Chapter 3: Knock Knock, Knotwood Forest
"That was… amazing." Peggy sighed as Ford squeezed her ass, both of them laying on their bed together, bodies drenched in sweat and the redhead being stuffed to the brim with her lover's seed.
The two had been making love to each other for the better part of the afternoon and now were both thoroughly satisfied and equally exhausted from the ordeal.
Their bed was also a veritable mess as well, something that the two were certain the hotel housekeepers were going to be thrilled about.
"That is going to be a small taste of what I'm going to do to you while we're here." The Wales native told her before hugging her close. "I'm going to enjoy watching you grow…" He then rubbed the redhead's flattened tummy. "Bigger." He added with a smile.
The Scottish girl smiled warmly as she held his hand to her stomach, envisioning herself growing fat with his child.
"Oh I can hardly wait, mo chirdhe." She purred, her voice slipping into her Scottish brogue again, which made Ford smile as he kissed her deeply.
(Later)
*ROAR*
*STOMP*
*SMASH*
*BOOM*
*clink clink*
These sounds blasted around the walls and domed curves of the Fossil Stadium colosseum, and it was all the result of a Level Up battle. Specifically Ford's.
He'd passed his cleaning test, as expected. Now he was trying to win this battle. William had just stomped an enemy V-Raptor into the dirt, and was moving on to the rest of the enemy team which consisted of herbivores like a Goyle and a few others.
However, the Goyle had the ability parting blow, so Ford had to let Macbeth attack it with Cyclone, and then V to attack the remaining Shanshan with Lethal Poison, winning him the match.
"And that's the game." Ford smiled as his medals returned to him.
"Indeed it is." William commented in agreement, his fighter entering the common room of the arena.
"Wonder if Lee's gonna be doing his battle soon?" The youngman mused as he looked down at his pocket watch. "I mean, he went into his cleaning test right as I went into my test battle." He added.
"Why don't we go into the stands and wait for his battle to start?" A voice suggested, causing Ford to nearly jump out of his skin as he turned and saw that Peggy had snuck up behind him.
"Sweetheart, I love you, but please don't sneak up on me like that." The shorter twin told his girlfriend.
"Sorry, but I do wanna see Lee fighting." The redhead replied apologetically before dragging her lover to the stands so they could watch the taller twin fight.
"Okay, okay!" Ford yelped as he was pulled along.
(Elsewhere)
"You guys ready?" Lee questioned as he entered the fossil arena, looking at his newer vivosaurs.
"Let's go." Newton responded.
As the taller man walked into the stadium to the cheers of all present, he saw that Ford and Peggy were in the front row. Remembering the Carno medal that Joe gave him, he took it out.
"Hey Ford, catch!" He called, tossing the medal to his brother, who caught it. "That's a dino medal that Joe told me to give to you." He explained. "Turns out he was gathering mistreated and abused Vivosaurs from poorly trained new fighters and finding them new better fighters." He added.
"Well shit." The younger sibling blinked. "Looks like my team just got a new member." He mused.
"His name is Ace, I think you'll like him." Lee called before he turned towards his opponent, who looked to be a blonde female fighter he'd encountered earlier in the common room: Dipper. She was wearing mostly green digging clothes with a canary yellow safari hat.
"Get ready, Lee, I'm gonna knock your socks off!" She proclaimed, sending out her dino medals.
"Doesn't seem likely." The blue tipped Welshman said, taking out his own medals. "But let's battle all the same." He continued, tossing out his team. "V, Volt, Newton, come out!" He added as his three raptors appeared.
Dipper, meanwhile, sent out three similar vivosaurs. That being a Pachycephalosaurus, a Stygimoloch, and a Goyo.
"Pachy, use Iron Head on V-Raptor!" She called to her first vivosaur, a bad move, since an earth type like Pachy had an elemental disadvantage over an fire type like V.
V let out a hiss as he was hit, and it was thanks to his present level and odd typing that he wasn't sent back into medal form due to his durability.
"Volt. Swap places with V and use U-Poison on Pachy." The Welshman ordered as his raptors did so. Right before Volt unleashed a flurry of attacks at Pachy, doing critical damage due to him being a fire type and having an advantage over earth types–and also poisoning it.
"Now that's a counterattack!" Slate exclaimed with a smile.
"Goyo! Swap places with Pachy so it can rest off its poison and use Rock Ram against U-Raptor!" Dipper ordered.
The two vivosaurs did so, and Goyo launched itself at Volt, but the U-Raptor was able to leap over the herbivore–leaving it wide open to an attack from either him or Newton.
"Newton, use Tro Toxin!" Lee called, prompting the Trodon to start slashing at Goyo with its claws, and then blasting it back with a mist breath attack that sent it rolling into the opposing wall of the stadium–sending the vivosaur into its medal and prompting Stygi to take its place and Pachy to come out of the EZ into the SZ. V doing the same.
"Ha, nice!" Peggy exclaimed with a grin as she watched the fight.
"That's my bro for you!" Ford laughed.
"Stygi, use Fiendish Missile on U-Raptor!" Dipper growled.
The Stygi then launched itself forward, but its target evaded the attack, leaving it to crash into the wall and leave itself dazed.
"Volt, swap with V! V, use Lethal Poison!" Lee ordered as the raptor unleashed a claw combo and then blasting the Stygi with fire, sending it flying and tumbling back into its medal form, leaving Pachy all alone.
"Uh oh…" Dipper gulped, seeing how bad this situation looked for her.
"Newton, Tro Toxin. V, follow it up with Veloci-claw." Lee ordered, intent on ending this. The two did so and beat the last remaining vivosaur, winning him the match. "And done." He added, walking away.
(Later)
Sighing, Lee walked out of the stadium after getting his license upgraded, right as Ford and Peggy came up behind him.
"Hey bro!" Ford called as he ran up to his sibling. "Nice job out there." He smiled as the two high fived while the three of them made their way to the docks where he saw a boat pulling into Port, specifically it was one of the Richmond personal cargo boats, but that wasn't important.
What was important were the four by four wooden crates that they were unloading. Made out of neat and uniformly cut boards with the words 'Fragile' and 'Fossils' on it, they were also stamped with pictures from America, the UK and Australia.
This sight made the siblings perk up, as they knew exactly what was in these boxes, specifically because they'd been expecting them.
"William/V, get ready to grow stronger." The two muttered in unison with grins on their faces. "Jynx!" They exclaimed, pointing at each other.
Walking up to the crates, they looked at the captain, who was checking to see that he had everything and nothing was missing.
"Okay, everything looks to be in order." He said to himself before noticing the brothers. "Oh, hi Ford, Lee. These boxes have your names on all of 'em. For your T-Rex and V-Raptor partners, I assume?" He guessed.
"Yeah. We put in an order for them after we arrived here." The boy nodded. "Just have them delivered to the cleaning room of the Fossil Center. We'll handle everything from there.
"Right. Just sign here, please." The man replied as he held out a clipboard. Ford nodded and signed on the dotted line for himself and his brother. "Alright. We're in business." He added.
(Later)
With that, the boxes were sent to the Fossil Center for Ford to open up. A certain scatterbrained scientist was rather giddy when he realized what was up. An hour later, Peggy swung by and saw the work her boyfriend was doing.
"Whatcha doin' sweetie?" The girl questioned as she joined KL-3N in watching Ford as he was cleaning up the fossils, having finished cleaning the Body, Arms and Leg fossils to near immaculate condition.
"Getting William's new body parts ready for integration. They literally arrived an hour or so ago." The British man replied as he worked on the tail.
"Same with V's new body parts." The blue tipped Welshman added.
After about another fifteen minutes, William's skeleton was finally finished, allowing KL-3N to integrate them into William's framework, and allowing the dinosaur to become more complete.
"Scare Tactics, Frightful Assault, Law of the Jungle, and–oh my–a Unique Move called Tyrannical Overture." Diggins noted as he looked over at William's readings. "And now that his skeleton is complete, he's gone from rank 4 to rank 8 in one go!" He added.
"Now that's a massive upgrade right there!" Peggy whistled, impressed with the readings.
"I agree completely." Ford nodded as he let William step out of the revival chamber.
"Ah. Whole at last." The dinosaur sighed as he stretched and shook himself before Ford called him back.
"Okay, now give me a bit to clean off V's body parts so I can make him whole." Lee said as he got to work on his partner's skeleton.
Fifteen minutes later, he finished up with V's skeleton and had it merged with his partner. Immediately, he had gained some new moves.
"Hm… Quicken, a support attack that can boost the speed of allies for a turn, a Team Attack called Raptor Tornado–that's impressive– and an attack called Toxicity. That's quite the gain."The taller Welshman whistled as the parts were whisked away to the fossil machine, and V's medal was placed in it. A minute later, and the fire raptor stepped out.
"Ah, and now I am whole." He sighed before Lee recalled him.
"Now, next on the agenda is to head to the next dig site." The British lad stated as he looked at the list of sites.
"Knotwood Forest, right?" The redhead asked, looking over his shoulder.
"Yep. Time to see what we can find over there." Ford nodded.
"Sounds like fun." The taller of the twins smiled.
(Later)
The trio soon arrived at the Level 2 dig site, and started to search for new fossils to clean and revive, until both of them heard a familiar voice call from behind them.
"Peggy! Ford, Lee!" A voice called. The triad turned to face the person and were surprised to see Rosie running up to them.
"Oh, hey Rosie. Here to see what kind of fossils are in the area, too?" The redhead asked with a hand on her hip.
"Yeah!" She nodded. "What about you guys?" She asked.
"Yeah. We were actually going to try going deeper into the forest." Ford nodded. "Maybe we'll find some more of our friends along the way?" He added.
"Let's hope so. Otherwise this would be boring." Peggy chuckled before the trio started making their way deeper… Or tried to, rather.
Knotwood Forest as a general area of land was densely wooded with a splattering of breakable and unbreakable tree stumps here and there. The latter being unbreakable because they were essentially petrified wood.
So with these obstacles and a generally dark and spotty light situation throughout the entire site, it was difficult for the group to traverse.
So much so that Rosie didn't even notice that she was about to run into someone until she literally ran into them.
"Oof!" Both grunted from the impact.
"Hey, watch where you're go-ing…" Rosie started to shout before going quiet upon seeing who she bumped into.
It was Holt, and when she looked at him, she swore her heart skipped a beat. It was the same for Holt himself, who felt like he was staring at a living amethyst.
"Oh, sorry–!" The two started saying before they started fumbling over their words for a bit before settling on a simple. "Hi." They greeted nervously, their faces blushed and their demeanor timid.
"Hey Holt, have you been here long?" Ford questioned.
"Uh-!" The capped fighter got out with a small start. "Yeah. Got a good haul of fossil rocks, and now I'm heading to the fossil center to clean 'em." He continued.
"Well the three of us just got here and we're tryin' to find our way around. The place is a maze, I tell ya." Peggy chimed in, looking around the woodwork.
"Your brogue is showing, Peggy." Lee teased.
"Up yers!" The redhead shot back indignantly.
"Oh, I can help you find your way around, I know this place pretty well." The blonde offered.
"You will?!" Rosie jumped in joy. "But… What about your fossils?" She asked.
"Oh I just got them, I'm sure they can wait just a little longer." Holt chuckled, scratching the back of his neck.
"Is it just me, or does this guy sound like he's got a fire down below for the bubblegum lass there?" MacBeth questioned.
"Seems that way." V hummed.
"Must you be so descriptive?!" Ace, the rather soft spoken carnotaurus, groaned at his teammate's lewd allusion.
"Oh calm down, both of you." William told them.
"Boys, boys. Calm down." Evie told them.
"We'd appreciate a guide." Ford nodded, ignoring the banter of his team.
"Yeah, I'd prefer not to be stuck out here all night." His brother nodded. "Because these two would look for any excuse to get frisky in any place they can think of." He added with a whisper, jabbing a thumb at his sibling and the man's girlfriend.
This was partly because he actually saw Peggy drag Ford into a mixed gender bathroom and locked the door, and judging by the moaning he heard as he went elsewhere—they weren't exactly leaving it clean.
"Right…" The Junkyard Apprentice muttered before shaking his head. "Come on, the section leading to the deepest part of the forest is this way." Holt told them as he gestured for them to follow.
(Later)
As the group of friends arrived at the spot that the Junkyard apprentice had described, they soon found that their path was blocked by an island worker standing guard at the aforementioned entrance.
"Sorry, but this area has been closed off until further notice." The worker told them.
"What? Why?" Ford questioned.
"No idea, kid." He replied. "All I know is that my boss said not to let anyone else through and that's exactly what I'm gonna do." He added.
"Huh…" Holt huffed before tapping his foot. "I wonder if this has something to do with the Digadig village?" He wondered aloud.
"The what-now?" Peggy asked in confusion, which Ford and Lee shared.
"Oh, they're native to the island. They've been around for a long long time, but they're good people." Holt explained.
"And what could this have to do with them?" Rosie asked before something crossed her mind. "Could it be something being stolen from them?" She wondered.
"That I don't know. We'd need to get there to know for certain." The blonde stated. Rosie seemed frustrated about this for a minute before she suddenly had an idea.
"Ding-Dong! Light bulb!" The girl beamed. "Let's try asking my grandfather to see what he thinks we should do." She offered.
"Did she just say ding-dong?" Lee whispered to Peggy.
"Ah know! It was adorable!" The Scottish girl gushed.
"Sounds good. Let's go." Ford nodded in agreement.
(Later)
"Whoa hold on." Holt said as they came in front of the Richmond Building. "Your grandfather is John Richmond?!" He exclaimed in surprise while Rosie turned around, leaning over slightly with her hands behind her back.
"Yep!" She smiled, her chest bouncing as she did so.
"Don't worry, Holt; we were surprised about it, too." Ford told his friend with a chuckle.
As they went inside the building, the guards all saluted the group. "Welcome back Ms. Rosetta and friends!" One of them greeted.
"Rosetta?" Holt questioned.
"My mom named me that, after the Rosetta Stone." She explained. "She was an archeologist and my dad was a paleontologist." She continued. "They… disappeared after their plane crashed nine years ago." She added with a sad sigh.
"Oh man…." Holt sighed, taking his helmet off and running a hand through his hair.
"Yeah. I can relate to the missing parent thing, which is how we're friends." Ford supplied, getting a nod in agreement from Lee.
As they entered the office of Mr. Richmond, the man quickly took notice of them. The man was a large elderly gentleman with white hair and a beard, who was dressed in a baby blue suit. His blue eyes seemed to convey a kind soul.
"Well, well, Rosie, Ford, Lee. It's good to see you again." The man smiled. "You didn't lose your medals again, did you?" He questioned with a chuckle.
"No, none of that." Ford chuckled in reply.
"That fustercluck's been dealt with." Lee nodded, Holt snorting at his choice of words.
"Grandpa, there's something we need to ask." Rosie stated. "We were trying to get deeper into Knotwood Forest and then we were stopped by someone in the Fossil Center. And we don't know why." She added.
"I can't remember the reason off the top of my head. I suggest asking Dr. Diggins since he seems to know more about what goes on around the island these days." The elderly man told them.
"Sounds good to me." Peggy shrugged.
"But how should we make him "give up the goods" so to speak?" Holt questioned.
"Hmmm, well. If there's one thing I know about Dr. Diggins: it's that the man loves dino cakes." Richmond hummed thoughtfully.
"Dino Cakes?" Ford parroted in confusion.
"The bloody hell is a Dino Cake?" The taller of the brothers questioned.
"Oh, they're some of the best sweets on the island. They go out of stock faster than a cheetah at full speed and we never know when there's more on the shelves, so we'll have to hope we're lucky when we get to the store." Rosie explained.
"Wow. Talk about high demand." The Welsh boy commented with a blink.
"Like the Sally Lun buns back home…" His brother added idly.
"That's a pretty good parallel." Peggy nodded as they left the office.
"Now I wanna taste one just to see what the deal is." Lee commented as the group headed for the store.
(Later)
"Phew." The young adults sighed as they squeezed their way out of the Fossil Guild shop with a pair of boxes containing a dozen Dino Cakes each.
The cakes themselves looked like your typical chocolate bundt cake, but what made them different was the raspberry and snowberry filling and Volcano chili chocolate ganache topping which gave it the appearance of a Volcano. And to make things even more adorable, they were topped with a gummy dinosaur.
"Ya know, I'm kinda glad we were able to get our hands on two of these. Now I can see what the big deal is about these." Ford mused, looking at the treats.
"Same here." The blue tipped twin nodded in agreement along with Peggy.
Taking one of the small sweets out of the box, they took a bite of it and immediately got the heat from the spicy chocolate ganache right off the bat, before it slowly melted away with the moist dark chocolate/coffee flavor of the cake, and then finished with the sweet tang of the raspberry/snowberry filling.
"Wow! Now I get why demand for these is as high as a mountain!" He exclaimed in amazement. He'd never tasted anything that great in his life!
"I'll say! These are fuckin' amazing!" Peggy exclaimed with stars in her eyes.
"Took the words right outta my mouth!" Lee exclaimed, now wanting to make an order to reserve some of the dino themed treats in advance.
"Told you they were popular." Rosie told them as the trio continued gobbling what was left.
(Later)
After having their quick snack break, the five friends neared the Fossil Center, going up to the front desk.
"Hey Ms. Wendy, is Dr. Diggins here?" She asked.
"Yes. He should be in his lab, and if not there, then check his personal office." The woman replied, getting four nods in return before they went into the lab.
Upon seeing no sign of the scatterbrained doctor, they opted to check his personal office. They immediately found him rummaging around for something, all while muttering things they couldn't hear clearly.
The office itself was an absolute mess, papers and folders strewn everywhere, old coffee cups and pizza boxes everywhere gathering flies, it was a nightmare.
"Of God, I think I'm gonna be sick!" Peggy gagged.
"... Eh, I've seen worse." Holt shrugged.
"Same." Was Lee's nonchalant response.
"Hey, Dr. Diggins!" Ford called, trying to get the man's attention. "We need your help with something! Can you spare a moment?" He asked.
"What? No no no. Can't spare any time right now! Have to look for what I need!" He rambled dismissively.
"Oh well in that case, we'll just have to eat these Dino Cakes ourselves." Peggy shrugged, causing the bluish-green haired man to freeze.
"... Dino Cakes?!" He uttered, slowly turning to them.
"Yeah, if he isn't gonna help us out, we might as well eat these ourselves." Holt shrugged, playing along.
"Now wait a moment…!" Diggins panicked, showing he couldn't resist much longer.
"Yeah, and they are really tasty, so–" Rosie started to say before…
"GIVE ME MY DINO CAKES, YOU MAGGOTS!" The scatterbrained man roared in a startlingly demonic voice, scaring the group of five.
"AAAAAHHHHH! Okay, okay!" Ford panicked, giving the man his sweets. Peggy was hiding behind him with a frightened look on her face while Holt held Rosie in his arms Scooby Doo style, both looking freaked the fuck out.
Lee, meanwhile, had jumped clear across the room and was pressed against the wall with a look of fear on his face.
"Ah, all is right in the universe." The scientist sighed like he'd found the secret to eternal peace. "Now, what did you four want?" He asked, taking a bite of a cake.
Setting the remaining 10 cakes and boxes far away from the sugar crazed scientist, Rosie cleared her throat and spoke up.
"We were trying to get into Knotwood Forest and then we were stopped by someone in the Fossil Center uniform. They said something had gone wrong." She explained.
"And we were wondering if you could fill us in." Holt nodded.
"Oh, that." The man blinked. "We received reports that there was an incident with the Digadig tribe, specifically their Digadigamid. We sent someone to figure out what was going on, but we haven't heard back from them yet." He explained. "So because of that, I ordered the area be closed off until the situation was resolved." He added.
"How long has this person been MIA?" Ford asked.
"At most three days." Diggins replied.
This caused a myriad of alarm bells to go off in the group's heads. If a skilled Fossil Fighter had been missing for three days without so much as a peep, that meant they probably needed backup.
"Give us clearance cards. Two, three or all five of us will head in and deal with it." Ford requested seriously.
"Are you sure you can handle that?" Diggins asked in concern.
"Dead sure." Peggy nodded in reply, just as serious as her boyfriend.
"I mean…" The doctor trailed before letting out an audible shrug.
"Sir, if we can handle getting someone like Joe off the streets. We can handle this." Lee chimed in.
"Oh alright, hang on…" Diggins sighed before he started sifting through his things and getting the passes ready. "Here you are. But please, be careful." He told them.
"Gotcha." Ford nodded as the gang left to head back to Knotwood Forest.
(Later)
Upon getting their passes, the group went back to Knotwood Forest and went to the closed off area to continue inward.
"No one's allowed–" He started to say before he suddenly found four clearance passes in front of him. "Oh, you got clearance from Dr. Diggins? Alright, then." He shrugged.
"That was easy." Rosie mused.
"Thankfully." Ford nodded.
As they continued to walk through the forest, the group's Dino medals all glowed as they all transformed into their Vivosaur's chibi forms, who then started running around and sniffing the area as if catching a scent.
"Huh. Pretty eager to look around, aren't they?" Holt mused as they all watched their Vivosaurs run around.
"And claim new territory." Ford chuckled as he watched William glare at everything around him.
After the Vivosaurs rummaged around the area for a bit, they then returned to medal form and Ford's team–Named UK Bias by their fighter–verbally pointed him in the direction of the next checkpoint.
Proceeding onward, the group minus Holt decided to do some digging along the way and see what kind of fossils they could find. They found their fair share of fossil rocks and even jewel rocks with Ford deciding to smash a few petrified wood stumps (three in total), which got him six hundred gold as a result.
Though he did have a rather sore hand for his actions.
"Gotta find a better way to handle that…" The young man groaned, shaking his throbbing hand as they neared the center of the forest.
"Maybe consider getting a metal glove?" Holt offered.
"It crossed my mind." Ford mused as they continued further into the forest, until they reached a clearing that was flanked by two pole torches.
Inside the clearing was a tiny looking village of medium and large sized TPs, and a monolithic stepped pyramid towards the back.
"Huh. So this is the Digadig village." Peggy muttered as she looked around before two tribesmen walked up to them. They looked like they were wearing full body fursuits, loincloths and wood masks.
"I'm getting Native American vibes from these people, oddly enough." Lee whispered to his brother, who hummed in response.
"Are you four fossil fighters? Digadig." One asked, using what could be a verbal tic at the end.
"Is that tic of theirs normal?" Ford asked Holt, getting a nod in response.
"Let me handle this, guys." The blonde said as he walked up to the two tribesmen. "Hello, Coatus, Onyx dig." He told them. "It's me, Holt McJunker. Is the Chief here, Digadig?" He asked.
"Ah, friend Holt! Welcome back. Yes, the Chief is in front of his home, Digadig." Onyx nodded in reply, sounding relieved that Holt was back.
"Good. We're here on Dr. Diggins' behalf to check on the Fighter he sent out here to check out your Digadigamid." Holt told them as the quartet was led into the village.
"Very good news. We're getting worried ourselves, Digadig." Coatus said.
"What exactly is the matter here, anyway?" Rosie wondered.
"Don't worry. We're about to find out." Holt told her in reply.
As the group made their way through the village, they saw many other Digadig tribe people around the tents dressed in more average tribal garb. Red and blue robes with fur and hide linings, hide dresses with various patterns, and some of the teenagers opted for simple cloth tops and palm leaf skirts.
After a short while, they reached the Chief of the village, who was easily different from the others. He wore a combination of furs and cloth in tandem with a mask and a headdress made of feathers. Most notable was the kind aura he had surrounding him
He was also considerably shorter than everyone else, though the group figured that it was due to his old age.
"Hallooo… Digadig." The man greeted as one of the armor-clad tribesmen handed him a cane made of a large rib bone. "I am the chieftain of Digadig village. Which is this place here. Digadig." He continued, introducing himself.
"Thank you, chief." Ford nodded politely.
"So, what seems to be the problem?" Peggy inquired.
"We are faced with a very hard difficulty, Digadig." The Chief began. "Strange people have broken into and desecrated our sacred Digadigamid, and we've no way to stop them." He continued. "We are pacifists, you see. Dig." He added.
"In that case, we can handle whatever's happening!" Peggy declared with a grin.
"Yeah! You can count on us!" Rosie added in agreement with her own grin.
The chieftain laughed heartily when he heard this. "This makes me happy with gratitude, like a T-Rex with a full belly!" He laughed. "I will be happy to make this worth your while." He continued.
"Worth our while? Like a reward?" Peggy asked.
"Sounds interesting." Rosie added before everyone save Holt became confused as the chieftain started vigorously shaking his hips.
"What the…?" Lee uttered as Holt facepalmed.
"Ford, Lee, you might wanna move back." He stated as he pulled his friend backwards.
The twins were confused but did so anyway.
The girls, however, remained where they were. When the chief finished his odd dance, two lightning bolts suddenly struck them!
"WHAT THE–?!" The two Welshmen yelled with wide eyes at the unexpected lightning strikes.
"AAAAAHHHH!" The girls yelled in unison as they were smited.
"Chieftain you sodding bastard!" The Scottish girl yelled.
"Ohhh… that's unpleasant." Rosie groaned as they fell to the ground.
"Hrasvalgr's EGGS man, what was that for?!" The redhead groaned.
"There, it is done. And no permanent damage either, digadig." The man smiled with an exerted sigh.
"I'LL SHOW YOU DIGA-PERMANENT DAMAGE YA WEE FUCK!" Peggy yelled, her Scottish accent showing again as she struggled to get up. "Ford! Throw me diga-at him! Heels first!" She added, her legs still feeling like jello.
"Uh, Peggy? Why are you talking like that?" Ford asked with a blink, noticing his girlfriend now talking like the Digadig people.
"What are you diga-talking abo–" The redhead started to question before noticing how she was speaking. "What did you Diga-do to me and Rosie?!" She demanded glaring at the chief.
"I have blessed you with the gift of communication with our people, Digadig." The man explained.
"Chief, while I understand it was done with good intentions, some people don't exactly… Appreciate such things being bestowed upon them. Mainly because it can cause them to feel frustrated. Digadig." Holt explained.
"Yeah! What he Diga-said!" Rosie exclaimed, frustration showing in her voice.
"Ah… My apologies. I had forgotten that detail." The chief sighed. "You two remain here while I rest. I will remove the blessing when I have enough energy to do so again." He told the girls.
"Fine." Peggy sighed. "You boys think you can handle things on your own? Digadig–Oh bloody fucking damn it." She asked before groaning.
"Yeah. We can handle ourselves." Holt nodded.
"It shouldn't be too hard." Lee added.
"Come on then, let's get diga-going." Ford nodded as he engaged his gauntlet so they could get moving.
"… Bruh." Lee sweat dropped.
(Later)
As the three friends entered the Digadigamid they were soon cut off by the strangest looking person they'd seen to date.
It was a man in a weird purple suit with white stripes on the arms, legs and abdomen. He also had a beanie on his head and looked like a guy who was hopped up on either sugar or cocaine.
Generally, he looked like a shady loon.
"... That's the most queer outfit I've seen outside of the isles. To date." The paleo enthusiast stated in utter bafflement at what he was seeing.
"Seconded." The blue tipped Welshman nodded in agreement with his own sweatdrop on the matter.
"What're the BB Bandits doing here?" Holt questioned.
"Wait, this idiot is one of the BB Bandits?" Ford gaped before facepalming. "Oh fuck me, this is disappointing." He added with a groan.
"You won't be saying that when I beat you! Yaaa–!" The bandit yelled as he was about to throw his medals out.
This was stopped by Ford actually shooting his Medals at them, causing William and Ace to knock the newly summoned Stygi and Goyo clear across the temple and into a wall, causing them to return to their medals.
Ford made a finger gun and holstered it in his pocket as he caught his two Vivosaurs. "You were saying?" He questioned
"… Man that gauntlet is fast." Holt gaped.
"I know." The British man smirked before shooing the defeated bandit away… And said bandit actually cried like a child as he ran.
'What a loser.' The three thought with neutral faces. With that done they continued onwards, and then encountered another BB Bandit.
He was clad in the same attire as the last one, but the main difference–and it was just a tiny difference really–was that this Bandit was a fully bipedal gray furred English Bulldog.
"... The bloody fuck is this shite?" The taller twin questioned upon seeing this odd creature.
"I… I can't even…" Was Holt's only available thought as he rubbed his eyes, unsure if they were playing tricks on him.
The dog merely growled and barked at them, trying to appear threatening… And failing miserably.
"Wait a fucking minute." Ford stated as he noticed something in the canine's paws. "This bloke's got Dino Medals!" He exclaimed in realization.
"Seriously? We gotta battle a bipedal dog? What is this world?!" The Junkyard apprentice exclaimed.
"Oh tell me about it…" The Brits groaned in agreement.
"Hooooooooowl!" The dog howled before he charged at the two, causing Holt to push Ford and Lee out of the way as he sent out his Igua, Tricera and V-Raptor Odin.
"I'll take care of this! You two go on ahead!" The boy told his friend.
"Be careful!" Ford told him as he ran past the dog man… thing. What even was he, really?
As he kept running towards the rest of the Digadigamid, until they was stopped–yet again–by a BB Bandit.
"... And I thought Pinocchio had a long nose." The man uttered as he looked at the person in front of him.
"I'll say." The raptor loving twin nodded in agreement.
The person was a man in the (stupid looking) BB Bandit uniform, was around his height and had brown eyes. He also had blonde hair that was in a bowl cut and a noticeably long nose that looked like it wasn't natural.
"And you two look like nosy little twerps sniffing around in other people's business." The skinny man retorted.
"Says the man with a beak for a nose." Ford smirked as he folded his arms. "Trust me, I can do this all day, prick." He added.
"What'd you just call me, you freaking limey?!" The crook snapped.
"Is that really the best insult you have?" Ford sighed in disappointment before shaking his head. "You know what? Fuck it. Let's just get this Vivosaur fight over with." He added as he brought out his team before turning to his brother. "Go on ahead, bro. I'll be right behind you after I finish dealing with this fucknugget." He told him.
"You better be." Lee told him before he ran ahead.
"I'll have you stomped into a pancake in about a minute." The long nosed man stated as he sent out a Goyle and a Carchar, which was a massive vivosaur with a shark shaped head.
"Well shit." Ford mused as he saw that his Vivosaurs were at a serious type disadvantage. But also realized that they were much higher ranks. "... Fuck it." He shrugged as he sent out Ace, Evie and MacBeth.
"Ha! This shouldn't take long!" The blonde showboat laughed… Right before MacBeth took a huge bite out of his Carchar, putting it in critical condition. "What the–?!" He gasped.
"Higher rank vivosaurs can beat lower ones, regardless of type." Ford stated before looking at Ace who was in the AZ. "Alright Ace, use Carno Smash." He ordered.
The rather sociable Carnotaurus nodded as he charged and slammed himself into the giant Egyptian style vivosaur, before knocking him all the way back–and causing him to take out Goyle at the same time!
"Ha! Who's laughing now, dipshit?!" Ford jeered with a laugh. The long nosed bandit looked nervous before he suddenly smirked.
"You may have beaten me in a Fossil Battle." The man said as the dog from before came scurrying towards him with Holt following. "But I have a trick up my sleeve." He added with a grin.
"Sorry it took so long, Ford." Holt apologized as the dog from before backed up with his companion to a nearby wall.
"Just wait, and I'll sucker punch you so hard you'll be asleep for ten years!" The blonde idiot called as he kept backing up with his anthro dog partner. Holt started backing away, since he knew the Digadig tribe well enough to realize what was up. Ford, meanwhile, saw enough Indiana Jones movies to know what was about to happen.
That didn't save him from falling through the hidden trap door he was standing on when the bandit hit a button and opened it.
"Ford!" Holt yelled in alarm as he watched his friend fall into the ground before glaring at the bandit. "Okay, now you've done it." The boy growled as he summoned three of his V-Raptors. "Sick 'em boys!" He yelled.
"Yoink!" The long nosed man yelped as he turned around and ran. "Woop woop woop woop woop!" He yelled as he ran.
"Yipe!" Yelped his canine companion as he too ran with his tail between his legs, literally.
(Elsewhere)
"Agh… When I get my hands on that beak nosed prick, I'll make him piss out of his ass for the rest of his life." Ford growled as he slowly sat up after his fall. He was pretty sure he was knocked out, based on the cobwebs in his head.
"Ford? Are you alright?" A voice questioned, causing the man to turn around and see someone he didn't recognize.
The voice belonged to a rather attractive woman with red hair a shade darker than Peggy's–almost a deep Scarlet red like the Black Widow– that was done up in a fan-style ponytail, chocolate colored skin, and equally brown eyes. She had a nice hourglass figure with a bit of muscle, a pair of GG-cup melons and a large peach shaped ass attached to a pair of muscular legs.
She was wearing a short sleeved white tank top that was straining against her bust and a pair of blue camo cargo pants with gray shoes. She was also wearing sunglasses and had green lipstick on.
A case for vivosaur medals hung on a belt about her sexily slim waist along with a few other satchels.
"What the–? Who are you, and just how do you know who I am?" Ford questioned as he slowly got to his feet.
"My name is Nevada Montecarlo. And I know who you are because of my psychic abilities." The woman explained. Ford would have called bullshit on that claim, but couldn't since his brain had finally caught back up and he was immediately taken by the woman's exquisite beauty.
Though he hadn't mentioned it to Peggy–yet–he had a thing for both redheads and dark women, so someone who was both really turned him on.
But he quickly banished those thoughts from his brain. He had a girlfriend who he loved deeply. He was not about to cheat on her.
"Uh, you okay?" Nevada asked, snapping her fingers in his face.
"Uh, sorry." The young man uttered, shaking his head and reigning in a blush. "I'm just not used to being in the company of beautiful women." He explained.
"Oh, I'm beautiful, am I?" The woman smirked, sauntering up to him. "Just how beautiful am I, hm?" She asked with a purr.
Ford, for his part, was not expecting this. But he wasn't going to let her flirting goad him into cheating.
"Sorry, but I'm spoken for." He told her. It was then that he noticed that she had his fighter card in her pocket.
"Aw. Shame. You actually look like my type, but oh well." The woman pouted before shrugging.
"Also, I know you're not psychic because I can see my card sticking out of your pocket." Ford pointed out, causing her to blink.
"Well, it was fun while it lasted." She mused, giving his card back to him. "But I haven't found a way out of here in the time I've been trapped." She told him.
"Yeah. We'll need to find a way out of here…" The young man nodded. "I have a friend and a brother on the other side who is dealing with the BB Bandits right now." He continued.
"Well, you see that keyhole over there?" Nevada told him, pointing at a keyhole in the wall behind them. "Apparently it can be opened with the Fossil of a particularly rare species of ammonite called a Keymonite." She continued.
"Are any of those in this chamber?" The young man asked.
"I would've checked, but my fossil radar got fucked up when I fell down here." The busty redhead sighed, pulling out her damaged fossil radar.
"Hang on." Ford said before pulling out his own, seeing that it was undamaged. "Sweet! Mine is still working!" He grinned.
"Then you can get us out of here." Nevada grinned.
Ford immediately got to work and checked his radar. Given how small the room was, it didn't take long to find it and dig it up.
"Okay, now to deal with cleaning it up." The man muttered as he got his cleaning kit out and started removing the rock around the fossil.
(Elsewhere)
Holt and his three raptors panted as they'd just chased the dog and long nosed man, named Rex and Snivels respectively, all around the Digadigamid–until they finally came to a dead end.
"You had a good run, you morons." The Junkyard apprentice growled and was about to sic his raptors on them when he heard Ford's voice from behind him.
"Hey, Holt! We got out!" The British Fossil Fighter called.
"Now don't anybody move!" Nevada exclaimed as she pulled out and cracked a long silver whip.
"Whoa, is that the missing fossil fighter Diggins mentioned?" The blonde questioned as his friend and their new ally joined them.
"Yep, but we can talk later. We have morons to deal with." Ford said, glaring at Rex and Snivels.
"Well well well, looks like the gang's all here. Ranger Red, Captain Britain and Junk Boy. Here to fight crime, eh?" Snivels sneered before something clicked in his walnut sized brain after a few seconds. "Wait, how'd you get out of that hole?!" He exclaimed.
"Wow, we got a real mind here." Nevada whispered.
"Fuck you, that's how." Ford quipped, getting snickers from his companions.
"Why you little–!" Snivels growled before a new voice interjected.
"Well look at what we have here. Three Fossil FIghters hoping to stop us." The voice mused as a woman in BB Bandit clothes walked in behind the long nosed man and bipedal dog.
The woman's high heels clicked and clacked on the Digadigamid floor, revealing what she looked like.
Minus her heels, she was the same height as Nevada with long silver hair that was tied in a semi ponytail.
Her green eyes were very cat-like, as was her lithe and slim body, with an almost peanut shape she had a DD-cup rack that was counterbalanced by a healthily plump waist (complete with love handles), and a Plumb shaped ass that looked like an actual plumb in her uniform.
Her legs and thighs were also a perfect balance between lean and fat. Meaning this woman clearly kept up with her weight, but never sacrificed her favorite foods in the process.
Ford was actually disappointed due to the fact this woman joined the BB Bandits. She was really good looking too, and he would've enjoyed the notion of knowing her better.
That was until she opened her mouth. "I thought you two scrubheads said you lost these three." She hissed.
"Well, technically, yeah." Snivels nodded with a bit of a bit of sweat.
"Bow…" Rex barked nervously.
"And you are…?" Holt questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"We're the BB Bandits. Man's best friend over here is Rex. (If you happen to know what he is or where he's from, let me know). And the long nose here is Snivels. The nose isn't for show either, he can smell better than Rex." The woman stated.
"Yep, I can smell what flavor gum you have on you." The blonde nodded, sniffing. "It's strawberry." He added smugly.
"... Wow, that's uncanny." Holt noted as he pulled out a slip of gum.
"And I'm the one stuck leading these screw ups. Name's Vivian." The woman explained.
'Yep. She's a total bitch. Massive turn off for me.' Ford thought as he listened to the woman talk and immediately felt his libido drop upon meeting this Vivian woman.
"Now that introductions are done, we have treasure to steal. Rex, do the thing." Vivian ordered, and the anthropomorphic dog immediately bulldozed through the three Fossil FIghters with the other two humans, leaving the trio stunned.
"What the–? HEY! Get back here!" Nevada yelled as they ran towards the door, only to slam into it Looney Tunes style as the door closed.
"See you in a few million years after you're turned into fossils yourselves!" Vivian laughed as she and her subordinates walked away.
"... Yep. She's definitely not my type." Ford grumbled as he got back up, shaking the circling Pterodactyls in his head.
"Seriously?" Holt groaned.
"Hey, when you spend most of your days not getting noticed by women in general. You tend to know what you like and don't like when you get old enough to catch attention." The Brit sighed. "That being said, we need to figure out a way out of here… again." He added, more serious than before.
"Where do we start looking?" Holt wondered as he looked around the chamber.
"Well, there's this weird riddle here on the door, but I can't read it. The Digadigs that built the place obviously wrote differently back then." Nevada noted, looking at some odd script.
"Hmmm… Well this is confusing…" Ford hummed as he looked at the script with Holt.
It was then that a light bulb appeared over the blonde's head. "Hang on, I know this script!" He exclaimed.
"Alright, then. What's it say?" Nevada asked, letting him get a closer look at the script.
"The ancient Digadigs used to write up and down instead of side to side. So if I'm reading this right, there should be a pothole right over there." Holt explained, pointing at a corner of the room at the right side of a giant golden fossilized ammonite fossil.
"I got it." Ford said as he used his pickaxe to get the porthole open. "Come on, guys! Let's move!" He exclaimed as he jumped into the hole.
(Elsewhere)
Meanwhile with Lee, the brother had unfortunately been turned around by the veritable maze that the Digamid was turning out to be, and was trying to find his way around.
"Oh fuck me, why did this place have to be a maze…" He groaned as he kept walking.
After a bit, he found himself in a room that looked like it served ritualistic purposes at one point. Deciding to see if there were at least any fossils in the place, he got his radar out… and found only one reading.
"The fuck…?" He muttered in confusion before heading to the fossil's location and dug it up. He didn't know why, but something about this fossil felt special as he held it.
Deciding to stow it for later, he looked at a mural on the wall and saw what looked to be a depiction of ancient Digadigs running around and cowering in terror at a four pronged assault of natural disasters: Tsunamis, Tornadoes, Earthquakes and Volcanoes erupting being depicted by pictographs.
And beside these scenes were depictions of four fossils being offered up to stop the destruction of these disasters.
First was an apatosaurus fossil, which was offered to the sea, mutating it into some sort of Glacier armored version of its species.
Second was a T-Rex, which was offered to the Volcanoes, becoming a lava armored variant on the king of dinosaurs.
Third was a Pterodactyl, which was offered to the sky, the specimen gaining jade colored crystal armor like the other, this time to match the air.
Fourth was a Raptor, which was offered to the earth and became covered in rock armor. It was likely that it was covered in bedrock to reflect on its match to the earth.
Lee immediately brought his recent find out and looked at it in shock. He had found what was, for all intents and purposes, a legendary sacrifice! He was also hoping he didn't piss someone off by unearthing the fossil…
A concern for another day, he supposed, putting the rock away for the time being.
(Elsewhere)
Meanwhile, Ford, Holt and Nevada then dropped down and appeared back at the entrance of the Digadigamid.
"Man, I love secret passages." Ford grinned as he dusted himself off.
"Yeah. The Digadigs do great work with architecture." Holt nodded in agreement with his own grin.
"Come on then, boys. We've got a treasure to retrieve and some Bandits to stomp." Nevada told them, cracking her whip again.
As she said this, though, the BB Trio showed up. Vivian in particular was rather shocked to see them there at all.
"What the–! But–! How?!" She stammered, looking back the way she and her subordinates came and back at the Fossil FIghter trio a few times.
"It pays to have an expert on your team." Nevada responded, jabbing a thumb at Holt, who chuckled nervously.
"Hehe, aw, it wasn't that big a deal…" He chuckled.
"Nonsense, mate, nonsense." Ford told him.
"Tch, whatever." Vivian scoffed, pulling out her dino medals. "I'll deal with you myself!" She added with a glare.
"Alright, fine. Let's go." Nevada retorted with her own glare as she reached for her own medals… only to find them missing. "What the–! Where are my medals?!" She gasped, seeing her case missing.
"Oh, are you looking for these?" Vivian sneered as she held up the two that she just pulled out. "I swiped them when we last crossed paths." She added.
"Alright, you bitch. You wanna fight? Fine. Let's fucking go." Ford growled as he brought his team out. "I'll trash this bitch, guys. Leave it to me." He told his companions.
"Tch, you're gonna choke on those words, twerp." The silver haired woman growled as she sent out a Nychus and a Lambeo.
"Prove it, broad." The purple haired fighter shot back, sending out his team of carnivores. Checking the data, he saw that his team was higher ranked than Vivian's by three levels. 'Okay, this is gonna be a bit close.' He noted to himself.
"Nychus! Use Nychus Toxin! Lambeo! Use Sliding Ram!" The woman ordered.
The two attacks were aimed at Ace, who was weak to fire types, but before he could even get hit–both Evie and MacBeth put themselves between him and the two attacks. Evie got poisoned in his place, and MacBeth used his spines and Auto Counter skill to make Lambeo take damage while he remained untouched.
"Huh?!" The platinum blonde gasped, not expecting her intended target to be defended like that.
"That's what separates us from you, BB Bandits." The Welshman stated, a thin aura of green and yellow energy floating around him as he clenched his fists–his Fossil Points skyrocketing. "You see Vivosaurs as tools. As for myself, to me? They're more than that, they're my friends!" He added.
Ace, Evie and MacBeth roared as they glowed the colors of their respective elements, and then Ford noticed that there was a new move available.
Team Attack: Desert Storm.
"Alright, let's test this out." Ford muttered before looking at his team. "Guys, use Team Attack: Desert Storm!" He ordered.
The result was spectacular.
Ace, Evie and MacBeth all funneled their energy into a giant dust devil/sandstorm/thunderstorm hybrid and sent it right at Vivian's team, the combined damage sending the bandit woman's team back to her feet in their medal forms in one hit. Vivian herself looked like she was about to have a heart attack from the ordeal.
"Wh-what?! But I've never lost a fight before!" She uttered in shock, trying not to get blown away herself.
"First time for everything." Ford shrugged as he caught his team. "Now hand over the Digadig treasure and Nevada's dino medals." He ordered.
"Fine, fine!" The platinum blonde bandit replied before giving both items to the protagonists. "I'll be sure to get even with you next time." She told him before she, Rex and Snivels left.
"Holy shit!" Holt exclaimed as he and Nevada came out from behind cover. "That attack was insane! And what was with that Aura? It totally boosted your power to crazy levels!" He added.
"Not sure, but I liked the way it felt. It was like the world's most relaxing shower, or something." The dino whisperer replied, trying to recall what he felt when the aura appeared.
"Well whatever it was, it sure proved something right." Nevada stated.
"What's that?" The blonde questioned.
"My previous hunch that our boy Ford over here is a Fossil Fighter prodigy." The redhead explained. "Seriously, it's like you were bred for this." She added.
"Not a total prodigy. Holt managed to beat me once before the two of us arrived on the island." Ford chuckled, jutting a thumb at his rival. "But I get the point. Anyway, let's get back to the village. I'm sure the Digadig chief is waiting for good news." He added.
"Oh! Right!" Holt nodded, facepalming. "The girls are probably up by now." He added with a groan, having forgotten.
"Yeah. Let's go." Ford nodded before the three left the Digadigamid.
As they left, however, Ford suddenly realized something.
"Wait, where's Lee?" He wondered as he looked around.
"I thought he would've met up with you?" Holt questioned.
"Who's Lee?" Nevada questioned.
"My twin brother, Stanley Owen." Ford explained.
"Stanford and Stanley. Your parents are fans of Gravity Falls?" The woman questioned.
"Ha ha ha. You would hardly believe how common that question is." Ford laughed flatly. "But no, they never watched it.' He added.
"Anyway, I think Lee may have gotten turned around too much in the Digadigamid." Holt interjected.
"That honestly does sound like him." Ford nodded, looking at Nevada. "When it comes to directions, my brother is about as good at figuring out where he is as Zoro is in One Piece." He explained.
"That gives me more than I'd like to know." The redhead groaned in exasperation.
(Later)
"You've returned, and you've driven off the aggressors!" The chief laughed joyfully as the trio walked up to him.
"That's putting it mildly." Ford nodded as he presented the man with the missing key. "Here you are. Your missing key." He added.
"Thank you young fossil fighter boy. You have done a great service to the Digadigs. Digadig." The chieftain nodded.
"We also managed to keep the BB Bandits from stealing this." Holt added as he set something down.
It was some sort of statue, it looked to be made of some sort of substance that was as hard as metal burning and had the texture of smooth stone. It also had a spike on the head and two cone-like appendages like arms and legs. The green marking that covered it made it look almost alien. It looked almost like an iguanodon.
"Though to be honest, I can't make heads or tails of it." Nevada added, scratching her head.
"Oh… The Digadigs did not make that. I just found it and put it in the vault because it looked interesting. Digadig." The chief admitted.
Ford examined the statue skeptically before he pulled out his mother's necklace. He then looked at the piece of jewelry–then back at the odd idol–then back at the pendant. He noted that they looked very similar.
"The bloody hell…?" He whispered to himself in bewilderment before he looked at the chief. "Hey, is it okay if I take this statue? It shares some very close similarities with my mother's necklace, and I'd like to look further into it." He asked, looking at the chief.
"By all means, do take it. We do not have a use for it. Digadig." The man told him.
"Thank you." The dino whisperer nodded in reply as he packed up the idol.
"Hey, what about us?! We still have this diga-stupid spell!" Rosie interjected, her and Peggy standing off to the side with irritated looks on their faces.
"Exactly, I want this diga-fucking spell off us. Now!" Peggy added.
The chieftain could only snicker as he shook his head. "So sorry. Digadig. But I'm afraid the spell can't be removed." He told them.
"DIGA-WHAT?!" The girls yelled in obvious displeasure, not wanting to speak like this for the rest of their lives.
"So sorry, but I suppose you'll have to go about your business and diga-deal with it." The man responded, causing the girl's to go white as their jaws dropped, their souls leaving their mouths while everyone else face-planted.
"Chief, I know you're pulling their legs." Holt deadpanned as he stood back up.
"Nobody said being a chief meant I had to be serious constantly. Digadig." The chief huffed before he started dancing again, resulting in the girls being struck by lightning again a few moments later.
"AAAAAHHHH!" The two girls yelled.
"Still unpleasant!" Rosie yelled as she and Peggy fell over again.
"... Will they be okay?" Nevada asked with some worry in her tone.
"Oh yeah. They'll be fine." Ford replied with a nod. A few moments later, the two girls got up again.
"Yay, it's gone! Digadig!" They cheered before freezing upon realizing what came out of their mouths.
"You just made it worse! Digadig!" Rosie cried in dismay.
"Sorry. There are sometimes complications in the removal process. They should go away in about a day or so." The chief told them. "In the meantime, you'll just have to, as stated before… Diga-deal with it." He trolled with a snicker.
"WHY YOU–!" Peggy yelled before she tried to pummel him, only to be held back by Ford. "Hey! Let go o' me ya wanker!" She snapped.
"Easy sweetie, let's use our words to express our displeasure, not our feet." The man told his girlfriend as she kept kicking at him.
"... Use me words, eh?" The Scottish girl questioned before Ford knew exactly what she was about to do.
"Nope! Not happening!" The purple and black haired teen exclaimed as he took a ball gag from his pocket and put it on her before slinging her over his shoulder.
Then the chief spoke up again.
"Wait, wasn't there a blue tipped one amongst you? Digadig." The chief questioned, confused about Lee's absence.
"He got lost in the Digadigamid." Ford replied with a sigh. "He'll probably stumble his way out later." He added.
"Oh you gotta be kidding me…" Peggy sighed.
As she said this, though…
"Hey!" A voice called from the top of the Digamid, getting their attention. "You guys mind helping me get down? It's kinda high up here!" Lee called.
"How the hell'd you get up there?!" Rosie yelled in disbelief.
"When you said he was bad with directions, I was hoping you were joking." Nevada admitted with a sweatdrop.
"Trust me, I wish I was…" Ford sighed as he looked up at the situation his brother had gotten himself into.
(Later)
After finally managing to get Lee down from the Digamid, the five ended up leaving Digadig village behind and getting on the boat back to the main island.
"Thank you for doing this for me, Holt." A tired Rosie sighed as she leaned on the blonde for support.
"Uh, you're welcome. It wasn't a problem at all." Holt chuckled nervously as she rested on him.
Both Ford and Peggy looked at each other as they watched this. 'They're smitten aren't they?' Ford conveyed through a nod to the napping pair.
'Seems like it.' Peggy nodded as she too leaned on her boyfriend to let her rest. Something they honestly kinda needed.
Lee noticed the budding romance between Holt and Rosie and suddenly started feeling like a third wheel before shaking that off. He'd find a girl sometime.
What he was more concerned with at present, though, was what to do with his new fossil.
(Later)
Ford was sitting on the couch watching a bit of TV to unwind. Peggy was also sitting next to him, which was routine at this point. It was rare for these two to be apart.
"You know, we could try moving in together." Ford hummed as he spooned his Scottish lover. "Could save you money on your room." He added.
"True. With how often I'm here, we should really do that." Peggy mused with a nod. "And when we unlock the luxury sweet, we'll have more than enough room for us to live together comfortably." She added before a knock on the door was heard.
"I'll get that." The purple-black haired fighter said as he got up.
When he opened the door, he saw that one of the concierges was standing at the door with an envelope in his hand.
"For you, sir." The man told him, Ford accepting the letter and giving him a tip before closing the door.
"What's that?" His girlfriend questioned as the boy looked the envelope over.
"It's a letter from home." Ford mused as he looked at it. "Wonder what it's about…?" He wondered, his focus on the letter keeping him from seeing that Peggy was in the process of unbuttoning her shirt and taking off her shorts, kicking them and her shoes off and leaving herself in her bra and panties.
"A letter from your family?" The redhead questioned as she took something out of her purse and walked away into the bathroom. "Shouldn't you call Lee over?" She questioned through the closed door.
"No, it says that they sent him a letter too." The lad replied as he read the letter.
Stanford, don't bother showing Stanley this letter since we've sent him his own. It's been a while since you left for Vivosaur Island, so me and Susan are wondering how you two are doing. We hope that you're handling yourselves okay, and that not too many problems have turned up, along with you both getting some amazing teams. Additionally, me and your sister plan on paying you both a visit soon and maybe watch you two fight in Fossil Stadium. I have a feeling you two won't disappoint on that front. On a side note, we would like to see if you two have turned up anything in the search for your mother, and possibly even assist in the endeavor. More on that when we arrive.
Your father, Jaune Owen.
"… Bloody hell." Ford sighed as he facepalmed, realizing that he was going to have a lot of explaining to do when he saw his parents next.
Meanwhile, Peggy sat on the bathroom toilet as she held a plastic bar in her hand, a bar that slowly began to turn red.
'Please please please!' The girl prayed silently, fingers crossed as the bar turned com red—revealing that the only scrap of white left was a + sign. "Yes!" She exclaimed in a voice filled with pure joy.
Ford's expression changed when he heard the cheers of his Scottish lover from the bathroom, and saw her as she came out—a used pregnancy test that seemed to be positive, in her hand—and her face being one that practically radiated pure joy.
"I'm pregnant!" She smiled with a cheer, her accent cracking through clearly as she jumped for joy, her bra clad breasts jiggling with every bounce.
"... WHAT?!" Ford yelled in shock, dropping his letter on the floor.
"I'm pregnant! I'm pregnant!" Peggy cheered, still hopping up and down in pure jubilation and giggling. She was practically merry as a schoolgirl.
That was it for the shorter twin. He fainted right then and there.
"Ford!" The girl gasped as she ran to her beloved, pulling him into her lap.
(Elsewhere)
Meanwhile with Lee, he was reading his letter when he heard a loud thud come from his brother's room—one that did not sound good.
"Uh oh!" He yelped before he bolted next door and frantically knocked on it. "Hey, everything okay in there?!" He called.
"Everything's fine, Lee! Ford just fainted!" Peggy's muffled voice called back.
"... Why'd he faint?" The taller twin had to ask in confusion as Peggy opened the door, causing the young man to avert his eyes since she was still only in her underwear.
"... I'm pregnant." The redhead replied after a beat passed, much to the raptor lover's disbelief.
"What the fu–?!" He started to shout before he facepalmed. "You know what? I'm done." He said in total exasperation before he went back to his room. He was in no mood to deal with this shit.
"Well excuse me ya bampot! I figured you'd be happy to hear you're gonna be an uncle!" The redheaded Scotswoman snapped back.
"After what happened today, I need time for that info to settle in!" The blue tipped Welshman retorted. "So excuse me for not reacting like most would expect!" He added, going into his room and closing the door.
"Then try and not be such a crabbit next time, will ye?" The girl called back as she went back into the room and sat on the couch, laying Ford's head on her lap and stroking his hair as he finally came to.
"Ugh… Man, that was one hell of a dream. You said you were pregnant." He groaned as he sat up.
"That's cuz I did." The redhead told him.
"... Oh shit, I'm gonna be a dad!" He gasped, his hands going to his head and holding it.
"And Lee's gonna be an uncle, though he was a bit of an eejit about it." She added, sounding a bit miffed.
"Yeah, he reacts differently to a lot of things most people would be ecstatic about." The purple eyed man told her. "Don't take it too personally, though. He is happy that he's gonna be an uncle." He added.
"Aye, alright…" The girl nodded as she let her man rest his head between her breasts as they laid on the couch together. "It seems you made good on your promise, mo gradh." She mused, the TV flickering on to Game of Thrones, specifically a scene where a husband was lovingly rubbing his wife's swollen tummy. "You're going to be able to watch me grow fat with a child." She continued with a smile as she looked down at him and leaned down to kiss him on the lips. "Your child." She added.
"My dad and sis are gonna flip when they hear that…" Ford sighed as he relaxed into his girlfriend's embrace.
"And you'll be able to tell them over and over and over again. As many times as you want to." The redhead told him. "I'd be more than happy to keep popping out litters for you." She added, causing Ford to look at her in surprise.
"... Do you have a breeding kink or something?" He questioned, causing his lover to pause.
"... Shite, I think I might." She muttered with a blink. "… But I don't think you mind me bein' your broodmare, do you, Ford?" She asked.
"So long as you don't mind me being your studhorse." The shorter Welsh boy quipped in reply with a chuckle.
Peggy smiled at this before Ford kissed her, stroking her hair lovingly as he slowly finessed her bra off whilst she did the same with his shirt.
Clothes began falling off one by one as the shadows on the blinds danced for those who could see the windows—the stud and his mare once again beginning to make love to each other like the wild beasts they preferred to be.
Today was certainly eventful, for everyone involved.
Dragon Emperor0: As you guys can see, this chapter doesn't have much in the way of drastic changes except for Nevada decidedly not being with Ford since this is a non harem story. As well as some other plot additions here and there. Hope you like them.
ThermalsnieprN7: We're actually planning on shipping Nevada with someone else, ideally someone who might be interested in getting back into the dating scene (hint hint). Anyway, how do you guys like Lee's direction being as bad as Roronora Zoro's? Seems like a comedic flaw for a smart guy, right?
Dragon Emperor0: I thought that since Zoro and Lee are kinda similar in a lot of ways, having them share each other's horrible sense of direction seemed appropriate to help further differentiate Lee from Ford. So far, I think it succeeded.
ThermalsniperN7: Yeah, that's a safe bet. And the discovery he made… That's gonna come in handy later down the road.
Dragon Emperor0: Yeah, we've created three new Legendary sacrificial Vivosaurs to fill out the roster alongside Frigi and Igno. But in order to avoid spoilers we won't be revealing their names just yet.
ThermalsniperN7: Sorry, not sorry. Anyway, see you next time.