Dinosaur King Retold Chapter 13: Alpha's Zeta Point, a dinosaur king fanfic

Alpha's Zeta Point

Disclaimer: Dinosaur King is owned by Sunrise, Shout Factory, 4kidsTV, and any other company I missed. I own nothing

"Talking"

"Thinking"

"Flashback"

Things were going as they normally do at Zeta Point. In the engine room for the time machine, many robots known as Hybro Droids were working to repair the device. Some of the action was on the machine's base as the larger, stronger robots carried supplies either with their hands or in their back compartments. One robot, a short pink one with extendable arms and legs, was working on the computer part of the machine when one of the main Droids crashed right into it. "Carry. Carry..." was all the Droids said as they worked.

On an elevated platform, Rod and Seth watched the progress. "Any luck fixing the time machine, Seth?" Rod asked.

"No, I'm afraid not." Seth told him as he slowly lowered the platform. "Without those replacement parts, there's not much that can be done."

"What if you were to run a bypass of the command system and energise the couplers manually?" Rod suggested as he typed on his laptop. "Like this." He said as he showed what was on his screen.

Seth looked over and put a hand to his chin in thought. "Interesting. I'll give that a try right now, Rod." Seth said

"You won't be able to time travel, but you'll still be able to go from place to place." Rod said as the platform touched the ground and he got off.

"Good thinking." Seth told the boy. "Thanks for your help."

"Yep." Rod said with a smile. "If there's anything else I can do to help you know where to find me." He told Seth before waving and walking off, allowing Seth to resume his work.

Meanwhile in Dr.Wu's Lab he was looking at a Dinosaur he had in an electric cage. "Now do you wish to join my Daughter's Team?" He asked the Dinosaur.

"I'll never work with a cruel bully like you!" The Dinosaur snapped its jaws.

"Don't make this harder on yourself Gigantosaurus." Dr.Wu said. "Remember I resurrected you and I can kill you. But that would be a waste of all the work I put into restoring you with the body of a Spinosaurus and the physical build of a Giganotosaurus I created you."

"I'd rather die than work for you!" Gigantosaurus snapped. Dr.Wu then pressed a button on the control panel and then Gigantosaurus screeched in pain as he was shocked with electricity coming out of the cage.

"Care to reconsider tomorrow?" Dr.Wu asked, then he left his lab.

Outside, Maximus was currently drinking out of a lake when Armatus approached her. "So, you come here often?"

Maximus stopped drinking and looked at the Stegosaurus. "Why are you seducing me?" She asked him.

Before he could answer, a loud roar was heard that briefly distracted the two of them. Maximus just rolled her eyes and sighed. "What are those idiots doing this time?" She asked rhetorically.

Elsewhere in the jungle, Gigas was currently hunting for some meat when he noticed his target of three Hybro Droids carrying large pieces of meat on their backs. "Run. Run. Run." The robots said as they ran from the Tyrannosaurus.

"Don't waste your time, calculators." Gigas told the robots, slowly approaching them for dramatic effect, his longer legs made him catch up easily. He really wanted that fresh meat. "Once I have the scent, you can't run anywhere."

(Intro Theme)

Deeper in the jungle, the H-Team were currently giving orders to a group of Hybro Droids while in front of a large cage. "All right, Hybro Droids, pay attention." Cursula told the group. "I want you to lure Gigas to the Hybro Transport and capture him. Understood?"

"Lure. Capture." The robots said as they made fighting poses.

"And this time, please don't get crushed." Slander added.

But the robots took this as a command instead of a warning. "Get crushed. Get crushed."

"This is a joke." Cursula said as she watched the robots' stupidity. "Just when I thought there was no one dumber than the two of you." She said depressed at the realisation.

"For once I agree with you." Louisa moaned. "Why can't these Droids have more intelligence like me?"

Her train of thought was broken when Gigas' roar was heard through the jungle. "Whoa! Here he comes!" Tred said.

Cursula shook her head as she resumed commanding. "Go! Start to lure!"

"Go. Lure. Go." The Hybro Droids said as they ran in different directions, making the Hybro Gang speechless as they messed up the plan.

"Run. Run." The other droids said as they continued retreating from the white Tyrannosaurus. As they got closer to the target, it seemed that the droids stationed at the cage were more interested in rolling in giant wheels and lounging around instead of their mission.

"Let's get out of here!" The Hybro Gang screamed before running away from Gigas. They did not want to be in the way of him and his food.

Sadly, the Hybro Droids took this as a command. "Out of here. Out of here." They repeated as they followed the Hybro Gang around with Gigas in pursuit.

"At least the Hybro Droids got the luring part right!" Tred said.

"Yeah, but they weren't supposed to use us as the bait!" Cursula said. Why is it everyone she worked with had to be on a new level of stupid?

More Hybro Droids started joining the stampede before they carried the Hybro Gang into the cage. Once they were all inside, the door closed and everyone was smushed together while Gigas ran around, trying to find a way in. "Stop giving commands!" Slander told Cursula once he realised what was happening.

"What are you talking about?!" Cursula asked.

"They're doing and saying everything that you're saying!" Tred clarified.

Gigas stopped running around and surveyed the situation. "I see what you were trying to do." He told the trio. "Well, nice try getting me in that!" He said before walking off.

Once she heard this, Cursula decided to test out what Tred told her. "Hybro Droids!" She screamed. "Cursula the Great!"

"Cursula the Great. Cursula the Great." This gave Cursula something to at least enjoy while they were trapped in the cage.

"Oh when I get out of here, I'm gonna ask Dad to give these stupid Droids some upgrades." Louisa groaned.

On the watchtower, Laura was watching the whole event take place. "Unbelievable." She said to herself.

"What are you talking about?" She turned to see her brother come up from the ladder.

"I've been watching Cursula and her team attempt to train the Hybro Droids all morning. And they managed to get themselves trapped in their own trap." Laura said as she pointed to the bloated cage.

Rod just sighed. "Yeah, well Grandpa does make a lot of defective stuff." Rod said as he put his arms behind his head.

"Maybe you should tell him that." Laura suggested.

Rod just looked at her. "Are you kidding me?"

Inside the laboratory, Dr.N was currently playing around with the cards from the Card Folio. "Just look at all my beautiful Dinosaur Cards!" He said with a smile. He grabbed the card containing Crown the Styracosaurus and held it in front of the Hybro Controller. "Hello, my little Styracosaurus. I'm going to turn you into a well-behaved Hybro Dinosaur." He said as he inserted the card into the machine, for the tenth time this week. "Voila! You're all mine." He said once the process was done and kissed the card before turning to the other cards on the table.

While they were pretty much all Move Cards, the doctor seemed to be in some state of denial due to all the sucking by his minions. "Now, which of you shall be the next to receive training!" He said as he looked over the cards. "Why don't I just pick a card! Any card!" He told himself before grabbing the whole deck. "But first to shuffle the deck thoroughly!" He sang to himself before losing his grip on the deck and falling over.

As the cards scattered all over, Helga came into the room using a vacuum, much to Dr.N's horror. "No! Helga, you stupid fool! Don't suck those cards up!" He said before grabbing the cards right in front of the vacuum's path, getting his head sucked in while doing so. "Turn off that machine!"

"Doctor, what was that you were saying?" Helga asked, a little ticked off at the doctor.

"I was asking you not to vacuum while I'm working! You know how important these cards are to me!" Dr.N said before his whole upper body got sucked in, making his screams gibberish.

"Well then, if they are so important why are they on the floor?" She asked, not at all fazed that Dr.N was getting sucked into the vacuum.

What they didn't realise was that the one other non-Move Card landed right behind the vacuum and was activated by the air coming from behind it.

The Dinosaur was a Small Carnivore like Ace. It was mostly blue, with some three purple stripes on each of its sides. Running along the back were tiny, yellow bumps alongside similar shaped purple markings. Also similar to Ace, it had four claw fingers instead of the common three, though the arms were not as short as Ace's. The main feature were the small horns on its head, like a Triceratops but way smaller. Two above the eyes and a yellow one on the nose. This Dinosaur had shown up before at the Mega Mall in Sanjo City. It was the Ceratosaurus.

At the D-Lab, Max and his Dinos were currently finishing a race they were having. "Looks like I beat you both!" Max chuckled as he ran backwards. "Aah!" He exclaimed as he bumped into a stool behind him. While that obviously wasn't that big of an issue, it was what was on the stool that was.

A container holding a disc fell to the floor and opened up, letting the disc out. Once it did, the stool slid on the floor until it stopped right on top of the disc. "Uh-oh." All three of them said as they quickly ran over to the stool and removed it to show a destroyed disc. "Maybe your dad won't notice?" Chomp suggested.

"Hey, Max?" Spike said as he entered the room.

"Or not." Chomp muttered as they all tensed up.

"I left a data disc over there." Spike explained as he walked towards them. "Do you see it?" He then looked down and saw what was left of his data. "Gah!"

"Oh, yeah." Max said as he quickly tried to find an excuse. "Well, there was a Bat in here and we were trying to get it out." He explained.

"And while that was happening, Chomp leapt up on the stool to pounce on the bat and must have moved it by accident." Terry added.

"Yeah." Chomp nodded before he took in what was said. "Wait a minute? Why am I the scapegoat?"

"Take one for the team, dude." Terry whispered.

Spike simply picked up the disc and looked at them with a look of disapproval.

A bit later, Max, Chomp, and Terry came out with the truth. "We're really sorry, Dad."

"I know." Spike simply responded, while turning away from his son. "But that's not the point."

"But, what'd you mean?" Max asked. "You always tell me it's good to apologise." He told his father.

Spike turned around and addressed his son and partners. "The apology's not the problem. You all tried to blame Chomp for something you all did. So I think it's Chomp you should apologise to." He suggested.

Max and Terry looked at Chomp and noticed he had a bit of a hurt look on his face. "Chomp, we're sorry we tried to blame it all on you." Max apologised and he bent down to let him.

"Yeah, it was not cool of us, Bro." Terry added as he nuzzled the Triceratops.

"It's fine." Chomp said as he accepted the gestures.

"That's better." Spike said. "The punishment for you three is D-Lab janitor duty for three days."

"Janitor?" They all whined.

While Chomp and Terry, full-sized, cleaned up the dung from the other Dinosaurs to sell as fertiliser for food money, Max was tasked with cleaning the toilets. "Well, you got off easy if you ask me." Rex said as he, Rhysa and Zoe entered the room.

Max looked back as he was scrubbing the toilet. "Yeah?" He asked sarcastically. "Easy for you to say, 'cause I'm the one scrubbing." He told them. "If you ask me, Dad's way too strict."

"It's your own fault for lying about it in the first place you know." Zoe reminded him.

"And you're lucky to have a father who cares about you enough to try and keep you in line." Rex added.

"You should be lucky too Max." Rhysa said. "I grew up never knowing my parents, I only have Diego, Alicia and Dora as Cousins but they're still family."

"Oh, give me a break. Now you both sound like my dad." Max told them both. "If you're not gonna help me with this crummy job, then go make your speeches with Chomp and Terry."

"I'm pretty sure Ace and the others are already doing that." Rex said as he looked to see Ace, Paris and Rhysa's Partners having the same conversation with Chomp and Terry while they shovelled the dung into a container, looking just as annoyed as Max was.

As for Tank and Spiny, they were currently having a bit of a tussle and rolling right towards Max. "Get off of me!" Tank shouted before tossing Spiny right into Max, knocking his head into the toilet before landing on the tank. "I told you we don't spar!" She told him as she dusted herself off.

"But I wanted a turn. You always do it with Blaster." Spiny whined before accidentally leaping onto the flush of the toilet causing Max's problem to worsen.

Max gasped as he pulled his head out. "Spiny! Don't you have other places to play!" He yelled at the Spinosaurus.

"No."

It was then that the Dino Holders started to go off again. "Huh?"

"It's another Dinosaur!" Rhysa gasped.

"The signal is coming from the middle of the Pacific Ocean." Reese told them.

"But right now we can't get the identity of the signal." Diego explained.

"You mean Hawaii again?" Paris asked.

Chomp tensed slightly when he heard that location as he remembered what happened. "Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts." He told himself as he remembered Max's words

"No, but it's close." Reese said as she looked at the map more closely.

"It's not Hawaii again, Paris." Alicia said getting a better look at the screen.

"There you are." Max tensed when he saw his father enter the room. "Is that your idea of cleaning the bathroom? Just throwing water all over it?" He asked his son.

"No, can't I finish it later? Another Dinosaur just showed up." The brunette explained.

"It did?" Spike asked.

"Come on!" Max said as he gestured the others to the teleportation pad.

"Let's go!" Spiny said happily.

"Rescue Team to the ready!" Brontina smiled.

Once on, they all pushed a button and teleported away. "Oh, no! Stop them!" Reese exclaimed as she quickly got up. But it was too late, as the children had already teleported away.

"What's wrong, Reese?"

"There's no land at all on those coordinates! Just open sea!" She said as she pointed to the map.

"No land!" Dora cried. "But then that means they'll fall into the water!"

"How can that be?!" Spike shouted in terror.

It, however, wasn't the middle of the ocean where the D-Team ended up at. Instead, it was a tropical jungle. Not only that, but it was currently a Battlefield. "Whoa!" Max gasped as he looked around.

"It's a Battlefield!" Rex said.

They all soon heard the sound of a Dinosaur's roar. A roar that sounded like it was in pain. Terry sniffed the air before picking up the new Dinosaur's scent "Over here!" He said before leading them towards the Dinosaur.

The Ceratosaurus was currently panting heavily as the poor thing was being ganged up on by all three of the Hybro Gang's Dinosaurs. "Isn't this a bit overkill?" Maximus asked her teammates.

"Like it matters, sheila." Armatus said as he reared up to get a better look at the Jurassic Carnivore. "Little bugger had it coming for defying the pecking order."

"Exactly." Gigas said before he gave out a roar and attacked. Using his tail, he smacked the Ceratosaurus on the face twice before giving one more blow that sent the Theropod flying.

At that moment, the D-Team arrived on the scene and were surprised at the brutality being displayed. "That poor Ceratosaurus is getting beat up." Paris said as she covered her eyes at the horrific sight.

"We've gotta help him!" Tracker cried.

"The Hybro Gang must be close." Max said before getting his Dino Holder ready to help the Ceratosaurus.

Rex was about to do the same thing until he noticed something of importance. "Real close. Take a look." He said as he pointed to the group. Everyone looked to see not only the H-Team, but Dr.N and his grandkids present with an army of Hybro Droids watching the fight.

"That's not good!" Rhysa cried seeing Louisa and her Hybrids so close by.

"And they have kids with them." Zoe said as she used her goggles to take some pictures of the situation. One of Dr.N about to use a Move Card, one of Rod and Laura, and one of the Hybro Gang. She thought about what this meant before she remembered what the doctor had in his hands. "Uh-oh!" She said as Dr.N activated the Move Card.

Unlike all the other times, this Move wasn't Spectral Lancer. Instead, fire started to form in Gigas' mouth as he reared up. He slammed his foot onto the ground before firing a beam of fire at the Ceratosaurus. The Ceratosaurus was hit dead centre and was pushed by the beam until it stopped and the Ceratosaurus was defeated, the Card being blown away by the wind.

"What was that Move?" Zoe asked.

"Magma Blaster." Terry told her. "Must have been from the Card Folio." He assumed.

"Victory! Victory!" The Hybro Gang sang as they praised their leader, bowing repeatedly so quickly it looked like they were dancing

"Ehahahahaha!" Dr.N laughed maniacally. "Excellent job. You knocked that Ceratosaurus right out of the ballpark."

"Uh, Grandpa? The card flew off somewhere." Laura reminded her grandfather.

Dr.N ceased his celebrating when he realised his granddaughter had a point. "Cursula! You nitwit! Don't just stand there! Go and get that card back!"

"Yes, Dr.N." Cursula said nervously before telling her partners. "Go and get that card back, you nitwits."

"But you're the nitwit he asked." Slander pointed out.

Cursula simply tensed up and looked like she was about to murder them. "Get going." She threatened them. The two men just sighed in defeat and went off.

While they searched through the jungle, Slander told Tred. "Man, why do we let Cursula boss us around like that?"

The Ceratosaurus Card was eventually picked up, but it was by Rex. Slander and Tred gasped when they saw the blonde on their island, with the card to boot. "Ah! You're that kid!" They said in shock.

The D-Team gasped when they realised they were caught. "Come on, guys! They spotted us!" Max said as he led the team away.

"Technically, they have now since you've revealed all of us are here." Spiny said as he ran with them.

"See ya!" Rhysa called running.

Back with Cursula and Dr.N, they were both starting to get very nervous. "Oh, why did I drink so much ice tea?" Dr.N thought to himself.

"Good news!" Slander said as he and Tred returned.

"But bad news, too!" Tred added.

"OK, we'll take the good news." Cursula said, worried about what the news was.

"We found the card, but those brats are here and they took it." Slander explained.

"We only asked for the good news!" Dr.N told the duo before turning to Gigas. "Gigas! Don't just stand there! Capture those brats!"

"On it!" The Tyrannosaurus said before sniffing the air. "This way!" He told his team before they ran off after the kids.

While this was going on, Rod and Laura had one thought going through their heads. "Will we meet them?"

Back with the D-Team, they were still looking for a way to escape the Hybro Gang. They were holding their Dinosaurs in their arms, or head in Max's case, so they wouldn't fall behind. Things only got worse when they felt thunderous footsteps behind them. Zoe turned around to see Gigas running towards them. "Oh, no!" The pinkette screamed as she picked up her pace.

"You're not escaping that easily!" Gigas roared.

"Aah!" Max screamed as he also noticed the white Tyrannosaurus. He wasn't looking where he was going again and slammed right into a tree, dropping his Dinos in the process.

"Get up, Max! This is no time to be sleeping!" Terry said, panicking as Gigas was getting closer.

"Give me a break that tree came out of nowhere." Max said.

"Actually, it was there the whole time." Spiny said.

"Now's not the time to be a smartass, Spiny!" Tank told him.

"I'm not. I'm just pointing out the truth." He said.

Rex looked behind them to see Gigas was now joined by Maximus and Armatus. He quickly looked around for a way to escape, as out running them wasn't a possibility. That escape came in the form of a pipe. "In here!" He said as he led the others to a pipe. Max got up, while covering his nose, scooped up his partners, and quickly managed to dodge Gigas' foot from crushing him.

They all managed to jump through the pipe just in time for Gigas' jaws to miss them and destroy the pipe, injuring his nose in the process. "Son of a-! Why do we even have that pipe there?!" He said as he tried to rub his nose, but couldn't due to his tiny arms.

Maximus and Armatus just watched the scene in amusement. "Giant, terrifying, jaws of death." Maximus said.

"Tiny, little arms." Armatus finished.

The D-Team screamed as they fell down the pipe into who knows where. At first, it seemed like the pipe had a dead end. But that dead-end was removed once they all landed on top of it. They all groaned as they landed on the floor. Ace was the first one to get up and survey the surroundings. "Where are we?"

"I don't know." Rhysa said. "But wherever we are, it can't be good."

Back outside, the Hybro Droids were currently leaping into the pipe to track down the team while the Hybro Gang watched. The Dinosaurs took another way into the base. "Jumping. Falling. Jumping. Falling." The Hybro Droids said as they followed their orders.

"While they and the Dinos go chase down those brats, we get to stay up here and supervise." Slander said as he got comfortable, putting his hands behind his head and stretching his back.

This didn't fly well with Dr.N. "If anyone's going to be supervising it's me! Now get down there!" He said before he knocked all four of them into the hole. "Ha, ha."

Inside, Max had just noticed something about their location. "Check it out!" He said as he pointed to a red omega symbol. "The mark of the Hybro Gang." He said.

"That can only mean one thing." Rex said grimly as the others looked at each other with worried expressions, quietly gasping at the realisation.

"That they graffitied this place?" Spiny suggested, the only one not understanding what this meant. "No wait, that can't be it right?"

"No, we fell right into their secret headquarters." Chomp said.

To make matters worse, they heard the sound of the Hybro Droids coming down the hole. "Catch them. Catch them. Catch them."

Max gasped when he heard that noise. "They're coming! Let's go!"

While the Droids fell through the hole with ease, the H-Team was screaming as they fell.

Back with the team, they were trying to get the nearest door to open. "Hurry, Max!" Rex said with urgency and panic in his voice.

"I'm trying!" Max said as he was pulling on the door handle to open. "This stupid thing won't budge."

"I don't see why we're running from them?" Tank asked. "I mean we beat them all the time." She said arrogantly.

"Because, all those other times we weren't in the one place they had an advantage!" Max said as he pulled with all his might, but all he got was no result.

"Maybe there's a password." Zoe suggested.

Max stopped pulling the door and thought about what she said. "Yeah! Good thinking, Zoe." He said before he tried to think of what the password would be. "How about open sesame!"

"Original." Rex muttered under his breath.

Sure enough, this happened to be the correct password as the door opened. "Hey, it worked!" Chomp said.

"All right! I did it!" Max cheered.

"Unbelievable." Rex muttered.

Their happiness was short-lived when they heard the sound of metal hitting the floor. Turning around, they saw the Hybro Droids landing on the floor. Thankfully, most landed clumsily, but one managed to land on its feet and chase after them. "Catch them. Catch them."

"MOVIE IT!!" Rhysa yelled, sprinting forward.

The D-Team quickly ran through the door, before it closed on the Hybro Droid, its shoulders scraping off as it tried to force the door open.

"Hope they don't know the password." Chomp said as they ran down the hall.

"I doubt it. It's their own base after all." Terry reminded his brother.

"Yeah, and they'll be after us as long as we're here." Zoe added. "We already got the Dinosaur Card, so let's just find a way to get out of this place."

"Yeah, I think we should go back home and tell your dad and the others where the Hybro Gang's secret hideout is." Rex suggested.

"I think we shouldn't go back yet." Rhysa said disagreeing. "We do have the Ceratosaurus Card but not his Element Booster! We need to find it and then get out of here! Who knows what they can do with it."

"We can tell him that over the Dino Holder." Max told his team, starting to sound serious. "Come on, guys, this is our big chance. Not that we're here, we can finally learn the true identity of the Hybro Gang, right?"

"Why don't we save that for next time? Or when we have more Dino Power?" Paris suggested.

"By the time we find a way back here they could have already abandoned his place and gone somewhere else." Max told her. "This might not be their only hideout, you know?"

The others thought for a bit. "That's true." Rex said.

"Not only that, remember, like Terry said, they took that whole Card Folio of cards from us?" Max reminded them. "While we're here, we can get all those cards back again." He said before turning to Chomp "And Chomp, this might be our opportunity to rescue Crown." Max told his friend.

Chomp started to remember what the Hybro Gang did that day.

"Hey! That Styracosaurus belongs with us!" Max yelled at them angrily.

"No, it doesn't!" Cursula mocked him as she held out their new card.

"Thankfully the tide has finally turned for us." Slander said ,right before another wave landed on them. "Shutting up."

Gigas and Maximus turned around and began to push the boat away. "You follow us, he dies." Gigas warned them as the Battlefield disappeared.

Chomp growled at the memory. "All right." He said with determination in his voice. The others agreed with him.

Max smiled as he was glad he wasn't alone on this adventure. "Not only that, but the longer we're here, the longer I can put off scrubbing toilets." Max thought while he snickered. "Hehehe!"

"What's so funny, Max?" Terry asked him.

"Oh, nothing." Max said innocently.

Back with the Hybro Gang, the Hybro Droids were currently trying to access the door that the D-Team used to escape, with minimal amounts of success. "Pull door. Pull door. Pull door. Aah! Pull door. Pull door. Pull door. Aah!" They repeated the cycle of pulling the door only to fall to the ground when they let go.

"Oh this is getting us nowhere." Louisa groaned.

"Useless piles of junk." Cursula said as she looked at the pile of rubble with her team and the Dinosaurs. "That's not how you get into a secret entryway. You need a password to open it." She said before saying. "Open sashimi." Obviously the door didn't open. "Hmm?"

"No, no. It's open salami." Gigas said.

"No, no, no. It was open salami sandwich." Tred corrected.

"That's ridiculous." Cursula told them. "Who would come up with a dumb password like that?"

"Dr.N." Armatus said. Elsewhere, Dr.N sneezed.

"I would think he was in the mood for a nice sandwich at the time. Though he could have added cheese." Slander said.

"So are you saying salami with Swiss is the password!" Cursula screamed.

"Maybe, but I think provolone's better." Armatus said with a shrug. The others looked at him like he was crazy.

Cursula just growled at the idiocy. "It's not open salami or open sesame or open pastrami or..." she was cut off by the door opening.

"I knew it was a deli meat." Slander said.

As the Dinosaurs walked through, Cursula turned to the still knocked-out Hybro Droids. "All right. Get off your robotic rear ends and catch those kids. And don't stop..."

She was cut off by a stampede of Hybro Droids chanting. "Don't stop. Don't stop."

Once the stampede receded, the Hybro Gang was flat on the ground again. "So, maybe when it comes to Droids I should choose my words more carefully." Cursula said.

"We'd all appreciate that." Slander told her.

"This is the second time I've been trampled." Louisa moaned.

"Searching. Searching. Searching." The Hybro Droids said as they searched all over the halls. Maximus, Armatus, and Gigas walked by, making sure they were still doing their job. The Hybro Gang was behind them with bandages from the stampede.

"I can't believe those brats guessed the password." Cursula said in a huff. "That's just baloney."

"I thought it was pastrami." Tred said as he rubbed the wound on his head, which was what kept Cursula from bashing it.

What they didn't know was that the D-Team was hiding in one of the storage areas. Rex put an ear to the cover and checked to see if he heard any footsteps. "Coast is clear." He told the others.

"Then let's report in." Max said as he grabbed his Dino Holder.

Once they told everyone at the lab what was going on, Spike was less than thrilled. "You're where?! Hybro Gang's headquarters!" He shouted at the screen.

"But we're OK." Max assured his father. "We'll head back home as soon as we complete the mission."

"Are you out of your mind?!" Spike screamed. "It's way too dangerous! Come home now!" He ordered, but once he did the screen turned to static. "What?!"

"Dr. Taylor, the frequency is jammed." Reese told him.

"We can't reach them?!" Spike shouted in horror, even more than last time. Now the kids were on their own.

"Without a signal, we can't transport the rest of you guys to help the kids." Dora gasped.

"Rhysa and the others are on their own now." Diego said, gravely.

"And they're in enemy headquarters too." Alicia added worriedly.

"That's not good." Mole said.

"But we've gotta do something!" Quetzal said. "Can't we get there any other way?"

This got Diego, Alicia and Dora thinking.

Back on the island, Rod was using the control system to try and hunt them down. "I've intercepted a signal coming from here on the island." He told his grandfather.

"Good, track it. Where's the source?" Dr.N asked as he looked at a bizarre map of the island.

Back with the team, they just stared at the static on the screen of the Dino Holder with growing panic. "I got cut off." Max said.

Rex's eyes widened in realisation. "That could mean they picked it up and now they're jamming us." He told them. "Turn it off! Quick, Max, before they trace it to us." He explained.

Max gasped and quickly did as he was told. In the control room, the signal on the map faded away. "We lost the signal." Rod said.

"Curses!" Dr.N shouted. "I want those pesky intruders located! Where's Cursula and those two bozos!?" He asked. "Haven't they found anything yet?!"

"They're somewhere in the basement with the Hybro Droids." Laura told him.

"We must stop them before they find my lab." Dr.Wu said.

This just made the doctor even more peeved. "I should have known better than to send them in the first place! What kind of mad scientist am I if I can't get rid of intruders in my own secret lair?!"

"Don't worry." Rod assured. "I think I have a perfect plan that'll lure them out into the open for you."

Dr.N grinned in delight. "Ah, that's my boy. But we'll need some extra muscle to make sure they don't destroy the trap." He told them as he picked up a Hybro Scanner. "Time to give my old friend an introduction."

Back with the D-Team, Zoe was currently making sure the pathway they were taking by wasn't littered with guards. "There's nobody here." She told them. "Now let's hurry and find a way out before those two guys and that old lady-" She gasped and put her hands over her mouth once she uttered those words, but the damage was done.

Soon the ground began to literally shake as Cursula charged towards them with blood-red eyes. "I heard that, you ankle biters! Who do you think you're calling old?!" She yelled with her demon voice.

"She found us! Run!" Max said as they all made a break for it from the raging woman.

As they ran, Rex came across a door. "This way!" He told the others as he opened the door and closed it before Cursula could reach them.

Cursula reached the door and slammed into it with her shoulders. "Open up, you little monsters!" She ordered.

Slander and Tred finally caught up with her, whilst panting heavily. "Wow, you sure are quick when you're insulted." Slander told her.

"You must have really been something when you were younger." Tred commented, not realising what he just said.

Cursula turned around and glared into their souls. "What's that supposed to mean?!" She asked them. The two men went pale in fear before Cursula gave them both huge bumps on their heads before turning her attention back to the kids. "Open this door!"

The reason the door wouldn't budge was not only because it had a handle, but it was blocked by some boxes and a mop. "That was a little too close for comfort." Chomp whispered.

"I'm sorry, guys. I guess I really need to watch what I'm saying." Zoe apologised. "I'll try not to use the words 'old lady'."

Once she said that, Cursula slammed into the door again. "I heard that! You said it again!"

"What's with that old lady any-" Max said before getting interrupted.

"Just wait until I get my hands on you insufferable brats!" Cursula screamed.

Ace looked around and noticed a slide behind them. "There's some kind of slide back here." He told the others. "We can use it to escape."

"Let's take it." Max said quickly before he grabbed everyone and put them all into the slide.

Outside, Cursula noticed that the brat's noises seemed to disappear. "Where are you pests going!?" She asked before she got a call on the Hybro Scanner. "What is it?" She asked.

"Cursula, gather our Dinosaurs and as many Hybro Droids as you can. I have a plan to get those brats right where we want them." Cursula smiled evilly at the idea. Finally some revenge.

The D-Team screamed as they slid to wherever the slide would take them. Chomp was in the front and noticed something that could be trouble. "Fork in the slide!"

"Which way!?" Max asked. But they all were too late to decide and went down whichever path they were leaning towards most.

Eventually, the ride stopped and they all bumped into each other. Max groaned before looking back. "OK? Is everyone present?" He did a headcount and noticed they had only seven heads. "Where's Spiny and Tank?"

"They must have gotten separated from us." Zoe assumed, her tone hiding no panic whatsoever.

"I think we've got another problem." Ace added. "Rhysa and her Team aren't here either!"

"Oh no!" Paris said quietly. "She must've gotten separated from us on the slides."

Terry was fearing the worst as well, but he noticed something else. "There's someone down there." He whispered as he gestured to the room below them.

The team looked and saw Helga looking over the room, and she wasn't very happy. "Ugh. They left this room a filthy mess." She said in frustration. "What kind of manners is Dr.N teaching them anyway?"

"Who's that old lad-" Max asked before getting silenced by Rex.

"Ssh!" He told him as he covered Max's mouth, not wanting Cursula to find them

Not noticing the kids above her, Helga grabbed one of the cushions and tossed it onto the ground, the force knocking everything else into the correct position. "She's good." Zoe whispered as Helga chuckled at her work, dusting her hands off.

Rex was impressed by her skill too, but saw something much more interesting. He gently tapped Max's shoulder to get his attention. "Yeah?" He asked as Rex pointed to something. "Huh?" He looked and noticed a bunch of Move Cards scattered all over the floor. "Oh!"

Helga noticed this too and walked over to the pile. "All the time I am telling them if the cards are so important, put them away!" She said as she picked them all up in lightning speed and placed them all in her pocket. "But do they listen? Ugh, it's like I am talking to a tree stump."

Suddenly, some high-pitched noise came from out of nowhere. Paris listened for a bit before she recognised the sound. She smiled as she leapt down and responded with her own call before she went after it. "Ah, Paris, no!" Zoe said as she leapt down and ran after her. "Come back here!"

"Zoe, wait!" Max said as they ran after her.

"Stop right there, you." Helga told them. The boys froze in their tracks when they realised they were caught.

Max tried to think of the quickest excuse possible. "Hello, ma'am. We're safety inspectors. You've passed." He said quickly before running off with the others.

Helga didn't look convinced. "Ha, I don't believe that."

"Paris, where are you going?" Zoe asked as they ran down a hallway.

"To find help." She replied, going down one of many hallways present.

Sadly for them, the boys didn't arrive on time to see which way they went. "Which way?" Max asked.

"I don't know. It's from wherever the sound is coming from, but I can't tell where." Ace answered as he looked around for the source. By the sound seemed like it was coming from everywhere.

Terry was about to give a sniff in the air when he heard something. "That sounds like the cry of a Dinosaur." He told them.

Chomp listened again and recognised the cry. "I can't be!" He thought as he ran down the tunnel.

"Chomp, wait up!" Max said as he and Terry ran after him.

"No, Max!" Rex said, but to no avail, as they were already gone.

"We've got no choice." Ace told his partner. "We've got to go after them."

"Help!" A familiar voice screamed through the halls.

"Zoe!" Rex and Ace gasped in fear.

Zoe and Paris backed away in fear of who was in front of them. Instead of being helped, it was Gigas, Maximus, and Armatus with their Spectral Armour on, with Dr.N and his grandkids in front of two large speakers. "I broadcasted the sound of a Parasaurolophus calling one of its own, and they came." Rod explained to his grandfather.

"What a brilliant idea, Rod! Excellent work!" Dr.N praised his grandson before noticing Zoe scooping up Paris and making a break for the door. "You're not getting away." He said as he pressed a button on the wall and closed the door on them.

Zoe turned around and looked at the trio in front of her. "If they're all here, then Max and Rex shouldn't have too much trouble finding me." She said to herself before getting a battle face on. "Think you can take them all, Paris?" She asked, knowing she still wasn't the strongest of the team.

"We have no choice." Paris said with a look of determination, though her tone of voice said she was terrified.

Zoe nodded, equally terrified and uncertain about their chances, before addressing the doctor with a brave look on her face. "Have it your way!" She told them before getting her Dino Holder and Green Element Booster out.

"DINO SLASH! PARASAUROLOPHUS, BLOOM! ELEMENT BOOSTER! DINO TECTOR ON!"

As Rex and Ace reached the blocked door, a Battlefield appeared. "Zoe! Oh, no! Ace, we've got to find another door!" He told his partner before running off.

Elsewhere, Max and Terry noticed the same thing. "Paris is in a battle!"

"Bro, wait! We've got to help Paris!" Terry called out.

"I'm going to get help!" Chomp replied as he ran into a room.

When Max and Terry also entered the room, they were surprised to see a familiar face standing right in front of them; a Styracosaurus. "Crown?!" They said in shock.

"I thought I'd never see you again!" Chomp said in delight, wagging his tail happily.

That happiness soon faded away when Crown raised his foot into the air. "Must eliminate." He said before slamming it down.

"Look out!" Max only had time to grab Terry before dodging the impact, Chomp having to dodge on his own. The force was enough to knock Chomp away into a nearby shoot, sending him who knows where.

"Chomp!" Max screamed in horror as he watched one of his best friends get separated from him before turning to Crown. "What's your problem!? Chomp and the rest of us are your friends! Don't you remember!?"

Once Max finished that sentence, the Hybro Ball briefly appeared and floated around the Styracosaurus. "No." Max said quietly as he realised what they did to Crown.

"He's no friend of yours, he's our friend now." Max looked up to see the H-Team smiling down at them. "Did you honestly think you could just waltz into our headquarters and not pay the price?" She asked as she got out a Hybro Scanner. "Well, since you've made it this far, I feel it's fitting to reward you with the introduction of our newest member!"

"GO AND FINISH THEM OFF! BRONTIKENS!"

A multicoloured light appeared before it started growing into something massive. The Dinosaur was huge, dwarfing everyone the D-Team has encountered so far. It was a greyish blue, with a tan underbelly. It had small spines going from its head to its whip-like tail. On both of its forelegs, equivalent to where the big toe or thumb would be, was a spike that was missing on Salta. And it had two dull, light grey stripes going down each side of its long neck, which made it clear, if it wasn't already, that this one was part of the Sauropod family.

"W-what is that!?" Terry asked as the Dinosaur materialised in front of them, having never seen such a large Dinosaur before. It was even larger than Spiny, who was currently their largest Dinosaur.

"I think it's... an Apatosaurus." Max said in fear as they gawked at the Dinosaur. "We have to fight them." He said before getting his Dino Holder and Red Element Booster out, ignoring Terry's looks of protest.

"DINO SLASH! BLAZE, TYRANNOSAURUS! ELEMENT BOOSTER! DINO TECTOR ON!"

Once he was full-size, Max could see just how huge Brontikens was. Terry only went up to his legs. The Apatosaurus looked at the quivering Tyrannosaurus before turning to his partner. "Why don't you take this?" He suggested in a calm voice.

"Destroy." Crown replied before charging forward. He and Terry met in a headlock before Terry backed away. The Styracosaurus charged forward, only for the Tyrannosaurus to leap over him and grab him by the frill, sending him crashing into a wall.

Brontikens watched the fight silently in interest. He had heard of this particular Dinosaur. How he was the embodiment of the strength and warrior pride Tyrannosaurus were known for. Now was the time to see if he actually lived up to it, or if he was still only second rate to him. "Well, you've defeated my college. Now let's see how you handle me." He said before walking forward slowly.

"Get him, Terry!" Max encouraged the Tyrannosaurus. Terry nodded and attacked, his battle with Crown removing most of his worries and filling them with fiery confidence.

First, he tried to bite his legs, but Brontikens just shook him off like dirt on a shoe. The Tyrannosaurus then tried a headbutt, only for Brontikens to not even budge. Terry backed away and tried one last thing. He leapt into the air and tried to get on the giant's back. "Try harder than that." Brontikens said before slamming Terry away with his neck.

Terry hit a wall and lowered down slowly. "Terry!" Max exclaimed as the Dino Holder was showing he was already low on energy. "From one attack?" Max asked in shock. Deciding there was nothing else to do, he quickly pulled out his Move Card and activated it. "Volcano Burst!"

Terry swung his head around before firing erupted right below the Apatosaurus. "That should teach him." Terry said before turning to Crown.

"Yes, it will teach you." Brontikens said before hitting Terry on the head with his foot.

The Hybro Droids took this moment to grab Max before he could do anything else. "Hey, let go of me! Stop it!" He said as he squirmed.

With Paris, her fight was anything but better. "Engage Spectral Punisher!" Dr.N said as he activated the Move Card. Maximus lifted the Parasaurolophus up into the air and fired a crystal right into her centre.

Once she landed, Armatus swung his tail right at her. "Nighty night!" He roared as it made contact.

Paris bellowed in pain before returning to her card. "Oh, no, Paris!" Zoe cried. "Are you alright!?" She asked as she ran after the card.

Dr.N gave a sinister laugh at his victory. "Ahahaha! Now you've seen the true strength and power of my Hybro Dinosaurs!" He bragged.

Zoe ignored this and ran as quickly as she could to pick up the card. She reached out to grab it, but was stopped by more Hybro Droids blocking her path. "Capture. Capture. Capture." They droned.

"Ah!" She gasped before they grabbed her.

Rex and Ace ran as fast as they could, looking for any sign of their friends. "Max! Where are you?! Max!" Rex cried out.

Suddenly the wall burst and Terry slid through. Crown approached him and began beating his stomach with his horn. Terry was so weak from Brontikens' attack he couldn't do anything but roar in pain.

Rex gasped as he saw what was going on. "Here we go, Ace! We've got to help Terry!"

"DINO SLASH! CARNOTAURUS, BLOW THEM AWAY! ELEMENT BOOSTER! DINO TECTOR ON!"

Ace charged forward in an attempt to make Crown back off, but didn't expect a tail to appear out of the blue. Quickly jumping back, he was able to dodge the attack. "Impressive. I didn't think you could dodge that." Brontikens said as he appeared out of the hole with the Hybro Gang and their captive in tow.

"W-who are you?" Rex asked as he took in what he saw. He knew he was looking at an Apatosaurus, but that didn't make his appearance any more intimidating.

"Must everyone stutter at my presence?" The Apatosaurus asked no one in particular. "No matter, the name is Brontikens, and I shall be your executioner for today." Crown roared as he gave one last attack and defeated Terry. Both Ace and Rex gasped when they saw this. "Pity. I was hoping the supposed 'King of the Dinosaurs' would provide me with a decent challenge." Brontikens said as he watched the card float to the ground. "Seems you haven't improved much after all."

Rex growled as he was about to get his Move Card ready. "Don't do it." A voice told him. "If you care about your friend that is." Rex turned around to see the rest of the team, with Zoe captured and a gun pointed to her head.

"Sorry, Rex." Zoe said weakly.

"They've got you too?!" He said in horror.

While they talked, Max continued to struggle against his captors. "Let me go!"

"Dr.N is speaking!" Cursula scolded him before grabbing his cheek and pulling it.

"Thank you, Cursula." The Doctor said before turning his attention to Rex. "Hello, Rex. You're just in time to have a front-row seat as we do away with your Carnotaurus."

Rex trembled as he tried to think of anything to do. All he could think of was crying out. "Ace!" Tears falling as he did so.

Crown began hitting Ace repeatedly with his horn before backing away. The Carnotaurus slumped to the ground in pain. "And now for the finishing touch." Cursula said as she pulled out a Move Card. "Spectral Destroy!"

Six orbs appeared around Brontikens, all having a colour that matched one of the six elements. Each one of them started to glow before they fired small energy into a beam on top of the Apatosaur's neck. Rex could only watch as the beam grew larger and larger before firing right at Ace. Everyone shielded their eyes from the blinding light. Once it faded, Ace was standing there, completely burnt and damaged. "I'm sorry, everyone." He said quietly before turning into his card.

Everyone just watched silently as the card fell lifelessly to the floor. "What now?" Was all Max could say.

"Ehahaha! Hahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Dr.N laughed maniacally while Brontikens gave a roar of triumph. With half their Dinosaurs defeated, the other half separated, and missing one teammate it would take a miracle to save the D-Team now.

To Be Continued...

Next time on Dinosaur King

Rhysa: What kind of Dinosaur are you?

Giganto: I'm a Gigantosaurus.

Dr.N: I'm about to put your friends to work building my Dinosaur Kingdom

Rex: They may outnumber us. But we can outsmart them

Chomp: If we want to save the others we need to work together

Spiny: Here's Spiny!

Rhysa: Dr.Wu I presume?

Dr.Wu: Ah Rhysa of the D-Team. At long last we meet face to face.

A/N: So, our heroes are bonded right now. I am not sorry.

Also more character development for Rhysa in the next chapter. And Drew point taken as I think I'm being critical for using your story. Be as critical as you want. But after Child's Play I'll be doing my first original chapter for the story.

I'll see you all next time.