Remo strolled casually among his growing armada. Several raptors, with various other dinosaurs he found and converted with his new powers. He had stepped into Kevran's former leadership role with a lot of gusto. All hints of his uneasiness from before were gone, his interests fully concentrated with what he now saw as the race that was all his own. He may not have created the dinopactors, but he was now their main propagator.

"My friends…" He addressed the group in his new home base, a cavern he had discovered some time after slaughtering Kevran. "I'm certain many of you are wondering what you are doing, standing here in your new, strange bodies, thinking to yourself "What can I possibly do with such a puny form"?…I know, because I went through much of the same thing when I was first converted."

The group of dinopactors all nodded to each other, then to Remo, listening to him intently as he continued his speech. "Believe me when I tell you, my comrades, that we indeed were given these new bodies for a very special purpose…one that goes beyond simply surviving, which we have all been doing out here, including myself."

The group went completely silent as he looked out over all of them with a great intensity in his eyes. "We were chosen…I was chosen, and I chose all of you…to rise above the great suffering we have had to endure out in what some so callously call the mysterious beyond…scraping by on what food we can find, fighting each other, and hunting each other down…all while a chosen few can look down on us from the sanctuary of their great valley, wanting for absolutely nothing, well fed, breeding without fear…"

He looked to the left of him, and the right, observing all the watching eyes. "Is this how life on this world should be? Is this how our kind, all of our kind, should be meant to live? The few standing on the backs of the many?"

"No!" One dinopactor, a duckbill, yelled out from near the back.

"No!" Another dinopactor, this time a spiketail, joined him, raising his fist.

Remo looked out among all the others. More and more of the dinopactors who could speak joined in the growing chorus of "No!"'s, while the raptors and T-rexes in the ranks began growling in agreement with Remo and the others. Soon, the number of dinopactors yelling "No!" was loud enough to almost make the cavern shake.

"NO! NO! NO!"

"We are on the cusp of a new age!" Remo called out to his congregation, getting their attention once more. "These new bodies were a gift! We no longer need the crude nourishment of plant life or dinosaur life in any form. We are no longer separated by what we do, or what we eat. We are strong! We are untied! We will retake this world from the privileged few that hope to keep us in our place, and we will spread our philosophy of unity beyond our borders! Who is with me?"

Every dinopactor yelled and roared in approval now, each of them raising their fist and pumping it.

"You have made me happy…all of you…and you have made this world a happier one, starting today." Remo smiled over his armada. "But we are still missing one piece of our force…a piece that I shall now go retrieve, and use to complete this wondrous machine we've created…"

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"He was spying on us?" A curious Littlefoot asked. Shorty had just told him about his latest Kabuto sighting, as he sat with him and Ali.

Shorty nodded in response. "Yeah…right behind that tree." He motioned to the one near Ayla and Bron's nest.

Ali furrowed her brow as she thought about this. "This is the second time he's been seen hanging around us…it makes me wonder even more…could it be him? I mean, Chomper did tell us this Tendou fellow is a longneck."

"It can't be though…" Littlefoot shook his head. "He's dead…Logia died, I watched him…and you both saw it too."

"Remember, though…" Ali added. "The Neo-Spirit is involved too, and she brought back both your mother and Mihara."

Shorty added. "I just wish Chomper was around a little more often so we could ask him again."

The three continued to talk, as Ducky sat on a rock next to Petrie, who was looking up into the sky, finally at peace with himself.

"You're almost fully healed…" Ducky smiled as she motioned to the fading scars on Petrie's body, the grueling reminder of the sharptooth attack that injured him and Pterano, and led to him becoming Kaixa in his frustration.

"Yup.." Petrie nodded. "Inside as well as outside."

Ducky nodded back and smiled again. She then took the moment to lean on her longtime friend in a light hug. "It's good to have you back on our side, Petrie…I don't have to tell you how hard it was for me to fight you."

Petrie leaned into the hug gratefully. "And it's good to feel the warmth of this side again…I almost forgot it completely. Now that I recall, I could feel your hesitancy in fighting me, and I think that helped me remember what I once was, and who my real friends were…you helped me from becoming completely lost…and I want to thank you for that."

"No thanks needed, friend…" Ducky smiled, almost teary-eyed now as she held on with the hug, Petrie not protesting at all as he smiled back.

As this moment went on, Tria walked over to Topsy, after taking a moment to check on Cera and Tricia. Topsy had seemed rather distant since the morning sun came along, and she had gotten more and more curious about it all.

"Topsy?" She called to him softly. "Topsy, are you awake?"

"Hm?" Topsy finally turned to her, coming back to his senses. "Oh, hi…"

"Hi…" Tria furrowed her brow a little as she approached him. "Something on your mind suddenly?"

Topsy sighed slowly. It was clear that Tria was going to keep pressing him on this. "It's Remo…"

Tria shook her head slowly. "Oh Topsy…what have I told you already? You can do nothing about it now…he's beyond our help, clearly."

"I know…" Topsy looked out to the distance once more. "But I can't help but wonder if what he said was true…maybe it really was my fault, with my inability to stretch the strict ruled I lived with before. Maybe I really did drive him to what he's become now. I mean, I did leave him and his mate to die…"

"But look at everything you've done since then…" Tria responded as she sat closer to him. "You've accomplished so much to help this valley through rough times, casting aside those old conceptions about different dinosaurs living together…you've transcended everything you were before. Remo, on the other hand, has held onto the past, and has lived on hatred and pain ever since he lost Dinah, instead of letting her go…nothing ever good comes out of that, and in my mind, he has no one to blame but himself for what he's become now."

"What a touching scene…" a voice suddenly called out to both of them from behind.

Tria gasped as she turned with Topsy to see a familiar figure standing behind them. "Remo!"

"I'm impressed, Tria…" Remo spoke as he idly handled his axe weapon. "You work so hard to comfort this male, and convince him that he's somehow blameless for all that's happened…it's wonderful sense of compassion I've rarely seen…not since Dinah, as a matter of fact."

"Disobeying orders again to see us, Remo?" Topsy quickly got up, getting defensive once more. "I don't know how much longer your new leader's gonna tolerate this."

"You mean Kevran?" Remo looked up and shook his head slowly. "Oh, I no longer need fear him…see I recently…usurped his position in a very straightforward manner…." He then reached back and pulled Kevran's severed head from his belt, showing off the trophy to the two shocked threehorns. "So you're now looking at the new, uncontested leader of the dinopactors."

"You're no leader…" Topsy growled at him a little. "Ever since we were younger you lacked the spine for it."

"Topsy, please…" Tria warned him, before looking back to the dinopactor. "Remo…this isn't you at all…you've already killed, and it looks like you might kill again…what would Dinah think of all this?"

"Dinah can't think anything now…she's dead." Remo cryptically responded. "Dead, like many others will soon be…" he walked closer to both of them with his axe at his side.

"What do you think killing Topsy's going to resolve now, then?" Tria backed up, getting in front of her mate.

"Oh…I'm going to do worse than kill him…far worse…" Remo grinned lightly as he flexed his other hand…

Before he could make a move, however, something struck him hard in the back. He turned quickly to see Tendou in his rebuilt Kabuto armor, shining brilliantly in its masked form as he held out his recently fired gunaxe.

"I was wondering where you'd gone…" Tendou spoke. "For a while I thought you maybe couldn't handle the responsibility of leadership."

Remo just smiled in response. "And I see you had all your little toys rebuilt…I really wish I could play, but I have some business to attend." He turned, only to get another blast in the back for his trouble.

"Step away from those two right now!" Tendou shouted, getting more serious.

"Don't tempt me, boy…" Remo scowled at him. "I've been slowly building my own army in my absence, and it's made me a better fighter. See, my strain of symbiosis has evolved…each time I introduce my strain into the body of another, I in turn take a little piece of their strength, and life force into my own. I am much, much more powerful than when we met last, so opposing me may not be the best thing for your health."

"Nothing you say can ever make me back down…" Tendou spoke as he reached down and pulled his beetle's horn in position. "Cast off!"

Within seconds he cast off his heavy armor and took his lighter "CHANGE BEETLE" form. He then withdrew his dagger and ran towards Remo, who turned and readied himself to strike with his large axe.

Tendou leapt and tried to kick Remo's head, only to be quickly blocked by the handle of Remo's axe. Remo then swiftly pulled the weapon away, making Tendou backflip away from him before he charged at him with his steel-lined horns. Tendou felt the head slam into him as he narrowly avoided being gored by the horns. He fell back and quickly got back onto his feet.

"Wow…his speed went up as well as his strength…" He thought to himself, leaping out of the way to avoid another charge from Remo, before flipping pressing a button to a communicator on his helmet.

"Petrie! Chomper! Rhett! Ducky! Get down to my coordinates as soon as possible!"

"Oh, I've already got something cooked up for your friends…" Remo grinned. "I'm afraid they're all going to be a little occupied for a while."

Petrie and Ducky were already on their way, as they encountered Rhett and Chomper, who were both attending to Rhett's recovering mother.

"What's going on?" Rhett asked Petrie. "Did you see anything?"

"Not a thing…" Petrie shook his head.

All four were getting close, until two figures suddenly jumped out from nowhere, two dinopactors. One was a slender Pteranadon with wings reinforced with steel on his gray, humanoid metal body. The other was a rotund, but muscular spike-tail with two glowing computerized eyes, and what looked like spinning saw blades on his wrists, his gray steel body lined with green patches.

"Who are these guys?" Chomper reacted in surprise.

"I am called Hayato…" The flyer responded.

"And I am Grok…" The Spike tail growled. "We are members of the Centurions…Master Remo's personal guard."

Ducky slapped on her Delta gear. "Well, I guess that answers what you're here to do then…"

"None shall touch Master Remo without our permission…" Hayato growled as he spread his wings.

"I'll take the flying one…" Petrie immediately volunteered, summoning his wasp, and clicking it into the brace on his arm. "HENSHIN!" The computer spoke, as he changed into Zabii's masked form moments later.

"And I'll back you up…" Ducky responded. Speaking "Henshin!" into her driver, using it to transform into Delta once more.

"Leftovers are fine by us…" Chomper spoke, as he summoned his Gattack unit, while Rhett summoned the Sasword unit at the same time, both of them transforming seconds between each other, as they faced down Grok.

Hayato quickly took to the skies, as Petrie cast off his heavy armor, and spread the wings of his "change wasp" form, pursuing him. Ducky watched from below, her gun at the ready.

Hayato suddenly closed his wings in midair, and opened them back up as a barrage of small missiles shot out from hidden openings in them. They all homed in on Petrie as he expertly flew over them, hitting each one with the stinger on his right hand, sending them off course before they blew up. He then launched an energy beam from his hand, as Ducky shot at Hayato repeatedly from below. Hayato swerved to avoid some of these blasts, before finally being hit by a few of them, unable to handle both fighters at once.

Chomper and Rhett also cast off their heavy armor at the same time, making Grok cover his face with both of his big arms. Rhett lead the way as he charged towards the dinopactor with his sword extended. He ran in just as Grok lowered his arms, and slashed for his side. Grok yelped as he felt the blade cut into him a little, making the saw on his left wrist spin once he saw Chomper coming his way with both of his blades extracted.

Chomper slashed left to right, right to left, with both of his weapons swiftly, as Grok tried to counter with a single hard slash with his left hand. Chomper ducked as he felt the spinning saw nearly sheer off the horns on his helmet. At the same time, Rhett charged in and attempted a strong diagonal slash on Grok, only to be met with the spinning blade on his right wrist. The blade clashed and sparked with the saw, where a lesser sword would have been cut in two.

At the same time, Chomper had brought up both his blades, and crossed them as Grok tried to finish him off with his right saw blade. Both fighters bravely stood their ground as they tried to find this monster's weak spot.

As all of this was going on, Tendou still had his hands full with Remo, avoiding his strong swings of his axe, as well as the charges from stronger and faster dinopactor. At one point, he tried to leap, only to feel Remo's right horn make impact with the right side and nearly shatter his belt.

Tendou still managed to get out of the way, but he came down on his feet hard, which landed in some very sticky mud. Remo just stood and watched as the incapacitated fighter struggled to free himself. At one point he remembered the new hyper injector, and reached to his right side to hit the switch for it…

…Nothing happened…

He hit it again…again, nothing. He looked down, and to his shock, discovered that the impact from Remo's horn in the last attack had severed the connection cables almost completely. He was stuck, and unable to power up any further, as Remo turned his attention back to Topsy and Tria. Tendou grunted in frustration, as he tried to repair the connection manually…

Tria bravely walked out to Remo, facing him down with a stern look on her face, as Cera and Tricia ran over to make sure everything was ok, watching with wide eyes.

"I won't let you take him, Remo!" Tria stated, adamantly. "I won't!"

"My dear lady…" Remo grinned, looking right into her eyes. "Whoever said I wanted him?"

Tria's eyes went wide, as Remo reacted before she could protest…he placed his hand right on her forehead, and made his hand glow blue with the energy of his strain, injecting it right into her body.

"Tria!" Cera yelled, as Tricia yelled, "MOM!" at the same time.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Topsy cried out in a rage, running right towards Remo. Remo was prepared though, finishing with Tria and moving her aside, before swinging his axe at the charging Topsy, slamming the blade into his left leg's shoulder.

"No! Not dad too!" Cera yelled, Tricia running behind her, distraught as the tears were already streaming down her face.

Remo kicked the wounded Topsy off his blade as he looked down at him. Tria stared ahead blankly, already in stage 1 of the change, as her eyes glowed in the unholy color of the strain, under Remo's control.

"I don't give a damn about your kids anymore…" Remo addressed him as Cera and Tricia attended to him, writhing in pain with the wound on his leg. "I stand for more than simple vengeance now…but I do get to see some satisfaction in seeing a little justice done." He looked to Tria, and back to him. "You let me watch as my mate died, and left me for dead…tell me friend…how does it feel to be on the other end?"

Topsy grunted in pain. Tears were slowly streaming down his own face as he heard this, while Cera attended to him and the distraught Tricia, trying to keep her own emotions in check.

"No! No!" Tendou frantically worked as he thought of alternative. "I can't let him get away with this too…" He then decided to power the battery of the injector through his life support…it was risky, but he saw no other choice. He set up the connection, and finally hit the switch once more…

"HYPER CAST OFF!"

He felt the energy rushing through him, as Remo immediately turned upon hearing the computer announce the change. Tendou strongly brought his feet out of the mud as they changed, and were covered in silver armor, much of his body now covered in this silvery armor, which still kept the toned form of his cast off form. A slender and powerful generator was now on his chest too, with gold trim as electricity shot through the tube in the center, his horn growing larger with his helmet, as he finally assumed the form of Hyper Kabuto.

Within seconds of seeing Tendou change fully, Remo then saw his form vanish completely. Before he could wonder where he went, he suddenly felt a hard right smash him right across the chin. He turned and grunted to see Tendou standing right next to him, his speed having increased to an incredible rate. He struck Remo with a hard right sidekick as well, the force equally incredible as he sent Remo flying into a tree, knocking it over.

"Yes!" Cera shouted. "Get him! Save Tria!"

Remo breathed heavily as he got back to his feet, looking to Tendou as he stayed right where he was. He motioned to the sky, as an object suddenly swooped down to him from above. It was Hyper Kabuto's most powerful weapon, a large sword called "Ultima".

Tendou raised the sword in his right hand, and began to move forward…before he could act, however, his armor began to smoke, and he felt himself weakening…Remo took advantage and decided to flee for now, commanding Tria to follow him silently as he called back Hayato and Grok. Both immediately dropped what they were doing with the others, and left with their leader.

Tendou struggled on his feet as Cera looked on, worried. He realized that he had overloaded the hyper injector with the power from his life support…how could he have been so dumb, he wondered,,, he should have known that the injector couldn't have been able to handle the amount of power life support generated per minute…the suit was about to explode, he realized.

He frantically reached down and pressed a few buttons, bringing the suit out of Hyper Kabuto mode…but it was still smoking, and on the verge of blowing up, smoke coming out of his helmet as he coughed a bit blinded. He then pressed a button on his helmet, activating the emergency release. The helmet flipped open, as Tendou went about his work, not realizing that Littlefoot, Ali, and Shorty had joined the others on the scene.

Smoke was rising from Tendou's neck, obscuring his face before he finally reached down and found a button, pressing it.

"EMERGENCY BATTERY SHUTDOWN ACTIVATED" The computer spoke, before going silent. Tendou's body was still covered, other than his head, as he collapsed down onto his knees and coughed, clearing smoke from his face as it diminished.

Tendou's face was fully exposed as he breathed deeply, taking in the fresh air before turning to see a group of familiar faces looking at him…among them, Littlefoot.

"Brother?…" Littlefoot simply asked, his eyes wide open as he walked closer to the figure of the unmasked Kabuto.

Tendou sighed. "I see there's no point in hiding this anymore…Yes, Littlefoot, it's me…"

Everything went silent for what seemed like forever. So much had happened in this little space of time, and it was going to take time for everyone to sort everything out, and find a solution…one thing was clear though…Everything as it had been since Tendou's rebirth had now been turned completely upside down.