and I. This one is especially important to remind the viewer that, despite their mannerisms, the characters aren't humans.
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Mrs. Pteranodon had been on a nature walk in the Jurassic with her three biological children, Tiny, Shiny, and Don. They had come to learn about a few plants in this time. Buddy, the adopted T Rex, had wanted to pass up the opportunity to visit this time period, wanting instead to spend some 1 on 1 time playing with his "dad", Mr. Pteranodon.
Mrs. P's head snapped up as there was incredibly loud commotion near the train station. Getting a bad feeling, she gathered her kids and told them to follow her. Upon getting to the station, she found it in utter chaos; many dinosaurs were covered in soot and had small and large wounds from flying debris, they were talking in panicked, worried tones to one another, and the train it's self looked like it had partially been set on fire, so black and charred it was.
Several troodon were trying to get everyone to calm down, including the one they personally knew as Mr. Conductor. Mrs. P landed at the station and as soon as she did, Mr. C turned to her, his eyes widening as he ran to her and her kids before rushing them all to some foliage behind the back of the station.
Before anyone could speak, Mr. C hugged Mrs. P very tightly. She let out a surprised squawk as he held her before he let go and grabbed all three kids, hugging them all tightly, who in turn wriggled and squirmed uncomfortably before he set them down.
"Mister Conductor, would you PLEASE tell us what is going on?" Mrs. P said in a tone that was as worried as she was shocked. "Did the dinosaur train catch on fire or something?" she asked. Mr. C was breathing hard and unbuttoned the top button of his vest before he took off his hat.
"As much as it pains me to say this, I WISH that was what happened..." he said. The kids looked on with worried expressions while Mrs. P looked at him with an expecting gaze. "I wanted you away from the crowd to prevent panic from setting in, but I can't tell you how glad I am that you and your kids are in the Jurassic." he said, taking a deep breath to steady himself. "We troodon aren't completely certain but... We're starting to agree that an Asteroid impacted the earth in the late Cretaceous." The kids shivered slightly, not fully understanding what it would mean, but were scared. Mrs. P on the other hand grew very pale.
"What... what does that mean? What has happened to the time period? To our home?!" she asked, her voice raising as her own panic set in. Mr. C cringed and rubbed his arm.
"Think of it being like a forest fire, a tornado, a hurricane, and an earthquake all in one, but so big it covers the world..." he said as his tone dropped off. "Lots of dinosaurs didn't make it out of the time period in time. We're lucky we got the train out..." he said as he sniffled at the idea of so many faces he'd never see again, many being ones he worked with on a daily basis. The image of the driver standing one moment, then laying on the floor of the engine raced through his head for a moment.
Tiny, Shiny, and Don moved closer to their mother as Mrs. P's breathing got heavier and her eyes remained wide.
"We... we lost friends?" Tiny said, saying it in a simple yet completely true way. Mr. C nodded.
"We lost food and our home?" Don asked, Mr. C nodding again.
"Did... did we lose Gilbert?" Shiny asked. Mr. C didn't move. "... Mister Conductor?" she asked.
"Gilbert... got hurt." he said. It was at this point that the family noticed that Mr. C had a fair few cuts along his body, though he didn't react to them. "His... tail... and left leg got hit with flying debris... I tried to cover his body as best as I could as I made sure we got through the time tunnel." he said, looking up with tears in his eyes, but a smile. "His leg is broken and half his tail got cut off..." he said as he suddenly spilled what he knew. "Bled pretty bad but I bandaged him up... he's... alive and resting... but I don't know if he'll recover." he said. Shiny, for once, didn't seem so Shiny anymore as she paled.
There was silence for a moment before Mrs. P spoke.
"Where is Buddy and my husband?" she asked in a tone that was seemingly calm, but laced with stress. Suddenly the three siblings eyes shot wide as the rush of what happened suddenly reminded them that they were short two family members. Mr. C wouldn't lift his head or speak. All at once, Mrs. P's composure shattered as she grabbed Mr. C by the collar of his vest with enough strength to lift him off the ground before she slammed his back into the rear wall of the building connected to the train station. "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND AND MY SON?!" she shrieked at him with her blood on fire in a fit of rage. Mr. C's eyes were wide as he grimaced, looking into her sharp eyes as she very much possibly had murder on the mind if he didn't speak.
"I-I don't know! They weren't on the train when I came through the tunnel!" he yelped out. "They-they might have been on the train before I was conducting today, but I honestly don't know!" he said. Mrs. P kept glaring at him as she pressed on his collar against his neck, making him start to sputter and cough.
The very idea that her husband and son were gone snapped her mind. Her reasoning had fled her and she felt she needed to make someone... ANYONE, held accountable for it. She squeezed his neck tighter, her close proximity to him rendering his wriggling legs useless as his hands struggled, gripping on top of her own as the color was draining from his face as he continued sputtering as tears rolled down his cheeks.
It seemed that she was set on killing him right there when a small hand touched her side. She looked down at what it was, seeing Tiny, who looked back up into the narrow eyed, vengeful expression of her mother, shying away.
"S-stop please... he didn't do anything..." she said in her small, meek voice.
Seeing her own daughter terrified of her brought her back to her senses as she blinked a few times and looked back up into her hands, seeing Mr. C weakly still grabbing at her hands, most of the color having washed from his face. In a moment of shock, she let go of him and stepped back, Mr. C dropping to his hands and knees, coughing hard and taking in sharp breaths of air.
"I... I don't know what I... oh I'm so sorry!" she said as she stumbled over words, trying to assist Mr. C up to his feet, who actually put an arm around her as she helped lift him up.
"It *COUGH* it's all right! Y-you're a worried mother!" he sputtered, coughing as he slowly got to his feet with her help, slowly regaining his breath. "Honestly, I wanted to strangle me too when I saw how bad Gilbert was hurt..." he said. "But, for now, your family better get comfy in the Jurassic time period." he said as he managed to stand up the rest of the way on his own before putting his hat back on and straighten up his vest, looking at least a little presentable as the color slowly returned to his face.
There was a Star Trek episode where the people of a planet, facing the imminent explosion of their sun, migrated back into different -uncivilized- eras of their world. When their sun did explode and vaporize their world, there were NO people to die. Their species would never die, but it was confined to the period up to the death of their sun.
There was a Star Trek episode where the people of a planet, facing the imminent explosion of their s
The way that i'm seeing the timeflow of this world is a bit different, as i point out in the final chapter, that every time they successfully enter a new time zone via a time tunnel, they already are going into a different earth and are reshaping that world.
For example "our earth" is where pteranodon terrace was and where we have the asteroid impact. Troodon town's timeline may have had an asteroid in the past, but there is no astreroid in the future and they have a flourishing society that, at least according to THIS writer, won't be snuffed out.
Indeed, All Our yesterday's, if I'm not mistaken. The way that i'm seeing the timeflow of this worl
Then there was a short-lived series about people going through a time rift to leave a ecologically ruined Earth. The main flaw of the series was that transmission was only one-way. So, how could any data about the era they would arrive in ,get back to the authorities ? The lucky ones would live in a roughly Jurassic time.
I only watched the premiere episode and switched to another station about halfway. Some aspects of the logic turned me off. I never watched it again. I read later it was cancelled, so I was glad I didn't get involved with plot-lines that would never get resolved.
I have great problems with the "logic" of time travel stories and most of all, when the mechanics are palpably absurd. I have used time travel in my stories, mostly with an OC named the Traveler. I even bumped him off in one story,only to ingeniously bring him back two books later. The one pic I drew of him is an interesting failure. He is described as having no personality to his face,can be lost in the smallest crowd. Yet the pic I drew shows personality. Failure.
He HAS meddled in past history, and thereby hangs my fan-fic novel DIVERGENCE.
Then there was a short-lived series about people going through a time rift to leave a ecologically r
Cool. I take it what drew you to this image was the aspect of said time travel.
What I base my idea of time travel on is simply a split world where going back or forward in time simply takes you to a "different" earth, that has instantly changed because you're there and what you do there has no effect on the earth you just left.
Cool. I take it what drew you to this image was the aspect of said time travel. What I base my ide
