Dinosaur King: Out of time and space

Chapter 3 Reunion

"Why you never listen to me?" Reese asked.

"I was worried about you!" Zoe snapped, "but you obviously don't care."

"Again? Why are you still acting like a child?"

"Because I'm not adult like you. I am not you, sister, and I don't wanna be!"

No one said a word.

Reese noticed the light blue crystal lying on the ground, she picked it up. "I should think about that. Crystals are really important for her. Sooner or later she'll get rid of the Guardians and then even the owners. I can't allow that, I have to protect them," Reese thought.

"What is the crystal actually for and why did he think Zoe's got one?" Max asked.

"Maybe it has to do something with your stone plates," Cole theorized, "just like that cosmos stones. It has the same color like the crest on his stone. Maybe it can help the little guys, but I'm not sure how... But it's still Cole Taylor awesome theory!"

"Yeah, the crystal was inside his stone plate," Zoe remembered, but she didn't tell them anything about that. She wasn't sure about how they will react to him.

"If we forget the fact you're turning into our dad," Max laughed, "do you really think it can help Chomp in some way?"

"Shut up, kid! And yeah..."

"That is a nice theory, Cole, but you are missing some important facts," said Justin, "two years ago Rex took the cards with him, that means they are not here and even if they were, Max and Zoe can not use them because the stone plates were destroyed with the cosmos stones." "And how come he summoned Ace?" Cole wondered.

"I'm pretty sure it was just a copy." "No," said Zoe, "it was the real stone."

"But that's impossible... The plates were supposed to destroy cosmos stones and themselves!"

"Something probably recreated them," Reese said. "Pterosaur?" "When something is broken it'll stay broken," Justin growled, "destroyed things can't exist again, it's the same as death. You can't bring dead people to life."

"Calm down, four eyes."

"Even if the stone plates were here, we don't have our cards and without them we're useless," said Max. He almost lost even the last tear of hope inside him. For two years his friends were gone, now his best friend is back, but he's evil and they can't stop him.

"Do not say that word again," said mysterious voice.

Everyone looked back. A boy with long black hair approached with long-necked Lufengosaurus next to him. He had hands in pockets of his jeans.

"You know what you saved, you are not useless."

"W-what are you? How did you get here?" Justin screamed with a girly voice.

"It doesn't matter now."

He showed them things in his pockets. He was holding two stones plates, one with the yellow crest of lightning and one with green crest of grass. In another hand, he held four cards, two of gray color and other two of orange with the same crests.

"Our cards? How..."

"When they brought your friend here, they took these too, I managed to steal them."

"Who brought him here?" wondered Cole.

"The darkness. He's on their side now, they used his knowledge."