The sun started to rise in the east. The dinotrux in the valley went about their normal duty, whether it be collecting rocks, moving things around, fighting or hiding their ore. They were all in a hurry however. The sun was rising so it wouldn't be long before a certain 'Tyrannosaurus Trux' came out of his cave in the wall of rock. They had all been told by their elders that these Trux were dangerous and very territorial, and so that they should either stay away from them at all costs, or be prepared to fight them off.

Suddenly, a sound came from that very cave. Treads could be heard exiting. Then, a red Tyrannosaurus Trux came out of the cave. He lifted his huge mechanical head and roared, his small arms lifting with it. There were cries of "Run! It's the T-Trux!" and the dinotrux around the cave quickly fled away.

But as they were gone, the roar of the T-Trux turned into a yawn. As he stretched he eventually felt more awake, and proceeded to roll out of the cave. He went over to a nearby rock and moaned in pleasure as he stretched his itchy tread on the rock. He lifted his head to look about his valley, and sighed happily. 'Haa… Home Sweet Home." He said to himself.

This trux called himself "Ty Rux" or "Ty" for short. He was a red Tyrannosaurus Trux, half-Tyrannosaurus rex, half-excavator. He had short but flexible arms, and on the back of his tail was a sphere wreaking ball held by a strong chain. He small lights on his head, bigger lights on the cover of his tread and a huge mouth for his huge head. One might think from looking at him after hearing the stories that he would be a terrifying, monstrous, beast. But surprisingly enough, Ty wasn't like other T-Trux, not even his parents. While other T-Trux would make sure that other dinotrux stayed out of their space, Ty didn't mind nor care about others around him. He would share the valley with others and not try to bother anyone. So even if the others didn't know he was a nice guy, HE knew it, and that's all that mattered.

Ty started his day off like any other. He headed through the forest of trees sniffing around for any ore in the area. Ore was basically food for all dinotruxes. For most types, they needed it to keep their engines powered. Some would induce spicy or more salty or sweet tastes. Also, drinking water made sure the engines didn't overheat from use. What they DID have to stay away from though was tar. It was sticky and would clog up the engine of any dinotrux that touched it. Sand was also good at clogging things up too, so when a sandstorm happened, the number one rule was to duck, cover and get to shelter.

But am I telling a story or explaining how this world worked? Let's get back on track.

So anyway, as Ty continued to sniff around to find any signs of ore, a bizarre thing happened. He couldn't even really explain what he saw. All he knows it that a random, noisy, bright light suddenly glowed the left of him, he looked with a "huh?", saw something fall out of it, and the light disappeared like nothing happened. Taken aback at what just happened, he headed over to the sudden light and found what had fallen out of it. At first he thought it was a Scraptor, a Velociraptor made out of scrap parts, laying on its side. But the more he looked at it, the more different he noticed this 'Scraptor' was.

While most scraptors were made out of junk parts, so they looked grubby, this scraptor was shiny, and painted a slightly lighter grey. The legs and treads were the roller-skate type he had seen on other scraptors, but instead of wheels, there were two separate, parallel treads on the end of each leg with tiny spikes on them. The dangly grabbers on each slouched arm was replaced with normal arms like he had, and on the end of each arm was a box looking device with a grabber on the end. There were a series of holes with pipes sticking slightly out of them down its back on the way up to the centre of its head. The metal inside the mouth was sharper, allowing a bite with more grip to it. Finally, the end of the tail had also been sharpened and had another piece of metal on each of the 4 sides that looked like it could stick into the earth and unfold to plant in there. The structure leading up the end of the tail DID look flexible enough to do so. All in all, this was unlike ANY dinotrux or 'feral dino' he had ever encountered. And as he tried to figure out what to do, the dino started to move.

Josh's world was spinning, and his whole body felt sore. It's like his body had temporarily been set on fire. He slowly opened his eyes as he tried to sit up, remembering what had just happened. "Stupid strange woman. Put me into another world? Yeah right. I should have known this would be ridiculous." He thought to himself. As he regained his senses however, he realized everything felt wrong. His mouth tasted of metal, he couldn't feel his tongue, his hands felt wrong, he had a huge weight on his lower back, his legs felt stiff and his feet kept slipping back and forward. What was going on?

He managed to roll on to his back, and took a look down at his body. What he saw next both shocked him and terrified him. His body had turned grey-ish, he had a grey tail, and his feet had turned into wheels. To top it all off, a huge red… thing was looking at him. "Umm, hi?" It said in a deep voice.

As his mind suddenly became awake and fully aware, everything came to him and he screamed at the sight. But out of his mouth, instead of a scream, was a roar. He didn't try to understand it however, as he was already trying to grip the ground to pull himself away from whatever was in front of him. He felt something behind him, and he turned to find a tree. He also saw other trees around him, so he used his strange body to get behind one of them. Once there, he looked down again to see the walking-freakshow he had become. His whole body turned out to be made of metal, and his whole form had turned into some sort of animal-robot hybrid. He tried to talk to himself, but all that came out of his mouth were animalistic roars, grunts and god knows what.

Trying in vain to calm himself down, he heard the sounds of a motor coming from the other side of the tree. At this point, he had realized that his neck was somehow super flexible. So using it, he saw the red thing, which it turned out to be another robot, coming towards him with what Josh assumed was concern on its face. He tried again to stand up, using the tree for support. However he couldn't find his balance, and fell forward, face-first into the dirt. He tried again to crawl away, but the other robot had already rolled in front of him. He yipped and put his head between his metallic grippers, waiting for death to come to him. He mentally cursed the woman who ever brought him here, however implausible it sounded.

But death never came. Instead was the same voice from the robot, this time much closer to him. "Hey, it's ok." It said. It seemed to have a male voice. "I'm not going to hurt you." Josh still didn't dare look at the robot in front of him. "Trust me, if I wanted to hurt you, I would have done so already." This made Josh think. It did have a point. It looked about 5 times bigger than him, but it hadn't hurt him yet. This gave Josh the confidence to slowly look up at the huge robot before him. It had a huge head, small arms and HUGE treads. So it was probably also an animal-robot hybrid. But if that was the case, why was it talking English and not him? Who knows.

Despite sounding so close, it turned out the other robot was about 2 meters away from him. He had his head leaned in just enough to hear him, but far enough so Josh could see what he looked like. "Listen, my name is Ty Rux, or Ty for short. I'm not going to hurt you. I know your scared, but I just want you to stay calm." The voice and name of 'Ty' definitely sounded male. Josh closed his eyes and his metallic grabbers and tried to take a breath. After taking a moment, he looked back up at the… he-robot, I guess. "You see? It's alright." Ty said. Despite not having many facial features, he looked strangely comforting. "Now, are you able to stand?" He asked.

Josh tried once again to stand up, but still started to fall forward. However Ty managed to catch him with the top of his giant head. "Hehe, guess not." He said. His voiced seemed to have a bit of amusement to it. Josh laid back down, his head resting on the tree. "You act like you've never walked before." Josh's head dipped down with a sigh. What an ironic statement for this situation. But when he looked back up, Ty was looking at him with a strange look. His head was turned 45o and one of his eyes were half closed. "You have walked before, right?"

"Well, YES. But not in this… form." Josh thought. He knew he couldn't say anything so he didn't bother trying to say this to Ty. He DID however shake his head at him.

Ty's head went back in shock. "What?! Really?" Josh nodded. "Wow. And other dinotrux call ME strange." He said to himself.

Josh overhead this and "huh?"ed with a quiet roar. "Dinotrux? DINOTRUX?! So Ty is a half dinosaur half truck hybrid?" Josh was silently dumbfounded. "What kind of bizarre world did that old woman send me too?"

"One that I'm sure you'll figure out." Came a random voice. Josh looked around in shock, but no one else was around. That voice. Was that…?

"Is that you?"

"Yes my friend. It is me. I see you have already had your first encounter."

Josh looked back at Ty, who was looking at him oddly. "I know that but, WHAT IS IT?!"

"I do not know my friend. The only know few things about the world you are in, and one of them is that it will deal with the same dilemmas as you. Just play along with it for now."

"Are you ok there?" Ty asked. Josh realized he was staring at him and quickly nodded. "Ok, if you say so." Ty said. The voice of the woman was gone, and Josh wondered what his mother was doing right now. Calling police? Trying to find him? Suing the woman? Again, who knows. "Well…" Ty stated. "I'm gonna miss breakfast if I keep talking to you. And I don't know the eating habits of Scraptors, but I'm going to guess you're pretty hungry too."

"Scraptors? Like, Scrap Velociraptors? What IS this place?" Josh thought. Nevertheless, he nodded. It would be a good idea to figure out how this… place worked. Ty said, "Alright. Hold on." And before Josh could say anything, Ty was putting him in his mouth. Immediately he thought he was going to be eaten and cried out, but calmed down when Ty put him on the cover of his left tread. "See? I told you I wasn't going to hurt you." Ty remarked with a smile, or what Josh assumed was a smile. Then, he sniffed around and started heading out of the forest.

They eventually arrived at a gathering of rocks next to a lake. Ty proceeded to grab one of the rocks with his mouth and tossed it out of the way. Josh, from his sitting place, looked into the small hole where the rock had previously been. Inside the hole where a bunch of small blue-ish rocks. "Here we are. Some ore." Ty said, placing Josh down next to the river.

As he munched on a couple of the ore rocks, Josh took a quick look into the water to see his reflection. His new robotic head was painted a shiny white, his mouth looked like a clamp, and his eyes had been replaced with glowing, blue, glass eyes. There was also a huge scratch on the left side of his neck, probably due to the fall he had when he first came here. He also noticed his new arms had a box with the grabbers on the end. The box on this arm felt really stiff, like something was being restricted in the box. He took a moment to try and move some parts around in his box arm until he felt a latch being moved. He applied pressure to the latch, and suddenly his arm clicked and the end of his hand had gone FLYING off. It landed a couple of feet away since his arm had been mostly aimed towards the ground, but it had flown off with enough force to leave a dent in the ground. The end of the arm turned out to be connected by a chain which went into the box.

"Huh? What the heck was THAT?" Josh jumped. He had forgotten that Ty was still behind him. He looked over at Ty who was once again looking at his oddly. His eyes were looking at the blown off hand on the chain. "Woah, so you've got some sort of grappling hook arm?" Josh was getting more and more surprised at the English this dinotruck possessed. Breakfast, standing, grappling hook, what next?

To answer Ty's question, the only response Josh could think of was to shrug his arms. Ty looked confused at Josh's answer, but since he couldn't answer back in English form, he just sighed and turned back to his ore pile. "I swear, you're such a mystery." He said as he turned around.

"I know I am." Josh thought as he tried to bring his hand back to him. There had to be some sort of retractor in his… Ah, there we are. He felt a reel inside his box and used it to pull the chain with his hand back into the box. As he brought his hand back, he noticed the metal around the hand side of the chain was spread out slightly larger than the hand's size. His reel forced the metal around his hand inside the box until he heard a click and felt pressure in the box again. He released pressure on the reel and the metal stayed in the box.

With that sorted, he turned back to Ty, who had carefully grabbed one of the ore rocks and placed it in front of Josh. "Here. Enjoy."

Josh looked down at it. "Really? Ore? This is what counts as food here?" He thought. Strangely enough though, when he took a sniff of it, it smelled… rather pleasant. It had an interesting aroma that he couldn't describe. Kind of salty but still sweet. Carefully, leaned down and used his clamp mouth to crack the ore into a smaller piece, then took the smallest one, lifted his head up and let the ore fall into his throat. It actually wasn't that bad. Kind of a strange aftertaste, but nothing horrible like he had expected. With this knowledge, he managed to chow down on the rest of the ore piece. He felt the engine inside him humming happily at the meal. He noticed Ty looking at him.

"So? How was it?" He asked. The response come from some gas in Josh's engine coming up his throat, leading a burp from Josh. He covered his mouth in surprise, while Ty laughed. "Hehehe, good to hear." Then he had a thought. "You know, if I'm going to keep you around, I'm going to need a name for you." Josh, in his mind anyway, agreed. He felt like it wouldn't be a good idea if he used his real name anyway. I mean, the dino he was quote-on-quote 'Talking' to right now was named Ty, or Ty Rux. He wouldn't be surprised if other naming around here was the same. If there even was anyone else around.

With that thought, Josh and Ty went into thought mode and Ty tried some ideas. "Hmm, maybe Clamp?" Josh shock his head. "Yeah your right. Hmm, how about… Skater? You know, cause of your wheels?" Josh considered it, but shock his head again. "Really? I guess it IS a little obvious. Hmm…" Ty then noticed the huge scratch on Josh's neck, then said, "Huh, how about Scratch?" Josh looked up in interest. That WOULD be an interesting name! He was so accepting of it he accidently tried to say "YES!" and just made a sharp roar. But Ty saw his enthusiasm and nodded. "Excellent! Your name is Scratch." He then went to pick Scratch up, but Scratch put his arms out causing him halt. "What? What is it?"

Scratch had an idea and wanted to try something. At this point he had noticed the wrecking ball on Ty's tail and simply shifted around till he could look at it. Ty followed his gaze until he saw what Scratch was looking at. "What? My tail?" He turned to show him. "You like it? Been maintaining it myself." He said with a smile. He swished it around a bit, but Scratch didn't really care about how it looked. He was looking at the chain connecting the ball to the tail. He then pointed one of his arms at the chain. Ty, still confused, just stood there watching. Scratch put pressure on the release switch again and shot the hand at the top of Ty's chain. It opened up, then as soon as it hit the chain, it latched on. Scratch then managed to use the reel to instead of pulling the hand toward him, pull HIMSELF towards the hand. He was lifted up to where the hand snapped back into the box, he wrapped his robotic leg around Ty's chain, and once he opened his hand, he was sitting on top of Ty's wreaking ball. Scratch couldn't help trying to smile triumphantly as he looked at Ty, who was laughing at what he was doing.

"HAHA! Ooooohkay. That's one way to travel." Ty remarked. "You can stay there, but once I have to start using that wreaking ball again, you're going to have to jump off if you don't want to be flung into a tree or something." At this, Scratch laughed himself. In his animal form it sounded more like a strange of small roars, but he didn't care. With his passenger in tow, Ty moved off to another location.

Meanwhile, Back At The Woman's Shop, Two Hours After Josh Disappeared…

Josh's mother and the woman were looking into the crystal ball on the desk. They had both witnessed Josh met a giant robot named Ty, try to make conversation (but Josh couldn't talk english), then Ty had taken Josh to a lake where Josh had tried to experiment with his new robotic equipment and eat ore for food. Nothing particularly interesting had happened yet, but hey, that's what the rest of this story is for, right?

But there was a burning question the mother had for the other woman. And as Ty was taking Josh to another location, she decided to take THIS moment to ask it. "So, I KIND of get where you're going with my son's figure." She started. The other woman looked up to her. "He's different so he'll be a bit more popular, and he has the figure of a velociraptor because that's close to a human body. But there's something that confuses me."

"And what would that be my dear?"

''If you could make all these apparent CHANGES to his body, why didn't you keep his language to be English? Why is he speaking the way humans hear animals in this world?"

"That is a very good question my dear. True having English words to speak would be helpful, but the figure he is taking pages from doesn't speak English itself. Only another language of this world called Feral."

"How do you know that? You said to Josh before that you didn't know anything about this world."

"I said I know FEW thing about this world."

"Ok. But didn't you make it so that he would speak English anyway?"

"Think of it this way my dear. You've been keeping him close to your side, right?"

"Well, yes but…"

"So you're the only one Josh knows anything about being social from?"

"I… I guess so."

"So if I gave him an English voice, what would he have to talk about if you're the only thing he knows?"

The mother tried to answer this, but realized she couldn't. She was right. If Josh was speaking English right now he would have almost no idea what to say to anyone.

The other woman noticed the mother's hesitation. "Exactly. The best method for him would be to have him not be able to use English and have him learn from others how to talk. Because it's not like you gave him the inspiration to do so with how you 'protected' him for all his life."

The mother wanted to retort but couldn't. This woman was striking her logic with the accuracy of a professional sniper. She was right, but the mother didn't want to admit it. Instead she simply glanced back down at the crystal ball as the red robot, Ty, had stopped the to a rock wall near field of other rocks.

Back In the Mysterious World, One Trip To A Field Of Rocks Later…

After a short drive, Scratch, from his Miley Cyrus perch (come on, you knew I would make that joke), felt a thud as Ty's wrecking ball fell onto the ground, signalling him to get off. When he did, landing on his robotic butt, he looked around at where they were. Behind the two was a huge wall of rock. In front was a large deserted field with a cluster of half-buried rocks in the ground.

"Here we are. Doesn't seem to be any other dinotrux around." Ty said, looking down at Scratch. He looked back up at him curiously. "I won't pretend to understand why you can't even stand on your own two… well, FOUR wheels. So I'll help you move around on your own." Scratch liked the sound of this. It would be good to figure out how to get around without… Ty's… help…

Huh. Was he actually learning to become independent already? Could that woman actually be helping him figure out the steps and advice for living life alone? Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. I mean, he isn't learning about teamwork, but who knows, maybe that'll come down the line? But enough possibility philosophy. It's time to walk the dinosaur. Hehehe… Shut up.

"Now, the first thing about your treads is that they should have a brakes feature. Basically a way to stop extremely quickly. But since your treads are small, you'll probably have to turn them on when you want to stand up."

"Sounds easy enough. The key word being SOUNDS easy enough." Scratch thought, looking down at his treads. He first had to find the trigger for the brakes. It was like finding the pressure point for his box arm. After some inner struggles, he eventually felt a point which caused a snap on his treads and pressure being applied to it. He concentrated on that trigger to keep the pressure continuous. Once that was done, he tried once again to stand up. Even though his wheels weren't moving freely anymore, it was still hard to balance on his new legs. As he was on hands and knees to try and stand up, Ty's head moved next to him.

"Hehe, need some help?" He asked, amusement once again in his voice. Scratch couldn't blame him though. A random robot falls out of a light, can't stand, can't walk, can't talk english, and needs to be taught how he even works and how to live with others? It would be the most surreal yet amusing start to ANYONES friendship. Scratch nodded at Ty and he put his head under Scratch's head to help him lean back. Once upright, Scratch still felt like falling forward. There seemed to be too much weight on his front.

Then he remembered. He had a TAIL. Maybe he should do something with THAT. He looked back and tried to move his tail. Once he figured that out, he pushed his tail onto the ground while, with Ty's help, he pulled his body back to a fully upright position. Finally, that did the trick. As he pulled his body back, his weight shifted to the centre. He lifted his tail up, and just like that, he was standing on this own, with the front body's weight being counteracted by the weight of his tail. Scratch couldn't help it. He gave out a roaring cheer at his dominance to his body, pumping his arms. Ty was also cheering at his new, strange friends success. "Alright! Excellent. Your one step closer towards behaving like a real dinotrux. Now you just got to move around, and your set." He said with a smile. Scratch nodded determinedly and pointed himself toward the wide open field.

"Now that your standing on your own treads, you should be able to use the motor inside you to make them move you forward." Scratch nodded and felt his motor purring like a kitten, small amounts of smoke coming out of the pipes on his back and head. He released his brakes as Ty was still talking. "Just remember to not let it…" Scratch wasn't listening and reeved his engine all the way… which caused his wheels to go so fast they flung his body upwards, clear his tail, and flip onto his back with a THUD. "… all out at once." Ty finished with a laugh. To make things worse. Scratch's accident had caused some of the pipes in his back to stick into the ground, causing him to be stuck. With his legs in the air, his arms spread out and his back stuck to the ground, he looked hilariously hurt. Ty lost it. He was laughing so hard he was making mini roars while he was laughing. All Scratch could do was look up helplessly at him, trying and failing to get himself unstuck.

When Ty had calmed down and had managed to pull Scratch out of the dirt, the latter was set upright to try again, this time with less difficulty. "Ok, now that… (snicker)… that happened, let's try it again. This time, try not to let your treads out-drive you. Just take it slow, and build up speed while you lean forward."

Scratch nodded, slowly released his brakes and tried his best to let out the energy as little as he can. There was a jolt forward, but he caught himself with his tail, and immediately turned the brakes back on. "That's a little better, but your still letting your engine reave up to much." Ty noted as Scratch stood back up again. "I know it's hard trying to release your power in small amounts, but he's what my dad once said. "Son, if you're having trouble releasing your power, put the numbers 0-10 in your head. Now, 0 is you're not moving, and 10 is your top speed. As you release your brakes, feel your engine release slowly when you count 1. Then release more at 2, then 3, and so on until you're at the speed you want." Try doing that."

Scratch looked ahead. He pictured the numbers in his head. He was at 0. Now, release the brakes, and carefully released at 1. He started to move slowly. Then 2. He released a bit more. Then 3…

By the time he was at three, he realised his body was falling back. He leaned forward and kept the speed he was at. To the left, and just behind, of him Ty was chasing after him and watching on, getting ready if he was to fall. Scratch was at a pretty decent speed right now, but then realized he didn't know how to turn. He tried leaning his treads to the left, and sure enough, just like roller-skates, he moved in that direction. He shot passed a surprised Ty and practiced manoeuvring his tread to go the direction he wanted.

Eventually, Scratch was moving around like a pro, making twists and turns with his new figure. He even managed to lean on one tread and used the other to make him do a 180o turn. In all this, Ty watched on as his pupil sped around the rocks in the field. It was awesome and fascinating to watch him. After a while though, Scratch started to feel a bit empty. His engine was rattling around a bit and it was making hollow noises. It probably meant he was hungry and had to eat more ore, so he rolled back to Ty, who was looking at him proudly. Scratch counted back the numbers in his head as he lowered the power of his engine, and when he got back to 0, he put on his brakes. He was still going a bit too fast though and fell face first into the dirt. Again.

As he lifted his head out and looked at Ty, he was laughing again. "Well…" he commented, "You were going amazing until you tried to stop." Scratch rolled his eyes and stood upright again. Ty was surprised by this. "Oh! Would you look at that? You can stand up without my help." Scratch nodded in pride, making a happy roar. Ty leaned closer to him. "Well then, I think it's safe to say you're an official dinotrux now." Scratch folded his arms, pride still on his face. Ty chuckled. "Alright there cool guy, don't get your cords overcharged. Now how about we head back to the valley and grab ourselves something to eat?" Scratch nodded again, then the two buddies headed back the way they came.

"I gotta admit, this was fun." Scratch thought. "I just hope that woman keeps to her promise."

"I promised before, and I'll promise again my friend." He heard the lady say. "You will get what you want. Tomorrow, you'll be experiencing a crazy event that will force you to flee this place. Then the day after that, your training will begin."

"And my non-English voice?"

"Do not worry. You will meet a smart creature who your current friend will befriend, so you'll probably befriend him too. After sometime to settle you into this world and learn about the dinotrux you will meet, he will most likely be the one that fixes your vocals to speak English."

"I hope your right lady, I sure don't want to sound like this forever."

"My friend, I have been helping others for many years. I can assure you, I am almost never wrong."

With that conversation done, Scratch continued the rest of the day as normal dinotrux's days go, making sure he was always staying near Ty's side. And that night, Scratch slept with Ty in his cave in the rocks. It felt strangely homey. Once he had managed to curl up on his side, he closed his eyes and let his motor slow to a dull rumble, which eventually let him take hold of sleep.

PHEW! FINISHED! Not much else to say about that. I will admit though that this story got finished quicker because I'm in school holidays. But since I'll be back next Tuesday AND I'll have work experience to get ready for I'm not sure how quickly the next chapter is going to be finished.

But hey people seem to be enjoying it. Thanks to 'Chandria the Snowy Owl' for giving it a follow and a favourite (she's also got a great Dinotrux story you should check out) and to Matthew Gemm for the kind review. If you two like it, I'll definitely see if I can work on this in my spare time.

So with that, thank you for reading, and have a great rest of the day.