Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril Chapter 30: Trauma and Drama, a dinosaur king fanfic

(Title of the chapter was thought of by Mauselet. Thanks, mate for allowing me to use the title! It fits perfectly for this chapter.)

*Wild Dances by Ruslana plays…*

Stoned Chompski presents…

Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril

Featuring: Ruslana (not really)

Hey! Hey, hey!

Hey! Hey. hey, hey!

Hey!

The planet Earth was shown floating idly in space.

Hey!

A satellite view of the entire country of Europe is shown.

Hey!

Now it primarily focuses on the country of Ukraine.

Hey!

Zooming in, the capital city - Kyiv - is shown.

Hey!

Somewhere in the city is a huge stadium where the sounds of a huge crowd cheering is heard.

Hey!

Zoom in closer to the stadium where the entire front of it is shown, where several guards could be seen in front, doing their jobs.

Hey!

Deeper inside the stadium somewhere in the main hall, the main stage could be seen from afar where the crowd were originating from, all still cheering loudly.

Hey!

We now see a clearer view of the main stage where several performers could be seen dancing along with the music as the crowd continued to cheer loudly for their performance. Some of the crowd were wearing shirts that read RUSLANA on it as they all cheered loudly for the performance, with a kid even sitting atop of his dad's shoulders as he screamed the loudest. The dancers continued to dance on the stage, performing splits, stomping, and even doing flips in the air before the main attraction literally slid onto the stage. The main singer, Ruslana.

Just maybe I'm crazy

The world spins round and round and round

Shi-ri-ki-di, shi-ri-ki-dan-dey

Shi-ri-ki-di, shi-ki-ri-ki-dan-dan

The crowd cheered as the main performer continued to sing onstage while the dancers continued to dance behind her as streams of fire shot up from behind the group. Some of the crowd even sang along with Ruslana as the entire stadium erupted in loud cheering, many fans waving flags and waving their hands in the air. Backstage, the stage manager oversaw the performance as the stagehands danced along with the song.

I want you to want me as I dance

Round and round and round

Shi-di-ri-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na

The stage manager suddenly pointed to an offscreen stagehand while using his headset to communicate through the loud music. "Cue fireworks." he orders the stagehand.

Forever and ever go, go, go wild dancers!

Just right on cue, the fireworks were lit as they shot upwards into the stadium, the flames running cold so nothing would catch on fire. The tip of a match was hotter than the fireworks that you could even put your hand on it and be unharmed.

Day-na-day-na Wanna be loved

Day-na Gonna take my wild chances

Day-na-day-na Freedom above

Day-na-da-na-da I'm wild 'n' dancing

Unbeknownst to absolutely anyone in the stadium, there was an unaccounted item high above the stage in the rafters. The time being, an egg capsule containing two dinosaur cards.

Hey!

A fan in the crowd blew an ear piercing whistle with his fingers in his mouth before cheering some more, spinning his arm like a helicopter blade.

Napevno

Daremno

Bula ya nadto chemna

Hey, shi-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na

Behind the stage, a stagehand was currently walking over to the stage manager with a bucket of dirt in his hands, for some reason. "Hey, boss." he says to his employer. "Where do you want this bucket of dirt?"

His boss gave him a flabbergasted look in response. "Why the hell do you have a bucket of dirt?" he asks his employee in utter confusion.

Dlya tebe

Dlya sebe

Zastelyu tsile nebo

The egg capsule meanwhile had suddenly lost its balance in the rafters, falling off the rafters and towards the bucket of dirt. The egg capsule landed in the dirt, breaking upon impact as two dinosaur cards were revealed inside, both activating immediately upon touching the dirt inside the bucket. The bucket was instantly destroyed a medium sized ankylosaurid spawned to life, immediately roaring upon its entrance. This dinosaur was a Pinacosaurus and upon its entrance, immediately scared the stage manager and his stagehands as they all screamed in absolute terror.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" they all screamed.

Heeeeeeeeeeey!

shi-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na

Hey, shi-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na

Bez zhalyu zapalyu, go, go, go wild dancers!

Because of the loud music and cheering along with the pyrotechnics, none of the performers or the audience heard the dinosaur roaring or the many screams of the stagehands as they all continued to cheer for Ruslana. The woman continued to sing as her dancers kept performing behind her, continuing to entertain the crowd with various complex dance moves.

Day-na-day-na, wanna be loved

Day-na gonna take my wild chances

Day-na-day-na, freedom above

Day-na-da-na-day, I'm wild dancing

Behind the stage, the Pinacosaurus began to suddenly run berserk, having woken up in a strange world full of loud noise which did nothing but scare the poor thing. During the chaos, the ankylosaur knocked over various objects, ranging from speakers to a ladder that had an unfortunate stagehand on it, causing him to fall on the ground as everyone immediately ran for cover. Thinking it was under attack, the Pinacosaurus started to use its clubbed tail to begin counter attacking back, destroying more and more expensive equipment much to the stage manager's horror.

"Hey! Stop! That stuff is expensive! Awwww my wife is gonna kill me." the stage manager cried in defeat as more stuff continued to get smashed by the dinosaur.

He-e-e-e-ey!

Dance is forever, come and be mine

Dance together, till the end of time

Dance together, go, go, go wild dancers

The Pinacosaurus continued to smash stuff before having enough of this noisy environment, wanting nothing more than to break a hole in the wall and leave. So it did just that. The ankylosaur used its clubbed tail and, with all its might, smashed a huge hole in the wall, leaking in sunlight from the outside.

Day-na-day-na, wanna be loved

Day-na gonna take my wild chances

Day-na-day-na, freedom above

Day-na-da-na-day, I'm wild and dancing

Finally free the noisy environment, the Pinacosaurus wasted no time in fleeing from the stadium, escaping through the hole in the wall and running as fast as its legs could take him. The stage manager and his stage hands looked out through the hole in the wall to see the dinosaur rampaging through the city, with cars instantly stopping to avoid crashing into the dinosaur as other cars crashed into each other.

"We don't get paid enough for this crap." the stage manager mumbled in agitation.

Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

"I LOVE YOU, UKRAINE!" Ruslana yells into the mic after finishing her song.

Every single fan in the stadium erupted in loud cheering as they all clapped for the Ukrainian woman, absolutely unaware of what happened behind the stage. And unaware of the now recent rampaging dinosaur loose around the city.

*Seven Nation Army Glitch Mob Remix plays…*

I'm gonna fight 'em off

MAX TAYLOR

*Max is shown riding on a horse*

A seven nation army couldn't hold me back

REX OWEN

*Rex looks up into the sky as a huge shadow passes over his face*

They're gonna rip it off

ZOE DRAKE

*Zoe drives around the city recklessly as she puts the pedal to the metal*

Takin' their time right behind my back

URSULA, ZANDER, ED, DR. Z

*The gang stand tall and proud as their logo appears behind them with Dr. Z cackling evilly in front of them*

And the message comin' from my eyes

Says, "Leave it alone"

FRANCIS

*Francis walks out of a field of smoke wearing a gas mask*

*beat drop; epic part*

*Terry roars viciously at an opponent; Spiny slams his tail against a pillar, completely obliterating it; Chomp rams through several vehicles with his horns*

Yeah!

*Paris fires out Emerald Garden; Tank smashes through a wall and roars; Ace steps on a muddy puddle and roars into the air*

*the D-Team and the Alpha Gang are standing on a mountain side cliff with their chibi dinos standing either on their shoulder or beside them. Zoe is holding Paris in her hands, Ace is standing next to Rex's legs, the Alpha dinosaurs are standing next to each other as their owners stand over them, and Francis is shown kneeling down as a chibi Pachycephalosaurus stands idly next to him; Max, with a scowl on his face, aims his DinoShot as his hair flows through the wind as Chomp sits on his head.*

A seven nation army couldn't hold me back!

Dinosaur King: Prehistoric Peril

Yeah!

It was a known fact to mostly everyone that in the middle of Sanjo City, right in between the good neighborhoods and the bad neighborhoods, was a bar that allowed both minors and adults to visit. The only difference was that they didn't sell alcohol to minors, which was reasonable. This bar was known as the Red River Bar and currently, Francis and Zoe were inside it playing a game of pool as the bar was mostly filled with patrons while Driver A by Buju Banton played overhead. The cue ball had hit a red 3 ball which landed in the center left hole, courtesy of Francis whom moved to the other side of the table as Zoe watched on the sideline.

"I never knew this place existed." Zoe suddenly says as Francis shoots the cue ball to the orange 5 ball.

"Not many people come here." he says as the ball falls into the corner right pocket. "I understand why. It's in Midnight Gardens. You know. The neighborhood that's between both the good neighborhoods and the bad neighborhoods. Both good people and bad people come here all the time."

"How often do you come here?" the pinkette asks him.

Francis shot the cue ball at the yellow 1 ball, which struck the wall unfortunately. "Damn." he mumbles, the turn now in Zoe's hand. "Uuuh, every so often. Usually maybe two or three times a week."

Zoe aimed her cue stick at a striped purple 12 ball. "Seems more than every so often to me." she comments as she shoots the ball, scoring the 12 ball in a corner pocket.

"Yeah, well when you work for Dr. Z who's constantly telling you to steal this, destroy that… kill this guy, you have to at least make an effort to come here and unwind from time to time." Francis replies as he watches Zoe aim the cue stick at the green 14 ball. "Usually by now my morale compass would've been shattered but it helps that most of the people that I'm told to… well, you know… off, are scumbags and criminals so I don't feel too bad about it. Know what I mean?"

Zoe shot the cue ball at the 14 ball which fell in the center right pocket. "Still," she says as she goes over to the other side of the table. "taking a life is kind of… dark. Don't you ever feel, you know… conflicted?"

"All the time." Francis grimly replies. "I mean, look at me. I'm 15 years old and I'm some crazy doctor's hitman while also working for the Yakuza just to make some money for my family."

Zoe was currently aiming the cue ball at the red 11 ball before looking up at the raven haired boy. "You're doing this for your family?" she asks, taken by surprise by the reason.

Francis scratched the back of his head nervously. "Well, I mean… Yeah." he awkwardly replies, not knowing the proper response. "My mother doesn't work anymore because she's pretty much a shell of her former self so she mostly cleans the house. My dad hasn't had that much luck on his inventions so no company has hired him yet. My aunt straight up doesn't work and spends all her money on wine and cigarettes, and my sister is no better. She doesn't even give us money."

Zoe shot the cue ball at the 11 ball, missing the hole while passing the turn to Francis. "Does she even have money?" she questions him.

"Oh, are you kidding me?" Francis asks as he aims the cue ball at the wall. "She has tons of money from her scholarship. Loaded to the brim with cash. She just doesn't give us any because she's too busy using it for her school. I mean, I can understand but still. She could at least make an effort, ya know?"

He asks as he shoots the cue ball at the wall which bounced off and struck the blue 2 ball, potting it into the corner pocket. "Nice one." Zoe compliments. "So you're the only one making money for your family? And you're doing this through… crime?"

"Shit, Zoe." Francis scoffs. "That's something I was forced into for the necessity of my financial situation. My body is forced to rob and commit crimes in order to sustain my own well being and that of my immediate family. Do I enjoy it? No. Do I have a choice? Also no. It also doesn't help that I have some stupid Russian asshole threatening to kill me and my family. Take my advice, Zoe, don't get into this life. It's not worth it."

"No problem here, Frankie." Zoe responds, waving up defensive hands.

"Don't call me, Frankie." Francis bitterly replies as he aims the cue ball at the dark red 7 ball. "It's bad enough Dr. Z is calling me that but I can't do anything about it because he'll just bite my face off. Or is that Bartholomew who said that? I can't tell with that split personality of his. Makes him even more crazy than how he already is." he says as he shoots the cue ball at the 7 ball, knocking it into the corner pocket.

"How come you don't like to be called Frankie?" Zoe asks her boyfriend.

Francis remained silent as he aimed the cue ball at the black 8 ball, a bitter feeling of anger suddenly lighting inside him. "It's what my sister calls me." he replies to his friend as he shoots the cue ball at the 8 ball, scoring it into the corner pocket while winning the game.

Zoe said nothing in return, not knowing how to properly respond. To her, it sounded like Francis had the opposite relationship she has with her sister, as both were genius scholars yet Francis' sister was nothing more than a selfish woman only out for herself while Reese actually cared about her and their family. It made Zoe feel sympathetic to the poor teenager, not knowing how much inner pain he was going through just by having that mean of a sister.

Thankfully, the moment was interrupted when both their respective devices started beeping in their pockets, which only meant one thing. "A new dinosaur appeared." Zoe says as she looks at the holographic map on her DinoShot.

"Looks like it's in Europe." Francis guesses as he stares at the Alpha Scanner's screen. "Come on. Don't want to make Dr. Z anymore angry than what he already is. Let's go."

"What about the tab?" Zoe asks, gesturing to the bar.

"I already paid. I have enough cash to spend on myself. Let's go." Francis once again says, only to be interrupted by the bartender.

"Hey, Francis! Izumi's on the phone. Says he needs to talk to you." the bartender yells to the teen, whom was already out the door.

"Tell him I already know what he's gonna say and that I can't. I'm busy right now, Jack. Say it's a rain check, it's not that important." Francis yells back from afar.

"But he says it's urgent."

"Everything he says is urgent, Jack, and most of the time they're not. That's just Izumi being over dramatic as usual. Remember last Tuesday?"

"Don't remind me. I'll tell him you're busy but don't blame me when he yells at you."

"He never yells!" Francis then turned to Zoe. "Come on, let's go. No telling how mad Dr. Z is right now."

Zoe walked out the door and followed her boyfriend out the door. "Hate to be on the other end of his rage any day." she comments.

"Tell me about it." Francis responds, both exiting the bar.

Currently at the Taylor household, Max had invited Charlotte over so they could hang out themselves, rivaling Zoe and Francis' spare time at the moment. As of right now, Max was drinking a nice cup of hot chocolate with Charlotte as they sat on the couch and watched TV.

"You're under arrest for distribution of coke!"

"Whatever!"

"Whatever? This is bad coke!"

"Detective!"

"Aaaaah." the brunet sighs in a relaxed tone. "Nothing beats hot chocolate while watching trash TV with a friend. Absolutely nothing."

Charlotte sat next to him, she too was drinking a cup of hot chocolate. "I gotta thank your mum for buying sugar free hot chocolate for my diabetes." she says to the brunet.

As if on cue, Aki walked into the room, holding a basket of dirty laundry in her hand. "Anything for my son's girlfriend." she teases, causing the brunet to blush madly, almost spilling his cup of hot chocolate. "Your his first girlfriend so I wanted to make a good first impression."

"Moooooooom!" Max yells at her in embarrassment. "She's not- She's not my girlfriend! She's just- you know, a friend who happens to be a girl."

"I wouldn't mind being your girlfriend, Maxy." Charlotte flirts with him with an equally flirtatious smile.

This just caused Max to blush even more as a smile slowly creeped up on his face. "As I said, my girlfriend." Max shyly boasts as he takes a sip of his hot chocolate.

Aki giggled in response. "Have fun you two." she says before suddenly growing an extremely serious look. "Just don't do anything irresponsible, Maximus, you understand me?"

"Yes, mom." Max nervously replies, genuinely scared of his mom at the moment.

"Great! Have fun!" With that, Aki walked out of the room to continue doing laundry.

For a brief moment, Max and Charlotte sat in awkward silence as they continued to watch whatever TV show was on the screen.

"You need to hang up that computer call. Come over and kiss me on my hot mouth. I'm feeling romantical."

"Sooooo…" Max suddenly says, interrupting the awkward silence. "Are we, like… official?"

Charlotte sighed as she set her cup of hot chocolate on the table. "Max," she softly begins. "you have shown nothing but kindness and courtesy to me when I first arrived here in Sanjo. It's been three weeks and every single day after school you walk me home to make sure I'm alright. You're funny, you make me laugh, but most of all, I'm happiest when I'm with you." She shyly smiles as she shifts her hair behind her ear. "And truth be told, Max… you are the cutest guy I've ever met."

Max couldn't help but smile greatly as his cheeks flushed red, prompting him to glance in another direction in excitement. "You're… You're pretty cute too." he shyly admits with a smile.

"So, if you want to be boyfriend and girlfriend, I don't have any objections." Charlotte tells him.

Max smiled once more, slowly hovering his hand over hers to grab onto it… until his DinoShot began beeping, interrupting the romantic moment. "Are you freakin' kidding me? Now?! Of all times?!" he yells at the device as he grabs it. "Oh, great! Just what I needed. Another dinosaur! Sorry, Charlotte but I've gotta go to the D-Lab so we can get this stupid dinosaur from," he squinted at the screen to take a look at the map. "What is that? Switzerland? Ah, forget it. It's in Europe somewhere. No one likes Europe."

"I'm from Europe." Charlotte reminds him.

"Uuuuuuuh-"

"And you make a point."

"Oh, thank God." Max sighs in utter relief.

"Mind if I tag along with you? I'd love to explore more of the D-Lab if that's okay with, what's her name? Cree?" Charlotte questions with a raised brow.

"Reese. And sure. If it's alright with her that is." Max replies as he stands up on the couch. "We better hurry. Reese doesn't like waiting when it comes to these things."

"And when you get back, we could go on a proper date." Charlotte offers.

Max's smile could be seen from miles as a massive blush appeared on his face, ecstatic he had got asked out on a date. "Yes!" he quickly exclaims before regaining his composure, chuckling in embarrassment. "Uh, I mean, you know." He cleared his throat and put on a suave expression… or tried to at least. "Yeah, that's cool with me, baby."

OH MY GOD! THAT WAS SO HORRIBLE! Max yells at himself in his head.

Charlotte stood up afterwards. "Lead the way, Maxy!" she exclaims with a smile.

Max chuckled in response. "Heheh. I could get used to that." he whispers to himself with a grin.

While Max and Charlotte left to head to the D-Lab, the other couple - Zoe and Francis - had already arrived at the Backland, where they immediately saw Bernard hanging out by the entrance. "Hey, Bernard." Francis greets the man as they walk inside.

"Hey, Francis." he greets back with a wave.

The two entered the crashed ship where they immediately ran into Mr. Mills. "Hey… You." Francis awkwardly greets the man, not knowing his name. "Where's Dr. Z?"

"You incompetent fool! How stupid are you?!" shouts Dr. Z from afar, his voice echoing throughout the hallway.

"Take a guess." Mr. Mills replies as he heads inside a room while carrying a stack of papers.

The two walked down the hallway before entering the Alpha Gang's main room, where the trio were already suffering the wrath of their leader, whom was busy yelling at someone over the phone. "You stupid prick! What kind of idiot do you take me for?! I'll eat your guts out! You bring me the vig or I'll cut your balls off you blasted buffoon!" Dr. Z yells in absolute rage before smashing the phone on the ground.

All the trio could do was just awkwardly stand there, not knowing if they should step in or not. Ed opened his mouth to say something only to back out at the last second, knowing it wouldn't end well if he did. "Dr. Z." Francis greets the doctor, not even phased by his psychopathic nature at this point.

"Frankie!" Dr. Z yells at him as he approaches the teen. "Take my advice, Frankie. Every single dumb bastard you work with is just a leech on your skin." The crazed doctor suddenly saw Zander eyeing him from afar. "What are you looking at?!"

In response, Dr. Z threw a DVD player at the tall man, which struck him as it knocked him to the ground and completely shattered upon impact.

"Oh you mean like you? I mean, I am working with you." Francis reminds the old man.

"Don't you start with me, boy!" Dr. Z yells at him. "Anyway, we've got a deal going on! You work for me and I help with that problem of yours."

"How's that working out by the way?"

"Yeah, I nearly got something on that. Hold your horses." Dr. Z then noticed Ursula slowly walking away. "Where do you think you're going?!" The crazed doctor grabbed a vase and threw it at the greenette, the vase colliding with her as she too got knocked to the ground while the ceramic pot shattered in a hundred pieces. "What're you doing here anyway? I didn't call for you!… Wait, did I? My memory isn't that good nowadays." He then suddenly noticed Zoe. "Who the hell are you?"

"Uh, there's a dinosaur. Don't you have your Scanner on?" Francis asks the doctor.

"Wha?" Dr. Z pulled out his Scanner from his lab coat to see that there was indeed a dinosaur in Europe. "Oh, it's on silent. I forgot I set it to that so I could take my 2 o'clock nap."

"But… It's 11:38." Zoe cautiously reveals.

Only for Dr. Z to yell at her face. "Are you calling me a crazy old hag that doesn't know what time it is?!" he yells at her in absolute rage.

"What? No! That's not at all what I'm-"

"Seriously? Are you? I- I lost my hearing aid last week so I can't hear well these days." He suddenly bent down and picked up the broken phone, glaring at it. "Which is something this dipshit should learn if he wants to get me that damn VIG THAT DAMN FOOL!" Dr. Z yells before slamming the phone to the ground.

"Welcome to Sanjo Auto Repair, how may we direct your call?"

The crazy doctor stomped on the phone, completely destroying it. . "Stupid phone! How do you guys deal with these things in this time period? All we have are holographic video calls. Sure it ruins the privacy but so do most things in the future. Especially the bathroom robots. Uh, what I was talking about again?"

"The dinosaur." Francis annoyingly replies with lidded eyes.

"Ah, yes! The dinosaur!" He suddenly turned to the trio. "You three!"

"Ah!" Zander and Ursula yelped, thinking he was going to throw something at them. Ursula even had the top of the broken vase on her head.

Only Ed was unaffected by this. "Hi." he innocently greets.

"Take the Alpha Plane or whatever, I don't know. Jus- Just get out of my sight! I need to take my 3 o'clock nap!"

"It's 11:40 and I thought it was your 2 o'clock na-"

Zoe was interrupted by Dr. Z once again, or in this case, Bartholomew. "GET OUT OF HERE!"

"Yes, Dr. Z!" she quickly obliged as she drags Francis away, genuinely scared of the crazy scientist. "Come on, let's get out of here."

Zoe dragged Francis out of the room as the Alpha Trio followed suit, not wanting to suffer Dr. Z's wrath anymore then they had to, leaving only Dr. Z to himself in the room. "What happened to the phone?!" he yells at no one, having already forgotten the mess he made.

Both Ed and Zander flipped some switches on inside the Alpha Plane before turning the engine on as it roared to life. "Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking." Zander mimics over the speaker. "We are preparing to take off-"

"We're not doing this again! Just go!" Ursula yells at the tall man, much to his surprise.

"Yes, ma'am!"

The hangar door opened and soon the plane took off, flying towards the sky and heading towards their destination, flying right over Max and Charlotte that were approaching the D-Lab. "Huh. Weird plane." Charlotte comments.

"Eh, it's probably one of Dr. Z's vehicles. Don't mind it." Max replies as they reach the D-Lab's main entrance.

"If you say so."

Meanwhile inside the D-Lab, Rex and Reese weren't having the best of days. Mostly because of W.E.S.L.E.Y. stuck on a loop of proclaiming statement. Currently, Rex was covering his ears with his hands while Ace buried his face underneath his doggy bed just so he could drown out the annoying A.I.. Reese meanwhile just held her head in her hands, nearly on the brink of insanity, her mental strength and endurance wearing thin.

~Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room full of rats. And rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room full of rats. And rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy-~

Right at that moment, Max and Charlotte entered the room, immediately putting a stop to W.E.S.L.E.Y.'s ranting loop.

~once. They locked me in a room. A rubber- LOL INTRUDER! LOL INTRUDER! LOL INTRUDER!~

"Shut UP!" Reese yells at the A.I. as she slaps the super computer.

This actually manages to stop the A.I.'s blaring alarm before his face turns into an annoyed look on his screen. ~that was very rude.~

"What's going on?" Charlotte asks the group.

"W.E.S.L.E.Y. started going on an infinite loop about how rats make him crazy and they locked him in a rubber room full of rats." Rex explains tiredly. "All because I said the word 'crazy' one time."

~Crazy?~

"Nope! Not doing this." Reese quickly responds as she presses the mute button of the remote for the A.I..

~I was crazy-~

"Finally, peace and quiet." Rex sighs in relief.

"Don't get used to it. It only works for 10 minutes." Reese explains.

"Good thing we're not going to be here because another dinosaur appeared." Max enthusiastically exclaims.

"Where's it at?" his blonde male friend asks.

Reese looked to the screen to show the map of Europe. "In Kyiv, Ukraine. The capital of the country. And judging by the purple dot, it's an Earth element." she explains to the group.

"Never been to Ukraine before. Hope there are a lot of sights to see." Max audibly hopes.

"Don't get distracted, Max. We're going there for a dinosaur." Rex tells his friend as he picks up Ace.

Max did the same to Chomp, both teens clinging onto their chibi partners to their chests. "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Always a buzzkill, Rex." Max replies with an eye roll as they entered the teleporter, both pressing the buttons on their respective DinoShots.

This only left Charlotte and Reese together alone in the D-Lab, an awkward silence soon looming over the two. Before Charlotte broke it. "So the dinosaurs turn into cards, right? Where do you keep those cards? In like a card folio?" the London woman asks the blonde.

Reese lidded her eyes in response.

In a split second, Max and Rex were in the D-Lab and in the next they were in Kyiv, Ukraine, 10 feet above the ground as per usual which they gotten used to at this point as they landed on their feet. "Huh. That's weird." Max suddenly says as he and Rex let go of their partners.

"What is?" his blonde friend asks him.

"This place doesn't look like there's been a dinosaur here. Not even the people are screaming and running in terror."

Right at that moment, a Ukrainian man suddenly came running past the two. "Help! Some crazy hobo is trying to steal my kidneys!" he yells.

Following suit was supposedly hobo. "Haha! Give me your kidneys! Mwahahaha!" laughs the hobo.

"Nevermind."

Another man suddenly came walking by them, this time not running in terror. "Excuse me, sir." Rex politely asks, grabbing the man's attention. "Have you seen a dinosaur anywhere lately?"

"A dinosaur? Aren't those things extinct kid?" the Ukrainian man questions. He then noticed the two chibi dinosaurs staring up at him. "Weird foreign mutts." he mumbles as he walks away.

"Hey! We're not mutts!" Max yells at the man.

"Uh, Max. I think he meant our dinos." Rex tells him.

"Oh." Max replies with a blank face of realization. "Well, we better get to searching. I doubt we'll have to search for long. I mean, how long will it even take to find a giant animal in the city?"

3 HOURS LATER…

Hours later and the two kids still have not found the dinosaur, much to the two's annoyance as exhausted expressions were on their faces. "You just had to say something, Max. Didn't you?" Rex agitatedly tells his friend with a side glance.

"Rex, I'm not in the mood for your attitude." Max tiredly replies as the two trudge down the street.

Even their dinosaur partners were tired of walking, evident when the two of them suddenly fell to the ground in exhaustion. Unbeknownst to the two, up above them flew the Alpha Plane, currently holding the remaining members of the team. "Alright, good news, we're in Ukraine." Zander tells the others.

"What's the bad news?" Ursula cautiously asks, afraid of the answer.

"The bad news is that we have no place to land this thing."

"Well that's just great. Where are we going to land then?" Ursula angrily questions as she pouts and crosses her arms.

"We could use these parachutes stuffed in the back for just such an occasion." Francis replies as he holds out some parachutes.

"Oh, great. Parachutes again. Hurray." Ursula sarcastically responds with an eye roll.

"Look on the bright side, Ursula. There aren't any cactuses to land on." Ed tells her, trying to remain optimistic.

"I think the plural word is 'cacti', Ed." Zoe corrects the man.

"Really? Wow. Didn't know that."

"Sounds really dumb." Ursula agitatedly responds before swiping a parachute from Francis' hands. "Gimme that!" In less than a second, she placed the parachute on and opened the door hatched. "Geronimo!"

Next one up was Zoe. "Look out below!"

Francis followed suit. "I hate heights!"

Ed was next. "Wait, I think I left the radio on at the station."

Finally, Zander was the last one to jump. "I don't have a quippy thing to say!"

The five all pulled their chutes in the middle of the air as the plane started to crash land towards the ground, having no pilot to control it. Eventually, it harmlessly crash landed into the Dnipro River while the five team members floated to the ground in the middle of the city, coincidentally towards the other two members.

"Hey! Look out!" Zander yells at the two below, grabbing their attention.

The two D-Kids looked up to see their allies falling down towards them, leaving them with little to no time to react. "AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" the two scream as the five crash landed on them.

In less than a second, a huge dog pile formed as the five landed on top of the two, with Francis sitting on top of the pile, said pile cushioning his fall. "Huh, that wasn't so bad." he says.

Only for Ursula to push him off of the pile. "Get off us!" she yells at the adolescent as the others pick themselves up.

Max then noticed Zoe with the group. "Zoe? Why'd you go with the Alpha Gang?" he asks the pinkette.

Zoe picked herself up and dusted her clothes off. "I wanted to go with Francis for a change." she replies.

Max grew an annoyed look with lidded eyes in response. "Of course." he says.

Right at that moment, a group of people could be heard screaming, immediately grabbing the group's attention. "People screaming? Maybe that's the dinosaur!" Rex theorizes.

Ed turned to the direction where the screaming was coming from, immediately spotting the reason why. "Hey! It's better than a dinosaur! That's Ruslana!" Ed excitedly yells as he runs towards the singer.

Francis perked up upon hearing the name. "Ruslana?! Where?! I want her autograph!" he yells in excitement as well before following the portly man.

The rest of the group had no idea who they were talking about. "Who's Ruslana?" Ursula wonders aloud, only earning a shoulder shrug from Zander.

Currently, Ruslana was in front of the stadium that she performed her live performance earlier, signing autographs from various fans. "It's always a pleasure meeting fans from all around the world." she tells them as she signs autographs.

Right at that moment, Ed and Francis barged into the front of the group. "Ruslana! Ruslana!" Ed yells in utter excitement. "We're big fans of you! I've put your song, Wild Dances on my radio station back in Japan!"

"I've listened to you since I was a kid! Can we get autographs?" Francis asks the singer.

Ruslana in response smiled happily at the two. "Of course! Anything for fans! Where should I sign?" she asks the two.

"Sign my chest! I wanna get it tattooed!" Francis exclaims, unable to contain his exhilaration as he lifts up his shirt, exposing his fat stomach.

"Sign my butt!" Ed excitedly shouts, lifting down his pants to reveal part of his butt cheek.

Ruslana in response gave an awkward shocked expression, not expecting this request in the slightest. Her smile quickly faded from existence and was replaced by a slightly uncomfortable expression. "The things I do for my fans." she mumbles to herself, staring at the two.

Unbeknownst to the two groups, a familiar dirty red van roamed the street containing only three people. Well two people and one alien. "I don't understand why he needs to be here. He can fly for crying out loud." Carter mumbles as he drives the van.

"Just shut up and drive, Carter." Ungaro tells his partner. "I don't want to get on the Grand Master's bad side anymore than you do. Remember, I haven't caught a single one of these dinosaurs ever since I started working for him. And it constantly feels like he's pointing a gun to my head so I need to up my game just so I could live."

"Whatever happened to that gun that could, like, turn the dinosaurs into cards?" his partner asks him.

"I still have it." Ungaro replies as he holds up the futuristic gun.

"So why did we bring the brute?"

"Because he'll be able to take care of the other dinosaurs with his own dinosaur while we go after the one that's up for grabs. Plus the Grand Master told us to and I do NOT want to disobey that guy." Ungaro suddenly grew a terrified look. "Something about him scares me. It's like he can see directly into my soul. Like he knows my every fear. I'm telling you, Carter… he's not human."

"Jeez, you're starting to sound like the old guy from the Friday the 13th movies. 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here.'" Carter quotes.

"Shut up, Carter."

"Uh, guys." a familiar voice says in the back. Behind the two poachers was none other than Gabbro, whom - because of his giant size - was forced to sit in the back of the van which he could barely move. "How long do I have to be in the back? I'm starting to get a cramp in my legs and my back is kind of hurting. And my wings are getting bent."

"Oh my God. It's like having a toddler in the back!" Ungaro exclaims in annoyance.

"Hey! I'll squash you once we get out!" Gabbro yells at him.

"I'd like to see you try!"

"Knock it off you two! Don't make me turn this car around!" Carter yells at the two in fuming anger, having enough of the bickering.

"But he started it!" Ungaro blames the alien while pointing to him.

"I don't care who started it! I'm ending it!"

As the three males cruised around Kyiv, none of them even noticed the Pinacosaurus hiding in an alleyway, before quickly retreating back into darkness. Back with the two teams, the two team members showed off their Ruslana autographs on their respective body parts. "I can't wait until we get home so I can get this tattooed!" Francis excitedly exclaims, lifting up his shirt to reveal his autograph.

"Same here!" Ed shouts in excitement, showing off part of his butt cheek to his teammates. "I always wanted a celebrity to sign my behind!"

The D-Kids looked away from the sight except for Max, whom just stared at the butt cheek with a jealous look. "Lucky." he mumbles in envy.

"Ed, as nice as it is to stare at your ass - which it isn't - we've got more important things to do." Ursula annoyingly responds, glancing away from Ed's butt.

"I don't know, Ursula. I think it's kind of cool he got it signed on his butt." Zander compliments the portly man.

In response, Ed smiled at the tall, lanky man while pulling his pants back up. "Thank you, Zander." he thanks the man.

"You guys done?" Rex impatiently asks the group. "We have to find a dinosaur. I think it's best if we split up into three groups. Max and Zoe, Francis and, and the Alpha Gang."

"I'm Alpha Gang too, you know." Francis points out.

"Yeah, but you're the odd one out, moron." Max harshly says to the teen.

Francis glared at his rival for a brief moment, before asking, "You don't like me very much, do ya?"

"Alright guys, let's split up. We'll rendezvous at the Golden Gate if we don't find anything." Rex explains.

"Ukraine has a Golden Gate Bridge as well?" Max questions in utter bafflement, raising a confused brow in the process.

Francis shoots him an odd look. "Are you sure I'm the moron?" he rhetorically asks the brunet.

"We'll meet up later. Good luck guys." Rex says aloud as they split up into three groups.

Rex and Francis weren't really that close to each other, only ever having spoken the occasional, "Hey, there." to one another whenever they did cross each other's paths so it was mostly an awkward situation for both the two as they searched the capital city. They eventually ended up in Independence Square, where the two of them were currently looking up at the Independence Monument that towered over the square while Ace and Pachy roamed free around the area. A flock of pigeons were currently eating crumbs off the ground before being disturbed by both the chibi Carnotaurus and Pachycephalosaurus, whom began chasing the aviaries.

Francis blew a whistle in impressment at the monument. "I'd hate to be the guy that had to build that thing. I'm afraid of heights." he commented aloud.

"You know this thing was built in 1991?" Rex suddenly says, breaking the awkward tension between the two.

"Really?"

"Yeah. It was built after the Independence of Ukraine in 1991 which eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. So we pretty much have to thank Ukraine for the end of the Soviet era."

"Wait. The Soviets are over?" Francis suddenly questions in slight shock. "I thought Russia was full of Soviet people."

"No, the Soviet Union is a type of political party. It's not Russia in general."

"Seriously? How long have they been gone for?"

Rex just blankly stared at the teen with an indifferent expression, not knowing if he was serious or not. "Since 1991… like I said."

"So wait… What's Russia then? What's they're government?"

"They're Communists, Francis." Rex annoyingly replies with lidded eyes, his patience with the teen wearing thin.

"Sooooo… like the Soviets?"

"No, Francis, they're totally different."

"They went from one Communist party to another? That doesn't make sense. Why not just keep the Soviet Union? What was the point of it then?!"

"Francis, I- I don't…" Rex suddenly gave an exhausted sigh of annoyance while face palming himself. "I- it's- I don't- I don't know anymore. I- I- You know what? I guess it doesn't make sense. Okay? Let's- Let's just leave it as that, alright?"

"Okay." Francis shrugs before walking off, leaving Rex behind as the two chibi dinosaurs followed suit.

The blonde teen rubbed his temples in frustration, suddenly having an immense migraine. "Aaaaaaah. No wonder I never talked to him in school. It's like having a second Max."

"Oh, hey! Street food!"

"Don't eat that!"

Arsenalna was perhaps one of the (semi) well known metro systems in the world, being the deepest metro in the world… at the time at least. Which brought the question Ursula was thinking.

"Why are we at a station?"

Many people pretty much ignored the Alpha Trio as they all walked passed them, moving on with their day paying no attention to their mind. They didn't even notice the chibi Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus, and Saichania.

"Remember the last time we were at a subway station?" Ed asks his friends.

Down below, Terry began sniffing the air before trotting off.

"Ugh, don't remind me." the greenette replies while holding her head, having bad memories of the incident. "That Ankylosaurus is still in my dreams, tossing me over the edge of a cliff."

"Maybe I should start getting souvenirs for Reese during these missions?" Zander wonders aloud.

A butterfly suddenly flew by, earning Tank's attention before she gave chase to the insect.

"That would be nice. I'm sure she'd love souvenirs." Ed optimistically says to his older brother.

"You think so?" the tall man hopefully asks.

"If she's as amazing as you keep saying she is, I think so too." Ursula responds, albeit glancing the other way, not really caring about the situation in the slightest.

Spiny suddenly walked over to a pillar and began peeing on it like a dog.

"I saw a gift shop back there. I think I have time to head back and buy a souvenir."

Right at that moment, the Pinacosaurus suddenly ran right in front of the trio on the tracks, earning several gasps and screams from civilians while leaving the trio standing there in shock. "Was that a…?" Ursula gapes.

"That was a Pinacosaurus!" Ed identifies.

"Quick! After it!" the greenette ordered as the three of them leaped onto the tracks and quickly gave chase, followed by their chibi dinosaurs.

"I have to call the others!" Zander shouts as he turns on his Alpha Scanner, only to be met with a NO WIFI signal. "Are you kidding me?! No WiFi again?! Why did Dr. Z create these stupid things that need WiFi! We're from the future from CHRIST SAKES!"

"I guess we're gonna have to get to higher ground before we can call them." Ursula guesses before she spots a lever-propelled railcar. "Quick! On that to catch up to it!"

"Aw man." Ed jeers as the trio and their dinos get on the rail car. "Now it's definitely like the Ankylosaurus." he complains as he and Zander start to push the levers, making the railcar go forward.

"At least we don't have loud music or a rope this time." Zander comments.

"Trust me. I learned from last time." Ursula replies as the trio give chase to the dinosaur.

While the other two small groups were at different landmarks of Kyiv, Max and Zoe had decided to check out the Ukrainian Motherland Monument to see if the dinosaur would show up. Unfortunately for them, they had waited for at least half an hour just roaming the area and still no sign of the dinosaur.

"This is gonna take forever." Max complains as he suddenly stops in his tracks. "Can't we just stop for like a few minutes? My legs are killing me!"

"Honestly," Zoe responds, stopping as well. "I could go for a rest right now."

The two sat down on one of the steps of the monuments as tourists took pictures of themselves in front of the monument. Out of sheer boredom, Chomp decided to just roam the nearby area while Paris decided to take a quick nap on the warm grass, the sun's rays hitting her hide. For a while, the two of them didn't speak at all, opting to just scroll on their phones to pass through the boredom. Zoe's phone screen was revealed to be a selfie of her and Francis, with her smiling widely while Francis looked like he was in the middle of a sneeze. Currently, she was scrolling through her photos that were just her and Francis at various places, either dates or them hanging out which ranged from them at an ice cream shop, on a ferris wheel, to even on the subway where Francis was shown sleeping on her shoulder.

She couldn't help but smile at the pictures.

With Max however, he was just scrolling through random YouTube videos, chuckling to himself each time he saw a funny video. "Heheheh." he chuckles. Behind him, Chomp could be seen following a tourist before biting on the man's pant cuffs, earning a cry from him as he ran away. "Charlotte would love this video. She and I just browse YouTube to watch really dumb videos to laugh at. Can't wait to head home so we can go on our date."

Zoe suddenly grew a shocked expression when he said this, prompting her to snap her head to him. "A date?" she questions.

Max smiled at the pinkette, placing his phone in between his thighs. "Oh yeah!" he confirms enthusiastically while Chomp ran behind him, currently getting chased by the tourist. "I don't mean to brag but me and her are sorta a thing. Yeah. We're serious." Max fake stretches to act cool. "We're the newest couple in school. Don't know where we're gonna go but wherever it'll be, it'll be amazing. Because as long as I'm with Charlotte, anyday won't be boring."

"Hm." Zoe hums as she pours the other way.

Max quickly noticed this. "What's the matter?" he asks her with a raised brow.

"Nothing." Zoe grumbles, avoiding eye contact.

The brunet quickly realized why her attitude suddenly changed while behind the two, Chomp could be seen running away with a piece of fruit he stole from another person, whom also gave chase. "Oh my God. You're jealous!" he loudly accuses her with a grin.

Zoe's eyes shot wide opened before snapping back to him. "No, I'm not!" she denies.

"Zoe, I've known you all my life. I can tell when you're jealous."

"Well, you're doing a bad job at telling because I'm not jealous!"

"It's okay if you're jealous, Zoe. You're human after all."

"For the last time, I'M NOT JEALOUS!" she screams.

Max was caught off guard by her sudden outburst of anger, even catching the attention of people around them. Chomp suddenly approached Max while still eating the piece of fruit before suddenly jumping on his lap, tired from all the running. By her sudden outburst, Max realized something was wrong with his pinkette friend. "Zoe? Are you alright?" he asks her.

"I'm fine." she pouts the other way.

Max was silent for a moment, briefly pondering on why she was mad at him for some reason. "Zoe… Are you… mad at me?" Zoe said nothing in return, which only confirmed Max's suspicions. "Why?"

"It's nothing." she shrugs off.

"Is it because… I'm dating Charlotte?" Zoe shifted in her spot, confirming his suspicions again. "Oh my God… You like Charlotte?!"

This just threw Zoe off guard. "Wha- No! Where'd you get that idea from?!" she yells at him.

"Lesbian!" someone from afar yells in the distance.

"I don't know! I'm not good at reading emotions! You know that!" Max frantically yells back.

"Hey, guys. Can you keep it down? I'm trying to film my family here." asks a tourist beside them.

"BUZZ OFF!" the two of them yell at the poor guy, scaring him away, with Chomp giving chase to him. "Why are you mad at me anyway?!"

"It's because you keep mentioning Charlotte! I get it! You're dating her! No need to rub it in my face!"

"What're you talking about?! I mentioned her one time! And I'm not rubbing it in your face! I was just saying I'm excited that I finally got a date with a girl!"

Zoe turned back the other way another time. "Hmph." she… well 'hmphs'.

"What's your problem? You don't want me to be happy?! You already did that when you rejected me at the winter formal!"

Zoe was thrown off by the sudden reference once again. "I didn't reject you!" she yells at him in an attempt to defend herself. "I just-"

"No, you DID reject me! For the record, I didn't mind! I was just happy that you were happy! I just don't like Francis!"

"You're a hypocrite!" Zoe accuses him. "You're doing the exact same thing with me and Charlotte! You don't like Francis just like I don't like Charlotte."

"For a different reason! I don't like Francis because he's just… it's hard to say. He's just generally unlikable to me in a way that's just hard to pinpoint is all. I don't like him because he's dating you. FYI: I've NEVER liked him! WAY before you two became a thing. You just don't like Charlotte because I'm dating her!"

"That's not the reason at all, Max!"

"Then what is?! Tell me, Zoe! What IS the reason you don't like Charlotte? Huh? Because I already know the answer. You're angry because I moved on! That's why!"

"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO MOVE ON SO QUICKLY!" Zoe screams at him, tears practically coming out of her eyes.

Because of her sudden yell, she had accidentally woke Paris up from her nap while Chomp accidentally ran into the chibi Parasaurolophus, crashing into her.

Max was taken back by the sudden loud reverence, never in his life ever hearing Zoe this mad before, let alone for a reason like this. The teen was still in slight shock from the pinkette's anger before he regained his composure once again. "Zoe," he softly says. "I thought… I thought you wanted me to move on?"

Zoe sniffed as she wiped a tear from her eye. "I did, at least… I thought I did." she solemnly replies. "I guess… I guess I wasn't ready for you to move on this quickly… I'm sorry for snapping at you… You know I had feelings for you too but…"

"But I took too long. I know." Max sadly replies, looking down to the ground.

For a moment, neither of the two said anything. Meanwhile, Chomp had suddenly bit down on Paris' tail, earning a loud yelp from her before she suddenly smacked him against the head, knocking him to the ground. This only angered Paris before she suddenly dragged the poor chibi Triceratops away to discipline him. "Dumb teenage hormones." Zoe chuckles, wiping a tear from her eye.

"Yeah. You love 'em but… you also hate 'em." Max agrees with a small smile.

"Look, Max-"

Before Zoe could say anything else, her DinoShot began to suddenly ring, prompting her to pick it up. "Hello?" she answered as a hologram of Ursula showed up.

"SHE'S GOT A GUN!" shouts a tourist as everyone flees.

"Zoe!" Ursula cries out. "We've found the dinosaur! It's heading to the Ukrainian Motherland Monument! It just got out of the metro! Can't you guys peddle this any faster?!"

"We're trying but there's only so much we can do, Ursula!" Ed practically cries in the background.

"Ukrainian Motherland Monument? Why does that sound familiar?" Max wonders aloud. Behind them was none other than the Monument itself. "Oh yeah."

Right at that moment, the Pinacosaurus suddenly burst from the ground and finally escaped to the outside, immediately scaring people away as they fled for their lives. Except for one tourist whom took a quick picture of the dinosaur. "Sweet." he chuckles at the photo.

The two D-Team members quickly stood up from their seats. "It's a Pinacosaurus!" Zoe identifies.

"Hey! Dinosaur!" Max yells out. The Pinacosaurus turned around to face the teens. "Yeah, I'm talking to you! Guess what! I'm gonna beat ya! I'm gonna beat ya hard and you're gonna feel it tomorrow! And then you're gonna have to go to the doctor because the beating was so bad that you'll need, like, 100 milligrams of painkillers! And then you're gonna think, 'Aw, I shouldn't have fought, Max! That guy's too strong! Oooooh!' That's you! That's what you're gonna sound like! After I'm done beating you!"

"You should've stopped at, 'Hey, dinosaur.'" Zoe tells him with an unamused look.

"Hey, dinosaur!" someone shouts from afar.

"Yeah, like that… Wait, who said that?" Zoe questions aloud.

Right at that moment, Ungaro's dirty red van came swerving around the corner as it came to a screeching halt, with the two poachers exiting the vehicle with their guns in their hands. "Guess who's back, baby!" Ungaro yells out in confidence.

"Who are you?" Max asks in genuine confusion, not recognizing the poacher.

"Shut up!" the poacher yells. "Hey! Gavro! Come on out here! I'm gonna need you to deal with these brats!"

Gabbro suddenly burst out from the back of the van and immediately puked behind it. "Where'd you learn to drive?!" Gabbro asks Carter.

"Grand Theft Auto." Carter answers.

Gabbro wiped away some vomit off his chin. "Alright, it's showtime freaks! And the name's Gabbro. With a B."

"I'm thinking of another word that starts with B." Ungaro mumbles.

"Great. It's the jolly red giant." Max annoyingly says, glaring at the red alien.

"And I brought along my dinosaur! Come on out, Torch and torch these freaks!"

With a swipe of his card, Gabbro summoned Torch the Giganotosaurus, whom roared out in the air to signify his presence. Max on the other hand seemed to be more than pleased with the sight of another dinosaur. "Aw yeah! Let's do this!" Max exclaims as he grabs his DinoShot, quickly turning Chomp into a card. "Let's win already! I don't got time for this! I got a date! A real one! Don't look into it!"

Zoe face palmed herself in response.

"DINO SLASH! SHOCK 'EM, TRICERATOPS!"

Chomp growled loudly as he kicked the ground like a rhino that was about to charge while Torch bellowed at his opponent. While this was happening, the Pinacosaurus took this moment to flee so it could hide somewhere in peace. "Take care of them!" Ungaro orders Gabbro. "I'm going after the dinosaur! Carter! You're with me!"

Ungaro quickly gave chase to the dinosaur as his partner followed suit. "Who else do I go with?" Carter sarcastically asks.

"Zoe! Go after Oogara and get the Pinacosaurus! I'll handle big ugly here." Max suggests.

"Right!" Zoe agrees, giving chase afterwards.

"It's just you and me, Gabbro! Let's do this!" Max shouts.

"You're gonna regret this! Torch! Sick that brat and his dinosaur!" Gabbro orders his dino.

Torch roared in agreement in response before charging towards the yellow Triceratops. "You know what to do, Chomp!" Chomp roared in the air as he too charged towards his opponent. The two continued to charged at each other before meeting in the middle, the two of them getting into a headlock as they struggled for control. The Triceratops suddenly lifted Torch with his horns and threw him in the air. "Go! Lightning Strike!"

Chomp gathered a copious amount of electricity in between his horns as a ball of electricity was produced before he shot it towards the falling Giganotosaurus. The lightning struck Torch, electrocuting him as he fell to the ground, sustaining a great amount of damage. "Nice one, Chomp!" Max cheered for his partner.

"It won't be so nice once I activate this! Magma Blaster!" Gabbro exclaims as he slashes the move card.

Magma built up inside Torch's mouth before he shot it forward, a stream of molten lava shooting towards Chomp before striking him, pushing him towards the monument. Chomp crashed into the statue, completely obliterating it into pieces as he landed on the ground, he too sustaining a great amount of damage. "Come on, Chomp! Don't give up yet!" Chomp shrugged off the pain before standing back up, roaring defiantly into the air.

While Max dealt with Torch, the Pinacosaurus had fled to another landmark of Kyiv: St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. Thinking it had lost its enemies, the dinosaur thought this would be a good place to take a nap and regain its energy. Unfortunately for it, Zoe had arrived on the scene a second later, DinoShot in hand. "You ready, Paris?" Zoe asks her partner before turning her into a card.

"GO! DINO SLASH! BLOSSOM FORTH, PARASAUROLOPHUS!"

Paris roared in the air to signify her entrance before landing on the ground, immediately getting the Pinacosaurus' attention. "Now be careful with the landmarks, Paris. We don't want to cause too much damage." Zoe warns her partner.

Paris roared in response, understanding the order. Seeing how it had nowhere left to run as the Parasaurolophus would've just chased it, the Pinacosaurus had decided that it's only best option was to fight, and fight it did. Glowing purple, the Pinacosaurus activated its move card as its eyes glowed purple. For a moment, nothing happened, until a pit of quicksand suddenly appeared underneath Paris, quickly sinking her in, much to Zoe's horror.

"Not again!" she cries out, referring to the first time it happened in Ancient Persia.

Paris struggled in the pool of sand as she continued to sink deeper and deeper within it before the only part of her that could be seen was her head. All of a sudden, a sharp pillar of sand erupted from the pool and launched Paris into the sky, where she crashed right into the Golden-Domed Monastery, creating a huge hole in it. "Paris!" Zoe cries out for her partner.

The Pinacosaurus roared in rage before charging towards the other herbivore, swinging its clubbed tail at her where it struck her right in the face, knocking her to the ground once more. "Get up, Paris!" Zoe cries out. Hearing her partner's cry, Paris ignored all pain and stood back up. "Atta girl! Now it's my turn! Metal Wing!"

Paris glowed her elemental color and summoned the three Pteranodons to help her with the fight. The three Pterosaurs flew high in the sky before diving down towards the armored dinosaur, striking it three times before retreating back in the air. Meanwhile nearby, Ungaro and Carter had just arrived on the scene, with the former aiming his rifle at the two dinosaurs.

"While they're fighting, they're giving me a perfect chance for the element of surprise." Ungaro chuckles evilly as Carter watches their back for any incoming surprises. Through the scope of his rifle, Ungaro could see the Pinacosaurus panting from exhaustion and Paris growling at it. "I'll start with the brat's dinosaur first."

Ungaro squeezed the trigger and fired a pink laser shot out from the barrel of the gun, flying directly towards Paris… only for one of the Pteranodons to fly in front of her at the last second. He laser struck the Pterosaur, immediately turning it and the other two into a card as it floated down from the sky.

"Damn!" Ungaro shouts in anger.

"What was that?!" Zoe questions aloud. She suddenly turned to the direction where the laser originated from, spotting Ungaro hiding behind a wall. "Ongaro!"

"That is NOT my name!" Ungaro shouts in anger.

The Pinacosaurus took this moment to quickly flee from the scene. "Paris! After the dinosaur!" Zoe quickly ordered her partner.

"Think again!" Ungaro exclaims, firing another laser at the Parasaurolophus.

This time, with no obstacles in the way, the pink laser struck Paris and instantly turned her back into a card. "Paris!" Zoe cries out, quickly running to grab her card.

"Quick, Carter! After it! I'm not letting my game get away!" Ungaro angrily shouts as he and Carter give chase once more.

Zoe ran up to where Paris' and Metal Wing's cards were, noticing that they were grayed of color. "Guess this means they're out of commission for a while." Zoe mumbles to herself before grabbing her DinoShot. "Guys, the Pinacosaurus is running Northeast of the city! That poacher is after it so you have to get there quickly! He turned Paris into a card with that rifle of his so watch out!"

"Don't worry! We're all on it!" Francis' voice exclaimed on the other end.

Zoe quickly gathered her cards and fled the scene to chase after Ungaro and the Pinacosaurus.

Back at the Motherland Monument, Chomp was shown getting tossed to the ground, sliding passed Max as he watched his partner get injured some more. "Come on, Chomp! Don't give up!" Max cries out for his partner.

Gabbro on the other hand had his mind focused on something else other than the fight. "I don't trust that loser Ungaro for a second. He might mess things up." he tells himself before pulling out a second dinosaur card. "Might as well send out my other dinosaur to at least give him a hand. Of a claw more like it."

"Dilophosaurus! It's your turn!"

With a swipe of his card, Gabbro's Dilophosaurus was summoned onto the battlefield, screeching loudly in the air, immediately grabbing Max's attention. "Oh, great. Not that thing again." Max grumbles as bad memories of Costa Rica flooded his mind.

"Dennis!" Gabbro calls out to his dinosaur. "Go after the other dinosaur while I deal with the brat! Do whatever you have to do to get it back!"

The Dilophosaurus, now formally known as Dennis, screeched loudly in response before running away. "You named the Dilophosaurus Dennis? Why'd you choose a stupid name like that?" Max asks the alien.

Gabbro just gave Max a lidded eye stared in response, as the answer was obvious.

(Stick stupid!)

"Torch! Finish this once and for all! Flare Sword!" Gabbro shouts as he activates the move card.

Torch glowed red as a huge trident made out of literal fire erupted from his mouth before swinging it at Chomp, blasting him away as he crashed into a building, turning back into a card. "Chomp!" Max cries out as he runs to grab his partner's card.

"Let's go, Torch! We gotta get that dinosaur or the Grand Master will have my head… literally." Gabbro added the last part in a fearful tone before he and Torch fled the scene.

Max ran over to the spot where Chomp was turned into a card, picking it up before turning on his DinoShot. "Guys! Gabbro is heading your way! Be careful! His Giganotosaurus beat Chomp!"

"Oh no!… Anyway, we're heading to the dinosaur right now! We'll be there in half a minute!" Francis says over the device, earning a glare from Max despite the other teen not being able to see it.

"Douchebag." Max mumbles to himself.

"I heard that!"

"Good! I'm glad you did! Because… Uh… I… Well- Shut up! Max out!"

"Did you actually jus-"

Max cut him off by turning off his device. "God, I hate that guy." he grumbles before fleeing the scene.

"I don't think Max likes me very much." Francis states to Rex as he drives recklessly in the streets of Kyiv.

"Can you drive like a sane person?!" Rex shouts in utter fear as he tightens his grip on Ace, whom was squirming in his arms. "We're gonna crash into a building or a car! You're gonna end up getting us killed before we even reach the dinosaur." Behind them, Pachy was shown being safely strapped in the seatbelt, currently reading a Hello Kitty book, despite not knowing how to read.

"Do you want us to get there fast or be late?"

"I want to get there alive!"

"Don't worry, you're in fully capable hands… Probably." Francis replies in an unsure tone.

"You're a worse driver than Zoe!"

"Hey, that's uncalled for!" Francis then noticed something in front of them, prompting him to slam on the breaks. "Whoop!" The car came to a screeching halt, barely hitting a fountain when he did stop.

"Why'd you stop?" Rex asks him with a raised brow.

"Dinosaur." Francis plainly replies, pointing ahead of them.

Rex turned to the front to see the Pinacosaurus running in front of them. "Oh." he says. The Pinacosaurus quickly noticed the duo before running off again, prompting Francis to slam on the accelerator to give chase, only to go nowhere. "What are you waiting for? Punch the gas!" Rex yells impatiently.

"Uh, yeah, we got one teensy weensy eensy bitsy problemo, Rex." Francis awkwardly tells him.

"What's the problem?"

"We're out of gas." Francis answers, pointing to the empty fuel tank meter.

"Wow." was all Rex says.

The Pinacosaurus slammed it's tail against a building, creating a huge hole in it before running through it. Right at that moment, Dennis the Dilophosaurus quickly jumped on the teens' car before pouncing off, chasing after the ankylosaur through the building. "Was that what I think that was?" Rex asks Francis, staring at the spot where Dennis was at.

Francis on the other hand was busy trying to restart the car to at least make an effort. "What? I wasn't looking." he says.

Rex turned on his DinoShot. "Guys! The Pinacosaurus is heading to the Golden Gate and the Dilophosaurus is chasing after it!"

"Dilophosaurus?" Ursula's voice asked over the device.

"You mean the same Dilophosaurus we fought in Costa Rica?" Zander asks.

"Yeah, and the one that blinded me. I'm guessing it's Gabbro's. Be careful! That thing can spit venom!" Rex warns his allies.

"So can Ursula when someone calls her an old lady." Zander snickers.

"What did you call me?!"

"Francis, we need to-" Rex turned to see that Francis was no longer in the vehicle. "Francis?" He looked outside to see the teen smashing a car's window with his elbow before unlocking the door and hotwiring the vehicle.

"Get in!" he yells at Rex.

"I have so many questions that I'm gonna save for later. Come on, Ace!" Rex exclaims as he grabs Ace before retreating into the other car.

"Back in business!" Francis excitedly exclaims before slamming on the gas pedal… and going the opposite direction.

"We're in reverse!" Rex yells.

"Yeah, I can see that!" Francis yells back.

The Pinacosaurus eventually fled to the Golden Gate of Ukraine, thinking it had escaped it's opponents. However, the vicious screech of Dennis proved it wrong as the Dilophosaurus jumped on top of a car, extending his frills before spitting venom at the ankylosaur. The venom harmlessly got spat on the Pinacosaurus' armored back, doing absolutely no harm to it whatsoever other than pissing it off even more. Glowing purple, the Pinacosaurus summoned a sand trap underneath the car Dennis was on top of; the Dilophosaurus looked down to see the car it was standing on was slowly getting sucked into the trap, prompting him to hop off to safety. Right at that moment, the Alpha Trio had arrived on the scene.

"Behold! The Alpha Gang is here!" Ursula loudly declares.

The car that was in the sand trap was suddenly shot out by a pillar of sand, sending it flying into the air before it came falling directly towards the Alpha Trio, crashing right in front of them. "AAAH! That was lucky." Ed whimpers.

Dennis screeched at the Pinacosaurus before pouncing forward, landing directly on top of the ankylosaur's armor. The Pinacosaurus roared in anger as it tried it's best to shake Dennis off it's back, which was proven to be difficult as the Dilophosaurus kept it's tight grip as it rode the dinosaur like it was a raging bull. Having enough of the carnivore's annoyance, the Pinacosaurus suddenly fell to the side, crushing Dennis as it fell right on top of him before rolling off, revealing the Dilophosaurus lying on the ground in pain.

"Get in there, Ursula!" Zander panics.

Ursula quickly pulled out her Alpha Scanner and turned Terry into a card. "Don't rush me! Besides, I was gonna do that anyway." she lies to the tall man.

"ALPHA SLASH! IGNITE, TYRANNOSAURUS!"

"Go get him, Terry and turn that Pinacosaurus into a card!" Ursula cheers for her dino.

Terry roared in response before charging right in, slamming his tail right into the Pinacosaurus' face, knocking it aside before the Tyrannosaurus gave chase once more. Dennis shook his head, regaining his composure before screeching loudly, joining in on the fight as he leaped and landed right on top of Terry's back, angering him some more.

Right at that moment, Ungaro and Carter showed up to the battle, both hiding behind a building with Ungaro's rifle in his hands. "Now's our chance, Carter." Ungaro tells his partner. "I can take both that Rex and the other dinosaur out right now. I'm telling you, I can't wait until I can mount that Rex's head over my fireplace in my cabin in Kenya." Ungaro sinisterly says as a reflection of Terry roaring was shown in his sunglasses.

Unfortunately at that moment, Gabbro and Torch joined in on the scene, which only meant more trouble for both the Alpha Gang and the wild dinosaur. "Hey, a dinosaur fight. Don't mind if I join in as well. Torch this place up, Torch!" Gabbro orders his Giganotosaurus.

Torch obliged by roaring as he charged into the fight, smashing right into an unsuspecting Terry while knocking Dennis off his back; the red T-Rex fell to the side and crashed directly into the gate of the Golden Gate, completely destroying it. "Oh, great!" Ursula grumbles in annoyance. "Now that Giganotosaurus is joining in. Well, you better get Spiny out since he's the only one big enough to take on him while Terry deals with both the Pinacosaurus and the Dilophosaurus."

Zander pulled out his Alpha Scanner and turned Spiny into a card. "He did it once in Canada, he can do it again!" he proudly exclaims.

"ALPHA SLASH! SURF'S UP, SPINOSAURUS!"

Torch looked down at Terry, growling loudly at him as he prepared to sink his jaws right into his neck, only for Spiny to suddenly appear and knock the Giganotosaurus away, saving Terry in the process. "Heeeeey! It's that Spinosaurus!" Gabbro loudly whines.

Torch growled angrily at the sight of his enemy before rushing in, having long forgotten the T-Rex as he had an unfinished score to settle. It snapped its jaws at Spiny, missing by mere inches. Spiny went in to retaliate by snapping his own jaws at Torch, only for the Giganotosaurus to smack his head against the Spinosaurus' skull. Shortly afterwards, Torch bit down on Spiny's snout, much to the Spinosaurus' anger before forcefully pulling him where they crashed into the Golden Gate. Because of this, Torch had momentarily freed Spiny from his grasp. Angered by the attack, the Spinosaurus roared loudly before thrusting his hook-like claws into Torch's head, earning a painful bellow from the Giganotosaurus. Torch countered by headbutting Spiny before going in to snap his jaws at him once more, unfortunately missing yet again by mere inches.

Mimicking what he did to the Chimera, Spiny lunged forward and bit down on Torch's neck while using his claws to get a good grip on both his head and neck. Like before, Spiny attempted to snap Torch's neck, but was met by retaliation from the Giganotosaurus, proving that Torch was indeed in fact stronger than the Chimera as Spiny continued to struggle to snap his neck. Having none of this at all, Torch shook his way out of Spiny's grasp, freeing himself as the two roared loudly at each other's faces

"Go get him, Spiny! Show that dinosaur who's boss!" Zander cheers for his dinosaur.

Ursula however was less than pleased with her partner. "Terry! What're you doing?! Just crush that annoying thing already!" Ursula yells at her dinosaur.

Terry wasn't having that much luck with his own fight, wth Dennis continuously jumping on him out of his jaws reach, much to the Tyrannosaurus' extreme anger. Boiling in rage, Terry suddenly fell backwards with Dennis still on his back, the Dilophosaurus not even having a second to react as the full weight of the Tyrannosaurus fell on top of him, immediately turning him back into a card. "Thatta boy, Terry!" Ursula cheers.

"Not again!" Gabbro whines as he watches his dinosaur get crushed for the second time in that battle while retrieving the card.

While all this was happening, the original dinosaur - the Pinacosaurus - had been off to the side slowly regaining his energy back, having been completely forgotten by the other dinosaurs. However, it wasn't forgotten by one certain poacher. With Ungaro also having been long forgotten, this has granted the poacher the perfect time to poach the unsuspecting dinosaur.

"Steady. Steady." he mumbles to himself.

Finally, with the pull of the trigger, Ungaro fired his futuristic gun at the Pinacosaurus, a pink laser being shot out from the barrel that struck the ankylosaur, immediately turning it into a card. "HUZZAH! My first catch finally!" Ungaro cheers loudly.

Loud enough for a certain pink haired teen to hear as she had just arrived on the scene. "Oh no." she whispers to herself in shock, having witnessed the entire thing. "Guys! The card! Someone grab it!" she yells at the trio.

"Huh?" The trio turned to the side to see the Pinacosaurus and the Sand Trap move card lying carelessly on the ground. "Ed! Grab it! Now!" Ursula panickedly exclaims.

"Oh no you don't!" Gabbro shouts as he fires his whip-like weapon at the two cards. The weapon attached itself to the cards before being retracted back to it's owner. "I've got the cards! Let's get out of here!" Gabbro shouts as he presses a button on his Elemental Gauntlet.

Terry and Spiny roared loudly at Torch as they had backed him up into a corner, before the Giganotosaurus suddenly turned back into a card and getting beamed back to his owner. "Later human losers!" Gabbro taunts as he flies away.

"No! He's got the card!" Zoe exclaims in utter shock.

"Now's our chance, Carter. Let's get out of here as well." Ungaro tells his partner as the two ready their Tele-Watches.

They prepped the location they had wished to teleport to and were prepared to press the button, until the sound of a La Cucaracha horn being blasted from the distance interrupted them. They turned to the side to see a car speeding right towards them, much to their horror. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" they both screamed.

Ungaro quickly pressed his Tele-Watch and immediately teleported out of the area. Carter however, wasn't as fortunate, as he was struck by the speeding car and was thrown into a building before he could press his button. The car came to a screeching halt, revealing both Francis and Rex inside, with the blonde having an utterly terrified expression while Francis had a nonchalant one.

"Oh my God! Francis, I think you killed someone!" Rex shouts at his colleague in a panicked tone.

"I hope he has health insurance." Francis shrugs off before exiting the car.

In the backseat, Ace and Pachy were shown in a booster seat, with Ace playing on an iPad and Pachy eating a bag of potato chips.

Right at that moment, Max had suddenly arrived on the scene, completely out of breath. "*huff* Don't worry… *huff* I'm… *huff* here. *huff* Oh! Oh man… *huff* I really need to start working out." Max pants heavily before collapsing on the ground.

Rex and Francis joined up with the others. "Where's the dinosaur?" Rex asks the trio.

"That poacher turned it into a card and then Gabbro took it. It's long gone by now." Zander answers in a defeated tone.

"Aw man. My dad's not gonna be happy with that." Rex solemnly replies, feeling sorry for his dad.

Max then joined up with the group. "Where's the-"

"It's gone." Ursula instantly tells him.

"Aw man! All that cab money for nothing!" Max complains.

"Wait," Zoe suddenly says. "you took a cab? Why are you out of breath then?"

"I had to run all the way here from the street." the brunet answers in a tired tone.

Zoe turned to see what street he was talking about. "It's only 30 feet away!" she yells at him in utter bafflement.

"I know! That's way too far for me to run!"

Their conversation was suddenly interrupted when the sound of a man moaning in pain caught their ears. "Oh yeah. That's right. I hit someone with my car." Francis mumbles in realizations.

"It's not your car jackass!" someone shouts from afar.

The group approached the Golden Gate building where they could see Carter lying helplessly in a pile of rubble, having been knocked into the building after being hit by the car. His once intact Tele-Watch was nothing more than shattered in pieces as sparks emitted from it. "It's that guy." Max identifies. "You know… Ungearo's partner. What was his name? Cameron?… Carl?… Car… Something with a car."

"His ID says his name is Carter Menendez, and he has 400 bucks in his wallet… It's mine now." Ursula answers while stealing the money from the wallet.

The group stared at Carter's unconscious body as he continued to lay there in the pile of rubble, unsure of what they should do with their unconscious enemy. "What should we do with him?" Zoe asks the group.

"We could have Terry eat him." Ursula suggests.

Terry's eyes popped out once he heard the mention of food. "Noooo, that's too barbaric." Max disagrees, much to Terry's chagrin. "I say we just leave him here."

"That sounds harsh." Ed mumbles innocently.

"Well, then what do you suggest we do?"

"Uuuh… Take him to jail?" the fat man suggests.

"Actually…" Rex suddenly spoke up, his fingers rubbing his chin as an idea formed in his head. "I have an idea what we should do."

Carter slowly opened his eyes, the last thing he remembered was being struck by a speeding car, and the first thing he saw was that he was in a strange room he had never been before. "Uuuuh… What the…" he mumbles. "Where… Where am I? Oh God… Am I dead? I'm dead aren't I?"

Right at that moment, the automatic doors opened as a silhouette of a woman stepped inside with light illuminating behind her. "I must be in heaven. An angel is visiting me." Carter blissfully says.

"Awwww, you're so sweet." a familiar female voice says before the woman turned on the light, revealing her to be Ursula. "But I like to think I'm more of a deviless rather than an angel." she boasts while checking her nails.

"Oh, nevermind. It's just an old lady." Carter mumbles in disappointment.

In response, Ursula slapped him across the face. "Don't call me that!" she yells at him.

"Where am I?!" Carter frantically asks.

"If you must know," Ursula begins. "you're in the secret headquarters of the Alpha Gang! And you are now our prisoner!"

"That explains the cuffs on the bed." Carter responds, taking a glance at his hand that was cuffed to the bed. "Why am I here? Are you going to dissect my brain?!"

"We're not aliens like your pals… I mean, Dr. Z might dissect you. He's crazy enough to do that."

"AAAH!" Carter yelps.

Ursula waves a dismissive hand in response. "Don't worry. We'll make sure he won't lay a finger on you. You're too valuable to be killed anyway."

"I'm… valuable?" Carter asks with hope in his eyes.

Ursula was more than confused by his tone. "Er… sure, yeah."

"Good enough for me! So what now?"

"Yeah, you're not gonna like this part."

"What do you mean?" Carter immediately got his answer when a burlap sack was suddenly placed over his head. "Mmmmmph! Mmmph! Mmmmmph!" Carter's muffled screams erupted from inside the sack.

While Ursula was bringing over Carter, the rest of the group were inside Dr. Z's laboratory, where most of them were waiting around the table. Dr. Z however was in the middle of a chess game with a small robot in the shape of a Rook chess piece as his opponent while Dr. Cretacia was at the main computer playing a video game completed with a Turtle Beach green headset as well as rainbow colored Redragon gaming mouse while sitting in a red Gt Racing gaming chair.

"Tossing a smoke."

"Grenade!"

*gunfire sounds*

"Need support now."

"That's a negative."

*explosion; gunfire*

"They're on B." Cretacia says to her teammates on the headset. "They're planting… There's one in corridor."

"Tossing incendiary."

"He's one shot. He's right around the corner." says a teammate over the mic.

*gunfire; headshot sound*

*bomb defusing sound*

"Defusing."

*beep, beep*

"Counter Terrorists win."

"Woooooooo!" Cretacia cheers.

"Niiiiiiiiice!"

"Clutch."

While Cretacia was having the time of her life playing her video game, Dr. Z wasn't having that much fun playing chess with the robot he had created specifically for playing chess. Dr. Z had an extremely concentrated expression on his face, deep in thought on what move he should do next. Finally, he moved his King to another spot, a triumphant smile on his face. "Check." he taunts the bot.

The chess bot in response immediately moved its Queen to another spot, which ended up cornering Dr. Z's King piece. ~Mate~ it says to the doctor.

Dr. Z loudly growled in response. "Grrrrrrrrr! You cheated!" he yells at the robot before his other half takes over. "I'll send you to the scrap heap!"

Bartholomew suddenly lunged forward and took a huge chunk of the robot, immediately destroying it as it fell to the ground lifeless, more than it was originally. ~Sore loser.~ the chess robot says before finally shutting down.

Right at that moment, the automatic doors opened as Ursula pushed Carter inside the room, the burlap sack still over his head and his hands still cuffed. "The jackass is awake. Let's get this over with." Ursula lazily tells the group.

The rest of the group gathered around as Dr. Z and Dr. Cretacia stood by Carter's side to make sure he didn't make a run for it. "Where am I?! Did I go blind?!" Carter frantically asks as he quickly panics.

"You're not blind. You just have a bag over your head." Ursula tells him in an annoyed tone.

"Oh."

Rex suddenly stepped forward. "Now, you all must be wondering why we brought this guy to our headquarters." he says to the group.

"No." Max immediately replies.

"It's because I've thought of a plan to finally get the upper hand on the Grand-"

"For God sakes. Take the bag off his head. It's ridiculous." Dr. Ancient tells his son while rolling his eyes.

His wife promptly took the bag off Carter's head, immediately granting him vision once more. The first thing he did was examine his surroundings, noting that the entire room was something he had never seen before in his life. He whistled in an impressed manner. "Nice place. Who's your decorator?" he asks the group with a smile.

"SILENCE!" Bartholomew shouts before Dr. Z took over. "Yeah, what he said!"

"The reason why we brought Carl here-"

"Carter."

"-is because we now have a key member of the Grand Master's Grand Army. He will be our ticket to finding out who he is, where he's hiding, and what his ultimate goal is."

"So like a prisoner?" Zander questions from the back.

"Pretty much, yeah." Rex shrugs.

"Hmmmm." Dr. Z hums in thought. "It's bold and risky and practically defies all moral codes any human follows… I like it! We can torture him to extract information until he starts crying!"

"I'm right here you know!" Carter shouts in a terrified tone.

"Rex," Dr. Ancient begins in a stern tone. "are you sure you want to go through this? We're at a risk just bringing him here in the first place. What if he tells the Grand Master where we are."

"Oh, don't worry about that." Francis tells the doctor. "I knocked him out when I struck him with a car I was driving and he was unconscious the whole ride here. So he has no idea where he is."

"Just like me 90% of the time!" Dr. Z gleefully adds.

The Alpha Quartet just gave him odd looks in response.

"Are we in Atlantic City?" Carter questions in a scared tone.

"No." Zoe answers.

Carter grew a relieved expression. "Oh, good. My ex lives in Atlantic City and let me tell ya, she was one crazy woman into all kinds of messed up shit. Like parasailing and tennis!"

Ursula suddenly slapped him across the face. "We're asking the questions here!" she yells at him. "You're a prisoner under the Alpha Gang!"

"The who?"

"Oh, I love that band!" Cretacia suddenly piped up beside him.

Ursula suddenly slid in front of Carter. "Battling evil in the dead of night!" she proclaims.

Zander mimicked her movements. "Never going down without a well earned fight!" he adds.

Ed jumped in between them. "Making even grown men cry!"

Francis slid in front of the four, casually lying on the ground while leaning on his hand for support. "We'll blow you all sky high!"

"Oh so Ursula."

"Zantastic Zander!"

"Francis, here to assist!"

"Ed! That's what I said!"

"Dashing through beyond the stars of space!" Ursula loudly declares as she stands tall.

"Faster than the wind in an elegant grace!" Zander adds as he spins into his spot next to Ursula, crossing his arms.

Francis slid in front of the two with a boomerang in his hand before he threw it. "Always coming back like a trusty boomerang!" he declares while kneeling in front of the two.

Ed jumped into his spot next to Ursula. "Fighting us, you'll go out with a bang!"

"We are the Alpha Gang!"

Their chibi partners all jumped in the air and roared at the same time. Right at that moment, the boomerang suddenly came back and struck Francis in the face, knocking him to the ground. "Ow." he mumbles in pain.

Carter simply clapped his hands in response. "Woooooo! That was amazing! Do it again!" he cheers for the four.

Ursula slapped him once again in response. "Stop talking!" she yells at him.

"Yes ma'am." he meekly obliges.

Rex suddenly stepped forward. "Alright, Carter. Here's the deal." he tells him. "You tell us everything you know about the Grand Master and we won't hurt you or possibly feed you to our dinosaurs."

"Okay." Carter immediately replies in a casual tone.

"Don't even try to beg your way out of- Wait what?" Rex stops once he realized what Carter said. "You're gonna agree to the deal? Just like that? Even though you work for the Grand Master?"

Carter scoffed and rolled his eyes in response. "Just because I 'work' for him," he emphasizes the word with air quotes. "doesn't mean I'm loyal to him. I don't even like the dude. None of us does. The only people who are actually somewhat loyal to him are Jericho and Seth and even then I don't even know if Seth is either loyal to him or scared of him like the rest of us."

"So why are you working for him?" Zoe asks with a raised brow.

"Well, A: I'm Ungaro's partner so when he got wrapped into this, so did I. And 2: I'm scared of him! I've seen that dude do things you never thought was possible. I think he can even see into our very souls with that black crystal of his."

"Cosmos Stone." Max corrects. "So he uses the Black Cosmos Stone for what exactly?"

"I dunno." Carter shrugs. "I just assumed it was a good luck charm until I saw that thing glow and then all of a sudden, Jericho looked like he saw a million ghosts flash before his eyes. That thing is weird, dude. Like really weird."

It was Dr. Ancient's turn to ask a question. "What does he want with the cards?" he asks.

Carter shrugged in response. "I dunno." he answers in a slurred voice.

Dr. Ancient just glared at the man, waiting for an actual answer to come out of his mouth. Carter stared back as the two just eyed each other for a good ten seconds, before Carter suddenly started to check his nails. "Oh, come on! You've gotta know more than that! You work with the freakin' Grand Master for crying out loud!" he exclaims.

"The Grand Master don't really tell no one about his plans." Carter answers. "The only one who does know is Seth. But he never tells us the plans too. I'm just as much left in the dark as the rest of the guys. 'Cept Roscoe. He seems to know more than any of us." Carter mentions.

Dr. Ancient's ears perked up once he heard this. "Roscoe? Nick Roscoe? The Vegas gangster?" he asks for clarification.

"Not much of a gangster, more of a drug dealer." Carter clarifies with a sideways hand. "Besides Seth, Nick is the one who knows most of the Grand Master's operations without having any beef with you guys. Jericho goes on and on about you guys. You've already met Ungaro, and Matacho is just a straight up cartel leader so he's untouchable by both the police and civilians. Roscoe is just some low level thug out from Vegas. He's the one you guys want if you want to know more about the Grand Master. Plus he's one of the Horsemen so there's that."

Dr. Z gently caressed his beard as he thought it over. "Hmmm." he hums in deep thought. "Well, it would give us an advantage over the Grand Master. Dr. Ancient, what do you propose?" Dr. Z asks his colleague.

"Well, I think-"

"Just kidding! Don't care!" Dr. Z rudely interrupts, prompting Dr. Ancient to just scowl at him. "You four!" he points to his henchmen. "You will go to Vegas and find this 'Nick Roscoe' and interrogate him on the Grand Master's secrets. If you have to threaten for Terry to eat him, go for it."

"Awwwww, Vegas?" Francis complains.

"But we were just in Vegas!" Ursula complains as well.

Dr. Ancient then stepped in. "You don't have to go right away." he tells him. "It's gonna take some time trying to find Nick Roscoe so it won't be for a while."

"You know he has a record, right?" Carter asks the doctor. "You can just pull up his rap sheet and check his last known address."

"Seriously?" Dr. Ancient asks in awe. "Jonathan, print out Nick Roscoe's police record."

"Hacking into Las Vegas Police Department database." Jonathan loudly announces before a second passes. "I am now in the Las Vegas Police Department database. Printing out record now."

The sounds of a printer printing something out emitted from him as a piece of paper slowly ejected itself out of the android's mouth. "How'd he hack into the database so fast?" Zoe whispers to her blonde friend.

"He's from the future. Everything is faster there." Rex responds.

"Including the sex." Ursula grumbles in annoyance.

Finally, the piece of paper ejected out of Jonathan's mouth, to which Dr. Ancient swiped. "Ow. Paper cut." Jonathan mumbles in slight pain.

"Let's see here." Dr. Ancient says as he puts on his reading glasses.

On the police report had a mugshot of Nick followed by various tidbits of information.

First Name: Nicholas

Last Name: Roscoe

Middle Name: Mason

Alias(es): "Lucky" "Doc Roscoe" "Doc" "Daddy Nicky" "

Race: Caucasian

Ethnicity: Hispanic/White

Height: 5'9"

Hair Color: Brown

Accessories: Glasses, multiple rings

DOB: 10/17/85

State of Residence: NV

Charges: 2

Arrests: 4

Convictions: 1

Outstanding Warrants: 3

Flight Risks: NO

Affiliations:

Former drug manufacturer of Felix King's heroin ring

Known dealer of Isiah "Big Bear" Hardman's cocaine ring.

Arrests:

Arrest #1:

Date of Arrest - 03/15/02

Charge - Burglary

State - Nevada

Arrest #2:

Date of Arrest - 04/17/02

Charge - Dealing of an illicit substance (Cocaine)

State - Nevada

Arrest #3:

Date of Arrest - 11/02/02

Charge - Assault and Battery

State - Nevada

Arrest #4:

Date of Arrest - 02/21/03

Charge - Possession of a concealed firearm

State - Nevada

Outstanding Warrants:

Date Issued - 10/04/08

Suspect involved in a drug related shooting at an abandoned house off Madison and C Street. DNA recovered from saliva.

Date Issued - 12/01/08

Armed robbery of Dwight Connor, stole over $500 and Connor's watch while held at gunpoint. Identified through a sketch. Round matches the rounds found at the shooting on the 4th of October.

Date Issued - 01/14/09

Possible suspect of the homicide of junkie Carl Aspen in his ransacked home on the 12th. Fingerprints found on multiple items of the ransacked house.

Record Details:

Offense Date: 12/13/03

Offense:

Manufacture and Distribution of Cocaine

Resisting Arrest

Notes:

Agreed to testify against the leader of the drug ring along with 15 other inside sources. Sentence was reduced by 10 years and sent to a County Jail instead of a Federal Prison.

Sentence:

8 years in Clark County Jail. Got off on probation 3 years earlier.

Last Known Address:

1051 G Street, West Las Vegas

"Good news and bad news." Dr. Ancient says aloud. "He has a last known address but he also has warrants. I doubt this guy will still be living in that address if he doesn't want to get raided. Still, it wouldn't hurt to try. You four," he points to the Alpha Quartet. "When you go to Vegas, check this address. If he's there, capture him immediately and then call us. If not, try to find out where he is if you can."

"You're sending us to the Alphabets? That place is the ghetto!" Ursula loudly complains to her superior.

"You sure sending these four is the right idea?" Dr. Z questions the doctor while pointing to his gang.

"Hey!" Ursula yells in offense.

Dr. Ancient pondered for a brief moment. "Hm. Good idea. Dr. Z, go with them." he immediately orders.

Bartholomew quickly took control. "You should've kept our mouth shut, idiot." Dr. Z took control afterwards. "Ah, whatever. Why didn't you do it? Yeah, that's what I thought. I will devour our spleen. Yeah, I'd like to see you try!"

Right at that moment, the automatic doors opened before Mr Mills walked inside holding a clipboard. "Dr. Ancient, I finished updating the security cameras and added a new software to the main-" Mr. Mills then noticed Carter in the room. "C- Carter?!"

"Uuuuuh…" Carter awkwardly responds. "Do I know you dude?"

"Uh- Uuuuuum…" Mr. Mills then cleared his throat, regaining his composure. "Excuse me. It's just that I know you're Ungaro's partner and was just shocked to see you here. Might I ask why you have one of the Grand Master's men in the Backland?"

"Backland, eh?" Carter spoke up in interest.

"He's telling us all about the Grand Master and what his plans are!" Ed happily exclaims like an excited child.

Mr. Mills turned to Carter and gave him a slight scowl. "Is he now? How much has he spilled?" Mr. Mills asks in an uncharacteristically angry tone.

"Not much." Max shrugs, using the Alpha Claw as a buttscratcher. "He says that the Grand Master barely tells anyone anything. So they're mostly working in the dark. He says Seth and Jericho are the only ones somewhat loyal to him for different reasons. Mostly because everyone else is scared of the Grand Master. Right now, he was just telling us that the only other person besides Seth who knows the most is that Vegas gangster, Nick Roscoe."

"Ah, I remember Nick." Mr. Mills recalled. "Chill yet insane. He seems to be the type who works in the shadows. He mostly operates in Las Vegas building money for the Grand Master's plans. Financing it. I can see why he's the next best bet. He has this ability to somehow always know what's the hottest thing in regards to anything… Don't know hoooow. Yeah, he's your best bet if you want to find more about the Grand Master."

"Ursula," Dr. Ancient suddenly says. "take him back to his room and keep it under lock and key. He may not be loyal to the Grand Master but he's still an enemy nonetheless. I'm sorry, Carter, I hope you understand."

"Aaaaah, no worries. I would've done the same." Carter nonchalantly shrugs off before being taken away by Ursula.

"I'm gonna head off too." Max spoke up as he headed to the door. "I need to walk Charlotte home before it gets too dark. Don't want her to get hurt by the crazies. They always come out at night." he finishes before walking out said door.

"I uh, I need to go too." Zander adds as he gets up from his seat. "i got a souvenir for Reese and I want to deliver it in person."

With that, Zander followed Max outside the room.

"Awwwwww, what a gentleman." Cretacia coos before angrily glancing at her husband. "Why'd you stop doing that, Daniel?"

"I told ya, I'm busy!" Dr. Ancient loudly grumbles.

"Hey! Dr. Ancient! Dr. Cretacia!" Ed loudly shouts as he runs over to them. "You'll never guess who I met in Ukraine! Ruslana! One of music idols! She inspired me to create Alpha FM! And I got her signature on my buttcheek!" He proudly showed this by pulling down his pants a bit, showing off his bare buttcheek to his employers.

"OH MY GOD!" Dr. Ancient loudly shouts as he shields his eyes and looks the other direction.

Cretacia however grew a sly smile.

"This was the first time a girl has ever touched my butt! I'm getting this tattooed immediately!"

"The hell you are!" Dr. Z yells at him.

"SILENCE!"

"Why are you showing me your ass?!" Dr. Ancient yells.

"My, it appears I have been shown the moon." Jonathan says with no emotion whatsoever.

"Ed! That is no vay to act to your superiors!" Helga scolds.

"I have a tattoo on my ass as well! Wanna see?" Cretacia asks as she too begins to pull down her pants.

"Cheryl DON'T!" Dr. Ancient yells at her like his life depended on it.

While both the Alpha Gang and the D-Team were in Ukraine for their mission, Reese and Charlotte have been having a long discussion in regards to the dinosaurs and their card counterparts. "So, let me get this straight," Charlotte says, sitting in a chair next to Reese with a can of orange soda in her hand. "the Ancients turned dinosaurs into cards and used their giant time machine/spaceship to try and conserve the species?"

"Yes, that is indeed what I said previously that took a whole day to say." Reese confirms before taking a sip of her own orange soda.

"So… that would make the Backland the equivalent to… Noah's Ark?" the English woman asks.

Reese suddenly paused in the middle of her drink, growing disturbed widened eyes. "I didn't even think of that." she says in a disturbed tone.

"So where do you guys keep the cards?" Charlotte nervously asks the blonde.

"We keep them in the Backland for safety. A public lab isn't really a safe option, you know?" Reese answers.

"I see." Charlotte took this fact into thought.

Their stellar conversation was interrupted when the automatic doors opened, revealing both Max and Zander entering the D-Lab. "You sure this girl's nice?" Zander asks Max as they walk inside.

"I'm telling ya, the girl's nice." Max reassures his friend.

"She's a real sweetheart?"

"Hey, here she is right now." Max splendidly says as they run into Charlotte and Reese. "Zander, Charlotte. Charlotte, Zander." Max quickly greets the two.

"Hey, how are you?" Zander asks the Englishwoman.

"Cheers. I'm doing quite fine." Charlotte answers in an exaggerated English accent.

"You were right. She is English." Zander tells the adolescent.

"And she speaks it as well." Max brags.

Zander turned his attention back to Charlotte. "So you're the girl Max keeps talking about?"

"Yeah." Charlotte confirms with a smile before turning into a worried look. "You gonna get mad at me or something?"

"Ha ha…" Zander guffaws. "No, I've heard good things about you. Like how you two are boyfriend and girlfriend."

"Yeah?" Max loudly asks in an oddly hostile tone. "What of it?"

"Ah, it was a blast to spend some time with Reese here." Charlotte says while smiling at Reese. "She's informed me a lot about everything that goes on. I must say, it's still hard to believe you go all over the world to fight dinosaurs that turn into cards. But to see how it's done, marvelous. Simply quite marvelous."

Reese chuckled in response. "Heh heh. I try my best." she modestly claims.

"Look at this, Zander." Max suddenly says in a teasing tone, looking up at the tall man. "Our girls are getting along. This says a lot about both our futures in love. Can I be the best man at your wedding?"

"Sorry, but I've reserved that for Ed." Zander replies.

"Oooooh, I get it. Cuz he's your brother?" Max questions, setting his jacket on the chair.

"That and he donated a kidney to me so now I owe him." Zander suddenly coughed in his hands before approaching the blonde. "Hello, my angel!" he exclaims in a love struck tone. "I've come bearing gifts from the far land of," Zander took a quick look at the price tag of his gift. "Ukraine. I figured while I'm out there doing missions, I could at least bring back a souvenir for you so that way you won't miss out… kind of. And I know you like flowers so along with a souvenir, I also brought you a flower."

Zander opened up the box was holding and opened it up, revealing a miniature version of the Mother Ukraine statue along with a purple flower. The tall man lended the gifts over to Reese whom immediately took them without hesitation. "Oh, thank you, Zander. That's so sweet of you." Reese compliments with a small blush on her face.

"Anything for you, my angel." Zander flirtatiously replies with an equally flirtatious grin.

Reese's small blush suddenly spread to her entire head, her skin now pink with embarrassment and excitement. I kind of like this side of him. She thinks in her head.

Charlotte was just standing there on the side, albeit feeling awkward, still smiled at the heartwarming sight in front of her. "So, Char." Max greets as he walks up beside her. "You ready to head out? It's getting dark."

"Sure." Charlotte replies before turning back to Reese and Zander. "I wouldn't want to interrupt their moment anyway."

The two turned around and exited the room, only for Max to accidentally leave his jacket that was still draped over the chair.

The two teens made their way across the building before heading toward the doors, where they had just opened to reveal Zoe behind them. "Oh, hey Max." she awkwardly greets. "Can we uh… Can we talk?"

Max looked at his friend with a confused look before taking one look into her eyes, realizing what she meant. "Charlotte, can you give me and Zoe a minute? I'll catch up to you."

"Sure. Cheers, Zoe." Charlotte waves before exiting the building altogether.

For a while, Max and Zoe didn't say a thing, not knowing what to properly say or how to properly say it, so they fidgeted in their places until then. "What do you want me to do?" Max suddenly asks, breaking the awkward tension.

"I want you to be happy." Zoe sadly replies. "It's just, you know. I'm with Francis now and… I did wait for you but I didn't think you'd move on this fast."

"Well it beats sitting at home being some depressed pile of fat." Max replies. "Plus, you know me Zoe. I'm the type of guy to rip off the bandaid just to get it over with. Always have, always been. But that doesn't mean I don't want you to be happy as well. As long as you're happy, I'm happy." Max finishes by placing a hand on her shoulder.

Zoe warmly smiled in response. "Same here, Max." she replies.

The two embraced each other in a hug, rekindling their friendship back to normal, if not a bit stronger. "Still friends?" Max asks her.

"Duh. Isn't that obvious." Zoe chuckles before retracting from their hug. "I came to see my sister. You might wanna catch Charlotte before it gets too dark."

"Uh, Zander's in there so… You know, give him some time. Poor guy needs it." Max tells her.

"Oooooh joy." Zoe sarcastically replies with an eye roll.

Max watched her enter the next room with a warm smile on his face before he too exited the building.

Charlotte was walking down the road wearing her winter wear, wearing mittens and a beanie, her breath visible in the air. "Charlotte!" Max calls out from afar. "Sorry to make you wait. Zoe and I had to discuss some… important… things." Max somewhat lies.

"Oh, no worries, Max." Charlotte politely excuses him. "No offense but I had forgotten what the sound of a city at night sounded like. You doooo tend to talk a lot during our walks."

Max chuckled in embarrassment. "Heh heh. Sorry. I talk when I get excited and I tend to over share… like what I'm doing right now…" Max awkwardly pauses to prevent himself looking more like a fool in front of his girlfriend.

His girlfriend in response however giggled at his moment. "You're quite the character, aren't you Max?" she asks him with a smile.

Max puffed out his chest. "What can I say? Building character builds… Uuuuuuh, wait one moment. I'll come up with something." Max says as he goes off on a long and arduous thought process.

A thought process Charlotte giggled at, finding Max's moronic traits adorable.

Back at the D-Lab, Zander, Reese, and Zoe had walked out of the building entirely, with Reese turning off the lights before shutting the door. "Thanks again for the present, Zander. You didn't have to do that." Reese thanks the tall man, cherishing the souvenir.

"I know I didn't have to. I wanted to." Zander replies back with a smile.

Reese grew a small blush on her cheeks, giggling to herself, albeit being heard by Zoe whom skeptically glared at the two.

While the three left the area, they had failed to notice the silhouette of a man hiding in the shadows beside the building.

As per Max's word, he had walked Charlotte all the way back to her home, making sure she had got there safely. "Thanks again, Max for walking me home." Charlotte tells her boyfriend.

"I'm your boyfriend. It's what I do." Max waves off while shivering a bit. "I would've given you my jacket but I don't have one."

"That's because you left it at the lab, silly." Charlotte teases him.

Max stood there with an uncertain expression on his face before remembering the past events. "Oh yeah. I did." he says to himself. "I'll just go back to the lab and get it back."

"Wouldn't it have been closed by now?" Charlotte asks with a raised eyebrow.

Max gave off a dismissive wave. "Naaah, Reese gave us certain access codes. Only those associated with the D-Lab are allowed to be there after hours. I just wanted to see you home safe is all."

"Awww, quite a gentleman. Well, I appreciate the walk though, Max. I advise you to get going before you freeze to death out here."

Max shivered in response, turning around. "R-R-Right. Sh- Sh- Shiver." he stammers due to lacking a jacket.

After a good half hour of walking, Max finally made it to the D-Lab, entering his access code which was 80085. The door opened and Max used his visor to light up the place as the generators were shut down for the night. The teen walked through the familiar corridors before entering the main room of the building. Upon entering the room though, he noticed one of the computers were on along with someone in front of it, currently typing away on it unaware of Max's presence.

"Reese?" he calls out, startling the intruder. "I thought you left home?" The intruder turned around, revealing their identity to Max whom immediately grew a shocked expression. "You? What're you-"

Before Max could finish his sentence, a familiar four fingered hand placed itself on his forehead, revealing that the intruder was none other than the Grand Master himself. And for once, Max had a good look at who the identity of the Grand Master was, but was unable to say anything due to the villain releasing copious amounts of dark energy from his hand right into Max's head. The brunet screamed in utter agony, his head feeling like it was on fire as an unquestionable and incomparable migraine filled his head. The teen's eyes changed to pitch black from the dark energy being released directly into his brain, his eyes and mouth emitting a black glow.

All Max could do… was scream.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

Max suddenly opened his eyes wide before sitting up from the bed he was laying on. He took a brief glance at his surroundings, revealing that he was inside one of the Backland's spare rooms. He grabbed his head to feel if there was any external damage to it, only to find out that there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. Not even a scratch. He stood up and looked in the mirror, finding out that he was completely fine. So far, the only thing wrong with Max was how utterly baffled he was. One minute he was in the D-Lab, the next he was in the Backland.

Realizing he wouldn't get any answers just by standing there, he exited the room and entered the hallway, where he could immediately hear people chatting in a nearby room. Grabbing his head, he walked down the corridor and turned into the room where the noise was coming from, seeing his friends, the Ancients, and the Alpha Gang at the war room table.

"Maybe he slipped and fell?" Ursula theorizes at her seat.

"I think he just snorted too much Pixy Stix." Dr. Z mumbles.

Zander then noticed Max at the door. "Max!" he calls out.

Everyone immediately turned around to see Max holding his head at the door with a confused look on his face. "Oh my God. Max!" Zoe yells as she runs to her friend. She rushed to the brunet and pulled him into a big hug, practically squeezing the life out of him. "Are you okay? What happened? Don't ever scare me like that again!"

"Uuuuh…" was all Max could say, not knowing what was going on.

"Max." Rex says, approaching him. "How do you feel?"

"I feel… I feel fine." Max replies, albeit unsurely. "What happened?"

"Blondie found you unconscious at the D-Lab last night. You were knocked out for 12 hours." Ursula replies as she and the other members of the Alpha Gang approach him.

"What happened to you?" Ed asks the brunet.

Max glanced to the ground with an unsure look on his face. "Last night I was-"

"AAAAAAAAH!"

A brief flashback of him screaming in pain suddenly flashed in his mind that only lasted a second. The brunet looked up at the purple haired man, his unsure look still on his face. "I don't remember." he replies.

"Max!" Ed suddenly exclaims worryingly. "Do you know where you are?! What's your name?! What's my name?!"

"Ed! Give him some breathing room!" Ursula yells in embarrassment as she pulls the fat man away.

"Max." Dr. Ancient suddenly speaks up from his seat. "I'm glad to see you've regained consciousness. Happy to see you are as well as you can be."

"Thank you, Dr. Ancient." Max groggily replies.

The doctor then got out of his seat. "So you don't remember anything about what happened last night?" he asks the teen.

"Not a single clue." Max replies.

Dr. Ancient started to approach Max… only for some reason… time slowed down. The computer screens behind Dr. Ancient suddenly switched to reveal several characters on a different screen. Characters the D-Team have met in the past, literally. There was Spartacus, Blackbeard, Genzo Sanzo Hoshi, Shogun Tokugawa, Princess Zahrah, King Louis XIII, and even Leon from their very first mission in Washington.

Time reverted back to normal as Dr. Ancient continued to approach Max, and when he did, he placed a hand on his forehead. "He must've hit his head. How do you feel?" he asks Max.

He was about to answer when suddenly a brief flash of the Shadow Element symbol flashed in front of his eyes, his head suddenly burning like it was on fire. All of a sudden, a knife had appeared in Max's hands out of thin air as screaming noises resonated all around him. His hand shook ridiculously before he violently plunged it into Dr. Ancient's abdomen, whom was - strangely - unperturbed by the violent act.

"I feel… Uh…" Max replies, unsure of what he was seeing at the moment.

Dr. Ancient stared down at Max with a sympathetic expression on his face, completely unharmed. "Hmm." he hums. "You might have a minor case of amnesia."

"I blame the D-Lab itself. The lights should turn on whenever anyone is inside." Zoe comments as she releases Max from her hug.

Max on the other hand grabbed his head, realizing it was no longer in pain even though it was just a moment ago. At that moment, the door behind them opened, revealing Mr. Mills entering the room. "Max." Mr. Mills suddenly says, a relieved expression on his face when he spotted him. "You're awake. How do you feel?"

KiLL hIM. DEstRoY tHEm. dARKnesS. mOnSTEr.

Max suddenly glanced to the side to see Zoe staring sympathetically at him, thinking she had whispered something in his head, before turning back to Mr. Mills. "I feel… dizzy." he mumbles as he grabs his head.

"Do you remember anything that happened last night?" Mr. Mills asks in a concerned tone.

Dr. anCIEnt. kiLL. CArdS. gET. stEAL.

Max glanced to the side once more, thinking someone was talking to him. He could hear someone but he couldn't see who was talking to him. It was like it was all in his head. "U-Uh… Um… I'm sorry, what?" he disorientedly asks.

"Are you okay, Max?" Zoe asks in concern.

kiLL. hER. HAtE. darKNESs.

"Dar- Darkness?" Max repeats.

"What?" the pinkette asks.

"Oh dear. I hope he's not suffering a concussion." Mr. Mills sympathetically says aloud.

"He just needs to be eased back into all this." Cretacia soothingly says as she gently puts her hands on his shoulders. "Poor baby probably hit his hand and doesn't remember. He needs some rest. Some actual rest instead of being unconscious. Come on, Max. Let's take you home. Your parents have been worried sick about you."

Right at that moment, the automatic doors opened, revealing Charlotte on the other side. At first she had a worried look before suddenly spotting Max which quickly turned into a delighted and relieved smile. "My God, Max! You're alright!" Charlotte exclaims running up to the teen, giving him a bear hug.

"Who's she?" Mr. Mills asks with a raised eyebrow.

Dr. Z beside him was too busy drinking a cup of coffee to actually care what was happening. "His cousin." he lazily lies, not even caring in the slightest.

"What happened?" Charlotte worryingly asks him.

"I don't… really know. It's all a blur." Max answers.

"He might have amnesia. Best to take him home." Dr. Ancient advises everyone.

"I'll take him home." Charlotte immediately steps in, grabbing Max's shoulders to balance him. "He's always doing the same. Might as well pay him back. Let's go home, Max. Your parents are probably worried about you."

"Y- Yeah." Max disoriently responds, still hearing the voices everywhere around him.

Max had just accidentally witnessed the true identity of the Grand Master, and in the blink of an eye, he had lost it. Long having been forgotten since last night and what was left to replace the memory was reality breaking illusions that only Max could see. It was as if someone else was in control of his body, as if it was… corrupted by something.

Somewhere in Sanjo, a tattoo parlor by the name of The Inked Up Parlor was shown in the middle of the day, with two specific customers inside getting their new recent tattoos. "Aren't you a little young to be getting a tattoo by the way kid?" asks the tattoo artist as he copies Ruslana's signature on Francis' chest.

"Hey, I'm paying you double, aren't I?" Francis asks in an offended tone.

"Fair enough." the tattoo artist shrugs before going back to his work.

"Aw man." Francis says in delight, watching him trace over her signature. "This is by far the best moment in my entire life! What about you, Ed? How are you doing?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAH! OOOOOH GOD! OH MY GOD, IT HURTS! AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Ed screams in horrific pain as the other tattoo artist tattles Ruslana's signature on his butt cheek. The artist briefly stopped as soon as Ed began screaming his head off, practically crying while laying on the table. The fat man suddenly turned to the artist with a confused expression. "Hey, I didn't say stop."

The artist went back to tracing over the signature as Ed continued to scream. "AAAAAAAAH! OHOOOOO! AAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!… I'm so happy right now."

(WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH! What just happened?! What happened to Max?! Who IS the Grand Master?! What is going on?!

Who knows… Oh, I do. But that's only for me to know and you guys to eventually find out. Anyway, this took way longer to finish but I'm glad I finally finished this chapter. Didn't think you'd see another wild dinosaur. It's been a while since the last one but don't worry, there are still plenty to go.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter, be sure to leave a review if you did, and I'll see you all next time.

KOKBYE!)