairy down there." Said Stan.
"Why are you worried? You fought a pterodactyl." Said Mabel.
Stan began to laugh nervously.
"My what suspicious laughter." Said Old Man McGucket.
"All right!" said Lila taking charge, "Who's ready to go down there?"
"Need someone to tell awkward personal stories?" asked Old Man McGucket.
"I don't think that's a good idea." Said Amelia.
"She's right…" said Serena.
"Probably not a good idea." Said Dipper.
"No." Stan added bluntly.
They shimmied down a rope. However…
"And so me and the raccoon were fighting over the steak when out lips touch…" said Old Man McGucket, "Afterwards thing got interesting and I married that raccoon."
Amelia was blushing bright red.
"It's okay… assured Hotaru.
"You can't take a hint, can you?" asked Stan.
"Nope!" answered Old Man McGucket.
Due to the rope holding too many people it snapped and they all fell to the ground below.
"Is everyone all right?" asked Hotaru.
Everyone gave noises that they were okay.
That was when they noticed that they were surrounded by plants that didn't make sense.
"These plants went extent million of years ago." Said Amelia, "How are they alive?"
"Amelia were dealing with a pterodactyl… I think that explains why." Said Riley.
Hotaru noticed that Soos breathed in a plant that made him lose his sense of smell.
She sighed and healed his nose.
"Thanks Hotaru!" said Soos.
They followed the yarn deeper into the cave. As they did they found a mother freaking T-Rex!
They all screamed until they realized that it was trapped in tree sap.
Although it was trapped Marina was still breathing heavily.
"It's fine Marina… it's fine… stuck in there, it can't get out." assured Lila.
"But it's a T-Rex." Whimpered Marina.
"It will be fine…" said Lila.
Turned out there were more dinosaurs.
"They were pressed in sap… that's how they were able to live for this long." Said Dipper.
"Must be some sort of sap that science hadn't discovered yet." Said Amelia taking out her computer and analyzing the strange sap.
"It's strange… how could they get covered in this much sap?" asked Dipper.
"Maybe some kind of sapalanche." Said Mabel.
Just about everyone just shrugged it off.
Amelia and Dipper noticed that the sap was starting to melt.
Not to mention one of the pillars had the shape of the pterodactyl in it and it as partially melted.
"It must be the summer heat." Said Dipper.
"Maybe…" said Amelia.
That was when Marina screamed.
They turned what she was screaming about, turned out it was a pack of raptors that looked close to breaking out.
Riley pulled her away.
"Don't worry it will be fine… don't worry…" said Riley.
"You know what… I can see this as a tourist attraction." Said Stan.
"Stan I don't know if that's a good idea." Sighed Hotaru.
"Come on! I see it now! The ticket stand over there, a velvety rope over there… we could call it Jurassic… Sap Hole… yeah that's a good name." said Stan.
"That's a terrible name." said Lila.
"I should have put the pig outside ages ago." Said Stan.
Everything became deathly silent. Even with Marina's fears going on.
"What did you say." Said Mabel, "Didn't you tell me that the pterodactyl flew in."
"Uh-oh…" said Stan.
"You let Waddles outside and then you lied about it!" cried Mabel, "He could be dead! All because you let him outside!"
Hotaru hugged Mabel.
"Look he's an animal he belongs outside!" said Stan.
"I'm never talking to you ever again!" cried Mabel.
"Oh come you don't mean that!" said Stan.
"I'm sorry! Is someone talking to me!" yelled Mabel who then put her face into Hotaru's shoulder.
Hotaru gave him a look to stop talking.
"Look everyone needs to calm down." Said Soos, "Why can't you guys be like me and Dipper? We just need to follow the yarn…. And uh…"
Turns out they just ran out of yarn.
"Uh-oh…" said Soos.
They looked to see the cave had many different branches.
"Soos you just lost the trail." Said Dipper.
"Hey it will be fine." Said Soos who smacked Dipper's back, causing him to drop the lantern they were using.
"That is it! This is why I didn't want to bring you along!" yelled Dipper.
"What…" said Soos.
"This is really important to Mabel and I didn't want you screwing it up." Said Dipper.
"But we're P-terodactyl bros. I made us shirts." Said Soos.
"It's pronounced pterodactyl and the shirt is massive!" yelled Dipper.
"I have a different body type"! said Soos.
Their arguing started up Mabel and Stan once again.
With Mabel and Stan arguing and Dipper and Soos arguing Serena looked at her family.
"Stop!" she cried very loudly causing them to stop, "Now's not the time to arguing, we have to find Waddles."
"How are we going to do that?" asked Dipper.
""Don't worry, I already ruled out three of the branches." Said Amelia who was on her computer, "It will take a few more minutes to determine which ones are the more likely choices however."
"Also I fixed your lantern!" said Old Man McGucket.
"Good job Grandpa!" said Amelia looking up from her computer.
"But the way that is one nice computermajig you're using." Said Old Man McGucket.
"It is very powerful." Said Amelia.
"Please tell I'm not the only weirded out that they're getting along right now?" asked Stan.
"A little." Said Lila.
"Yeah kind of…" said Riley.
That was when Amelia froze.
"Amelia what's wrong?" asked Serena.
That was when they heard screeches coming from one of the tunnels and behind the way they came.
"My computer detected that the raptors escaped from their sap and the pterodactyl is on its way here." Said Amelia.
"How close are they?" asked Marina.
That was hen the pterodactyl flew down in front of them and screeched.
"It's right here…" said Amelia causing everyone to scream.
They spilt up into two different groups by accident.
With one group consisting of Dipper, Serena, Soos, Marina and Lila.
While the other was Mabel, Stan, Hotaru, Amelia, Riley and Old Man McGucket.
Wit the first group they ended up at a dead end.
"I don't think the pterodactyl will be able to get from here." Sighed Lila.
"Yeah, good point." Said Marina sitting down.
"You okay?" asked Lila.
"Great we're seprated from the others." Said Dipper.
"Hopefully they got away too." Said Serena.
Dipper sighed.
He looked at Soos.
However they heard another screech.
"Oh right…" said Serena, "The raptors."
They all froze.
With the other ground they found themselves in a very large chamber and hid behind some rocks.
Thankfully the pterodactyl lost them because of that.
"What are we going to do?" asked Amelia.
"Okay we'll have Soos dress up like a pig an sacrifice him." said Stan.
"Stan, we go seprated from Soos." Said Hotaru.
"Oh… huh… how about McGucket…" said Stan.
"Mr. Pines…" muttered Amelia.
"Fine…" muttered Stan.
That was when they heard the squeal.
"Waddles?" asked Mabel.
They turned to see across a nearly broken down railway bridge was a nest with an egg and Waddles in it.
"Waddles! I'm coming!" called out Mabel.
She ran for the pig.
"Mabel get back here!" yelled Stan.
"Is someone talking to me! Because I can't hear anything!" yelled Mabel.
Amelia and Riley began to follow Mabel knowing she would need the back up.
Mabel took out the Huggy Wuvy Tummy Bundle and put Waddles into it.
Stan, Old Man McGucket and Hotaru decided to follow the three to the nest.
"You got him…" said Riley.
However the pterodactyl swooped down. Scaring Waddles who ran off towards Stan. Knocking him off the bridge sending both of them plummeting down.
The pterodactyl swooped at them again and dropped Stan's fez.
"What are we going to do?" asked Hotaru.
"I don't know…" said Amelia.
With the other group…
The Raptor Pack cornered them.
"All right! Time to transform!" said Serena.
"Right!" said Lila.
"Okay…" said Marina.
"Moon Prism Power"! said Serena.
"Jupiter Power!" called out Lila.
"Venus Power…" said Marina somewhat nervously.
"Make-up!" all three called out.
All three of them transformed.
The raptor headed for Dipper an his vest but Sailor Jupiter kicked it away.
Another tired to attack her from behind, but Sailor Moon called out "Moon Tiara Action!" and hit it head on.
Sailor Venus was just standing there in fear.
One of them tried to attack her, but Soos tackled it away.
"Soos!" said Sailor Venus.
"I'm fine!" said Soos.
"Are you sure?" asked Sailor Venus.
The raptor made a pained noise, as it was in pain while Soos was fine.
"Hey… I hurt it but it didn't hurt me…" laughed Soos.
"Yeah…" said Sailor Venus.
"Hey… didn't you awaken your powers because your were scared of your brother?" asked Soos.
"Yeah." Sighed Sailor Venus.
"And you're no longer scared of him right?" "asked Soos.
"Yeah… you're right." Said Sailor Venus.
"shouldn't it be just like that?" asked Soos.
"You're right…" said Sailor Venus realizing that he was right, "I've been so stupid."
"It's okay…" said Soos.
She turned to where Sailor Moon and Sailor Jupiter were fighting the raptors.
"It's just like with Gideon! I have to face my fears…" thought Sailor Venus taking a breath.
That was when she felt something inside of her.
"Crescent Beam Shower!" she called out.
She shot her usual beam at the pack, it began to break apart and hit the various members of the raptor pack injuring them so they couldn't follow.
"Soos… that was great…" said Dipper.
"Well yeah, it just seemed so obvious…" said Soos.
"I owe you big time Soos!" said Sailor Venus hugging him.
One of the raptors moaned causing Sailor Venus to jump a little.
"Maybe we should get out of here." Said Sailor Jupiter.
"Good idea." Said Sailor Moon.
Back in the nest.
"What are we going to do?" asked Mabel.
"I don't know…" sighed Hotaru.
That was when the egg started to hatch. The baby pterodactyl looked around and chirped.
"Aw…" said Mabel.
"It's kind of cute." Said Hotaru.
"Hey there little fella! Welcome to the world." Said McGucket.
That was when the baby ate him.
Everyone but Amelia screamed at this.
"Grandpa!" cried Amelia.
However Old Man McGucket came out of its mouth.
"I'm okay." Sid Old Man McGucket coming out of its mouth, but the baby swallowed it him again.
"Mercury Power Make-Up!" called out Sailor Mercury.
She transformed.
"Uh..,. Mercury what are you going to do?" asked Riley
Sailor Mercury blushed.
"Mars Power! Make-Up!" called out Riley.
She took transformed.
"Okay how about you freeze then I burn it…" said Sailor Mars.
"Okay…" sighed Sailor Mercury now having any better idea.
"Sabao Spray Freezing!"
The bubble froze the baby pterodactyl.
"All right! Fire soul!" called out Sailor Mars.
The fire melted the ice freezing the baby pterodactyl. It fell on it's back.
"So what do we do now?" asked Sailor Mars.
Before Sailor Mercury could gather her thoughts. The chest of the baby pterodactyl burst open and Old Man McGucket was fine.
"I just ate my way out of a pterodactyl, it sure was easy once it stopped moving." Said Old Man McGucket, "And I got my spoons back."
Old Man McGucket looked around.
"Where's Amelia?" asked Old Man McGucket.
"She went to search for help." Said Sailor Mercury.
"Oh it didn't seem that long." Said Old Man McGucket, "Oh well…:
They crossed the bridge back.
"What are we going to do about Stan?" asked Hotaru.
Before any of them could answer. The mother pterodactyl flew by with Stan on her shoulder punching her and with Waddles tied to the Huggy, Wuvy Tummy Bundle on his chest. He gave one final hit to the pterodactyl with a shout of "From Heck's Heart I Stab at Thee!"
The pterodactyl crashed and Stan managed to get off in time.
Mabel looked at Stan smiling with his fez on her head.
"Here's your pig kiddo." Said Stan taking Waddles off.
"Waddles!" cheered Mabel happily.
She hugged her pig happily.
"You actually save him for me…" said Mabel.
"yeah… well…" said Stan that was when he noticed the two Sailor Guardians, "Who are these weirdo."
"Just some town Super Heroes." Said Sailor Mars since she had grown used the excuses.
"I heard them this way!" called out Dipper.
The other group (still transformed) got there.
"Oh man you guys missed it!" said Mabel, "Grunkle Stan punched the pterodactyl in the face to save Waddles!"
"Really?" asked Dipper.
"That's amazing!" said Sailor Moon.
"Yeah well, sometimes…" said Stan.
But before he could make his speech the pterodactyl showed up again.
"Oh ho… I'm going to have fun with this!" cheered Sailor Venus.
"Crescent Beam Shower!"
The beams hit the pterodactyl hard sending it off the cliff once again.
"Looks we both missed something awesome." Said Mabel.
They heard out of that part of the cave, the Sailor Guardians managing to figure out a way to duck and transform back without Stan or Old Man McGucket seeing them.
"Hey did everything turn out all right?" asked Marina playing dumb.
"Oh yeah!" said Mabel playing along.
"Where have you been?" asked Stan.
"Getting over my fears on Dinosaurs!" said Marina giving the V is for Victory Sign.
"Good for you." Muttered Stan.
"Are you okay Grandpa?" asked Amelia, "You were eaten by a pterodactyl."
"Oh yeah! It was the best meal I've had in a long time." Said Old Man McGucket.
Amelia sighed at the response.
"You walked into that one." Said Lila.
"Yeah…" sighed Amelia.
They heard a screech.
"Oh man it's back up!" said Serena.
They headed towards the hole, but there was no way up.
"What are we going to do?" asked Serena.
They saw some strange geysers that tossed up some rocks.
"The geysers." Said Dipper.
They got into one of them. But nothing was happening.
They heard some hisses.
"It's the raptors! They're back up too!" said Lila.
"It will be fine!" yelled Soos, "Bros before Dinos!"
He slammed his fist into the geysers shooting the rather large group high into the air.
Once they were passed the hole the ground around the hole caved in covering the hole.
"Is everyone okay?" asked Serena.
Everyone made groans.
"No injuries?" asked Hotaru.
"They should be trapped there." Said Marina breathing a sigh of relief.
The others nodded in agreement.
"Hopefully we don't have to deal with them a long time." Said Riley.
"You said it." Sighed Marina.
"I can't believe you did that for me." Said Mabel.
"Well I can have one of my favorite nieces mad at me." Said Stan leaning into a tree, "And if I got leap and punch a pterodactyl in the face then that's what I'm doing."
"Grunkle Stan, that's sappy!" said Mabel.
"What? It's how I feel." Said Stan.
"No… that…" said Mabel.
He noticed the tree he was leaning on was covered in sap.
He touched her face, but then they realized they were stuck.
"Little help!" called out Stan.
After separating Stan and Mabel, they all went their seprated ways, with Amelia and Old Man McGucket walking home together, as did Riley and Lila. Only Hotaru and Marina joined the Pines on the ride back. Mabel, Stan and Marina were all asleep on the ride back.
"Thanks for helping Marina back there." Said Dipper looking at his vest.
"No problem." Said Soos.
Dipper sighed noticing it as pretty ripped.
"Great." Said Dipper.
That was when he noticed that inside the rip was part of the raptor's claw.
"Awesome!" said Dipper.
"Raptor claw!" said Soos.
"Don't show that to Marina, I don't think she'll be ready to see it." Said Serena with Hotaru nodding agreement.
"Yeah." Laughed Dipper.
And so they all headed home with Marina pretty much getting over her fear, Stan and Mabel making up and Dipper realizing that Soos did help out when it they really needed it.
And hopefully they wouldn't encounter dinosaurs ever again… especially on a deserted island and fighting a volcano…
Because that would just be stupid!
Next Time: It's Serena's birthday and everything is going to be perfect! That is until a pair of mysterious little girls show up. With both the Society of the Blind Eye and a strange woman after them it's not going to be an easy birthday. What will happen? Find out next time!
A/N: The next chapter's going to be original, I do have plans for a few more original chapters during this story arc (IE: The Bill Arc), I still don't know which direction to take it but much like Titania Falls, I will continue it, but the next chapter will hint at the villains Post Bill.