#tilly pteranodon

Boris and Dolores with Annie.

The Conductor Family are able to trace the escaped robot T-rex from a Troodon Town demonstration after maintence, Buddy's mysterious sudden capture by not one but multiple robot T-rexes, and Tiny running away to try and find him back to strange activity from an old Steelworks in between the polar and equatorial regions of the Late-Triassic reported by a by-chance passing freight train.

This steelworks of course has been taken over by Tirant Tage and his accomplice Santina Sinovenator, to construct and grow his clone army as part of his plan to conquer the entire Mesozoic, the gang back home don't know all this yet, but Trevor, Tabitha and Sonny have a collective hunch they're in for huge trouble with the robots...

Now that they know where to look, The Pteranodon Family join forces with The Tyrannosaurus Family and Tilly as a search party to head to the Triassic to find Tiny and rescue Buddy from his captivity.

While the adults of The Conductor Family must stay behind, Gilbert comes along, not wanting to leave Shiny and Don's side with the other two quadruplets M.I.A. Mikey and Cindy have also come, devasted by Tiny running off the night after Buddy's disappearance and desperate to see that she's okay.

Leroy and Lily, also deeply worried about Buddy and Tiny, have also volunteered themselves, much to everyone's surprise and Lorraine's alarmed hesitance given the unpredictable circumstances, but she relented seeing how desperate her kids were to help and was promised by The Pteranodon and Tyrannosaurus parents they'd look after them.

[With the main three trains still out of action from the accident, Tabitha is taking the search party in No. 7 to a Late-Triassic station as close to the steelworks as they can get without drawing... unwanted attention...]

Tabitha: Now, don't y'all worry, we may not have touched too much of the Triassic yet, but even after being stuck in an ice wasteland for years, my ol' Trevor's never failed us yet with his scoutin' skills! If we've mapped everything correctly, we're headin' the right way. I only wish I could stay to help more, but we can't risk any complications from further panic back home.

Dolores: Oh, you're helping plenty already, Mrs. Conductor, truly.

Boris: Us T-rexes are made for tracking, and we'll all be together keeping an eye on each other the whole time. Dolores and I have got this in the bag!

Dolores: (blushes) Oh, hun...

Mr. Pteranodon: (sighs anxiously) Oh, how lucky we are to have all you guys...

Mrs. Pteranodon: (Shifting slightly, visibally stressed...)

Tilly: (Walks over, rapping her wing around her shoulder) Hey... easy, partner. We're in this together. We'll find them. We can do this.

Mr. Pteranodon: (Still tense himself but gives an assuring smile)

Mrs. Pteranodon: (exhales, trying to relax herself a little)

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(With the kids)

Everyone: (anxious silence for a moment)

Annie: (Pumping herself in a mix of determined loyalty to the group and vengeance for Buddy. NO ONE TOUCHES HER BUDDY.)

Gilbert: ...Shiny? How ya holding up?

Shiny: Nervous... Very nervous... I can't believe we're really doing this... but I feel better that you're here with us, Gilbert.

Don: Me too. And I'm really glad you and Leroy came with us too, Lily.

Shiny: I still can't believe we were able to convince your mom to let you come.

Lily: Yeah, I know. I'm scared too, but I'm really worried about Tiny and Buddy...

Leroy: I am too...

Gilbert: We all are.

Don: I still don't understand what a bunch of robots would want with Buddy...

Leroy: What did he do to deserve getting kidnapped?

Shiny: You're telling me!

Annie: I can't wait to whack their robot tails for this... >:3

Mikey: And Tiny...

Cindy: I want her back...

Gilbert: Even if we find where they're keeping Buddy...

Shiny: ...Who knows how far out she's gotten by now!

Leroy: I still can't believe she just ran off like that...

Don: Well she really hasn't been feeling herself lately...

Lily: I've been telling you something was off with her, Leroy... I hope she's somewhere safe...

Mikey: Hey, guys, check it out...

(They all look out the coach windows to the sight of a massive series of rainforest in the distance spanning for several miles)

Don: Woah.

Gilbert: (Winces in city born/raised) Oh boy...

Annie: Hoho, now that's far! And I can see three times as far as you guys.

Leroy: Tiny's somewhere out there?! Seriously?!

Shiny: Only mental kids would try to survive out there all on their own!

Cindy: I feel like I'm gonna pass out...

Annie: Come on, you guys aren't getting cold feet now, we've come all this way already! We're all a team now, so we have to be brave together like one!

Shiny: I suppose, but Annie, this is serious. This isn't one of our usual little adventures going around meeting creatures, Buddy has been taken from us, and Tiny's miles from us all by herself out there, and if what The Conductor has been saying about these mysterious robots is true, who knows how much danger they're both in... How much danger we're all in... This won't be easy, I know it...

Annie: I know that, but I survive in the wild all the time. It's what migratory creatures like T-rex do. We'll be fine, Shiny. We have each other, and the grownups too, just like a migration pack!

(Annie rests her arm around Shiny's shoulder)

Annie: Trust me, I'll look out for you guys. With my T-rex tracking skills, we've got this.

Shiny: (Glancing away a bit sadly and still worried) Well, at least that's one of us...

Sonny: [turns the radio on]

Sonny:

Thurston:

Gilbert:

Tilly:

The radio: Troodon Town! This is Lamech Latenivenatrix, and I'm here to make an announcement!

Tilly: Is-is this the right radio?

Thurston, checking the radio settings: It is...

Sonny: I think he hacked it...

Lamech, on the radio: Dinosaur Train Industries is a bitch ass motherfucker!

Gilbert: Whoa, straight to the point!

Lamech: They pissed on my fucking family! That's right! They took their feathery dick out and pissed right on my fucking family! And they said "it was this big!" And I said "That's disgusting!"

Thurston: Wh-what is happening?

Lamech: So I'm making a call out broadcast to all of Troodon Town! Dinosaur Train Industries, you all have small dicks the size of walnuts but way smaller!

Lamech: They fucked my family! So guess what! I'm going to fuck the city!

[The television is forced on, showing Lamech standing over the DTI HQ]

Lamech: That's right! That's what you get! MY SUPER LASER PISS!!!!

Sonny and Thurston: [cover Gilbert's eyes]

Lamech: I'm not pissing on the city! I'm aiming higher! I'M PISSING ON THE DINOSAUR TRAIN INDUSTRIES HEADQUARTERS!! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, COUNCIL!?!?!?!!! I PISSED ON THE DINOSAUR TRAIN INDUSTRIES HEADQUARTERS YOU IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!

The adults who just witnessed that: :O

Lamech: YOU HAVE TWENTY FOUR HOURS UNTIL THE PISS DROPLETS HIT THE FUCKING CITY! NOW GET OUT OF MY FUCKING SIGHT BEFORE I PISS ON YOU TOO!

Thurston definitely looks like a dad in this drawing, lol!

Tase: Annie's not here?!?

Dolores, stalking past him: Nope!

Tase: [looks at Boris, visibly upset]

Boris: She didn't want to come. And I for one don't blame her. She wanted to be someplace without tension and conflict, so we sent her to a friend family that makes her feel safe for the week.

Tase: Family is supposed to make you feel safe! She should feel safe with us!

Boris: And yet she doesn't.

Tase: Aldric isn't even coming this week!

Boris: Probably because he's scared of you or Dina attacking him at this point.

Tase: We have every right to be mad at him!

Boris, tearing up a bit: I know you do, Tase. But staying mad won't do anyone any favors, especially you.

Tase, tearing up: We needed him! He wasn't there!

Boris: I know...

Tase: He's a poison, Boris! He's the reason Annie didn't come this week! It's on him!

Boris: The way I remember things though, he wasn't the one who started that argument on her birthday...

Tase, in tears: [snarls and stalks off]

[Meanwhile, in Troodon Town...]

Annie, curled up in Sonny and Thurston's living room: I'm sorry if I take up a lot of space.

Thurston: Not a problem, Annie!

Gilbert, very excited that Annie is staying with them this week, practically jumping up and down: Want to go to the park later?

Annie: [smiles] Yeah.

Sonny: Are you nervous about being here without your parents?

Annie: Nah. I stay at Pteranodon Terrace all the time. And if Buddy can travel with Dad and Ma and me between quarter and half of the year annually, I can stay here for one week.

Tilly, poking her head down from the loft: Just let us know if you need anything, okay?