(i like to imagine Retold Spiny's voice is basically Caboose's voice from Red vs Blue. i mean, they're both random and blue… kinda. i mean, no idea why Spiny is purple when his element is blue. would've made more sense to make him blue.)
A commercial airline could be seen descending into Sanjo City Airport, gracefully landing on the strip as the wheels screeched upon touching the ground. The commercial airliner parked into one of the terminals as it's passengers all left the aircraft and into the airport. Many people of different social circles could be seen, such as two friends giving each other a hug, a family welcoming home a relative and a lone businessman waiting for his cab.
"Flights arriving from Washington, leave at Terminal 6 please… I'm talking about the state, not the capital by the way." says a female announcer over the speaker.
"No seriously, you all SUCK." yells a random passenger.
Employees came in and out of the terminal as one specific man exited the terminal and into the street, wearing a business style yet casual clothing that consisted of a dark gray business suit over a white collared shirt. Down below, the man wore black fitted jeans with brown loafers. The man was of average size, a little bit taller than Ursula and a little younger than Dr. Z, as he still had bits of brown in his graying hair, all this fitted with black rimmed glasses. The man adjusted his glasses, revealing his deep set eyes as well natural bags around them, not from injury but from genetics.
"Right… Time to get to work." the man says with a cunning smile.
*Who Are You by The Who starts playing...*
*brief instrumental*
MAX TAYLOR
Whoooooooo are you?
ZOE DRAKE
Who, who, who who?
REX OWEN
Whoooooooo are you?
REESE
Who, who, who, who?
URSULA, ZANDER, ED
I really wanna know! (Whoooooooo are you?)
DR. Z
Oooooooh!
ROD AND LAURA
THE DINOS
Come on! Tell me who are you! You! You! AAAAAAAARE YOOOOOOOU!
Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril
In beautiful Havana, a large bright blue canvas that was the sky loomed over the city, the many colorful buildings sticking out like sore thumbs. Old cars drove on the street as the locals all went about their business on the sidewalk, either in groups or alone by themselves. At that moment, a plain white small box truck drove passed the camera and down the road. Inside the vehicle were two suspicious looking men - both of whom looked like gangsters - the passenger asleep as the driver was obviously awake. At that moment, the radio on the truck began to make a noise, indicating that someone was trying to contact them. The driver turned to the passenger, waiting for him to answer it as he was unable to because he was driving. When he realized his passenger was asleep, he slapped the man's shoulders, waking him up instantly.
"Ay… Wha?" the gangster asks. The driver motioned to the radio in response. "Oh." The passenger then grabbed the radio and turned it on. "¿Hola?"
"¿Dónde están ustedes dos?" asks the man over the radio.
"Estamos cruzando el puente ahora mismo. Estaremos allí en diez minutos." the man replies.
"Sr. Matacho quiere cargar todo el producto en media hora. La policía ha sido alertada. Tenemos un soplón."
"¡¿QUÉ?!" The man exclaims in shock. "¿Quién es?"
"No lo sabemos, así que mantén tus ojos y oídos abiertos. Cambio y fuera."
With that, the radio made a noise as it turned off, prompting the man to put back the radio in it's spot before turning to the driver. "¿Viste el partido anoche?" he asks in a friendly manner.
The small white box truck continued to drive down the road until eventually reaching a warehouse by the port. Inside, many armed men could be seen unloading various crates from the truck, one of them having a crowbar in his hands. "About time the shipment came." says a voice in a Hispanic accent. "Él Matacho wanted these crates shipped over from Costa Rica a week ago."
"Complications, señor." replies the driver.
"There's always complications." One of the men used the crowbar and unboxed the crate as the man approached the box, however when he did he grew a very visible disappointed look. "900 miles across open sea… for this?" Down below, it was revealed that in the crate were nothing more but a bunch of various rocks from all across the globe. "A bunch of fucking rocks?"
"Él Matacho said that these aren't for him but… for some guy he's working for apparently." the driver replies.
"What's this?" asks a man from the side.
The man reached inside and pulled out an egg capsule, though they had no idea what it was. "Looks like an egg." says one of the men.
"I know that, stupid. I mean why the hell is it in this crate?"
"Ah, who cares. Just throw it away."
The man suddenly snatched the dinosaur card capsule out of the older gentleman's hands before carelessly throwing it behind him. The card capsule was thrown to a conveniently placed potted plant by the windowsill of the warehouse, causing it to knock down. The card capsule fell to the ground, breaking upon impact, revealing that there were two cards inside. Said cards were suddenly covered up by the soil from the knocked over potted plant, causing the cards to glow purple before a fully sized Kentrosaurus spawned in the middle of the warehouse, where it let out a loud roar, scaring the armed men inside.
"Monster!" shouts a man as he grabs his assault rifle.
Seeing the strange creatures point their objects at it, the Kentrosaurus reacted in self defense as it suddenly glowed purple. The spikes at the tip of it's tail suddenly began to glow purple while enlarging themselves before the herbivorous dinosaur began to shoot said spikes from it's tails. The armed men had no time to react as they were all suddenly impaled by the shooting spikes, killing all of them as some fell to the floor pinned or pinned to the wall. The only three who survived were the older gentleman from before and the driver along with the passenger, all of whom managed to duck in time.
When he saw all his allies dead, he turned back to the dinosaur only to see it smash through a warehouse wall and into the street. A car could be seen driving by before the sound of it slamming it's brakes followed by crashing was heard. At that moment, many people could be seen running away and screaming as the Kentrosaurus' roar could be heard from the street. The sounds of more cars slamming their brakes and crashing - even at one point a car on fire slid passed the hole in the wall - could be heard from outside as more screams and roars followed.
"Like I said, there's always complications." says the man in a grim tone, staring at the large hole the dinosaur made.
Max could be seen sitting idly sitting at an outside cafe with earbuds in his ears listening to music, a tired look on his face as he just stared out into space. "REESES' PUFF! REESES' PUFF! EAT 'EM UP! EAT 'EM UP! EAT 'EM UP! EAT 'EM UP! REESES' PUFF! REESES' PUFF! EAT 'EM UP! EAT 'EM UP! EAT 'EM UP! WOOOOOOOOW!" the song could be heard over his ear buds.
Right at that moment, Rex and Zoe could be seen approaching the unsuspecting Max from the sidewalk. For some reason, Rex was covered in some sort of oily substance. "Hey, Max." Rex calls out to get his friend's attention.
In response, Max began to violently cough before collapsing to the ground. (DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYUUUUUUM!) "Yeah?" Max answers, taking his earbuds off as he was now suddenly sitting on the chair, acting as if he didn't fall down.
"We managed to get back some of the cards that were sold online thanks to Reese's information." Rex says as he holds up a file.
"Why do you smell like sweet potato fries?" Max asks the blonde.
Zoe turned to Rex whom got sheepish on the spot, awkwardly avoiding eye contact before answering in defeat. "I was at a Jack-in-the-Box." he admittedly says in a shameful tone.
"Ha." Max lazily laughs. "Anyway, did you get the cards or not?"
Zoe suddenly pulled out three bootleg cards from her pocket. "Three of them gave up their cards, two said they would get them to us as soon as possible, and four admitted they destroyed the cards when they realized they were fake and worthless." she explains.
In response, Max counted on his fingers before coming to the conclusion. "We're missing one from here." he says.
"Yyyyeah, we have no idea who bought it." Rex says as he scratches the back of his head. He suddenly sniffed his finger before a small smile appeared on his face. "Wow, I smell good."
"Not to mention that two were sold outside of the country. Did you manage to find out where they were shipped off to?" Zoe asks the spiky haired teen.
Max suddenly turned around and pulled out a file from his backpack. "You know, we really gotta thank Reese for getting us these shipping manifests from her coworker." Max says as he begins to skim through the file.
"Too bad she quit afterwards." Zoe says under her breath in a sadden tone.
"Alright. They were shipped to… They were shipped to uuuh… Las Vegas… and Serbia." Max answers, closing the file.
"Does it say who bought them?" Rex asks.
"A guy named Tony DeLuca bought a card from Las Vegas and the one who bought the one from Serbia is just someone named G.W."
"Well there's nothing we can do about those two." Rex says. "I doubt they'll be any trouble since they're bootlegged. We should focus on whoever bought the last card here in Sanjo City. We might not know who but whoever bought it is in the file. What does it say?"
"Someone named Goma… Do you know anyone named Goma?" Zoe asks her friends.
"I have never heard of that name ever in my entire life. W- What is that? Ethiopian? Japanese? Mongolian?" Max starts randomly guessing.
"Does it give an address?" Rex asks.
"African?"
"No, it's blank. I guess they must've retrieved it in person."
"Oh. Great. Yay. That's so wonderful. I love that so much." Max says in an obvious sarcastic tone while chuckling at the misfortune at the same time.
"Hey, I hate to be that guy but can we get going? I'm starting to get hungry and I'm actually beginning to lick myself." Rex says, licking some oil off of his arm.
"That is oil, Rex. Why are y- Why are you licking oil? That's gotta be unheal- I'm pretty sure there's actual grease mixed in there, Rex." Max says to his friend in a somewhat disappointed tone.
Their conversation was interrupted when all three of their DinoShots began beeping. "A dinosaur appeared!" Zoe exclaims.
Max suddenly threw the chair he was once sitting in towards the street, where it crashed upon an individual off screen. "My leg!" yells the victim.
"Then let's get- Rex, stop licking yourself." Max tells his friend in the same disappointed tone.
Sure enough, Rex was in the middle of licking himself, pausing like a deer in headlights after being caught. "Sorry." he sheepishly apologizes.
Dr. Cretacia could be seen leaning into her chair, an extremely bored expression on her face as she used her fist as a resting place. In front of her was a computer with a game of solitaire on the screen, except Dr. Cretacia wasn't really playing the game correctly. Instead she opted to make a frowny face with the cards while on the side was a YouTube video of a dancing skeleton puppet wearing a black top hat. Right at that moment, her husband Dr. Ancient entered the room, approaching his wife shortly afterwards.
"Hey, Cheryl, have you seen the Alpha Gang anywhere by any chance?" Dr. Ancient asks his wife.
"Dr. Z is in the lab or whatever that room is supposed to be and the other three are at their apartment doing who knows what." she replies. "I- I don't know. I've been in here all day trying to decrypt every piece of new information stored in the Backland's servers. There are still data and memory disks I still have to look over to tell me who stole this ship except everything encrypted so I'm gonna have to debug the systems or whatever science mumbo jumbo this is."
"Mumbo jumbo!" Ed's laugh could be heard in the void.
"And you're playing solitaire instead of doing that becaaaaaause…?" Dr. Ancient asks.
"I'm on break. Duh. Can't you see my Break Timer?" she asks as she motions to the side of her desk.
Dr. Ancient turned to the desktop to see a rectangular clock that had a piece of paper taped on it that read "BREAK TIMER", with said clock turning from 3:31 to 3:32. "It says you've been on break for 3 ½ hours." he responds.
"Well, yeah. I spent the other twelve decrypting mainframe after mainframe on the Backland's new systems. I've unlocked every file, server, you name it that has been installed inside this Backland and it's all telling me one thing."
"And what's that."
"Nothing!"
Dr. Ancient was silent for a moment but gave no reaction, a blank look on his face. "What?" he asks, shaking his head a bit.
"Nothing! It's telling me nothing!"
Again, Dr. Ancient was silent for a brief second. "H- How is it telling you nothing?'
"Besides security footage, everything else has either been completely destroyed from the crash itself or wiped clean by whoever did this. I have been searching every server in this place and I'm getting no results. Not even a name on who's behind this. Whoever stole the Backland covered up their tracks well."
"Who we all know is Seth by now."
"Yeah but… Did Seth really seem like a computer geek to you?" Dr. Cretacia asks.
Dr. Ancient pondered for a bit before answering. "Nooo, not really. He was always silent and kept to himself." he answers.
"His expertise revolved around physical inventions, not malicious malware and computer viruses and covering up digital paper trails. The only one who ever was like that was Mr. Mills."
"So what? You're saying Mr. Mills is behind this now? I thought we established that he wasn't involved in this?"
"No." she answers. She suddenly turned back to her keyboard and began typing on it, bringing up a separate tab that had her family's names, the Alpha Gang's names, as well as Mr. Mills, which simply said Mr. Mills. Next to the names showed various times as the counter counted up, with Mr. Mills' time being significantly longer than the rest. "You know what this is?"
"Not a clue."
"This is a chart that tells us how long our wrist microchips have been active. Remember, it only stops once our heart stops, meaning death. As you can see, we're all alive, INCLUDING Mr. Mills!" Dr. Cretacia emphasized as she sat up from her seat and pointed to Mr. Mills' name.
"Okaaaaay?"
"Look at his time."
Dr. Ancient turned to Mr. Mill's time, which revealed that it was 20 years ahead of everyone else's. "What the hell?!"
"That's what I said! This means that Mr. Mills has been in this time period for 20 years. How old was he when we gave him the chip?'
"Uuuh, 25 I think."
"Then he must be 45 right now or close to that age… You know what this means right?"
"No."
"It means we have an age." Dr. Cretacia tells her husband.
Again, her husband had a dumbfounded look, obviously not getting at his wife's cryptic and dramatic explanation. "What?"
"We all look different 20 years later regardless of our age." Dr. Cretacia continued. "Now that we have an age span, I can digitally age his ID photo to a more accurate version to that if he was 45 and then upload the data into the Spy Flies so they could search from him quicker."
For once, Dr. Ancient understood what his wife meant. "My God, Cheryl Cretacia, you are the most wonderful woman on Earth and I am so glad I eloped with you." he tells his wife with a huge grin.
"Yeaah, my parents are still not happy about that." Dr. Cretacia added.
"So have you uploaded the data to the Spy Flies yet?"
"Uh, no. Remember? I'm on break." Dr. Cretacia answers, pointing back to the clock which now reads 3:35.
"What kind of break gets 3 ½ hour- How long are you taking a break for?"
"Let's see, I spent a quarter of a day working nonstop. Uuuuumm… Whenever I feel like it. Anyway, why did you want to see the Alpha Gang?"
"What about them?"
"You asked me if I've seen them when you came in here and I said they were at their home or the new lab or whatever that other room is supposed to be."
"Yeah, that room seems to be their new lab now." Dr. Ancient answers. "I've had Dr. Z run some small experiments and tests on some of the equipment we found here to see what their function is."
"You gave a blind old man known for his megalomania and overall psychopathic personality a task to study objects he's never or will never see?"
"He's not blind anymore actually."
"Wait. What?" Dr. Cretacia asks in dumbfoundedness.
"Yeah, Dr. Z got tired of waiting for his vision to come back so he decided to take matter into his owns hands. Turns out you can't accomplish much when you're blind in the engineering field."
"So what happened?"
"Thaaaaat's why I wanted to see the Alpha Gang for." Dr. Ancient answers in a tired, emotionless tone as his expression drops to an agitated one.
Right at that moment, Dr. Z crashed through the automatic doors, everything about him completely normal aside from the fact his head was replaced with a dinosaur raptor-like head with a black hide and light green eyes. "I EXPERIMENTED ON MY OWN HEAD! HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!" Dr. Z laughed maniacally as he ran around the room making a complete mess.
"What the fuck?" Dr. Cretacia swears, completely out of character of her to demonstrate how bizarre the situation is.
"Yeah, he tried to give himself dinosaur vision so he experimented on the Calamosaurus and uh… well yeah." Dr. Ancient tried to explain as best as he could.
"I AM VENGEANCE! I AM NOT QUOTING BATMAN, I AM LITERALLY MY CALAMOSAURUS' HEAD! I TOILED IN GOD'S DOMAIN! AAAAAAAAAH!" Dr. Z screamed some more before crashing out through the door and back into the hallway.
"I can't tell if he's in pain or not between the screaming and the laughing." Dr. Cretacia says.
"No, I think that's just Dr. Z normal." Dr. Ancient replies.
"THE DINO HEAD IS PURE AGONY! HOOHOOHA! HAHAHAHAAAA!"
The Queen Anne's Revenge, most recognizable as the flagship of the infamous pirate Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard. Said ship was known for sailing the West Indies, and yet here it was, full canvas yet heading in no direction. It wasn't until a large eye above a large pink nose peered at the Queen Anne's Revenge, as the camera panned up revealing that it was inside of a glass bottle with Ed sitting in front of it. Ed carefully used his tweezers to extract the flagship from inside the bottle before adjusting it; the chubby man raised the glass bottle into the sunlight and examined it. Nodding his head in satisfaction, Ed gently placed the glass bottle on a shelf where another shelf was above it with other glass bottles full of famous pirate ships. Other infamous pirate ships shown on the two shelves were - the Whydah Gally, the Revenge, the Adventure Galley, the Fancy, the Black Pearl, the Jackdaw, the Flying Dutchman and an unknown Galleon with red sails and a large naval ram.
"Perfect!" Ed exclaims. Right at that moment, Zander opened the door to his bedroom, stepping inside a step. "Hey! I thought we agreed on using our special knock before we enter each other's rooms!"
"Oh, sorry." Zander says, stepping back into the hallway and before closing the door. A second later, three slow knocks followed by three fast ones finished by a single knock was heard before Zander re-entered the room. "Hey, Ed."
"Hey, Zander." Ed greets as if nothing happened.
"What're you doing?"
"Nothing. Just finishing up my pirate ship in a bottle collection. You like? I just finished the Queen Anne's Revenge! Blackbeard's ship!"
Zander peered into the bottles, observing each ship contained within them. "I remember when you only had the Adventure Galley. Where'd you get these ones from?" Zander asks.
"A bartering site. Plus, I got the Revenge and the Fancy at Pirate-Con! A lot of Jack Sparrows at the convention for some reason." Ed explained.
"I've never seen this one before." Zander says, pointing to the unknown Galleon with red sails and a naval ram.
"That is supposedly the ship that belonged to the mysterious and unknown pirate, Skeleton Frank." Ed explained
"Skeleton Frank? Never heard of that pirate before." Zander says, taking note of the naval ram.
"That's because no one can confirm whether or not he existed." Ed begins explaining. "The reason behind the skeptical legend is that it's rumored that Skeleton Frank… was undead. It is said that Skeleton Frank was quite possibly the most fearsome man on Earth that when he died, he got rejected from the world above and got sent back down to the land of the living, falling from the sky, cursed to roam the Earth for all eternity as he takes the form of a skeleton under the moonlight. Legend says that this is the ship that Skeleton Frank used." Ed says, pointing to the Galleon. "A British Galleon with sails soaked in blood from his enemies and a deck piercing naval ram. He called it… the Bluddy Rino."
"But if Frank was cursed to never die… then where'd he go?" Zander asks.
Ed opened his mouth to give an answer only to realize the tall man had a point. "Huh." he says in a confused tone.
Right at that moment, Ursula barged into the room and passed Zander. "Hey, guys," she starts off. "I just got off the phone with Dr. Ancient. Apparently Dr. Z transformed his entire head into a Calamosaurus' one. Not only that but our Alpha Scanners are blinking meaning there's another dinosaur somewhere in the world."
"Okay… So?" Zander asks.
"Sooooooo we have either two choices: deal with whatever insane project Dr. Z got himself stuck in or leave the old bastard and get that dinosaur."
"Ursula! That's our father!" Ed scolded the greenette.
"Oh, sorry. 'Old geezer'. That better?" the greenette asks.
"Much." Ed replies with a smile.
"Well the choice couldn't be more obvious!" Zander exclaims in a dramatic tone. "We are the Alpha Gang and catching dinosaurs is our thang!"
Ursula and Ed simply stared blankly at the tall man with emotionless expressions. "Never say that sentence again." Ursula simply says, albeit in a silent, menacing tone.
Zander looked down in shame. "Okay." he replies in defeat.
Reese was shown leaning her chin on her fist before massaging her entire face, fatigue creeping up her body. She suddenly grabbed her mouse and began clicking before typing once more, continuing to work on whatever she was working on. After a while she stopped momentarily and stared at the screen, silently satisfied with whatever she just wrote.
"W.E.S.L.E.Y., can you print out this page for me?" she asks the D-Lab's A.I..
~NO!~
"Please?'
~ok~ Immediately afterwards, the sounds of the printer turning on before printing something was heard across the room. While whatever she was printing was busy being developed, Reese simply just stared at her screen with a complex expression on her face. Right at that moment, the printer suddenly stopped, as if it was interrupted by something. ~we're out of magenta.~
"Are you kidding me?" Reese mumbles to herself in frustration as she face palms herself.
At that moment, the D-Lab doors opened revealing both the D-Team and the Alpha Gang. "We're heeeeeere!" Max calls out.
"Even though we left our respective households we still managed to arrive on time!" Ed happily exclaimed.
"Ed, we stood out there for a good half hour for the brats to show up because they're the only ones with keycards to this place." Ursula says to the shorter.
"They don't have to know that."
"Who's they- Oh. W.E.S.L.E.Y.. I'm surprised you're keeping him as your assistant, Reese." Zoe says to her sister.
"I didn't have a choice." Reese replies in her dead tone.
~im extorting her~
"Thank you, W.E.S.L.E.Y. for that wonderful information." Reese sarcastically says.
"So where's the dinosaur at?" Rex asks.
Reese turned to the D-Lab's supercomputer, which was currently locked onto Havana where a purple dot was beeping in the city. "In the city of Havana, Cuba." she answers.
"Oooooooh, weee- we can't go there." Zander says in an awkward tone.
"Yeeeeeah, I mean don't get us wrong, it's a beautiful place, it's just-."
"The person running it isn't really a friendly person that even Dr. Z considers to be, in his weird definition, evil." Zander finished Ed's sentence.
"Dr. Z mailed a .44 Magnum to Castro and accidentally shot his wife… or one of them at least." Ursula adds.
"Wait, how did Dr. Z get the gun to shoot if he mailed it to him?" Zoe asks with a raised eyebrow.
"He tied the trigger to the lid so when Castro would open it, it would shoot him in the face. Instead, one of his mistresses took it as a gift from him and opened it and shot her in the leg. How I feel that poor woman's pain." Ed explains.
"Is she dead?" Max asks.
"She got shot in the leg. What do you think?" Zander asks rhetorically.
"Can we not talk about shooting people right now?" Rex asks, disturbed at the topic that was being spoken nonchalantly.
"Rex is right. We have time to talk about shooting people later. Right now we've got a dinosaur to catch! Let's go, everyone!" He suddenly turned back to the Alpha Gang, giving them a stern look. "That means you three as well. I don't care if you have personal issues with Castro."
"No, it's not that. I just don't like Cuba." Zander points out.
"I don't care. You're going anyway!"
"Okay."
Finally, all six stood in the teleporter, Max and Rex holding their respective dinosaurs while Paris was between Zoe's legs; the Alpha Gang opted to keep their dinos in their cards like most of the time.
"Alright, coordinates to Havana are set." Reese announces.
"Wait, hold on. Since when did YOU get control of the teleporter?" Rex asks the blonde. Reese stayed quiet for a moment before pushing a button and just like that, the six were teleported out of the lab, but not without Rex shouting, "YOU OWE ME AN EXPLANATIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo…"
Reese slowly grew a smirk as she just stared at the teleporter. "I always wanted to do that." she says in a satisfied tone.
~you are a psychotic bitch~
And just like that, the two teams were teleported into Havana, once again ten feet above the ground as everyone sans Max landed on their feet. "OW!" Max shouts in pain as he falls on his face. "I keep forgetting this stupid teleporter is broken!" he yells in frustration.
"You're broken." Rex lazily retorts.
Everyone instantly began taking in the sights of beautiful Havana with it's colorful buildings and old cars and all that shit. "Wow, Havana has a lot of pretty buildings. I can finally cross that off my bucket list." Ed says as he literally pulls a bucket out of nowhere.
He reached inside the bucket and pulled out a slip of paper before tossing the bucket backwards. He grabbed a pen from his pocket and took a look at his list which involved:
see colorful buildings, which Ed has now crossed off
ask Drew when the next chapter is coming
change leg
play catch with dr. dad
Beside the last note was a small drawing of Ed playing catch with Dr. Z, both having smiles on their faces. "Nice." Ed says with a smile.
Max picked himself up and dusted off any remaining dirt off of his clothes before confidently staring forward. "Alright, guys! Let's split up and find that dinosaur!" he orders with a confident grin.
"Found it." Rex says as he points in the opposite direction.
"Wait. What?" Max looked ahead to see that there was indeed a dinosaur in the city, evident when the Kentrosaurus rammed a speeding vehicle off the road, disappearing behind a building. "Oh."
"Well… We better get to it then… How are we gonna get there?" Rex asks awkwardly.
"We can use those." Ed points to three scooters.
"Where are the other three conveniently placed motorbikes?" Zoe sarcastically asks.
"Budget." Zander mumbles.
"There must not be any. We're gonna have to share… Meaning… Aw crap." Ursula mumbles in frustration once she realizes what this meant.
"Hey, Ursula, this is just like the time in Rome, remember? When we chased after that Pachycephalosaurus on bicycles and you ended up riding with me? It's like that but in reverse and motors!" Max exclaims happily as Ursula rode down the street on the motor scooter that had the appropriate name of 'Faggio' on the side. Somehow during all this, Terry was summoned in his chibi form as he rode on top of Max's shoulders.
"Max, I know we're on the same side now but this doesn't make it any more awkward." Ursula grumbles in seething anger as Chomp rides on the basket up front.
"Speak for yourself!" Zander's voice was heard from the back. Behind the two was revealed to be Zander riding the moped with Zoe behind him. Spiny was sitting on Zoe's lap for some reason as Paris laid behind Zoe on the edge of the seat, somehow not falling off. "I'm riding with the girl of my dreams' kid sister! Who I'm sure has at least 20 ways of murdering me!"
"25 if you count collateral damage as murder." Zoe nonchalantly replies.
"See what I mean?!"
"Oh, don't be such a baby, Zander! She's only 13!" Ursula shouts back.
"I'm 15!" the pinkette loudly corrects.
"What she thinks of you shouldn't matter between you and her sister. Like I said, you two may look odd but I'm a believer that there's someone for everyone so if you want to go for Reese, go for her, bud. But if you let a 14 year old-"
"15 year old!"
"-brat stop you from finding love, then do you honestly deserve that woman?" Ursula finishes.
"Wow. She makes a good point." Zander mumbles to himself.
"I guess the old lady does have her moments." Zoe admits with a friendly smile.
"I AM NOT AN OLD LADY!" Ursula boomed as she looked back at the pinkette.
"WATCH THE ROAD! EYES ON THE ROAD!" Max shouts in absolute horror as he stares dead ahead from him.
"What?" Ursula mumbles before looking forward. "OOOOOH SHIT!"
In front of the two was revealed to be a wooden fence, with no way of steering around it as the two crashed into the fence. Thankfully, said fence broke their crash, but their moped was totally ruined as Max and Ursula, along with Chomp and Terry, were scattered in the backyard they just crashed in. With Max inside a bush, Ursula face first into a dog house, and Chomp and Terry in a small sandbox, the four all groaned in pain as their eyes were spirals, aside from Ursula's as she was inside the doghouse. Literally.
"Is it weird that I have a sudden distaste for Castro all of a sudden?" Max grumbled in the bush.
"Don't worry. In 6 years he'll die of a heart attack anyway." Ursula replies in the doghouse.
Back with Zander and Zoe, the two continued to drive down the road, with Zoe looking backwards as Zander proved to be the more responsible driver and kept his eyes on the road. "Well we lost Max and Ursula." Zoe says.
"I'm sure they're fine. Ursula survived worse… Wait, has Max ever been critically injured like us before?" Zander asks.
"I mean, he almost had an entire wall collapsed on him."
"Close enough!" Zander rounded the corner as Ed and Rex followed suit. "Hey, Zoe, can I ask you a personal question?"
"Does it regard my sister?" Zoe sarcastically asks. Zander said nothing and kept silent, confirming Zoe's suspicions, to which she gave a massive sigh in annoyance. "What is it?"
"Before I say anything, I just want to say I already know part of the reason why."
"Part of the reason why what?" Zoe asked.
"Why are you so defensive of your sister?" the tall man asks. "I mean, I know it's because we were once mortal enemies before but now we're like you're allies, so to speak. And you have openly shown you trust us already but… What will it take for you to just have a nice date with your sister?"
"That's not up to me now, is it?" Zoe rhetorically asks as she pouts the other way as she pet Spiny's head and snout.
"So wait, you'll just let me date your sister?" Zander asks in confusion.
"That's if she wants to date you, Zander. I may be her sister but I have no say in her relationships. Trust me, I tried that once with an airport friend of hers and it didn't go so well. I have learned my lesson since then. The reason why I'm so defensive of her is plain and simple: she's my sister and I love her. That's all." Zoe explains. Zander took her words in for a moment as he continued to drive down the road. "Whether or not she wants to date you is all up to her. So even if I tell you not to date my sister, what am I gonna do about it?"
"Have Paris crush me?" Zander guesses.
Zoe suddenly opened her eyes in realization. "Oh, I actually didn't think of that. Thanks for giving me the idea Zander!" Zoe happily exclaims.
"Crap!" Zander shouts in distress. "I wonder how Ed is doing."
Meanwhile, Ed and Rex were revealed to be driving completely normal as both of them were silent. Tank and Ace were both inside the basket in front as Ed silently drove and Rex took in the sights. The two sat in awkward silence, not knowing how to properly start a conversation without making it come off as an effort. Ed cleared his throat before inhaling while Rex whistled innocently; meanwhile, Ace continued to squirm in the basket while Tank proceeded to continuously slap him with her tail. Like a teenager bullying a small kid.
"Sooo… How's the leg?" Rex awkwardly asks.
"It's good. Doctor says it's healing quite fast for a fracture." Ed replies.
"I thought fractures take 6 months to heal? Hasn't it only been a month and a half or something like that since Canada?" Rex asks in confusion.
"Oh! Yeah! That's right!" Ed suddenly says in surprise.
Rex waited for an answer from him only for Ed to keep quiet about whatever secret he was hiding, evident by his flushed, sweat drenched face. "Aren't you going to tell me?" Rex asks.
"Maybe." Ed mumbles.
Back at the warehouse where the Kentrosaurus first appeared, the same man from before was shown on the phone as the driver and passenger was busy throwing away debris caused by the dinosaur. "Sí, señor. Acaba de aparecer un dinosaurio. (Yes sir. A dinosaur just appeared.)" says the man to the person over the phone.
"Pero conseguiste la caja? (But did you get the box?)" Él Matacho's voice was heard over the phone.
"Sí, llegó la caja. ¿Por qué está lleno de rocas? ¿Estás haciendo un jardín o algo así? (Yes, the box arrived. Why is it full of rocks? Are you making a garden or something?)" Behind the man, the driver and passenger could be seen losing their balance with one of the debris as they both fell over.
"El Gran Maestre me ordenó que encontrará un montón de rocas llenas de cualquier mineral que esté buscando. No sé por qué lo necesita, no me lo dijo. Todo lo que sé es que es muy importante para él. (The Grand Master ordered me to find a bunch of rocks filled with whatever ore he's looking for. I don't know why he needs it, he didn't tell me. All I know is that it is very important to him.)
"Grand Master? Who's that?" the man asks in English.
"Help!" shouts the passenger from behind.
"You don't want to know. This man is capable of sorcery and witchcraft. He can control those dinosaurs that have been appearing all over the globe. You know me, Vargo, I'm a man who has a distaste for violence and unnecessary killing. Both of which describe the Grand Master and so… Out of embarrassment… I have been forced to join his side otherwise I could be his dinosaur's next meal. So for now on, all important jobs are to be done immediately for the Grand Master."
"I don't understand, Matacho. Why is he doing all this? Why should we care about what his goals are?" Vargo asks his boss.
"El gringo nos va a matar, por eso. (The gringo will kill us, that's why.)"
With that, the line disconnected as Matacho hung up, leaving Vargo to stand there and take in his boss' words. Silently pondering over his new path of crime, Vargo calmly closed his flip phone before turning to the two men. "You two! Stop dicking around! We need to get these crates to Matacho as soon as possible!" Vargo ordered the two men who were dillydallying.
The citizens of Havana all ran amok down the street as they all screamed in horror, frequently looking back at what was chasing them. Sure enough, it was the Kentrosaurus chasing the citizens, feeling a bit more aggressive than usual dinosaurs, as the civilians all screamed and shouted various things while fleeing.
"RUUUUUUUUUUN!"
"GO! GO! GO!"
"HURRY UP!"
"OH MY GOD! IT'S RIGHT BEHIND US!"
"DON'T STOP RUNNING!"
"HEEEEEELP!"
"Need a dispenser here!"
"KEEP GOING!"
"DON'T LOOK BACK!"
The Kentrosaurus continued to chase the weird animals when all of a sudden, Zander and Zoe swerved right in front of it as they quickly got off their mopeds. Carelessly leaving their moped to fend for itself, the moped crashed into a store as both Zander and Zoe got into attacking positions. "Hey you overgrown lizard!" Zander calls out as he points to the dinosaur. "You are causing mayhem and mayhem is our specialty! Do you know who we are? The Alpha Gang! You're creators! Now stop this instant!"
In response, the Kentrosaurus simply lifted Zander with it's head before tossing him forward, throwing him towards an old car to which he crashed into the windshield of. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" he screamed before crashing. Zander, now laying on top of a crushed windshield, groaned in pain as tiny versions of Spiny circled around his head, spiraling for eyes. "Alright, time for Plan B. Go for it, kid." Zander says to the pinkette.
Paris turned green as she was summoned by her partner, whom raised her card in the air with her DinoShot in her other hand.
"GO! DINO SLASH! BLOSSOM FORTH, PARASAUROLOPHUS!"
Paris roared as the area turned into a battlefield, prompting the Kentrosaurus to back up upon seeing it's new opponent. The stegosaur roared to assert it's dominance before charging towards the Parasaurolophus, taking a nab at her tail, missing it at the last second. The Kentrosaurus suddenly swung it's spiked tail across Paris' face, knocking her down to the ground before the stegosaur charged right towards the downed Parasaurolophus.
Unbeknownst to anyone, a familiar person was peering at the fight through a pair of binoculars from afar. "There they are." says a familiar voice as the person lowered the binoculars, revealing themselves to be Ungaro. The poacher himself quickly grabbed his radio and turned it on, a sly smile on his face. "You were right. The dinosaur was here. And thanks to Seth's Tele-Watch, I can instantly teleport to the exact location in mere seconds."
"What about yer pack?" asks Jericho over the radio.
"There's always people to hire in any city. The only one I really need is my right hand man, Carter." Ungaro replies.
"You better come back with a card this time. The Grand Master may be a patient but that's not an excuse to test it."
"Last time was a fluke. I'll make sure I'll come back with one… What about the other three? You know those weird looking guys? Why can't the Grand Master have them do this crap?" Ungaro asks.
"I don't know and I don't care. The less I know about the Grand Master and whatever stupid, bloody plan he has got going on in his head of his and whoever is involved in it the better. It's best not to ask too many questions, mate. How do you think I lost my eye?"
"I figured it was a scratch from your pretty kitty cat." Ungaro sarcastically replies in a silly tone.
"Screw you. Just get the job done."
With that, Jericho turned off the radio while Ungaro picked himself up from on top of the rocky hill he was on. Beside him was his right hand man, Carter, whom was sleeping on his knapsack, evident by his loud snoring. "Carter." Ungaro calls as he taps his body with his foot, waking him up instantly.
"ZZZZZ- Eh, wha?" Carter questions mid snore.
"Get up. It's time."
Carter cleared his throat before picking himself up, placing his knapsack over his shoulders as he followed his friend. "No men this time?" Carter asks.
"Nah. Last time was a mistake." Ungaro replies. "Too many men. The key to poaching is to remain hidden and attack by surprise, giving you a huge advantage on big game. Less men, less complications, and more opportunities… The trick is to get him… to where we want him."
The Kentrosaurus roared as it headbutted Paris, whom also headbutted it at the same time. The two herbivores struggled in a strength war before both retracted from each other, only Paris swung her tail and knocked the Kentrosaurus over. "Alright, Paris! Show that Kentrosaurus who not to mess with!" Zoe cheered for her partner as Ed and Rex arrived on the scene.
The Kentrosaurus suddenly glowed purple as it roared into the air. At that moment, the tips of it's spikes elongated and glowed purple before the spikes were suddenly blasted forward. A barrage of spikes known as the move card Spike Arrows shot towards Paris, piercing her hide while pinning her to the ground as she cried out in pain.
"Oh no!" Zoe cried out in fear.
"She needs help!" Rex shouts in distress.
"She wants help? She's got it!" Ed calls out as he pulls out his Alpha Scanner, prompting turning Tank into a card.
"ALPHA SLASH! SHAKE 'EM UP, SAICHANIA!"
Upon being summoned, Tank immediately charged towards the Kentrosaurus, knocking it to the ground as it fell over on its back. With it's underbelly exposed, Tank began swinging her massive club tail right on the underbelly, dealing massive damage as the Kentrosaurus roared out in pain. "Keep going, Tank! Show that dinosaur you're not one to mess with!" Ed cheered on.
Tank continued to smash her tail against the Kentrosaurus' belly, until the herbivore grew tired of the endless assault and took matters into it's own hands. Or in this case, it's jaws, as the Kentrosaurus bit down onto Tank's tail, stopping her attack as Tank roared out in pain. "Waaaaaah!" Ed gasped.
"That's not good." Rex says in mild distress.
Tank tried to run from the Kentrosaurus' grip, which only resulted in her running in place as the Kentrosaurus took it's time on standing up. The stegosaur suddenly lifted Tank before swinging her around, tossing her towards the downed Parasaurolophus, causing her to roar out in pain. The Kentrosaurus once again roared and glowed purple, this time it's front spikes enlarging and glowing purple now as they got shot forward. The many Spike Arrows shot towards the two female herbivores, impaling both of them at once like a shish kebab, completely depleting their energy and turning them back into cards.
"That's it?" Ed questions upon the short fight.
"This Kentrosaurus is tougher than we thought." Zoe says aloud.
"I guess that means I'll have to bring out Ace." Rex says as he grabs his DinoShot.
"That's if you ever get the chance to!" Ed shouts in fear.
Rex looked up only to see the Kentrosaurus right in front of his face, causing the three to turn pale in fear. "Now's a good time to bring out Ace, Rex." Zoe says to her friend in a scared tone.
"Can't. Frozen in fear." Rex calmly replies. The Kentrosaurus suddenly roared before swinging it's tail. "LOOK OUT!" Rex shouts as the three of them duck in time for the tail to swing over their bodies. The three screamed as Rex and Zoe ran away, leaving Ed behind to fend for himself.
"Hey! Wait! I can't run, remember?! I'M A CRIPPLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!" Ed shouted at his teammates. Right at that moment, the Kentrosaurus stepped right in front of him, barely missing him before leaping into the air, causing Ed to teeter in spot as a traumatized expression on his face. "Oh my." Ed says, realizing he just cheated death twice in a minute. This was too much for the poor man to handle already.
Rex and Zoe continued to run as the Kentrosaurus chased after them, sprinting as fast as their legs could. "Great! Now we're the one's getting chased!" Zoe cries out as she continues to sprint.
"How did this go so wrong so quickly?! Why is the dinosaur chasing after us now?!" Rex questions loudly.
Ed continued to stand in place in utter shock when Zander approached him, his clothes all wrinkled and hair disheveled from the crash. "What happened? Did Paris lose?" Zander asks as he rubs his head.
"Yeah, and now the Kentrosaurus is chasing after the kids now." Ed replies, returning back to normal.
"Did you summon Tank?"
"Yeah, she got beat too."
"Well I guess that means I'll have to bring out Spiny then." Zander says as he pulls out his Alpha Scanner and recalls Spiny into a card. "One Spinosaurus, coming right up."
"ALPHA SLASH! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
Zoe and Rex continued to run as fast as their legs could carry when they heard a familiar roar behind them, prompting them to look back. There, behind the Kentrosaurus was none other than Spiny, whom was now chasing after the herbivore. "Great! Now Spiny is chasing after us!" Zoe shouts in frustration.
"I thought he was on our side!" Rex shouts in fear.
"He IS on your side! He just so happens to be on the wrong side, that's all!" Zander calls out.
"I don't know, Zander. I kind of prefer Spiny's front side than to his back side. His front side is all scary looking while his back side is just his tail." Ed adds in.
"Let's just hope he didn't eat earlier that day." Zander joked.
Spiny continued to chase after the Kentrosaurus, taking quick bites in an attempt to grab it's tail. Luckily for him, he managed to bite the Kentrosaurus' tail while avoiding the spikes, causing the Kentrosaurus to roar out in pain. The Spinosaurus then started to drag the herbivore away from the two teens before briefly swinging the dinosaur and tossing it aside. Spiny wasted no time in rushing in and headbutting the Kentrosaurus' underbelly, causing the herbivore to cry out in pain. In retaliation, the Kentrosaurus swung it's tail against Spiny's snout, knocking him to the ground as the earth shook upon his great impact.
"Get up, Spiny! You're bigger and stronger than that thing! So show it who's the Alpha Dinosaur! Literally!" Zander yells to his dinosaur.
"Maybe you should try a move card, Zander?" Ed suggested.
"Good idea." Zander agrees as he pulls out a move card and activates it. "Shockwave! Let's go, Spiny!"
Spiny roared as he glew blue as a large whirlpool surrounded him; around the same time, the Kentrosaurus activated it's own move card as well and fired up it's Spike Arrows. At the same time, the two dinosaurs fired their respective attacks at each other, both dealing direct hits to their respective opponents. Spiny once again fell to the ground in front of Ed and Zander while the Kentrosaurus crashed into a large white box truck, completely destroying whatever was in there.
Right at that moment, a taxi cab arrived on the scene as Max and Ursula ran out of it with Chomp and Terry following after them. "We're heeeeeere!" Ursula loudly announces.
"Hey. The old lady's back." Zoe says from afar.
"I HEARD THAT!" Ursula shouts in anger. Right at that moment, a pickup truck drove right by them. "Huh?"
The pickup truck suddenly swerved before stopping right in front of the Kentrosaurus, the driver honking to get it's attention. The Kentrosaurus looked at the vehicle, the driver obscured by the roof, before taking a look at the supplies it was carrying. The entire back of the truck was filled with various vegetables and leafy greens, something the Kentrosaurus has been dying for, literally. Upon seeing the literal truckload of food, the Kentrosaurus' eyes shrunk as it roared, quickly getting up as the truck drove away with the herbivore chasing after it.
"Hey! Where did that thing come from?!" Ursula asks in anger.
"Forget that! That thing is luring the Kentrosaurus away!" Max shouts aloud.
Zander quickly called back Spiny as the group regrouped with each other. "How're we supposed to catch up to it?" Rex asks.
All of a sudden, each and every member of both teams came up with the EXACT same idea at the EXACT same moment, as they all turned around. There, their eyes landed on the three chibi dinosaurs below them, with Terry sucking and nibbling on Chomp's tail as he just laid there, accepting there was no way of escaping Terry's jaws. Beside Chomp was Ace, whom was more curious as to what was happening, oblivious to the fact that Terry was chewing Chomp's tail literally in front of him. The three chibi dinosaurs suddenly looked up, noticing all eyes were on them. Upon realizing this, Terry released Chomp's tail as the three just stared at their partners with feared looks.
The truck continued to drive down the road as the Kentrosaurus followed suit, ever getting so close to the truck only for it to speed up a bit. It was as if it was deliberately teasing the Kentrosaurus, which only made it more furious, evident by a loud growl emitting from the stegosaur. Behind the Kentrosaurus was revealed to be Terry, Chomp, and Ace, in full size chasing after the herbivore with Ursula, Zander, and Ed riding Terry, Max and Zoe riding Chomp, and Rex riding Ace.
"I always wanted to do this!" Max yells in glee as he throws his hands up in the air.
"If only my sophomore year bully could see me now! He'd be trembling in his tight, little overalls in quaking fear!" Zander cries out.
"Wait. What?" Ursula mumbled, turning to the tall man.
"Uh, hey guys?" called out Ed behind Zander. "You think maybe we could have Terry slow down a bit? My leg is uh… It's starting to- It just healed and I don't want anymore damage done to it… Please?"
"Sorry, Ed, but we got a dinosaur to catch! You're sticking with us!" Ursula confidently shouts with a grin.
"I was afraid you'd say that." Ed whimpers in defeat.
The Kentrosaurus roared in furious anger, having grown tired of this cat and mouse game as all it wanted to do was just eat. It was hangry after all, which was the reason for it's destructive behavior. Like Spiny before, Terry tried to catch the Kentrosaurus by biting it's tail, only managing to bite the air instead before he roared out in anger. The truck suddenly rounded the corner as Terry followed, followed by Chomp and Ace.
"You think Francis would like this?" Zoe asks out of curiosity.
"What does he have to do with anything?" Max asks in annoyance.
Francis was shown placing a model ship inside of a glass bottle inside his room, when suddenly he let out a loud sneeze. "ACHOO!" After sneezing, he sat there for a solid second in silence, wondering why he sneezed. "Is someone talking about me?"
Behind him, one of his pirate swords on the wall fell on the floor.
Eventually, the truck suddenly drove down into Plaza Vieja where a familiar poacher was aiming the same futuristic rifle from the Netherlands last time on top of one of the buildings. "That's right." he whisper to himself, aiming down the scope. "Lead 'em here." Through the scope of his rifle, he could see the truck driving into the lot followed by the four dinosaurs. "Aw crap. It's that Triceratops. Seth says that thing's one hell of a monster to be up against. Might as well take that out first."
"Keep going, Terry! Show that Kentrosaurus who's the king of dinosaurs!" Ursula cheered for his dinosaur.
"I find it ironic that the T-Rex is the king of lizards yet it's a scavenger. That's like saying the vulture is the king of birds when really it's… Uh… the bald eagle?" Ed says.
"I think it's just 'eagle', Ed. I think the eagle is the most supreme bird in the world right now." Zander answers.
"Do you guys always have these weird conversations with each other?" Max asks the A-Team.
"I mean, we're all we have. We don't really have anyone else to talk to." Ed says, making it sound depressing while acting all casually.
Right at that moment, Chomp was struck by a pink and purple laser out of nowhere, causing him to roar before collapsing to the ground, the two teens falling off of him in the process. As soon as he fell to the ground, Chomp immediately turned back into a card as it floated right in front of Max, whom was laid face first into the pavement. Looking up, he noticed Chomp's card, prompting him to pick it up and look at it in confusion.
"What just happened?" Zoe asks her friend
"Chomp?" Max questions as he stares at the Triceratops' card.
"What happened? Why did Chomp turn back into a card?" Zander asks.
"Hey! Wait a minute! I've seen this before!" Ed exclaims in realization.
"What's the matter? A sudden case of deja-vu?" Ursula sarcastically asks.
"When me and Reese were testing the Atrociraptor card, we used that instant card device Dr. Z created! It instantly turned the dinosaur into a card!" Ed explains.
"But I thought you gave that back to Dr. Z?" Zander questions.
"We did!"
"THEN WHO SHOT THAT LASER?!" Ursula booms in anger.
The truck door finally opened, revealing it to be Carter whom immediately ran towards the building in front of him. "Running away!" Carter quickly says, fleeing the vehicle.
"Guys! Look!" Rex shouts as he points forwards.
Zoe used her goggle camera glasses thingy to get a better look at what he was pointing at, zooming in to the top of the building where she could see Ungaro aiming the rifle at them. "It's that poacher! Ungaro!" she exclaims.
"Him again?!" Max asks in utter anger.
"Where'd he get a gun like that? I thought Dr. Z only had one ray?" Rex asks the Alpha Trio.
"He said he made two but lost the other one." Ed explains.
"Seth must've stole it and gave it to Ungaro to capture the dinosaurs." Max spits out like it was venom, his brows furrowed in anger.
"One down, three to go. But why take 'em all out when they can wear each other out? Heh heh heh." Ungaro chuckled as he stared through his scope.
The Kentrosaurus began to immediately devour the plants when it suddenly felt it's territory being invaded. It turned around and saw both Terry and Ace standing behind it, both carnivores it had never seen before so it was more afraid than ever. The Kentrosaurus let out a dominant roar as both Ace and Terry roared as well, their respective owners sliding off their tails to let them battle.
"Get him, Terry!" Ursula ordered her dinosaur.
Terry roared in the air before charging towards the herbivore only for the Kentrosaurus to swing it's tail across his face, knocking backwards. In retaliation, Terry charged once again, headbutting the Kentrosaurus with enough force to shove it aside, where Ace pounced right on top of it. While on top of the Kentrosaurus, Ace began to jump up and down, dealing more and more damage to the stegosaur with each landing. Having enough of the abuse, the Kentrosaurus managed to kick Ace right off of it's body before swinging it's tail right across Terry once again, knocking both carnivores to the ground.
The Kentrosaurus suddenly glowed purple as the spikes of it's tail elongated, powering up it's Spike Arrows to use against it's enemies. "It's doing that move again!" Zander cried out.
Ursula suddenly began chewing on her cape in agitation. "Grrrr! I'm getting tired of that thing using that move!" She suddenly swiped out a move card as a confident grin appeared on her face. "Finish this off Terry with Magma Blaster!" Ursula shouts as she activates the move card.
"Good idea! Let me add that with Sonic Blast!" Rex shouts as he too activates the move card.
Terry stomped on the ground so hard that it created a small crater before firing a seering beam of magma from his mouth. Ace did the same as he fired a raging tornado from his mouth, both elements colliding with each other before fusing together. "It's a fusion move!" Ed announces with a smile on his face. The two moves now created a large swirling vortex of pure fire thanks to the wind giving it a direction to flow.
"Alright! A Fire Tornado!" Max calls out in excitement.
The Kentrosaurus fired it's Spike Arrows as the three attacks sped towards each other; Terry and Ace's fusion move easily ripped through the Spike Arrows as it continued it's path of destruction towards the Kentrosaurus. Seeing no way of avoiding the attack, the Kentrosaurus roared in surprise before being struck by the Fire Tornado, sending it flying into the building. The attack was so powerful that the Kentrosaurus didn't stand a chance against it as it flew right into one of the buildings that Ungaro so happened to be on, where a purple light flashed through the cracks of the rubble.
Upon noticing that the building he was on was collapsing, Ungaro quickly got up and began running for his life, just in time for the spot he was lying on to collapse. Ungaro jumped to the next building at the last second as the previous building he was on had fully collapsed upon itself. The poacher looked down at the rubble, making note that if he left a second later, he would be down there with the rubble and the card.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Ungaro asks, not out of fatigue, but out of stricken fear.
Terry and Ace roared into the air triumphantly as the battlefield disappeared, before being recalled into their chibi forms by their owners. Zander approached the rubble where he dug his way to find the dinosaur card, evident when he raised a high from the rubble.
"I've got the Kentrosaurus card!" he announces as he raises the card in the air.
Carter was shown approaching Ungaro from behind, having climbed the building from behind, watching as the two teams celebrating their victory. "Aw crap. The Grand Master's not gonna like this." Ungaro mumbles to himself in fear.
Ungaro and Carter both set the coordinates for their Tele-Watch before teleporting away back to the Grand Master's headquarters, wherever the hell that is.
"Victory! Victory! Victory! We are the Gang! Beating dinosaurs is our… thang?" the Alpha Trio attempted a motto, only to an utter failure.
The sound of a record scratch followed several tomatoes being thrown at the three as well as many people booing were heard in the distance. "You fucking suck, idiots!" shouts a rude bystander.
"WHO ASKED YOU?!" Ursula shouts at the unseen bystander. "Anyway, let's get back home. I don't know about you three but we got our own problems to deal with back home."
"Does it involve Dr. Z?" Max asks.
"When does it ever?"
Max suddenly noticed Rex staring at the rubble that was once the building. "You alright, Rex?" he asks.
"I'm just worried is all." he replies before turning to his friend. "Max," he whispers as he gets close to his best friend. "you saw what that ray was capable of."
"Yeah, I know. It turned Chomp into a card in an instant." Max replies quietly.
"If Seth has that invention, he could manufacture a better version of it and give it to Ungaro. We could be in serious trouble, Max."
"So what're you saying?"
Rex stayed quiet for a moment before coming to reason with himself, no matter how insane it sounded. "I'm saying…" he paused once more. "I'm saying we need to be more… aggressive."
Max just stared at him with a bizarre look. "What?" he asks in utter confusion, not getting Rex's subtle point.
"The best way to obtain information is through interrogation or… spying. If, and this is a BIG if, we managed to catch Ungaro, the best way to know where Seth is hiding is through extreme measures of interrogation. We're talking about threatening his life kind of extreme. I know this sounds extreme but this is serious, Max. You know how dangerous Seth is."
Max inhaled deeply, knowing full well Rex was right. "Yep." he agrees before turning to the others. "Let's go guys. Ungaro left and there's nothing left for us here."
"Yeah, that and I don't want to be here when the police arrive. They'll think we caused all this destruction." Ed says in fear.
"That's because we did you dimwit." Ursula rudely says to the chubby man. "Anyway, why are you complaining? You're not the one who crashed into a doghouse and never got a chance to go shopping. Think of all the designer skirts I'm missing out!"
"How could she only think about clothes during this time?" Rex asks Max as they look at Ursula's meltdown.
"It's a travesty, I know!" Zoe agrees as she too begins crying. "I've had eyes on a certain leather jacket only designed here for the longest time and I never got a chance to see i-i-i-i-i-i-i!"
"Women." the men of the group agree at the same time, all glancing at each other.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
In a small Mexican restaurant out in the suburbs named El Michoacáno was shown being surprisingly empty that day, with barely any customers. The only two inside were none other than Nick Roscoe, current resident of Las Vegas, and Él Matacho, visitor not here to gamble in money but with his life. Currently, Él Matacho was busy counting a stack of money that was given to him by Nick, whom sat across from the middle aged Hispanic man with a stoic look on his face. Él Matacho continued to count the money before briefly stopping to look at Nick, only moving his eyeballs in order to maintain eye contact without moving a muscle. In response, Nick kept his stoic look as Él Matacho continued to stare at him; having grown tired of this, Nick leaned back and rolled his eyes.
"Dude," he whispers. "you know where we are? We're in Vegas. Everyone has a poker face. You can stop with the intimidation now."
"Do you have the other thing the Grand Master asked for?" the Hispanic man asked.
At that moment, the door opened as a bell was rung as a young white couple walked in with smiles on their faces. Your typical innocent family who wouldn't be caught dead with marijuana in their pockets who don't drink and love playing family board games… Those kinds of losers. Nick kept quiet as Él Matacho turned to the wall, not wanting his face to be seen by the family.
"Hola. What can I get you?" the owner was heard from afar.
"Hola. Uh, can I get a numero dos and a numero quatro with… uh… Honey, how do you say extra in Spanish?" the white man with glasses asks.
"Jesus Christ." Nick mutters in annoyance, taking his sights off the couple in literal cringe.
"Would that be for here or to go?" the owner asks.
"Uh, to go, please. Por favor." the man says in Spanish.
"Gringos." Él Matacho muttered under his breath.
The sound of a cash register opening followed by plastic bags being shuffled was heard before the cash register was heard closing. "Gracias. Que tengas un buen día, ahora. (Thank you. You have a nice day, now.)" the owner waves goodbye to his customers.
"Si. Gracias, señor. Have a good day!" the man waves goodbye as he and his girlfriend leave the restaurant.
As soon as the door closed, Nick reached down into a knapsack he had underneath the table where he pulled out a bunch of papers all clipped together. "My brother's not gonna like this." he says. "He's getting real tired of having to steal documents from the FBI for the Grand Master which he has no idea about so that makes it even worse."
"I thought you didn't care about your family?" Él Matacho asks, annoyed at Nick's complaining.
Nick was silent for a moment, realizing the Hispanic man had a point which made him hold his tongue. "I… It's- It's complicated." he replies.
Él Matacho just simply stared blankly at Nick while nodding his head. "Hmm." he hums, taking note of Nick's answer. He suddenly took the documents on the table and began skimming through them. "These seem like the ones Seth was talking about."
"You sure? Because… I don't know why the Grand Master would be interested in…" He points to the documents in disbelief. "Fucking rocks."
Él Matacho silently stared at Nick once again before shifting his posture to a more relaxed one, looking dead into Nick's eyes. "It's not the rocks he wants… It's what's inside them." he says in an ominous tone. He suddenly grunted as he scooted himself off the booth where he stood up. He turned to Nick whom was still sitting in his seat, staring blankly at the Hispanic man beside him. "You coming?" he asks.
"No." Nick asks like Él Matacho was crazy. "I'm fucken hungry, dude. I've been wanting a burrito ever since we got here."
Él Matacho gawked at Nick in bewilderment. "What stopped you from ordering in the middle?" he asks.
Nick just gave the Hispanic man a surprised look. "Oh." he says in realization. "I- I thought… I don't know. I thought I wasn't allowed to cuz… well the cartel is real strict so I thought if I ordered food while we were doing business, it'd be a bad look for me and I'd get my head chopped off?" Nick says in a questioning tone, forgetting halfway of what he was talking about.
Él Matacho just gave Nick a bewildered look, having never seen so much stupidity come out of one person's mouth. "Pendejo. (Idiot.)" Él Matacho mutters as he shakes his head before leaving the restaurant.
Nick just awkwardly sat there as he was now the only one in the restaurant, having chosen the bottom corner left booth of the restaurant for the deal.
A couple of Alpha Droids could be seen cleaning up a room while putting up some accessories to the crashed Backland. The two doctors wanted the Backland fully functional as soon as possible so they ordered the Alpha Droids to start piecing the place together room by room. Currently, one of the Alpha Droids was carrying what appeared to be a flat screen TV while another was on top of a ladder, hammering in a wooden plank on the wall for some reason. At that moment, the Alpha Droid that was hammering in the wooden plank suddenly lost its grip on the hammer as it fell right on top of the Alpha Droid that was passing by down below, causing it to become furious as the other droid.
~I live in Smethwick, Birmingham if you wanna fucking brawl! Come down to Smethwick and ask for Danny G and I'll come out I'll break you FUCKING LEGS, YA LIL PRICK!~ the Alpha Droid yells at the other droid in a British, angry gamer potato mic quality.
Meanwhile, Dr. Ancient could be seen logging in the Kentrosaurus card into the special cabinet before locking it. "Well done, you six. The more cards we get, the safer they'll be out of Seth's hands." Seth tells the two teams.
"How many more do we have left now?" Zoe asks Dr. Ancient.
He suddenly turned to the cabinet and began counting. "Let's see…" he says before silently counting to himself. "Well, currently we have four cards. Remember, six of them were stolen. So add the math that means a total of 10 dinosaur cards have been discovered. Six of which are in Seth's hands, presumably. We have 17 more cards out there somewhere in the world."
"Not to mention the Atrociraptor." Zander points out.
"I still have nightmares from it." Zoe says, a bit of fear entering her system as the demonic roar echoed in three kid's heads.
"Right. The Atrociraptor. Not my own creation but it's still safer in our hands." Dr. Ancient adds.
"Hey, um, where's Dr. Z? I… need to talk to him." Ed shyly says.
"Yeah, does he still have that dinosaur head?" Ursula asks Rex's father.
"Wait. What?" the three teens ask, being the first time they're hearing about this.
"Luckily, no." Dr. Ancient replies. "We managed to corner him and remove the head and bring his old head back as well as his vision so he's back to normal… however that might be for him."
As if on cue, Dr. Z, now having no dinosaur head, walked inside the room with a confident grin on his face. "I AM ALIVE! It's nice." Dr. Z greets with his maniac smile.
"Dr. Z!" Zander exclaims.
"You're back to normal!" Ursula adds.
Ed suddenly stepped close to his adoptive father and got close to his ear. "Can we uh… Can we… You know?" he shyly asks.
"Right now? What happened?" Dr. Z asks.
"Rough day." Ed simply explains.
Dr. Z simply just stared at Ed as the two men silently stood there looking at each other; at that moment, the two Alpha Droids from earlier could be seen running in the hall. With the angry droid shouting offensive language in the same potato mic quality while chasing the other droid with the hammer that fell on his head earlier.
~FUCK THIS! I'M ON BLOGTV WITH MY FUCKING HANDS UP! I'M NOT STARTIN' MY-FUCKING-SELF!~ shouts the angry Droid before disappearing behind the wall.
No one gave attention to the two robots as Dr. Z and Ed continued to stare at each other in silence. "Makes sense." Dr. Z finally says while shrugging. "Come on, Ed, my boy. Let's go do that super secret thing we're totally not doing."
"I love spending time with you, dad." Ed says with a warm smile.
"What was that?!" Dr. Z suddenly asks out of shock.
"Oh, I said uh, 'I love spending time with doodads.'" Ed lied. "You know… Doodads… The things that-"
"Yeah, I get it. Let's go do that super secret thing Ed that surely won't be revealed sometime in the near future."
With that, both Ed and Dr. Z left the room, leaving the rest of the D-Team and Alpha Gang behind. "Yeah, we gotta go too, Dr. A. It's been a long day for us and I could really use some R&R." Zander tells Dr. Ancient as he points to the exit.
"Speak for yourself. I'm going to the spa for a late night routine." Ursula says as she and her brother walk out the room.
"Dad." Rex says, his mood shifting to a more serious one. "When we were fighting the Kentrosaurus, Ungaro showed up again."
"You mean the poacher who had the Dino Holder back in the Netherlands?" his father asks.
"The same." Max confirms with a scowl on his face, the mere thought of Ungaro angering him.
"Dad, he turned Chomp into a card with a rifle. Ed says its probably the same one Dr. Z invented. The same one Reese used on the Atrociraptor for tests." Rex explains.
"A rifle that could instantly turn a dinosaur into a card?" Dr. Ancient repeats in shock. "I haven't seen that kind of technology since we first began our tests on dinosaurs all those years ago. You said Dr. Z invented it, right? How did Ungaro get his hands on it?"
"We think Seth stole it and gave it to him." Max replies.
"With a rifle like that, he could probably catch more dinosaur cards than we could!" Zoe exclaims in surprise.
"Then we won't let him get anymore! For now on, it's all or nothing! We're gonna stop Seth and put an end to this once and for all. I promise you that." Max sternly says with a rock hard expression on his face.
Later that night, Dr. Z could be seen tinkering with a sort of futuristic mechanical leg alone in the Backland's super lab. It was all quiet, not a single sound was heard besides the clinks of the socket wrench Dr. Z was using. His work was interrupted when a splitting headache appeared in his head, prompting him to drop his tools on the table before grabbing his head in pain. "Oh. My aching head. That's the last time I experiment on my own head. Next time, it's Ed's." he says to himself before walking away.
He approached the bathroom mirror where he glanced at the mirror, making sure his head was completely fine. After making sure it was fine, he quickly splashed some water on his face before looking back at the mirror. All of a sudden, his face suddenly began to grow small scales as his eyes began to change color, his pupils slowly morphing into lizard eyes.
"What's happening?!" he shouts in shock.
Out of sheer panic, he began to throw more water on his face until his entire face was drenched, to which he took a look in the mirror. There, it was revealed that Dr. Z's entire head had once again turned into the Calamosaurus head, albeit keeping his beard and hair again. Dr. Z simply just stared at the mirror with a blank look before turning his head to the side to look at his head at different angles.
"Alright, yeah, that's- naw, that's a pretty good job." Dr. Z says in an unusually calm tone.
"Do you ever think you might be going mad?" the Calamosaurus head asks on it's own in a deep, demonic voice.
Dr. Z stared at the mirror with horror in his eyes, the sight of his dinosaur head talking on its own piercing his soul to the core as he was frozen in fear… for about three seconds. "All the time. I really don't think it's anything to worry about honestly." Dr. Z casually replies.
"Good. Now kill all of your friends."
"Ooh. Good idea." With that, Dr. Z quickly walked out of the bathroom. "Hey, Dr. Ancient! Come over here! I promise I won't hurt you! Nyahahahahahahahaha!"
A taxi cab stopped in front of the former building that Reese worked at, where the same man from the airport earlier that day stepped out of the cab. After exiting, he quickly entered the empty, half renovated building before making his way up the stairs, where a door with the name "Omni-Tech" was shown written on the cloudy door window. The man opened the door to the dark, empty office before closing the door behind him. All of a sudden, he heard a THUD! beside him, prompting him to snap his head to the direction. He turned on the lights to reveal that it was Chase - whom was in his boxers, socks, and shirt - on the ground having fallen off the couch.
"Chase?" the man asks in bewilderment.
"McCallum?" Chase asks as he picks himself up. "What happened? I thought you were arriving later this month?"
"Things ended early in Washington so I came back here. More importantly, what're you doing here?" the man now formerly known as Adam McCallum asks. Knowing his situation and how embarrassing it was, Chase opted to keep quiet which only made him more suspicious. "You're homeless, aren't you?"
Chase sheepishly nods his head in embarrassment. "I've been living here since… my first year here." he replies.
"You've been homeless that long?" Adam asks in shock. "What happened to that sports car you drove? Your family? Why are you living here in the office? I thought you had money."
"I lost it." Chase replies quietly with tears in his eyes.
"You lost all of your money? Why didn't you tell me?! I would've helped you!" Adam replies.
"I… I didn't think you would. I figured if my family wouldn't then why would you?" Chase replies.
Adam sighed sadly as he hung his head low. "I wish you would've told me before tonight." he replies.
"Why? What's… What's going on?" Chase asks cautiously.
Adam sighed deeply, preparing himself to bring the heavy news. Heavier now knowing Chase's situation. "Due to…" he pauses before continuing. "Unseen circumstances… I am being forced to shut down Omni-Tech and all future projects."
Chase suddenly felt like he was hit with a wrecking ball as his heart began to beat faster as tears continued to threaten to come out of his eyes. "What?" he asks in shock.
"I'm sorry, Chase… I'm letting you go… Omni-Tech is over. It's time for me to move on and start anew somewhere else." Adam apologetically tells him.
"Then take me with you! Please! I got nowhere else to go!" Chase pleads.
Adam simply looked away, not having the strength to look at Chase in the eyes. "I'm sorry." was all he said.
Chase just stood there as Adam walked over to his main office, where he quickly entered it before closing the door, locking it as Chase continued to stand there in shock. With no one else in the room, Chase let go of his strength and let the tears fall down his eyes as he sat down on the couch. Meanwhile, inside of his office, Adam was spying on Chase through his blinds before closing them, grabbing a flip up phone in his pocket before dialing someone. After a few rings, the person on the other side picked up.
"Is it done?" asks a deep voice.
"Almost." Adam replies. "Just… some complications is all. I'm shutting down Omni-Tech and I'm changing my focus on direct contact now. Making a reward isn't getting anywhere so now it's time for more… aggressive tactics."
"I agree." the person on the other end replies.
"Don't worry, Fist. You'll get those cards and you'll right the wrongs eventually. I'm right by your side constantly." Adam tells the Fist over the phone.
Meanwhile, Chase could be seen silently crying in a pillow to avoid humiliating himself even more. "Even if it means leaving other people to do so." Adam finishes his phone call as Chase continues to silently cry in the pillow.
In the middle of the night, a garbage truck had just arrived at the city's garbage dump where it was dumping the day's garbage into one of the large piles. One of the contents in the truck was the same Gorgosaurus card that Francis found several days ago, where it fell into the large hill of garbage. All of a sudden, the card was snatched up from it's spot by a gold pointy finger black glove. The owner of the glove angled the card so the moonlight would illuminate the face where they began to chuckling to themselves.
"Heh heh heh heh heeeeeh." chuckles a young voice. "At last, I got my hand on a card."
The person suddenly stepped out of the darkness, revealing themselves to be none other than a Space Pirate, or whatever species the Space Pirates were. Except this one had pale purple skin, a magenta claw on each side of his cheeks as well as a magenta diamond shape visible on his forehead. He had unusual short, pointy black eyebrows, pointy teeth, yellow and red pupils in eyes that black sclera rather than the normal white. Up top, he had black hair with a silver fringe that was divided into three sharp kite-like diamond stripes - one pointed up, one pointed to the left and one pointed to the right - and his ears were pointy.
His clothing pretty much matched what the other Space Pirates wore, which were unusual to begin with. For starters, he wore a black trench coat over his black shirt with magenta cuffs on his short sleeves, pure gold lining along with pure gold epaulets with pointed spikes instead of tassels. Another odd feature was that he had four belts - three magenta ones strapped on his shirt horizontally each with a gold hexagon buckle while a pure gold one with the same hexagon buckle with two claws on it was below it. The gold belt held on Goma's coat and his black, magenta, white pants tucked in his black and gold knee high boots with magenta cuffs. He also wears elbow-high gloves with pure gold clawed fingers and magenta wrist rings. Like the previous Space Pirates, he also sported wings, however whether or not these were attached to his body is unknown.
"Soon I - Goma, Emperor of the Shadow Kingdom - will rise from his ashes and get his revenge! But first, time to have some fun with the mortals of this puny planet. Mwahahahahahaha. Hahahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHA- Oh no."
Goma suddenly lost his balance and fell backwards, where he fell into an empty fridge, still holding onto the card. He groaned in pain before looking up, noticing that the garbage pile he was on was slowly falling towards him as the fridge door began to slowly close.
"NONONONONONONONONONONO-"
Goma's words were stopped when the many pounds of garbage fell on top of the fridge door, pretty much sealing Goma inside the refrigerator along with the card. "Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssshit." Goma's muffled voice was heard shortly afterwards.
(wow this took way too long to make. jesus christ. anyway, i hope you guys liked it… KOKBYE!)