Pteranodon attack!

This where the Pteranodon attack takes place in *Return to the Mysterious Beyond*.

[we return to the group, still walking through the cave, where Silverstream and Terramar are using their Lightsabers to light the way. Then soon they see a light up ahead]

Silverstream: That must be the end of the cave. (extinguishes her Lightsaber and clips it back to her belt)

Terramar: (does the same) I hope there aren't any more big predators out there.

Brian Griffin: Well, we won't know for sure until we go.

Smolder: Hold on. This time, I'm *not* taking any chances. (pulls her revolvers from their holsters and checks their cylinders to make sure their loaded)

Silverstream: Nor will I. (takes out her rifle from her satchel and assembles it, before putting a clip of rounds into it.)

Brian Griffin: Okay, let's just keep going.

[They come to the light and they show they came out of the cave, but there was a thick layer of fog]

Gallus: Ah, great. This is all we need.

Brian Griffin: Stay here, I'll go first.

[Brian goes walking further, but due to the fog, he cannot see the ground below his feet. Then when he takes one step, he jolts forward]

Brian Griffin: **WAH!!!**

[but luckily for him Gallus and Gabby grab his arms and pull him back just in time as a few rocks fall as we hear the falling rocks clatter down the side, before a quiet "splash" is heard.]

Gabby: [whistles]

Gallus: [to Brian] Are you okay?

Brian Griffin: Yeah.

[Then they three use the Force to clear the path and reveal that Brian almost went over a canyon]

Smolder: Now what? I mean, true that some of us can fly, but we can't carry you guys all the way to the boat. It'd be too tiring!

Sandbar: Let's go this way.

Brian Griffin: Oh, yeah. I see it.

[they then walk towards it, and down a rocky stairway, before they finally reach the bridge]

Brian Griffin: [slowly walks to over to a rocky bridge and looks at Ben, and when they try to walk on the bridge, it creaks] Let's do this one at a time, shall we?

[Brian slowly walks on the bridge as it creaks as everyone watches in wordiness, but Brian makes it safely across the other side, but hears some flapping]

Brian Griffin: [calling to the group] Okay, come on over! One at a time!

Crystalynn Geo: [turns to Jerron] Alright, Jerron. I'm gonna leave you just for a minute. Okay? And then your gonna be right behind me. Okay?

Jerron Geo: Mom. I've alone been in a downed trooper transport shuttle for twelve weeks. I think I can manage the next two minutes without you.

Crystalynn Geo: Alright. All together now.

[Soon Crystalynn starts to walk across the bridge, not before Crystalynn looks back and Rockson smiles at her. And soon they begin to walk across the bridge as Brian looks around and then he kicks something and looks down and they were Clone Changeling bones as Crystalynn makes it across she turns back]

Crystalynn Geo: Okay, Jerron! Come on, sweetie!

Rockson Geo: (guiding Jerron) Okay. Okay, here you go.

[Jerron soon begins to walk across the bridge. And meanwhile with Brian, he picks up dry stuff on the helmets and smells it. And back with Jerron, the bridge suddenly shakes and they stop. From the first side, Sandbar feels the vibrations from the shaking in his hooves]

Sandbar: I think something's on the bridge.

Yona: Of course something on bridge. Jerron start crossing bridge!

Sandbar: No! I mean there's something *else* other than Jerron!

Gabby: Maybe it was a rock.

Sandbar: (in a fact-of-a-matter tone) I think I would know if it was a rock. I'm an earth pony! Besides, it's like something's been here before. Like a giant bird. Or worst.

[cutting back to Brian, he then races back to the bridge and then looks up. Squinting his eyes, as the mist slowly clears, he can make out something above the canyon. We then see it's some kind of nests on rock patterns, returning to Jerron, he looks all around as his ears turn and perk to try and pick up the sound he's hearing]

Jerron Geo: Mom? I... Is that you?

[we then view the bridge in the mist, before returning to Brian and Crystalynn]

Brian Griffin: (slowly realizing where they are) Oh, my God.

Crystalynn Geo: What?

Brian Griffin: (slowly turns to look at her) This is a nesting ground.

Crystalynn Geo: For what?

[And back with Jerron, he still looks up ahead. Now squinting his eyes, trying to get a better view. Then a LOOMING SHAPE emerges from the fog -- a nightmarish vision stalking purposefully forward. A FULL GROWN PTERANODON, standing over seven feet high, walks upright on clawed feet, his thirty foot wings folded bat-like at his side. The creature sees Jerron and fixes him with a demonic glare.]

Jerron Geo: (his eyes widen in fear, now realizing he's now prey) **DAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!** (takes off running the other way)

[Back on the other side, Brian and Crystalynn hear the screaming]

Jerron Geo: **DAAAAAD!!!!!!!**

Crystalynn Geo: Jerron!

[They run straight towards them. And it cuts back to the other side as the others hear Jerron screaming.]

Rockson Geo: Jerron? Jerron?!

[He, Ben, and the others run on the bridge, and when Jerron comes out of the fog, the Pteranodon swoops out of the fog, opens its giant rear claws, and snatches the terrified colt from the catwalk. Rockson watches in stunned, abject horror as the Pteranodon carries Jerron directly overhead -- just as Brian and Crystalynn soon reach them]

Smolder: Shit! **A PTERANODON!!**

[they take off down the bridge as the Pteranodon carries the colt down through the canyon]

Silverstream: (quickly unshouldering her rifle, she takes the safety off) **HANG ON, JERRON!!!**

Gabby: Silver!

Silverstream: (stops at the rocky stairway and takes aim) **I'LL SAVE YOU!!!**

Gabby: Silverstream! NO!! (Grabs Silver's rifle and points it up in the sky just as Silver fires) **DON'T SHOOT AT IT!!** You might hit Jerron by mistake! You *know* that your rifle skills are still in intermediate levels!

Silverstream: Then what am I suppose to do?!

Smolder: (Running past the 2) What do you think?! Run after it for now!

Crystalynn Geo: Jerron!

[the 2 continue running down the walkway before going up a flight of stairs then through a view point and then down another walkway]

Crystalynn Geo: I can't see him, I can't see him!

Terramar: It's cause of this fog you can't see him!

Gallus: Argh! Where's Petrie when you need him?!

[Then it cuts back to Jerron still in the Pteranodon's grip as it squawks.]

Jerron Geo: (trying to get himself out of the grip) Let go of me, you ugly bat-thing!

Crystalynn Geo: (still running down the rocky walkway) Jerron!

[Then it cuts back to the Pteranodon as it flies Jerron to it's nest with hatchling Pteranodon]

Jerron: Gah! No!

[Soon the Pteranodon lets him go as the baby Pteranodons squeal and then hop out of the nest ready to pounce on their next meal, but Jerron picks up a huge rock and throws it at them, managing to throw them off guard as he runs, but then chase after him]

Rockson Geo: (running down a walkway) This way!

[it then cuts to Ben still running, but then he stops and looks up to the entrance ahead. With a new idea, he looks back to see Brian now catching up as the former stops. Then with a determined look on his face, Ben buckles on one of the straps to the parasail pack. As Brian's eyes widen in sudden realization. But this doesn't faze Ben who then takes off running]

Brian Griffin: Ben! (chases after him)

Ben Joseph: (tightening the other straps on the pack, he then buckles on the second buckle of the pack, as he runs up the stairs)

Brian Griffin: Ben, stop! **BEN, STOP!! DON'T DO IT!!**

Ben Joseph: (finishes strapping on the pack, as he jumps off as Brian tries to grab his tail, but it slips right out of his hand)

Brian Griffin: **BEN!!!!**

Ben Joseph: (opens up the backpack, the parasail opens up and he flies down the canyon)

Brian Griffin: (watching down and takes off running again)

[As Brian continues running it cuts back to Jerron, as he continues running while jumping on the rock peaks with the Pteranodon chicks still chasing him, but he trips over his hooves. As the hatchlings swarm him, pecking and snapping at him]

Jerron Geo: **ARGH!! GET OFF!! GET OFF OF ME!!!**

[we then view Ben flying towards Jerron]

Ben Joseph: (flying past Jerron's spot) Jerron! Hold on!

Jerron Geo: (bucking up trying to get the chicks off of him) **BEN!!!**

[Ben circles around to make another attempt to grab Jerron]

[we then return to the others on the walkway]

Rockson Geo: Jerron!

[Soon one of the baby Pteranodon rips off Jerron's jacket, now giving him a chance to run for it again]

Jerron Geo: Keep the coat, I don't need it anymore!

[Then Jerron hits a dead-end, as the remaining chicks then swarm him again, and continue to peck at him]

Jerron Geo: **STOP!!! I'M NOT FOOD!!!** (he then sees Ben flying back to him)

Ben Joseph: Jerron, get ready to jump!

Jerron Geo: (grabbing one of the chicks by its neck) Leave... me... (Throws it into the other chicks) **ALONE!!!** (he then starts running again, with the chicks still chasing him, now racing towards a rock peak where Ben is flying by)

Ben Joseph: **JUMP!!!**

[Jerron then leaps from the peak, grabbing onto Ben's abdomen as the chicks try to jump on too, but are shot out of the air once Ben flies clear of the peak]

[we cut back to Rockson and Crystalynn, but Rockson skids to a halt, finding the walkway ends at a dead-end, over looking a cliffside, just as everyone else comes running up]

Terramar: **THERE'S NO MORE WALKWAY!! WHAT DO WE DO?! WHAT DO WE DO?!**

[Suddenly, A SECOND PTERANODON comes flying down, squawking at them as Brian shoots it down with his pistol]

Brian Griffin: **GO BACK!!**

[they all run the other way, but another Pteranodon shows up and it finds a hole in the walkway and then lands in front of them, cutting them off as it cuts back to Ben and Jerron as Jerron looks back]

Jerron Geo: **BEN!!!**

[Ben looks back, seeing three Pteranodons are now flying all around them, as one tries to nab them with is jaws, but misses. Then the second one tears 2 large holes in the sail. Wwe return to the others now back away from the Pteranodon in front of them, as it slowly walks towards them, hissing, before Brian kicks it giving them a chance to back up farther but it continues to follow]

[returning to Ben and Jerron, Ben tries to keep aloft. Heading as low as he dares]

Ben Joseph: Okay, Jerron, you'll have to let go now!

Jerron Geo: Okay, here I go! (he lets go, and then goes falling right in the river)

[we return to the others, who now find themselves at the broken walkway again. Just as the Pteranodon catches up, screeching at them, but the supports on the rockface start to break loose from the extra weight.]

Sandbar: I don't think this walkway can take the weight of us all at once!

[and he was right, as the final supports break loose, along with the rocks underneath, as the walkway tilts down, sending everyone into the river below. They all land into the water, and resurface just as the Pteranodon falls into the water too. Just as the walkway and rocks come crashing off the cliffside. As the Pteranodon tries to take flight, only for the walkway to land on top of it. followed by the rocks. Sending it sinking into the water. Where the group uses this moment to swim away.]

[Returning to Ben, he tries hard to gain altitude, Ben bends hard to the right. But the rigging is too badly damaged. He flies right into the canyon wall, hitting hard. Instead of tumbling down to the river, he finds himself swinging from his harness - the parasail snagged on some roots sticking out from the cliffside. Then he tries to get the sail loose from the rocks, as the other Pteranodons start circling him. He then tries to unhook himself. Back at the bottom, everyone soon climbs out of the water]

Crystalynn Geo: Jerron?

Rockson Geo: He's over there!

[they run to where Jerron has climbed out of the water, as he looks up to see Ben is still hanging from the cliff, with more Pteranodons surrounding him, just as the other group soon catches up with him]

Crystalynn Geo: Jerron! (races over to him)

Jerron Geo: (pointing up) There he is! He's up on that cliffside!

Brian Griffin: Quick, all of you get out of here! (he activates his lightsaber and then runs off to try and help Ben)

Crystalynn Geo: Come on, let's go!

Jerron Geo: No! (as he's being pushed onward) What about Ben?!

[returning to Ben, he's trying hard to unhook himself, but his weight on the harness doesn't help in anyway, but soon he manages to get both buckles unhooked. And he goes straight down into the water, as he resurfaces, Brian is now running towards him. While Ben is trying to run to him, as one Pteranodon grabs him and picks him up]

Ben Joseph: Whoa! **AH!!** (then the Pteranodon lets him go, as he falls back into the water) **AH!!**

Brian Griffin: (now running into the water) Hang on, Ben! I'm coming!

Ben Joseph: [resurfaces as the Pteranodons begin swooping around him]

Brian Griffin: **BEN!!!**

Ben Joseph: Go! **GET OUT OF HERE!!!** (he then jumps into the water to avoid one of the Pteranodons grabbing him)

Brian Griffin: **BEN, NO!!**

Ben Joseph: **GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, BRIAN!!!** (he then swims down the river as Pteranodons are starting to peck at him) **JUST GO!!!**

[Brian can do nothing but watch as the young stallion disappears down the river with the hungry Pteranodons still pecking at him. And the alpha stares coldly at him and crosses his eyes as Brian extinguishes his saber and begins to back away and runs.]

[we return to the others, where they are now running for the boat, as we return to the others, now being pursued by another Pteranodon, forcing them to jump into the water, and swim for the boat. As we return to Brian being chased by the alpha as he jumps into the water next. Everyone else soon gets onto the boat. As Gallus looks back to see the Alpha chasing Brian, as he pulls out his blaster and fires a few shots at the alpha, hitting it in the wings and the stomach, as it closes in on Brian. But Gallus then takes hard aim with both of his claws on the pistol, squinting his eyes. Then before the Alpha can grab Brian in its jaws, Gallus fires. Scoring a direct hit on the Alpha's chest, where its heart is, killing it. The body then splashes into the water, now floating on the surface as Brian reaches the boat, where Rockson and Gabby pull him on board. But the other Pteranodons don't chase our heroes no longer, they just stopped flying and land on rocks and begin squawking mourn fulling. As Ocellus and Sandbar push the boat away from the dock before it gets caught in the river current. Then it cuts back to the exit as the door creeks open. As the boat pulls away we take a look at the canyon of the Pteranodon's territory as they begin squawking over their dead leader]

Brain Griffin: (looks back at the territory with a remorseful look on his face)