Rayman Legends Adventures in Ice Age/Script

It was a calm, chilly day and snow was slowly falling on a snowy mountain range from the clouds above. A gentle breeze passed through, blowing the snow around the area. It was a cold place and there was no life going around, but for one small creature, it wasn't going to stop him from jumping around in search of something. This was a small, saber-tooth squirrel. In his hands was a brown acorn. The saber tooth squirrel, named Scrat, was looking for a place to store his acorn for the winter. He jumped around the flat, icy ground. He stopped and tried digging through the ice. He pushed his acorn into the ground, but it didn't go in. Scrat jumped a few inches away and tried again, only to get the same result as last time. He jumped again and tried again, this time doing it three times, “Mik! Mik! MIK!” but once again, the ice was thick. Thinking that this wasn't a good place to put his acorn, Scrat jumped off. He sniffed through some cold, dry grass, but didn't find anything. He peeked his head above the grass and kept looking. He dug into more ice, but could see that pushing his acorn into it wouldn't work. He jumped off, continuing his search, as he noticed that the ice he was now standing on wasn't as thick as before. “EEK!” Scrat squeaked with delight and he shoved his acorn into the ice. The acorn didn't go far in, but it at least dug into the ground. But Scrat wasn't going to leave it like that. He kept shoving it deeper and deeper into the ice, scrunching it in with all his might. He even got on it and stomped on it, desperately wanting the acorn to go in. But as he did so, the acorn suddenly jolted into the ground, confusing Scrat. As he thought about what just happened, a crack kept from the acorn's hole and traveled across the ground behind him. Scrat looked underneath him and saw that the crack climbing up an ice wall. The crack reached the top of the cliff and zigzagged its road across the ground, past ice formations and reaching a glacier. But this time, it reached the top and now the glacier was loose. Unable to keep it in for long, the glacier broke off and slowly started creeping down its path, right towards Scrat. Scrat, seeing what he had unintentionally done, silently squirmed. He saw the glacier coming towards him and fled. But he stopped upon realizing that his acorn was yet stuck. He yelped in shock before rushing back to retrieve it. He caught it and pulled hard, trying to get it out. It wouldn't budge and Scrat started panicking. After a mighty tug, it came loose and landed into Scrat's hands. But now, Scrat was in huge danger. The glacier towered over him and was about to run him over. Scrat shrieked frighteningly upon seeing the glacier getting closer. "WELL, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!"
Now making a mad dash for dear life, Scrat was also being chased by falling pieces of ice being let up by the moving glacier.  The glacier kept charging towards Scrat, demolishing everything in its path.  Scrat kept running from the glacier, hoping to get away from it, until suddenly, he spotted another glacier coming towards him from the separate direction. (In a French fries voice) “BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” Now stuck between the two massive bodies of ice, Scrat ran out of their roads. (Angrily) “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!” But the two glaciers collided and started closing in on each other.  [“HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!”] Scrat, seeing there was no time to run out of there, slid on his acorn, shrieking louder as the two walls got closer and closer like two boxes smashing together.  Scrat kept sliding until he got very close to the edge, where the two glaciers started squishing him, locking him in place.  Scrat pushed his acorn out of the road and tried getting himself out as well.  Almost falling into unconsciousness, and being squeezed hard with his eyes dangerously closed “AAH, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!” Scrat’s eyes scared David very bad “I don’t like Scrat’s eyes!” Said David Scrat was eventually pushed out, along with his acorn. BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Cheered the PBS Kids girls “HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!” Echoed Mr. Ratburn, “ABES HERE!” Muttered Scrat who is blurry, Now in midair, he caught his acorn and embraced with it, only to realize that he was now falling from a high level of altitude.  “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHH!!”
Scrat landed on an ice wall, sliding down it and going down a dirt wall.  A ledge launched him into the air again, but this time, Scrat smashed on the wall as it slid down to the ground.  Bouncing off the dirt, Scrat landed on the ground, with his teeth dug into it.  After pulling himself free, he looked around, hoping if his acorn survived mthe crazy experience.  His acorn was nowhere in sight.  But just as it seemed it was a loss for Scrat, his acorn landed on his head and slid onto the ground.  Scrat squeaked with happiness upon seeing his beloved acorn intact.  He hugged it tenderly and started to walk away in search of a place to put it.  But suddenly, out of nowhere, a giant mammoth foot stomped on Scrat, causing him to lose his grip on the acorn.  Flattened by the massive weight, Scrat picked himself up as the mammoth walked away.  Suddenly, another prehistoric mammal, a Brontohere stepped on him.  Following him was another mammoth and a dodo bird.  Another foot landed on Scrat, but this time, Scrat was stuck on it and was being carried off by his acorn.  The foot belonged to a Macrauchenia, a prehistoric mammal that was part of an enormous migration of mammals heading off the northern regions in search of warmer climates.  An ice age had begun.
This massive herd of mammals, consisting of Macrauchenia, Glyptodons, Palaeotherium, Prehistoric aardvarks and Brontotherium, was slowly traveling away from the snowy areas, migrating south to avoid a freezing cold front.  Miles behind them was a glacier monument known as Glacier Pass, a large ice formation with a huge cut engraved in it, like an ice gorge.  “The whole lot of migrating animals are heading north, It’s the giraffes who are tall and dopey!” a Macrauchenia asked his companion, “ We’re just having a walk, how do we know it’s an ice age?”
“Because...of all...THE EYES!”””shouts his irritated companion.
Shocked, the Macrauchenia said to an aardvark, “well, facts just got a little chillier.”
Nearby, some baby Palaeotherium were pretending to drown in some mud, as if they were going extinct.  “HELP!  HELP!!”
A father was nearby and wanted them to get out.  “C'mon, children, let’s go,” he said, “the traffic’s moving.”
“But, but, but Dad..”
“No ‘buts,’” said the father, “you can play Extinction later.”
“Oh, alright,” said one of the children, “c'mon, guys.”
Nearby, a pair of Glyptodons chatted with each other while they marched with more of their own kind.  “Well, where’s Eddie?”
“He said something about being on the verge of an evolutionary breakthrough.”
“Really?”
The two looked to their left and saw one of the Glyptodons jump off a cliff and attempt flying.  “I’M FLYING,” he shouts, only to fall splat onto the ground.
“Some breakthrough.”
As this massive herd continued on, but suddenly, a large gasp erupted in the crowd of mammals.  Everyone looked and to their shock, they saw a huge Wooly Mammoth stomping his road across the herd, going the separate direction.  Spooked, the mammals in his path frantically started moving out of the road.  “WATCH OUT!”
“YOU’RE GOING THE WRONG ROAD!!”
“CRAZY MAMMOTH,” complained an aardvark.
As this happened, the mammoth didn’t glance at what he was causing damage, nor did he seem to care.  He kept stomping his road through the crowd, ignoring everyone around him.  This mammoth, Manfred, had a grumpy expression on his face as he plowed through the crowd.  Only one mammal had the guts to stand up to him for his actions.  “HEY,” shouts the Palaeotherium father, “DO THE WORLD A FAVOR: OKAY! YOUR ISSUES OFF THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNND!!”
Manfred, irritated, knelt down and threatened the father with his size.  “If my trunk was that small, I wouldn’t draw attention to myself, pal,” he said stubbornly.
“G-give me a break,” said the hesitant father, “we...we’ve been waddling all day.”
The mother and her children looked at Manfred, willing to get past him without damage.  Deciding that they weren’t worth his time anymore, Manfred started moving on again.  “Oh, go ahead,” he said as he walked past them, “follow the crowd.  It’ll be silenter if you’re gone.”
Ignoring the grumpy mammoth, the family started moving on with the rest of the migration.  “C'mon.  If he wants to freeze to death, let him.”
On a nearby tree, someone else was feeling the trembles from the migration.  It was a giant ground sloth with a purple nose, buckteeth and lime green fur.  This sloth, Sid, was sleeping on his branch until he started slipping away as a result of the shaking ground.  Alarmed awake, he caught hold of his branch.  “Woah.  Hey...he...I’m up.  I’m up,” he said as he got on his branch,  “rise and shine, everybody.”
But he had no response.  “What?  Zack?  Marshall?  Bertie?  Uncle Fungus?  Where is everybody,” he asked as he went down the tree branches, at last reaching the ground, “c'mon, guys.  We’re gonna miss the mi-the mi...the mi...gration.”
Sid looked around him and saw that he was all alone. “They left without me.  They do this every year,” said Sid before turning dramatic, “why?  Doesn’t anyone love me?  Isn’t there anyone who cares about Sid the sloth?”
A Glyptodon walked side-by-side and scurried along, ignoring the sloth.  “Alright,” said Sid who was ready to set off, “I’ll just go by myself.”
But the moment that Sid took a step, he stepped in something gooey.  He looked down and saw that he stepped in the Glyptodon’s dung.  “Oh...yuck,” he muttered.
Not far away, two Brontotherium, Carl and Frank, were standing above a patch of greenery that looked fresh and perfect for eating.  “I CAN’T believe it,” said Carl, “fresh wild greens.  Frank, where did you ever?”
“Go ahead, dig in,” said Frank, willing to get started.
Carl noticed a special fact in their meal; a dandelion.  “A dandelion,” he said, “I thought the frost wiped them all out.”
“All but one,” said an enthusiastic Frank.
But before they could eat, they saw Sid coming his road.  Oblivious to what he was walking into, they inadvertently stepped into the salad.  “Oh, this makes me so....I wanna...OH YUCK!” complained Sid before turning to Frank, “this has certainly not been my day, I mean, you know what I’m saying, buddy,”
Sid looked at his foot and wiggled it around, trying to get the dirt off, but inadvertently getting small bits of it on Carl’s cheek.  “What a mess,” said Sid, “hey, you know, you rhinos have really tiny brains, did you know that?  It’s just a fact.  No offense.  You probably don’t even know what I’m speaking about,” before noticing the dandelion in the salad, “oh, yummo.  A dandelion.  Must be the last one of the season.”
Sid ate the flower and marveled at its taste.  “Carl,” said Frank.
“Easy, Frank,” said Carl.
“They ruined our salad,” said Frank.
Swiftly realizing what he had done, and seeing that these rhinos were intelligent enough to comprehend what he said about them, Sid started getting hesitant.  “Oh, oh, my mistake.  That was my mistake.  Let me, let me...” he said as he backed off from the approaching rhinos, “no, no, seriously, let me take care of this......”
“Well, Frank, you tried to sell me a stolen Burger King," asked Carl.
“Oh, oh, what is this,” asked Sid upon seeing something, “pine-cones.  Oh, my heavens, they’re my favorite.”
Sid chomped on one.  “Delicious,” he said hesitantly, “that’s...uh, nice eating.”
The rhinos could see that Sid was obviously faking it, but Sid went along with his act, going as far as to stuff one in Carl’s mouth.  “Ah, but don’t me hog them all up, oh, dear.  Here, you have some,” he said as he moved Carl’s jaw up and down, trying to get him to chew, “tasty, isn’t it?”
But this infuriated Carl more.  “Bon appetit,” Sid concluded before turning around and fleeing for dear life.
“Now,” asked Frank who was ready for a run.
After a moment of silence, Carl said, “now.”
On that, the two rhinos sprinted forwards and charged at Sid.  Shrieking louder, the sloth ran as fast as he could, but he could see that the rhinos were swiftly catching up.  But before he could get far, he suddenly bumped into something and fell backwards.  He saw Manfred standing there above a cliff.  “Hey, What’s going on here?” he complained.
Seeing that the rhinos were catching up, Sid swiftly hid underneath Manfred, hoping that he could help.  “Just pretend that we’re not here,” said Sid.
Manfred turned to face the rhinos, who were complaining about Manfred’s presence.  “I wanted to hit them at complete speed,” complained Frank.
“That’s alright, Frank,” said Carl, “we’ll have some fun with them.”
“Don’t let them impale me,” begged Sid as he clenched onto Manfred’s leg, “please.  I wanna live.”
“Get off me,” complained Manfred as he nudged Sid away.
“C'mon, you’re making a scene,” said Carl.
“We’ll just take our furry piñatas and go if you don’t mind,” said Frank to Manfred.
Sid hesitantly hid behind Manfred.  “Hey, buddy, if it’s not them today, it’s someone else tomorrow,” he said.
“Well, I’d rather it not be today, alirght,” said Sid.
“Look, I’m gonna break your neck where you don’t feel a fact,” suggested Carl as Frank nodded in agreement, “how’s that?”
“Wait a moment, I thought rhinos were vegetarians,” said Manfred.
“An excellent point,” said Sid.
“Shut up,” said Manfred.
“Who says we’re gonna eat them after we murder them,” asked Carl, who was getting impatient.
“Yes, c'mon,” said Frank, letting Manfred out of the road, “move it.”
“You know, I don’t like animals that murder for pleasure,” said Manfred, not liking these intentions.
“Save it for a mammal that cares,” said Carl.
“I’m a mammal that cares,” said Sid.
Manfred looked at Sid before turning back to the rhinos.  “Alright, look,” he said, “if either of you make it across that sinkhole in front of you, you get the sloth.”
Carl and Frank looked below them and saw they were a few inches from what looked like a pit of quicksand.  This comment turned Sid from very hesitant to overconfident, thinking he was safe.  “That’s right, ya losers,” said Sid as he took a small rock, “you take one step and you’re dead!”
He tossed the rock towards the two rhinos, and it landed right in front of them.  However, the two realized that the rock landed in what Manfred called a sinkhole.  Seeing that it was a lie, they smirked at the two.  Manfred stood, fully shocked that his attempt to ward them away without physical conflict had fallen apart and failed.  “You were bluffing, right,” asked Sid.
“Yes, yes, that was a bluff,” replied Manfred.
Seeing that there was nothing standing in between the rhinos and Manfred, Sid slowly backed off before swiftly hiding behind Manfred.  “GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!'” the two rhinos yelled out.
With no hesitation, they sprinted towards the group.  Now feeling threatened, but not going down without a fight, Manfred frowned furiously at the two and stood his ground and was ready for a fight.  Carl and Frank rammed into Manfred’s tusks and started pushing him backwards.  Sid, on the other hand, was behind Manfred, but because Manfred was getting pushed back, he started getting closer and closer to the cliff.  Sid hung onto Manfred’s leg and shrieked. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! (In a mommy voice) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! But Manfred, yet not going down easily, used all of his strength to push the rhinos back.  Eventually, after a fight, he flung them back off the cliff.  Sid got up and celebrated.  “WHOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! (In a mommy voice) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”
But his joy swiftly turned into fear again as he saw the rhinos come back for another attack.  He hid behind Manfred again as the two rhinos charged.  Manfred, now taking the fight to them, charged towards them.  He caught Carl by the horn with his trunk and threw him aside.  Sid watched him fly before seeing that Frank was yet on the attack.  But before Frank could do Sid away, Frank was suddenly picked up by Manfred’s tusks.  Using his strength, Manfred tossed Frank into the air.  As for Carl, he was yet down from Manfred’s attack.  “A dandelion,” he asked upon seeing one yet implanted in the ground. 
But this dandelion was crushed as Frank landed on it.  With the rhinos defeated, Sid celebrated again.  “WHOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”””” he cheered before jumping onto Manfred’s face and hugging him, “WE DID IT!  WE DID IT!!”
But this caused Manfred to slip off the cliff and slide down, taking Sid with him.  Sid, remembering that Manfred also contributed to the rescue, looked at him in the eyes.  “You have beautiful eyes.”
“Get off my face,” said Manfred somberly as he got up, sliding Sid off his face, and walking away.
“Wow, you and me,” said Sid who was obliged to have been rescued, “we make a grand team.  Say, why don’t we just head south together.”
“Sure, yes, hey, jump up on my back and relax the entire road,” said Manfred.
“Wow, really?”
“No,” said Manfred stubbornly.
Manfred’s attitude shocked Sid.  “Wait, aren’t you going south,” asked Sid as he tried following him, “the changing seasons, migration instincts?  Any of this ringin’ a bell?”
“I guess not,” said Manfred, “farewell.”
“Alright then, thanks for the help,” said Sid, feeling confident that he’d be fine, before turning around, “I can take it from here.”
But Sid’s confidence dashed until he saw Carl and Frank standing above the cliff.  “HEY, YOU OVERGROWN WEASEL,” shouts Carl, “WAIT UNTIL WE GET DOWN THERE!!”
Sid swiftly started walking back to Manfred.  “Woah, that entire south fact is way overrated.  The heat, the crowds, who needs that,” asked Sid as he walked alongside Manfred, “isn’t this grand?  You and me, two bachelors knocking about in the wild?”
“No,” replied Manfred, “you just want a bodyguard where you don’t become somebody’s side dish.”
“You’re a very shrewd mammal,” said Sid, taking notice of Manfred’s behavior, “alright, lead the road, Mr. Big...uh...”
“Manfred.”
“Manfred.  Manfred?  Yuck.  How about Manny the Moody Mammoth?  Or Manny the Melancholy?  Manny the...” Sid suggested before getting spooked by Manfred’s frown and hiding on a small dead tree.
Taking the tree and meeting Sid’s face, Manfred said, “stop following me.”
Manfred let go and started walking away again.  Despite Manfred’s stern attitude, Sid was yet reluctant about going it alone.  “OK, that's it, then you found issues.  Look, you won’t even know I’m here.  I’ll zip the lip....”
Meanwhile, near a waterfall falling from a tall cliff, there was a special area where more inhabitants of the realm were living.  But unlike the mammals that were migrating south to avoid the cold front, these were prehistoric humans, Neanderthals.   Resting in their campsite, they were doing their business while their leader, Runar was socializing with them.  He walked over to a nearby tent, where his wife, Nadia came out with their baby infant, Roshan.  Runar knelt down to the baby, and picked him up, preventing him from falling over.  The two parents played with their son, unaware that they were being watched by a pair of Smilodons.  They observed the family having a best time together, but they mostly had their eyes on Roshan.  “Oh, look at that cute little baby, Diego,” said Soto, the leader, “isn’t it nice he’ll be joining us for breakfast?”
“It wouldn’t be breakfast without him,” said Diego, the lieutenant.
“Especially since his daddy wiped out half our pack and wears our skin to keep warm,” said Soto, “an eye for an eye.....don’t you think?”
“Let’s show that human what happens since he messes with Sabers,” said Diego, equally motivated as Soto to gain revenge.
“Alert the troops.  We attack at dawn,” said Soto as Diego started following that order, “and Diego....bring me the baby.....alive.  If I’m gonna enjoy my revenge...I want it to be fresh.”
Soto frowned down at the humans, ready to ignite an attack on the tribe.  As for Runar and Nadia, they headed into their tent with Roshan, fully oblivious by what was going to befall on them later on.
At sunset, Manfred stopped his walk near a cliff.  He carried a ton of logs and sticks with his tusks and let them down onto the ground.  Sid was nearby, but unlike Manfred, he was pulling a single small stick.  “Phew,” he sighed, “I’m wiped out.”
“That’s your shelter,” asked Manfred.
“Hey, you’re a big guy, you have a lot of wood,” said Sid, “I’m a little guy.”
“You’ve had half a stick.”
“Yes, but with my little stick and my highly evolved brain,” said Sid before incidentally poking himself with the stick, “ow!  I shall make fire.”
“Fascinating,” said Manfred sarcastically as he put his shelter together.
“We’ll see if brains triumph over brawn tonight,” said Sid as he snapped his branch in half, “now, won’t we?”
Unfortunately, the night did not go as well as Sid had planned.  For a while, Sid tried rubbing his pieces together in hopes of making a fire, but nothing happened at first.  In addition to this, a rainstorm erupted and the rain came down on the sloth.  Manfred rested in his shelter, safe from the pouring rain and he watched Sid try to start a fire.  “Hey, I think I saw a spark,” he said.
Sid looked at his sticks, but saw nothing that looked like a fire.  He frowned at Manfred, seeing that he was being sarcastic, before approaching him.  “Any chance I could squeeze in there with you, Manny, old pal,” asked Sid.
“Oh, isn’t there someone else we can annoy,” asked Manfred, irritated with Sid, “friends?  Family?  Poisonous reptiles?”
“Well, my family abandoned me.  They just kinda migrated without me.  You should see what they did last year,” said Sid as he rested on one of Manfred’s tusks, "they awakened early and tied my hands and feet and they gagged me with a field mouse, barricaded the main door, but covered their tracks, went through water where I’d lose their scent and...well, who needs them anyhow?"
Using Manfred’s trunk as a bed, Sid tried sleeping, but Manfred picked Sid up and dropped him onto the ground.  “Well, what about you,” asked Sid, “you have a family?”
Manfred looked at Sid somberly, once again irritated by his constant attempts to socialize, before turning around and facing the separate direction.  Though confused, Sid thought he was just tired from the long day.  “Alright, you’re tired, I see, well, we’ll speak more in the morning,” he said.
Suddenly, Sid started getting hit by falling pieces of hail.  “OW!  AH!!  OH, OH!!!  OW!!!!  OW,” he exclaimed, “Manfred!  Manfred, could you scooch over a drop?” 
But Manfred didn’t do or say anything.  “Oh, c'mon, nobody falls asleep that fast,” complained Sid, “MANNY!!”
But again, Sid was ignored.  Distressed, Sid hid underneath Manfred’s tail and shivered in the chilly air.  
Meanwhile, a distance from the two, Scrat, having escaped the mammal migration and retrieved his acorn, attempted to push it up a tree.  Scrat shivered as he continued climbing up the tree.  The acorn slid off Scrat’s face, but he caught it with his teeth and continued pushing it up.  He reached the top and the acorn dropped into the center hole.  Scrat got up and saw that it would be a perfect place to store his acorn.  He lifted his acorn high, about to bring it down, until suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck him.  This charred his body and paralyzed him.  Scrat was yet alive, but he was unable to move and the acorn landed on his head before falling to the ground below.
Much later into the night, the rainstorm stopped and all was silent once again.  Dawn was getting very close as the sun slowly started appearing over the horizon.  In the cave, Diego and Soto appeared on the hill overlooking the human camp.  By now, their fellow Smilodons and pack mates, Zeke, Oscar and Lenny, had been assembled and were ready for their assault.  After observing the camp for a moment, the sabers began approaching the site.  But as they approached, they caught the attention of the humans’ two domesticated dogs.  Upon seeing the sabers approach, they growled before barking louder.  These barks awakened everyone around the camp.  Runar saw what was going on and caught his spear.  His fellow Neanderthals caught their weapons and charged at the intruders.  Soto jumped and attempted to pounce on Runar, but he was pushed away.  The sabers and humans engaged in a heated brawl.  Meanwhile, high above the battlefield, Diego sneaked his road around the camp, unseen by any of the humans or dogs.  He silently sneaked into the tent where Runar was sleeping and saw Roshan; the main reason why the sabers were attacking.  Seeing that he was asleep and unprotected, he silently moved closer, ready to strike.  But suddenly, Nadia caught Roshan and held him close.  Seeing that Diego was after her infant, Nadia whacked him off with a stick before rushing out of the tent.  She saw the rest of the pack battling her tribe, but with Diego hot on her trail, she had to run.  She fled off the camp as fast as she could, with Diego not far behind.  Runar saw his wife in danger and was ready to give chase, only to be stopped by Soto and Oscar.  Back with Nadia, she kept fleeing, but was unable to get away fast enough.  Diego appeared in front of her and lashed out, trying to swipe the baby.  But all he had was Roshan’s charm necklace.  Swatting it off, he turned his attention back to Nadia.  He chased the defenseless woman to a rocky ledge over a waterfall.  Nadia was now cornered, with no road out.  She saw Diego slowly creeping towards her, ready for the murder.  Nadia tried backing off, but she couldn’t go back any further.  She was now stuck in a perilous situation.  Either she could try and get past Diego and flee, risking getting attacked, or jump over the waterfall.  Either fashion, she would face death.  After frowning at the menacingly approaching Diego, she looked at her baby, held onto him tightly, turned around and jumped over the waterfall.  Diego’s confidence turned into shock.  How could his prey jump off the waterfall like that?  He looked down at the river below and saw no trace of the woman or the baby.  Growling in fury, he turned around and left.  Meanwhile, back at the camp, the humans let the two dogs off their leash and they charged at the sabers.  They pounced on the intruders and barked at them.  But as this fight went on, Soto noticed Diego on the hill nearby.  “THERE’S DIEGO,” he announced, “FALL BACK!!”
Following the order, the sabers followed Soto towards Diego.  Upon reaching him, the pack stopped.  “Where’s the baby,” asked Soto.
Faced with punishment from his boss, but knowing what had to be done, Diego said, “I lost it over the falls.”
“YOU LOST IT,” asked a shocked Soto.
But before the sabers could continue discussing what just happened, some spears landed near them.  They looked and saw the humans chasing after them with their weapons.  The sabers fled while Soto expressed his fury.  “I want that baby, Diego,” complained Soto.
“I’ll get it,” said Diego, defending himself.
“You better, unless you wanna serve yourself as a replacement,” said Soto before turning to the others, “we’ll go up to Half Peak.”
The others agreed while Soto gave his final orders to Diego.  “Meet us there,” he said before frustratedly concluding, “it had better be alive.”
Soto ran away while Oscar said rudely, “can we trust you with that, Diego?”
Diego growled at his pack-mate.  “LET’S GO,” ordered Soto.
The sabers ran away, following Soto, while Diego ran in a separate direction to find the baby.  At the camp, the dogs sniffed around the area, trying to find Nadia and Roshan, but they didn’t find them anywhere.  As the dogs whined, Runar found Roshan’s charm necklace and became shocked if he and Nadia didn’t make it.  But his despair turned into fury as he saw the sabers run away.  He chased after them with his fellow tribe members.
Under a patch of pinked colored leaved trees, Manfred was once again on the walk.  Sid, having made it through the rainy night, was once again following him.  “And, and she picked a hair off my shoulder and says, ‘look, if you’re gonna have an extra mating dance, at least pick a female with a same color pelt, right?’  And I thought, ‘woah, she’s gonna go praying mantis on me.’  You know what I’m saying,” asked Sid as he held an apple in his hand.
“Hey, if you find a mate in life, you should be loyal, and in your case, grateful.  Now get away from me,” said Manfred, yet irritated.
“Well, I think mating for life is foolish,” said Sid as he chomped on his apple, “I mean, there’s plenty of Sid going around to...”
But before Sid finished, he bumped into Manfred, who stopped his walk.  “Manny,” asked Sid who then tried getting Manfred’s attention, “Manny?”
But Manfred didn’t respond.  His attention was fully focused on something in the river ahead.  Sid looked for himself and gasped.  It was Nadia, clinging onto a log.  Injured and exhausted from the jumping over the waterfall hours ago, Nadia was yet alive.  She silently shivered as she attempted to get herself to the land.  Sid could see that this woman had dealt with something nasty and became shocked.  Nadia let go of the log and slowly drifted towards the shore.  She tried crawling onto the land, but she could only hang onto the edge.  As Manfred and Sid watched her, she saw that her son needed to be secured on land where that he wouldn’t drown.  As she rolled him off her, Manfred stopped the baby’s bundle from rolling back into the water.  Nadia looked up and saw Manfred, who looked upon her as if he felt worried for her.  Though unsure at what they’d do, but feeling that they could be trusted, she sighed, leaving Manfred to gently roll the baby towards him.  Here, he, Sid and the others saw the baby, sleeping in his little bundle.  Roshan slowly opened his eyes and saw everyone looking down on him.  “Look at that,” said Sid, happy to see Roshan alive, “he’s alright.”
The baby grinned at the two.  But as the pair gazed upon the baby, Rudy remembered Nadia and looked up.  But to his horror, she was nowhere to be seen.  The others looked and saw no trace of the woman.  “She’s gone,” muttered Sid as he looked down the river.
Realizing what could’ve happened to Nadia, Manfred looked down river and didn’t see Nadia either.  He looked at Roshan, as if he was feeling some kind of sympathy for him.  But instead of consoling him, he slowly turned around and started leaving.  His departure was instantly noticed by Sid.  “Hey, hey, Manny, Manny, are you forgetting something,” he asked.
“No,” replied Manfred.
“But, but you just saved him.”
“Yes, well, I’m yet trying to get rid of the last fact I saved.”
“But you can’t leave him here,” said Sid as he picked up the baby.
As he looked up at the waterfall, he saw smoke.  “Look, there’s smoke,” said Sid, who also noticed the smoke, “that’s his herd; right up the hill.  We should return them.”
Manfred suddenly appeared in Sid’s face, expressing his irritation on the sloth.  “Let’s get something straight here, alright?  There is no ‘we.’  There never was a ‘we.’  In fact, without me, there wouldn’t even be a you,” said Manfred before turning to Sid.
Intimidated by the mammoth, Sid muttered, “it’s just up the hill.”
“Listen very carefully:  I’m...not...going,” replied Manfred.
“Well, fine, be a jerk,” added Sid, also unhappy with Manfred’s attitude, “we’ll take care of him.”
“Oh, yes, that’s nice,” said Manfred sarcastically.
“I’ll return you,” said Sid to Roshan, “we don’t need that meany-weeny mammoth, do we?  No, we don’t.”
Sid looked up and saw the only standing in between him and the human settlement; a giant cliff.  It was pretty tall.  Sid looked back at Manfred, who just stood there, awaiting Sid to do something and mess up.  Sid nodded and tried climbing up.  He tried getting a grip on one of the cliff ledges.  After a moment of straining, and frowning at Manfred, Sid eventually had a grip and started climbing.  This proved to be a much more difficult task than Sid expected.  As he tried climbing, he slipped and his head got stuck on one of the walls.  Manfred watched below and started feeling uneasy about Sid’s progress, fearing that he or the baby would slip and fall.  “You’re an embarrassment to nature,” commented Manfred, “do you know that?”
Smash and Eddie frowned at Manfred while Sid continued his dangerous scaling.  “This is cake.  I’m fine, I’m fine,” said Sid before muttering to himself, “I’m gonna die.”
By now, Sid was about to get halfway there to China.  Manfred stood right underneath him, expecting something to go wrong.  But as Sid climbed, Roshan’s bundle started peeling apart.  Sid noticed this and swiftly caught the baby with his foot.  This caused Marty down below to gasp in shock.  “MANNY,” cried Sid, barely able to hang onto Roshan.
Sid lost his grip and the baby started falling.  Manfred lifted his trunk up, ready to catch the baby, but suddenly, a Smilodon burst out of nowhere and snatched the infant with his jaws.  Roshan lamented in fear as the intruder landed on a rock.  It was Diego.  Now with the baby in his possession, he was ready to leave.  But before he could muster, Manfred snatched Roshan off and held him in his trunk.  But instead of trying and desperately retrieving the baby again by force, he calmed down and said, “um...that pink fact is mine.”
“Uh, no, actually that pink fact belongs to us,” said Sid as he attempted getting down from the cliff, before slipping and smashing down.
“Us,” asked Diego, “you’re quite the odd community here.”
“There is no ‘us,’” said Manfred, not letting anything do with Sid or otherwise.
“I see,” said Diego, “you can’t have one of your own, where you want to adopt.”
“Look, I’m very sorry to interrupt your snack, but we must go,” said Sid as he guided Roshan away from Diego.
“The baby?  Please,” replied Diego, “I was returning him to his herd.”
“Oh, yes, nice try, Bucktooth,” mocked Sid.
“You calling me a liar,” asked Diego as he approached Sid.
“I didn’t say that.”
“You were thinking it.”
Intimidated by the saber’s frown, Sid whispered, “I don’t like this cat.  He reads minds.”
“Well, Sid, you tried to sell me a stolen Hardee's Cool Kids Combo,” said Diego, before turning to Manfred, “any matter....name’s Diego, friend.”
“Manfred,” replied Manfred, “and I’m not your friend.”
“Well, fine...Manfred,” said Diego, “if you’re looking for the humans, you’re wasting your time.  They left this morning.”
“Thanks for the advice, now beat it,” said Manfred before turning to Sid, “alright, I’ll help you bring it to his herd, but promise me that you’ll leave me alone after that.”
“OK, that's it, deal, hey, what’s your problem,” asked Sid as they started walking away with Roshan.
“You are my problem.”
“Well, I think you’re stressed, that's why you eat so much,” said Sid, “it’s hard to get fat on the vegan diet.”
“I’m not fat,” said Manfred, “it’s all this fur.  It makes me look....poofy.”
“Alright, you had fat hair, but if you’re ready to speak, I’m here,” replied Sid.
As the two were speaking, Diego frowned at the baby, vowing to bring him alive to his pack, no matter what.  He turned and left, leaving Manfred and Sid to their business.  “What are you doing here?  Just drop it on the ledge,” said Manfred.
Sid gently plopped the baby onto the ledge, leading him to the camp.  As Roshan crawled his road towards the camp, Sid silently asked, “should we make sure they found him?”
“Nice idea,” said Manfred, having no objections.
“OH, DEAR, OH, DEAR!  NO, NO, NO, WAIT, PLEASE WAIT, AAHHHH,” shrieked Sid as he was tossed onto the ledge by Manfred, “DON’T HURT ME!!”
But as Sid braced himself for what could be a human attack, nothing happened at first.  Sid peeked and saw something bad.  “Oh...this is the problem.”
“Now what,” asked an annoyed Manfred.
To his shock, the human camp was trashed and deserted.  “Aw, that’s perfect,” he complained.
Roshan crawled into the camp site, looking around him.  He tried reaching a necklace hanging from a stick over an empty fireplace, but ended up with a small basket over himself.  Sid followed him closely, keeping an eye on him, and examining what was around him.  This was an interesting site for the sloth.  But as he walked, he failed to notice a stick underneath his foot.  He fell to the ground as the stick hit him in the face.  As for Manfred, he was checking out what was left of the campsite.  Tents were destroyed and objects were scattered.  Manfred stopped upon Roshan look into where he slept last night.  Reminded of his mother, he cuddled with it before turning to Manfred.  Manfred looked down on the baby somberly as Roshan slid into his basket again.  On that comment, Diego appeared before them.  “I warned you they were gone,” he said.
“Well, look who that is,” said Manfred, who also wasn’t happy to see him, “don’t you have some poor, defenseless animal to disembowel?”
“They couldn’t be far,” said Sid, “I mean, they went this fashion.....or this fashion....”
“You don’t know much about tracking, do you,” said Diego.
“Hey, I’m a sloth,” said Sid, “I see a tree, eat a leaf, that’s my tracking.”
“You didn’t miss them by much,” said Diego, “it’s yet green.  They headed north two hours ago.” 
“‘Hey, it’s yet green.  They headed north two hours ago,’” Sid mocked silently as he used two sticks like saber teeth.
As for Roshan, he was yet crawling around and he pressed on a spoon, causing a fish to fly up and land on Manfred’s face.  “You don’t need this aggravation,” said Diego, “give me the baby.  I can track humans down a lot faster than you can.”
Manfred wasn’t trusting of Diego.  “But you’re just a nice citizen helping out, right,” he asked as he pulled the baby off of Diego.
“I just know where the humans are going,” said Diego as he took Roshan back.
“Glacier Pass,” said Manfred as he looked into the distance, seeing a massive pass in the glacier wall, “everybody knows they have a settlement on the other side.”
“Well, unless you know how to track, you’re never gonna reach them before the pass closes up with snow, which should be like....tomorrow,” said Diego.
Manfred saw a little bit of snow falling from the heavens and thought about it.  “Then you can give that baby to me, or go get lost in the blizzard,” said Diego, “it’s your choice.”
Manfred, though also unsure about having another mammal join him, but knowing that it’d be faster for him to be left alone, took Roshan and handed it to Sid.  “Here’s your little bundle of joy,” he said, “we’re returning it to the humans.”
Happy to be with the baby again, and now confident that he’ll be safe from Diego, Sid started teasing him again.  “Oh, the big bad Tiggy Winkle gets left behind.  Poor Tiggy Winkle.....”
“Sid...Tiggy Winkle is gonna lead the road,” said Manfred.
Now feeling hesitant again, Sid swiftly moved towards Manfred.  “Uh...uh...Manny, can, can I speak to you for a second?”
“No.  The sooner we find the humans, the sooner I get rid of Mr. Stinky Drool Face,” said Manfred, “and the baby as well.”
Manfred started walking away, leaving Sid with Diego.  “You won’t always have Jumbo around to protect you, and if that day comes, I suggest you watch your back...because I’ll be chewing on it,” he said silently and sinisterly.
“Hey, Upper Tracker,” called Manfred, “up front where I can see you.”
Now faced with more danger than before, Sid became afraid.  “Help...me.”
With the decision confirmed to return the baby to the humans, the trio headed out north to reach them before they reached Glacier Pass.  This was going to be a long and rough journey, due to Manfred being a reluctant ally and acting suspicious of Diego.  They had their minds set on returning the baby.  However, this was not without baby problems.  Throughout most of the journey, the baby was crying tearfully.  “You must make it stop,” complained Manfred, “I can’t take it anymore.” 
“I’ve eaten facts that didn’t complain this much,” said Diego.
“He wouldn’t stop squirming,” said Sid, who was holding the baby upside down.
“You’re holding him wrong,” said Diego.
“WATCH HIS HEAD,” exclaimed Manfred worriedly.
“Just put it down,” complained Diego, irritated.
“Sheesh, ‘pick him up, put him down,’ nya, nya, nya, nya, nya,” said Sid as he put Roshan on a small rock.
“Its nose is dry,” said Diego as he looked at the crying Roshan.
“That means something’s wrong with him,” said Sid.
“Someone should lick it, just in case,” said Diego.
“I’ll do it,” said Sid.
“Hey, he’s wearing one of these baby thingies,” said Manfred.
“Well,” asked Sid.
“Then if he poops, where does it go,” asked Manfred.
Diego squirmed about this thought.  Sid swiftly licked Roshan’s nose, but this didn’t stop him from sobbing.  “Humans are disgusting,” said Sid.
“Alright, you,” Manfred said to Sid, “check for poop.”
“Hey, why am I the poop checker,” asked Sid.
Manfred stood over the intimidated sloth and got closer and closer as he brought up each thing about Sid.  “Because returning the runt was your idea, because you’re small and insignificant, and because I’ll pummel you if you don’t,” he said.
Trying to think of a road out, Sid asked, “why else?”
“NOW, SID,” shouts Manfred.
As Sid hesitantly stepped off by the mammoth, he stood over Roshan and squirmed as he did what Manfred warned him as well.  “EW, YUCK!!  EW,” he exclaimed as he removed Roshan’s diaper, “I mean, my heavens.”
With the diaper in his hands, Sid started moving around.  “Alright, watch out, watch out, watch out, coming through,” he said.
Everyone turned frantic, unwilling to get splattered by poop.  “WATCH OUT!” yelled Manfred.
“STOP KIDDING AROUND!” yelled Diego.
“Ooh, ooh, I’m gonna slip,” said Sid as he tried keeping his footing.
But as this happened, Sid smirked before tossing the diaper in midair.  “It’s clean,” teased Sid, “got ya now!  Hahahaha....”
Manfred whacked Sid in the head with his trunk.  “Will you cut that out,” he said.
This action caused Roshan to chuckle a little, before resuming crying.  “Hey, do that again,” said Diego, “he likes it.”
Manfred did so, and Roshan chuckled again.  “Hey, yes, and it’s making me feel better as well,” said Manfred, who liked doing that.
As Roshan cried again, Sid turned to Diego.  “Here, you hold him,” he said dizzily.
Diego whacked Sid in the head with his paw, and this caused Roshan to chuckle again.  Roshan tried doing it himself, but Sid took his hand and set him on the rock.  The baby started crying again as Diego came up with an idea.  “Here, turn him towards me,” he said as he stood over the baby and hid his eyes, “where’s the baby?”
After a brief pause, Diego swiftly revealed his face.  “There he is.”
This caused Roshan to stop crying again.  “Where’s the baby,” Diego asked again before revealing his face, “THERE HE IS!!”
Roshan got afraid and sobbed again.  “STOP THIS!!  YOU’RE FRIGHTENING HIM,” Manfred criticized.
Roshan’s stomach started gurgling.  This gave Sid an idea.  “I bet he’s hungry,” said Sid.
“How about some milk,” suggested Manfred.
“Oh, I’d love some,” said Sid.
“Not you,” said an annoyed Diego, “the baby.”
“Well, I ain’t exactly lactating right now, pal,” said Sid, defending himself. 
“You’re a little low on the food chain to be mouthing away, aren't you,” replied Diego.
“ENOUGH,” shouts Manfred, fed up with this arguing and noise.
This yell was so loud that it echoed across Half Peak and it managed to silence everyone.  Everyone heard a rustling sound nearby.  They looked and saw a watermelon near a small bush.  “FOOD,” everyone exclaimed.
Manfred picked up the melon and was about to carry it to Roshan, but suddenly, a dodo bird burst from the bush and snatched the melon off.  The dodo scurried away, squawking like crazy, leaving everyone confused. Not far away, a training session was going on.  This involved several dodo birds.  Marching like a military army, they chanted an army song.  “I DON’T KNOW, BUT I’VE BEEN WARNED,” shouts the leader.
“I DON’T KNOW, BUT I’VE BEEN WARNED,” replied the soldiers.
“END OF THE WORLD BE MIGHTY COLD,” shouts the leader.
“END OF THE WORLD BE MIGHTY COLD,” replied the soldiers.
Other training sessions were going on around them.  “GET READY FOR THE ICE AGE,” announced a dodo.
“PROTECT THE DODO FASHION OF LIFE,” announced another.
“SURVIVAL SEPARATES THE DODOS FROM THE BEASTS,” announced another.
Manfred, Sid and Diego looked over a small cliff and saw the action themselves.  “PROTECT THE DODO ROAD OF LIFE,” announced a dodo.
“BE READY FOR THE ICE AGE,” announced another.
“Ice age,” asked a confused Sid.
“I’ve heard of these crackpots,” said Diego.
The dodo that took the melon put it on a tree stump, where there were two other melons.  After placing it safe, the dodo saw the group and panicked.  “BWAAHHHH!!!!  INTRUDERS,” he exclaimed as he fled.
Nearby, a dodo was teaching three other dodos about a geyser.  “Don’t fall in,” he said, “if you do, you will certainly.....”
“INTRUDERS,” shouts the dodo, “INTRUDER WHAT?!”
He landed in the geyser, causing everyone to squirm upon seeing his comeuppance.  “Burn and die,” concluded the leader.
Manfred, Sid and Diego approached the dodos.  Manfred handed Sid Roshan while he said, “hey, can we have our melon back?  Junior’s hungry and, uh...”
“NO WAY,” shouts the dodo leader as he stood above the melons, “this is our private stockpile for the ice age.  Subarctic temperatures will force us underground for a million, billion years.” 
“Well, you have three melons,” asked Manfred who was looking at the dodo’s melon supply.
The dodos looked at their melons before turning back to the group, serious by that comment.  “If you weren’t smart enough to plan ahead, then doom on you,” said the leader.
“Doom on you...doom on you...” the dodos chanted as they advanced towards Manfred, “doom on you...”
“Get away from me,” said an annoyed Manfred.
This chanting started to exciting the dodo leader, but in emotion, he incidentally slipped off his melon, causing it to roll away.  “OH, DEAR!  NO!!”
The melon rolled into Roshan’s arms.  Seeing that part of their food supply was in danger, the leader sprang into action.  “RETRIEVE THE MELON!  TAE KWON DODOS!!  ATTACK,” he exclaimed.
The dodos suddenly did martial arts poses, trying to be intimidating.  They started kicking each other.  One dodo kicked one dodo towards Roshan.  He kicked the melon out of Roshan’s hands.  Another dodo caught the melon with his head and tossed it to another dodo.  Tossing it from one dodo to another, they kept tossing it until one dodo incidentally tossed it over a cliff.  “THE MELON,” he cried.
Some of the dodos rushed towards the cliff.  “THE MELON, THE MELON, THE MELON, THE MELON...” they blabbered.
Not paying much attention, they pushed the dodo off the cliff, taking themselves with him.  “There goes our last female,” said one of the dodos.
Sid sneaked behind the tree stump and attempted to take one of the melons.  But the dodos noticed him and charged at him.  Together, they took the melon out of Sid’s hands and tossed it to each other upward.  One dodo kicked it off.  Three dodos caught it with their beaks, but were standing right above the geyser.  “FOUND IT, FOUND IT, FOUND IT, FOUND IT, FOUND IT,” they exclaimed before falling into the geyser with the melon, “DON’T FOUND IT!!”
The dodos turned to the stump one last time and saw that their last melon was in danger.  “The last...melon,” they said.
Manfred caught the melon and held it high, preventing it from being snatched up by dodos.  But as he concentrated in protecting the melon, he failed to notice one of the dodos was behind him.  The dodo jumped up and chomped on Manfred’s tail, causing him to let go of the melon and shriek in pain.  The melon was now flying high into the air.  Sid ran after it, dodging several dodos along the road.  The melon bounced on some of the birds’ heads before landing in Sid’s hands.  Sid grinned, now having some food for Roshan.  But as he looked up, he noticed all the dodos were starting to close in on him, ready for the final assault to catch the melon.  Surrounded, Sid looked at Roshan, who held his hand out, willing the melon.  Outnumbered, but not giving up on Roshan, Sid held the melon tightly and started running through the dodo flocks.  Using his hand to protect him, he pushed, shoved and smacked every dodo in his path out of the road.  Like a brave football player, he braved his road through the countless dodos in his road.  Some dodos tried attacking Sid, but ended up inadvertently attacking each other.  Fighting his road through the flocks, Sid saw the remaining flock charging towards him all around.  Making a risky action, Sid jumped up and flew above all the dodos.  Manfred, Diego and Roshan watched Sid fly.  Roshan closed his eyes, concerned for the sloth.  Sid landed on the ground, and though hurt, he managed to save the melon.  Roshan looked and cheered, along with the others.  Sid successfully saved the food for Roshan.  Sid celebrated his victory while the dodos mourned over the loss of their food supply.  Sid didn’t pay attention, being too busy to notice.  But in his joy, he threw the melon to the ground like a football player spiking the ball after a touchdown.  This caused everyone’s joy to turn into shock.  “AH, SID,” complained Diego, “now we must find more food.”
But Roshan crawled over to the smashed melon and ate one of the pieces.  Everyone looked at the baby and saw that there wasn’t much problem after all.  As Roshan ate, the group noticed a group of dodos came running side-by-side, trying to balance themselves.  “RIGHT, MORE TO THE RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT...”
“Hey, look at that,” said Manfred, “dinner and a show.”
The dodos barely managed to stay on each other’s heads and ended up falling over a cliff.  “LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, WAAHHHH,” they shrieked.
Later that night, under the starry heavens, Sid wandered away to find food for himself.  “Now to find a meal befitting a conquering hero,” he said as he pushed a tree branch.
But the branch came back and smacked Sid in the back of the head.  “What ho? A foe,” he asked as he got to his feet and looked at the tree, “c'mon, c'mon, you wanna a piece of me?  BOO-YAH!!”
Sid punched the tree in a tree hole and his hand came out with an acorn.  “Spoils.  Worthy of such a noble...” he said as he tossed the acorn into the air, ready to eat it.
But as the acorn was about land, something came flying into Sid and caught the acorn.  It was Scrat.  After a brief fight, Scrat took the acorn out of Sid’s mouth and started scurrying off, but not before shaking his fist at Sid for almost taking away his booty.
Back with Manfred and the others, they were settling in for the night.  “Bedtime, squirt,” said Manfred as he took the baby and held him in his trunk.
Manfred settled himself in.  As he did so, he looked at Diego, who was asleep.  As he thought, Manfred noticed Sid returning.  “Oh, the triumphant return,” he said sarcastically.
“What?  Oh, that,” said Sid hesitantly as he approached the group, “I’m so complete.  How about a good night kiss for your big buddy Sid...”
“Csendes,” silenced Manfred, not letting Sid awaken Roshan, “he’s asleep.”
“I was speaking to you,” said Sid, annoyed before resting himself on a flat rock, “well, fine, I’ll tuck myself in.”
Sid got himself onto the rock and started getting settled in.  After moaning in drowsiness, he said with a yawn, “alright...goodnight.”
Sid plopped down and started sleeping.  However, his sleeping methods involved him twisting and turning himself around, while making mumbling noises.  Manfred watched Sid, he frowned at the sloth, irritated once again by his antics.  At last, after Sid did a few fake sleeping sounds, Manfred lost his temper.  “WILL YOU STOP THAT,” he shouts.
This shout alarmed Sid awake.  “OK, that's it, yeesh, I was trying to relax,” said Sid as he settled in again and started sleeping.
“Oi,” muttered Manfred.
Everyone started sleeping to pass the night.  As for Manfred, he looked at Diego one last time and slowly closed his eyes, ready for the night.  But with everyone dozing, Diego silently opened his eyes.  With the moonlight in his eyes, he silently approached Manfred.  He looked at the mammoth and then Cody.  Both of them weren’t awake.  He smirked, proud to have fooled them into accepting him into the group before turning to the baby.  Lifting his paw, he attempted to take the baby out of Manfred’s trunk, but a noise stopped him from doing so.  To his relief, it was only Sid snoring.  Diego extended his paw again, but this time, Manfred moved his trunk, holding the baby tighter.  Furious, Diego looked at Manfred before hearing a noise up on a nearby hill.  He silently approached the hill and saw a dead bush rustling.  Crouching down, like he was hunting, he jumped into the air and tackled his watcher.  But as he was ready to attack, he saw that it was only Zeke.  “What the...”
“Go ahead, slice me,” said Zeke, “it’ll be the last fact you ever do so.”
“I’m working here, you waste of fur,” said Diego, not happy to see his fellow pack member.
“Furious Diego,” asked Oscar who also appeared on the scene, “tracking down hopeless infants too difficult to you?” 
“What are you two doing here,” asked Diego as he got off Zeke.
“Soto’s getting tired of waiting,” said Oscar.
“Yes, sir,” added Zeke, “he said to come back with the baby...OR DON’T COME BACK AT ALL!  HAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
“Well, I have a message for Soto,” said Diego, “warn him, I’m bringing the baby.  And warn him, I’m bringing...a mammoth.”
Zeke and Oscar looked at each other with surprise.  “A mammoth,” asked Zeke.
“Mammoths never travel alone,” said Oscar.
“Well, this one does so, and I’m leading him to Half Peak,” said Diego as he showed the two sabers Manfred and Sid, both yet asleep.
Zeke and Oscar saw them as perfect prey.  “Look at all that meat,” said Zeke, eager to attack, “LET’S GET THEM!!”
“Not yet,” said Diego, stopping Zeke from attacking, “we’ll need an entire pack to bring this mammoth.  Get everyone ready.”
The two sabers didn’t move.  “Now,” ordered Diego.
The two sabers headed out, leaving Diego to return to his sleeping spot and start dozing away.
The following morning, under the bright red heavens, Manfred started waking up.  Drowsy from the long sleep, it took him a while to awaken.  But as he curled his trunk, he felt nothing there.  He opened his eyes wide, seeing that Roshan wasn’t there.  He stomped near Diego, awakening him abruptly.  Spooked, he saw Manfred towering over him.  “Where’s the baby,” he demanded.
“You lost it,” asked Diego.
Suddenly, they both came to a realization.  Roshan wasn’t there, but someone else wasn’t.  “SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!” they both yelled, upset.
Roshan was indeed with Sid, and he was in a hot mud crater.  It was like he was relaxing in a hot tub.  And the two weren’t alone.  They were with two female ground sloths: Rachel, a sloth with blond hair swirling downward, and Jennifer, a sloth with dark blue curly hair.  They both found Roshan adorable.  “It’s so ugly,” said Rachel, “he’s positively adorable.”
“Hello, pumpkin,” said Jennifer to the baby, “hello, little bunny baby.”
“Where’d you find him,” Rachel asked Sid.
“Ah, poor boy was all alone in the wild,” said Sid, “sabers were cornering him, where I just snatched it.”
“Oh, so brave of you,” commented Rachel.
“Yes, well, he needed me and I wished I had one of my own as well.”
“Really,” asked Jennifer, intrigued, “I'm...I'm presented that quality in a male.”
“Who wouldn’t be,” said Sid as he relaxed, inadvertently letting Roshan sink into the mud.
“You caring for a baby,” asked Rachel, who noticed Roshan’s disappearance.
Sid pulled Roshan up again, and saw his face covered in mud.  “Yes, well, you know...”
Roshan splattered some mud on Sid’s face, amusing him.  “Cute boy, right,” he asked as he reached for something to wipe his face, “well, as I was saying ladies...”
Sid managed to find something and he started wiping his face.  But soon he realized that he had unintentionally caught Manfred’s trunk and get it muddy.  “Oh, hey,” said Sid, trying to play it cool, “hey, Manny.”
Manfred, once again angry with Sid, shook his trunk, getting the mud off, before taking the baby.  “What’s the matter with you,” Manfred asked as he left.
Seeing Manfred take Roshan away, Sid said to the two female sloths, “excuse me, ladies.  You just keep marinating, and I’ll be right back. Sexy?”
Sid got out of the mud crater and started chasing after Manfred.  With Sid gone, the two females chatted with each other.  “He’s not much to look at, but it’s so hard to find a family guy,” said Jennifer.
“Warn me about it,” said Rachel, “all the sensitive ones get eaten.”
Back with Sid, he managed to catch up with Manfred and the others.  “Oh, dear, oh, dear, Manny, Manny, please wait, I’m begging your pardon.  I need him,” said Sid.
“Why, a nice-looking guy like you,” asked Manfred.
“No, you say that, but you don’t mean it.”
“No, seriously, look at you,” said Manfred, “aw, these ladies, they don’t stand a chance.”
“You have a very cruel sense of humor,” commented Sid.
“Don’t let me cramp your style,” said Manfred, not liking that comment.
“Oh, thanks, Manny,” said Sid as he took Roshan, “you’re my pal. You are my best.”
“Without Pinky,” said Manfred as he took the baby back.
“No, Manny, Manny, I need him...”
Irritated, Sid agreed and started going back to the mud crater.  Cleaning himself up, and getting ready for the ladies, Sid was ready for another speak with the females.  “Well, ladies,” he said as he jumped in, “where were we?”
But to his horror and shock, the ladies weren’t in the crater anymore, and in their place were the last people he wanted in the crater: Carl and Frank.  “Carl,” said Frank, frustrated upon seeing Sid.
“Easy now, Frank,” said Carl, who was equally furious.
The two rhinos growled at Sid, who shrieked in absolute fear, knowing what was about to befall on him next.
Meanwhile, back with Manfred, he was carrying Roshan a distance from the sloth, oblivious to his problem.  “Good riddance, first that sloth bothers me to no end with his endless chatter, but he gets on my nerves by dragging me along on this goose chase,” complained Manfred.
“Well, Manfred,” said Sid, “you tried to sell me a stolen Papa John's Pizza?”
“But I have no time for his nonsense,” said Manfred, “and suddenly, he moves like a cheetah......and that tiger....yes, Mr. Bigger Tracker.  Can’t even find a sloth.  What am I, the wet nurse?”
Manfred set Roshan on the root of a dead tree.  Roshan looked at Manfred, as if he was letting him play with him.  “What are you looking at, Bone Bag,” asked Manfred.
Roshan chuckled at Manfred, not afraid of his hard words.  “Look at you,” he said, “you’re gonna grow into a great predator,” said Manfred, “I don’t think so.  What have you got here?  You've had a little.....patch of fur...no fangs, no claws...your folds of skin wrapped in......mush.  What’s so threatening about you?”
As Manfred examined Roshan, Roshan caught hold of Manfred’s trunk.  Manfred stopped upon seeing the baby hug it, like he was presented to him.  This caused Manfred to stop and think.  “Hey, does this look like a petting zoo to you, right,” he asked as he lifted Roshan into the air.
But Roshan slipped away and took some of Manfred’s hairs with him.  Manfred shrieked in pain while Roshan cooed.  This caused Manfred to get infuriated again.  “OK...that's it, wise guy,” said Manfred as he lifted Roshan higher into the tree, “you can earn a timeout.”
Roshan was placed near the branches, and he slipped onto his back.  This didn’t make Roshan afraid at all.  He continued coughing and laughing as Manfred and the others watched.  “Oh, you think that’s funny,” said Manfred who lifted Roshan higher into the trees, “how about this?”
Roshan was placed at the very top of the tree.  “You'll be a little snack for the owls,” commented Manfred.
Roshan cooed at Manfred, who simply turned away.  “You’re a brave little squirt, I’ll give ya that.”
Having escaped the mud crater, Sid ran as fast as he could away from the rhinos.  But he could hear their trampling feet getting louder and louder.  Shivering frantically and searching desperately for help, he ran.  Suddenly, he bumped into Diego, who was looking for the baby himself.  “Oh, thank heavens, thank heavens,” Sid whispered before shouting out, “OH, DEAR!  A TIGER!!  HEEELLLPPP!!!  HEEEELP!!!!”
“Where’s the baby,” asked an annoyed Diego.
“Oh, he’s fine.  Manny has him.  Just put me in your mouth.  Hurry up,” begged Sid before faking another distress, “AAUUGGHH!  HE GOT ME!!  OH, HEEEELLP!!!”
Confused, but annoyed with Sid’s antic, Diego started leaving.  “Get away from me.”
"sorraBAAY!!"
Sid gasped upon seeing them appear.  But before he could explain, he heard Frank’s voice from the distance.  “WENT THIS FASHION?!  OVER HERE,” he shouts as he and Carl get closer.
Now not having any time left to explain, he ran to Diego and kicked him in the butt.  This frustrated Diego and he rushed back at Sid.  The rhinos eventually appeared on the scene.  But to their shock, Sid was in the jaws of Diego and he wasn’t moving.  “Oh, Carl,” complained Frank, “the tiger beat up us to him.”
But Carl was not buying it.  “Wait a moment.”
Carl sniffed Sid, trying to see if he really was dead.  He backed off a few inches, irritated by the sloth’s smell.  Diego looked at him, as if he was trying to claim Sid as his own murder.  Seeing that he and Frank were too late, Carl turned around.  “He’s dead alright,” he said.
“Oh,” complained Frank as he and Carl left, “carnivores have all the fun.”
The two rhinos left the area, very disappointed that their attempts to murder Sid had failed.  But what they didn’t know was that Sid wasn’t actually dead.  Instead, he was faking death where that the rhinos would leave him alone.  With them gone, Sid sighed in relief.  “Gosh, I hate breaking their hearts like that,” said Sid, “......but you know how that is.”
Sid tried getting himself out of Diego’s jaws, but Diego didn’t let go.  “Alright, thanks,” said Sid, “you can put me down now.”
But Diego yet didn’t let go.  As Sid tried getting himself free, he got frantic.  “MANNY,” he cried before choking, “Manny!”
“Guys, I thought we were in a hurry,” said Manfred who appeared on the scene with Roshan, “oh, and Diego, spit that out.  You don’t know where it’s been.”
Diego, seeing Manfred nearby, did just that and spat Sid out of his mouth.  Sid pulled himself together as he looked at the saber.  “Boy, for a second there, I actually thought you were gonna eat me,” said Sid.
“I don’t eat junk food,” said Diego, who walked away with Manfred.
This comment made Sid laugh a little.  “Thought you were gonna.....I thought you were gonna......were you,” he asked confused while Diego smirked at him.
Further into the journey, snow had started falling and the adventure was starting to get chilly.  As for Sid, it proved to be a challenge because he was starting to fall behind.  “C'mon, wait up.  Wait up.  C'mon, c'mon.  Can you wait a second, please,” he called to his friends, “hey, fellas!”
At last, they stopped at a nearby hole in the ground and waited for Sid to catch up.  Exhausted and sweaty, Sid rested on the hole.  “Thanks for waiting,” he said.
But Manfred and Diego had other ideas.  “Three...two...one...” they both said.
Suddenly, a blast of air and steam erupted from the hole, revealing itself as a geyser.  Manfred and Diego watched Sid fly into the air before resuming their walk.  “Sure is faithful,” commented Manfred sarcastically as Roshan landed headfirst into the hole.
Further on into the walk, Sid was carrying Roshan.  Roshan poked Sid on the neck, trying to play with him.  Sid ignored him, but turned to the baby after getting poked again.  Sid poked Roshan back, but Roshan poked him once more.  This started out friendly, but it turned into a tense poking match between the two.  Roshan squirmed as he kept poking Sid.  “Don’t make me reach back there,” said Manfred, irritated.
“Yes, well, he started it,” complained Sid. 
“I don’t care who started it,” said Manfred, “I’ll conclude it.”
The group kept going on their walk.  They stopped upon seeing a geyser blow out a red-colored amount of steam.  But before they could do something, they saw a huge glacier rolling past them.  It was like a glacier train.  After the glacier rolled past, the geyser blew out a green-colored amount of steam.  Confused, but not concerned, the group continued on.  They traveled past a giant slab of ice that went down onto a cliff as a result of the group’s weight.  But the slab went back up like a seesaw, causing Sid, the only member left, to fly back where he came.  Later on, with Sid back with them, the group continued their journey.  Sid, having an idea to entertain himself, picked up a snowball and threw it at Manfred.  Manfred turned back, and Sid pointed towards Roshan.  Ignoring their antic, Manfred continued the walk with the others.  The group walked past a monument that looked a lot like Stonehenge.  “Modern architecture,” commented Manfred, “it’ll never last.”
Diego, who was leading the group through the snowy land, spotted a saber tooth cat paw print in the snow.  Unwilling the others to think there was a pack nearby, Diego swiftly covered the track with snow and made his own human foot print in the snow.  As the others caught up with him, Diego pointed towards a direction, though they were unsure, especially Cody, who was frowning at him with disapproving eyes.
The group reached a frozen lake and Sid took complete advantage of having fun.  But Manfred was attempting to keep his footing on the slippery ice.  “Hi, Manny,” said Sid as he skated past him.
Diego was also having damage with the eyes, despite trying to use his claws to get traction.  “Hi, Diego,” said Sid.
But while Sid skated with Roshan, he smashed into an icy wall, leaving Roshan to slide on the ice, alone.  At last, the group got off the ice, with Roshan in their possession again, as Manfred noticed Sid attempting to get out.  “Hey, Sid,” he said.
Further north, the group came across a four-way fork in the road.  “You’re lost, aren’t ya,” said Manfred to Diego.
“No,” said Diego, annoyed, “I know exactly where I'm going.”
“Ask him for directions,” said Manfred.
Ahead of them was Scrat, trying to dig in the ice.  Upon noticing the travelers, he stopped what he was doing and looked at them.  “I don’t need directions,” said Diego.
“Well, fine, I’ll ask him,” said Manfred as he approached Scrat, “hey, buddy.  Have you seen any humans come around here?”
Scrat, holding his acorn, nodded no.  But instead of fleeing, he came up with an idea.  He pointed his finger up and tried communicating with mime.  Recognizing this, Sid became emotional.  “Oh, I love this game.  I love it,” he said as he watched Scrat.
Scrat put down his acorn and pointed three of his fingers up.  “Let's see...three words,” said Sid.
Scrat tried miming out something by stomping on the ground.  “First word, uh, ‘stomp,’” guessed Sid.
“No, no, no...‘stamp,’” suggested Cody, “‘stamp.’”
Scrat picked up his acorn and carried it on his back with his hands.  “Let me try,” said Manfred, also liking this, “uh, ‘pack.’”
Scrat nodded yes.  “Nice one, Manny,” said Sid as he observed Scrat’s imitation of something, “pack of...long teeth...and claws.”
Diego looked his claws and had a feeling of what Scrat was speaking about.  “Uh...pack of wolves...pack of...” guessed Sid.
“Pack of bears,” asked Manfred, “pack of fleas?”
“Pack of whiskers,” suggested Sid, “pack of....noses?”
“Pachyderm,” asked Manny.
As they made several random guesses, Scrat walked towards Diego and pointed towards him.  Irritated, he tried showing the group what he saw, but Diego, knowing what he was speaking about and not letting them know, flicked the squirrel off.  Scrat was sent flying over an icy cliff edge as Sid tried making some more crazy guesses.  “Pack of lies? Pack of dangers?  No, no, no, pack of wallop!  PACK OF BIRDS!!  UH, PACK OF FLYING FISH,” exclaimed Sid.
Scrat was sent flying over a snowy hill.  His acorn landed on the hill, but it was rolling down it and it started creating a snowball.  Scrat got caught in this snowball as it rolled down the hill and got bigger and bigger.  As for the group, they continued their journey in search of the humans.  Sid, once again acting mischievous, put Roshan on a rock and picked up a snowball.  He threw it to Manfred, who got irritated and swiftly turned around.  This time, however, Roshan pointed towards Sid.  Sid got hesitant, concerned at what Manfred might do, before seeing a snowball fall from the heavens.  It landed right on him, burying most of his body in snow.  Roshan laughed at Sid’s misfortune while Manfred, while irritated with Sid again, couldn’t help but give a slight grin.  However, this adventure was not without serious cold problems.  A blizzard hit them and they were shivering.  But they kept on going, unwilling to stop.  Diego led them through the blizzard, getting some ice on his saber teeth.  Manfred, on the other hand, had icicles growing on his tusks while he had Roshan ride on his back.  Sid had icicles on his nostrils as he shivered in the freezing cold.
Further into the journey, Diego walked a distance from the group, looking for where to travel next.  But as he reached a snowy hill, he spotted the human tribe, not far off.  Surprised to see them there, Diego turned back and saw Manfred approaching.  Diego looked around, trying to find a road to lead them off by the humans.  He spotted a dark cave nearby and thought of a plan.  “Hey,” he exclaimed as he approached the group, “grand news: I found a shortcut.”
Roshan slid off Manfred’s head and onto his face.  Manfred placed Roshan back on his head as he asked, “what do you mean ‘shortcut?’”
“I mean faster than the long road around,” said Diego.
“OW,” complained Manfred as Roshan pulled on his face, “I know what a shortcut is.”
“Look, either we slip through there and beat the humans to Glacier Pass, or we take the long road and miss them,” said Diego as he pointed towards the cave.
“Through here,” asked Manfred as he looked into the cave, “what do you take me for?”
“This time tomorrow, you could be a free mammoth,” said Diego as he watched Roshan pull on Manfred’s eyelid, “or a nanny.  I never get tired of peek-a-boo.”
“Hey, guys, guys, check this out,” said Sid as he took two pieces of ice and put them on his neck, pretending that he was impaled through the neck.
As he did his antic, Manfred pointed towards the cave.  “Sid, the tiger found a shortcut.”
Sid looked at the cave and felt very uneasy.  This cave had a lot of hanging snow and ice on the top.  It looked like it could crumble and fall off at any moment.  “No thanks,” said Sid, wanting a safer route, “I choose life.”
Diego faced Sid head on, not letting him go elsewhere.  “Then I suggest you take the shortcut.”
“Are you threatening me,” asked Sid.
“MOVE, SLOTH,” yelled an irritated Diego upset.
This yell was so loud that it echoed .  After recovering from that, they heard a loud rumbling sound.  They looked up and saw the ice falling off the cave, starting an avalanche.  “WAY TO GO, TIGER,” criticized Sid.
“FASTER,” said Manfred who rushed towards the cave entrance, “INSIDE!!”
Not wasting another second, everyone rushed into the cave.  Luckily, everyone got in before any of the ice pieces could land.  But as they all got in, the ground trembled as a result of the avalanche outside.  Everyone noticed a couple of razor sharp icicles dangling from the cave ceiling.  Unwilling to get impaled, they tried rushing towards the entrance, but it was closed away by rocks.  Everyone looked at the icicles and saw them shaking around.  Luckily, they didn’t fall off, but with the shaking ground and trembling outside, they could strike at any moment.  After the ground stopped shaking, everyone looked and saw the entrance closed away, with only a small hole at the top, too small for anyone to climb out.  With that problem averted, everyone calmed down.  Everyone looked into the cave, and though not knowing what was going to await them, they knew they couldn’t break the wall of rocks, risking another shake that could break the icicles.  “Alright, I vote shortcut,” said Manfred, who walked towards the cave.
Further into the cave, there were icy walls and formations everywhere.  It was all calm and silent.  “Alright, guys,” said Diego, “stick together.  It’s easy to get lost in here.”
As for Sid, he was also looking around, examining everything around him.  But as he did so, he bumped into a piece of ice hanging horizontally in front of his face.  Sid landed on the ground.  After a moment of recovering from the hit, Sid tried pulling himself back up.  However, his tongue was stuck to the ice.  After a minor attempt, he got it loose.  But as he turned around, he didn’t see the others anywhere.  “Uh...guys,” he called.
He scurried to find them, going left on a fork in the path.  Now on his own, but looking at the sights again, Sid was intrigued.  He looked around, hoping to find his friends again.  He peeked from behind an ice wall and walked near a wall.  As he looked at the wall, he gasped in shock upon seeing something face him with wide eyes and sharp teeth.  But it was only a fish frozen in the ice.  Sid hesitantly chuckled as he backed off.  “A fish.”
Sid walked off by the wall, and came across another one.  But Sid, upon seeing something else frozen, he shrieked.  There was a giant, dinosaur with sharp teeth and claws looking right at him.  Sid hesitantly shivered as he moved off by the wall.  Sid continued going down the path, looking for the others and seeing what he can find.  He saw another frozen area of ice and saw a number of organisms.  The first was a single-celled creature with two eyes.  The second was an organism that had a more developed body.  The third was a much more developed creature, having evolved to swim, but showing some features that made it look like it was ready to walk on land.  The next creature was a land mammal with massive front limbs.  Sid stood at the end of the line and saw that these could likely be his ancestors from millions of years of evolution.  Sid continued his walk and he found the others, having taken the right pathway in the fork.  He swiftly caught up to them before spotting another frozen monument.  There was a gigantic flying saucer.  Roshan looked at it and did a signal with his hands.  “Will you keep up, please,” said Manfred to Sid, “it's hard enough to keep a track of one baby.”
As Manfred walked, Roshan slid onto a piece of ice above him.  This ice was like a slide of sorts and he slid down it, while everyone else watched.  At last, Roshan slid out of view, causing everyone to shriek in concern.  Everyone looked down at where Roshan slid down, and watched him slide.  Everyone followed him and slid on the slippery ice.  They shrieked as they slid at a fast pace.  As for Roshan, he wasn’t afraid.  Instead, he was having a lot of fun.  He chuckled with delight as he slid through the icy tunnel.  As for everyone else, they got separated by the ice paths.  Sid was on one path.  Diego was on another.  Manfred, was on another.  They slid off their individual paths and flew into the air.  The group flew past one another, along with Scrat who was once again after his nut.  Sid’s group was with Roshan.  Sid tried moving closer to the baby as they slid down the ice.  Starting to have fun with his, and thinking he could get the baby, Sid started laughing before catching the baby with his hands.  “NOW I'VE GOT YA,” he exclaimed.
But before he could hold onto him for long, he and the others fell through a hole in the ice, causing them to lose Roshan again.  They slid down another icy pathway, shrieking louder before sliding off a ledge and meeting up with Manfred’s group.  Sid landed on Manfred.  As for Diego, he shrieked as he slid down an icy tunnel.  He tried stopping himself with his claws, but that didn’t offer much help.  Diego landed on Manfred.  Diego clamped his claws into Manfred on incident.  As Manfred squirmed, he saw an icy ledge ahead, facing upward.  “CAPTAIN, ICEBERG AHEAD,” exclaimed Sid.
Manfred shrieked as they approached the ledge.  They made it to the ledge.  They stopped sliding for a moment, sighing in relief.  But this swiftly dashed until the ledge started breaking apart.  “Oh, dear,” muttered Diego as the ledge slipped off and slid down the ice path again.
Now riding the ledge like a sled, everyone held onto each other.  Up ahead, they saw jagged and sharp ice pieces that looked dangerous.  They slid onto them, causing the ledge to break apart.  Luckily, once it broke apart, everyone was on smooth ice again.  By now, Roshan was up ahead, sliding fast.  The group was now divided into three slides.  Diego, Manfred and Sid were at the front of their respective slides.  Upon seeing the baby up ahead, Diego tried speeding up.  Manfred was also unwilling to let Diego take Roshan and he tried going faster.  Sid was the one closest to the baby.  He tried reaching for Roshan, but he couldn’t get him.  Roshan slid down his slide before going over a ledge facing upward.  Everyone watched as Roshan started flying through the air.  Manfred turned around and was ready to catch Roshan while Sid looked ahead.  He shrieked upon seeing a snowy wall ahead.  At the wall, Scrat had just done placing his acorn in the wall for storage.  But just before he could walk away, he saw Sid and the others coming towards him and shrieked.  “BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!” He swiftly caught the acorn and tried pulling it out.  But it was no use.  Sid smashed into the wall, followed by Diego.  As for Manfred, he raised his trunk, eyes locked on Roshan and caught him.  At the wall, everyone shrieked as Manfred slid towards them, smashing into the wall.  The impact caused the wall to tumble down to the ground, covering everyone in snow.  As the mist cleared, Manfred and Sid sat exhausted and tired.  Diego burst through the snow, emotional.  “WOAH!  WOO,” he exclaimed, “YES!!  WHO’S UP FOR ROUND TWO?!”
But everyone looked at him with serious looks.  Diego turned sobered up and said hesitantly, “w-warn the boy to be more careful.”
Scrat also got out of the snow.  After shaking himself around, getting the snow off him, he looked around for his acorn.  He saw his acorn and squeaked in delight.  He rushed towards it, only to smash into a wall, with an acorn drawing.
After recovering the crazy icy slide, the group continued their walk through the cave.  They got past the icy portion of the cave and headed down a rocky hallway.  As they traveled down the dark, silent hallway, they saw some interesting images on the walls.  They were drawings of prehistoric mammals and humans.  They started covering more and more of the wall as the group traveled.  Everyone became interested in these.  They reached a bigger hallway, with a slighter brighter light coming from an exit of the cave.  Sid looked in awe of these drawings.  He had never seen such beautiful pieces of art before.  Sid walked closer to the wall and saw some drawings of saber tooth cats attacking a herd of antelope.  “Look, look,” said Sid, “tigers.”
Sid became intimidated by the drawings.  “Yeesh,” he said before consoling a hesitant Roshan, “no, it’s alright.  It’s alright.  Look, the tigers are just playing tag with the antelope,” he said before seeing one saber digging his teeth into the antelope’s hide, “...with their teeth.”
Diego approached the sloth.  “C'mon, Sid.  Let’s play tag.  You’re it,” he said.
Sid chuckled hesitantly while Diego smirked at him.  Sid walked towards another wall, seeing what he could find.  “Sure. OK, that's it, where are the sloths?  You never see any sloths in these things.  Have you ever noticed,” he asked before seeing another drawing, “oh, look, Manny.  A mammoth.”
“Ooh, somebody pinch me,” said Manfred sarcastically.
“Hey, wait, this fat one looks just like you,” said Sid as he sat Roshan onto the ground while everyone else approached the wall, “aw, he’s found a family.....oh, and he’s happy.”
Upon hearing this, Manfred stopped walking and turned around.  “Look, he’s playing with his boy,” said Sid as Manfred approached the wall, willing to take a look himself, “you see, Manny?  That’s your problem.  That’s what mammoths are supposed to do so.”
But as Manfred looked at the drawing, Diego and the others started having a feeling that something was damaging him.  “Sid,” said Diego.
“Find a she-moth,” Sid continued, “have little baby mammoths...”
“Sid,” said Diego.
“W-what,” asked Sid.
“Shut up.”
“But...”
The two turned to Manfred and Sid saw that he was staring at the wall.  He also started feeling something wrong with Manfred staring at the wall.  Diego also remained silent, unwilling to disturb the mammoth.  For Manfred, he was looking at a drawing of a mammoth family.  There was one that looked like him, like Sid said, but there was also a female, beige-colored mammoth with no tusks and an orange calf.  As if he was entranced by the image, he didn’t move, nor did he make a sound.  But to him, this was more than just a drawing of mammoth family.  It was a painful reminder of a horrible tragedy that occurred long ago.
Remembering times from before meeting Sid or the others, Manfred remembered being elsewhere with something that made him happy; a family.  With a wife and a calf, it was a peaceful time.  His boy was playful and complete with life, and Manfred could hold and console him, being a nice father.  While the boy would play, Manfred and his wife would embrace together, living a happy life as a family.  But this happy moment came to a horrific end until the calf saw something eerie coming and run back to his family.  The horrific fact was a tribe of humans, carrying spears and rocks.  Manfred and his wife became shocked by these attackers and hesitant as well.  But Manfred, not going to lose his family, warned his family to run while he stood his ground and fought back.  He tried waving his tusks and trunk around in an attempt to ward off the humans, but this didn’t work.  One human threw his spear at the mammoth, giving him some big scratches.  Temporarily stunned, Manfred saw that the humans had advanced past him and had his wife and boy surrounded.  Manfred tried to do something, but some humans held him at spear-point, separating him from the defenseless wife and child.  Cornered at a cliff, they looked at their attackers with fear while some humans stood at the top of the cliff, ready for the murder.  Manfred shrieked in horror, watching as the humans delivered their fatal attack. “TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!”
In recalling this horrific tragedy, Manfred started feeling a horrible bit of despair inside him.  Sid and Diego saw that something certainly was damaging Manfred.  Manfred slowly moved his trunk towards the wall and rubbed it against the drawing of the calf.  He remembered being a loving father and having someone to care for and cherish.  He would give anything to be with his boy again, but there was nothing he could do about him.  But as he moved his trunk further down the wall, it rubbed over Roshan’s hand.  Manfred looked at the baby, who stood underneath the drawing.  Roshan tried walking towards the mammoth, but started falling.  Manfred caught him and lifted him up.  As he did so, something started becoming clear to him.  Ever since that tragedy, he had been indifferent and gruff towards the world and everyone around him, including the baby.  But in seeing that the tragedy was in the past, and that he now had a priority to bring Roshan back to his family, he felt a glimmer of hope inside him.  Tears started swelling up in his eyes as he looked at the baby.  All wasn’t lost like he thought.  He pulled the baby closer, who hugged Manfred’s trunk.  This made Manfred very happy inside.  As for Sid, he started getting emotional, but he remained silent like the others.  As for Sid and Diego, they saw that Manfred was feeling better and grinned.  Manfred started seeing returning the baby was now the top priority for the group.  He grinned at the mammoth as Manfred put the baby on his back and started walking away.  Sid grinned at Manfred, happy to see him alright, before joining him.  Diego, on the other hand, stayed in his place, watching them leave.  He looked at them, and then the drawings.  But as he did so, he couldn’t help but feel a bit of doubt.  Something about Manfred and the drawings made Diego feel uncertainty about his mission.  He got up and slowly followed the group, leaving the cave, and the reminder of Manfred’s past behind.
Out in the snowy weather, one of the human’s dogs sniffed in the snow, trying to pick up the scent of the sabers or Roshan and Nadia.  Unfortunately the tracks of the sabers got buried in the snow.  He went back to Runar, who handed him Roshan’s charm necklace.  The dog sniffed it, but he couldn’t find the scent of Roshan either.  The dog started whining while Runar looked up at Half Peak.  The snow blew around him as he became more shocked if he’d ever see each other again.  They had’t been seen since the saber attack, and Runar feared that they would never return.  One of the other humans put his hand on Runar’s shoulder, giving him consolation, but reminding him that they couldn’t stick around for long.  The tribe started resuming their long walk to Glacier Pass.  By now, they were a couple hundred yards away from Glacier Pass.  While the pass was in their view, they yet had a long fashion to go in order to get there.  But what they didn’t know was that another group was heading towards the pass.  Having gotten out of the ice cave and approaching Half Peak, Manfred, Sid and Diego, with Roshan yet in their possession, had a grand view of both Half Peak and Glacier Pass ahead of them.  “Wow! Look at the tigers!” said Manfred, “There’s Half Peak.  Next stop: Glacier Pass.  How could I ever have doubted you?”
“Did you hear that, little fella,” Sid asked the baby, “you’re almost home.”
But as Sid walked along with the others, he felt something odd about the ground underneath him.  He looked down and saw the ice starting to heat up.  Some steam was coming out of the ground.  “My feet are sweating,” he said. 
“Do we have to get a news flash every time your body does something,” asked Diego.
“He’s doing it for attention,” said Manfred, “just ignore him.”
“Seriously,” said Sid, who started getting concerned, “my feet are really.....hot...ow, ow, ow...”
Sid scurried back to the group.  But as he did so, everyone heard a loud rumble.  They stopped their walk, confused.  “Warn me that was your stomach,” Manfred said to Sid.
Diego silenced everyone, trying to listen carefully.  “I wish it was just thunder,” said Sid, who started feeling hesitant himself, “from...under...ground?”
Suddenly, a massive outburst of lava erupted behind the group.  This alarmed everyone and they looked.  Now seeing that they were in danger, they fled.  “RUN!!”
But as they ran, more eruptions burst out of the ground, alarming them even more.  The ice around the eruptions started melting and falling underground.  To everyone’s horror, they were above a massive chasm of burning hot lava.  The only fact that the group was standing on was a bridge of ice, but they could see that this wasn’t going to last long because the lava was melting the pillars keeping it high above the chasm.  A bit of ice cracked in front of Diego, separating him from the others.  He hesitantly tried thinking of a road to get back to them as more of the ice melted.  The group was now trapped in a dangerous and life threatening situation.  “C'mon, keep up with me,” said Sid as he tried running to the other side.
However, Sid wasn’t going anywhere, for his feet were only sliding on the ice.  “I WOULD IF YOU WERE MOVING,” shouts Manfred.
Sid wanted to get out as well, but he couldn’t risk sliding on the ice and falling into the chasm.  As he frantically stood where he was, Diego jumped onto the ice where everyone else was.  “Wow, I wish I could jump like that,” said Sid, who saw Diego’s jump.
“Wish granted,” said Manfred.
Manfred swiftly kicked Sid, sending him flying towards the other side.  Sid made it safely and slid towards a rock.  But while Sid was safe, the others were yet in danger.  “C'MON, MOVE FASTER,” urged Diego.
“HAVE YOU NOTICED THE RIVER OF LAVA,” replied Manfred.
Diego looked down and saw the boiling lava below them.  As for Manfred, he saw the saber in danger and became shocked.  But his attention turned to the ice about to break apart below him.  Seeing this and the terrified expression on Roshan, Manfred held onto his tightly and jumped, just as the ice below him broke apart.  A blast of steam erupted behind him as he rushed to the other side.  Diego was once again separated, however.  Diego saw that he had to jump.  He made another jump towards the icy ledge, but this time, he only managed to catch onto the edge.  He couldn’t climb up using his hind legs, and there wasn’t nice traction on the ice.  Diego was now in serious danger.  As he attempted to get himself onto the ledge, apart from the lava, Manfred saw Diego’s problem and gasped.  He turned to Sid, who was recovering, and gave him the baby.  “HOLD PINKY,” he said.
With Roshan in Sid’s hands, Manfred turned back to the chasm and reached his trunk out.  Manfred tried moving forward, closer to the saber, but he had to be careful where that he wouldn’t slip on the ice.  But by now, the icy ledge was starting to fall apart and barely hold on, along with Diego.  Manfred reached as far as he could while Diego tried reaching out to him.  Suddenly, the ice ledge broke apart and started plummeting into the lava.  But as it seemed Diego was going down with it, Manfred caught Diego’s paw, just in time.  The icy ledge landed in the lava and was sent flying upwards like a geyser.  Sid watched in shock over his two friends.  Diego tried climbing up Manfred’s trunk as he held on.  But as Manfred held on, the ice behind him started to crack.  Not wasting another second, Manfred threw Diego towards the edge, near Sid.  Diego was now safe, but the ice underneath Manfred started to crack more.  Manfred saw that now he was in danger, but before he could do anything, the ice broke apart, sending it into the lava chasm, along with Manfred.  “MANNY,” Sid cried. 
To make matters worse, until suddenly, another eruption of steam came up.  Manfred and the ice came flying out of the chasm.  Manfred slipped off the ice and came smashing down onto the ground.  Sid rushed to Manfred’s side.  “Manny, Manny, Manny, you alright,” he asked, “c'mon, c'mon.  Say something...anything.”
Manfred didn’t open his eyes, but he moaned, as if he was trying to say something.  “What, what?  I can’t hear you,” said Sid.
“You’re standing on my trunk,” muttered the exhausted Manfred. 
Seeing that he was standing on Manfred’s trunk, Sid quickly got off, allowing Manfred to breath.  “Oh, you’re alive,” exclaimed Sid, happy to see Manfred alive, “oh, you’re alive.”
But while everyone relaxed and rejoiced about getting through that disaster, Diego was in doubt.  “Why did you do that,” he asked, “you could’ve died trying to save me.”
Everyone looked at Diego.  “That’s what you do in a herd,” said Manfred as he glanced at Sid and Roshan, “you look out for each other.”
Touched that Manfred risked his life for him, having never experienced something like that before, Diego was in awe.  “Well...thanks.”
“I don’t know about you guys, but we are the weirdest herd I’ve ever seen,” said Sid.
Later in the day, the heavens started getting darker as dusk approached.  At Half Peak, Soto looked out into the distance.  He hadn’t seen Diego since he assigned him the mission of retrieving the baby, but he was starting to get impatient.  After frowning into the distance, he turned around and met up with the others.  Zeke was eagerly anticipating his chance of attacking Manfred.  “I can’t wait to get my claws in that MAMMOTH,” he said emotionally.
“No one touches the mammoth until I get that baby,” said Soto sternly.
Zeke was bummed out by this, but swiftly regained his eagerness by what to do during the attack.  “First, I’ll slice its hindquarters into sections: I’ll put the white meat in one pile, and...”
“Hey, knock it off,” complained Lenny, “I’m starving.”
“Next the shoulders.  Occasionally rough......but extremely juicy......”
“I WARNED YOU TO KNOCK IT OFF,” said Lenny as he raised his paw into the air, only to be stopped by Soto.
“SAVE YOUR ENERGY,” he scolded before forcing Lenny back into a wall, “mammoths don’t go down easy.”
Zeke and Oscar joined Soto as he cornered Lenny into a corner.  “There is only one fashion to do it; first you have to force it into a corner...cut off its retirement,” said Soto as he approached Lenny menacingly, “and if you three have it trapped...I’ll go for the throat.”
Lenny covered his throat, not letting him suffer the same fate as Manfred.  Soto frowned, now determined and confident that their plan of attack will work.  Nothing would be able to stop them from igniting their ambush until the time was right.
Later that evening, a blizzard blew across the icy hills.  Manfred, Sid and Diego were again on the walk, but they couldn’t stand the severe cold or wind.  “Guys, we must get this boy outta the wind,” said Manfred as Roshan huddled on Manfred’s back for warmth.
The group agreed, seeing that the night was getting harsh.  Up ahead they saw a rocky area and thought it would be a nice place to recover and take shelter.  “How much further,” asked Manfred.
“Three miles,” replied Diego.
“I’m beat,” said Manfred while Sid picked up some pieces of chalk outside as everyone huddled in the shelter, “we’ll get there in the morning.”
Using his pieces of chalk, Sid started making a drawing on the nearby wall.  Everyone noticed him as Diego asked, “what are you doing here?”
“I’m putting sloths on the map,” said Sid.
The drawing Sid made was one of a sloth.  It was like a stick figure man.  “Why don’t you make it realistic and draw him lying down,” suggested Manfred.
“And make him rounder,” said Diego.
Manfred took the chalk out of Sid’s hand and drew a round belly around the sloth drawing.  “It's perfect,” said Diego.
“I forgot how to laugh,” said Sid sarcastically as he took the chalk and tried scribbling the drawing out.  
As Sid rubbed it against the wall, some small sparks came out and landed on a small pile of sticks.  Everyone stood fully astounded by what just happened.  Sid, seeing that he had finally made a fire successfully, looked at his chalk.  “I’m a genius,” he said as he kissed it.
Later in the evening, a small fire was set and everyone camped out around it, passing the blizzard.  “From now on, you’ll have to refer to me as, Sid: Lord of the Flame,” said Sid as he posed near the fire.
“Hey, Lord of the Flame....your tail’s on fire,” said Manfred.
Sid, feeling his tail getting hot, looked and saw the small flame on his tail.  Panicking, Sid ran around the area with his tail aflame.  But as he shrieked, Diego caught Sid and pulled him to the ice, where the fire fizzled out.  “Thank you,” said Sid, relieved, “from now on, I’m gonna call you Diego...”
“Lord of Touch me and You’re Dead,” said Diego.
Sid gasped upon hearing this, but Diego swiftly changed his threatening tone into a joking one as he pulled Sid closer to him and started roughhousing him like a big brother.  “I’m just joking, you little knucklehead,” said Diego.
“Lovebirds,” said Manfred, getting everyone’s attention, “look at this.”
Everyone looked and saw something incredible happening.  They saw Roshan taking his first steps, without crawling or falling.  This was fascinating to watch.  Sid was just as happy to see the little baby walk for the first time.  “I don’t believe it,” said Sid.
Sid looked at Diego, who was impressed with the baby’s walking.  Roshan started walking towards Sid.  Sid grinned at the baby and persuaded him to come to him.  “Come here, you little biped,” said Sid, “come here, you little wormy-worm.  Come to Uncle Sid.”
But Roshan started walking a separate direction, away from Sid.  “No, no, no, no, no, no, this way,” said Sid, “this fashion.”
Sid saw that Roshan was waddling towards Diego.  “Go to him,” said Diego, who pointed towards Manfred, “go to him.”
But Roshan kept coming towards Diego.  He slipped and caught onto Diego’s leg, hugging it.  Diego looked hesitantly at the baby, not expecting Roshan to be attached to him.  “Alright,” he said hesitantly as he looked at the baby.
Roshan squeaked at Diego.  “Nice job...keep...practicing,” said Diego hesitantly as he guided Roshan towards Manfred.
Roshan started walking towards Manfred.  He started having a feeling that Diego was starting to have thoughts.  “Look at that,” said Sid, “our little guy is growing up.”
Roshan slipped onto his bottom and rubbed his eyes.  Manfred could see that the baby was getting sleepy.  “Alright, c'mon,” he said as he picked up the baby, “sleep time, lumpy.”
Manfred settled himself in for the night.  While Manfred settled in for the evening, Sid sat next to Diego.  “Look at that big pushover,” he said, “you know, Diego, I’ve never had a friend who would risk his life for me.”
Reminded at what just happened at the lava chasm, Diego said, “yes.  Manny’s...he’s a nice guy.”
“Yes, he is,” said Sid before getting tired himself, “well...goodnight.”
Sid settled in for the night, leaving Diego to himself.  But as he looked out towards the blizzard, he saw a bit of Half Peak.  That was where his pack was residing until the time was right to attack.  Diego felt a lot of doubt about whether to carry out the pack’s plan, or do something else.  But being too tired to think about it now, Diego settled in and fell asleep.
With everyone asleep, Scrat appeared from behind a rock and silently tip-toed his road towards the fire.  He looked at Manfred, hoping not to awaken him, before turning to the fire.  Using a stick attached to his frozen acorn, he lifted it above the fire, hoping that it would thaw out the acorn.  He lifted it just above the flames, eagerly letting the acorn get thawed out.  Eventually, all the ice melted and the acorn was free, but as suddenly as it thawed out, it burst and hit Scrat in the head.  The acorn was now a piece of popcorn.
The following morning, the group was back on the road again.  There was another snowstorm, but it wasn’t as intense as last night’s blizzard.  “Let’s get you all cleaned up,” said Sid, “I mean, what’s your daddy gonna say if you go back all stinky?”
Sid licked Roshan around his face, trying to clean him in preparation of returning to his family.  “Let me just clean that up.  That looks nice.  A little bit here,” he said.
“You clean up nice, little fella,” said Manfred as he stuck his trunk out, thinking Roshan was alright the fashion he was.
“You know, I think he’s starting to look like me,” said Sid, “Diego, what do you think?”
Diego looked around Half Peak and felt uncertain.  “Perhaps we shouldn’t do this,” he said.
“Why not,” asked a confused Sid.
“If we save him, he’ll be a hunter,” said Diego, “and who do you think he’ll hunt?”
“Perhaps because we save him, he won’t hunt us,” said Sid as Roshan tugged on his hair.
“Yes, and perhaps he’ll grow fur and a long skinny neck and call you Mama,” said Diego, irritated.
Everyone looked at the saber, surprised by his attitude.  “What’s your problem,” asked Manfred.
After a moment of silence, Diego said, “nothing.  Let’s go.  I’m freezing my tail apart.”
The group carried on through the falling snow.  What they didn’t know though was that they were being watched.  Lenny watched the group traveled further down the path, past the black, snow-covered rocks.  Diego, sensing that his pack was nearby, stopped walking and watched the others go on.  Seeing them made Diego very doubtful about carrying out his mission.  Being with these guys made Diego feel an entire lot different than otherwise from what he had been while with the pack.  These guys were more than just traveling comrades on the same mission as Diego.  Instead, throughout the journey, they had proven to be friendlier than his pack-mates.  They watched over each other throughout the mission and made Diego feel more comfortable.  But as Diego looked up, he saw Oscar observing the group from above.  This made Diego realize that he might as well be leading the only people he had considered friends into a death trap.  “Hey, Diego,” called Manfred, “you frozen back there?”
Seeing that Manfred, the mammoth who saved him from the lava chasm, wash walking into an ambush set specifically for him, Diego realized what he had to do, though it would cost him his trust.  He rushed towards the group and exclaimed, “GET DOWN!!”
This confused everyone.  “Why,” asked Sid.
“What,” asked Manfred.
“Csendes,” silenced Diego, “get down and follow me.”
“What's going on,” asked Sid.
“At the bottom of Half Peak,” said Diego before hesitating for a moment then cutting to the chase, “....there’s an ambush....waiting for you.”
“WHAT,” asked Sid, shocked.
“What do you mean, ‘ambush,’” asked Manfred.
“You set us up,” added Sid.
“It was my job,” said Diego, trying to explain myself, “I was to get the baby, but then...” 
“YOU BROUGHT US HOME FOR DINNER,” shouts a frustrated Manfred.
“That’s it,” said Sid, who was equally unhappy, “you’re outta the herd.”
“I’m sorry,” said Diego.
“No, you’re not,” said Manfred, who swiftly pinned Diego to the wall with his tusk, “not yet.”
“Listen, I can help you,” begged Diego.
“Stay close, Sid,” said Manfred, “we can fight our road out.”
“You can’t.  The pack’s too strong,” said Diego, “you have to trust me.”
“TRUST YOU?!  WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD WE TRUST YOU,” demanded Manfred.
“Because I’m your only chance,” said Diego.
Everyone looked at Diego, yet upset with him, but unsure whether to trust him or not.
At Half Peak, the sabers waited for the moment to attack.  They looked out into the distance, hoping to see Diego and the others sooner or later.  But as they watched out for any activity, they heard a familiar voice behind them.  “Hello, ladies.”
Everyone looked and saw Diego approaching them.  “Hey, look who decided to show up,” said Oscar.
“Diego,” said Soto, “I was beginning to concern about you.”
“No need to concern,” said Diego, “in about two moments, you’ll be satisfying your taste...for revenge.”
“Very nice,” said Soto.
Zeke spotted someone in the distance.  “I see the sloth,” he said upon seeing Sid approach Half Peak with the baby in a bundle, “AND HE’S HAD THE BABY!!”
“Don’t give off your positions until you see the mammoth,” said Soto, “he’s the one you have to surprise.”
Zeke watched the trio approach them with the baby.  Zeke was barely able to control his psychotic desire for murdering.  “You wanna maul something, don’t you, Zeke,” whispered Diego.
“I wanna maul,” said Zeke, wanting to attack so badly.
“Then what are you waiting for,” asked Diego silently.
Unable to wait any longer, the impatient Zeke started charging at Sid.  Oscar and Lenny followed after him, also ready to attack something.  “NO, I SAID WAIT FOR THE MAMMOTH,” shouts Soto.
Diego shrugged his shoulders, pretending to have had nothing to do with what they were doing.  Furious that they weren’t listening, Soto moaned before chasing after them himself.  Sid noticed the sabers charging at him.  He got hesitant and he tried getting away, but the snow was making it hard for him to dash into a run.  He watched as the sabers got closer and closer, but just as it seemed he were about to reach the sloth, he jumped into the air and revealed that he had long, thin pieces of wood on his feet.  It was like a wooden ski.  Using them, Sid skied down the hill.  “WAHOO,” exclaimed Sid.
Zeke, Oscar and Lenny stopped for a brief moment, shocked that they were doing this, but swiftly resumed the chase.  Sid, after attempting to keep his balance, started getting the hang of skiing.  He skied through the snow like a champion skier.  He did some midair tricks while continuing the chase.  “WHEE,” he shouts as he skis down a rocky edge and onto the snow, “BACK-STABBER!  HAHA!!  EAT MY POWDER!!!”
 The trio of sabers got down the rocky cliff and continued their pursuit.  But as he skied, he saw several tall, sharp rocks ahead, blocking his path.  He carefully skied his road around him, but Sid incidentally smashed into one, causing him to lose one of his pieces of wood.  After spinning around from the impact, Sid almost lost his footing, but he swiftly regained it upon putting his left foot on the remaining wood piece.  Now having his balance again, Sid smirked as he continued fleeing from the sabers, only this time, like a snow-boarder.  The tall rocks were no longer a problem and Sid used them to do some more midair tricks.  Using them like skiing ramps, Sid did some loop-de-loop maneuvers.  “WHEE!  WOAH!!  LOOP DE LOOP,” shouts Sid as he snowboards his road down the hill, “SHALOM!!!  SHALOM, BABY!!!!”
Sid jumped into the air and dodged some small sharp rocks sticking out of the ground.  “WAHOO!!”
Sid looked behind him and saw that he was getting further and further apart from the sabers.  He grinned, thinking he was safe, but he failed to notice a cliff face that was right ahead of him.  He slid off the edge and slid across the ice.  Sid wasn’t able to hold onto the baby enough.  The bundle stopped in the center of the ice while Sid slid up an upward facing slope and landed on the ledge.  He wasn’t hurt, but he saw that the baby was left behind and the sabers had surrounded it.  Zeke approached the baby, ready to attack, only to be backed away by Soto.  Soto frowned at the baby bundle, letting the baby look into him before getting mauled to death.  He rolled over the bundle, but to his surprise, it wasn’t the baby at all.  Instead, it was a decoy with a snowman head.  “I'M SORRY, FELLAS,” said Sid, “HE HAD A LITTLE FROSTBITE!!”
Sid turned around and fled the scene, leaving Soto to express his frustration.  He swatted the fake baby apart before giving another order.  “GET HIM!!”
Sid ran through the rocky areas, trying to lose the sabers.  But he wasn’t far off and he chased after the sloth past the rocks.  He came across one, but he saw Manfred with a giant log on his tusks.  “SURPRISE,” he shouts.
Manfred tossed the log towards the sloth, sending him spiraling down a small cliff edge and onto the snow below.  With him taken care of, Diego appeared.  “Alright, follow me,” said Diego, “we’ll pick up Sid and get out of here while we can.”
But before he could go anywhere, Soto appeared.  “C'mon, Diego,” said Soto as he approached the group, ready to attack, “let’s bring this mammoth down.”
Meanwhile, back with Sid, he stopped running and waddled through the snow.  However, he was unaware that one of the sabers was now following him.  It was Zeke, having recovered from the log attack faster than Oscar and Lenny.  He watched as Sid approached a rock wall with a hole in it.  As Sid approached, Roshan revealed himself to him.  “There he is,” said Sid as he looked at the baby.
Suddenly, the baby started making gestures like he were a saber.  “That’s right.  Where’s the baby?”
Zeke jumped and was ready to pounce.  But as he did so, Sid saw him and pulled Roshan out of the hole, just in time.  Zeke, unable to stop himself, landed in the rock wall.  Seeing their enemy vulnerable and pretty much defeated, Sid burst towards the hole and smacked his skull into Zeke’s rear.  “SURVIVAL...OF THE...FITTEST,” he shouts as he shoves Zeke deeper into the hole. 
Sid did one jump on Zeke, getting him too deep into the hole.  “I don’t think so,” he said as he high-fived Roshan.
Back with Manfred, he was cornered by Diego and Soto towards a rock wall.  Manfred frowned at Diego, furious that he found him in this situation.  But as the two sabers approached the mammoth, ready to attack, Diego got in front of Soto and stood in his road.  “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE,” asked a shocked Soto.
“Leave...the mammoth...alone,” said Diego.
Soto frowned at Diego, realizing that his lieutenant betrayed his pack for the mammoth.  With Oscar and Lenny behind him, ready to back him up, Soto said, “well, fine...I'll take you down first.”
Soto approached his former lieutenant, growling viciously, ready to attack.  Diego stood his ground, ready to fight back to protect his friends.  Soto jumped and pounced on Diego.  The two sabers assaulted each other with their claws.  Diego swiped Soto in the face, but this did little but frustrate him.  As the two fought, Manfred rushed to Diego’s side, only to be stopped by Oscar and Lenny.  Lenny pounced on Manfred, but Manfred shook him apart easily.  But Lenny swiftly came back for more, and along with Oscar, started forcing Manfred into a corner.  But while this happened, Manfred saw Soto getting the upper hand in his fight against Diego.  He shoved Diego towards a rock, knocking him out.  Lenny dodged them, allowing Oscar to swat them off with his paw.  Oscar turned back to Manfred, who was forced further and further towards the corner.  He glimpsed over at Diego, who was trying to get up, before noticing Soto, waiting for Manfred to make a move.  Manfred, having seen enough, maneuvered his head, about to smack the saber apart, but missed.  With that said, Soto jumped forward, about to attack Manfred’s neck.  But Diego, seeing what Soto was about to, swiftly jumped up, getting in Soto’s road.  But in doing this, Diego took Soto’s attack and was badly wounded as a result.  Manfred gasped upon seeing Diego hurt.  Oscar and Lenny were ready to attack Manfred once again, but before they could do so, Sid appeared on the scene with Roshan.  Upon seeing what Soto did to Diego, he gasped.  Roshan cooed tearfully, afraid at what just happened to Diego, but this caught Soto’s attention.  Soto frowned at the baby, seeing that he was the one he was after all along.  But Manfred saw what he was about to do and was ready to strike, but suddenly, Manfred, also not letting Soto harm Roshan, smacked the saber towards a wall.  Soto hit the wall and collapsed onto the ground.  But above the wall were some sharp icicles, just like the ones at the ice cave.  These icicles shook as a result of the impact.  Soto looked up and saw them, but as he did so, the icicles broke off the ceiling.  Soto, unable to get away fast enough, the icicles came plummeting down until eventually, they impaled the saber, who growled in frustration before shouting out an enraged "STEELE!!"
This yell was so loud that it echoed across Half Peak. Oscar and Lenny squirmed upon seeing what just happened to their leader.  Manfred turned to them, ready for another bout.  Manfred growled at the two predators, intimidating them.  Now outnumbered, and seeing that they wouldn’t stand a chance against the whole group now, Oscar and Lenny fled the scene.  Sid approached the group, happy to see their enemies gone.  “We did it,” he said, hearing the frustrated saber shout his name.
But Sid’s joy turned into concern until he saw Diego, wounded from the attack and not getting up.  Everyone rushed to Diego’s side, worried if he was alright.  “We were some team, right,” asked Diego.
“‘Were,’” asked Manfred, “c'mon, we’re yet a team.”
“I’m sorry I set you up,” said Diego.
“Ah, you know me.  I’m too lazy to hold a grudge,” said Sid as he placed Roshan onto the ground.
Roshan approached Diego, letting him get up.  “Hey, knock it off, squirt,” said Diego as he looked at the baby, “you must be strong.  You have to take care of Manfred...and Sid...especially Sid.”
“C'mon, you can lick this,” said Sid, who started feeling frantic, “you’re a tiger.  Look, I’ll carry you.  C'mon, what do you say?  C'mon, Diego, c'mon.  Warn him he’s gonna be alright, Manny.”
But Diego, losing consciousness, and knowing what was really reluctant, said otherwise.  “No...” he said, “listen...you have to leave me here.  If these humans get through the pass, you’ll never catch them.”
Roshan looked at Manfred and Sid, concerned about Diego.  “You didn’t have to do that,” said Manfred, recalling Diego’s action during the battle.
Very close to fainting, Diego looked at Manfred one last time and said, “that’s what you do in a herd,” before losing consciousness.
Manfred looked upon the fallen saber, touched that his words made an impact on him before his ultimate action of saving his life.  But seeing Diego lose consciousness made him feel very mournful, like how he lost his family long ago.  Roshan, seeing that Diego wasn’t awakening, tried crawling to his face, but was picked up by Manfred.  Roshan was on the verge of crying as he looked at the defeated Diego.  Everyone looked at Diego’s body, deeply saddened to see what just happened to him.  The saber who originally set him and the others up, but fought to the bitter end to protect them, was now gone.
Everyone, despite being brokenhearted over losing their dear friend Diego, knew that there was one fact that had to get done, the very fact Diego would want them to do; bring the baby back to its family.  Together, Manfred and Sid continued their journey to Glacier Pass, staying silent all the road while remembering Diego and his act of sacrifice.  At Glacier Pass, the humans had eventually reached the monument and were in between the two huge glaciers.  Runar walked behind his tribe, slowing down to take one last look at where they came.  He saw the huge distance south, but while looking, he recalled that he couldn’t find Roshan or Nadia anywhere.  It was here where he mournfully came to the conclusion that his family was gone.  He took the necklace charm and gently placed it on the snow in remembrance of his family.  Runar turned around and started following his tribe again, ready to leave the land they traveled in behind.
But before Runar could get far, he heard something coming from behind him.  He looked and saw a mammoth appear before his eyes and approach him.  Runar frowned at this mammoth, wary of him.  Manfred slowly approached Runar before stopping a few feet apart.  Sid stood behind him.  Manfred looked at Runar, remembering his kind as the kind that murdered his family.  Runar looked at Manfred, thinking he was here to cause damage like the sabers.  After a brief stare down, Manfred slowly lifted his trunk high, as if he was about to strike.  Runar lifted his spear, ready to fight back, causing Sid to get concerned.  Manfred, seeing what Runar planned on doing, stopped lifting his trunk and slowly moved it towards the sharp weapon.  He caught it and started tugging on it.  As he did so, the human’s dogs sensed Manfred’s presence and barked.  They rushed back to Runar’s assistance as Manfred tossed the spear aside.  Now Runar was defenseless.  As the humans charged towards Manfred, Manfred lifted his trunk again.  The humans were getting closer, and one had his spear, ready to strike Manfred.  Sid hid his face in fear as Manfred lifted his trunk to the height of his back.  But instead of bringing it down and smacking Runar, he instead lifted something up.  Runar saw what Manfred was carrying and became shocked.  It was Roshan.  Seeing this, he rushed to his fellow humans and called them away.  They halted their attack while Sid, overcome with fear, fainted.  The humans saw that the mammoth had Roshan in his trunk.  Manfred gently put Roshan on the ground, and he slowly started walking towards his father.  Runar, amazed that Roshan had learned to walk while being separated, knelt down and gestured to him, wanting him to come to him.  Roshan slowly walked towards his happy father until he was close enough for Runar to pick him up.  With that said, the two embraced with each other, finally reunited at long last.  Roshan looked at Runar in the eyes, happy to be back with him.  Sid regained his consciousness and saw Roshan happily reunited with his family.  He grinned while Manfred also watched happily.
With the baby back with his family at last, Manfred and Sid looked at each other with grins before turning around and heading back south.  But as they left, they heard Roshan cry out to them in grand agony, as if he didn’t want them to go yet.  They turned and faced the baby.  Runar put Roshan down, allowing him to walk back to the group.  Cody handed the baby to Sid, who gave him a big farewell hug.  “Don’t forget about us,” he said, “alright?”
Sid handed Roshan over to Manfred.  “We won’t forget about you,” he said.
Roshan hugged Manfred’s trunk, happy to have been acquainted with him for so long.  Manfred was very happy to be embracing with him one last time before parting.  Runar approached the group, and Manfred gave the man Roshan back.  Runar, very grateful that Manfred and the others protected his son and safely gave him back to him, knelt down and put the charm necklace on the mammoth’s tusk.  Manfred looked at the charm necklace and saw that one of the parts was a small, human shaped rock.  He looked at it before smiling at Runar, now no longer having a disdain towards humans.  Runar grinned at Manfred, very grateful that he returned his baby.  Feeling very happy to have successfully accomplished the mission, Manfred turned to Sid, very happy to have made friends with him, and happy knowing that he was around during his damaged time.  Sid grinned back at Manfred before watching Runar leave with Roshan in his arms.  The humans began walking through Glacier Pass once again.  Sid, getting overemotional about saying a farewell, started tearing up.  “Bye,” he said, “so long.  Farewell.”
“Sid,” said Manfred, thinking Sid should stop.
“Farewell,” said Sid.
Roshan, looking over Runar’s shoulders, did a gesture, playing "Where’s the Baby" again.  “That’s right,” said Sid, who did the same gesture, right back at Roshan, “where’s the baby?”
“C'mon, Sid,” said Manfred, “let’s head south.”
But as Manfred was ready to head out, he saw someone coming up from over the hill.  To his amazement, it was Diego, alive and well.  He was limping, but he managed to get to the pass just in time to see the baby one last time.  Roshan did another "Where’s the Baby" gesture.  Diego silently did the same fact and waved a farewell to Roshan with a grin.  Roshan waved a farewell before falling asleep on Runar’s shoulder.  With that said, the humans disappeared from view.  “Farewell,” said Sid, yet emotional.
“Save your breath, Sid,” said Diego, “you know humans can’t speak.”
Upon recognizing the voice, Sid turned and to his joy, Diego was there, alive and well.  “DIEGO,” he asked before rushing towards him, “YOU’RE ALIVE!!”
“Nine lives, baby,” said Diego, happy to be back.
“You’re alright, you’re alright,” said Sid as he embraced with the embarrassed saber, rough-housing him playfully like Diego did before, “I could kiss ya.”
Sid kissed Diego’s head in his happiness, only to stop as he realized what he was doing.  “Well, welcome back, partner,” said Manfred, “want a lift?”
“No thanks,” said Diego, “I must save whatever dignity I have left.”
“You’re hanging out with us now, buddy.  Dignity’s had nothing to do with it,” said Sid, “but I’ll take a lift.”
“Yes, climb aboard,” said Manfred as he let Sid get on his back.
“Pick me up, buddy,” said Sid as he got on Manfred’s back and gestured like a horseback rider.  “HIYA!!  MUSH...or not mush.  Either fashion.”
With that said, everyone started heading out.  Diego looked at himself and winked.  He was back and now a best friend.  He joined the others as they began their migration south.  
“This is gonna be the best migration ever,” said Sid, “I’m warning ya, I’ll show you all my favorite watering holes.  I turn brown until the fungus in my fur dries.”
“Sounds very perspective,” commented Manfred sarcastically.
“You know, this whole Ice Age fact’s getting old,” said Sid, “you know what I could go for?  Global warming.”
“Oi,” said Manfred.
“Keep dreaming,” said Diego.
“No, really...”
20,000 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE
Frozen solid in a cube of ice, unable to move a muscle, and inches apart from his beloved acorn, Scrat floated in his ice cube as it approached an unknown world.  The calm waters washed the cube onto the shore of a strange, tropical world, one that Scrat had never been to before.  The cube was washed ashore, where for several days, started to melt apart under the heat of the sun.  At last, the ice around the acorn melted off and it rolled onto the ground.  It was now right next to the cube.  The tip of Scrat’s nose was defrosted, and then were the fingers on his hands.  But Scrat couldn’t reach the acorn.  After some time, Scrat’s upper body defrosted and he tried reaching out to his acorn, only to stop upon realizing that he was too far.  Some time later, more of Scrat’s body became defrosted.  Scrat sighed as he waited for more of his body to get defrosted.  Upon seeing that he could move his tail at last, and thinking he could make it this time, Scrat reached out for the acorn once again, pushing himself as hard as he could to get to it.  He was able to at least touch the acorn, but before he could try and catch hold of it, a wave washed onto shore and took the acorn out to sea.  Seeing his acorn disappear, Scrat pushed on his cube.  Finally, the cube broke apart as Scrat shrieked in fury.  “YAAHHHH!!!!”
Scrat, in his blind frustration, ran to a nearby tree and started beating his head on it.  But as he did, a coconut fell right behind him, alarming him for a second, before he realized that this would be a perfect fact to store.  He squirmed in delight upon seeing this.  He took the coconut and carried it into the forest.  It was heavy, but Scrat kept going.  At least, he stopped and, thinking he found the perfect spot to store it, lifted it high into the air and brought it down hard.  The coconut dug into the ground, and Scrat tried pushing it down by stomping on it.  However, as this happened, it went a little bit deeper and it created a crack that traveled through the sand.  Scrat, seeing what was going on like before, followed the crack, trying to stop it from getting any bigger.  He tried digging it up with sand, but it was too fast.  Scrat even tried in vain to push the two pieces of land together with his bare hands.  He became very shocked as he watched the crack travel across the ground.  The crack traveled through the jungle before climbing up a rocky volcano.  The crack reached the top of the volcano, causing it to erupt in a massive and loud eruption.  Scrat heard the eruption and became surprised.  Knowing what was about to happen next, he shrugged his shoulders.  He yelled in outrage and frustration.