Probably won't believe me, but my first tame on the Center was a Rex.
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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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I was level 18 and watching a battle, bronto vs. Rex and 3 raptors 1 alpha it was cool, until I fell of the cliff I was standing on and was at half health but the rex couldn’t see me because it looked like the bronto looked at me and attacked the red to distract him. One up equals 1 respect for big ol brontos
The night was dark and I did fart, but a glowing awoke the beasts of the shore, a red Rex came to me and said, you will see all the gore, it destroyed trikes argies and more as bodies piled up on the floor, I tried to escape to an island but the red Rex followed me to the shore, and let me tell you the island was no longer full of herbivores, but a hero awoke a titanosaur, fought to the near death and won this battle and more, now trikes and stegos tell this tale to their children and you can still see the titanosaur, he died after a while and let me tell you, rexes don’t come round here no more, vote for more good stories
Chapter 11:
The Colony, Giant Raids, and Mega Gigas: Part 1 (Chosen Rex Part 1 Finale: Part 1)
That night, Melvin sat on a bed under the ship’s planks. He took out his bag and took out a cyropod. It had one of his favorite Gigas, Null. She was a Level 145 Giga who almost died to a Titan the night Melvin found her. Melvin managed to kill the Titanosaur and the Giga was unconscious, at 12 HP out of over 80K, and he was starving. Melvin shoved a ton of prime meat in her mouth, and when she woke up, she saw Melvin. “Hey. It’s ok. I’m not going to hurt you. I saved you.” Null looked down at him, injured and upset. She was happy someone had saved her. For 3 weeks, they would play together, and hunt together, and during the nights, Melvin let her go to her nest to hunt with her pack. Null wasn’t officially tamed, but Melvin let her heal so it could happen one day. And that night came. While Melvin was resting in a small shack outside of Moonshot, Null and her friends came over to him. Null broke the walls and grabbed Melvin’s storage box, full of tranqs and an ascendant longneck. Melvin woke up and ran outside. “What? Oh. This? What…?” Melvin said. Null growled and licked the shooter. “Wait… do you…” Melvin said. Null nodded. “Dude… why didn’t you say so earlier?” Melvin said. He grabbed Null’s leg. He put the tranqs in the longneck rifle and did what Null wanted Melvin to do: tame her and her friends and become such powerful Gigas. Melvin did the Strong Cave for a ton of ascendant Giga saddles. He did it with Feron for Mosa saddles and shotguns. Melvin would check all the boxes, and when he found a Giga saddle, he would hide it when Feron wasn’t looking. When Melvin tamed all the Gigas, he went on a journey to saddle them all and went on hunts with them. However, Feron took away Null’s entire pack, and Melvin had Moonshot protect her. Melvin decided to get Null, hoping he’d use her again. And that time was almost here. He had an ascendant Giga saddle in his bag. While looking at the cyropod, Core walked in and Melvin quickly put it in his bag. “Listen up, Man. U R PU. Do you understand me? You stink. You need to be washed. We have a shower on the other side of the ship.” Core said. “Can I just at least eat dinner first?” Melvin said. “You should’ve eaten before we got on here if you wanted to eat before shower. Now get down there!” Core yelled. Melvin nodded and ran towards the other side of the ship to get a shower. Core walked over to Melvin’s bag and looked in it. “He’d better not be hiding something in here.” He sneered. He reached in and went to get something. He grabbed a metal rod and pulled it out. It was part of a saddle. It was an ascendant Giga saddle. “How did he get this? Why was he keeping it away from us? This thing… WHAT THE HECK!!!?? MAN, GET DOWN HERE AFTER YOUR SHOWER!!” Core screamed. Melvin gasped. He must have found his Giga saddle with 982 armor!! That would’ve made N-Terminator unstoppable. He used it on Null to protect her. He needed to do something. He knew: knock him out. He had 2 stacks of narcotics in his inventory, and 8 more in the bag. He ran back to Core and threw a poison grenade in front of him. “What the… Man! You were supposed to… take a…” Core said. He fell unconscious almost instantly. He took out some crops to eat and then grabbed his saddle to put back in. He moved Core to Feron’s quarter, across the room from the shower and on the opposite side of Melvin’s quarter. Feron kept driving the ship through the peaceful night.
The next morning, Core woke up in Feron’s bed, next to the shower. Melvin was in the shower, pointing his butt at Core’s eyes. “What the… EW!! Man, stop that! That’s disgusting!” Core said. “Oh, you know what else is disgusting? You call me Man for two reasons: that I’m the one to kill all girls, and because of Neddy! And if Melvin and Neddy were why, that would’ve been fine.” Melvin said. “Shut up. Talk after you’re done! I should’ve added curtains to the front of the room! So then I wouldn’t see Man showering.” Core said. “Stop calling me that!!” Melvin yelled.
Later, Melvin was dressed in some clothes and chowed down on some crops and meat in his quarter. Then, something crawled out of Melvin’s bag. Melvin turned around, and nothing was there. “Okay… well, that was weird,” Melvin said. He kept eating and then heard hissing noises. “Wait a second. Noodle?” Melvin said. He looked in his bag and found a baby Compy. “What were you doing in there?” Melvin said. Noodle screeched. “Carno? No wait? Do you mean the dino? Tacet? What does Tacet have to do with that? No? Not Tacet? Wait. The name of a dino? Do you mean Gunner’s Compy? Wait. Was the egg I borrowed from him fertilized? That might explain why he kept telling me to give it back before the hatching. Okay. The implant says your name is Noodle… oh, my god, heck. Your melee… we need to keep you hidden. We can’t have Feron finding you. There’s raw meat in my bag for taming. You can have that.” Melvin said. Noodle nodded and jumped back into the bag.
After a few hours, a forest came into sight. “Yes! Yes! Man, we’re here.” Feron said. “What?! We are! Okay. Okay. I’ll get my stuff.” Melvin said. Feron nodded and went back to the wheel. Melvin sent a message to Moonshot via his implant. “Guys, I am almost to Carol. This means the plan is about to begin. This cannot fail.” Melvin put his bag on and ran towards the plank. Core was mad at Melvin. He knew something was up. This was not good. Moonshot had to arrive as fast as possible, or else Core would know about the plan. They docked on the shore, and Melvin ran off the ship and along the beach. He ran into the forest with a map. “Okay. The cave should be around here.” Melvin said.
“Perfect. Let’s sit back and watch as Man turns this planet into a man-ruled world. He is truly a great survivor.” Feron said. “I don’t think so. I found a Giga saddle in Melvin’s bag. That thing had 982 armor and he never gave it to us.” Core said. “Oh, please. He barely tells us things, and even when he does, it’s not that bad. He would never think of such a horrible plan.” Feron said. Horrible? To Giga Reaper R, yes. To Moonshot, it’s a chance at redemption.
Carno, Katniss, Gunner, and their dinos were on a Mosa platform saddle, traveling through the ocean to get to Carol. After a few hours of traveling, they saw a ship. “We’re almost there. I can see the two dictators waiting around.” Carno said. “Let’s see if I can snipe them,” Gunner said. Katniss took out an ascendant crossbow and put a toxicant arrow on it. So did Gunner. They aimed at a dictator. Gunner and Katniss shot at the same time. Then, it hit them on the head. “Gotcha,” Carno said. They went to grab the two, but when they looked, they saw that they were just painted dummies. “Oh, no. It’s a trap!” Carno yelled. Everyone tried to run into the forest, then a net fell from the trees and captured them all. “Did you think we’d fall for that? We knew you were going to come to stop Man. These idiots don’t know us.” Feron said. “Okay, I know you’ve tortured thousands of survivors, taken down tons of islands, and…” Carno said. “Blah, blah, blah. I get it. You hate the things we’re doing. You can come to stop us, but Core will call the others and tell them to raid Moonshot. Unless… you leave right now.” Feron sneered. “What? You can’t do that!” Gunner said. “Hmm. I think you have some cryopods, right? You have some creatures on you. Let me see that bag.” Core said. “No. You’re not getting it.” Carno said. “Okay. I’ll give you two options. You give us that bag, we let you go, and you leave. I won’t harm Moonshot for now. Or, you can refuse, you stay here trapped, and we will call the rest of Reaper to raid Moonshot and destroy them.” Feron said. The Mosa was underwater, and he was holding a ton of poison grenades from the ship in his mouth. They were about to explode. The Mosa knew what he had to do. He leaped out of the water and shot the grenades at the dictators. Carno and Katniss put up a metal shield to protect them. The poison gas knocked the dictators and the Mosa out. The Mosa had 200,000 torpor, and the poison grenades were extremely potent. “What? He did it! Oh, my god.” Carno said. Gunner used a spear to cut the net and they walked over to the dictators. “Okay, we need to keep them down until Melvin gets back with the colony. Oh, no.” Carno said. The Mosa was dying since he was out of water. The others tried to pull him back, then Katniss threw out her Giga and it tried to pull the Mosa back, but the platform saddle made it impossible. Carno and Gunner took off the platform saddle and the Giga pulled the Mosa back into the sea. Extremely injured and unconscious, he wasn’t going to wake up for a while. “Okay. Gunner, you stay here and keep the two unconscious.” Carno said. He threw out Tacet and a Giga to help him. “You two, be good and help Gunner. Me and Katniss will go out for some Gigas.” Carno said. He got on Tacet, Katniss got on her Giga, and they went out into the forest.
“Okay. Good. They knocked the two out. That’s good. Now to find the cave.” Melvin said. He was near a river, and across it was a huge mountain. He swam across the river and ran towards the mountain. Then, he saw a small hole in the distance. Melvin ran to it, and he saw a Rex in the distance. And when he looked at its level, he freaked out. “WHAT!? A Level 450!! Okay, I really want to tame that, but I need the colony. I don’t have forever, and… you know what? I’ll come back for that Rex.” Melvin said. He ran into the cave and walked through some tunnels. “Okay. Now where’s that colony? What’s the name again? I think it was Utopia X. I’m not sure.” Melvin said. Then, he could hear screeching in the distance. Then, there was chatting. “Okay. I’m going in the right direction. I just need to be careful. I need to convince them to come with me to destroy Giga Reaper R.” Melvin said. Then, a snake came. It was a tamed snake. “What? Oh, hey. I’m not going to hurt you. You’re part of them, right?” Melvin said. The snake nodded. “Okay. Could you lead me to the colony? I need their help.” Melvin said. The snake left, and Melvin followed him. “Hey! Where’s Terdon? Oh, there he… wait. Who is that?” Someone said. Terdon was the name of the snake, and that person was the one who tamed that snake. “Okay. I know what you’re all thinking. I’m a Giga Reaper R hostage. I’m here to end you all. But no. I hate them. I want to help you. My name’s Melvin. I’m in a tribe called Moonshot. We need your help.” Melvin said. Then, hundreds of survivors came out of the houses and surrounded him. “What’s he talking about… Why is he here… Does he mean the Giga Reaper R?” The survivors were unsure about Melvin’s presence. “Listen. We have come to tell you to fight Giga Reaper R and distract them while Moonshot and I go to Demon Number.” Melvin said. Everyone gasped. Then, the tribe leader came out of the crowd. “Okay. Listen up, Melvin. My name is Helena. I am the leader of this tribe. And I won’t go distract them. We’ve lost too many survivors already. If we went to fight them… we’d go extinct.” Helena said. “What? What happened? Oh, wait a minute. You’re that tribe Core said he tried to destroy. A long time ago, he and a huge Giga army went out for this island. I had nothing to do with that. He forced me to come, but I managed to sneak off the ship and stay in the Arctic for days. I did die tons of times and had to travel thousands of meters back to Moonshot once, but it was worth it. I would rather die than kill every single girl in the world. I need your most powerful Gigas.” Melvin said. “Yes. You got that story right. It is sad. And we have made an all-powerful Giga army. Most of the Gigas were leveled up near 900. We can send in some ships. What about the dictators that sent you?” Helena said. “My friends are keeping them knocked out. Also, I need your help to tame a 450 Rex just outside the cave.” Melvin said. “What? There’s no way. There’s a max level Rex… that’s perfect…” “Okay, everyone! Settle down. We’re going to need that Rex. If we can tame that, we can get a Rex army going.” Helena said. “You can have that Rex, but we need to get back to the Island soon. Once the dictators realize the others were knocked out, we will have problems. Okay. Get your cryopods out and get those Gigas on your ships. Let’s go.” Melvin said. “Hold on! This is dangerous, you know. What if they followed us here?” Helena said. “They won’t because they’ll be distracted with me,” Melvin said. “Dude, what if they caught you and threw into you-know-what? Melvin, we need to tell you something.” Helena said. “I know. I heard about what they did to you. I was mad at the dictators. That tribe needs to be stopped. They’ve done this for far too long. What they’ve done to me… what they did to you… I need to go to extreme measures if we want them dead. But… since you’re all locked on permadeath… all it takes is one slip-up… and that’s it. They’ll take over the ARK universe. You’ll all be dead. I’ll be the only person on Moonshot left. I’m not, and I quote, “the one male that will end the reign of all girls and ensure man takes over the world.” They got me wrong! I’m not who they call “Man”. I’m Melvin. I deserve freedom. I wanted Giga Reaper R dead. Since the day they took me in, all I wanted for me and my friends was freedom. But when they introduced L.A.V.A, I knew I couldn’t even try to hurt any of the dictators. They keep threatening Moonshot. They have closed in on them, almost killed so many of my friends, and destroyed so many bases. They’ve killed tens of thousands of survivors and tens of thousands of creatures in the past 50 years! So if I can destroy them without the cost of everyone I love dying, then I’ll do it! If I can just… watch one of the dictators die for good… I just really want freedom.” Melvin said. He started crying softly. The snake went up to him and cuddled him. Then, his bag started shaking. Then a cryopod opened and a Giga came out. It was Null. “Huh? GRRRR…” Null snarled. “Hey, Null. It’s okay. They’re not going to hurt you. They’ll help us end Reaper.” Melvin said. Null looked down, and she got kind of upset. Helena walked over to Melvin as he started crying. “Hey. It’s okay. We’ll get the Gigas out and the ships ready. We’ll be safe with them.” She said. “No. You can’t. Remember the disease? It’ll hold us back. You need to stay here.” Melvin said. “No. I want to come.” Helena said. “Dude. What if Feron sees you!? I can’t let you die. I can’t face him again with you. Not after what happened last time!” Melvin said. He was having flashbacks to the last time they met each other. Feron almost killed her, and Melvin was distraught. Melvin almost died saving her, and when he returned, Feron threw him into a prison. It was better than L.A.V.A, but it was still pretty bad. He would rather die than watch Helena die at the hands of the dictators. Melvin yelled and ran out of the cave. He couldn’t risk Helena’s life again. He loved being with the colony. He used to be in their tribe until Feron took him away. And then Melvin had to watch himself be forced to lock everyone in the tribe and disease them permanently. They would never respawn if they died. Melvin never forgave himself for that and promised never to let anyone in the tribe die. Especially not Helena. Melvin knew he couldn’t lose them, and he was not going to risk them. But he needed to, even though he knew it could cost him Helena’s life. “I can’t do this. I’m putting so many survivors at risk, and they all have the permadeath disease thing.” Melvin said as he sat outside of the cave entrance, crying. Null came out and looked down. Melvin wanted Giga Reaper R dead but didn’t know how to destroy them without the cost of everyone he loved dying. If the plan failed, everyone would die. Then, a group of survivors came out of the cave. “Melvin. We’re with you. We’ll protect everyone. We will not let anyone die.” Someone said. “Let’s go get the Gigas and the ships ready.” Helena said as she held her hand out. Melvin took it and Helena helped him up. “Okay. I’ll check on the others. You get the army ready.” Melvin said. Helena nodded. Melvin was about to risk 5,000 survivors' worth of lives to get an army to destroy Reaper. But he was ready. Melvin ran towards the shore.
As the sun started to move into the west, Melvin arrived at the shore and found Carno and Katniss. Their creatures were next to them. Then, he saw a Giga with them. Level 671. “Oh, hey! Did you get the colony?” Carno said. “Yes. They’re all coming. Let’s get ready for what may be the worst night of our lives.” Melvin said. “Come on. You’re going to be okay. They’ll be fine.” Carno said. “Guys. You don’t understand. Feron made me do something to all of them over 10 years ago. I can’t say what I did, but I diseased all of their implants. What it means is that they’re diseased with permadeath, so they can never respawn. And there’s no cure.” Melvin said. “What? Why didn’t you tell us? Carno said. “I just didn’t want to. It was horrible and I tried to forget about it, hoping they would never target the colony. I didn’t even know it was them until I saw them! I was hoping Feron would never try to kill them again. But now they’re trying again. And this time, it’s worse. If this goes wrong…” Melvin said. “Melvin, you could’ve just told us. We’ll ensure they don’t die. We’ll stay away from Demon Number and help you.” Carno said. “No. I’m the one who did this. I need to go there alone.” Melvin said. He was about to get on the Mosa when Null and Katniss grabbed him. “No. You can’t do that.” Katniss said. “They’ll just force me to kill everyone! I’d rather die than watch the dictators force me to kill every last girl in the world.” Melvin said. Null whimpered and shook her head. “I’m sorry, Null. Keep the colony safe, okay?” Melvin said. Null screeched and grabbed Melvin. “I know. I don’t want to leave. But I have to. If they forced me to kill the colony…” Melvin said. “Guys. He’s right. We’re risking 5,000 permadeath-diseased survivors. Melvin loves all of them. Like he said, he will die if he has to end all the girls in the world. He needs to go alone.” Gunner said. “Come on. You can’t be doing this. You guys…” Katniss said. “Look. I need to go alone. I can’t watch everyone I love die. This is risky. But it has to be done. Take my entire Theri army. All my Gigas. And please… please, don’t die. You die forever, I die forever. I can’t live without you guys.” Melvin said. “Melvin… are you saying…” Katniss said as she started to cry. “Yes. I love you all a lot. You’re like family to me. The ones that tortured me were people that I could forget about when I was with you. I won’t watch you battle and die. I’ll return when I can.” Melvin said. Null licked him and the rest walked up to him and hugged him. Melvin put down a bed, some boxes, some crafting stations, a campfire, and a fridge for all his prime meat. The others started crying as the Mosa started to set out. Then, the colony came out of the forest. They had thousands of cryopods, filled with ships and Gigas. “Ready?” Helena said. “Yes,” Carno said. “Dude. What the heck is wrong?” Helena said as she walked up to Carno. “Melvin… I didn’t get a chance to tell him. Journey… she loves Melvin. And he never knew that, and we didn’t think he’d care so much about us all either.” Carno said. “Let’s go,” Katniss said. Helena nodded. As cryopods opened, ships went off, and Gigas were summoned, Core and Feron were locked on Helena’s ship. The sun was setting on what would soon be one of the saddest nights of Melvin’s life.
Chapter 12
Giant Raids, Mega Gigas, and Near-Death Experiences: Part 2 (The Chosen Rex: Part 1 Finale: Part 2 (The Grand Finale of The Chosen Rex Part 1!!!)
Melvin was lying on his bed, chowing down on some cooked prime meat. He was apprehensive about the others. “What if they all died? No. I can’t go there yet. I just need to get two high-level Gigas and get the heck out of there. I need to get them and return them to Moonshot as soon as possible. If I see a death message, I’m going to be mad.” Melvin thought to himself as he took out a spyglass and looked through it to see if he was close. After half an hour of sailing, Melvin saw a dark forest in the distance. “Perfect. There’s a huge mountain range on the other end of that forest. Let’s do this.” Melvin said. The Mosa soon docked on the beach, and Melvin witnessed a raptor. He checked the level. Level 666. He wasn’t there for even 10 seconds and he found a max-level Raptor. He took out some tranqs and shot some at the head as he threw a bola at him. Then, the raptor fell unconscious in seconds. But Gigas that were Level 666 would have over 300K torpor. If he wanted to tame two, he needed thousands of tranqs and some spare longnecks. He had a storage box full of tranqs and longnecks. Melvin shoved prime meat into the Raptor’s implant to get it tamed. This is ARK. What’d we expect? Melvin ran into the forest with all the tranqs on him.
Later that evening, he found a Giga pair; a Level 632 male, and a Level 666 female. Melvin put down a trap and lured the Gigas in. He did what people do with creatures they want to tame. Melvin used a turret to shoot the tranqs automatically. He could feel something bad was about to happen, so he had to tame those Gigas as fast as humanly possible. With the turrets, Melvin shot darts at their heads as fast as he could. If he didn’t get to the Island soon, his friends could die.
As the sun set and the sky darkened, the ships were sailing towards the Island. On the main ship, the Moonshot people were sitting in the ship’s basement. Core and Feron were both still unconscious, and they were contained in a machine. It held their body towards the wall, and their implants were put in a dangerous position where any wrong movements would blast spikes at them. They didn’t have the ability to talk to the others through their implant, and they couldn’t move. Katniss, Carno, and Helena looked at them. “Okay, I’ll go and tell the others to get to the northern Arctic shore. We have to go straight for the volcano’s slope.” Helena said. “Good idea. We can’t have Feron seeing you.” Katniss said. Then, Core and Feron started to wake up. “Oh… what just happened? How long were we– WHAT THE HECK!? Where is Man!?” Core yelled. “Oh, he’s busy somewhere else. You can’t do anything to us, can you?” Carno said. “You stupid Moonshot people! We’re going to destroy you.” Feron said. “Not if we destroy you first! Melvin set you two up. While it was your idea to go to Carol, it was Melvin’s idea to distract you two.” Carno said. “Where are we?” Core said. “We’re on a ship. You two are being held hostage by us and some other helpers. Utopia X. And they’re all on ships, traveling to the Island to destroy your base. We have a lot of Titanosauruses and Gigas.” Carno said. “Utopia X? I knew it. Man was up to something stupid!” Core said. “Hold on. I know who the tribe leader of this colony is. It’s that stupid Helena! The one survivor we never managed to kill because of Man’s shenanigans. Let me down now.” Feron said. “No. There’s nothing you can do about this.” Katniss said. “Look who it is. Level 14 survivor who killed one of our tribemates permanently. I’ll ensure you all die.” Feron said. “I wouldn’t kill you here. The others would see the death message and Melvin would get thrown into you-know-what. And the rest would destroy Moonshot. But you will stay trapped.” Katniss said. “If you call off this… assassination thing… we’ll leave you and Man unharmed. All you have to do is let me kill her.” Feron said. “Don’t say it,” Carno said. “Don’t call her the thing,” Katniss said. “I can say it if I want to. You can’t even hurt me. You’d get me killed and Reaper would destroy your tribe. Why, I should kill you right now.” Feron said. “Try. Try and see what happens. You’re just going to commit eternal suicide just so that we can all die?” Carno said. “I just want her dead. Man has kept her hidden for years. And so has the rest of the colony. You’re just ensuring Helena dies. Forever. Face it, Moonshot. Man is not someone to be messed with. He’ll turn on you all just to protect her. Man loves you so much that he’d do anything to protect you. Even if it means killing someone from Moonshot.” Feron said. “Dude. I know you hate Man, but this is too much. You’re going too far.” Core said. “Shut up. I want her dead now.” Feron said. “What? Look, this is too cruel. What do you expect to do when she walks down here?!” Core said. “Okay. I’ve got a ton of food. I think we’re ready for…” Helena said. She had food in her hands and was getting the others a snack. She dropped everything when she saw the dictators. “Feron. Feron, don’t. Don’t! DON’T!!!!!!!” Core screamed. “Yes. Twitcher Woman. Time to die.” Feron said. He kicked his bag and a cryopod opened. A Raptor came out and ripped the trap apart. Carno tried to shoot him and Feron threw tasers at everyone. Core was upset. He did not like Feron’s behavior towards Helena. He knew this was too much. Katniss tried to grab him, and Feron grabbed her. “You think you can stop me?” Feron sneered. He was about to start choking her when suddenly, something hit the Raptor. It screeched and collapsed to the ground, unconscious. Feron ran to get Helena, and she started running. Carno was about to run after him, then Core yelled to stop. “Hey! Hey. I know this sounds stupid, but you should let me out.” Core said. “You think I’m dumb enough to do that?” Carno said. “Okay, I know. I’ve done a ton of horrible things to you and Moonshot. But I can help. Feron will stop at nothing to kill Helena. Absolutely nothing.” Core said. “What?” Carno said. “Yeah. When I say nothing, I mean nothing. Feron has tried to force Melvin to drive him to Carol.” Core said. “Wait a minute. You seriously just called him by his real name?” Carno said. “Yeah. And Feron is a madman. Feron even once injured me when Helena was on the run. If it wasn’t for Melvin, she would’ve died a long time ago.” Core said. “Oh, my god. It’s as if Death and Satan had a baby. And that baby was raised by Hades And then there’s his friend Athena who wanted that baby to stop. Okay. If you try anything funny, I’ll KO you again.” Carno said. Core nodded. Carno dismantled the trap. Core ran to find Feron. “Don’t kill Feron, okay? It’s not the right time to betray your tribe. The time will come soon.” Carno said Core nodded. He ran around the ship looking for Feron. Core did not like Feron’s actions towards Helena. This made Core reconsider being in Reaper, but he knew it wasn’t the right time to leave. But Core did not like Feron at all. The final straw came one day, 8 years ago, on their last raid to the colony. Melvin was forced to come that day. Feron went too far. He sacrificed hundreds of tames for celestial bombs made from corrupted souls and then loaded with implant Zeronium. Feron wreaked havoc on the raid just to try and kill Helena. Melvin was struggling to save her. Core was mad at him, and when Feron broke Core’s leg, Core used an Argy to pick Feron up. Melvin made his way to a raft, and Feron was about to shoot a fire arrow to destroy it when Core decided this was too much. Core knocked Feron out with a tranquilizer dart before he could shoot the raft. Feron had destroyed half of his Giga army and ruined the raid. Core knew Feron would go to any measure necessary and unnecessary to kill Helena. He hoped Feron would never find her again, and now he did. And if Core didn’t stop Feron, he would ruin Melvin’s plan and break his heart. Core would never do this to a single girl. He knew he made a huge mistake ever trusting Feron and Giga Reaper R’s dictators. Since the Helena incident, Core ensured Feron couldn’t return to Carol. When they did return, Core needed to keep Feron away from Helena, because Feron didn’t remember it was Utopia X until tonight. And now, the incident is starting up again. Feron kept running through the basement with a pistol in his hands, and Helena was trying not to be seen. Carno ran to find Helena and Core went to confront Feron. “Where are you? Come on out, wherever you are.” He sneered. He kept hissing as he snuck over to where he thought Helena was hiding. Then Core ran toward him. “Hey! I need to check your bag.” Core said. “Oh, look who it is. The stupid little dictator who thinks he can stop me.” Feron hissed. “Dude. This… this is too much for you! Remember what you did to us 8 years ago?” Core said. “If only Man wasn’t in the way. Now he’s hiding like a coward somewhere else. I can finally end her once and for all.” Feron sneered. He walked into the room, and saw a storage box. He took out a celestial bomb. If this didn’t kill her, her wounds and the water would. She’d drown along with the whole ship. “No. NO!!! You’re going to kill us all!” Core yelled. “I don’t care. I want her dead!” Feron yelled. He opened the box and was about to throw the bomb in when Carno grabbed the bomb. “Enough. I’ve seen too much. This needs to stop now.” Carno said. “Oh. Okay. So then why don’t I just destroy that bomb. Either she dies or we all die.” Feron said. Then, Feron was about to shoot the bomb. “Oh, no.” Helena said. Core and Carno crouched, bracing for impact. Then suddenly, something grabbed Feron. It was Queen. She screeched and grabbed the bomb. Core took it to ensure it didn’t fall into the wrong hands. “NO!!! The stupid Rex again!!” Feron yelled. He was about to shoot the bomb when Queen grabbed his arm. The arm with his implant. Queen was about to kill Feron permanently. “That’s it. Feron, you are going to leave forever. If you don’t, my Rex will end you forever.” Katniss said as she walked up to him. “You. I just wanted her dead.” Feron said. “Feron, you’ve tortured her too much. I just want it to stop. If you stop hunting her down like a madman, we’ll let you go. But you need to promise you will leave for good.” Core said. Feron started thinking about what to do. “Hold on! Guys, we’re almost there.” Gunner said. He came down when he heard all the chaos going down. But unbeknownst to everyone, Feron had a nasty plan for when they got to the shore. Feron secretly had another celestial bomb and had a pistol right next to it. Gunner took Helena out of the box, and they were about to get to the plank when the boat was about to dock. Feron quickly reached into his bag and clicked something. BOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Melvin was about to arrive when he saw a explosion in the distance. He knew what it was: a celestial bomb! That could only mean one thing. Then, a death message showed up. “Your tribemate Katniss (Level 15) was killed by Feron (Level 100)!” The Mosa screeched and sped towards the chaos. Melvin couldn’t say anything. Feron did it again.
The ship was now in ruins. Almost everyone barely survived. Two people from the Utopia X colony died and Queen was injured. Helena was starting to drown, and Melvin found her and picked her up. “Oh, look who’s back.” Gunner said. He hugged Melvin as he took Helena out of the water. Gunner put some fur armor on her. “Is she okay?” Melvin said. “Yeah. She’s just hurt.” Gunner said. Then Queen came out of the water, with scratches on her back and a open wound on her head. “Oh, my god. You’re going to get a concussion if this keeps up. We need to get her to the med center now.” Melvin said. Carno took out a cryopod and put her in it. Then he took out an Argy, trapped Tacet in a cryopod, and used the Argy to fly back to the base. “Guys… what happened!? I saw Katniss’ death message!” Melvin yelled. “Feron happened. He hid a celestial bomb in his bag and shot it the second we docked! It almost killed me and Helena, and Katniss was hit hard. Then the mast broke and the sharp tip of it fell on her. He almost ruined it. I know a lot about implant mutations.” Core said. “You. Why should I believe you?” Melvin said. “Look, Melvin, I don’t like Feron. His actions towards Helena were too much.” Core said. “You think I don’t… wait. Did you seriously just call me by my real name?” Melvin said. “Melvin, he’s here to help. He needs to protect us. He was going to stop Feron from hunting her down. But instead, Feron did that.” Gunner said. “Yeah. He almost killed the Chosen Rex! He annihilated her owner! Feron is a madman.” Core said. “What?” Melvin said. “That Rex came from a Rex pair. They had a mutation. The baby had both the mutations. That Rex’s strength is unimaginable. He can hold people down, he can stun them, and he can do a lot of things. When he grows up, he’ll become such a powerful Rex. Katniss had a mutation that made her powerful. It can level her up faster, it can strengthen her, and her max level is 200. Well, that is, before she died. Now it’s 150. The mutation gets weaker every time she dies. I know this, because before Feron’s reign, I have research a ton of mutations on survivors and creatures. But Katniss isn’t the only one with a mutation. Feron has one too. And it’s worse. His max level can reach 250. But only if his implant can reach full power. It’s still 100, but it will get higher. And he’s using it to destroy all girls. If I had the mutation, I would use it to destroy Giga Reaper R. But he’s using it for evil.” Core said. “Wow. That’s a lot. Just… what makes Queen the “Chosen Rex?” Didn’t she hatch last week?” Melvin said. “Yeah. But the legend of the Chosen Rex is something that’s gone on for decades. If a Rex so powerful it could kill the Savage Acro for good ever existed, it would be crowned the Chosen Rex. But Rexes that have hatched in the past have not proved worthy. But Queen could be the one. But there’s a problem. It seems like Queen and Katniss are linked together. With their implants. If one dies, the other dies forever. That’s why I could not let Queen die. The volcano destroying the base is bad enough, but not being able to fight the Savage Acro is worse. Katniss’ mutation gets weaker every time she dies. If it weakens below 0.1 percent, which is where her max level gets to 10, that will cause problems. It will destroy her. And with it, Queen. And with that, any hope of ever destroying the Savage Acro.” Core said. “So… then if it’s gone down to 75%... then the next one…” Gunner said. “Next death will bring it down to 50%. Then a 3rd will bring it down to 30%. Number 4 will bring it down to 20%. 5 will bring it down to 10. 6 will bring it down to 5. 7 will bring it down to 1. 8 will bring it down to 0.1, and 9 will bring it down to 0, ultimately destroying her.” Core said. “Wait. Katniss told us earlier that she died once on a earlier island.” Gunner said. “What? Then that means it’s at 50!! This isn’t good. Thank the gods Feron doesn’t know this. He’s unconscious, but the mutation is stopping him from drowning. We need to leave before he wakes up.” Core said. Melvin nodded. Gunner threw out Null and they all got on. Then they ran towards the volcano’s slope.
As clouds began to form, something began to form in the med center. The only place in Moonshot with normal beds and not sleeping bags. Something, or shall I say, someone was respawning on the last few beds in the tribe. Katniss’ Gigas were right outside the door. They were screeching at the beacon right above them. Then, something exploded in one of the rooms. Then, a young Giga, who was hatched last week, went through the dinosaur gate on the side of the building. It saw two survivors in one of the rooms. Elaine and Katniss. “Oh, hey. Didn’t see you there. I can’t really move right now because I have a ton of resources and weapons on me and my stats are Level 1, so I’m going to need a XP potion before I do anything else.” Katniss said. The Giga nodded and ran across the hall, into a lab. It was Gunner’s lab, and it had some XP potions in it that could restore half your maximum level. The Giga picked a potion up and ran back to Katniss. Then, they heard wings flapping outside the door. It was Carno and his Argy. Then there was a horrible noise. The cryopod was breaking. Carno quickly threw it into the med center. “Carno, what the heck!? Oh… you’re lucky he’s hurt. Could’ve got me.” Elaine said. “It’s a she. And you need to help her. If she dies, Katniss dies foreveer, and that means the chances of us beating the Savage Acro also dies forever. Do you want to be beaten by the Savage Acro again?” Carno said. Elaine knew what happened to her all those years ago. “Elaine… it’s time for you to save us again. You survived the Savage Acro. You survived two encounters with Reaper. You can do this. I saved you once. It’s time for you to save us. If we save Queen, we save hope for killing the Savage Acrocanthosaurus and saving the entire world.” Carno said. Elaine looked around then looked at Queen, lying on the bed with blood coming out of her head. “Carno… I’m sorry. It’s hopeless. Queen’s condition has gotten beyond unbearable. There’s no way we can help her.” Elaine said. Carno looked at Queen and walked to her. “I… know what to do. I think. I don’t know how we can help her… but we may have a way. We’ll need some of Gunner’s potions.” Carno said. “What? We can’t just take Gunner;s stuff.” Elaine said. “Listen, we need to do something. I can get them and have Queen use them. Then we can do the rest.” Carno said. Elaine sighed and ran to Gunner’s room. Carno smiled then walked back into the room where Queen was.
The group was walking to the volcano. Rain started pattering down on them. Darkness had fallen. Gunner saw the volcano in the distance, but he also saw lights. “Moonshot, give me your Gigas! NOW!!” Someone yelled. It was Ripper, another one of the dictators. “NO!!! We would never give up our tames!!” Melvin yelled. “Man!! GET DOWN NOW!!!” Ripper yelled. He was standing on his Giga, looking out over the volcano’s slope towards the coming raid. “You stupid dictator!! Your reign will be over! AND STOP CALLING ME THAT!!!” Melvin screamed. Ripper threw a knife at the ground and whistled his entire Giga army to attack. “It! Final STRAW!!! FINAL!!!!!!!!!! YOU NEED TO STOP!!!” Ripper yelled. The Gigas on his side started tearing apart Utopia X’s Gigas. Melvin saw his friends getting teared apart. He put Null in a cryopod and ran towards Ripper. “Melvin, where are you going?” Gunner said. “To have a chat with that idiot.” Melvin said as he ran towards the volcano. Ripper saw Melvin running towards him, and he whistled for the army to stop. He then jumped down and walked to Melvin. “Ripper, and the rest of you idiots… you… your reign ends tonight.” Melvin said. “Oh, don’t worry. All the purging on Moonshot will stop if you just… do what I want you to do. Tell me right now where that stupid Rex is and what the heck is going on with her and… that guy who killed Truman.” Ripper said. “I won’t tell you. You’re trying to make me endanger my own friends. The only friends I could ever make. Because of you all.” Melvin said. Ripper laughed and walked around Melvin. “Ha. Friends. What are they, really? Open, honest, vulnerable with each other. And were your friends ever that? You know, when I came to Giga Reaper R, no one was friends with each other. There were no girls anyone could save. Well, until the Journey incident.” Ripper said. “No one did anything because you made them do nothing! You forced them to watch their friends die!! Like you tried to do with me and my friends! The Chosen Rex prophecy will be fulified, and you all will die!!” Melvin said. “Oh, you stupid. Man, listen. All it takes is for you to say where she and that stupid Rex is, and I’ll be done. I can’t have anyone standing against me and my friends. If True Reaper ever, EVER found out about all this… he’d release his true power and kill you, and every single person in your tribe. He has the knowledge to kill every girl in the world, and he is not afraid to use it. So listen. You can choose to keep playing my game, or you can watch 600 million people perish before your own eyes. I’m not in charge of this whole tribe, Man. I don’t make the rules. True Reaper does. And our job is to make sure people follow them. Melvin, none of us dictators want to be here. We were just forced here. That guy… he is unkillable. Unstoppable. If anyone tried to stand against them, he’d do the most unspeakable thing ever. He’d kill more than your friends. He’d kill over half the population of the entire planet. We were forced to play along with his “game” and we were supposed to make sure people kept playing it. Feron… he’s the only dictator here who’s on True Reaper’s side. We must stay here. Melvin, this is not our choice… but if you really want your friends to stay alive… then you must stay with us. If you leave… well… you know what would happen. Melvin, if I didn’t trust you, would I call you by your real name? Just stay with us. Do not stand against True, and follow along with us.” Ripper said. Melvin was dumbfounded. All this time with them, and Ripper’s saying True Reaper is the true master of the entire thing. “I… okay. You’re saying that True is the true master of all this, and he forced you to do all this?” Melvin said. “Yes. He has warned you over and over. If you break his trust, he will kill everyone you love and probably more. He’s unescapable. Unstoppable. You can’t outrun him. He’s basically Godzilla multiplied by a centillion. He would find them and kill them, if he knew about all this. He can crush implants almost instantly. That day… True was very upset. Mad at Journey. You were very lucky that he didn’t kill her right then and there. If he was there, in front of you, he would’ve crushed Journey’s implant immediately. Melvin… we were trying, all along, to protect you and your friends from that monster.” Ripper said. Tears rolled down Melvin’s face, as he sat down as the rain kept falling. “Ripper… guys… I didn’t know. I… I need to stay with them.” Melvin said. “Melvin, no.” Gunner said. “No. He’s right. Reaper would kill us if he found out. I need to play along with his “game”. I will do anything to protect my friends. I will not let them die.” Melvin said. He was crying as he ran up the volcano’s path with Ripper. “Melvin…” Gunner said as he ran for him. He stopped at the rocks below the lone tree on the path.
Chapter 13
Epilogue (Part 1 Ending)
1 week later…
There were large buildings in a deep cave, far under the water near the floor. They had air conditioners, feeding troughs, refrigerators, and storage bins. It was a Giga hatchery. They were breeding them to make a mutated army to destroy Feron and True Reaper.
The adventure’s of jack part 3
Other survivors
Jack thought he was dead but he got up just fine on the same beach he had started on was it just a dream that he had died no he could see the blood stains left on the ground from killing the dodo then the man who had tried to lead him to a camp came back to the beach the man said” how are you alive I saw you die and your body but I’m glad you are we need some new people in camp come on oh and by the way my name is Andrew”
Then jack said” where even are we”
Andrew just said” nobody now’s we all remember dying and then waking up on the beach” on the way back to the camp they saw something a T. rex but they like the dodo should be dead he thought maybe everything on this island is just having a second chance at life jack thought it roared before leaving Andrew said to keep moving along until they to camp houses made out of thatch jack wondered why they didn’t build stronger tools and houses little did he now the answer was very dark and scary.
The Chosen Rex
Chapter 6
The Next Day…
As Katniss started to wake up in a room in the med center, she could hear yelling in the hallway. She could see Journey on the other side of the room, and they were both on a bed. She felt cold, and she was hurt. She didn’t know what the yelling was. Then, someone came in. “Perfect. You’re awake. It’s a good thing you got out. I can’t believe you did that yourself. You weren’t there when I went in. You’re probably the one.” Elaine said. “Who are you?” Katniss said. “Dude. She didn’t get out herself. And if it wasn’t for Queen, she would’ve died along with Journey!” Carno yelled. “You think some monsters care about the one? And besides, what’s the point of keeping Journey?” Elaine said. “I’ll tell you why we’re keeping her. Because they were all captured by Giga Reaper, and we got her out.” Carno said. “Shut up, stupid. If you lay a finger on the Chosen Survivor again, I’ll make sure today is your last day in this universe.” Elaine said. She stormed out of the med center. Gunner walked in just then. “Dude. Who is she? It looks like you know her.” Gunner said. “Yeah. She has a very complicated history. She was in our tribe, but when she felt the volcano rumbling, she thought the Savage Acro was coming, so she made countless sacrifices to the volcano. I told her to stop, and she tried to kill my Carno, Tacet. Then, he bucked Elaine into the volcano. I was mad at Tacet. He decided to run away because he thought I hated him. We reunited last month, and here we are. Same old Elaine.” Carno said. “Wow. Why was she acting like this?” Gunner said. “I think I know, guys. She thinks I’m the key to destroying the Savage Acro that spawns in a year.” Katniss said. “Okay, but why is she specifically choosing you?” Carno said. “I have no idea. Maybe she knows what the Acro can do? Maybe witnessed it before?” Katniss said. “Wait a minute. You know, the day I met her, she was injured. Hungry, cold, and upset. She was on a small raft drifting in the ocean. Maybe that had something to do with the Savage Acro.” Carno said.
“Okay, that could’ve been anything. A Leedy, Mosa, Giga, Alpha Mosa, Alpha Megalodon, anything.” Gunner said. “No. She’s one of the most powerful survivors in the universe. She would’ve taken down them all in seconds. The only thing that could’ve killed her was the Savage Acrocanthosaurus.” Carno said. Journey got up just then. “What’s happening?” She said. “Well, there’s this guy named Elaine, who hates Carno and doesn’t care about taming creatures. She is one of the most powerful survivors in the universe. She almost died twice in the past; once to the Acro and once to the volcano. She knows the Acro is coming here and thinks Katniss is the only person who can stop him.” Carno said. Then, Melvin ran into the med center. “Guys! Okay, I ran into Elaine with my baby Argy, and she did not like it. She does not know that Argys are the most valuable creatures in the universe! I think something’s up with her.” Melvin said. “Okay, we need to talk to her now,” Katniss said as she got up. Everyone ran out of the medical center.
Elaine was in Carno’s house, looking for any weapons she wanted to replace. Then Carno stormed upstairs towards her. “Hey! We need to talk.” Carno said. They went downstairs. They walked towards the fountain in the center of the village. “Okay, Elaine, you know something that we don’t. We think that you may have faced the Savage Acro once.” Carno said. “You think you’d understand what happened to me that day?” Elaine said. “Yes. Because we all think you and whatever tribe you had were underprepared.” Carno said. “Your original tribe was known as X-Warrior. The tribe fell victim to the Savage Acrocanthosaurus over 70 ARK years ago. There’s only one survivor from that tribe: you.” Gunner said. Elaine sighed and went to sit down. “Okay, whatever. You got me. You see, 73 years ago, I noticed earthquakes all over my island. My knowledge told me that it meant disaster was about to arrive. We gathered the hundreds of survivors we had and built the greatest weapons and armor we’ve ever made.” Elaine said. “Ah-ha! So you didn’t have any tames. That proves you think they’re useless.” Carno said. “Yes. I tried to tame some Theris and Rexes, but everyone killed them because they thought they were useless. But no one can kill the Dragon, Overseer, or the King Titan solo. It’d take way too long and way too many resources. When he came, I knew we weren’t ready. I knew we were going to fall. But my friends forced me into battle. And even the greatest of us fell to the Acro. And I decided to leave, but he attacked the last group. I was in it. I almost died to the Acro. I fell into a ditch right in front of his paw as he was going to stomp. I climbed out, but the stomp hit me hard in the back, and I fell down a cliff on a huge sandy beach. I took the final raft away as he devoured the last of my tribemates. Almost 2000 survivors severed to one in minutes. I sailed through the ocean for hours and ran out of food. I fell unconscious by sundown, and if it wasn’t for Carno, I don’t think I would’ve made it.” Elaine said. “Yeah. I agree. That night, I was on the shores, and during the foggy weather, I saw a raft in the distance. I noticed you on it. You were injured, unconscious, and hungry. I looked at your stats, and they were just insane. But your health and food made me realize you were about to die. I saw so many cuts and blood clots on your body. It’s a good thing I brought a med kit with me. I wrapped around a bandage on her chest, then stitched the cuts on the arms and upper leg. I carried her towards the hospital in our village, and we kept her in until the incident with Tacet. Everything she ever survived in the past is just crazy. Not only is she the only survivor of the Savage Acrocanthosaurus’ 17th rampage, but she’s also the last survivor to live all these years. She remains, to this day, one of the greatest female survivors of all time.” Carno said. “Wow. She does have a lot of history.” Katniss said. She walked up to Elaine. “I just want to ask why you think I’m the one that can stop the Acro.” Katniss said. “Katniss, your stats are so much better than mine ever was. And besides, you have a lot of creatures on your side. Do you think Giga Reaper is terrible?” Elaine said. “What? Do we think it’s terrible? There were over 15000 recorded survivors captured, tortured, and even killed by that tribe!! They hate females so much that they want males to take over the ARKs! I have spent a total of 20000 hours in labor, over the past 30 years! These dictators are ruthless and everyone hates that tribe! And if I told you about every single male and female survivor who was tortured, captured, and killed, it’d take forever!! That tribe is the worst tribe that ever existed in the history of the universe!!!” Melvin yelled. Elaine stormed over to him. “Look. If you want to leave, just leave. You don’t have to yell for no reason. I know what happens when we’re hurt, but you are just insane.” Elaine said. She turned around. “Did he eat too much sugar or something? Or did he destroy his brain?” She said. “Elaine, what he’s saying is true. Giga Reaper R is the deadliest tribe that ever existed. The amount of females they’ve tortured and killed, the amount of males they’ve captured, and the amount of power they have is something NO ONE IN EXISTENCE can handle!! It’s real: the number of people they’ve killed, the amount of people they’ve made slaves, and all that stuff. You’ve never heard of them!” Carno said. “Dude. Look. You’re all going mad. I told you my entire backstory and you’re still making up crap lies about some stupid tribe that did impossible things.” Elaine said. She walked over to the gates. “Hey. You did say you need to protect me, right?” Katniss said. “You don’t believe the amount of independence someone needs to learn to take care of themselves.” Elaine said. She walked out of the walls before Carno could stop her. “It’s okay, guys. Maybe she’ll understand someday.” Carno said.
Chapter 7
Danger on the Volcano
Elaine ran towards the volcano, through the wetlands, and into the redwoods. As she got closer, someone could see her. “Feron. The survivor is approaching the base.” Someone said. They told Feron by using his implant. “What do you mean, “the survivor”? Wait. You don’t mean?” Feron said. He used a telescope to find her. “I knew it. She doesn’t believe the Moonshot people that we’re the deadliest tribe in existence! We’ll show her. Gigas, go out and capture her! Do not let her escape. If she tries anything, KILL HER!!!!!!!!!!!” Feron yelled. He was mad because he knew Carno was the one who did that.
As Elaine approached the base of the volcano, a Giga came out. Then, multiple Gigas surrounded her. “100% imprinted Level 610 Gigas. Average 1900% meele. There’s no way she lives.” Feron sneered.
10 minutes later…
“Your Tacky (Level 614 Giga) was killed by Elaine (Level 150). Your Racer (Level 600 Giga) was killed by Elaine (Level 150). Your… Oh, forget it. There are too many death messages to read. I need to stop her. If she knows anything about Katniss, she can tell us.” Feron said. He was looking out the window of his tek base. It sat on the top of the crater, above the entire island. The slope on the volcano was for the Giga army and the rest of their tames. Then, more Gigas ran down, but Feron ran towards them. “NO!! Stop! You need to bring her to me. Minions, if she tries anything, kill her.” Feron said. He looked at the Gigas then walked over to some slaves of his. “Get down there.” Feron sneered. “Uh, boss? We detected more survivors near the volcano.” Someone said. “What? Where?” Feron said. “Well, they’re coming out of the west hills. It could be Moonshot.” The survivor said. Feron stormed into his house, up the stairs, and into the main control room. He sat down and looked through his telescope. “Good thing this is a sniper too,” Feron said. He put some bullets in it and aimed at the Gigas coming towards the volcano. “Where is Man? Slaves! Get the Gigas out of the barn and send them to get Man!” Feron said. The slaves ran out of the base and towards the barn. Feron started shooting at the Gigas.
“Okay. If we carefully move up the slope, we can get up there unseen.” Carno said. Katniss nodded and rode her Giga towards the rocks near the slope. Then, something hit another Giga. “Oh, no. It’s the snipers!” Carno yelled. The Gigas ran towards the slope, but then more Gigas were standing there. Everyone yelled. “You thought you could get up here easily?” A survivor said. He went to attack a Giga with his Giga, and Katniss ran towards the other Giga and hit him with her shotgun. As the Gigas started to close in on her, she ran up the slope, shooting down the Gigas. She jumped on one of the Giga’s legs and tampered with his implant. She unclaimed him and claimed him again. She climbed onto the Giga and ran up the mountain. “This is nonsense!! How is she not dead!?” Feron yelled. The slaves shrugged. Feron stormed over to his Titanosaur. Feron got on and went over to the slope. He prepared to attack and the Titan lifted his foot. “If you do not give me back my Giga in the next 10 seconds… YOU WILL DIE!!!!!!!!!!!” Feron yelled. Katniss ran down the slope, the Titan hit the ground hard, and a shockwave knocked the Giga off the slope. “NO!!” Carno yelled. Elaine ran towards Katniss and shot a grappling hook at the wall as she jumped off the cliff. Elaine grabbed her and climbed up the slope. “Don’t do it!” Katniss yelled. “I need to. It’s my job to protect… oh, no.” Elaine said as she climbed the cliff. The Titan was about to stomp again, and then Elaine jumped off and shot a grappling hook toward one of her Gigas. “Okay. Do it.” Feron said. He was about to hit the Titan off the cliff when Carno went up to him. “Don’t! Don’t do it! NO!!! He’ll collapse on the ground and kill himself with his weight!!!” Carno yelled. “So what? Whatever I need to do to stop her.” Feron yelled. “NO!!! It’s cruel and horrible. You torture your tames too much!! It ends now!!” Carno yelled. He grappled onto the head of the Titan. Feron shot Carno down and Katniss grappled under the Titan. Then, a Giga ran up and grabbed the Titan’s leg. He lifted his foot and crashed onto the ground again, and the shockwave knocked the Giga off the mountain. Katniss would’ve fallen into a lava patch had she not grappled on the Titan’s belly. Feron saw her climbing. “Oh, look who it is.” Feron sneered. Katniss gasped as she looked up. Carno jumped and reached for the Titan’s implant as Feron was about to shoot them down. “This ends now!!!” Carno yelled. He grabbed the implant and reversed everything. The Titan was not unclaimed, it was reverted to before he was tamed, and then Feron was about to shoot when the Titan roared and lifted his feet. Carno jumped onto Tacet as he arrived, and Carno shot a grapple at Katniss. She grabbed it and they were taken to Tacet and the Gigas left as the Titan came down and Feron fell off the back. He teleported out of the volcano. But it wasn’t over yet. Carno got a message on his implant. “What? Tribemate Melvin (Level 100)’s Ripper (Level 210 Therizinosaurus) was killed by a Giganotosaurus (Level 591)!! WHAT?!! NO!!! He loved that Theri a lot! Melvin’s in trouble! They’re trying to get him back.” Carno said. “WHAT!? Dude. We need to go now!” Katniss yelled. Everyone except Elaine ran back to their base with their Gigas. Someone grabbed Elaine with their Giga. “NO!!! Dacro, put her down now!!” Feron yelled from the side of the volcano’s slope. But then… “Your Giganotosaurus (Level 547 Giganotosaurus) was killed by Elaine (Level 150)! “Tribemate Dacro was killed by Elaine (Level 150)!” “Just perfect. Let her go now. We cannot fight her right now. It’s not worth the time going full-on. We have Gigas to hatch and raise.” Feron said.
Chapter 8
Race Against Melvin’s Time
The group ran through the forest and bushes, shooting down any raptors that tried to come for them. They ran back to their castle and saw a Giganotosaurus breaking down the wall. Then, Melvin snuck out the back door of the wall with Tacet. “Hey, guys. I need to get my army out, but I can’t! They might be stuck.” Melvin said. The others nodded and ran to their breeding barn. Melvin has secretly raised a whole Therizinosaur army, all of which were fully mutated and super-high level. Ripper was his first Theri, and the main breeding Theri for the army. When a Giga killed her, Melvin ran into his base and got to the barn quickly. The others ran towards the barn gate, and their remaining Gigas pulled the door open, revealing 150 Theris. He’s been breeding Theris for almost two years now, and he had a total of 950 Theris. He only got 150 because he was saving the rest for a huge raid. But they were still no match for N-Terminator, the most powerful Giganotosaurus in the universe. Melvin had one goal: to make the most powerful Theris possible. He had no way to get to Demon Number safety. It was the name of a far island, with creatures reaching Level 666. Creatures of Level 18, then 36, then 54, and so on. It is almost impossible to find max-level creatures there, but if you can find even two separate genders, you will become insanely overpowered. But the dock closest and safest to the island was guarded by Giga Reaper R. If Melvin tried to get there with Moonshot, they’d 100% get destroyed. Melvin would get arrested and thrown in L.A.V.A. or Locking Astronomical View of Annihilation, which is the most dangerous trap in existence. If you were thrown in there, you’d 100% get killed. There is a lock bed there, which is a respawn point that is impossible to escape. You will respawn and die over and over in there. Due to Melvin’s astronomical fear of that trap, he never even tried to get to the dock. Melvin got on one of the Theris. “Everyone, we’re under attack. Destroy that Giga!!” Melvin yelled. The Theris screeched and ran towards the broken wall. “Man! MAN!!! If you don’t come out…” The rider said, then the Giga screeched loudly. He was in rage mode!! He hit the rider off and ate him! The Theris destroyed the Giga and started eating his leg. “We’re not done! There’s more Gigas in there! Let’s go, go, go!” Melvin yelled as he opened the behemoth dinosaur gate to the base. The Theris all ran in and destroyed the Gigas. Not one Theri was destroyed. Well… that is until one of them hit a Giga. Level 1,021. The only Giga from Demon Number Island. “Oh, no. What have you done!? That was 20,000 damage, Hacker Chicken!! He’s going to kill us all!!” Melvin yelled. The Giga roared and ripped the claws off the Theris. So many Theris died that Melvin had to run. “NO!!! Do not let Man get away!!” Feron yelled. The rider nodded as he ran towards Melvin, then Katniss snuck up behind him and threw a taser at him. He dodged it and tried to taser her. They started fighting. “Oh, forget it. You’re too powerful yourself. Let’s make this fair, shall we? Hide shirt and hide pants only. They need to be primitive. And use a spear.” The rider said. Katniss nodded. She put a primitive hide shirt and hide pants on and took off the rest. She took out a spear, and so did the rider of the Giga. “Is she seriously doing this?” Elaine said. Carno ran towards one of Melvin’s Theris and took him away. But the Giga was coming. Then suddenly, Queen jumped down and grabbed the implant. The Giga screeched as Queen crushed it. The Giga collapsed and died instantly. “NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! That stupid Rex!! That was our best Giga yet!!! Since the stupid N-Terminator hatched.” The rider screamed. “You’re next now,” Katniss said. “You expect me to be fair after you’ve done this?!” The rider yelled. He tasered her, and she hit him with the spear. “How?! That’s an ascendant taser with astronomical damage!!! How did it not stun you? That’s it. I tried to do this the nice way. Now I’ll do it my way.” The rider sneered. He threw a cyropod on the ground, and a Titan came out. He was on the Titan’s saddle. The Titanosaur lifted his feet and Katniss tried to run, then the rider shot a net at her. The Titan was about to come down, then Queen roared and ran towards the last 10 Theris, who barely survived. 8 of them ran towards Katniss and the Titan was about to hit the ground, and Elaine grappled onto his head. The feet hit the ground, inches away from the net, and he hit 3 Theris, killing them all instantly. “NOOOOO!!! This ends now!!!” The rider screamed. He took out another cyropod and threw it on the platform saddle. But this time, it was a Giganotosaurus. A Level 810 Giga, fully mutated. Elaine was about to kill the rider, then the Giga grabbed Elaine and threw her against the wall with all her force. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!” Carno screamed. Tacet roared and tried to stop him, but it happened too fast. They didn’t get a chance to run for her. They didn’t even get a chance to shoot the Giga. “Now… Behemoth Killer, let’s end this.” The rider said. Elaine was lying there, unconscious and very weak. He shot the implant of the Titano, causing it to stumble and fall onto where Elaine was. “Oh, no!” Carno yelled. The Giga jumped to finish all the Theris, and then the final Theri alive, Hacker Chicken, ran towards Elaine to stop the Titan’s weight from killing her. Hacker Chicken grabbed Elaine and threw her away as the Titan fell on her back. “Your Hacker Chicken (Level 281 Therizinosaurus) killed a Titanosaur (Level 1)! Your Hacker Chicken (Level 281 Therizinosaurus) was killed by a Titanosaur (Level 1)!” The death messages showed up on the implants of everyone in Moonshot. It wasn’t over yet, though. The Giga was still there. The rider had grappled onto her. The Giga ran towards Katniss and the rider pulled out an ascendant shotgun. He was about to shoot her, then Tacet ran towards the Giga and hit her leg and the Giga screeched and hit Tacet. Then Queen grabbed the other leg, one with the implant. The Giga was about to grab Queen, then Tacet bit the Giga’s belly and the Giga grabbed Tacet. Then Queen grabbed the Giga’s implant, then the rider tried to shoot her. Queen climbed up the Giga, dodging the shots, then hit the rider off. Then the Giga tried to hit Queen off as Carno tried to get the net off Katniss. Then, suddenly, something hit the Giga in the head. It was a sniper! The Giga screeched, and it fell onto Queen’s mouth, and she bit into the neck of it to finish it. Then she lunged towards the rider and killed him.
Chapter 9
Broken Base, Broken Army, and Broken Hearts
Talon ran down to save Katniss from the trap, and Melvin walked over to Hacker Chicken. “No… he was one of my best Theris ever…” Melvin said. He started crying, and Gunner went up to confront him. “Hey. It’s okay. We can get our army building again. And besides, the raid is over. No one is going to die for now. We can repair everything, right? Oh, no.” Gunner said. He saw the walls crashing down onto the ground, some houses were broken, and a lot of Theris died. There were dino corpses all around. Katniss walked over to Melvin, and so did Carno and Talon. Journey came out of one of the houses. “Hey, guys… oh, my god. Those Gigas did huge damage to our base. Oh, no. The walls! Melvin!! What’s wrong?” Journey said as she ran towards him. “My… my Theris… no…” Melvin said. Then, a Giga came into the base. It was Katniss’s Giga. He started eating the Titan’s corpse, then he pulled it away. At least he tried to. Then, more Gigas came to help, and they pulled the Titan’s corpse out of the base and into the woods. Everyone gasped as they looked down, under Hacker Chicken’s body. It was an implant. When it’s gold, it means the survivor is dead. But it was glowing red, so Elaine was still alive, but barely. Melvin took off the Theri’s saddle and pulled him away. Carno picked Elaine up and he started crying. “Dude. This is terrible. Look at what they did. They tried to kill her. They almost destroyed the entire base with that Titan. That Giga ruined everything. Hacker Chicken… he sacrificed himself to save her… no…” Melvin said. He kept crying and holding Hacker Chicken, and Katniss and Journey came up to confront him. Gunner nodded to Carno and he walked towards Tacet. He got on and walked over to the med center with Elaine.
“I’m sorry, Feron. I couldn’t do it.” The rider said. He was at Level 2, at his base. He was in the control room. “No. That was perfect! You damaged the base, so that’s something! Sure, you didn’t kill her, but you still dealt significant damage to that base!! We raid them again tomorrow morning. I’ll help get your XP back.” Feron said. The rider nodded. He got up and he and Feron walked towards their Argies. The rider’s name was Crackon. He was a slave who was forced to work for Feron after he tried to kill him. He was thrown into L.A.V.A and he gave up all his memories of even wanting to be outside of Giga Reaper R just to get out of that trap! This showed that people would do anything to get out of L.A.V.A.!
A few hours later, Melvin was seen in the back of the base, near the waterfall down to the shore. Next to it was a gravestone. Hacker Chicken, Level 281 Therizinosaurus, 2,050% melee, 25,000 HP, and 1,100% move speed. Melvin sat in front of it. Carno and Katniss walked up to him. “Hey. It’s okay. We can get better and stronger Theris. They don’t even know about your army.” Carno said. “Yeah. But… that Theri was the strongest I have ever gotten. She could destroy a wild Giga that was Level 150. She definitely would’ve killed that Titan. And… well, she did, but not in the way I wanted.” Melvin said. “Yeah, well… it’s been a long time since I had a tame like her. I once had a Rex. And Queen is amazing too. But that Rex… she was my first Rex ever. And the night of a raid, a Titan destroyed my old base, and that Rex… well… I never saw her death message, but I never saw her either. That Titan… the Rex tried. I’m still really sad I lost her. And she isn’t one of my own either, since when you die, you lose your personal-owned tames. So I never saw her death message, but I know she’s still alive. She’s still out there. The island I tamed her on is called Eternal. Creatures of up to Level 450. But that place is so far away.” Katniss said. “We all used to have tames like her. We sometimes lose them. But it’s okay. We lose a great friend, either a survivor or a dinosaur, and we get really sad. But we can get tames better than these. You’re never going to be alone. You have us with you. And yes, there may not be another Theri quite like Hacker Chicken, but you loved her, and that’s all that matters. If you show love to your friends, then their lives will be great.” Carno said. “Yeah, well, I’m someone who’s been tortured by Giga Reaper R for years! And they are making me do you-know-what to the girls!” Melvin yelled. “Yeah, but we will do whatever it takes to stop them. The volcano erupts when the Savage Acro spawns. That will destroy their entire base. And the thing is, they don’t even know about it! The only problem is that it doesn’t happen for another year.” Carno said. The Savage Acro spawns every 3 years, on a random island. Recent data has proved that The Island: Primal (the island where this takes place) is next. The volcano erupts and the Savage Acrocanthosaurus will spawn, and he will destroy the entire island. He’s been rampaging islands for over 80 years. It’s been 2 years since the last rampage, which means one year remains until the 28th rampage of the Savage Acro. “Yeah, which is plenty of time to prepare!” Melvin said. “NO! Listen, Man… I mean Melvin! Melvin, look. There’s no way in heck we will thrive that long. We have a weakened base, and we’re going up against the strongest tribe in the universe! The only way to possibly destroy them is to make an entire super-mutated army of Gigas, which can take weeks!! Or even months!! We wouldn’t get through even a day without them finding out!! You’d get arrested! Or worse! You’d get thrown into L.A.V.A and forced to do what Crackon did to get out!! We cannot afford to build an army now. That time is over. The tribe is closing in. It’d be far too risky to make a Giga army like that in secret. So many survivors could be captured or killed!! We’d lose our entire base, every single one of our tames, and we’d all either be captured or killed!! All we have now is what we already have. The cost to get that army is too high.” Carno yelled. “Yeah, but I have an idea. They want to kill all females, right? Well… we can lure them into a fake trap.” Melvin said. “What?” Carno said. “We pretend that there is an entire island next to us filled with girls. For real, it has a lot of males, and they’d stop at nothing to find the girls in there. A hidden group, hundreds of female survivors, and they’re hiding in a cave. If we can make them think that, we can distract the dictators long enough to get Demon Number’s Gigas.” Melvin said. “Well, that’s a great idea, except there’s a problem. We’d also have to distract the rest of the dictators. They usually send only 3 maximum on missions. We can use N-Terminator as bait.” Carno said. “Yeah, and then Journey, Katniss, Tacet, your Gigas, Gunner, Elaine, and Queen will go to Demon Number and tame two opposing gender Gigas which need to be at least Level 632. We bring them straight home into the underwater base. Then, you and Gunner will spend however long you need to breed up a huge pack of super-mutated Gigas. Then we use that army to demolish Giga Reaper R and their stupid dictators!!” Melvin yelled. “Yes! That’s perfect!! We need to talk to everyone now!” Carno yelled. He was about to run back to base when Melvin grabbed him. “Hold on! Giga Reaper R just sent me a message. They said that if I don’t come back to base by midnight, they will raid Moonshot again tomorrow morning!” Melvin said. “Go. We cannot afford any more casualties. We’ll save you from the barn later.” Carno said. “I don’t think I’m going to the barn. I think I’m going somewhere even worse.” Melvin said. “Well, we’ll send in our current Giga army to save you from whatever torture device they put you in, okay?” Carno said. Melvin nodded and ran towards the volcano. Carno ran back to base.
Chapter 10
Grave Consequences and Tribe Meetings
Melvin ran up the slope into a house. Feron and Core were standing there, right in front of him. “I see you got my message and decided to return. You care about Moonshot too much, don’t you?” Feron said. “Yes, and you are horrible dictators,” Melvin said. “Listen, Man. For years, we’ve struggled to kill all females off. But you may be the one. We can’t lose you. Look, I’ll make you a deal. If you go on the expedition to Carol and find the hidden colony of girls and kill all of them, I will spare all of Moonshot forever. No more raids, no more casualties. No one needs to die. But if you refuse and cheat by tricking me, bringing anything that isn’t a dino army, or anything, I will ensure tomorrow is Moonshot’s last day. We good?” Feron said. “Uh, I was going to ask you to go to Carol for me,” Melvin said. “Ha! No. We have work to do. And besides, you’re Man. You’re more powerful than any female in the world.” Feron said. “How dare you! That’s so inappropriate! You are so darn rude all the time!!” Melvin said. “Man, if you keep protesting, I will raid Moonshot now,” Feron said. Melvin yelped and jumped back. “Please. For the love of ARK, leave my friends alone and stop being racist to my girls!!” Melvin yelled. “Oh? Do you think we’re being racist? Ha! True. And I expect the same out of you.” Feron sneered. “No. This is not happening. You are not being racist to my girls, you are not trying to destroy Moonshot, and you are not torturing me!! No. You know what? You can throw me in whatever torture device you want, but I am not going to kill thousands of survivors just to protect Moonshot!! Unless they’re from your tribe. Which they are not!! I am not killing 5,000 female survivors just so that Moonshot can be safe from you for good!!! You can do that, and I don’t care.” Melvin said. “It’s more honorable if you do it,” Feron said. Melvin was about to say something else, but then he realized something. Wait a second. Carol is closer to Demon Number. Maybe I can sneak the colony out, and hopefully have them help me. No. Giga Reaper R will notice me and the army when I return. I can use the Gigas to hide them. And the survivors can distract the dictators while Moonshot gets their Gigas. Yes. Looks like this plan will work after all!!! “Okay. I will go. Can I just bring a dino?” Melvin said. “Yes. One. No Titans allowed.” Feron said. “Okay. When are we leaving?” Melvin asked. “Now,” Feron said as he and Core walked out. “Now? Can I just message Moonshot before I leave?” Melvin said. “Fine,” Feron said. Melvin ran upstairs and turned on the communicators. He was calling Carno. He sent a message to him. “Carno, Feron, and the dictators are forcing me onto an expedition to kill a colony of survivors. I am going to use this chance to grab the colony and whatever dinos they have to distract the dictators, and when I get back, you guys need to be ready. I should be back in around 9 hours.” Melvin ran out of the house with some weapons. He said he was ready, and he had a ton of tranqs in his bag for taming dinos. And normal bullets in case he ran into an alpha. Carol has creatures of up to Level 450. So if Melvin found a max-level Giga, he could tame it and it would help distract Giga Reaper R. Melvin decided to bring N-Terminator in secret. He was in a cyropod in Melvin’s bag. He brought another Giga with him. Melvin ran towards the arctic shore in the north. Melvin saw Feron’s giant ship in front of him. “Okay. Core is coming to ensure you don’t try anything.” Feron said. “And no taming dinos!!” Core yelled. Melvin nodded. What? No. I can’t have him next to me. And if I kill him, everyone in Reaper will see the death message, and I’ll be thrown into L.A.V.A. I need a way to stop him without killing him myself. Could I trap him there? “Okay. Let’s go.” Melvin said. He and Core walked up the plank onto the ship as the plank went back up. Then, Melvin grabbed the wheel and the ship went off.
Meanwhile, in Moonshot, Carno was standing on the town square, next to the bell, with hundreds of survivors around him. “Okay. Melvin sent me two messages that changed this plan. He has Core with him. What we need to do is send in our Giga army to distract all the dictators the second Melvin returns with the colony. It’s going to take him around 14 hours to get all this done, minimum. He needs to be back in 3 days because we cannot have Feron raiding us again. If things go wrong, we will have no choice but to force Melvin into hiding. If he gets thrown into L.A.V.A, well, we will get destroyed. This plan determines what happens in the next 6 months. This can go two ways. Melvin succeeds. He gets the colony and their Gigas, they trap Core, return to the Island, and distract Reaper while we get Demon Number’s Gigas. Then, we manage to get an army and we manage to prepare for raids. Or, he fails. Core dies on accident, or Melvin gets caught, Melvin is forced to kill the entire colony, and we get destroyed. Melvin will be trapped in his house, upset about what he did. We don’t want that. We need him to succeed. If this fails, we are in grave danger. The plan might be extremely risky, but it needs to be done if we want a chance at destroying Reaper.” Carno said. Everyone was staring at him. “Look, Carno, there’s a little bit of a problem there. If we trap Core, then Feron will know and Melvin will either get thrown into L.A.V.A or forced to kill that entire colony. We need a better approach to what to do with Core.” Katniss said. “Yeah. Maybe… we could just bring him back. We can trap and stop him from saying anything; hopefully, he doesn’t need to be trapped or killed.” Gunner said. “Yes. The Theri army. We can use that. But we can’t let Core report that army to Feron. If he does, they’ll raid us and destroy that army. We need a way to keep him contained. A way where he can’t do anything. And don’t forget, we cannot kill Core. If we do, everyone in Reaper will see the death message. Melvin will get thrown into L.A.V.A. and Feron will raid us and destroy us all. So we need to keep him alive at all times. And he can’t say anything, either. We may need to force him to do it.” Carno said. “Yes. Perfect. We just need to figure out how we are going to sneak into the ship without Core seeing us.” Katniss said. “We use the power of tranqs!” Carno yelled as he took out a crossbow with a toxicant arrow on it. The crossbow was primitive. “Okay. Well, we can do that, but we can’t kill Core on accident. We knock him out, grab the colony, and leave. What we will do is sail to Carol, knock Core out, and keep him asleep until Melvin retrieves the colony, then when they come back, they will set out their ships. Then we get the tribe leader to put Core in a trap and stop him from communicating with Feron.” Carno said. “Yes. Yes! That’s perfect! Now, who’s going?” Gunner said. “Okay. Me, Gunner, Katniss, and my dinos will come with us. Everyone else stays and helps Elaine.” Carno said. They ran outside of the base walls, towards the Arctic shore up north. It was between the two ice mountains.