Chapter 4: Allegiance

Chapter 4: Allegiance is the 4th chapter of Dinosaur Creek Part 1 and the overall 4th chapter of the series. It was released on June 20th, 2021.

## Synopsis

After taking a moment to catch their breaths, the opthalomosaurus girl introduces herself as Morgan, an anthro ophthalmosaurus who was sent here from an Alto Terrarium base station in Oxford Clay, Alto to steal back an artifact that was stored in the museum. She also reveals that despite her workings, she intends to rebel against Terrarium due to the belief that Terrarium is using its dinosaur projects to act as their spies and agents against their will. She even explains the concept of how they’re draining a dinosaur’s wild nature, something that Elder agrees on. He tells them about his intentions to escape to the wild and become a dinosaur again.

Though Shane and Blaster doubt the idea that Terrarium may be evil, they are definitely suspicious about why Hero would let uneducated dinosaurs explore the modern world with them, why Hero would have Tex mutated with extra muscle to fit the concept of a super-soldier, the sarcosuchus in the river and its apparent Alto and Selva bases. The trio decides to head back into the city, find the others and get to the bottom of Terrarium’s true motives. However, still wanting to live free in the wild, Elder uses a stick to distract the sarcosuchus and retreat into the wild. Despite efforts to stop him, the trio let him go and head back into the sewers to get back into the city.

Later at sunset, a middle-aged man wearing a morph bracelet approaches Caren, who is seen sitting at the book stand reading mounts of books. He introduces himself as Peter Saurolophus, a man working at Terrarium, and that he is here to help her and Rover find her group. Wanting to find the group, Caren agrees to go with him. Peter reveals to have a device that helps track down all of the dinosaurs with their marbles and offers her to help him search for them. She accepts and before they take off, Caren tries to return her last book to Dom Winters, expressing how she might not be able to finish it. Feeling glad that she stuck around to read his books, he offers her the book for free and thanks to her for sticking around. She thanks him and then takes off with Peter and Rover.

Back underground, Emily is still stunned by Tex’s appearance. When he speaks to let her know he’s not a threat, she begins to see through his exterior. After clarifying how they both cannot go back to the surface after Emily has seen Tex and how his morph bracelet is now broken because she stepped on it, Tex allows Emily to escort him through the sewer to help him find his group without being spotted as long as he explains himself to her. When the two start wandering, Tex explains how he and his group were once actual dinosaurs from the Mesozoic before the company Terrarium captured them all and turned them into Anthro’s. He also explains how they were released to explore the city but got separated and now needs a way to find them without being seen by other humans since he doesn’t have his human disguise anymore. Emily does try to apologize for breaking it, but she does question why he was following her. He says he thought it was suspicious for her and Owen to chase Morgan before, but she explains that she broke the law of stealing. This leads to the two questions the law system that humanity has established unlike the wild nature dinosaurs as Tex lived in back then.

Caren and Peter continue to track down the group with the tracking device on the streets above, just as the streets begin to clear out of people due to it almost being nighttime. When they become confused as to why they can’t find the group despite being at their location. However, when they look down at a sewer hatchet below them, they realize the group is traveling underground and enter through the hatchet to find them.

At the same time, Shane, Blaster, and Morgan wander under the sewer hatchet and begin to question where they are now. But just as Blaster questions what would happen if the humans opened the hatchet and discovered them now, Rover suddenly jumps on top of him, which leads to Peter and Caren coming down the ladder and greeting the group. After Caren explains to Shane and Blaster that Peter is with Terrarium and Morgan’s claim on trusting it, the group agrees to continue to look for Tex and Kireina and head back to the base to confront Terrarium about Hero’s plans for them.

Once it gets dark out, an old homeless man is seen scavenging the alleyway trash cans. However, when he hears noises and reaches the dark end of the alley, Kireina shows up, in her dinosaur form and wearing a new outfit. She declares the man is at the end of his days and will be a good meal for her, she attacks him before off-screen killing and eating him.

## Characters

* Tex
* Emily Tops
* Caren
* Shane
* Blaster
* Morgan
* Rover
* Peter
* Elder
* Dom "Doctor" Winters
* Kireina

## Trivia

* This chapter marks the first appearance of Peter.
* Kireina is first seen wearing her signature outfit in this chapter.
	+ This chapter also confirms the first death in the series.