(HunterHQ asks (i feel like im doing a twitter qna lol) if I can include offensive grass moves like chaos green, leaf slash, and dino force… No… Well actually yeah for Dino Force cuz that's an actual move card. Chaos Green and Leaf Slash don't even exist at all so I won't be using them.
To your second question, yes, there will be some shipping and YES, it will be Max and Zoe… in the end. I'm planning to flesh and develop their relationship first before I make them endgame.
Now, you're third question: "Kinda wonder if 2 people from different times had a kid would it cause a time paradox?" …I don't know. I'm not a scientist or some shit like that. I mean, Dr. Ancient and Dr. Cretacia had Rex in the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago and things are still relatively the same. Course there was that whole "plants infest earth" bit in the second season but even then it wouldn't make sense since the group fixed the fire literally seconds after they left.
This is why Endgame's explanation of time travel makes much more sense. You don't affect your time if you go back in time, you affect THAT time's timeline. So let's say you go back in time and kill Hitler, in your timeline, he still committed suicide (or left to Brazil) in 1945 even though you went back in time to like 1939 and killed him. Your timeline is unaffected but in THAT timeline, a whole different type of history happened. So if you really think about it, the fact that plants infested earth for like, I don't know, a good hour or so in the anime because the group destroyed a forest in the Triassic Period only for them to fix it seconds later wouldn't make sense.
…
Fuck it, Imma use Endgame's explanation of time travel in this story. It'll make much more sense… Let's be real, I'm not the only one who wants to go back in time and shoot Hitler, aren't I?
It was a beautiful afternoon up in northern Sweden, home of one of the largest and most beautiful national parks in the world: the Stora Sjöfallet National Park. The national park was home for many inhabitants, such as reindeers, the red fox, moose (meese?), and rabbits, as well as bears, lynxs, and wolverines. There were even caves that held two purposes: home of the nocturnal animal variety to sleep and live in and for minerals to be stored before eventual excavation. Inside one of these beautiful caves was occupied by a mining team who had brought in various equipment to help excavate the minerals inside the cave.
"I don't like this." says a miner.
"Since when do you like anything, Emil?" asks another miner in annoyance, whom had a beard.
"I have a feeling this cave is gonna give and we're going to be trapped in here." Emil responds in a nervous manner, following closely behind his comrade.
"We already declared the cave safe for excavation. Even if that doesn't help you, these guys are professionals. They know how to mine safely." replies his colleague.
"Just because one of them is your cousin that you talk about nonstop doesn't mean everyone else here knows how to mine, Ulf." Emil replies in an annoyed tone.
"Emil, do you EVER shut up. I'm getting so tired of listening to your voice. I'm so ready to just cave in your skull. No pun intended." Ulf replies in a provoked tone.
"Alright, I understand that your software development company went bankrupt, causing your family to be homeless and eventually leave you but that doesn't mean you have to be an ass all the time, you know. I hate caves, you know this. Sven knows this-"
"Don't. Talk about. My company. Ever again." Ulf replies as he seethes through his mouth.
"I'm sorry, okay, I just don't like caves and you're not really helping me by being an assole to me-"
"I said SHUT UUUUUUUP!" Ulf shouts, suddenly removing his helmet from his head, revealing it to be bald. Ulf then suddenly slammed his helmet into Emil's face, knocking him to the ground with a bloody nose. "Oh. Oh no. Oh, I'm so sorry, Emil. Here. Let me help you up." Ulf offered his hand to which Emil gladly took only to be slammed in the face with Ulf's helmet again, knocking him back to the ground. "So I can HIT YOU AGAIN! You son of a… Come here!"
Ulf suddenly threw his helmet backwards before getting on his knees over Emil so he could unleash a violent storm of punches. Meanwhile, he inadvertently broke a lamp in the mine cave by throwing the helmet backwards, causing it to fall to the ground. Unbeknownst to absolutely anyone in the cave, the lamp fell right on top of a dinosaur card capsule, causing it to break open revealing two cards inside. Because the lamp fell, a large chunk of the cave fell from the wall and on top of the generator that lit the entire cave up, partially damaging it. Sparks flew from the damaged generator as they fell right onto both cards, activating them as a yellow glow illuminated the area.
Ulf continued to beat the ever living daylights out of Emil only to stop when he saw the bright yellow light and a few seconds later, a heavily bruised Emil with a black eye, a swollen cheek, a few teeth missing sat up. "Why'd you stop?" he asks. He suddenly turned to the side where he also saw the bright yellow light that was lighting up the cave. The yellow glow disappeared as a dinosaur, a ceratopsid, appeared in the middle of the cave, with a large rectangular frill with three short horns. This dinosaur was known as a Chasmosaurus, and upon being revived, it roared into the cave loudly for everyone in the cave to hear.
Both Ulf and Emil screamed in horror as they quickly got up to run towards the cave entrance before the dinosaur could catch them. The Chasmosaurus quickly glanced at it's surroundings, realizing it was in a cave with no grass whatsoever, so it decided to follow the strange animals it had never seen before. Emil and Ulf continued to run down the cave before eventually reaching the exit where they decided to catch their breath. Shortly afterwards, the Chasmosaurus ran out of the cave before roaring into the air, scaring both Ulf and Emil once more as the Chasmosaurus ran right between them.
"I knew that cave wath dantherouth! (dangerous)" Emil shouts in a lisp due to the heavy beating he obtained from Ulf.
*Who Are You by the Who starts playing...*
*brief instrumental*
Starring MAX TAYLOR (+ Chomp)
Whoooooooo are you?
ZOE DRAKE (+ Paris)
Who, who, who who?
REX OWEN (+ Ace)
Whoooooooo are you?
REESE
Who, who, who, who?
URSULA, ZANDER, ED (+ Terry, Spiny, Tank)
I really wanna know! (Whoooooooo are you?)
DR. Z
Oooooooh!
ROD AND LAURA
The ANCIENTS
Come on! Tell me who are you! You! You! AAAAAAAARE YOOOOOOOU!
Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril
It was 6:00 PM on the dot on a beautiful evening as the sun was slowly hiding it's insecurities behind the horizon. The moon will soon take over and have to deal with the sun's problems while it shines it's rays on the rest of the world. A two story house was shown with the sun peeking behind the roof like me when I'm peeking in the girl's locker rooms to see some big badoingadoings. Outside of the house, a guy was casually riding his bike, minding his own business and pretty much vibing and having a great time. All of a sudden, a car had sped through the neighborhood and struck the cyclist, sending him flying over the car as it sped off.
Max lazily spun around in Zoe's chair, having been invited over by the teen herself in order to help Max obtain better grades with a little study session. "Zoe, I know you said you would help me study but…" In reality, all Zoe was doing was lying on her bed, stomach first, texting away on her phone, with her feet occasionally hitting the pillow. "Yeah, this isn't studying."
"I'm sorry, Rex, I've just been talking to Francis for a while, I guess I must've lost track." Zoe replies, not taking her eyes off her phone.
"It's Max." Max corrects.
"Yeah, that too."
"Why are you even talking to him anyway? He doesn't come off as a… smart guy." Max replies in a hostile manner.
"Uh, did you forget why you invited you here?" Zoe smugly asks, putting her phone down for once.
"Well at least I show that I have a brain. Francis on the other hand probably doesn't even know how to work a toaster." Max rudely responds, waving a dismissing hand.
"Francis is actually very well educated if you get to know him." Zoe defends her friend. "Just last week, he told me about how there is this hidden organization whose goal is to bring peace to the world and their enemies are the Templar Order and they've been fighting each other ever since the Third Crusade!"
Max was silent for a brief second, giving his friend an unamused expression fitted with lidded eyes. "He was talking about Assassin's Creed, Zoe." Max reveals to her in an annoyed tone.
Now Zoe felt embarrassed in response. "Oh." she sheepishly says after her blunder. "But he's still fun to talk to."
"What're you guys even talking about anyway?" Max asks, swiping Zoe's phone away from her hands, much to her annoyance.
Max immediately began looking through her texts, revealing the last few texts they had sent, which was:
FRANCIS: im pretty sure that thing's dead - sent at 3:45 p.m.
ZOE: Oh. - sent at 3:46 p.m.
ZOE: Who's the bald guy from Breaking Bad? - sent at 5:59 p.m.
FRANCIS: walter white - sent at 5:59 p.m.
ZOE: I think I saw him at the grocery store - sent at 6:00 p.m.
FRANCIS: i DOUBT you saw Bryan Cranston at the store all the way here in japan - sent at 6:05 p.m.
"Why does he sound so different through text? Are you sure this is the same guy? Are you sure you're not getting… catfished?" Max hesitantly asks before Zoe swiped her phone back.
"Ha. Ha. Ha." Zoe sarcastically laughed. "Francis may be weird but I assure you he's fun to be around with once you get to know him. I can see you two being friends someday, Max."
"Yeah when dinosaurs come back from extinction." Max cynically replies, rolling his eyes in response.
Right at that moment, Zoe's cell phone started to ring, startling her a bit before she answered. "Hello?… Really? Where?!… Alright! We'll be on our way!" Zoe closed her cell phone before turning to her friend. "That was Reese. Another dinosaur appeared."
"Son of a!" Max curses in frustration.
"Don't you love it when the universe is on your side?" Zoe smugly asks as she grabbed her DinoShot. "Let's go!"
"But wait! What about our study session?! If I fail this test, I won't be able to buy that new fighting game everyone's been talking about!" Max exclaims in a terrified manner.
"Ask my sister to help you. She's super smart! Now come on! Let's go!" With that said, Zoe ran out of her room, leaving Max behind.
"Why are we even going?! We don't even have our DinoShots!" Max yells out to her. But because she was already out of the room, she either didn't hear what he said or chose to ignore it, resulting in Max giving a pouting expression. "She bothers me." he says to himself.
Eventually, everyone had arrived at the D-Lab, with Max and Zoe arriving last while Ed was still in his wheelchair, eating a bag of chips with Ursula and Zander by his side. "Where's the dinosaur at this time?" Zoe asks her older sister.
"It's in the Stora Sj… I'm not even going to pronounce that. It's in a National Park in Sweden." Reese answers as the main computer zeroed in on the country.
"Ah, Sweden." Spike says in a reminiscing tone. "I remembered I went there for a summer vacation when I was about your age, Max. Me and my old man would go fishing all the time in one of the beautiful lakes. Nothing but relaxing by the docks, drinking cold sodas and listening to nature's natural music. In fact, Sweden is where I found my first dinosaur fossil!"
"No way, really?" Max asks, his interests peaked upon hearing so.
"Hm-mm." Spike confirmed.
"What kind of fossil was it?" Ed asks the paleontologist.
"Was it Ursula since she's old enough to be a fossil?" Zoe asks in a teasing and smug tone.
"OH COME ON! THERE WASN'T EVEN A NEED TO SAY THAT YOU BRAT!" Ursula shouted in fumigating anger.
"No, she has a point." Zander replies.
"Don't you encourage her!" Ursula yells at the tall man.
"To answer your question, Ed, it was the horn of a Chasmosaurus." Spike reveals.
"Woah, that's incredible!" Max exclaims in excitement.
"Hm-mm." Spike replies. "Me and my father were out camping one time when we uncovered the nose horn of the Chasmosaurus. Ever since then, I've always wondered if there is a fully intact skeleton of a Chasmosaurus. Sadly, I never got a chance to go back there… Until TODAY!" Spike suddenly grabbed onto Reese's lab coat. "Reese! You've gotta let me go back there! For," Spike paused to sniff dramatically. "childhood memories."
(im just bullshitting here. i have no actual clue if chasmosaurus was found in sweden.)
"I'd love to, Dr. Taylor, but unfortunately, you don't have a stone with you to teleport to Sweden." Reese cautiously denies.
"Then I'll use your stones!" Spike exclaims, pointing to the Alpha Gang. "Lend me one of your Alpha Scanners!"
"As if! Besides, we're not even going to Sweden." Ursula reveals in an annoyed tone.
"Wait? You're not?" Max asks, confused by the sudden revelation.
"How come?" Rex asks, tilting his head in confusion.
"If you must know, Helga is making us stay here with Ed until his leg starts to feel better." Ursula replies, crossing her arms while the man in question continues to eat a bag of chips.
"How is your leg anyway, Ed?" Zoe asks the chubby, short man.
"You know," Ed paused to put another chip in his mouth. "for getting your leg bitten by a prehistoric dinosaur and almost getting eaten… It's not that bad. The doctor says I should be able to walk as soon as next week." Ed was silent for a moment before eating another chip.
"What about Dr. Z? Is he coming along?" Max asks the trio.
"Please no." Rex mumbled under his breath.
"Helga's making him stay as well." Zander replies.
"She says everyone needs to be by Ed at all times for 'support'." Ursula emphasized by using quote fingers.
"And I appreciate it you guys." Ed says, bringing the two in for a hug. "To know that you guys are staying here through force even though you could leave any minute just makes me feel even better. It just makes me smile to know I have such great friends and family like you guys."
"Ed, you really need to see a therapist for your depression." Ursula grumbles in response.
"So that means, I'm going alone, huh?" Rex asks aloud. "Since I'm the only one with a DinoShot, no one else will be coming along with me. Except for you, Ace. You're always by my si-" Rex stopped his sentence once he realized his chibi Carnotaurus wasn't anywhere in sight upon looking down. "Alright, where'd he go? Ace!"
"He's up there." Max replies, pointing upwards.
Rex looked up to see Ace, and the rest of the chibi dinosaurs shaking their tails at them on top of the computer while music was playing on a speaker they had somehow got up there.
Here we go! Ale, ale, ale!
Go, go, go! Ale, ale, ale!
Everyone continued to stare up at the dancing dinosaurs, all bewildered on how they got up there and why they were up there in the first place. "I have so many questions… but this song is catchy." Spike reveals as he too begins dancing.
"Is that my- Paris! Did you steal my shower speaker?!" Zoe shouts at her dinosaur in fuming anger.
"No wonder mornings have been so quiet lately." Reese says aloud before turning her attention back to the group. "Anyway, Rex, I have good news for you and one other. I finished the second DinoShot."
"Wait, really?" Rex asks upon the revelation.
"Aw yeah! I've been wanting to try that thing!" Max exclaims excitingly.
"Who says you're going, Max?" Zoe asks, interrupting his excitement. "With your grades as low as they are, the last thing you need is to go off on missions. That's why I invited you over for a study session."
"Yeah, but we didn't even do any studying! You were too busy talking to Francis." Max retorts back.
"True but now you have my sister to help you! She's way smarter than me. Isn't that right, Reese?" Zoe asks her older sister.
"I mean, I am going for my doctorate degree." Reese reveals.
"Way to go, darling!" Zander cheered aloud.
"She can totally help you study." Zoe finishes.
"But… the dinosaur." Max meekly whined.
"You know, Zoe does have a point. I think you should stay and have Reese help you. Your grades aren't the best there is." Spike points out, placing a supporting hand on his son's shoulder.
"Oh come on! You can't just team up on me all of a sudden! You're my dad!" Max weakly argued in a pleading tone.
"And as your dad I say you should stay here to study. You can go on the next mission… probably." Spike says all of a sudden.
"But- But- But- But-"
"Don't worry, Max. Look on the bright side. At least you'll be… smarter?" Rex says in an uncertain tone, failing to cheer up his best friend.
"This sucks on ice." Max curses in frustration.
Tonight's the night we're gonna celebrate
The cup of life! Ale, ale, ale!
"Is that song still playing?!" Max yells in agitation.
"You know, the song is actually getting to me. I can totally dance to this." Ursula reveals, watching the chibi dinosaurs dance.
"Who needs to dance when you have natural rhythm like mua." Zander asks, wiggling around like a worm.
"I'd dance too but I'm confined to a wheelchair. Also I don't know how to dance." Ed adds on before eating another potato chip.
"Here you go, Zoe. Your stone's already inside." Reese says, handing her little sister the second made DinoShot.
"Sweet! Come on, Paris! Let's go!" Zoe calls out to her chibi partner.
Paris didn't hear a word as she and the other chibi dinosaurs continued to wag their tails and dance to the rhythm to the song, clearly having a fun time.
Un, dos, tres! Ole, ole, ole!
Un, deux, trois! Ale, Ale, Ale!
"Aww, who am I to ruin their fun? Let's wait until the song ends." Zoe says with a warm smile on her face.
"Zoe, I think that song's on a loop." Rex replies.
"Oh."
Right at that moment, the D-Lab's automatic doors opened, revealing Dr. Z holding a dinosaur shaped pillow. "Here is that pillow you asked for, Ed." Dr. Z says in an irritated tone, clearly holding in his anger.
"Gee! Thanks, doctor! Now my foot can be rested on a fluffy pillow now!" Ed exclaims as Dr. Z placed the pillow on the couch. Ed rolled over to said couch and carefully got up from his wheelchair and sat himself down, placing his injured leg on the pillow. "Aaaaaah. Much better."
"If it weren't for Helga threatening to get rid of my dinosaur figurine collection, I wouldn't be here serving up to Ed's demands. I'd be with the kids to go search for that dinosaur." Dr. Z grumbled in frustration.
"Wait, you mean that dinosaur collection that we bought you for Christmas that one time?" Zander asks, suddenly recalling the memory.
"You mean you kept it all this time?" Ed asks in a happy tone.
"Aww. I guess your shriveled up heart still has some love in it after all." Ursula adds in a heartwarming tone.
"Not as shriveled up as you, you old hag!" Dr. Z shouts, his patience worn thin.
"SERIOUSLY?! EIGHT PAGES IN AND I'VE BEEN CALLED OLD TWICE! WHAT'S NEXT?! A VIKING DOING THE KUMBAYA DANCE?!" Ursula shouts in absolute rage, her face morphing into a demon.
"That's oddly specific." says a male voice from behind.
"Yeah. You would think you're actually expecting that." says a female voice.
The group turned around to see Rod and Laura walking into the D-Lab, their signature smug expressions painted right on their face. "Rod! Laura! Haven't seen you in a while!" exclaims Max as the two approached him.
"The last time we saw each other was when we came back from the future." Laura replies with a smug smile.
"Marty!" Zander's distant voice was heard in the background.
"Sorry about not hanging out with you guys." Laura apologizes with an innocent expression. "Helga keeps making us study all day everyday."
"Yeah. We're only here because she gave us a day off to do whatever we want. When we heard that a dinosaur appeared, we ran straight here to come along with you guys." Rod adds.
"What?!" Ursula exclaims in audible anger. "She gave you the day off but she left us stuck here with Ed?!"
"Is that so bad?" Ed asks the greenette.
"With you, yes." Ursula replies without skipping a beat.
"Harsh." Ed depressingly responds, hanging his head low.
"Well to be fair, she didn't say that we should have a day off." Rod emphasizes.
"Then how did you get the day off?" Zoe asks in curiosity.
"Let's just say we convinced her." Laura mischievously replies with a sly smile.
"Kids! You better be studying in zere!" Helga's voice boomed from behind the door. Upon opening the door, the android immediately found out that the study room was empty. "Vat? No kids? Did zey get taken by ze Easter Bunny again?"
Before anything else could happen, a stick was jammed inside her ear; shortly afterwards she powered down as her head hung low. Down below, Laura could be seen standing on Rod's shoulders with a small and skinny stick in her hand that she had used to penetrate Helga's ear.
"Do you think she's going to hard reset?" Laura asks out of wonder.
"Nah, she'll probably go into safe mode." Rod nonchalantly dismisses.
"Point is we're here and we're here to join you! We even brought Terry's and Spiny's cards with us." Rod proved this by displaying both cards.
"And the Alpha Scanners too." Laura adds on, revealing two Alpha Scanners.
"Wha- Hey! Those are from our pockets! How did you get them?!" Ursula angrily asks in a loud manner.
"That's the fifth time I've been pickpocketed by a kid." Zander depressingly reveals.
"That's honestly more sad than Ed's 12th birthday story… Wait, scratch that. Nothing is more sad than that." Ursula points out.
"Why do you keep reminding me, Ursula?" Ed asks in a depressed tone.
"All work and no play makes Rod and Laura dull kids." Rod slyly says with a grin.
"That felt like an effort to say." Max mumbles aloud.
"Come on! We're wasting time! I want to go see what dinosaur there is!" Laura excitedly exclaims, barely holding in her excitement.
"Terry! Spiny! Come on down! We're leaving!" Rod calls out as Laura makes her way to the teleporter.
Zoe quickly snatched her speaker and turned it off, resulting in the dance party to be rudely interrupted, much to the chibi dinosaur's dismay and annoyance. Eventually, Terry, Spiny, Paris, and Ace joined up with their partners as they stood in the teleporter, pressing the buttons on their devices as they were teleported away.
"Can't believe I'm staying behind because an android is making me." Dr. Z mumbled in frustration, clearly angry at the fact itself.
Right at that moment, Ed's Alpha Scanner began beeping, indicating that someone was calling him; when he answered, he came face to face with the android butler from the future himself (itself?) Jonathan. "Good evening, Ed. May I please speak to Master Rex for a moment." Jonathan asks over the screen.
"Sorry to tell you this, Jonathan, but Rex just left." Ed replies.
"Along with Zoe, Rod, and Laura." Zander added.
"Oh, that's a shame. His father wanted to speak to him about the cards that were scattered throughout this time period. He says everyone must be present in order to hear what he has to say." Jonathan responds.
"We're available so maybe we can hear what Dr. Ancient has to say." Ed suggests with a smile.
"ED! NO!" Dr. Z shouts, trying to stop the short, chubby man from the suggestion.
"Good idea, Ed! I'll inform Master Ancient right now." Jonathan gleefully replies before ending the call.
Dr. Z, Ursula, and Zander glared at Ed so hard that if looks could kill, Ed would be chopped up into many pieces and be buried in various parts of the desert and thrown in the open sea so that no one would ever find the body. I've been watching a bunch of CSI as of lately.
"Ed… You're an idiot." all three of them said at the same time, glaring at Ed.
"Sorry." Ed meekly apologizes.
"How come you don't want to speak to Dr. Ancient?" Reese asks the Alpha Gang.
"It's not like we don't like the guy-"
"Yes, it is." Dr. Z interrupts Zander.
"It's just that… well… Ever since we started our 'redemption arc', things between us and the Ancients have been kind of… awkward to say the least." Zander finishes.
"That and he has bad breath like all middle aged men." Ursula adds with lidded eyes.
Reese gave a stoic look while Spike breathed on his hand before smelling it, growing an insecure expression afterwards.
The four kids eventually teleported to their destination in Sweden… about ten feet above the ground once again; upon realizing they weren't touching solid ground, the four fell right onto the solid ground. "I guess Reese didn't fix that kink yet." Rex grumbles on the ground.
The four of them quickly dusted off the dirt off their clothes before looking up, suddenly stopping as their gazes turned into wonder. "Woah." Zoe says in awe as the rest look in front of them. Directly in front of them was a huge, beautiful green forest with a bright blue sky with clouds. The scenery looked to be directly from a Bob Ross painting, except it was real and in front of their very eyes. The luscious forestry was beautifully combined with the shine of the sun and the blue of the sky, creating a marvelous sight as birds flew from the trees. A lake could be seen in the distance, completing the wonderful and beautiful nature that was this landmark.
"This is so beautiful." Rex says in wonder.
"I have never seen anything like this before." Rod adds on in equal wonder.
"I wish I had my camera." Laura says, not caring that she had forgotten one.
"I do." Zoe says, quickly taking a picture of the forest with her flip phone.
Even the chibi dinosaurs were in awe as Terry ran right towards the cliff edge and gave a mighty "roar" or whatever sound he made. Spiny soon joined him as Paris and Ace joined in as well, all four chibi dinosaurs equally roaring into the sky, their prehistoric instincts kicking in.
"Looks like our dinos are enjoying the view too, huh?" Rex asks with a warm smile, loving the sight of them roaring into the distance.
"Click." Zoe says, taking another photo of the dinosaurs. "Wish I could send this to Francis. He likes animals."
"I never knew Sweden could be so beautiful. It feels like I'm one with nature." Laura says, staring off into the distance with a smile on her face.
"As beautiful as this is, we have a dinosaur to catch." Rod speaks out, breaking the awe inspiring moment in the group. "And with a place as big as this, we may be here all day. This place is huge."
"And so are dinosaurs." Rex quips back with a grin. "I say we split up. We can cover more ground that way. We can call each other when one of us finds the dinosaur."
"I think it's best we split up in two so that way we have an easier time fighting the dinosaur in case it's aggressive." Rod suggests.
"Good thinking, Rod. Now only one question arises."
"What's that?" Zoe asks her friend with curiosity.
Rex was silent for a moment before speaking up again. "Is it gonna be like… boys and girls or… choose our own partners… or the obvious route?" he asks in an uncertain tone.
The other three turned to each other, all equally confused as to how they should split up even though it was such a little problem compared to their mission. "I'll go with Zoe. We gals with pink hair should stick together!" Laura loudly proclaims.
"Actually, my hair is dyed." Zoe reveals to the young girl.
"It is." Rex confirms.
Laura stared at Zoe blankly for what seemed to be a few seconds, peering into her soul until her stare quickly morphed into a frown. "I think less of you now." she says in a grumble.
"So… Which way are we going?' Rod asks aloud.
Everyone turned to each other, hoping one of them knew the answer only to find out none of them did. "We uh… We go that way," Rex pointed in a direction. "and you guys go… that way."
The other three glanced at each other before turning back to the blonde. "Good plan. Good plan." Rod agrees while shaking his head.
"We'll call you guys if we find the dinosaur." Zoe says as she and Laura begin to walk off along with Paris and Spiny.
"Same here. Good luck!" Rex calls out as he, Rod, Terry, and Ace walk off in the opposite direction.
And with that, the hunt for the dinosaur had begun, but unbeknownst to any of them, their target was closer than they thought as the Chasmosaurus had suddenly walked passed a few trees near where they initially were.
The automatic doors that lead into the main control room of the Backland II opened, revealing the Alpha Gang behind them, with Zander pushing Ed around on the wheelchair, along with Jonathan. "Master Ancient. The Alpha Gang are here as per your request." Jonathan announces to his creator.
"What about my son?" Dr. Ancient asks as he and his wife were by the supercomputer.
"On a mission I'm afraid." the android replies.
"Darn. I guess I'll have to tell him when he gets back." Dr. Ancient says to himself, though loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Tell him about what, doctor?" Ed asks, eating a Pocky from his box.
"It's about the cards that have been scattered throughout-"
"Throughout this time period. Yada. Yada. Yada. Jonathan already told us about it." Dr. Z rudely interrupts.
"Well, did he tell you the exact number of cards that were lost?" Dr. Ancient asks the old, mad scientist, a slight glare in his expression.
"Well- Er… N-No." Dr. Z sheepishly replies, having been caught in his rudeness.
"And I assume he didn't tell you about the other problem as well." Dr. Ancient continues.
"What other problem?" Ursula asks, curiosity getting the best of her.
Dr. Ancient sighed through his nose and was prepared to speak, only for his wife to beat him to it. "That's for everyone to hear at once." Dr. Cretacia interrupts. "I want my baby boy to hear this with everyone, I don't want him to feel like he was left out from some important news. You know kids these days, and I do mean these days. In this century, kids are all drama queens who will cry when the Wi-Fi goes out."
"Honey, you cry when the Wi-Fi cuts off in the middle of your rom-coms." Dr. Ancient tells his wife with a confused expression.
"That's different! You would expect that the Wi-Fi in the future would be better!" Dr. Cretacia yells in frustration.
"It really isn't." Dr. Ancient reminds his wife.
"I KNOW!" his wife booms.
"Sooo… are we free to go? Because I need to go find Helga so she can clean Ed's room. He still has my packets of my rare dinosaur cards that I created. My poor children are suffering in his room." Dr. Z cries out, sobbing uncontrollably.
"As opposed to suffering while you were raising them?" Ursula mumbles under her breath, though it was loud enough for Dr. Z to hear.
"QUIET YOU!" Dr. Z shouts as he slaps the three Alpha members.
"OW!" Zander cries out in pain.
"Why'd you hit all of us? I'm a cripple." Ed whines, tears escaping from his eyes.
"And I'm a senior citizen with less days than he has lived waiting for the Grim Reaper to show up at his doorstep with borderline Alzheimer's and- Wait. What was I talking about again?" Dr. Z asks, briefly forgetting his rant. "Ah whatever! What matters is finding that maid of mine! Helga! Helga, where are you! Come to Dr. Z! Helga!" With that, Dr. Z walked off, calling out his android maid in hopes of finding her.
"Why is he calling her like she's a dog?" Ursula asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Especially when he treats us like dogs." Ed replies, still crying a bit.
All three Alpha Gang members simultaneously began howling into the air, acting exactly as dogs. "HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL!"
"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL!" Dr. Cretacia joined in with the howling afterwards.
The Alpha Gang and Dr. Cretacia turned to each other, not expecting the doctor to join in on their howling antics. They stared at each other for a few seconds before going back to their howling session.
"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL!"
All Dr. Ancient could do was just awkwardly watched the situation unfold in front of him. "My life is slowly spiraling out of control." Dr. Ancient mumbles in a depressing tone.
Meanwhile, back at the national park, Rex and Rod along with Ace and Terry were having no luck trying to find the dinosaur. "It's a 65 million year old prehistoric dinosaur. How have we not found it yet?" Rod asks out of frustration, having been searching for a good hour by this point.
"Well this is a huge forest so I would expect finding a dinosaur in a place like this to be relatively difficult." Rex replies, looking up at the trees.
Down below, Ace was trying his hardest to help find the dinosaur as well, but with Terry constantly trying to bite his neck only proved to be strenuous. The chibi Carnotaurus kept pushing the chibi Tyrannosaurus back multiple times but the chibi tyrant king was persistent. It wasn't until Terry bit down hard on Ace's neck that caused him to fall down to the ground, squirming and squealing to get the Tyrannosaurus off of him.
"Terry! Let go of him!" Rod yells as he picks up Terry, removing him from the Carnotaurus. "I'm sorry, Rex. Terry likes to bite down on things."
In response, Rex picked up Ace and held him in his arms, a warm smile on his face. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say he was Chomp's brother." Rex quips, before looking at the camera with an all knowing smile. (right at ya Drew lol)
Rod grew a confused expression, turning to the direction where Rex was facing. "What're you looking at?" he asks.
"Doesn't that tree seem odd to you?" Rex asks, still staring off into the distance.
Rod turned back to the direction to see that a tree was slightly tilted, parts of it's roots sticking out from the ground and exposing themselves. "Something knocked that tree." Rod explained.
"Only a dinosaur could do that." Rex replies, placing Ace back on the ground.
"I'm telling you what I saw!"
"He'th not kidding! I thaw it too!"
"Both of ya, shut up!"
Rex and Rod turned to each other before turning to the side, hearing an argument from behind the trees which alerted their attention. They quickly ran over to the commotion where they saw a couple of miners, one of them being bruised, arguing with some fellow police officers.
"Now I want you to speak clearly and coherently. What exactly happened?" asked the officer.
"A dinothaur attacked uth in the mine and-"
"Okay. Okay. Okay. I can see asking you was a mistake." the officer interrupts Emil due to his lisp. "You." the officer pointed at Ulf. "Explain."
"Well we were working in the mine and Emil got in an accident and-"
"Athident my ath! You beat me up! I lotht a tooth becauth of you!" Emil yells at Ulf, earning a glare from the bald man.
"Shut up!" Ulf shouts, punching Emil in the shoulder.
"You thut up!" Emil shouts back, punching Emil right in the face.
And before you could even say 'Mary had a little lamb', Emil and Ulf began violently punching each other, getting into a heated brawl. "Alright! Hey! Hey! Hey! Knock it off! Both of you!" the officer shouts at the two of them. The officer grabbed Emil while another officer grabbed Ulf, both pulling them away from each other.
"I'm calling the mining company! I've had enough of this crap!" Ulf shouts in furious rage.
"I need to go to a hothpital. Can thomeone take me to a hothpital?" Emil asks one of the officers.
"What's going on?" Rex asks as he and Rod approached the scene.
"Hey, you kids shouldn't be here. It's dangerous." Ulf tells the two adolescents.
"I heard someone say dinosaur." Rod speaks up.
"No, you heard 'dinothaur'." Ulf sarcastically replies. "Anyway, yeah. If you kids must know, a dinosaur attacked us in the mines. Must've been living there for 65 million years. Survived the asteroid."
"Actually that would be impossible because even if it survived the asteroid, there's no way a dinosaur could survive this long, especially 65 million years, in a cave no less." Rex explains to the miner.
"You lost me at 'Actually'. I saw what I saw." Ulf replies. "It was a Triceratops!"
"Triceratops?" Rex asks in confusion.
"You mean like Chomp?" Rod whispered to the blonde.
"Are you sure it was a Triceratops?"
"Yeah! Three horns and a large skull!" Ulf exclaims.
"You mean frill?" Rex asks, raising an eyebrow.
"What are you? A dinosaur enthusiast?" Ulf sarcastically asks in anger. In response, Rex motioned to his large tooth necklace with a 'smart ass' look. "Point taken."
"Which way did the… 'triceratops' go?" Rod asks all of a sudden.
"Take a look." Ulf pointed to a direction. The two kids turned around to see a pathway of broken branches and knocked over vehicles heading deeper into the woods. "Damn thing smashed my car! How in the hell is there a dinosaur in the modern world?! Someone care to explain that?!"
"Maybe it wath an… auto… erotica." Emil theorizes.
"You're thinking of something else, Emil." Ulf responds.
"Thank you. I hope you sort all this out." Rex tells the group before turning to Rod. "Come on, Rod. Let's go."
"Let's go, Terry. You too, Ace." Rod tells the chibi dinosaurs as they followed their partners.
The police, Emil, and Ulf watched as the two kids ran towards the woods as their "pets" followed them, taking note of the strange creatures they had never seen before. "Those are some weird looking iguanas." Ulf says in a matter of factly type tone.
"Can I go to the hothpital now?" Emil asks, growing tired of having his bruises untreated.
While the group had split up to search for the dinosaur, Reese and Max were busy having a tutoring sessions… with very, VERY, low results. "DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. The building blocks of life." Reese explained to the teen. "Every living organism contains some form of DNA inside them, whether it is their spit, blood, or sweat, it's there. DNA acts as the body's genetic fingerprint, it's unique. Not one person shares the exact DNA strand. Even twins have minor changes to their DNA." Max nodded his head as he wrote everything Reese was saying in his notebook, and by that I mean doodling various dinosaurs battling as well as Reese wearing googly glasses. "Now," Reese continues. "what happens when you copy a DNA sequence? What is the process of copying a DNA sequence called?"
Max looked Reese right in the eye before looking down at the book, trying his hardest to come up with an answer. Seeing that Max was struggling on finding an answer, Reese began rubbing her finger over the diagram on the textbook that showed an RNA molecule. Max's face brightened as he came up with an answer before looking back up at Reese, whom in turn also had a smile on her face, proud he came to his own conclusion.
"Aaaaaah, cloning." Max confidently said with a smile, nodding his head at the blonde.
Reese's smile instantly disappeared as a disappointed frown took over, letting her hand hit the textbook in utter frustration. "No, no. Transcription. It's called transcription." Reese says in a meek tone, finding no use in trying to drill the information into Max's head.
"Oh." Max dejectedly replies with a defeated expression. "Uh- I'm- I'm sorry, Reese. School just isn't really my strong suit."
"It's fine." Reese friendly dismisses. "Swimming isn't my strong suit."
Max looked up at Reese, a skeptical smile on his face. "Really?" he asks, chuckling at the fact, almost not believing it for a moment. "You can't swim?"
Reese shook her head in response. "No." she replies.
"Wow. That's odd." Max retorts.
"How so?"
"Well mostly everyone can swim." Max explains.
"Yeah, and most people aren't allergic to the sun and yet there are some rare exceptions." Reese retorts.
"I hate to be a person who's allergic to something you can't avoid." Max sympathetically says.
"My cousin is allergic to the sun." Reese replies in an almost offended tone.
Max glanced down, feeling embarrassed for saying something insensitive as an awkward silence filled the air between the two of them. He cleared his throat before asking, "So… what's transcription?"
"I think we should take a break from studying, Max." Reese says, closing his textbook in front of him.
"Come on, Reese! I need to ace this chemistry test or I might have to go to summer school!" Max pleaded with Zoe's older sister.
"There are several things wrong with that statement." Reese replies. "One, it's October, I doubt there are any tests until November. Second, it's October, summer school isn't until months away. And third, DNA isn't chemistry. Teaching you anything is as difficult as getting Zoe to stop talking about this Francis guy she keeps talking about."
Hearing Francis' name sparked Max's interest, a hint of jealousy entering his system. "She talks about him?" he asks, masking his anger.
Reese nodded in confirmation. "Hm-mm." she confirms. "Talks about him nonstop. Says how he loves animals, knows how to cheer anyone up, always so enthusiastic, saying he could brighten anyone's day. She even called him, and I quote, 'smoking hot as bacon on a skillet'. Granted, I never met the guy before but if I didn't know any better, I'd say she was dating him. Which isn't going to go well with mom and if dad ever finds out, oh boy. He'll be planning both the wedding and honeymoon and even give a few baby names. He even offered me a baby name for when I have a kid. Percy. I don't really have time for kids or naming them for that matter but I certainly would not want to call my kid Percy… Maybe Xavier."
Max stopped listening halfway through, shocked to hear this new information about his friend; for a moment, Max had no idea why he was feeling jealous, feeling a type of animosity towards Francis for no reason. He had gone to school with him his entire life and he was always that strange kid in the back of the class that always managed to avoid getting in trouble. He never shared any single type of conversation with him unless he was in a work group with him, but aside from that, Max knew nothing about the guy. He didn't even know why he wore a car bolt tied with rope around his neck for that matter. So why would he feel jealous, and a little bit intimidated, by someone who looked so harmless.
"Max… Max… Max." Reese kept calling out, breaking him out of his thoughts.
"Yeah?" Max suddenly says, snapping back into reality.
"I may have jumped the gun on this tutoring session a bit." Reese says in an apologetic tone. "I'm sorry, I'm just frustrated is all. However, I am a scientist and scientists love challenges and tutoring you is proving to be a challenge and I am determined to overcome this challenge. Let's get back to it. An RNA molecule is a polymeric molecule that's in charge of coding, decoding, regulation, all that in the human body."
Max tried to focus but the newfound revelation of Zoe's interest in Francis just kept getting in his way. He had no idea why… but he now he hated Francis even more than usual.
"So what's the future like?" Zoe asks Laura as they ventured through the forest.
"It's pretty cool." Laura answers, kicking a rock in front of her. "It's kind of like what you see in those TV shows on how they think the future is like. You know, flying cars, tubes that you can travel in… suicide booths."
"Wait what?" Zoe speaks up upon the horrendous fact.
"I mean, the TV shows are close to what life is like in the future." Laura continues, ignoring Zoe's reaction. "The cars don't fly but they hover and instead of using gas, we use air to power our cars. It's how we get them to hover. Labor work has also decreased a lot ever since 2070 when some guy won the Nobel Peace Prize and invented robots and androids as labor workers instead of real people. Many people did NOT like that change since they all lost their jobs. That's how the Second Great Depression started. Lasted from 2071 to 2113. It kind of solved overpopulation because people were committing suicide left and right, thanks to the suicide booths invented in 2073, but at the same time it was a real tragedy. Thankfully college was made free so now anyone could go to college, earn a degree, and make something of their lives so a lot of people started working again. Doctors, officers, firemen. Even legal assassins for that matter. The world had it's ups and downs but life in 2128 is pretty civil and calm compared to the world we live in now. Hey, what's today?"
"Uh… the 19th. What was this about the Second Great Depression?" Zoe asks, still shocked upon hearing Laura's explanation of the future.
"Wow. Seven more months until Osama dies." Laura says in a fascinated tone.
"Wait. Hold on. There's too much information to process." Zoe tells Laura in a panic, unable to grasp the information.
"What about you, Zoe? What've you been up to since we last met?" Laura asks Zoe with a smile, interested to hear about Zoe.
"You know, normal teenage life." Zoe answers. "I'm a freshman so I haven't really experienced all of High School. I'll be honest, life has been kind of boring since you guys left. I mean, we traveled the world AND through time! Getting used to not having adventures like that and not having Paris took some time but I managed to move on. I definitely missed Rex and Paris… That's why I'm not looking forward to when you guys have to go back to the future when this is all over."
Laura stared at Zoe with a neutral expression, a little skip to her walk as she held her hands behind her. She glanced to the ground to try and understand Zoe's feelings while also trying to think of something comforting to say.
"I would say time travel would be invented in a few years but… we're the first to use time travel. Sorry." Laura sympathetically apologizes.
"Aw, it's not your fault." Zoe replies in an understanding tone. "It's just something I'll have to eventually be at peace with. There's nothing you can do. Anyway, let's keep talking. How is school in the future?"
"Well like I said, college is free now." Laura begins. "I'm only in elementary school but so far it's fun. Thanks to my intelligence, I don't have to work as hard as the other students so me and Rod play most of the time. What about you? How's your school life?"
"Normal teenage school life. Nothing special." Zoe dismissively answers.
"Any guys in your life?" Laura asks with a smug expression.
"W-What?!" Zoe asks, startled by the sudden question.
"Come on. I may be 8 but I know teenagers. You're at that age where you start thinking of boys… or girls." Laura explains.
Zoe smiled softly with a slight blush on her face in response. "Weeeell… There is this one guy." she admits.
"Now you've GOT to tell me! What's his name? How tall is he? Is he handsome?" Laura asks, wanting to know more about Zoe's mystery boy.
"He's dreamy." Zoe begins explaining with hearts in her eyes. "His hair is as pitch black as the night that's slicked back, his athletic build can be seen underneath his clothes. Oh, his muscles. He wears short sleeves most of the time so you can definitely see some biceps. He's the Romeo to my Juliet. Except our families don't hate each other and we're not planning to kill ourselves in the end."
"He sounds like a movie star." Laura replies with a mischievous smile.
"He might as well be! He's the handsomest and cutest boy in our school!" Zoe exclaimed.
"So I take it you only like him for his looks?" Laura asks in curiosity.
"No!" Zoe yells, offended by the question. "I like him for who he is. He's smart, funny, and knows how to make you laugh. It's everything I've dreamed of."
"You have a picture of him?"
"Do I?! Here! Take a look!"
Zoe grabbed her phone and quickly showed Laura a picture of the boy she was talking about, with Paris and Spiny also looking at the man of her dreams. The picture was revealed to be Francis, whom was shown to be on the toilet, pants down with a magazine blocking his precious parts while having a shocked expression on his face. It was obvious this was taken when he was in the middle of doing his business.
"Oh." Laura says in a surprised tone.
"One of his friends sent this to me. I think it's funny." Zoe explains, putting her phone back in her pocket.
"I was under the assumption that you were talking about Max." Laura reveals. Behind her, Spiny stuck out his tongue and blew a raspberry while Paris made a silly face, showing their own signs of disappointment.
"Max? Why would you think I was talking about him?" Zoe asks, confused as to what Laura was talking about.
"I don't know. I guess I thought you two had crushes on each other back then." Laura replies.
"That's ridiculous." Zoe replies with a slight blush on her face. "Max wouldn't know a girl has a crush on him even if she told him right in his face. He's hopeless."
"It sounds like you're talking from experience." Laura replies with a sly expression.
Upon hearing this, Zoe's face turned to a hot red in embarrassment. "I'm not! I'm just… saying that Max isn't the type to, you know… date."
"Suuuuuuure." Laura asks with the same teasing smile, persistent on the topic.
"I'm serious!" Zoe proclaims.
Zoe's face softened afterwards, having regretted saying those words; she didn't know why but saying what she had just said hurt her a bit. It was like she was giving up something she's been wanting for a long time in the heat of the moment. It was instant regret. Her thoughts were interrupted when Zoe had accidentally bumped into Laura, whom stopped for some reason.
"Hey, why'd you stop?" she asks.
Instead of getting an answer, Laura continued to stay silent, staring at something that had caught her attention ahead of her. The pinkette looked the same direction Laura was staring at, her expression instantly changing to a surprised one once she saw what Laura had seen. In front of the two was a large rock wall with what appeared to be a fully intact skeleton of a ceratopsid of some kind. The two pink haired girls approached the wall to get closer to the skeleton and observe it in more detail, much to their happiness.
"I've never seen a fully intact skeleton inside of a wall before." Zoe says in awestruck, using her goggles to take pictures of the skeleton.
"The landmass must've moved around enough so the skeleton could be seen." Laura theorizes. "This poor dinosaur must've gotten trapped in mud or something and got sunk beneath the earth. All these years with the Earth moving, the walls must've broken out and finally freed this poor dinosaur. Amazing."
(again im bullshitting here)
"Mr. Taylor is gonna be so mad that he didn't come here." Laura finishes with a sly smile.
"Think about Max and Chomp. They would've loved this skeleton." Zoe replies, taking another photo of the skeleton.
"Judging on the skeletal structure, I'd say this is… a Chasmosaurus." Laura theorizes, gently rubbing the tips of her fingers on the ribcage of the skeleton.
"I feel so bad for Max right about now." Zoe chuckles, taking another photo.
Laura continued to rub her fingers on the skeleton as she walked, only to walk right into an unknown object, slightly scaring her a bit. She gasped before looking in front of her, where she saw the reason why they were sent to Sweden in the first place: the Chasmosaurus. The prehistoric dinosaur turned to the little girl, having not seen her beside it and who rudely interrupted it's own observation of the skeleton. With a single snort, air thrusted out of it's nostrils as it glared at the two girls, having it's territory invaded while also a danger to the Chasmosaurus skeleton.
"I feel bad for us, now." Laura wittingly says as the two stared at the dinosaur glaring at them.
Feeling it's territory invaded as well as feeling threatened, the Chasmosaurus roared into the air, standing on it's hind legs while swinging it's front legs as a sort of defensive tactic. "Laura! I think that Chasmosaurus thinks that the skeleton is it's family!" Zoe frantically tells the young girl.
"I think so too!" Laura replies in an equal tone.
"It looks like we don't have much of a choice. We're going to have to fight. You ready Paris?" Zoe asks her chibi dinosaur. Paris squeaked in response as Zoe pressed a button on her DinoShot, turning her partner into a card. "GO!" she shouts.
"DINO SLASH! SPRING UP, PARASAUROLOPHUS!"
"ALPHA SLASH! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
Paris and Spiny roared at the Chasmosaurus upon being called out; seeing how more dinosaurs had appeared out of nowhere, the Chasmosaurus felt even more threatened. It was a wild animal after all and like all wild animals, they become frantic and panicked when they feel threatened, and in a wild dinosaur affixed with elemental moves case, it used an elemental move. Electricity generated from the Chasmosaurus' horns, forming a large axe completely made out of electricity. With a weapon now crafted using nature itself, the Chasmosaurus swung it's electric axe with all of it's might at Spiny, sending the Spinosaurus flying into a rock.
"Spiny!" Laura called out.
"What move was that?!" Zoe asks frantically.
"That was Lightning Ax!" Laura identified.
The Chasmosaurus suddenly turned the Parasaurolophus before charging straight towards her, ramming it's horns right into Paris. The Chasmosaurus lifted up Paris before flinging her into the air where she crashed right into a wall, creating a huge crater in it.
"Paris!" Zoe called out for her partner.
Dr. Z roamed the empty halls of the Backland II, still in search for his futuristic android maid, whom was nowhere to be seen. "Helga! Helga! Where could she have gone?" Dr. Z asks himself in curiosity. He approached Rod and Laura's study room where the door automatically opened for him; there, he instantly found his answer. "Helga!" he calls out in glee, running over to Helga's shut down body. "Helga! Where were you?! I was calling for you all over the place!"
Helga didn't answer, her head still hung low with her eyes closed. "Hey? Are you even listening to me?" Dr. Z asks in frustration. "Are you sleeping?! HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Helga still didn't answer the mad scientist's yells, making him even more agitated. "You really think you can ignore the great Dr. Z?! The one and only true Dinosaur King?! I am your creator! You answer to me!… WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER ME?!"
It was only at that moment that Dr. Z realized something was off as he took a look at her face, realizing her eyes were closed and her head was hanging low. "Oh, no wonder. She shut down. How odd." he says to himself. Dr. Z quickly opened up a hatch on her back where a large ON/OFF lever was shown. He hovered his hand over the lever as it got closer to it… only to press the RESET button next to it. "There we go. That should work."
Helga's eyes popped open as she finally woken up from her unexpected slumber. "Vere did ze kids go? Did zey get taken by ze Easter Bunny again?" Helga asked herself, realizing Rod and Laura weren't in the study room.
"What?" Dr. Z asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh, hallo doktor. Have you seen Rod und Laura anyvere?" Helga asks the old scientist.
"Yeah, they said you gave them the day off so they went to Sweden to capture a dinosaur." Dr. Z explained. "Now that you're finally awake- by the way, how dare you sleep during your work hours, I should write you up for that. You can finally clean Ed's room. That place is a pigsty and he has mine-"
"ZEY SAID VAAAAAT?!" Helga shouts in absolute rage.
Before Dr. Z could even blink, Helga had zoomed off right passed him, leaving a trail of dust behind as she sprinted down the hallway, leaving the bamboozled doctor behind. "What just happened?" Dr. Z asked himself in utter confusion.
"Hey, do you ever get the feeling that sometimes we're not alone in the universe?" Rod asks Rex as they ventured in the woods.
Rex stopped walking and gave Rod a 'are you serious' type look. "I fought space pirates throughout multiple time periods who kidnapped my parents, Rod, so yes." Rex answers.
Their conversation was interrupted by the sounds of screaming, roaring, and explosions, along with blasts of light coming from behind the trees. "How much do you want to bet that's the dinosaur we're after?" Rod asks with a sly smile.
"Buck fifty." Rex replies as he and Rod ran towards the commotion. They eventually reached the area where they saw the Chasmosaurus stomping on a down Paris.
"Woah! It's a Chasmosaurus!" Rod identified.
"A Chasmosaurus in a place where Max's dad said he found a Chasmosaurus horn? This is almost as big of a coincidence as the time we fought a Futabasaurus in the same place where Futabasaurus was discovered." Rex says.
"I say it's lazy writing." Rod replies with lidded eyes.
While the two continued chatting, the Chasmosaurus continued to put all of it's weight onto Paris, continuously stomping on the down Parasaurolophus. At that moment however, Spiny came out of nowhere and pushed the Chasmosaurus off of Paris, only for the ceratopsid to smack the Spinosaurus with it's horns. In retaliation, Spiny swung his tail and smacked the Chasmosaurus right in it's face, sending it flying towards the wall with the skeleton. Thankfully, the Chasmosaurus crashed into the ground before it could hit the wall, saving the skeleton inside the rock wall.
Spiny suddenly charged towards the Chasmosaurus, which charged back, successfully knocking the Spinosaurus into the air. Paris came from the side as a sneak attack only for the Chasmosaurus to smack her with its tail. Afterwards, the Chasmosaurus lowered its head towards Paris' belly and lifted her up into the air before throwing her away from the rock wall.
"Wait a minute." Zoe says to herself, realization in her tone.
"Looks like they need our help. Let's go, Ace!" Rex calls out to his partner.
"You too, Terry!" Rod calls out as well.
"Wait a minute! Stop!" Zoe yells, stopping the two. "That Chasmosaurus thinks that skeleton is part of its family! All it's doing is trying to protect it!"
"Kind of hard to protect something that's dead." Rod announces in a dry tone.
"Yeah, you would think that the Chasmosaurus would know by now." Rex replies in an equal dry tone, both having unamused smiles.
Down below, both Ace and Terry fell over anime style after hearing the absurd reason for the Chasmosaurus' hostile behavior. The Chasmosaurus continued to roar at the intruders, feeling it's family is being threatened by unknown creatures it had never seen before. It continuously stomped on the ground, kicking up dirt as a defensive tactic to scare away the intruders.
"I don't think that Chasmosaurus is open for discussion." Rod says aloud, getting antsy by the minute.
"I hate to say this, Zoe but the only way to stop this dinosaur and turn it into a card is to fight it. Even if it's just trying to protect it's 'family'." Rex announces, using air quotes.
"I'm afraid you're right. Alright, Paris!" Zoe calls out as she grabbed one of her move cards. "Nature's Blessing! Paris, heal Spiny and yourself!"
A ball of green of reenergizing energy made from nature itself formed inside Paris' mouth before she blew it out into the air. Leaves flew into the air as they swirled around both her and Spiny, slowly giving them back their energy and healing their wounds.
"Thanks, Zoe!" Laura yells as she grabs one of Spiny's move cards. "Go, Spiny! Use Aqua Javelin!"
Spiny roared into the air as he glowed blue before geysers shot up from the ground, taking the shape and form of spears as they sped towards the Chasmosaurus like speeding bullets. The water javelins pierced the Chasmosaurus multiple times, no doubt depleting some of it's health and critically injuring it. In retaliation, the Chasmosaurus activated it's own move card, as lightning formed at the tips of it's horns before taking the shape and form of an axe. The Chasmosaurus then charged towards Spiny before slashing him with it's Lightning Ax attack, sending Spiny flying and crashing into several trees.
"Your turn, Paris! Thorn Whip!" Zoe announces, activating the move card.
Paris roared into the air while she glowed green before slamming her front legs onto the ground, causing the very earth to crack. A large thorny vine shot from the earth before it began whipping the Chasmosaurus, unleashing a violent assault upon the poor ceratopsid. Eventually, the move card ended as the Chasmosaurus limped it's way towards the wall with the skeleton in it. Upon reaching the wall, it had no more strength to keep itself standing, causing it to fall down right next to the wall. The Chasmosaurus looked at the skeleton, a single tear escaping from it's eye; it couldn't protect it's mate, and now it's gonna pay the price for it's weakness. With one final bellow, the Chasmosaurus collapsed, momentarily glowing yellow before turning into a card, finally ending the fight once and for all.
"That was probably the most depressing thing I have ever seen in my entire life… Well aside from Ed's 12th birthday Dr. Z showed us on tape." Rod says, sadness in his tone.
"It was trying to protect the thing it loved most. I feel horrible." Rex says in guilt.
"Me too." Laura says, looking down in shame.
Zoe approached the card and picked it up, looking directly at the Chasmosaurus' picture, a single tear escaping her eyes. "I'm sorry, Chasmosaurus." Zoe says in a heartfelt tone, hugging the card.
Rod and Laura suddenly turned to Rex, whom was glancing in every direction, as if he was expecting something. "What's wrong, Rex?" Rod asks the blonde.
"Usually this is the part where Dr. Z arrives late to capture the dinosaur." Rex answers, looking in a random direction. At that moment however, a loud boom was heard in the sky, prompting the three to look upwards, where they saw an aircraft zooming their way. "That must be him now."
The aircraft was revealed to be an Alpha Vehicle, which crashed into the trees before the top opened, revealing that it was indeed NOT Dr. Z inside the ship.
"ROD UND LAURA!" Helga shouted with an infuriating growl.
"Busted!" Rod and Laura yelled at the same time, terror in their eyes.
"YOU TWO ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE! DISABLING MY SYSTEMS LIKE ZAT! YOU LUCKY I VENT INTO SAFE MODE OZERVISE I VOULDN'T BE HERE IN ZE FIRST PLACE!" Helga's voice boomed across the forest.
"Uuuuh, gotta go now, Helga!" Laura quickly said, teleporting herself out of the area.
"See you at dinner!" Rod says quickly as well as he teleported himself away also.
"Ja, I vill see you at dinner BECAUSE YOU VILL BE DINNER VHEN I'M DONE WIZ YOU!" Helga shouted before retreating back to the aircraft and flying away.
Rex and Zoe were the last ones left, being the only members of the group remaining under the sudden circumstances. "What just happened?" Zoe asks in a confused tone.
"I'm just confused as to why Dr. Z didn't show up in all honesty." Rex replies, scratching the back of his head.
"So it was trying to protect it's family?" Max asks as he, Zoe, and Rex roamed the corridors of the Backland II.
"Yeah." Zoe confirmed. "The Chasmosaurus thought the skeleton was family and it wouldn't let us anywhere near the wall. It felt sad trying to turn it into a card. Almost made me feel like I was a villain."
"I'm just mad I didn't get to go. Chomp would've loved to meet the Chasmosaurus, wouldn't you, Chomp?" Max asks his chibi Triceratops, whom leaned his head in confusion, not understanding a word Max had just said.
"Still. I feel bad for what we did to the Chasmosaurus." Zoe says, sadness in her tone as she stared at the Chasmosaurus card.
"There are a lot worse people out there, Zoe… A lot worse." Rex tells his friend.
"I could think of one." Max mumbled under his breath, thinking of a certain boy Zoe was getting close with.
"What was that, Max?" Zoe asks, having heard Max say something.
"Nothing." Max replies in an angry tone.
Zoe raised an eyebrow at Max's sudden hostile nature before leaning over to Rex, getting close to his ear. "What's gotten into Max lately?" she whispers to the blonde.
"No clue." Rex replies, shrugging in the process.\
The D-Team eventually approached a pair of automatic doors, which opened up revealing the main control room of the Backland II, where the Alpha Gang, sans Rod and Laura, as well as Rex's parents and Jonathan were waiting for them.
"Master Rex, I am so glad you and your friends could join us." Jonathan greets the blonde boy.
Terry, Spiny, and Tank all ram over to the D-Team dinosaurs where they immediately got into a fight, though this went unnoticed by the two teams. "What did you need to tell me, dad?" Rex asks his father.
"Yeah, why'd we wait for the kids to be here for you guys to tell us this 'urgent matter' you said we had." Dr. Z asks, clearly mocking the paleontologist.
"I never said that." Dr. Ancient replies with certainty in his tone.
"Yeeeaaah, but you were thinking it." Dr. Z clarifies, obviously grasping at straws at that point.
"I wasn't thinking that either." Dr. Ancient replies once more.
"I'm pretty sure you were."
"I'm pretty sure I wasn't."
"Dad… The news?" Rex says, stopping the two's minor argument.
"Oh, yeah. That's right." Dr. Ancient says, suddenly remembering what he had to say. "After taking inventory of both the cards you have retrieved and the current cards that weren't lost, I can safely say that there are approximately 22 cards left out in the world… Give or take."
"Wow. 22?" Zoe exclaims in awestruck.
Meanwhile, Max was busy counting his fingers to twenty-two. "So counting the cards we just got, that means a total of 27 cards went missing during the incident!" Rex clarifies in a shocked tone.
"Stop adding more numbers!" Max frantically yells.
"That's not all." Dr. Ancient continues. "When we were searching through the archives of the Backland II, we found two things."
"One was a history of all the cards that have been deposited and withdrawal from the Backland II's dinosaur card safe." Dr. Cretacia takes over. "You see, we store our cards in elemental order. Lightning get it's own special place, so does Grass, Water, Earth, so on and so forth. Only me, my husband, Jonathan, and our assistant Mr. Mills have special access to the safe. We found out that the 27 cards that have been lost have all been taken out of the safe. We know it wasn't me or my husband and Jonathan showed video proof that he was nowhere near the safe. Which only leaves…"
"Mr. Mills." Zoe finishes.
"But why would that guy want to take out the dinosaur cards?" Zander asks out of curiosity.
"Maybe he was asked to clean them?" Ed innocently theorizes.
"Impossible." Dr. Ancient replies. "I would never give anyone's permission to clean any item under my surveillance. Personal or professional wise."
"It's true. I have to ask him if I can wash his socks." Dr. Cretacia backs up.
"Is that why dad's socks always smell like dead cheese?" Rex asks with a skeptical raised eyebrow.
"You couldn't have hit it more on the spot." his mother confirms with a smug expression.
Dr. Ancient, now slightly blushing a bit, cleared his throat as he continued with the details. "What Mr. Mills was planning to do with the cards, I have no idea. Which brings us to the second part of the news."
"We found Mr. Mills." Dr. Cretacia finishes. Everyone gasped upon hearing this. "Kind of." Their facial expressions retorted to disappointment.
"All of us have been embedded with microchip TPS trackers inside our wrists." Dr. Ancient continues. "During the sudden crash that Dr. Z inadvertently made."
"I said I was sorry!" Dr. Z cried out in response.
"The TPS went offline." Dr. Ancient continues. "We only now rebooted up it's systems and it's then we discovered that Mr. Mill's TPS tracker is in this time period meaning he's still here and alive someday. This means that after we recover all of the lost dinosaur cards, we're going to have to find Mr. Mills and bring him back here. The only problem is that the crash not only temporarily disabled the TPS, but it also permanently disabled the GPS part of it as well."
"So you know he's in this time period, just not where?" Max asks, trying to understand what they were saying, though with obvious effort.
Down below, Chomp and Terry were biting each other, Spiny was stepping on Paris' tail, causing her to run in place, while Tank chased a scared Ace around the room. "Correct." Jonathan replies.
"We still need to know why Mr. Mills took out the dinosaur cards in the first place. He shouldn't have done so without my permission." Dr. Ancient says in an irritated tone.
"When you guys say special access, are you talking about a passcode or a keycard?" Zoe asks, intrigued at the situation.
"Passcode. Keycard. Eye scanner. All of which Mr. Mills had access to." Dr. Ancient confirms. "Which rules out theft. My initial theory was that someone swiped his keycard and somehow knew the passcode but even so, they wouldn't make any progress upon reaching the eye scanner part."
"Unless someone gouged his eyes out and used them for the eye scanner or forced him to scan his own eye and killed him afterwards." Dr. Cretacia theorizes in a dramatic tone, as if she was telling a story.
"No, cuz there was no blood near the keypad." Dr. Ancient replies in a surprisingly calm tone despite what his wife had just said.
"Well that rules out my theory." Dr. Cretacia nonchalantly dismisses.
Down below, Chomp continued to bite down on Terry, whom in return bit harder; it wasn't until Max picked up Chomp that seized the two's quarrel. "What does Mr. Mills look like by the way?" Max suddenly asks.
"He looked like your average looking guy. Nothing special about his appearance at all." Dr. Ancient answers.
"Which means we have a better chance at finding him rather than you kids since we know what he looks like." Jonathan finishes.
Zoe briefly bent down to grab Paris before bringing her back up into her arms. "You don't have any pictures of him?" she asks.
"There's his ID card but it's nowhere to be found. We assumed he has it with him." Dr. Cretacia answers.
"Look, don't worry about trying to find him, kids. It'll be better and faster if we try to find him. Rex here knows what he looks like so if you do happen to come across him, Rex here will be able to identify him." Dr. Ancient tells the trio.
"That's if he hasn't changed." Dr. Z suddenly says.
Everyone in the group suddenly turned to him, confused expressions on their faces. "What do you mean by that, doctor?" Ed asks.
Dr. Z continued to close his eyes and cross his arms, continuously tapping his fingers on his arms. "Yes, the TPS confirms he's in this time period but that doesn't confirm how old he is. He could have been sent 20 years from now and lived all this time. The microchips that have been fused with our nervous system will disable if they're not in the time period or when the brain seizes all activity. Meaning death. Since the TPS is on, that means he's still alive. However, we don't know the exact time and date he arrived back in time. For all we know, he could be older than me, and let me tell you, old people never look the same when they were 50 years younger."
"I don't know, doctor. You seem relatively the same ever since you adopted us." Zander says, pressing his finger to his chin.
"Yeah, same beard, different color and everything." Ed adds on.
"Come to mention it, the only thing that changed about you are wrinkles and white hair." Ursula reveals.
"Like you should be talking, old hag!" Dr. Z yells at the greenette.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING OLD, YOU OLD SACK OF ROCKS!" Ursula yells back.
"YOU'VE GOT MORE WRINKLES THAN AN ELEPHANT'S SCROTUM!" Dr. Z booms aloud.
Everyone in the group awkwardly glanced at the yelling participant every time it was their turn for an insult.
"ONE MORE WRINKLE AND YOU'LL PASS FOR A PRUNE!"
"I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I?!"
"AGING OLD HAG!"
"EXPIRED BAG OF AIR!"
"ANCIENT CAVEMAN!"
"SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT!"
"The worst part is, this isn't the first time they've acted like this." Zander suddenly says, breaking the silence amongst the audience.
"In regards to this recent security breach news, all cards you obtain in the future will be brought into the Backland II." Dr. Ancient says aloud.
"Why?" Max asks in a curious tone.
"So we can process the cards and place them under safe surveillance. It's simply protocol. It's to prevent something like this happening ever again. Trust me, when we find Mr. Mills, I will be asking him why he took the cards out in the first place." Dr. Ancient finishes.
"Well in that case, here's the Chasmosaurus card we just got." Zoe says, handing Dr. Ancient the recent card.
"Aaaah, Chasmosaurus. I remember this one. Watched it graze with it's family." Dr. Cretacia reminiscences.
"When we found the Chasmosaurus, it was trying to protect the skeleton of a Chasmosaurus in a wall." Zoe reveals.
"What?! There was a Chasmosaurus skeleton in the wall?! Awww, my dad is gonna be so sad that he didn't go." Max says in a depressed tone.
"Well that's not that absurd." Dr. Ancient replies. "Chasmosaurus was a caring dinosaur that would go to great lengths to protect it's loved ones."
(for the third time in a row… i am bullshitting.)
"Thank you kids for retrieving this card." Dr. Cretacia says in a thankful manner.
"Be sure to thank Rod and Laura as well. They helped a lot." Rex reveals.
"Don't worry, we will. You kids better get going. Me and your mom need to process this card." Dr. Ancient tells his son.
"Will you be having dinner at Max's house or here?" Dr. Cretacia asks her son.
"I don't know. Maybe at Max's house. I haven't decided yet." Rex replies, walking away with his two best friends.
"Be sure to tell me beforehand so I don't make an extra plate!" Dr. Cretacia yells at to her son as he was walking away.
"Don't worry! I will!" Rex yells back as the three left the room.
"I'm still mad that I had to stay home and study with your sister instead of seeing a real life Chasmosaurus." Max grumbles in understanding irritation.
"Oh, speaking of that. How did the study session go, Max?" Zoe asks the spiky haired teen.
Max was about to answer until he remembered something Reese said during their tutoring session.
"Talks about him nonstop. Says how he loves animals, knows how to cheer anyone up, always so enthusiastic, saying he could brighten anyone's day. She even called him, and I quote, 'smoking hot as bacon on a skillet'."
"I learned a lot." Max replies, giving a slight glare to Zoe.
Confused by the sudden glare, Zoe was hesitant at replying before shrugging it off, thinking she must be over interpreting things. "That's good!" she exclaims in audible happiness. "See, Max? A little studying doesn't hurt anybody."
"If only you knew." Max grumbles, obviously irritated at what Reese said about Zoe.
In response, Zoe raised an eyebrow, confused about Max's odd behavior; she would definitely have to talk to him about this later.
Dr. Ancient placed the Chasmosaurus card inside a security cabinet before closing it and entering a code before. "We'll process this card after dinner. It's been a long day for us." Dr. Ancient says in a tired tone.
"Honey, we haven't processed any of the other cards either." his wife reminds him.
"Don't worry, dear." Dr. Ancient tells his wife. "We'll start processing after dinner. We'll start with the Calamosaurus card. After we process the cards, we'll put them in a different safe under a new code so that nobody gets them again. But for now, we have to keep them under our old security measures. Don't worry. I'm not making the same mistakes again."
Dr. Cretacia suddenly looked down, a dejected look on her face. "I'm worried about him, Dan." his wife says.
Dr. Ancient suddenly wrapped his arm around his wife, kissing the top of her head to comfort her. "Me too, Cheryl. Me too." he replies. "But don't worry. We'll find him… I know we will."
"I hope so." Dr. Cretacia says, still worried for their beloved assistant.
All my life, I've been asking one question... What is it all for? Ulf thinks to himself as he sits alone in a bar late at night, a depressed expression on his face as he took another sip from his mug of beer. What's the point in working when you're just going to get screwed over? Having bosses that care nothing about you, only seeing you as paper weight and as labor. My software company had potential but the economy ruined it all. Moved back here to my home country in hopes to restart my life again? But I just can't move on. Their faces, their voices... their love... All gone... because the world is a cruel mistress..."
Ulf took another long drink from his glass as foam coated the insides to the point where barely any beer was left. The miserable frown still on Ulf's face as he slammed his mug down for the bartender to refill.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a bank robber. Like in those movies and TV shows I watch. Heat. That one is a good on. I wonder what my codename would be?... Maybe... Wolf. Yeeeeah, that sounds good... Too bad it can't be a reality. Steal from the rich, give to myself. That's how I see life at the moment..."
"Hey, buddy. I'm plot device. I'm here to tell you to go to DC and you'll start your new criminal life there where you'll get tons of Payday." a stranger beside him told him in a monotone voice.
Ulf simply stared at the man with a blank stare and look, not having noticing him sit beside him during his time in the bar. "Sorry, I don't read comics." Ulf tells the stranger.
"Are you kidding me you SON OF A-"
(For any of you wondering what Francis looks like, Imma give a detailed description of him right now:
Francis is about the same height as the D-Team, has short spiky black hair swifted backwards with a pair of sunglasses on his forehead. He wears a green unzipped short sleeved jacket and underneath is a black T-Shirt with a skull with a tongue sticking out symbol on it. Down below he wears a pair of black jeans along with green sneakers and also sports a watch on his left wrist, a ring on his middle finger, and a car bolt tied with a rope around his neck as a sort of homemade necklace.
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"Someone just took the Backland!"
Until next time…)