Hello, fellow Extreme Dinosaurs fans! Seasons greetings! This is my second Extreme Dinosaurs fanfic, though it is my sixth parody of the classic Frank Capra movie "It's A Wonderful Life". In this two chapter story, my favorite character, Spike, is depressed and despondent after he accidentally wrecks Stegz's hard made invention of new and inadvertently ruins Chedara's Quadranian codebook, along with how he unintentionally injures Bullzeye's wings. And on Christmas Eve, of all days!

He considers offing himself, wishing he'd never existed, but besides how the others pray for his plight after finding out of it, including Stegz, Bullzeye and Chedara, all of them knowing what he did was an accident and still considering him an important friend, Prince H finds out about what happened and decides he'll help Spike in his time of need by showing him what the world would be like if he never lived. Can he convince Spike not to take his own life and get him back to his old self so that he may survive to see another Christmas Day? Find out in this fanfic!

THINGS TO NOTE:

This story takes place a year after the final episode of Extreme Dinosaurs, namely, "Holiday On Ice", and, as a result, is a post-series fanfic. Not only this, but it does indeed specifically take place on Christmas Eve, which is pretty fitting, since it's a parody of "It's A Wonderful Life" and being written in December.

I own none of the characters. They all belong to Extreme Dinosaurs. And I don't own "It's A Wonderful Life", either, for Frank Capra made that movie, so it's his work I'm parodying here.

An Extremely Wonderful Life

It was nighttime at the museum that the Extreme Dinosaurs called home, but it was no ordinary night. Because on this night, besides the fact that it was Christmas Eve, it was also to be noted that, inside of Pork's dinosaur mansion, the aforementioned Pork was praying for Spike, and so were Chedara, T-Bone, Stegz, Bullzeye and Hard Rock.

We will get into why Spike was being prayed for in a few moments. First, though, we check out the main bedroom of the Extreme Dinosaurs, in which each of the ones knelt in prayer were in front of an individual bed.

T-Bone was saying: "We dinosaurs may not usually be accustomed to religion or any such thing, but if there is a God, as so many mammals say there is, we beg that God to be with Spike tonight. He needs all the help he can get."

Stegz was going out, with his eyes just as closed as T-Bone's and those of the others who were present in the room with him: "I don't care that my new invention got destroyed. Spike is a close friend and good comrade to us, and he's one of the very few dinosaurs left on this planet along with us. If you exist, God, and we dinosaurs have been ignorant of it for so long, we beseech you to allow Spike to live and recover. He doesn't deserve what he's going through."

Bullzeye was speaking: "I never knew until recently that mammals believed so firmly in a deity of a lord, and I honestly have no idea whether or not they're right. But if they are right and we've been in the dark about it all this time, I plead to that lord to help Spike in his time of need. It doesn't matter that my wings are hurt. They'll heal up in due time. But if Spike dies, he never will. We need him as much as he needs us. Please give him a break. He's been through so much today and now he's going through even worse."

Hard Rock was uttering: "Spike is in one of the worst predicaments he's ever been in. We have never seen him this despondent, depressed and despair-laden. I don't know if there is a God who I've been unaware of the existence of, but should this be true, please allow things to get better for Spike from here. This isn't what he, us or anyone has asked for."

Pork was putting across: "Lord, I know you're there and that you can hear me and my friends. And we ask only that you guide Spike tonight so that he will not meet his end and will instead leave the darkness he's currently trapped in and enter the light of a better day and future. Don't let it go from bad to worse to worst for him. Please."

And finally, Chedara was talking in the form of the words: "God, I know I'm new to you, since I'm from another dimension, but I really hope you truly exist, because something's the matter with Spike! And he needs the best possible aid that he can possibly get! My Quadrainian codebook being totaled isn't important to me! Not when Spike's fate is in question! He matters more than it does, just like the rest of my friends do!"

Okay, now we go to where one of the top allies of the Extreme Dinosaurs, Prince H of England, currently was. It just so happens that, at the moment, he, along with his family, were visiting the very region of America, specifically the Southwestern United States, that was nearby and thus led to Pork's dinosaur museum where the Extreme Dinosaurs lived.

And, as it would turn out, even though he and his family were doing this for Christmas related reasons that would benefit both them, many in England and many around the world, the fact of the matter was that there couldn't have been a better time for him to be visiting the part of the USA that he was currently in.

Because, as has probably been heavily implied by this point, the reason that Spike was being prayed for by his friends was that some awful, unfortunate things had happened which he blamed himself for, despite how they were obvious accidents, and they had led to him not only being discouraged, but also being in such a state to the point where he was giving serious thought to throwing away his life.

Yes, you read right. He was seriously considering committing suicide. Killing himself. Ending his entire existence entirely. However you put it into words, it's clear as much as obvious what he had on his mind. It was literally the first time in his life he'd been that full of despair. He was currently sitting outside of the museum he called home, on the side of the gate around it that faced the outside world rather than the region that contained the museum and everything around it. His head was hung and his eyes did not have their usual craving for action in them.

No, far from it. They looked dull and gloomy, much like was his current mood. Even his tail lay on the ground as if to signify how glum he was right now. It was almost as if all of his spirit, confidence, courage, aggression and brashness had been pulled out of him and replaced with just the opposite, and the same could be said about how he currently felt about himself and his existence.

What's worse, he also had a freeze blaster in his right hand, and the reason for that was that he was thinking about whether or not he should use it on himself. As in, he had half a notion, and in fact a good mind, to stick that freeze blaster into his mouth and pull the trigger, thereby freezing his entire interior body and in fact freezing himself from the inside out. He had enough power to survive being put in a block of ice externally, even if he'd obviously need to break out of it to ensure he wouldn't die, but internally was another story.

After all, even one as powerful as he would surely die in seconds with no hope of being saved if he were to literally turn his guts to ice along with the rest of what was inside his body, right down to his heart, lungs and brain, and especially since he meant it to spread so rapidly that it would almost be the equivalent of his internal structure spontaneously having every part of it freeze up at the exact same time.

And given his current state of emotion, which was pure upset and self-loathing, becoming as extinct as all the non-Extreme dinosaurs of his dimension seemed to be his best bet and the smart, right thing to do.

As a matter of fact, here's the thing. Inside of the place that he and his family were spending the holidays, Prince H said to the others with him: "I must say that it is simply marvelous that we get to do this! Not just because it will benefit us along with the rest of the world, but also because we get to be next door to my friends the Extreme Dinosaurs and their confidants Chedara and Pork! Perhaps they'll join us for the holidays, or vice versa?"

"Possibly they'll do that tomorrow, yes…" began one of the ones Prince H was with at the moment, but then Spike was noticed out the window by that same someone. Prince H was then asked: "Wait…young man, isn't that one of your dinosaur friends sitting near the gate of their museum home out there?"

Prince H looked out that same window and said: "Why, so it is! But why is he outside all by himself? Especially since it's so cold out, as it usually is on Christmas Eve? I need to get my jacket, hat and gloves on and see what's going on! Thank you for letting me know!"

The one who'd let him know nodded, and Prince H got on what he wore for when it was cold outside, on Christmas Eve or otherwise. As he'd learn after he walked out of the doors to see what was going on with Spike, he made a very judicious, sensible and wise choice. Because, as he'd also learn when he was close enough to Spike to speak to him, Spike had finally decided that he was better off dead and had indeed stuck the freezing blaster in his mouth.

Prince H saw this and realized that something was very wrong with Spike, so before the triceratops could pull the trigger and end it all, Prince H shouted quite loudly: "SPIKE! NO!" It was followed by Spike getting startled enough so that he suddenly let go of his freezing blaster and dropped it, especially since he went: "WHAAAAAA?" and his mouth opened wide enough so that it fell to the ground right next to him.

Spike then exclaimed: "Prince H? What are you doing out here all by yourself?" "Funny, Spike…" Prince H replied, "before I saw you with that freeze gun in your mouth, I was about to ask you the longer, latter part of that question. But I must ask you…why were you going to fire a freeze blast into your mouth? You'd die if you did that!"

"I know," Spike said, "but that's what I want to do. I've become a hazard to my friends and my life has become worthless. I caused harm to Bullzeye and I also ruined Chedara's codebook. I even destroyed the new invention Stegz worked so hard to get done. Yeah, they were all accidents, but I've clearly gone from a useful teammate to a menace of an engine of destruction and a disaster waiting to happen."

"Don't say such things, Spike. Accidents happen, and I'm certain that those three will forgive you, if they haven't already. They must know you did those things accidentally along with how you know it, and no doubt the others you live with know it, too!" Prince H told him.

"Really? Well, we may have had mishaps and/or accidents before, but nothing like this." Spike said sadly. "Honestly, me and my headstrong attitude. My eagerness for battle. My way of being so hotheaded and/or brash at times. My temper problem I've sometimes got. And what I caused today. The Extreme Dinosaurs, and the world, for that matter, would be better off if I'd never lived. Not just never been mutated on Argor's ship 65 million years ago, but never hatched out of my egg a matter of years before that."

"That isn't true at all, Spike! And this is not the Spike I know talking!" Prince H let out. All of a sudden, though, an idea hit him. One that could very well snap Spike out of his morose mood of a saddened state and get things back to the way they needed to be. He picked up the freeze blaster and said: "Spike, wait here! I'm going to return this to your friends, but also let them know what I just saw, because I think I know a way that I can help you recover from this!"

Spike looked confused, but said: "Okay, but I don't see why you're bothering. There's nothing anyone can do for me." "Oh, yes there is, and you'll see just how effective what I can do for you is once I've gotten the proper means to do so!" Prince H assured him. Then, as he saw Prince H disappear from sight, he tried to consider how the hell even someone who was a good a friend and trustworthy an ally as he was going to help him when he was this far gone.

After a short while, he saw Prince H come back out, holding something that looked like an image projector in his hand. Prince H then said: "Okay, Spike, I've got just what I needed! I returned the freeze blaster to your friends and they put it away as I explained to them all that had happened and why! Stegz then realized just the way that my idea, which I also filled them in on, could work, and quickly got to work inventing the perfect device for it! I've got it right here, as a matter of fact!"

"All right, so what is it he made that you've now got?" Spike asked, a bit in the dark as to where this was going. Prince H explained: "In my hands is a special image projector, designed by the aforementioned Stegz so that, with the push of a button, whatever image the one holding it wants to be projected will indeed be projected, and so broadly that it appears to be reality even though it's just an image projection in reality."

"How does it know what you want it to show in its projected image, though?" Spike let out in question. Prince H told him: "Simple. You just speak of what you want to be shown and then press the button, and it results in that image being produced. And if you want things to look like reality again, you just speak of that and press the button. Cleverly made, wouldn't you say?" "Yeah. But what's going to be done now to make any difference here?" Spike responded.

"You will see the answer, or should I say the answers, to your question quite clearly and openly when once we get started on this, Spike." Prince H assured him. "Of that you can be most certain and very sure, indeed."

Since it was obviously his best bet to cooperate here, Spike did just that, knowing that he would be foolish not to at least give a clear attempt to help him a chance and also that someone as faithful, helpful and trustworthy as Prince H was worth listening to and/following the lead of.

TO BE CONCLUDED…

Was this a good first chapter for you? Will Prince H. prove successful in convincing Spike that he's worth far more of a damn than he thinks he is in his current unhappy, despondent state? In addition, what will the end result, whatever it turns out to be, mean for not only Spike, but also for all of his friends, dinosaur, human, Quadranian, what have you? Learn the answer to all of those questions when you read the chapter which follows this one and completes the story! And, in the meantime, whosoever is an Extreme Dinosaurs fan, a Spike fan or otherwise, please rate and review this!