(To any of you who didn't get the reference, Jericho jumping really high, tanking a lot of bullets, pulling out random ass weapons every time he kills someone, owning a bow and arrow, and plus the fact he's Australian, is a complete reference to Christian Brutal Sniper from Team Fortress 2. I play a lot of VSH on it lol. That's why Millionaire's Holiday was playing in the background…
…
What? I had to do something like that since he's Australian.)
A clouded sky loomed over the earth below, the surrounding area completely silent as nothing gave a peep. Not a car honk, not a bird chirp, not a dog bark. It was relatively quiet. That is until a mosquito suddenly flew by as it buzzed in the air, taking a random course throughout what appeared to be an empty plain with a lake surrounded by a forest. The mosquito continued to fly through the air, flying passed a coniferous tree before landing on the thick hide of an animal as it began to draw blood. While the mosquito sucked out the blood from the creature, said animal raised up it's tail, revealing that it was actually a club-like one, while also simultaneously revealing…
65 MILLION YEARS AGO…
The mosquito flew off the Ankylosaurus that it latched onto as the herbivorous dinosaur continued to drink from the giant lake in the plain. After having it's fill, the Ankylosaurus raised it's head above water and blew air through out it's nose before murmuring a bit.
Several of the hatchlings of the herd of Triceratops could be seen playing in the river while some of the adult ceratopsids bathed in the water, one of their horns broken off could be seen as it being the Alpha of the herd. A herd of Edmontosaurus as well as some Pachycephalosaurus were shown grazing on the plain as their children played amongst each other.
A flock of Pterodactyls resided on the cliffs of the region, with a river down below the aviaries used to hunt for fish. As a Pterodactyl flew into its nest, another one dove into the water below to hunt for some food.
A Maiasaura was shown watching over her recently hatched eggs, pulling her hatchlings close to her to form a protective barrier of some kind. A bug landed on top of one of the Maiasaura babies' snout, causing it to sneeze and scare the bug away.
A herd of Argentinosaurus' could be seen marching their way through a swamp, emitting loud yet low grumbles as they towered the area. At that moment, a Quetzalcoatlus flew passed the titanosaurid and landed in front of a half eaten carcass of what appeared to be a Corythosaurus. It pecked away a few Pteranodons and scared them off, they being the rat equivalent to the giant aviary species.
Far away elsewhere deep within the depths of the ocean, several sharks could be seen swimming in the deep, blue sea. A Futabasaurus suddenly swam into view as it started to chase down a fish it had caught sight of, paddling as fast as it could to obtain its meal. Unfortunately, it never got the chance when a Mosasaurus suddenly caught the plesiosaur in its jaws from below, biting the reptile in half as blood spilled in the water while the Mosasaurus ate half of the Futabasaurus.
A pair of Gigantoraptors nestled together in a nest full of unhatched eggs as two chirped peacefully. Several smaller dinosaurs roamed the surrounding nest out of curiosity until the two giant oviraptorosaurs made a noise that startled the critters.
A piece of bloody carcass laid still on the ground as a small snout suddenly came into view and tore a piece off. The small snout was revealed to have been apart of a small, baby Tyrannosaurus with light green skin with moss green splotches all over. The baby T-Rex chomped on the piece of meat and swallowed it as it's mother softly growled as she watched her baby eat it's meal. Instead of having the same green hide color as it's infant, the female Tyrannosaurus was instead dark brown with a dull fade.
The mother Tyrannosaurus continued to watch over its infant when it suddenly heard heavy footsteps coming from the forest their nest was located next to, momentarily preparing itself in case a predator wanted to pick off her baby. Over at the forest, the heavy footsteps continued to get louder and louder as the large, unknown creature got closer and closer to the nest. The female Tyrannosaurus growled as it got ready to attack any predator that showed it's face.
Shortly afterwards, another fully grown Tyrannosaurus exited the forest while carrying the corpse of a Parasaurolophus it had caught by the horn. The Tyrannosaurus was male and had the same skin color as the infant, except it had darker, moss green stripes along his back like a tiger with a muscular figure. The female Tyrannosaurus lowered her guard once she saw her mate returning with their own meal, having hunted for their infant first. The male Tyrannosaurus dragged the carcass over to his mate as the two nuzzled each other's necks as a form of affection. His mate lightly roared as a thank you before diving into her meal while the infant continued to eat its own piece of meat.
With his mate and daughter taken care of, the male Tyrannosaurus marched its way back into the forest to try and find a nice watering hole he could drink out of. After searching for a few minutes, the tyrant king finally found a watering hole and happily lowered his head into the liquid. The Tyrannosaurus began to gulp down as much water as his stomach could hold, having a potent thirst after hunting for his family.
*ROAR! WAIL!*
The loud roar followed by a wail from his infant was enough to interrupt the Tyrannosaurus' moment as he snapped his head behind him. He immediately realized there was something wrong from his mate's roar followed by his daughter's wail, prompting him to charge back into the forest while letting out a worried roar. The ground shook as the Tyrannosaurus ran as fast as his legs could carry him, barging through trees and accidentally stepping on smaller dinosaurs and mammals in his speedy haste to try and save his family. A loud, painful roar from his mate was heard as his infant daughter continued to cry and wail some more until both screams suddenly stopped abruptly.
Now he was worried.
Finally charging out of the forest, the male Tyrannosaurus was met with a horrific, grizzly sight that immediately put a stop in his tracks. The Tyrannosaurus suddenly let out a rage filled roar with a hint of shock and sadness. The theropod roared at the top of his lungs, nearly deafening himself, as all he could do was just stand there in utter shock.
Terry's eyes suddenly shot wide open, his pupils dilated, as he woke up in a blind panic. The chibi Tyrannosaurus calmly lifted his head up to see that he was still lying next to Ursula in her queen sized bed in her bedroom, the midnight moon's rays leering inside the apartment. The entire bedroom was quiet, save for the ticking of her alarm clock and her light snores.
Realizing that it was only a bad dream, the chibi Tyrannosaurus picked himself up and crawled his way next to Ursula's face. Upon approaching her, he formed himself into a ball and laid his head on top of Ursula's cheek. The greenette suddenly smiled in her sleep as she laid an arm around Terry, cuddling him like he was a stuffed bear as he nuzzled her cheek some more.
He really needed the comforting at the moment for reasons no one else but himself knew.
*Who Are You by The Who starts playing...*
*brief instrumental*
MAX TAYLOR
Whoooooooo are you?
ZOE DRAKE
Who, who, who who?
REX OWEN
Whoooooooo are you?
REESE
Who, who, who, who?
URSULA, ZANDER, ED
I really wanna know! (Whoooooooo are you?)
DR. Z
Oooooooh!
CHOMP, ACE, PARIS, TERRY, SPINY & TANK
Come on! Tell me who are you! You! You! AAAAAAAARE YOOOOOOOU!
Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril
Light rain poured down onto a beautiful forest during the night in the same province that Paris and Ace were found. Somewhere in Alberta, Canada in the forest, a dinosaur card capsule could be seen stuck in a tree. Thanks to the rain, the card capsule lost all friction and slipped out of the tree and into a puddle down below where it opened, revealing three cards inside. And once they touched the water, they activated as they glowed blue before transforming into a medium sized sauropod with a grayish, brown hide with black splotches all over. In other words, a Gondwanatitan, which is only one word now that I think about it.
The Gondwanatitan roared into the air upon being spawned into existence, having finally been free of its containment. Taking a moment to look around, the sauropod was unfamiliar with this environment, but it meant little to it as it's stomach growled. Deciding to take the risk of being in a new world, the Gondwanatitan began to roam around the forest in search of some food.
Daylight loomed over Sanjo City as many of its residents were out doing their own business. Either working, walking their dog, or cleaning up an entire building with the remnants of a crane on top of it that both looked like they exploded in the middle of the city. Yes, that's right. Sometime ago, an entire building along with a crane had collapsed onto the city below, evident by the massive debris in the middle of the city with many roads blocked off because of this.
Enough of the building, the Backland is the main focus. And the same homeless man tripping out in Fentanyl from Thanksgiving was still lying next to the crashed time ship, although this time he had crashed and fell asleep as he slept face first into the Backland's outside wall.
"Alright," Dr. Ancient could be heard as he slammed a photo of the Fist on a bulletin board. "so this is what we know so far." He addresses to the people in the room, which was only the Alpha Gang as well as Rod and Laura. "Nash Sullivan. Former SEAL soldier now owner of 13% of Black Eagle Security." He points to the mercenaries' logo as a red string connected it to the photo. "Black Eagle is full of bad apples and are the main muscle for Sullivan, otherwise known as the Fist." He then points his pointer at Mr. McCallum. "Adam McCallum. Paleontologist."
"I did some research on him." Rod announces. "Turns out he lost his PhD in the field after falsely recreating a fictional dinosaur for money a few years back. Shunned from the paleontology field all together."
"Harsh." Ursula comments.
"Right, who we now know works for Sullivan." Dr. Ancient continues as a red string connected the two photos of the men together. "McCallum acts as a businessman in all this as it seems. It looks like he created a legitimate paleontology research company in search of discovering more cards but it seems once that didn't work out the way he planned, he shut down the company. Now it looks like he works for the Fist directly."
"Imagine that. A paleontologist who lost his doctorate degree. Even I can't screw things up that bad." Dr. Z boasted at the table.
"You shot my son into hyper space." Dr. Ancient blandly says with a deadpan expression, immediately shutting up the doctor. "Moving on," He suddenly points to a photo of Wrench. "This guy. Sebastian "Wrench" Wheeler. 20 years old and a former UCLA student. Once the top of his classes until he suddenly dropped out during last semester. I had Laura check that out."
"His major was Engineering with a minor in Economics." Laura reveals as she reads off her laptop. "Looks like he was planning to start his own business in weaponry for the U.S. military. I think that's how the Fist met him."
"Right now, he seems to be the main engineer in the Fist's pockets." Dr. Ancient continues. "Now, he's gifted. In both intelligence and… well on the spectrum. I mean, it says so on his college papers. Anyway, he's beyond smart and fully capable of building whatever device he wants or is ordered to create. He certainly gave us trouble a few days ago after modifying the Centrosaurus."
"Oh, don't act like you were there, Danny!" Dr. Z rudely interjects. "Were you there risking your life to save Spiny? No! Were you there hacking into Black Eagle's servers and stealing a blueprint for making our dinosaurs stronger? No! Were you there to blow the place sky high?! No! All you did was just stay here and snoop through your son's drawers, read his diary, and browse his internet history!"
"I would have never thought I would ever see 'what are periods' on Rex's Google history." Dr. Ancient shamefully says with a disappointed nod.
"You need to have 'the talk' with him one of these days." Ed suggests.
"Thank you, Ed, for that wonderful contribution." Dr. Ancient annoyingly says with lidded eyes. Ed however had a genuine happy smile, pleased he could help out in some way. "Anyway, the point is doctor is that this Wrench guy provides the weapons and armor for the Fist. So far," he points to both Wrench and McCallum on the board. "these two are the only known associates of Sullivan. His goal is to send dinosaurs into war instead of people. Noble cause, I'll admit, but wrong direction he's taking."
"Very wrong direction indeed." Dr. Z mumbles with crossed arms.
"Mr. McCallum is also fully capable of creating genetic hybrids of dinosaurs if he ever gets his hands on their DNA so be careful of that. I don't want anymore Chimeras running loose around the world. The sooner we stop this specific guy, the better." Dr. Ancient laments.
"So what's the plan?" Zander asks from his spot.
Before Dr. Ancient could explain, his wife rudely took over with her signature hyperactive smile. "We destroy everything the Fists own and make him cry like a little girl! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" she maniacally laughs.
"In a nutshell." her husband clarifies as he gently moves her aside. "Our best bet is to deal with these guys individually. Now, before we could even go for the Fist, we have to go after his two lackeys, Wrench and McCallum. Both are equally dangerous on their own and as of right now we have no idea where their new base of operations are at. So until then the best we can do is keep collecting the remaining cards out of harm's way and keep our eyes on these two. Any questions?"
Ursula raised her hand. "Yeah, uh what about the Grand Master?" she asks.
Dr. Cretacia suddenly slapped the Spy Fly photo of the Grand Master, except she had drawn a silly face with a tongue sticking out and derp eyes in the shadows of his hood. Beside it was a speech bubble that read, 'DURRRR, I'm the Grand Master! I like sniffing butts!' written in red marker.
"That's all we have of him." she reveals.
The A-Gang all sat in silence after her brief, unexplained and vague answer. "Huh?" Ursula pretty much gawks.
"Kidding!" she teasingly replies with a sly smile. She then suddenly slapped three more photos below the Grand Master. "Meet Jericho, Anselmo Ibarra, and Ungaro Csonka. You might know them as Double Barrel Jericho and Él Matacho. So far, these three work for the Grand Master but not under direct order. That's," She then suddenly slapped a picture of Seth on the board, crudely drawn devil horns as well as a monocle and silly mustache. "Seth's job… We think."
"You think?" Dr. Z questions with a raised brow.
"Well," Dr. Ancient suddenly speaks up. "to be fair, we don't even know if Seth is working for him. All we've got is a copy of the DinoHolder and copied Stone Plates that have us think he's involved." He points to both pictures of both objects beside Seth's photo. "Besides, we don't even know how they're funding their operation. Sullivan is a millionaire so Black Eagle has no trouble with money. Chances are there are still players in the Grand Master's posse that we haven't found out yet."
"And the Grand Master should be easy to find." Ed optimistically says as he points to his photo. "One of his fingers is gone."
"Wonder how that happened?" Ursula ponders aloud.
"Probably… a birth defect? An accident?" Dr. Ancient theorizes. "Either way, we've got two major players out for these cards: The Fist and the Grand Master. So far we have no idea if they're working together but I have a feeling they aren't. So, again, best bet is to get back the remaining cards and halting all progress from both men."
"And Goma." Zander points out.
Dr. Ancient turned to the far side of the board and saw a single photo of Goma along with a picture of the Eocarcharia card with the name 'Santa' below it. "Sssssssssssssuuuuuuuuuuuuure. Yeah, him." he awkwardly says before moving on. "Our Spy Flies are still searching for Mr. Mills and our detector will receive a signal whenever a new dinosaur appears so at least we have that on our side. In other unfortunate news, the Backland still cannot time travel without fuel or an alternative for it. And that's about it. Any questions?"
"When's lunch?" Ed asks innocently.
Dr. Ancient sighed in a defeated tone as he hung his head down low, his patience for the Alpha Gang finally breaking as he calmly regained his composure. "Look," he cautiously said to the four. "I'm gonna be honest with you. You guys… are terrible." The four gasped in an offended manner upon hearing this. "Not morally. I mean you're all terrible at everything you do. If I could fire you, I would. In fact, I would say bringing you guys aboard on the first place from two years ago was quite possibly the worst mistake I ever made in my entire life next to gambling over $2,000,000 in Broke Vegas."
"Gee. Thanks." Ursula sarcastically replies with a glare.
"But you're all I've got so far and I'll admit, you've saved my son and his friends numerous times so I trust you four. Even you, Dr. Z… to an extent." Dr. Z growled in response to this comment. "How's that machine coming along by the way?"
"Wonderful." he sarcastically replies. "You know that Wrench guy has chicken scratch handwriting? I can barely make out what he wrote! Look at this!" He suddenly showed a notepad to Dr. Ancient. "His handwriting sucks! What the hell is this? A 'v' or a 'u'? It's impossible to read what this idiot wrote! I've seen terminally ill brain cancer patients on their deathbeds have better handwriting than this!" He then tossed the notepad away. "Back to the point, give me by the end of this week to finish with the machine and soon all our dinos will be unstoppable and then I'll become the one, true DINOSAUR KING! I HAVE THE HEAD TO PROVE IT! NYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Yeah. Sure. Whatever." Dr. Ancient lazily replies as he waves a dismissive hand. "Alright, I think it's best if we leave for now. Come back with a clearer head so we can plan our next moves."
With that said, everyone took their cue to leave as they started to get up from their seats while the Ancients began to move the bulletin board. Throughout the entire conversation, Spiny and Tank had been busy playing together as chibis, with the Saichania rolled up into a ball as Spiny rode on top of her. The two ram passed the doorway where Terry was shown sleeping in his red doggy bed with a depressed frown on his snout. Something that Laura noticed.
"Is Terry alright?" she asks, noting his unusual behavior.
"Yeah, I haven't seen him chew on grandpa's beard all day. That's his favorite thing to do." Rod adds.
"Yeah, now that you mention it, I woke up to Terry cuddling with me this morning. He never cuddles." Ursula reveals as she and the other two stood by the doorway.
"You don't think he's sick again, do you?" Laura asks with a panicked expression, her nerves racking wildly.
"We could take him to that Dr. Drake again." Ed suggests.
"Jonathan. Run a bio scan on Terry to see if there's anything wrong with him." Dr. Ancient sternly orders.
"Right away, Master Ancient." the android obliged with a bow. His eyes suddenly turned red as a red laser scan emitted from his eyes that glowed directly onto Terry. The chibi Tyrannosaurus didn't even react or flinch upon the sudden scan, instead continuing to lie depressingly in his bed. "Scan complete. Other than some minor heartburn, Terry seems to be relatively fine."
"Huh. Then maybe he's just tired." Zander theorizes.
"Or maybe he just doesn't really like heartburn." Ed guesses.
Terry continued to lie depressingly in his bed until Ursula suddenly picked him up. "What's wrong my sweet prince?" she coos him. "Dr. Z, were you experimenting on Terry?"
"Of course not! How dare you think that! I would never do that!… Okay, I would." he quickly corrects himself in a sheepish tone. "But for once I didn't do anything. My machine isn't even built, remember! How could I experiment on Terry with an unbuilt machine?!"
"He has a point, Ursula." Ed points out.
"Who asked you?" she harshly tells him. "Anyway, grab Spiny and Tank. I want to go home. We have to pay rent by the end of this month and I want to get started as soon as possible before the holidays arrive."
"Oh yeah! That's right! Christmas is in two weeks! I love Christmas!" the fat man happily exclaims.
"Me too!" Dr. Cretacia gleefully agrees as she pumps her fist in the air, accidentally uppercutting her husband in the process.
"Same here!" Laura pipes up as Rod smiles at his sister's joy.
The happy moment was suddenly interrupted when a hologram of the world map showed up in the middle of the room, with a blinking blue dot in Alberta, Canada.
"Look! Another dinosaur!" Ed announces.
"It's in Alberta, Canada." Dr. Ancient says as he looks at the screen.
Dr. Z suddenly pointed to his lackeys. "Why're you three standing there like a bunch of morons? Go get back my dinosaur card!" he shouts at his henchmen.
"You mean 'our' dinosaur card, Dr. Z?" Dr. Ancient dryly says with a raised brow.
"Tomato, potatoh." Dr. Z waves a dismissive hand. "Why do you gotta get all selfish, Dan?"
"That's rich, coming from you." Dr. Ancient replies with an eye roll.
The mutant scientist turned his attention back to his lackeys. "Well? Why are you staring at me? Go get me back that card or I'll feed you all to Bartholomew! I've been keeping him contained for a week now and he's itching for some fresh meat. Isn't that right, Bartholomew?" He then switched personalities. "For once in your unaccomplished and disappointing life, doctor, you are correct. I see that you are learning. Good. Oh, shut up!" Dr. Z angrily yells at his second half. "You three better not come back until you get that dinosaur card! I don't want to see your faces right now! Go! Now!"
Dr. Z suddenly threw a piece of machinery at the trio, causing them to duck at the last second, coming up afterwards with their dinosaurs in their arms. They gasped as Dr. Z threw another piece of machinery at them, this time making them flee out the door right as the piece of machinery struck the wall.
"Hey! That wall costs a lot of money!" Dr. Ancient yells out in despair.
During all of this while it was happening, the D-Team were out clothes shopping. Specifically clothes for the Winter Formal about to come up next week. Outside of the clothes shop they were shopping at, SHIFT CLOTHING, a bicyclist slowly rode passed the shop, minding his own business without a care in the world. That is until a part of the shop's sign lost its loose grip and fell right on top of the bicyclist, knocking him off his bike as he got crushed by the electronic F from the sign. So now the sign just read SH IT CLOTHING.
"I bet you still live in your mother's basement!" the bicyclist yells angrily.
Inside the actual clothes shop, Francis could be seen marching in the shop, as if he was leaving in a haste, as he held a phone to his ear. "Izumi, calm down." he says to the person over the phone. "It can't be that bad… What do you mean you were blindfolded in a chicken coop?"
As Francis chatted to the person over his phone, he passed by the changing rooms where Max could be seen leaning against a wall with multiple dresses in his arms. He blew a tired sigh as an exhausted expression was painted on his face, continuously banging the back of his head against the wall slightly.
"I'm just saying if Amy just went with Rex, both of our friends would be able to go to the dance. Hand me the next dress." Zoe says from inside the changing room.
Max obliged and handed Zoe a teal dress to which she grabbed behind the curtain. "Zoe," Max says. "Amy isn't my friend. She's your friend. Besides, I just don't see Amy and Rex going out. At most they're both socially awkward."
"Rex isn't socially awkward." Zoe says from behind the curtain.
"Zoe, last week he asked what a vagina is."
Zoe was silent for a moment before speaking up once more. "So he's naive and innocent. That doesn't make him socially awkward."
"That's exactly what that makes him. Rex is fun and all. I love the guy to death but he's gotta get out of his shell from time to time." Max adds.
Zoe suddenly handed back the teal dress. "Next dress." she says as Max handed her over a red dress. "Which is exactly why I think he should go with Amy. Make it a double date. Rex and Amy with me and Francis."
"What am I? Dino dung? Where do I fit in all this? I already lost the Rock, Paper, Scissors and my mom already bought me tickets. She's making me go to the dance." he reveals.
Zoe partly stuck her head out and gave her friend a teasing smile. "I thought you said you didn't want to go." she teases him.
In response, Max looked away to avoid looking at the pinkette. "Can you not? I just got a good view of your bra." he says in slight disgust, purposely avoiding eye contact.
"You like? I got it last week?" Zoe asks with a smile and a small blush on her cheeks. "I really think lace fits me."
"And I think you're a little too young to wear lace bras. Zoe, you're 15. What would your parents or Reese think of this?" Max asks with a huge blush on his face, trying to get a picture of Zoe in her bra out of his mind.
"Who do you think got me this bra in the first place?" she asks with a sly smile before retreating back into the curtain. "Besides, its comfortable."
"Anyway," Max changes the subject. "it's not like I want to go to the dance. It's just that I don't want to be that one guy in the corner of the dance just drinking punch and watching everyone dance while I'm just sitting alone with no date!"
(aka me during my homecoming dance….. i never went to prom :c)
"Then get a date." Zoe immediately suggests.
"Wha?!" Max stammered as he dropped her dresses in shock. He quickly gained his composure and caught the dresses before they could touch the floor. "I- I can't do that."
"Why not?" the pinkette asks.
Max's cheeks suddenly blushed as he became flustered. "Because…" Was all he said.
"Beacaaaaaaaaause?"
"Because you know how hard it is to get a date? The only girls I know are you and Amy."
"Then go with Amy."
"I don't want to."
Zoe stuck her head out from behind the curtain, giving Max a frown. "Gee, it almost sounds like you don't want to go in the first place." She then stuck her head back in. "Well too bad, Max! Because you're going whether you like it or not! And I'm going to make sure you have a fun time!"
"Watching you and Francis dance is not a fun time." Max bitterly mutters under his breath.
"What was that?" Zoe asks, peeking her head out from behind the curtain.
"Oh, I said uh, 'Washing used forensic plants makes you run fine." Max casually lies.
"Oh… You learn something new everyday." Zoe replies, retreating back behind the curtain.
Unfortunately for Zoe and very fortunately for Max, their shopping spree came to a halt when their DinoShots began beeping. "A dinosaur!" Max exclaims.
Zoe suddenly pulled the curtain, revealing that she was wearing her red dress completed with red lipstick. "Let's go!" she enthusiastically yells while pointing ahead confidentially.
"Where'd you get lipstick from?" the brunette questions.
While Max and Zoe were out shopping, Rex had opted to stay at the D-Lab to hang out with Reese, bringing along Ace as he walked all over her desk. However, he didn't take in account that a man in a business suit was hogging her from him, having shown up about 20 minutes ago as they discussed certain topics.
"One thing you should know about me is that my word is guaranteed. I'm good for a favor." the man says to Reese. Said man was bald with a little caterpillar mustache fitted with glasses, all in a black suit with a red shirt underneath. "I always pull through when someone asks for me."
"I don't doubt that, Mr. Kotaru." Reese says to the man known as Mr. Kotaru. "But, tell me why the CEO of Kotaru Constructions is here in a private lab owned by a paleontologist?"
"Mr. Spike Taylor is a personal friend of mine! He's told me great things about you! Says your the top mind in engineering, says you can build anything. He speaks highly of you, Ms. Drake. He thinks highly of you as well. He has high hopes for you." Mr. Kotaru complimented.
Reese couldn't help but blush a little at this comment. "Oh… Thank you, sir." she sheepishly thanks with a small smile.
"Anyway," Mr. Kotaru continues. "I came by to ask if you happen to know who's planning on buying that empty land behind this hill? I got word from my men saying that someone in particular is trying to buy the land before me. I need that property in order to build my own building."
"What're you building?" Reese asks.
"That's a secret. Only to those I trust and who I consider those close to me."
Rex silently scoffed and rolled his eyes upon hearing this. He never did like shady businessmen. "Well, I'm sorry to tell you I don't." Reese humbly apologizes.
"Shame." Mr. Kotaru replies with little if not no disappointment at all. "Well, I thought it'd be worth a shot heading here. I like what you've done to the place. The skeleton really tops it off. Anyway, I better be going. I've got to be somewhere."
"Alright, Mr. Kotaru. Sorry I wasn't much help. I hope you buy that property." Reese replies as Mr. Kotaru begins to walk away.
That is until he suddenly turned around. "Oho, Reese. You don't need to lie to me." he laughs. "You're the assistant of my friend who has never met me nor knows anything about me. You don't care about what I want or don't want. I appreciate the sympathy though. I'll see you around."
With that, Mr. Kotaru started to walk away towards the D-Lab's automatic doors, pulling out a phone and dialing someone while doing so. "Daisuke." he says to the person over the phone. "Yeah, get Watanabe on the phone. Tell him I want to speak to that contact of his." he says in an impatient tone.
As he was walking away, Max and Zoe had just arrived at that moment, witnessing Mr. Kotaru passing them along the way. "Who was that guy?" Max asks, pointing his thumb backwards.
"Real estate." Reese dryly says.
"Ah."
"So where's the dinosaur, Reese?" Rex asks from his spot.
"Holy- I- I didn't even see you there, Rex." Max says in a surprised tone, startled by Rex's presence.
"Hi, Max." Rex plainly says with a wave.
Reese quickly turned on the computer, where W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s dumb fucking grin was plastered on the screen. "W.E.S.L.E.Y. Show us the dinosa-"
~MY PARENTS ARE DEAD.~ W.E.S.L.E.Y. loudly shouts.
Needless to say, everyone just blankly stared at the screen with mildly disturbed faces mixed with confusion. Silence briefly passed the area as a bird suddenly flew into the D-Lab's window from outside, falling to the ground afterwards.
"Get out of here." Reese replies as she hits the ESC button.
~WEEEEEEEE-~
The A.I.'s screen suddenly swirled around like it was getting flushed down a toilet before being replaced by a map of Canada where a blue dot blinked in the middle of Alberta, Canada. "Canada." she replies.
"Nope! Not going back there again. Last time we went there, we almost got tossed over a cliff in a trailer… and it was raining." Max immediately declines.
"It's in Alberta, not Quebec, and it looks like it's a sunny day where the dinosaur is at. There's also no cliffs so you should be fine." Reese announces.
"Well?" Max says. The three turned to where Max was only to see that he was no longer there. They turned to the teleporter where Max was tapping his foot on it impatiently. "Come on, already! Let's go!"
"I guess Max just hates Quebec rather than Canada all together." Zoe mumbled blandly.
"What're you waiting for? Let's go, ladies!" Max excitedly yells from the teleporter.
Not wanting to hear more of Max's impatient complaints, Rex and Zoe stepped on the teleporter as Reese typed in the coordinates. Afterwards, she pressed a button and the three were instantly teleported away and into Alberta, Canada.
While the D-Team took the easy route to Alberta, the Alpha Gang took their own form of transportation. AKA, the hang glider/three seated bicycle or whatever it's called. Seriously, what is it called? Anyway, strangely enough, they were already near Alberta as they continued to peddle in the air.
"Are you there yet?" Dr. Z asks over Ursula's phone.
"No." she replies bluntly.
"…How bout now?"
"Still no."
"…What about now-"
"It'll still be no. Why are you calling us?" she asks, glaring at the phone.
"To make sure you don't mess up and retrieve the dinosaur card! You already lost the Centrosaurus twice!"
"He makes a point." Zander says as he takes some pain pills.
"Nobody asked you!" Ursula exclaims as she hits him over the head.
"Be sure to bring back that card. Or else I will visit your room at night."
"Ew."
"Oh! And one more thing."
"What is it?"
"…Fuck her right in the pussy!"
"DAMN IT!" Ursula shouts in frustration as she throws the phone at the back of Zander's head.
Zander however didn't feel a thing, mistaking it as a nudge from her. "Yeah?" he asks.
"Shut up, Zander." Ursula grumbles in annoyance.
"Okay." Zander replies, swallowing another pill.
Ed meanwhile was currently looking down at his Alpha Scanner, which was showing a map of Alberta, Canada. "According to my Droid Eris GPS app, we should be approaching Alberta in about…"
The fat man then pushed a button on his Alpha Scanner, resulting in a voice coming from it. ~Calculating route.~ Ed then placed the Alpha Scanner at his ear like it was a phone as he waited for the instructions to appear. Unfortunately, all he got was the sound of a dial up tone, prompting him to take a double take at his Alpha Scanner before placing it back near his ear. Shortly afterwards, a farting sound was heard as Ed finally got his calculations from his device.
"A half hour." he finishes with a shrug and a smile.
"Oh, great. Wonderful." Ursula sarcastically replies with an eyeroll.
"Look on the bright side, Ursula. We're going to Canada and it's full of nice people… and moose." Zander says, popping another pill in his mouth.
"There's a moose loose about the hoose." Ed chuckled to himself in a stereotypical Canadian accent.
"Speak for yourself. I hate moose." Ursula grumbles.
"Well on the other bright side, at least this ride is going smoothly." Ed optimistically claims.
As if God himself was listening, their hang glider/tandem suddenly broke in half, resulting in the trio to fall from the sky. "AAAAAAH!" they all screamed.
"Thanks, Ed." Ursula and Zander grumble simultaneously.
They're probably fine… Maybe…
While the Alpha Gang- Wait, I already used this in the last scene.
At the same time or around the same time the Alpha Gang were plummeting to who knows where, probably your mom's house, the D-Kids had finally teleported to their location. Like the previous times, the trio were teleported at least 20 feet off the ground but by this point they had already anticipated it… Well, two of them at least.
After teleporting, Rex landed on the ground and did a superhero landing pose while Zoe landed on one foot, mimicking that of a ballerina, and Max just fell face first onto the ground.
"OW!" he yells in pain. Only for him to stand up unaffected by the fall as he dusted some dirt off of him. "Alright. Canada. Probably my least favorite country next to Rome."
"That's not a- Ah, forget it." Rex tiredly sighs with a face palm.
"Where does it say the dinosaur is at?" Zoe asks her friends.
The blonde held up his DinoShot and looked at the map. "Somewhere in the forest. We only teleported to the front of it." he answers.
"You know, you would think by now Reese would make the teleporter more accurate." Max comments.
"I don't- I don't think that's possible, Max. It's a miracle we can teleport with the stones in the first place but you get what you get I guess?" Rex replies with a shrug.
"Just as long as we don't teleport bread, we should be fine." Max responds with an unamused expression. "Anyway, let's go look for that dinosaur. My stomach has been acting up so I'm feeling a bit nauseous."
Zoe watched Max walk away. "Is that a lie you're telling yourself? I feel like it's a lie." she replies as she and Rex joined up with the brunette.
"I'm serious! I think it might be something I ate."
"All that junk food perhaps." Rex rolled his eyes.
"Hey, I'll have you know I'm very difficult to get hurt. It takes an effort to actually hurt me. I mean, I have a ringworm on my back and I'm still standing, not at all sick in the slightest." Max arrogantly boasts.
"Eugh." Zoe sticks her tongue out in disgust.
"Seconded." the blonde replies.
"Yoo-hoo!" Max calls out in the forest in hopes of flushing out the dinosaur. "Come on out, dinosaur! We won't hurt you unless we have to! And even then we'll feel kind of bad about it. Not 100% but we'll still feel bad! Hello? Marco!… Marco! Is anyone out here?"
"Max, I don't think that's gonna work." Rex says with lidded eyes.
*ROAR!*
"Nevermind."
"That sounds like a sauropod!" Max identifies.
"How could you tell?" Zoe asks with a raised brow.
"Haven't you noticed almost all sauropods have the same roar?" the brunette rhetorically asks, facing his friends.
"What about Brontikens?'
"We don't talk about him!" Max quickly seizes the subject. "Now come on! I'm itching for a battle against this dinosaur!"
"You sure Chomp is up for it, Max?" his blonde friend asks. "Last time Chomp was in a fight he lost half of his horn."
Max turned around with a cocky expression on his face. "Yeah, against a mutant dinosaur. This is just a regular one and Chomp owns them! Come on, guys! Let's go out and own the zone!" Max excitedly exclaims as he walks deeper into the forest.
Leaving a befuddled Rex and Zoe behind. "Predicting what Max is gonna say and do next is like predicting the outcome of a horse race." Rex says with an unamused smile.
"Except this race is full of the last picked horses instead." Zoe replies with a contorted expression as the two followed their brunette friend.
Meanwhile, the Gondwanatitan continued to roar as two humans tried to defend themselves with nothing but a large branch. Said two humans were none other than Tomas and Karl from the Netherlands. "This is your fault, Karl! Do something!" Tomas yells at his friend.
"How is it MY fault?! You're the one who attracted the damn thing with the fire!" Karl yells back.
"You can't attract an animal with a fire, stupid! It gets scared by it you absolute buffoon!"
"Ooooooooohhh! I'm SO CLOSE to eating your ass right now, Tomas!"
The tall man snapped to his friend with a befuddled look. "What?" he asks out of genuine confusion. Their moment was interrupted when the Gondwanatitan roared again, startling the two as the dinosaur continued to panic on spot. "What do we do?!"
"I dunno! Jus- Throw the damn stick at it!" Karl proposes.
Tomas then suddenly began to wave the stick like it was a toy for a pet. "Here boy! *whistle* Come here, boy! That's a good boy! Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? Is it you? Yes, it's you!" Tomas says in a playful manner. The only response he got was another scared roar from the sauropod. "Wanna play fetch? Wanna play fetch? Let's play fetch!" He then threw the stick beyond the dinosaur. "Go get the stick boy! Bring it back to daddy!"
Instead of obliging like a pet, the dinosaur responded in a more prehistoric, untamed manner: roaring and rising in the air. "Fucking idiot." Tomas insults the dinosaur.
Surprisingly, the Gondwanatitan immediately stopped its panic as it suddenly glanced down at the two humans, even fitted with a raised brow as it stared at Tomas with a glare. As if it was silently telling him to test it some more. Needless to say, the two humans were instantly shut up once the sauropod made eye contact with them. Actually fearing it understood English.
"I think it heard you." Karl whispers to his friend.
"I hope it didn't hear me needing a new pair of pants." Tomas replies in a terrified tone.
Because the Gondwanatitan was busy harassing Tomas and Karl, it didn't even notice Max and the other two approaching it from behind. "It's a Gondwanatitan!" Max identifies.
"Yeah, and it's scaring those two guys over there!" Zoe points to Tomas and Karl.
"We better stop it before it hurts those guys." Rex says as he firmly grabs his DinoShot.
"Leave that to me!" Max confidently says as he pulls his own DinoShot first.
"Are you sure that's a good idea, Max?" Rex worryingly asks his friend.
"Suckerwholetshisfriendsgofirstsayswhat." Max rapidly states in a single breath.
Needless to say, Rex grew confused. "What?" he asks with a raised brow.
"Why thank you very much, Rex." Max replies with a sly grin as he rubs the underside of his nose.
"No, seriously. What did you say?"
"DINO SLASH! SHOCK 'EM, TRICERATOPS!"
Upon being summoned, the yellow Triceratops roared into the air to announce his presence, still missing half of his horn. Upon hearing another dinosaur roar, the Gondwanatitan snapped around and roared back at its opponent. Meanwhile, Karl and Tomas took this opportunity and immediately ran from the vicinity.
"Alright, Chomp! Let's show this dueling dino who's boss!"
The sky changed color as a battlefield appeared as the two massive creatures circled each other, both examining any weak points. It was the Gondwanatitan that struck first when it roared into the air before charging full speed towards the ceratopsid. Thankfully though, Chomp dodged out of the way in time before head butting the sauropod on the side. The Gondwanatitan slid on the ground momentarily before suddenly slapping Chomp in the face, knocking him to the ground. Subsequently, the sauropod bit down on Chomp's frill before lifting him up in the air and tossing him aside like he was a piece of trash.
Chomp was thrown into several trees, completely tearing them in half in the process as the Triceratops landed on the ground. At that moment, the ground shook as a low bellow from the Gondwanatitan alerted the down Triceratops. Chomp looked up to see the sauropod charging at him like it was a battering ram. Thankfully, Chomp managed to pick himself up on time before leaping out of the way, causing the charging dinosaur to knock down a tree. While it was busy wondering where it's opponent had gone, Chomp had managed to sneak up from behind it and grab it by the tail, earning a wail from the sauropod.
With the Gondwanatitan now firmly in his mouth, Chomp used all of his strength to try and swing the sauropod in a circle. After building momentum, Chomp released the dinosaur and threw him across the forest, knocking down more trees as birds flew into the air to flee the battle. "That's it, Chomp! Even with one horn you still kick butt!" Max cheered for his dinosaur.
The Gondwanatitan picked itself up as it grew tired of being tossed around by a smaller dinosaur. In retaliation, the sauropod glowed blue as a swirling vortex of water momentarily surrounded it before the Gondwanatitan fired the water vortex at the Triceratops. Tendrils of water slapped Chomp a few times enough to knock him to the ground, getting badly hurt by the attack.
"Looks like that Shockwave attack kicked more butt." Zoe slyly says with a grin.
"Yeah?" Max rhetorically asks as he prepares his own move. "Well that's nothing compared to this! Let's go, Chomp! Use Gatling Spark!" Max cries out as he activates the move card.
Chomp glowed yellow as he roared into the air, lighting striking him both sides as he absorbed the element. After being charged enough, the Triceratops began galloping towards the Gondwanatitan… only for the Alpha Gang's air vehicle to come crashing down on top of him, stopping the attack all together.
"What the?" Zoe gasps in confusion.
"Where did that come from?" Rex asks in bafflement.
Unsurprisingly, the Alpha Trio came falling from the sky as they landed directly on top of Chomp, bouncing off of him as they fell to the ground. "Ow." Ursula mumbles in pain.
A beep suddenly emitted from Ed's Alpha Scanner. ~You have arrived at your destination.~ a female automated voice says.
"Guys, we're here." Ed's muffled voice points out.
"Thanks, Ed."
"Where'd you guys come from?! You totally ruined my attack!" Max scolds the three.
Ursula shot up straight and tall, as if she hadn't just fell from the sky moments earlier, and looked down at Max. "Oooh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to ruin your super, ultra, mega attack by FALLING FROM THE SKY AND ALMOST DYING IN THE PROCESS!" she yells in rage.
"It's okay. Let's chalk it up as a lesson learned today, alright?" Max replies in a smart ass tone. Ursula slapped his head for this. "Ow!"
Angered by the sudden appearance of more opponents, the Gondwanatitan reared up and gave an enraged roar before charging towards the distracted Triceratops. Hearing and feeling the loud footsteps rushing towards him, Chomp turned his attention back to the sauropod at the last second, right before he was suddenly lifted off the ground by the Gondwanatitan's neck. The sauropod lifted the Triceratops and tossed him towards the forest, mimicking its own crash as Chomp tore down several trees during his crash.
"Chomp!" Max cries out.
Zander suddenly stood up with a confident grin on his face and Alpha Scanner in hand. "That Gondwanatitan giving you trouble? This calls for a job for Spiny! Ha haaaaa!" Zander laughs as he slashes the Spinosaurus' card.
"SPINOSAURUS! GUSH OUT!"
During Spiny's transformation sequence, a massive wave of water rushed towards the screen, with a chibi sized Spinosaurus swimming directly in the middle of it. In the background, music that was fit for a cunning mastermind that had just shown himself at the last minute of a battle was heard, music that felt like the tide of an entire war had just been turned around in his favor. The chibi sized Spiny suddenly leaped out from the wave and escaped the sea as he began his new transformation. Instead of bubbles like before, turrets of water emitted from his body as his baby arms suddenly grew massively, with Spiny flicking his bear-like claws. Next, his tail extended as his sail grew, finalizing his transformation as a turret of water extended his crocodilian snout. Spiny, now in full size, landed on the ground as a huge tidal wave rose up in the air behind him as he got on all fours and gave out a mighty, yet rage filled, benevolent roar that shook the earth and instantly gave fear to his enemies.
Returning back to semi-real world, the Spinosaurus gave a low growl as the sauropod began to suddenly back up from the largest land predator in history… Semi-aquatic predator in history. "Wow, Spiny! You're looking super powerful ever since your upgrade thanks to those Black Eagle jerks!" Zander compliments the Spinosaurus. "Look at those muscles on your arms!" Spiny flexed his human-like arms in response to this. "And that neck! It's no longer a twig but it's now a giant trunk! Ha! You're even taller than Terry now! No doubt you'll kick some heiny in this fight!"
In immediate response to this, the Gondwanatitan thrusted itself towards Spiny and knocked him to the ground, causing the earth to shake upon his fall. Zander gave a long, depressed sigh in response. "*siiiiiiiigh* Why do I even bother?" he rhetorically asks himself.
The sauropod roared angrily at it's opponents as it glowed blue once more as a vortex of water appeared around it. Like last time, the Gondwanatitan shot out tendrils of water towards the two dinosaurs, with Spiny dodging out of the way, leaving Chomp as the sole victim of the attack… again. The tendrils of water continued to slap Chomp around before he suddenly fell to the ground, exhausted from the entire battle.
"Chomp! Get up!" Max plead for his dinosaur.
"Awwww, what's the matter? Your little Triceratops can't handle the heat? Well how about I add some more to it?" Ursula rhetorically asks as she pulls out Terry's card.
"ALPHA SLASH! TYRANNOSAURUS REX, BLAZE!"
"Who are you calling Chomp weak?! He's beaten Terry so many times!" Max yells at the greenette.
"Then why aren't the Triceratops the king of dinosaurs, huh? Bet you can't come up with a comeback like that. Can you, pipsqueak?" she taunts him.
"Your mother!" Max loudly shouts.
"He's got you there, Ursula." Ed tells his colleague.
"I'm gonna roundhouse kick the both of you!" she threatens the two males.
Unknown to absolutely anyone in the entire forest, two familiar faces were currently hiding up in a tree, with one of them using a pair of binoculars to watch the battle. Through the binoculars, they could see Terry charging at the Gondwanatitan before latching his jaws onto it's neck; the sauropod fought back and thrusted itself out of the T-Rex's grasp. Spiny suddenly joined in as he snapped his snout at the Gondwanatitan, missing at the last moment thanks to the sauropod's reflexes. In response, the Gondwanatitan slapped Spiny with it's tail, knocking him to the ground before getting into a headlock with Terry.
The person lowered the pair of binoculars, revealing themselves to be Ungaro with Carter joining him, both wearing ghillie suits to camouflage themselves with the trees. "Looks like we've got company." he tells his partner, whom looked over his shoulder and watched the fight as well.
"Come on, Terry! Show that overgrown lizard who's the king!" Ursula shouts at her dinosaur.
"Actually, Ursula, dinosaurs aren't lizards but they're reptiles-"
"LIZARDS ARE REPTILES! SHUT YOUR MOUTH!"
After loudly berating Rex, Ursula slapped the top of his head, only for the blonde to be completely unaffected by the slap and continued to give Ursula a blank stare. "That's what the books say at least." he continues innocently with a shrug.
Spiny roared loudly before suddenly slashing his hook-like claws at the Gondwanatitan, drawing blood on it's neck as it backed away. Everyone knows the most dangerous animal is a cornered one, and right now the Gondwanatitan felt cornered when the two top predators came walking towards it. Fearing for it's life without even knowing it can't die… maybe, it decided to activate it's secret weapon up it's figurative sleeve. Once more, the sauropod glowed blue, but instead of a vortex surrounding it, a sphere of water suddenly trapped Terry in his place, leaving him to struggle inside his liquid prison. Without wasting a moment's notice, the Gondwanatitan began charging at high speeds towards the T-Rex, ramming its entire body into the sphere and completely knocking Terry away from the battle.
Unfortunately, Chomp was in the way as Terry landed directly on top of him, causing him to turn into a card while leaving Terry critically injured. "Chomp!" Max cries out as he goes and runs to retrieve his card.
"What move was that?" Zander asks in disbelief.
"Tragedy of the Sphere. A nasty move." Ed identifies with a gawked expression.
Max bent down and picked up Chomp's card. "We're gonna have to try something else to get passed that move." he says aloud.
Rex suddenly grew a terrified expression before pointing ahead of him. "Yeah! Like moving out of the way!" he warns the brunette.
"Huh?" Max looked up to see the Gondwanatitan's foot rapidly coming down towards him as his entire body was engulfed in the shadow. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Luckily for the brunette, he managed to leap out of the way in time as the sauropod's foot stepped down on the very spot Max was standing in, earning a huge sigh of relief from him.
Meanwhile, back at the tree line, Ungaro continued to watch the battle unfold before lowering his binoculars. "Pass me the rifle." he orders Carter.
The Hispanic obliged and proceeded to hand over his boss the rifle, just a normal one and not the instant card one. Once he got his hands on the firearm, Ungaro grabbed a small container filled with darts with red puffs at the end.
"This new drug Roscoe made better be worth it. One shot from this and it'll cause any living thing to go berserk." Ungaro explains as he loads the rifle. "When I shoot that long neck, it'll be too high on whatever this drug is to feel pain and become reckless. Both destroying it AND those pricks' beasts as well. The best way to take out a top predator is for another predator to take it out first."
"But isn't that kind of… cheating?" Carter asks his boss.
Ungaro just gave him a bizarre look. "What? Who- No! This isn't a global competition or the Olympics! It's big game hunting, Carter! We're getting paid for this!" he yells at him.
"Yeah, but we haven't caught a single one of those dinosaurs since we started. Jericho nabbed one on his first day." Carter reminds him. In response, Ungaro aimed the rifle directly at his face, the barrel of the gun mere millimeters away from his face. "Shutting up."
The poacher aimed his rifle back at the dinosaur battle, spying on said battle through the scope of his rifle, waiting for the perfect opportunity. "Yeah! Let's go, Terry!" Ursula cheered for her dinosaur.
Through the scope, the Gondwanatitan had just finished knocking Spiny away before getting into a headbutt clash with Terry, momentarily leaving him stationary. "I have you now." Ungaro sinisterly whispers to himself.
Then, at that moment, he pulled the trigger and fired the spiked dart right towards the sauropod, hitting it directly in its thigh as it yelped in surprise. Because of this, Terry had managed to gain the advantage of the fight and shoved the Gondwanatitan to the ground, roaring at it as it prepared to get up and return back to the fight. However, as soon as it stood up, whatever drug Nick Roscoe created started to kick into the sauropod's systems. It's pupils shrunk as foam started to form in its mouth before roaring in absolute rage, kicking up a storm as it momentarily stood on its rear legs before shaking its head violently.
"What the hell?" Ursula mumbles.
"What the hell?" Zoe questions.
"What the f-!" Ungaro cut himself off, accidentally hitting Carter in the face before he fell out of the tree. "Roscoe created rabies?! What kind of messed up drug lab does he have?!"
The Gondwanatitan continued to roar viciously before violently head butting Terry in the face, knocking him into Spiny as the two crashed to the ground. "Did that- Did that dinosaur get rabies?" Zander stammers in confusion.
"I didn't even think that was possible!" Rex yells in confusion.
"Which brings up the question: Could dinosaurs ACTUALLY get rabies in prehistoric times?… Vsauce. Michael here." Max grinned stupidly, earning a smack at the back of his head from Zoe.
Because it was under the effects of whatever drug it got spiked with, the Gondwanatitan became more reckless and unpredictable than any other wild dinosaur both teams have fought. Evident when Spiny went in to attack it, chomping down on its neck before it suddenly began to violently shake out of control. Thrusting it's head upwards, the sauropod escaped the Spinosaurus' grip before kicking him with its hind legs, knocking the theropod backwards a bit.
Ursula then raised a move card in the air. "Time to heat things up with Volcano Burst!" she announced as she slashed the move card.
Terry glowed red as fire erupted in his jaws before briefly swinging his head around until he unleashed the flames from his mouth. The flames shot toward the raging sauropod but said raging sauropod felt like being a little rebel and didn't play by the rules. Instead of taking the hit, the Gondwanatitan smacked the flames with its tail and sent it flying elsewhere.
PHYSICS! We don't have them in anime!
"Wait whaaaaaaat?" Ursula gawks in utter confusion.
"Wow. That dinosaur should sign up for the little league." Zander compliments.
"With his size, he's better off in the major leagues. Maybe the Yankees." Ed adds.
"No way! He's totally a Dodgers kind of dinosaur." Max replies.
"Aaah. You right. You right."
While the two talked baseball, the, physically impossible, flying flame continued to fly into the air as it started to descend towards the tree Ungaro and Carter were hiding in. Thankfully, the poacher noticed the flames just in time as he quickly dropped anything he had in his hands to free them up for the climb down.
"Carter! Look out! Jump!"
Heeding his warning, Carter followed his boss as the two leaped out of the tree just in time for the flame to engulf the entire tree, setting it ablaze. Carter dropped to the ground, quickly picking himself up in a panic while Ungaro managed to break his fall by doing a roll. A tree branch on fire fell from the tree, barely missing Carter as the Hispanic quickly crawled away from the scene.
Back at the fight, the Gondwanatitan continued to rampage uncontrollably after being spiked by the rabies-like drug, becoming more reckless as it destroyed several trees with it's tail. "That thing is going to hurt itself! We need to do something before it's too late!" Rex exclaims loudly.
"Guys! Use a combo move!" Zoe tells the two Alpha Gang members.
"Good idea!" Zander compliments as he and Ursula both grabbed a move card.
However, before they could even slash the cards, a blue glow emitted from the sauropod, momentarily freezing them in their places as they watched the Gondwanatitan activate it's own move card. Like last time, a sphere of water engulfed not just Terry, but also Spiny, trapping the two theropods in a sphere of water as the Gondwanatitan started charging towards them.
"WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!" the Alpha Trio shout simultaneously as they began to panic on the spot. But it was too late, the Gondwanatitan clashed with the sphere of water, sending the two dinosaurs into a rock wall. "Nevermind." the trio depressingly say.
The force of the strike from the sauropod was so powerful that when both Terry and Spiny crashed into the rock wall, they completely crashed THROUGH it, entering the small mountain while also creating a cave-like entrance. "Wow. That's strength." Zoe compliments.
The six dinosaur fighters were suddenly surrounded by trunk-like legs as the ground shook, prompting them to fearfully look up to see the Gondwanatitan directly above them. The sauropod roared loudly in a crazed manner as it began to stomp in place, shaking the ground like it was a 9.0 earthquake. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" the six all yell in absolute terror.
"RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN!" Max shouts as he runs towards the cave.
"Jesus! Christ almighty! What the fuck! My asshole!" Ursula panicky shouts as she follows suit.
"We're too young to die!" Zander and Ed yell as Zander carried Ed in his arms.
"I'm too pretty to die!" Zoe adds as she follows suit.
"I can't die!" Rex adds as he was the last one to follow.
Eventually, the six made it inside the cave as the sauropod continued to chase them; however, due to it's large size, all it accomplished was banging it's head against the rock wall, something Max took advantage of. "Ha! What's the matter? Too fat to get in here?" Max taunts the dinosaur. In response, the Gondwanatitan snapped it's jaws at the teen as it stuck it's neck inside, barely snatching Max as he fell backwards into Rex's arms, a terrified expression on his face. "AH! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
The Gondwanatitan bellowed as it raised it's head, accidentally hitting the ceiling of the cave before retracting it's head back into the open field. Because of the sudden strike on the ceiling, the already unstable cave began to suddenly cave in, rocks falling from the ceiling as it slowly closed the entrance. After a while, the cave in stopped, with the entrance now completely blocked off by several large boulders as the sounds of the Gondwanatitan were muffled behind the rocks. The two teams sat in the cave as they heard the Gondwanatitan roar from behind the rocks before walking away, it's heavy footsteps slowly becoming quieter and quieter until they were no more. The two teams took a moment to catch their breaths before finally accessing the situation.
"I think it's gone." Rex says aloud.
"Great! Now we're stuck in a cave! Thanks a lot, brat!" Ursula slams her fist against Max's head.
"It's not MY fault!... It's Rex's." Max shifts the blame to his blonde friend.
Something Rex wasn't too fond of. "How is it my fault?!" he asks the brunet.
"I don't know. I'll think of something later on." Max shrugs.
"Just be lucky we didn't get crushed by those rocks." Zoe says as a rock falls on top of Zander's head.
"Yeah, Ed?" he asks the short, fat man.
"What?" he questions with a raised brow.
Spiny bellowed in pain and exhaustion as Zander's Alpha Scanner began to beep and glow red. "Ursula, Spiny isn't doing so well. I think that fight took a lot out of him." he informs the greenette as he returns Spiny into his chibi form.
"Some upgrade." she mocks with an unamused grin.
"Where are we?" Zoe wonders as she wanders deeper into the cave.
"Well, based on our surroundings and lack of plant life, I'd say we're in a cave." Ed answers.
"Gee. How'd you know?" Ursula sarcastically replies.
Rex turned to the way they came in, noting that the entrance was now completely blocked off by rubble as pebbles continued to fall from the ceiling. "Well, we can't go the way we came in. Our best bet is to go deeper into the cave." he informs the group.
"Why can't we just knock the rocks away? Chomp could do that." Max suggests.
"First off, Chomp is too weak to move rocks. Second off, don't you remember what happened at the Great Wall of China, Max?" the blonde rhetorically asks his friend with a slight glare.
"I sure don't." Zoe murmurs.
"Fair point." Max agrees. "Well, we better start moving. Who has a light?… Oh yeah, I do."
The brunet pressed a button on the side of his visor, his visor's horns lighting up and illuminating the area for the group. "Oooh. Nifty." Zander compliments.
"Thanks. My grandma gave it to me for my 8th birthday." Max replies with a smile.
"Uh, are you sure it's a good idea to keep Terry out in his full form? What if the cave gets too narrow for him?" Rex asks the Alpha Trio.
"Rex has a point, Ursula. Maybe you should turn him back into his miniature size." Ed suggests to his colleague.
"Yeah, you're right." Ursula replies as she recalls the T-Rex into his chibi form. "Don't wanna cause another cave-in like last time."
"Woah! Guys! Check this out!" Zoe's voice echoes from afar, grabbing the others' attention.
Zoe meanwhile was staring at a wall inside the cave as the other five joined her. "Look at these cave drawings." she says, pointing to the wall. Sure enough, on the walls of the cave were old drawings depicting men with spears fighting animals, most likely saber tooth tigers. "I've never seen authentic cavemen drawings before."
"Actually, Zoe these aren't cavemen drawings. They're most likely stories drawn by Neanderthals during the ice age. You can tell by the drawing of the saber tooth tiger." Rex corrects the pinkette.
"Sooooo cavemen drawings?" she repeats again with a blank look.
The blonde momentarily stared at her before lidding his eyes. "Sure. Yeah. Let's go with that." he replies in a tired tone
"Those pussy cats wouldn't be a match for our dinosaurs. I bet Terry would eat that thing right up. Right, Terry?" Ursula asks the chibi dinosaur.
Terry simply had a blank, mediocre expression on his face, not knowing what she was talking about. "I think that's a yes." Zander says, popping another pill in his mouth.
"Hey, guys! Look!" Max calls out from afar. The group turned to the brunet to see that he was hunchback and held a club in his hand. "Derrrr. Look at me. I'm a caveman. Me build fire. Me smash fire. Me kill deer and bring back for woman to cook. Oooooooook."
Max's crude impersonation was suddenly stopped when a rock fell on top of his head, knocking him out immediately as his unconscious body fell to the ground. "Too bad an actual caveman is smarter than you, Max." Zoe dryly replies to the unconscious boy.
The two teams currently walked through the deep tunnels of the cave they were trapped in, having no other choice but to explore them since they were, ya know, trapped. By this point, an hour had passed, resulting in the Alpha Trio's stamina being worn down as they trudged through the damp, rocky cave. The D-Kids lingered behind to try and see if there were any more cave drawings inside the tunnel while the chibi dinosaurs walked together in a group. Currently, Chomp was dragging Terry as the mini-sized T-Rex had a firm grasp on the Triceratops tail with his jaws, though Chomp seemed to either not notice nor care otherwise.
"How long have we been walking for?" Max asks in a tired tone.
"About five minutes since the last time you asked." Rex dryly replies in an annoyed tone.
"Face it, twerp, we're lost in these caves." Ursula says to the blonde.
"To be lost would mean I had an idea where we were in the first place, in which case I didn't." he replies.
"So you mean to tell me we've been blindly walking through this dumb cave with no way of knowing if there's an exit?!" Max yells at him.
"Keep your voice down. Do you want to cause another cave-in?" Zander tells the brunet.
"Loud noises cause an avalanche, Zander. Not a cave-in. And we're not blindly walking, Max. I can tell we're getting close to the outside… Probably." Rex responds in an unsure tone at the last part.
"Remind me to slap you when we get out." Max tiredly says with a defeated expression.
"I'm hungry." Ed weakly complains as he uses his Alpha Scanner as a flashlight.
"You're always hungry, Ed. You ate the rest of the brownies in our fridge last week, remember?" Ursula scolds the short, fat man with a glare.
"Actually that was me, Ursula. I uh… I had a smoke an hour earlier and I got hungry." Zander meekly replies.
The greenette gave him an odd look, having never heard this side of Zander before. "Hey, guys! Look at this!" Zoe calls out from afar.
"If it's another cave painting, I'm gonna drop dead." Max angrily grumbles as they approach the pinkette.
"No, something even better." she replies.
The five caught up with the teenaged girl to see what she was staring at, and true to her word, it was much better than some old dumb cave paintings. "Okay. This IS better." Max agrees.
In front of them were multiple, fully intact dinosaur skeletons all trapped inside the cave wall, ranging from various species like Triceratops, Torosaurus, and even a Saurolophus. "Woaaaaah." Zander says in awe as he flashes his Alpha Scanner over the fossils.
"This is… This is incredible." Rex says with an awestruck expression.
"Eh, I prefer living dinosaurs rather than dumb bones." Ursula waves a dismissive hand.
"Actually, Ursula, fossils are a combination of rock and bone." Rex corrects the greenette.
Even the chibi dinosaurs took an interest in the fossil wall, with Tank and Paris scratching said walls while Ace stood on top of Spiny to reach a Pachyrhinosaurus fossil just out of his reach. "Thanks but when I ask for a fun fact, Rex, I'll actually ask for it." Ursula sarcastically replies.
Max used his illuminescent horns as a lightsource as he continued to gaze at the many fossils in the wall. "Something like this has never been found. I think we might be the very first people to ever discover something as huge as this." Rex says in awe as Zoe snapped a photo of the wall.
"Quick! Take lots of photos! We've got to show this to Dr. Ancient and the others! They'll love it!" she says with a gleeful expression.
Down below, Chomp scratched at the wall to try and reach a fossil of a baby Saurolophus lying next to a fossil of a fully grown one. Max bent down and picked up his partner so he could reach the fossil, to which the chibi Triceratops continued to scratch the wall's surface. While the other chibi dinosaurs were all mesmerized by the many fossils on the wall, Terry didn't really seem to care, if not care at all. Instead, he continued to walk down the tunnel to try and find a way out, caring only to find a way out. After all, there wasn't anything in the cave that peaked his interest after all. All of the dinosaurs were dead meaning nothing to feast on.
Why would he care?
"And look at this!" Ed shouts from the other side of the cave. "Look! A Tyrannosaurus skeleton and it's baby! Ooooh, looks like this T-Rex lost a claw. It only has one."
Terry suddenly stopped in his tracks upon hearing the description, all other skeletons having been forgotten in a second. The chibi Tyrannosaurus turned around to see that Ed was standing in front of the two skeletons in the cave wall, pointing at them. The other two Alpha Gang members along with the D-Kids joined Ed as they began to examine the fossils.
"Awww. A baby and it's mother." Zoe says in a heartfelt tone.
"At least they died together." Zander solemnly says.
"See! Now this is learning! Not that mathematics mumbo jumbo. We can learn so much just looking at dinosaur fossils." Max mockingly says with a sly smile. "Like how this Tyrannosaurus got into a fight before it died. Now that's badass."
Terry suddenly approached the group from behind and began to stare at the skeleton with shocked eyes. "To think, we all wondered what dinosaurs looked like with flesh and muscle. Now we have the answer. We even have our own T-Rex with us! Though Terry is much better than these old bones." Max arrogantly states.
While Max was busy making fun of school, the other five humans looked down to see Terry staring intensely at the fossils in the wall, not moving a single muscle. It was as if he was in a trance. Eventually, they slowly figured out the reason why Terry suddenly looked like he had seen a ghost, as their smiles were slowly replaced with looks of realization. All except Max whom was oblivious to any of this.
"Boy, Terry," Max continues. "it must be jarring for you to see your species' skeletons trapped in a wall. It's like finding a buried skeleton in the park. Especially a baby T-Rex. I wouldn't want to be the parent of that baby. Just seeing your baby's dead body. It'd be a terrible thing to witness."
"Max." Rex says, staring up at Terry.
"In fact, that's what you needed, Terry." Max continues. "You needed a family to take care of. Maybe then you wouldn't be so mean all the time. I mean, I know you're on our side now but would it kill you to be more friendly from time to time? You're just a big jerk with no heart now and, I'm sorry but, it's kind of becoming really tiresome. Like, we get it. You're a T-Rex. No need to be a jerk about it"
"Max!" Rex repeats, this time a little bit louder.
"And maybe a- What?" Max asks, finally hearing Rex.
"Stop talking."
"Why what's…" Max then glanced down at Terry, putting the pieces together and coming to realization. "Oh."
The others stared down at the chibi Tyrannosaurus as he continued to stare intensely at the wall with wide eyes, not moving a muscle as he just stared at the fossil of the baby Tyrannosaurus. As he continued to pensively stare at the fossil, a deep, painful memory emerged in his mind. A memory he would never forget even in the face of extinction.
The fully sized Tyrannosaurus roared out in extreme anger after hearing his mate's and offspring's cries suddenly stop in cold blood. Sure enough, their bodies were shown to be lying motionless on the ground, both apart from each other, neither moving a single muscle. What caused this? Off to the side was yet another fully grown Tyrannosaurus, however this one was much bigger than Terry. Most likely a rogue bull. This T-Rex had a gray skin followed by darker splotches of gray all over his body along with a massive scar down the side of his neck, indicating that he' seen his own fair share of a fight. After coming into eye contact with the rogue T-Rex followed by seeing his family down on the ground, Terry had lost it.
The future Alpha dinosaur rushed in, survival instincts going out the window as he wanted nothing more than to kill the beast that harmed his mate and his daughter. The bull T-Rex, having been the apex predator of his own territory, roared back as he too rushed towards his enemy. The two giants clashed with one another as the earth shook in place, many other dinosaurs having either backed up or ran away to get away from the fight. Because he was the biggest one of them both, the bull T-Rex gained the upper advantage as he instantly pushed down Terry to the ground. Terry fell hard on the ground as the bull T-Rex placed his foot on top of him to prevent him from getting up.
But all it did was just fuel Terry's anger some more, and anger when left unchecked detonates into violence, and violence is powered into strength. Using his rage as his own power, Terry muscled his way out of the bull T-Rex's foot, kicking him in the face before picking himself up. The bull T-Rex shook off any pain before charging in, only to get slapped across the face by Terry's tail. The bull T-Rex stumbled backwards into a tree where he was suddenly rammed in the side by Terry, breaking the tree and knocking him to the ground. The rogue Tyrannosaurus bellowed in anger as he shook away Terry's grasp before biting down hard onto his opponent's neck. His 12,800 pound bite force ripped into Terry's skin as he struggled to get out of the bull T-Rex's grasp. Usually, when a T-Rex had you by the neck, it was all over and Terry knew this from first hand experience from his own hunting skills.
It all seemed to be over just like that for Terry and he knew it, yet he was no longer focused on the fight. Instead, as he was inside the bull T-Rex's grasp, he had his eye on his family lying still on the ground away from them. Just seeing them motionless was enough to refuel his anger and rage as he mustered up the strength to break from the bull T-Rex's jaws. With a violent shake, he freed himself from the fangs of his enemy before headbutting the bull T-Rex right in the face, knocking him to the ground. Now the tables had turned and this time, Terry was not going to waste a single second for his enemy to gain the advantage yet again.
As the bull T-Rex prepared to pick himself up, he felt his neck being crushed by the jaws of his enemy. Now it was his turn to feel the 12,800 pound force of the world's mightiest jaws. Fueled by the death of his family, Terry tightened his grip as he placed a foot on top of the bull T-Rex, preventing him from picking himself up to free himself from his entrapment. The bull T-Rex roared and bellowed in immense pain as Terry growled ferociously, tightening his jaws on the throat of his enemy as blood began to seep from the bull's hide. The bull T-Rex continued to struggle in Terry's grasp but was suddenly seized when Terry himself began to shake his neck violently and rapidly. So violently and rapidly in fact that combined with the shaking as well as his already tight grip around his neck, Terry had successfully crushed both the T-Rex's throat as well completely break one of it's vertebrae.
With it's airway completely broken as well as it's neck, the bull T-Rex entered a paralysis state before suddenly dropping dead in Terry's grasp. Feeling his enemy no longer picking up a fight, Terry released the dead T-Rex, nudging it's head to make sure it was dead before giving out what was possibly his most rageful, loudest roar he had ever given in his entire life, both past and present. Although he was victorious in the fight, victory was not what he yearned for. Instead, turning to his dead mate, what he yearned for was obvious.
For his mate and daughter to return.
Though, despite being a prehistoric beast with little to no care about any other animal than himself, he knew full well they weren't coming back. Rain started to pour as thunder clapped and lightning flashed in the sky as Terry slowly approached the body of both his mate and his daughter, both lying coldly on the ground. The Tyrannosaurus nudged his mate's body, hoping she was still somehow alive. Though, he knew this was wishful thinking on his part. Rain continued to pour as Terry turned to his dead daughter, still lying lifeless on the ground next to her mother.
The fight was enough of a distraction for Terry and seeing how it was over, he couldn't contain it any longer. Terry let out a loud, depressing whimper-like roar in the air, grieving over the death of his one and only family.
Over the only dinosaurs he genuinely cared about… Now… He was alone… Truly alone.
Terry didn't blink a single time throughout his inner flashback and by this time, tears were slowly falling out of his eyes as he continued to stare at his daughter's fossils. Both teams looked down at Terry as they stood in silence, not knowing what to say or how to break the silence as they knew Terry was in a sensitive state at the moment. Max looked like he was going to say something but closed his mouth before he could, not wanting to ruin the chibi T-Rex's moment. After what seemed like an eternity, Terry made his first movement by approaching his daughter's skeleton, nuzzling his face against it as silently cried on the cave wall. Even the chibi's didn't make a peep as this was the first time seeing the ferocious Terry the Tyrannosaurus in such a sensitive state. Chomp knew what it was like to miss his family, as did everyone else, but he had to admit he had no idea what it meant to actually lose them, especially in a horrific way like Terry's.
After a few minutes of nuzzling against the fossil, Terry retracted himself from the wall, giving a soft, weak chirp at it before pulling himself away. Realizing he was done, Ursula bent forward and picked up the chibi Tyrannosaurus, although he cared very little if not at all from the sudden grasp. The greenette said nothing as she nuzzled Terry in her arms, she too tearing up once she realized Terry's sudden depression and show of weakness.
"I'm so sorry, Terry." she whispers to the red Tyrannosaurus.
Terry said nothing as tears continued to fall from his eyes, never taking his eyes off from the fossils even for a second.
After what felt like an eternity of silently staring at the cave wall, Max placed a hand on Ursula's shoulder, grabbing her attention. "We should… We should get going." he whispers to her, his voice dead of any emotion he had before.
Ursula nodded her head in agreement, though her distraught expression said otherwise. "Yeah." she whispers back.
The greenette carried her chibi Tyrannosaurus away from the walls as her colleagues followed her, their respective chibis following them on foot rather than in their arms. As they were walking away, Terry never took his eyes off of his daughter's skeleton. Not until they rounded the corner and it was out of sight.
Terry's daughter remained in the wall as a drop of water fell onto it, right where her eye would've been as it dripped down the wall, mimicking a tear falling off of a cheek.
The six humans and their prehistoric partners continued to walk aimlessly in the cave, not knowing when they would ever see the light of day again. Or the rays of the moonlight considering they had lost track of how long they were trapped inside for. Needless to say, they were both emotionally and physically tired from being lost for what seemed like hours.
"My legs hurt." Ed complains in a weak tone.
"You only have one leg though." Ursula replies, too tired to scold the fat man.
"Here. Take these." Zander says, offering him some pain killers.
Ed grabbed the bottle and opened them up. "They're empty." he responds, tilting the bottle to reveal that it was indeed empty.
"Oops! Haaaaa! Must've taken them all. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Zander giggles, obviously too high to even function normally.
"Jesus, Zander. I swear, you've become so addicted to those pills that you're just emotionally immune to everything. I'd slap you if I could." Ursula tells the tall man.
"I wouldn't even feel it anyway. Ha!" Zander laughs, clearly not nailed down to reality at the moment.
"Ed has a bionic leg. Zander has a gold tooth and has developed a pill addiction. Wonder what's in store for you, Ursula." Max says to the greenette.
"25 to life for murdering a pesky, worthless brat is what's in it for me." she glared down at the teen.
"Why would you kill Francis though?" Max asks with a raised brow.
"Huuuuuh?" Zoe gives him an odd look in response.
"I was talking about you… Who's Francis?" Ursula asks in genuine confusion.
*BANG!*
The sudden sound of a loud gunshot combined by the echoes from the cave was enough to scare the group as they all dropped to the ground in fear. "Was that a gunshot?" Zoe asks in fear.
I just said it was.
"What's the code, drongo?!" shouts a familiar Australian accent.
An Australian accent the teams were well too familiar with. "Jericho." Rex hisses like it was venom with a glare that could kill.
The two teams peaked around the corner to see that sure enough, Double Barrel Jericho was indeed inside the cave. And he wasn't alone. Along with him were his colleague, Él Matacho as well as several miners on their knees with their hands behind their heads.
"I ain't gonna ask nicely!" Jericho shouts as he kicks a table, pointing his double barrel shotgun at the hostages. "Give me the code to the vault or I'll blow your brains all over the cave!"
"What's he doing here?" Zoe asks in bewilderment.
"Hey, look." Max says, pointing to the Hispanic man, whom seemed a little bit uncomfortable with the situation. "It's that guy from Costa Rica. Él… Tocho, something."
"Él Matacho." Rex corrects.
"Yeah, him."
"Okay! Okay." obliged one of the miners as he hung his head down low. "The code… The code is 528081."
Jericho turned to Él Matacho and nodded his head; using this as a signal, the Hispanic man approached a large vault door inside the cave and entered the code. However, instead of the door opening, all he got in response was a loud BUZZ! sound, as the code was incorrect.
"SIKE! That's the wrong number!" the miner shouts with a smart ass smirk.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!" the rest of the miners cheered after the sudden troll.
Jericho aimed his double barrel shotgun directly into the miner's face and without hesitation, pulled the trigger.
*BANG!*
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" the miners all screamed in utter horror as their friend's entire face got blown off.
Zoe had to cover her mouth to keep her from gasping as both Rex and Ed looked away from the horrid sight. The miner's body fell backwards to the ground, a blood pool forming around his head as part of his skull was revealed.
"Stupid, bloody wanker!" Jericho shouts at the corpse.
"Jericho!" Él Matacho scolds the Australian in a horrified tone. "Stop shooting people, you maniac!" In response, Jericho raised his gun directly in Él Matacho's face. However, the man in question grew an annoyed expression rather than a scared one. "Alright, now you're just being an idiot. Get that thing away from my face, hermano." he tells him as he pushes the gun away from him.
"Let this be a lesson to you all, mates. I don't want no trolls or any bloody lies you rock eating, shell heads!" he yells at them before raising his gun at them again. "NOW GIVE ME THE CODE!"
"We can't!" shouts one of the miners in fear.
"Wrong answer." Jericho tightens his glare.
Knowing what was going to happen next, the two teams looked away as they prepared themselves to hear a loud gunshot. Instead, when Jericho went to pull the trigger, all he got in response was an audible CLICK! "Tch. Stupid two bullet ammunition." he grumbles.
"Technically, they're not bullets. They're shells." corrects one of the miners.
"Technically, I could still beat your face in with the butt of me gun." Jericho retorts.
"What? I'm just saying."
"Alright, calm down! All of you!" Él Matacho yells at the group.
"Calm dow- Your friend just murdered Benny!" shouts one of the miners.
"I'll send flowers to his wife." Él Matacho replies.
"He's not married."
"Then I'll send them to his funeral. Look," he says, rubbing his eyes in frustration. "just give us the damn codes and we'll let you go, amigos."
"We can't give you the code because we don't know the code. Only our employer knows it." replies another miner.
Jericho suddenly placed the blade of his knife against the miner's throat. "Then why don't you call The Fist and tell him that if he doesn't give them codes, you will die." he hisses at them.
"They work for the Fist?" Rex questions softly.
"He has a lot of connections. Wonder what's in the vault." Ed wonders.
"You think he cares for a bunch of blue collared grunts like us?!" the miner yells at him. "I'm screwed either way! If I don't give you the code, you'll kill me here and now! But if I do give you the code, the Fist will kill me! Screw all of you!"
Jericho scowled at the man as the man glared back, the Australian tightening his grip on his knife. The miner, with his life literally at the edge of a blade, showed no fear and just continued to scowl at the man. Growling in frustration, Jericho suddenly turned around and threw the knife towards a wall as hard as he could. Él Matacho however was standing in his way but he simply tilted his head with a calm expression on his face, the knife flying into a wall and penetrating it, showing how strong Jericho was.
"Agh!" the Australian yells in frustration. "I'm getting tired of this. Why can't we just blow the damn vault open?"
"You want to risk a cave in?" Él Matacho asks rhetorically. "Even if we have a timed device, the vault will still be blocked by debris. We'd have to blow the whole damn mountain to do so. The codes are the only way."
"Then have Roscoe lock pick the thing." Jericho suggests.
"You idiota." Él Matacho insults. "This is a high security vault. That street dealer only knows how to break into cars. You hired him to break into that state attorney's car and plant drugs in it yourself. Remember? Besides, he's not even here."
"Is Jericho making stupid suggestions again?" asks a familiar voice. The two men turned to the other side of the cave to see Ungaro and Carter walking in, rifles in both hands. "For some gang leader, he sure makes really rash and dumb decisions. Eh, Jericho."
"Shut yer yap, wanker." Jericho curses at him.
"What're you doing here, Ungaro?" Él Matacho asks the man.
"A dinosaur popped up here. Grand Master sent me to get it." he replies, pointing a thumb back to the entrance behind him.
"And? Did you?"
Ungaro leaned his weapon against the wall and took off his hat. "Naaaah. I lost it." he replies in an angry tone.
"That means we still have a chance to get that dinosaur before they do." Max whispers to his friends.
"How the bloody hell did you lost a giant, walking fossil?" Jericho asks him.
"Well that drug Roscoe made turned that dinosaur into a rabies filled machine. Ran into the forest and I lost it there. The bad news is that those kids and three idiots are here. The good news: they got trapped in a cave." Ungaro says with a smirk.
Immediately after he said that, both Jericho's and Él Matacho's expressions dropped as they stared at their ally. "What?" Él Matacho whispers in slight shock.
"Yeah. Chances are they'll die of starvation or something. Good riddance to them." Ungaro gleefully says with an evil smile.
"You IDIOT!" Jericho shouts at the man as he marches his way towards him. "Do you realize what you've done?!"
"Trapped our enemies in a cave?" he asks in confusion, feeling uncomfortable with Jericho's lack of personal space.
"You trapped them in THIS CAVE YOU BLOODY, POACHER!" he shouts at the top of his lungs. "This is the only cave in this area that only has one entrance! The entrance you came in! If you trapped them from the other side, then what does that mean, UNGARO?! TELL ME!"
"It means that they'll… eventually… meet us… here?" Ungaro replies, realization slowly hitting him like a truck. "Oh."
"Great. Now they know we're here." Zoe whispers to her colleagues.
"Yeah, but they don't actually know we're HERE." Max smugly replies with an equally smug smile.
"Hey, are those the guys you're talking about?" asks one of the miners, pointing directly towards them, immediately giving away their position.
"Nevermind." Max dryly says.
Jericho snapped his head to the two groups and immediately pulled out his double barrel shotgun, pulling the trigger only to be met with the same CLICK! sound. "You didn't reload your gun, you stupid idiot." insults one of the miners. In response, Jericho threw his gun at his face, knocking him to the ground. "Ow!"
"Ooooooh. I see what I did wrong now." Ungaro meekly replies as he picks up his rifle.
Seeing how their positions have been blown, the two groups felt no reason to hide themselves any longer, stepping out from behind the rocks and standing confidently at their enemies. "Alright, Jericho!" Max firmly yells. "Whatever the Grand Master is planning, it won't work! We'll stop you! No matter what!… What exactly are you guys trying to do again?" Max asks them in confusion.
Zoe face palmed in response. "Don't play coy with, boy. You prolly already heard what we're after." Jericho responds.
"Yeah, the vault. What's in the vault? Money? Drugs? Pornography? Oh wait, I think I know. Your mother! HAAAAAAAAAAAA! Hahaha! HAH! HAH! HAH! HAHAAA! Oh, I got him! I got you so good, you stupid idiot." Max taunts the Australian in an immature fashion.
Needless to say, his friends covered up their faces to hide their embarrassment just by being next to their friend's immature behavior.
"You should see the look on your face!" Max continued to laugh at he man.
His taunting was abruptly stopped when Jericho pointed a revolver directly in front of his face, pulling the hammer down as he glared down at the kid. "You should see the look on your face, tike." he tells the teen.
"How many guns do you have?!" Max yells in bewilderment, his eyes wide due to a freakin gun being shoved in his face.
"Oh, it's not mine. I stole it from Él Chapo over there."
Él Matacho suddenly looked down at his holster to see that his revolver was indeed missing. "¡Hijo de puta!" he yells at his colleague.
"Let see how much blood is in ya." Jericho smirks evilly at Max.
Zander suddenly pulled out his own gun and pulled the hammer down, pointing it directly at Jericho. "You shoot that kid, I'll shoot you!" he yells at the Australian.
"Awww, Zander." Max says, complimented his former enemy was sticking up for him.
Él Matacho suddenly pulled out his folder revolver from his second holster. "Ay, hermano. You shoot anyone, I'll pull the trigger." he tells him.
Now, it was Ursula's time as she herself pulled out a pistol of her own. "Nice try there, pal. But I'll shoot you before you even get a chance to pull that trigger." she tells him.
Ungaro then suddenly pointed his rifle at the greenette. "Did you forget I have a gun as well, old lady?" he asks her.
"I'M NOT AN OLD LADY! I'M A YOUNG ONE WITH A GUN AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!" she yells at the top of her lungs, waving her gun around like an actual maniac.
"I have a gun too!" Carter joins in with his own rifle.
Suddenly, one of the miners pulled out his own gun… only to point it directly at another miner. "I'm seeing your wife, Jeff and there's nothing you can do about it!" he yells at the miner.
Jeff grew a confused look in response. "I don't have a wife." he tells him.
"Oh. Then who was that chick you were with last night at that restaurant?"
"That was my sister, you son of a bitch!" Jeff shouts as he too pulls out a gun on the miner.
By now, mostly everyone had pulled out a firearm and pointed it at one another. Jericho to Max. Zander to Jericho. Él Matacho to Zander. Ursula to Él Matacho. Ungaro to Ursula. Carter to Ursula as well. As well as two miners pointing guns at each other… for some reason.
"Well this just went from 0 to 100 real quick." Ed says aloud, abnormally calm in the current situation.
"Well. Well. Well." Max smugly says. "It seems we have here a good old fashioned Mexican standoff. And we even have a Mexican to top it all off!" Max points to the drug cartel leader.
"I'm from Spain." Él Matacho reveals with a raised brow.
"Isn't that the same thing?" the teen asks in genuine confusion. Él Matacho just shot him an odd look in response.
"Alright, everyone calm down!" Rex shouts in a panicked tone as he points his DinoShot at everyone.
Max raised a brow at his friend's sudden rash behavior. "Rex, what the heck are you doing? That's not even a real gun." he asks.
Before anyone could do anything at all, the cave suddenly shook as rocks fell from the ceiling, slightly alerting everyone in the cave. A moment of silence passed as they waited for something else to happen, with most of them looking up at the ceiling. "What was that?" Ungaro asks aloud.
Suddenly, at that moment, the Gondwanatitan burst through one of the cave walls and roared into the air, foam still around it's mouth as the rabies-like drug was still in effect. "Ooooh yeah. I completely forgot about that guy." Max says, staring blankly at the sauropod.
"Holy shit! A giant animal! KILL IT!" shouts Jeff as he and the other miner began firing their guns at the Gondwanatitan.
Instead, they just managed to piss it off as it began to roar angrily and swing it's tail violently in the air, striking the cave walls as everyone began to flee for their lives. "Well, that's one way to break up a stand off." Zoe mumbles.
"There's no time to waste!" Rex says as he recalls Ace into a card. "Ace! Let's go!"
"DINO SLASH! CARNOTAURUS! BLOW HIM AWAY!"
After immediately being spawned, the Carnotaurus immediately rushed into the fight and struck the Gondwanatitan in the rear, prompting it to turn around and roar at it's opponent. It went to bite down, but Ace was the fastest dinosaur in the entire group and proved so by dodging the bite before headbutting the Gondwanatitan's neck. "Thatta go, Ace!" Rex cheered for his partner.
"Ungaro! Don't just stand there like a bloody idiot! Do something!" Jericho shouts at his colleague.
"Uuuuuh." Ungaro hesitated as he watched the fight before looking up at the cave ceiling. "Yeah, I'm sitting this one out. Even I'm not dumb enough to make an enraged wild animal more crazy in an enclosed area. Especially when said animal is taking up half the space! I'm out of here! Let's go Carter!"
Ungaro and Carter both simultaneously pressed their Tele-Watches and teleported out of the cave, leaving the others to fend for themselves. "Ungaro! You bloody coward!" Jericho shouts at the nonexistent man.
"Jericho! He's got a point!" Él Matacho shouts from afar. "We have no way to capture that thing! Besides! Our job is to get the vault open! And we can't do that if we get crushed by that dinosaurio! We need to leave now!"
Jericho looked back at the insuring dinosaur fight before turning his attention to the two teams, glaring daggers at them. As much as he didn't respect any of his allies, he knew they had a point and although he was not one to admit he was wrong, he was also not stupid enough to risk his life in another cave in. "Fine! But you're telling the Grand Master we couldn't get that vault open!" he shouts at the Hispanic man, running towards him.
"Jericho!" Max shouts at the man, grabbing his attention. "This isn't over! We will stop you! Mark my words! Tell the Grand Master we're coming after him! And he's going to regret ever messing with us!"
"Tell him yourself you fossil lovin' drongo!" Jericho shouts back before rounding the corner of the cave, leaving the area.
"Uuuuh, Max. We have bigger problems." Rex says to his friend, looking back at him with a worried look.
Max turned to the battle to see the Gondwanatitan lifting up Ace in the air before slamming him to the ground. The sauropod suddenly glowed blue as a sphere of water surrounded Ace, whom was already a hydrophobe in the first place which only worsened his fear. Ace struggled in his liquid restraints as the Gondwanatitan charged forward, striking the trapped Carnotaurus dead center and knocking him into a wall, causing more rocks to fall from the ceiling.
"Ace!" Rex suddenly turned back to Ursula. "Ursula! Help me!"
"Feels weird being asked that by you but alright." Ursula says as she recalls Terry into a card.
"ALPHA SLASH! LET'S GO, TERRY!"
The Gondwanatitan approached the fallen Carnotaurus, prepared to smash him with it's hind legs only for Terry to suddenly come out of left field and knock it to the ground with a headbutt. The red Tyrannosaurus approached the fallen sauropod only for it to trip him with it's long tail, prompting Terry to fall hard on the ground. By now, all three dinosaurs were picking themselves up, but it was the Gondwanatitan who was the fastest as it suddenly smacked Terry in the face with it's tail, knocking him into a wall. Ace suddenly leaped into the air and landed right on top of the Gondwanatitan, hopping up and down while dealing a large amount of damage to it, causing the sauropod to try and shake the Carnotaurus off of it like a bucking bronco. The Carnotaurus suddenly leaped off of the sauropod before biting it's leg to try and trip it.
Unfortunately for Ace, the Gondwanatitan glowed blue as a vortex of water surrounded it, it's Shockwave attack acting as a defense barrier prompting Ace to back up. The Carnotaurus prepared to flee only to be knocked to the ground by the water tendrils, falling hard on the ground in the process. Ace struggled to get up but unfortunately for him, the Gondwanatitan began to violently stomp on top of his body, preventing him from getting up at all.
"ACE!" Rex cries out for his partner.
Terry shook his head as he picked himself up before hearing the Carnotaurus' sudden cries of pain, prompting him to turn to his ally. There, he saw the Gondwanatitan repeatedly stomping on the downed Carnotaurus, the theropod helpless and defenseless from the unrelenting attack. Suddenly, a memory emerged from Terry's mind as he now suddenly saw the bull T-Rex over his mate and daughter back in the prehistoric ages before returning back to the Gondwanatitan and Ace. Terry slammed his eyes shut as tears fell from them before finally reopening them, a fierce determination suddenly entering his system as he was suddenly reminded of his past.
Not today. Not again. He was not going to have someone else he cared about lost to a rampaging rogue. Not anymore.
With a loud, dominating roar, Terry charged at the sauropod and bit down hard on it's tail, actually drawing blood from it as the Gondwanatitan roared in pain. Using all of his strength, Terry muscled his way and began to forcefully pull the sauropod away from the defenseless Carnotaurus before tossing it aside where it crashed into a wall. Ace looked up as Terry bent forward, using his snout as leverage to help the Carnotaurus back up to his feet.
"Ace and Terry seem to be working together. Why don't we do the same thing with a fusion move?" Rex suggests to the greenette.
"Good idea." Ursula says as she pulls out a move card.
"Flame Tornado!" they both shout at the same time as they activate their move cards simultaneously.
Ace activated Sonic Blast as Terry used Magma Blaster, both attacks firing at the same time before merging with one another, transforming into a literal spinning tornado of fire. The two attacks struck the Gondwanatitan as forcefully pushed it towards the vault door, easily breaking through it like it was a wet napkin. The Gondwanatitan crashed inside the vault where debris fell on top of it, depleting the rest of it's energy as it suddenly turned back into a card, the fight over.
"Alright! Way to go, Rex!" Zoe cheered for her friend.
"Knew you could do it, Ursula!" Ed cheered for his adoptive older sibling.
"What did you expect?" Ursula smugly brags as Rex approaches the vault.
The blonde entered the vault to see the Gondwanatitan as well as the two move cards lying in the middle of the rubble where he retrieved it. Afterwards, he suddenly took a look inside to find the contents hidden behind the steel door that Él Matacho and Jericho were trying to get in. Needless to say, what he saw surprised him. "Hey, guys. Come look at this." he calls out.
The other five joined up with him as they all entered the vault. "Woah." Zoe says in awe. All around the vault were numerous shelves of nothing but dark colored rocks all neatly stacked by each other. "It's… rocks."
"That's what all that trouble was for? They just wanted some stupid rocks?" Ursula asks in dumbfoundment.
"Maybe they thought there was gold in here?" Ed theorizes.
Max bent forward and picked up a rock, examining it as hard as he could to see if there were any defining features to it. Unfortunately, all he saw was just some dumb old rock. Just an ordinary rock. "What a waste." he says.
The moment was suddenly interrupted when the ground started shaking as the vault's ceiling began to give away as more rocks began falling. "Uh, guys. We should probably get out of here." Zander suggests in a panicked tone.
"Yeah! I'm down with living!" Max replies as he throws the rock behind him.
Unbeknownst to him, when he did the rock managed to leave a crack as a rainbow colored light suddenly escaped as it began to shine in the open. This however went unnoticed by the two teams. "Let's get out of here!" Zoe says as they all press their respective buttons and teleported out of the cave.
Just in time for the entire vault to be filled with rocks as a large cave-in blocked the remaining area of the cave.
Outside the cave, Jericho and Él Matacho watched the entrance to it suddenly poof out dust as the rest of the miners caught their breaths, having nearly escaped with their lives. However, the two men were less than happy as they failed to retrieve what they were sent by and knew the Grand Master would not be happy. The two stood in silence as they stared heavily at the cave before regaining their composure.
"Come on… Let's go tell the Grand Master the bad news." Él Matacho says to his ally as he walked off.
Jericho however glared at the cave, silently vowing revenge on kids who continued to get in his way every time he made an appearance. One day he will teach them a lesson, but not today. He turned around and joined up with his ally as they began to make their way back to their base.
After returning back home, Dr. Ancient was given back his Gondwanatitan card by his son as he placed it in a security cabinet. "You say both Jericho and Él Matacho were trying to get in the vault?" he asks his son.
"Yeah, but when he checked inside it was just a bunch of rocks." he replies.
"We thought it was gold or money or something. But nope. Just dumb old rocks." Max shrugs.
Dr. Ancient rubbed his naked chin. "How odd." he says, deep in thought. "I wonder what was so important about those rocks the Grand Master wanted."
"Maybe he was building a very large rock collection?" Zander theorizes as he and Ed began to munch down on some noodles they cooked up.
"Well, whatever it was, it must be important to him. Either way, I'm glad they didn't get their hands on them."
"That's not all, Dr. Ancient." Zoe says with a gleeful smile. "We almost saw a paleontologist's dream! A whole cave full of fully intact dinosaur fossils!"
"No way! Really?!" Dr. Z suddenly popped his head from behind the machine he was building. "Did you see any Calamosauruses? I must be certain that I'm the last of my kind so that I know I have ascertained dominance among the pack!"
"I mean… Maybe? We kind of got interrupted with Terry." Zoe shrugs.
"Oh boy. What'd he do this time?" Dr. Ancient asks in a tired tone, obviously not the first time being told the chibi Tyrannosaurus did something wrong.
However, the three kids grew awkward looks in response. "Um… Well… Terry kind of had… a moment." Rex says.
"A moment? What'd he do? Did he try to destroy the fossils like in New York?" Dr. Z asks from behind his machine.
"No, he… He saw a Tyrannosaurus infant fossil." Max cautiously says.
Dr. Z instantly stopped his welding as a surprised expression momentarily took over his face, but because he was behind the machine, no one saw his change of expression. He took a moment to think about the chibi Tyrannosaurus, having lost all concentration on his project. Dr. Ancient however grew a more sympathetic look, knowing full well what he meant.
"Oh…" he says in surprise, feeling bad for the Tyrannosaurus. "Is he… Is he alright?"
"We think so." Zoe says in a solemn tone.
"Where is he now?" the doctor asks.
"He's at the D-Lab with the rest of the other dinosaurs." Zander says with his mouth full.
At that moment, Rod suddenly entered the room with a perplexed expression on his face. "Hey, has anyone seen my dinosaur book I ordered?" he asks the people inside.
To answer his question, Terry had managed to steal Rod's dinosaur book from his room… somehow, and brought it back to the D-Lab. The chibi Tyrannosaurus had managed to find a secluded area for him so it would've been difficult for him to get found by the blonde. Underneath the table, Terry was shown currently looking through the various pictures of the dinosaur book, being unable to read English. Unlike his usual statue glare, Terry had a more lamented and sad expression on his face as he turned the page of the book. The page showed a picture of a herd of Saurolophuses walking among each other with some looking after their young.
Terry grumbled in sadness before turning the page once more with his snout, this time showing a family of Tyrannosauruses complete with an infant. Seeing this immediately broke Terry's heart, instantly reminding him of his family's demise back in prehistory and being reminded that he had no way of seeing them once more. Terry stared down at the book in sadness as a tear escaped from his eye as he began to silently whimper underneath the table. He slammed his eyes shut to fight back the tears and prevent them from spilling, a task easier said than done. It just hurt too much for the Tyrannosaurus, wanting nothing more than to move on, but felt a stinging feeling that if doing so would betray his very own family.
The depressing moment was suddenly stopped when Terry felt something nuzzle him from the side. Turning to his left, he saw a chibi sized Chomp rubbing up against him, nuzzling him in an attempt to comfort the Tyrannosaurus. Taken by surprise by the sudden affection his once enemy was displaying, Terry didn't move as Chomp continued to nuzzle him to try and make him feel better. The Tyrannosaurus didn't budge as he rocked back and forth due to Chomp nuzzling him, almost being tipped over at one point. Not only seeing but experiencing your former enemy displaying sympathy and affection towards you to try and cheer you up was jarring for Terry to experience. Although he had to admit, it was a nice change of tone.
He felt comfortable around Chomp. Enough for him to finally let loose his tears as he suddenly laid on top of the book, openly crying as he was unable to bottle up the emotions. He cried and cried and cried, letting out all of his emotions that stemmed from the horrific death of his family as Chomp laid down next to him. Not once did the Triceratops seize his nuzzling, not wanting to leave the emotionally broken Tyrannosaurus by himself. By this point, Terry had stopped caring about fighting back, actively allowing Chomp to comfort him under the table for as long as they needed to.
(The scene where Terry had a flashback of his family was inspired by the cave painting scene in Ice Age where Manny had a flashback of his former family being killed by the pack of human hunters. I know the anime depicts Terry as a kind of a dick character but I wanted to expand it by giving him a more sympathetic one.
I'm sure if Terry actually did have a family in the anime, he would've been a protective father and loving mate. Just something I thought I would add about him. Also, I gave Ungaro a last name: Csonka, which means "mutilated" in Hungarian... Get it?... Cuz he's a poacher?... Eeeeeeeeeeh?
Anyway, what else is there uh… Oh yeah, that's right… Here have this 'trailer' I made for a future chapter.
*Pjanoo by Eric Prydz plays…*
*wide shot of Sanjob City is shown*
Unknown male: Francis! *extends arms happily*
Francis: What do you want?
*Francis is shown riding his bicycle to an unknown location*
*Francis takes off his helmet and grabs his backpack*
*the unknown male places his arm around Francis as they start to walk like old friends*
Unknown male: What if I told you there was a way for you to make money?
*Francis speeds down a highway on a red motorcycle while carrying a suitcase*
Unknown male: Make it easier for you to buy back your old man's love.
Francis: Who are you?
Dr. Z (with normal head): Your great, great uncle. That's none of your business!
*Francis is shown flying in a helicopter flown by a pilot with a parachute backpack around his back; a nervous expression is clearly seen on his face*
*inside a clothes store, Francis was shown trying to decide which suit he should pick out, a perplexed expression on his face.*
Francis: What do you mean we're screwed? What's wrong, Izumi?
Unknown male/Izumi: We messed with the wrong people, man!
*several Chinese Triads could be seen firing their assault rifles in an alleyway; Francis is shown ducking and dodging the bullets as he runs as fast as he could out of the alley*
*Francis is now shown punching a Triad down a flight of stairs, falling directly onto his colleagues; the teen is then shown getting thrown out the window and into the ocean*
Francis: Ever since we started working together, my life has turned for the worse! It's turned completely upside down! I'm talking completely OUT OF CONTROL!
*Francis hangs on for dear life as he tightly grips a speeding subway inside a tunnel, all while screaming at the top of his lungs*
Izumi: What? That's a bad thing?
Francis: No, I'm just saying let me take a breather first.
*beat drops*
*Francis is once again thrown out a window while screaming in terror*
*the teen gets punched across the face as he's tied to a chair; blood and saliva is spilt on the wall*
*Francis kicks down a door with an enraged expression on his face; behind him is Izumi holding a pistol in a readied position*
*Francis is punched in the gut by a Triad thug*
*an explosion goes off in a warehouse as flames fly into the sky*
*Francis tightly grips a cable as he hangs out of a speeding helicopter, the night city directly below him*
Zoe: Francis!
Francis: Don't worry, Zoe! I've come to save you!
Zoe: You're not wearing any pants!
*Francis looks down at his boxers* I know! I lost them.
Mr. Kotaru: Nothing brings down real estate prices more like a good old fashion gang war.
*several Triads take cover as several Russian mobsters fire from behind crates*
Mr. Kotaru: Except maybe a country wide plague but that might be going too far in this case.
Russian Mob Boss: Money is life. Money is power. In life, the only thing you can rely on is money, my friend.
*several bullets are shot through a window as Francis bolts down a hallway, the trail of bullets following him; he briefly turns around and fires a pistol behind him before shooting out the window*
*an explosion goes off as Francis ducks his head; he comes out shortly afterwards with a gas mask on*
Francis: Why do you want me?
*Francis and Izumi are now out in Francis' backyard at night, discussing plans*
Francis: I'm just some ordinary kid with a boring, ordinary life.
*Francis writes down notes in class; he's now shown eating lunch in the cafeteria; he opens his locker and pulls out a math textbook*
Izumi: Because you're perfect for this. You have zero artistic talent, you never have anything interesting to say AND you're just an overall pathetic guy with no interesting traits about him whatsoever that makes him unique or stand out in a crowd. A nobody. A person nobody would even care about if he's missing. Honestly… you're way overqualified for this line of work.
*music briefly stops; Francis is shown with a perplexed expression on his face*
Francis: Thank you?
*beat drops once more*
*Francis leaps out of an exploding building with a backpack around his back*
*the helicopter flies over nighttime Sanjo City at low altitude; inside, Francis has a nervous look on his face*
*a sports car floors down a busy street, narrowly missing a pedestrian*
*Francis punches a man before kneeing him in the gut; the same man punches Francis across the face before the two fall through a glass door*
*several students of Sanjo High are shown dancing inside the gymnasium, currently enjoying the Winter Formal; among them is Francis who is dancing next to Zoe, both of whom have smiles on their faces*
*the same sports car sideswipes a parked car*
*Sanjo High School students continue to dance to the music*
*the same helicopter is suddenly blown up by unknown causes*
*the students continue to dance*
*an entire empty building is suddenly engulfed in an explosion*
*the students continue to dance*
*Francis is shown running as fast as he can from the top floor exploding building he was in before jumping through a window; he suddenly pulls a cord and out comes a parachute; the flames of the explosion go off above him as he safely glides through the air*
*Francis speeds down a highway on a red motorcycle as a military helicopter chases after him; he briefly glances up*
*Goma is shown firing purple lightning from his fingertips as he stands on top of a white box truck being driven by Francis*
*Francis is now on a 1700's pirate ship as he is surrounded by several pirates while he himself is dressed like a pirate; next to him is Blackbeard himself, showing a proud grin on his face*
*Royal Navy sailor orders an attack; Francis' pirate ship rams through a British Frigate*
*Francis continues to hold onto a cable as he dangles out of the helicopter, which was now spinning around after losing its rear motor; the poor teen screams for his life as tears are flung out of his sockets*
*Francis is now shown jumping out of a plane with a parachute as he falls directly towards Sanjo City*
Sammy (Francis' older sister): Face it, Frankie. You'll never accomplish anything more than graduating high school in your life.
*Sammy suddenly shows a PhD in Chemistry to him*
Sammy: And even then I doubt you could even graduate. This is why I'm the favorite child. *she grows an arrogant smile; Francis scowls at her*
*Francis is now shown sitting in a chicken coop next to Izumi*
Francis: I just want to prove I'm useful. But every time I do, a sinking feeling in me just screams at me that I can't. That I'll just fail and disappoint everyone. Like everyone already is with me anyway.
Izumi: Was this before or after you blew up an entire building?
*Francis is shown gliding over the city as he safely controls his parachute*
*shot suddenly cuts to him climbing the tallest tower in Sanjo City*
*Francis is now shown sitting on top of his roof as Todd is lying beside him smoking the schoolyard plants he stole along with Goma currently doodling something on a hologram; the three sit underneath the stars as Francis stares out into space*
COMING SOON…
*Francis is shown talking to someone on a phone inside of a parked car in the middle of the night; he was currently rubbing his eyes in a tired manner*
Francis: Aunt Lily, put… *sigh* Put dad on the phone.
eventually…
