AN: So, now we got the intro away, we have finally reached the main meat of the story. This might be a long chapter, but stay with me. It's going to be good.
It was a hot, May day in the badlands of Alberta. The sun was beating down on the slopes of sedimentary rocks, but there was activity there, as paleontologists were excavating at a dig site in hopes of finding some fossil specimens. Now you may expect this to be exciting for anyone because you're about to find some dinosaur bones and be near a breakthrough in the study of the evolution of life in the Mesozoic, but the guests of this dig… well…
"I don't get it, usually we go on a creature adventure with Valerie's class, but why are stuck on kid-sitting duty?" Martin complained as he looked at the vast cliffs of the badlands.
"Look bro, I like going on a creature adventure with these kids is always exciting, but we also have to honor Mr. Ruhle's word and now go on a field trip that doesn't involve leaving this place," Chris explained to his older brother. Despite him being the younger of the two, he was more of the responsible one. "Now, let's do the role call to make sure all 8 of them are here."
"Okay," Martin sighed, getting out the checklist and paper and looking at 7 kids who were trying to conquer the boredom by doing various activities, "We're going from the alphabetical first name order, starting with Arnold Matthew Perlstein."
There was no response.
"Say, where's Arnold?" Chris answered.
"Oh, Arn is busy helping Dr. Skeledon with the dig," the boy wearing a blue sweatshirt who was playing on a GBA (one of three kids who was doing that) answered, "I guess he was the only one of us excited about this field trip."
"Well, better check off both Arnold's and Carlos Ramon's names," Martin said as he did the deed, "Next, Dorothy Ann Hudson!"
"Present," said the girl with blonde pigtails who was reading a book about prehistoric animals.
"Keesha Franklin."
"Here," said the girl with curly brown hair tied in a bun answered. She was observing what Carlos and the other two kids were playing.
"Phoebe Terese."
"Here," said a girl with brunette hair petting the class pet Liz, who was a female Jackson's chameleon with the horns of a male.
"Ralph Alessandro Giuseppe Tennelli."
"Huh, that's Ralphie's full name?" Chris asked
"Yeah, though mom and Daddy don't call him that often unless they are really angry with him," Phoebe added, "And he doesn't like being called by his full name."
"And calling Ralphie 'RAG' like we call Dorothy Ann 'DA' wouldn't feel right," Carlos added.
"Not cool, dude," a boy wearing a red baseball cap backward said, shifting his gaze from the GBA's screen to Carlos.
"See what I mean," Phoebe sighed.
"Well, we have only two more kids left on the list," Martin said, "Timothy Wright."
"Here." a boy with a blue sweater said as he went back to sketching the landscape of the badlands.
"And finally, Wanda Li."
Like with Arnold, there was no response, but the only difference is that Wanda's there.
"Uhm… why isn't she responding?" Chris asked.
"She's listening to her Molly Cule CDs," Dorothy Ann answered, "And we know how much she gets during all of the songs in that CD."
"Should we get rid of her-" Martin suggested before the class glared at him.
"I wouldn't recommend it," Ralphie said, "Carlos once tried because of a dare… and he was sent to the nurse's office."
"What? DA dared me into it!" Carlos retorted.
"Hey, I only dared you to see if you actually did it," DA retorted back, "And you took the chance, made a really bad mistake, and got a strained arm."
"In fact, taking chances and making a huge mistake was what got us into this field trip," Keesha added, "Isn't that right, Ralphie?"
"Look, it was a teacher that was way meaner than Ms. Frizzle," Ralphie said back, "Plus Mikey's new invention does need a test drive."
"A meaner teacher than Valerie?" Martin asked, "Uhm, what are you guys talking about?"
"Well, it all started last week…"
FLASHBACK
It was a regular morning at Walkerville Primary. Everyone was in their classroom and with their teachers teaching them… except for Ms. Frizzle's class. The kids usually know Ms. Frizzle will enter the classroom in some unorthodox fashion, but there is no sign of her. Also, the kids realized the Bus wasn't in the parking lot, or Liz was in her habitat (likely having a peaceful vacation in Herp Haven).
"It is just me, or is Ms. Frizzle not here?" Ralphie asked.
"Yeah, it's weird that Ms. Frizzle isn't here to surprise us," Tim added.
"And usually take us on a crazy field trip that'll basically lead us to certain doom," Arnold complained, "But then again… having a regular day without one of those field trips would be boring."
"If that was after our first field trip, you wouldn't say that," Wanda said, which made Arnold blush a little.
"But… usually there's a substitute teacher here to make sure we're okay," Phoebe noted.
And as if someone heard Phoebe's remark, the door slapped open, and in came an older woman the kids didn't recognize.
"Get in your seats, you hooligans!" the older woman shouted in a harsh tone that scared all of the kids, even Wanda flinched a little, "I am Ms. Finster, and I'll be your substitute teacher for the day."
"So… where's Ms. Frizzle?" DA asked.
"Your teacher is out of town for a reunion concert for her band with some old friends, and she left me her lesson plan for you eight, but since I can't do all of what's in here… It's science busywork for all of you!"
"NOOOOOO!" All eight of the kids shouted. The primal urge of any student to scream "No" when busywork is assigned to them is there, and it's there all right.
"And to make sure you are doing said busy work, I'm confiscating all of your personal items like game consoles, portable CD players, and playing cards you brought in."
"Well… guess our childhood is ending," Carlos remarked.
"And no bad jokes, Mr. Ramon!" Ms. Finster growled, "This has got to be better than Third Street Elementary back in the States."
At lunchtime, the eight kids were drained of spirit from all of the busy work, even DA wasn't happy at all.
"What are we gonna do, what are we gonna do, what are we gonna do?!" Wanda panicked, "Not only is Ms. Frizzle gone, but also that substitute teacher is crazy!"
"I don't know Wanda," Tim said, "We can't escape the classroom because there is no bus to get us out."
"We need a good excuse to get out of here!" Carlos said, but as he said that, his younger brother rolled near the gang's lunch table.
"Hey guys! The Aqua Lung Pump is done!" Mikey said, presenting a bicycle pump with a larger tube on it, "Just needed some testing to see if there are any kinks to get rid of."
"Welp, we have our good excuse, Carlos," Ralphie said, "And I got a plan to get us out of here."
"It better be good, Ralphie," Keesha said, "Remember the last time that baseball-filled brain of yours came up with a good plan?"
"Hey! My brain isn't filled with baseballs!" Ralphie retorted, "And yeah, we did experience the first stages of the life cycle of a salmon… even though we all got fertilized by a male salmon…"
The gang cringed in horror from that field trip, even collectively agreeing with Arnold that it was one field trip they should have stayed at home on that day.
"Look, at least the Creature Adventure with the sockeye salmon balances that out!" Ralphie continued, "Anyways, we need something that will scare the entire school long enough so that Ms. Finster lady would focus on that instead of us. Then we bike our way to Wanda's house where she will pick up all of her scuba gear-"
"And put Bella inside Henry's bedroom so I can see the priceless look on his face!" Wanda interrupted.
"Yeah, that… and then we take a mad dash to the Detroit River, and all of our worries are gone!"
"Huh… that's actually a good plan," Keesha noted, "But what's the thing that will scare the entire school? Janet covered in tar and feathers?"
As much as the thought of getting back at Janet for her making everyone in the class(including him) turn against his step-sister delights him, Ralphie was more looking at Mr. Ruhle walking around the cafeteria and petting his prized Rhode Island Red rooster.
"Wait a minute… you're planning to use Mr. Ruhle's pet chicken as the thing that'll distract Ms. Finster?" Arnold asked.
"Yeah, and with a little arts and crafts, we can make Giblets into a dinosaur," Ralphie added with a confident smirk on his face.
"But Ralphie, I think Giblets won't like being modified," Phoebe objected, knowing that the rooster would easily maul the kids if he had the chance.
"Look Pheebolino, our lives are at stake here!" Carlos shouted, "Besides, we could make a group to protect the desert animals from their harsh habitat-"
"And you're going to have exposure therapy for your fear of spiders."
Carlos widened his eyes and closed his mouth. The rest of the gang is surprised that the sweet and naive Phoebe is the only one in the group to make Carlos shut up by using his fear of spiders against him.
"Well, what are we waiting for?!" Wanda shouted, "Let's lure Giblets, and get ourselves out of school!"
After lunch, Mr. Ruhle was going back to his office when Giblets noticed a trail of bread crumbs going to Ms. Frizzle's classroom. Being a chicken, his first instinct is to leap out of his master's hands and peck at the breadcrumb trail, and when he is near the door, a net comes down on him, and he is moved into the classroom. Wanda then grabbed the panicking rooster as Phoebe wrapped a blindfold on the rooster to make sure he didn't further attack the gang. And then the gang got the makeshift pieces to make Giblets a dinosaur.
"Okay, a dinosaur I get it, but shouldn't we find a Porta-Shrinker to make Giblets much larger?" Keesha asked.
"Well, according to my research, dinosaurs are not only big behemoths but also as small as a chicken," DA recounted from her book about dinosaurs, "In fact, Velociraptors are way smaller than what they look like in the Jurassic Park movies."
"I guess those Velociraptors are just de-feathered Utahraptors," Carlos joked.
"Huh, so those movies were lying to us!" Ralphie concluded, "Say Wan, is Giblets ready for release?"
"Yep, all modified and ready to terrorize the school!" Wanda shouted as she presented the modified Giblets.
"Don't worry Giblets, as soon as we come back, we'll get rid of your modifications, and you'll be comfortable again," Phoebe said.
"Okay Pheebs, on the hand signal, you untie his blindfold, and then we run out," Ralphie explained, "The 6th, 7th, and 8th graders will panic, and during the mayhem, we get our bikes and skateboards and scooters, and freedom is a river away!"
Arnold then opened the door while Carlos got the Aqua Lung Pump. Arnold then did the hand signal, and Phoebe untied the blindfold. Giblets then went in a clucking fury as the kids ran out of the classroom with Giblets chasing them.
"DINOSAUR!" the eight kids shouted, and soon the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders started to panic at the sight of the chicken dinosaur. While the madness was happening, the gang sneaked out of the main door and went to the bicycle parking area where they got their bikes and helmets and rode off.
Meanwhile, Ms. Finster was walking back from lunch in the teacher's lounge when she looked at the mayhem, "What in the- What's going on here?!" she shouted before she saw Giblets, "Those kids from Ms. Frizzle's class! I knew that teacher was crazy, but not this-"
Giblets then leaped onto Ms. Finster's face, and she fell down to the floor.
Meanwhile, at the bank of the Detroit River, the gang were basking in their brief victory as they waited for Wanda to change into her diving suit.
"At my old school, we never escaped from school before," Phoebe noted.
"Well Pheebs, desperate situations call for desperate measures," Ralphie added, "Say DA, how does that Aqua Lung Pump thing-a-ma-gig work?"
"According to Mikey's notes, the Aqua Lung Pump sucks up air from the atmosphere and puts it in an air tank," DA recalled from the Sticky Note, "It means a scuba diver can stay in the water for a long time, longer than the usual 30 minutes."
"Hey, if Mikey makes 7 more of these, we'll be scuba diving in Lake St. Clair by the summer!" Tim noted.
"But wouldn't that mean one of us has to pump the Aqua Lung Pump?" Arnold asked.
"Oh… maybe at least 1 more?"
"Man, what's taking Wanda so long to change?" Carlos asked, "I mean, she's a girl, and we guys know how long it takes girls to-"
"I'm done!" Wanda shouted, coming out in the same diving suit as when the kids busted the monster of Lake St. Clair rumor mill back in 3rd grade.
"You were saying?" Ralphie said to Carlos.
"Yeah… well, get over here! We have a bike pump to test!" Carlos shouted.
Wanda soon ran to the rest of the group, remembering not to run in her swim fins, unlike last time. "Okay, just get that tube into the opening of the gas tank and-"
"And I found you, you miscreants!"
The gang all shivered at the same time as they realized Ms. Finster had somehow found them.
"How did you find us?!" Ralphie shouted.
"Well, I got some help from a girl that looks like Perlstein here," Ms. Finster answered.
The kids collectively groaned about the fact Janet was the one to ruin the plan.
"But Tennelli, you remind me a lot of that Detweiler kid. Red baseball hat worn backward, a chubby figure, a love of sports and comics, lots of friends, and comes up with the most insane plans to avoid me," Ms. Finster continued, "Usually I'll give you all detention, but since Mr. Ruhle knows of what you kids do every day, I'll go easy on you eight. Next week you eight will go on a field trip that doesn't do the following: No shrinking, no transforming, no leaving Canada, no going into human bodies, no going into the ocean, and no going to space! And since it's a dinosaur prank you did… field trip to Drumheller, Alberta!"
END OF FLASHBACK
"And that's how we're in this field trip," Ralphie finished telling the Kratt Brothers about the incident, "Of course, Ms. Frizzle wasn't fazed by the limitations because she's Ms. Frizzle."
"I mean, Valerie can find the good in any situation," Martin said, "But that no leaving Canada limitation is bad. We were excited to take you kids to Africa and meet our creature friends there like Spotswat, Thornsly, Nubs, and T. Rex."
"But wouldn't that mean we have to deal with those crazy people who usually try to harm the animals?" Keesha asked
"Yeah, but it's all the better to defeat them with Creature Power!" Wanda said as she removed her headphones.
"Plus, the animals would be safe and okay from not becoming robots or high fashion or meals or getting their habitat destroyed," Phoebe added.
"Okay, when Phoebe said that out loud, maybe we do need a break from dealing with the villains," Chris noted.
"Hey guys! Look what I found!" Arnold shouted.
"Wait, you found something?!" The kids and the Kratt Brothers shouted in unison as they started to run towards Arnold.
"Is it a whole dinosaur skeleton?!" Wanda suggested.
"Or at least the skull?!" Carlos added.
"Well… it's no skeleton or bones, but did come from a dinosaur." Arnold answered.
"Then it has to be a trace fossil!" Martin shouted.
"A trace fossil?" the kids asked.
"According to my research, a trace fossil is a type of fossil that isn't the skeleton of an animal, like tracks and a footprint or… even droppings," DA explained.
"Thank goodness those droppings are fossilized," Phoebe noted, "Otherwise, I don't even want to touch it."
The kids and the pair of brothers finally made it to where Arnold was, which is right where the actual activity of the dig was happening. Many paleontologists used picks and axes to delicately excavate the fossils from the ground.
"So Arn, what is the fossil is it?!" Carlos asked
"A fossilized egg from a Maiasaura," Arnold answered, showing the oval-shaped fossil to his friends.
"Cool!" The kids all said.
"Hey, doesn't that egg remind you of that fossil egg Dr. Skeledon gave you and we have to find it throughout the Late Cretaceous of Montana?" Phoebe asked Arnold.
"Yep, definitely one of the better field trips I've been on," Arnold said back, being reminded of the time when he grew giant to fight a T. Rex trying to eat his friends.
"Yeah, that field trip did teach us that dinosaurs were not terrible," Carlos added.
"And they were definitely not lizards!" Wanda added.
"Man, if only we did know what adaptations those dinosaurs had instead of searching for Phoebe and Arnold that day," Ralphie noted.
The Kratt brothers then got a realization. A really good realization.
"Hey Chris, you know what I'm thinking?" Martin asked.
"Yep, I do know what you're thinking," Chris answered.
"Uhm… What are you two thinking about?" Arnold asked, getting worried that it might signal a field trip.
"DINOSAUR CREATURE POWER SUITS!" The Kratt brothers shouted.
"Is it just me, or does it mean we're going to the Tortuga to pester Aviva into making dinosaur creature power suits?" Ralphie asked, "Cause I want in on this!"
"Me too!" Carlos added.
"Me three!" Wanda added.
"And if we do have dinosaur creature power suits," Phoebe said.
"Then we can finally answer one of the greatest mysteries known to science!" Tim concluded.
"So Keesh, DA, you want to have dinosaur creature power suits?" Ralphie answered the two most skeptical members of the class.
"Well, for the sake of science and my research, I'm joining it!" DA answered.
"And if DA is on with this plan, then I'm in," Keesha answered.
"Then to the Tortuga!" The Kratt brothers shouted as they and the kids rushed to the disguised turtle-shaped ship, leaving behind Arnold.
"Hey guys, wait for me!" Arnold shouted as he tried to catch up with the rest of the gang. But unknown to everyone in the dig… someone is watching them.
"Look, I know everyone here wants dinosaur creature power suits, but I can't program them because it's impossible!"
Aviva wasn't really happy about trying to explain to the Kratt brothers that she couldn't program dinosaur creature power suits.
"Come on Aviva. You programmed Tasmanian tiger creature power suits!" Martin noted, "If you can do that, then surely you can program dinosaur creature power suits!"
"Tasmanian tigers were extinct for decades, not millions of years."
"Actually, according to my research, dinosaurs didn't go extinct," DA recounted from one of her books, "In fact, birds are actually dinosaurs."
"True, peregrine falcon powers are good ol' reliable!" Chris pointed out.
"Guys, I don't think we should stoop that low for the peregrine falcon creature power excuse," Carlos said.
"CARLOS!" The kids groaned as they knew Carlos would sprinkle his signature bad puns into that sentence.
"Birds are dinosaurs? Okay, hippos being related to whales and dolphins, I can see that. But birds being related to dinosaurs, that is hard to believe," Koki said in doubt.
"Well, Ralphie did take that photo of a Psittacosaurus skeleton from our trip to the American Museum of Natural History and an x-ray of my macaw to show you the resemblance." DA said as she pulled out the picture and the x-ray scan from her book bag, "See?"
The kids and Wild Kratts team all gather around to see the striking similarities and differences between the two skeletons.
"Now that I look at both skeletons, I can see some similarities," Jimmy-Z noted, "Like, look at that skull."
"Yeah, the Psittacosaurus' skull looks exactly like Dinah's skull!" Wanda noted, "Maybe they have a similar diet or something like that."
"Well, maybe Psittacosaurus liked ginko nuts instead of walnuts!" Ralphie joked.
"But, even if the skulls are the same, how did those arms become wings?" Koki asked.
"Well, here's a picture of another fossil that shows the transition between dinosaur arms and bird wings," DA then pulled out a new picture of a fossil of a dinosaur-like bird from her book bag.
"Hey, that's an Archeoptreyrx," Phoebe noted, "It's one of the first birds to ever exist."
"I don't know Pheebs," Carlos said, "That long tail doesn't really make it a bird."
"But that's why it's a transitional fossil," Chris explained, "Archeopteryx has both the features of a bird and a dinosaur that shows when one clade shifts into another."
"So it's both a dinosaur and a bird!" Martin added.
"Okay, so I did make dinosaur creature power suits," Aviva admitted, "But they were avian dinosaur creature power suits. Not non-avian. And non-avian dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years!"
"But Aviva, the Time Trampoline!" Martin reminded the Latina inventor of one of her greatest inventions she made.
"The Time Trampoline only goes back centuries into the past, not millions of years into the past! And even if I modded that feature, it will take me a couple of months to finish it, even with Carlos and his little brother's help."
"Oh, but it won't take us months to get us back to the time of the dinosaurs!"
The kids and the Wild Kratts team turned to see that Ms. Frizzle had entered the Tortuga, all decked out in a dress covered with the paleo fauna of Canada.
"Ms. Frizzle?!" The kids shouted like they did whenever their teacher showed up in an unorthodox fashion.
"Good morning, class." Ms. Frizzle greeted, "So, I see that all of you are discussing dinosaurs and what creature powers they have despite us only having fossils to figure them out?"
"How does she know that?" Jimmy-Z asked.
"We've been asking that since the beginning of 4th grade," Arnold answered.
"Well Valerie, the Kratt bros and your students were asking me to make dinosaur creature power suits even with all of the setbacks I have," Aviva explained.
"Well Aviva, since you're a scientist, you have to find how to get around those setbacks," Ms. Frizzle said, "After all, it's those types of setbacks that drive paleontology: Figuring out what the ecology of back then was with the clues we have right now."
"Yeah, but it would be one of your special field trips to give me the answers to those setbacks. But due to those limits your class' substitute teacher put on this field trip, we can't go anywhere!"
"But not any when," Ms. Frizzle said as her tyrannosaur skull-shaped earrings started to glow. "Class, team, to the bus!"
"To the bus?" Arnold asked, "But Ms. Frizzle, Ms. Finster told us to not leave Canada!"
"Arnold, she said 'any when', not anywhere," Wanda said, "So it's not in that crazy hag's limits."
"Huh… that is true… but we need to get prepared for this field trip!"
"We'll get our Creature Power Vests!" Martin said.
"And I'll get my Creature Souvenir Collection just in case," Chris added, "Aviva, you're going to get your MIK?"
"Sure thing!" Aviva said, her confidence coming back to her, "And I'll give Jimmy the Portable Teleporter so we can teleport any creature power discs I make!"
Soon the whole class and team were rushing out of the Tortuga with everything they got, but Liz noticed something black from the distance was watching them. She shrugged it off and joined up with the rest of the group.
Meanwhile, Zach was spying on the group, trying to come up with an evil scheme to ruin the Wild Kratts team once and for all.
"So those Wild Rats are talking about those terrible lizard thingies with those annoying brats," Zach said while he was on top of one of his Zachbots, "Wait! Those terrible lizard thingies might be the very thing to finally end the Wild Rats once and for all! Zachbots! Give me my phone so I can call the rest of Zach's League of Villains! I have the invention that might get us to where the terrible lizard thingies are!" He then cackled maniacally as one of the Zachbots got a phone.
Inside the bus, the class and team were putting on their seatbelts for what was possibly the greatest creature investigation they ever had.
"Okay, time for the pre-time travel equipment check," Ms. Frizzle said as she looked at a checklist, "Okay, CreaturePods for everyone?"
"Check!" Everyone on the bus shouted.
"Arnold, you got the snacks?"
"Yep, enough Mallowblasters and cheese puffs to last the whole trip," Arnold said as he opened his backpack full of junk food.
"Dorothy Ann, got every book about dinosaurs in your book bag?"
"Yep! Every book about dinosaurs is in here!" DA said as she held up her book bag.
"Carlos, got your best jokes?"
"Yep! All of my punniest moments are in my noggin!" Carlos said, knowing that his friends would moan his name at any minute.
"Ralphie, Tim, got anything to keep a record of any dinosaur we see on the trip?"
"Yep! I got my camera!" Ralphie shouted as he held up his red camera.
"And my sketchbook!" Tim added.
"Keesha, got anything for further investigations of when we are going?"
"Sure thing, Ms. Frizzle," Kesha answered, "I got my magnifying glass."
"And in case any one of the villains shows up and tries to ruin our field trip… Wanda? Phoebe?"
"Don't worry about it, Ms. Frizzle!" Wanda shouted.
"We already have the belts to prove it," Phoebe continued, which made Arnold gulp a little.
"Well, and with the Kratt brothers having their Creature Power Vests, Aviva having her MIK, and Jimmy-Z having the Portable Teleporter, we're done with the check!" Ms. Frizzle said, "Now then, please keep your arms, legs, and feet inside the bus at all times. This time travel jump will take an hour to complete, but we're all friends here."
"An hour? But what if we get time-travel sick?!" Jimmy-Z worried.
"Don't worry, there will be barf bags for anyone who has time-travel sickness," Ms, Frizzle answered, "Now then… Bus! Do your stuff!"
The teacher then pulled the lever on the bus' dashboard, and the bus started to transform and shift into a Time Machine, but the kids' clothes didn't change at all. But unknown to everyone, a small black and gray robot was attached to the outside of the bus.
"Ms. Frizzle, are you sure we don't need explorer gear to be in the proper mood to go see dinosaurs?" Arnold asked.
"It's not whether or not you have the right outfit to see the dinosaurs, but rather, the right time," Ms. Frizzle answered as she got her hands on a circular crank, "Class, prepare for reversal time travel in 3, 2… 1!"
Ms. Frizzle then turned the crank counterclockwise as the arrow on the geological timeline of Earth on the dashboard started to move backward. Just then, the kids and Wild Kratts team saw the dig going in reverse outside the window.
"Increíble! We're actually going back in time!" Aviva noted.
"And not just that! But also seeing time going in reverse!" Koki added.
"Yep! We're going where no human has gone before!" Martin shouted.
"Besides the kids, of course," Chris corrected.
"Uhm… when do we know if we will make it to the time of the dinosaurs?" Jimmy-Z asked.
"Oh we don't have to worry about the will, Jimmy," Ms. Frizzle answered, "But what we will worry about is taking chances, making mistakes, and getting messy with time!"
Days become weeks, weeks become months, months become years, years become decades, decades become centuries, and centuries become millennia as the Time Machine bus continues its journey back in time. Just then, glaciers started to freeze up again as the passengers saw a wooly mammoth walking backward.
"We did it! We finally made it to prehistory!" Chris mentioned.
"Yeah, the computer on the bus says we're in the last major ice age on Earth, around 11,000 years from when we started!" Koki added.
"Ms… Frizzle… can't we go somewhere… warmer?" Wanda said as she was shivering from the freezing temperatures of the ice age.
"Not somewhere, Wanda, some when," Ms. Frizzle answered, "We're going to cruise through the Cenozoic Era now!"
The scenic landscape continued to go in reverse, glaciers retreating, Cenozoic mammals running in the prairies of the Miocene in reverse, and then the prairies became vast forests.
"Now we're almost at the K-PG extinction event! We're 60 million years from when we started!" Koki continued reading from the computer.
"Uhm, when will we know we're at the K-PG extinction event?" Ralphie asked.
Suddenly, a boom and rumble were felt on the bus as the passengers saw a streak of light going up into the air, seeing the very asteroid that killed the dinosaurs going back to the dark depths of space.
"Class, we're 65 million years in the past!" Ms. Frizzle announced, "Only 10 million years left in our journey back in time!"
The landscape then continues to shift backward as time is going back… and then… it stopped.
"Goodness gracious, we're in the late Cretaceous!" Ms. Frizzle announced.
Meanwhile, over the sea of the late Cretaceous, four jets were soaring above the ocean as Zach was observing the shoreline.
"Well well, my time travel jacker worked!" Zach cheered, "We're at the time of the terrible lizard thingies!"
So, I think the flashback wasn't needed, but I do want to explain how our favorite group of kids got into this mess in the first place (plus a cameo from Ms. Finster from Recess for bonus!). But hey, the kids and Kratt bros are in the age of the dinosaurs and I'm sure nothing bad will happen to them! So rate and review as usual!