The ancestors of the Kratts

The past that haunts us

Martin and Chris were silent the rest of the cleaning and on the whole ride to the Tortuga. Linda knew something was up immediately, but when she asked everyone what happened, she said she hid that book ever since the boys wanted to be animal helpers. So she asked them to please check on her boys when they reach the Tortuga, which they immediately agreed to.

They reach the Tortuga, again the brothers silent the whole way, and head inside. The brothers went to put their discs into their collection, (Or backpack in Martin's case) but still blank faced and silent. Instead of going to their stations like they usually do, the crew pause and check on them. Aviva talked first. "Do you two want to talk about it?"

The brothers look up to see the crew look concerned for them and try to use a fake smile. "N-no it's fine, it's just a book. We're perfectly o~" But when Martin says that, he for some reason sees himself, holding the shot gun with a dead tiger at his feet. He immediately backs up in a panicked shock, falling to the ground, shocking Chris and the crew.

"Woah Martin!" Paulanci goes to her friend while Ventus feels a panicked aura mixed with the guilt ridden one. "Are you sure your ok? You fell!" Paulanci grabs Martins arm, but feels a pulse of a haunting vision, saying the book did more than implied.

Chris sees a vision almost like it, except the tiger was still alive, begging him not to kill, but he still pointed the gun. When the shot was heard, the vision ended, giving a pretty confused yet broken Chris light. Chris shakes his head, knowing there's no hiding. "No, he's lying, it's not fine."

The crew sigh in relief, now the brothers won't lie to them about this. Giving a reassuring smile, Koki said, "So we may ask again, do you wanna talk about it?"

Martin and Chris look at each other before sighing. "It's just, we never imagined that our family used to be the very thing that we're against. They killed off one of our favorite extinct species that didn't deserve it. And, for some reason, I feel, guilty..." The crew were surprised by that, but Ventus asks, "Why?"

"They're our family, wether we like it or not. I feel like the tigers blood is all over my body!" The brothers grip their heads, new visions of them killing the tigers filling their heads. The visions got worse and worse until they felt a hand on their shoulders. They look up to see Aviva, gripping their shoulders, with a worried look on her face. But the visions continued, seeing themselves as the hunters, tears filling their eyes as they got up. "Maybe, we're nothing but hunters!" Before the crew could stop them, the brothers quickly ran into their rooms, not wanting to talk about it further.

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Zach was watching this scene, eating his popcorn with an evil like smile. He felt a weird sense of joy, seeing his enemies in such despair. "Haha! Oh this is getting good." He eat another piece of popcorn, watching the crew's shocked faces.

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The crew look at the door in shock and sadness. The brothers were feeling guilt and heartbreak over something that wasn't their fault. After a moment of silence, Aviva says, "Those poor bros don't deserve this."

The crew agree, Paulanci and Ventus moving away to discus something. Koki looked at the computer, seeing all the facts were true that the Kratt's of the past were the main cause of the Tasmanian Tigers extinction. She sadly shakes her head, seeing every part of their origin was fact. "What are we going to do? We can't leave the brothers like this."

That's when Ventus speaks up, having an idea. "Remember when you guys went back in time to try and stop the dodo bird extinction with my time crystal?" The crew look at her and Paulanci, thinking before nodding their heads in agreement. "Well, me and Paulanci had an idea. Tell them Pup."

Paulanci clears her throat before speaking. "Guess what? We're gonna go back in time to 1841, the day the brothers started to hunt the Tasmanian Tigers, try and talk the brothers out of killing them, then we can teach the tigers how to not go into hunt traps and not to eat sheep, to try and keep them from going extinct so the brothers would never feel guilty ever again!!!" (Imagine she spook that the way Flint spoke to Sam in the Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2 movie before they headed to the island)

The crew look at the bodyguard in confusion with how quick she said it, before registering what she said. The crew think about what she said, before they all started to agree. "Yeah, that sounds like a great idea!" Aviva says, going to her CPS disc creation computer, getting the portable pack. "If we go back to the 1800's, I could create a Tasmanian Tiger disc to help those tigers learn. While Martin and Chris do that, we could talk to their ancestors in a nice and considerate conversation." (Paulanci: Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Me: Stop breaking the fourth wall!!)

Ventus smiles at them, happy they agreed with their plan. She grabs the time crystal from her pocket and sets it on the table, then Spy drone flying to the crystal in awe.

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Zach looks through the drone in glee, loving the idea. "Go back in time to the hunt? Well, now that's an idea." He gets up to the plan board, drawing his plan to the Zach bots.

"We'll go back with them and join an alliance with the past rats. I'll teach them all of my technology and gain their trust. Then, in the future, the current wild rats won't ever bother me again!" One Zach bot raised his hand, trying to say something. "Not now, I need to grab my invisibility cloak!" With that, he leaves the room.

What Zach would've realized if he listened to the Zach bot, that none of his technologies were invented in 1841, so the brothers would never understand any of it. Oh well, that's his problem to deal with when he sees it.