(I'm not doing hybrid dinosaurs or involving the Japanese government wanting to use these dinosaurs or the crashed Backland as super weapons. Please stop asking me those things. I'm not naming anyone… but it's pretty obvious who I'm referring to based on the reviews.
I mean no offense, man, but… come on, if I wasn't gonna do them before, what makes you think I'm gonna do them now?)
The silhouette of the D-Lab could be seen in the late of night thanks to the full moon behind it, casting a shadow - inside, Reese was busy typing away on the supercomputer, bags under bags which were under her eyes. At that moment, Dr. Cretacia came in through the automatic doors, holding a cup of water in her hand while in her polka dot pajamas as she approached the young woman.
"Couldn't sleep too, huh?" Dr. Cretacia asks the blonde.
"Ugh, I've been at this for three days now!" Reese suddenly exclaimed as she slammed her fists on the table. "We have never encountered a Shadow element before since there wasn't ever a Shadow Dinosaur before. I don't know what else to tell you, Dr. Cretacia, but this card is pretty standard to the normal cards as before. The only difference is that there's a small light sensor that will activate upon sunlight hitting it, but as soon as the sun gets blocked and emits a shadow, the card activates."
"I guess that's one way to activate a Shadow Dinosaur." Dr. Cretacia responds in a tired tone.
Reese sighed in defeat before leaning back in her chair. "I'm sorry, doctor," she apologized. "but there's not much else I can work with. I have checked every centimeter of the card back and front ten times over. The only thing I can say for certain is that… it's a dinosaur card. Just of a different element."
"Hmm…" Dr. Cretacia ponders for a moment. "Atrociraptor wasn't on our list of research experiments meaning this one was specially made but whoever took the timeship. As you know, not everyone can turn dinosaurs into cards… I hate to say it but it's starting to look like Seth is back… Somehow."
"Dr. Cretacia." Reese called out quietly, earning the paleontologist's attention. "There's nothing else I can do with the card but the dinosaur itself, we can document it. If what the kids say is true, then this dinosaur is far more primal than any other dinosaur. Almost like it's been held in captivity since birth."
Reese suddenly gave out a long yawn, almost falling asleep right then and there if it wasn't for Dr. Cretacia to suddenly gently lay her hand on Reese's shoulder. "You said so yourself," she says. "you've been at this for three days. Go to bed. You deserve it. The card will still be here tomorrow… I hope."
Reese sighs in defeat. "You're right." she agrees. "Burning myself out is just gonna cause more damage then fix." Reese stood up from her chair and stretched, instantly feeling more relieved. "Oh, I needed that. You sure you and Dr. Ancient are fine sleeping in the D-Lab until the Backland is rebuilt?"
"We don't mind at all!" Dr. Cretacia happily exclaims. "Besides, we have Jonathan and Helga here to keep us on guard, seeing how they don't require sleep at all. Besides, it's not like someone is going to steal the entire D-Lab. It's built into the ground."
"That's true." Reese replies as she grabs her bag. "W.E.S.L.E.Y., turn off all equipment in the lab and turn off the outside lights."
~don't tell me what to do.~
Immediately afterwards, the computer screen shut off, as did the front lights. "I'll see you…" Reese turned to the clock, realizing it was 1:34 A.M.. "…Later today, I guess. Goodnight, Dr. Cretacia." Reese waves as she walks towards the automatic doors.
"Goodnight, Reese." Dr. Cretacia waves back as she takes a sip from her water. "Hmm! That's a good cup of water."
With that said, Dr. Cretacia turned back to the doors she came out from, disappearing behind it as the main room of the D-Lab remained in the dark. The main room was now completely silent, not even a single sound being heard inside the lab. Outside, the moon continued to shine into the room as one of the windows was shown to have a direct view of the moon outside…
…that is until a right hand missing it's ring finger appeared out of nowhere, slamming itself against the glass window as it obstructed the moonlight.
*Who Are You by the Who starts playing...*
*brief instrumental*
Starring MAX TAYLOR (+ Chomp)
Whoooooooo are you?
ZOE DRAKE (+ Paris)
Who, who, who who?
REX OWEN (+ Ace)
Whoooooooo are you?
REESE
Who, who, who, who?
URSULA, ZANDER, ED (+ Terry, Spiny, Tank)
I really wanna know! (Whoooooooo are you?)
DR. Z
Oooooooh!
ROD AND LAURA
The ANCIENTS
Come on! Tell me who are you! You! You! AAAAAAAARE YOOOOOOOU!
Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril
A beautiful beach in Él Tabo, Chile was packed full of both tourists and locals alike as each and everyone enjoyed the beach. Kids were playing in the ocean, building sandcastles, eating cold snacks, some were even on top of the beach rocks sunbathing. One kid was shown to be splashing around in the ocean, purposely getting his friend wet, as the two of them laughed like school girls. Unbeknownst to the two of them, one of the kids stepped on an egg capsule underwater causing it to break, revealing two dinosaur cards to be inside. As soon as the water touched the cards inside, they began to glow until a large splash was shown in the middle of the beach. A large sauropod with large spikes sprouting out of it's back emerged from the water, roaring into the air as everyone screamed in terror.
"SEA MONSTER!" shouts a random woman.
"GET OUT OF THE WATER! GET OUT OF THE WATER!" shouts one of the lifeguards.
"Aw, I just got in!" whined a kid.
Everyone at the beach evacuated as the kid that activated the dinosaur fell on one of the beach rocks before looking up at the sauropod in terror. This dinosaur was known as a Agustinia, thankfully a herbivore this time and not a blood thirsty, murderous super dinosaur. The Agustinia looked down at the terrified boy, who froze in fear as he thought the dinosaur was a sea monster that appeared out of the water. The sauropod suddenly gently lowered it's neck towards the boy and gave him a few kisses, earning giggles from the boy. The sauropod suddenly turned around and began to carelessly walk across the shore before entering the beach and to the small city next to it.
The Taylor household was always a place to hang out for the D-Team, as evidenced by Max and Rex sitting on the couch watching TV while Zoe tried to dress Paris up. "There. Now you look like royalty." Zoe tells the green chibi Parasaurolophus. In response, Paris, like last time, ripped up the clothes and threw them in the air, resulting in Zoe giving her an annoyed look. "I really gotta stop buying clothes for you if you're just going to keep ripping them up. I'm just wasting money at this point." she says to herself.
Meanwhile, Max and Rex both had bored expressions on their faces as Chomp and Ace slept next to each other, none of them enjoying the show they were currently watching.
"Welcome back to Gobble Gobble Brain Boggle!"
"TITS!"
"This is Tommy K! We are live on Channel 4. Please do not swear."
"KISS MY ASS!"
"Tonight we are here in a new city and with the votes counted in, the new contestant for this week… is… MATT DILLON!"
"Bastards."
"Matt! Matt, come up on stage! It's time for your Brain Boggle!"
"ASSCLOWN!"
"Can you believe we used to watch this garbage two years ago?" Rex asked his friend as they were both slumped over the couch like me everyday.
"Can you believe Zoe got over Tommy K the minute she saw him?" Max retorted back in a lazy tone.
"Fair enough."
"Hey, I told you, Tommy K was a loser not because… wait, what exactly are you accusing me of again?" Zoe asks the two boys, genuinely confused as to what was going on.
"We're not accusing you of anything… drama queen." Max mumbled the last part.
"What was that?!" Zoe asks in agitation, clearly hearing what Max just said.
"Oh, I said uh, 'I dropped my king.'" Max lies.
"Oh."
Rex remained silent the whole time, his lazy eyes still glued to the television. "…Why is 4Kids such a crap dub company?" he asks no one in particular.
Right at that moment, Zoe's phone began to ring in her purse, prompting her to answer it. "Hello?" she greets.
"Zoe! Hey!" shouts a familiar voice over the phone.
"Francis!" Zoe exclaims with a blushed face. Max's reality suddenly shattered to pieces upon hearing that god awful name, prompting him to peek over the couch, practically glaring at Zoe's phone. "Why the sudden phone call?"
Francis was shown to be in his room, still a pig sty and in the dark, leaning in his gaming chair while a green lava lamp lit the room. "Nothing," he replies. "I was just wondering if you wanted to hang out today. There's this new burger joint I've been wanting to go to. They came out with the Triple B Burger - Barbecue Bacon Burger - and I heard it's the best burger in town. I was actually going to go right now. Wanna tag along?"
"Go eat? Sit down? Food? Will it just be the two of us?" Zoe excitedly asks as her entire face flushed red.
Meanwhile, Max continued to glare at Zoe's phone, already thinking of plans of kidnapping Francis. "If that's alright with you, yeah." Francis could be heard over the phone.
"OH, I WOULD LOVE TO-" Her excitement was suddenly interrupted when her DinoShot began beeping, meaning only one thing. "Shit." she finishes.
Francis, on the other end, raised an eyebrow in confusion. "You would love to shit?" he asks in confusion. "I mean, go ahead. I don't know what's stopping you."
"No! No, that's not what I meant! I meant… um…" Zoe suddenly turned to Max, a pleading expression on her face, hoping her best friend would cover her. Unfortunately for her, Max simply pointed to his DinoShot, a very smug expression on his face - Zoe glared at him afterwards. "*sigh* Sorry, Francis. I'm gonna have to decline." she tells her crush sadly. "Don't think it's because I don't like you. It's just, and I know this is very cliché but, something just came up at this minute… I hope you understand."
Francis simply gave his phone a bewildered expression, like it just grew a head out of the speaker. "Zoe, it's just a burger. It's not like I'm asking you to prom." he tells her.
"Oh." Zoe replies, feeling even more embarrassed as her crimson face grew more red.
"If you have something to do, go do it. I don't want to stop you from doing something that's more important than a stupid burger. We'll hang out another time, alright?"
"Yeah… Yeah, that sounds… fun." Zoe replies oddly.
Francis was silent over the phone yet again. "…Riiiiiight. Odd behavior aside, I hope you have a good time today, alright? Talk to you later."
With that, Francis hung up, leaving a stunned Zoe there frozen in place… before she grew a lovestruck smile as her cheeks turned red. "He's so understanding and selfless." she says in a dreamy tone. "Oh, I love how he puts everyone in front of him rather than himself. He really is a true prince… and he wanted to ask me to hang out with him. Oh, I can't help but feel so special."
At that moment, Rex's phone went off, prompting him to answer it. "Hello?… No, Francis, I don't want to go get a burger with you. And stop asking me for money!" Rex answers with lidded eyes.
Meanwhile, down at the crashed Backland, Dr. Ancient could be seen in the control room with Jonathan beside him, both having determined expressions on their faces. "Alright, Dr. Z. Start up the reactor." Dr. Ancient ordered the old man. Dr. Z simply slammed his fist where he thought the button was, obviously missing due to him being blind. "Why- Why did I have a blind old man press the one button that could potentially destroy us all? Jonathan, can you go over and press the button?"
"Certainly, Master Ancient." Jonathan bowed as he approached the control board
"What happened? I don't hear anything. Does that mean it doesn't work?" Dr. Z asks, clearly not having a clue that he missed the button.
Jonathan helped the old man out and pressed the button - the reactor began to spin to life as colorful rainbows began shining out from the large swirling rod in the middle of the control room. However, as quickly as it came to life, it just as quickly died down as the reactor shut down, though the power still remained on. Dr. Ancient massaged his face in fatigue as his android butler approached him.
"At least we managed to fix the power." Dr. Ancient mumbles. "But with the reactor disabled, there's no way of teleporting or traveling in time. Jonathan, what was the material we used again to power up the Backland II? I know for the previous one, we used Alpha Metal but then I realized… No… So I changed it to a different material. What was it again?"
"I do believe the Backland II's reactor is a liquid metal cooled one so we quite possibly should be looking for uranium, sodium, mercury, and tin." Jonathan replies.
(don't- don't criticize on how unrealistic this part is. i have no fucking clue how nuclear reactors work. i just assume nuclear energy is glowing green that'll mutate you. there's only so much a high school drop out can know, mans)
"Well those are going to be hard to find." Dr. Ancient concludes.
"We've got those supplies for you, Dr. Ancient." Zander says as he and Ursula enter the room, both holding boxes.
"Excellent you two!" Dr. Ancient exclaims happily. "Just set them down right there and I'll get to them as soon as I can."
"Okay." Ursula says as she and Zander drop the boxes where they stood, causing them to crash to the ground.
"That's not what I- Nevermind." Dr. Ancient tiredly says as he rubs his eyes in annoyance.
"You can imagine what I'm working with now." Dr. Z chimes in.
"How's the reactor going, doctor?" Zander asks as he and Ursula approach the reactor.
"Good news is, it's undamaged. Bad news is, it's out of fuel." Dr. Ancient tells the two of them.
"So like before?" Ursula asks.
Dr. Ancient, confused as to what she was talking about, shook his head and decided to just roll with it. "S- Sure. Yeah. I guess." he replies. "Uh, the materials we need is NOT Alpha Metal, thank goodness."
"Oh, thank goodness indeed!" Ursula groaned in relief. "Because if I had to be sent to get more Alpha Metal only to come up short each time, I'd probably pull my hair out!"
"What materials do we need for the reactor again, doctor?" Zander asks the paleontologist.
"Jonathan." Dr. Ancient signals.
"Uranium, sodium, mercury, and tin." Jonathan replies.
"That's even worse!" Zander panickily shouts. "How do you expect to get uranium of all things?! Aren't those things radioactive?!"
"Yeah, but in non-lethal dosage when mined. I mean, the most damage you'll probably get is a burn or cut or something." Dr. Ancient replies.
"Oh…" Zander says, his panic nature quickly dissipates.
"Can we just use the liquid mercury in the thermometer instead and just buy a lot of them?" Ursula suggests.
"Do you want to use up your entire credit card?" Dr. Ancient sarcastically asks.
"Fair enough."
"The only way to get these raw materials is to get them from the source. Meaning, we'll have to mine them."
"Mine them?! Again?!" the two Alpha members whined loudly. "I don't want to go back to the south pole! It's freezing! And those icky mines where we found the Futaba Super Cannon card was all kinds of nasty! And I don't ever want to go back to the cave with the other old lady is at!"
"What're you talking about?" Dr. Ancient asks, having no clue what the greenette was on about.
"Dr. Z had us search for Alpha Metal in all parts of the world and each time was worse and worse. Not because of those brats- I mean, the D-Team, but because of how dangerous it was in general." Zander answers.
"Well, I assure you that mining these sorts of materials should be relatively safe… I hope." Dr. Ancient adds the last part, prompting the two Alpha members to gulp in fear.
"Thanks, that really helps calm us down." Ursula sarcastically replies.
"I wish I was Ed right now with a broken leg… Actually, nevermind. I never want to get my leg broken. That looked painful when the Giganotosaurus chomped down on his leg." Zander comments.
"Master Ancient," Jonathan pipes up. "do you have any ideas where to find these four materials so we could mine them?"
"Hmm…" Dr. Ancient began pondering. "Well, I know tin can be found in the tin belt in Asia and uranium can be found in some countries. Sodium and mercury however can be a bit tricky since they are popular elements in a high demand. I'd say the most tricky part is trying to find some that haven't been taken by… well anyone in this world really."
"So four chemical elements… Seems pretty standard." Zander comments. Right at that moment, his Alpha Scanner began beeping, which only meant one thing. "Huh. A dinosaur has been detected." he notes.
"That's great! Where is it at?" Dr. Ancient excitedly asks.
"In a town named Él Tabo in Chile. Apparently it has some nice beaches and it's a nice tourist attraction." Zander explains.
"I'm sure the D-Team will take care of that. Why don't you guys take a day off for today." Dr. Ancient dismisses
"Us? A day off?" Zander asks with hopeful eyes. The tall man suddenly grabbed Dr. Ancient and pulled him into a big bear hug. "Oh, you have no idea how much I've been wanting to hear that for so long, Dr. Ancient! Thank you!"
"Well, I for one know what I'm going to do on my day off." Ursula comments happily. "Going to Él Tabo and relaxing on those beautiful beaches! Oh, and uh, Dr. Ancient, do you mind if I use the company's card for my day off. A nice relaxing day at the beach goes well with champagne."
The paleontologist gladly took out the team's credit card and handed it over to the greenette. "I don't see why not. Hear you go. You earned it after saving my son twice." Suddenly, he grabbed her hand and tightened his grip on it before pulling her into his face, a sinister glare painted all over it. "But if I find out you have wasted all of the money, you will be working 24/7, through blood, sweat, and tears, to earn every bit of money back for us all of it coming from your account. Do I make myself clear?"
Ursula gulped in fear, never have seen this side of Dr. Ancient before and was quite honestly scared. "Crystal." she whimpers.
"Then go have some fun!" Dr. Ancient excitedly exclaims. "Zander, might I ask what you're planning to do on your day off?"
"Probably go to a bar." Zander plainly said.
This threw Dr. Ancient off course a bit. "Oh." he says in a surprised tone.
"What?" the tall man asks.
"Nah. No. Nothing. It's just- I never took you as the type to drink at a bar."
"Eh, I rarely went to any before all this anyway. I'm probably just going to go get a few drinks and maybe watch a game if there's any on."
"Huh… Well, have fun with that." Dr. Ancient tells the tall man.
"I'll have as much fun as anyone can in a bar."
With that said, the lanky, tall man exited the room, leaving only Dr. Ancient, a petrified Ursula, a hard working Jonathan, and a blind old man in the room. "By the way, Ursula," Dr. Ancient speaks up. "where's Ed?"
Ursula's petrified expression instantly changed to a normal one. "Oh, he's been hanging out with Reese at the D-Lab ever since his leg incident." Ursula casually says.
Sure enough, Ed was indeed hanging out in the D-Lab, except rather than hanging out, he was taking a nap on the main computer's desk. At that moment, a floating TV screen, which was designed and made by Dr. Z himself, floated down from the ceiling with W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s smiley face on the screen.
~hey fatass.~
"wot." Ed asks confusingly, having his nap oh so rudely interrupted.
~why dont you enhance your character development and tell the readers about your 12th birthday?~
Ed shot W.E.S.L.E.Y. an annoyed glare before pushing the floating TV screen with as much force as possible. "I should've never made that stupid A.I.." Ed mumbled to himself, only for the TV screen to come crashing back into the back of his head.
~you best not be dissing me bro. im not the one who farted on your pillow.~
"Wait. Wot?!" Ed suddenly pipes up.
~laughing out loud im funny :D~
Right at that moment, the D-Lab's automatic doors opened as the three teens came running inside. "Reese! Where's the- Oh." Zoe stopped herself once she realized it was just Ed in the room.
"Hiiiiii." he called out from afar, innocently sitting in his wheelchair, a pair of crutches beside it.
"Ed, where's my sister?" Zoe asks as the three approach the fat man.
"Had to meet up with her work colleague, Chase." Ed answered.
"And she put you in charge of the D-Lab?" Max asks.
"No." Ed immediately answers with a smile. "I just had nothing to do today so I decided to crash here." Ed suddenly got up close to the kids, a smug smile on his face as he whispered his next words. "Plus, if I'm far away from Dr. Z, he won't test dangerous experiments on me or slap me around. So, I came here to binge watch the new season of Survivor of the Next Supermodel! I have my cash set on Stefani. I know for a fact she'll win!"
"Literally have no idea what you're talking about but that's great to hear Ed." Rex says, albeit in a more confused tone.
"Anyway, what brings you kids here?" Ed asks the three teens.
"Didn't you get the alert on your Alpha Scanner? There's a dinosaur." Max explains.
"Oh." Ed says as he reaches into his pocket, pulling out his blinking, yet silent Alpha Scanner. "I forgot I had this thing set on silent so I wouldn't get interrupted when I was watching Survivor of the Next Supermodel."
At that moment, W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s floating box appeared from above and hovered next to Ed's head. ~i heard your mother was in that show except she was the pig that was getting roasted for the dinner because she is so fat.~
"Hey! Don't talk about my… Well, I mean… She could be fat for all I know." Ed depressingly said as he went on with his comeback.
"This just got really sad all of a sudden." Max commented.
"Anyway, you mentioned something about a dinosaur? Where exactly?" the chubby man asks.
"I don't know. That's usually Reese's job." Max shrugged in response. "But since nothing is stopping me from looking at my DinoShot, Imma go look at my DinoShot." Max says as he look at his DinoShot. "It's in… Um… What's that country in South America where it's long and skinny and it's along the coast?'
"Chile?" Zoe guesses.
"No, I said the country. Not the food."
Zoe face palmed herself in response. "The blinker is blue, so that means it's a water dinosaur." Ed notifies the team.
"And it looks like it's close to the beach too." Rex adds as he points to the DinoShot screen.
"Great. A water dinosaur at a beach. Hopefully it's not a carnivore like that Irritator." Max grumbled in annoyance.
"If you want," Ed suddenly says as he grabs his Alpha Scanner and a dinosaur card. "you can take Spiny with you. He's great in the water after all."
"Are you sure?" Max asks in response.
"Yeah, won't Zander be kind of mad?" Zoe asks.
"Why would he be mad?" the chubby man questions.
"Isn't Spiny his dinosaur?"
"He spends the most time with him, yeah, but he's shared amongst the three of us. Plus I'm sure Zander wouldn't mind Spiny getting some exercise at a beach."
"Did somebody say 'beach'?" shouts a familiar voice, prompting everyone to turn to the entrance.
W.E.S.L.E.Y. suddenly hovered down from the ceiling once more, the same stupid grin on the screen. ~who the fuq r u, old lady?~
A very large bag was suddenly thrown at W.E.S.L.E.Y., knocking his floating TV screen to the ground as it pinned him to the wall. Despite being literally impaled to the wall by a large bag, don't ask how that's possible, W.E.S.L.E.Y. had a more annoyed expression on his face rather than a painful one.
"Don't you dare call me an old lady, you floating pile of scraps! I won't hesitate to turn you into a toaster and then throw you in the tub! Wait a minute." Ursula stopped herself so she could think over what she had just said.
Sure enough, Ursula was standing in the front entrance to the D-Lab's main room wearing a red swimsuit dress with yellow stripes down it with a pair of stylish strap sandals. "Oh hey. It's the old lady." Zoe casually says, barely any emotion in her voice.
Ursula fell to the ground in response, her day off already going off to a bad start. "Ursula?" Rex says questionably. "What're you doing here?"
Ursula literally slid towards the three kids, a very delighted smile on her face. "I heard that the new dinosaur is in Él Tabo. One of the most popular vacation spots for a beachside paradise!"
"So in other words, you're just going to the beach and not helping us with the dinosaur?" Max asks in a skeptical tone.
"Yyyyep!"
"Freakin' knew it, dude." Max says in an agitated tone.
"Hey, just because we're not enemies anymore doesn't mean we have to actively help you in your jobs! The only reason we do go is because if it's not Dr. Z making us, it's Helga and you do not want to mess with her." Ursula warned Max.
"It's true." Rex confirms. "One time I decided to head out for the day rather than studying as Helga instructed and she literally found me in a gas station bathroom and dragged me out of there while my pants were down to my ankles."
"Honestly, I'm more surprised that gas stations exist in the future. I would've thought they used eco-energy or something like that." Zoe comments.
"This happened yesterday, Zoe." Rex clarifies with lidded eyes, turning to his pinkette friend.
"Anyway, with the Backland II out of commission," Ursula continues. "I'll have to use your guys' teleporter so I can make it there as soon as possible. Hope that's no problem."
"I don't see why not. It's just insulting that you're coming along only for the beach and not for support." Max dryly says.
"Oh, get over it." Ursula suddenly turned to her adoptive younger brother. "Ed, give me your Alpha Scanner. I left mine on the ship."
"Here you go." Ed happily says as he gladly gave his Alpha Scanner to the greenette. "Spiny's cards are all in there in case of an emergency. Hey, I just thought of a great idea! Why not let Spiny roam around the beach! He is a Spinosaurus after all and Spinosauruses love the water!"
"Oooh! That's a wonderful idea, Ed! And I can dress him up in a gorgeous little sailor outfit too!" Ursula excitedly squees.
"Trust me, I don't think he's gonna like it." Zoe says as she glares down at Paris, whom smugly looks away.
"Well? What're you waiting for Ed? Beam us there already!" Ursula rudely orders as she steps in the teleporter.
"Consider it done!" Ed says as he presses a button…
…only for W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s face to appear on the screen. ~lol invalid code~
"What?" Ed questions before pressing the button again.
~lol invalid code~
Ed pressed the button once more.
~lol invalid code~
He pressed it again… and again and again and again and again and again and again and so on and so forth.
~lol invalid code~ ~lol invalid~ lol inval~ ~lol~ ~lol~ ~lol~ ~lol~ ~lol- Ed simply slapped the screen, causing W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s smiley face to turn into an annoyed expression. ~youre a retarded fatass~
"Truth be told, I don't know how this thing should work but shouldn't the screen show you guys where the dinosaur is?" Ed asks as he points to the supercomputer screen.
The three teens turned to the D-Lab's supercomputer and noticed that it wasn't detecting the dinosaur at all. "That's odd." Zoe comments. "The dinosaur detector should be working."
"Reese has been working late at nights plus I think installing W.E.S.L.E.Y. may have messed some of it's systems up." Ed theorizes.
W.E.S.L.E.Y. floated down from the ceiling yet again. ~dont blame me for your mistakes bucko. i still remember how you talk in your sleep about debra lmfao~
"That was supposed to be private." Ed depressingly says as his face flushed red.
"Great. So the teleporter isn't working now. How are we supposed to get to Chile then?" Zoe asks the team.
"You could take one of Dr. Z's inventions." Ed suggests.
Max grew an uncomfortable look shortly afterwards. "You mean those vehicles that have a 99.9% chance of blowing up on us?" he rhetorically asks.
"The very same!"
"Great."
"Max," Rex spoke up. "I don't think we have a choice. The Backland's teleporter isn't working either so I think we might have to take one of the doctor's suicide machines… I can't believe I said that."
"You know," Ursula chimed in as she bent forward to get into the conversation. "even though Dr. Z's inventions do blow up on us almost all the time, they do get us to our destination relatively fast."
"You're right. You guys always managed to get to the location of where the dinosaur was about the same time we used to. Except Hawaii… and a few others." Zoe responds.
"Can I at least write my will before we go?" Max asks the group with an unsure expression.
"I'LL TAKE THAT AS A NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…" Max's shouts were heard as he and the rest were blasted off into the sky via rocket made by Dr. Z.
"Bon voyage!" Ed yells as he waves his friends goodbye, now using crutches rather than a wheelchair. "Also, how come nobody noticed I had crutches beside my wheelchair? You would've thought that would've raised some questions regarding my leg… I guess they just didn't notice." Ed shrugs off as he limps away.
Reese was shown having an agitated expression on her face as she sat in the booth of a fast food restaurant, her partner sitting across from her. Of course, her partner was in actuality her co-worker, Chase, evident by his ID tag with the name CHASE WILLIAMS typed on it. Now, Chase pretty much looked like your average guy, except he didn't, far from it. He had short unkempt black bedhead hair, along with a short stubble of a beard, wore a lab coat with a light blue shirt underneath, tan pants, and brown shoes. Also, he had a pair of goggles over his head. Chase continued to lick his fingers to clean the rest of the ketchup and all the other condiments he had gotten on his fingertips while eating. He suddenly opened his eyes, mid sucking his pinky, as he eyed innocently at Reese before her untouched tray of fries.
"You gonna finish those?" he asks. In response, Reese slid the small tray of fries to her colleague, whom immediately began to devour them. "Oh man. These are the best fries in the city. I'm telling you, man. You're missin' out, man, I'm serious Reeses. Add some ketchup to these babies, stick them in your burger, and you'll have yourself a flavor parade for lunch."
"Chase, why did you call me all the way down to a Jack-in-the-Box if all you're going to do is just eat?" Reese agitatedly asks.
Chase swallowed the fries in his mouth before answering. "I can't hang out with my best bud in the world?" he rhetorically asks, feigning offense. "Dude, that's cold, dawg. Ice cold. That shit, like, kinda messed up, yo. Ya know?" Reese continued to give her colleague an annoyed glare before silently standing up and walking out of the booth, alerting the young man. "Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Reese! Reese! Come back! I actually need to talk to you."
"Then just say it instead of beating around the bush." Reese says as she sits back down.
In response, Chase let out a nose fart. "Beating around the bush. Almost sounds like-"
"Don't you even finish that sentence." Reese threatened as she pointed to him. Chase merely swallowed his food in response, a terrified expression on his face. "Why'd you bring me here again?"
"You know Adam? Adam McCallum?"
"Your boss?" Reese sarcastically asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Exactly!" Chase happily exclaims as he slaps the table in joy. "So- Mh! This is good. Mmmh. Mmh. So anyway…" Chase swallowed his food. "McCallum is looking for something called a 'dinosaur card'." Upon hearing that, Reese's eyes widened in shock. "And I know you had your little share of 'dinosaur hunting' like two years ago or sumn like that. That shit was wild by the way. Like, that shit was like movie material, dude. Like, I'd fucken watch a movie like that… Wait, what was I sayin'?"
"Uuuh-"
"Oh yeah! The dinosaur card!" Chase suddenly stuffed the rest of his cheeseburger into his mouth before continuing. "McCallum wants a dinosaur card for research purposes. He's heard that the card can turn into a dinosaur and vice versa or some shit like that. So instead of studying old fossils and bones, he decided why not just study an actual living, breathing dinosaur? But like, how can you study a dinosaur if you don't have the dinosaur card."
"Um."
"You see where I'm gettin' at, Reeses? You're the only person I know who's ever encountered these cards before. And just recently, they started showing up again. Not to mention that huge fucken ship on the side of the mountain. Looks pretty cool by the way. Like movie poster shit, ya know, dawg? Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. Uuuh. What was I- Oh yeah! That's right! Um… Yeah! Anyway, I just thought maybe you knew where the cards are or if you have any on you by any chance."
"Why would you assume I know anything about these dinosaur cards?" Reese suddenly asks in a skeptical tone.
Chase continued to chew his food, an innocent expression on his face as he eyed his colleague. "You told me." he says with his mouth full.
"No, I didn't."
Chase swallowed his food. "Yeah, you did. You got really drunk on red wine on your first day and started blabbing off about some dude named Sanders or some shit like that and started ranting about how your greatest achievements were making something called the Dino Holders and helping capture all the dinosaurs that periodically spawned into thin air around the world… Oh wait, or was it white wine?"
"It was my first time drinking alcohol and I underestimated my body's limit!" Reese defends herself.
"You had like one sip." Chase clarified in a monotone voice.
Reese pouted with a flushed face before returning back to her usual stoic one, albeit with a hint of anger in it. "Regardless of how many sips I had," she says, trying to steer the subject away. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline your offer, Chase."
"Awww! Why?" Chase whined.
"Because those cards aren't yours or mine. They belong to a friend of mine and I'm only assisting with the captures so they may have all their cards back. I'm sorry, Chase, but this isn't something we can negotiate."
With that said, Reese went ahead and picked herself out of the booth… only for her wrist to be grabbed by her colleague. "Reese! Wait! Wait! Wait! Hold on a second. Just listen to me, alright?"
Reese rolled her eyes as she swiped her arm away from the man. "Fine but you better hurry up. I have work to do at the D-Lab." Reese says as she sits back down. Chase adjusted himself in the seat as he leaned in closer to the blonde, preparing to say something. Before he did, he gestured Reese to lean in closer to him, resulting in an agitated groan/sigh from Reese as she rolled her eyes before obliging the man's request.
"I'm in debt." Chase whispers to Reese.
Now this genuinely shocked Reese, evident by her widened eyes. "You're in debt?!"
"Shhhshhhshhhshhhshhhh!" Chase hushes as he covers her mouth with his hands, looking everywhere to see if anyone heard her.
"What happened?" Reese whispered to the man.
Chase sighed in defeat as he hung his head low. "I…" he paused before continuing. "I made a bad investment." he whispers in shame.
Reese immediately shot him a glare. "Chase!" her voice begins to rise.
"It was for a good cause!" Chase loudly whispers. "It was for a children's hospital but it went bankrupt and I didn't know it was just a front for a counterfeit operation and now… Look, Reese, I need the money."
"How much?" the blonde asks.
"What?" Chase asks dumbfoundedly.
"How much?!" Reese raises her voice, managing to get a few eyeballs to turn to them.
Not wanting any attention towards them, Chase leaned in closer and whispered his answer. "Twenty million."
Reese's mouth gaped wide open. Now she was beyond furious. "Chase, you stupid son of a…" She stopped herself. "It was for a counterfeit operation, correct? What happened?"
"They- They got busted. I'm the only one who didn't get arrested for investing in the damn thing because I signed under a false name."
"Why did you sign under a fake name?!"
"You would've done it too in my situa- Reese, please!" Now Chase was getting desperate and impatient. "I'm begging you! Just one card! One card is all I ask for! I give it to Adam and my problems are over."
"And why does Adam want the card in the first place?" Reese asks with a raised brow.
"Isn't it obvious?" Chase responded with a question of his own. "He's offering a large amount of money for it! Money I need! Reese, I got evicted out of my apartment because I couldn't keep up with the rent so now I've been sleeping under my desk for the better part of 5 months now! I need that money! Please, Reese, at least consider it!"
Reese pondered as she went into a deep, pensive state as she carefully analyzed the pros and cons of giving a colleague, one she had a certain distaste for, a rare, personal card. "I'm sorry." she apologizes as she gets up from her booth. "I just… I'm not the right person to talk to…"
Chase grew a depressed look as he glanced down, a solemn expression on his face. "I understand." he says.
Reese grew guilty as she briefly looked away, thinking looking away would make the guilt go away. Alas, it didn't. "However," she suddenly says, peeking Chase's attention. "I can give you the names of the couple who the cards belong to and where you could find them. But this is a one time thing, Chase. You mess this up, that's it. You understand?"
"Crystal." Chase says as he gave her an a-ok sign.
"Good." she said as she stood up from her booth. "Now if we're done here, I've got a lab to run. I'll see you at work on Tuesday." Reese turned to walk away before stopping, briefly turning back to her colleague. "And… I'm sorry about your trouble… Really, I am."
With that said, Reese finally turned around and exited the restaurant, leaving Chase alone to eat his food. "You know, this Barbecue Bacon Burger isn't half bad." he says, pointing to his burger.
Right behind him, Francis peeked his head over the booth, his own Barbecue Bacon Burger in his hand. "Damn straight!" he loudly exclaims with a smile.
The two then made a toast with their burgers afterwards.
A plane in the sky could be seen gently flying in the air, passengers inside doing their own thing to pass the time of the flight. In the cockpit, the two pilots could be seen in their seats, both piloting the plane as it steadily flew in the sky.
"Beautiful weather, huh?" asks the co-pilot.
"Yeah, it sure is. I'm glad I'm in here and not on some rogue rocket blasting at high speeds dangerously in the sky blindly." responds the pilot.
At that moment, a rogue rocket blasting at high speeds dangerously in the sky blindly could be seen blasting at high speeds dangerously in the sky towards the plane dangerously in the sky. "LOOK OUT! THERE'S A PLANE! (dangerously in the sky)" Zoe shouts as she points at the plane with wide eyes.
"OLD LADY! STEER THIS THING!" Max demanded out loud.
"I WOULD IF I COULD! AND DON'T CALL ME OLD LADY!" Ursula shouted back.
"WE'RE GONNA CRASH!" Rex shouts as the three continued to scream for their lives as they flew straight towards the nose of the plane.
Meanwhile, the plane was shown to be steadily flying in the sky… until the rocket collided with the tip of it's nose only for it to bounce right off like it was part of a game map where it was unmovable. "Whawazat?" asked the co-pilot, a genuine concerned look on his face.
The pilot however had a more 'I-don't-care' look on his face. "Eh." he lazily shrugged.
"Now that is just physically impossible! How did that plane do that?!" Rex complained as the rocket flew in the air.
"Remember, this is a Dr. Z invention. For some reason, his inventions always seem to break the laws of science, nature, physics, even logic at some points." Ursula answered in a relatively calm tone.
"Now that's just plane crazy!" Max exclaims in frustration.
The four passengers screamed in utter terror as the Alpha Rocket continued to plummet towards the earth below.
Meanwhile, down on the earth below…
"Are you sure it was a sea monster?" asks a police officer as a large group of beachgoers crowded in front of him.
"Sure we're sure! It had a long neck, a long tail, and spikes on it's back! That's definitely a monster you know! What animal has actual spikes on their backs?! Besides porcupines, hedgehogs, echidnas, and all that." replies a beachgoer.
The sun was suddenly blocked by an object in the sky, prompting the citizens down below to look up, where they saw the Alpha Rocket plummeting towards them. "OH NO!" shouts the officer as he does nothing but point and scream at the rocket.
"First a sea monster, now aliens are invading! Can this day get any worse?!" The beachgoer's cell phone suddenly began ringing in his pocket, prompting him to answer it. "Hello my beautiful, dear wife?… What's that?! You're divorcing me?!… Thanks for the good news!" the man happily exclaims as he hangs up.
The four passengers continued to scream in terror until finally the Alpha Rocket plummeted in the water before washing up on shore. Upon crashing, the parachutes activated immediately, but it was far too late at that point.
"At least the parachutes work." Rex groans inside the rocket as he was face first in Max's crotch.
"Hey! Get your face out of my crotch!" Max shouts at the blonde as he began to panic.
"Get your crotch out of my face!"
"Guys! Stop fighting!" Zoe orders her friends.
"Yeah! This rocket isn't big enough for all four of us, you know and I happen to be at least half as tall as you!" Ursula yells at the three.
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Zoe suddenly screamed.
"What is it Zoe?!" Max panickily asked.
"SOMEONE TOUCHED MY BOOB!"
"…What boob?" Max innocently asked.
A moment of silence followed afterwards before Max was literally thrown out of the rocket so hard that the doors were knocked off their hinges as they landed in the sand. Max landed a little farther until he himself landed in the sand, landing face first into a kid's sand castle - said kid began to immediately cry upon his castle getting destroyed.
"Don't you ever make fun of my boob size again! Right, Rex?" Zoe innocently asks her blonde friend.
"No, Zoe. Relax." Rex nervously says as he waves his hand defensively.
The two were suddenly and rudely pushed aside by Ursula, whom had literal stars in her eyes as she set her gaze on the beach. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" she squealed in excitement. "Oh the ocean breeze! The salt water smell! The sounds of the seagulls and waves crashing! Oh, how I missed having Zeta Point all to ourselves! Beach day paradise here I come!"
With that, Ursula leaped out of the rocket, gracefully landing on the sand afterwards as Zoe and Rex watched her do so. "You know," Zoe speaks up. "I know we're on the same team and all but you can at least be a team player once in a while."
"Uh, did you forget who saved you guys twice? Once in Canada and the other time three days ago? Hmmmm?" Ursula smugly asked as she gave off an equally smug smile.
Zoe had a blank expression on her face as she sat there in silence, simply staring down at the greenette below her. "Old lady." she simply said.
"I'M NOT AN OLD LADY!" Ursula shouts back as she stomps her foot on the ground, kicking up sand everywhere, prompting her to cough afterwards.
"Have you guys come to enslave some of us for your planet?! If so, take my ex-wife with you. You'll be doing everyone a favor." said the beach goer.
"We come in peace." Max jokingly said as his eyes turned to spirals, still dizzy from the crash and being forced out of the cockpit by Zoe.
Rex and Zoe all jumped out of the cockpit as the rocket fell backwards into the ocean right afterwards. "Well," Zoe says. "better find that dinosaur fast before it causes mayhem."
"You guys do that." Ursula says from a distance, prompting the two to turn to the greenette. There, they saw that she was already sitting in a lounge chair, already drinking a glass of champagne with a waiter beside her. "I'm going to be enjoying some R and R and R. Rest and Relaxation and Ready to be a queen!"
"More champagne, miss?" asks the waiter as he pours her another drink.
"Ohohohoho! Don't mind if I do!" Ursula squealed in delight.
"That's totally going to be me in the future. Except less old." Zoe says with a sly smile.
"I heard that!" Ursula yells from afar.
Max continued to groan in the sand as his entire world still continued to spin around him. "Come on, guys. We've got a job to do." Rex says as he walks passed Max.
"Why so serious, Rex?" Zoe asks as she grabs Max's arm before literally dragging him in the sand.
"I always wanted to say that." Rex admits as the three went off on their own adventure.
Ursula meanwhile continued to drink her champagne until she remembered something. "Oh yeah! That's right!" Ursula suddenly grabbed her Alpha Scanner and summoned Spiny in his chibi form. Spiny looked all around him, not knowing where he was at the time until Ursula's shadow loomed over him. "Oh, Spiny! You're gonna look so cute in this sailor uniform!" she squeals as she holds a sailor uniform in her hands.
Spiny grew a petrified expression and even though he couldn't talk, he could still talk in his head.
Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Spiny swore in his head in stupidly sounding tone.
Meanwhile, the small city of Él Tabo was shown to be just a small city, with many people opting to walk alongside the dirt road rather than taking any sort of vehicle. Ships and small vessels were anchored by the docks, with many residents were shown near the beach, either at it, in it, or near it. Either way, the beach was a great attraction to both locals and tourists. Oh and dinosaurs as well. Evident on how the Agustinia was casually walking down the dirt road as many people all screamed in terror.
"LOOK OUT! IT'S A SEA MONSTER!" shouts a civilian.
"Dude, that's obviously a dinosaur." another person said to the first guy.
"Oh… LOOK OUT! IT'S A DINOSAUR! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
As people began to panic and flee, the man who pointed to the fact that it was a dinosaur stayed in his spot, a confused expression on his face. "I thought longneck dinosaurs were herbivores." he says to himself.
The Agustinia glanced around it's surroundings, noticing little creatures running all over the place, forcing the sauropod to stop. All it wanted was to take a nice walk in a new environment it had never seen before, not crush innocent little creatures. With no option at all, the Agustinia stopped itself as it stood still in the middle of the road while everyone continued to run and scream in terror. After a few more minutes of running in terror, the locals quickly realized that the sauropod wasn't moving at all, which meant one of two things: one was that it's player paused the game and the other was that this dinosaur wasn't here to harm anyone at all.
Everyone stopped screaming as they just simply stared up at the dinosaur… before quickly moving on with their day, already forgetting about the massive creature. Seeing how the tiny creatures calmed down, the Agustinia took this as a sign that it was alright to continue it's walk down the new land. So far, the Agustinia had already seen a beautiful beach, a very cute little creature, tasted weird by the way, and a nice quaint little town when undisturbed. The sauropod suddenly looked ahead of itself, seeing a small forest blanketing a small hill - this would be a great resting stop for it. And so the Agustinia ventured forth towards the forest, with many locals admittedly taking photos of said Agustinia, filming it, or just glancing at it before going on with their day.
Surprisingly, the people in Él Tabo are actually quite welcoming to outsiders when given the right amount of time.
Reese was beyond agitated. Not mad, just really, really, REALLY annoyed by her co-worker's antics. While it's true she can't stay mad at him because he's a great paleontologist at a young age of 25, that doesn't mean she doesn't get annoyed by his childish… everything. After a nonsensical visit to a fast food restaurant to talk to her about dinosaur cards, right now at this moment, Reese wanted nothing better than to just work in the D-Lab.
Reese entered through the automatic doors as she was searching inside her purse, not aware of what was going on in the room. "Hey, Zoe, sorry I'm-"
The blonde suddenly stopped her sentence once she realized what was going on in the room. Spoiler alert: it was Ed singing Lady Gaga along with W.E.S.L.E.Y. on the supercomputer's karaoke app.
"RUSSIAN ROULETTE IS NOT THE SAME WITHOUT A GUN!" Ed sang off pitch in a microphone as he stood with his crutches.
~but because i have no hands, ill just make without one~
"FUN! OH, WOAH, OH OH! OH, OH- oh…"
~ill get him hard. show him wat ive got~
Ed and Reese simply stared at each other like deer in headlights while W.E.S.L.E.Y. continued to sing the song in just- in just- he was singing it all wrong. There's no other way I can describe it.
~oh, woah, oh oh! oh, oh oh hoooo! ill get him hard. show him wat ive got~
"I can explain." Ed simply said out of embarrassment.
"Please don't." Reese replies.
~cant read my, cant read my-~
"What're you doing here, Ed?" Reese asks the chubby man.
~-can't read-a my poker face.~
"Hanging out." Ed answered.
"Yeah, I can see. Let me rephrase the question: WHY are you here?"
"Ever since my leg got broken, I haven't been going on missions lately and I'm tired of being cooped up in my room all day binge watching Black Sails."
"What's Black Sails?" Reese asks, never hearing the piece of entertainment before.
"Oh, wait, I forgot. It hasn't even been created yet. I guess those are the perks for having future television that still gets all the future shows even though we're in a different time period!" Ed happily says.
Reese said nothing as she just simply stared at the chubby man with a blank look. "Right." was all she said before making her way to the supercomputer. "Anyway, Ed, if you don't mind, I've got to get to work. Can you tell Zoe and the others that I'm sorry for my tardiness? I had a… an important… 'talk' with a friend."
"Oh, your sister and her friends aren't here." Ed answered.
This surprised Reese. "What? Where'd they go?" she asked.
"They went to Chile. A new dinosaur appeared."
"It did?" Reese turned to the Dino Detector, where she saw the screen was black and off. "Why didn't the Dino Detector go off?"
"It's supposed to go off? I just found out on my Alpha Scanner." Ed says as he holds his Alpha Scanner in his hands.
Reese approached the Dino Detector and turned it on, successfully turning the entire machine on aside from the lack of a world map on the screen. "That's odd." she says as she begins working on the computer. "How bizarre."
"What?" the chubby man asked.
"The Dino Detector was turned off." After pushing a few more keys, she came to another realization. "It wasn't turned off! It was deleted! All of it! No trace of it on the server at all! How is that possible?!"
"Maybe when I downloaded W.E.S.L.E.Y., it accidentally deactivated the Dino Detector?" Ed theorizes.
Reese pondered for a moment. "Hmm… Maybe." she responds. "But that still doesn't explain how all of it is just… gone…" For a moment, Reese grew a defeated expression… before switching to a more calm one. "Good thing I always keep multiple backups in case something like this happens."
Sure enough, after searching through the computer for a while, she managed to reactivate the Dino Detector - said detector instantly showed the map of Chile with a blue dot blinking on the screen. "You're right. There is a dinosaur in Chile. Looks like a water element too." Reese says. "Still. The fact that the Dino Detector was deleted entirely doesn't sit right with me."
"Or, again, it could maybe be W.E.S.L.E.Y. who deleted it accidentally when he was turned on." Ed suggested once more.
Reese turned to said annoying A.I., whom was in the middle of annoying a sleeping Tank, whom was trying to sleep in a cat tower. ~the fitnessgram pacer test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. the 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. line up at the start. the running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [heehee] a single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [bodeboop]~
In response, Tank swung her tail right at the A.I.'s screen, completely shattering it as it fell to the ground, broken. Now without the annoying A.I. in her face anymore, Tank could now finally get some much needed rest. That is, until W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s face appeared on a screen behind Tank, the same stupid dumbass smile on the screen.
~that was very uncool of you.~ Tank's eyes widened in anger. ~you best not want to get me angry. you wont tolerate me when i am in a furious mood that is prone to violence. also, your family's dead.~
Tank's angry eyes suddenly morphed into huge teary eyes, as she was rudely reminded that she was the last of her species and the last of her own family. Memories of her family members dying in the horrific world ending meteor flashed in her eyes as she could hear screams of her loved ones burning alive as the burning image of them were forever scarred into her mind…
In response, Tank simply grew an annoyed look and swung her tail at the screen, sending it flying towards the other end of the room, where a loud crash was heard afterwards.
~didnt hurt lolol~
Reese gave the A.I. an expression mixed with annoyance and realization. "Yeah, you're probably right." she agrees with the fat man as she goes on with her work.
Meanwhile on the other side of town, Zander could be seen calmly sitting at a bar full of patrons, watching a football game on the screen while everyone else were having their own merry time.
"Arizona Cardinals at the San Francisco 49ers." the football commentator spoke on the screen while showing previous footage of the game. "Jim Tomsula filling in for the fired Mike Singletary as the Niners' head coach, first quarter. Alex Smith-"
"49ers are gonna win. I just know it." Zander says to himself as he takes a sip from his bourbon whiskey.
"No way!" shouts a drunken patron. "The Cardinals are gonna win! Just watch!"
"Why are we discussing American football in Japan anyway?" asks a sober patron whom looked like the most normal person in the world.
"SHUT! YOUR! GOB!" shouts a drunken Welsh man with luscious locks that matched his beard.
"Sorry, man, but the 49ers are gonna win this. I know." Zander replied.
"Oh yeah?" the patron asks. "Well…" The man suddenly and suspiciously reached for something behind him - seeing this sudden act put Zander in defensive mode as he too reached for something behind his back, all while his eyes were trained on the man's hand. Instead of pulling out a weapon, the man pulled out a fat wallet filled with cash. "Let's bet on it, yeah?"
Zander blew a sigh of relief as he retracted his hand from the back of his pants… revealing an actual Beretta M9 in his waistband before hiding it with his trenchcoat. "Sure. I've been known to gamble… Admittedly I always lose but I know I'll win for sure." Zander replies.
The man chuckled at Zander. "Is that so?" the man asks with an amused smile. "Hey, everyone!" Every patron in the bar turned to the man. "This lanky guy is betting that the 49ers are gonna win rather than the Cardinals! I'm betting an easy 500! Who wants in! I promise I'll split the money with all of ya!"
"YEAH!" shouts a random patron in glee.
"COUNT ME IN!" shouts another as he downed a mug.
"WOOOOO!" shouts another man.
"Daddy? Can we go home?" his 6 year old son asks in an annoying, nasally tone.
"Who the heck are you?"
Zander watched as everyone including the bartender and bouncer surrounded him with money in their hands, all betting that the Cardinals would win. Thankfully for Zander, he already knew the outcome of this game, which sparked an idea in his head.
"Oh my God. Why didn't I think of this before?" he asks with a sly smile.
"Are we there yet?" Max asks with a tired expression.
After leaving the beach, the trio decided to try and search for a path of destruction, only to come to the stunning conclusion that there is no path of destruction. So instead, they opted to just walk down the road and hope for the best, evident on how Zoe and Rex were actively looking for the dinosaur while Max lagged behind like a toddler in a mall. AKA me.
"No." Zoe replies as she continues searching for the dinosaur.
"How about now?" Max asks once more.
"Still no." this time, Rex replied.
"What about now?"
"Max, I swear, if you ask if we're there yet one more time, I'm going to kick you so hard that you will be back in the dinosaur age." Zoe threatened.
Max thought about the idea for a moment before replying back, "Actually, that would be kind of cool." Max reveals.
"Yeah, honestly, I wouldn't mind that as well." Rex agrees.
"Oh yeah?!" Zoe shouts as she looked like she was prepared to commit to said threat… until she grew a sadden expression instead. "I wouldn't mind too." she agrees in defeat.
"Alright! It's been an hour at this point!" Max shouts in irritation.
"Max, it's been…" Rex went to check his watch. "Actually, it has been an hour. Nevermind. Carry on with what you were gonna say."
"I think either our DinoShots are busted or this dinosaur is probably the smallest dinosaur ever! Maybe it's a Microraptor!"
"Or a Compsognathus." Rex adds on.
"Eugh." Zoe grunts in disgust. "I hate those things. Remind me to never taze them."
(HEY, CARTER!)
"Excuse me." Max suddenly says as he approaches a random person. "This might sound strange but have you seen a dinosaur anywhere?"
"As a matter of fact, I have! We all have!" the man says in a happy tone.
"Wait. Really?" Max asks with a raised brow in pure perplexion.
"But how come you guys aren't running and screaming like everyone else does?" Rex asks with a tilted head.
"Eh, we're welcoming people. We welcomed Hitler here when he came to escape from Berlin." the person suddenly kneeled down to the three and got up close to them. "Don't tell anyone but, that's where he actually lives right now."
The trio turned to where the man was pointing, seeing a small hat hut with a Nazi flag flying in the wind. "I thought he shot himself?" Zoe asks the person.
"Then who's the clown living in the hut?!"
"So you guys saw a dinosaur and decided to just… go on with your merry day?" Rex asks the person.
"Yeah, we were all scared at first but then it just kind of stood there for a while."
"It went AFK." Max chuckled aloud.
"So after it just stood there and did nothing," the person continues. "we kind of just figured it wasn't gonna hurt us so we all took a bunch of photos and just continued with what we were doing. Ironic that the thing looked so scary looking with all those spikes on it's back and that long neck of his."
"Long neck? Spikes? Sounds like…" Max paused his enthusiastic tone. "literally any sauropod with spikes on it's back." he finishes with an annoyed one.
"Amargasaurus? Ampelosaurus?… Spikosaurus?'
"That's just Spinosaurus with a K."
"Do you happen to know which way it went?" Zoe asks the man.
"Yeah," the man suddenly points behind him while still looking at the kids. "just follow that really long neck over there."
The trio looked ahead, by the way they were already looking in that direction to begin with, to see that there was indeed a very long neck that belonged to a dinosaur sticking up from the woods. "How- How did any of us not see that- WE WERE LOOKING IN THAT DIRECTION, MAN! C'MON"
"Thanks for your help, mister! We'll take it from here!" Zoe says as she and her friends ran off.
"Take what from here? There was never a problem." the man says to himself in a confused tone.
"SIEG HEIL!" shouts a very, VERY identifiable voice.
The Agustinia had ventured forth into the forest, already liking the new scenery of the new world it woke up in. Small, docile creatures, beautiful land, cool looking water. It was almost like a paradise for it. The only thing missing was somewhere nice and peaceful to take a nap. Upon turning towards the small hill, it noticed a fine patch of grass beside the mountain with the trees acting as shade. The Agustinia bellowed in satisfaction as it approached the small patch of grass before lying down in it - it closed its eyes as it fell asleep to the sound of the birds chirping and the distant waves.
Meanwhile, back in the D-Lab, Reese could be seen studying the Atrociraptor card, trying to figure out how it works and how it was created. Meanwhile, Ed was over by an open window, cleaning off a four fingered hand print smudge on the window. While odd at first, Ed shrugged, finding the four fingered hand to be cool looking before closing the window and heading back to Reese.
"How's it going with the card, Reese?" Ed asks as he crutched (im coining that as well) his way towards the blonde.
"It's too sophisticated. It doesn't make sense." Reese replies in frustration.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. When I first heard that Dr. Z made secret dinosaurs based on light, it got me wondering: how would they be activated? By sunlight or just a light bulb? But since that dinosaur used shadows in it's fight, you would think to activate it you would just have to put shade on it. But that doesn't make sense because you'll have to constantly put this under a lightbulb so it won't get accidentally activated." Ed finished with his rant.
Reese shot the chubby man an odd/offended look before going back to her work. "That's literally what I was going to say, Ed." she reveals. "Although I will say that this little indicator right here," she points to the tip of the card where the usual elemental color tip was. "is unique to this card as no other card we ever encountered before has had this. In order to find more information, I'm going to have to take this to the field."
"Wait! Are you saying you're going to try and activate that thing even after you saw how powerful that thing was?!" Ed panickily questions loudly.
"What other choice do I have, Ed? At best, we could use Tank to defeat the dinosaur since she's the most heavily armored."
"Aha!" Ed laughs out loud. "Or we could use one of Dr. Z's instant card inventions instead!" Ed exclaims as he suddenly thought of the idea. "I remember Zander telling me how Dr. Z tried this invention that could instantly turn a dinosaur into a card!"
"That's great! Where is it?" Reese asks, getting excited.
"He threw it away!" Ed exclaims in the same glee tone. Reese slapped her forehead in annoyance. "Oh wait. That's bad. Maybe he could build a new one?"
"How long will that take?" Reese asks.
"Not long at all. I once saw the doctor make an entire rocket engine in just one day! He may be a kooky scientist, but he's a brilliant inventor… Okay, that's a lie. Most of his inventions blow up on us." Ed finishes his statement in a saddened tone.
Reese turned back to the computer screen, an embarrassed and pitiful look on her face. "Well if it comes to that, I'll just use you as a shield, Ed." Reese dryly responds.
"You and everyone else." Ed sadly mumbles behind her.
Back with the D-Team, the trio were currently in the forest, searching for the dinosaur, anywhere in sight. "See anything?" Max asks his peers.
"Naaaaah, not yet." Rex calls out after looking beyond a tree.
Ace meanwhile saw a squirrel run by, which caused his primal instincts to kick in as he suddenly began chasing it. Paris however started to graze on a patch while Chomp actively searched with Max, albeit in his own way. "I'm starting to get a little annoyed right now." Zoe started to complain.
"Why? Cuz that old lady is relaxing at the beach and not helping us?" Max rhetorically asks his friend.
Meanwhile, Ursula spat out her champagne as she grew a beyond angry look. "WHO SAID THAT?!" she shouts as her teeth became razor sharp. "Someone out there called me an old lady! Zoe! Was that you?! Spiny! Go find Zoe and bite her butt or something!"
Spiny however was simply floating on a small raft made out of wood so a flag with the Alpha Gang symbol on it - the chibi Spinosaurus was in his sailor outfit fitted with an angry expression on his face. Ursula simply smiled at the sight.
"Oh, who am I to ruin your fun, Spiny?" she asks aloud as she takes another sip of her champagne.
This wasn't his idea of a vacation, ironically since he's a Spinosaurus and he's in the water… just because he's a water dinosaur in both element and animal kingdom wise doesn't mean he has to spend time in it 24/7.
"Don't get me started on her." Zoe says in an agitated tone, angered by the sudden fact. "But no, I'm mad that I'm out here trying to find a dinosaur when I could've been getting lunch with Francis right now. I'm actually getting kind of hungry to be honest."
Max felt a vein tick upon hearing that name once more, only this time he just couldn't keep it in. "What's so special about him anyway?" he asks in jealousy.
Upon hearing this, Rex immediately turned to Max, giving him an odd look as to why he asked that question. "Maaaax," Zoe says in a teasing tone. "is that… jealousy I hear?"
Max's face flushed with red before he turned around. "Ha! As if!" he lied.
"Then why are you blushing Max?" Zoe continues to tease.
"It just so happens to be really hot out here! That's all!" Max lied, again.
"Actually, it's a crisp 69 out here… Heh." Rex dryly laughed at the end as he held his phone.
Max shot Rex a betrayed glare before glancing at Zoe, who wiggled her eyebrows while giving Max a teasing smile. The brunette said nothing as he simply stuck his tongue out, crossing his arms and facing the other direction shortly afterwards. Zoe giggled before turning away, having enough fun teasing Max; while she did, Max turned back to Zoe, her back turned towards him, as he growled in anger with a massive blush on his face.
"Alright, Max. Spill it." Rex says as he approaches his best friend.
"Spill what?" the brunette asks.
"Come on. It's obvious you have a crush on Zoe."
"What?! Who said that?! I never said that! I don't have a crush on Zoe!" Max ferociously defended. In response, Rex simply had lidded eyes, a 'really?' type expression on his face. "Okay, I have a crush on Zoe. But you can't tell her!"
"Okay? Why would I tell her in the first place? Shouldn't that be you doing that?"
"I can't tell her my feelings!" Max panickily says.
"Why not?" Rex suddenly realized something. "Oh, don't tell me you're scared that telling her your feelings might ruin your friendship with her. If you two are really good friends, then you should look passed your feelings if she doesn't feel the same way. And if she does then… way to go, I guess?" Rex shrugged at the last part.
"Oh yeah. Let me just randomly tell Zoe how I feel. It has to be the right moment, Rex! Haven't you ever been in love before?!'
"Wait, I thought it was a crush?" This froze Max once he realized his blunder. "Wait a minute… This isn't a crush is it?" Rex asks. Max was silent as he was practically sweating bullets. "You're… in love with her… aren't you?" Once again, Max kept his mouth shut as he swallowed his nerves down. "…You lovestruck son of a-."
"Okay, I am! So what?!" Max shouts, unable to contain the truth any longer.
"So what?! She's our best friend, Max! Ever since childhood! When did you fall in love with her?!" Rex panickily asks as he grabs Max by the shoulders.
"I don't know!" Max yelled back in despair. "Maybe when Jim kissed her in the 1700's or something? How should I know?! I just recently found out myself! It wasn't until Francis suddenly became the only person she talks about 24/7 that got me all- Oh my God. Francis triggered all of this… I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"
Rex suddenly wrestled Max to the ground as the brunette teen wriggled around in utter rage, yelling out profanity regarding his love rival. "Don't kill him, Max!" Rex says as he pins Max to the ground. "You should be thanking him if he's the one that made you realize you had feelings for Zoe! Wait, are we talking about real feelings or just pure jealousy? What exactly do you love about Zoe anyway?"
"Well if you'd get off me, I'll tell you!" Max yelled at the blonde.
"No, you won't! You're just saying that so I'd get off you!"
"Damn you for knowing me so well!"
While the boys were bickering, again, Zoe continued to search for the dinosaur, already having walked deeper into the small forest. It wasn't until she suddenly turned a tree to see the sleeping Agustinia sleeping soundly in the patch of grass next to the small hill. Zoe grew a huge smile as she silently squealed in awe before taking out her phone and opening up her camera app. She aimed her phone at the sleeping dinosaur, seeing how the beautiful sun rays reflected off the dinosaur's spikes as it gently lit the dinosaur like it was in a spotlight. Wanting a photo, Zoe pressed the button on her phone - unfortunately, her flash was on and it made a loud noise, instantly startling the Agustinia as it woke up from it's slumber. The Agustinia suddenly turned to Zoe, whom had a terrified look once she realized she woke up the sleeping dinosaur.
"Whoops." she says to herself in fear. However, the sauropod didn't do anything other than lean towards Zoe before giving her a single kiss on the cheek, earning a giggle from the pinkette. "Awww, you're just one big softie aren't you? Come here." Zoe began to pet the Agustinia's neck, gently caressing her hand on it. "I'm sorry if I woke you, buddy. You looked so peaceful that I just had to take a picture of you." The Agustinia gave Zoe another kiss as she laughed some more.
Paris meanwhile simply glared at the sauropod, feeling a bit jealous at all the attention it was getting from her partner.
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"Alright! I'll tell you the reason! Just get off of me already!" Max pleaded.
Rex obliged as he got off of his friend - Max dusted himself off before shooting the blonde a glare. "Sorry." the blonde apologized.
"No, you're not." Max pouted.
Rex snickered. "You're right. I'm not." He suddenly grew a serious look. "Alright, in all seriousness, why are you in love with Zoe and please don't say because she looks pretty or because she's spending too much time with Francis."
"You know, Rex." Max replies, feeling a bit offended. "I don't go for looks. I don't care what a girl looks like. As long as she's an awesome person in the inside is what matters."
Rex gave his friend a proud smile. "You know, that's the most mature thing I have ever heard you say, Max." Rex says like a proud father.
Max simply gave Rex an unamused sneer. "And that's the most supportive thing you've said to me, period. What's your point?" he asks back.
"My point is that you're at least not like Jim who only focuses on the outside. What exactly about Zoe do you love about her?"
Max went shy as he looked down bashfully, his cheeks turning red just by thinking of all the qualities of Zoe he likes about her. "Well…" he starts off. "I guess… I, well… She… She…" Max suddenly glanced in a different direction, growing a slightly surprised look. "She- She's gone."
"What?" Rex asks upon Max's sudden change of tone.
"She's gone. She's not here anymore."
Rex turned to where Max was staring at, noticing that Zoe had disappeared and was no longer where they last saw her. "How long were we fighting for?!" Rex exclaims. At that moment, the two of them heard a loud bellow. "Max, was that your stomach?"
"I don't think so. I had lunch earlier." Max replies.
"Well there's only two things I know that make that kind of sound. My dad's snoring and a dinosaur." Rex confidently says as he approaches towards the direction where the sound originated.
Max however grew lidded eyes after hearing that statement. "Of course your dad snores like a dinosaur." he bluntly says in an annoyed tone.
Rex turned the corner of a tree to see Zoe petting the Agustinia's head as it continued to give her gentle kisses on her cheek. "Woah." Rex says in awe as Max walks up behind him. "It's an Agustinia."
"Yeah, you can tell by those spikes on their back. I guess those aren't rib cages after all." Max comments with a smile.
Rex and Chomp waddled over to the Agustinia and began sniffing them, kinda like dogs. "He's super friendly, guys." Zoe tells her friends as she continues to pet it's snout.
Max and Rex approached the Agustinia and began petting it as well - a beautiful sight this was in the moment, three kids petting a dinosaur on a nice, beautiful blue sky day filled in a healthy green forest. Truly a potential Bob Ross painting. Can we get an F in chat for our boy, Bob Ross? No? Okay. Ahem. Anyway, our D-Team trio continued to pet the Agustinia, whom continued to bellow slowly, liking the pets it was receiving.
"This is the best thing I have ever done in my life… besides all the other things that I've done." Max says as he pets the Agustinia's snout.
"Yeaaaaah." Zoe agreed. The trio fell in silence as they continued to pet the dinosaur. More silence followed before Zoe asked, "Now what?"
"I don't know. We usually battle them and turn them into cards but… I have no idea what to do with a mellow dinosaur like this." Rex says as he points to the sauropod.
"This big guy is so mellow, I bet nothing can get him mad." Max exclaims with a huge smile.
The Agustinia lowered it's head towards the chibi sized Chomp, before coating the Triceratops' face with saliva as the sauropod liked Chomp's entire face. Annoyed by the over affection, Chomp suddenly bit down on the Agustinia's tongue and you can probably guess where this leads to. The Agustinia's eyes widened in pain before it suddenly raised it's head so fast that Chomp was flown forwards out of the forest as the sauropod roared in pain and anger. It's peaceful walk of a new environment followed by a nap rudely ruined by these creatures it once thought were peaceful and their dumb little shit yellow dinosaur, no racism intended.
Max simply stared at the sauropod dumbfoundedly while Rex and Zoe slowly rotated their heads to their friend - both shooting him with annoyed sneers. The two suddenly began to slowly clap as a form of mockery as Paris and Ace joined in with the clapping. At that moment, a random person came from behind them and also joined in with the slow clapping. Suddenly, another person came back, and another, and another, and another - until the majority of the area was littered with random people all slowly clapping at Max's jinx. Max meanwhile had a blank look as he simply just stared at them, not showing any kind of emotion at all.
King Harkinian: Enough!
The Agustinia continued to roar in the air as it briefly stood on it's hind legs - all of this happening while the D-Team just looked up in terror- by the way, that group of people just mysteriously disappeared. Don't ask about these background humor gags, I like doing em. "Way to go, Max!" Zoe argues as she watched the sauropod rise in terror. "Chomp just had to go and ruin the fun times."
"You should've named him killjoy!" Rex yells in fear as the trio back up.
"Are none of you concerned Chomp was sent flying away like it was the World Series?!" Max frantically asks. The sauropod slammed it's feet on the ground, completely destroying two trees that stood in it's way - the three screamed in terror. "You two fight this crazy beast! I'm going to look for Chomp if you don't mind me!" Max frantically says with a hint of anger as he bolts out of there.
"He left us? He left us!" Zoe shouted in anger.
"We have bigger problems on our hands, Zoe!" Rex warned his friend loudly. The Agustinia glowed blue before it suddenly created a large blade completely made out of water out of thin air. Upon spawning it, the sauropod swung it's neck at it, sending the blade flying towards the two teens. "Get down!" Rex shouts as he pushes Zoe to the ground.
The two barely missed the spinning blade of doom as it instantly sliced several trees in half as it continued to fly into the air. The trees all fell to the ground, loud enough for all of them to make a sound, resulting in a lot more sunlight to hit the ground below.
"It just used Hydro Cutter!" Rex identified.
"Rex, I think we're gonna have that battle you wanted." Zoe says as she whips out her DinoShot like an assassin.
"I never wanted one in the first place! But good call." Rex says as he pulls out his respective DinoShot.
"DINO SLASH!"
"BLOSSOM, PARASAUROLOPHUS!"
"CARNOTAURUS, BLOW THEM- Hooooold up a minute… 'Blossom'?" Rex asks his female friend in a 'really?' tone.
"I'm trying a new thing." Zoe shrugged in response.
The Agustinia roared in response before charging at the two dinosaurs like a raging bull. "Look out!" Rex warned his friend as the two ran out of the way. Both Paris and Ace jumped out of the way at the last second as the Agustinia charge passed them and towards the small town it came from. "It's heading to town!"
"We need to stop that thing before it hurts someone!" Zoe yells as she gets up.
"Then let's go!" Rex exclaims as he runs towards the dinosaur.
Meanwhile, Ursula was still sitting in her chair, drinking what appeared to be the same glass of champagne as earlier - although she may be a villainous henchman, she is a responsible drinker. "Spiny," she calls out. "how are you enjoying your beach vacation?"
Spiny however could be seen chomping on the raft's flag before swallowing it whole… only to spit it back out as it wasn't fish. At that moment, the chibi Spinosaurus could hear the sounds of another chibi dinosaur screaming from above, prompting him to look up. There, the chibi Spinosaurus saw Chomp falling directly towards him, getting closer and closer by the second, as Spiny grew a petrified expression as he watched Chomp fall towards him.
Damnit. Damnit. Damnit. Damnit. Spiny swears in his head… in a stupidly sounding-
Instead of crashing directly onto Spiny, Chomp fell right next to the raft the Spinosaurus was on and into the water. Spiny simply glanced at where Chomp landed before looking back ahead, relieved that he wasn't injured in the crash. Unfortunately, for no explicit reason other than God trolling everyone on the planet, Spiny's raft suddenly broke, causing the chibi dinosaur to fall in the water. Chomp suddenly emerged back from the water and began to panic, unable to swim in his chibi form - Spiny however was built for swimming even though his design is not at all accurate to the real thing but who cares for the sake of story shut up.
Spiny simply bit down onto Chomp's frill and swam towards the shore, carefully bringing Chomp back to the shore right when Ursula finally finished her glass of champagne. "Awww. It's empty." she says in a saddened tone, taking a look at her finished alcoholic beverage. "Huh?" She glanced ahead to see Spiny dragging Chomp onto the shore as the chibi Triceratops coughed up water before retaining his posture. Spiny simply nudged Chomp with his snout, mostly curious if he was alright. "Chomp? Where did you come from?" Ursula asks in curiosity.
She gently placed her empty glass of champagne on the sand, only for it to tip over, as the greenette woman approached the chibi Triceratops. She bent down to carefully examine if Chomp had any injuries - based on how he suddenly chomped down onto Spiny's snout, prompting him to scream in pain, Ursula deduced that he was alright. "Well wherever you came from… you simply can't be looking around like that without a matching sailor uniform!" Ursula exclaims in glee as she brings out another puppy sailor uniform out of thin air.
Chomp simply gave a blank stare at Ursula, having no clue what she was talking about - meanwhile, Spiny gave the chibi Triceratops a smug smile, happy knowing he wasn't the only one who has to endure these wretched costumes of hers.
The empty dirt road could be seen as many of Él Tabo's citizens calmly walked along the sidewalks without a care in the world. Even when the blade of the earlier Hydro Cutter pretty much trenched the ground before going off into the ocean. "What was that?" asked one guy.
The roar of the Agustinia was heard shortly afterwards, prompting the citizens to turn their heads towards the small forest. There, they saw the many trees getting knocked over as the long neck of the Agustinia could be seen charging towards them in rage.
"Maybe we shouldn't have shrugged that dinosaur off like it was nothing." realizes one person too late.
"Eh, we've made worse decisions." shrugged off another one.
"SIEG HEIL!"
Everyone all began to run and scream as the raging sauropod charged towards the empty town and towards a certain spiky brown hair arrogant yet lovable teen. "I really hope those are earthquakes." Max says in a worried tone - he looked back only to see the charging sauropod stampeding it's way towards him. "THOSE AREN'T EARTHQUAKES!"
Max quickly jumped out of the way on time as the Agustinia had now just entered the small city where everyone began to scream and panic. Max sat up from where he landed, groaning in dizziness before shaking his head, recovering his composure right when his friends arrived. "You alright, Max?" Zoe asks in a worried tone.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Max replies while scratching his head. Right at that moment, they heard the Agustinia roar once more, prompting them to turn to the direction where they saw the sauropod charging towards the beach. "We need to stop it before it gets to the beach and hurts those swimmers!"
"Good idea!" Rex exclaims as he pulls out a move card. "Go! Cyclone!"
Ace roared into the air as thunderclouds appeared out of thin air - a tornado fell towards the ground as it struck directly at the Carnotaurus. The tornado surrounded Ace before he shook it off of him, consuming the air itself as it gave him sonic speed without the hedgehog and red shoes and the love of chili dogs. Ace rushed towards the sauropod, getting closer and closer to it's tail before chomping down on it. The Agustinia grunted upon having it's charge stop as it was suddenly pulled backwards before being thrown back towards the forest… and towards the D-Team.
"NOT TOWARDS US, ACE!" Rex yells in terror as the other two screamed.
The teenaged trio practically threw themselves out of the way as the sauropod's body pretty much impacted Paris like the meteor that caused her entire family to go extinct. Paris landed first, and then the sauropod was the cherry on top - an oversized cherry as the Agustinia practically crushed Paris enough to blow all the air stored in her lungs out like a broken whoopie cushion.
"Oh no! Paris!" Zoe cried out for her partner.
Thankfully the Agustinia quickly got off of Paris, allowing the Parasaurolophus to breathe in as much air as she wanted. In retaliation to being attacked by the carnivore with aquaphobia, the Agustinia activated it's own move as it created a blade of water in thin air before smacking it towards the Carnotaurus. "Look out, Ace!" Rex warned his partner. Unfortunately, before he could react, Ace was struck with the Hydro Cutter, sending him flying into the street where he slid in the dirt before a halt. "Honestly, I don't see a difference with how the road was before."
"It looks… browner." Max horribly guesses.
Rex and Zoe slowly rotated their heads towards their oblivious friend, bestowing him an odd look. The Agustinia roared into the air as it swung it's tail towards the Parasaurolophus; thankfully she leapt out of the way on time. "Alright, Paris! Time for some payback for Ace! Thorn Whip!" Zoe calls out as she activates the move card.
Paris roared into the air before slamming her front legs to the ground, causing the ground to crack as a thorny vine erupted from the ground. The vine shot towards the Agustinia before slapping it in the face three times - the last hit sent it flying at a distance. The Agustinia roared in response before picking itself up, not even close to giving up on the battle. Shaking off any pain or discomfort, the Agustinia started charging towards the two dinosaurs, successfully knocking Paris to the ground while slamming Ace into a tree.
"Oh no! Paris!" Zoe called out for her partner.
"Ace!" Rex did the same.
The Agustinia began to suddenly slam it's legs onto Paris' body over and over again, earning a painful roar from the green Parasaurolophus each time. Finally, with no more energy left, Paris returned into a card as the sauropod roared in triumph, smashing a tree with it's tail accidentally. All of a sudden, Ace had come out of nowhere and jumped on the Agustinia's back - a bad move since it's spikes instantly poked into Ace's feet, forcing the Carnotaurus to retreat from his back. Not liking how it was attacked from behind all of a sudden, the Agustinia swung it's tail across Ace's face, the last hit sending him flying into a building, chipping a piece of the roof and wall off.
"We need to take this somewhere else! People are gonna get hurt!" Max warns his friends.
"Or worse! Plus their homes and businesses will be destroyed! We need to end this right here, right now!" Zoe loudly exclaims.
"That's a better idea! Go, Ace! Ninja Attack!" Rex calls out as he activates the move card.
Rex slashed the move card in his DinoShot as Ace glowed light blue out in the battlefield before charging towards the sauropod at sonic speeds. At that moment, Ace duplicated as a clone of him appeared next to him, before that clone spawned another clone, and that one spawned another - until a good amount of six Aces were out in the field. All six of the Carnotaurus jumped in the air before rapidly striking the Agustinia at different directions all at sonic speeds. After the attack was finished, the clones of Ace all disappeared into thin air like actual ninjas as Ace slid on the ground before roaring into the air in triumph. The Agustinia however had a more exhausted look; after charging and destroying everything in a blind, reckless rage and being attacked, his energy was almost up. To show this, the sauropod was panting so heavily that people from the other side of the town could hear it panting like a fat man that had just run down the block. Albeit weakened, the Agustinia still stood in the road, still having enough energy… to run away like a pussy.
"Hey! Where is it going?!" Zoe exclaims, taking the retreating sauropod as a personal insult.
"It must be running away to regain it's energy. Ace! Follow after him!" Rex ordered his dinosaur.
Ace roared in response before storming towards the sauropod, leaving the three teens awkwardly behind. "Rex, you-"
"Yeah, I- I know… I know." Rex interrupted Max, realizing his blunder of not riding on Ace's back before he told him to book it.
Chomp still had the blank stare on his face even when he had the sailor outfit put on thanks to Ursula; what he was more confused was how he ended up on a crudely made raft in the water with Spiny next to him. The raft, like the previous one, not only had an Alpha Gang flag and a D-Team flag while the chibi Spinosaurus next to him was chomping on a fish he had caught. The sound of a camera snapping was heard as it was revealed that we were looking through the camera of Ursula's phone as she took a photo of the two chibi dinosaurs on the raft.
"Awwwww!" She squealed loudly. "Isn't this cute? This is totally gonna be my computer wallpaper! Dr. Z in a ballerina outfit is just getting weird at this point." A flashback of Ursula screaming upon seeing the crude wallpaper for the first time played in her head. At that moment, the earth shook, interrupting Ursula's flashback as her champagne bounced out of her glass. "Is that an earthquake?"
Suddenly, the Agustinia crashed through the trees and trampled Ursula to the sand as it charged towards the ocean… and directly towards the two chibi dinosaurs on the raft. Both Chomp and Spiny grew wide eyes upon seeing the dinosaur charge towards them - even the dead fish with a huge chunk of it missing thanks to Spiny briefly came back to life to scream in terror at the sauropod charging towards it. Once again, even though the two chibi dinosaurs couldn't talk, they could still say what they wanted to say in their heads.
Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! both Spiny and Chomp said the same time in their heads.
Before the two chibi dinosaurs could react, the Agustinia practically threw itself towards the raft, it's entire body blocking the sun. The two chibi dinosaurs both grew terrified expressions as they were covered in the Agustinia's shadow as it slowly fell towards them. If they weren't panicking in their heads now, they certainly were.
I regret everything! I regret everything I've ever done! Chomp rapidly exclaimed inside his head. Meanwhile, Spiny was merely screaming like a little girl - for good reason too. I'm pretty sure even the Rock would scream like a girl if a dinosaur was falling towards him. Like the meteor that- oh wait, I already used that. Like the sudden realization that you're adopted, the impact was so tremendous that any remnants of the raft no longer had remnants of their own. A large splash flew into the air as both Spiny and Chomp flew in different directions - Spiny landed in a tree while Chomp managed to hit the tip of a porta potty, causing it to fall backwards.
"Ouch!" shouts the person inside.
Meanwhile, a man was sitting outside of a fortune teller booth with a really sketchy fortune teller inside said booth. "A small, yellow Triceratops will fly by you and you will be 12 minutes late to your wedding." the fortune teller said inside the booth.
The man blew a raspberry in her direction. "Pfft! As if!" he says in a cocky tone.
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Yeah, Chomp ended up landing inside a garbage bin instead… Fooled ya, didn't I? Right at that moment, Ace had just arrived on the scene, immediately seeing the Agustinia in the water - aka: his worst enemy. Instead of going in the water, despite having somewhat conquered his fear two years ago, Ace still wouldn't step a single inch inside that body of water. Much like a dog pacing around rapidly at the shore instead of going in, Ace began to do the same thing, having an internal fight about whether or not he should jump in the water. All of a sudden, Ursula had popped her head out of the sand, a deranged expression on her face as her entire bathing suit was wrinkled and covered in sand.
"Grrrrr!" she LITERALLY growled. "My day off was going so swell until you showed up, you oversized lizard!" The greenette suddenly whipped out her Alpha Scanner, a sinister grin appearing on her face afterwards. "Now it's time for some payback!" She loudly exclaims as she recalls Spiny to his card.
"ALPHA SLASH! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
Upon being summoned, Spiny immediately ran into the water and right passed Ace, whom was still deciding whether he should go in or not. The Agustinia suddenly turned around, sensing another opponent in the area, and seeing how a carnivorous dinosaur was charging straight towards it, the Agustinia reacted accordingly. By fighting for it's life - not an understatement as it was already in a battle beforehand. Seeing the spikes on top of the Agustinia's neck, Spiny went for the under neck instead as it bit down hard on the Agustinia's throat. Not wanting to lose the battle, the Agustinia rapidly shook it's long neck before slapping Spiny with it's tail, sending the Spinosaurus flying towards the shore. The inaccurate dinosaur flew passed Ace and landed a little ways behind him - the Carnotaurus was STILL debating on whether or not he should go in.
"Get up, Spiny! Don't let that porcupinosaurus get the better of you!" Ursula shouted at the downed Spinosaurus.
The Agustinia roared as it glowed blue once more, activating it's move card as it created a blade completely made out of H2O in thin air before slapping said blade towards its opponents. Because Ace was inadvertently in front of Spiny, he was the target of the Hydro Cutter as it smashed right into him, sending the Carnotaurus flying backwards.
"Hold up! Hold up! I need to rest!" Max pleads for a rest as he pauses to catch his breath as he and his friends continue to run towards the beach.
"Geez, Max. You need to lay off the hamburgers." Zoe slightly scolded Max.
"Hey! What're you saying?!" Max shouts in offense.
The three teens were suddenly surrounded by a shadow, prompting them to look up to see Ace falling towards them; instantly, the three grew terrified looks as they stared at the falling dinosaur like deer in headlights.
"Help." Rex whimpered.
But it was too late for that, for Ace fell on top of his partners and turned into a card, not before crushing them into the ground.
"Time to fight fire with fire! Or in this case: water with water! Spiny, use Aqua Whip!" Ursula happily cheered as she activated the move card.
Spiny glowed blue as he roared into the air, before his cheeks were suddenly filled with water as he spat it out towards the sauropod. The water wrapped itself around the Agustinia like a chain before the Spinosaurus lifted the sauropod into the air, slamming it to the ground repeatedly. Spiny lifted the Agustinia one last time, slamming it extra hard behind him as the Agustinia roared in defeat.
Meanwhile, the D-Team were shown crushed into a large crater, with Ace's card on top of Rex's forehead - all of them having pained and dizzy expressions. "I didn't know it was raining dinosaurs." Max says in a dizzy tone.
The three of them were suddenly covered in a large shadow again, prompting them to look up to see the Agustinia, whom was much larger and heavier than Ace, falling towards them. Once again, the three teens grew petrified expressions as they stared at the falling sauropod like deer in headlights.
"You just had to open your mouth, didn't you?" Zoe sarcastically asks with a hint of fear.
Once again, the three of them were crushed by the falling dinosaur, creating a larger and deeper crater than before before returning into a card. "We should've brought an umbrella." the D-Team say at the same time, mimicking the Alpha Gang's own shenanigans.
"One Agustinia card from yours truly." Ursula says as she hands Max the dinosaur card.
"Gee. Thanks, old lady." Zoe teasingly says with a smile.
A vein popped out into the greenette's forehead as she tried to contain her anger through a fake smile. "Pretending I didn't hear that." she grits through her teeth.
"I wish we didn't have to fight that dinosaur. It was so peaceful until Chomp bit it." Rex says in a crestfallen tone.
"Gee. Thanks for reminding me." Max sarcastically says before realizing something. "Say, where is Chomp?" As if on cue, Chomp had shown up with a trash can lid over his head as he crashed into Max's leg, causing the trash lid to fall off. "Oh, there you are." Max says as he picks his partner up. "You okay? Are you hurt?… What's with the sailor outfit?"
"You like?" Ursula asks as she gets closer to Chomp. "I think he looks like a fine sailor! Of course now it's covered in garbage but even then you still look cute as ever! I got Spiny on too but it got soaked in the water when the dinosaur crashed into them. Pity."
"Hey! How come Paris is the only one who doesn't like wearing costumes?! She's named after the city of fashion for crying out loud!" Zoe shouts in the background.
"Well, I guess our job here is done." Max says as he grabs his DinoShot. "Let's head back. All this running around has made me starve."
"Max, you do-"
"No, no, no." Zoe interjected Rex. "Let's see how long this takes."
1 second…
2 seconds…
3 seconds…
4 seconds…
5 seconds…
more seconds…
"Oh wait. The DinoDetector is offline so we can't use the teleporter." Max says all of a sudden.
"Ooooooh, yeah! I forgot about that!" Rex says in realization.
"Wait? Then what were you going to tell Max then?" Zoe asked her friend.
"I was gonna tell him his fly is down." Rex answered, pointing to Max's crotch.
Max looked down to see that his zipper was indeed down, showing off the polkadot and flower boxers underneath them. Blushing madly, Max gasped as he quickly zipped up his pants "How long has that been like that?!" he frantically asks aloud.
"Say, old lady-"
"NO!" Ursula interrupts Zoe as she randomly throws a book at her… but this didn't faze Zoe at all.
"-how did you usually get back to that island whenever you failed to capture a dinosaur card?" she asks, completely unfazed by the fact she had a literal book thrown at her face. Not even a flinch.
"Hmm." Ursula ponders for a second. "Well, we usually just walk to the nearest ocean and just use a boat to get back. Dr. Z was always so harsh on us. Sometimes we use the aircraft he gave us as a way to get back home." She suddenly turned around to the Alpha Rocket, seeing it tip over in the ocean just in time. "Yeah, I'm not taking that."
"Sooooo… now what?" Max asks, not knowing what to do.
The moment was interrupted when the ringtone of someone's phone or other device rang out amongst the group. Dinosaur King is what you wanna be, yeah! Make your move! C'mon an' make your move! "Sorry." Ursula apologizes as she brings out a futuristic looking phone. "I forgot I set this ringtone up because I lost last night's bet on the fight."
"What kind of phone is that?" Zoe asks, not having seen that phone ever.
"An iPhone 136-B." Ursula answers.
"What happened to the 136-A?" Max asks.
"Nothing. They just thought that the B would be better than A because it started with a 'b'." Rex answered.
A small wave of silence washed over the four as the only thing that could be heard was Ursula's ringtone. D-D-D Team! Watch out, here we go! Prehistoric dinosaurs aren't extinct anymore! See 'em fight! Hear 'em roar! Watch out, cuz they're right next door!
"That's a stupid reason." Max says with visible anger in his tone.
Ursula suddenly pressed a button on her phone before bringing it up to her ear. "Hello? This is Ursula Davenport. May I ask who's calling?" she answers.
"Davenport?" Zoe whispers to her colleagues.
"Rex, did you-"
"Nope." Rex immediately answered Max's mid-asked question.
"Ursula! I have great news!" shouts Ed over the phone.
Ursula, confused as to who this was for a second, paused. "Who is this?" she asks.
"It's Ed."
Ursula retracted her phone away from her ear to look at the contact photo on her screen - which was just Ed in the middle of sneezing so it came out with a weird look on his face. "Oh." she says to herself… before hanging up. "Spam." she tells the kids.
"Uh-huh." Rex says with lidded eyes.
The moment was interrupted again when Rex's phone began ringing in his pocket, loud enough for all four of them to hear. I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world! Life in plastic, it's fantastic! Rex's eyes widened, his pupils shrunk, in embarrassment as he just stood there, paralyzed in shock.
"Did you lose the bet too?" Max guessed.
"No." Rex says in defeat before picking up his phone. "Hello?… Oh, hey, Ed… Sure, I'll put you on speaker."
Rex pushed a button as Ed's voice began blaring over the speaker. "Hey, Ursula!" he says over the speaker. "We lost connection so I decided to call Rex instead. Anyway, I was saying I have great news! Tank is potty trained now!"
"Wait, you're telling me she wasn't before?" Ursula asks in a mixture of shock and anger.
"Not only that," Reese's voice suddenly came up. "but we found out that the DinoDetector was uninstalled, hence why the teleporter wasn't working. We theorized that it got accidentally deleted when W.E.S.L.E.Y. crashed during his download."
~don't blame me for your mistakes.~ W.E.S.L.E.Y. could be heard in the background.
"We managed to get the Detector online again so you can teleport back to the D-Lab anytime you want." Reese finishes.
"Wow, that's really convenient that Ed called us to tell us that we can teleport after realizing we could potentially be trapped in this country for a while." Zoe says in one breath.
"Also, Zander said something about a new car. I don't know. There was a bunch of yelling and fighting in the background so I think he may have been in an underground fight club gambling again." Ed adds on.
"I swear, if he gets a Prius." Ursula says in anger in her tone.
Dr. Z could be seen trying to read a piece of paper, like actually pondering the pros and cons of the paper as Reese and Ed waited patiently for the old man to finish. "Yeah, I can't see. I'm blind, remember?" Dr. Z asks rhetorically, giving the piece of paper back to the two.
"I know." Reese replies. "That's why I just gave you a piece of paper that just has the URL for Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up… It was W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s idea."
"That makes more sense." Dr. Z says as Reese takes the piece of paper back. "Now, based on how many times Zander has talked about you over and over again and plus the fact you look and sound really professional, I'm guessing that's not why you're here. Correct?"
"Zander talks about me?" Reese asks with a raised brow.
"You're all he ever talks about! That and his desire to own a sports car."
"Don't forget him wanting to find his birth mother too." Ed adds.
"Wait, he wants to find his birth mother?"
"Doctor," Reese suddenly interrupted the two men. "I came here…" Reese suddenly turned to Ed, whom simply waved at her. "We came here," she corrected herself despite Ed clearly not having a problem at all. "to ask you if you could build that device that'll instantly turn a dinosaur into a card."
"Oh yeah. Let me just make a highly complex device that requires years of engineering experience while I'm currently under the effects of prehistoric venom that has temporarily left be blind!" Dr. Z yells in a sarcastic tone.
"Now that you say that out loud, that does seem kind of ridiculous to ask." Reese says in realization.
"What're you talking about? I said I would help." Dr. Z in a genuine confused tone.
"But you jus- Forget it." Reese shook her head, not wanting to go further into it.
"Might I ask why you need one?" the blind doctor ask as he goes to sit down… only to miss entirely. "Ow!"
"Well," Reese starts off. "in order to fully understand the Atrociraptor card, I must take it out into the field and actively use it. Since there's no such thing as a shadow stone and I'm pretty sure our devices won't turn the… monster back into a card. So, I wanted to have an immediate solution in case it gets out of control, hence the request."
"Smart thinking." Dr. Z replies. "You could teach Ed and the other two knuckleheads a thing or two. Usually, it takes till the end of the day for me to finish the device, but since I'm blind, I'm going to need some help. Ed! You're good with building things, right?!"
"I built a Lego Death Star once." Ed replies.
"Good enough!" Dr. Z loudly accepts. "You're my hands, eyes, ears, tongue, and- wait, what was the fifth sense again?"
"Your nose?" Reese asks. At that moment, she heard the sound of walking, prompting her to turn to the Backland hallway to see Dr. Ancient walking down the corridor, a clipboard in his hand as he stared in a pensive trance. "I'm sorry, Dr. Z, but I must be going. I need to ask Dr. Ancient something."
"Yeah, sure, go ahead." Dr. Z lazily comments before turning to his adoptive son. "Come, Ed! We have much work to do! And be we, I mean you!"
"At least I'm helping." Ed comments as the two walk off.
"Say, are those crutches I hear? Is your leg getting better?"
"FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICES!"
Dr. Ancient continued to walk down the corridor, still reading what notes he had on his clipboard. "Maybe we could use a substitute element as fuel?" he asks himself.
"Dr. Ancient." calls out Reese.
"Huh? Oh! Reese! What a pleasure to see you!" Dr. Ancient happily greets. "How may I be of assistance to you?"
"I actually need to ask you a question."
"Oh?" This got Dr. Ancient to stop. "And what's the question?"
"How valuable are these cards to you?" the blonde asks.
"They're my life's work. I've dedicated my life to preserving what was once thought an extinct species by bringing them back to life. Why do you ask?" Dr. Ancient asks.
"So, I take it that borrowing one of them and handing them to a friend is out of the question?"
Dr. Ancient shot Reese an odd look. "Why on earth would you want to give a card to a friend?"
"Well, he's more of a work colleague, really."
"That's even worse!" Dr. Ancient exclaimed loudly. "Do tell me why this so-called 'work colleague'," he air quoted. "would want anything to do with these cards and how in God's blazes he found out about them in the first place."
"Ever since they started showing up again," Reese began to explain. "people have been intrigued by the sudden appearances of dinosaurs all around the world. There is substantial amount of evidence that proves these dinosaurs are in fact real and not holograms or animatronics. Now they found out that they could turn into cards, one of whom is the boss of my work colleague. You might have heard of him? Adam McCallum? Head Research Scientist at Omni-Tech."
"No." Dr. Ancient immediately responds.
"Well, he wants one of the dinosaur cards to study them, see how an actual living, breathing dinosaur lives in the modern world and how they used to live. At least that's what my 'work colleague' said."
Dr. Ancient suddenly glanced at the floor. On one hand, the public knowing about these dinosaurs turning into cards was a gamble on whether or not that was a bad or good case scenario. Dr. Ancient did want to bring back the species back to public knowledge but to never wage battle with each other. His dream was to build a dinosaur sanctuary, hence why they were gathering the cards in the first place - where people could see dinosaurs living in their natural habitats as they did 65 million years ago, deep within the depths of prehistory. Before any man walked the earth. Before Jesus was ever birthed into mother nature's whisper. When dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Then again, the public knowledge of dinosaurs coming back to life could also be a bad thing and one of Dr. Ancient's worst fears. Weaponizing the dinosaurs to engage in acts of war and nonsensical violence that will not solve whatever little problem the leader of the country has in their heart. In the future, it was possible, but not in this time period. Not now, it was too soon, and Dr. Ancient knew this the moment he turned the first dinosaur into a card.
"I'm sorry, Reese." he suddenly says after pondering for what seemed like an eternity. "But I cannot allow myself to have these cards fall into the wrong hands. You've seen how dangerous they can be when used incorrectly. The Alpha Gang, Space Pirates. What if someone more nefarious than those groups came into the picture. Hm? What then, Reese? It is important that these cards remain safe at all times… and the fact that six of my cards have been stolen under my watch enrages me, and I promise you, I will not stop until I get those cards back… So, no… I will now allow your 'work colleague' one of my cards."
Reese was stunned by Dr. Ancient's sudden strictness, giving off the vibe of an 18th Century British ship captain to his crewmates. However, Reese Drake was nothing if not reliable, as her usual stoic, emotionless personality was enough for the blonde to not show any sort of reaction towards Dr. Ancient's exaggerated refusal.
"Even if it costs an innocent man's livelihood?" Reese asks, increasing the tension.
Now Dr. Ancient was concerned. "How do you mean?" he asks.
"My work colleague is in debt… Twenty million." Dr. Ancient grew a visibly shocked expression upon hearing that. "I know."
"How? What did he do? How did he get that much money?"
"Considering he invested in a children's hospital that turned out to be an illegal money counterfeit operation, I didn't ask where he got the money."
"So he made a bad investment? What is this? Broke Vegas?"
"What?" Reese asks, having no clue what the man was talking about.
"Oh, yeah. That's right. Vegas hasn't changed yet." He leaned in closer to her. "Spoiler: They ran out of money." Reese simply shot him an odd look, flabbergasted on how an entire city, let alone Vegas, ran out of money. "Is all this true though? Your friend in debt?"
"Y-Yeah. He's twenty million in debt. What happened to Vegas now?" Reese asks, the subject practically hooking her like bait.
"My God." Dr. Ancient grimly mumbles. "That's a lot of debt… But I must apologize, Reese… But not even a man's life is worth giving up these cards… They are invaluable and are not to be sold to the public. No force on Earth or heaven will get me to give away one of my cards. I'm sorry, Reese… but I'm afraid your friend will have to think of another way to get out of debt. Please give him my humble apologies and sympathies though. Now, if you excuse me, Reese, I must get back to work. The four main chemical elements that powered the reactor beforehand won't do… We'll need a more powerful source."
With that said, Dr. Ancient made his way down the hallway, leaving a defeated Reese in her place. Whether she liked it or not, she would have to tell her 'work colleague' the bad news, and even though she had her dislikes on the man, that didn't mean she wished him this much suffrage.
It was now evening by this time in Sanjo City, and the D-Team and Ursula had long since teleported back and were now safe in their hometown. As of this moment, Francis could be seen walking down the sidewalk next to a semi busy street, currently using a toothpick to pick some meat out from in between his teeth. After finally picking the piece of meat out of his teeth, he snapped the toothpick in half before carelessly dropping them to the ground.
"Oh, a poor old man came riding by." Francis began to hum quietly to himself without a care in the world. "And we say so, and we know so. Oh, a poor old man came riding by. Oh, poor old man."
Unbeknownst to the adolescent teen, just down the sidewalk was a tree by the street. Pretty average looking aside from the fact that there was a single dinosaur egg card capsule stuck in the branches. If one could look closely, they could see that the capsule was slightly opened and was slowly opening itself as it was losing it's balance in the tree.
"Says I 'Old man and your horse will die.'." Francis continued to hum to himself. "And we say so, and we know so." The card capsule continued to slip in between the branches, slowly getting closer and closer to falling. "And if he dies we'll tan his hide. Oh, poor old man."
By now, Francis was practically under the tree and the dinosaur card capsule was about to fall any second now - which was this very second. Gravity helped the card capsule from it's entrapment as it fell towards the ground and towards the oblivious teen below.
"And if he don't I'll-" The dinosaur card capsule suddenly dropped directly in front of Francis, seizing him in his tracks as he stared at the object that bestowed itself before him from the heavens. "-ride him… a… gain?" Francis merely stared at the dinosaur card capsule, which was somehow still intact even after impacting the cement. "Egg." the teen simply said as he pointed at the capsule.
The card capsule suddenly opened, revealing a single dinosaur card inside with a blue fire ball element symbol imprinted on the back. Francis shook his head upon finding out that a card was inside the egg and not an animal or whatever else comes out of an egg. The teen awkwardly looked at his surroundings, seeing if there was anyone signaling that the egg belonged to them. Unfortunately, the only reaction Francis got was a single car passing by him as the sidewalk was completely empty save for a few stores that were still open and producing light. Francis glanced back down, still seeing how the card was still there and seeing how no one was claiming it, but mostly out of sheer curiosity, the teen gladly picked the card up.
"Hm. Not the type of material I thought it would be." he mumbled to himself, noticing how the card was somewhat thicker and a little bumpy, similar to goosebumps. Francis flipped it over, revealing that the dinosaur on the front of the card was a Gorgosaurus. "T-Rex?"
(Gilbert Gottfried [R.I.P. brotha]: YOU FOOL!)
Right at that moment, the teen suddenly remembered something, slowly growing an enthusiastic face as he realized what card this one and how important it is. "Ooooohohohohohoooooo." he quietly laughed to himself. He suddenly glanced up before checking his surroundings once more, realizing that he was the only one in the street. Seeing how there was literally no one there and realizing he had to get home, Francis merely placed the card in his pocket, growing a satisfied grin. Seeing how his evening was about to end, Francis went back to strolling down the sidewalk and heading home while also finishing the sea shanty he was humming earlier.
"We'll drop him down with a long, long rope. And we say so, and we know so. Where the sharks will have his body and the devil take his soul. Oh pooooor oooooooold maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan."
As Francis turned the corner of the sidewalk, Max and Rex had just exited a comic book store RIGHT as Francis turned the corner. "Alright," Rex says as the two of them begin to walk down the sidewalk. "let's not derail from the subject here, Max. Why are you in love with Zoe? I need to know, you know that."
Max sighed in defeat, knowing he had no choice and that he was cornered. "Alright." he says heavily. "She's… the most amazing person I ever met. She's like… an ice cream cone dipped in hot sauce. Sweet but spicy as well. She can be the kindest, most caring soul there is in this world with a deep love and passion for all that is fashion and dinosaurs. Yet, she can be as hot headed and ill tempered like that of an angry chihuahua. Angry but still cute. Rex, I love her because she cares about others and helps them, how she doesn't take crap from anyone, that she'll fight back if she has to, that she'll stand up for anyone. She's like… I don't know how to describe her other than selfless, caring, kind, beautiful… bossy. But more important than all of those things combined… is that I just can't see my life without her and she's constantly in my head… She's the most important person in the world to me… You're a close second, no offense."
"None taken." Rex replies in a sarcastic tone. "Alright, now let me ask you this, Max." Rex says in a sudden serious tone. "If she looked any different… would you still love her?"
"Yeah, why would I not?" Max asks, genuinely confused on the question.
"Nothing. Just checking." Rex says, waving a dismissive hand. "Well… I don't know."
"What do you mean 'you don't know'?" Max asks.
"I mean, I don't know where you should go from that. Do you want to tell her your feelings?"
"Yeah, let me just tell her one day while she's at school, you know, maybe having lunch- Or! Or! Or, better yet, we're in class together, and during the middle of the class, I just straight up say, 'Hey, Zoe. I love you.' That is a wonderful idea that I'm sure won't have disastrous results." Max overly exaggerated in a hard sarcastic tone.
Rex bit his lip in response, realizing Max has a point. "I was thinking more during when you two were alone but sure, yeah, that works too." Rex replies, missing the sarcasm.
"I was being sarcastic." Max replies with lidded eyes.
"Well, I'm sorry, I just don't see any other way other than telling her at the right moment." Rex replies.
"I can't."
"Why?!" Rex asks, having enough of Max's excuses.
"Why do you think?!" Max loudly asks himself, pointing his hand in a random direction. "That numbskull Francis is constantly on Zoe's mind 24/7 for… who knows why! If I tell her while she's infatuated with that moron, she'll just shove it off and chase after said moron."
Rex opened his mouth to say something before realizing that his friend had a point. "Good point." he admits, briefly pointing his finger at his friend.
"I don't know what to do, Rex. Now's not a good time. I mean, ever since she almost died from falling down the mountain in Wyoming-"
"Montana." Rex corrected.
"-I realized then that Zoe meant more to me and… that I… love her. I just… I just couldn't dread the thought of losing her."
"I hate to say this Max but… it may be too late…" Rex grimly says. "If Francis is the guy she has her eyes set on then there's probably nothing you can do to change her attention."
Max suddenly got a wicked idea, and not in the good way. "Not unless Francis was out of the picture." he says in a sinister tone.
To which Rex immediately caught. "Now- Now- Now, hold on Max, let's not-"
"Oh, I'm joshin' ya! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Max half laughed before clenching Rex's collar and bringing him close to his face. "Or am I?" he says in a devilish tone.
"Max, you are not going to hurt Francis. End of that." Rex says, slapping himself free of Max's grasp. "Look, if it helps I'll try to drive Zoe away from Francis whenever I can but if he starts to put moves on her, that's it. I'm not going to be a brick wall all the time for you, Max. It's up to you from now on."
"Gee, thanks Princess Leia." Max sarcastically responds. "No need for all this pressure, dude. I'm already scared enough. But I appreciate you trying to help me though."
"Of course. You're my best friend. My wingman. My first mate. My best man. My co-pilot. My… Uh… My… My…" Rex fell into silence for a while. "Hold on, give me a sec."
"It's okay. I think I got it." Max says in a chuckle. "You're my wingman too, buddy. Also, I'm the captain, not you. And I'm also the pilot."
"Hey, quick question: Would you feel the same way of losing me like the same way of losing Zoe?" Rex asks out of nowhere.
"I mean… Yeah… I just don't wanna kiss you is all." Max replies.
"Oh… Do you… wanna… kiss?" Rex awkwardly asks.
Max and Rex pretty much stared at each other for a solid five seconds before the both of them slowly began to get closer to each other. The closer they got, their mouths shrunk and slowly transformed into a kissing position as the two neared each other by the centimeter.
"Are we actually going through this?" Rex asks, breaking the awkwardness.
"Huh?" Max frantically asks, rapidly retracted his head back.
"What?" Rex instantly says as he retracted his head back as well.
"I didn't say anything."
"I didn't say you said anything."
"I thought you said something."
"I did."
"What did you say?"
"I don't know."
"Why do you don't know?"
"Because I forgot."
"Why did you forget?"
"Because I just did."
"That's not possible."
"Why isn't it possible?"
"It's just not."
"Why not you stupid bastard?"
The two remained silent as they just continued to glare daggers at each other. "Wanna go home and play video games?" Max suggests.
"Sure. That sounds good." Rex happily replies.
"Hey!" yells a voice from afar. The two turned around to see Zander driving towards them in a brand new sports car. More specifically a red 2010 Tesla Roadster fitted with fire painted on the sides. "Hey you two! Check out my sweet ride!" Zander says as he steps out of the car.
"Woah! This is awesome! Where'd you get it?" Max asks as Rex gently caressed his hand on the hood.
"I bought it." Zander boasted.
"Where'd you get all that money in a short notice though?!" Rex asks in shock.
"One thing you should know about me Rex is that I am banned from 25 casinos in Las Vegas. In our time of course." Zander answers. "Hm-mm. You say, we the Alpha Gang got a day off thanks to your dad and so for my day off, I chose to spend it at a bar where I could watch the latest game. A man bet that the 49ers were gonna lose but I said they were gonna win. So this man got everyone aboard to place bets that the Cardinals would win and not the 49ers. Now, this is why I love being from the future because I already know who won. So it was an easy $2 million dollars, yes that's how much I got - don't ask me how that much money was in the bar, that I just had to buy this brand new sports car and a gold tooth after mine was punched out when I won the bet!" Zander proved this by showing a gold tooth in his teeth.
"Niiiiiiiiiice." Max says in an impressed tone. "Hey, you and I could make so much money at horse tracks."
"Kid, I'm starting to like you." Zander says with a smirk. "How would you like to join the Alpha Gang?"
"Sssssss. Ooooh. Sorry. I'm already committed to the D-Team." Max suddenly realized something. "Oh yeah, that's right! Ursula told me to give this back to you." Max says as he gives Zander his Alpha Scanner back. "Here's Spiny's card and the new one we got."
"Cool." Zander replies as he takes Spiny's card. "What kind of dinosaur was it?"
"Why don't I show ya." Max excitedly says as he grabs Zander's Alpha Scanner.
Upon grabbing it, he immediately slashed the Agustinia's card, causing it to materialize into existence… and right onto Zander's new car, crushing it immediately. "NOOOOOOOOOOOO! MY CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" Zander shouts in utter despair as he falls to the ground.
"Nice car, Zander." Rex suddenly says, strangely with a genuine smile.
In response, Zander threw his Alpha Scanner at Rex's face, knocking him backwards before crashing to the ground violently.
Back with Dr. Ancient, the man had just entered a room, his attention still focused on the clipboard. "Hey, Jonathan, change of plans. We're going to use-" Dr. Ancient suddenly cut himself off once he realized what was in the room - which was nothing more but Helga and Jonathan except their heads were switched. "I'm not even going to ask."
"Ask what?" Jonathan with Helga's head asked in Jonathan's voice.
"I don't see a problem anyvwere." Helga with Jonathan's head said in Helga's voice.
If Dr. Ancient wasn't utterly shocked before, he was now. "Okay, now I'm going to ask. What switched: your heads or your voice boxes?" Dr. Ancient asks.
The two mixed androids glanced at each other before turning back to the only human in the room. "Ve don't know." Helga with Jonathan's head said in Hel- Helga-Jonathan, that's her name now.
"Hilarious." Dr. Ancient responds in a tired, sarcastic tone. "Anyway, as I was saying, those four chemical elements used to power this Backland? Yeah, I just found out that whoever stole the Backland changed… well everything. Aside from the outside, this place looks completely different. Anyway, long story short, they remodeled the entire Backland, added more inventory, and changed the fuel source of this place."
"So vat does zat mean?" Helga-Jonathan asks.
Dr. Ancient just gave the android a stunned look over the question with an obvious answer. "It- It means I have no clue how this timeship works now. I mean, they changed the entire freaking engine for that matter. It's a type of engine I have never seen before. More equipment, more advanced technology. This thing was modified from the future of our future."
"Come again?" Jonathan-Helga asks.
"This timeship traveled farther into the future than our own. Maybe… I don't know. 3000 and beyond. I mean, this is sophisticated technology. Technology I KNOW hasn't been invented in our time period."
"So you're saying zat's vhere zey're from?" Helga-Jonathan asks.
"I'm not sure." Dr. Ancient replies. "What I don't know is how they were able to travel in the first place without the stone tablets. That's how the time part of this timeship works, using the power of the stone tablets. We got lucky they didn't get destroyed when Seth pretty much charged into the Dark Pterosaur and only got spread across the world like last time. But without them completely, we're stuck in this time period - the fact that the hijacker was able to time travel in the first place still confuses me."
"Rest assure, Master Ancient, I have been scanning every nook and cranny of this ship to determine their functions. And so far I have not come across any sort of answer to your question anywhere. My humble apologies." Jonathan-Helga bows in respect.
"Okay, can you seriously switch whatever you switched back to normal please? Trying to figure out which one is who is gonna give me a brain aneurysm." Dr. Ancient replies in a tired tone.
"I'm scanning your body as I speak and I detect no form of any aneurysm anywhere. But I must say you must cut down on those slices of cake there, Master Ancient. Your glucose levels are a bit high and should be treated as soon as possible."
Dr. Ancient glanced away as a blush formed on his face - he was caught in the act. However, upon glancing in the direction, he noticed something odd yet familiar at the same time. There, inside a drawer, stuck the tip of a cornflower blue stone, and only one thing was that color that everyone in the D-Team and Alpha Gang knew. Dr. Ancient slowly approached the drawer while in the background, the two androids could be seen taking off their heads to place them back on their respective bodies. Dr. Ancient eventually arrived at the drawer, growing eyes that were struck with shock, his mouth agape as he slowly retracted himself from the drawer.
"Jonathan." Dr. Ancient suddenly says in a cautious tone.
"Yes, Master Ancient?" Jonathan asks, now with his head on his body.
Meanwhile, Helga had accidentally placed her head on backwards. "Oh. Das ist nicht gut." Helga says in German.
"I think I not only figured out how they time traveled… but who stole the Backland." Dr. Ancient grimly says, not taking his eyes off of his discovery.
Jonathan approached his creator and looked down in the drawer as well. He too grew a shocked expression. "Dear Lord… Tell me it ain't so." Jonathan mutters grimly.
"I'm afraid it is, Jonathan… Seth is back." Dr. Ancient finishes.
True to his word, inside the drawer of the desk were none other than the copy of the stone tablets that only Seth knew how to produce. But this still left many unanswered questions, questions that the D-Team won't have answers to at this point. Whatever the answers are, Dr. Ancient knew one thing. With Seth back in the picture, it only meant disaster was going to follow…
It was now sunset, the day having long been passed since the dinosaur was caught, as the tipped over porta potty was STILL tipped over and the person whom was STILL trapped inside.
"Hey, anybody! You gotta get me outta here! I just peed on my face!" the person inside shouted.
(honestly i would not mind having a picture of Spiny and Chomp sitting on a raft at the beach with the two team flags on it while Spiny is chewing on a fish and Chomp is just blankly staring ahead of him cuz he's just absolutely bamboozled as to what was going on lol
i had to literally search up football games in 2010 since that's the year this story is set in, and found out that there was a single one in november and i was like, "hey thats close to the setting of this chapter." yes its november by the way as of this chapter. maybe december in a few. so anyway i just fucken searched up the football game which was the 49ers vs the Cardinals at the time, btw the 49ers won by a landslide, just so i could be as accurate as possible for this chapter. thats how detail i make this shit yo lol.
i didnt mean to sound like i was bragging but i just wanted to point that out is all. i just thought it was a interesting fact in my opinion. course its an opinion of myself so that wouldnt really be credible. then again does that mean autobiographies arent credible? dude somebody tell the school districts to not have autobiographies be a source now.
seriously im gonna fucken write an autobiography about myself and just bullshit the entire thing and say, "this is all true." and people will be like, "if he says its true, its true." and starts recommending them to students- wtf am i talking about anymore?)
