Camp Cretaceous: Apex Predator

S4 E6 - Time's Running Out

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Darius Pov.

The sun has risen over the horizon, I hold Yaz as she lets all her emotions out in a much-needed release. Kenji and Ben were standing not far from us, Sammy and Maurice was sitting right next to us. Aoi was with them as Brooklynn followed (Y/n) who went somewhere to cool off. Yaz stands up as she looks out to the horizon. Sammy stands up with her and lays a comforting hand on her shoulder. "We'll make it home, Yaz." Sammy says which Yaz just gives a tired sigh.

"Say it enough times and it's gonna be true, right?" Yaz says. I walk up to her. "Because it is. Well get home, whatever it takes." I say which she smiles gratefully at me. We begin walking back up to the airlock, catching up with the others.

The airlock opens up as Mae, runs out to us. "The plane left without you?" Mae says. "I'm so sorry. I don't understand what is going on here, but I promise with every fiber of my being to get you back home." Mae says determinedly. "No, we're not leaving. Just yet." Ben says which I narrow my eyes. "Who the fuck are you to say that?" I saw with gritted teeth, making eye contact with Ben and not backing down. Everyone stares at the two of us, in shock and in agreement.

"I know what you're going to say. That we have to stay and help the dinosaurs well.... I'm sorry but fuck that!" I shout but it sounded like a roar. Ben looks at me, scared.

"You don't get to decide on what we do. We don't even belong here. We have families, people that think we're dead, and you want us to stay here just because the dinosaurs here reminded you of Bumpy? Just so you know this place rewards us death if we made just one tiny little mistake. I want to go home, Ben. This time I am done risking my life for problems that are not our own in the first place." I say angrily. Yaz's PTSD, The nightmare's everyone is having, (Y/n)'s increasing sickness, the time we have spent away from our families and the constant risk of  death has made me realize that we shouldn't keep risking our lives for this.

"I thought that you cared about dinosaurs." Ben says to me which I narrowed my eyes and grab him by his shirt and push him against the wall.

"D, what are you doing?!" Kenji shouts, trying to intervene but was stopped by (Y/n) grabbing him using his tail.

"Let him go!" Sammy screamed to me but I ignored them. 

"Listen here, you little shit! Now I care more about us living than dinosaurs. Yaz is suffering, (Y/n)'s sickness is worsening and you don't even fucking care. All you care about are dinosaurs and not what we think!" I snarled at him, I feel something snapped in me. "You just decided on a whim that we would stay, you didn't stop to ask what we all felt. You selfish and cruel human being, Ben." I say to him as tears start to well in his eyes. 

"Darius." Yaz calls out to me as I see her in the corner of my eye. "Let him go..." She says softly to me as she holds my arm softly. I slowly release Ben from my grip. I was surprised to see that I was a lot more taller than him and Yaz. I quickly looked at a mirror to see that I have somehow unconsciously transformed myself. I huffed and walked away towards the front of a mirror.

"We'll stay. We don't have any other choice." Yaz says to them, pointing out to me that the plane is gone, and we are still stuck. I sighed in anger, may as well help where we can. I noticed Yaz coming closer to me.

"You can transform into an....?" Yaz asked as she gently squeezed my hand.

"Allosaurus? Sorry, I didn't even know that I could transform." I replied truthfully. I glance back at Ben who was wiping his tears away. "Right. Now that problem is sorted. We have to get Pierce back to the desert biome and since the plane is gone, that means the food has been unloaded and sent." Mae says as she anxiously fidget at the tension in the air.