Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril

by Stoned Chompski

Two years after Rex had left, a new adventure comes into the lives of the D-Team. Dinosaur cards are being spotted all over the world again, and it's up to the D-Team to collect them all again. With familiar faces, their new journey will prove to be an epic one. However, a secret evil lurks behind the shadows, one that has proven to be their most deadly foe yet.

14. Digging for Answers

(Drew himself said, "...F you Ed."

Ed, what do you have to say to that?

Ed: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

ok skial player

Don't worry, I'm sure Drew will find a way of a comeback in his story lol or not i dunno mane

Before anyone asks, no Dr. Z will not be another villain now because he has a dinosaur head. It's just something I thought would be funny to include in the story. I'm planning on making the Dinosaur King world more chaotic than it was in the anime to make it more different than normal fanfictions. Hence why this story gives off a youtube poop vibe rather than an actual story one. Just think of Dr. Z's dinosaur head like the bird heads in TF2. Just a simple, funny cosmetic is all. As for Goma… well, you'll see in this chapter. KOKBYE!)

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It was a beautiful before noon day in Sanjo City, with two of the D-Kids, Zoe and Max, currently at their school, Sanjo City High School. As of this moment right now, the two kids were sitting at the lunch table, the lunch room surprisingly empty than usual. Max took a big bite out of his sandwich filled with nothing but various meat before turning to Zoe, noting her salad she brought to school.

"Man, you really like salad don't you, Zoe? This is the third time in a row you've brought a salad for lunch at school." Max says to his friend.

"I've been trying to lose weight in time for the Winter Formal. I gotta look my best when I go to the dance with Francis." Zoe says as she takes a bite out of her salad.

"Oh. Yeah. Him. I forgot about him and that stupid dance." Max muttered in anger as he looked away.

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Francis all day." Zoe says.

"Of course you'd notice that." Max mumbled before speaking up. "I don't know about you but school has been kind of off today."

"What makes you say that?" Zoe asks. Max said nothing as a wide shot of the near empty cafeteria was shown, a tumbleweed somehow rolling inside the cafeteria. "I see what you mean."

"Where'd this gay ass tumbleweed come from?" a faint voice asked in the background.

"Haven't you guys realized yet?" asks a voice beside them.

The two turned to see a classmate of theirs sitting beside them with no lunch in front of him. "Oh, hey Gay Joey." Max greets.

"I'M NOT GAY! Anyway, the reason why school is so empty is because it's study day." Joey replies.

"It's what now?" the spiky haired teen asks. Behind him, a crow was shown flying into the school window.

"Study day. It's an optional day to come here and study for finals… You guys didn't know that?" Joey asks.

"We've just been hanging inhere talking waiting for the bell to ring in all honesty." Zoe replies.

"Whatchu talkin' about?" Joey asks in curiosity.

"Oh, you know. The usual. Weather. Airline food. Dinosaur cards." Max sarcastically replies before taking a bite form his sandwich. "Shoey wondering where Franshish ish at." Max says with his mouth full.

"Probably at home. Speaking of Francis and dinosaur cards, did you hear he found one?" Joey asks.

The two teens seized their lunch as they left their mouths wide opened as they just stared blankly at the gay teen. "He what?" Zoe asks.

"He found a dinosaur card." Joey repeats.

The two were silent once again before Max literally slammed his sandwich on the table before grabbing Joey's collar and bringing nose to nose with him. "He found a dinosaur card?! WHEN?!" he screams.

"I don't know. Like several weeks ago, maybe? I mean, he just mentioned it in a conversation and that's it." Joey calmly says.

"You're telling me Francis had a dinosaur card this entire time… and he told no one?" Zoe asks.

"I mean, I guess. You'd have to ask him yourself."

"You said he's at home, right?" Max asks.

"I said he's probably at home."

"Good enough! Come on, Zoe! Let's go call Rex!"

Without wasting another second, Max grabbed Zoe's arm and literally dragged her away from the table, before coming back to grab his sandwich before retreating. Joey just sat there in the seat in awkward silence before glancing down at Zoe's salad. He grabbed her fork and took a bite out of it. "Why the fuck does this have cheese in it?" he asks in disgust and anger.

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*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

AND SOME OTHER PEEPS

Come on! Tell me who are you! You! You! AAAAAAAARE YOOOOOOOU!

Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril

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After informing Rex about the possible location of a new card, the blonde immediately met up with them as they all made their way towards Francis' house. After some time walking, the trio eventually arrived at their destination, which was, unsurprisingly, a normal one story blue house. The D-Kids approached the door where Zoe rang the doorbell before she and her two friends waited patiently for someone to answer. An answer they did get seconds later when a skinny, lanky woman wearing a sundress and a hair net opened the door.

"Yeah?" she asks in a raspy voice before taking a puff from her cigarette, smoke coming out of the hole in her throat.

The three kids simply just stared at the woman with shocked eyes, not at all imagining someone like her to open the door. "Are you uh… Are you Francis' mom?" Zoe awkwardly asks.

"HA!" the woman laughed out loud before growing a serious face. "The day I have kids is the day I quit smoking." she says before taking a puff from her cigarette once more as smoke blew out from the hole. "Also who the hell is Francis?"

"Francis… Francis uh…" Zoe suddenly grew a confused look before turning to her comrades. "What's Francis' last name again?"

"How should I know? I don't even know the guy." Rex says with a shrug.

"You already know my answer." Max replies with a deadpan look.

"Are you talking about Frankie? Because the only fagola who calls him Francis is that failed abortion Todd… and some chick he talks about." the lady replies.

"Some chick? What does he say?" Zoe suddenly asks, a slight blush on her face.

"Well, the only time he brings her up is about her weird looking dog and weird looking hair." the lady replies. Zoe grew an agitated look as the lady continued to go on and explain. "You would think I'd notice a weird looking girl with weird looking hair somewhere in this city by now."

"Oh, really?" Zoe sarcastically replies with a hint of anger.

"Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up…" Max suddenly says, pausing for a second. "Did you say his name was… Frankie?" Max asks, holding in a chuckle.

"Yeah, that seems about right." the lady says before putting her cigarette into the LITERAL HOLE in her throat, consuming the smoke before blowing it out the same hole again.

Max suddenly burst out laughing so hard that he fell to the ground, holding his stomach as he was now gasping for air over how hard he was laughing. "BWAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed hysterically.

"Funny. That's how the doctor who delivered him reacted as well." the lady says.

"So who are you and is Frankie Francis?" Zoe asks.

"I'm Frankie's God forbidden aunt and I'm assuming so." Francis' aunt replies.

"Where are his parents?" Rex asks.

"My useless, submissive sister's in the kitchen like always and his crazy dad is in the garage tinkering on whatever invention he made… like always."

"And Francis?"

"He's out back…"

The four stayed silent as they waited for her to finish her sentence. "Like always?" Max asks, now standing up for some reason.

"Nah." Francis' aunt replies lazily before taking a hit of her ciggy.

"Well, can we go see him?" Zoe asks.

"Oh, suuuuure. Just come walts in here right into my living quarters. I TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTALLY don't mind." Francis' aunt says in an over dramatic sarcastic tone.

"Does that mean a no-"

Before Rex could finish, Francis' aunt got up close to him to the point where she was nose to nose with him. The scent of cigarettes instantly entering his nostrils upon doing so. "Do I know you? I said get in! Read my lips ya jackasses."

Without wasting a second, Francis' aunt suddenly threw the trio into the house before shutting the door shut. The trio laid across the floor with spirals around their eyes as they were on top of each other, all dizzy from the crash. "I feel so welcomed." Zoe sarcastically says in a pained voice.

"I like the open floor plan." Rex grumbled in pain.

"Wait. Todd talks?" Max grumbles in confusion.

Meanwhile outside, Francis' entire backyard could be seen with several large holes in them, with Francis in one of them currently using a shovel to dig with it. At that moment, the three kids entered the backyard through the sliding glass door and immediately saw Francis digging a hole amongst other holes. The trio glanced at each other in confusion before turning back to Francis, whom had his back turned to them.

"Where did I put it?" Francis mumbles to himself, a perplexed expression on his face.

"Put what?" Max asks from behind.

Francis snapped around, startled by the sudden voice before realizing he had guests. "Oh." he chuckles after the slight scare he had. "Hey, Max. Zoe… Do I know you?" He points to Rex.

"Rex." he simply greets.

"Hi." Francis pants.

"Having gopher troubles, Francis?" Zoe asks, noting the many holes in his backyard.

"Huh?" Francis asks before glancing around, immediately figuring out what she meant. "Oh, no. No, I'm looking for my kitchen sink."

The trio just stared at Francis with blank looks, struck with shock and just utter surprise, confusion, just all kinds of emotion once he said that sentence out loud so calmly. "What the fuck?" Max simply asks in just straight up bewilderment.

"You're digging holes… to look for your kitchen sink?" Zoe asks in bewilderment as well.

"Yeah, my dad wants it for an invention he's working on in the garage so I'm digging up holes to find it." Francis explains, again, with no hesitation.

"Why not look in the kitchen for the kitchen sink?!" Max asks, having grown impatient with Francis' literal nonsense.

"No, not that one. We need that one." Francis replies ."We got rid of the old one and bought a better one and my dad told me to throw it out so I buried it in the backyard."

"First off: how do you buy a sink? Isn't that attached to the building itself?" Max asks.

"No."

"Oh."

"Why did you bury your sink instead of throwing it away?" Rex asks.

"Because it was funny, and it still is." Francis says with a slight chuckle, before it disappears a second later. "Problem is, it's been so long, I forgot where I dug it."

"How long has it been?" Zoe asks.

"Uuuh, how old am I?" Francis asks.

Again, the trio just stared at him with utter confusion. "What-"

"Oh yeah, that's right! 15." Francis says, cutting off Max. "Let's see, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh 11 years ago."

"Wait, you dug a freakin kitchen sink in the backyard at four years old?! How did you do it?!" Max asks in more bewilderment.

"Five actually. And I said I did it, I didn't say it was easy. Anyway, why are you guys here again?"

"Honestly I forgot after that whole kitchen sink debacle." Max replies.

"We heard you had a dinosaur card. Is that true?" Zoe asks the teen.

"Oh yeah, I got rid of that a long time ago." Francis casually replies.

The trio once again stared him with blank looks. "'Scuse me?" Rex asks.

"I was tryin to sell it to Omni-Tech's CEO, Adam McCallum." Francis begins to explain. "He was offering a big cash reward for any dinosaur card found. Too bad he was in Washington at the time I found it and by the time he would come back, the money would've been worthless at that point since he cut off the reward while he was in Washington. I thought that making a quick buck by selling the card would make me feel more important and everything." Francis says the last part in a soft, saddened tone.

"So what'd you do with it?" Max asks.

"I threw it away."

Again, the trio were silent. "You threw it away?" Zoe asks.

"Yeah." Francis confirms.

"Several weeks ago?" Max asks.

"Yeppers."

"So it's in the landfill by now?" Rex asks.

"But of course."

The trio stood there in silence once again, staring blankly at Francis while Max had his mouth a little open. "Uh, could you um… Could- Can I talk to you guys for a sec?" Max awkwardly asks before turning to his friends. The three then huddled together as Max began whispering. "Look, Rex," he whispers. "I know it's our job to find every dinosaur card and everything but I think this one is a lost cause. We're obviously not gonna find it in a freakin' landfill. Why don't we just cut our losses and get out of here?"

"We can't Max. Remember? These are my dad's cards." Rex whispers back.

"Rex, I hate to say this but I think we might have to give this one up. It just seems impossible." Zoe says to the blonde.

"It's LITERALLY like searching for a needle in a haystack except the needle is the dinosaur card and the haystack is thousands of pounds of trash. I'm sorry, Rex, but I don't feel like getting trapped in pounds of trash at the landfill today." Max says to his best friend.

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Meanwhile, the same landfill where Goma was trapped was shown in the middle of the day, the refrigerator still underneath the pile of garbage. "Help?" Goma's muffled voice was heard.

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Rex pondered on the situation or a brief moment before speaking up. "We could have the Alpha Gang look for it." he suggests.

The other two were silent before eventually agreeing. "Yeah, that sounds good." Max agrees. The trio then turned to Francis. "Well, thanks for your help Francis but we should get going… Or should I call you… Frankie." Max mischievously adds the last part.

Francis simply stared at Max before growing an annoyed look. "Aunt Lilly told you?" he guesses. Max nodded and hummed in response. "Of course. Well, if you guys have nothing better to do, I'd like to get back to finding my kitchen sink."

With that, Francis went back to digging in the same hole he was in as the D-Kids continued to watch his odd behavior. It wasn't until Zoe spoke up that grabbed Francis' attention again.

"Is there another shovel?" she asks.

"Huh?" Francis asks, taking off guard by the sudden question. "Uh, yeah. There's one in the shed." He points to a direction.

"Great!" Zoe chirped before walking away.

That is until Max grabbed her shoulder. "Zoe, what're you doing?" he asks.

"Isn't it obvious? Helping Francis find his sink of course… Wow, I never thought I'd ever say those words in that specific order ever in my life." Zoe replies.

"Yeah, you're on your own, Zoe. I'm not helping Frankie here dig holes in his backyard." Max replies.

"Screw you!" Francis shouts, having heard his real name being said.

"Screw you!" Max retorts.

"I don't know, Max." Rex suddenly. Max turned around to see that Rex was now carrying a shovel in his hand. "I have nothing else to do today so I might help Francis dig holes. Plus it sounds fun. Digging holes and such."

"You guys are insane, you know that." Max mumbles in annoyance.

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"Day 12 of being trapped in a refrigerator." Goma's muffled voice was heard somewhere in the dump. Inside the same refrigerator that he got trapped in weeks ago, Goma was shown inside cramped in the small space talking to a sort of watch he wore on his wrist. "This cursed invention is now my own prison. Trapped, isolated, and abandoned on the isolated and forbidden planet, Soilerra. The mortals of this meek planet have no idea about my existence! Which is what I'll use to my advantage when I take over the world! The element of surprise! And with the help of this new dinosaur card I discovered," Goma held up the Gorgosaurus card. "Goma will be both Emperor of the Shadow Kingdom AND KING OF THIS PLANET! But first… Goma needs to get out of here."

The refrigerator that Goma was trapped in was shown shaking violently in the rubble during the middle of the day, with furious grunts coming from inside. "Grr! Ahh! Graaah! Ah, forget it." Goma's muffled voice was heard inside. Back inside, Goma now had an annoyed expression as he pouted in his seat. "It's a good thing Goma's species doesn't require food or water to live. Although, Goma is craving a cream soda. It appears that Goma is stuck here until further help so in the meantime, Goma's gonna play with this fire contraption that Goma found."

Goma suddenly pulled out a Zippo lighter with a Hello Kitty sticker placed on the front, where he did nothing but just turn on the flames over and over again while watching them. "I don't know why but looking at the fire calms me down." he says to himself. Unfortunately for him, he accidentally lost his grip on the lighter as it fell in between his lap. "OH NO!" More unfortunately for him, the Zippo lighter landed directly on the Gorgosaurus card, which instantly lit it ablaze. "NOT MY CARD!" Goma shouted until a red light gave him pause. "Huh?"

The pile of garbage that contained Goma suddenly burst open as a fully grown Gorgosaurus roared into the air as garbage fell down like a waterfall behind it. Goma fell directly in front of the Gorgosaurus after being freed from his 12 day accidental imprisonment.

"At last! At long, long last! Goma is now free! Now Goma can continue his galactic quest of vengeance!" Goma shouted in mania. At that moment, the Gorgosaurus lowered it's head towards the alien, it's snout mere centimeters from the purple alien as he grew a terrified expression. "Goma's day is not going the way he wanted it to go." Goma says in a terrified tone, staring directly into the beast's eyes.

Over on the other side of the landfill, the Alpha Trio could be seen trudging though the wasteland, all having tiresome looks on their faces. "Dr. Z and those brats must be crazy if they think we're gonna spend all day searching through a massive landfill for a single dinosaur card." Ursula complains as she trudges in the back with Ed in the front.

"Well, we already know Dr. Z is crazy. Maybe those kids are crazy too." Zander guesses.

"I'm crazy hungry." Ed whined.

"A lady like me shouldn't even be in the landfill! Let alone with heels!" Ursula shouts before stomping at a nearby hill. The hill collapsed as Ursula was suddenly covered in garbage, resulting in the two men to start chuckling to themselves. "GRRRRRRRRR! I'll show you who's gonna be laughing!"

"Hey, let's just say we searched the landfill and say we couldn't find the card and go for pizza!" Ed suggests.

"Oh, I like the sound of that actually." Zander agrees.

"Actually, that does sound good." Ursula replies with a smile before growing an expression that was a mix of sadness and fear. "But remember what Dr. Z said to us before we left?"

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"YOU FOOLS!" Dr. Z, now having the Calamosaurus head on permanently this time, shouted at his lackeys. "How am I supposed to be the Dinosaur King if I don't have all the cards!"

"But doctor, I thought you said-"

"DON'T TELL ME WHAT I SAID AND DIDN'T SAY. Er, what was I saying?" Dr. Z asks, having forgotten what he was talking about.

"You should let me consume their hearts." the Calamosaurus part of Dr. Z says.

The three goons all winced in fear as both Zander and Ed hid behind Ursula. "Hush now. I told you. No snacks or it'll ruin your dinner." Dr. Z tells his other half like it was a child before turning back to the other three. "You three go find that card! If the kids say it's at the dump, then it's at the dump! Wow, I never thought I'd ever take what those brats say into consideration. Have you been messing with my mind, Gary?"

"Feed me. Feed me!"

"Oh shut up!"

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Back in the present, the three all shuddered in fear just from the memory alone. "Only Dr. Z will ever threaten to eat us if we don't find a card." Ursula grumbles in disgust and fear.

"Villainous henchmen get no respect these days." Ed adds.

*ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!*

A loud roared followed by a girly scream was heard afterwards as the trio turned their heads towards the direction where the sound came from. There, they saw the head of the Gorgosaurus briefly appear behind the tip of the hill where it roared once again into the air before disappearing behind the hill. "Ah! That was a Gorgosaurus!" Zander identifies.

"I guess those kids were right and there was a dinosaur here. Not only that but we don't have to dig through garbage all day to find it! It must be our lucky day!" Ursula cheered. The second after cheering, a pile of garbage fell on top of her once more, drenching her in garbage liquid. "I HATE LANDFILLS!"

All of a sudden, Goma came flying over the hill as the Gorgosaurus began to follow the flying alien. "Get away from me you primitive, barbaric animal! Goma does not do kindly with the dance of death!" Goma shouts at the Gorgosaurus, almost getting his legs bitten off when the dinosaur went in for a quick bite. "Ah! I'm sorry! Don't kill, Goma!"

"Hey! It's- It's- Flying guy! Wings! PIRATES!" Ed frantically shouts as he points to the alien.

"Those Space Pirates are here?!" Zander shouts.

"Out of the way you fools!" Goma shouts at the trio, speeding towards them.

The Alpha Trio all screamed as they had no chance for a reaction as Goma crashed right into them. "Maybe it isn't our lucky day after all." Ursula grumbled in pain.

The purple alien looked up to see the Gorgosaurus approaching him with drool coming down it's mouth. Goma quickly, and frantically, began tapping his body in hopes to find what he was looking for in one of his pockets. Finally he found what he was seeking, which was a plate-like disc with the symbol of the Space Pirates that he used to throw it at the dinosaur, where it stuck itself on the forehead of the dinosaur. An electric shock briefly stunned the Gorgosaurus before it stopped in it's place, it's mind now being under control by Goma. The Gorgosaurus stood there looking down at its master awaiting its orders.

"Phew." Goma blew a sigh of relief. "That was too close for Goma's liking."

"What did you do to that Gorgosaurus?" Ed asks.

"I put it under my control. Now it'll obey everything I tell it to!" the humanoid alien then stood up proudly. "Now Goma's plans for vengeance begin with this horrendous, primitive lizard! This planet will soon be under Goma's control and I will enslave every puny, worthless mortal on this planet so I can build up an army against my foes! You three!" Goma pointed at the Alpha Gang.

The three looked at the alien with confused looks. "Us?" Ed asks, pointing to himself with a confused expression.

"You shall be Goma's lackeys and do everything Goma tells you to!"

"Sorry. We're already someone else's lackeys." Zander nonchalantly says.

"Wait, really?" Goma asks in a normal tone.

"Yeah."

"Oh… Can I, like, rent you guys or something instead?"

"How about this instead?" Ursula asks as all three of them pull out their Alpha Scanners and cards, battle ready expressions on their faces.

"ALPHA SLASH!"

And just like that, all three of the Alpha dinosaurs spawned into existence as they all roared into the air, successfully scaring Goma as he backed up in fear. "Unbelievable!" he shouts in shock. "I thought I was the only one who could control these beasts!"

"Hahahahahahahaha! Think again, sly boy." Ursula taunts happily.

"Grrr. Cursed you, you old, wretched witch!" Goma shouts at the greenette.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" Ursula shouts in furious rage as fire shot out of her eyes.

"Do you know who I am? I am Goma, Emperor of the Shadow Kingdom! And soon to be ruler of. This. PLANET! NYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Goma laughed maniacally out loud.

Ursula's rage suddenly disappeared in an instant as soon as he said that one certain word, her face going pale. "Wait a minute." she says.

"Shadow Kingdom!" Goma's voice echoed in Ursula's head.

At that moment, a brief flash of the Atrociraptor screeching and lunging at the camera flashed in Ursula's mind as she connected the two together. "Oh no." she whispers. "Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh noooooo." she repeatedly said, slowly sounding more terrified while doing so.

"What? What's going on?" Zander asks, confused by her sudden behavior.

The greenette suddenly grabbed the tall man's collar. "Didn't you hear what he just said?!"

"He called you a witch?" Ed guessed.

"He said Shadow Kingdom! What else do you know that's related to shadows?!" Ursula yells at Zander.

"The sun?" he guessed.

"I mean dinosaur related, you numbskull!"

"The only thing that comes to mind when I think of dinosaurs and shadows is the Atroci… Atr… Oh." Ed's face also went pale upon realization.

"Oh no." Zander says as his face went pale as well.

The three then slowly turned around to face Goma once more. When they did, all they saw was him wickedly smiling at them as the Gorgosaurus was behind them, still drooling and hungry for meat. The trio shuddered in fear before huddling up together at a far distance away from him.

"So what do we do?" Zander whispers to Ursula.

"Yeah, should we fight him? I mean, we outnumber him 3 to 1." Ed says.

"You saw how he took control of that dinosaur so easily! He could easily take control of ours as well! Plus not to mention he's the King of the Shadow Kingdom which means there are probably more shadow dinosaurs like that Atrociraptor." Ursula explains.

"He said Emperor." Ed corrected.

"Same thing!" Ursula retorts by slamming her fist on top of Ed's skull.

"I don't know about you, Ursula, but I don't feel like getting acquainted with the rest of his Shadow Kingdom." Zander says. "If what he says is true, then there could possibly be an entire kingdom full of Shadow Dinosaurs. Remember how the Atrociraptor almost killed Chomp? Imagine what other dinosaurs he could have!"

"You make a point, for once." Ursula takes the statement to mind.

"So what should we do?!" Ed frantically asks.

"Weeeeeeeeell…" Ursula stalled to come up with an idea.

"Might Goma make a suggestion?" Goma suddenly asks as he floats above them.

"AAAH!" the three yelped at the same time as they got out of their huddle. "Hey, buddy! This was a private huddle! Invitation only!" Zander shouts while pointing to Goma.

"Yeah, unless you brought snacks with you." Ed says.

"Goma doesn't need an invitation because Goma IS the party!" Goma proclaims. "Goma's offer still stands you mortals. Become Goma's lackeys and your safety is promised. Goma is a man of his word after all. Goma is nothing if not honorable."

"If we join, will you stop with the third person?" Ed asks.

"Never!" Goma exclaims.

"No deal!" Zander replies as he crosses his arms into an X, a buzzer being heard out of nowhere.

"What?! Why not?!"

"We already said we work for someone else. Besides, we're done double crossing people. Trust me, we were forced to once with a bunch of Persian thieves and we honestly felt really bad afterwards." Ursula explains.

"I thought they were Egyptian?" Ed questions.

"I thought they were Middle Eastern." Zander says.

"Isn't that the same thing?"

"They were Persian, you dolts! Anyway, my point is we're not working with you." Ursula finishes.

"Fine then. If you won't join willingly," Goma says in a twisted tone before he pulled out an alien gun like object. "then Goma'll have to force you instead!"

The three all raised their arms in the air as their dinosaurs roared in defense, prompting the Gorgosaurus to roar back. "You're gonna shoot us?!" Ed shouts in panic.

"What? No! Goma is simply going to insert a device into your flesh that upon disobeying my orders, I release a powerful electric shock into your nervous system!" Goma explains with a malicious smile.

"But won't electrocuting our nervous system kill us regardless?" Zander asks the purple humanoid alien.

"No! It'll just be really painful… and it might paralyze you for like a few minutes or something. I tried it on an inhabitant on the moon Concordia and he just did a really funny dance afterwards. I got it on video as well. It's on the Top 10 trending on Galactic YouTube!"

"That's a thing?" Ursula asks in bewilderment.

"So hold still while Goma here does his magic. Don't worry! It won't hurt a lot? No, wait. I was lying. It's going to hurt a lot." Goma then began to maliciously chuckle.

The three Alpha members all grabbed each other out of fear and safety as they whimpered in horror.

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Max ended up joining Rex and Zoe by digging holes in Francis' backyard in search of his kitchen sink, seeing how he had no one else to hang out with. As of right now, the entire backyard was covered in holes, so many that by now they had dug every square inch of his backyard, including the corners.

"Well, that was two hours of my life wasted." Max says as he rubs sweat off of his face.

"I could've sworn I buried it in the backyard." Francis says, perplexed on how they didn't find the kitchen sink.

At that moment, the D-Kid's DinoShots began beeping in their pockets, alerting all three of them as they dropped their shovels. "Uh, could you excuse us, Francis?" Zoe asks.

"Sure, go ahead." Francis obliged as the three run off.

After getting to a safe distance, the three turned on their DinoShots, seeing the screen show a map of Sanjo City itself. "There's a dinosaur! And its… here?!" Zoe gasps at the realization.

"It's a fire dinosaur too!" Max exclaims aloud.

To which Francis heard. "What about a dinosaur?" he asks innocently from the sidelines.

Max stared at Francis for a second before speaking. "Shut up." he rudely tells him.

"Okay."

"Come on, guys. We need to go get that dinosaur before it hurts anyone." Rex says to the two before they turn to their other friend. "Hey, is it alright if we leave? I'm sorry about ditching you with all this work and everything."

"Sure, I don't mind. I'm not keeping you guys for helping though, I really appreciate it." Francis thanks the kids.

"Catch ya later, Frankie. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Max laughed out loud, still finding Francis' real name funny as the three exited the backyard.

Francis meanwhile had a distasteful look on his face, an expression mixed with agitation and annoyance. "You know, I'm starting to think Max doesn't like me for some reason." he says to himself in a deadpan tone.

The three made their way to the front yard where Reese just contacted them on their DinoShots. "Zoe, did you get the signal?" she asks.

"Yeah. It's here in this city!" she replies.

"Any idea where?" Rex asks.

"It originated from the city dump."

"Waaaah?! Are you kidding?! You mean to tell me that dinosaur card survived the city dump all these weeks?!" Max shouts.

"I suppose so."

"Didn't we send the Alpha Gang to go get the dinosaur though?" Zoe asks.

"Yeah. I guess so. Well, since it's here and active, why don't we go get it ourselves?!" Max enthusiastically replies with a confident grin.

"Wait a minute, Max." Reese says, halting Max in his spot "I'm getting three other dinosaur signatures. The elements are Fire, Water, and Earth."

"Must be the Alpha Gang."\

"This is odd."

"What do you mean?" Zoe asks her sister.

"The signals are just… stationary. Like they're not moving at all. You would think they'd be battling by now."

"That is weird." Max comments.

"Hold on, their signals just disappeared, but the original wild dinosaur is still active."

"WHAAAAAAT?!" the three shouted at the same time. "What kind of dinosaur are they dealing with that just defeated their dinosaurs just like that?!" Zoe frantically asks.

"Come on! There's no time to waste! We need to head to the city dump as soon as possible… I can't believe I just said that in such a serious tone." Rex says after catching what he said.

"But how are we gonna get there? It's on the other side of the city and I don't think we should use our dinosaurs to take us there? It might tire them out." Zoe says.

Max suddenly turned to Francis' family van idly parked in the driveway. "I have an idea!" Max exclaims with a grin.

"Oh no." Rex says in fear.

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A homeless man holding a piece of cardboard with the words "NEED MONEY FOR GACK AND LAXATIVES" stood on the sidewalk in the middle of the city. All of a sudden, Francis' family van flew passed him, resulting in him losing his grip on the cardboard sign while still retaining his spot. "Aww." he depressingly said as he hung his head low. Inside the family van was revealed to be Francis' Aunt Lilly driving the van like an utter maniac, her body hunched over the wheel.

"Well, hurry up and get outta my way! I mean, C'MON! Let's go you stupid fagola!" Aunt Lilly shouted at the driver in front of her.

Behind her was Max, Zoe, and Rex all hugging each other for safety, Rex and Zoe crisscrossing their seatbelts together on the opposite seats. "Not gonna lie, not my best idea. I'll take fault in that… by blaming Francis on this." Max pridefully says to mask his fear.

"Thanks, Max. Now I have a fear of flying and driving." Rex tells his friend, currently hoping they'd make it out alive.

"If we ever make it out alive, I'm gonna make sure you NEVER come up with an idea ever again in any shape and/or form." Zoe threatens the spiky haired teen.

"Duly noted." Max replies.

Aunt Lilly honked her horn once more at the guy in front of them. "Make that ass move fast ya jackass! Who's drivin' that thing anyway?!" Aunt Lilly shouts.

A young adult wearing a shirt that literally said, "Sup, I'm Stoned Chompski." was shown driving the car, a lazy, easygoing expression on his face as Make it Bun Dem played on the radio; the man's eyes were also bloodshot. "Yeah, it's me. What're you gonna do about it?" I say to you guys as I turn to the camera with a glare.

Aunt Lilly drove around the car and passed it as she continued to floor down the road like an absolute psychopath with no concern for the safety of others. "What're you doing, you crazy lunatic?! You're gonna get us all killed!" Max shouts Aunt Lilly, which falls on deaf ears.

"No, I can't change the radio! Can't you see I'm a little busy with something here?" Aunt Lilly asks as she drives over a stop sign.

The same bicycle cop from like three chapters ago was shown to be completely in bandages as well as in a wheelchair, calling into question his decision making skills. It wasn't until Aunt Lilly sped by that caused him to finally give motion as he instantly began to chase the mad woman with his motorized wheelchair.

"Halt! You violated the law!" his muffled voice was heard underneath the bandages.

A bank was shown to be in utter chaos as the doors were opened and papers were scattered all over the stairs as the alarm blared into the air. At that moment, two men in ski masks came running out of the building before hopping into a parked white van across the street where the wheelman was waiting. "Floor it, Lenny!" shouts the big robber.

Lenny immediately put the pedal to the metal as he burnt rubber… before getting rammed from behind by Aunt Lilly, whom violently rear ended them. The rear end crash was so violent that the van literally defied the laws of physics and began spinning around in the opposite direction. "Get outta the way! Can't ya see I was comin, ya stupid fagolas?" Aunt Lilly says aloud.

The wheelchair cop continued to chase Aunt Lilly ever so slowly as he slowly strolled down the sidewalk with determined eyes. "You're not going to get away with this, you lawbreaker!" the cop's muffled shout was heard.

The wheelchair cop was suddenly struck by the spinning white robber van, sending him flying into the sky where his muffled screams were heard before he disappeared out of sight, the last thing being seen was a twinkle in the sky.

"Oh, look! There's where your mom gave birth to ya, ya spiky haired jackass!" Aunt Lilly loudly announces, noting the entrance of the garbage dump in front of them."

"Is she talking about me?" Max asks with a raised brow.

"Get ready to bail when I say go you failed abortions!"

"Wait, you're not gonna stop?" Rex asks Aunt Lilly with fear in his tone.

"GO!" Aunt Lilly shouts.

She suddenly swerved to the left as she unlocked the back passenger side doors as the three kids fell out from the van, tumbling to the ground as they all groaned in pain. "Have fun rolling in garbage you freakin' fagolas!" Aunt Lilly shouted as she drove off, leaving a trail of dust and dirt behind her.

"What a sweet lady." Zoe sarcastically comments.

Rex popped his head out from underneath Max's stomach as he managed to pull out his DinoShot, where he checked to see where the dinosaur's location was at. "Good news, the dinosaur is still here." he announces to his friends.

"What's the bad news?" Zoe asks in pain.

"I'm pretty sure we all need to go to the hospital." Rex replies.

"Well, I mean I haven't heard Max in a while so can you check if he's alive? I'm underneath the both of you and he's on top."

"Hey, Max. Are you dead?" Rex casually asks, although this was mostly in pain, as he poked Max's cheek.

"Uhwhawhawhawhawahawhawhawhaahuh?" Max stammered as he woke up. "Are we dead? Did Aunt Lilly kill us?"

"Do you feel pain?" Zoe asks.

"All over the place." Max answers

"Then you're still alive. Now get off of Rex so he can get off of me. It's starting to get hard to breathe underneath the both of you."

With that, Max got off of Rex whom got off of Zoe as all three of them stretched, all having bruises due from the crash. "You and Aunt Lilly share something in common, Zoe. Bad driving." Rex says to the pinkette.

"Oh, very funny." Zoe sarcastically says with crossed arms and a pout. "Come on, guys. Let's go find that dinosaur."

"Found the dinosaur." Rex says, pointing in a random direction.

"Alright, one time was funny. The second time the joke is already overused." Max says in a deadpan tone with lidded eyes. Those eyes suddenly widened when he spotted the Gorgosaurus on top of the garbage hill, staring down at them. "Oh, it's literally there… It's still an unfunny joke though."

The Gorgosaurus roared as it walked down the garbage hill, following close behind it were three Alpha members. "What're you guys doing?" Zoe asks them.

"Haven't you caught the dinosaur yet?" Rex asks them.

The three of them could be seen rubbing various parts of their bodies - Ursula on her neck, Zander on his butt, and Ed on his shoulder - all having sympathetic expressions on their faces. "Why aren't you guys-"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Sinister laughter interrupted Max as a shadow was casted over the three, prompting them to look up. When they did, Zoe gasped as the other two grew shocked expressions. Up in the sky was a silhouette of a person flying with wings, and they only knew four people who could do that. Goma flew away from the sun to where he was no longer blocking it, finally revealing his face to the three with a wicked smile.

"Cower mortals, before the galactic vengeance of the horrifying vendetta of the Shadow Kingdom… OF GOMA!" Goma loudly announces before cackling like a mad(alien)man. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"SPACE PIRATE?!" Zoe shouts in shock.

"I'm sorry, what now?" Goma asks, breaking character as he looks down at the three with confusion in his eyes.

"Does this mean Seth is working with the Space Pirates again?" Rex frantically asks with panic in his eyes.

"I don't know and I don't care!" Max sternly says with a glare, firmly gripping his DinoShot.

"Hey, I got a gun just like that." Goma says to Max with a smile, pointing to his DinoShot.

"We're going to stop whatever plans you have, Goma!" Max loudly exclaims at the alien.

"FOOLS!" Goma replies dramatically, going back into character. "You cannot comprehend the powers of Goma! You are nothing but the gum on the bottom of my shoe to me! Taking you guys on will be a piece of… Darn it. I always forget the last part." Goma whispers to himself.

"We'll see about that." Max says before turning to his friends. "You ready guys?"

Rex and Zoe responded by grabbing their DinoShots as well, both with confident grins. "Wait, those two have guns as well?" Goma asks, pointing to the two DinoShots.

"DINO SLASH!"

"SHOCK THEM, TRICERATOPS!"

"CARNOTAURUS, BLOW HIM AWAY!"

"BLOSSOM, PARASAUROLOPHUS!"

The three dinosaurs all roared as soon as they were summoned, causing Goma to start yelling in terror once more. "YOU'RE KIDDING! THESE KIDS HAVE BEASTS TOO?!" he asks in terror, gawking up at the three dinosaurs looking down at him.

"Wait, what?" Max quietly asks.

"You three!" Goma points to the Alpha Trio. "Take care of these three with your own beasts!"

"News flash, purple guy!" Zoe shouts at Goma.

"And there goes the comments." Ed dryly says.

"Those three are with us so there's no way they're going to fight us! Right, guys?" The three said nothing as they just awkwardly avoided eye contact. "Guys?" Zander coughed into his fist. "Oh my God. You're gonna betray us, aren't you?"

"Figures. I mean, I know I said I trusted them back in Canada but… Come on, let's be real here, guys." Max tells his friend with no emotion at all.

"Well! Don't just stand there you fools! Annihilate them! Or suffer the consequences!" Goma shouts at the three, threatening to push a button in his hand.

The three all flinched in fear before simultaneously grabbing their Alpha Scanners. "You know, I really don't feel like getting electrocuted. Don't you fellas?" Ursula asks the two with an insincere smile.

"Uh-huh. Uh-huh." Ed and Zander both said at the same time as they shook their heads.

"ALPHA SLASH!"

"BLAZE, TYRANNOSAURUS!"

"GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"

"SHAKE 'EM UP, SAICHANIA!"

The three Alpha Dinosaurs roared upon being summoned as the D-Team Dinosaurs roared back, the world slowly warping back to the dinosaur age. "Wait! What's going on?! Goma is confused and because of that he is scared!" Goma panically shouts.

"What're you guys doing?! I thought you were on our side now!" Max shouts at the three.

"Sorry, brat. But we've gotta think of ourselves sometimes." Ursula replies with an arrogant smile. "So how about it, twerps? A good ol' fashion battle to duke it out for old times sake?"

"You're gonna regret betraying us!" Max yells at them, visibly angry at their betrayal.

"My dad had high hopes for you three! He thought you could be better people! I guess he was wrong." Rex harshly says with a glare.

"I should've known the old lady would've done this sooner or later." Zoe angrily says, glaring at the greenette.

Ursula resisted the urge to burst out in anger for once, surprising Ed and Zander as they turned to Ursula once they realized she didn't say anything. "Ed. Zander… Let's do this." she tells two.

"Ooooooookay!" Ed and Zander both said as they saluted at the same time.

The Alpha Dinosaurs roared once again at their rivals, whom roared back as the six dinosaurs began to charge towards each other. When they met in the middle, all hell broke loose. Chomp and Terry got into an eternal headlock, Spiny bit down onto Paris' neck and pinned her down with his foot, and Tank went in for a swing only for Ace to dodge the attack instead.

"You think we can win this?" Zoe asks in a worried tone.

"This is the Alpha Gang. We always creamed their butts back then." Max smugly says with a grin.

Rex however glared at his friend. "Never say that again." he sternly tells him like a scolded child.

Chomp roared as he headbutted Terry under his chin, sending his head straight up as he roared in anger. He suddenly bit down on Chomp's greatest defensive and offensive weapons: his horn. Although Terry wasn't as strong as Chomp when it came to battling, it really didn't matter when he was the greatest predator nature has ever produced. With the strongest bite force in all of the world's history at 431000 psi, Terry's teeth sank right into Chomp's solid bone horn. For a while, his horn actually began to crack, whether this was from pent up anger on Terry's part or nature itself is unknown, but the real truth is, it's both.

Meanwhile Paris managed to kick Spiny off of her only for the Spinosaurus to bite her horn again, causing her to roar in pain. While Spiny's teeth weren't meant for shredding and tearing meat like Terry's, they were still a great weapon for his battle. His teeth were used for gripping rather than shredding, which meant that Spiny had a firm grip on Paris' horn, and as long as he had a grip on her, she wasn't going anywhere. Spiny then began to start literally dragging Paris around as she struggled to break free from his tight grasp, kicking up dirt up in the air as her legs were no longer supporting her. She was literally getting dragged on her back by her horn in Spiny's mouth.

The Carnotaurus continued to try and take quick bites from Tank, only for the Saichania to continuously protect herself with her armor. She suddenly swung her tail against Ace's head, no doubt badly injuring him as he stumbled backwards. Tank roared before charging at him, knocking him over with a powerful headbutt as he got sent to the ground, quickly picking himself up afterwards. Ace roared as the two circled each other, at a stalemate unlike the previous two who held the advantage. Ace and Tank took turns roaring at each other as they continued to circle each other; while not as violent as Terry or Spiny, Ace was still a carnivore and carnivores by nature are naturally aggressive. Ace roared as he charged towards his rival, quickly biting down onto her neck as she roared in anger and pain. She suddenly fell backwards, crushing Ace's head with her armored back before retreating, leaving Ace stunned as he managed to pick himself up.

"I never remembered fighting the Alpha Gang being this hard before." Zoe says, for once worried about losing to the Alpha Gang.

"I guess they must've improved since we last battled each other." Rex theorizes.

"Well I'm gonna end this right here and now!" Max shouts as he pulls out a move card. "Go! Lighting Strike!" he shouts as he activates the move card.

Chomp's horn began to emit electricity, forcing Terry to let go, leaving visible bite marks on Chomp's cracked horn. Terry backed up as Chomp charged up his attack, roaring as he created a literal ball of electricity from the tips of his horn. "Time to show these brats how far we've come. Go, Terry! Counter it with Magma Blaster!" Ursula shouts as she kisses the move card before activating it..

Terry stomped on the ground so hard that he created a small crater with his footprint in the middle of it before blasting out a searing ball of magma from his mouth. At the same time, Chomp released his Lighting Strike as the two attacks were launched towards each other. In the end, Terry's Magma Blaster proved to be more powerful as it easily sliced through Chomp's Lightning Strike before directly hitting the Triceratops dead center.

"No way! Terry countered?! He never did that before!" Max shouts in shock.

Paris suddenly bellowed loudly from her horn, forcing Spiny to let go of her grip, leaving visible blood marks on her horn. Zoe suddenly shot out a move card before grabbing it. "Metal Wing!" she calls out as she activates the card. Three Pteranodons flew into the sky as they screeched before going into formation, flying towards their target as the Spinosaurus stared menacingly at the Parasaurolophus.

"Not that move again!" Zander growls before grabbing a move card. "I've always hated that move! Not this time! Tail Smash, Spiny! Let's go!" he shouts as he activates the move card.

Spiny roared before turning around as the three Pteranodons flew towards him, only to be smacked out of the air when Spiny used his Tail Smash against them. "Whaaaaaaaaat?!" Zoe gasps in shock.

"Go kick her heiny, Spiny! Aqua Vortex!" Zander exclaims, activating his second move card.

Spiny roared as he glowed blue before a vortex of water swirled around him; Paris bellowed in response before she was suddenly engulfed in another vortex of water that appeared right below her. In the tornado of nothing but water, Paris spun around at rapid speeds before the Aqua Vortex suddenly disappeared. Upon her release, Paris fell to the ground, softly bellowing in pain.

"Paris!" Zoe called out.

"Now Ace!" Rex suddenly says as he flashes a move card before his eyes. "Ninja Attack!"

Ace growled as he began to charge towards Tank before duplicating himself to where there were six of him where they all leaped into the air at the same time. "Stand strong, Tank! Earth Barrier!" Ed exclaims, activating her move card.

Tank roared as she glowed purple before glowing violet crystals surrounded her entire body to the point where she was completely protected. At that moment, Ace and his clones began to attack in all different kinds of directions, but upon striking Tank's Earth Barrier, each of the clones all vanished into thin air, unable to break through the defense. It was Ace who was last as he flung off of her barrier and crashed into the ground.

"Oh yeah. These guys have gotten not only stronger but… smarter too." Rex admits to his friends.

"I never thought I'd live to see the day." Max replies.

"Hey, Zander. Hand me Spiny's Tail Smash so Tank can use it. Her clubbed tail will be even more powerful." Ed suggests to the tall man.

"Good idea!" Zander obliged as he handed the fat man the card.

"Gooooo, Tail Smash!" Ed exclaims, activating the move card.

"Wait! Did he just have Tank use Tail Smash?!" Zoe cries out in shock.

"With a clubbed tail like hers. Oh no. Look out, Ace!" Max calls out for the Carnotaurus.

But it was too late, Tank swung her tail across Ace's face, striking him three times before knocking him down to the ground where he gave a painful roar as he attempted to get back up. "Get up, Ace! You can do it!" he cheered for his partner. Ace proved to be resilient as he slowly stood up, although he was out of breath.

Back with Paris and Spiny, the Spinosaurus was shown having the advantage over the fight as he was currently pinning the Parasaurolophus to the ground with his feet. His teeth clenched her horn, raising it a bit to lift up her head as her roar echoed into the air. Spiny then began to massive, muscular arms against her hide, his razor sharp claws cutting into her hide as blood began to seep out. Desperate, Paris let out another bellow from her horn, successfully pushing Spiny away as he left claw and bite wounds over her body. "That's using your head, Paris!" Zoe cheered before grabbing a move card. "Emerald Garden!" she exclaims as she activates the card.

A ball of green life draining energy formed inside Paris' mouth before she shot it out towards the Spinosaurus. "Hydro Cutter!" Zander announced as he used his own move card. Spiny roared as he summoned a column of water before smacking it, sending it flying towards the Parasaurolophus. Luckily for Paris, she leaped out of the way on time, resulting in the Hydro Cutter to cut down some trees neatly at an angle. "Boy, for water, those things are sharp." Zander commented.

Chomp was shown charging head first towards Terry, whom was charging as well. The two met in the middle before Chomp managed to lift the Tyrannosaurus over, flipping him on his back. "Go! Gatling Spark!" Max shouts as he uses the move card. Lightning struck down onto Chomp as he absorbed the element before charging towards the Tyrannosaurus.

"Two can play at rush games. Blazing Spin Attack!" Ursula exclaims, kissing the card before slashing it down.

Fire erupted from Terry's mouth as he began charging towards his rival, both dinosaurs now charging at each other. Chomp went in for the first attack, swinging his head towards the Tyrannosaurus, but unfortunately for the herbivore, Terry ducked his head at the last second. Immediately after ducking, Terry wasted no time in biting down onto Chomp's neck, immediately discontinuing Gatling Spark. The Tyrannosaurus then suddenly spun Chomp around before releasing him, sending him flying towards the forest part of the terrain. Which so happened to pass Ace and Tank's battle.

"Biting Wind!"

Blades of wind began shooting out from beyond Ace as he stood there like a stone wall, as if he was commanding the direction of where the blades of wind shall go. Each blade of wind struck Tank, dealing multiple strikes to the point where she curled up into a ball to lessen the damage. "Spike Arrows!" Tank roared as a large purple crystal enveloped her clubbed tail as purple energy spikes began shooting out from it. The Spike Arrows managed to collide with the blades of wind, destroying both of them upon impact, resulting in mini explosions in the air. Ace struck with a few arrows and Tank was struck with a few blades of wind, both taking equal amounts of damage.

"Come on, Ace! Don't let them get the best of you!" Rex cries out for his partner before grabbing a move card. "Are you ready?" Ace roared in response. "Then let's do it! Sonic Blast!" A ball of violent wind formed inside of Ace's mouth before he shot it towards the Saichania, a sideways tornado at Mach speeds covering yards within milliseconds.

Ed raised his Alpha Scanner in the air, as did with his move card; he suddenly held the scanner in front of him while holding the card to his side. "Dodge it with Mole Attack, Tank!" Ed exclaims as slashes the card down the scanner, holding both items high in the air as the card turns purple in his hands. Tank roared before digging into the ground, successfully dodging Ace's Sonic Blast.

"Look out, Ace!" Rex warns his partner.

But it was too late, the ground glowed purple as a large crack in the ground began to move towards Ace to the point where it was directly beneath the carnivore. Tank suddenly shot up from the ground, knocking Ace into the air where he fell to the ground. The Saichania finished her fight by slamming her clubbed tail onto Ace's fallen body multiple times before he was forced into a card. Upon victory, Tank roared loudly into the air as she slammed her clubbed tail onto the ground multiple times as a form of celebrating.

"Super Impact! Summon, Supersaurus!" Zoe calls out as she activates the move card.

A small tornado of leaves blew behind Paris as a Supersaurus rapidly entered the battlefield, it's colossal immediately dominating the playing field. Supersaurus lowered it's head and gestured for Paris to hop onto it's neck, to which the Parasaurolophus obliged. The Supersaurus began to gain momentum before launching Paris towards the Spinosaurus at high rotational speeds.

Zander twirled a card on the tip of his finger before catching it with his index and middle ones. "Counter that with Aqua Whip, Spiny!" he exclaims as he slashes both the Alpha Scanner and move card towards each other, holding back the move card behind him as it glows blue in his hands. Spiny glowed blue as he roared before his cheeks were suddenly filled with water whereupon he immediately spat out. A literal geyser shot out from Spiny's snout towards the speeding Parasaurolophus upon impact, wrapped around the herbivore, trapping her in literal water. Now in his grasp, Spiny swung around Paris in all different directions, slamming her to the ground over and over and over again before finally letting her go as he swung her upwards. Paris roared as she was flung into the air before gravity took control where she began falling to the ground, crashing hard and immediately turning into a card upon doing so. Spiny roared into the air in victorious triumph in celebration.

"PARIIIIIS!" Zoe cried out to her partner with tears in her eyes.

The sounds of trees being smashed and falling could be heard as Chomp and Terry were continuing their own battle in the forest. The yellow Triceratops was shown to be panting heavily while Terry still had most of his energy, roaring in the air as he slowly approached Chomp. The Triceratops backed up, for once being scared of Terry as it brought back some memories back when he was a normal dinosaur. Terry went in for a bite, biting down hard onto Chomp's frill and with Terry's bite force, his teeth easily ripped through the skin of his frill. However, because his frill was made of literal bone and literally apart of his head, Terry's teeth can only go so deep.

Now, there's one thing not typically known about the Triceratops, which definitely applies to Chomp here. The Triceratops most effective defensive tool was one totally hidden from view, a ball and socket joint which connected Chomp's 1000lb head to his neck. This joint gave Chomp the natural and born ability to maneuver his head almost 360 degrees, the closest nature has ever produced to a perfect sphere. It allowed movement in almost any direction in a fraction of a second. This joint existed in no other animal, dead or alive, in history. The Triceratops was the only one of the animal kingdom to have this joint. Because of this joint, it allowed Chomp to maneuver his way so that he was now controlling the tides. Terry firmly gripped his teeth against Chomp's frill as the Triceratops tried to escape, only for the Tyrannosaurus to keep pulling him back.

"Come on, Chomp!" Max cried out since he and Chomp were the last one standing. Chomp roared out as Terry continued to pull him. "CHOOOOOOOOOMP!"

The Triceratops continued to struggle in the Tyrannosaurus' grasp; because Terry was behind Chomp, he had no way of using his horns for defense. Then, he realized something. Terry was behind him! Acting quickly, Chomp began to back up as Terry was pulling him, causing the Tyrannosaurus to use too much of his strength, causing him to fall over and let go of Chomp's frill. Upon release, the Triceratops immediately gave a horse-like kick to Terry's face before running away to gain some distance.

"That's gotta hurt." Ed comments.

"Not as much as this!" Max yells as he grabbed a move card. "Electric Charge!"

"If there's one thing I learned from all the times we fought you, it's to counter a charging attack with a range one! One last time, Terry! Magma Blaster!" Ursula shouts before activating the move card.

Lightning struck down onto Chomp as he absorbed the element before charging towards his opponent. Once again, fire gathered up in Terry's mouth as he slammed his foot to the ground before firing a beam of magma towards the Triceratops. Chomp continued to charge towards his opponent, despite the column of fire heading towards him; in retaliation, Chomp fired up his Electric Charge attack by forming a ball of lightning in his horn. Because he was continuously generating electricity, the element absorbed some of the damage he took as soon as he came into impact with the Magma Blaster. However, instead of falling down, Chomp just kept charging, the Magma Blaster doing a successful job at holding him back for a while, though Chomp continued to push through. The Triceratops continued to charge, trying to ignore all the pain he was suffering, causing him to squint his eyes in pain. At that moment, his speed began to die down as the Magma Blaster proved to be too powerful, and by this time, Chomp's attack had ended.

Terry's Magma Blaster suddenly ended as well, the only thing left was a panting Triceratops walking towards Terry in a tired manner. Chomp panted heavily as he looked up at his opponent, expecting for Terry to finish the job; instead, he was met by a non-threatening gaze as Terry turned around. Although he and Chomp were once enemies, Terry still knew that his job was done and he knew the herbivore was defeated, even though he was still standing. Without any more need to hurt the Triceratops, Terry began to walk away, shaking the earth with every step he took. Chomp continued to pant as he watched the Tyrannosaurus slowly walk out of the fake forest they were in, before collapsing to the ground where he turned into a card.

And just like that, it was over.

The world turned back to normal as Chomp's card floated to the ground, the only remaining dinosaurs on the field being Terry, Spiny, and Tank. The Alpha dinosaurs all roared into the air, striking different poses while doing so - Terry doing the iconic Jurassic Park pose while roaring into the air, Spiny on all four legs while giving out a benevolent raspy roar that vibrated the earth, while Tank roared while slamming her clubbed tail on the ground. The shaking from Tank's tail dropped more garbage on top of Ursula, resulting in her getting soaked in garbage and garbage fluid yet again.

"GRRRRR! SERIOUSLY?! AGAIN?! I'M GETTING REAL TIRED OF THIS! THIS GAG IS STARTING TO STINK!" she shouts in the air.

"You sure it's not you?" Zander asks as he pinches his nose, turns away, and waves his hand in front of his face to knock the scent away.

"Yeah, maybe you should take a shower." Ed says as he parroted the gestures.

"We lost… We… We…" Max was a total loss of words as he, Rex and Zoe stood there with dumbfounded expressions on their faces.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Goma laughed out loud. "As expected! You weak morals are no match for Goma's Shadow Empire!"

"Did he say Shadow Empire?" Max asks, shocked to hear that certain word.

"Yeah, come to think of it, he said the same thing earlier." Zoe points out.

"You don't think he means the Atrociraptor? The one whose power is shadows and darkness?" Rex asks Max.

"I don't know." he replies.

He suddenly turned to the Alpha Gang, whom all three of them had sympathetic expressions on their faces as they avoided eye contact, as if they were ashamed of their actions. "Now that Goma- er I mean, Goma's 'assistants', defeated you puny mortals, Goma can add your beasts to his collection and then enslave this entire planet with them! You three!" He points to the three. "Have your beasts eat those adolescents."

"WHAT?!" Both teams shout at the same time in shock. "No way! It's one thing making us fight those kids but it's another making our dinosaurs eat them!"

"Yeah, and besides, Tank is a herbivore and Spiny only eats fish!" Ed counters.

"What about the red one?" Goma asks.

"He eats meat! Oh whoops." Ed slapped his mouth, albeit it being too late.

"Perfect! And Goma assumes this beast is carnivorous as well, is it not?" Goma asks, pointing to the Gorgosaurus behind him.

"Y-Yes." Ed timidly replies.

"ED!" Everyone else shouts. "I'm sorry! I may be a villainous henchman, but I also know a lot about dinosaurs!"

"Wuunda-fali! (Wonderful!)" Goma shouts in his language. Yes, I gave his species a language, fight me cunts. "Today shall be the day that this planet, Soilerra, starts it's downfall upon Goma's Shadow Kingdom! And with his monsters and beasts, I can enslave every inhabitant on. THIS. PLANEEEEEET! AAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!" Goma maniacally laughed into the air.

"So what does Spectre want?!" Max suddenly asks the purple alien.

"HAHAHAHAHA- Wait? My grandpappy?" Goma suddenly asks in a normal tone.

This literally broke everyone's reaction as they just dumbfoundedly stared at the humanoid alien. "wot?" Ed asks.

"How do you know my grandpappy Specty?" Goma asks in a confused tone.

"Grandpappy Specty?" Zoe manages to spit out, completely taken off guard at the sudden shift of situational tone.

"Yeah! He led the Space Pirates!" Max shouts in anger, thinking Goma was playing dumb.

Instead, Goma said, "Ugh. He wishes." in an annoyed tone while rolling his eyes. "He claims he's their biggest fan. Goes to every run of their games too. Believe or not, his beachside hut is nothing but filled with Space Pirates merchandise. Like, I'm talking about walls AND the ceiling. He even has every merchandise that has EVER existed! Like, we're talking the DAY they debuted! That's over 10 millennia's ago! It's really disturbing but I gotta admit… he does have some nice recliner seats with cupholders and heated cushions-"

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Ursula shouts in utter confusion.

"I'm talking about Grifball's most famous team! What're you mortals talking about?!" he asks them, angry he got yelled at.

"Your grandfather, Spectre, led the Space Pirates and kidnapped our parents and tried to destroy the universe with the Cosmo Stones!" Max loudly explains.

In response, Goma simply stroked his chin as he began to remember something in his head. "That does sound like something my grandpappy frequently talked about every Thanksgiving at his place." he says.

"Wait, they have Thanksgiving on your planet?" Ed asks, surprised by this fact.

"Moon, actually." Goma corrected. "Our planet became inhabitable when the reptilians and aviary inhabitants began to mass produce at a rapid rate, forcing us to relocate to the moon. Good thing our planet has twelve moons about half the size of it so that means we have more people than our planet can contain. Too bad Staron 9 is in the middle of a civil war. Wonder how that's going."

"Do you have any hecking idea what the F he's talking about?" Zoe whispers to Max.

"To be honest, I lost him at 'grandpappy'." Max replies in an unsure tone.

"You should be cowering in fear mortals with the amount of firepower Goma has." Goma suddenly goes back into character while flying high into the air directly in front of the sun. "For when I capture more of these beasts and take control of them, I will finally have my revenge!"

"You can capture as many dinosaurs you want! It won't change the fact we will stop you no matter what!" Max yells at the (?young?) alien with a hateful glare in his eyes.

"Your grandfather was a horrible person! You're using him as an excuse for revenge against us?!" Zoe yells back in utter rage.

"Wait, what?" Goma suddenly asks, his turn being confused. "Who said I'm getting revenge for my grandpappy? I haven't seen that senile old geezer in over 200 years. The last I saw him was when he shut down his Durrellium Station when the X'Tereth Council started using the sun's rays as energy for our ships."

"Wait, then… Why are you getting revenge on us?" Rex asks with a raised brow.

"I'm not getting revenge on you! I don't even know you guys!"

"Then why are you trying to enslave all of us and take control of our dinosaurs?" Zoe asks.

"What's a dinosaur?"

Everyone remained silent as they just blankly stared at Goma, including the Alpha Dinosaurs as well as the Gorgosaurus standing behind the alien. "Do you know anyone named Seth?" Zander suddenly asks, breaking the silence.

"No." Goma simply replied with a blank look.

That was it. That was the final nail in the coffin which confirmed what everyone was thinking about. "This guy has nothing to do with our problems." they all said at the same time.

"What're you talking about?" Goma asks.

"These 'beasts' that you keep referring to," Rex starts out. "they're dinosaurs. And your Shadow Kingdom, we all thought they were filled with dangerous dinosaurs."

"Uh, confession," Zander speaks up. "we originally thought that too and we got scared because we didn't want to face any more Shadow Dinosaurs and that's why we attacked you."

"Yeah, he threatened he was going to electrocute us if we disobeyed his orders!" Ed adds to the explanation.

"Oh, that reminds me! You disobeyed Goma's orders!" Goma suddenly says in realization.

He then pressed the button in his hand, resulting in the three Alpha members getting electrocuted in their place for a few seconds. Like every cartoon, when they were electrocuted, their bones were shown flashing inside their bodies, aside from Ed's injured leg, which for some strange reason lacked any bones below his knee. After a while, the electrocution stopped, leaving the three members all burnt to a crisp as their hair stood up before falling to the ground.

"Thanks, Ed." Ursula sarcastically replies in a breath.

"No… problem." Ed manages to say.

"Let that be a lesson for you three!" Goma shouts at them from above. "You three work for Goma! Remember! You will become the first victims of Goma's Shadow Kingdom if you do not obey!" Goma threatened the three as he held up the button. At that moment, a Grappling Claw in the shape of the D-Team's logo appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the button right from Goma's hands. "Huh?" he asks, looking down.

When he did, he saw Max holding the Grappling Claw before grabbing the button, he and his friends having smug grins on their expressions. "Looking for this?" he asks.

"Wait! Wait! Wait! That's not fair! Goma looked away! I- I lagged! Do over!" Goma panically shouts. Max then threw the button to the ground, successfully destroying it. "NOOOOOOOOOOO! Do you not realize what you have done you fool?! You have released those three from their literal... internal… imprisonment?" He suddenly as he grew a terrified look, slowly turning around to the three. When he did, he noticed the three were just blankly staring at him. "Uuh… Goma is sorry?" He attempts to smooth things over.

The three, while retaining their blank expressions, momentarily glanced at each other, as if they were silently agreeing on something. They suddenly turned back to Goma, this time their heads suddenly being hidden by darkness as their eyes glowed red, glaring deep into Goma's soul. For once in their entire villainous careers, they struck fear into their enemy as they just glared up at them, not even moving their heads but rather their eyeballs. For once... they actually looked dangerous.

"Why are you looking at Goma that way?" Goma asks nervously.

The three didn't waste a second as they all activated a move card at the same time. "ALPHA SLASH!"

At that moment, Terry fired his Magma Blaster, Spiny used Hydro Cutter, and Tank shot Spike Arrows out of the crystallized material over her tail. Goma yelled in utter fear as all three attacks directly struck not only him but the Gorgosaurus behind him. Goma fell to the ground but because it was bigger, the Gorgosaurus took most of the damage, resulting in it falling towards the grounded alien.

"NONONONONONONONONONONO-" Once again, Goma's words were cut off when the Gorgosaurus fell on top of him. "Not agaaaaaaaaaaaain." Goma's muffled whine was heard as the Gorgosaurus turned back into a card. "Goma feels like the entire Staron Building fell on top of him, and that building is over 300 stories tall." Goma painfully mumbles to himself.

The card floated down as Max grabbed it before he and the other five began approaching the defeated alien. "Alright, Goma. Talk." Max orders.

"What're you doing here? Who're you working for? Why are you trying to enslave our planet? And if it's not for your grandfather, why are you getting revenge?" Zoe asks.

"You forgot the most important question: What the hell is Grifball?" Ursula asks the alien in an angry tone.

Goma sat up and stared at everyone looking down on him, all giving him glares as the three dinosaurs hovered their heads over them. The alien sighed in defeat, seeing how there was nowhere left to run as he had literally left defenseless.

"Alright." he softly begins. "My name is Goma and the truth is…" He suddenly started to get tears in his eyes. "I got banished from my ho-ome wooooooooooorld!" he cried out before literally falling to the ground where he sobbed in a fetal position.

Goma continued to cry out like a child as the two teams did nothing but just blankly stared at him. "This… is awkward." Zander states.

"This guy is just getting more and more pathetic every time he talks." Max says with lidded eyes.

"Hey, come on now." Ursula softly says as she bends down, placing her hand on Goma's shoulder. "It's okay. We'll listen to your story… I mean, we'll still laugh at you because you got banished and everything but we'll still listen."

"I suppose that's the best thing that Goma's gonna get. Very well." With that said, he immediately hovered in the air with his legs crossed. "Here's an intergalactic, alien tale." Goma begins in his dramatic voice, which was just basically reverbed. "Once upon the 12th moon, a lovable yet evil alien by the name of Goma accidentally caused a massive explosion that wiped out half of the energy grid and caused a moonwide blackout in all but the other five moons! It wasn't Goma's fault before you ask! Goma was simply trying to divert unused power from the energy grid to power up Goma's laboratory! In response, the X'Tereth Council banished Goma from not only his home planet but from his galaxy! For over four centuries, I have drifted in the empty coldness of space in a crummy, small space pod, having nothing but streaming services and a lifetime supply of strawberry panda snacks! As well as a small amount of weapons, machinery, and other alien tech too advanced for this primitive planet that I managed to steal and hide before my exile. Alas, Goma's journey brought him here to the White Spiral Galaxy on the planet Soilerra-"

"Hold on! Hold on! Hold on!" Max interrupts.

"What's the problem?" Goma asks in his normal voice.

"Do you guys have different names for our planets and galaxies?"

"Yeah? What do you call this isolated planet of yours?"

"Earth."

"…Sounds lame." Goma responds. "ANYWAY! I… Uh… Damn it! Look what you did! You threw Goma off! Now I'm gonna start all over."

"Oh my God. I'm sorry for asking." Max tiredly says as he face palms himself.

"Okay, enough of how you got here." Rex says, getting impatient this was getting nowhere fast. "Why are you here, who're you working for, and what're your plans?"

"You want Goma to answer them in that order?"

"Just answer them already!" Ursula shouts as Ed and Zander hold her back.

"Fine! Don't have to yell at Goma." Goma pouted before regaining his composure. "I told you why I'm here. I got banished from my homeworld. As to what I'm planning, I'm here to build up my Shadow Kingdom so that it's strong enough for me to exact revenge on my homeworld! Then I'll destroy both the planet AND all 12 moons! That'll show them what it's like banishing Goma! Also Goma works for no one. Goma is his own boss." He adds the last part in a proud tone.

"So you're not connected to anyone named Seth or your grandfather, Spectre?" Max asks.

"Look, I don't know what my grandpappy did to piss you guys off but I had nothing to do with it! I already said I haven't seen the geezer in a long time! I've been drifting through space for four centuries! I just told you this!"

"He makes a point." Ed whispers to his teammates.

Goma suddenly sighed as he accepted defeat. "Goma lost the battle." he timidly says in a defeated tone. "So go ahead… Eat me."

"What?" Ursula blankly said.

"We're not gonna eat you!" Max yells in disgust.

"Yeah! I'm a vegetarian!" Zoe yells as well.

"Is that what your people do when you lose a battle? You get eaten by them?" Zander asks with a disturbed look.

"Oh yeah. All the time. It's how we control our population number. Sometimes we just fight babies for no other reason than for a free meal." Goma nonchalantly replies.

"That's morbid." Ed comments with a blank look.

"I thought you said there were twelve moons all habitable?" Rex asks.

"So? Population control still gets out of hand! Especially when most of them are war refugees from Staron 9! If you don't know, our species reproduce asexually through immense emotions such as fear or extreme lust... and also needing to go to the bathroom really fast. Because there's a war going on, there's a lot of fear going on, meaning more people are asexually reproducing as a calming mechanism. It's a curse upon our species that we can only blame the Father of Life for. Understand?" Goma asks.

Everyone was silent as they just blankly stared at Goma. "Can you repeat that?" Ed shyly asks.

Goma grabbed his entire face before dragging it down with one hand, letting out an exaggerated sigh of annoyance with exaggerated eye rolls. "Goma has had it with these puny, infidel mortals." he mumbles to himself.

"Where'd you get infidel from?" Rex asks with a raised brow.

"So to put it all in a short story:" Max begins. "You got banished from your homeworld, got sent here, and you're planning to create an army so you can use said army to invade your homeworld?"

"No, not invade. Destroy. Total destruction is the ultimate ending."

"You're planning to wipe out your entire species because they banished you from- Actually, when I'm saying it aloud, I kind of actually see this as a viable option to be perfectly honest." Zoe says.

"But alas, Goma's plan for vengeance has been foiled, leaving him with nothing! Not even a mother to comfort him… I miss my mom." Goma quietly says in a sad tone afterwards.

The two teams walked away as they huddled next to each other. "Okay," Zander starts off. "so it's pretty obvious that this guy is as worthless as a papier-mâché bomb shelter. I don't know what he used to be like but I just know right now he's just a shell of his former self. He's got nothing. Literally nothing. And he has no connection to Seth or whoever the Grand Master is."

"Honestly… I don't think Spectre or the rest of the Space Pirate have anything to do with this. I think this was just one weird coincidence." Rex whispers, glancing over to Goma.

"If it is, it has a hell of a way of timing." Ursula whispers in an impressed tone.

"So what do we do? He's clearly not a threat. In fact, I'd say a common house spider is more dangerous than him." Zoe says.

They all simultaneously turned to Goma, whom was shown sitting on the ground, legs spread apart with a sad expression as he sniffed. "Honestly… I feel bad for him." Max admits. "Being stuck on a planet you've never been so far away from your homeworld. I'd be really scared and I think that's what Goma is feeling right now. He does look my age after all."

"Max, he said he hasn't seen Spectre in 200 years. I'm sure he's way passed 14." Rex replies.

"Okay but you can't deny the fact that he just looks depressed!" Max loudly whispers.

"Goma is depressed!" Goma loudly exclaims as he throws his arms in the air.

"Look, kid. He has nothing to do with us. I'd say we just leave him here." Ursula tells Max.

"Yeah, he electrocuted us! Remember!" Zander shouts, still peeved about the whole ordeal.

"Come on, guys." Ed says to the two of them, surprising them. "I know where he's coming from. Remember when we were kids, no one hung around us? We only had each other. But he doesn't have anyone. He's alone on this planet far, far away from his homeworld. No doubt he feels betrayed by them, even though if what he said was true was his fault, but right now I bet he's feeling lost, scared, and confused… and maybe just needs a friend?" Ed finishes with a warm smile.

"I'm not becoming that bozo's friend." Ursula says to the fat man with an annoyed glare.

Max suddenly thought of a particular person in his mind. "I know who though!" he exclaimed as he snapped his finger.

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*KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!*

A door was opened, revealing that the person who knocked was none other than Goma, whom had a sleeping bag in his arms as it was now nighttime. "GREETINGS, MORTAL!" he greets in his dramatic tone. "It is I, Goma - Emperor of the Shadow Kingdom! You puny mortal seem like a good fit for Goma's living quarters for Goma requires bed and breakfast every day and in order to have that he requires a lair! For now on, Goma shall live with you and you shall obey every one of Goma's commands!"

Francis simply just stared at Goma with a confused expression, not having the slightest idea what he was talking about. "Are those wings behind you?" he asks with a bewildered look.

The moon stayed in the sky as it loomed over the city, another day, another dinosaur caught and out of the Grand Master's hands. "No, seriously. Are those actual wings?"

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(Obvious change of tone for this chapter. As you can see, this chapter is focused more on a… okay Imma be honest. I just wanted the Alpha Gang to beat the D-Team one time using their dinosaurs since we won't get any other chances of them fighting each other in this story since they're working together now.

Anyway, how do you like my style of Goma? I know in the game he was all serious and all that, I don't know. I never played it. But I wanted to make Goma come off as an intimidating character who would seem to be like a villain when really he's just some guy. Now, despite all the dumbassery and bullshit reasons that sound like I made up on the spot, which I did because Goma's backstory isn't gonna be important in this story lol, all of this is canon. Yep. Goma's backstory, the fact the Gorgosaurus got robbed of his own episode, even Francis digging holes in his yard for his kitchen sink. It's all. Canon. And it will have some relevance to the story, big or small.

I always wanted to do a chapter like this, having the Alpha Gang win for a chance. I mean, even Team Rocket has to totally annihilate their opponents some time. Also fun fact, the scene where the trio look up at Goma with red glowing eyes is inspired from when I was a kid back when I first started watching Dinosaur King. Back then, I didn't get to see the first episode so when I saw the Alpha Gang for the first time and I realized they were the villains, I imagined their VERY FIRST appearance is just their silhouettes holding their Alpha Scanners and cards with glowing red eyes with fire in the background… I'm not kidding. I remember the SPECIFIC moment I thought of it. 3rd grade after school daycare, out in the outside lunch area talking about the show with some students.

Okay, enough babbling. The next chapter is gonna take a while. Let me know what you guys think of Goma's character. He WILL come back… not as a main character, but a supporting character. Think of him as the DLC character that'll briefly show up some time… except he'll be a playing part during the climax of the story when it ends.

Whenever the hell that is… KOKBYE!)