The Invaders (TotTL)

The Invaders is the sixth vignette of the Tales of the Terrible Lizards series. In this vignette, Charlie and her family are persued by an invading pair of Tyrannosauruses.

## General Info

### Characters

CharlieThe Invaders

Old Brutus

## Characters

* Charlie
* The Invaders
* Old Brutus
* Charlie's babies
* Gigiantspinosaurus
* Olorotitan
* Einiosaurus
* Corythosaurus

## Synopsis

In a dry field, an Einiosaurus and Olorotian scour the empty plain for a speck of food. Just behind them, a pair of Tyrannosauruses are stalking them. The hadrosaur sniffs the air and the two herbivores begin to feel uneasy for a brief moment. The Tyrannosauruses finally close the distance between them and their prey and feast.

On the other side of the supercontinent, things are still lush and prosperous. Charlie the Triceratops and her family are out on the plains when they notice the same Tyrannosaurs from earlier, this time groging themselves on a small Gigantspinosaurus. Charlie and Old Brutus lead the young Triceratops away, but not before the big female Tyrannosaurus catches sight of them.

Later on, a storm begins to brew in the sky. Old Brutus helps his family find shelter in a cave, where they decide to spend the stormy night. Unbeknownst to them, the Invaders have tracked them through the night, despite the heavy rain. Their stomping jolts Charlie and her father awake and they decide to go deeper inside as the Invaders approach the cave enterance.

Old Brutus topples a stone over, inadvertently knocking one of his grandchildren back towards the cave enterance. The stone, meanwhile, stops at the foot of the male Tyrannosaur who decides to peek inside. At first, the male finds it difficult to see, but a sudden flash of lightning reveals the helpless juvenile. The young Triceratops bolts toward its mother and grandfather, accidentally leading the T. rex on. The giant carnivore clamps his jaws onto Charlie and drags her down, with the female arriving soon after. The T. rexes are pushed aside by Old Brutus, and Charlie flees, leaving the old male Triceratops to face the Invaders alone.

The male Tyrannosaurus leaps forward, only to by diverted away by Brutus, and into a loose wall. Old Brutus sees a giant rock fall from the celing and charges the big female T. rex, pinning both her and the male to the wall, finally breaking it down and in turn, causing the rest of the ceiling to collapse.

Charlie returns to her father's aid, but finds she cannot reach the old male with all of the rocks falling above them. The female Tyrannosaurus catches up to Old Brutus and clamps down on his leg as he tries to escape, preventing him from going any further. Another giant stone crushes the old Triceratops and knocks the female T. rex into a pit created by the cave's collapse.

After the dust cleared, Charlie decends the imense pile of debris in search of her father. The female Triceratops digs frantically, only to find the head of her now deceased father. Charlie tends to her young when the roar of one of the Invaders echoes throughout the cave.

The male T. rex manages to drag himself free from the rubble and finds himself closer to the cave's entrance. The Tyrannosaurus snorts and storms off into the night, leaving his partner, Charlie, and her family still inside.

## Trivia

* Much of the vignette, most notably the skirmish in the cave, is a direct reference to Disney's Dinosaur.
* The Invaders is one of few vignettes to feature its tilte in a video.
* Originally, Tohkor was going to accompany Charlie and her babies, however, the original color scheme for the Safari Ltd. 1996 Triceratops hadn't been accquired yet. The role was then given to the recently estamblished Old Brutus.
* Only one of titular antagonists has been given a name. The male is referred to as 'Lionel' by the creator, however the female was never given a name.
	+ Despite this, none of the characters names are mentioned in the vignette.
* Towards the end of vignette, the female Tyrannosaurus is shown falling into a pit inside the cave while the ceiling collaped. It was confirmed that she had survived and had gotten out of the cave long after Lionell.
* The timeline of TotTL's story is a little complicated, given the events of The Night Stalker, as Charlie is seen with her babies alone. It's been cornfirmed the the Night Stalker had been killed by the Invaders offscreen by the time The Invaders vignette starts.
* Despite the overall canon for the vignette, which featured two young Triceratops alongside their mother, only one of Charlie's babies appears in the video.

## External Links

* The Invaders YouTube Video
* Tales of the Terrible Lizards YouTube Playlist