Everyone looked to Kenji in anger and disbelief, as if he could just show up, as if nothing had happened between them all.
"You guys have every right to be mad at me," Kenji said.
"You think?" Brooklynn asks.
"Thanks for the permission," Yaz said.
"Trust me, I get it. He messed up." Ben said.
"Oh, is that what we're calling it?" Yaz asks.
"He betrayed us. He disappointed us." Ben recapped. "He practically left us for dead."
Kenji cleared his throat, showing Ben that it wasn't helping.
"But he knows it was a mistake." Ben got on track. "He helped save Bumpy. And in my eyes, that's enough for a second chance. Plus, considering what and who we're up against, we're gonna need all the help we can get."
Darius sighed and walked over to start crushing the last of the doors.
"I-I know there's not some magical thing I can say that will make everything right again," Kenji told them. "I am so, so sorry. I had this idea of who my dad was or who I wanted him to be. I kept telling myself that he's not a bad guy. Turns out I was wrong. Me, wrong. Shocking, I know."
"I had this big speech ready in case I ever saw you again." Brooklynn said. "But now, I I just..." she sighs in disappointment. "I thought I knew who you were."
"I'm still the same me," Kenji said. "I'll prove it to you guys. No matter how long it takes."
"We'll see." Brooklynn sighed.
Sammy seemed more willing to forgive as she rushed over and hugged him. "Oh, I have so much to tell you." She said, breaking the hug. "First, I have a new catchphrase, and it is controversial. Next, I've changed my mind about the best day of the week; it's Tuesday. Oh, also, I have a girlfriend now."
"Wait, wh-what?" Kenji asks.
"It's me. I'm the girlfriend." Laura said as she stepped in.
Kenji chuckled with a laugh when he saw they were together and hugged them. "Finally! Sammy and Laura! Oh, we, we should call you-"
"You're too late," Brooklynn said. "I already gave them a cool couple name."
"Darius?" Kenji called, seeing he was still working on crushing the doors.
"You're sorry. Got it." Darius wasn't ready to forgive him quite yet. "Laura, you should get to the desert biome and help Peter."
Laura reached down to her pouch and saw that she had the possible Lizard cure. "Alright." She then rushed off into the biome tunnels. "Good luck!"
"We're going to need it," Darius sighed.
"Listen, man, it's okay if you're not ready to forgive me," Kenji said.
"I'm fine. People make mistakes." Darius said, but it didn't seem like he believed it.
"So, we're cool then?" Kenji asked, watching Darius break the door controls.
"Yep. Just kinda busy." Darius said. "If your dad gets through here, it's war."
"You're right. He won't stop until he gets that password." Kenji confirmed.
"I hope it's enough to stop him, 'cause if he makes those chips, every dinosaur in the world could fall under his control," Sammy said.
"We're not gonna let that happen, Sammy," Darius promised.
That was when they heard banging and looked over to the doors in terror.
"You heard that, right? They're stuck, right?" Brooklynn asks.
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Spider-Man: Camp Cretaceous
FanficPeter Parker thought he was taking a simple break from the New York hustle to spend time with his dad and see where he works for the first time. Instead, he found himself plunged into something worse. A world shrouded in secrets of his past, extinct...
