Chapter 1: Today

Chapter 1: Today is the first chapter of Dinosaur Creek and the overall first chapter of Dinosaur Creek. It was released on June 6th, 2021.

## Synopsis

The first chapter starts 65 million years ago, where a T-Rex pair is on the hunt in prehistoric Montana. They're first seen hunting a grey and blue female Ankylosaurus, who is fully prepared to fight them back. However, just as the meteor crashes and prepares to wipe them out, human troops capture the trio and send them to the present day through time travel pods. They bring them to the high tech company called Terrarium and lock them up in containment units. Leonard Hero and his team of Generals observe the dinosaurs arrive and prepare to experiment on them. Injecting them with mutagen and combining hoards of electricity, the dinosaurs are turned into Anthros with upright

appearances and have their brains expanded. The dinosaurs are now composed of two T-Rex’s, one main and one female, and one female ankylosaurus.

The top guards, going by the Generals, Dreda, Grey, and Kai each visit the dinosaurs and tell them that they have been rescued from extinction, turned into anthros that are now smarter and experienced, and that they are now under the care of Terrarium. Though the male rex and the female Akylo understand the situation and think about how they’re going to figure out their situation, the female Rex isn’t too convinced and still feels as savaged as she was in her dinosaur form. The three eventually meet in a large room where they are fed meat and plants. The rexes are reunited, even though the male is a bit skeptical of his mate's savagery in her anthro form. The female ankylo picks this up as suspicious and grows wearing on trusting them, especially since they tried to eat her before.

The dinosaurs eventually meet Hero, where he then gives them a tour of the facility. He also introduces other experimented dinosaurs, including Stegosaurus Shane and Pteranodon Blaster. They are also introduced to the defected dinosaurs, composed of dimwitted Therizinosaurus Clay, small-statured Mapusaurus Mac, and rebellious Oviraptor Buckley. The male rex and female ankylo grow weary about the defects and how being locked up like this will help them, but the female rex is left unimpressed. Eventually, Hero decides to name the trio, naming the male rex Tex, the female rex Kireina and the female ankylosaurus Caren.

Later that day, the group is treated to a formal dinner, where they get to meet Shane and Blaster. There, Tex gets a friendly gesture from them, but Kireina remains uninterested as she does not desire to befriend herbivores. Blaster then tries to befirend Caren, who avoids he conversation. But his attempts at flirting backfire when he accidentally insults her, causing Caren angrily tail slap him to a wall. Kireina is unfazed, but Tex amd Shane both agree she is creepy.

During that time, mutation engineers Sinor and Mega are experimenting with a captured Didelphodon in trying to see how they can make this into a successful anthro prehistoric mammal. However, Sinor makes a few slip ups that lead to the Didelphodon bearing a dog-like behavior as opposed to human behaviors.

At night, the team gathers in the containment room, where they are treated to bed. Before they sleep, Kireina expresses how she doesn't like the idea of Terrarium telling them what path to go as opposed to letting them roam free as they should. Tex tries to calm them down and explain how they will see where their paths go and will overcome it as long as they stick together.

Later at night, the Didelphodon breaks out of its containment and escapes Sinor and Mega’s grasps. Sinor calls in the escape and has the alarms set off. He breaks into the containment room and awakes the others. He then runs up to Caren and, though surprised at first, she is warmed by him when he starts sniffing and licking her, making her laugh and smile for the first time. Shane concludes that the Didelphodon has been given canine instincts instead of human instincts. Since he has grown an attachment to the group, Caren decides to keep him and names him Rover. (Today). Hero sees this through the monitors and allows the creature to stay with them to allow them to have their own man's best friend.

## Characters

* Tex
* Caren
* Shane
* Blaster
* Rover
* Kireina
* Leonard Hero
* Dreda
* Grey
* Kai
* Sinor
* Mega
* Takara Mori

## Trivia

* This chapter showcases the first example of Terrarium time traveling back in time, capturing dinosaurs, bringing them back to the present, and mutate them into anthros.
* This marks the first appearances of most of the main characters.
* The chapter features the first song number *Today*
* Tex, Caren, and Kireina are the first dinosaurs to be seen in feral form.