I went on a huge writing writing binge the day after i released the last chapter, so that's why this is out so soon... That is all. Enjoy.

Skya retracted her neck after surveying the area.

"So what are we talking about? 4, 5 scraptors?" Ty asked.

"Are you kidding? It's like scraptor valley in there!" Skya replied.

"More fun for us." Ty said, swinging his tail.

"And Scratch and Ton-Ton?" Revvit asked.

"I couldn't see Scratch. He's either hiding from us or he's not here at all." Skya said, slightly angry. This made Ty and Revvit look at each other in concern. They hadn't told the others about Scratch's possible betrayal of them, because they didn't want to jump to conclusions just yet. Maybe Scratch was still on their side and he was just forming a plan? But right now, the signs were not looking good for him.

Skya continued. "As for Ton-Ton, I get the feeling he'll be happy to see us."

This comment immediately made Dozer angry. "If they hurt that crazy ankylodump, they're gonna answer to my blade!" He tried to charge in, but Revvit jumped onto his horn and stopped him.

"Hold up! We need to be cautious." He warned.

"The good thing is, the scraptors are asleep." Skya explained.

"Well then, we better not wake them up." Ty said determinedly. And with that, the 4 friends crept through the darkness and into the scraptor hive.

Once they were at the entrance, Ty, who was leading them, turned off his eye headlights and looked around at the sleeping scraptors until he saw Ton-Ton. He then signaled to the others to move forward. Everything was in the green.

Then Dozer's frill slipped and made a clang noise. None of the scraptors heard it, but Ton-Ton did.

"I told you they were coming George! Dudes!" He called out, turning on his headlights.

"Shh, kill the lights!" Dozer urgently whispered. Ton-Ton turned off his headlights and the dinotrux looked around. None of the scraptors had heard them.

"I thought you were making it up being friends with a T-Trux." George said.

"No way dude, he's cool. They're all cool. Well, Dozer's a little cranky." Ton-Ton replied.

"I heard that!"

"See?"

As Ty, Revvit, Dozer and Skya continued to creep forward, Dozer's frill made more noise.

(Squeak!)

"Dozer, watch the squeaking!" Skya hissed.

"It ain't my fault! Talk to the reptool!" Dozer hissed back.

Speaking of Revvit, still perched on top of Ty's head, he was loving all the stuff he could see around him. "This hive is a treasure trove of spare parts! There's a drive train, bolts and (Gasp!) look! A whole pile of prevailing torque nuts!"

"Rev, focus!" Ty whispered.

"You focus, I'm shopping!" He whispered back.

Just then, Dozer's frill squeaked and clanged again, only this time, MUCH louder. The dinotrux stopped in their tracks and looked around. A scraptor nearby yawned and lazily lifted its head towards the noise. The dinotrux all held their breath. Luckily, the scraptor fell back to sleep.

They all breathed out. "That was close." Ty said. They moved forward again.

"Aw, am I syked to see you guys!" Ton-Ton whispered happily.

"I bet. Who's your friend?" Ty asked.

"Oh! That's George. We gotta save him too!"

"Or not. It's up to you guys. We all got to follow our own paths in life." George said.

"Do not worry. There are enough parts here to repair both of you." Revvit assured. "Dozer, tilt him up. Quietly!"

"Don't gotta tell me twice!" Dozer replied, and he moved into position next to his downed species. Using his horn, he carefully lifted George up from his sideways position and acted as support to hold him upright.

Looking around, the others found one of George's treadfeet... right next Scratch who was still pretending to be asleep. Thankfully, he was facing the other way so the other's couldn't see his eyes were still open, but even so, when the others saw him and realized who it was, there were mixed reactions, mainly of surprise, disappointment and anger. And Scratch heard every word they were saying.

"Ty, isn't that Scratch?" Skya asked.

"Yeah... it is." He said, disappointment evident in his voice. It made Scratch almost want to cry.

"Well well, looks your "friend" is nothing but a traitor after all Ty." Said Dozer, almost proudly for being right.

"No, it can not be. Ton-Ton, surely he tried to help you when the scraptors attacked." Revvit said desperately, jumping off of Ty.

"No dude... he didn't. Even after I was down, he looked like he wanted to help me but... didn't." Ton-Ton said sadly.

Ty and Revvit couldn't believe it. Scratch HAD turned his back on them and joined the scraptors.

The thing was, Revvit already kinda knew it. He had seen Scratch with the other scraptors the night they had stood up to D-Structs. He had simply been putting on an act for the others. Internally, he wondered if he should tell them what he saw that night. I mean, it would be without Scratch's permission, but Ty looked like he was going turn HIS back on Scratch because of all this.

In the end, he sighed, and turned to the others. "I knew he had joined the scraptors." The others turned to Revvit in surprise.

"Rev, what are you talking about?" Ty asked.

"Remember the day we stood up to D-Structs and Scratch was acting weird for the rest of the day? Well, I followed him after it got dark and found out the truth. I don't know the full details, all I saw was him meeting with other scraptors, almost getting killed by them, them backing off, and him getting lost in his thoughts." Revvit explained, sighing. "I do not know what is going on, but I firmly believe we do not have the full story. You can choose not to believe me, but I am going to stand by Scratch's side until we have his side of the story."

Scratch listened to every word Revvit was saying, partly in sadness, mainly in joy. Despite all that has happened, Revvit was still trying to be positive about him and his actions. Never has anyone ever done this before. He felt so overwhelmed with happiness, he sat up from his position. The others looked at him in shock. Scratch didn't care. He went over to Revvit, who was looking up at him kinda nervously, and hugged him. Revvit smiled and hugged back. He didn't know what was going on with Scratch, but he had a feeling that Scratch hadn't felt this happy in a long time.

As Scratch released Revvit from the hug, Ty came up to him. "I don't know how, but we're gonna have a talk when we get back to the garage Scratch. Understand?" He growled. Scratch looked up to him and nodded sadly. This threat coming from Ty, who was basically like a father to him, was a bit of a blow for his spirits.

"Woah. An alpha scraptor. Haven't seen one of those in a looong time." George said. His comment snapped the others back to the attention of the rescue. Revvit ran over to the treadfoot and called to Skya. She tossed her hook tongue over to him and he hooked it into the treadfoot. Once hooked, she craned it over to George and carefully moved it into position. Revvit then jumped onto George's underside and screwed the bolts into place so that the treadfoot stayed on.

"I never dreamed I'd see a dozeratops and craneasaur working together, let alone with a reptool." George said. Once the treadfoot was completely attached, Dozer lowered George onto the ground.

"All done! Now we have to find the other one!" Revvit said.

"Uhh, I think I found it." Skya said, rather concernedly. The others followed her gaze. George's other treadfoot turned out to be in the grasp of a sleeping scraptor.

"That's cool. You guys go on ahead. I'll be fine." George assured them.

"Do not worry. We got this!" Revvit assured back. And he started sneaking up on the scraptor.

Once he made it onto the the treadfoot without waking the scraptor, he signaled to Skya to give him the hook. Unfortunately, Skya swung the hook too hard, and it clunked onto the treadfoot, which partially woke the scraptor up. The others held their breath as the scraptor opened it's eyes and looked up, growling at whatever the noise was. Even Revvit, who was right next to the scraptors head, ducked his head inside his metal shell. Luckily, again, the scraptor fell back to sleep. Breathing a sigh of relief, Revvit took the hook and hooked it onto the treadfoot.

"Clear!" He whisper yelled to Skya, who craned the treadfoot away from the scraptor.

But then, the scraptor, in its sleep, threw out it's hook arm and grabbed Revvit, and held him close to its chest.

"It clearly wants to hold onto something." Skya noted.

"I do not wish that to be me!" Revvit said, clearly terrified.

"Don't worry Rev! I'm on it!" Ty said, and he started looking through the junk nearby. He eventually found an oval shaped piece of scrap, an attachable hubcap, a twirly piece of metal and some bolts. Putting them together, he had a weirdly shaped replica of Revvit. He showed his creation to him..

"...not what I had in mind." He said, rather unamused by Ty's idea.

"It'll work!" Ty assured. He tried to grab Revvit, but the scraptor made a noise. He quickly retracted his metal hand until it stopped. He then tried again, and this time, managed to pull Revvit away from the scraptors grasp, then carefully placed the replica into it. The scraptor, kinda cutely, snuggled up with his little prize.

Once Revvit was free, Skya craned the treadfoot onto George and Revvit did the bolts. Finally, George had all 4 treads on.

"Ok gang. We don't have much time. We need to be ready to roll as soon as Rev's done. The tricky part is gonna be Ton-Ton's flip." Ty advised.

"Oh, it's not tricky dude! It's easy! I just... flip!" Ton-Ton said.

"But when you hit the ground, you'll rock all the scraptors awake."

"Ooooh, right. But the flipping part is still easy."

A sound comes from nearby. Ty looks, and sees a scraptor partially wake up, yawn, and go right back to sleep.

"I don't like the looks of that." He says. "Skya, you, Dozer, George and Scratch start to head out. When Ton-Ton can move, we'll make a run for it with Rev." The plan seemed solid.

However, as Revvit made his way under Ton-Ton's flatbed, Ton-Ton started to laugh.

"Ton-Ton! What are you doing?!" Ty whispered urgently.

"I can't help it! It's Revvit with the bolt! He's..." Ton-Ton tried to continue, but he kept laughing. The others heard Ton-Ton and looked back at him. Ty tried to shush Ton-Ton but couldn't.

"But I'm..." Finally, Ton-Ton couldn't take it anymore and laughed louder. "I'm ticklish!"

The laughing is what finally did it. The scraptors nearby woke up and looked over at the sight they saw before them. Their dozeratops was escaping, and three other dinotrux were in their scrapyard.

"But you probably figured that out by now." Ton-Ton said, totally embarrassed he had ruined the plan.

Realizing what this was gonna mean for him, Scratch quickly went back to his nest, leaving Skya, Dozer and George behind. Ty noticed his actions. What was he doing?

One of the scraptors raised the alarm. "INTRUDERS! INTRUDERS!" It called.

"Uh oh." Said Ty, looking around.

The noise had woken up the entire hive, who quickly saw what was happening and rolled forwards towards the escaping dinotrux. Eventually, even Ripper was woken by the commotion and looked on from the back of the pack.

"Well well well, look what we've got here. A couple of dinotrux trying to sneak out with MY scrap!" He said menacingly. He turned to Scratch, who had pretended to be woken up by the noises. "Scratch! Do you know these dinotrux?"

The dinotrux, crowded back together from the scraptors, turned to where the scraptor was roaring to and saw it was roaring to Scratch. The alpha scraptor in question gulped... somehow. "Y-yes, Ripper. These are the rest of my friends."

"I see." Ripper said, looking them over. "I'm afraid Scratch, they must all die."

Scratch's oil went cold. "W-w-WHAT?! Can't we just scare them off, Ripper?"

"I'm afraid not Scratch. The scraptor code says that any intruders in a scrapyard must be eliminated immediately."

As Ripper said this, the scraptors got even closer to the dinotrux, ready to attack them.

"Sooo, what's next?" Skya asked, watching as Scratch stopped roaring and became paralyzed.

Scratch couldn't believe it. This scraptor code was getting more and more ridiculous. First it made it so you couldn't be friends with dinotrux, then it said that you couldn't leave without you parts intact, and NOW it was saying he had to kill his friends because they tried to rescue Ton-Ton and George?

He had to kill them all? Skya? Dozer? Revvit? Ty?

No.

NO.

HE COULDN'T DO IT ANYMORE!

In a fit of uncontrollable rage, his attack mode suddenly kicked in. He roared, "I WON'T DO IT!" And made his way between the dinotrux and the scraptors.

The scraptors were taken aback at Scratch's action, especially Ripper. But the slight fear suddenly turned into joy as they realised that Scratch had broken the scraptor code and NOW they could finally kill him or send him packing.

Except for Ripper. Not only was he actually slightly saddened that his best scrap collector had disobeyed him, but he was also terrified because he saw what Scratch really was. Red eyes. Billowing smoke. Shaking. The words echoed around his scraptor head.

"Scratch is a metal dragon... and he was working for me..."

With Ripper in a state of shock, one of the other scraptors issued the command.

"ATTACK!"

And once that happened, Ty had his own command.

"RUN FOR IT!"

And everything seemed to happen at once. The scraptors ran up to Ty, and Scratch raced forward and punched one of them back, before using his tail to whip another one into a wall.

"What about you?" Skya asked Ty.

"I'll hold them off till Revvit's done with Ton-Ton!" He replied. With that, Skya, Dozer and George made their way towards the exit of the hive.

Ty roared and got into his own attack mode. He used his tail to smash away 2 scraptors, before turning to Revvit. "Rev, surrounded by scraptors here!"

"Working on it!" He replied.

"Work faster!" Ty demanded, running from 2 other scraptors who gave chase.

After a few more seconds, Revvit managed to get Ton-Ton fixed. "Finished!" He announced.

"Then let's go!" Said Ton-Ton, and without a second thought, he flipped back over, not waiting for Revvit to get off him first. This ended up causing Revvit to get flung away from the group, yelling as he flew. Realizing what he did, Ton-Ton went after him and managed to catch him.

"You could have WARNED me!" Revvit shouted.

"Sorry dude!" Ton-Ton replied.

With everyone mobile and on the move, the whole group ran for the exit. Before they could make it out however, they were stopped by 5 scraptors blocking the entrance. "Not so fast!" One of them said.

"So much for the front door!" Skya commented. In a matter of seconds, the whole group was getting surrounded by the rest of the scraptors. A scraptor tried to grab onto Skya's tail, to which she flicked it off.

"Better think of something fast!" Skya said urgently.

As Ty thought of what to do, a scraptor grabbed Ton-Ton and climbed into his flatbed to bite it. But Ton-Ton just raced past Dozer, who dozed two more scraptors, said "This is for my new friend George!", spun around and launched the scraptor into the wall.

"Defensive positions!" Yelled Ty to the others, and they made their way back to where they had saved Ton-Ton and George. Getting into a circle, back to back, they got ready to face the scraptor horde.

"Alright! Let's see em get past us now!" Ty said determinedly, as the scraptors once again surrounded them.

One scraptor tried to jump onto Dozer, which Ty quickly knocked off.

"Nice one Ty!" Dozer praised.

"Rev, any thoughts?" Ty asked, as the group continued to fight the scraptors.

"Uh, surely the cliff walls are too high to go over, aligned with piles of razor sharp scrap!" He noted. "It is a very impressive design."

"Maybe you can tell them that while they're taking us apart." Ty said, unamused with Revvit's last comment. He quickly moved his head to stop a scraptor from grabbing onto it.

"How are we getting out of here?!" Dozer asked as he fought off 2 more scraptors.

"What if we go THROUGH?" Ty suggested.

"Through the GROUND?" Revvit asked, confused.

"No, the BACK DOOR!"

"There IS no back door!"

"Then let's make one!" Ty said, and with a swing of his tail against a scraptor, work began!

Dozer and George followed Ty's lead. He bit into the wall, got some rock, shook off a scraptor, and put the rock into Ton-Ton's flatbed. Then Dozer used his jackhammer tail to dig into the wall and made an indent for them to tunnel through. George then dozed away the little pieces that also came loose. This process continued as Skya and Scratch fought off the other scraptors. And once Ton-Ton's flatbed was filled, he flung the rocks at any scraptor who got too close, and the process repeated.

While the others were fighting and working, Revvit noticed a coupling nut, the same one Dozer needed to fix his frill. Using his quick reflexes, he managed to weave his way through the battle, grab the nut, and make his way back to the safety of Ty.

At one point, as Ty continued to try to dig his way through the wall, the ceiling started to collapse. Ton-Ton relayed the problem to the others, and Skya had an idea. She grabbed a nearby long piece of rock. "Take this to Ty! He can use it to brace the tunnel!"

"You got it!" Said Ton-Ton. He took the piece to Ty and sure enough, it worked. The ceiling stayed in place.

The work of the tunnel proceeded throughout the night, with rocks constantly having to be brought out by Ton-Ton, using his flatbed, and Skya, who used the conveyor belt on her neck. They were soon in the rhythm of it. Fight, collect rocks, fight, dig, fight, etc.

Eventually, as the sun came up, Ty broke through the wall that lead to the wide open. "Almost there!" He called out to the others, and they started to file through the tunnel. Finally, Ty broke open the wall and came out of the tunnel, followed by Skya.

"Look out dudes!" Yelled Ton-Ton, who came screaming out of the tunnel next, followed by Scratch, who had by now returned back to normal.

"Where are the dozeratops?" Ty asked.

"On their way!" Said Ton-Ton.

Sure enough, Dozer and George also came screaming out the tunnel with a scraptor still stuck onto them. "Look out Ty! They're coming!" Dozer yelled as he passed.

Sure enough, Ty looked into the tunnel and saw the scraptors chasing after them. To stop them, Ty made a solid swing with his tail at the tunnel, causing the whole entrance to collapse.

"Boom! Did it! Scrap THAT!" He cheered.

As Ty collapsed the entrance to the tunnel, Dozer managed to get the scraptor that was stuck to them off. They all cornered the scraptor into a rock as the scraptor desperately roared back, trying to be menacing. It wasn't working, and the dinotrux closed in on the scraptor.

"Got a problem?" Ty asked, meanly. The scraptor looked around, and realized the battle was lost. He then noticed Scratch on the right of the group.

"Don't come back!" It yelled at him. And with that, the scraptor sped away.

"That's what I thought." Ty said. Mission complete, the dinotrux, Revvit and Scratch cheered at their success. Ton-Ton and George were safe, they had all made it out alive, and Scratch was no longer part of Ripper's group. All in all, it was a successful night.

Later That Morning, Back At The Garage...

Waldo, Ace and Click-Clack stood around, waiting for the return of the dinotrux and Revvit. They were all starting to get nervous because they had all been gone all night. Thankfully, they eventually heard Revvit's voice from outside.

"Hey Waldo? Ace? Where are you?" He called. The reptools eagerly made their way outside the garage to greet him and the others. They saw that all the dinotrux, Revvit and Scratch had made it back in one piece, along with someone they had never seen before.

"You were gone all night! We were so worried!" Click-Clack said. They all walked down to meet them.

"We weren't worried!" Waldo said determinedly. A pause. "...Well, maybe we were a little worried."

"Waldo, really?" Skya said, teasingly.

"Never mind that, look at you all! Scratched panels, broken grills! And who is this? Another crazy joyrider?" Waldo asked.

"Just a traveler on the path of life my reptool friends. Thanks everybody. Now let's see what the universe has in store for me next. The left path? The right path? The wrong path? Hehehe, there is no wrong path. You can take any path, as long as it's the one your on." And with that beautiful monologue, George left the group and headed out.

Waldo was confused. "Did that dozeratops get hit in the head or something?" He asked.

"No. George just talks that way. He's cool." Ton-Ton explained.

"Course! He's a dozeratops." Dozer said.

"Bye George! Thanks again for the tip about not being afraid of the dark!" Ton-Ton called after him.

"Come back any time!" Ty added.

"Come on! Let's get some ore! I'm starving!" Dozer said, impatiently. As he did though, his frill clanged and squeaked again.

"Oh! That reminds me!" Revvit went to where he had stored the coupling nut the night before and brought it over to the other reptools. "While we were busy battling the scraptors, I found THIS. A dozeratops coupling nut!"

"Huh. Nice job Revvit!" Dozer praised. "Meet you in my bay." And he made his way to the garage.

"Whoa. That coupling nut sure is a beauty!" Ace admired. "Where'd you get it?"

"Oooh, scraptor valley." Revvit said, rather egotistically, as he and the other dinotrux also headed into the garage. "It was a veritable treasure trove of spare parts! When I spotted this nut, we were in a fierce battle against dozens of deadly scraptors! Oh you should have seen me! I leapt to the right! I leapt to the left! I jumped up high and I ran away, just a little bit."

Scratch smiled at Revvit's sudden, almost child-like attitude while he chatted with his friends. But then one look at Ty's face, and he immediately became somber.

Tonight, he would have to go under the drill to be cut open to find the component of him that allowed speech, so that he could finally explain his actions to the other dinotrux. He could only hope Revvit finds it, or he may never get the other dinotrux's trust again.

Back At The Scrapyard...

Ripper looked around at the damage the battle from last night had caused. He may not have actually witnessed it, because he had been in shock for most of the battle, but from what the other scraptors had told him, and from what he was seeing now, it had not gone well. Scraptors from all over the scrapyard were damaged or dead, rock and scrap debris were scattered everywhere, and there was a giant backdoor to the hive with an entrance that was blocked.

The rest of the scraptors anxiously stood before Ripper, waiting for his orders concerning today's tasks. What was going to happen to them seeing how they had let two major scrap jackpots get away last night? A beating? Discipline charges? Eviction from the hive?

In Ripper's mind, he didn't care too much about the other scraptors. His thoughts mainly circled around Scratch, the best scrap collector he had ever had. Not only did him breaking the scraptor code had gotten Ripper the freshest and greatest amount of scrap then any other scraptor, but he had also turned out to be a metal dragon, which would have been great for his reputation compared to the other scraptor hives! Now he was gone. Not allowed to come back because not only had he disobeyed him, but the scraptors had found a scraptor in the scrapyard with a hole in his neck. He had assaulted and killed another scraptor.

But then again, had he actually broken the rules because he wasn't a scraptor in the first place? He WAS a metal dragon after all. This means RIPPER had broken the scraptor code by letting a non-scraptor into his ranks. If the other scraptors figured THAT out, he could be killed! All these thoughts had been circling Rippers mind all morning, and he had no idea what to do. For now though, he had to talk to the other scraptors.

He looked up at them. "Alright everyone. Your tasks today will be to clean up the scrapyard from last night. This means all rock is to be put outside, scrap is to be given to me, and our dead is to be taken apart and ALSO given to me. Once everything is cleaned up, you may then be allowed to help repair each other. As for the backdoor the dinotrux made last night, I'll be having any scraptors that are close to there move their nests inside so that it's properly guarded. And seeing how dinotrux managed to get in here in the first place, I'll be having any scraptors that are close to the FRONT door move closer to it so that it's better guarded. Understood?"

The scraptors nodded and made their way around the scrapyard to clean it up, relieved that no real punishment had been given to them. Meanwhile, Ripper made his way to his nest and sat down, sighing. He looked down at the strange... thing one of the other scraptors had given him this morning. According to him, he had found it in his claws instead of the treadfoot he had been holding the night before. Now, it was Ripper's only reminder of Scratch, apart from his nest. He then laid down, holding the thing in his claws.

He made a promise to himself. Once he had everything back in order for the scrapyard, he would find Scratch and have him come back to his clan. He may not be a scraptor, but by god was he one hell of a employee to him.

We'll be coming back to Ripper and his possible bromance with Scratch later on in the season, but for now, SCRATCH WILL GET HIS VOICE NEXT CHAPTER! HYPE!

So until then, thank you so much for reading, and have a great rest of your day!

P.S. I still can't believe how soon this came out. CRAZY, am I right?! (Don't expect it again)

P.P.S. Did anyone else notice this chapter is shorter then the others? This kind of freaks me out.