Scratch was proverbial running like a mad-dino away from Ty, crying out in vain. Even if he did, there would be more trouble as other dinos would destroy him, so it was useless. Even so, Scratch continued to cry out in fear. "Roar!" "Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit!"

"Where are you Scratch? I just want a bite to eat…" Scratch accidentally turned into a cave. "And I've never tried Scraptor before." Ty said, turning the corner Scratch had turned.

Suddenly he was trapped, Ty on one side and rock on the other. Because of Ty's big size, there was no way to get past him. Scratch huddled into the corner as Ty bore down on him. "Shh… Its ok Scratch. I hear being eaten alive is relatively painless, so you'll be fine." He leaned in and grabbed Scratch by the clamp muzzle to silence him as Scratch clawed and kicked at him to let him go. He was lifted up by the muzzle to be devoured, but as he was he heard Ty say his name through his metal teeth. "Scratch! Scratch!"

Unexplained Transition, Three Minutes Prior…

Ty was woken by the sounds of Scraptor roaring. He immediately tensed up and looked around. Why was a Scraptor roaming at night? Unless…

He looked down to where the noises were coming from and saw Scratch, flailing his robotic appendages around like he was being electrocuted. He was roaring and flailing in his sleep!

To cease his loud roars that might attract other dinotrux or Scraptors to the area, he leaned towards his fearful companion and grabbed him by his clamp mouth. His roars were replaced by grunts but his flailing around was hitting him in the mouth. He quickly rolled towards the back of his cave, yelling through his teeth the name of his friend. "Scratch! Scratch!" He shock his companion to wake him.

Thankfully Scratch eventually managed to wake up, despite still being in a panic. When he realized he was dreaming and his giant friend was trying to keep him quiet, looking at him with beams of light coming from his eyes, his grunts eventually became a heavy breathing. What kind of terrifying dream was that?!

Ty settled his friend back on the ground, looking at his with a worried expression. Scratch was feeling around him making sure everything was still in place. "Well… I can safely say I didn't expect THAT to happen tonight. Nightmare?" Ty asked.

Scratch looked up to him and nodded. Not being able to apologize for what happened, he simply rolled towards the dinotrux's head and hugged it, still breathing heavily. He was muttering and making small roaring noises, saying "Sorry! Sorry!" in feral speak. Ty's head lifted back up again. "Don't worry about it. It happens to the best of us." He looks back at the entrance to the cave. "Thank god I at least managed to stop you from attracting anything to our cave."

Scratch looked down embarrassed. He had been told by Ty yesterday about how the other dinotrux and feral dinos wouldn't take his appearance well, because what he represented was a predator to all other dinotruxs called "Scraptors". So yeah, his yelling that would've caused an investigation by other dinotrux and Scraptors was a very bad idea.

Ty noticed his mood and smiled at him. "Hey, don't stress it. I don't blame you for freaking out like that. I don't know what your dream was but I can assume it was terrifying." Scratch nodded. "Well then, how about you sleep on my tread cover for the rest of the night? That way if you have another nightmare freak-out I'll be able to FEEL your movements as well as hear them." Scratch looked up eagerly and used his grabbers to climb onto Ty. "Heh. I'll take that as a yes." Ty returns to his sleeping place near the mouth of the cave, a now sleeping Scratch on his right tread cover. He relaxed and fell asleep himself.

In the Morning, An Unknown Amount Of Hours Later…

Ty woke in the morning at his usual time. He carefully placed Scratch down on the ground, and did his morning routine. Rolling out of the cave, scared dinotruxs, yawning, scratching his itchy tread, looking over his home and heading out to grab breakfast.

He eventually found ore under a rock in the rock wastelands where he had taught Scratch how to move himself around. Speaking of Scratch, he made a mental note to bring back some ore for him once he was finished with his share. He dug right in for a bite, but then the ground started to shake. He dismissed it and take another bite of the ore, but the shaking only worsened. Suddenly, explosions and bursts of fire erupted from behind him. He turned and saw the horror unfold before him.

"Woah!" He said to himself. "That's not good!"

Past the wall of rocks were he lived, way down the deserted lands was a giant volcano. On previous days he and the other dinotrux had assumed that was either a mountain that looked like smoke was coming from it, but if it was a volcano, it was probably inactive, so no one paid it any attention. Now, their lack of precautions were backfiring, as the volcano was erupting before their very eyes. Fire was spurting in all directions and huge pieces of rock were being thrown towards the valley and all of its occupants, flying towards the ground like fireballs that either shattered the earth around where it had landed or stuck there creating an instant wall for anyone trying to run away.

And run away they did. Cries of "The Volcano Is Erupting!" were heard across the now being destroyed valley, and everyone inside it drove away for their lives, constantly looking back to make sure they didn't get hit by one of the flying rocks.

Everyone that is, except for one giant red T-Trux who's friend was still in his soon-to-be-destroyed cave. With terror in his gears, he tried to race back to old hideaway but it was no use. There was too much rock coming down from the volcano, and before he knew it, there were walls of rock flying at him that kept driving him backwards. He eventually had to drive away from the disaster, and hopelessly cried out for his friend.

"SCRAAAAAAAAAAAATCH!"

As he drove, he saw some anklodumps also running away. But one of the smaller ones weren't as fast as the others and was being left behind. Being the good dino he was, Ty used his huge mouth to pick up the poor thing and carry him towards the other anklodumps. He put him in one of the other anklodumps carry bed. The latter didn't even notice his new passenger.

"There you go little guy." Ty said.

"Thanks!" The little anklodump replied.

But there was no time for anymore conversation. Another piece of rock struck dangerously close to him, and he was forced to make a sharp turn to keep moving. Up ahead, another rock fell in front of him, but he used momentum and tail to jump, do a 360, and smash the rock out of his way.

Eventually, he made it to the borders of the valley, where the rocks and trees thinned out and there was wide open space. It's pretty much a giant desert. Once he was where he thought was a safe distance away from the volcano, he took one last look back. Everywhere he looked, there was nothing but black walls of rock, burnt trees and destroyed land.

Ty sighed. "My home…" He looked across to the rock wall that was his cave. "…And my friend." He didn't know the poor strange scraptor for long, but even so, he was a nice dino and lot of fun to hang out with. But it was too late to go back now. He had to keep moving so that he could find new land to call his home. If he ever came back, he swore he would find his friend, alive… Or dead.

With that line of thought, he began to turn around. However before he could, another blast came from the volcano. He looked up to see a rock falling right towards him. Before he could react, the rock hit him. Hard.

Some Time Later, Out In The Middle Of Nowhere…

The sun was beating down. The sand was hot. There was no nature in sight. Just sand, sky and the occasional rock.

These were all the senses Ty felt as he, with his newly broken tread, practically limped across the seemingly endless desert. He didn't even know where he was going, but he decided to try and follow the general direction of the other dinotrux. Surely one of them had to know where to go.

"Hello? Is anyone out there?" He yelled, as he noticed the other dinotrux were out of sight. He looked back down at his broken tread, where a bolt that kept the actual tread together was missing, and sighed. What a way for today to go.

"Don't worry! We got you!" He heard the cried of someone else out there. Coming out from behind a rock, he saw 2 craneosaurs helping another tipped over craneosaur stand back up.

This made Ty feel a little weirded out. Déjà vu. Am I right?

With lots of grunting, the craneosaurs helped their kind back up, then the three sped away.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Ty tried to ask. They didn't acknowledge him. He thought about trying to chase after them to ask, but one look at his broken tread, and he knew it was no use. Besides, he was still a T-Trux. No one but Scratch would listen to him.

Scratch. Just thinking about him made Ty sigh again. He HAD to find a new valley, then he could find his way back to him.

Somewhere Else In The Middle Of Nowhere, Hours After NightFall…

The sky had turned dark at this point, and the stars were out, like Ty expected to happen at night. The thing was, on top of the broken tread crippling him, his system was starting to rattle, his vents were barely producing smoke and energy was becoming noticeably low. He getting hungry, thirsty and tired. All he wanted to do was go to sleep before his system burned out from overuse.

But before that, he HAD to find food and water. Or at least food. He won't last another day out here if he can't find food. If he couldn't… well, he'll just have to hope he can find new land in the morning.

Using his spotlight eyes, he found a collection of rocks. He started smelling around and bite a rock to pieces to look under it. There WAS a hole, but there was no ore. He tried another rock to the left, slightly choking on the rock in the progress. Nothing. Another rock. Another. Another. Nothing. Nil. Zip.

After tons of searching of the area, Ty didn't find one rock with ore underneath it. He sighed, asking the obvious question. "Where's all the ore?" There was no use mopping about it though. He had to get some sleep and be up early next morning. If a scraptor (besides Scratch) were to find him now, he'd be a goner. Thankfully they only hunt in the day, but still, Ty slept under a giant rock jutting out from the ground just to be safe.

The Next Day, Same Place, Different Location (If That Makes Sense)…

Day 2 in the desert. Ty was getting desperate for something, ANYTHING to eat or drink now. His system was almost completely quiet at this point as he moved, so he needed to keep moving until he either found salvation or died. Preferably the former.

He had eventually made his way to a strange chasm, or at least two wall parallel to each other and was rolling down the centre of them. He was REALLY exhausted at this point, and took one last whiff at the air.

"Hey… That smell." Ty realised. He kept sniffing. "Is that… ore?" He made his way to the end of the chasm, and found the greatest thing he could've asked for. New land.

To the left, a whole bunch of rocks where ore could be just WAITING to be gathered. Up ahead, other dinotrux. To the right, a beautiful forest with plenty of trees. He could even see a lake in the distance. With new vigour, he made his way into the valley. He scared away some Stegarbasaurus's away from a rock that he smelled ore from. Sure enough, under the rock was a beautiful supply of ore. He immediately started chowing down on the fuel and his engine was running like clockwork once again.

About 50 Meters To The Left Of Ty, About This Time…

A rotilian, a half-lizard half-rotary drill hybrid, made his way out of his hiding place in the ground. His plan: find some ore, chow down, find more for his friends, return to them. Simple.

Revvit was his name, intellect was his game. He was one of the smartest Rotilians in his home and he knew it. He had the body of a lizard, but the parts of a rotary drill. On his forehead was the drill bit he was currently using, and down his back were the rest of them ready to go. He had small buttons, lights, fast legs with feet that could turn into wheels, a tail with a thin drill on the end and body that allowed his to put his head, arms, legs and drill bits in his "shell" like a turtle. He was agile, smart, a quick talker and a great friend to have.

He sniffed the air to find himself the pre-mentioned ore. He made his way onto the top of a rock and saw that a red T-Trux he had never seen before had beaten him to it. Out of instinct, he ducked his head into his body. First the bully known as D-Structs, now this?

However his thoughts were interrupted by him noticing there was a big shiny piece of ore left next to the red T-Trux. If he could sneak next to him, he could grab it then get away before the dinotrux even knew what hit him.

Looking around, he snuck under the rock and saw same craneosaurs unknowingly approaching the T-Trux, then quickly running away in terror. They went towards him, so he took the chance to run, roll and slide under them to sneak up onto T-Trux.

With lots of effort, Revvit managed to get his prize. The T-Trux still hadn't noticed him. He tried pushing the rock with a quiet grunt, but it was heavier than anticipated. He kept trying, but it fell of his foot.

"Ouch!" He exclaimed. The T-Trux still didn't notice him. With more effort, he used his tail to break away the piece on him and started rolling it out of there. After making it some way, he panted in triumph as he heard gears turning behind him. When he looked around he saw the T-Trux… looking straight at him.

"Hey." It said in a male voice.

In absolute fear, Revvit booked it back to a nearby rock. He looked back and would've kept running, but the T-Trux wasn't following him.

"Uhh, I think you forgot something." He said. Revvit looked weirdly at him.

"Me?" He asked.

"Yeah, you." The T-Trux replied, turning his huge body around. Instantly, thoughts of being crushed entered Revvit's mind, but it turns out the T-Trux was just breaking the ore into smaller pieces. "C'mon! Eat up!" He said, passing the ore the Revvit with his head.

Revvit was still suspicious. "Is this kind of trick?"

"Hey, if I wanted to crush you, I would've done it by now."

"Oh, hehe. Well… that's encouraging." He rolled one of the smaller pieces toward where his home was then turned back. "I apologize. I have never had a conversation with a dinotrux before."

"Me neither!" The T-Trux said. "I mean, with a reptool."

Revvit looked oddly. "You… surprise me."

"Thanks!" Ty relied, and began making his way back towards his ore pile. However as he did, Revvit noticed that one of his treads had broken. Probably a missing bolt. As he turned and headed back, he couldn't help thinking about that T-Trux. He wasn't like D-Structs. He helped him get food and seemed generally nice. Maybe he could help him.

Insert Passage Of Time Here… (Don't worry, last one for the chapter)

Finally, Ty was loaded up on ore and felt good again. His engine was humming, he felt stronger, and take a quick trip to the lake to grab a drink, and his system won't feel as hot.

He heard a noise on the ground in front of him. Looking down, he saw the same reptool he had meet earlier, with something in front of him.

"Hey, your back! And you've brought a friend."

"It is a bolt." Revvit replied. After some hunting, he had managed to find a bolt that he was positive was the same as on the T-Trux's.

"I see that." Ty replied nonchalantly.

"I can use it to fix your broken tread."

Ty was surprised. "Your offering to help me?"

"Reptools are naturally adapted to solve complex mechanical problems." Revvit explained, with some pride in his voice.

"Let's see what you got."

With that signal, Revvit grabbed the bolt in his mouth and went to the back. Using all his strength, he lifted the bottom of the broken tread into place. He then jumped up onto the top part, grabbing the bottom as he did, inserted the bolt into the slot for the two parts and drilled it in with his tail.

His work done, he went back to the front and looked up at T-Trux. "Please, feel to test it." He said professionally, before running away screaming because Ty went forward where he was.

With a bit of speed, Ty found the tread worked perfectly. "Wow!" He exclaimed, turning back to his little friend. "This feels great little tool!"

"I prefer not to be called little tool, but you are welcome." He ate a piece of ore in front of him. Finally, they introduced each other. "I am Revvit."

"Ty Rux. But you can call me Ty. You do this a lot?"

"Ha! Fix dinotrux? No, never. It is unheard of."

"So, here's to firsts." Ty said, passing over another small piece of ore.

"Indeed." Revvit agreed, taking a bite out of it, then tossing it back. "To firsts."

Ty laughed at the small piece he'd been given and lifted his head back up. "You know, you're pretty brave. Whole herds of dinotrux run from me, but not you."

"I… took a calculated risk."

"Huh, given how little you are, that sure was a CRAZY risk."

"Well actually I find that being small…" Revvit ran under Ty. "… Can be an advantage."

Ty rolled back to find him but Revvit was already climbing up him, still talking. "Combined with speed, balance, intelligence…" At this point he had climbed onto Ty's tail. So Ty, feeling cheeky, shock the reptool off.

Laughing he said, "How's that intelligence working for you now? Hehe… huh?" He suddenly realised Revvit was gone. He looked around for him, but then he appeared in front of his left eye.

"You were saying?" Revvit said with a cocky attitude. He tapped a huge intent on Ty's head. "You know, you've quite a dent up here."

"Yeah, it was an accident." Ty said embarrassed, thinking back to the rock that had hit him on the outer edge of his old valley, causing him to skid backwards and scrape the bolt for his tread off.

To lighten the mood, Revvit said, "Bet you wish it was an acci-don't." Suffice to say, that cheered Ty up. Once put back down on rock, Revvit asked, "So, what are you doing here?"

Ty thought back and reminisced sadly, "I got caught in a volcano. Destroyed my whole valley. Possibly killed my friend. I was lucky to escape."

Revvit immediately felt sympathy for Ty. "I am sorry to hear that. And about your friend too. If your valley was destroyed, where will you live now?"

"Well, what's wrong with staying right here? Lots of ore, plenty of water, no rivers of burning lava, it seems perfect."

"You would think , but you would be wrong."

Right after Revvit asked said, there was a loud ROAR from nearby. It sounded like another T-Trux. The two stiffened up until it stopped.

"Uh, who's that?" Ty asked as Revvit was scarily crawling away from the noise.

He turned back to him. "The reason you would be wrong." He jumped off the rock. "Well, if you'll excuse me…"

"Hey, where are you going? I got this!" Ty said, determination in his voice.

"Oh no, I do not think that you "got this"." Revvit replied, still cowering behind his rock.

Ty kept his ground, looking around for his foe. He heard the revving of a loud engine and the rumble of large treads rolling on the ground coming from the forest of trees. With a crash, another T-Trux burst through the trees.

His name was D-Structs, and had proclaimed himself the owner of this valley. Unlike Ty, he had no intention of sharing the valley with others, just like how a real T-Trux would act. Also, while he was the same shape as Ty, he was painted black and silver and instead of a simple rounded wrecking ball, his had massive spikes pointing out of it. He was big, dangerous, hot-headed and hated anyone who stood in his way.

And right now, the was another T-Trux on his turf. He let out another menacing roar. Ty wasn't fazed. "Hey T-Trux! This crater your territory? It's nice. Hey if it's alright with you, I thought I might stick around for a while." D-Structs was already winding up his shot and hit Ty right in the face with his wrecking ball.

Ty ended up stumbling back. "Ok, I guess not."

D-Structs got in Ty's face. "Out of my crater, T-Trux." He demanded, no hint of mercy in his voice.

Nearby, there was a noise, but only Revvit noticed it. He looked up in shock. He could've sworn he'd just heard…

"I get it! I get it!" Ty was saying. "It's always one territory, one T-Trux. But there's plenty of ore for both of us to SHARE. For EVERYONE."

The response from D-Structs with immediate. "I don't share." And he made another swing at Ty. However he was ready this time and managed to duck it.

"Yeah, getting that!" Ty yelled back, ramming his shoulder into him. D-Structs knocked him back. Now fully provoked, Ty faced his opponent. "Alright. It didn't want to have to do this, but HERE COMES THE THUNDER!" He spun his treads at full speed and rammed into D-Structs. He tensed up and stopped the attack. Then Ty tried to swing HIS tail at D-Structs, but he grabbed the end of the chain. With a cry of pain, Ty spun around, taking D-Structs with him, then whipped him away.

D-Structs went head over tail before landing upright. He made another furious roar and charged back at Ty.

As a battle of biting and shoving commenced, Revvit heard the noise again. It seemed to be coming the side of the valley that most of the craneosaurs hang out. What was it doing there?

Also during the fight, another dinotrux stumbled onto the scene. It was an orange craneosaur, half-brachiosaurus, half-crane, and her name was Skya. She was determined and quick-witted, but, ironically, she was afraid of heights, something she didn't want anyone to know. She also had very western accent, which is what made her distinct from the other craneosaurs.

She watched as Ty was struck in the face by D-Structs's tail again, sending him skidding back again. He roared in anger, and his opponent roared back, but Ty took the opportunity of his opponents roar to charge him again.

Revvit heard the noise yet again. At this point it couldn't be a co-incidence. Why was it responding every time one of the T-Truxs roared? He looked back to see Ty taunting D-Structs with "Is that the best you got?" as the latter swing his ball at him. This time, Revvit issued a warning. "Ty! Look out for his tail!"

Ty heard the warning and barely managed to duck underneath. "Thanks Rev! Glad you were there!" He responded. It didn't matter though. He tried to make his own swing at D-Structs, but he ducked and tossed Ty onto his front, grounding him and making him vulnerable.

His victim down, D-Structs got up close to Ty's face, growling and ready to take him out. But he had spent so much time here he needed to check around to make sure no one snuck in while he had been fighting. So he issued one warning. "If you're still here when I come back, I'll turn you into scrap." His voice was low and threatening. Then he turned around and roared one last time. In the silence that followed, the noise happened again and this time, everyone it. Revvit, Ty, even D-Structs.

It was the sound of a roaring scraptor.

Taking this as his cue, D-Structs quickly left the scene. But as Ty tried to stand up, he saw the orange craneosaur come before him. "Enjoying the view?" He sarcastically asked.

"I would've enjoyed it more if you'd kicked his tail." The quick-talking craneosaur replied.

Using his treads, Ty managed to pull himself upwards. "Could've used a little help."

"THAT'S for sure." With that statement, Skya turned to leave, but was interrupted by the red T-Trux.

"Hang on a moment." She stopped and looked back at him. "Did you hear something while I was knocked down?"

"Probably. We, that is, me and the other craneosaurs, saw a strange scraptor drop in and eat our ore. It was trying to roar when you and D-Structs roared at each other. Not sure what it was trying to accomplish."

"As a matter of fact…" Said Revvit, coming up behind Ty, "I heard that same roar during the fight."

Skya looked oddly at the reptool. "Uhh, have we met?"

"Oh! That's right." Ty said. He motioned towards his reptool friend. "This is Revvit, and I'm Ty. We met just before that T-Trux attacked me."

"Name's Skya. What do you mean you two MET? I thought dinotrux and reptools…"

"… Don't belong together. Yes, I understand that." Revvit finished. "I'll tell you about it some other time if you want, but let's just say he helped me, so I helped him."

"I see."

"Right, in any case…" Ty interjected. "… when you said strange scraptor, did you mean he looked and behaved different?"

"I… guess." Skya replied, looking very oddly at Ty.

"Ty, what's going on?" Revvit asked his friend.

"Remember when I said I possibly lost a friend after got caught in that volcano?" Revvit nodded. "Well, HE might be the friend."

If Revvit didn't think he was insane before, he definitely did now, as per his next question. "Your friends with a SCRAPTOR?!"

"Like i said, he looks different, and he behaves different. Trust me when I say he's not dangerous. Just don't provoke him." He turned back to Skya. "Do you know what he looked like?"

"Well, he was greyish white, he had arms like yours with a strange box on each one, a pointy tail and a scratch on his chest."

Ty stood awestruck as Skya and Revvit looked at him. It was Scratch. And he was alive. He looked back at her. "Can you take me to him?"

Skya was hesitant. This could be a trick for this T-Trux to scrap her and her friends, but then again, so could the scraptor if he attacked. She had no choice. "Sigh, alright. But keep your distance from me. I already know that the other are going to think I'M crazy for bringing a T-Trux back from my investigation of the roaring, so don't look like you're trying to stay close to get an easy target."

"Deal. Let's go." Ty agreed. Skya turned and began back as Revvit climbed onto Ty. While he didn't like the idea of confronting a Scraptor, no matter who it may be, he had to admit he was curious about Ty's friend.

They began to make their way back to where the other craneosaurs were, and Revvit noticed Ty was thinking deeply. He kept glancing at him, Skya and his tread. Eventually, he fully looked at him and asked, "Hey Revvit, those repairs you did just gave me an idea."

Revvit only looked back. Whatever Ty was going to say next, it was certainly going to be… interesting.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the beginning of the series with my OC. Even though you barely saw him in this chapter, HIS journey from valley to valley (as well as the rest of episode 1) with be shown and completed in the next chapter.

See all you supporters of this story then, and have a great rest of your day.

P.S. Chandria the Snowy Owl is making a fanfic called "Trux of Blades". I've only read the first chapter but I'm liking what I'm seeing so far. I encourage you to check it out.