Chapter 1

The evil beneath

Almost a year had passed and the world has managed to heal nearly all of its scars which were inflicted upon it by the war with the Shadow Empire as well as by the cosmos stones and the Reaper's Wrath, and few signs remained on the planet as peace reigned supreme as the utopia between man and dinosaurs had not only returned but was also renewed and both sides were thriving most exceptionally. Across the world, towns and cities that were once desolated and abandoned like ghost towns were restored and rebuilt, and now once again dinosaurs and people were found walking together amongst the streets living side by side with one another without any tension or friction.

Many dinosaurs that were rescued from the Shadow Empire's control were given treatment and healing by newly established medical centres and techniques in order to purge them of all scars and trauma they suffered while being under the influence of Goma and the space pirates, and most of them were already given new homes and rehabilitation, as in one such dinosaur rescue center, a family consisting of 2 parents and their young son laughed happily as a young liliensternus hopped out of the pen and gave his new partner a cheerful lick as he then hugged close to the green dinosaur. The center was ran by a pair of troopers, who not only retired from the force but were even married too, and they smiled happily to see that life was returning to normal and not just people but even dinosaurs were given a new chance at life too after what they suffered unfairly years ago. Some of them also found a chance to start their lives anew and have their future together in a brand new world ahead, as they looked outside the window being so many smiles of joy and happiness, not a trace of sorrow and they felt happy to be helping contribute to this.

In the skies pterosaurs like tapejara and anganguera flew high above, soaring across the blue horizon and bathing in the warm light of the sun, amongst the occasional solar powered flying car or hovercraft before diving down to the sea below to snap up a fish, as a muraenosaurus pod came up for some air and passing by a pair of futabasaurus. Further ahead was the newly rebuilt Saurus City, appearing just like its glory days as if the war never happened, with promotional posters or billboards featuring upcoming dinosaur sports games like soccer and baseball, along with giant screens depicting a news story on some patagosaurus using water jammer to put out a wildfire raging in the forests. Signs like these face hope to many, that were still recovering from the trauma they suffered, that things were going back to the way they hoped for and they have the Resistance, and the legendary heroes to thank for it, as a statue of them and their partner dinosaurs was set up in the central square so everyone could give honour to them and remember the great things they accomplished both in the past and in their time. Many passing by dinosaurs and people who remembered their deeds always made time in their day to pay a visit and their respects to the statue as they continued to live a life that would give honour to what they did.

The area also appeared much more lush and green too, which was created thanks to a special miracle fertiliser concocted by former Resistance Captain Raina, who had underwent several scientific breakthroughs while experimenting with dinosaur faeces, which was now used as a key ingredient to create a special new alternative biofuel for energy which was not only in readily available supply but worked several times more powerful than oil, turning waste a valuable resource. Another key discovery she made was by combining the nutrient properties in the faeces of different dinosaurs along with a special enhancer formula made from gel jark remains she was able to bring forth a super fertiliser which helped plants regrow in areas once devastated by fires in mere minutes when nature would have taken decades to regrow! In fact thanks to this, crop yields for food have also quintupled thus nearly eliminating all world hunger. Ironic that such a breakthrough would never come to be had it not been for the Shadow empire.

Speaking of Raina, back in the former Resistance base, which had now been converted into a dinosaur research facility and had been given a nice fresh field of green grass and blue skies in order to give it a great image in its setting, she was now undergoing a brand new experiment in one of the testing rooms. She was standing before a large mapusaurus which was looking down at her, while breathing rather heavily with exhaustion, while she on the other hand, grinned rather crazily as she aimed a strange looking blaster like device which was was large as a handheld shotgun but also decorated to look like a dinosaur with the blaster nozzle sticking out of its mouth. "Hee hee! Don't worry Gondo, I promise you this won't hurt a bit!" she giggled like a mad scientist which made the big carnivore shudder nervously in disagreement, the thought of being used as a fire move test subject was one thing, but now to be a deliberate guinea pig for a newly made weapon was another altogether.

What she said next though, soon calmed down the fire dinosaur as she made it clear with assurance it was for a good cause, "If this works, and it will, it can revolutionise the way we can handle rogue dinosaur incidents and aid in improving transport too! So in fact you're making a valuable contribution to us all! Isn't that great!?" She cheered with a bright smile before doing a cheery spin, "Plus it would make her very happy." She then sang at the end. Unable to argue with her when she put it like that, the mapusaurus let out a heavy sigh before grunting with some reluctance as he decided to let her go through with her little experiment….even if it was rather discriminating for him. "That's better, thanks for understanding." Raina then thanked him with appreciation as she walked right up to the mapusarus, seeing no need to fear him, as she petted him gently on the snout with a caring smile, "Besides you're a big guy, even a real gun wouldn't hurt you and you know it." Her comment made the dinosaur snort in annoyance, while regular gunfire would make it seem what an ant bite is to a human it was still a very unpleasant sensation, but better to get it over with than put up with her constant nagging, and even if she did respect his choices she'd go and bother some other unfortunate dinosaur in turn, so might as well be him he then decided.

Raina then took her position at a safe distance on the other side of the training room before aiming the blaster at him, "Now don't you worry for a bit, just hold still and this will only be a second." She said squinting her eyes and looking through the targeting hole. Zooming in on him, her finger reached over the trigger as she locked onto her target, "3…2…1! Fire!" She cried as she fired out a white light from the gun! She tumbled back from the recoil momentarily but looked ahead as the beam made contact with Gondo, which made him roar out wildly before he glowed red and reverted into a dinosaur card! Raina rubbed her eyes a bit to make sure she was seeing right, but after looking closer and confirming it she grinned brightly with joy to see it was a complete success as she both hoped and envisioned it to be! "Ahaha! Yes! It works! It actually works!" She laughed and giggled with uncontrollable glee and excitement, so loud her voice could echo out from the room she was in and through the rest of the near empty Resistance base, as many of the former staff and troopers had disbanded to return to their normal lives or decided to take a nice long but well deserved holiday courtesy of their commander.

Speaking of their commander, "What's all the commotion going on here?" said a strict and firm but also suspicious female tone as the doors opened behind Raina.

The Lightning captain froze stiff upon hearing the voice, realising she was caught in the middle of one of her private moments and in front of the new chief….how embarrassing for her self presentation as she turned around uneasily and went pale upon seeing a young red haired girl, dressed in a formal black suit for females, a whitish inner layer and the D Team symbol on her chest pocket as well as a D Site branch logo tied in a lace around her hair into a ponytail and a set of high heeled shoes giving her a most mature look. The most notable feature about her though, was that she had a chibi microraptor resting on her shoulder, who mirrored her expression as they both shot a rather hard and questioning expression towards Raina as she sweated nervously and began twiddling her fingers, "Ah! Commander Sauria! I was just…err…." she stuttered as her eyes looked away in multiple directions, unable to look her in the eyes for she could feel her heart about to burst out of her chest in anxiety!

Cera soon face palmed and shook her head, "Sigh…Raina….I told you a million times just call me Cera…." she let out a deep sigh of exasperation unsure of how many times she'd have to explain this to many of the others who met up with her, most of which being Raina herself, "This isn't the war anymore and we've been friends for a long time now, there's no need for the formalities." She then replied calmly.

Ever since her father Lunensis stepped down in order to go on a soul searching journey and experience the world first hand, needing to live his life and get away from anything that would remind him of the Shadow War. Also, he himself believed Cera was a far better fit of being the new leader than he, for he knew deep down she had a deeper understanding about coexistence and balance better than anyone else, and he couldn't think of anyone better to oversee rebuilding their world and their once damaged relationships and lifestyles, while he would in turn go out to experience what she would bring forth. She herself felt more comfortable her too as it allowed her to keep an eye on things, feeling more at home at the base and helping to keep watch around the world and see the restoration efforts and renewed hopes all at once, a responsibility she accepted completely and already she had done plenty to fill in the shoes of leader.

"Hehe…Sorry about that, force of habit." Raina sweat dropped with a cheeky smile as she scratched her cheek, "I'm just giving you the respect you deserve just like I did your father." She then said as she pushed up her glasses to be more serious, "It's been really nice of him to pass over the torch to you, truly he couldn't have made a better pick." She then looked closer at Cera with a smile of approval, "Then again the more I look at you the more of him I see in you, and how much of a great leader you are like him." said Raina as she looked up and down Cera to see she was more woman than young girl compared to the last time she set foot in the base, which made Cera blush red and scratch her cheek feeling honoured.

"Hee hee I really appreciate the thought and faith…." she giggled before shaking her head in disagreement, "Though I don't intend to be like my father since I'm not him," she said with full assurance, "I just want to be the best I can and be someone everyone can be happy with." While she didn't wish to be someone to fill her father's shoes she did however wished to meet the expectations of both the D Team and to the world, of being someone who can help restore the peace and be the one to lead by example.

Raina then nodded in response, proud of her answer, "Which we all are I can promise you." She said with firm confidence, "And in due time, maybe even better." she said at the end.

"Thank you, it makes me feel great to hear that." Cera bowed happy to hear that, before turning serious back to the matter at hand which made Raina stutter, that her attempt to butter up her new boss didn't work as successfully as she hoped, "But enough about me, whats going on in here? What were you doing just now?" She questioned her before taking notice of the gun she had in her hand and then shooting a hard glare back at her, "What's that? A gun? You're not up to anything I ought to be concerned with are you?" She asked with suspicion, having had a bad experience with Seth a long while back because of his crazed science and she had no intention of repeating Dr Ancient's or Dr Z's mistakes, the second she knew of anything that would jeopardise all they worked towards she'd take care of it in an instant.

Raina knew this all too well, but instinctively she tried to hide the gun behind her back regardless, "Err….hehehe, it's not what it looks like! Nothing shady I promise you!" she laughed nervously before whistling casually and looking away. As Cera raised an eyebrow of suspicion towards her, Raina then decided to prove her innocence and come clean, "Look! I'll even show it to you! Watch!" She said with assurance as she turned around and aimed the gun right back at the card. Reversing the lever at the side of it, she fired the beam at the card, causing it to glow red again as Gondo the mapusaurus reappeared and let out a loud roar as he awakened once more. Looking down in the face of Cera and Miku, he widened his eyes in surprise before lowering his head submissively in respect to her, having not forgotten how she pulled a huge throw out of his foot once when he was in chibi form and he had been ever grateful for that since.

"Oh my…." Cera breathed in surprise, covering over her mouth while Miku squawked both impressed and surprised.

Raina grinned with confidence liking the impression she left on Cera, "Like it? It's my new dino expander." she explained as she began stroking across it, "What it does is revert a dinosaur card back into a dinosaur with but a single shot! Plus it works in reverse too, and on top of that it also encodes the card in a certain shielding which keeps it from activating again by another dinoshot or by outside elements for a certain amount of time depending on the setting here." She explained as she demonstrated at a certain dial which had settings from 5 minutes to even half a day long!

Cera nodded in acknowledgement before putting a finger to her chin in thought, "I see, this can be quite useful in a number of ways….impressive." she commented seeing many uses for a device like this, such as reverting an enemy or wild rogue dinosaur to a card and then keep it not just under control but also from being misused in the event it fell into the wrong hands.

"Hehe thank you." Raina chuckled feeling honoured for getting such praise from Cera before confessing modestly, "It's not perfect though, you see it works far better if the target is in a weakened state…." Deep down she felt a little bad at having to force Gondo to do this right after having him test out some newly made fire move cards and leaving him exhausted and in need of rest, but after previous tests on other dinosaurs with no success she had to test out this hypothesis of hers to confirm it, which thankfully did. "I originally designed this for the intention of safely converting dinosaurs to cards in the event they are wounded so they'd be far easier to transport and we can reduce the amount of stress they'd go through in the process." She then explained, "Plus in the event we encounter a dinosaur running wild again we won't need to fight it out and risk injury and damage for both it and our own."

"And thus eliminating the need to hurt the dinosaur more than necessary." Cera concluded for her, seeing it could be the right solution to certain battles and maybe even avoid conflict altogether once perfected. Nodding at Raina with a smile, "Great job Raina, you've done quite a good job on this." she said complimenting her as she patted her shoulder, even though such a device would have been more useful during the war than now as she sighed. "Though….I have a feeling in this new age….we may not need to worry too much about dinosaurs going wild and being used for evil again." She said uneasily, worrying that her friend may have wasted her time and effort with this project. Turning around she took a remote from he rocket and pressed a red button causing a screen to emerge from the walls as it switched on.

First it depicted Blaze and his partner Daigo the daspletosaurus along with a few rescue workers at Dust Hills, helping to remove some rocks away from a landslide before Gorgon stuck his head into a hole and grabbed a pair of miners who were trapped in the mine. It then switched over to a scene in the branch in Las Vegas where Marina was showing off her new trend of fashions, titled Serenade of the Sea, where she sported some sea shell ear rings and a long flowing dress in various shades of blue like the ocean with a bubbly pattern around it, as she showed off her elegant figure her partners Smith and Camille came in their chibi forms whole dressed in water themed clothes for little dinosaurs, much like dogs clothes but with an ocean theme.

Craig had returned to the Dino Wrestling League and made a comeback in his career, now dressed with a red and purple mask and exposing his extremely thick and heavy build while wearing wrestling gloves and tight safari themed shorts as he charged forth and grabbed hold of his opponent dressed in a pteranodon getup before doing a suplex to him, taking out his foe in 3 seconds flat! A new record courtesy of his time in the battlefield as a sergeant. The crowds in the stadium roared excitedly and chanted his name while nearby Taka his talarurus had managed to pin down a gojirasaurus, which screamed gasping for air unable to move under the ankylosaur's weight! Kaze was then featured meditating underneath a waterfall in the forest, having underwent a journey to retrain himself and gain a new sense of enlightenment hoping to find peace with his past experiences.

Finally Hua had recently established some new medical facilities which not only healed physical wounds for people and dinosaurs but also provided all kinds of therapy to heal with emotional trauma too, acting as kind of a spa as well to aid in relaxation and using all natural ingredients to help people value and respect both nature and the environment in which they live in. It was clear enough that with repairs down around the world everyone was doing what they could to move on with their lives and almost no trace of any trouble or even a hint of crime was found for miles around. It gave Cera more than enough reason to see there may not be any use for weapons anymore with such peace reigning supreme.

"Maybe so, but you can't be too careful after what we went through can you?" Raina then replied rather seriously before eying Cera, "Just trying to make sure we keep our world's future safe and secure." One may first assume her to mean the world literally, but in reality she knew Cera herself to be the world's future and the only one who can guide it on the right path after what they went through.

It didn't take long for her to pick up on that as she chuckled in amusement, "Hehe, I'm certain I can handle myself just fine with all of you already around doing your part to help rebuild what we lost." she said confined in placing her faith in them before they looked ahead to the screens again and seeing all their old friends bring good and smiles to the people everywhere around the world….which made her wonder how her old friends were doing in their times, hopefully getting along well in their own lives and making their world and times a better one for people everywhere.

"It hasn't been easy but we're getting there." Raina added, "Who knows where the road would take us from here and what new challenges we may face along the way."

Cera nodded in agreement, "But the way I see it….I'm certain our future is in great hands with everyone already working together to make it a much better place for both people and dinosaurs than it was before." She said with full faith and her heart at ease, knowing there could only be a bright horizon ahead for all people and dinosaurs in their future at this rate and not only would their worries and insecurities about the future be over but also they may be able to move on and begins their lives anew.

She soon smirked as she knew just how to do it, "Are the preparations for the Fossil League Cup finished?" She asked Raina who then smiled brightly.

"Indeed as you requested," she answered which put a pleased smile on the red head's face.

"That's good to hear." Cera nodded in acknowledgement, knowing the revival of this long traditional event and world famous cultural tournament may help reignite the passion within dino duelists worldwide to battle with dinosaurs again for the true and pure sport of dino duelling, and this write a brand new chapter in which the old war ways of the past would finally be overwritten. And Cera had one more idea in mind that would make the competition way more memorable and a thousand times more exciting which she soon shared to Raina, "Have the time gate readied too, we're going to be bringing in some special guests to help liven things up a little more." She instructed with a confident smirk to which Raina acknowledged with a bow.

Before long she grinned knowing whom Cera had in mind and the real reason for choosing them, "Hee hee, you miss them don't you?" She asked to which Cera covered a hand over her mouth to suppress a giggle.

"Heh, I won't deny that." She replied, "Plus I did promise them once things calmed down I'd bring them back and they can all see how far we've come." She said nicely as she turned bak to look at the screens and see all the happiness and smiles of the people on screen as well as what they've managed to rebuild, knowing her old friends would be touched to see this with their own eyes. With such a great idea planned she couldn't see anyway in which things could go wrong and only a bright horizon to which they can all look towards in which war and destruction will have no place in at last.

Unfortunately….Little did they or anyone else in the world know….was that this moment of peace wouldn't last for long…..

(Meanwhile)

Not everyone was having a good time in this new world, and not every dinosaur was experiencing the same joy and happiness with people as many of their other saurian siblings were, as with much of life not everything was perfect and soon things would once again taking a rather nasty turn….starting in Antartica…..where a small group of troopers were stationed there at the ruins of the Goma's old shadow fortress. Once the symbol of fear and hopelessness to the world, now but a mere shadow of its old self as it had collapsed to a pile of ruin and debris, with remains of machines, rooms and inventions being mixed in with much of the rubble upon its' collapse.

The 3 males, one large, fat and burly, the second being slightly less bulky but a medium muscular build, and the 3rd being the shortest as well as somewhat skinny, and they were stationed at the tight of their enemy's former lair in order to salvage for anything that could still be of use in aiding restoration efforts or that may hold a threat to the world and ought to be locked up. Yet despite the good cause it served, the 3 troopers there weren't at all pleased with the job given to them by Cera in the slightest.

"Man this must be the most boring job ever guys…." The fat and burly man grumbled as he put his back into it and lifted over a large rock and pushed it over only to find a broken down computer screen and then tossing it away without a second thought, grumbling to himself that he hoisted over the rock for nothing.

"Tell me about it Bob…." said the second man, whose name was John, as kicked away a chunk of debris in frustration after having searched for hours and yet his team found nothing of use as he expected. As a cold winter wind blew by them and he began to shiver uncomfortably, he gritted his teeth in anger as he pictured some of the others in the Resistance now lounging around on mats or in chairs at a white warm sandy beach in the Maldives surround by cute girls in bathing suits and even having a dance party BBQ on top of that which as being kept warm by a yangchuanosaurus! The thought of it in comparison to what they were being put through was driving him crazy as he burned up in side and grasped his head in deep intense rage, "Why do we get stuck here at the South Pole out here in this blizzard while everyone else gets a month off in the tropical islands enjoying a lifetime of vacation while we freeze our butts off!?" He screamed in frustration as he gnashed his teeth right under his mask, it was thankful no one could see his expression underneath for it'd scar them for life.

His pal Bob then punched his hand into his fist as he reflected on how much they were missing out on the greatest vacation ever, "Yeah! We could've been drinking ourselves dry and having the wildest party of the century! It's not fair!" he shouted, feeling it was unfair that their new boss gave everyone else time off after all their hard work while they got stuck with the rotten jobs. He also hissed through his teeth cursing their awful luck wondering whatever they did to deserve this.

The last one Eric however, knew full well the reason for this as he let out a heavy sigh knowing they deserved it completely, "Well the commander did say we were the ones who wanted to ditch the Resistance and I guess we're getting our just desserts." he pointed it out, taking full responsibility for this as Bob was struck with realisation and lowered himself down heavily in dismay.

"Karma at its' worse…." He muttered as he slumped away to push aside a chunk of scrap metal.

"We should count ourselves lucky she didn't toss us in the brig…" Eric continued as he typed on his dinoshot and checked this area off the list, before shuddering nervously, "Brr….I hear they even keep rogue dinosaurs down there too who wouldn't hesitate to eat you alive if given the chance." His shivered not just by the cold but also in fear at being locked up in a dark stinking jail cell surround by vicious wild dinosaurs inside on every corner just waiting to make a meal out of them! If anything this job was far preferable to that any day.

As John walked by his foot stepped in a puddle of gel jark slime, tainting his new shoes which made him hiss through his teeth and further solidify his hatred towards his job….and even against Cera herself, "Tch! She's not so tough if you ask me…." he spat as the thought of taking orders from a kid was utterly humiliating, he was even beginning to believe Lunensis wasn't in his right mind when he elected her to be in charge after he stepped down. His fist also shook tensely, if he had the chance he'd slug a sucker punch at her while her back was turned, he didn't care about what she and the D Team accomplished, all he cared about was for getting respect after working his butt off fighting for so long and yet she got to where she was believing it was out of sheer luck and he couldn't accept it!

While drifting off into his thoughts, he looked up and his dinosaur, a utahraptor, perking her head up as if sensing something was amidst with the situation and he remained on high alert, narrowing his eyes with agitation as she tired to pinpoint what it was…..till a stone was thrown at his head which broke her focus! She yelped in pain as she turned around to see it was John who threw that rock, as part of taking out his frustrations, "Hey you! I told you to keep digging! Can't you follow orders you dumb animal!?" He yelled at her which made her lower her head submissively and whimper in fear as he scoffed and looked away in disgust, "Tch! No wonder you guys went extinct…." he huffed shaking his head turning his back to her, as he did the utahraptor let out a low snarl in aggression. His disrespect of her despite everything she went through for him in the war, saving his neck time and again and yet she always earned his scorn and no more, she wondered why she even bothered.

Nearby, Eric and Bob's dinosaurs, an allosaurus and styracosaurus respectively who were nearby sniffing the ground for anything of use, looked up and grunted in disgust seeing his horrible mistreatment of their friend. They couldn't count the number of times they wanted to get even with him and give John a taste of his own medicine, but by doing so they knew they'd also be punished for attacking humans too….they risked life and limb for such ungrateful creatures only to be taken for granted, they detested it very much and they weren't even given so much as a thank you.

While Bob snickered at what just happened, Eric shuddered and warned him, "Hey if Commander Sauria finds out what you just did there you know she'll throw you down the brig for real." he said.

John however shot him back a hard look, "Yeah? Well she isn't! So deal with it!" he spat back before stomping off, in his mind he felt he ought to call the shots, the talk about dinosaurs being equals was pure nonsense, they revived them from old bones and had life excuse of humans, so they basically had no rights and had every reason to yield to man. He always found the notion of befriending dinosaurs to be ridiculous, and how it was forced on him angered him to no end along with being ordered around by Cera too. Unable to control himself any further, "GRARGH! This stinks!" He screamed so loud his yell echoed through the icy tundra before stomping his hard on the ground, causing a loud thud to echo beneath his feet much to his surprise!

"Huh?" He and his friends, along with the dinosaurs turned in surprise at where the sound echoed from.

"What's this…." With deep interest he knelt down where he as felt his hand upon it, feeling it was indeed rather hollow underneath so there was something down beneath their feet.

"You found something John?" Eric asked curiously as he and Bob hurried over to where he was.

Under his helmet John narrowed his eyes, "Yeah, feels like there's actually something hollow down here…like a tunnel or space." he replied as he stroked around it to try and feel for a kind of switch.

"Think it could be something valuable?" Bob then wondered as he put a finger to his chin in thought.

"Only one way to find out." John replied with suspicion, no way would a hard floor could make such an echo, so there had to be some kind of chamber or even a passageway underneath this which had to be worth checking out. As he thought about who they could get this opened, only to be interrupted by some notified screeching nearby which annoyed him somewhat.

"Huh?" As the men looked up they saw John's utahraptor hopping with excitement as she used her tail and brushed away some snow, revealing a bright red button with a label on it which wrote secret lab on it.

Eric widened his eyes at the sight of it, "Hey! That looks like a switch for this hatch." He pointed out.

John smirked at the sight of it as he walked towards it, his raptor was expecting some sort of praise or reward for her efforts….only for her hopes to be shot down once again much to her disappointment, "Heh, about time you did something right you lazy lizard, now out of my way!" He yelled out at the raptor which made her hiss begrudgingly as she hopped out of his path. Pressing down on the button with his foot, it caused the hatch to rumble and shake before it opened up! Bits of snow fell down inside as a deep stairway leading underground was revealed!

The men couldn't help but stare at it in sheer speechlessness at how deep the stairway went under the ice, it looked almost as if it could go to the planet's core even! "Whoa….how did we miss that?" Bob muttered unsure of what to make of it.

"Also how did it survive being destroyed after what happened here?" Eric wondered as he put a finger to his chin, it was a miracle something was actually intact after the destruction of the fortress in their final battle.

Having had enough of the cold and not wanting to stand around doing nothing a second longer, John decided to take the initiative, "We'd better check this out, come on let's go." He waved to them as he began to walk down them.

Bob smirked and followed up for some action, but Eric waved out his hands hesitantly, "W…Wait! Shouldn't we contact HQ first?" he asked cautiously.

John however shot him down, "No way, whatever Goma's got stashed down there I want to find out for myself!" he yelled threateningly at him, warning him to clam up before he grinned to himself and rubbed his palms together with greed on his mind, "Plus we found it, so it's ours for the taking! Nobody needs to know about it."

"Heh you actually got a point there." Bob smirked rather sneakily, "Finders keepers as they say! Haha!" He laughed boastfully too seeing things were looking up for them and they finally had a chance to earn some respect.

Eric however held back and tried to reach for his dinoshot in an effort to contact HQ, "I don't know about this guys, maybe we should-"

John suddenly marched bright back up to him and held out a fist threateningly to his face, "You keep your mouth closed or I'll seal it myself, got it?" He warned menacingly, hinting he wouldn't hesitate to silence Eric himself should the situation demand it.

Paralysed by fear, Eric widened his eyes and nodded uneasily seeing no other choice, "G…Got it…." he squeaked already sweating bullets under his hood, but what put him off most was by how dead serious John was about doing this behind the commander's back.

"Good, now come on!" John then yelled impatiently waving to his teammates as they marched down the stairway.

Their dinosaurs attempted to follow them down, but John quickly shut down their attempts as he yelled out to them with disdain, "You bozos stay put and keep watch out here!" He held out a hand to them before pointing out with his finger, "Don't leave your posts or I'm cutting back your meals for the next 2 weeks!" He threatened them, which made the dinosaurs shudder with worry as they held their positions, as much as they already detested being out in the cold the ,eats they were fed were already poor quality, the last thing they needed was to have them cut even shorter, so much to their discomfort they remained on standby around the hole and kept watch for any danger as their masters headed down the tunnels.

Looking back up at the saddened and terrified dinosaurs, Eric felt a degree of sympathy for them before looking to John with disapproval, "You wouldn't really?"

John however scoffed back at him without even turning around, "Seriously they eat me out of house and home every single day, it's about time they learnt some discipline." He stated clearly without any remorse or guilt, "If it were up to me I'd show them why man's at the top of the food chain and always will be."

Eric shuddered hearing him say that, in fact the way he sounded, John wouldn't hesitate to skin and eat dinosaurs if there was no law against hunting them for sport or unlawful means. He also began to question how he even got on board as a member of the Resistance in the first place. Before they disappeared down into the darkness the utahraptor let out a hard sneer, wishing she could get even with him and avenge this injustice against her for committing no wrongs at all, as far as she remembered she had always served the cause loyally for humanity despite suffering under her owner and yet now with the threat to their race gone….what was she fighting for now?

(Later)

The trio of troopers came down a long way down the stairs which seemed almost to no end, which was beginning to become just as annoying as staying out in the cold earlier. As they grew wary and anxious, with John and Bob becoming more irritable and impatient than before, Eric felt more uneasy and cautious about where their unknown path was leading them, "We've come in pretty deep, what you supposed Goma's kept down here?" he asked his comrades.

"Don't know," John muttered in annoyance, "But whatever treasures are in it, we're gonna claim them for ourselves!" He declared without hesitation.

"Heheh, I'm with ya there!" Bob chuckled excited for what they would find.

Their responses further added to Eric's unease at whatever was lurking beneath the surface, whether it would be dangerous to them or how John or Bob would try to use them themselves and to whatever means…which couldn't be anything good. A certain noise caught his attention as he looked around trying to find where it was. Eric soon blinked his eyes upon hearing some rumbling and churning behind the walls of the stairway, "Is it me….or can I actually hear water from behind this thing?" He asked curiously as he leaned his head against it.

"We've gotta be underwater at this point, no way can we go this deep under ice." Bob answered back to.

John himself didn't care, in fact all he wanted to know was what was waiting for them at the end of this path. Whatever was down here better be worth all the tribe they went through to get here he told himself inside….thankfully it soon got more bearable and a little warmer the deeper they traversed, with their ice encrusted clothes beginning to melt and dampen with both their sweat and water, and their boots becoming moist too with each further step they took.

"Phew, it's actually kinda warm down here…." Eric then let out a relaxed gasp as he felt more at ease with the cold behind them.

"Yeah, so toasty….." Bob smiled as he took in the heat, was even tempted to remove his clothes and go in shirtless at this point too.

John looked around, "The heating system's still active, so this place must still have an active power source somewhere." he noted, meaning something was still in operation down here or perhaps someone may still be around too. He narrowed his eyes with suspicion, that if anyone was still around they'd be in for a beatdown if they stood in his way of anything of value and for a chance to gain some leverage with his superiors. Before long, they finally made it to a metallic entrance which made them stop in their tracks as they looked at it with deep interest. "A door?" John questioned.

Eric looked up to see a sign was listed above it, "Secret projects?"

"Woo…." Bob went with interest as he glistened with excitement for what was behind it.

John then smirked seeing they finally made it to where they wanted, "Hehe, sounds like we're in for a real treat boys-" He grinned as he reached out for the door and pushed on the lever!

"W…Wait! We shouldn't-" Eric opened his mouth but his voice came far too late as John pushed the door open! At first they found themselves in a very dark room, pitch black with not even a shred or sparkle of light around….but that soon changed as a light at the end of the room lit, and was followed by lights one after the other till the entire floor was lit up brightly so they could see!

"Urgh!" They all closed their eyes in annoyance at such a bright glare shoved in their face all a sudden, but as they opened them again and their eyes got used to the brightness, they widened them and stared in sheer and utter speechlessness at what was revealed to them. A kind of lab facility lined with several giant tubes on different levels of the area, inside them contained various specimens which seemed almost alien to the troopers. Many contained dinosaur embryos which floated in suspended animation in green bubbling liquid inside the tanks, some of which ere even still alive as a screen depicting vital signs were stationed at each embryo. There were also containers too which housed eggs in them too, each labelling a species of dinosaur but with alterations given to them, implanted into their embryos through the tubes connecting to them before they were placed into eggs and developed.

Lining along the floors of the dark metal plated room were several computers and consoles which each regulated functions such as vital readings, containment integrity and other essential functions too such as cloning progress and embryo development. But that wasn't even the half of what the troopers saw with their own eyes, in the large tanks with blue liquid were housed large full sized dinosaurs! One of which was a tyrannosaurus which was chained around it from its body and legs and it had a breathing tube stuck up its mouth giving it much needed oxygen as it remained in a kind of hibernation state. What was most startling about the tyrannosaurus was that it was right orange with tiger like stripes and even had a set of orange spikes lining its back down to its tail which was far from normal! That wasn't the only one as there was even more of them in the room form a blue and black striped spinosaurus with a red sail and spikes on its head, and even an ankylosaurus that was heavily armoured and spiked around its sides and to its tail resembling a spiked mace! Many species were almost unrecognisable from the originals, it was something like out of horror science fiction film only it was real and far worse than any movie could come up with.

"Whoa…." Was all Bob could utter in his ear petrified state while John and Eric looked on unable to turn away or even blink at what they just bore witnessed.

Not wanting to stand still a second longer, John shook his head clear as he walked in and the others followed behind cautiously. As John kept his eyes narrowed ahead as he walked deeper into the compound, Eric and Bob huddled closer to him with nervous expressions as they looked around anxiously, their hearts beating hard out of fear and them already beginning to shudder in terror, fearing something could be lurking here or maybe the dinosaurs in the tubes may break out and attack them like the movies showed! As far as they knew when it came to Goma anything could happen.

"What….is this place?" Bob asked nervously as he looked around and gazed over a few of the minoring consoles they passed in the main walkways.

"Looks like some kind of research lab…." Eric answered as he walked off to gaze at one tube continuing an embryo of a velociraptor, looking almost alien than dinosaur as he backed away from it, shuddering upon seeing what dinosaurs looked like inside eggs and practically they ought to stay in their shells till ready to hatch, "Freaky….." Eric breathed as he quickly rejoined his friends for protection, knowing full well it was a bad idea to split up. Looking around and seeing how advanced the science and technology was, it made their own look like a school science lab for amateurs in comparison.

As John looked around with a hard look, thinking that they tumbled into either more than they bargained for or perhaps the biggest gold mine ever, till something caught his eye at the end. "Hey guys! Check this out!" He yelled out as he ran over to one particular tube which was coloured in purple liquid. Bob and Eric widened their eyes and followed after him not wanting to separate for a second. Gazing over the display, it read out something most intriguing to them.

"Hybrid….projects?" Bob read out unsure of what it meant.

Eric blinked his eyes curiously, "Hybrid? As in a species which is made from various other species?" He muttered before looking up at the tube seeing inside it, chained up and with a breathing tube just like with the tyrannosaurus just now, was a dinosaur which looked like it was switched together with 2 species, the front being a triceratops and the back half being a plated stegosaurus! "That does NOT look like a normal dinosaur…." Eric bluntly pointed out the obvious in his stunned state at what he believed was like the brain child of a kid's imagination but something only a mad scientist would literally conceive.

"Look at this…." John then pointed out at the factory display as he read it out, "Stegoceratops? What the?" He blinked his eyes questioningly at its weird name.

Bob's eyes then widened as he put 2 and 2 together, "So then….Goma took 2 dinosaurs and mashed them together into one!?" He gasped clutching his face at the most freaky thing he ever heard in his whole life!

The very thought of it made Eric's heart sink and his blood turn cold, "I knew that Goma was crazy before….but this….this is total mad science….." be breathed in complete and utter speechlessness as the more they looked around they could see how truly twisted Goma had been, not only did he become a God, before then he was long playing one too for who knew what purpose he had in mind.

Unworried and in fact uncaringly, John scoffed as he wasn't about to stop searching here, he wanted to go even deeper regardless of the consequences which he believed were non-existent. Seeing a display button onscreen, he pressed it which caused a holographic display of the stegoceratops, glowing purple as it shook out its tail and fired out spike arrows from the tip, before charging up lightning strike and firing it out! For the icing on the cake, it roared with power before glowing in an aura mixing both yellow and purple as it fired both spike arrows and lightning strike simultaneously, merging them into the electric spines fusion move before the hologram ended!

As the demo ended, the trio stared in disbelief at what they witnessed, realising this must have been Goma's intention for creating hybrids…..to be used as living weapons against the Resistance during the war and the only reason he didn't use them was because he didn't have time to fully perfect them. As Eric let out a deep sigh of relief, putting a hand to his chest seeing they were lucky he didn't implement them during the war…his friends however, were rather captivated and enticed by the demonstration of power said hybrid possessed, as they grinned and eyed at it rather unsettlingly, seeing use for it now that Goma was out of the picture.

"Hehe….cool…." Bob couldn't help but chuckle excitedly, which made Eric gulp hard knowing that whatever his cohorts were thinking it couldn't be anything good.

His fears were slowly coming to realisation when Bob discovered a certain switch on the console, "Card function, let's see what this does!" He said eagerly as he pressed it.

Eric widened his eyes, "No Bob! Wait!" He grabbed his arm but couldn't stop him from pressing the switch with full force! As that happened, the purple tube suddenly turned bright purple as the 3 men widened their eyes at what was happening!

"AH!" Suddenly, the dinosaur changed into an energy light which was a mix of yellow and purple, and before long it changed to that of a card much to their amazement! The fluid in the tank soon drained away and before long the card snack to the bottom of the tube and then a slot opened on the bottom of the console and the vert same card fell through it!

John caught sight of the card and smirked as he took hold of it, "Would you look at this…." he mused grabbing hold of and fingering it, the picture on the front depicted the stegoceratops itself and as he flipped it over the border was a band of yellow and purple, and the central element symbol was half earth and the other half lightning!

As Eric stared in sheer disbelief at what just happened, John and Bob got together and began to grin and snicker deviously knowing they could do all kinds of feats with such power, "Hehehe! With these bad boys working for us we'd be unstoppable!" Bob cheered as he pumped up his arm feeling all powerful if he got his hands on one of his own.

John's smirk soon turned into a rather deep dark grin, "Yeah! We'll call our own shots too! No one will tell us what to do again!" He sneered knowing that wit such power at their fingertips their old dinosaurs would be insignificant, in fact everyone else's would! Not even the legendary D Team could stand up against this! Before long they'd have the whole world in the palm of their hands even as the 2 of them began to trust into rather unnerving laughter!

"Ahahaha!"

Eric's heart raced as he began realise he may have gotten himself involved with the wrong group and began to regret every decision he made till now, inf act he'd much rather spend his whole life in the brig than spend another second with this! His heart raced in a panic as he turned around and tried to reach for his dinoshot, in an attempt to warn his superiors about this plot and put a stop to it before it got too out of hands!

Right before he could press the button though, "Don't even try it Eric." John warned him in a menacing tone which made said trooper freeze up and turn silent. As he looked back his heart skipped a beat as his fellow trooper held out the stegoceratops card at his own dinoshot, "Make so much as a whisper of this to anyone, and I'll summon this thing to full size and let it loose on you completely!" He threatened him in a serious voice.

"Yeah, you wouldn't want to go splat like a pancake now would you?" Bob grinned under his mask as he smacked his fist into an open palm, visualising what it would look like for Eric if he even thought of reporting them to HQ about their finds.

Unwilling to take his chances with a mutant dinosaur which none of them knew was capable of, he swallowed hard and with heavy reluctance lowered his head in defeat, "N…No…I wouldn't…." he croaked weakly seeing he had no other choice now.

John then smirked pleased to hear his reply, "Good answer." He then pointed out ahead of them to where the other hybrid tanks were. Looking to the sides and seeing other purple tubes laid around the room, it was clear that the stegoceratops wasn't the only one. Other prehistoric monsters included pteraquetzal which featured a pterosaur with a pteranodon's body and shape talons combined with the quetzalcoatlus' massive wingspan and spear like head, rajakylosaurus being a rajasaurus with an ankylosaurus' armoured back and clubbed tail and even a tyrannolophosaurus which featured a t-rex with a dilophosaurus' head crest. "Now turn all these dinos to cards and load everything up into those cases there!" He ordered as he motioned to some nearby holding cases situated at the sidelines. Eric nodded obediently as he scurried off to grab some of them, before whispering to the only person he could trust in the room, "Bob, keep watch over him and make sure he doesn't try anything funny." he said as the truly man held a thumbs up to him.

"You got it John." He nodded before stomping up to the skinny trooper who looked up at him while carrying a large case, "Now you be a good boy Eric and do as you're told," He said before punching in a fist into his palm, "Or you answer to me!" He bellowed threateningly as Eric swallowed hard in fear.

"Y…Yes sir…." He nodded as they went off to card the hybrids one by one, starting with a stegospinus before moving onto a velociraptoryx.

Progress was going good and John folded his arms and nodded with deep satisfaction seeing it was all going smoothly. Before long he'd have an entire army of ultra powerful dinosaurs which could not only overthrow the Resistance but even deliver the world into his hands on a silver platter! Things were certainly looking up for him indeed….till he noticed a certain set of doors at the other end of the room which caught his attention. "Hmm? Now what do we have here?" He muttered with interest as he walked away from his cohorts and headed towards what looked like a set of blast doors which were tightly sealed together. Reading the sign above it really piqued his interest, "Restricted zone….how interesting…." he noted putting fingers to his chin before smirking under his helmet, "Heh, guess that means the really good stuff must be in there. Whatever's in that room has got my name on it." He told himself.

With such security it meant to him it was to keep out anyone from getting in, so it had to be worth something. Looking behind to see Eric and John were still working in getting the hybrids into cards, he wanted to make sure none of them noticed so he wouldn't have to share whatever was inside with them. Looking closer to the console, he twisted the turning wheel opening mechanism on it causing the doors to open to make a gap just big enough for him to go through. As he stepped in front of it, he felt suddenly felt a huge chill come over him which made caught him off guard! "Tch! It's freezing in here! Even more than outside!" John hissed in immense irritation as a burst of cold air went over him, forcing him to hug himself tightly as he did his best to preserve whatever body heat he could! Nevertheless, he gritted his teeth and hardened his gaze a she held out his arm and pushed on through the cold and into the chamber, refusing to let a little chill keep him from whatever was inside. If it was in a restricted area and had to be kept under near subzero temperatures….John could only include that something important, valuable or better yet powerful must be in there, and he wanted it for himself as he forced himself through the gap and headed deep down the narrow corridor.

"GRRGH!" He grunted as he pushed himself forward at what felt like a huge blizzard blowing at him! He didn't know who it was possible, that this facility had a working power source strong enough to generate such cold or that it was still active! He could feel himself slowly becoming encrusted in ice as it began to freeze over his arms and frost up his helmet! Looking ahead he could barley see a few feet ahead especially when another gust of ice and snow blew at him! "GAARGH!" He screamed as he felt his own body punched by the wind, but he dug in his heels and pressed on through with sheer determination! "This…won't…stop me!" He growled angrily as he pushed himself forward further unwilling to turn back after coming so far, "I'm going in and getting whatever's in that room even if it kills me!" he swore under his breath as he kept going on.

Luckily for him, the blizzard soon died down as he was able to go on through the corridor and then end up in what looked like a massive chamber only problem was even without the blizzard blowing at him, in its place was a huge cloud of mist which blew up around him and obscured his vision. He tried wiping the deforest away from his visor but no matter how many times he tried the result didn't change to his discomfort, "Tch! Blasted gas, I can't see a thing in here! Whatever's locked up here better be worth it!" He grunted in annoyance, though he also acknowledged all the high security measures that had been implemented around him no doubt to keep anyone away from this place…..Little did he know though, was that the extra layers of security were needed in order to keep what was inside here contained….

"If only I could see clearer then maybe it wouldn't be so-" As he walked ahead he suddenly bumped into something solid without noticing as a massive pillar suddenly came into view from the mist without him knowing!

BUMP!

"AH!" He gasped as he fell back in shock, feeling his helmet rattled and even his visor cracked the process! He felt it come loose so he screwed it back on in annoyance before looking up at what he ran into, "What the….?" As he looked up at the pillar which he hit, his heart skipped a beat as he saw it was no pillar…but a frozen leg! As he followed where it lead, he saw it belonged to a giant dinosaur, encased in a layer of thick permafrost ice, which towered over him like a mountain and its massive jaws were opened widely right above him as if it was about to snap close on him!

John turned pale, "WAAAH!" He screamed as he slipped on the icy floor and fell backwards onto his butt! He landed hard on the ice encrusted floor with a loud thud, which caused a stunning sensation to shoot up from his backside, both form the impact and from the immensely cold floor! The pain though was but a momentary inconvenience, as he looked up he stood stiff to see the immense size of the frozen dinosaur before him, it sported a pair of huge sabres which stuck out from its bottom jaw and underneath the ice which coated the outside of its skin he could make out its dark purple coloration with hints of red around, it was clear that this was no ordinary dinosaur. For it to be contained here in cryogenic stasis, rather then kept inside the glass tubes with the others, could only mean that this was a very special dinosaur or perhaps something so powerful Goma had to lock it in here for safety reasons!

Whatever the case, it was clear there was something about this one that separated it from the others, and John grinned deviously to himself seeing he stumbled upon an extremely lucky find! As he looked around his excitement began to peak as he saw not one, or 2 but 6 other dinosaurs also encased in cold icy bombs around the massive one he stood before! As the gas and mist began to clear and dissipate, John found himself inside a huge round circular containment room where the ceiling, walls and floor was encrusted in a layer of ice with icicles sticking out all around as a result of the cold. Around him the dinosaurs seemed to also be in a kind of hibernation state, the conditions in which would easily kill a normal dinosaur but deep down he could sense that these ones were merely hibernating and the ice was keeping them rather fresh too, meaning there was a chance they could still be alive and of use to him!

He couldn't make out the other 5 dinosaurs well in the cold since their bodies were rather intertwined with one another while frozen, but he could understand that they were most menacing indeed, and he grinned sinisterly with greed to himself as he rubbed his palms eagerly, knowing exactly what he'd do with them, "Hehehe, if I can get these 6 back home and tame them like I did with my other dimwitted dinos, I'll….I'll be…." A drop of water suddenly fell on his shoulder which interrupted him. "Huh?" Curiously he brushed his fingers over the wet drop and found it to be water and then looked up to see where it came from. The drop originated from one of the upper teeth of the giant dinosaur….

Strangely, the whirring sound of the freezing systems died down and so did the mist which blew around him. Before long more drops began to fall down from the dinosaurs around him, from their heads, tails and soon the ceiling too. In fact hearing a cracking sound underneath his feet, John stuttered as he felt the icy on the floor crack and was slowly….melting? Seeing the walls begin to become runny too, and the drips coming all round him, John's heart began to beat heavily, as he knew this….couldn't be a good sign.

Grr….

He froze stiff as he hard what felt like a low growl in front of him. He turned ahead to see the huge frozen dinosaur before him, but shook his head, it couldn't have been it, he had to have been hearing things for sure. He told himself repeatedly as he gritted his teeth feeling rather unsafe as he stepped back. As he did he looked up at the dinosaur's face, a menacing reptilian green eye was staring ahead….as he suited his own eyes at it for a closer look, it suddenly….looked back at him?

"Ah!" John gasped upon seeing it bright as day! The dinosaur was waking up!

From inside the ice, the dinosaur could see the blurry image of a human before him, and despite it being blurry with the layer of ice covering his eyes he could see the jig was up no point in pretending anymore….

Crack!

The head of the dinosaur cracked and before long it shattered completely and let out a terrifying roar as it broke free completely to John's horror!

"GAH!" John gasped caught by surprise as he stumbled back, and as he turned to look he could see the other 5 dinosaurs crack apart as they struggled to break free around him! Widening his eyes and realising he was inside the lion's den, his heart raced uncontrollably as he looked up and saw the already freed dinosaur let out a terrifying roar at him which shook the room itself and causing the ice everywhere to crack under pressure!

ROAR!

(Meanwhile)

"WAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

A horrified scream soon echoed through the halls of the entrance tunnel, out to the secret lab, and then finally to the upper entrance at the surface, which was picked up by the 3 dinosaurs stationed there! They were resting on the ice, freezing and trying to conserve their energy by huddling together and sharing their warmth, only for the panicked scream to catch their attention and awaken them from their nap! Awakening in alarm and shaking their heads clear before looking around, the utahraptor sniffed the air and pinpointed the origin of the scream to be coming form down below. Initially she hesitated going down given the orders, but instincts told her to investigate knowing no matter how much she hated the humans and how they mistreated her she couldn't just abandoned them cold heartedly just because she didn't like them. Looking to the styracosaurus and allosaurus with her, she let out some authoritative barks before charging down the stairs and then the other 2 dinosaurs followed after her!

(Meanwhile)

"WAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

"AH!" Eric widened his eyes and his ears perked up upon hearing the yell echo from ahead at the opened blast doors. The sound also reached Bob's ears as he looked up having closed up the case with all the hybrid dinosaur cards and then sealing them up shut. "Did you just hear that!? That sounded like John!" Eric cried out to him frantically as he began to clutch over his hemet where his face was, "He could be in trouble!" He cried to himself in terror imagining what he might have gotten himself into while inside there, "I knew this was a bad idea! I just knew it!" He cried out in a panic as he clutched over his helmeted face, inside his teeth chattered uncontrollably with terror and he was sweating bullets!

He was about to run out till Bob grabbed him by the shoulder stopping him from going anywhere, "Oh give it a rest you wuss!" the large man growled back at him, having had it with his content whining, in fact he was overly cautious of everything Bob soon began to assume him to be crying wolf and overthinking it, "Everything here's as safe and locked up in this here case as the space pirates are back on prison island! What's the worse that can happen?" As he finished uttering said forbidden words…..what was about to happen would by far worse than anything either of them could imagine.

"WAAAH!"

"HUH!?" They widened their eyes at the sound of the scream echoing from the doors. Looking ahead they saw their 3rd member rush out of the doors as fast as he could towards them!

"It's John!" Bob gasped in surprise that he was somewhere in a hurry. Before he had the chance to ask though, John rudely interrupted him as he ran past him and Eric as he made a beeline for the exit!

"Run for your lives you knuckleheads! Every man for himself!" He screamed without looking back to their surprise!

"Whoa! Whoa! What's the big deal man!?" Bob protested shaking his fist taking offence to his rudeness, though what was about to happen next would explain it was redness but survival driven by adrenaline!

ROAR!

"Huh?"

As they turned to look, the hatch where John came in from suddenly exploded much to their alarm!

"WHA!?" They gasped in alarm at sight of the other end as a massive cloud of dust fumed from the broken down entrance doors….followed by a huge silhouette which loomed from within it. The ground shook as it stepped closer, even shaking up the ceilings and making several of the now tubes near it to crack under pressure! As the dinosaur stepped out into the open, his form illuminated in the light of the room, his very appearance made the troopers freeze up and widen their eyes speechlessly at the monster that met their gaze! It was like something out of a nightmare!

He resembled a Tyrannosaurus rex, coloured in shades of deep purple and some blood red striped along his body! He also possessed a spiky club at the end of its tail, and two large sabres protruding from his massive lower jaw. He also had a set of fearsome looking spikes protruding out from top and sides of his head and on his chin, along with a ferocious set of blood red dorsal spines along this back which resembled almost like a sail. His hips were heavily armoured with thick scales making him a dinosaur that was literally armed to the teeth!

He wasn't the only dinosaur though which emerged out of cryo containment, he soon let out a menacing roar and before long 5 other dinosaurs emerged from behind the first and they were just as menacing and vicious as their alpha was! Standing beside the large tyrannosaurid, was an allosaur sized raptor, a stegosaur, ankylosaur, ceratopsian and another large black tyrannosaur too! The raptor was yellow with streaks of bright red around his body which characterised by spikes all over, and he also had a sail-back with a set of spikes jutting out from his body to resemble spears! His head also had several rhino like horns at the end of his snout and around his head, with salon like spurs sticking out from his arms and legs, and several hook like spikes at the end of his tail which were much like a sickle or scythe at the end!

The ankylosaur had many spikes on his body, giving him a more fearsome appearance that a normal ankylosaurus. Some spikes come out from above the shoulder, some from above the elbows, and a horn juts out from his nose, like that of triceratops, and from its chin. He also had 4 forward-curving spikes on his tail club, which doubled not only as a bone crushing weapon but could even decapitate his foes too should he desired! The stegosaur which stood close to him, was a dark brown with a set of black tiger like striped along her body! She resembled a normal stegosaurus at first glance but her plates and spikes were armoured and resembled almost like stone! Like a kentrosaurus she also sported a menacing set of shoulder spikes along her body's sides and also lined along her tail making her entire body a living weapon!

The ceratopsian had a huge frill larger than a triceratops, and unlike said dinosaur his front horns were hooked and curved, with a set of mammoth like tusks jutting out from under his chin and several razor sharp spikes around his shield frill! Around flanks were a set of tough spikes too which stretched out to the base of his tail! Finally the last of the dinosaur's minions, was a black tyrannosaurid similar but slightly smaller and less armed, but he displayed a still impressive array of weaponry being a line of hard stone like spikes protruding along the dorsal of his back down to his tail, and some powerful back leg spurs which made his already muscular legs a more dangerous addition to his arsenal!

Their bodies were still rather encrusted with bits of ice but they soon broke off and melted away upon being heated in the room, though their senses were still rather groggy and off balance after being frozen, the heat from the room soon reactivated their inner senses as they could now see clearly, they were free at long last after being encased in their icy prisons for so long. Looking forward, their leader growled viciously and licked his lips as he locked his eyes like a hungry predator on their first victims as he growled out ferociously which made Eric and Bob jump up and flail out their arms in compete terror!

"WAAAAAHH!" They screamed freezing in place as the 6 mutant dinosaurs rushed at them already gaining speed and what's worse, no matter how hard they tried to move they felt themselves rooted to the spot as their attackers closed in on them read to make sort work of them!

Meanwhile, John rushed over to the exit stairway, he didn't care he was banding his friends, all that mattered was saving himself! Nothing else mattered! "I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna make it! I'm-" Before he could run up, the styracosaurus and allosaurus from above burst down the stairs and bowled over him to his alarm!

"GAAAH!" He gasped in alarm stopping midway before being tossed aside by the allo's head swing, slamming into a wall and then slipping down badly injured! "Urgh…."

Hearing the stampeding behind them, Bob and Eric widened their eyes to see them running their way and about to crush them underfoot! "EEP!" Eric squealed!

"Get out of the way!" Bob yelled as he and Eric jumped out of the path of their stampeding dinosaurs who stood their ground and roared out facing off against the 6 mutant dinosaurs that emerged fresh out of hibernation!

The mutants stopped their advance, surprised by the unedited development of dinosaurs fighting for humans, snorting at this notion, the alpha looked to his minions, the ceratopsian and black tyrannosaurid, grunting at them as they nodded and stepped forth to face their 2 foes who were foolish to stand against them.

The allosaurus roared and charged towards the mutant ceratopsian, who met his head charge in and equal thrust, but it was no tie as the allosaurus was soon throw aside like a rag doll into the wall with ease! The allosaurus then kicked itself up and roared and tried to go around to bite the ceratops' leg, only for him to retaliate by swiping out a thick tail attack which threw him across the floor and he slammed hard!

As Eric stared with eyes gaping and mouth hanging, Bob suddenly elbowed him hard, "Don't just stand there! Use a move already!" he yelled at him in anger and in fear.

"R…Right!" Eric squeaked as he shakily grabbed a move card from his pocket. His hand was so unsteady he almost dropped it and even missed slashing it a few times much to Bob's panic as he clutched his face and screamed his head off!

"HURRY!" He yelled at the top of his lungs as the mutant ceratops was about to close in on the allosaurus!

At last Eric managed to get it right as he slashed the card in time! "E…Eat this! Biting wind!" He cried as his dinosaur kicked back up, causing his foe to stop midway as he held back and observed the allosaurus generate a whirlwind! As he was about to turn around and slash his tail through it, the mutant ceratopsian suddenly roared glowing yellow as a thunder cold gathered in the sky and a counter blitz lightning bolt shot out form it, striking allosaurus before he could finish his move! The move shocked the theropod as he spasmed uncontrollably before collapsing to the ground and went completely paralysed! "WAH!" Eric widened his eyes seeing his dino was down already for the count with just 1 move! He couldn't believe it, even though he wasn't the strongest fighter no way such a move could beat him in 1 go…which meant their foes had to be extremely powerful!

"You loser! Guess I've gotta do this myself!" Bob yelled at him in anger before punching out, "Go styracosaurus! Show these freaks what you can do!" He ordered as his dinosaur, turned around nervously towards the tyrannosaur which snared menacingly at him in response. Shaking his head, the styracosaurus then growled and charged recklessly towards the black armoured tyrannosaur!

The tyrannosaur swung his tail out, the spiked edges smashed through the styracosaurus' advance and then throwing him through a set of empty glass containers which all then crashed down around him, trapping him under a layer of rubble much to his owner's alarm!

"GAH!"

Eric quickly tugged his shoulder, "Bob! We can't win this! We've gotta retreat and call for backup!" He yelled in a panic.

"You calling it quits!?" Bob widened his eyes before agreeing with him without hesitation! "Actually that's a good idea! Let's-" Before they could run towards the doors, they froze int heir tracks as the mutant ankylosaur and stegosaur stood before them and bellowed, causing them to stop stiff in their tracks!

"AH!" They froze stiff, realising that they had snuck behind them during the battle. All along the dinosaurs actually had this planned out from minute one, having anticipated every move they'd make and they were 1 step behind them the whole time!

Unable to move, frozen completely by fear, Bob looked up to see the ankylosaur lift up his massive spiked club tail! "WAAAAH!" Smashing it down, he barely had a second to move as the huge bone shattering club squashed down on him completely like a finger to an ant!

Eric's heart skipped a beat and he felt his stomach turn inside out as the ankylosaur lifted up his club, all that was left of his friend was a mashed pile of bones, guts and uniform, which the ankylosaur then scraped on the nearby walls whatever remains were on his tail in disgust at having it being stained with filthy human blood, "BOB!" Eric cried in despair and horror was what he saw! In his despair, he was preoccupied he failed to notice the stegosaur had reared up her own tail! Swinging it out like a baseball bat, her massive spines speared through Eric and punctured out through his back as he was sent flying away like a baseball! "AAAAARRRGGGHHH!" He screamed coughing out blood as he slammed through a nearby tube and fell down out of sight!

John widened his eyes turning pale with spine chilled horror to see his friends taken from him in an instant, "Eric! Bob! NO!" He cried out in despair, even if he didn't see them as friends that didn't mean he didn't care for them to some degree, deep down he was beginning to see how foolish he was thinking he could control such power when he couldn't even protect his own team! He didn't have long to dwell on his failure, as his cries of despair alerted the dinosaurs to his presence as they looked to him, the alpha of the group snorted and grinned almost with satisfaction to see the human vermin terrified and shaking in his boots, and he had a desire to deepen it as he stomped towards him.

"WAH!" John gasped as he struggled to crawl back and away from the incoming giant theropod, but with each foot step the giant carnivore came closer and closer and before long he was but a few meters away from John and to his horror he was soon right on top of him as he looked down at the helpless human and vile drool began to drip from his teeth and down around him! "No…No! Stay back! Don't come any closer! You stay away!" He screamed desperately shaking out his hand to keep it at bay even though he knew it was all too futile, fear had taken over his senses completely and he could no longer think straight as every thought in his mind screamed with pure terror!

Shriek!

"AH!" Looking up, John saw his utahraptor leap out over his head and land in front of him, snarling protectively as she stood in between him and the mutant theropod who attempted to make a meal of him! John then brightened up with hope in his eyes as he smiled and punched forward in excitement and happiness, "About time you showed! Now go! Kick some prehistoric tail and do it like a good dinosaur!" He cheered encouragingly for her. For the first time she heard what may have been the first word of encouragement and support for her, which motivated somewhat to fight in order to protect her abusive owner, whom she believed to have changed…..unbeknowst to her, John was actually edging away slowly, intending to us his own dinosaur as a scape goat to take the fall while he made his get away to safety!

The purple dinosaur however, narrowed his eyes seeing full well what stunt he was trying to pull and then focused his attention on the utahraptor who screeched out at him viciously in defiance, completely blind to the truth and how much of her life and talents were wasted on filth like him. As the utahraptor screeched again, ready to lunge out and attack the theropod, she halted her attack the last second, looking into the giant's eyes she saw…pity? Sympathy? She thought him to be a merciless killer, but looking deeper she saw his pity was diverted at….her? Confused, she barked back at him, to which he responded with a low growl. He narrowed his green saurian eyes at her, as if he began to convey his very own thoughts to her and she could hear them herself. For the first time, she was beginning to become self aware and think for herself, thought she never considered before.

"Why are you devoting your energy and risking your life to protect somewhat who clearly doesn't care for you?" She heard a deep meaning voice spoken to her inside her mind. Looking up at the mysterious dinosaur, "Why waste your talents allying yourself with one so weak and insignificant? Humans have merely stolen the planet which is rightfully ours, if it wasn't for an extinction event they never would have gained possession of our world and then squander it!" His thoughts roared to her. The deeper she thought, she began to realise he was right…how humans polluted their world, all along she had been fighting to preserve a species that was on its way to self destruction and then causing the planet to go extinct in the future! What had she done!?

"Look inside yourself, you know dinosaurs are far more capable and superior to these insects in more ways than you can believe. They control you because they fear you, deceive you about coexistence and peace when in fact it's merely another way of ruling over you!" The mutant's thoughts roared inside her mind as she came to a further realisation, of her primal prehistoric instincts locked deep inside her, "The longer you stay with them, the more your claws will dull and your fangs fall. Such a waste of potential when you are capable of so much more." Thinking about it, the utahraptor recalled the thrill of the hunt when hunting others in a pack, the excitement and drive to survive and grow….to being reduced to mere table scraps that her owner gave up to her when he eats the best and leaves her with so little….The more she heard from the mutant dinosaur, the more she could see how right he truly was about humans. "Your choice, will you remain as a mere pet and go extinct with the humans? Or take your rightful place as ruler of the planet and evolve with us, unshackled and untainted by humans? The decision…is yours." Were his final words as she lowered her head and gave it careful thought over her decision, wondering what the long term results of each would be and which would benefit their species and the planet in the long run…..

John however, blinked his eyes in surprise that nothing was happening for a while, how his dinosaur was ignoring his orders and seemed to be communicating with the enemy she was ordered to fight. He gritted his teeth angrily at her defying his orders, "What are you waiting for you lousy lizard!?" he suddenly yelled impatiently and with frustration which made her snap back to reality, "Attack already before I, I mean we get turned to lunch meat! Do it you dumb lizard!" Unbeknownst to him, those were his final words…the very words which sealed his fate. The utahraptor then turned around to face him, crouch down in a hunting pose and let out a vicious hiss at him as she bared her teeth and fished out her huge hand claws…."W…Wait….What are you-" As John looked closer and saw his utahraptor had that very same killing instinct in her eyes as did the mutant dinosaurs, his heart skipped a beat as he realised what was on her mind, and once again his fears began to creep up on his heart and its claws embedded his mind in a chilling grasp, "No…No….You wouldn't dare!" He shouted out trying to sound authoritative to his dinosaur, but each word he uttered was mixed with deep fear, it was clear to the utahraptor who truly held power here and it wasn't her so called master. Now she devoted her loyalty to her own kind, no longer would she yield to an inferior and ungrateful species, and her first order of business was to sever all links she had to her former life as she evolved into something far greater! "You stay away from me! You stay aw-AAAAAARRRGGGHHH!"

Without hesitation she leapt out and dove upon John! Clawing part at his arms with her arms, her sickle toe claw ripping down his chest and then ripping into his throat with her bare teeth! Each claw swipe and bite easily tore through the trooper uniform and as he tried his best to hold her jaws off his throat she in turn sliced through his arms with her claws! As they made contact with bare skin and tore through flesh like tissue paper, blood gushed out all over the place as John let out a blood churned cry in agony! "AAAAH!" Miraculously he kicked out with his feet and the utahraptor leapt back out of his way! But she somersaulted and landed on her feet like an agile cat. John turned around and tried to crawl away for the door as streams of blood leaked out from his wounds and onto the floor, as he dragged hsimelf across the floor a trail of blood formed underneath him as he clothes were dyed a deep red! The utahraptor, unwilling to let her prey escape her, felt her age old instincts kick in. Steeping towards him, her sickle claw dug into his back and severed his spinal cord! "GRAAAARRGGGHH!" John screeched and hissed in immense excruciating pain as all movement was cut off and he lay limp, paralysed. Looking up, the last thing he saw was the utahraptor clam her jaws on his neck, snapping it like a twig and ending his life instantly, seeing no need to torment or drag out with already dead prey.

Deeply satisfied with her performance, the giant purple theropod smirked as the utahraptor stood before him and lowered her head submissively to him. After that, the other 5 dinosaurs gathered around him as he let out a lot roar in which the downed allosaurus and styracosaurus awakened to. Getting up and heading towards the mutant clan, they felt something come over their minds as the alpha eyed them, something came over them completely as their pupils turned slit and almost primal before they too bowed before him and roared out obediently to his every command! Letting out another roar, the dinosaurs that were still encased in the tubes, that hadn't yet been carded, began to stir and awaken. Regaining consciousness an self awareness, they shook violently in their chains before primal instincts kicked in, causing them to all break free from their shackles and out of their tubes!

As alarms ran throughout the room upon breakout, some of the dinosaurs like the raptors, irritated by them went over to tear out the alarms themselves by grabbing them with their teeth and yanking out the bells, while others stomped on controls or severed wires causing them to spark violently. Destruction and explosions erupted around the entire lab as the tubes were smashed down on the ground, consoles crushed underfoot and soon the entire place was reduced to rubble wth flickering lights and near destroyed facilities. One by one they all swarmed around the mutant clan and let out various roars and shrieks as they submitted to the will of the alpha and bowed before him!

The mutant theropod grinned with satisfaction at the number of dinosaurs that were already pledging loyalty to him down to their very bones….but this….was only the beginning for their takeover or better yet….retake of the planet, and he knew the first step to achieving this. Looking to the spiked raptor by his side, the mutant raptor barked obediently as he ran over to a nearby panel. Eying the controls and observing them long enough, he pressed a button which caused a secret entrance to open up on the wall near it, revealing it to be a ground bridge portal! Thundering over to where he was the alpha carnivore grunted instructions to the raptor, who then keyed in according to how he was ordered, causing a white portal to open up within the ground bridge gate!

Upon sight of the other end which depicted a prehistoric plain and forest further ahead which was thundering with heavy rains at the other end, the dinosaurs roared and shrieked with excitement as they began to rush out towards freedom! Unbeknownst to them, Eric, who was still hating on by a thread, groaned painfully as he could feel his own stomach had been punctured and was now bleeding his guts out and spilled into the corner in which he lay! "Urgh….." He groaned in agony, as he clutched the case of the already carded hybrid dinosaurs in his arms, keeping them secure with him. Looking up weakly he saw the many dinosaurs already escaping onto the mainland, and he knew he couldn't let this happen. With the last ounce of strength he had, he forced his arm to grab hold of his dinoshot as he began to do the one thing he should have done since coming here, "Mayday….Mayday….This is team Zeta 12….Ack!" he choked painfully a distress signal to HQ, as he began to cough up blood violently which spluttered out inside his mask, but gritting his teeth in defiance he fought on to finish the message, which he believed was his last rectification of his biggest mistake of not reporting this sooner, "Request rescue….code red emergency….send help-urgh….." With his last dying breath, his vision whited out as his slumped down to the floor, lying in a pool of blood which gushed out from his wounds….

Meanwhile, the now freed dinosaurs began to make their escape through the ground bridge portal, the last one being the purple and red tyrannosaurus, who oversaw his forces all march out into a grass plain which was raining heavily in a thunderstorm. He grinned darkly with delight and licked his lips and let out a spine chilling roar, hungry for fresh meat….as well as hungering for a certain dessert of revenge against a certain individual responsible for for his icy imprisonment when that was over with, before thundering off into the portal which closed behind him. The age of man was over, now it is time the world surrendered to a true species worthy of it! Dinosaurs would rule again as it should be. With the exit of the dinosaurs….the lab was silent….dead silent, where no screams could be heard and all was left still….evil that should never have existed had been freed and unleashed into the world, and life would never be the same again….

Hey everyone, thought the story was over did you? Heh well not if I can help it. Wanted to post this idea for sometime and bring a new twist to Dinosaur King by using elements which may not have been used before, tying it to various other concepts, as shown by the mention of hybrids, the ones I'll use are those that use canon dinosaurs to the DK series like the ones mentioned being stegosaurus then later stegoceratops. They won't be making a huge role but will reappear later. Other hybrids in the tubes included stegospinus, spinoraptor and others that uses base dinosaurs canon to the DK series, check them out from the jurassic park wiki on hybrids such as from Jurassic world the game or jurassic world alive. In fact you can even say an indominus rex and indoraptor was amongst the hybrids too.

The main mutants though are as depicted here, the 6 mutant dinosaur bosses which were found in Combat of Giants Dinosaurs, the leader being the Arkosaurus and his 5 hench dinosaurs too which were also bosses in the game. As shown here Goma did more than just experimenting with the cosmos stone energies but even experimented on dinners before in ways you won't believe, now his most dangerous have been unleashed and ready to wreak havoc on the world, can the D team stop them and preserve the already fragile peace? Find out as their most perilous battle awaits!

As for Goma's lab-if you watch the primal carnage trailers the labs there where dinosaurs were kept in tubes, as well as in Jurassic Park 3 and jurassic world how they are kept in labs I got that concept there. Also as mentioned how some dinosaurs were mentioned to look different in the tubes? In Jurassic world the game at level 40 the dinosaurs change appearances too or from combat of giants when you upgrade a dinosaur giving it all kinds of spikes and features, you can say it's like that what Goma did when he 'improved' nature for his own purposes. Stay tuned for more references to come and how he does all this revealed next chapter which will be stunning for sure.

Hope this chapter doesn't disappoint, this is only a small mini series but hope you give it a chance and that it turns out well, stay tuned.

In response to reviews from Dinosaur Queen.

Anonymous

-Sorry no I don't have plans to do a story like that, not really my style sorry.

Drew Luczynski

-Really glad you enjoyed it as a while, but the story isn't over yet as seen here, stay tuned for some prehistoric action unlike before where the fight for survival and then dominion over the planet will be decided in this new war to come.

.brandy

-I kinda have a different idea in mind for what's to come, sorry to turn down your request.

Guest

-Hope this start to it has gotten you pumped up.