Author's Note

I'm using a feathered T-rex in this story. Adult T-rexes may not have had feathers, but I think it looks cool, so I'm using it.

Ch 1) New World, New Problem

North America - Late Cretaceous Period

Tex was having a good day. He took down a bull Triceratops and sustained no injuries. The meat from this kill could keep him fed for days. Tex fell asleep next to the carcass and woke up thirsty. He got up to go to the nearby river to get some water.

"This seems like a great place for a new territory. Plenty of prey, a good source of water, and there don't seem to be any other predators for miles," Tex said to himself. "I'll make sure I keep this land for myself and chase off any other rexes."

As he was about to head back to the carcass, something suddenly shone in the sky above his head. Tex looked up and saw a bright ball of light. It was as if a piece of the sun was falling towards him.

"What the--?!" Tex shouted before the light knocked him out.

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It was like his head was filled with crawling ants when Tex woke up. He winced as he tried to stand up and shook his mane of iridescent dark green feathers before stretching. Tex blinked the sleep out of his eyes and looked around.

Everything around him was crazy and weird. He wasn't laying alongside the riverbank and there was no Triceratops carcass in sight or smell. It was night and he was in a forest of trees filled with plump red fruit of some kind. A place like this would be perfect for attracting herbivores for him to take advantage of. But that didn't distract him from the fact that he wasn't in his own territory.

"What the heck happened to me? And where am I?" he asked himself. "I might need to try to speak to another rex if I find one."

Tex picked a random direction and started walking. This forest of red fruit trees didn't reach up to his height so he had an unobstructed view of his surroundings. The fruit trees grew for miles in every direction. It would be hard to find his way if it hadn't been for the one thing that stood out from the trees.

Ahead of him was a wooden box of some kind suspended in a tree. Tex cocked his head while walking towards it.

"What is this thing? Some kind of nest?" Tex asked the air.

He walked up to the nest and took a cautious sniff. There were creatures sleeping in it, for sure. He didn't recognize the scent of these creatures compared to other dinosaurs or even the tiny mammals he lived with. Tex was still curious about what was sleeping in the nest. He saw that there were small openings in the nest where he could look inside so he craned his head to the side and peered in.

Curled up inside the nest were three small critters. One of them was yellow and red with a large bow, another one was white with pink and purple hair, and the last one was a orange with purple hair and a pair of wings. Tex had never seen mammals so colorful before.

"What kind of critters are these?" Tex asked. "They're weirdly cute."

They smelled like something sweet like the fruit around him. The wind changed and carried another smell, one that was deeper and more earthy. It was some kind of animal. The smell lured Tex away from the treetop nest and towards the far end of this fruity forest. Tex walked for a good few minutes until he saw the weirdest thing ever.

A gathering of strange structures stood in a small clearing. They were eerily similar to the treetop nest he found in the fruit forest. Maybe similar mammals lived in this nest, too. Off to one side of the big wooden nest was the source of the alluring smell. A crazy barrier kept a herd of fluffy white mammals. They were making a lot of racket after seeing the T-rex before them standing tall and imposing. Tex cocked his head in curiosity.

"Why are these things here? Why are they in this crazy barrier?" he asked himself before shrugging. "Oh well. Makes eating easier."

Tex thrust his head downward and snapped up one of the fluffy things in his jaws. Thanks to his species' superior jaw strength, bone literally exploded under the sheer amount of pressure and the fluffy thing's back legs were blown off instantly. He loved the warm taste of the mammal in his mouth and swallowed it whole. Then he helped himself to a few more of them despite the amount of noise they were making. He stopped once he heard a creaking sound coming from the big nest. Tex looked and saw a larger red mammal staring right up at him with a light in his mouth. The mammal looked at him with wide eyes.

"Coprolites! What does this thing want?" he thought. "Does it expect me to share? No way that's happening. Maybe I'll give him a good scare."

Tex turned his whole body to face the red mammal and breathed in deeply. He then thrust his large head forward and bellowed out a deep rumbling roar while ruffling the feathers on the top half of his body. The red mammal ran to the side and picked up what looked like a stick with a metal slab on the tip. It ran forward and hit Tex right on his nose which rightly stung.

"That tears it!" he thought in fury. Lights began to emanate from the nest before Tex could retaliate.

Now the red mammal was joined by few others. One was pink with purple hair, another was orange with golden hair, and a wizened old green one with white hair. They all looked up in shock at seeing Tex, too.

"Just what are these crazy things?!" he thought.

The red one tried to swing the stick at him again but Tex was too quick for him this time. He closed his jaws around it and snapped it in half easily. He spit out the broken half and roared again. The red one tried to run away but Tex grabbed his tail in his jaws. Tex lifted the screaming mammal off the ground with the intent to eat him but a rock struck his nose before he could. He looked and saw the orange one glaring at him with a few rocks in its hooves.

"You let my brother go, ya big varmint!" she yelled. Tex snorted at her.

Tex whipped his head around and threw the red one right at the orange one, his aim perfectly hitting the orange one. Tex laughed to himself while stalking towards them. If they were going to cause him more trouble then he may as well kill them both. Tex would've killed them if it wasn't for the old one of them. She ran up to the side of his head and squirted some kind of red liquid in his eye. Now his eye was aflame with pain. Tex reared back and bellowed in pain shaking his head and blinking to stop the burning pain.

"Damn it! Are these things venomous?! Screw this, I'm outta here!" Tex thought and quickly ran away from the scene. Thanks to his burning right eye, he bumped into more of the trees as he left.

The big male T-rex ran for a long time before he made it to a stream in the middle of a pretty dark forest. He dipped his head in the water to soothe the pain in his eye. Tex growled in anger at being driven away by mammals much smaller than him.

"Damn mammals! I'll kill those three next time I see them!" he vowed. "But for now, I need to heal and rest."

Tex curled his tail around himself and slept off the pain. He would make those three mammals pay for this. Pay... painfully.