Looking over the knocked over entrance from the bottom of the ramp, Scratch tried to determine where the random boulder that had knocked it over had come from. He remembered it flying in from the right, so someone must have thrown it. But from what he remembered, Ty was on the rocks fixing up the entrance, Dozer was just leaving the scene, and Skya and Ton-Ton were behind them doing... whatever. None of them were off to the right when the rock crashed into the entrance, so who threw it?
Going over to the right and looking around, Scratch couldn't see anything until he went behind some other rocks. There, he saw some 2 types of tracks. One were huge tread tracks, about the size of Ty. The other were small footprints, about the size of one of the reptools. So whoever threw the rock was hiding behind here. And since it wasn't Ty or Revvit...
Scratch's eyes became angry. D-Structs. The same bully that Ty and the gang had stood up to a couple of days ago, not to mention he hit him into a tree. HE had knocked over the build, and messed up the dinotrux work, but why? To separate the group? That WOULD get them off his land, but how would he have known how to separate them in the first place? And who did the other tracks belong to?
Whatever. All he knew for sure was D-Structs was responsible for what happened today, and the others had to find out. But since he wasn't able to tell them about it, he would have to show what he found to Revvit. HE would tell them.
His detective work complete, Scratch went to look for Revvit.
Somewhere Else In The Build Site...
The reptools were circled around Revvit, who had returned from talking to Ty.
"W-What do we do now?" Asked Click-Clack nervously.
"I am not sure..." Replied Revvit. "With the dinotrux seperated and the build uncompleted, I am afraid we may have to return to the rav-"
Just then, a scraptor roar cut him off. The reptools turned to see Scratch approaching them in a hurry. When he reached them, he pointed in the direction of where he had just come from while roaring in a urgent way. Revvit couldn't understand him of course, but he DID understand that whatever Scratch was trying to say, and whatever he was seemingly trying to show him, it was an emergency. He turned to the other reptools. "I will be back. Stay here and wait for me." He ordered. The other reptools nodded, understanding the urgency of the moment.
Revvit jumped onto Scratch. "Ok Scratch, take me to what you want to shoWOAH!" Revvit didn't finish his sentence. Scratch had already turned around and was quickly making his way back the way he came.
Back At The Rocks Where The Tread Marks Were...
Revvit barely hung on as Scratch was racing towards his destination. When he stopped, Revvit noticed he was behind some rocks near the build site. What did Scratch want to show him here?
Scratch leaned his head down and let Revvit off onto the ground. "Well... that was slightly terrifying." Revvit commented, still recovering from the sudden speed of his friend. He then noticed something on the ground. "Huh? Are these tread marks? Where did they come from?"
Looking around, he noticed they went the same direction as another pair of marks, only these ones were like tiny footprints. "That is odd. I do not recognize THESE treads." He looked up to Scratch. Scratch looked back. They both had the same thought.
Follow the treads, find the perpetrators.
Somewhere In A Nearby Valley...
Scrap-It laughed maniacally as he followed D-Structs to the location of his new scrap. "They're all leaving! We did it!" He cheered.
Suddenly, D-Structs stopped, causing Scrap-It to bump into him. "What do you mean, WE?" He asked menacingly.
"Er, well, uh, by we," Scrap-It quickly corrected himself. "hehe, I meant YOU, cause, your big enough for a we..."
"You really should talk less." D-Structs said, and resumed moving forward.
After a pause, Scrap-It spoke again. "So... when do I get that T-Trux scrap you promised, hmm?"
"Right about now." D-Structs replied, smirking to himself. "Ty should be all alone."
Behind a rock the two of them passed, Revvit and Scratch watched on. They quickly ducked back behind it as D-Structs and a scraptool they had never seen before passed by.
"D-Structs!" Revvit said to himself, realizing HE was the one that had been messing up the build all day. When they had gone, Revvit spoke to Scratch. "Great job finding those tread marks Scratch." Scratch smiled to himself and nodded back. He was almost feeling glad that D-Structs had tried to ruin things, otherwise he wouldn't have needed to be useful to help the others.
But enough self-smugness. D-Structs was on the move and by the sound of it he was going to pay Ty a visit and kill him. Revvit was thinking the same thing, and the two of them followed D-Structs to find Ty.
As they proceeded, the sun was starting to go down from the top of the sky, and grey clouds started circling overhead.
High On A Cliff Near The Valley, Overlooking The Build Site...
Ty hadn't felt this down in a long time. As he gazed at the build site in the distance through the mass of grey clouds that were forming just below him, he sighed sadly. All he wanted to do was bring a couple of dinotrux species together to fend off a bully who wanted nothing but to take the land away from them. Was that too much to ask? Apparently so, because they were now leaving and probably returning to their own territories.
And what about revvit and the other reptools? What were THEY going to do? Return to the ravine? Probably. They couldn't stay out in the open, or the scraptors or scrapadactyls would get them.
And Scratch? Well, he hasn't known him for long, but from what Ty had seen, he seemed like a nice dinotrux. He would never know for sure until they spent some more time together, but he DID work hard and kept the other dinotrux in line, even if he did have an uncontrollable temper...
His thoughts were then interrupted by the sounds of treads behind him. He turned to the noise and to his annoyance, it was D-Structs.
"D-Structs, you do NOT want to cross me right now!" He yelled at him.
"Where are your friends Ty?" Asked D-Structs, though he already knew the answer.
"Where are yours?" Ty retorted.
"I hope you haven't been FIGHTING... hehehehe."
"Wait..." Ty said, putting two and two together. "Messing up the build... The fighting... YOU did this!"
"You did it to yourselves. You just needed a little push." D-Structs said, and on that cue, he charged at Ty, causing him to be pushed back almost off the cliff they were on.
Ty barely managed to get back from the cliff, but he didn't move from his position. "You wanna do this? Let's do it!" Ty taunted.
"My pleasure." D-Structs said, getting ready to swing his tail.
Just then, there was a scraptor roar from the side. The 2 dinotrux turned to see Scratch and Revvit running up to the scene. "Ty! No!" Revvit called. Scratch raced in front of him and got between the 2 T-Truxs, roaring furiously at D-Structs.
"You again? Didn't you learn your lesson last time you little scrap collector?" D-Structs fumed.
Ty drove up behind his friend. "His NAME is Scratch!"
"I don't care who he is. If he wants to get his tail kicked by me again, I'll be happy to oblige." Said D-Structs, and he swung his tail at Scratch. This time though, Scratch was ready for it, and he hit the floor, causing the tail to miss him. Then, in a show of strength, he retaliated at D-Structs by charging him, causing him to be pushed back and one of his treads to almost slip off the cliff. He caught himself however and got back from the cliff.
Turning back to Scratch, he readied himself for another attack. "That was a mistake." D-Structs said coldly, and he leaned his head down while charging towards them. Unsure what he was doing, Scratch and Ty just backed away as far as they could, before they almost fell off the cliff again. With nowhere else to move, Ty used the hydraulics in his treads to jump sideways away from the cliff. Scratch however couldn't do it in time and he ended up getting hit backwards from D-Structs head. This time, he wasn't lucky with the cliff. With a fall backwards, a slip from his treads and a scream of fear, Scratch fell off the cliff back first towards the hard, hard ground.
Ty wasn't fast enough to catch him with his mouth, and only watched helplessly as his friend fell to his death down the cliff. "SCRATCH!" He cried. He then turned in fury to a snickering D-Structs.
"That's one less scraptor in the world." He said. "And as for YOU Ty, this is MY crater!" And with that, he swung his tail at Ty's head. The tail collided and Ty was also launched backwards off the cliff towards the ground.
D-Structs looked over the edge in triumph. The two of them were dropped and dead. "You should have left when you had the chance." He said, and he turned around to get back to the bottom of the cliff to find Ty and Scratch's bodys.
Revvit, who had seen everything, ran to the edge of the cliff and looked down. He could only see vague cliff shadows and grey clouds. "TY! SCRATCH!"
He kept looking in vain for his two friends. He couldn't accept that they were dead. He couldn't. He just couldn't!
Mercifully, he got his wish. As a strong gust of wind started to clear the clouds away, he finally spotted Ty and Scratch on 2 small ledges just below the clouds. They had somehow managed to land on them and Ty was now revving backwards to the cliff wall for dear life to stop from falling off. Scratch was smaller and not in any danger of falling anymore, but was stuck by his back pipes in the ground of HIS ledge, and was now waving his arms and legs in the air helplessly like a turtle on it's back. How they got into those positions was anyone's guess, but hey, let's leave the complaining of the logic of the show to the other people on the internet, shall we?
In any case, Ty and Scratch was still alive. "Ty! Are you and Scratch ok down there?" Revvit called to them.
"Well, we DID just fall off a cliff!" Ty called back. Scratch just roared back in an annoyed tone at Revvit's obvious question.
"I am going to get help! Stay right there!" Revvit said, and he rushed off to find the other dinotrux who had left the build earlier. If he could explain Ty and Scratch's situation and about D-Structs, they would SURELY come to thier rescue!
"Not a problem." Ty said to himself.
Somewhere Near The Crater, Some Time Later...
Skya was still fuming about her argument and fight with the other dinotrux. Those two were just so infuriating with how careless they were!
"SKYA!" She heard someone call her name, and by the sound of it, it was Revvit. She just kept moving.
"SKYA! SKYA, WAIT!" Eventually, she sighed, stopped and turned to Revvit.
"Revvit, whatever it is, I don't want to hear it!" She said firmly, and kept moving.
"It is Ty and Scratch! They are in trouble!" Revvit said. That caught her attention.
"Where?!"
"I will show you. Let's go!" And the two of them quickly made their way back to Ty and Scratch's location, as Revvit was explaining the situation.
At The Bottom Of The Cliffs, About The Same Time...
D-Structs and Scrap-It were on the move, and Scrap-It was almost bursting at the seams in impatience. And it was annoying D-Structs. "Ohohohoo, I'm so excited! I'm gonna get my very own T-Trux AND scraptor scrap! This is the best day of my LIFE!"
"Stop. Talking."
"(Kzzz) The best, best, best day of my life!" Scrap-It said more quietly.
Back At The Cliff, Some More Time Later...
By the time they got back to the cliffs, Revvit had also found Dozer and Ton-Ton and had told the group of dinotrux as well as the reptools about D-Structs involvement with what happened at the build site. Once they understood they had been tricked, he had then told them about Ty and Scratch's predicament. They all agreed to come help.
Ty and Scratch were still stuck on the ledges when they returned, so the rescue began. Skya went to the edge of the cliff until she could see where Ty and Scratch were, then she lowered her hook so that Revvit could hop on. Once he was, she continued lowering it down towards the stranded dinotrux.
"Mind if I drop in?" Revvit said to Ty, indicating help had arrived.
"That's how we got here." Ty replied. Scratch said nothing. When Ty and Revvit looked over at him, they were shocked.
Scratch was not struggling to free himself anymore, because he was completely unconscious. "Scratch! Scratch, wake up!" Ty called to his friend.
Revvit realized what the problem was. "It is no use Ty. His back pipes are clogged. All the built-up CO2 is shutting down his systems."
"What?!" Ty exclaimed.
"Do not worry. If we can get his pipes out of the ground, the CO2 will exit his system and he'll be fine."
With that explanation, there was no time to lose. Skya lowered his crane onto Scratch's ledge, allowing Revvit to get off. She then fed Revvit enough cable to wrap around Scratch's mid-section. Finally, once Scratch was wrapped with cable and the hook was positioned so the loop wouldn't come loose, Revvit gave the signal to her. "Alright Skya, pull!"
Signal received, Skya retracted her cable until she was pulling Scratch. She was pulled forward a bit as the pipes refused to exit the ground, but after a brief tug-of-war, the pipes finally came out and instantly started pouring out built up CO2. Thankfully, the wind had picked up and the CO2 blew off into the distance.
With more pulling, Skya managed to haul Scratch onto the ledge that she and the other dinotrux were on. As she lay Scratch on the ground, his eyes started to open.
Scratch felt like he had just been suffocated. His vision was blurry, his mind was blank and he felt really weak. Desperately trying to open his eyes, he realized he was laying on his front, and that he was no longer on the ledge that he had gotten stuck on next to Ty. He leaned up, shock his head to clear his vision, and saw he was back on the top of the cliff where D-Structs had knocked him off. Now in front of him was Skya, looking at him in concern. "You okay there?" She asked.
In response, Scratch managed to stand up and give her a hug on her tread. She didn't try to shake him off. She just smiled a little uncomfortably, and said, "Your, uh, welcome."
With Scratch saved, it was Ty's turn, which was going to be a more difficult challenge seeing how he was so heavy. But with the strength of 3 dinotrux, 3 reptools and an alpha scraptor, they may have enough to get him up and away from the cliff. Only one way to find out.
Skya lowered her crane again. Revvit, who had climbed onto Ty, grabbed it and wrapped it around Ty's body for lifting. Ty voiced his concern, not knowing that Ton-Ton and Dozer were up there. "Woahwoahwoahwoahwoah. Do you think she can lift me by herself?"
"Do not worry. As you say, I got this." Revvit replied, then called up to Skya. "Ready Skya?"
She was, so with a grunt, she started pulling. Getting the signal, the other dinotrux, the reptools and Scratch, began pulling too. This was a much harder pull then Scratch, and it took all their strength to stop Skya from sliding forward off the cliff. But with lots of pulling, grunting and hark work, they started to pull Ty from the cliff. He even managed to spin around and start using his treads on the wall to help them.
Near the end of the pull, Ty managed to put his treads on the top of the cliff. With one last burst of speed, he was lifted up onto solid ground. He was safe.
"Phew! Thanks Skya. Thanks Rev. I can't believe you did this by yourselves!" He praised.
"They didn't dude!" Said Ton-Ton, coming out from behind Skya. Dozer, Scratch, and the other reptools also came out.
"ALL of you pulled me up? Thanks!" Ty said.
"Revvit told us what happened Ty. Now let's show D-Structs what happens when you mess with us!" Dozer said.
"Yeah!"
"Let's get him!"
"Wait! No." Ty quickly stopped them. "If we fight him, he'll just come back later. Stronger. D-Structs WANTED to split us apart."
"You are right. We need to prove to him that we CANNOT be broken up so easily." Revvit acknowledged.
"And I know just how to do it." Ty said confidently. "We're gonna finish what we started. Together." And with that, they all headed back to the build site to do just that!
Back At The Build Site...
When the whole group had returned, they immediately began their duties. What followed was a building montage of epic proportions. First they cleared away the rocks that D-Structs had knocked over and put them back into place to remake the entrance.
Once they had the entrance back up, they began work on the other walls. With Dozer's jackhammer tail, they made the foundation holes in the ground, that were quickly filled with rocks by Ty that Ton-Ton provided. Rocks that were cleared away from the build site by Dozer were moved into position by Skya. At one point Ty said there were still a bunch of smaller rocks still in the build site that needed to be removed. So Skya went up to the side of the build site, put her front treads onto the wall, her tail down onto the ground and her head next to the floor of the next level up. The result was a perfect ramp for the rocks to fall down, which were quickly then dozed away by Dozer.
Once the foundation of the build was in place, they then began putting the actual walls up. Revvit and Click-Clack even cut out some of the taller rocks to make windows for the walls, which were pushed out by Ty and the pieces collected by Ton-Ton. They also put in some tall, thin rocks to mark where the bay walls would be going.
"Ok, that is the FIRST bay wall. Let's lay out all the others." Said Revvit at one point in the build.
"Ton-Ton's bay is gonna need a LOT of undercarriage clearance." Waldo noted.
"Yeah! And Dozer's will need enough space for his frill!" Added Ace.
"And don't forget to make room for THIS!" Exclaimed Ty, slamming his wrecking ball on the ground. The impact caused Click-Clack to be knocked back and fall into the hole... somehow. "That looks big enough. What do you think Click-Clack?" Ty called to Click-Clack.
"...Yeah! Looks great from down here!" He called back.
With that sorted, the dinotrux continued work. With more clearing, cutting, breaking, throwing, crashing, collecting, screwing and building, the garage started to take shape. And through it all, Scratch marked items, marked positions and watched the other dinotrux do their thing.
It was absolutely intense. With Ton-Ton collecting rocks big and small, Dozer clearing the build site and putting rocks in his mound, Skya craning rocks and trees into position, Ty placing the rocks and trees, Revvit and Click-Clack cutting stone shapes, screwing screws and measuring, Ace and Waldo directing and also putting screws into place and Scratch supervising and marking things, everyone had their work cut out for them. Especially Scratch. Never had he in his life ever been part of a project so ambitious.
Finally, there was only one more rock needed for the walls. Skya lifted it onto Ty's strong robotic back, and he began carefully backing up. He had to duck and lower his suspension to stop anything from hitting the entrance. "Steady... Steady..." Said Revvit, watching on. "Now, just ever so gently-" But Ty wasn't the gentle type. Instead, he swung his back up to fling the rock into place. "No wait!" Revvit yelled.
But it was ok, the rock was flung right into place. "Boom! Did it!" Ty said, a bit smugly.
"Lllllllucky shot." Said Revvit, rolling his eyes. "But, you forgot one thing."
At this, Scratch perked up. By the sounds of it, Revvit was about to tell Ty the same thing he had been thinking all day. He did.
"We have made the garage so large, there are no trees big enough for a roof."
"Don't worry Rev. There might not be trees, but I think I know something else that could work." Ty said, indicating behind him. Scratch looked where Ty was looking. He couldn't see anything but the giant rock they had been... building... under...
No way. Was Ty serious? Was he honestly saying they should use the giant rock as the roof to the garage?
Sure enough, Revvit was once again mirroring his thoughts. "Ty, that is an absolutely CRAZY idea." He said.
"I know right?" Scratch thought. "It's absolutely insa-"
"I love it!" Wait, what? Revvit was agreeing to this crazy idea? But... but...
(Sigh). It was no use arguing. He still couldn't communicate with them. All he could do is go along with it. And hey, if it fails, he won't be the one to blame, and if it goes well, he'll have a place to stay that's NOT in the open. Win-win, I guess.
In any case, Revvit told the others the plan and they began looking for vines to wrap around themselves to pull the structure down, while Revvit, Click-Clack and Scratch used their drills to dig out the rock to help it fall. The sun was almost down from the sky at this point, so they had to hurry before it got dark.
Back At The Bottom Of The Cliffs...
D-Stucts and Scrap-It finally reached the point where Ty and Scratch should have fallen down from the cliff. "Here. Your prize." D-Structs said confidently.
"Uh... hehe, forgive me, uh. Where exactly am I supposed to be looking?" Scrap-It asked, looking around.
D-Structs also looked around, realizing nothing was there. No Ty, no Scratch, nothing. "They should be right HERE!" He yelled. Roaring in frustration, he made his way back around the cliffs to find where the two dinotrux had gone, Scrap-It following.
Back At The Build Site...
Everything was ready. Six super long vines the dinotrux had found were attached to the top of the giant rock. The rock itself had been cut by where it met the ground. With the reptools help, Ty, Skya, Ton-Ton, Dozer and Scratch each had a vine wrapped around their midsection. The sixth vine was for the reptools to pull on. They were all lined up on the ground away from the build so they didn't get squashed. It was time to pull down the giant rock and complete the build.
"Care to count us off, Scratch?" Ty asked. Scratch nodded.
He roared once. The dinotrux got into their racing positions.
Second roar. The dinotrux revved their engines.
Third loud roar. It was go time.
All at once, the dinotrux took off forward, pulling on the tough vine as hard as they could, grunting and panting all the way. "Let's trux it up!" Ty called in his grunting. Even the reptools were pulling as hard they could, trying to help in any way they could. In a strange way, it was kind of inspiring for Scratch.
It was around this point that D-Structs and Scrap-It came from around the corner and saw what was happening. D-Structs growled in anger, realizing that his glorious plan had failed.
After lots of pulling, the giant rock started to give way. After even more pulling, the rock finally gave way, landing on top of the garage with a CRASH. The dinotrux stopped and rested. They had done it.
Scrap-It couldn't believe what he was seeing. "They finished it?! (Kzzzz) And bigger?!"
"Grr, I don't understand." D-Structs said.
"That's exactly your problem D-Structs. You'll never understand." Ty explained, coming up to D-Structs.
"It's gonna be hard to convince this one to let us scrap him..." Scrap-It said quietly. He then saw a strange creature coming towards them.
Scratch lined up next to Ty. And this time he managed to get a good look at the reptool he had seen earlier with D-Structs. At least... it looked like a reptool. However it seemed to be made of scrap, just like him. Like a... scraptool. Instead of a drill like Revvit or Click-Clack, this scraptool seemed to have a blowtorch on it's head. It's eyes were also shaped different, and it had different parts on it's back. Did it also speak english? Could it understand him?
"Funny how you wanted to break us apart..." Ty stated.
"...but now, we are stronger than ever!" Revvit finished, climbing onto Ty's head. The others joined in.
"You said it!"
"Nobody comes between me and my dudes!"
"Ty, you want me to doze this guy away?" Dozer asked, lowering his frill straight at D-Structs.
"It's ok Dozer. He knows he can't win." Ty said.
"This was only the beginning, Ty." D-Structs said threateningly. "I'll be back!" And with that, he rolled away into the nearby field of trees back to his new territory, with Scrap-It following.
"Don't let a branch hit you in the tail on your way out!" Skya taunted after him.
"Uhh, dudes, I don't know about you, but I'm kinda itching to try that place out." Said Ton-Ton, looking towards the garage.
"You're gonna have to beat me to it. RACE YA!" Ty said, suddenly speeding away.
"Hey! Not fair! Come on dudes!" Laughed Ton-Ton, chasing after him. The other dinotrux followed behind.
As the sun set on the day, the dinotrux finally settled into their new bays. "Duuuuuude, that is perfect! Cozy as a rock blanket." Ton-Ton approved.
Dozer lowered his frill and saw there was still plenty of space to move around. "Gotta say, you tools do good work." He added.
"Right back at ya." Replied Waldo.
"I think there might be one thing you forgot." Skya said, still at the entrance.
"Really? It seems we accounted for everything." Revvit wondered, looking over the plans.
"Everything except me." She said, her body too tall to fit through the entrance they had built.
Revvit looked embarrassed. "My apologies."
"Let me get the door for ya." Offered Ty, coming up to the entrance and using his wrecking ball to make an opening for Skya.
"THAT'S more like it. Hehehe." She said.
With everyone in, their job was done. Ty and Revvit shared a tailbump, and they all had a good laugh.
Once things had calmed down, Scratch, who was hanging in the corner to the right of the entrance, gave a huge yawn. Ty noticed this and chuckled. "Looks like someone is tired out for the day."
"I am not surprised." Said Revvit, yawning himself. "We have all had quite a busy day. What do you all say we grab some dinner and settle down for the night?" They all agreed this was a great plan, so they did just that.
After a typical ore dinner and some chatting about the exciting day, the dinotrux and the reptools went back to the garage for a good night's sleep. The dinotrux settled into their new bays, the reptools settled down at the back of the garage, and Scratch settled down in the corner of the garage next to the entrance. With everyone comfortable, they all said their goodnights, and soon drifted off to sleep.
Later That Night...
Scratch woke with a start. He had just woken from a crazy dream about him fighting D-Structs by himself, which ended with D-Structs wreaking ball hitting him in the face. Scary stuff.
He got up from his curled up position on the ground and headed out of the garage to get a drink, unaware the rest of the garage was empty.
Some driving later, he reached the lake, and to his surprise, Ty was standing there, his back turned to him. Scratch became confused. What was Ty doing here? Was he also getting a drink?
As he came up behind him, Ty suddenly started talking.
"Why Scratch? Why?"
Scratch stopped. He was getting even more confused. Why? Why what?
Just then, Ty turned his head towards him, and things became very wrong. Ty didn't look like himself. His red paint was dripping like it was water, his eyes had turned red, and his metal teeth had become pointy. "Why do you have such a bad attitude?!" He yelled.
Scratch jumped backwards and fell backwards onto the ground with a yell. He was getting terrified now. As he lay there on the ground, suddenly unable to move from fear, the other dinotrux surrounded him, all with the same features as Ty. Pointy teeth, melting paint, red eyes. They were all talking to him.
"I told you your predator mode would get us hurt!"
"Dude, why didn't you stop your anger?!"
"My fears were right! He's a danger to everyone around him!"
Scratch couldn't take it. He tried to crawl away, but Ty put his large tread on Scratch's body to stop him from going anywhere. At this point, Scratch was crying out in fear for his life, which was quickly shut up by Skya's hook being wrapped around his mouth. He couldn't help it though. He kept trying to call for help, even though it wasn't coming. His vision started to fade from the weight of Ty's tread...
As It Turns Out, Back In The Real World...
The dinotrux and reptools were woken by the sound of scrapter noises coming from nearby. Instantly they became fearful and alert, especially Click-Clack. It sounded like the noises were coming from...
Thankfully, sure enough, when they turned to the corner of the garage that Scratch had been sleeping, there he was flailing around and roaring in his sleep, having a nightmare.
"Oh no... Not again." Ty said to himself in concern, as he stepped forward to wake Scratch up.
Dozer was less concerned and more annoyed at the realization he had been woken by Scratch. "Uhg! As if we didn't have enough problems with him during the DAY."
"Aw, come on dude. As if YOU haven't had a nightmare before." Ton-Ton rebutted. Dozer said nothing but just scowled.
Ty meanwhile had shaken Scratch awake, who flailed about, sat up and leaned against the wall, panting heavily. Ty tried to calm him down. "It's ok Scratch. It was just a dream. It's ok."
But for Scratch, he didn't feel ok. He thought he was going crazy. Two nightmares in a row? What the hell was going on?
"Is your subconscious playing tricks on you again, Josh?"
What?! Who's there?!
…oh yeah. Her.
"Y-yeah. The nightmares. They're haunting me. I never really had trouble with them before, why do I keep getting them here?"
"I'm not sure my friend. My only guess is that your still getting used to this whole situation your in."
"I suppose... and hey, sorry about last time."
"No worries my friend. You were tired, exhausted, and sick of everything that had happened. I'm actually rather relieved you still have your sanity after all you've been through."
"Uhh, thanks?" Scratch thought, a little offended by her statement.
"No problem. Now, go back to sleep. You have much to learn while you're here."
"Sure, sure."
While Scratch was talking (in his mind at least), Revvit and the other reptools came up to see what was going on. "Ty, is everything ok?"
"It's alright Rev. Just a nightmare from Scratch."
Revvit looked at Scratch, concerned. "I see. Has this happened before?"
"Just once... back in my old valley." Ty said, sighing a bit.
Revvit immediately got nervous, "Oh! My apologies. I, uh, I didn't know-"
Ty chuckled at his friends' caution to a seemingly sensitive subject. "It's ok Revvit."
Waldo grunted. "Well, unless anybody's got an actual emergency going on, I'm going back to sleep." And he went back to the reptools' sleeping place.
The other reptools followed behind him, with Revvit giving one last concerned glance to Scratch before following. The dinotrux also settled back down into their bays and quickly fell back to sleep.
As for Scratch, he lay back onto the ground, and sadly looked out of one of the windows towards the stars, before he too drifted off to sleep.
And done! I swear, if it wasn't for this writers block, I would be done with one of these chapters in HALF the time it takes me to do one now. HALF! Stupid brain.
Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, keep those reviews coming, and have a great rest of your day.