Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril

by Stoned Chompski

Two years after Rex had left, a new adventure comes into the lives of the D-Team. Dinosaur cards are being spotted all over the world again, and it's up to the D-Team to collect them all again. With familiar faces, their new journey will prove to be an epic one. However, a secret evil lurks behind the shadows, one that has proven to be their most deadly foe yet.

11. Much Needed Muscle

(I apologize for how shit this chapter is. I have no idea what I'm doing lol.)

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LOCATION DISCLOSED - 00:01:00

Somewhere in an unknown part of an unknown town of an unknown country stood what appeared to be a run down building and inside the building was a sinister force. A person could be seen sitting in a nice brown leather chair, while they tapped their four fingers on the arm rest - their right ring finger was shown to be cut off. In front of the unknown person were the six stolen dinosaur cards, just lying on the table before them. At that moment, another person entered the room, their face obstructed by the shadows.

"The Fist is inching closer and closer to getting a card." says the person.

"Let him have it." says the first one in a deep, raspy voice. The man suddenly pulled off what appeared to be glasses off of his face in the shadows before setting them down on the table, though what he pulled off is unknown thanks to the darkness. "He's not a threat either way."

"I thought we had to have every dinosaur card in order for the… you know." the second person asks.

"We do. That doesn't mean we're in a rush. The way I see it, we already have a confirmed position on a card if the Fist does get his hands on one. We let him have it then we take it. As for the other cards… work on getting some allies. We're gonna need help."

"What kind of allies are we looking for? The only other people to know about these cards are the Alpha Gang and they're working with the D-Team now."

The man suddenly pulled out a card from his jacket pocket before flicking it towards the second person. "Use this." he says as the second man catches the card. On the back of the card was a fireball symbol, which only meant one thing: this was a dinosaur card, obviously. "I'm sure that's enough reason for people to join us. I heard the Fist has allies of his own… How about we persuade them to join our side for 'much needed muscle'."

"Are you sure they would want to go through all the trouble in getting cards they care nothing about?"

The four fingered man suddenly turned around, his face now obstructed by a lamp when peering from outside. "I'm excellent when it comes to persuasion, am I not?" the man asks.

The second man could be seen backing up a bit before regaining his posture. "That you are." he cautiously replies.

"That's all the confirmation I wanted to hear. Go… Work on getting some friends. The Fist is of no threat as of now but when he does… show no mercy."

"What about you?" the second man asks.

The four fingered man stood up from his chair and approached a desk on the other side of the room, revealing what appeared to be an unfinished device on said desk. "Never you mind that." replies the four fingered man. "Just go do what I told you to do." The man suddenly lifted up his injured hand, gently caressing his finger over the amputation. "How are the three?"

"Still quiet." replies the second man. "Have been since we brought them back here. What're your plans for them again?"

The four fingered man was silent before growing a smile. "Much needed muscle." he answers.

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*Who Are You by the Who starts playing...*

*brief instrumental*

Starring MAX TAYLOR

Whoooooooo are you?

ZOE DRAKE

Who, who, who who?

REX OWEN

Whoooooooo are you?

REESE

Who, who, who, who?

URSULA, ZANDER, ED

I really wanna know! (Whoooooooo are you?)

DR. Z

Oooooooh!

ROD AND LAURA

Chomp and the gang

Come on! Tell me who are you! You! You! AAAAAAAARE YOOOOOOOU!

Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril

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BACKLAND - 7:32:18

The day after Dr. Ancient's horrific discovery, he immediately called a meeting in the main room, where everyone was present, those of which included - the D-Team, Alpha Gang, the two androids, the Ancients, Rod and Laura. Even their dinosaurs were in the meeting in their chibi forms, all of whom were strapped in baby high chairs to restrain them from leaving. Dr. Ancient was at the head of the table along with his wife, whom for some reason had a gavel in her hand, to which she immediately began banging on the table with.

"Order! Order in the court!" Dr. Cretacia shouts with all her might.

"But we weren't talking." Rex replies.

"I know. I just always wanted to say that!" Dr. Cretacia excitingly exclaims with a blush of embarrassment on her face.

"Mom." Rex whined quietly.

"Dr. Ancient, no offense but why did you bring us here?" Zander asks.

"Yeah. Some of us still have to catch up on their beauty sleep." Ursula adds.

"And I haven't had my breakfast yet." Ed chirped.

"You think that's bad? I haven't had my morning bath yet! I stink like a mule over here!" Dr. Z loudly exclaims as he waved his arms around frantically. Both Ed and Rod slid a few feet away from the doctor upon his exclamation, keeping a close eye on him while doing so.

"I'm sorry for this sudden meeting everyone. I truly am." Dr. Ancient apologizes. "But I wouldn't have done so if it wasn't as urgent as this. Last night, Jonathan and I discovered a…" Dr. Ancient paused before continuing. "'horrifying' to put it in words… discovery. Jonathan."

Dr. Ancient gestured for the android to approach the table, to which he obliged as he held the drawer that contained the fake stone plates. He approached his master and stood beside him before carelessly dropping the drawer on the table, creating a loud BANG! to emit in the area; Dr. Ancient flinched shortly afterwards, but not because of the loud noise.

"You didn't have to drop it!" Dr. Ancient exclaims.

"Apologies, Master Ancient." the android apologized.

Upon dropping the drawer, the fake stone tablets spilled out onto the table, revealing themselves to everyone. "Is that?!" Zoe gasped.

"No! It can't be!" Zander exclaims.

"It is! And I don't like it!" Ed shouts in fear as he holds onto his adoptive brother for comfort.

"Fake stone tablets! That means…"

"Seth stole the timeship?!" Max exclaims before Rex could finish.

"That's impossible!" Ursula shouted in defiance. "It can't be Seth, remember? He's back in the future in jail or something like that. How is it possible that Seth stole the timeship when he wasn't even in this time period in the first place?"

"The old lady makes a point." Zoe points out.

"Hey!"

"Yeah, as much as it pains me to say this but I think Seth is innocent this time." Rex says.

"Those are all valid questions indeed." Dr. Ancient retorts. "I myself have been asking those for sometime by which I mean all night."

"I had to listen to him ask the same questions over and over and over again until I decided to just sleep on the couch." Dr. Cretacia comments with obvious irritation in her tone.

"But who else knows how to create fake stone tablets besides Seth?"

"He's right." Max points out aloud.

"Okay, but answer me this Einstein. How was Seth able to get back to this time period in the first place? Hmmmm?" Dr. Z retorts back in a smug manner.

"You stole that from me!" Ursula could be heard in the background.

"He's right." Max says aloud.

"Why are you even arguing with me? You've always suspected Seth from the beginning!" Dr. Ancient retorts back.

"They're both right." Max finishes with a shrug.

"I don't know! It's just that whenever I see your face, I just get really angry for some reason!" Dr. Z shouts back.

"You can't even see! You're blind!"

"I meant figuratively!"

"How do you fig-" Dr. Ancient shook himself to stop what he was saying. "Look, we're getting off topic. Point is, we are unsure if Seth is the culprit in this situation. There are many unanswered questions, true… But who's to say Seth isn't involved in the first place?"

"Huh?" Ed asks.

"What do you mean?" Zoe asks herself.

"Jonathan, show the pictures." Dr. Ancient kindly ordered.

"I don't have 'em." the android replies.

The paleontologist snapped his attention to his android butler. "What do you mean you don't have them? Who has them?"

~i do.~ says a FAMILIAR annoying text-to-speech voice with an equally annoying stupid fucking dumbshit grin.

Dr. Ancient turned to the side to see W.E.S.L.E.Y. 's floating TV box screen hovering beside him, scaring him in the second. "AH! JESUS!" Dr. Ancient yelps as he backs up in shock.

~pussy.~

"Hey! Only I can call my husband a pussy!" Dr. Cretacia shouts as she points at the floating TV box.

"Why are you here?!" Dr. Ancient loudly asks.

~i am apart of the D-Lab's systems, which makes me apart of the D-Team. therefore i will gladly be your wacky, zanny computer buddy in your quest that will guide you to your destinations and-~

"I regret asking." Dr. Ancient interjects in a tired tone.

~allow me to show you this explicit photo taken by yours truly, Zoe Elizabeth Drake.~

Everyone instantly snapped to Zoe, whom had an extremely nervous expression with a blush that covered her face ten times over as she perspired like a fountain. "Uuuuum…?" she anxiously stammers. W.E.S.L.E.Y. suddenly showed the photo of the two men flying away from the Backland that was taken by Zoe. "Oh, phew. That photo." she says in a potent relieved tone.

"Why do you sound so relieved?!" Max loudly asks with a stupefied expression.

Dr. Ancient squinted his eyes at the photo, trying to see if he could make out a face. "Well, Dr. Ancient? Do you think one of them is Seth?" Zander asks.

"It's too blurry." he replies. "Zoe must've zoomed to the max. Add that to the already long distance, all we're gonna get is just a few pixels."

"Blurry pixels." Ed adds.

"Seth could be one of them, although I'm not sure."

"What if it's the Space Pirates?" Max asks, earning everyone's attention to him. "They're the only ones we know who can fly."

"Yeah, but Max, the photo clearly doesn't show any wings." Zoe points out.

"Oh." Max responded stupidly.

"They must be using jetpacks of some sort." Rex theorized.

"As seen in this photo," Dr. Ancient begins. "it's not completely out of the question that Seth may or may not be back. There is speculation whether or not he stole the Backland in the first place though, like how he was he able to in the first place. However, we can't ignore a possibility as big as this that Seth may be back and may have some sort of dastardly plan with him. With those six cards gone, it's looking real clear that Seth is definitely apart of this… There's just too many unanswered questions."

"I have a question." Ed speaks up.

"What's your question?"

"Why is Tank upside down?"

True enough, while all the chibi dinosaurs were strapped into their baby high chairs, Tank was shown to be upside down as her tail swung back and forth as she struggled to get out of her restraints. "Because…" Dr. Ancient says before pausing. "Any other questions?"

"Yeah, can we go to school? It starts in less than a half hour." Zoe points to her watch.

"Oh yeah, that's right. You kids have school. Sorry to keep you waiting, you two." Dr. Ancient apologized to the two teens.

"We'll see you after school, Rex." Max says as he and Zoe run out of the room.

"Onto other business." Dr. Cretacia speaks up. "I think it's high time we find Mr. Mills. We all know he's in this time period, just don't know where. So to do so, I have asked Dr. Z to send search droids all around the globe to help find Mr. Mills using facial scans. It won't matter how old he is, his facial structure will still be the same."

"But the world is so big." Zander points out, gesturing his arms into a huge circle.

"Yeah, how can you find one person in a world filled with billions of people?" Ed asks.

"Trust me, I thought the same thing." Dr. Cretacia replies with an all knowing smirk on her face. "That's why I had Dr. Z create 10 billion Alpha Fly Spies and spread them across the world!"

"10 billion?! How'd you do that, doctor?!" Ursula asks in utter shock.

"3-D printer. From the fuuuuutuuuuuuuuuuure." Dr. Z says in a strenuous voice.

"Aw, that makes sense." Zander replies.

"Yeah." Ed agrees.

"It's only a matter of time before we eventually find Mr. Mills… Sooner or later." Dr. Cretacia sinisterly says as she evily glares into the camera.

"Please, don't say that like you're about to kill him." Dr. Ancient calmly tells his wife in monotone.

"Is that all you wanted to talk about, Dr. Ancient?" Rod asks.

"Well, there is the problem of finding a secondary fuel source for the reactor in order to restart the time modules." Dr. Ancient says with his finger on his chin.

"Hey, me and Laura could do some research on fuel sources." Rod suggests.

"Yeah, with all this studying Helga has us doing, we're actually smarter than the average kid." Laura comments.

"Heh." Dr. Ancient dryly laughs. "I appreciate the help kids. If you do find a different fuel source, please do tell me. Other than that, there's really not much else to say. Dr. Cretacia and I will be busy in our lab trying to repair everything while Jonathan will be assisting. Dr. Z, you and your… gang are open to do anything. I don't really care what you do to be honest. Just as long as it doesn't hinder any progress on the Backland and/or affect me financially, emotionally, physically, or quite well possibly psychologically. Please, for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit let it not be psychological." Dr. Ancient pretty much begged the last part.

"Vell," Helga says. "ve have a busy day. Don't ve, Dr. Z?"

"Huh? We do?" Dr. Z asks, looking up at Helga in the wrong direction.

"I'm taking you to ze Doktor to get a check up on your eyes. It's been a vile since you've had von."

"Aw, man. I hate going to the doctors. It always smells funny." Dr. Z mumbles as he gets out of his seat.

"So wait," Ed speaks up. "what're we supposed to do?"

"I don't care what you do! There's nothing you three dimwits can do since I'm going to the doctors!" Dr. Z shouts from across the room.

"I know vat you zree can do. You could do ze grocery shopping for me." Helga suggests.

"Yeah, we can do that." Zander agrees.

"Wunderbar! (Wonderful!)" Helga exclaims as she grabs a small piece of paper from her pocket. "Here is ze list. Don't get ovevelmed now. Und don't vorry about ze money. Ve already have it taken care of." Helga suddenly grew a devious glare. "But zat doesn't mean you can take advantage of zis and buy vatever you vant. You hear, Ursula?"

"Why're you telling me that?" Ursula asks as she cowers in fear.

Helga threw the small piece of paper towards Zander, whom fumbled it in his hands before finally catching it. "Huh. Doesn't look too long." he notes.

That is until he unfolded the piece of paper, revealing that it was actually a large piece of paper the size of a sail canvas as it fell on top of the three, covering them. "Thanks, Zander." Ursula sarcastically replies.

"No problem." Zander replies back in an equal sarcastic tone.

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SANJO CITY HIGH SCHOOL - 7:59:26

Francis could be seen out in the front of the school, his phone by his ear as he bounces his leg up and down impatiently. "C'mooon. C'mooon. Class is about to start." he mumbles in an impatient tone, only being met with a dial tone.

"Hello, you have reached the answering machine of-"

"Oh, for crying out loud!" Francis exhaustedly exclaimed in an effort. "This is the fourth time they put me on the answering machine! Why won't you answer?!" He closed his phone before flipping it open again, quickly redialing the number before placing it back on his ear. "If they don't answer now, I'm just heading there after school." he mumbles to himself in audible anger.

"Attention, students." says the principal over the school speaker. "Our bell system has unfortunately failed due to… mad cow disease? That doesn't make sense?… Oh, that's for the lunch lady. Nevermind then." Upon realization, a student could be seen spitting his food out, worried that the lunch lady may have contaminated his food. "May want to get that checked out Barbara. Anyway, our school bell system has failed due to a wiring malfunction that may or may not be the fault of the school's engineering department. I'm looking at you, Marty. I know you were the one who disabled my car last week." A kid with a backward baseball cap holding a wrench and a wire cutter subtly hid his tools behind his back as he whistled innocently. "Either way, I, your principal, am here to tell you… lunch is over! Get back to class. Except for Douchebag Marty who disabled my car. You're coming to my office."

"Screw you!" Marty shouted.

"Screw you!" the principal shouted back. "Have a good day, everyone."

"Damn it!" Francis angrily exclaims, realizing his time was over. "Ah, whatever." he mumbles as he hangs up the phone. "I'll just try and see if I can head over to their office later today."

With that, Francis picked himself up before entering the school, just as Max and Zoe had arrived at the school shortly afterwards. "We're right on time. Come on!" Zoe calls out for Max as she runs ahead, with Max lagging behind.

"Hold on! *pant* Oh man. *pant* I should really start trying in gym class." Max heavily breathes as he bends forwards to catch his breath. "Hey!" he called out before running after his friend. "Wait for me!"

As the two ran inside, unbeknownst to the two of them drove passed a pickup truck with a wooden fences at the back filled to the brim with vegetables. Inside the truck laid, you guessed it, a dinosaur egg capsule, lying beside a bunch of produce. Meanwhile back inside, Max and Zoe had just entered the hallway of the school, where Francis could be seen approaching his locker before entering his combination. Despite the school having already announced that lunch was over, many kids were still in the hallways getting their respective books to their respective classes - the hallway was filled with clamor.

"I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith drowned in the Tunnel of Love?"

"NO!"

"Okay, but there was a goat."

"Is not possible!"

"Sometimes, I dream about cheese."

"Stop! You violated the law!"

"KEEP! FUCKING! MY WIFE'S! MOUTH!"

"Boy, this is worse than the time I was sus."

"GIVE ME LEE!"

Max and Zoe continued to roam the hall of their chaotic school where everyone appeared to be doing some sort of unusual activity. "Is it just me or has this school kind of got a little… crazy?" Max asks the pinkette.

However, Zoe was not beside him, instead being replaced by a near complete replica of Zoe aside from the small eyes and horrific huge, pink nose. "You are right. This is weird." the fake Zoe says in a deep voice before walking away.

"Sorry." the real Zoe says as she appeared behind Max, scaring him a bit as he screamed like a little girl. "I was at the water fountain." She suddenly turned to the side before growing a smile. "Amy! Francis!"

Amy could be seen standing next to Francis while having an extremely confused expression while the male teen in question struggled to get his locker open. "Why is this thing jammed again?! What did I put in there?! Towels?!" he asks as he struggles to open his locker.

"How'd I get here?" Amy asks no one in particular, glancing in every direction.

Beside her, Francis succeeded in opening his locker, only to be met with a bunch of My Little Pony towels and blankets that fell on him like an avalanche. "Todd!" shouts in anger.

Behind Max and Zoe, Todd could be seen running away, snickering to himself before rounding the corner. "How've you guys been?" Zoe asks her two friends.

Francis popped his head from the pile of towels shortly afterwards. "I got a new lizard friend." Amy happily tells the pinkette.

The teenaged girl pulled out her phone and showed her a picture of a bearded dragon in his tank. "Awww, he's so cute." Zoe squeals with puppy eyes.

"He looks creepy." Max mumbled.

In response, Zoe punched his stomach with her elbow, causing him to yelp in pain in response. "Wait, what happened to your other lizard? Hana the Third?" she asks her friend.

Amy suddenly grew a saddened expression as she glanced down. "She… She died." she quietly says.

Both Zoe and Max grew sympathetic looks upon hearing her answer. "Oh." was all Max said.

"I'm so sorry, Amy." Zoe apologizes to her friend.

The girl in question grew a smile in response. "It's alright." she says. "Clarence has helped me move on and he's such a cutie. He follows me everywhere… even in the bathroom… and the shower."

"I think Clarence is a sexual predator." Francis piped up as he sat in the pile of towels like a beanbag.

"I think you need to shut your face." Max retorts back in response.

"Ok." With that said, Francis simply covered his face with a 20% Cooler Rainbow Dash washcloth.

Right at that moment, the school's speaker system activated. "Attention, I'm your principal." the principal announced. "I forgot to mention that the Winter Formal is coming up in late December and we are currently selling tickets. Yes, we are having a Winter Formal in Japan. Do not ask why. I blame localization dubs. Also we just found out that our fellow classmate, Francis, is a brony. Ha ha. Everyone point and laugh."

"Screw you!" Francis shouts at the speaker.

"Screw you! That is all. I'm still your principal. Toodles." The speaker gave off a loud screech at the end as it hung up.

"What a swell guy." Francis comments with a smile.

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MICHELLE'S CLASSROOM - 8:05:37

"Alright, class," Michelle spoke up in front of the class. "pay attention now. I know all of you are excited for next month's Winter Formal. I am too. I have my eyes set out on someone."

"Twenty bucks it's Mr. Monroe." Francis whispered to Amy beside him.

"But first, education is more important than a- Goddamnit. Max is asleep again." Michelle says in a tired tone upon immediately spotting the slacker. Max snored loudly in the class as a snot bubble formed in his nose, fast asleep in the middle of the classroom. "WAKE UP!"

Upon her shouting, Max immediately woke up as he shook the desk in shock, his snot bubble popping afterwards. "Ah! I'm up! I'm up! What happened?!" Max suddenly looked at his teacher's direction. "Ms. Michelle? When did you become our teacher?"

"Unfortunately, your previous teacher Mr. Dick Richard has, ironically to his name, been diagnosed with prostate cancer." Michelle alerts the class.

"That sucks." Francis says aloud.

"So the school has hired me to become your new homeroom teacher! Tada!" Michelle gleefully exclaims as she poses in front of the class.

"Aren't you the teacher that almost left three kids behind a cave in?" asked a student.

"Yeah, but I also risked my life to save said three children from an exploding factory! And we all know explosions are more dangerous than cave-ins."

"Can't argue with that logic." said the same student. Zoe facepalmed herself from the sheer stupidity.

"Now," she yelps aloud. "let's start with today's lesson, shall we? Today's lesson is all about the American Revolution. Now first off, who here can tell me what the American Revolution was about?" Zoe raised her hand in the air. "Uuuuuh…"

Because it was her first day, Michelle had no idea who these students were. Thankfully, she had a clipboard of names beside her on the desk, to which she happily took a look at. She began to skim through the names that had the students' ID photos printed next to them. She passed names such as - Joey Whaler, Seymour Asses, Mike Hawk, Stoned Chompski, Timothy Wimmothy, Drew Luczynski, Peter Phyle, before finally reaching Zoe's name fitted with her ID photo, which was just her in the middle of a sneeze, showing off a three layered chin. "Weird. I always thought it was spelled with a Y at the end."

"Would you believe me if I said my name is actually a typo thanks to the hospital? They printed my birth certificate wrong and haven't fixed it." Zoe says aloud.

Everyone was silent upon hearing that, with Michelle being the one to break the silence shortly afterwards. "That's um… Tha- I'm- I'm pretty sure that's a felony." she awkwardly reveals to her in front of the class.

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SOMEWHERE OVER THIS SHITHOLE CITY - 8:10:16

"Why're we taking the Alpha Craft again?" Ursula asks as the trio flew over the city in one of the many Alpha vehicles they have. "Didn't you say Zander got a car, Ed?"

"Yeah, but what he didn't tell you is that it got crushed under the foot of an Agustinia and completely totaled it!" Zander cried out. "THAT WAS A MILLION DOLLAR CAR TOO!"

"A million dollars? Zander, no offense, but I think you may have gotten scammed because I'm sure no car is ever worth a million dollars." Ed tells his adoptive brother.

"That was a figure of speech, Ed!" Zander retorts back. "Anyway, it's not like it matters anyway. I have enough left over cash from that bar gamble last night to buy a new one… Just not a new one right away."

"Geez, how much money did you win in the bar, Zander?" Ursula asks, genuinely curious and shocked to hear Zander say something as rare as that so casual.

"Enough money to buy Reese a very expensive necklace- OH!" Zander immediately cuts himself before he could say anything else.

But the damage was already done.

"Zandeeeeer." Ursula says in a teasing tone. "I didn't know you were such a Romeo for your Juliet, lover boy."

"Zander and Reese sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Ed sang in a teasing tone.

"Ed!" Zander shouts in embarrassment.

"Don't be embarrassed, Zander." Ursula replies with a smile. "I mean, yeah, you two are an odd couple that I have openly shown my opinion towards. But you are my brother… kind of. And I'm your sister - kind of - and as your 'kind of' sister I need to support you in any decision you make. As long as it's not something really messed up like… pedophilia."

"Or necrophilia." Zander adds.

"Or cannibalism." Ed adds as well.

"Basically, nothing hardcore and bloody and violent and all that psychopath stuff." Ursula finishes off. "So if you have your eyes and heart set out for this woman then I support you, even if your choices are rather odd."

"This is coming from the woman who has a massive fanboy who's madly in love with her." Ed slyly whispers to Zander as an image of Dr. Owen was shown above the two.

The two of them quietly giggled mischievously, although it was still loud enough for Ursula to hear, evident when she slammed both of her fists onto their heads as a response. "Zip it, Ed!" she yells. "Anyway, enough about all this lovey dovey mushy gushy feeling nonsense. What kind of necklace did you get the girl?"

Zander blushed in embarrassment before reaching into his jacket, pulling it back out in a closed fist shortly afterwards. The tall man opened his hand, revealing a necklace that had two Pteranodons beside each other with their wings in the shape of a heart. The middle that was shaped as a heart was filled with a sparkling red diamond while there was an engraving on the outer ring of the necklace that read: To my Angel, may your love for dinosaurs never go extinct. Upon reading that, Ursula and Ed immediately knew this was not some high school crush as they perceived it, but was actually the real thing.

"Oh, wow. You're serious about all this." she says in realization.

"Of course I am!" Zander exclaims almost in offense. "Just because I may be a bad guy doesn't mean I'm not capable of showing love! I mean… yeah, I've done some bad things, but… no matter how much wrong I've done, there's always still time to correct myself… You know?"

Ursula and Ed gave their adoptive brother a serious, pondering expression, knowing full well that he wasn't joking at all in the slightest. "Zander," Ursula begins. "seeing you from the punching bag as you are to the strong, capable man you've become, acting on initiative and heart alone… it's enough to make a grown woman like me cry." Ursula says, on the verge of tears.

(no joke, i'm actually fucken crying in real life as i'm writing this lmao)

"That's the most," Ed paused to blow his nose, not even trying to hide his tears. "mature and cool and all around badass thing you have ever said, Zander! Please! Don't leave us to be with her! We're not ready for you to fly the coop yet!"

"Knock it off! Both of you!" Zander shouts, grabbing the two's faces.

However, when he did, he caused one major issue: no one was piloting the ship thanks to Zander's interference. Hence why the Alpha Craft began to shake around in the air uncontrollably as it flew in all kinds of directions, like it was being piloted by an air sick old man. "Hey! Let go!" Ed shouts from inside the craft.

"You let go!" Zander shouts back.

"No, you let go!"

"Both of you let go and grab the controls! No one is piloting this piece of scrap metal!" Ursula warns her two lackeys.

But it was too late, the ship had long lost control and was now, coincidentally, heading towards the supermarket they were scheduled to go to… Seriously, I'm having them go grocery shopping. What da fuck am I even doing with this story anymore, man? Anyway, as per usual when someone's in a falling aircraft, the Alpha Trio screamed in terror as they clunged onto each other, watching as they were nearing the parking lot to the supermarket. Everyone from down below all screamed as they all ran out of the way to avoid getting crushed by the falling Alpha Craft. The aircraft landed hard into the concrete before bouncing out of it as it was now sliding coincidentally into a parking space, all while emitting an ear piercing screeching noise thanks to metal scraping against concrete. The doors opened as Ursula fell out of the vehicle and onto the ground, followed by Ed who crushed her, followed by Zander, whom instead fell off of Ed and onto the side. The Alpha Craft door slowly closed as Ursula pulled out the keys to the vehicle, locking it as the Alpha Craft emitted a beep.

"Zander, which zone are we parked in?" Ursula's muffled voice asked from beneath Ed.

Zander looked up, noting the sign of the zone they were in. "Zone A." he replies tiredly.

"He-eeeeeey. The A theme continues on!" Ursula's muffled voice exclaimed in a triumphant tone. "A! L! P! H! A! G! A! N! G! What's that spell?" the greenete sang.

"ALPHA GANG!" Both Zander and Ed sang along.

The three quickly stood up and regained their composure. "Alright, Zander, you have the list? I want to get this grocery shopping mumbo jumbo over with as soon as possible."

"Mumbo jumbo." Ed laughed as to what Ursula just said.

Ursula just simply glared at Ed as he tried his best to hold back his laughter. Meanwhile, Zander had already pulled out his phone that he used to take a photo of the list while also trying to hold back his laughter. "Mumboohoohahaha ha ha ha." Zander laughed, no longer able to contain it any longer. "I'm sick of this errand running mumbo jumbo."

Ed began laughing uncontrollably as he fell over, no longer able to support himself as even Zander had to use the aircraft as leverage. All of this happening while Ursula had an annoyed glare plastered on her face. "'Grocery shopping mumbo jumbo'." Ed quoted the greenette from earlier before collapsing to the ground once more to resume his laughter.

"Mumbo jumbo!" Zander yelled as he began slapping his knee.

By now, several veins could be seen on Ursula's head as she grew angrier by the second. "I hate the both of you so much." she tells her two lackeys.

As the two male members of the Alpha Gang continued to laugh, the same pick up truck from before had just parked beside the garage of the grocery store. Inside the truck was the same crate with the dinosaur card capsule in with one of the produce, until something bumped the crate, causing the egg to sink underneath the vegetables. The capsule concealed itself and went unnoticed as a person grabbed the crate and brought it inside the warehouse.

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SANJO CITY HIGH SCHOOL - 8:55:34

"Alright," Michelle speaks up in front of the class. Behind her was a chalkboard that read AMERICAN REVOLUTION, in large bubble letters. "who here can tell me when America officially declared independence?" Francis raised his hand. Michelle went to say his name but forgot, so she quickly checked her list again. "Francis?"

"July 2, 1774?" he guessed in an uncertain tone.

"Close! It was 1776." she corrected.

"Darn." Francis grumbles in response.

"Wait, I thought it was July 4th? You know, cuz 4th of July?" Max question.

"That is true, Max." Michelle replies. "However, it was actually on July 2nd that Congress officially voted unanimously in favor of independence where even John Adams himself said that the '2nd of July would go down as the most remembered day in American history.'…. and then two days later, independence actually came into effect so people just used the 4th as that was the day it 'kind of' started."

"It was just lagging. It had a bad internet connection." Max chuckled to himself as he joked.

"Should've bought an ethernet cable." Francis joked as well.

Max stifled a laugh, secretly admitting that was a good joke even if it was told by Francis. Right at that moment, the school's speaker system turned on as the principal's voice boomed over the speaker. "Attention, students. I am your principal. Attention, students. I am STILL your principal. The bell system is still broken thanks to Douchebag Marty-"

"I didn't do it!" Marty's voice was heard in the hallway.

"-so I'm here to tell you that next period is about to start in five minutes so teachers, be ready to head to your next class. That's right, the teachers are the ones who are moving to their next class rather than the students. Japanese schools work differently than American ones but for some reason, we're the only ones who allow free clothing rather than a school uniform. Which I'm honestly regretting cuz I just saw a kid walk by with a Circle Jerk shirt."

"Ew." Zoe commented in slight disgust.

"Of course, I mean the punk rock band and not the actual sexual act you dirty minded chicken headed buffoon. KOKBYE!"

With that, the speaker turned off as the principal ended his announcement. "What a swell guy." Amy comments.

Michelle began packing her things up in a sort of purse with a flower imprinted on it. "Remember, class! Just because the Winter Formal is coming up, doesn't mean you shouldn't ignore your studies. Goodbye aaaaaaaaall!" Michelle waved her goodbyes as she danced out the door.

"Still as animated as ever." Max commented.

Zoe suddenly turned to Francis, whom was in the middle of doodling something on his desk, having a fully concentrated expression on his face. "Hey, Francis." she says with a smile as she tapped his shoulder.

"Hold on. Let me finish this sword real quick." Francis politely replies. As it turns out, Francis was in the middle of doodling what appeared to be a stick figure impaling another stick figure with a sword. "Heheh." The male teen suddenly turned to the pinkette. "Alright, what did you want to talk about?"

Zoe chuckled nervously as her cheeks slightly flushed pink. "I was just wondering if you wanted to… ya know… go to the Winter Formal with me?" she asks with a nervous smile.

Upon hearing her say that, Max's life shattered before his eyes as he instantly flinched in shock, accidentally crumpling up a piece of paper he was writing on. "Sure, yeah. I don't mind." Francis casually replies with a smile.

"Cool!" she happily exclaimed. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE she screamed inside her head in utter excitement.

Francis simply stared at Zoe whom continued to grin madly at him, up until the point where it started to get awkward so he began glancing around the room. "You uh… You alright? Do I need to call the nurse?" he asks the pinkette.

"Oh, I'm fine." Zoe brushes it off, hiding the fact her face matched the color of her hair.

Right at that moment, the sound of Niko Bellic's default ringtone began ringing from the inside of Francis' pants. He pulled out his phone and checked the name of who was calling him, briefly growing an excited look for a second. "Hey, uh, sorry. I gotta take this." the teen apologizes as he gets out of his seat. Right at that moment, the teacher for the next subject entered the room, only for Francis to almost crash into him. "Hey, sorry, this is a really important phone call. I'll be back later, I promise!" Francis tells the teacher as he runs out of the classroom.

"What the devil?" the teacher questions.

"Wonder who's calling him." Zoe asks aloud.

"I uh, I gotta go too." Max says as he too exits his seat.

The teen quickly ran passed the teacher, not even giving him time to get a reaction out of the man. "What the? Where are you going?!"

Zoe grew a suspicious look, knowing Max well enough to know that something was wrong. She quickly got out of her seat and walked towards the classroom door to catch up with her friend. "I gotta go too." Zoe says as she walks passed the teacher.

"Hey!" the teacher shouts in anger. "Where do you think you're going?! Get back in your seat now, young lady!" the teacher asks, not wanting another student to leave the class.

In response, Zoe snapped around as she glared a glare so sinister that even the devil himself would cower in fear as a dark aura surrounded Zoe. The growling of a dormant beast emitted from her as she glared into the soul of the teacher, her soulless eyes piercing his own. The pinkette stood her ground as she leered into the eyes of her obstacle, inducing psychological fear into the grown man as he backed up in utter horror. It was as if the devil himself had possessed this young girl.

"Oh. Okay. You can go." he says quietly, realizing his mistake.

"It won't be long! I promise!" Zoe called out as she ran out of the room.

Once again. Amy was left alone in the corner of the classroom. "Why does everyone keep leaving me?" she asks, getting tired of this gag.

While Francis went off somewhere to take his phone call, Max ran off to his own spot, which was the back of the school. Right now, Max could be seen frantically dialing a number, running his fingers through his hair. "Why so soon? Why so soon?" he asks himself as he places the phone by his ear, hearing it ringing on the other end. "Come on, Rex. Pick up."

Meanwhile, Rex could be seen in a spa over on the other side of the city, currently laying in a pile of heated sand with cucumbers over his eyes. "Hmmm. This is amazing." he moaned in pleasure… not in that sense, like as in a really good burrito sense. Right at that moment, his phone began ringing beside him. Why he has his phone beside him at the spa and not in an item box don't ask. The blonde calmly and lazily picked up the phone and answered it, all while his relieved smile was still on his face. "Hello?"

"Rex!" Max cries out from over the phone. "It's happening!"

"What's happening? Your mom's having another baby?" Rex guesses.

Max meanwhile grew an odd expression upon hearing what his friend just said. "N- No, I don't think so." he replies with uncertainty. Uncertainty that quickly morphed into panic. "But it's more important than that. Zoe just asked Francis to the Winter Formal and he said yes!"

Rex suddenly sat up as he removed the cucumbers over his eyes, a serious expression on his face. "Dear God." he says in a dramatic tone.

"I know I said I have to wait for the right moment but… I don't know!" Max panicked.

"Alright, just calm down, alright?" Rex asks over the phone. "Who knows. Maybe she's asking him as a friend?" Max didn't even need to answer for Rex to realize how dumb that sounded. "Yeah, that's dumb. Look, Max, I hate to be that guy but maybe you should let it go. She seems pretty dead set on trying to… 'woo' Francis over. We've known her our whole lives. The best we can do as her best friends is to go along with it unless we don't see anything wrong with Francis. And admittedly, I don't see anything wrong with him." Max suddenly got an idea as soon as Rex said the second to last sentence. "He seems like a pretty cool guy to hang out with. I don't know him personally so you should take that with a grain of salt. But hey, maybe you can try and befriend Francis and see what he's like."

"Actually, Rex, I think I got a better idea." Max says in a sinister tone as he deviously stared into the camera, hanging up his phone in the process. "A much, much better idea." Max sinisterly says with a malicious grin.

Meanwhile, Rex just awkwardly stared at his phone. "He hung up on me!" he says in an offended tone.

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MICKEY JOE'S SUPERMARKET - 9:25:57

Ursula could be seen pushing around an empty cart while Zander walked beside her in the bread aisle of the grocery store. "I hate going to the grocery store." Ursula mumbles as she grabs a loaf of bread and lazily throws it in the cart. "There's never any of the stuff you want and always there's too much stuff you don't want. Not to mention we see the weirdest people walk by." Right at that moment, a man who most definitely is no doubtedly 100% a crack addict walked by the two of them. "Correction. Weird and scary."

"I know we're supposed to be devious and villainous henchmen but don't you think we may be in over our heads a bit when it comes to being actual villains?" Zander asks the greenette.

"There's a difference between villains and low lives like that guy, Zander." The Alpha Trio Leader suddenly realized something. "Hold on a minute. Have you seen Ed anywhere?"

"Maybe he's in the sweets aisle?" Zander guesses.

Right at that moment, Ed came riding around the corner in a motorized shopping cart with a very displeased expression on his face. He slowly approached his two colleagues before stopping the cart, the same displeased now turned pissed off expression still on his face. "I don't want to hear any fat jokes." he mumbles.

"Forget that. Why does it have a Hello Kitty sticker on the front?" Ursula asks, pointing to said sticker on the front of the scooter.

Sure enough, on the front of the scooter was a comically large Hello Kitty sticker of said mouthless kitty holding a heart that read "I LUV U" on it. "It was the only one available, alright?" Ed replies in an almost hostile manner.

"Ha ha. Ed likes Hello Kitty." Zander teases in an half ass taunting tone.

"HA!" Ursula laughed singularly out loud. "Alright, let's keep going. This is just the first of many items we have to get and I'm already getting sick of this place."

Zander went to step forward only for Ed to cut him off on his mobility scooter. "Move, losers! Cripples go first!" Ed shouts from afar.

"Hey! I have your license plate! I'll see you in court!" Zander yells back

Ursula continued to lazily stroll her cart across the aisle when suddenly Ed zoomed passed her, laughing out loud in a taunting tone. That is until he had accidentally crashed into a stand of chips, causing him to fall over to the floor next to a middle aged man with a big mustache and a hat that obscured his eyes.

"The burning you feel? It is shame." the man tells the chubby man.

"Aww." Ed replies in a saddened tone.

Meanwhile, in the back of the grocery store were only employees were allowed in, one employee was shown to be taking inventory of the recent batch of produce that had just been delivered. "Alright, everything seems to be in order." he says to himself before checking the next crate, only to grow an annoyed expression. "Oh, you gotta be kidding me." The employee suddenly pulled out the dinosaur egg capsule. "Real funny guys. Putting an ostrich egg in with the produce. Ha ha ha. Jeremy already did that last year."

The employee then suddenly threw it backwards carelessly as the egg dropped to the ground, breaking upon impact as it revealed two cards, both having the grass element imprinted on the back. At that moment, another employee whom was carrying a tray of lettuce had accidentally bumped into someone whom was in the middle of writing on a clipboard. The two collided as the tray of lettuce fell to the ground, falling right on top of the cards where they instantly glowed green. A green glow engulfed and blinded the many employees in the back of the store as a fully sized Edmontosaurus roared into the room upon spawning into thin air.

As always, the many people around all screamed in utter terror before running away, aside from one guy whom just stood there like nothing was happening. "Eh, I've seen weirder things." he shrugs off before going back to work. Truly he deserves Employee of the Month. The herbivorous dinosaur immediately began examining it's surroundings, not recognizing this familiar land, and like most wild animals in unrecognized territory, the Edmontosaurus began panicking. That is, until he saw the pile of lettuce that once activated it on the ground, which caused the dinosaur to be reminded of something. It hasn't eaten in over 73 million years, or in this dinosaur's case, 7 minutes given the time he's been in a card.

The Edmontosaurus lowered it's head before sniffing the leaf of lettuce or whatever it's called, taking a bite out to taste it. Upon tasting it, the hadrosaur immediately took a liking to it as it gobbled the rest of the pile up in it's mouth, chewing it before finally swallowing it. But there was one problem. There was no more… that he can see. Surely if there was food like this lying on the ground, there would have to be more as the dinosaur deduced. So it sniffed the air before sniffing the familiar scent, which was originating from a large crate of other leafy greens. The hadrosaur approached the box of leafy greens before stuffing it's entire head in there, practically eating every single bit of leaf inside the large crate.

Right at that moment, a long haired young man came from the back of the store and entered the garage, a freshly lit joint in his hands. The stoner employee, whom was no doubtedly high at the moment, stopped in his place once he saw the Edmontosaurus eating out of the giant crate of leaves, it's head concealed by said crate. The stoner simply stared at the dinosaur with widened eyes before glancing back at his joint before glancing back at the hadrosaur. "That's it. I'm quitting weed." the stoner says before throwing his joint to the ground, walking away as far from the building as possible.

Meanwhile, inside the grocery store, Ursula continued to lazily push the cart down the ice cream aisle, items already inside the cart. "Alright, Zander," she says. "what kind of ice cream does Dr. Z want?"

"Black liquorice." Zander reads from his phone. "Eugh! Why would they make an ice cream flavor like that?!"

"And why would Dr. Z even want that?! He truly is evil!" Ursula shouts in disgust before regaining her composure upon realizing something. "Wait, hold on. Where's Ed? Did we lose him again?"

As if on cue, Ed came rounding the corner in his mobility scooter, the basket in front having a box of cookies and his Alpha Scanner in it while a very displeased Ed sat in the seat. "This thing is almost out of fuel." he grumbles.

Right at that moment, beeping was heard coming from Ursula's and Zander's pockets and Ed's mobility scooter's basket. "Huh, look. A dinosaur appeared." Zander comments.

"Who cares." Ursula replies. "Those kids can just teleport to get the dinosaur. They can get it this time. If we don't get back with these groceries, we'll be in the doghouse - again!"

All of a sudden, the walls of the grocery store suddenly burst open as the Edmontosaurus roared into the store, instantly clearing the room. Customers all around ran in all different directions to escape the chaos while the Alpha Trio just simply stared at the dinosaur in shock and awe.

"Hey, look at that. It's an Edmontosaurus." Ed pointed out.

"What're the chances that thing just so happened to be in the very store we're in, especially after I suggested to have those twerps get this one?" Ursula asks in an irked tone.

"Considering that a dinosaur appeared in Paris that one time when we were in Paris and not to mention Tank in London as well as the Megaraptor and the Amargasaurus as well, I'd say quite common." Zander replies.

In response, Ursula slapped his head. "Who asked you?!" she asks, clearly agitated at his oblivious tone that she mistook for smart assery.

"You did, Ursula. Remember?" Ed replies only to be met with a smack to the head like Zander. "OW! That hurt."

"That was a rhetorical question you numbnut!" Ursula loudly proclaims. "Anyway, as much as I want to hit you guys some more, we obviously have a dinosaur to take care of."

"But here? In the middle of a grocery store? Are you nuts?!" Ed asks like she was a maniac, which given her suggestion was not that far off.

"We've duked it out in the middle of a goddamn factory and in a television studio - TWICE! What difference is a grocery store?"

"Well for starters, there's the food." Ed shyly pointed out.

"Then why don't we have a barbecue instead!" Ursula confidently exclaims as she grabs her Alpha Scanner as well as Terry's card. "COME ON OUT, TERRY! ALPHA SLASH!" The greenette summoned the Tyrannosaurus as the king of the tyrant lizards roared into the air, only to hit his head on the ceiling much like he did in the factory. "Not again! Terry! Make a hole in the wall or throw that dinosaur into a wall! Just do something and take this fight outside!"

Terry obliged as he roared before chomping down onto the Edmontosaurus' back, giving a firm grasp on the hadrosaur. "Don't crush the strawberries!" Ed warned the T-Rex. But it was too late, as Terry had just stepped on the strawberries, crushing them all. "Awww, he crushed the strawberries." Ed says in a depressed tone. Terry suddenly threw the Edmontosaurus towards the vegetable wall, obviously destroying it while simultaneously creating a huge hole in the wall, successfully taking the fight outside.

"Alright! That's what I'm talking about!" Ursula cheered for her dinosaur. "Terry! Terry! He's the king! He won't let you see next spring!" Ursula cheered like a cheerleader.

"What does that even mean?" Zander questioned the greenette.

As the Edmontosaurus tried to get up, Terry wasted no time in ramming straight into it, giving a ferocious headbutt to the hadrosaur's side. Having enough of the attack, the Edmontosaurus kicked Terry right in the face, sending him flying across the parking lot, destroying a Volkswagen in the process.

"My car!" shouts the owner.

"Yeesh. I know how he feels." Zander comments from the spectator's side.

Taking the opportunity, the Edmontosaurus picked itself up before kicking a parked car away with it's hind legs. The car was sent flying into the air and directly towards Terry, whom was in the process of getting. "Watch out, Terry!" Zander warns the Tyrannosaurus. The tyrant king looked up just in time to see the car falling towards him, prompting him to leap out of the way to avoid getting hit by the car. The car landed on the ground, exploding upon impact as Terry roared in front of the explosion, celebrating a mere dodge but mostly to show his dominance over the battlefield.

"Now Terry, use Neck Crusher!" Ursula commanded as she activated the move card.

Terry glowed red as he roared into the air before charging towards the Edmontosaurus at relentless speeds. Having no time to react, the Edmontosaurus suffered the brutal attack as Terry lifted it up with his neck and threw him in the air. Upon throwing the hadrosaur, Terry immediately swung his tail as the Edmontosaurus fell down, slamming his tail at the hadrosaur's neck as the herbivore was sent flying into the street. The Edmontosaurus crashed into the street, crashing into several cars, no doubt critically injuring and/or killing some of the passengers. Everyone began freaking out as they all put the pedal to the metal and made like a banana and split the hell outta there to avoid the destruction.

"Whoops. Eh, I'm sure they're fine." Ursula shrugged off.

"My husband is dead!" shouts a woman in the distance.

The Edmontosaurus roared in rage before it glowed green as it rose high into the air, slamming it's front legs hard onto the ground enough to leave a crack. Right at that moment, the cracks glowed green as the ground literally began to crack some more as thorny vines began surfing out of the cracks like dolphins. The cracks eventually reached Terry where they surrounded him; all of a sudden, the thorny vines from before shot up from the cracks and wrapped themselves around Terry. Like a boa constrictor, the thorny vines started to squeeze hard onto Terry enough to incapacitate him, causing him to fall to the ground as he roared in pain.

"Terry!" Ursula cried out in horror.

"That's a nasty Vine Wrap! Poor Terry is getting crushed!" Zander cried out in an equal amount of horror.

Terry couldn't take it anymore, so after one final roar, he lost all of his energy and turned back into a card, causing the vines to fall to the ground limply. "Terry!" Ursula cried out. Sensing the danger was over, the Edmontosaurus went back to what it was initially after: food. It sniffed the air, hoping to find more of the delicious leaf that was known as lettuce to us humans but to the Edmontosaurus, it might as well be a tree star. Not catching a scent, the Edmontosaurus decided to just run in a random direction in hopes of finding more leafy greens to eat.

"I just realized something." Ed says as Ursula picks up Terry's card.

"That you forgot your doughnut holes?" Ursula sarcastically replies.

"No, but thanks for reminding me." Ed replies, oblivious to the sarcasm. "Doesn't Dr. Z have the only Vine Wrap move card? Because if that was Vine Wrap, then how did that dinosaur get it's paws on it."

"Good point." Ursula replies, putting her fingers to her chin as she begins pondering for an explanation. "Well, to tell you the truth, Dr. Z didn't really make the card."

"He didn't?" both Zander and Ed gasped at the same time.

Ursula grew an annoyed expression upon hearing this. "No, you airheads." she retorts. "Remember? Dr. Z couldn't make the card himself because he was under watch by Dr. Ancient, so he hired Mr. Mills to create any move cards he came up with. But, yeah, you're still right, Ed. Mr. Mills only made one in existence. How does this dinosaur know this move?"

"Makes me wonder what other kind of secrets Mr. Mills was keeping from us." Zander tells the trio.

"Well," Ursula says. "don't just stand there! Get us a car so we can follow that dinosaur!"

"So it doesn't cause mayhem and hurt people, right?" Ed asks.

Ursula was silent for a while before growing a defeated look. "S- Sure. Yeah. Let's go with that." she says, not even attempting to try and correct the fat man.

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SANJO CITY HIGH SCHOOL - 10:35:08

For some reason, Francis could be seen exiting the bathrooms after having taken his phone call, a disappointed expression on his face. "Washington. He's in Washington of all places." Francis mumbles to himself as he walks down the hall. Meanwhile, Max peered his head around the corner, watching the male teen walk down the hallway.

"Where'd you go, Max?" asks a familiar voice.

"AH!"Max yelps, startled by the sudden voice.

Without even checking who it was, Max grabbed the person, Zoe in this case, and dragged them around the corner to hide from Francis down the hall. The aforementioned teen snapped around, hearing someone yelp down the hall, only to see that no one was there at all. Curious as to who made the noise, Francis stood there for a few more seconds, staring down the hall to see if there was anyone there. Seeing how no one was in the hall besides him, he turned back around, having a confused expression on his face while also shaking his head dismissively.

"Hm." he says, taking a double look before continuing his walk down the hall.

Meanwhile, Max was shown behind the corner, peering around it as he kept a firm hand over Zoe's mouth. "Okay, he's gone." he tells the pinkette. He turned to his friend to see that her face was pretty much blue as she struggled in his grip, his hand covering both her mouth and nose. "Oh! Sorry!"

He immediately retracted his hand as Zoe let out a huge gasp for air. "My God! When did you get so strong?!" she asks in astonishment.

"Remember I took the summer to travel with my dad to America to help with a dinosaur excavation? Turns out dinosaur fossils are pretty heavy so I must've built some muscle during that time." Max explains.

"Huh." Zoe simply says. "Anyway, why were you spying on Francis?"

In response, Max grew back his mischievous grin. "Nothing." he replies. "Just that I found a little secret of his that I know you won't like."

"What is it?" Zoe asks.

"I hear-" Max cut himself off suddenly, motioning Zoe to come closer, to which she did. "I heard… that he doesn't… like… animals. Can you believe that?! An animal hater! And you love animals too!"

Zoe simply gave him an unamused expression fitted with lidded eyes. "Max, he and I went to a pet store together and he was practically creating excuses to stay longer so he could play with the puppies. I have a photo to prove this." she explains as she pulls out her phone.

Max looked at the screen to see Francis in the middle of screaming as a huge Newfoundland dog was in the process of jumping at him. "That's a very large puppy." was all Max could say.

The female retracted her phone away. "Max," she says sternly. "why'd you lie about Francis?"

"It was a joke?" he guesses.

"Don't play dumb with me, Max." Zoe replies unimpressed. "Remember yesterday in Él Tabo? The conversation we had? Are you sure you aren't jealous, Max? For once, I'm not teasing you, it's a genuine question."

Max sighed in defeat, knowing he had to tell the truth. "Truth is… Wait a minute!" he suddenly realized something. "I just suddenly realized something!" Gee, is there an echo in here? "You lied about Reese to that guy's face, Stanford or Stanley or whoever that pilot guy was."

"Air traffic controller." Zoe corrects.

"Same thing! They both work with planes!" Max retorts back. "Anyway, why do you get to lie about your sister but I can't lie about Francis? Who knows, maybe he and I are just playing a game where we spread false rumors about us around the school."

"That is the dumbest idea I ever heard of and I know that's not what you're doing." Zoe replies in a deadpan.

"Yeah, honestly, my mouth had a mind of it's own just now." Max replies.

"Max, I lied to Mr. Stanley because, and I hate to say this, I thought he wanted to date my sister, so I lied about her to make him back off… Now that I say that out loud, yeah, that WAS stupid. But that doesn't answer the fact that you're doing the same thing to-" Zoe suddenly put the pieces together. "Oh my God." she says. "Max… you are jealous!"

"No, I'm not!" Max yells back with a flushed face. "I just- I don't- I wanted- WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY RIGHT NOW?!"

"How about an explanation for starters, Max?" Zoe sternly asks with a raised brow. "Ever since I started hanging out with Francis, you've had a huge dislike towards him… And…" She suddenly grew nervous around him, a blush suddenly appearing on her face. "And I don't want to think it's something I'm hoping it'll be because I don't want to get my hopes up… So just explain everything and help me understand."

Max sighed in defeat. This was the moment he had to tell Zoe the truth. That he has a crush on her, his best friend for his entire life. Telling her could mean anything: they could become a couple right now, boring. Or she could react negatively and end up causing a shift between the two to the point where they stop talking to each other altogether. And with Rex only temporarily in the present, this means that if Zoe reacted like the latter, Max could potentially lose all of his friends, since Rex and Zoe are his only ones. With a heavy heart, Max knew what he had to do.

"I'm sorry… I can't." he replies sadly.

He chose to secure his friendship rather than follow his heart. In response, Zoe simply huffed through her nose while dismissively shaking her head. "You are the most difficult person to understand, Max." she simply says. "Come on. Let's get back to class before we get in trouble."

With that said, Zoe rounded the corner, leaving Max behind to face his decisions silently. At least he secured his friendship and didn't completely lose it. With nothing else waiting for him in the hallway, Max rounded the corner and followed his female friend back to their class.

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SANJO CITY - 10:50:17

"Canned bread. Get your canned bread here. Canned bread. Get it while it's hot… for like five seconds." says a nazily teenager in a loaf of bread costume handing out cans of actual bread.

Rex walked passed him as he, his hands behind his head as he strutted down the sidewalk in a carefree manner. "Boy," he says to himself. "that morning spa treatment really did the trick. I never felt more relaxed in 65 million years! So what else should I do today?" Rex suddenly pulled out a PDA from his back pocket. "Let's see. 9:00 morning spa treatment. Did that… And that's it. Wow. I have the rest of the day free. I could always hit up the arcade." His stomach growled at that moment. "Well, I know what I'm doing now. I wonder where's a good place to eat."

All of a sudden, at that moment, the ground began to subtly shake as the sounds of screaming could be heard from a distance. The screaming got louder and louder until an ear piercing SCREEEEECH! sound blasted in the air followed by a CRASH! A tire suddenly rolled down the street from behind a building as a large horde of people stampeded around the corner, all appearing to be running from something. Unfortunately for Rex, he was right in the middle of the stampede's path, and with no time to react combined being paralyzed in shock, Rex simply stood there dumbfoundedly.

"Fuck." he simply says. Rex was immediately trampled by the large crowd followed by a cloud of dust. After the crowd ran away and the cloud of dust dissipated, Rex was shown to be flat on the ground with footprints all over him. "This is the third time this week I've been crushed." he painfully mumbles.

Right at that moment, the Edmontosaurus rounded the corner, briefly sniffing the air before continuing to run down the street it just turned in. Rex managed to pick himself up, only to be almost crushed to death by the left leg of the Edmontosaurus that ran over him. Upon having a brief date with death that he ended up bailing out of, Rex fell backwards in utter relief, still not believing his dumb luck. Around the same time, a yellow hummer drove around the corner before stopping where Rex was laid out on the floor. The passenger door opened as Rex's ankle was suddenly grabbed by a familiar pink sleeve.

"Grandma?" Rex randomly questions.

"Get in!" shouts a familiar voice as he was quickly dragged in. The car door slammed shut as Rex was violently and forcefully shoved into his seat where a seat belt was placed on him followed by a gentle pat on the head. Shortly afterwards, someone had given him a huge rainbow colored lollipop, as he sat in his seat like a kid. "PUNCH IT!" the person, now revealed to be Ursula, shouts at the driver.

In response, the driver, Zander, literally punched the radio station with his bare fist, somehow causing the car to accelerate and floor down the street. "Am I being kidnapped?" Rex asks all of a sudden.

"No." Ursula replies.

"No." Zander replies.

"Yeah." Ed replies, before realizing what Rex asked. "Oh, I mean uh, no."

"The Alpha Gang? What're you guys doing here? I thought you were out grocery shopping?" Rex suddenly turned to the very back of the car. "Hey, did you make sure to get those strawberry panda snacks I asked for? Those ones are my favorites."

"We didn't have time because a dinosaur just showed up right smack in the middle of the grocery store. We would've let you kids handle this but we were already at the scene so why not?" Ursula explains.

The yellow hummer that Zander stole/borrowed continued to speed down the street, right passed a bicycle cop whom was parked in an alley. Upon seeing the car break the speed limit, the bike cop immediately gave chase, but he was on a bike so yeah you can figure out how thought out this plan was. "Hide cowards!" the bike cop shouted at the speed demons.

"I find it ironic that Rex called you a grandma." Ed chuckles as he ate from a bag of potato chips.

Ursula, in response, slammed her fist right on top of Ed's head. "Are you calling me old?! And where did you get that bag of chips from?!" she yells.

"The glove compartment." Ed answers.

"There were also these fake IDs," Zander says as he starts pulling out items he announces. "a bag of illicit drugs," he pulls out a bag of literal crack. "a gun," he pulled out a Glock 19. "a pocket knife, a letter with instructions to kill a senator followed by a detailed layout of a building for a vantage point and where to dispose of the murder weapon… and a vegetable peeler." Zander finishes by pulling out an actual vegetable peeler.

In response, Ursula quickly swiped the peeler from Zander's hands. "Yoink." she says before stuffing the peeler in her bra.

The Edmontosaurus continued to run down the street, determined to get away from the yellow creature that was chasing it behind it. The hadrosaur suddenly looked ahead of itself, seeing a gas station with a rotating ball in the front, promptly giving the dinosaur an idea. The Edmontosaurus slammed it's head against the pole that held the rotating ball, successfully knocking it off as it rolled down the street behind it.

"The Lost World!" Rex shouts as he points to the front.

Zander quickly swerved to the right, successfully dodging the rolling ball as it continued to roll down the street behind them.

Meanwhile, the bike cop continued to slowly ride down the street as he continued to give chase to the yellow hummer. "You can't hide from the law, asshole!" shouts the bike cop, before he was viciously crushed by the rolling ball, which only continued to roll down the street with said cop stuck to the side like chewed gum.

"So what exactly kind of dinosaur are we dealing with here, guys?" Rex asks the Alpha Trio.

"An Edmontosaurus. I have no idea why it's running though." Zander replies.

"Gee, I don't know. Maybe it's the fact a yellow hummer is chasing it! That dinosaur has never seen a car before so it must think this is some kind of predator!" Ursula shouts at the tall man.

"Anyone who drives a hummer is a predator." Ed comments.

Zander simply gave him an odd look, feeling confused as to whether he should feel offended or not since he had no idea if Ed was referring to him, whom was currently driving the hummer. Meanwhile, the Edmontosaurus continued to charge down the street, causing drivers to swerve off the road and drive into various stores. The entire city was practically in panic as all the screaming and the yellow hummer chasing it just made the Edmontosaurus even more confused.

Meanwhile, Dr. Z had just walked out of the eye doctor office, no longer wearing his sunglasses. "Wow!" he exclaims excitingly. "The world is so much more beautiful than it was! I'm glad I went through that surgery to recover my eyesight. Even though the optometrist said there may be side effects, who cares! I got my vision back!"

As if on cue, the Edmontosaurus ran right passed him, followed by the yellow hummer driven by his own gang. Dr. Z merely stared at the scene in front of him with a blank expression, before frowning shortly afterwards. "Nope. I'm letting my eyes heal on their own." he proclaims, walking back inside the building.

Back at the chase… "Where is this thing taking us?!" Ursula asks, getting tired of the chase.

"Probably anywhere it can hide if it thinks this yellow hummer is a predator." Rex replies, sticking the lollipop in his mouth. "Ooh. This is good."

The Edmontosaurus suddenly turned the corner before turning back around, having enough of getting chased by some yellow creature it had never seen before. Now usually prehistoric dinosaurs would probably use their body as a way to defend themselves, but not artificially enhanced dinosaurs with elemental powers. Evident on how the Edmontosaurus glowed green and slammed it's front legs on the ground, creating a large crack in the cement as it shot towards the driving hummer.

"Look out! It's using Vine Wrap again!" Ed warned the tall man. Zander quickly swerved to the right as the cracks continued to speed towards them. But it was too late, the cracks encircled the hummer as thorny vines shot up from the ground and slammed themselves on top of the car. "Oh no! It got us!" Ed cries out.

The vines suddenly started to crush the vehicle from up top, the windows immediately blowing out as the hummer slowly got crushed by the thorny vines. Inside, the occupants quickly unfastened themselves from their restraints as they began to climb out the crushing vehicle. "Out the windows! Hurry!" Ursula warns the group as they all head out the broken windows. All except for one…

"H- Hey. Guys! Guys, I'm stuck in here! Hey! Cripple in here! Hello?!" Ed shouts at his team in panic. The vehicle continued to get crushed as the roof was slowly closing in on Ed once more. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" he screamed in utter horror. "I! HATE! CARS!"

He was suddenly grabbed by the back of the collar by Urusla, whom miraculously pulled him out of the crushing vehicle. Afterwards, she threw him backwards like he was some wad of paper directly into a trash bin, the sound of a basketball game horn sounding off. "Wow. Full court shot." Zander says in an impressed tone.

"I was captain of the girl's basketball team in high school." Ursula boasted.

"Yeah, until you kicked Johnny Dickens in the basketballs." Ed points out from the trash can.

"I told you! He touched my butt without my consent!" Ursula loudly defended herself.

Finally, the Vine Wrap finished it's attack, leaving behind what was once a nice yellow hummer now turned into a metallic pancake with cup holders. "That was a good car too." Zander points out in a sad tone. Seeing how the danger was over with, the Edmontosaurus turned around, immediately spotting a very familiar building. Said familiar building could be heard blaring a bell as the name of the school on the message board could be seen in the front of the building:

Sanjo City High School

Seeing how the front of the school had the most perfect green graze of all, the Edmontosaurus determined that the grass must be the tastiest of all kinds of grass. Hence how it immediately charged towards the school to procure itself some tasty leafy greens. "It's running towards the school!" Rex warned as he pointed to the school.

"I guess it really wants a college degree, huh?" Zander joked.

"Who in their right mind runs TOWARDS a school?" Ursula asks the tall man.

In response, Rex slowly raised his hand, embarrassed a little that he was the only one who answered. "Nerd." Ursula simply calls Rex in a disappointed tone.

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SANJO CITY HIGH SCHOOL - 11:24:39

Francis was shown walking out of the school, for some odd reason as he has class at the moment, only to spot his friend Todd. The beanie wearing kid was shown to be behind a tree with a lighter and a plain leaf by his mouth as the two teens stared at each other like deer in headlights. "Really? That again?" Francis questions the teen. In response, Todd silently offered his friend the leaf, to which Francis immediately grew an angry look as a reaction. "No, I don't want to smoke that leaf. I was just doing it as a bit that one time."

A roar suddenly caught the two teens' attention as the ground began to shake all of a sudden, prompting the two teens to turn to the street. There, they saw the Edmontosaurus charging towards them vehemently as the two teens just simply stood there, too shocked as to what they were seeing to move. "Oh." Was all Francis said. The Edmontosaurus suddenly stopped itself as it slid towards Todd, whom simply innocently stared up at the hadrosaur. The Edmontosaurus looked down at Todd, examining the weird creature it had never seen before.

Meanwhile, Todd stared back at the Edmontosaurus, examining the weird creature he had never seen before. Francis, however, just awkwardly stood there, glancing in every direction as he had no clue what was going on. "Should I… Should- Should I give you two a moment or something?" he awkwardly stammers.

Todd suddenly raised the leaf in the air, offering it to the Edmontosaurus, whom sniffed the leaf to figure out what it smelled like. Not smelling any danger from the leaf, the hadrosaur gently placed the tip of the leaf in it's mouth; afterwards, Todd ignited his lighter and lit the tip of the leaf. At that moment, the Edmontosaurus LITERALLY began inhaling the smoke the leaf was emitting into it's lungs. Yes, you heard it hear folks: an actual dinosaur is smoking a raw leaf. Only in this story lads that you'll get something as dumb as this given to you in a serious manner.

The Edmontosaurus dropped the leaf, as it had no opposable thumbs or fingers to take the leaf out of it's mouth, before blowing the smoke out of it's lungs and into the air. "What did I just witness just now?" Francis asks in utter dumbfoundment. At that moment, much like Francis from two chapters ago, the Edmontosaurus' eyes shrunk as it grew a very disturbed expression. All of a sudden, the hadrosaur stood up on it's hind legs and roared into the air in fiery rage, it's eyes pink due to the inhalation from the unknown substance the leaf had.

"I think the plants out here are tainted with something, Todd." Francis tells his friend, whom simply nodded in response.

Meanwhile, inside Max and Zoe could be seen sitting in their classroom with Francis, obviously, not in his seat and Michelle teaching up front. "Alright, class," she continues. "now who here can tell me how the Boston Massacre happened?"

"A bunch of people threw stones at redcoats and they killed them." says a random student with his hand up.

"What's the point in raising your hand if you're just gonna answer anyway?" Michelle asks in a disbelief tone.

"Mrs. Michelle!" exclaims a student in the back.

"Oh, please, it's just Ms. Michelle. I'm not married… anymore." Michelle angrily grumbles the last part as a glare takes over her face.

"Okay, Ms. Michelle, there's a dinosaur outside." says the student in a tattled tone.

"Say what?"

Michelle literally flew into the window, planting her face to it as her cheek was smushed up against the glass. She peeked outside to see the Edmontosaurus acting beserk as Francis and Todd stood there and just watched. "Kids are in trouble! I must save them!" Michelle loudly exclaims.

The young woman sped out of the classroom at that moment… only to charge back in and storm directly towards the window. She didn't hesitate not even for a second as she literally threw herself towards the window, effectively smashing it as she did a sweet roll outside to top things off. "MEDIC BAG!"

"That was cool." Max says in an impressed tone.

"Max," Zoe suddenly says as she begins to violently poke his face. "we need to get out there and stop that dinosaur before it hurts Francis… and everyone as well."

"Alright, you being obsessed with Francis is getting annoying at this point…" Max sarcastically replies with lidded eyes. He suddenly reached into his bag and grew a confident smile. "Enough talk!" Max then dramatically pulled out his DinoShot. "LET'S FIGHT!"

"HE'S GOT A GUN!" shouts a student, pointing towards Max.

Everyone all screamed as some of the students made a beeline to the door or used their desks as cover. "No! No! No! No! No! No! Wait! Wait! It's not a gun! I swear! It's just a- a uh… a… a…" Max suddenly turned to the pinkette behind him. "Little help?"

However, Zoe was no longer behind him, prompting him to look down to see that she got to cover along with Amy. "Don't look at me. You're the one holding the thing!" Zoe exclaims in a terrified tone.

Meanwhile, back outside, the Edmontosaurus had just finished derooting an entire tree and sent it flying across the parking lot. The tree then landed on some old station wagon, instantly crushing it upon impact as the Edmontosaurus continued going berserk. Right at that moment, Michelle rolled right in front of Francis and Todd and spread her arms across to cover both the boys.

"You leave these two boys alone!" Michelle yells at the hadrosaur. In response, the Edmontosaurus ran in a different direction. "Hey, that worked."

"Way to go, Ms. Michelle! I knew I had faith in you!" Francis cheered for the woman.

Michelle grew a flattered look as she sheepishly rubbed the back of her head. "Awww, shucks. Thanks." She then noticed the piece of lit leaf in Todd's hands. "Wait, are you smoking the devil's lettuce?"

"Francis!" shouts a voice. The teen turned around to see Rex and the Alpha Gang approaching the three of them. "Are you alright?"

"I mean, I have a slight cough but yeah, I'm alright." Francis replies.

"What about you, Todd?" Rex asks the beanie wearing kid. In response, Todd gave a thumbs up.

"Alright," Ursula suddenly speaks up. "everyone's alright! Now let's stop that dinosaur!"

"IT'S YOU!" shouts Michelle, recognizing the greenette.

"Huh?" At first, Ursula had no clue who this woman was, until a flashback occurred in her mind, reminding her of the cave in and how she tried to steal a boxed lunch from this very same lady. "AH! NO WAY! IT'S YOU!"

"THE OLD LADY!" They both shout at the same time. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING OLD LADY?! STOP COPYING ME! STOP SAYING EVERYTHING I'M SAYING!…PETER PIPER PICKED A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS!"

"Pickle Rick!" Ed shouts in the background.

"Just admit you're an old lady, old lady!" Ursula shouts Michelle.

Michelle practically placed her own face in front of Ursula's face, now nose to nose with her. "For your information, I'm in my prime age of a ripe 28, so there!" Michelle finished this by sticking her tongue out.

"Wait? You're 28? I'm 28 also." Ursula says in a matter-of-fact tone.

Michelle instantly lit up upon hearing this. "Omigod! Yaaaaas, queen! We age buddies!" The two elder woman suddenly grabbed each other and pulled each other into a big bear hug. "Who needs men when we have each other! 28 BESTIES!"

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAS! At least, I need a man according to Dr. Z." Ursula mumbled the last part.

"Wait, Dr. Z wants you to get married?" Rex asks the greenette.

"Hey, guys," Zander suddenly speaks up. "I hate to break the new friendship but uh- THE DINOSAUR IS STILL ON THE LOOSE!"

Everyone turned to the parking lot, where they could see the Edmontosaurus breaking through a wired fence before running towards the soccer field. "I guess it must like soccer too." Ed figures.

"You three get these guys to safety!" Rex orders the Alpha Gang. In response, Ed simply shot Rex an unamused look, not having to remind him of his cripple state. "Nevermind. You two get these guys to safety! I'll handle the Edmontosaurus!"

"Nu-huh!" exclaims Michelle as she suddenly grabs Rex's arm, halting any progress he was going to make. "If you think I'm going to allow you to fight that giant dinosaur with your bare hands, then forget it!" In response, Rex simply raised Ace's card. "I don't know what that is."

"It'll help me fight that dinosaur. Just watch!" Rex says as he charges towards the hadrosaur.

"Hey! Wait!" With that, Michelle ran after Rex, leaving Ed behind.

"I feel so out of place." Ed comments.

Behind Ed, Ursula and Zander could be seen pushing Francis and Todd towards the school building, their shoes scuffing along the concrete. "Come on you tikes, let's get you back inside." Ursula politely tells Francis and Todd.

"But I want to see the monster battle!" Francis whined before being shoved inside, the doors slamming shut thanks to the two Alpha Gang members. "Todd, put that out. You're gonna stink up the whole school." His muffled voice could be heard inside.

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SANJO CITY HIGH SCHOOL: Soccer Field - 11:59:11

The Edmontosaurus, still under the effect of whatever fertilizer the school's front yard plants were given, lowered it's head down. In the five minutes it caused destruction after the inhalation, the hadrosaur had finally calmed down and wanted nothing more but to graze. And so far, this grass that it was sniffing was probably the perfect grass it had ever felt before. That or it could've been the hallucinogens from the plant. Taking a mouth full of grass, the Edmontosaurus began to graze in peace, finally having a chance to eat in silence. That is until Rex had shown up, his DinoShot in his hand with a determined look on his face.

"Alright, Ace!" he calls out as he grabs his card.

"GO! DINO SLASH! CARNOTAURUS, BLOW IT AWAY!"

Uponed being summoned, Ace roared into the air to signify his entrance as the sky turned into a rainbow color effect. The hadrosaur turned around, enraged that it's feeding was interrupted by a creature it had never seen before, but based on the bipedal structure and sharp teeth, it concluded that it was a carnivore. Right at that moment, Michelle had just shown up but stopped herself once she saw Ace out in the field as well as the sky's rainbow effect.

"Woah! Another dinosaur! And the sky changed too. Is that aurora borealis?" she asks, looking up at the sky.

"At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized within the entirety of this city?" Rex asks confusingly.

"Yes."

"I see."

Back with the dinosaurs, the two prehistoric giants clashed as both of them started with a headbutt, but because the Edmontosaurus was heavier than Ace, it had the advantage. After releasing itself from the clash, the hadrosaur swung it's tail and slapped Ace right in the face, stumbling him backwards a bit. Ace roared in retaliation before leaping into the air and pouncing right on top of the Edmontosaurus, pinning it to the ground.

"Way to go, Ace! That's how you do it!" Rex cheers on his partner.

Meanwhile, Michelle had a more disbelieving expression rather than an excited one. "Dinosaurs? Fighting? Real life? What was in that coffee?" she asks, suddenly feeling queasy. The Edmontosaurus suddenly bit Ace's tail before swinging him in the opposite direction, where the Carnotaurus ended up crashing inside a goal net. "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!" Michelle cheered as she waved a spinning noise maker in the air.

"I feel ashamed now." Rex says in a shameful tone.

The Edmontosaurus slammed it's front legs on the ground as it glowed green, cracks forming on the earth as they sped towards the Carnotaurus. "That move again? I'll counter with Biting Wind!" Rex exclaims as he activates the move card.

Ace roared into the air, glowing his respective elemental color, as tornadoes landed behind him. At that moment, crescent shaped blades of wind began shooting out of the tornadoes as they sped towards the Edmontosaurus. The razor sharp crescent shape wind blades easily cut through the thorny vines that dove in and out of the ground before finally speeding towards the next target: the Edmontosaurus itself. Seeing it's attack failed and that blades of sharp wind was heading towards it, the hadrosaur roared in surprise before being struck by the wind element attack. The Edmontosaurus stumbled back a bit until the attack ended, prompting the hadrosaur to collapse to the ground, using it's front legs as support.

"You want more? Let's finish this off with Ultimate Wind! GO!" Rex loudly proclaims, activating the second move card.

Ace glowed his respective color once more as strong winds began to surround the Carnotaurus. Shortly afterwards, Ace was now wearing the winds as a sort of propulsion device as he sped towards the Edmontosaurus, the wind blasting from his tail like a jet. The Edmontosaurus, seeing Ace charging towards it, tried to get up only to writhe on the ground some more. With absolutely no way of dodging the attack, Ace collided with the Edmontosaurus hard, earning a loud roar from the hadrosaur before it finally collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. It glowed green before returning to it's card, the battlefield disappearing afterwards.

"Alright, Ace!" Rex cheered for his partner.

"What just happened?!" Michelle exclaimed in utter confusion.

Rex approached the Edmontosaurus card and picked it up, a small smile on his face when he did so. "One more for the collection." he says, placing the card in his pocket. He turned around only to realize that Michelle was still standing there, witnessing the entire thing. "Ms. Michelle." he says.

"Rex," she says his name in caution. "what… was… that?"

"I uh…" Rex sighed in defeat, knowing full well he had to come clean. "Alright… You already know that dinosaurs have been… coming back from 'extinction' for a while now, right?" Michelle nodded in response. "Well… what you don't know… is that me, Max and Zoe have been going all around the world battling these dinosaurs with, as you can see-" Rex motioned to his partner, whom was in the process of licking his genitals like a cat. "Ace! Knock it off! Not in public!" Ace flinched upon being yelled at, quickly standing straight up. "As you can see, we have our own dinosaurs."

"So you battle dinosaurs with other dinosaurs?" Michelle asks.

"Yeah. Not just me. Other people do it too. Like those three earlier? They have their own dinosaurs as well." Rex explained.

"Well…" Michelle paused for a moment to think of something. "I can't say I fully understand but… Well, as you clearly showed just now that you can fight other dinos with your own dinos. And if you didn't do that then this school would've been destroyed which meant no more school for kids which means no more education for them! So thank you Rex for saving the school!"

"No problem, Ms. Michelle." Rex replies with a smile.

"Oho, please. Just call me Michelle!" she enthusiastically dismisses. "One other thing I don't get. How are the dinosaurs coming back to life… and why are they in cards?" She suddenly gasped dramatically. "Oh. My. Goodness! Don't tell me! These are new types of dinosaurs that someone created and preserved them in cards so they could be the most famous dinosaur enthusiast in the world right?!"

"I mean, my parents got them from somewhere. The Spinosaurus isn't even scientifically accurate and yet he's in a card." Rex replies in a monotonous voice.

"So you're saying that modern day paleontology and everything we know about dinosaurs is complete bullshit?" Michelle asks.

"I'm 13! How should I know?"

Meanwhile, back inside Michelle's classroom, Max was in the process of explaining to the class what the DinoShot really was without actually having to explain it to them. "As you can see," Max continues. "this is nothing more than a mere portable card case that I can take anywhere. The cards in question are nothing more but trading cards because I like trading cards. It is shaped like a gun for… reasonable purposes. Thank you." In response, the entire classroom began to shout and cheer while applauding Max for his valid explanation, shouting various praises to his ego.

"Bloody brilliant!"

"Of course!"

Max simply chuckled silently to himself, enjoying the praise and attention he was receiving from the class. Zoe meanwhile had a more annoyed look, admittedly kind of peeved that so many people actually fell for Max's obvious lie. Beside her was Amy, whom had a clueless expression on her face as she continuously glanced in every direction, as if this was her first time in the classroom. "How did that even work, I'll never know." Zoe says to herself in an unamused tone.

"How did the entire classroom get cleaned up in a short amount of time?" Amy asks aloud, almost in a scared tone.

"As much as I love to stay and take all the praise from you beneath me- Aaaaaaah, I mean uh, wonderful classmates," Max corrected himself at the last second. "I… actually have to go to the bathroom. BRB!"

With that said, Max ran out of the classroom in a flash, literally in the blink of an eye. "What a swell guy." says a student. Zoe quickly reached into her bag and pulled out her own DinoShot before making a dash for the door, leaving behind a baffled Amy in her seat. "Zoe?" she questions.

Back outside, the Alpha Trio had just arrived on the soccer field, all having mundane expressions on their faces. "The two kids are back inside. Did you get the dinosaur card?" Zander asks the blonde.

In response, Rex showed the Edmontosaurus card with a flashy smile. "Alright! We got the Edmontosaurus card!" Ed enthusiastically exclaimed.

"You know what's weird? I haven't seen Max or Zoe at all. You would think they'd be here since this is the school they go to." Rex wonders out loud.

"Maybe they skipped? That's what we used to do." Ursula motions to the three of them.

Rex blankly stared at Ursula before growing an agitated look. "I hate the fact that that might be true." he admits.

All of a sudden, the school window suddenly shattered as Max literally dove into it, subsequently doing a sick roll to finish this. "Hi, Rex." Max greeted with a smile. Behind him, a small portion of the school's brick wall suddenly busted outward, as Zoe's shoe could be seen sticking out of it.

"Nevermind!" Rex corrects himself in a happy tone.

"Sorry we couldn't help you. We got caught up with… school." Max replies, before suddenly noticing Michelle standing behind the blonde. "Did she-"

"Yeah. She- She saw everything and she knows about what we do." Rex interjects with lidded eyes.

"Oh…" Max glanced up at the teacher. "Is that alright?"

"I'm not your parent but as your teacher, I'm obligated to say that education comes first so take that however you want." Michelle replies.

"Darn." Max whispers in defeat.

"What happened to the street?" Zoe asks, plucking some glass shards out of her hair.

The group turned around, noticing a pretty wrecked street, with a broken fire hydrant spewing water like a geyser, multiple cars flipped over, street lamps knocked over. It was pretty much chaos to say the least. "Hummer." Zander simply replies.

"I see." Zoe responds, somehow knowing what he meant.

At that moment, the school's speaker turned on, which only meant one thing. "Attention," the principal says. "I'm your principal. Due to the fact that a literal fucking dinosaur fight happened on the soccer field, all soccer related activities are cancelled. Also, this seems like a reasonable excuse to just cancel school for today. Don't it?"

"Sir, that's- that's not a reasonable excuse at all."

"Shut up, Karl. I'm lazy."

With that, the speaker turned off, resulting in an awkward silence amongst the group. "What a swell guy." Max comments in an excited tone, happy that school ended early.

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THE BACKLAND - Honestly, who knows what time it is at this point…

"You are telling me zat you couldn't even go to ze grocery store?!" Helga shouted at the three Alpha Gang members in front of her, whom were all at the dinner table along with the Ancients.

"But there was a dinosaur." Ursula whined.

Meanwhile, Dr. Ancient and Dr. Cretacia simply sat on the other end of the table, both trying their best to close out the scolding the grown adults were getting from the android. "Nein! I don't care if zere vere a million T-Rexes! Now ve have no food for dinner tonight so zis is vat ve're having tonight!" Helga then dropped a bowl which was filled with nothing but hot water and a single rock inside of it.

"But Helga, this is just a rock in a bowl." Zander whines, pointing to his bowl.

"And zat is vat you are going to get since you couldn't even get ze groceries! Now ze grocery store is closed so now I'm going to have to go zere tomorrow!"

"…We could order pizza." Dr. Ancient suggests.

"Oh, yeah. That works."

"Good idea."

"I like pizza."

Right at that moment, the automatic doors opened, revealing Rod and Laura, both having defeated expressions on their face. "Rod. Laura. What's wrong?" Dr. Ancient asks the two kids.

"We tried our best, but…" Rod started.

"We couldn't find any other alternative fuel source. Sorry." Laura finishes with an apology.

"Aww, don't be sorry. It was a shot in the dark anyway." Dr. Ancient says, gently rubbing Laura's head and fluffing her hair, prompting her to giggle. "We'll find another source to power the reactor. Now have a seat, we're about to order."

"Master Ancient!" shouts a familiar voice as the automatic doors opened.

"What is it Jonathan?" the doctor asks.

"Turn on the TV! You need to see this!"

Without wasting a second, Dr. Ancient quickly grabbed the remote and turned on the huge flat screen TV installed to the wall of the Backland, immediately showcasing a news report, with - no surprise - the usual newswoman.

"-saur attacks over the course of the month." the newswoman was in the middle of reporting. "Throughout the month, various dinosaurs have been spotted all over the globe. The earliest of sightings being in a small town Washington named Monroe to the more recent of sightings to our very own city."

The TV showed various images, showing the aftermath of the various damages throughout Sanjo City, Monroe, the construction site in Niger, Costa Rica, and Él Tabo. All while they were showing this, everyone in the room had their eyes set on the screen, unable to take their eyes off of the screen.

"However," the newswoman continues. "this is not the first time dinosaurs have been spotted in the modern world before. Two years ago, similar occurrences like these recent ones happened all around the globe before, the first sighting being - again - Sanjo City."

The TV then cut to a shot of Terry roaring before chomping down on Chomp's horn, showing the very first time they battled. "Aaaah! My Terry! Look at him go!" Ursula exclaimed in excitement.

"As to the exact causes of these occurrences are unknown, rumors have it that multiple eyewitnesses around the globe claim to see the dinosaurs turning into cards. Not only that, but many eyewitnesses say that two small groups of three are often seen, get this, fighting the dinosaurs as well as each other. What the exact reasons are for these two groups are unknown, another question is rising. What in the world is going on?"

"Great." Dr. Ancient grumbles in anger. "Now the public knows about us. No doubt they're gonna be wanting answers to all this dinosaur nonsense."

"Or maybe they'll want our autographs?" Dr. Cretacia hopefully guesses.

"Master Ancient, if I may ask, is this bad?" Jonathan asks.

"Very." Dr. Ancient replies. "If the wrong person gets their hand on these cards, it could very well end in disaster. That's why it's imperative that we retrieve all of them. Those six cards that were stolen are still out there and the longer they're out there, the more dangerous they'll be."

"Honey," his wife suddenly speaks up. "it's the way we were behaving. Making too much noise. This was inevitable. It would've been hard to cover up as large as dinosaurs roaming the Earth again in the first place. This was eventually gonna happen."

"I know. I know." the doctor agrees tiredly. "I just need those cards back. Especially now we know Seth is back… He could quite well have the cards."

"What about Mr. Mills?" Ed asks from afar.

"The Spy Flies are already out on reconnaissance." Dr. Cretacia replies. "It's only a matter of time before we eventually find him. Who knows. It could be as soon as right now to as late as… end of time." Dr. Cretacia finished with a brimming smile.

"Hey guys, um, I hate to ask this but… do any of you want pineapple on your pizza?" Zander asks, currently covering the speaker of the telephone he was holding.

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FRANCIS' ROOM - Sometime in the evening, I lost track of time tbh

The bedroom door opened, slowly revealing Francis' dark room that was only illuminated by the moonlight. The teen in question threw his backpack to the floor before taking off his sunglasses and hanging them over his door handle. Subsequently, he took off his car bolt necklace and hung it over his bed frame railing before switching on his green and blue lava lamp, finally illuminating enough light to see his room.

His room, to say the lease, was a mess. Dirty clothes littered everywhere, unmade bed, overflowed trash, various empty soda cans on his desk counter. However, what stood out the most in his bedroom was the fact it was mostly pirate themed, with a pirate skull poster pinned to his wall, two swords planted on the wall, an old ship wheel nailed to the wall like the others. There was even a pirate flag over his bed, which was surprisingly normal and not pirate themed. It was just unmade and messy.

After throwing his bag away and taking off his jewelry and accessories, Francis laid back in his gamer chair, letting out a huge sigh of exhaustion. "Washington." Francis mumbles, obviously still peeved about earlier today. "And she has no idea when he's gonna be back. And here I thought I could make a quick buck by selling the darn thing so I could finally prove to Sam I'm not so worthless as she says."

Francis reached into his pocket and pulled out something, staring apologetically at it. "Sorry, buddy, but… I have no other use for you now."

With that said, the teen flicked the object he had in his hand to the side, revealing that said object was none other than the Gorgosaurus card he had found. The card slowly floated down into his wastebasket before lying still with the rest of his trash, which was mostly used tissue and various candy wrappers and chip bags.

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SOMEWHERE IN KENYA - 2:14:09

Crickets chirped as the half moon lit its reflective sunlight onto the small town below, where two men could be seen sitting in an outside cafe. Yes, it was 2 AM in Kenya, Africa, and a cafe is still open. Deal with it. Three men could be seen sitting at one of the outside tables, a dimly lit light shining beside them installed to the wall of the cafe. These three men were none other than Double Barrel Jericho, Él Matacho, and Ungaro, whom all appeared to be waiting for something.

"You sure he's coming?" Ungaro asks, getting sick of waiting.

"Give 'im time, mate." Jericho replies, taking a sip from his bourbon.

"Bourbon at 2 o'clock in the morning?" Él Matacho questions.

Right at that moment, the sound of a stick snapping was heard, startling the three men as they turned to the corner of the cafe. "That must be him." Jericho comments. The three continued to stare at the corner of the cafe as the footsteps grew louder and louder. Jericho grew a sly grin while Él Matacho had a more anxious one and while Ungaro was trying to mask his fear, he was doing a poor job at it though. Eventually, someone rounded the corner as they walked into the light, revealing themselves to be NOT the Fist but rather the same young man from Vegas that was in Costa Rica making a deal with Él Matacho a few days ago.

"Yo." he simply greeted in a lazy tone.

"The hell?" Ungaro asks, wondering why some random kid showed up.

"This niño again?" Él Matacho asks.

"Where's the Fist?" Jericho asks.

The young man took a chair from another table, turning the chair around before sitting in it backwards before presenting his answer. "Never mind him. I'm here for you." the young man tells Jericho.

"What do you mean?" the Aussie asks in confusion.

"I teed up Michael Maddox for you and you sell me out? What the hell, man?" the kid asks angrily.

"Who is this kid, Jericho?" Ungaro asks the Aussie.

"He's nobody." he answers before glaring at the kid. "Get lost, Roscoe before you get hurt."

The young man, now known as Roscoe - although whether or not that was his first or surname was unknown - scoffed at Jericho's arrogance, shaking his head in anger. "Yeah, you know what, I came a long way down here from Vegas. I had to pull some strings with some friends of mine to locate you. Yeah, that's right. Ol' Nicky here has ties with the FBI."

Jericho's face scrunched in rage. "You snake." Jericho shot up and pulled out his double barrel shotgun.

"Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah!" Ungaro shouted as he quickly hid underneath the table.

"Jericho!" Él Matacho shouts at his uneasy ally. "Stop trying to shoot people, you maniac!"

The young man, now officially known as Nick Roscoe, suddenly stood up and pulled out his own gun, which was a 9mm handgun, and aimed it gangster style towards Jericho's face. "Who the fuck are you calling a snake, dude?! You ratted me out first! If anything I should call you a snake! In my neighborhood, we have a gang we don't like called the Snakebacks. You know what we do with them? We run them over and feed 'em to our hounds!"

"I'm goin to blow yer head right off your neck, wanker." Jericho quietly threatened.

"Would you shut up?! People are trying to sleep!" shouts a random person from their house before slamming their windows shut.

"Great. You woke up the neighbors." Ungaro says, still hiding behind the knocked over table.

"Gentlemen." says an unknown voice.

Almost immediately, everyone turned to the direction of where the voice came from, all pulling out their own guns. Nick still aimed his 9mm, as did Jericho with his shotgun, while Él Matacho pulled out a pair of silver and gold revolvers while Ungaro pulled out an elephant gun. "Who's there?" Él Matacho asks, waving his guns at the unknown person.

The unknown person in question stepped out a little, his face still hidden in the shadows while also revealing he was wearing a sort of robe. "A mere ally of course." says the man.

"Ally?" Ungaro questions.

"Are you the Fist?" Jericho asks.

The unknown man suddenly chuckled in the darkness, prompting the men to flinch their guns towards the man out of reaction. "So it's true. You don't know who the Fist is."

"Damn." Jericho hissed, his guard let down as the cat was now out of the bag.

"Wait! You're telling me you had no idea who the Fist is?!" Él Matacho shouted at Jericho. "All this time you acted like you knew who he was!"

"He's my employer, that's who. He remained anonymous and offered a great sum of money in exchange for the dinosaur card. I didn't ask why." Jericho explains.

"But- But- But the gold-"

"The gold was for me, jackass! I don't give a rats ass why the Fist wants the card. All I cared about was getting me hands on some gold bars so we could use it as payment in case we need to buy the card off someone!"

"So why am I wrapped up in this?" Ungaro asks.

"You're a hunter! The Fist thought you were the best option in hunting these things!"

"So why is he here?!" Él Matacho loudly asks, pointing his gold revolver at Nick.

"Ay, fuck you holmes! I have business to finish with this asshole for selling me out back in-" Nick suddenly ducked out of the way as Jericho fired his weapon, hitting the dirt and barely missing Nick. "Fuck!" Nick retaliated by firing his own weapon at the Australian, successfully hitting him in the shoulder.

"Ah! You fuckin' cocksucking, motherfucking asshole mongrel!" Jericho aimed his double barrel shotgun once more and fired it, hitting the corner of a wall that Nick was hiding.

"Gentlemen!" shouts the unknown man. "I came here for an offering! Not a gun show! Put your weapons down."

"Yeah?" Él Matacho asks, clearly not intimidated in the slightest. "Well how are you going to do that, idiota?" All of a sudden, a large foot stomped on the ground behind Ungaro and Él Matacho, freezing both of them on the spot. The two of them slowly looked up, seeing the teeth of a bipedal carnivore. "Ay… Dios… Mío…" Él Matacho mumbles in fear.

"I'm not the one who should be afraid of gentlemen." the shadowy figure says.

"What. The. Fuck?" Nick questions, eyes wide opened upon the sight of a dinosaur.

"Dinosaurs?! Again?! I just can't escape them!" Ungaro shouts in absolute horror.

"Relax." the shadowy figure speaks up. "She's going to harm you. Unless you don't agree to my terms."

The four men turned to the shadowy figure. "What are you talking about?" Jericho asks.

"I'm simply asking the request for your alliance is all." the figure starts to explain. "You see, me and my 'partner' are of need of much, MUCH needed muscle. While we have our own, it is still beneficial that we still have more allies than our enemies. And if I'm correct, we all have a common enemy here. The D-Team and the Alpha Gang." The four men in question grew confused looks, obviously not knowing who the man was talking about. "Obviously, you have no idea whom I'm talking about. Allow me to clarify. Jericho, the same group of kids and bumbling idiots are the very ones I'm talking about. Él Matacho, Costa Rica."

"How do you…" Él Matacho stopped himself, not knowing the dark reasons of this mysterious man as to how he knows about him.

"And Ungaro. You were once allies with the Alpha Gang but still, those D-Team brats ruined your career. I'm betting you're just itching for some payback."

Ungaro squeezed his gun, the mere memories of the three kids angering him. "You have no clue." Ungaro seethes through his gritted teeth.

"I'm not even with these guys by the way, dude. I don't know who the hell you're talking about, man." Nick says to the shadowy figure.

"Correct me if I'm wrong," the man says. "but you do have a friend in the FBI, don't you?" Nick shut his mouth, knowing full well the man was right. It was a checkmate for him. "Thought so. We could use that on our side. Gentlemen, what I am offering you is a chance to become leading members of a new world. A world where we no longer have to worry about violence or murder or any other horrific man-made crime. Because the new world will have no man, as it will be ruled by the ones who came before us: Dinosaurs."

The four men simply stared at the man as if he had grown a second head, obviously not believing his story. "What the fuck are talking about, asshole?" Nick asks the man.

The carnivorous dinosaur suddenly growled, blowing both Ungaro's and Él Matacho's hats off, scaring the poor men. "I would be very careful with what you say to me. Otherwise Bertha here might eat your friends up." The carnivorous dinosaur growled as it licked it's lips, getting slobber all over the two men below her.

"Oh God." Ungaro mumbles in a mixture of fear and disgust.

Nick simply turned to Jericho, whom was holding his gunshot wound while shooting Nick a confused look. The young man then turned to the shadowy figure. "Kill them. They're not my friends." Nick says to the man.

The shadowy figure stepped back a bit, a gesture that made Jericho grin like an idiot. "You have no clue who the hell this wanker is, do ya?" Jericho asks the man.

"It doesn't matter." the shadowy man replies. "He's still a valuable asset. An asset worth being on our side."

"Uh, hello? I'm right here! Do I get a say in this?" Nick asks the man.

"Considering that I can have my dinosaur eat you all up right now if you don't agree, I say no." The four men turned to each other, all having confused looks before silently agreeing on something.

"If we say yes… will we live?" Nick asks.

"But of course." the man replies.

Nick glanced at the other man before turning to the shadowy figure. "I'm not sure about them but… if siding with you will get me to live another day then, so be it." Nick agrees to the alliance.

"What about the Fist?" Jericho asks.

"Who cares about that jackass? I just want some big fat revenge on those three brats." Ungaro harshly exclaims. "I'm in."

"I'm only joining because I don't want to get eaten like Diego." Él Matacho squeaks, feeling the hot breath of the carnivorous dinosaur behind him.

"Well Jericho?" the shadow man asks.

The other three men turned to the wounded Australian criminal, whom stared intensely at the shadowy figure. "Whatever won't get me killed. Besides," he suddenly grew a smile. "I've been meaning to teach those ankle biters a lesson."

The shadowy man suddenly stepped out of the darkness, finally revealing themselves to be… Seth. The man in question walked over to the bar and picked up Jericho's half drank bourbon. "Then here's to a beautiful friendship where it'll lead to utter world domination and the birth of a new world. Tchin." With that said, Seth took a sip from the glass of bourbon before setting it down back on the table. "Now," he says. "let's get down to business, shall we gentlemen?" Seth asks, a wicked smile slowly forming on his face.

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Ursula, Zander, and Ed could be seen sitting on a couch inside of an apartment they were renting as the Backland had been entirely remodeled from the inside. Their bedrooms were no longer their bedrooms but now the engine room, so they had to rent an apartment in Sanjo City as a place to live. Currently, the three of them were sitting on the couch, eating popsicles and watching whatever crap was on TV.

"The Engineer is a bloody SENTRY! WOOOOOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOHOHAAAAAHOHOHO!"

"I heard that game is fun." Ursula says in a bored tone.

"Team Fortress 2? Oh yeah, I love that game." Zander says.

Ed held in a snort as he tried to hold back a grin. "I love that mumbo jumbo." he chuckles.

Zander immediately burst out laughing as Ed could no longer hold back his own laughter, the two men now hysterically laughing while Ursula had an annoyed and agitated frown. Much like the laughing wolves meme which isn't even a thing at this point in the story as it's 2010. "I should've rented my own apartment." Ursula grumbles in anger.

"Mumbo jumbo!" Zander laughed in the background.

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(holy shit. seth is back. ooooooooh. yeah, kind of obvious lmao

lunch at 8:00 lol. i'm not even gonna fix that, i think that's just a funny little one time gag i think i'm gonna keep in lmao

also i like to imagine that during the scene where Zander was showing the necklace he got for Reese, the very first part with the piano of Welcome to Jurassic Park is quietly playing in the background. seriously, read that scene with that going on in the background. it really sells it… for some reason…

anyways again i apologize for how shit this chapter is kokbye)