EPISODE 46: THE BULLIES OF THE BULLIES

CHARACTERS

Littlefoot

Cera

Ducky

Petrie

Spike

Chomper

Ruby

Hyp

Nod

Mutt

Grandpa Longneck

Grandma Longneck

Thesco (OC)

Parker (OC)

Thesco's Father (OC)

SONGS

When You're Big

Good Times, Good Friends

"This weather great for flying," said Petrie. The wind was just right with no clouds in the sky, which was good as he didn't like having to fly through Sky Puffies. He soared up in the air, then zoomed across the Great Valley. He noticed Hyp, Nod, and Mutt running. "What they up to?" he asked himself. Normally others ran away from the three bullies. The only times he'd seen them running from something was when they were being chased by Sharpteeth. He flew above them. "What you running from?" he asked them.

"They're after us!" Hyp cried.

"Who after you?"

"Them!" Nod replied.

"Who 'them'?"

The three dinosaurs didn't reply but continued to run. Petrie heard two dinosaurs nearby. "Hyp, where are you?" the largest of them thundered.

"We won't hurt you, much." laughed the other.

"I hope they don't find us," Mutt said.

"Quiet you idiot!" Hyp whispered, whacking him in the head.

"Sorry."

Hyp, annoyed that he spoke again, whacked him again. Luckily for him, Nod, and Mutt, they weren't spotted and the two bullies continued on, searching for them.

"Who those guys?" Petrie asked.

"Bullies," Hyp replied.

"Bullies bully you?" Petrie gasped.

(Theme song: All I see is the day in front of us. All I see is the day in front of us. Burning bright with a new-born sun. Burning bright with a new-born sun. Come follow me

Hills to climb and valleys to roam
Oh, streams to follow all the way home
To the Land Before Time
Before time

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Several minutes later, Petrie's friends were all stunned to learn that Hyp, Nod, and Mutt were themselves being bullied. "They usually bully others; I never heard of anyone bullying them before," Ruby said.

"Maybe we should help them," Ducky suggested.

"Help them? They're bullies. It's about time someone gave it back to them," Cera said.

"It's not right that anyone gets bullied," Littlefoot said.

"What could we possibly do about it anyway?" Cera asked.

"We could tell the grownups," Littlefoot suggested.

"Nope. Pa says that now that I've reached the Time of Great Growing, I need to fight my own battles," Hyp said.

"That's hardly fair," Littlefoot said.

"Maybe we can tell other grownups," Ducky suggested.

"Then they'll think I can't handle it," Hyp protested.

"Well, it seems like you can't," Cera retorted.

"I know that, but I don't want them to know it."

"I don't see what good it would do to have them not know that you can't handle it. I can only see bad it would do," Ruby said.

"Besides, their parents don't care anyway, so telling them won't do anything," Hyp sighed.

"Yeah, their parents don't care," Nod echoed Hyp.

"You're not helping," Hyp snapped at him.

"Yeah, you're not helping!" Mutt echoed Hyp. Hyp facepalmed.

"So, who are these bullies anyway?" Chomper asked.

"Thesco and his goons."

"I've never heard of Thesco before," Littlefoot said.

"Count yourself lucky."
They could soon hear footsteps. "He's coming now!" Mutt cried in alarm.

"There are 10 of us and only two of them. How bad could they be?" Cera scoffed.

As Thesco the Thescelosaurus and Parker the Parksosaurus came into sight, however, they saw that the two were both quite larger than Hyp and his friends.

"Looks like Hyp found himself some friends," Thesco laughed.

"You need to leave Hyp alone!" Littlefoot snapped at the two bullies.

"Poor Hyp, he has to have a Longneck stand up for him!" Parker laughed.

"Stay out of this Longneck, before I stretch your neck even longer," Thesco threatened.

"We can take you," Cera scoffed.

"I don't think so," Parker laughed.

"I'd like to see you try," Thesco scoffed, flexing his muscles.

"Ok, I WILL!" Cera shouted, charging at them. They jumped out of the way and she collided with a big rock behind them. This knocked her over and took her out of action. "Ow, my head hurts!" she moaned.

"Cera, are you ok?" Littlefoot cried. He came running toward her, but, as he went by him, Parker stuck out his foot and Littlefoot tripped, falling on top of Cera.

Spike tried fighting the two bullies. He slapped Parker in the foot with his tail, making him hop in tail. However, while he'd focused on Parker, his attention was diverted away from Thesco, who proceeded, with effort, to push him over.

Before the two could react, the bullies had knocked over Petrie and Ducky as well. "Why don't you help your friends, Hyp?" Thesco taunted.

"Back off or I'll bite you!" Chomper threatened the bullies.

"You can't!" Thesco laughed.

"Yeah. You do and they'll kick you out," Parker said.

This was true. Chomper had been forbidden to bite or claw any resident or visitor of the Great Valley.

"Why do you guys like picking on everyone?" Ruby asked Thesco and Parker.

"Because we can," Parker said.

"Because we feel like it," Thesco replied.

"We're big so we can do anything that we want to do," Parker began to sing.

"We don't care about the whining and whimpering of little dinosaurs like you," Thesco sang.

"Me not little!" Petrie shouted.

"We can stay up all night," Parker sang.

"Win any fight," Thesco sang.

"We can take all your Tree Stars and your Sweet Bubbles too," Parker sang, grabbing Sweet Bubbles from Ruby.

"And there's not a thing that you little ones can do," Thesco sang.

"You can make any threat," Parker sang.

"And what you want you get," Thesco sang.

"You can stomp and romp around all day," Parker sang.

"And nobody dares get in your way," Thesco sang.

"Things are mighty fine," Parker sang.

"When all your Tree Sweets are mine," Thesco sang, seizing a collection of Tree Sweets from Ducky.

"Hey, those were mine, they were!" Ducky snapped.

"Things are better," Parker sang.

"Yes, things are better," Thesco sang.

"When you're big," the two sang together, finishing the song.

"Littlefoot, it's time for dinner!" Grandpa Longneck's voice called.

"Looks like your grandpa is calling you. Better run home, little baby," Parker said mockingly to Littlefoot as he left.

"I'm not a baby!"

"Bye, baby!" Thesco laughed.

The others soon left as well. Littlefoot approached his grandparents. They could tell that he was not happy about something.

"What's the matter Littlefoot?" Grandma Longneck asked him.

"Thesco and Parker."

"Who are they?" Grandpa Longneck asked.

"Bullies."

"Were you being bullied?" Grandma Longneck asked in concern.

"Kind of, but it wasn't just us."

"Who else?"

"First they were after Hyp, Nod, and Mutt, and we told them to stop and now they are after us too."

"Perhaps we can talk to their parents," Grandpa Longneck said.

"I'm not sure that will be necessary," Littlefoot said. He didn't want everyone to think that he couldn't handle it and needed the grownups to deal with it, even though he had come to his grandparents to ask for their help.

"Why did you come to us then if you didn't need help?" Grandma Longneck asked.

"I, well, I….."

"It's ok to ask for help Littlefoot," Grandpa Longneck said.

"I didn't want my friends to think that I couldn't handle it."

"But you don't seem able to handle it on your own."

"I know that, but I don't want everyone to know that."

"But we already know it."

"But I don't want everyone else to know."

"What's the big deal if everyone else knows?" Grandma Longneck asked.

"I guess I thought they'd think I was weak."

"You're not weak. There are just things you can't handle by yourself."

"You're right. I was being foolish in not asking for help."

"I'm sure a talk with their parents will straighten things out," Grandpa Longneck said.

However, the matter didn't go the way Grandpa and Grandma Longneck had hoped. "I don't see the problem," Thesco's father said to Grandpa Longneck.

"Why don't you?" Grandpa Longneck asked.

"Your grandson put his nose where it didn't belong, and now he's paying for it."

"Littlefoot doesn't like to see others get bullied, and now your son is bullying him," Grandpa Longneck said, his temper rising.

"Your grandson should have stayed out of this."

"Your son needs to stop bullying him."

"My son can do what he wants!"

"You're just going to let him bully others?"

"If they can't stick up for themselves, I don't see why that's my problem."

"Not your problem?!" Grandpa Longneck fumed, using great restraint to keep from exploding.

"Yes, that's right."

"Perhaps I can get others in the Great Valley to help me deal with this problem."

"That'll go well," Thesco's father laughed, rolling his eyes. "Both you and I are on the Great Valley High Council. If you try and challenge me, it'll start everyone arguing for hours and, in the end, nothing will be done anyway."

Grandpa Longneck sighed. He knew that that was one annoying part about the Great Valley High Council: dissension among the members usually led to long infighting with little resolve in the end. "You will regret this," he snarled."

"I'm sure I will," Thesco's father laughed.

Grandpa Longneck met up with his wife. It seemed that she had run into the same situation with Parker's mother. She was also a member of the Great Valley High Council and believed that her son could do no wrong.

"So, what are we going to do now?" Littlefoot asked glumly, upon being informed by his grandparents as to what had happened when they had talked to Thesco's and Parker's parents.

"I'm sure we'll figure out something," Grandpa Longneck tried to reassure him.

"Yeah, but in the meantime, they'll keep bullying us," Littlefoot sighed.

"Try and avoid them," Grandma Longneck said.

"I will," Littlefoot sighed, "as long as they try and avoid me."

"I would try and avoid them even if they come across you," Grandpa Longneck suggested.

"Won't I look like a coward?"

"Better than getting hurt."

"I guess."

Sometime later, Littlefoot told his friends what had happened.

"That terrible! That mean we be bullied forever!" Petrie moaned.

"Not if we went and taught these guys a lesson," Cera said.

"Me not think that they learn well," Petrie said.

"Pain is a good teacher," Cera replied smugly.

"As long as we not ones in pain."

"We won't be."

"I'm not so sure that violence is the answer," Littlefoot said.

"You're starting to sound like your grandpa! What are we supposed to do to get them to stop picking on us?" Cera snapped.

"I'm not sure yet," Littlefoot replied.

"Well, think of something anytime now," Cera said sarcastically.

"Maybe Cera is right. Maybe we should beat them up," Chomper said.

"I'd like to see you try." It was Thesco.

"You again!" Cera groaned. "Why don't you just go away?"

"Make me!"

"Ok, fine, I will!"

Cera charged at him but Thesco once more jumped out of her way. Cera missed him and collided with a tree, breaking the top half of it. The tree almost fell on top of Littlefoot, who got out of the way just in time. Cera quickly got back up and charged at Thesco again. Thesco once more nimbly jumped out of the way, and Cera smashed into a big rock, which, shattered. She still wasn't done, however. She got up and once more charged at Thesco. This time, she had him cornered. However, before she could reach him, Parker ran into her. Parker was knocked over from the collision, but Cera fell into a pit of mud.

"What do you want this time, Thesco and Parker?" Littlefoot sighed.

"We decided that you were going to get us a bunch of tree sweets from the tree."

"But only Petrie can get up there," Chomper said.

"No, you can go up there too," Parker laughed.

"How?"

"Like this!" He grabbed Chomper and threw him up into the tree. He hit several Tree Sweets, knocking them to the ground.

"Thanks Chomper!" Thesco laughed as he picked up the fallen Tree Sweets.

"Parker, you need to get Chomper down as you put him up there!" Ruby snapped.

"No, I don't."

"But we need to get him down!"

"That's not my problem." The two bullies walked away, laughing.

"Guys, I'm stuck up here!" Chomper called.

"Me get you down," Petrie said. He grabbed ahold of Chomper and carried him down from the tree.

Cera was fuming. "That's it! No more Ms. Nice Threehorn!" she snarled.

"What are you going to do this time?" Littlefoot asked.

"They have to tire out eventually. And I'll be there waiting when they do."

"Are you going to follow them around all day to catch them at that point?" Littlefoot asked, rolling his eyes.

"I think we all should. Then we could catch them when they least expect it."

"I'm not sure getting even with them will stop them from bullying us."

"Sure, it will. Then they'll know not to mess with us."
Sometime later, there group met up with Hyp, Nod, and Mutt. "What do you want?" Hyp asked Cera.

"Yeah, you're interrupting our day," Nod snapped.

"Why did you interrupt our day?" Mutt asked.

"Because ever since we tried to help you by standing up to those bullies, they've been after us now."

"You didn't help us. They're still bullying us," Mutt argued.

"Didn't help?! Didn't help?!" Cera fumed.

"What Cera means," Littlefoot quickly interjected, "is that we need your help to stop the bullies."

"How are we supposed to stop them?" Hyp asked.

"I'm glad you asked," Cera said. "I've figured out that I can't stop them by myself."

"Finally, she admits she can't do something," Littlefoot whispered to Ruby.

"So, you want us to help you stop them?" Mutt asked.

"Yes, we're going to wait until they're tired and then we're going to get them," Cera said.

"I like the plan," Hyp said.

"Me too," Nod said.

"Er, what was the plan again?" Mutt asked.

"Never mind. Just do what I say and we'll get them," Cera said.

And so the group followed the two bullies around all day, waiting for a chance to strike back at them when they were tired and off their guard.

"We have followded them around all day. Are we ever going to get them?" Ducky asked Cera late in the day.

"Soon, very soon."

An hour later, Cera and the others spotted Thesco and Parker heading home, as it was time for dinner. As Cera had anticipated, they looked pretty beat. "Now!" Cera cried.

The group sprang out, coming at them from different directions. "What in the world!" Thesco gasped.

"Not so tough now, are you?" Cera laughed.

However, what she hadn't counted on was the two jumping down a waterfall, for Cera had thought that ambushing them near a cliff was best, so they'd have nowhere to run, or so she'd thought, and she hadn't taken into account the waterfall. Nor had she taken into account them all colliding if the bullies jumped out of the way somehow, which was what happened.

"Ow! What happened?" Cera moaned, rubbing her horn.

"It look like bullies get away again," Petrie sighed.

"So, what now, Cera?" Littlefoot asked.

"I don't know."

"It looks like we need a new plan," Chomper sighed.

Sometime later, Cera said, "Ok, we're still being bullied and, so far, our plans haven't worked. But this time, I….."

"Maybe someone else besides you should come up with the plan this time," Littlefoot interjected.

"Do you have an idea how to get us out of this messed?" Cera asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I have an idea."

"What?"

Sometime later, Littlefoot and his friends, along with Hyp, Nod, and Mutt, gathered together. "So, what's the plan this time? And I hope it's better than our last plans, because they didn't work." Hyp asked.

"Yeah, we need a plan that works," Mutt said.

"So do you have a plan that works?" Nod asked.

"Of course, Littlefoot has a plan that will work. He was tired of using plans that weren't working so he came up with a plan that he thinks will work," Ruby replied.

"Let's hear it then," Hyp said.

"It's simple, we won't do anything to do them, they'll defeat themselves."

"How are they going to defeat themselves?" Hyp asked.

"I'll explain," Littlefoot replied.

Sometime later, Thesco and Parker approached the group, planning to bully them again. "I suggest you two leave," Littlefoot said to them calmly.

"Leave, why would we leave?" Parker laughed.

"Yeah, we're here to pound you," Thesco said.

"That not going to be happening today," Petrie said.

"Yeah, it's not going to be…." Mutt began.

"Why you repeat what others say all the time?" Petrie asked.

"Not sure. I thought it sounded cool, I guess."
"Enough with the chitchat. It's time for pounding," Parker declared.

"Nobody is getting pounded today," Littlefoot said.

"Ha, you're going to be the first!" Thesco laughed.

"Not today I'm not."

"Oh yeah, watch!" He swung his fist at Littlefoot's head. However, the Longneck ducked the swing and instead Thesco connected with the point of Cera's horns. "Ouch!"

Parker swung his fist at Ruby. Ruby, however, ducked, and he instead made contact with the pointy parts of Spike's tail. "Ouch!" he cried.

The two bullies weren't about to give up, however. "You kids are going to pay!" Thesco bellowed.

"You guys just don't give up," Littlefoot sighed.

"Prepare for a beat down!" Parker cried as she and Thesco charged at them.

The children all locked arms, forelimbs, and wings, in the case of Petrie. When the bullies hit them, it was like hitting a brick wall at a run. And they didn't just merely fall down, but they also rolled down the hill they had been on. The two bullies rolled over and over until they shot off the edge off a large rock and into a large pit of mud, of which they submerged themselves in for a few seconds, reemerging a short time later, covered in mud.

The two clambered up out of the pit, only for Parker to slip on the wet mud, crash into Thesco, and send the two back into the mud pit. The two climbed out of the mud pit and sulked off in defeat.

"Hey look, they left!" Nod cried.

"Yes, they left. And it doesn't look like they're coming back!" Mutt shouted.

"We've won! We've beaten those bullies! You're a genius, Littlefoot!" Hyp proclaimed.

"I told you that we'd succeed by working together and that we wouldn't have to fight them."

"Good times, good friends, we drove those bullies away," Cera began to sing.

"Now they won't bully us another day," Nod sang.

"We drove them off by working together," Ruby sang.

"They'll be done bullying us forever," Hyp sang.

"No more bullying again, never!" Mutt sang.

"Good times, good friends, now nobody will pick on me," Hyp sang.

"Now we can all be happy," Chomper sang.

"Good times, good friends, wish that it would never end," all of them sang, finishing the song.

Thesco and Parker went to their parents to complain about them being knocked into mud, trying to portray Littlefoot and his friends as the aggressors. Their parents, in turn, made a big stink about it in the Great Valley council. However, as Littlefoot had already told his grandparents what had really happened, their efforts didn't get anywhere. And so, in the end, Thesco and Parker gave up and never bullied any of them ever again.