Diego sat perched on a peak, watching the herd live their lives around him. On one side, he watched Peaches, follow her Possum uncles in crazy tricks up on trees, with Manny frantically pacing under it, calling his daughter down.

She did, but not by choice.

Peaches fell off the tree and Manny hovered over, checking her for injuries. Even Ellie came over to check, but the parents' smothering annoyed the kid. Diego watched Ellie calm her husband down, and then the family was back to cuddling and playing together.

The saber tooth leapt off his ledge to take a walk, stopping by the mammoths on his way.

"You alright, kid?" Diego called out to Peaches.

"I'm fine, uncle D." Peaches answered.

Diego smiled at her and walked off, not noticing the sorry looks on Peaches' parents.

"You should talk to him, honey. It's been 10 years."

The cat sighed and raced off to the edge of the cliff top looking out at the forest below. In frustration, he let out a roar, and smiled victoriously when the ground roared back. He growled once again and laughed.

"Yeah, you don't scare me, Mother Nature! There's nothing you can throw at me that I can't handle." He said, a second before a log crashed into him.

He rode the roller coaster until it almost crashed into Peaches, flinging it's riders onto Manny.

"That was fun." Diego said sarcastically once he got his footing straight. "Now, who should I eat first?" He stalked and pounced on the nearest sloth.

"No, no, no!" The green thing whined.

"Uncle Fungus!" Sid came out from somewhere. "Could that really be you?"

Diego got off the uncle as he watched his sloth friend join his sloth family.

"Mom, Dad! Marshall!" He hugged them like it was the last time he'd ever see them.

"Hey!" The old sloth cried as she prodded a sleeping beaver.

"Granny?"

"This pumpkin's ripe for picking!" Granny callously said as the beaver scurried up the tree.

Sid sighed.

"My whole familia."

"See? He still hugs his parents." Manny told his daughter and Diego watched Peaches roll her eyes. He wondered if Dia would have been like this.

"I never thought I'd see my little baby again." Mama sloth said. "We've been searching everywhere for you."

"You have?" Sid was surprised for a second. "I knew it, I knew it! Deep down, I knew I wasn't abandoned!"

"That's incorrect." Sid's hippy brother said. "We totally abandoned you."

"But we always missed you. Right?" His mom gave him a stern look.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we just knew Sid would want to see his poor, dear Granny before her time is up."

Diego could feel something was up.

"I'll bury you all and dance on your graves." Granny yelled at her son in law.

"So frail."

"And she can't wait to spend time with you, Sid." Sid's mom told him.

"Oh, yeah, Granny? Granny?" Sid's dad found Granny teasing Marshall and pulled her back to Sid.

"I never get to have any fun."

"Why don't you show her your cave?" He shoved Granny to Sid.

"Yeah, she could use a nap." Mom added quickly.

Sid didn't have a care in the world and obliviously took his grandmother away while his family celebrated.

"We got rid of the crazy bat! Let's go!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Manny chased after them. "You can't just leave. Sid will be crushed."

"Sorry, cookie." The family didn't stop loading the log, "things are breaking apart back home."

"So, we're headed inland. And Granny is just dead weight. See you."

And they jumped on the log.

"Mush, mush! And warn the community. She tends to wander!" And like that, they were gone.

Diego never thought there would be a time he would empathize with the sloth.

"Well, that explains a lot about Sid."

"Mom, Dad, do you have Granny's teeth? She can't find them." Sid came back.

"Hey! Can you chew this thing for me?" Granny shoved a fruit in his face.

"Guys? Where is everyone?" The look on Sid's face touched Diego.

"I'll handle this." He got before Manny. He could do this. He'd been through this.

"Sid?" He looked his friend in the eye and lost it. "Your family was wiped out by an asteroid. Sorry."

"What?"

"What Diego is trying to say is..." Manny walked past Diego. "...they left. They only wanted to find you so you could take care of Granny."

"Come on, what kind of sick family would ditch their Granny on someone? That's just crazy. That's just... That's just... my family."

"At least you still have Granny. Right, buddy?" Diego tried.

"Yeah," Sid sighed before calling for her. "Granny. Granny? Granny?"

The trio went out looking for Granny, but instead Manny found his daughter with the wrong crowd and went to get her, leaving Diego with Sid.

Diego was distracted as he walked with the sloth. Too much family today. He couldn't believe Sid's family would walk out on him like that. Just like Kiara had walked out on him. At least Sid had Granny. Diego had... nobody.

He started thinking about Diara. She was just two years older than Peaches, so she would have been 13 this year. A teenager!

Yeesh!

He looked at the teenage mammoths that Peaches tried to hang out with and groaned. No kid of his would ever be as disrespectful as them. He would have spoiled Dia, sure, but not rotten. He drew a line somewhere.

Diego didn't notice Manny was back until he heard Peaches yelling at him.

"You deliberately went where you weren't supposed to!"

"You can't control my life!"

"I'm trying to protect you! That's what fathers do."

Diego cringed at that reminder.

"Well... I wish you weren't my father."

Diego was sure Manny felt that just as much as he had.

"Peaches! It's not the end of the world."

But the ground seemed to disagree.

"Whoa. Excuse me." Sid said apologetically.

"I don't think that was you."

"What was that?" Ellie asked, looking at the crack on the ground.

"I don't know." Manny said, taking a step towards his family. "Stay there. I'll come to you."

The ground didn't support that either.

"Ellie!" The mammoth cried for his mate as the ice fell.

Diego dug his claws in the ice, trying to stay on it no matter where it went. His friend on the other hand was more determined to reunite with his family.

Just as Manny jumped, Diego pushed him back on their side.

"Diego!" Manny whined.

"You never would have made it," he said, pointing at the rugged waters below them.

"Go to the land bridge! You'll be safe on the other side."

"No, Manny! No!" Ellie faithfully cried for her husband.

"I'll meet you there!"

"Manny! No!"

"Ellie, you have to get out of here! Go! Go now!"

"Mom!" Peaches came crying closer.

"Get back! Get back!" Ellie kept her daughter back.

"Daddy!" Peaches cried, and Diego wondered if Dia had called to him, waiting for her dad to rescue her.

"Stay alive! No matter how long it takes, I will find you!"

Diego heard Manny's words more in his heart than in his mind and sulked on the floor.

He should have tried harder. He should have raced to the end of the world to find his daughter, and maybe his family would still be together.

"Help me turn this thing around," Manny desperately paddled back. "They need me! We got to get back."

"Buddy, this thing's too big to turn. The current's pulling us out." Diego gave up hope.

"You know, my mother once told me that bad news was just good news in disguise." Sid said to no one in particular.

"Was this before she abandoned you?"

"Yes, it was."

That made sense.

"But the point being that, even though things look bad, there's a rainbow around every corner. And nothing but smooth sailing ahead!"

Apparently today was nature's bad karma day, as soon they were in a storm.

"Smooth sailing, Sid?"