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Posted by Archosaur on May 20, 2009, 10:28 pm, in reply to "Re: The Fall 4"
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Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
The two titans paused, exhausted from hours of combat. Latcic acid burned their muscles, as well as a bigger danger: heat. Even though both were cold blooded, each of the muscle movements of the fight had generated heat energy. While a small reptile might dissipate this energy quickly, these creatures were massive indeed. While the crocodile was twenty four times the length of a 15 croc, and had about 500 times the surface area to release heat from, his volume was almost 14,000 times as much. In short, Sobek the crocodile was in real danger of cooking himself to death. Meanwhile, Megasaur’s blood engorged sail was carrying away the waste heat of his exertions: it would have been almost burning hot to the touch.
The crocodile turned and waddled towards the cooling waters, and safety. Megasaur pursued: sinking his jaws into the tail of the retreating crocodile. The larger crocodile ignored the wounds, and continued to crawl into the river, dragging the dinosaur behind. As the water begain to foam around the reptiles, Dr. Lynn screamed “Wait!”
The crocodile thrashed his tail, freeing it and dislodging the woman into the frothing waster between the colossal reptiles. As the crocodile turned to bite the dinosaur, the water flowing into those gaping jaws caused an undertow that began to suck the woman into those jaws.
A massive thirty foot maw scoops her from the water, seconds before the thunderclap of the crocodile’s closing jaws. She stares about the slick, Cavernous throat pouch; Megasaur has caught her in his jaws to save her.
His noble deed has cost the spinosaur: the crocodile turns, clamps onto part of the wide tail, and twists off a bloody mass of flesh. His bellow nearly deafens Dr. Lynn, and she slides to the back of the throat as the spinosaur falls into the water. As she struggles for purchase on the rubbery folds above the esophagus, a flood of water pounds down into the jaws. With the exhaustion, pain, and disorientation clouding his mind, Megasaur reflexively swallows the water in his mouth. An instant later, he realized what he had done, as he feels the bulge traveling down his throat squirm.
Megasaur stands as the crocodile pauses to swallow his own gruesome meal. The dinosaur glares at the crocodile with a new emotion: rage. Bellowing he charges into the crocodile, actually sliding the larger reptile into the poly-glass surface of one of the old skyscrapers, shaking it. The few inhabitants of the building stare in horror outside as their refuge has become a battlefield of leviathans.
The dinosaur begins to step around the building, clawing and snapping at the surface, retreating before the snapping jaws. The crocodile’s jaws close on a massive titanium load support for the tower. Spinning instinctively, the massive crocodile tears it loose, and the building begins to shudder. Megasaur places both claws on the cracking poly-glass, and begins to push from the other side, massive thigh muscles bulging. The people inside the building stare in horror at the snorting dinosaur as he pushes the building over on top of the colossal crocodile. A massive explosion of ruin an wreckage fills the air.
When it is over, amazingly, the crocodile begins to emerge from the pile of ruins. Even such an awesome blow could not crush the massive, armored creature. Slowly, he begins to retreat, out to sea, away from this place of pain. The exhausted spinosaur stands panting for several minutes, then unleashes an awesome bellow, shaking the waters.
Slowly the giant crawls onto land. He lowers his belly to the ground, closes his eyes, and begins to softly rumble as he sleeps. The people of Old Town approach warily, staring in wonder as their unlikely savior.
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