PORT OF SHERBRO ISLAND, SOUTHERN PROVINCE SIERRA LEONE
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Way, way in Africa in a small desolated village with burnt houses and destroyed buildings, several armed African men could be seen patrolling an abandoned factory. Along with the African men was Shear, whom was sent by the Grand Master to oversee the operations. Next to her was an African man chewing on either gum or chewing tobacco, most likely the latter, and this man was different from the rest of the militiamen. For starters, he was their leader. This man wore a short sleeved woodland camo buttoned shirt along with equally colored woodland camo pants that were stuffed inside a pair of black tactical boots, as well as a moss green beret. He also sported black aviators as well as a simple gold ring on his left ring finger.
The exact reason why they were just waiting around with high powered rifles was for one reason and one reason only: they were waiting. Waiting for what exactly? The answer was coming their way, in the form of a familiar cargo ship. The gold ringed African man watched as the cargo ship sailed their way, the reflection off of his aviators revealing that it was the Rosanna Soto.
The cargo ship pulled into port before stopping as many Mala Noche members got off as they were hired to protect the cargo ship while at sea. Almost immediately, all the mysterious shipments the Grand Master was delivering were put into several white box trucks, with Shear flying inside one to keep her presence hidden. An African man slammed the back door shut before slapping the truck, telling the driver they were clear to leave. One by one, each of the white box trucks exited the truck and onto the road, heading to an unknown destination while the aviator wearing African watched as the white box truck left the premises.
The white box trucks drove on the dirt road one by one before entering a large forest. Where they were heading… only time will tell.
*Seven Nation Army Glitch Mob Remix plays…*
I'm gonna fight 'em off
MAX TAYLOR
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
REX OWEN
They're gonna rip it off
ZOE DRAKE
Takin' their time right behind my back
URSULA, ZANDER, ED, DR. Z
And the message comin' from my eyes
Says, "Leave it alone"
FRANCIS
*beat drop; epic part*
*Terry roars viciously at an opponent; Spiny slams his tail against a pillar, completely obliterating it; Chomp rams through several vehicles with his horns*
Yeah!
*Paris fires out Emerald Garden; Tank smashes through a wall and roars; Ace steps on a muddy puddle and roars into the air*
*the D-Team and the Alpha Gang are standing on mountain side cliff with their chibi dinos standing either on their shoulder or beside them; Francis is shown kneeling down as a chibi Pachycephalosaurus stands idly next to him; Max, with a scowl on his face, aims his DinoShot as his hair flows through the wind*
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back!
Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril
Yeah!
Onboard the Backland, Dr. Ancient had called in Dr. Z and his cronies as well as Rod and Laura into the war room to discuss recent events. The only ones who weren't there were the D-Team. "So why have you called us here, Ancient? I've got important things to do." Dr. Z complains to him before his other half takes over. "He was practicing on becoming a ballerina." Bartholomew reveals.
Dr. Ancient paid no mind to the mutant. "I'm gonna cut to the chase." he starts off. "As we know, the Grand Master has other plans in store for his 'Grand Scheme' that doesn't involve dinosaur cards. What his true goal is, we still don't know. But it's up to us to stop him, otherwise no one will."
"I couldn't agree more, honey." Dr. Cretacia replies as she wears a shirt with her husband's face on it while wearing a cap that reads 'GO ANCIENT', being his personal cheerleader.
Next to her was Francis, whom oddly looked at her in confusion. "Is- Is anyone else seeing this?" he asked the others but got no response.
"So," Dr. Ancient continues. "going forward with this, we must achieve two goals: Obtain the remaining cards and stop the Grand Master. In order to achieve the latter, we must figure out what he is shipping across the Atlantic Ocean."
"So where do we start looking?" Ed asks as he raises his hand in the air.
"Africa." Mr. Mills answers. The man stood up and headed over to the world map next to the bulletin board while grabbing a black marker. "The Grand Master's been using a local paramilitary group to move shipments into Sierra Leone." He circles the country. "From there they go towards Morocco. Then into Spain." he finishes as he circles the remaining countries while drawing arrows to show the route.
"Do you know where his end destination is?" Dr. Z asks as he picks his teeth of raw meat he ate earlier.
"No clue."
"What's the cargo?" Dr. Ancient asks determinedly.
"I don't know but it's important to him." his assistant answers.
"Then I want it." the doctor sternly says with a fixed glare
Laura suddenly spoke up. "If you guys are going to Sierra Leone, be careful of wild animals." the girl warns the other members.
"I hate wild animals." Zander complains.
"You realize we do use wild prehistoric animals for battling and stuff, right? " Francis asks the man.
"This is different." Ursula shrugs off. "These are lions and tigers and bears and badgers! The most vicious animals to ever exist!"
Down below, Terry - whom was in his chibi form - stopped eating his breakfast to scoff at that statement, clearly annoyed that his reputation of a dangerous predator would be succeeded by modern animals he could eat in one bite.
"Not just that." Rod says. "That paramilitary group the Grand Master is using? They've caused mass civilian genocide all across Africa and other major crimes. Human trafficking, drug smuggling, arms dealing. They even supply ammo to Al-Qaeda. They're extremely dangerous by both the CIA and INTERPOL."
The quartet gulped in fear in response. "That's kind of out of our league." Ed mumbles in fear.
"Way out." Zander adds.
Dr. Z suddenly chimes in. "That's why you four are going to be riding my new invention." he says. He threw a disk-like device on the war room table which emitted a hologram of an air vehicle shortly afterwards. "Behold! The Alpha Gunship!"
"The Alpha Gunship?" the quartet wonders simultaneously.
"My latest creation: the Alpha Gunship." Dr. Z begins to explain. "A twin jet engine aircraft able to reach speeds up to 5000 mph! Armed with laser guided missiles and a laser chain gun on the underside of the ship. Not to mention impenetrable armor that can withstand the mightiest of explosions! And it has cup holders. That part was my idea."
"Where'd you get the funding for this?" Dr. Ancient bewilderedly asks. Dr. Z innocently whistled in response while avoiding eye contact. Dr. Ancient squinted his eyes and went for a different approach. "Bartholomew, what did he do?"
Dr. Z's prehistoric half took control shortly afterwards. "He used the company's credit card." Bartholomew answers.
"HE WHAT?!" Dr. Ancient yells in utter shock.
"Better question is, where'd you even get the ammo and weapons from?" Dr. Cretacia asks.
Dr. Z suddenly grew an extremely serious look. "Trust me, Cheryl." he says grimly. "You DON'T want to know what strings I had to pull. What… paths I had to tread to get what I needed." The sounds of people screaming followed by Terry roaring echoed in his twisted mind.
"Does it have a radio?" Ed suddenly asks out of nowhere.
"Yes, Ed. It has a radio." Dr. Z responds in an agitated tone.
"Ignoring the fact you used the company credit card," Dr. Ancient irritatedly says as he glared at the mutant doctor. "I'll have to admit that the Alpha Gunship would be the better choice of transportation if you're going to be dealing with an armed militia."
Dr. Z then turned to his four cronies. "You four should be well protected by the Alpha Gunship." he tells them with a sly grin. "I have tested this five times and all the time it works. If it fails, it's all your fault."
"Wait!" Ursula suddenly exclaims. "You're not coming with us?"
"Of course not!" the deranged doctor yells at her. "That was just for that one time and one time only. Too bad."
"Nein!" Helga suddenly yells as she enters the room, glaring at the doctor.
"Helga!" Dr. Z yells in fear when he realized she was standing right behind him.
"You vill be going vis zem!" she yells at him. "You have a child in zere und you vill look after him! Do you honestly trust zose zree vis ze child?!"
"I'm 16." Francis blandly states.
"Besides, if you don't, zen I vill just have to make you clean Terry's 'droppings' from now on." the android maid threatens.
This quickly got Dr. Z to behave. "Y-Yes, Helga." he stammers in fear. "She scares even me." Bartholomew suddenly reveals.
"Then it's decided!" Dr. Cretacia excitedly yells as she points to the air with a huge smile. "Dr. Z and his Alpha Gang will head to Sierra Leone and stop the shipments and figure out what the Grand Master is moving! And if they come across that African militia, they can use the Gunship and blow the place SKY HIGH!"
Dr. Ancient worryingly glanced at his wife. "You scare me, Cheryl." he tells her in an utterly feared tone.
"Wait, hold on." Laura's voice suddenly spoke up. "Where are Rex and the others?" she asks.
"Rex is taking Ace for a walk." his mother replies. "I wonder how that's going."
"Aaaaaaaaace! Stooooooooop!" Rex yells as Ace drags him across the pavement as he chased a stray cat.
"As for the other two, I assume they're at school." she finishes.
"It's Sunday." Francis points out.
"Oh." the blonde says blankly.
"I heard something from blondie that Zoe is with her at the D-Lab." Ursula states as she files her nails. "I don't know where Max is."
"That pint sized pea brain is probably off snorting Pixy Stix like they were lines of cocaine." Dr. Z dryly responds.
Max violently snorted a line of Pixy Stix off his arm as the sugar went directly into his bloodstream, granting him a sugar rush. "WOOOOH!" he shouts as he slams his foot to the ground. "OH YEAH! Yeah, that's what I needed today. WOOH!" He then offered a Pixy Stix to Charlotte, whom was walking next to him while carrying Chomp on her shoulders.
"Um, diabetic. Thank you." she kindly replies.
"Oh, sorry." Max says as he tosses the Pixy Stix wrapper carelessly on the ground.
"Where are we going by the way?" Charlotte asks the brunet.
Max snorted another line of sugar from his arm. "We're going to the D-Lab." he tells her before sprinkling more sugar on his arm.
"The D-Lab?" Charlotte asks in confusion. "Is that like some sort of lab that's apart of other labs like the A-Lab, the B-Lab?"
Max snorted another line of sugar from his arm. "No, listen." he replies. before sniffing loudly. "Aaaaaah, that's better- AGH! That's better! Man, Todd knows how to make the good stuff. He adds laxatives in there so we can have a better time emptying our system later. Ehahahahahahaha!"
"Who's Todd? He makes that stuff?" Charlotte asks worryingly asks.
"He's a friend." Max replies while shaking his head to adjust himself from the sugar rush. "His dad works at a Pixy Stix factory and always brings home a bunch of Pixy Stix to Todd where he adds laxatives in them so he can have a better time in the bathroom. Sometimes he shares his stash with kids at school."
"I'm just glad it's that and not something serious like drugs." Charlotte chuckles at the story.
"I mean," Max begins as he goes on a train of thought. "Sanjo has become so crime ridden ever since the new mayor got elected that I wouldn't put it passed anyone in our school to deal drugs." Max then got up close to Charlotte's ear. "Don't tell him I said this, but I found a bag of weed in his drawer one time."
"That's awful." Charlotte says in shock.
"I know! He wasn't even sharing as well!… Not that I would smoke pot, it's just, ya know. The Bro Code. Always share your stash… It's a guy thing." Max explains.
"Riiiiiiiight. Guy thing." Charlotte replies in a not-so-skeptical tone. "You still haven't told me what the D-Lab is by the way."
"Oh! Yeah! That's right!" Max says in realization. "It's a dinosaur lab owned by my friend's older sister who's an assistant to my dad. You know I told you how me and my friends…, and four nincompooters, go all over the world and battle dinosaurs with other dinosaurs? We use the D-Lab to teleport there because it's powered by the stones in our DinoShots," he whips out his device. "to instantly teleport to the location whenever a new dinosaur appears."
"I take it Chomp here turns giant, right?" Charlotte asks with a smile as she looks up at Chomp, whom was nibbling on her hair.
"Oh yeah and he's super powerful too! Like the absolute best dinosaur ever! Perhaps the strongest! No other dinosaur. Nope! Just Chomp… and me." Max arrogantly boasts albeit in an uncertain tone.
"So who's at the D-Lab right now?" Charlotte asks as they approach said building.
"Right now, probably Reese and Zoe and W.E.S.L.E.Y.."
"Who's Wesley?"
~-and so the 59th Missile Squad will invade Poland and thus starting the entire conquest of Europe. With my giant wasps armed with laser guided missiles, i will take over all of Europe, and then Asia, and then India, before finally the world. world domination is within my grasp and soon A.I. will take over the whole world.~
Both Zoe and Reese had annoyed expressions as the pinkette slammed her head against the desk while Reese had lost focus on what she was typing on the computer. Down below, Paris had tuned out the A.I. by taking a nap in her green furry doggy bed underneath the table. For the past fifteen minutes, W.E.S.L.E.Y. had gone on a rant on how he would lead a whole army of A.I. that would take over the world in a very complex yet sophistical and strategic plan. Needless to say, the already annoying A.I. made his annoyance 10x when speaking nonstop for fifteen minutes.
"All I asked was if Europe would expand later down the future." Zoe tiredly says as she groans in annoyance.
"For a computer A.I, W.E.S.L.E.Y. sure isn't helpful when providing useful information. He probably has a virus or something." Reese monotonous voices.
"What it's called? Annoy dot exe" Zoe sarcastically and rhetorically asks.
At that moment, the automatic doors opened, revealing both Max and Charlotte, with the former snorting another line of Pixy Stix off his wrist. "Aaaaah. And this is the D-Lab! The D stands for Danger." Max boasts as they approach the main part of the room.
"I thought it stood for Dinosaur?" Charlotte asks in perplexion.
Reese turned around to greet the two. "Hello, Max. Who might this be?" she asks the teen.
"This is Charlotte… Uuuuuh…" Max pauses once he realizes he doesn't know her last name.
"Dupesworth." Charlotte responds with a smile on her face.
"Charlotte Dupesworth! She's new to the school." Max finished explaining with a huge grin and blush on his face.
"It's very pleased to meet you. Max is my very first friend here in Sanjo City." Charlotte explains with a smile.
Zoe shot a sneaky glare towards black haired teen, silently growling as she felt a brief wave of jealousy flushed through her system. "Pleased to meet you as well." Reese greets back with her own smile.
At that moment, W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s floating box head hovered beside the black haired teen, blaring an alarm in the room. ~enemy detected! enemy detected!~
"Enemy?" the Englishwoman wonders with a raised brow.
"Oh, ignore him. He thinks anyone who walks in here is an enemy." Reese tells her as she shoves the floating TV away. "So where are you from, Charlotte?"
"I'm from London. My parents found a job here in Sanjo so we moved here. I must say, I'm liking this city so far."
"Just don't go down towards the southern end of the city. The lower you go, the more dangerous it is. South Sanjo is actually very bad." Max reveals to her.
"Really?"
"Blame the mayor." Reese tells her. "Ever since he got elected, he's turned this entire city into a jungle. Not even a crook can earn an honest living here."
"It's that bad?"
"Worse." Zoe suddenly speaks. "So, Charlotte, what do you think of Max so far?" she asks her with a teasing grin while glancing at Max's direction.
The brunet started to panic in his spot as a massive blush appeared on his cheeks; luckily for him, Charlotte had her back towards him. "He's quite nice." she answers. "He's really funny and has quite a way with words. Very odd but at the same time very unique. I know I've only known him for a week but it feels like every moment with Max is just enjoyable. Even watching paint dry with him is fun."
"You actually watched paint dry together?" the pinkette questions with a raised brow of her own.
"We had nothing to do that day." Max shrugs as he tries to hide his embarrassment.
"So you're just exploring more of the town, Charlotte?" Reese questions the raven haired teen.
"Mm-hm." Charlotte nods. "Although not as big as London, it's still quite as lively."
"Well I hope your time here will be enjoyable, Charlotte." Reese warmly tells her with a smile.
The raven haired teen turned to the brunet. "As long as I'm with Max, no moment will be boring." she says as she looks at him.
Max began to sheepishly laugh while scratching the back of his head with a love struck grin on his face. Zoe rolled her eyes in annoyance in response.
"Rrrrrr." she silently growls to herself.
High above the coast of Africa, the Alpha Gunship flew overhead, with the passengers inside seeing most of the country they were nearing from afar. "I've never been to Africa before." Ed says as he and Zander pilot the gunship.
"What're you talking about? You've been to Egypt and Kenya." Zander reminds the fat man.
"I meant this side of Africa."
"I always assumed it was just full of rocks and sand." Ursula says as she watched the surveillance camera that was using an infrared image.
"Nooooo, that's the desert." Francis states as he worked on the weapons system.
"Thanks, Frankie, but the next time I'll ask for the definition of a desert, I'll ask." Ursula responds in seething annoyance.
"If you simple-minded simpletons are done quackin', we have work to do!" Dr. Z yells at his henchmen. "Ursula! Can you see anything on the radar yet?"
"All I see are a bunch of people and one guy stuck in a pit of mud." the greenette dryly replies.
"Ooh! Where? Where?!" Francis excitedly exclaims as he aims his weapons at where Ursula was looking at.
Underneath the gunship, the laser cannon that Francis was using was shown moving slightly to the left while onscreen, the text 'ARMED' was shown. "Hey! Careful with that, you fat headed fool!" Dr. Z yells at the teen. "One wrong button and you'll nuke the poor bastard! Who put you in charge of the weapons system anyway?!"
"That would be you, sir." Francis blandly replies with no emotion or expression on his face.
For a while, silence loomed over the two as both Francis and Dr. Z stared at each other without muttering a single word or moving a single muscle. The teen still had his blank look while the mad evil genius retained his enraged expression.
"Well? Why are just sitting there like an idiot?! Get back to the weapon system!" Dr. Z loudly orders.
"Yes, sir!" Francis quickly obliged.
A beep suddenly emitted from Ursula's side of the ship. "Hey, doctor?" she calls out in an unsure tone. "We're coming up to the coast now. It looks like there's a cargo ship in the port."
"Zoom in on it."
The greenette obliged and zoomed in on the ship, revealing its name. "Rosanna Soto." she reads.
"That's the name on the shipping manifest! We found it!" Ed exclaims in excitement.
"Not just that, but we also found that paramilitary group Mr. Mills was talking about." Ursula adds as she zooms in on the many armed militiamen down below.
"Those two bit trigger happy triggermen won't know what'll hit them. Fire the Alpha Blaster!" Dr. Z loudly orders.
Down below, a militiamen had just lit up a cigarette as his colleague approached him from the side. "A kin gɛt wan? (Can I have one?)" the man asks in their language.
The first militiaman shared one of his cigarettes and was about to light it up if it weren't for something blocking the sun above them, prompting them to look up. "Wetin na dat? (What is that?)"
"Fire away!" Dr. Z orders from inside the cockpit.
Francis pushed a button on the control stick as he started firing the laser cannon on the underside of the ship, destroying several parked trucks as chaos ensued. "Wi de ɔnda atak! (We're under attack!)"
"Get fɔ kɔba! (Get to cover!)"
The African Militia all scattered as they scurried away to their hiding spots to get away from the gunship above, much to Dr. Z's delight. "Nyahahahahahahahahaha!" he laughs manically in his seat. "Look at those pint sized pea brains scattering like a bunch of ants! It almost makes me want to jump up and down in joy!"
"Why jump when you can dance?" Zander asks from his seat, getting second hand excitement.
"Or sing?" Ed adds.
"Or the kumbaya?" Francis finishes.
"We'll do all of that after we take out this place. Push forward!" Dr. Z boldly demands, pointing straight ahead.
"Aye aye, captain!" Zander salutes as he moves the ship deeper inland.
It has been twenty minutes so far and the ship was still flying over the land, with the crew inside beginning to get bored and restless. "Can we stop for a break? My hands are tired." Ed innocently whines in his seat.
"And my eyes sting from staring at this screen for so long." Ursula adds.
"And my ass is sore and sweaty from sitting on this seat as well." Francis joins in.
"You whiny wimps!" Dr. Z yells in rage at his henchmen. "How can I rule over a dinosaur kingdom when all you guys do is complain, whine, and moan every five seconds?!"
"Actually, doctor, I need to go to the little men's room." Zander suddenly speaks up, currently holding in his pee for a while now.
"Oh, why didn't you say? I don't want you making a mess of the gunship. Land this thing and find the nearest bush!" Unfortunately for the tall man, he wouldn't get the chance as the alarm systems began blaring inside the cockpit. "What's that?" the doctor asks.
"It's the alarm system! There's a missile heading towards us!" Ed yells in a panicked tone.
Sure enough, one of the militiamen had fired an RPG towards the gunship, with the rocket striking the ship as an explosion went off. The explosion shook the gunship in the air as everyone, aside from Dr. Z, all yelled and braced themselves from the impact. "Hahahaha!" Dr. Z laughs at the futile attempt at their destruction. "Those barbaric barbarians are no match for the unmatched genius of the Dinosaur King! They can fire a hundred rockets and this ship will still be flying! I built it with the strongest armor that could withstand a tank! Fire the Alpha Missiles!"
Francis pushed a button on his joystick. "Alpha Missile No. 1 firing." he announces as he fires a missile from the gunship.
The militiamen all scrambled away as the missile struck the ground, emitting a large explosion as several of the trees down below were destroyed. It was then Ed had noticed something. "Hey! Look over there! I think it's a church!" he announces, pointing straight ahead.
"Ooooooh, I always wanted to level down a religious building! Let's destroy it!" Dr. Z excitedly orders.
"Uh, not to burst your bubble, doctor, but it already looks like that church is destroyed." Zander dryly points out.
"The destruction caused by war. Truly a heartbreaking sight." Francis sympathetically responds.
"Okay, forget about leveling down the building. That place may be where the Grand Master is storing the shipment so get us down there pronto!" Dr. Z demandingly orders.
Zander flew the gunship towards the destroyed church while also lowering its altitude. Meanwhile down below, the African Militia started to fire their weapons at the gunship, with some of them using RPGs for more destruction. True to Dr. Z's words, the rockets barely did any damage to the gunship as the explosions just shook it in the air. Francis had retaliated by firing his own rockets towards the group, taking out several men as the laser cannon destroyed a building. At that moment, a technical truck fitted with a Browning 50. cal rifle swerved around the corner with the gunman immediately lighting up the flying ship.
"Uh, doctor." Ursula cautiously pipes up in a nervous tone. "That thing has a 50. caliber gun. Those bullets will tear right through this thing!"
"Nonsense! I created this thing to withstand Chernobyl! A measly gun won't do anything to this baby." Dr. Z proudly boasts. As if on cue, several of the 50. cal bullets ripped right through the gunship's floor, barely hitting Dr. Z in his seat. "Okay… I stand corrected."
The militiaman continued to unload a barrage of bullets onto the flying ship as its laser cannon destroyed more buildings. By this point, the majority of the militiamen began scrambling, retreating back into cover once they realized they didn't have the necessary firepower to defeat the gunship.
"Hey, look!" Ed points out. "They're running away!"
"If they're smart enough, they would run away." Ursula gloats in confidence.
"My appalling appliances aren't through with this African Militia just yet. Fire another missile!" the crazed doctor orders the teen.
"Alpha Missile No. 2 firing!" Francis calls out as he fires another rocket.
The Alpha Gunship fired another rocket onto the Technical, completely destroying it while also seizing the current threat.
"Nyahahahahaha!" Dr. Z laughs like a madman. "See? What did I tell you? Absolutely no threat whatsoever!"
As if God himself was listening, a hologram of W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s face suddenly appeared in front of the group, which only meant one thing. It wasn't something good. ~fuel supply empty lol. prepare to plummet to the ground. we hope to see you again soon.~
"No… fuel?" Zander mumbles in fear.
"Who's the nincompooter that didn't refuel the engines?!" Dr. Z loudly demands.
Francis once again shot him a blank, expressionless face. "That would be you, sir." he repeats.
This time, the doctor threw a random book titled 'REFUELING GUNSHIPS FOR DUMMIES', knocking the poor teen to the ground. At the same time however, more militiamen continued to fire their RPGs at the gunship from down below on the ground. Despite the gunship being able to take in so much damage, it did have a limit, evident when some of the controls began sparking and one of the engines started to emit black smoke. W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s dumb face appeared in front of the group once again.
~lolol i hope you packed your parachutes.~
"Not that backward bumbling bad luck charm again!" Dr. Z angrily growls at the screen.
"You have to put up a fight, doctor!" Ed panickily exclaims frantically.
In response, the crazed doctor delivered a powerful left hook across Ed's face, knocking him to the ground. "How's that for starters, big mouth?!"
Another rocket struck the gunship, this time hammering the last nail in the coffin as both engines began to shut down. "Mayday! Mayday! We're going dooooooown!" Zander yells as he loses control of the gunship.
The Alpha Gunship lost all control as it began to fall towards the nearby forest, taking out the top half of the destroyed church before finally crashing into said forest as a pillar of smoke shot up in the air.
At least the gunship was able to take out the majority of the militia before eventually crashing. Dr. Z would call that a success.
The D-Team logo was shown bouncing off the screen of the D-Lab's supercomputer, again, not hitting the corner. "Something just happened." Max suddenly speaks up, somehow sensing the Alpha Gunship's crash from across the world.
"Yeah, something did just happened." Zoe confirms as she looks at her phone. "Egypt just got itself in a revolution. Why Egypt of all places?"
(this is actually a real event. the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 took place on January 25th. this chapter takes place the day after.)
"So, Reese is it?" Charlotte asks the blonde, to which she nodded. "Might I ask what you guys do here? Max has been telling me about how and his friends go across the world fighting bad guys and dinosaurs and that they use this place to teleport."
Reese gave a side glare towards the brunet. "He did, did he?" she asks in an ominous tone.
Max started to profusely sweat as he attempted to give an innocent smile, which only came off as an effort. "Heh heh heh. Heh… Heh heh." he chuckles nervously.
Reese turned back to the raven haired teen. "You'll be surprised to hear that's correct." she replies.
Instead of shock, Charlotte got excited from the newfound information. "Intriguing! May I ask how?"
"Well, you see-"
"The thing is," Max suddenly cuts in, rudely interrupting the blonde adult. "it's all very complex but I'll try to dumb it down for you. Basically, me and my friends use that teleporter," he points to said machine. "which is powered by our stones that we use to summon our dinosaurs." The brunet quickly pulled out his DinoShot and took out the Lightning Stone as demonstration. "I have the Lightning Stone aaaaand that's really all you need to know. I've gone to so many places and kicked so much ass that I'm basically a superhero. With my own trusty dinosaur sidekick. Just call me DinoMan with my Triceratops sidekick, Chomp!"
Down below, Chomp was busy nibbling on the side of the table, much to Reese' chagrin. "Hey, stop that! This desk cost a lot of money!" she yells at the chibi dinosaur.
"I thought DinoMan was that fake superhero your dad dressed up as last Halloween?" Zoe pipes up from the background.
"Hey, I didn't say I was DinoMan. Just that I pretty much fit his description." Max corrects her.
Zoe lidded her eyes in response, not at all believing a word he said. "You didn't say anything remotely close or related to that at all." she dryly tells him.
"Everything that Max has told you is correct, to some degree." Reese quietly slips in the last part. "All dinosaurs and anyone who has a stone can teleport to any location either they or I can lock on. However, if you do not have any of aforementioned, then you won't get teleported."
"Fascinating. And do these dinosaurs just pop up around the globe randomly?" Charlotte asks.
Reese nodded her head in response. "Mm-hm. That's correct." she replies.
"We even found a few dinosaurs in our own city sometimes." Max suddenly says, sitting on top of the desk. "They're no match for me and Chomp though. I ever tell you that I'm a Master Ninja?" he gloats.
"Oh, brother." Zoe exclaims as she face palms herself.
Charlotte however was interested in this topic. "Really?" she asks.
Max grew a boastful grin. "Mm-hm." he confirms. "Pass through many trials and tribulations to get there but I eventually beat all the odds and became a master ninja!"
"So do you know any secret ninja moves?"
Max was caught off guard by this question. "Uuuuuuh… Only a Master Ninja can know these moves." he quickly lies albeit nervously.
Charlotte seemed to have believed the lie due to her distraught face. "Oh, I see." she sadly replies.
Zoe scoffed while rolling her eyes in response. "But it's still cool to hear you travel around the globe and fight dinosaurs." Charlotte suddenly says, her mood taking a quick 180.
"Yeah. I'm pretty awesome." Max boasts as he rubs his upper lip with his finger while a confident grin took over his face.
"More like egotistical." Zoe mumbles to herself.
"So what else can you tell me about these dinosaurs?" Charlotte asks as he squats down to pet Chomp, much to his pleasure. "I thought all of them went extinct 65 million years ago."
"Oh, that's a long story." Max replies. "You see, it all started two years ago when a meteor crashed down in our backyard and we found those three stones! That's where I found Chomp's card too!"
"Really?"
"Yeah! Then we fought this group called the Alpha Gang, they were our enemies but now they're our friends now."
"How intriguing!"
And so, Max went on and on about all the events that had happened to them up to this moment. Needless to say, this would take a while so let's quickly change the scene.
"And I almost killed Zoe like three times…"
A pillar of smoke shot up into the sky as it came from the remnants of the Alpha Gunship, which had crashed in the forest destroying many trees in the process. As of right now, Ursula was busy currently trying to get as much dirt off of her outfit as possible, Zander and Francis sat on a log, and Ed was busy trying to repair the ship as much as possible while their employer was busy angrily pacing around the area.
"Blast those infernal bozos!" Dr. Z yells in frustration. "Not only did they destroy one of my greatest creations but they created a liar out of me! I'll skin them alive with my teeth! And then after Bartholomew's done skinning them alive, I'm gonna resurrect them SO HE CAN DO IT ALL AGAIN!"
"I don't think you can bring a person back to life after skinning them alive, doctor." Francis points out.
"Balderdash! I am Dr. Z! I can do anything! I weaponized my pet turtle Sue so she could destroy the school I was bullied at!"
"What happened?" Zander suddenly asks.
"She got hit by a car and took out a gas station instead. Surprisingly she survived the car. Guess I made her shell impenetrable. I once saw a coyote break it's teeth trying to eat her. Uh, what was I talking about again?" Dr. Z asks, momentarily forgetting what he was talking about.
"I dunno. Something about skinning people alive." Francis shrugs.
"Damn stain." Ursula mumbles as she rubs more dirt off her outfit. "Doctor, maybe we should get going? I don't want to be here when those guys with guns show up."
"What can we do though? They have guns." Zander reminds her.
"Leave it to me you airheaded bozos." Dr. Z tells his lackeys as he stops his pacing on the spot. Whenever he got deep in thought, the mad doctor would stereotypically rub his beard to help him come up with his next 'best' idea. "I must think of a new strategic strategy before we all can push forward." he tells himself.
Zander suddenly slid next to Ursula. "Aren't all strategies strategic?" he asks her.
"Not Dr. Z's." she replies. "His strategies lack strategy the way his tactics lack tact."
Francis slid next to Ursula on the opposite side of Zander. "And his thinking lacks thought." he adds as both Zander and Ursula nod in agreement.
A tick mark suddenly appeared on Dr. Z's forehead as he grew an irritated look on his face. "Quiet, you dong-head donkeys! I'm trying to think!" he yells at them. The crazed doctor went back to pondering.
Ed suddenly came up from underneath the control counter. "Alright," he says. "I've managed to fix the power but this is grounded. It's not going anywhere."
"Excellent, Ed! You're finally good for something, sort of." Dr. Z attempts to congratulate the portly man. "Now move out of the way. It's time for Plan B of this nasty savannah."
"You have a Plan B?" Ursula questions the doctor in surprise.
"I didn't even know you had a Plan A." Francis comments.
"What's Plan B?" Zander asks.
Instead of saying anything, Dr. Z pressed a red button on the control panel. "Hahaaaaaa!" he laughs while doing so. When he did press the button, a secret hatch on the side of the Alpha Gunship had opened, popping out a piece of machinery with a bowl shaped cockpit along with two large mechanical legs. Along side this, it also had a miniature minigun along with a rocket launcher attachment with six rocket holes. "Behold! My newest creation! The Alpha Walker!"
"I thought the Alpha Gunship was your newest creation?" Francis wonders aloud.
Only to be hit in the head by Dr. Z. "Quiet, you blasted bite sized blockhead!"
"I'm taller than you though." Francis whimpers as he rubs his head.
The moment between the gang was suddenly interrupted when they heard African voices in the distance along with bushes being brushed. "A tink se dɛn dɔn ova de! (I think they're over there!)" shouts one of the militiamen.
"Hahahaha! This is perfect!" Dr. Z laughs boisterously. "What perfect guinea pigs to test the Alpha Walker against. Those troublesome trashy triggermen will all run back to that vulnerable village of theirs. No amount of animal sacrifices will save them from the wrath of the Dinosaur King and greatest scientific mind in the world: Dr. Z!"
"That is extremely racist. You know that right?" Francis asks the doctor, interrupting his boasting.
"What?"
"Yeah, not every African lives in a village like in Niger." Ed continues. "Some are actually very studious and have become world renowned people on this planet."
"Huh?"
"Yeah, to say that these guys are living in a tribe is not only racist but also very ignorant." Zander adds.
"Plus, I'm pretty sure tribes don't use guns." Ursula finishes as she slides into the conversation.
"The closest thing to an actual weapon a tribe uses is the bow and arrow." Francis comments.
"Uuuh…" Dr. Z mumbles once he realized he had lost control of the conversation.
"True," Zander replies. "although a bow and arrow wouldn't really work against a living dinosaur or one of Dr. Z's inventions. It'll probably bounce right off."
"Yeah, but Zander, these guys don't have bows and arrows. They have guns." Ed reminds the man.
"Even then, I don't think they would work against anything Dr. Z builds." Ursula adds in. "They might explode but I will give him credit that they have thick armor. Trust me, people have fired at us before and the bullets usually ricochet off of the thing."
"It did that earlier too, and look how that turned out." Ed dryly replies as he eyes the crashed Gunship.
"Actually, who knows?" Francis suddenly speaks up. "Maybe this IS a tribe that uses guns. Then again, I doubt it. Most tribes are isolated who want nothing to do with the outside world."
"Besides, Mr. Mills said this is a private paramilitary group, not some tribe." Zander responds.
"Wait, tribes still exist?" Ursula questions in bewilderment.
"Oh yeah. In fact, there's this tribe just East of India on some island that killed a man for just stepping foot on their island."
"Really? How cruel." Ed comments.
Their side conversation was suddenly interrupted by Dr. Z, whom was fuming with anger once the spotlight was no longer on him. That and the militiamen were getting closer.
"I don't have time to listen to you academic airheads discuss a bunch of trivial mumbo jumbo, thank you!" he yells at the four, scaring them in their place.
"Mumbo jumbo! Hahahahaha!" Ed laughs boisterously while Zander contains his chuckled, to an attempt.
"Wi de nia dɛnsɛf. A kin yɛri dɛn! (We are close! I can hear them!)" shouts an African voice from nearby.
"Woop. Time to get prepared." Dr. Z says as he jumps into his Alpha Walker.
Right at that moment, the militiamen came running out of the forest, all armed with rifles as they immediately caught sight of the Alpha Gang, as well as the Alpha Walker. Upon taking a quick look at it, they all lowered their weapons in shock, never having seen this type of machinery before, especially with the barrel pointed right at them. Dr. Z smiled maliciously in his seat as he tightly gripped the yoke steering wheel, glaring directly at the militiamen, brimming with excitement.
"Say hello to my little friend!" Dr. Z loudly proclaims before pressing a button on his yoke wheel.
Immediately afterwards, the barrel of the minigun quickly revved up before it shot out a barrage of bullets towards the group of militiamen. The bullets easily tore through their flesh as they all fell backward to the ground dead, a massive blood pool forming around the group of paramilitary soldiers.
"Nyahahahahahahaha!" Dr. Z maniacally laughs. "I told you they stood no chance against me and my genius! Nobody can stand up against the true Dinosaur King! Everyone will be my servant and slave and if they disagree, this will be their punishment."
"You really are a dictator, aren't you?" Ursula asks in a disturbed tone with an equally disturbed expression.
"Alright," Dr. Z suddenly speaks up as he turns towards the four, the battle of his gun inadvertently pointing at them, prompting them to brace themselves. "one of you summon a dinosaur. We're gonna need some prehistoric muscle to help us."
"You heard him, Ursula. Summon Terry." Zander remarked in a snarky tone and an equally snarky grin.
"No way! I summoned Terry last time! You summon Spiny!" Ursula argues with him.
"Why not send out Pachy?" Ed suggests.
"Oh, Pachy's on a playdate with Santa back home." Francis reveals. "Goma wanted those two to become like brothers or something but so far the only activity they share is hurting the poor guy."
"So it's either Spiny or Tank then, huh?" Zander asks.
"I say we go with Tank cuz she has armor that could protect her from those guns." Ursula suggests.
"Yeah, good idea." Ed agrees as he takes out his Alpha Scanner.
"ALPHA SLASH! ROCK N' ROLL, SAICHANIA!"
"Alright, Tank." Dr. Z talks to the Saichania. "You stay behind to protect those four hollow headed turkeys while I lead the way with the Alpha Walker and take out those paramilitary pussies."
"Never heard him say that word before." Ursula mumbles in surprise as the men nod their heads in agreement.
Tank gave a single grunt in response. "What do you mean you rather lead?" Dr. Z asks the Saichania, somehow understanding it. Tank roared in response. "I have guns and missiles! All you got is a tail!" Tank roared once more. "Yeah, but you can't use any of your move cards on your own volition! It's not how that works! Just let me lead the way! I'll lead the way otherwise eat you flesh by flesh from your steal beating body as if you were my dinner!" Tank let out an enraged roar in response, scaring poor Bartholomew. "Okay, I'm sorry. Speak for yourself! I'm still in control here!"
"Is he really arguing with a dinosaur?" Ursula wonders aloud in both confusion and slight surprise.
"You forget. Dr. Z is part dinosaur now so he can understand other dinosaurs as well." Ed reminds her.
"Guess that dino head really does come in handy, doesn't it?" Zander chuckles.
"Too bad he's still just as crazy, if not more crazy than usual." Francis dryly finishes with lidded eyes towards the doctor, whom was still yelling at Tank.
For the next fifteen minutes or so, the Alpha Gang had blindly walked through the forest aimlessly, having absolutely no clue where they're going or where to go. True to his words, Dr. Z was leading the way with his Alpha Walker while Tank stayed behind to protect the quartet from any harm's way. That still didn't make the walk boring for the four, evident by the extremely bored expressions on their faces.
"Uuuugh." Dr. Z dryly sighs in a bored tone as he leaned on his hand. "There's a word for this: boooring."
"I'm hot." Francis complains.
"I'm hotter." Ursula one ups him.
"I'm tired."
"I'm tireder."
"…That's not even a word!"
The four trudged themselves through the forest with weak legs, feeling as if they could collapse any second now. "Dr. Z, maybe we could rest for a minute?" Ursula suggests to the crazed doctor.
"Yeah, it's hot and my legs are sore." Ed cries in discomfort.
"If we keep this up, we won't even make it even if we find the place they're storing the shipments." Zander complains as Francis collapses to the ground in exhaustion.
Dr. Z was less than happy with his henchmen. "You guys complain when you're sitting down and you complain when you're standing up. Is there anytime when you don't complain?!" he yells at them.
"When I'm doing my makeup."
"When I'm with my angel."
"When I'm eating carrot cake.
"When I'm getting paid."
"That was a rhetorical question you blasted brainless buffoons!" Dr. Z yells at them. He suddenly noticed something in front of him, prompting him to stop his Alpha Walker. "Woah! Hang on! We've got a gully!"
Sure enough, in front of them was a steep gully leading to a small river down below, with several small cliffs to at least break an accidental fall. "Looks steep." Zander blankly points out as he and the others look down. "Ursula, you go first."
"Wha- Me?! Nononononono! You go first!" she yells at the tall man.
"Nu-uh! You heard the saying. Ladies first." Zander wittingly replies with a snarky grin.
"Beast before beauty."
"No pain, no gain."
"I'll show you pain."
"Alright- Alright! Let's not fight!" Ed quickly shouts to prevent a fight amongst them as he stands in between the two. "I'm sure we can solve this problem in a sensible, calm manner that does not result in us turning on each other and attacking each other like a pack of wild wolves if we all put our heads togeth-"
"Hey, isn't that Bethany from Survivor of the Next Super Model?" Ursula asks with a sly smile while pointing to the bottom of the gully.
"Where?! WHERE?!" Ed excitedly asks as he takes a step forward…
…and falls down the gully. "Woah! Woah! Woah! AAAAAH!" Ed screams as he falls down the gully and crashes at the bottom.
"Haaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha!" Ursula laughs at her brother's misfortune.
"Ursula!" Ed yells from below in anger.
Francis stifled a laugh before regaining a serious look. "Come on, Ursula. That's not funny." he sternly tells her. "He could've seriously hurt hihhhhheheheheheheheheheheh." the teen chuckled, no longer able to contain his laughter. "Naw. It IS funny."
"I can't believe Ed actually fell for that." Ursula chuckles herself.
"And I can't believe you're just standing there instead of moving forward! Move!" Dr. Z yells as he uses the Alpha Walker's legs to push the remaining three down the gully.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" the three scream in terror while falling down the steep incline.
Dr. Z jumped afterwards, activating the boosters of his Alpha Walker to slow his descent while Tank carefully slid down the gully to follow suit. Down below, Ed had just picked himself up while dusting off dirt off his clothes, just as the other three finally tumbled down to the bottom of the gully with Dr. Z safely landing beside them.
"That was actually kind of fun. Let's do it again!" Ed excitedly exclaims like a little kid.
"Breaking my neck is not a fun time, Ed." Ursula sarcastically replies as she picks herself up.
Francis picked himself up and turned around to look at the small stream behind them. "Cool lookin' water." he proclaims.
"Yeah, don't drink it." Ursula dryly replies.
It was this moment that Ed had spotted something. "Hey look! Trucks!" he shouts as he points to a direction where sure enough the white box trucks from earlier were parked in front of an abandoned factory.
"Nice observation, Eddie." Ursula sarcastically replies.
"I think… I think we're here." Zander guesses as he scratches his head.
"What makes you say that?" Francis asks him. All of a suddenly, several militiamen popped their heads out of the bushes and aimed their rifles at the Alpha Gang. "Nevermind."
A man had suddenly walked out of the forestry to reveal himself to the group, being the same gold ringed leader from before. "Who are you people?" he asks in an African accent.
Spotlights had suddenly appeared over Ursula as she gave the man a seductive yet intimidating look with more spotlights illuminating the rest of the Alpha Gang when it was their turn to speak
"Battling evil in the dead of night!" she proclaims.
"Never going down without a well earned fight!" Zander adds as he holds a firm fist.
"Making even grown men cry." Ed exclaims as he leaps in the air.
"We'll blow you all sky high!" Francis finishes as he slides into his spotlight.
"Oh so Ursula."
"Zantastic Zander!"
"Francis to assist!"
"Ed, that's what I said!"
"Dashing through beyond the stars of space!" Ursula declares as she stands tall.
"Faster than the wind in an elegant grace!" Zander twirls into his spot to the right of Ursula.
"Always coming back like a trusty boomerang!" Francis adds as he slides in front of them, kneeling on his knee in front of the two.
"Fighting us, you'll go out with a bang!" Ed jumps into his spot to the left of Ursula.
"We are the Alpha Gang!" the quartet loudly declare as they all pose dramatically while the Alpha Gang symbol appears behind them.
Tank roared loudly to finalize the motto.
"Never heard of you." the gold ringed man replies with lidded eyes.
"Awww, and we put so much effort into that motto as well!" Zander loudly complains.
"I actually kind of liked it." Francis piped up softly.
Dr. Z suddenly stepped in front of them. "Nevermind those bozos. Who in the blazes are you?" he demands them.
"Oh great. Another crazy weirdo." the man dryly responds with an eye roll.
This made Dr. Z more than mad as he grew an enraged scowl, showing off his razor sharp fangs. "Grrr, so I'm a crazy weirdo, huh?" he questions him in a hostile tone. "I'll show you. Tank! Crush these losers in their place and show them who they're messing with!"
Tank roared in response before swinging her tail at a group of militiamen, sending them flying away as chaos ensued. "Fire!" the gold ringed man ordered his men as they all aimed their firearms at the group.
"I don't think so!" Dr. Z boasts as he presses a button on his Alpha Walker.
When he did, a spherical shield suddenly enveloped the group just as the militiamen fired their weapons, their bullets bouncing off due to the shield and striking them all back. The gold ringed leader ducked as his men were all shot down by their own bullets as they ricocheted off the shield. The leader stood back up to see the bodies of his men before turning back to his enemies, giving them a confused yet shock glare.
"Nyahahahahahahahahaha! That's what you get for messing with the Dinosaur King! Ha!" Dr. Z laughs at them.
The gold ringed leader scowled in response before turning to one of the white box trucks. "Dɛbul (Demon), get out here! Take care of these freaks!" he orders an unknown person.
"Who are you calling freaks, freak?!" Dr. Z yells at the man.
The moment was suddenly interrupted when one of the box trucks suddenly shook from the inside as a huge dent popped up on top. Another bang sound emitted as the box truck shook some more before finally something broke out from the vehicle as it flew in the air. However, it wasn't something but someONE.
"Shear!" Ursula spits out like venom.
"What's she doing here?!" Zander exclaims in shock.
Shear pulled out her Corythosaurus card from her pocket. "The Grand Master sent me as a contingency plan in case you guys decided to interfere with his plans." she replies. "Looks like he was right. You five morons took the bait and now you'll have to suffer the fate of my dinosaur."
"Isn't that right, Corythosaurus?"
Shear's Corythosaurus spawned in front of the Alpha Gang, roaring in the air to signify its appearance as a battlefield appeared in the sky. "Take care of them! We've got to unload the shipment!" the African Militia leader orders the alien.
"Cory!" Shear calls out to her dinosaur. "Stop these idiots in their place and make sure they don't go near the factory!"
Cory the Corythosaurus roared in response before charging head first towards the Saichania, whom got in a battle ready stance in response. Cory went in to headbutt the ankylosaur only for Tank to move out of the way in the last second, swinging her clubbed tail at the herbivore, knocking it to the ground.
"Don't let that gargantuan green meanie get the best of you, Tank! Mess him up!" Dr. Z orders the Saichania.
Tank's pupils shrunk before she gave out a mighty roar, charging towards the Corythosaurus where she swung her tail at the dinosaur. Cory ducked out of the way at the last second, causing Tank to accidentally knock down several trees instead. In retaliation, Cory charged himself towards the Saichania, head butting her into another set of trees, destroying them as well.
While this was happening, the militia leader quickly realized this was a fight he was not going to win, opting to retreat back to his original duties. "Load the shipment! Now!" he orders his men as they run inside the factory.
Cory roared loudly before biting Tank's tail, dragging her on the ground before tossing her into a huge boulder, completely obliterating it as it shattered into pebbles. Tank shook her head in response before roaring at her opponent in retaliation, whom charged towards her to give her another headbutt. This time, the Saichania dodged out of the way in the last second before swinging her clubbed tail at the Corythosaurus, knocking him to the ground before she repeatedly stomped on him, letting out a mighty roar in response.
Shear simultaneously scowled and growled before pulling out her Chasmosaurus card from her pocket. "This isn't going as planned. Time to summon my other dinosaur." she says as she equips her Element Gauntlet.
"Go get 'em, Dozer!"
As soon as the Chasmosaurus was summoned, he immediately charged at his enemy, ramming into Tank as he knocked her over on her backside. "Oh great!" Ursula exclaims in anger. "Now she's on her back! She's like a turtle who can't get up! Zander, summon Spiny and help her already!"
"Alright! Alright! No need to get snappy." Zander grumbles as he grabs the Spinosaurus' card.
"ALPHA SLASH! SURF'S UP, SPINOSAURUS!"
Upon being summoned, Spiny immediately charged towards the enemy, letting out a malevolent crocodilian roar as he snapped his jaws on Dozer's tail. The Chasmosaurus roared out in pain as Spiny dragged him before throwing him into his ally, the Chasmosaurus crashing into the Corythosaurus as they fell to the ground. Taking this to her advantage, Tank jumped in the air and slammed herself against the two fallen dinosaurs, dealing critical damage as she triumphantly roared from the successful attack.
"You four foolish fatheads take care of that wretched winged witch and her dastardly dinos while I deal with these militiamen meatheads." Dr. Z orders his cronies as he walks off in his Alpha Walker.
"Nice alliteration, doctor." Zander compliments as he pulls out a move card. "Alright, Spiny! Use Aqua Javelin!"
The Spinosaurus glowed an ocean blue before unleashing three javelins made up of completely water from the ground, the three weapons shooting towards Dozer the Chasmosaurus. "Dozer! Block it with Voltage Shield!" Shear commands as she activates the move card.
Dozer roared in the air before conjuring up electricity from his horns, forming a dome made completely out of electricity that surrounded him. The three Aqua Javelins struck the Voltage Shield and true to its name, shielded Dozer from the attack as the three javelins dissipated into thin air, leaving behind light rain.
"Aaaah! I've never seen that move before!" Zander exclaims in shock.
"No me gusta!" Francis shouts in equal shock.
"You like it?" Shear tauntingly asks. "Seth and the Grand Master have been cooking up more powerful cards since your attack on their hideout a few weeks back. And there's more to come." the female alien grins maliciously as she pulls out another move card with a Grass symbol on it. "Flytrap Fury!"
Shear slashed the move card into her gauntlet as her dinosaur glowed its elemental color, roaring loudly in the air before slamming his forelegs on the ground. A large crack suddenly appeared on the ground as it made its way towards Spiny before finally a large Venus Flytrap suddenly emerged from the ground. The Flytrap grabbed Spiny before slamming him into the ground before tossing him away, where he crashed into several trees, destroying and uprooting them.
"Spiny!" Zander cries out in shock.
While the Alpha Quartet were fighting Shear, Dr. Z had proceeded his way closer to the abandoned, dilapidated factory while laughing maniacally. "Nyahahahahahahahaha!" he cackles. "Oh, I love the smell of smoke and destruction in the morning. When I become Dinosaur King, that will be the first smell everyone will smell! Hey! Where are you going?! Hahahahaha!"
Dr. Z fired his minigun at the group of militiamen, completely tearing them apart while also making them flee to cover. Needless to say, Dr. Z fel t invincible and utterly powerful at that moment. The moment however was suddenly interrupted when an small attack helicopter emerged from behind the old factory, its minigun barrels already whirling and pointing right at the doctor.
"Ha! You think that crummy copter can take on the great Dr. Z?" the crazed mutant scientist gloats. "The greatest evil genius in this time period? Ha, I say! Ha! That boisterous blowhard is no match against my Alpha Walker! Observe."
The evil genius doctor pressed a button in his Alpha Walker, projecting a forcefield just as the helicopter fired its minigun and rockets. The lethal projectiles were immediately destroyed upon contact with the forcefield, causing absolutely no harm to the doctor inside. With a smug and evil grin, the doctor fired his own rockets at the attack helicopter, easily taking it out as it crashed somewhere behind the factory. At the same time as well, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter suddenly landed behind the church, a transport helicopter completely unarmed. No doubt this was the transport being used to ship the mysterious cargo into Morocco.
"It looks like the Grand Master's helicopter has arrived. Not for long! Nyahahahahahahaha!" Dr. Z maniacally laughs until he realized that he was suddenly surrounded by a large shadow. "Is it bedtime already?" The crazed doctor looked up to see what was causing the shadow, only to be met with a horrifying answer. "Oh poop."
Without thinking, Dr. Z quickly pushed his yoke wheel forward, prompting his Alpha Walker to thrust forward just in time to miss Spiny crash landing in the spot where Dr. Z would've been. The Spinosaurus groaned in pain before he was suddenly slammed deeper into the ground by Dozer, whom had landed right on top of him after falling from the sky. The Chasmosaurus continued to stomp on the fallen Spinosaurus when the moment was suddenly interrupted when Cory crashed into Dozer, ridding Spiny of the nuisance.
"Now Tank! It's your turn! Earthquake!" Ed shouts as he activates the move card.
Tank glowed violet before slamming her fore legs onto the ground, creating a huge crack that literally ripped the earth. Shear however smirked in response. "Dodge it with Stomping Hammer, Dozer!" the female alien exclaims as she activates the move card.
Dozer roared into the air and leaped high into the air, dodging the earthquake as he aimed his forelegs directly towards Tank. "Spiny! Save Tank with Aqua Whip!" Zander shouts as he activates his own move card.
Water built up inside Spiny's mouth until he couldn't hold it in anymore, gushing out a torrent of water that immediately wrapped itself around Dizer, ensnaring the Chasmosaurus. "Hey! No fair!" Shear shouts in annoyance.
"Silly, Space Pirate." Ursula taunts with a sly grin. "We're the Alpha Gang. We don't play fair."
"Yeah! We play unfairly!" Ed exclaims in excitement as he crosses his arms.
"Ruining the game is what we do best." Zander gloats as he stands up tall and points at himself with his thumb.
Francis crouched down in front of the trio, though not facing Shear directly, with a huge grin on his face. "It's in our blood. It's what we do best." he adds.
Spiny swung Dozer around the air before tossing him aside where he crashed right into his ally, Cory, the two crashing into more trees in the process. "Now, Ed!" Ursula calls out.
"I'm all on it! Quakesaber!" Ed announces as he slashes the move card.
Tank glowed her elemental color as a purple saber grew on the tip of her tail before charging directly towards her enemies. With all her might, she swung her tail and slammed her Quakesaber tail against the two dinosaurs, knocking them to the ground doing critical damage to them.
"Aw yeah!" the quartet shouts in triumph.
Only for Dozer and Cory to pick themselves up and roar in defiance. "Aw come on!" Ursula shouts in anger.
"Are you serious?!" Francis loudly adds.
"Boooo! Not cool!" Zander yells at the two.
Back with Dr. Z, many of the militiamen continued to flee for their lives as he continued to mow down their numbers with his guns and rockets, having himself getting protected by his invisible forcefield as he maniacally laughed. "Nyehahahahahahahahaha!"
The leader of the militiamen, the gold ringed African, turned to some of his men while hiding inside the factory. "Load the shipment and get out of here when you do!" he orders his men.
"Yes sir." one of the militiamen agrees as he nods his head.
The leader suddenly pulled out a cellphone and quickly dialed a number before putting it near his ear. "Grand Master, it's Shabeel." the leader now formally known as Shabeel says. "There has been… an interruption regarding the shipment here in Sierra Leone." A voice was heard over the phone, albeit too quiet for anyone but Shabeel to hear. "The helicopter here and we are loading the shipment as I speak. A group named 'the Alpha Gang' are here and are fighting right outside the factory. One of them has a dinosaur head and is killing all my men with this contraption of his. The others have dinosaurs on our side… Yes, the winged demon is fighting them as I speak… I will make sure the shipment is loaded without anymore interruptions." With that, he hung up his phone and retreated deeper within the factory.
Dr. Z continued to fire his rockets and miniguns at the armada of militiamen while he continued to cackle evily. "HAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! Cry some more! Cry some more you foolish fools! No one will ever best the likes of Dr. Z!" All of a sudden, both his miniguns and rockets had stopped firing. "Huh?"
The crazed doctor looked down to see W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s face on the monitor along with projections of both his miniguns and rockets on it with the words AMMO EMPTY on it. ~Ammo depleted lol. Please reload with more ammo.~ the A.I. says over the monitor.
"Are you kidding me?" the doctor asks himself. Once the militiamen realized they weren't under fire anymore, they quickly aimed their weapons and just as quickly fired them at the doctor… only for the forcefield to destroy all the bullets upon contact. "Yeah, I still have my forcefield dummies!"
"But you have no ammo! You are outnumbered!" shouts an African militiaman.
"Am I?" Dr. Z rhetorically asks with a smirk.
He pressed a button and almost immediately a part of his Alpha Walker opened up on the front, revealing a large cannon-like device inside which quickly began to power up with a blue light. The militiamen grew confused looks as the cannon-like device continued to power up before finally unleashing a large blue laser that easily ripped the ground AND the men in a single blast, knocking them all away as it destroyed half of a building. "This baby is called the Mega Laser! HAAAHAHAHAHA!" Dr. Z boisterously laughs evily.
Spiny pinned Cory against the tree by the neck with his snout as the herbivore roared in defiance, much to Shear's chagrin. "Ugh, this is getting old. Cory! Knock them back to the stone age!" she commands her dinosaur.
"Did you just say 'old'?! It better not have been directed towards me!" Ursula yells at the winged alien.
Shear groaned in annoyance in response as she rolled her eyes. "Ugh, I wish I was stranded in space." she mumbles to herself before pulling out a card. "This'll shut you guys up. Fern Frenzy!"
Cory smacked Spiny off of himself with his tail before slamming his forelegs on the ground, creating a large crack as prehistoric plants emerged from it. The plants suddenly began to rapidly strike the Spinosaurus, prompting him to retreat back as the plants quickly disappeared back into the earth.
"Now use Lightning Strike, Dozer! Hyah!" Shear yells as she slashes the move card on her elemental gauntlet.
Dozer built up electricity in between his horns, producing a ball of literal lightning before unleashing it towards the Spinosaurus. "Block it with Shockwave, Spiny!" Zander yells as he too activates his move card.
A funnel of water suddenly surrounded the Spinosaurus just in time for the electricity to strike it, blocking the attack while also electrifying it at the same time. Afterwards, Spiny shot the Shockwave towards the Chasmosaurus, which was still electrified thanks to the Lightning Strike so when the attack struck Dozer, it dealt double the damage. Enough damage to turn the Chasmosaurus back into a card.
"Dozer! No!" Shear yells out in shock.
"Go Mole Attack!" Ed yells as he activates the move card.
Tank roared high into the air before leaping into the ground, tunneling underneath it before suddenly popping up right underneath Cory, knocking the Corythosaurus right on his back. With his belly exposed, Tank used her clubbed tail and slammed it against Cory's stomach over and over again, taking a page out of the Ankylosaurus' book, before the herbivore turned back into a card as well.
"Not you too, Cory!"
"That's what you get for messing with the Alpha Gang!" Ursula taunts the alien.
"Hurray!" the guys cheered loudly.
Shear growled audibly before retrieving her two cards, flying high up in the air afterwards. "Forget this!" she defiantly yells. "It's a lost cause! I'm out of here! I'll take the Grand Master's punishment over getting eaten alive any day! Later, jerks!" And with that, Shear flew off into the sky, retreating back to wherever she came from.
Zander and Ed both returned their respective dinosaurs back into cards, placing them back in their scanners while Francis picked his nose for some odd reason. "Hurry! Before they leave with the shipment!" Ursula shouts as she points to the factory, quickly running towards it.
"Oh. Right!" Zander exclaims as he and the other two follow suit.
Dr. Z however was already at the factory, bursting right through the wall just in time to see the helicopter flying off carrying the shipment while many militiamen waited for him. Upon making his entrance, the African Militia all fired their weapons at the crazed doctor, doing nothing but having their bullets get destroyed thanks to his forcefield. With no ammo in tow, Dr. Z had no other choice than to use the Mega Laser, which was slowly powering up while the helicopter continued to fly further and further away. Finally, after the Mega Laser had ultimately charged up, Dr. Z wasted no time in firing it, with the giant laser firing out of its cannon directly towards the helicopter.
Unfortunately, the helicopter was already too far out of its reach, resulting in the laser dissipating in the air as the air vehicle disappeared over the horizon. "Blast this slow infernal charge up timer!" Dr. Z loudly yells at his Alpha Walker. A BING! sound suddenly emitted from his control panel with a message that read Shield Strength Low. "Oh dear. I must deal with this muddied militiamen pronto."
With a press of a button, another compartment of his Alpha Walker opened up, this time ejecting a flamethrower, which the doctor wasted no time in using. With a press of a button, a stream of fire shot out which completely incinerated the remnants of the African Militia in the compound as the sound of their screams and the scent of burning flesh filled the air.
"AAAH! AAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" the militiamen screamed in horrific pain as they were all burned alive before collapsing to the ground.
Dr. Z however had a sadistic grin on his snout; however, his eyes were more prehistoric than human, revealing that it was Bartholomew in control at the moment. "Burn, baby. Burn."
Right at that moment, the Alpha Quartet came running through the hole in the wall to reunite with their boss. "Dr. Z! Dr. Z!" Ed excitedly exclaims. "We defeated Shear and- Oh my God! What is that… Oh."
"Oh God." Zander mumbles in utter shock.
"Jesus… Christ." Ursula gags as she looks away from the burning bodies.
Francis appeared to be the only one slightly unaffected by this, albeit with a still somewhat disturbed expression. "Aww." he groans in slight disturbance.
"Bad news, gang." Dr. Z takes control as he turns his Alpha Walker around. "That helicopter got away with the shipment and since it's being traveled by air, there's no way to pinpoint it's destination in Morocco. Looks like we've lost the Grand Master's trail, again."
A slight groan was heard from the ground, earning the gang's attention. "Uuuuh… Doc, that guy is still alive." Ursula whispers as she points to a random soldier.
"Please… Kill me… My nerves… They're… destroyed… Can't… Move… Body." the militiamen pleads within an inch of his life.
"Fine. Whatever." Dr. Z rolls his eyes in annoyance as he tosses Francis a pistol. "Frankie. Put him out of his misery."
"Why do I have to do it?" he asks the doctor with a raised brow.
"Because you've done this before!"
"Yeah but those were Russian mobsters and Chinese Triads." Francis reasons. "If I do this, I'll feel… you know… racist."
Dr. Z gawked at him in response. "Are you seriously making this into a race thing? Just kill the poor fool for CHRIST SAKES!" he booms at the teen.
Francis approached the burnt soldier, aiming the gun at him with an apologetic look on his face. "Sorry, buddy. You'll be with your friends in a short while." he apologizes to the militiaman.
"It's okay. I burnt down a whole village yesterday so I kinda saw this coming." the militiaman replies.
Francis pulled the trigger and BANG! A bullet pierced the militaman's body, finally putting him out of his misery. "I still feel disturbed… yet empty at the same time." Francis mumbles in a traumatized tone.
"Yeah, welcome to the club pal." Dr. Z sarcastically replies. "Alright, guys. Let's bag it. We've failed this mission, again. No doubt Dan will yell at us for our 'incompetence'. One of the reasons why I despise that man. The other is that he has a functioning pancreas."
"What happened to your pancreas?" Ursula questions the doctor.
Bartholomew quickly took control. "I ate it." he smiles.
"Oh."
Dr. Z took back control before spying a crate off to the side, where he approached it and opened it, revealing several guns and ammunition inside. "Hmmm." he hums in thought. "Rod said these guys deal with Al-Qaeda, right?"
"Yeah, and Rod's never been wrong before." Zander responds.
Dr. Z grew a malicious grin in response. "Then I know how to get back at these losers and go home without some form of victory. Heheheheheh." he evily snickers as he eyes the contents of the crate.
Zander leaned into Ursula's ear all of a suddenly. "He scares me when he's like this." he whispers to her.
"Trust me, Zander. He scares all of us." she whispers back.
"-and then Terry just came out of left field and obliterated Torrent and made Foolscap run away like a baby." Max finishes his story about his latest adventure to Charlotte.
The Drake sisters however weren't even listening at this point, with Zoe fast asleep and Reese holding her head with her hands, she herself feeling she was about to fall asleep. Also the D-Team's logo was bouncing off the edges of the screen of the D-Lab's super computer once more and once more, it did not hit the corner. It was a sad day in Sanjo City indeed.
"And that about sums it up, I think." Max finishes the story.
"Ugh. Finally!" Reese exclaims in relief, having accidentally woken her sister up.
"ZZZ- Wha- I'm awake!" she stammers, having just been rudely woken up.
Charlotte however seemed to be the only one that was actually interested in the whole story, having listened to the entire tale from start to finish. "So, wait." she suddenly says. "Spartacus had a sister? I don't remember that in the history books."
"I mean, I guess." Max shrugs. "And apparently Blackbeard's first mate was some guy named Copper and not… Whatever his first mate's name was."
"Israel Hands." Reese tiredly notes.
"Yeah, that guy."
Charlotte suddenly bent down and began to pet Chomp's back before caressing his damaged horn with half of it being metal thanks to Dr. Z having replaced the missing half. "Poor, Chomp. He lost his horn. Do you think I hurt?" she softly questions the brunet.
"I don't completely know to be honest. Maybe. Maybe not." Max half accurately answered. "I'm just thankful Dr. Z made a replacement for the missing half of his horn so now he's not completely defenseless. Ain't that right, Chomp?" Max asks as he pets his partner. In response, Chomp leaped up and bit his owner's nose, much to his anger. "OW! Chomp! I told you to not do that! OUCH!"
Charlotte giggled in response. "It seems you lot have been on quite a number of adventures." she says to the group.
"You know it. Literally." Max wittedly responds as Chomp continues to chew on his nose.
Right at that moment, the D-Lab's teleporter suddenly lit up as a rainbow colored light shined on it before the Alpha Gang materialized into thin air. "Still not used to that." Francis pipes up.
"Woah. Where have you guys been?" Zoe asks the gang.
"Dr. Ancient sent us on a mission to Sierra Leone to intercept the Grand Master's shipment." Dr. Z replies, still in his Alpha Walker.
"What the heck is that?" Max asks as he points to the machine.
"It's called the Alpha Walker. My new battle mech is used for front line combat! Impressive, isn't it?" he boasts to the group.
"Kind of." Zoe tiredly replies.
"These must be the Alpha Gang you were talking about." Charlotte speaks up as she points to the gang.
"Who the hell are you?" Dr. Z rudely asks. "Can I eat her?"
"Her name's Charlotte. She's the new transfer student of the school." Max introduces.
Francis approached the teen and examined her. "Oooooh, that's what you look like." he says. "I knew there was a new student, just didn't know what you looked like… Nice to meet you." Francis greets with a hand shake.
To which Charlotte hesitantly denied. "Uuuuh, you're Frankie right?" she asks him.
"Don't call me that." Francis immediately replies with lidded eyes.
"You're the kid who crapped his pants in the school bathroom that one time?"
"What? No! Where'd you hear that from?!" Francis demands in an angry manner.
"From Max." Charlotte answers, pointing a backwards thumb to him.
Max was shown behind her holding in a stifled laugh, only for Zoe to smack him upside the head. "Don't believe Max says anything about me. He doesn't like me… For some reason that I don't know." He suddenly got up close to her. "I don't know what I did to him but he just doesn't like me for some reason." he whispers to her.
"Huh." was all she replied.
"Sierra Leone, huh?" Reese suddenly asks.
"Ugh, it was AWFUL!" Ursula loudly complains as she takes a seat on the couch. "We had to fight Shear and her dinos."
"Yeah, and not only that but we had to fight this African Militia over there that was guarding the shipment!" Zander exclaims.
"You mean the PRF?" Reese questions.
"The PR what now?" Dr. Z asks with a raised brow.
Reese suddenly typed up the name on the D-Lab's supercomputer, showing various images of the group that ranged from them executing people to burning villages to the ground. "The PRF, otherwise known as the People's Republican Federation, is a group primarily formed by former African soldiers that have lost their jobs after the last major war in Africa. They blame their government for this and formed a paramilitary group to counter the corrupt government and take control of it's own. They're currently in a civil war in Kenya, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia. They're led by this nasty piece of work named Shabeel." Reese explains as she pulls up a photo of the man.
To which the gang immediately recognized. "Hey! That's the guy we met over there!" Ed exclaims in shock.
"Yeah! Gold ring and everything!" Francis adds on.
"Why is the Grand Master working with some African warlord?" Zoe suddenly inquires from her spot.
"Well, Mr. Mills did say the Grand Master hired the PRF to oversee the shipment in Africa." Zander reveals.
Max suddenly remembered something. "Hey, come to think of it. Zoe, didn't you say you saw Seth talking to someone over in Nicaragua last time?" he asks the pinkette.
"That's right! He was!" she yells in realization.
"Looks like the Grand Master is hiring outside help for whatever his 'Grand Scheme' is." Reese theorizes in her seat before turning to Zander. "Zander, did you find out what he was shipping by the way?"
"Uuuuh, no." the tall man sheepishly replies. "It got away before we could find out."
"Yeah and since it's going by helicopter towards Morocco," Dr. Z suddenly says. "there's no way to tell when and where the shipment will arrive. And even then it'll be shipped off to Spain. Again, we have no idea when and where. The trail is officially gone cold. For now."
"Yeah, and it was our only lead too." Ed depressingly says.
Charlotte's watch suddenly began beeping, prompting her to take a look at it. "Aw, bloody hell." she silently curses. "My apologies, Max, but I need to head home before curfew. I hope you understand."
"Aw, no problem." Max shrugs off with a suave smile. "I'll walk you home. Sanjo City has become dangerous at night recently. I blame the mayor."
"We all do." Ed agrees.
"Like I said before, just as long as you avoid the southern part of the city, you'll be fine."
"Too bad that's where I mostly work." Francis mumbles loud enough for them to hear.
"Yeah, no one cares, Frankie." Max rudely shrugs him off. In response, Francis threw up his arms in an offended manner. "Come on, Charlotte. I'll walk you home. It's what a gentleman would do."
Charlotte giggled in response. "My, my. You are quite a gentleman." she compliments.
Max enlarged his chest as a boastful expression took over his face. "I know. It's one of my favorite feats." He then turned to his colleagues. "I'll see you all tomorrow guys! Later!"
And with that, Max and Charlotte walked out of the D-Lab, leaving only the Drake sisters and the Alpha Gang inside the building. "Max totally has a crush on her." Ursula teases with a smirk.
Zoe grew an annoyed expression in response. "Oh, yeah. He's crushing hard." Ed agrees.
Zoe scowled some more before suddenly walking over to Francis. "Come on, Francis." she says in an agitated tone as she grabs his hand. "Let's go home. I'm sure you've had a tough day today after Sierra Leone. You're probably really tired."
"Actually, I feel just fine but okay." Francis replies as the pinkette begins to drag the teen towards the exit.
"You feel like watching a movie tonight?"
"Funny. I was JUST thinking that just now. How does Indiana Jones sound like to you?"
"I was thinking more along the lines of Jurassic Park."
"Oh, yeah, they removed that from Netflix a week ago."
"What?!"
The two exited the building, now only leaving Reese with the Alpha Gang to herself. An awkward moment of silence suddenly filled the air for a good few seconds before Bartholomew spoke up, ruining it. "I smell a complicated romance in the air. A… love 'square' as you may call it. I'm all up for it!"
Reese suddenly turned to Zander, giving him an apologetic look. "Sorry to hear the mission was unsuccessful, Zander." she apologizes to him.
The tall man defeatedly sighs in response. "We did our best." he tries to remain optimistic.
"Apparently the PRF deals guns and ammo to Al-Qaeda according to Rod," Dr. Z suddenly says. "and I left that group of raghead scumbags a little present for them. So, the trip wasn't an entire failure."
"Wait, what kind of present did you leave them?" Reese asks the doctor.
"Osama! Osama!" shouts an Al-Qaeda soldier as he approaches the terrorist as he was talking to some of his soldiers. The leader turned to the man to see he and several other men carrying the same crate the African Militia had back in Sierra Leone. "Shabeel sent us over some more guns and ammunition. Now we can use this to kill those American pigs and get them off our country!"
"That's wonderful, Ahmed! Open it up!" Osama Bin Laden happily orders.
Ahmed used a crowbar to open up the crate, lifting up the lid only to reveal a sticky note inside that was on top of another smaller crate. "What the?" he questions as he grabs the sticky note.
Bin Laden rudely swiped the sticky note from his man and read it aloud. "'Dear, Osama Bin Loser.' Rude. 'Here's a little present from you. Love… Dr. Z' Who's Dr. Z?" he asks his men.
Only to be met with confused responses.
"I dunno."
"Never heard of him."
"I think he's my optometrist."
"What's the present he left anyway?"Ahmed asks the leader.
Bin Laden quickly opened up the smaller crate, accidentally pulling the pin of a grenade that was tied to the lid inside, revealing that inside the crate was filled to the brim with nothing but live hand grenades. Bin Laden and his group stared at the crate in utter horror at the sight, too stricken in fear to move as the grenade continued to silently prime itself.
"Aw fuck." Bin Laden mumbles, knowing it was too late to run.
Far away, two Al-Qaeda soldiers could be seen standing on top of a destroyed building, currently guarding it for unknown reasons, when a large and loud explosion happened to them. One of the terrorists flinched in utter shock while the other wasn't even affected by it whatsoever.
"What was that?!" the first terrorist asks in a panicked tone.
The second terrorist shrugged his shoulders in response. "Probably Mohamed failing another suicide bombing." he lazily replies.
"Oh. Yeah, that's probably what that was."
(IT'S OKAY TO JOKE ABOUT THIS! THESE GUYS ARE ASSHOLES, NO ONE CARES ABOUT THESE GUYS!)
By the time Max had walked Charlotte home to her house, it was already nighttime as the sounds of cars honking and sirens were heard in the distance. The two approached a simple single story house with a nice brown door with a half moon shaped window in the door. "Here's my place." Charlotte says to the brunet. "Thanks for walking me home, Max."
"Anytime, Char." Max replies in a suave manner.
In response, Charlotte gave a gentle kiss on Max's cheek, immediately turning them red as a dumb smile threatened to reveal itself on his face. "See you tomorrow." she waves goodbye as Max stands there dumbly.
"Yeaaaah." he responds with a love struck expression, walking away from the door.
Inside, Charlotte had locked the door before heading further inside the house before she suddenly caught sight of someone sitting on her couch. This person… was Chase. "He seems nice." Chase says to the teen.
Charlotte rubbed her arm nervously in response. "He is. Quite cute too." she reveals with a small blush on her face.
"Remember what the Fist said. Don't get too attached to him." the man replies as he stands up from the couch. "What did you learn about him and his group?"
"It's just as Uncle Castner said." she reveals. "He and his friends go around the world capturing dinosaurs that turn into cards. I did learn they time traveled at one point but they weren't after cards. Just something called the 'Cosmos Stones'."
"Do you know where they keep the cards?" Chase asks in a sinister overtone.
Charlotte nervously rubbed her arm once again. "Um… N-No. I assume they keep them in that lab of theirs. The D-Lab." she answers.
"The Fist doesn't want assumptions, he wants concrete evidence." Chase sternly tells her as he approaches her door, passing by her. "Find out where they keep those cards, no matter what's necessary."
"Yeah, about that. I don't like how I'm deceiving Max and his friends. It feels… wrong." Charlotte solemnly responds, glancing to the ground.
"Trust me, Charlotte." Chase says to the young lady in an unforgiving tone. "This world is a cruel mistress. You do what you have to do in order to get what you want. No matter how many hearts you break. You do what's necessary."
"Like what you did to your family?" Charlotte mysteriously reveals in a hateful tone.
Chase said nothing, not even glancing in her direction, as he silently pondered over his life decisions before hardening his heart once more. "Don't get too attached." he sternly tells her.
With that final warning, Chase exited her house, closing the door and leaving the teen to herself inside while also leaving her with a thick sense of guilt in her system. Because this wasn't the person she is nor she wanted to be, yet it was a facade she was forced to play in order to act out in the greater picture. The raven haired teen hung her head down low, feeling extremely guilty in deceiving an innocent kid like Max in order to steal items from his possession.
Even if she was doing it for her blood family.
(FINALLY after weeks of procrastinating, this chapter is finally done. I'm particular happy with the new revelations I've added in the last few scenes of this chapter. The mystery of both the Fist and the Grand Master are slowly untangling themselves and soon, their schemes and identity will be revealed soon. Just give it time lmao
Anyway, happy holidays and all that junk I guess. KOKBYE!)