https://youtu.be/N7QHmgXa4MoThe Tyranno is fleeing for its life from a bigger predator, some strange variant of mammal that is somehow both much taller than it, and stronger! Using instincts it had to pick back up from when it was merely venturing out of the nest, the dinosaur laments that there’s objectively no use. The predator is gaining on it, and when it gains it will feast, as the Tyranno had done many a time. And scurrying away only worked out when it had something to scurry back to, like its mother. Now it will truly be ousted as the king of these parts, and its flesh will fuel the victor- “WAAAAAHHH!”
(“Yep, that’s me. I’m wondering how I ended this situation? …am I gonna have to eat it?”)
The Tyranno is still running as fast as it can, but doesn’t sense its chaser giving chase. It turns its head once its a luxury it can afford, and spots the giant mammal being dragged away. Great balls of fire, there’s something bigger. There’s always something bigger- rawr?
The giant mammal is dragged back to another one of similar size, and as for who dragged the ape, and is now swatting the ape while it cowers in a ball? Who else could it be but that diminutive devil again!
(“Do it Mom, shooot her!”)
What reason could there be for this? Is that mammal showing its might to the others to get them in line? But they’re not even kin, what purpose is there in- wait a sec.
The Tyranno sneaks as well as it can downwind of the mammals, and sniffs the air. This scent… L'Oréal Kids “No Tears” shampoo on the great apes’ heads and the tiny one’s hands. They’re kin. And that means that, much in the same way its own mother had curtailed it from wasting its time on unworthy prey, it too had been rendered that same dismissal.
The Tyranno walks away, then once it’s at a safe distance, lets out a howl. At having its pride wounded, at having its world go topsy-turvy, at not being strong enough, lots of reasons!
(“Will you make with the demise already? C’mon, I have places to be!”)
As the full moon diminished and a new day dawned, it swore it would fix all of it.
https://youtu.be/EyanD2MD1TgThe Tyranno began its training, first going on a diet where it caught prey and released them, only eating when it needed to. Turns out, unfertilized eggs provided plenty of protein to carry it through the day, and since the dinosaur couldn’t work out fire and frying pans, it settled on drinking the yolks.
(“Starving to death? Salmonella poisoning?”)
As an apex predator, it was fairly tall. But its prey could fly. The Tyranno began climbing the tallest mountains. It was slow going at first, suffering many falls, but then it began to see where the best places to strike with its steps were, and ascended the mountains that way. These thundering steps caused landslides and avalanches, but the dinosaur tackled those as well, and came out on top. It would not be buried and forgotten!
(“I very much wish it would be.”)
