Royalty and Evil
Arendelle, once a peaceful magical kingdom, full of joy and life...is now a wasteland. Where the castle once stood, standing tall and imposing, now no more than a pile of rubble on fire...Everywhere Elliot looked, he saw burning buildings, the corpses of the ones he loved, or cared about...the D-Team and their dinosaurs, their families, Anna, Kristoff, Sven, Olaf, Sugi...
Elsa.
All dead before his eyes. He just stands there looking over the people he held dear to him...with an emotionless expression on his face, but holding severe pain, loss and heartbreak on the inside...
Evil cackling laughter softly fills his ears, as a figure in a dark cloak and hood slowly approaches and stops a few feet behind him. "Takkar..." The figure addresses Elliot, with a hidden grin on his mug. "Arendelle has fallen...everyone you cared about, including the Dinosaur King, and that worm the Snow Queen, now lay in pools of their blood...I'll give you a choice. Bow before your new master...or die with your family..." he finished.
After five seconds, however - "Never..." Elliot growled, before facing the figure and drawing his khopesh and katana. "Darkness like yours rises...only to die to the light," he told his enemy with determination in his voice, making the figure lose the smirk on his face, and raising his hand.
"So be it..." he whispered before snapping his fingers. The wall behind him burst open as a hellish screeching roar bursts from a suitable hellish dinosaurian creature, it charges, and the last thing Elliot sees is a mouth full of jagged pure white teeth before his world goes black.
"NO!" Elliot screamed with a sudden jump, frantically looking at his surroundings, finding himself in his fiancée's room and bed. A pale hand on his shoulders makes the 20-year-old man face a weary-eyed, yet more concerned than tired Elsa, who then moved her hands to cup her lover's cheeks.
"What is it, Elliot? What's wrong?" She asked, the tiredness gone from her voice. In response to this, Elliot exhaled heavily and rests his head on her shoulder, allowing his soon-to-be wife wrapped him in a hug.
"It..it was...just a bad dream," he said in a shaky voice, slowing wrapping his arms around her midsection, returning the embrace. For five minutes, the two of them sat there not moving or speaking, silently telling each other 'Don't let go...', wanting this moment to never end, but in the end, they let go of each other and made eye contact.
"Do you want to talk about it?" The Queen asked him.
"That may be for the best," the hunter reluctantly replied, before beginning his dream. "It was strange but...horrible. Arendelle had fallen, up in flames even. Everyone I knew and cared about, you, the D-Team, Anna...everyone, all dead before my eyes." As Elliot spoke, Elsa continued to repress the urge to cover her face with her hands. "I heard laughing, and a voice from behind me spoke, telling me to either kneel before him...or perish." Elsa gasped at that, surely it's not like her King to kneel before anyone who brings death wherever one goes, right?
"What did you do?" she asked, hoping things would get better.
"I refused. I turned to face the source of the voice, who turned out to be a person in a dark cloak and hood, I drew my weapons, and challenged him, and do you know what his answer was?" Elsa shook her head to his question. "He raised his hand - and bursting out from a wall behind him was..." he trailed off.
"Was what?" Elsa encouraged.
"A monster..." Elsa gasped again at his answer. "It happened too fast to get a good look at it, but one thing I did see was a mouth full of horrid teeth, jagged all over the place...before the killing bite shocked me back into the land of the living," he said, finishing his tale.
(Intro theme.)
The morning sun was just starting to shine over Zeta Point as Pyro and his mate Yeager walked through the halls lining the Alpha Gang's base, after having bid good morning to one another, they informed D.R.O.I.D to meet them in the control room. There's someone they needed to talk to. They arrived in the control room a few seconds later, where the pink Alpha Droid was waiting by the controls themselves. "Are you sure you want to talk to him?" D.R.O.I.D asked the Acrocanthosaurus.
"This is something we must do, if we are to win this war, we must enlist all our allies now." Pyro replied, staring into the blank monitor screen.
"Do it." Yeager told the droid, who nodded in acknowledgement, and soon after pressing a few buttons, a figure appeared on the screen.
"Yes?" The figure asked the pink dinosaur, with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"I regret to inform you, that Seth is dead." Pyro told his contact immediately, already getting straight to the point.
"Is that so?" The stranger asked, to which Pyro and Yeager nodded slowly in response. "Tell your wannabe mate and that bucket of bolts to leave us." he told him. D.R.O.I.D was first to roll out whilst angrily muttering to himself about the insult, but Yeager in response gave a savage growl.
"Control yourself, Yeager, we will speak at a later time," Pyro told his mate firmly yet reassuringly, to which the clone Megalosaurus gave him a look that silently said, 'Dare him to insult me again so I can rip him to shreds!', before shooting the stranger one last glare before leaving.
"I am right to assume, that this very unfortunate event, was not by accident," the figure asked Pyro.
"You would be correct in that assumption. The main cause of Seth's downfall was the spawn of his brother. Rex Ancient...the new self-proclaimed Dinosaur King." Pyro replied.
"One boy, couldn't've done this, alone!" the figure growled in anger.
"He is not alone. Amongst him are two other humans around his age, a male and female. They lead a vast herd of dinosaurs, including the champions of each of the six elements, who in a battle in Japan eventually overpowered my pack." The Acrocanthosaurus told him.
"I sense that's not all..." The figure guessed.
"The young humans and their families and dinosaur allies do have two other allies that may pique your interest," Pyro replied.
"I'm listening..."
"Far to the North near the Arctic Circle resides a human female and her kingdom. I assume you are familiar with one Queen Elsa of Arendelle, along with her right hand, Princess Anna?" Pyro asked him. The figure grew a smirk on his face at this revelation.
"How interesting. Yes, my friend, I am familiar with that witch...it's all over the news that, that ice-powered whore is to be married to a wild man in the very near future - hahahahahahahaha!" The figure cackled like a maniac, and even Pyro struggled to press down a chuckle from his throat.
"Anyone else I should know about?" Pyro continued.
"Dr. Ancient's old friend...the chosen guardian of Seikatsu, Spectre and the Space Pirates. They have finally shown themselves after years of hiding, and now fight alongside the D-Team and the King wherever they go." Pyro informed him. A growl was the figure's response, before giving another dark laugh and removing his hood.
"Bring Dr. Z and his accomplices and then come to my hidden camp in Colorado with your pack...and you and I will then decide what to do, about how to eliminate the supposed Dinosaur King...Project I has already made its first strike, and now I wish for you to bear witness to the coming carnage." The figure told Pyro, who gave a sinister mental smirk at what was to come.
"I'm on my way," Pyro replied before turning to leave, but the figure had his fingers crackle with a mix of fire and purple electric energy, making the Acrocanthosaurus stop and glance back at him.
"Pyro...my disappointment in you cannot be overstepped..." Pyro grew ever so slightly fearful at that sentence. "That is why you and I will be working much more, closely... from now on." The figure warned Pyro while pointing a finger at him, with a scowl on his face. Pyro nodded in understanding, and then the figure's face was gone from the monitor, allowing Pyro to leave the room with slightly tense muscles.
"You sure you're not afraid of him?" Pyro turned his attention to his right, who then came face to face with The Professor.
"There's a difference between me fearing him, and only me being aware of what he is capable of, even I am wise enough not to overstep him." Pyro told the Megaraptor. "Have you seen Yeager?"
"Last I saw her, she was leaving in quite a stroppy mood. I'm guessing she got insulted." The Professor replied, making the Super Alpha Dinosaur sigh in exasperation. "I'll take that as a yes."
"Let us move past this Professor and come with me, we have work to do," Pyro told his first lieutenant before both walked off to find Brontikens, Pyro needed to talk to him about what was to come.
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Meanwhile, in Arendelle, everyone had just finished a luxurious breakfast when Kai had told everyone that a ship flying the flag of Corona was on the horizon. Anna, Zoe and Spiny were now waiting at the docks for the Princess's ship to be moored while everyone else went to do their own deeds, three of which had: Elliot talking to the newly-named Violet the Eustreptospondylus and Leah the Sinraptor about yesterday's event, Terry sparring with Chomp on the pirate's ship with Paris watching from the sidelines, and Elsa getting on with some paperwork on some trade documents.
"Sooo, what's this Princess Rep-something like exactly?" Spiny asked the Arendelle princess.
"Well, she's a lot like Max actually - optimistic, full of life and determination. I think they'll get along really quickly." Anna explained, looking at the chibi Spinosaurus as she spoke, but then looked back to see her cousin's ship being moored at the harbour.
"And it looks like we're going to find out very soon!" Zoe commented, with Anna nodding in agreement. Just then the ship finally got moored, and a gangplank was set down over the gap between the ship and the harbour. At that moment Zoe finally got to see the one and only Princess Rapunzel of Corona, with her traditional pink dress and her long braided flower-patterned golden hair in full glory.
"Welcome to Arendelle once more, Princess Rapunzel." Anna said formally, while bowing in respect, something Zoe and Spiny were quick to follow up on.
"Oh, come on Anna, don't tell me you've forgotten that we're family!" Rapunzel exclaimed, at which moment Anna giggled like a child and both royals threw their arms around each other, throwing around many words of joy and happiness of seeing one another again.
"It's so good to see you again!" Anna exclaimed.
"So good to see you too!" Rapunzel threw back, before her husband, the ex-outlaw Flynn Ryder (now Prince Eugene Fitzherbert) came and intervened.
"Alright you two, break it up, break it up. Where's my welcome hug?" Eugene complained playfully, to which Anna gave another giggle and wrapped her arms around her cousin-in-law's shoulders, when suddenly a little squeak was heard from Rapunzel's hair.
"Hi, Pascal!" Anna said, nuzzling the chameleon as soon as he made his way to her shoulder.
"Ooo! A lizard!" Spiny's voice exclaimed like a child, before leaping at Anna trying to get at the tiny morsel with snapping jaws, making Pascal squeak with fright.
"Ahhh!" Both royals screamed, with a worried "Whoa!" from Eugene.
"Spiny, no!" Zoe exclaimed, rushing and using both her arms to grab the troublemaker before serious harm could be done. "That's not yours!" She scolded the Spinosaurus.
"Sorry.." he sheepishly replied, looking down in embarrassment. Anna thought this would be a good time to introduce the two of them, seeing the startled, yet confused looks on her cousin's face.
"Punzie, Eugene, this is Lady Zoe Drake of Japan and her friend Spiny, they are two of the guardians I included in the letter I sent you." Anna explained. The blonde's face lit up in realisation, whilst Eugene and Pascal gave confused looks to each other.
"Nice to meet you, Your Highnesses. Sorry about the ruckus a moment ago." Zoe spoke for both of them while giving another bow.
"Pleased to meet you too, we've heard a lot of good things about you." Rapunzel smiled in reassurance.
"Hey, uh, why are your husband and the snack I'm not allowed to eat giving us those looks?" Spiny asked, making all the girls turn to said man and lizard before the Corona Princess gave him an encouraging elbow to his midsection.
"Don't be rude Eugene, at least say hello!" Rapunzel told him.
"Well I would but...talking of the guardians, I was expecting something a lil'... well..." Eugene trailed off.
"Bigger, sir?" Zoe finished for him.
"Yeah, that, from what Anna's letter told us about you and your friends. No offence." Eugene replied.
"We can show that you no one's mistaken, can't we Spiny?" Zoe said to her friend, bringing out her dino holder.
"Let's do it!" Spiny cheered, before getting recalled into his card.
"Huh?/What in the-?" both Corona royals said.
"DINO SLASH! SHOW TIME SPINOSAURUS!"
After going through his transformation dimension, Spiny appeared right before the three royals and chameleon with a roar. While Anna and the rest of the people nearby were in awe at his size, Eugene was gobsmacked, evident by his slacked jaw, and Rapunzel yelped in fright, scrambling and wrapping all limbs onto her husband's back, while trying to make herself look as small as possible, and peeking her super wide eyes over his shoulders, while Pascal gave another frightened squeak and camouflaged himself on the princess's dress.
"Now what d'ya think?" Spiny asked Eugene.
"Amazing!" Rapunzel answered for her husband, before Spiny got recalled.
"Hang about, where'd he go now?" Eugene asked, before Zoe walked up to him and presented his card.
"He's in the card, and I don't like to sound bad when I say this, but in simple words, he's under my control." The pinkette explained.
"That's unbelievable, and you have how many of these creatures?!" Rapunzel exclaimed, releasing her husband in doing so, just as the pinkette released Spiny in his chibi form again.
"From what Elsa and I saw, a whole herd's worth, but we were too caught up in a rather joyful moment to remember anyone's name." Anna explained, though a bit sheepish at the end, making Zoe give a happy giggle at the magical moment.
Flashback...
"'Cos when we're together," both pairs of siblings sang again with a "together" from most of the other dinosaurs to echo them.
"It's a holiday every night," Max and Zoe in harmony sang, whilst holding each other and looking into each other's eyes.
"And when we're together-" Chomp and Terry sang, as the trike powered up Final Thunder to make the arc of lightning bolts shoot up at the branch points of the tree. "When the season's bright," when the bolts struck they made the entire tree sparkle even more, rather than electrocuting the entire thing.
"I don't need the bells to ring (Anna: I've no need for bells)," The girls sang, as the Princess gave Elsa the doll of Olaf, allowing her to coat it in an ice-made Christmas star.
"I'll know when it's here (Chomp: I'll know when it's here)," Terry going up in tune and Chomp sang, just as Olaf climbed onto Gertie's head for the final verse as Elsa gave him the star.
"'Cos when we're together," Olaf sang, star in hand, as the Seismosaurus slowly began to lift her head.
"I could stay forever," Elsa and Terry sang.
"And when we're together," Chomp and Anna sang, just as Olaf placed the star at the top of the tree and slowly began to lower down.
"It's my faaaavoriiite-" Olaf sang, as he stood back on the ground in front of Elsa, as the D-Team and royals all joined hands and then their dinosaurs laid down for the final words of the song.
"Tiiiiiime...of yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaarrrr...!" The 13 of them sang together, bringing the song to an end, making the Christmas tree glow light enough to illuminate the entire room.
End of flashback.
"We heard about that too." Eugene commented, "I didn't believe it at first, but now, I'm actually kind of jealous."
"I wished we were there too now..." Rapunzel added, with a pout that could rival Anna's, making the two other girls giggle for the second time that day.
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Meanwhile, on the space pirate's ship...
"Do you know what attacked you?" Elliot asked Leah, with Guro and Beta by his side.
[I couldn't tell you for sure, it all just happened so fast we couldn't get a good look at it.] The Sinraptor replied, still laying on the floor from her wounds.
[That's what makes no sense...] Violet commented, causing all eyes to shift to her. [There's been no dinosaur that could ever move as fast as us, let alone too fast for us to see...it's just so...wrong,] she explained, still in shock from what happened the day before, making Leah nuzzle her younger sister in comfort.
"Can you at least recall how you got ambushed the way you did?" Guru asked the two of them.
[I sort of can, but not much... it was after we ran off after taking down that Spinosaurus and T-Rex.] Leah answered.
The huntresses stop running from the battle scene a few miles back, panting heavily.
[Because the world is so much different compared to the Jurassic period, we didn't know who to trust at all, other than ourselves. So we stopped for a moment to rest and catch our breath before we start finding new hunting grounds.]
Both siblings catch their breath back, and were about to move on when they heard the sound of a snapping branch, which caught their attention. They sniffed the air and caught an unusual scent.
[We were about to look for territory when we caught the scent of something moving about in the trees around, we assumed it was just a mammal of some sort so we paid it no mind...'till we heard a sound, unsettling.] Leah shivered at the memory.
"What sound?" Elliot asked them.
[It was like a pair of growls, but sounded like...stuttering as well.] Violet answered.
The sisters catch the sounds of said stuttering growls, one high pitched and sounded a bit like the hiss of a snake, the other, deeper and sounded much, much bigger. And suddenly, a loud screeching roar.
[And then...there was a roar, and those, things attacked us.]
The sisters now lie on the ground, barely alive, with horrible bloody gashes and bleeding scars all over their bodies. While standing above them, a great beast with a mouth full of jagged teeth covered in the blood of its enemies.
[And then...I remember one of them speaking, while we were too wounded to do anything.]
"You won't die here..." the beast said slowly. "We don't like it when our toys break..."
"At least...not too soon" The second, smaller creature said, before she gave a dark chuckle. And then they turned around and left them to bleed.
"How strange, but fortunate for you. You're lucky whatever attacked you did not give the killing bite." Beta said.
[That's what I'm most curious about.] Violet told the Acrocanthosaurus.
"It's most likely...whatever attacked you was maybe a show of force...or maybe, a warning, a signal for the beginning of something more...sinister." Guro thought out loud, holding a hand to his chin. But for what? he thought to himself.
"Mr Takkar," Elliot turned to the sound of Foolscap's voice at the door, having by now gotten to know the rest of the pirates, including Spectre. "I think your fiancée is wanting you back in the castle now."
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As soon as Elliot was beamed back into the castle, he was immediately pounced with a hug from the Princess of Corona, and a greeting croon and nuzzle from Sugi, both of which were now in the dining hall of the castle, where the rest of the gang, minus the parents, were having lunch.
"Well well well, now this is a surprise," the human hunter of Arendelle said, looking at his soon to be cousin-in-law.
"I was actually about to say myself - it's wonderful having you and Eugene back with us Rapunzel." Elsa added, whilst leaving her seat to join with her fiancé.
"It's so good to be back, Elsa, I'm so happy for you two!" The younger blonde woman exclaimed, wrapping the two of them into another hug, making everyone else smile at the affectionate scene.
"So how long is it 'till the wedding day exactly?" Max asked the Queen.
"Only four days now, Anna, Kristoff, Elliot and myself wanted to invite all our friends and family over early so everyone had a chance to settle in and get comfortable," Elsa told the brunette, now released from her cousin's hug and allowed herself to sit at the table.
"Princess Anna, may I ask you something?" Terry asked the redhead.
"Of course," Anna replied to the T-Rex.
"I know it might be a little late to ask this, but...what exactly is a wedding?" He asked her.
"Well, a wedding is a special event where two people, no matter the gender, commit themselves to one another and vow their devotion and loyalty to each other for the rest of their lives with all kinds of people watching. Everyone from everywhere in Arendelle or otherwise are going to be watching Elliot and Elsa say these things to each other in front of the whole kingdom, and become the husband and wife they both deserve to be for each other." she told him, somewhat proudly but more in glee and excitement than in pride.
"That actually sounds really sweet!" Terry said to her in response to this revelation. The thought of him and Ally doing something similar to that in front of the entire herd made his heart flutter, maybe he should convince Chomp, Ace and Spiny to do the same with Paris, Beta and Tank.
"Also, on a more romantic note..." Anna whispered in Terry's ear something that some people do for the ones they love most, and while he's not the romantic type, what he was told made something click into his head. He now knew the perfect way of showing Ally just how much she meant to him these days, and he knew someone other than himself would want to take part in it for the sake of a certain grass-type dinosaur. But before he could think on it more, one of the castle guards just came bursting through the door.
"Majesties!" she exclaimed, addressing Elliot and the royal sisters. "The Alpha Gang's cell is empty!"
"It's what?" Elliot asked in shock.
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"How is this even remotely possible?!" Anna started with a yell. "They can't have just opened the cell and gotten away, the castle had the guards all over the place!" She finished, allowing Kristoff to wrap an arm around her shoulders to allow her to take calming breaths.
"I wish we knew, Your Highness." Captain Malcolm told her, before turning to Elsa. "I can call forth the army if you deem us to go after them right away, Your Majesty," he told his Queen with pride in his voice.
"No, knowing how advanced their technology is compared to us, they're long gone now." Elsa declared, with Elliot nodding in agreement, right before another guard came running at full speed.
"Your Majesty! The slit-throat bandits are attacking the villages in the hills again!" He told Elsa hurriedly.
"Motherfuckers..!" Elliot growled dangerously, before turning to Captain Malcolm and pointing a finger towards the jail exit. "Tell your men to ready the war machines and mount their horses because this ends here!" He told the male captain, who nodded before rushing off with the other guard to rally the others, right when Elsa turned towards the D-Team.
"D-Team," she addressed the young guardians and their dinos. "I know you've already done so much, but once again innocent people need the Guardians of Arendelle to protect them...will you please help my kingdom once again?" She asked them, with concern in her voice.
"With pleasure." Max replied with a smirk and a raised fist.
"It'll be our honour." Terry added with determination.
"Hold on a minute guys." Rex suddenly said, making everyone, minus Ace, look to him in confusion. "Before we go, I would like to know something since you asked us to go with Elliot and the guards. Why do you need us to help the guards deal with some bandits?" The Dinosaur King asked the Snow Queen.
"That's actually a really good question..." Rapunzel commented, while raising an eyebrow at her cousin.
"That's what Elliot decided to call them," Kristoff started before continuing on. "They're like a little army of heavily armed marauders that pillage and plunder the poor villages both in the kingdom's boundaries and the Northern Highfells where Elliot comes from."
"They rob the villagers of everything valuable to them, every last crumb of food and crops, every last drop of water, clothing, everything. The villages they rob depend on us to protect them and either retrieve what they own or resupply them with all the things they need. If nothing is done, those that they rob, eventually freeze in the cold winter nights, or starve to death and die of thirst..." Elsa told them in a tone of sadness and helplessness.
"These marauders like Kristoff said, come heavily armed, and he doesn't exaggerate on that either. They are equipped with old military-grade equipment, including war machines, and even catapults." Elliot added, making the D-Team go wide-eyed with a gasp.
"Catapults?!" Zoe screeched.
"This sounds like Alpha Gang all over it," Chomp growled.
"But babe, they use dinosaurs, not old fashioned weapons like that...unless..." Paris trailed off with a thinking face.
"They have someone supplying those weapons," Ace theorised. "I say we go with Elliot and maybe capture one of these bandits for questioning."
"Agreed," everyone else in the D-Team said.
"Then it's settled." Max declared, before turning to Elliot and Elsa. "Elliot, we're all coming with you to stop these marauders, and nothing anyone else says is going to stop us." he told him in determination, making Elsa and Anna smile at them, with a grin from the wind warrior.
"I take it you have transportation?" Elliot asked rhetorically, his grin unwavering. Max's answer, bringing out his dino holder.
"Ready, Chomp?"
"You bet, buddy!" Chomp said before he got recalled.
"DINO SLASH! GO TRICERATOPS! ROAR!"
Chomp ended up in the courtyard once he was done with his transformation, where the rest of the guards and Captain Malcolm greeted him with welcoming smiles from the women and grins from the men, all sixteen of which were atop nine horses and three brand new war machines. The Triceratops also saw an all too familiar Sabertooth cat and gave each other a nod in the determination of what's to come and then lowered his body to allow the rest of the team on his back, while Elliot mounted his feline friend. "Alright, captain, we all here?" he asked Malcolm.
"Affirmative, sire, we wait only on you," The Captain told his soon-to-be King, allowing Elliot to join him and his horse at the front of the line, while Max and his team agreed to stay at the back so they don't frighten the horses too much.
"Okay, everyone!" Elliot called out to the guardians and the men. "Ride out!" he yelled, and with a roar from Chomp and Sugi, everyone went charging out of the open gates, and out of the town into the forest.
"Giddy up, Chomp!" Zoe and Paris yelled in excitement.
"Ya-hoo!" Spiny also yelled in the heat of the moment. Little did they know, there were several eyes watching the moment from an invisible ship in the sky.
"Hey, that looks like a lot of fun." Spike Taylor commented to his wife, who was accompanied by the pirates, Rod, Laura and Reese watching the viewscreen.
"Looks kind of serious if you ask me, honey," Aki told him, who watched the screen in front of her with a concern for the children's safety, even with Chomp at his full size.
"I wouldn't worry too much," Spectre reassured her. "If something bad were to happen, we'd know about it before they would and we could give the children a warning. Saying that, however, Sheer..." He addressed his lieutenant, who stood at attention at her calling. "I wish for you to observe the battle from above. If anything happens you are to let Jonathan and I know about it immediately."
"You got it." Sheer saluted, and then flew up into a hatch in the ceiling.
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"First you say you found two dinosaurs! And then you tell me you didn't bring back either of them?!" Dr. Z yelled at the Alpha trio, making them back up in fright.
"Well. You see-we were...-" Ursula started trembly before she was interuppted.
"BAH, I WASN'T REALLY ASKING!" The Dr. screamed while flailing his fists and throwing a tantrum, making the trio huddle in a corner of the room, before turning to Gigas and the other Alpha dinos who lowered their heads in shame. "And you three, time and time again you keep coming back with zero victories! And where has Brontikens gone off to?!" He yelled at them.
"Last I saw him, he went off to train-" Maximus started.
"WHO ASKED YOU!? You're the one who shited thyself because of a little pussycat using you as a climbing frame! Why do I bother keeping all of you around?!" His tantrum was cut short by the roar of an Acrocanthosaurus, and turned to see Pyro, Brontikens in his full size and The Professor coming through the door.
"All we need do is wait, Doc, because pretty soon, you'll be up to the brim in victories," The Professor told him.
"Pyro and Brontikens, what's he talking about?" The Doc asked the duo in curiosity.
"Come with my pack and us to Colorado with the other three and your accomplices and you'll get the answer to all our problems," Pyro told him.
"Colorado?" The trio replied.
"What for?" Dr. Z asked.
"Get us there, and we'll show you." Pyro told him. The Dr.'s confusion at this request seemed odd, but shrugged it off as he knows there must be a reason for it.
"Well, Alpha Gang, you heard him, ready the Alpha Carrier for transportation to the U.S.A." The Dr. ordered his team.
"We're on it," they saluted.
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It was a few hours into the afternoon by the time the trio and Dr. Z's Alpha jet landed in the area Pyro specified, which turned out to be a small abandoned ranch at the foothills of the rockies with a medium-sized cabin and an old shed where supposedly the ranchers kept their horses and livestock, why Pyro wanted the gang and all their dinosaurs here, the four had no idea, which is why they had summoned the pink Acrocanthosaurus the moment they stepped outside the jet, along with Brontikens in his full size.
"Okay Pyro, what is going on?" The Dr. asked him.
"We're here looking for someone who can potentially give all the chances you need to strike back at Ancient and the D-Team once and for all. But first, we need to give the owner of this place a code phrase of a sort." Pyro answered the Dr.
"You serious? Someone actually lives in this horrid place?" Ursula asked in shock.
"This 'horrid place' is my home, old lady!" A new voice spoke, turning all heads to a new human none except Pyro had seen before. He was around 6 feet in height, had brown eyes and a greying bushy moustache that covered his entire top lip. He wore a black cowboy styled overcoat with a red shirt underneath, with a hat very similar to Spike, except his was larger and greyish-white instead of brown, wore white riding trousers and black riding boots with spurs on the back of them.
As a response to this stranger calling Ursula an old lady, though...
"I HEARD THAT!" She screamed and sprinted towards him before Zander and Ed could hold her. "YOU THINK YOU'RE SOME NEW YORKER IN WILD WEST CLOTHING YOU GET THE-!" Her raging rant was cut short when the old man pulled out a revolver and shot the ground near her feet, making her and the boys yelp in fright and immediately raised their hands in fright.
"Back you go, cowpoke..." he growled, Ursula nodded in a rush, and slowly walked back towards the rest of the gang. With that taken care of, and Dr. Z not really doing anything but glaring at the man, the apparent outlaw then shifted his focus to the present dinosaurs. "Can I help you, Pinkie Pie?" he asked Pyro, with astonishingly no trace of fear in his voice.
Pyro growled at the chosen nickname before saying, "Do you agree that any spawn of Ancient is a stain to the master's plan?" A little moment passed after the question was asked. Before a grin plastered itself on the stranger's face and then dark chuckling following soon after whilst putting his gun back in its holster.
"Follow me gentlemen...and old lady." He said, making Ursula wanting to bash his brain out again. He then pulled out a small square remote from his pocket and pushed the large button in the middle of it, with a rumble a large rectangular-shaped piece of the ground opened up directly in front of them and a path leading underground had revealed itself. The company followed the stranger underground into a wide passage vast enough for even Brontikens to have some headroom.
"Where exactly are you taking us?" Zander asked the man.
"Patience, my friend, patience." He responded, just before leading everyone around a corner in the tunnel, and coming face-to-face with a large iron door. The man went up to a panel by the side wall and inserted the password, when at that moment the door slowly slid open, and what Dr. Z and the Alpha trio saw made them gasp in shock.
Before them stood what looked to be an underground lair mixed with a laboratory, with a large circular hole full of water big enough for twenty Futabasaurus' sitting in the middle and a simulated forest lining the sides. Where the gang stood right now was on a large platform looking over it all, before it suddenly began to descend down towards the simulated prehistoric jungle.
As they descended, Dr. Z and the trio could just make out another platform hovering over the water, with what seemed to be a strange glowing see-through bridge, this one, however, was circular and much smaller, with what looks like a large throne with black diamonds shining from two spikes that stretched outwards. The lift eventually came to a stop, and the supposed outlaw walked forward, before stopping at the bridge leading up to the thrown, before lowering on one knee.
"Master, you have a guest." The man said. A dark chuckle filled the room, and the throne slowly turned 180 degrees, and the same hooded figure from both Pyro's transmission and Elliot's nightmare now sat before the Alpha Gang, resting his hands on black, fur-skinned armrests.
"Pyro. I see you have heeded to my request." The hooded man said with a toothy smirk on his face.
"As instructed..." Pyro responded while slightly bowing, confusing Brontikens and the Alpha Gang in doing so, while the figure arose from his throne.
"Dr. Z, I assume?"
"Yes...?" The Dr. said nervously, he didn't like the look of this one bit, it was then that the stranger shifted his gaze over to the largest dinosaur in the room.
"And you must be Brontikens..." he said, with a hint of satisfaction in his voice, something that made the Apatosaurus feel uneasy at the situation.
"Who are you...?" he responded worriedly and with apprehension.
The figure chuckled again before answering. "I cannot reveal much now, I'm afraid...however, rest assured that we are on the same side."
"And...how would we know that?" Ursula asked warily and slowly, making the figure turn to her.
"Because, my friends, because... we have a common enemy," he said, while only needing to say two names to answer any questions that spring forth. "Queen Elsa of Arendelle...and Rex Ancient the Dinosaur King."
Elliot: "Search for any villagers that may have tried to find shelter."
Malcolm: "You over there, are you okay?"
Hans: "Tell your fiancée and Anna that I'm back. And more prepared than ever!"
Sheer: "No...!"
Presenting Project I Chapter 2!
I know most of you will be saying "Where's the dinosaur battle?". Well, I'll just quickly say now that this chapter is mainly to bring in a few characters that will all play critical roles in the chapters to come, including a couple more (one of which is Hans, obviously) that will be very familiar to hopefully all of you.
Along with that, I'm most of you will be guessing the two characters I just introduced in this chapter, for the one with the revolver, if my description of him wasn't great, think of Micah Bell from Red Dead Redemption 2, which I highly recommend everyone to play if you have a Playstation 4 or an Xbox One, I guarantee you won't be disappointed. As for the hooded one on the throne near the end, and the monster creatures that attacked Violet and Leah, please do not spoil it for anyone else if you have already guessed.
With nothing else to say, it's time for this sick, tired and struggling lad to go to bed.
See ya around!