Alright, then… let's get back on this quest, shall we?
Chapter 12: Dino Fury
Blue Typhoon
The Sonic and Mario teams left Japan on their Blue Typhoon and were currently flying over the United States through the nighttime skies. Misty Greene was onboard as well, as she told the lot she was planning to meet someone.
Suddenly, the ship began to shake, and a beeping alarm was heard. "What's happening?" Amy asked.
"Oh no! We're out of fuel!" Tails exclaimed.
"What?!" Sonic shouted.
"Must not have very good budgeting on this thing!" Knuckles yelled.
"I'm using the Chaos Emerald to give it extra power, but it shouldn't have run out!" Tails yelled back.
Everyone could feel the ship slowly sinking down. "Wawawawawawawawawawa!" Mario cried, waving his arms in the air frantically.
"Okay, if everyone could just calm-" Toad tried to say, but looked up and saw a group of small compartments sliding open with lots of junk. "Oh-no." Toad grunted in pain when each little object fell on top of him, followed by more heavier ones, like a piano. "How does all that fit up there?" he asked dizzily.
"Hold still, Mario." Peach tried to calm him. "Everything's going to be o-" Right before the ship hit the ground, they all felt it stop. "…Huh?"
The group looked upward to see Dimentia above the windshield. "Don't look at me, SHE'S the real time witch here."
Tails turned on the monitors to view below the ship. Another figure was apparently holding the ship in place, and Misty's eyes alit with joy. "Olive!"
"Misty!" Olive cheered.
In a few moments, the ship was safely on the ground, and everyone gathered around a campfire set up by Dimentia. Tails glumly sat on a log, studying the green Chaos Emerald in his hand. "Wait, so it was MISTY who sabotaged our fuel?!" Tails yelled.
"Not really! I just used my timebending to speed it up so it'd run out faster!" the girl said innocently.
"And HOW is that any different? ?"
"Because technically, it ran out naturally!" Misty grinned.
"So, you use Chaos Emeralds to power that, huh?" Olive spoke, looking kind of smug. "Hmph. If I had a dollar for every Chaos Emerald someone found… well, I could afford a surgery to bring me back from the dead! Ah ha ha ha!"
"Very funny." Sonic replied, sarcastically, roasting a marshmallow. "So, Misty… these friends of yours?"
"Well, one of them is." Misty spoke. "This is Olive Pioji." The older timebender gave a grin. "She's the one that kept your ship from crashing; using her own Time Brake. The freak with the face is Dimentia." The former GKND leader scowled.
"Are you two timebenders as well?" Peach asked.
"No. They are. I bend space." Dimentia replied tonelessly.
"So what's the story with you?" Toad asked.
"Well, I-"
"Long story." Olive interrupted. "Basically, she died, and we had to bring her back to life for some important mission."
"Finding the Eight Firstborn?" Peach asked.
"Yeah."
"He brought me back to life to give me a second chance." Dimentia told them. "But that's stupid. After everything I've done…"
"Who brought you back to life?" Tails asked.
"Our leader. Clockwork." Misty answered. "The highest ranked timebender and Dialga's second-in-command."
"And pretty hard to compete with, seeing as he's been with Dialga since the beginning." Olive followed.
"Speakin' of which, shouldn't Jagar have brought the others to Chicago around now?" Misty asked.
"That's right! We should head there." Olive perked up.
"Huh? Who's at Chicago?" Tails asked.
"A few people you'll have to meet." Olive said, standing up. "They play a real big part in this journey. Shall we go?"
"But… what about the Blue Typhoon?" Tails asked, looking worriedly at his ship. "Can't you use timebending to put the fuel back?"
"Sorry!" Misty grinned. "Protocol Number One means NOT changing the past using timebending!"
"But you used timebending to DEPLETE the fuel in the first place!" Tails argued.
"That technically isn't the same thing, and the rules didn't say we couldn't do that! Besides, your ship will be fine. I mean: WHO'S the time spirit here?"
Tails glared at the blue-eyed girl. Somehow, he just couldn't stand that girl, tinkering with his own ship. Still, he decided he was gonna play along with her anyway. "I guess I can leave it…"
"Wonderful!" Olive cheered, beginning to walk off. "Let's get going!"
"You can count me out."
The two spirits looked questioningly and surprised at Dimentia. "Don't you want this second chance?" Misty asked.
"I'm not ready to face them, yet." she said, her head still down. "Besides… they already know I'm alive."
Misty put her hands on her hips in thought, but Olive whispered, "Don't worry. Chances are, old Clockwork will pay her a visit." Misty smirked and nodded.
"Alright then." Misty decided, giving a clap. "The REST of us will go to Chicago, and you can just stay here and mope."
"We can use our other ships to get there." Amy figured.
"Alright, guys: let's get going." Sonic declared.
"With any luck, we may even find Bowser there!" Luigi hoped.
"Yea!" Mario nodded. Both groups headed inside the Blue Typhoon and took off in their own ships; with Sonic and Shadow riding atop the X-Tornado's wings, while Misty and Olive rode inside its extra seats. Dimentia only watched with hate and disgust as they took off. She didn't really care for this whole mission, and she questioned if it mattered. She continued to eat her marshmallows alone, with the only light or warmth coming from the small fire.
Millions of years earlier…
Dinosaurs of all kinds roared and screeched throughout the jungle of the old Earth. In a dense part of the jungle, four dino children, a light-blue female pterodactyl named Shiny, a green female pterodactyl named Tiny, a green male pterodactyl with a fatter mouth named Don, and a short, orange, and blue-spotted dino named Buddy, watched as a small, green portal started to open out of thin air.
They gasped, "Celebi!" when the Firstborn Spirit emerged from the portal.
"What's wrong?" Shiny asked.
"Bi! Bi bi BI!"
"A mad scientist sent seven kids back to this time and you were sent here to rescue them?" Buddy asked.
"Bi… bi bi." Celebi nodded.
"Wait here. We'll bring them to you." Tiny said before they flew (and Buddy ran) off.
With Team Brotherhood
"Oh…" Leo groaned when they all woke up in the dense jungle.
"Where are we?" Matt asked.
"Dude, stop saying that before that line gets overused." Elijah remarked.
"Did that machine send us back in time?" Nolan asked.
"That's the best I can draw from it." Danika said, walking forward and examining the area. "All I can say is I don't like the look of this-"
"ROOAAR!" A huge, dark-pink dinosaur suddenly emerged from the trees ahead.
"AAHHHHH! !" Danika and Leo screamed in total fear, holding each other tightly.
"Eek! D-D-Big dinos!" Leo stuttered.
"So big!" Danika followed.
They all ran and hid behind a rock, watching as the massive dino looked around before stomping away. They all sighed in relief. "That was close…" April said.
"Wait, did T-rexes exist during the Jurassic Era?" Matt asked.
"Honestly, I don't think anyone cares, or even remembers what era the dinosaurs are from." Elijah said.
"Yeah, I just wanna get back home." Jeremiah said.
"AAACK!"
"What was that?" Nolan gasped with a start. They looked up to find three pterodactyl children flying toward them, and a small dino running alongside them. Danika held her daggers ready as they landed before them.
"Hang on. They don't look evil." April said.
Shiny flew onto Nolan's lap and started chirping. "What did it say?" Danika asked.
"Anyone speak dino? What about you, Steve?" Leo asked his imaginary friend.
"…"
"…Sorry, guys, Steve's clueless." Dani and Cheshire face-palmed in disbelief.
"Sigh… hang on, Mallah upgraded a translator into my wheelchair, just in case." Nolan said, pressing a button that extracted his mini computer. The pterodactyl chirped some more as her words appeared on the small screen. "She's saying they're the Pteranodon Family, and they're here to take us to the Time Gate that Celebi opened."
"Time Gate?" Danika repeated.
"She's saying Celebi was sent here to rescue us. I guess we just have to find it then."
Shiny chirped some more and flew off with the others.
"They said to follow them."
"Yipe! You mean… into the jungle with big, scary dinos?" Leo stuttered.
"For once, I'm with Leo, there's no way I'm going out there." Danika said, still using her hoarse, depressed voice, but was secretly afraid.
"Alright then." April said, walking off with the others, with Nolan rolling his own chair. "You can just stay here and be eaten."
"Yeah! Maybe Leo's gas will keep them away." Nolan chuckled as they soon left Dani and Leo beyond the shrubs.
Dani and Leo held each other tightly, still quaking in fear. Stomping was heard behind them as the ground quaked, and looked they up to see that same pink dinosaur.
"ROOOOAAAR!"
"AAAAAAHHHH!" The reptile dove its mouth down, snapping its sharp fangs, but the two dodged and hurried after the others just in time. (Play the "Dinosaur Jungle" Theme from Sonic and the Secret Rings!)
Stage 9: Jurassic Jungle
Mission: Find the Time Gate!
The seven child villains slowly, but quickly hurried away from the massive dino, following after Buddy the Dinosaur. He hopped through some shrubs and the gang followed, but ended up falling down a small trench which Buddy had jumped over, the orange dino watching as they fell to a small path, and roared after them.
"What'd he say?" Matt shouted.
Nolan gasped, seeing his translator. "Run for it!" Immediately, they had to run away from a triceratop stampede. The Toxic Four slowed the dinos down using gas blasts, but they still kept coming.
"Up there!" April pointed to Tiny on a small branch. The others jumped on top of the branch while Nolan stayed below because of his wheelchair. The former leader closed his eyes before the dinosaurs' impact, but Danika and April hauled him and his chair up just before the branch crumbled, and they were all riding the triceratops.
The six narrowly jumped the dinos, ducking or jumping other branches, but Nolan couldn't very well do so in his chair. They saw a ledge on the side of the trench wall that led down another path. "Come on." Danika called, leaping over to the ledge with the others.
"Heeelp!" They all looked back down and saw Nolan still riding one, about to ram into a rock wall the dinos were running under. Danika sighed in frustration, snapping her fingers and sending Cheshire to stretch out, pull him in a shadow, then drop him back with the others.
They kept down the path until they reached a fast-paced river. They saw a log bridge and decided to carefully walk over it, with Dani and April lifting Nolan as they tried to keep balance. But with all their combined weight, the log slid off into the river, and the seven began surfing on it. "Hey… if this is the past, shouldn't we be worried about effecting the timeline?" Jeremiah asked.
"The Hell with that, they're just gonna be destroyed by the meteor anyway!" Nolan shouted.
"WHOOA!" they all screamed when the log fell down a waterfall, but a pterodactyl flew by and caught April by the hands in her talons, with Nolan holding her legs with one arm and the chair with the other. Danika held onto his legs, followed by Matt, Leo, Jeremy, and Elijah.
The dactyl carried them to its nest on a mountain, where Shiny, Tiny, and Don were waiting. The children gestured to follow them as they dropped down the cliff and took flight. "H-Hey!" Leo shouted as the mother pterodactyl shoved them off her nest.
"Grab on!" Danika ordered as Nolan and April grabbed ahold of her. She then used her shadowbending to make the three become a shadow, then started flying over the jungle.
"What about us?!" Matt shouted.
Leo faced directly down as they fell, eyes widened at the impending crash. "GRAB ON!" The poisonbenders held onto Leo as he charged, and released a fart so powerful they BLASTED off after the flying shadow.
They watched the dactyl children fly down a long cactus slide, which is where Danika landed them after becoming tired, and the poisonbenders landed there, too. Dani and April sat on Nolan's lap as his wheelchair rolled them down, while the poisonbenders sat on each others' shoulders with Leo at the bottom.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" Leo grunted as the thorny cactus spiked his butt. They were coming at a lump in the slide which Nolan jumped. Leo gasped at the incoming lump, and his face froze when his crotch came in contact with it, but still kept going. Down below was a gathering of brontosauruses, standing in a large part of the river.
The cactus ended at a ramp, flinging the group upwards and landing on a brontosaurus' head, sliding down its neck, then jumping onto the head of another one, which held them to another's head that they slid down, hopping off its back and onto safe ground. They kept going while Leo ran frantically, the spikes still lodged in his bottom.
They saw the four dino kids up ahead and ran after them, Danika slicing any shrubs and large bushes that stood in their path. "We should be getting close." Nolan said, still hurriedly moving his wheels.
As they ran, April looked up and took notice of something up ahead. "Uh… not quite."
"AHHH!" Leo burst into screams when they ran into an open field, which was guarded by the massive, dark-pink T-rex, roaring and stomping towards them. It gnashed down, grabbing Nolan by the legs.
"AAAAHH!" the handicapped boy cried as the dino shook him around. Thankfully, he felt no pain in his numb legs.
Danika became fueled with rage as she ran up a circular pathway that went around the monster. She dodged when the beast tried whacking her with its tail, but still shaking Nolan around. She eventually grabbed hold of its tail, running up his body. The T-rex tossed Nolan above him, mouth wide open, but just before he could swallow Nolan whole, Danika jumped and caught him in her arms, the dino growling as they landed on the ground. Dani set Nolan in his wheelchair as the monster opened wide and gnashed at them again, but Leo released another fart, shooting gas straight into its mouth. The dino became dizzied by the gas and fainted, landing with a thud.
The seven gave a sigh of relief and high-fived each other. Danika felt a high-five from an invisible force, and felt it might've been Steve. …She shook this thought away as the dino kids arrived. (Stop the music.)
"Hoo. That was pretty rough." Nolan sighed in relief.
The dino kids cheered as well, hurrying over to join them. But everyone looked in horror when the T-rex stood up again. It was about to snap at them, but they heard a screech and looked up at the pterodactyl mother, Mrs. Pteranodon. It flew beside the T-rex and chirped at him. "EAH, ya ya, eah eah! (Honey! What did I tell you about terrorizing the children's friends?)"
"Aaauuuuhn. (Aw, I was just kidding around.)"
"Eeeaah! Eeaah! (Don't scare them so much, Darling. Now, let's show these kids the Time Gate like the children said.)"
"Eaaauuuuhn. (As long as we can have that Special Caveman Surprise you made for dinner!)" With that, the humans followed the Pteranodons to another area of the jungle, covered by shrubs.
They went behind the large bushes and found the green portal Celebi created. "There's the Time Gate!" Nolan exclaimed, eager to get back home.
"I guess Celebi already left." Danika figured. She looked at the dino kids and said, "Anyway, thanks for the help. …I guess some dinos aren't really so bad."
They heard a screech in the distance, and watched as another T-rex caught a pterodactyl from the sky and began to munch on it. The kids looked at the dino family with fearful expressions. "Uuummm… but I'd rather not come back here. Well… see you later." The kids and the dinos waved good-bye as they stepped into the portal, which immediately shut.
Realm Between Dimensions
"O-kay, this is feeling weeiiirrrd." Elijah moaned as they flew through the vortex between times.
"We should be back any minute. Oh!" Nolan groaned, holding his stomach in sickness.
"I just hope we don't get… Ohhhh…" Before Matt finished, he fainted.
"Ha! I coulda sworn it'd be me!" Leo exclaimed. "…Oomp! BLEEEHH!" He immediately threw up.
"If that stuff hits me on the way out, someone's gettin' sliced." Jeremiah stated.
"Everyone! Hold on to each other so we don't get-" April's sentence was cut short when the area started shaking.
"WHOOOOAAAA! !" A bright light separated Team Brotherhood from the Terrible Toxic Four as they were dropped back in their own time. But not where they wanted to be…
AND there we go. Next time, we'll finally get back to the MAIN group. And thanks to Morgan for giving me the idea to use the Pteranodons! Too bad her idea with the time train thingy went to shambles in her universe. :P Also, Matt didn't faint from sickness. I'm sure you can guess what happened. :P Later!