Chapter 13: Battle

Chapter 13: Battle is the thirteenth chapter of Dinosaur Creek Part 1 and the thirteenth overall chapter of Dinosaur Creek. It was released on August 22nd, 2021.

## Plot Summary

In the power room, Blaster finishes battling the troops while Shane hacks into the computer to access the generator, hoping to shut it off. However, when he tries to activate self-destruct, the system denies it and claims not to have it, much to Shane's worry. Tex, Caren, and Emily reach them, followed by Morgan, Peter, and Elder. When Shane explains they can’t shut down the generator, Peter suggests they destroy it physically instead. But Hero arrives and declares he will fight them himself. Though the team is skeptical about how to do so, he reveals to be wearing special types of morph bracelets and uses it to turn into a Deinonychus, revealing he was a dinosaur all along. Though the team is questionable about how to stop him and bring the ship down at the same time, Tex and Caren come up with a plan: Tex, Shane, and Peter will hold off Hero while Blaster flies Caren and Emily up so they can use their weapons and strength (Emily’s gun and Caren’s back armor) to destroy the generator. While they do that, Morgan and Elder will look for an escape pod so they can escape. The team splits up, with Tex and Shane using their combat skills to battle Hero. Shane does display good use with his tail and back plates being used like blades. Peter helps guide the duo in fighting Hero, noting his trained combat skills (Power).

Morgan and Elder reach the escape pod room, but find all the pods have been taken by evacuees. They do find the Raptors are preparing to board, but Dreda throws Mega at them to prevent them from following. As Mega scraps off a piece of dirt from Morgan’s hair, Dreda claims she’ll get Morgan one day since she knows she’s not to be outside of the company more than anyone. Morgan claims she’ll be ready to fight back against her, though, leading to the Raptors escaping in the escape pod. Elder briefly questions the interaction, but she brushes it off and decides they need to return to the team so they can strategize another plan to get off the ship.

During the boy's fight against Hero, Tex declares he and his friends won’t be subjugated to follow Hero’s evil ways ever again. Hero then monologues about how he mainly mutated Tex into the way he is because he wanted to make a powerful soldier out of him and wanted to do that for the rest of his species. Unfortunately, just like him and Kireina, all t-rexes Hero mutated only rebelled him in the end. He angrily shouts “*What you just said Tex is the exact same thing Tyrone said to me!*” before charging at him again. This gives off the impression that Hero met another t-rex that rebelled against him before Tex did. Shane saves Tex by headbutting Hero off of him. To Tex's delight, Shane declares his full allegiance to his friends and helps him up. At the same time, Blaster flies Caren and Emily up so they’re on top of the generator. When the girls say so, he drops them and the girls use their strength to destroy the machine. During this, Caren's eyes briefly glow purple. Caren claims victory, but collapses soon afterwards. With it destroyed, the ship begins to crash down, just a few miles away from Hell Creek. In the van, Revit does his best to drive himself and Rover away from the crash landing site.

The sun rises that morning and the people in Hell Creek are surprised and a little scared to see the large ship apparently crashing down towards them. Unable to reach the escape pods in time, Tex declares the team should jump for it. Bidding Hero good luck when he gets caught, the team escapes out of the ship’s lower hatchet, falling down as the ship goes down. Escape pods show the defective dinos, the raptors (including Sinor and Mega), and a handful of ship-working humans taking escape pods to escape the crash. Peter and Elder fall solo, Caren and Morgan fly on Blaster’s back while Shane falls solo and Tex carries Emily. To ensure the safe land, Tex hands Emily to Blaster so she can also be on his back while Blaster carries Tex and Shane, even though their weight is weighing him down (not to mention he is holding them by their tails). Peter helps Elder land safely using his weapons. The group lands just in time safely as the ship crashes into the desert, just a few miles away from the city. The blast impact cloud is strong enough to push the van deep into the dirt, taking Revit and Rover with them.

From outside of the city, the cop cars, which have one being driven by Bryce and Owen, witness the dust cloud formed by the ship crash outside of the city. Concerned by this, they continue to drive towards the wreckage. Noting the police at the crash site, Tex let’s Emily go over to clarify the crash. The team heads over to the van to ensure Revit and Rover are okay, which they are, even though Revit is worried about how the van is ruined. Thanking Revit for his help, Shane agrees to rebuild it for him, though he whispers to Tex he doesn’t know how to. Tex pats his back and reassures him he’ll figure it out, making Shane flustered.Caren eventually wakes up and is greeted by the boys for her sucess, though she's confused by what just happened. Rover jumps out and licks Caren, happy that she’s ok. When Peter and Elder arrive at the kids, Morgan runs up and hugs Elder, with him thanking her for her helping him and praises her for doing a good job.

Just as the team hides behind the van, the police and squad team from Hell Creek starts investigating the crash. Through the dust cloud, Emily eventually steps out, dirty from the fall and crash debris, and surprises the boys with how she helped crash the evidence against Leonard Hero. Policemen eventually find Hero in his human form and present him to Bryce. Their interaction between each other makes Owen and Emily suspect they know each other. With the base, advanced stolen tech, unlicensed lab projects, and multiple forms of scientific liquid stored away, Bryce takes this as enough evidence and has Hero arrested. Bryce congratulates Emily for helping catch him and Owen, though surprised that she got involved for an event this big, congratulates her as well and apologizes for doubting her before. He allows her to take the credit and they prepare to make their way back into the city.

Before she gets in the car, she sees the dinosaurs hiding behind a dune. Though nervous about leaving them like this, they nod back ok for her to go and they’ll get home on their own from here. With that covered, Emily hops into a cop car and drives back to the city. The dinosaurs watch this from behind the van and, with their human forms, prepare to sneak back into the city. But because Elder still wants to stay wild, but deciding he wants to spend his freedom helping other dinosaurs in trouble, he tells Morgan he’s preparing to take off. But to thank Morgan for helping him, agrees to stay in touch and check back in every now and then, something that she knows will make her happy. He also claims he wants to learn more about Morgan since there’s something about her that makes her very special. With that covered, Morgan prepares to follow the team back home.

## Characters

* Tex
* Emily Tops
* Caren
* Shane
* Blaster
* Morgan
* Rover
* Revit
* Peter
* Elder
* Owen Spencers
* Bryce Brach
* Leonard Hero
* Dreda
* Grey
* Kai
* Sinor
* Mega

## Trivia

* This chapter reveals a major spoiler warning regarding Leonard Hero's character.
* The name of the mysterious t-rex agent. Tyrone, is first mentioned in the series.