Dinosaur King Retold Chapter 47: Santa Saurus, a dinosaur king fanfic

Santa Saurus

Disclaimer: Dinosaur King is owned by Sunrise, Shout Factory, 4kidsTV, and any other company I missed. I own nothing

"Talking"

Thinking

"Flashback"

"Song Lyrics"

A cheerful atmosphere filled Sanjo City as the snow continued to fall. Decorations were placed and lights were hung as they approached one of the most popular times of the year; Christmas.

And no place was this more apparent than the Taylor Household. "It's Christmas time! My favorite time of the year!" Spike cheered as he worked on a small tree in their living room. "Merry Christmas, everyone! Hmm, hmm, hmm! I can hardly wait to see what Santa Claus will bring me this year!"

From the sidelines, Chomp, Ace, Tank, Terry were chasing each other around for fun. "Isn't he a little old for Santa?" Terry asked.

"Well, he's supposed to give presents to children." Ace answered. "But I think Dr. Taylor's childish enough to count."

"Well, I don't know about Santa." Aki said as she spun out of the kitchen with a bowl and mixer. "But you can sure count on me bringing you a delicious Christmas dinner."

Spike smiled as he slid over to Aki, covered in dressing from the tree. "It couldn't be any worse than that Thanksgiving turkey you burned up." He joked.

"I think I still have some soot in my throat." Terry grumbled, remembering the failed Thanksgiving all too well. And, yes, they do have Thanksgiving in Japan.

The two adults didn't hear him and started humming Jingle Bells. "La, la, la! La, la, la! La, la, la, la, la!"

From the hallway, Max and Rex watched his parents dance from a freak in the door before Max closed it and sighed. "Here we go again. It's that time of the year when my mom and dad start acting like a couple of little kids."

"What's so bad about that?" Rex asked him. "It is Christmas."

"That's right!" The boys turned around to see Zoe dressed in a Santa outfit while her dinosaurs had on reindeer antlers. "And Christmas is the time for fun, so I suggest you start having some!"

"Or things get bloody!" Spiny threatened before laughing maniacally.

"Whatever." Max rolled his eyes, not at all intimidated by the Spinosaur's threats.

"Now don't be such a Scrooge!" Zoe told them as she got in their faces. "You guys need to dress up, too, and get into the holiday spirit!"

"What'd you expect us to do, put on reindeer antlers or something?" Max asked as they backed away from the peeved pinkette.

All the commotion got Aki's attention and she opened the door to see who it was, causing Max and Rex to stumble into the room. "Aah!"

"Hi, Zoe." Aki greeted her.

"Merry Christmas!" Zoe responded.

"Oh, what adorable little Christmas outfits." Aki gushed as she looked at what Zoe and her dinos were wearing.

"I agree with that." Chomp said as he and the other dinosaurs walked over to them, causing Paris to blush so furiously her face looked yellow.

"See? Now that's what I'm talking about." Zoe told the boys, smiling smugly.

"Get a room." Tank muttered as she rolled her eyes at the romance.

"Get room." Spiny mentally wrote down before thinking. "Does it count if I share that room with other females?"

"Hey, that gives me an idea." Spike said as he walked over and noticed Team Zoe's outfits. "Why not have the whole family dress up for the holidays?"

Max, Rex, Tank, Ace, and Terry, cringed at the thought while Chomp seemed to be fine with it, mainly since he could wear the same thing as Paris. "Yes! That's the spirit!" Zoe cheered. "We'll have ourselves a Christmas holiday costume party!"

"Holiday party!" Spike and Aki cheered.

"Looks like I'll be wearing those reindeer antlers after all." Max groaned, knowing there's no escaping the humiliation.

"Well, I guess I'd better get going." Rex quickly said as the tried to make an escape before Max grabbed his shoulder.

"If I'm doing this then you're suffering with me." Max told him, making Rex groan as well.

"Oooh."

"Left! No, right! No, my right!" Utah directed the Pteranodons as they carried an important object.

"I can't tell my lefts and rights!" Jet yelled at Utah.

"Aren't you supposed to be an ace flier?" Marlin asked as he and some other dinosaurs watched.

"It's not so easy to tell where you are when you're not in a fight!" The Pteranodon retorted, making the others confused. "Hang on! I think we got it!" He and his partners flew up a little more before the tree they were moving landed right in the hole that was dug by Guru and the other sauropods. "Tree in place, ma'am!" Jet saluted as the trio of Pteranodons let go of the ropes.

"Perfect. Everything's going along smoothly." Utah said as she looked back at her book.

"What's going on?" Pawpaw asked as he joined up with the other dinosaurs.

"They're putting up a Christmas tree, kid." Marlin told him as he resumed eating the bass he had.

"Christmas tree?" Pawpaw repeated as he looked at the tree. "But it looks like a normal conifer tree."

"That's because we haven't decorated it yet." Utah said as she closed her book and walked back to the tree. "Okay, Decoration Squad, go!" She signaled with a point of her claw.

With bursts of wind, Ally used Mayfly and Meg used Ninja Attack to splatter paint all over the tree. At the same time, Gertie and Charles worked on putting different ornaments on the top part of the tree while Thorn and Lucky did the same for the lower half. Pawpaw watched as they decorated the tree and was still confused. "Why are you messing up that tree?"

"We're not messing it up, we're decorating it." Ally corrected as she grabbed another brush before using Mayfly again.

"Pawpaw does have a point, why are we decorating this tree?" Iguano asked.

"Why!?" Utah was shocked they still didn't understand. "To celebrate Christmas!" She exclaimed.

"Utah, calm down." Guru told her as he walked over with the Deinonychus.

"No need to go all perfectionist on us." Dino assured her. "Doing it by the book always ends badly."

"This isn't a ninja fight." Sue pointed out.

"The rules still apply, dumbo." Danno mocked her sister.

"Dumbo?!" Sue repeated before she growled and started having another sisterly fight with Danno, rolling all around the lab.

"Whoa! Whoa!" Teddy quickly ran over and gently pulled the two of them apart from each other with his claws before they seriously hurt themselves. "Girls, it's Christmas. This isn't the time for fighting." He reminded them.

"The whimp's got a point." Diamond said. "Just chill."

"Okay." Rocko spoke up. "I think you dudes and dudettes need to tell us now what the heck this Christmas is."

"I remember hearing that it was about this Jebus guy's birth." Delta said.

"It's more than that." Utah told him. "It's a time of coming together and celebrating."

"And getting free stuff from an old, fat guy!" Ally added.

This got everyone's attention. "You serious?!" Coal asked as she and several others walked over to learn more.

"Yeah, apparently this Sandy Claws breaks into your house on Christmas Eve-"

"Guys, we have a schedule to keep if we want this celebration to happen tonight!" Utah tried to remind them, impatiently tapping her toe claw, but everyone else was too distracted by the tales of Christmas. "All right, I guess I could use a break." She said before drinking some hot coco Reese left for her.

(Intro Theme)

Like always, the mood at Zeta Point was the exact opposite of the one the D-Team was experiencing. When they learned it was Christmas Eve, Rod and Laura locked themselves in their room, turned off the lights, and pulled up the video of them saying goodbye to their parents.

"Come on, Laura." Rod said in the video.

"OK! Bye, Mommy and Daddy!" Laura waved to their parents, standing in the doorway of their house.

"You two behave yourselves at Grandpa's." Their father told them.

"Have a good time, kids." Their mother said. "We'll see you both tonight."

"OK! See you later! Ha, ha!" Laura laughed as she ran over to where her brother was standing

The screen then changed to show a hatch opening up in an enormous aircraft. As they went through the loading dock, the camera turned back to show their parents waving. "Goodbye, kids!" And the video ended.

Once it did, Rod pulled out the remote and replayed the video. As they rewatched the video for possibly the hundredth time, tears started to form in their eyes and slide down their cheeks. With no way of contacting their parents, this was the only way they'd be able to see them this Christmas.

In the dining room, Helga dragged the A-Team by their collars, the trio being thrown around like balloons, before she tossed them all at the table with bowls of food already waiting for them. Dr.Z was already at the table eating some instant noodles. "Eat up!" Helga ordered them. "There will be no skipping of meals in this household of mine!" Her voice malfunctioning again before she wobbled into the kitchen. "For dinner, we have motor oil stew!" She announced as she threw random foods into a boiling pot.

The trio tensed and whimpered as they could already taste death. "Aren't you going to do something about Helga?" Ursula asked Dr.Z. "Even if we survive her throwing us around, she's gonna kill us with her cooking! Yes?"

Dr.Z looked up from his noodles and didn't look the least bit terrified. "Nonsense. She may have a few blown fuses and crossed some wires when she broke, but she's harmless." He assured her.

"Now she's going after the produce!" Ed exclaimed as he watched her cook.

"Yesterday I saw her head spin completely around." Zander added. "I'm positive it shouldn't do that."

"She may have taken a few too many volts and cracks to the brain, but she's a devoted servant and would never hurt us." Dr.Z assured them again before looking up at Helga. "Isn't that right, Helga?" His worried tone betraying him.

Helga turned around and looked at the doctor questionably. "Who are you?"

Dr.Z was shocked his own creation didn't recognize him. "Helga! I'm the one who first jump-started your heart!"

Rod and Laura entered the room and Helga noticed them. "Und who are you kids?"

"Your boss." Rod quickly answered. "Get back to the kitchen and make chocolate cake." He might as well try to have some fun this Christmas.

"Yes, Boss." Helga replied.

This gave Ursula and the others an idea. "And I'm a 21-year-old supermodel who would like something low carb." Ursula said with a smile.

"And I'm her nutritionist." Zander added.

"President of the United States." Ed announced.

But Helga wasn't fooled and shoved a melon down Ursula's throat. "Here's something low carb for you, Ursula!" She then shoved a cabbage down Zander. "Here's some nutrition for you, Zander!" And ended with forcing Ed to drink her soup. "Und you, Ed, couldn't be in charge of tying your shoes!" She then left while the Alpha Gang still had food stuck in their mouths.

"Well, apparently we're very memorable." Ursula muffled through the melon.

Dr.Z groaned at the failures he calls minions before turning to Rod and Laura. "Hmm? Are you kids hungry?"

"Um, well..." Rod started to say, but couldn't find the words.

"Actually, we were wondering about Christmas." Laura told him.

"It's probably no use." Rod told both her and himself, Laura nodded in sadness, agreeing with what he said. "Never mind, Grandpa." He said before they started walking away.

"I know what you two really want." Dr.Z told them. "You want to go out on another mission, don't you?"

"A mission?" Laura asked as they stopped and looked at their grandpa.

"I need someone to get all the Dinosaur Cards, or at least most of them, back from that wretched D-Team to even the playing field, and a couple of kids would be the perfect undercover agents to send. Right?" He explained.

"That's right!" Ursula agreed as she and her colleagues spit out their food and gleefully stood up with their hands in their air like they were waiting to be called on by a teacher. "Ed and Zander and I are just the undercover kids that you need. A cute young girl and her two little friends!"

Dr.Z was not amused by this poor attempt at a joke. "You can forget it!" He yelled at them. "You three had your chances and messed up every time, which caused this whole mission in the first place!" The trio shrunk from their boss's scolding and looked down in defeat as he turned to his grandkids. "Laura and Rod, you go and take Brontikens and the others with you, okay?"

Rod and Laura beamed in excitement. This might be their chance to return home after all. "Thanks, Grandpa!" Rod beamed.

"You can count on us." Laura said.

About a half-hour later, the kids were flying over the snowy Sanjo City in their Alpha Craft. "Look at all the snow." Rod observed. After being in the South Pacific for over a year, it was still a little shocking to see snow falling again.

"It sure feels like Christmas here, doesn't it?" Laura asked as she looked down at the city and all the decorations. "Wow! Look at that great big Santa down there."

"Big deal." Rod told her, staying focused on the mission. "It's just a big statue."

"You normally love looking at Christmas decorations." Laura reminded her brother.

"In case you've forgotten, we're not here for fun. We're here for a mission."

Back at Max's house, the dinosaurs all had on little reindeer antlers like Paris and Spiny. "Why do I have to be Rudolph?" Terry asked as he scratched the red nose that was put on him with his arms, more plausible in chibi-form than full-size.

"Why are you complaining about being the most famous of the reindeer?" Chomp asked.

"Because this red nose itches." Terry replied with irritation as he continued scratching it.

On the table, Aki brought out a large box of costumes and started pulling them out with Spike to see which ones would best fit with her husband. "Mom, where'd you get all these costumes from?" Max asked her.

"They're from my college days." Aki answered as she laid some out on the table. "I used to be in the theater department. Now I'm glad I kept them all." She said before noticing an outfit fit for her husband. "Hey, how about something like this, honey?"

She handed the outfit to Spike and he looked it over. "Ooh, it's a Robin Hood outfit. I used to pretend I was Robin Hood all the time when I was a boy. This one is all mine!" He exclaimed as he hugged the costume.

"This one here is for Max." Aki said as she pulled out a snowman outfit before noticing one for Rex. "And look at this, Rex. This one is perfect." She said as she pulled out a pirate costume.

"Are you really gonna make us wear those things?" Max asked her, already knowing the answer.

"At least mine's not as embarrassing as I thought I'd be." Rex said, shivering as he imagined himself in an elf costume or something similar.

"Well, mine is." Max told him before getting up. "I think I'll pass."

"No way!" Zoe said as she blocked his exit.

"It's only for Christmas Eve, Max." Aki said as she handed him and Rex their outfits.

"As long as I don't have to go singing pirate songs or talking like a pirate, I'll be good." Rex said as he took the outfit.

"Fine." Max grumbled as he took the outfit. "But how come I have to be the snowman?"

What none of them realized was that Rod and Laura were watching from behind a shrub in the backyard and listening in through the screen door on the patio. While they watched, the two of them felt their hearts being tugged. "Excuse me, ma'am, but which way to Sherwood Forest?" Spike asked Aki once he got into the outfit.

"What a handsome Robin Hood." Aki smiled.

"Beware, ne'er-do-wells!"

"They're having so much fun." Laura smiled at the sight of the family and friends together.

Rod grunted in frustration. "We'll put a stop to that." He declared.

"Huh?" Laura asked, still confused by his behavior as of late.

"As soon as they leave the house, we'll break in and steal back the Dinosaur Cards." Rod explained his plan.

"Sort of like Santa Claus in reverse." Laura realized.

What neither of them knew was that none of the other dinosaurs were in the house. They were all at the D-Lab, continuing preparations for the holiday party. "How's the food coming along?" Kui asked as he walked over to the kitchen where Sweet Tooth, Francine, and Comet were working on the food for the banquet.

"We have a few setbacks, but everything else is going perfectly." Francine said as she carried a tray of dinosaur-sized cookies to the buffet table with her horns.

"What kind of setbacks?" The Fukuisaurus asked.

"Let's just say that someone can't seem to wait like everyone else." Sweet Tooth said as she looked behind herself and growled.

"Was it Ally?" Kui asked, knowing the Allosaur's love for ham.

"No, she's working on something else in secret." Francine answered. "Something involving missiles."

"Then who's causing the setbacks?" Kui wondered as he looked to see who Sweet Tooth was glaring at. What he saw was Sushi being pinned to the wall by Comet.

"Just one more bite, please!" Sushi begged as she hungrily eyed all the sushi and other seafood on the table.

"You already made us have to replace that seafood once!" Comet reminded her as he struggled to keep the Suchomimus against the wall with her constantly bitting and scratching his frill. "Does anyone have a tranquilizer?"

Back inside the Taylor Household, Aki looked at the clock and realized what time it was. "Oh, wow, it's time for me to go pick up the Christmas cake!" She said as she put on her winter coat. "I got it from the best bakery in town. You have to put your order in a month ahead of time."

She left and started walking down the steps that lead to their front door before arriving at the street and heading to the bakery. Rod and Laura appeared behind her and followed her from a distance. They continued on following her until she arrived at the bakery and hid behind a wall as she got her cake

"So, we're gonna capture Max's mom?" Laura asked Rod, assuming that was his plan.

"No, we're not gonna capture her. We're just gonna distract her, and then you have to try and keep her from going back home for a little while." Rod told her. "Then I'll lure Max and the others out of the house and sneak back in and get the cards."

"Yeah, but-"

"What's the matter with you, Laura?" Rod asked his sister, getting annoyed with her. "All we're doing is getting back the Dinosaur Cards that Grandpa, Spectre, and Dr. Ancient created and returning them to where they belong!"

"Yeah, but it feels wrong." Laura admitted.

"So I guess you're saying that you don't wanna go back to Mom and Dad?" Rod asked her, almost looking a little shocked.

"No, of course, I do. I want that more than anything." Laura said as she looked down at the ground.

"Then let's do what we have to do." Rod said before looking ahead of the wall and seeing Aki walking out of the bakery. "Come on. There she is now." With the snap of a finger, an Alpha Scooted appeared next to them and they hopped on.

Aki hummed as she walked home, oblivious to being followed. Rod and Laura quietly stalked her for a bit before Rod cranked up the speed and zoomed right past her, grabbing the cake in the process. "My cake!" Aki gasped as she saw the cake disappear from her hands in seconds. "Stop, thief!" She called out as she chased after them, not knowing it was two kids. "Please don't take my cake! Come back with that box!" She begged. She continued chasing them until she lost sight of them near a Japanese arch. "This is terrible!" She panted, almost about to cry from losing the cake she promised her family.

"Lose something?" Looking at one of the poles of the arch, she saw Rod and Laura emerge with the cake.

"Oh, there you are." Aki sighed in relief, seeing as she was able to find her cake.

"If you want your stupid cake back, you'll have to come over here and get it." Rod told her, putting on a snotty brat tone.

What they didn't expect was for Aki to walk over to them without any fear. "My, my." She said to them, smiling. "Wow. You must want cake pretty badly to act this way."

"Uh, well, that's not-" Rod struggled to find the words to say. Obviously, this wasn't going as planned.

"You've probably heard how delicious that bakery's cakes are, and when you saw it, you couldn't help yourselves! I barely got one myself even though I put the order in a whole month ago, so I can't blame you two for wanting one, too!"

Rod and Laura just looked at each other blankly. Clearly, this woman wasn't like the rest of the D-Team. "Yeah, I guess so." Rod replied

"I have an idea. Come home with me, and you can share it with my family." Aki suggested.

"Well, yeah I guess that's okay." Rod answered. This would make the mission harder since the D-Team would now know what they're trying to do, but saying no would make Aki suspicious and she might call the cops on them.

After giving Aki back the cake, the three of them started walking back to her place. "So, you're Rod and you're Laura, right?" Aki asked as she remembered what they said their names were.

"Right." Laura confirmed.

"You know what, kids? I have a son named Max who's just about your age. And his friend Rex lives with us, too. And there's Max's other friend Zoe who's spending the day with us. And my husband and I know they'll be delighted to have you two join our Christmas party! It'll be a big crowd, but the more the merrier, right?"

"This is too good to be true." Rod whispered to Laura. "We're gonna walk right into the house with her."

"But what about your family, children?" Aki asked, finding it strange they were alone. "Won't they have their own plans for Christmas Eve and wonder where you are?"

"No, our parents are..." Rod tried to find a good lie so they won't have to resort to the original plan of sneaking in. "Are on a trip to Norway. And, uh-"

"Yeah, so we're on our own." Laura finished for Rod.

"Really?" Aki said in response. "Oh. Well, all the more reason for you to come have fun with us!"

When Aki returned home and showed the others Rod and Laura, all of the D-Team's mouths dropped open. "So I invited them to join our party." Aki explained. "Isn't that great? And, Max, I knew you'd be the most excited of all!"

"Thanks so much for inviting us." Rod thanked her, putting on an innocent act. "I hope we're not getting in the way or anything."

"You are in the way of everything." Terry quietly growled.

"You sure look like you know how to celebrate a holiday the right way!" Laura told them, being completely honest. "All of your costumes are really cool!"

"Yeah, but you're- I mean-" Max struggled to find words to address their two enemies.

Thankfully Spike stepped in for him. "Come on now, everybody, it's Christmas Eve. A time for family and fun and a chance for even the worst of enemies to bury the hatchet."

"The worst of enemies?" Aki repeated, confused by his word choice.

"Oh, it's just a figure of speech." Spike assured her.

But Aki took it another way entirely. "Max, I think your father's talking about the way you always get into fights with Rex and Zoe. Well, I'll have none of that with Rod and Laura here, do you understand?" She firmly asked her son.

Max wanted to retort, but he knew better than to challenge his mother. "Uh, well... yeah."

"Now that's a good little snowman." Aki said as she patted her son's head, making him and his friends blush in embarrassment.

"I think I smell dinner burning." Max grumbled.

"Oh, that's right!" Aki exclaimed in delight for some reason. "We've got a delicious Christmas roast coming! Could you give me a hand, honey?" She asked as she ran into the kitchen.

"Robin Hood at your service!" Spike announced as he followed, leaving the kids and dinos alone.

"Hehe. That's a good little snowman." Rod chuckled.

"What are you two doing here?" Max asked them.

"Ah ah ah." Laura teased. "Don't forget, your mother just said that you're not supposed to fight with us."

"That only applies to them." Chomp reminded them as he got into a defensive position.

"So what'd you think they're up to?" Paris whispered.

"They're probably here to try and take the others." Rex answered.

"Makes sense, especially since even if they do get the remaining ones we still outnumber them." Max said smugly while rubbing under his nose before noticing them going up the stairs. "Hey! Where do you think you're going?!" He yelled before they followed the two up the stairs. "You can't just go snooping around our house!" Max told them.

"It won't take long. It's so little." Rod mocked.

"Hey!"

"I bet your mother doesn't know that these so-called pets of yours are really dinosaurs, does she?" Rod asked.

"What's it to you?" Rex replied.

"She might not like it if she found out that these little guys get really big and battle with other dinosaurs and that you've been hiding it." Laura said, almost giggling.

"Is that a challenge?" Terry barred his teeth at them.

"No, it's our plan." Rod answered as he pulled out his scanner and summoned a chibi Brontikens.

"Don't think for a minute that you'll get away with your plan here." Terry threatened his rival as he got into his face.

Brontikens showed no sign of being intimidated. "I'm only here for the possibility of a fight. Stealing your friends is of no interest to me."

"Oh, I'll give you a fight!" Terry yelled before he started attacking Brontikens and the two of them got into a scuffle.

The noise from the fight was so loud that Aki could hear it. "What's all the racket up there?!" Aki demanded to know.

"Nothing, Mom!" Max quickly answered. "Terry's just roughhousing!"

Rod and Laura saw the distraction and quickly went into Max's room. "Now's our chance to look for those cards." Rod said as they began looking. "They've got to be around here somewhere."

"What'd you think you're doing in my bedroom?!" Max demanded to know, though he already knew why. "Get out of here!"

"They're not in here." Rod said as he searched the toy chest.

"Not here either." Laura said as she searched the drawers.

"I mean it!" Max sternly told Rod before the two of them got engulfed in a scuffle like Terry and Brontikens.

"And you, too!" Zoe added as she grabbed onto Laura.

"Let go of me!" Laura struggled against her captor, but Zoe wasn't budging an inch.

But all the commotion was enough to get Aki and Spike's attention. "Stop it now, all of you!" She demanded as she barged into the room with Spike.

"Huh?" Everyone said in reply.

While the tussles happened, Rex was taking care of the important job of warning their dinosaur friends about the possible threat. "So, the Alpha Gang kids are at your house?" Beta said from the other side of the phone.

"That is correct. Warn the others, but don't start a panic." Rex reminded her.

"Given how everyone's so busy with this party, I'd hate to see it all ruined because of those two brats." Beta agreed. "See you tonight." She said before hanging up.

"Vork, vork, vork." Helga repeated as she dusted Dr.Z's bookshelves, knocking books off of the shelf in the process. "So many messes to clean." She said as she exited to the next room via the wall, leaving Dr.Z behind to clean up the actual mess.

"My poor books." He said as he picked them all up before something fell out of one of them, a card. "Huh?" Picking it up, he noticed that it was gold-colored. Turning it around he saw a picture of a periwinkle carnivore with black spots forming a stripe from the face to tail, with two markings on the legs, and one on the forehead that lead to the black spines on the back. "Well, look at that. It's my dear old Megalosaurus. Forgot all about you. I had high hopes for this one, but he was just too violent." He recalled all the times the Megalosaurus would tackle into him as a child, and all the objects he destroyed. "He meant well but played too rough. And once he was an adult, well, he was uncontrollable."

An adult Megalosaurus at Dr.Z roared before he was returned to his card and it lifelessly fell to the ground. "You bad boy." Dr.Z scolded the card as he picked it up. He opened one of his books and placed the card inside. "You're going up on the shelf for a while to think about all the things that you've done."

"And the timing for this one couldn't be more perfect." Dr.Z smiled as he placed the card in the Alpha Controller.

Back at the D-Lab, Beta told Toro about Rod and Laura's plan and told him to be on guard duty. Of course, he would need some help to guard such a large event. So he brought in Lola and Salty to help. But since they still had time before the party, Toro decided to whip his friends into shape. "That's it! Very good!" He told his friends, bringing on his drill sergeant voice. "Squat down with me! And sound off!"

"One-two! Two-two! Three-two! Four-two!" The three of them chanted as they all did squats the best way dinosaurs could.

"Excellent!" Pleased with his results, Toro moved on to the next part. "Repeat after me; I am all powered! Even the hardest of diamonds shatter!"

"I am all powered! Even the hardest of diamonds shatter!"

"I am the muscle! Whose big fortitude in masculinity titillates all women!"

"Wait, what?" Lola asked about the last part.

"He probably meant it as a figurative term." Salty assured her.

"I am the man! The treasured creature all should look up to and respect!" Toro struck a pose proudly.

"I am the man! The treasured creature all should look up to and respect!" Everyone finished, though Lola was still confused.

Toro chuckled at the energy. "I think we're done here. As you know, Beta assigned us with the important duty of guarding our holiday celebration. So we all need to be in tough form if any of those Alpha Gang villains show their ugly faces!"

"Best thing I've heard all day." Lola smiled at her new mate, figuratively of course.

"Just don't get too excited." Salty warned them, half-joking. "We don't need you two hurting yourselves."

"Do Futaba have part in this?" Futaba asked as he suddenly appeared in between Salty and Lola in his puddle.

"The hell did you come from?" Lola asked, backing away from him in surprise.

"Sure me could be use." Futaba said as he swarm towards Toro in his puddle.

Toro hopped off the rock he was standing on and inspected the plesiosaur. "Hmmm, that depends. Does the earth shake beneath your feet?"

"I no have feet." Futaba brought one of his front flippers out to prove his point.

"Does anyone respect you?"

"I have friend." Futaba answered. "I main do this." He charged up a Super Cannon and fired, accidentally hitting a napping Trooper. "Oops."

"Hmm. I think this could work."

Back at the Taylor Household, Spike was playing with the dinosaurs, sans Brontikens, in the backyard while Aki was working on sewing Rod's hat, which had been slightly torn by Max in their tussle. "I'm sorry, Rod and Laura." Aki apologized to the two of them. "I warned Max, but apparently he doesn't listen well."

"But it wasn't my fault!" Max retorted. "They were the ones snooping around in my room!"

"I understand, and that is something Rod and Laura shouldn't have done, but that is no excuse to attack someone." Aki glared at her son.

"I'm sorry about that, we were just curious." Rod lied.

Aki didn't respond and instead looked and the Apatosaurus lying on the floor. "I see that the two of you have a strange-looking dog, too. Isn't that a coincidence?"

Rod and Laura were only half listening, as watching Aki sew made her look like their mom in their eyes. "Yeah, It sure is." Laura replied as they looked outside to see Spike playing with the dinosaurs, imaging that as their dad playing with them. Both sighed in sadness from the memories.

"Here you go, Rod, all fixed." Aki handed the boy his hat back. "I'm sorry about this."

"Thank you." Rod said as he took the hat. "It looks good as new now."

It was then that Spike came back into the house. "Aki, don't you think we ought to get this party started?" He asked with a smile.

"Absolutely! Let's eat!" Aki agreed as she went to the kitchen to grab the cake.

"Come on, kids! Time for a Christmas feast!" Spike said as he followed Aki.

Max got up and glared at Rod and Laura. "Have your cake and hit the road." He told them harshly before leaving, the two of them glaring back at him.

"You know, your attitude is making it really hard to tell which one is the protagonist and which is the antagonist." Brontikens told Max as he walked past him.

"What's it to you?" Max glared at him.

"I'm simply giving you some... helpful insight."

"I don't need insight from you." The brunette said before leaving.

Back at Zeta Point, the Alpha Gang were checking in on Rod and Laura's mission with a scout that D.R.O.I.D programmed to check the D-Team's residence. "Dr.Z, the Alpha Droid scout we sent out is beaming back footage from the house of that D-Team." Ursula told her boss while Dr.Z was still looking at his newest dinosaur.

"Huh?" Dr.Z looked up from his card as the screen changed from static to live cam.

In the shrubs of the Taylor Household's backyard, an Alpha Droid, wearing green to blend in, began to scan the house. "Searching." It said as its eyes glowed red and recorded what it saw back to Zeta Point.

What it got was all of the D-Team, plus Rod and Laura, having fun while they were eating cake. Brontikens was simply looking out the screen door, oblivious to the Alpha Droid.

Dr.Z looked at the footage in confusion. "What in the name of Seikatsu are they doing?!" He demanded to know.

"Well, it looks to me like they're having a party." Ed answered.

"Yes, a celebration with food and presents and a Christmas tree and everything." Zander identified.

"Helpful as that was, Zander, when I need a definition of a party, I'll ask for it." Dr.Z told him.

"Oh, no. It looks like Rod and Laura may have gotten caught sneaking in." Ursula said, clearly feigning the distress.

"Are they're being forced to eat cake?" Dr.Z asked.

"I don't know." Ursula responded. "I guess this kind of thing is what happens when you send children out on a grown-up's mission." She told him, the 'I told you so' tone very easy to make out.

Dr.Z looked at his Megalosaurus Fard and glared at her. "Fine. I'll give you three clods one more chance to fix it!" He told them before handing Ursula the card. "Take this!"

"Wow!" Ursula beamed as she grabbed the card. "So where did this one come from? I thought we didn't have any other cards lying around."

"You want it or not?" The doctor asked her.

"Yes! Yes, I'm sure this one will come in handy." Ursula answered.

"No more homework! No more stew! No more Helga's nasty food!" Zander and Ed cheered.

"You three just better bring those cards and my grandkids back here safe and sound!" Dr.Z ordered them.

"Count on us!"

"Mmm! Mmm!" Aki said, now dressed up as Snow White, as she took another bite of the cake. "This has to be the most delicious cake I've ever had. What do you kids think?"

"It's really good." Rod answered.

"Yeah, I love it." Laura agreed.

"I'm glad you like it." Aki smiled.

"How about a third piece for Robin Hood, fair maiden?" Spike asked as he sat at the main table with Max and Rex.

"Careful, you might turn into Friar Tuck." Aki jokingly warned her husband before looking back at Rod and Laura. "You children can have as many pieces as you want, though.

"Thanks, but I'm pretty full." Rod told her before Aki grabbed a piece of cake off of his cheek. "Huh?"

"Mmm." Aki licked the piece of cake from her fingertips. "It's okay. Don't be shy."

"Well, then if it's okay with you, I'd like to stay here a little longer." Rod requested, looking down at the table sadly with Laura, surprising the D-Team.

"Of course, children. Just make yourselves at home." Aki smiled.

"All right with you?" Rod asked Max.

"Uh, well." Max didn't want them in his house, but he knew that his mother wouldn't let him kick them out so he had no choice in the matter. "I guess."

"Just what I needed." Terry growled. "More time with him." He glared at Brontikens, who hasn't even touched his cake.

"This is probably a very hard time for him, Terry." Paris told the Tyrannosaurus.

"I bet it is. All this friendly attitude must be killing him." Terry almost snickered at the thought.

Paris shook her head at his harshness. "Jeez, you're sounding like Max. I mean that the theme of Christmas might be bringing back some bad memories."

Terry looked at her in confusion. "What're you talking about?"

"He's no doubt going to be mad if I tell you, but Brontikens himself told me this when I talked to him at Zeta Point." Paris said before she whispered into Terry's ear what Brontikens told her about his past.

"No. No. No." Mia repeated as she constantly looked over the various Christmas songs.

"Anything wrong, Mia?" Iguano asked as he walked over to her.

"Just trying to find a good song for me to sing at the party." Mia responded before looking back at the list. "No. No."

"Have you maybe tried making your own song?" The Iguanodon suggested.

"The closest thing we have to an original song we have is that." She pointed to Bali, Hana, Lucky, Thorn, the Saurolophus, and Nessie standing around a fire, singing Christmas carols.

"Carols! Carols! Carols! Carols!" They all sang before laughing.

All except Nessie. "I'm pretty sure just singing the word carols over and over isn't what Utah meant when she said to sing Christmas carols during our free time while the others worked."

"Wait, this isn't our break?" Thorn asked. The others nodded in confirmation. "Shit! Lucky, we still need to practice with the instruments!"

"No need to remind me!" Lucky quickly responded before they both bolted backstage.

"I'm assuming they're supposed to be supplying the background music?" Iguano asked Mia.

"Yes." Mia nodded before glaring at where her backup went. "Though they were supposed to also be watching Shep at this time!"

"Don't worry about your son, Mia." Romeo assured her as he and Juliet walked over to her with Shep hiding under their legs. "We're keeping an eye on him."

"Thank you." Mia sighed in relief as the two of them walked away.

"As I was asking, what's the use of these stupid lyrics?" Nessie asked Bali.

"Because it's fun!" Bali responded.

"It's stupid."

"And fun!" Bali grabbed a reef that was hanging on one of the trees and put it around the Amargasaur's neck. "You really need to cheer up, it's Christmas!"

"I see nothing cheery about this holiday."

"Okay, I see your point about our songwriting." Iguano admitted. "But there has to be some song that could work."

"I've looked all over these Christmas songbooks, and I've found nothing!" Mia yelled in frustration as she kicked the book away.

"Why don't you try thinking outside the book?" Iguano suggested.

"Thinking outside the book?" Mia repeated as she processed the suggestion. "Wait, that's it!" She quickly ran off as she remembered hearing a song from a Christmas special once that would work perfectly. The main problem would be getting the words right.

"Ooh, I almost got you!" Spike laughed as he threw darts at Aki as part of a game.

"You missed me!" Aki laughed.

"You're lucky I don't have one more dart! Ha, ha!"

The kids all sat on the couches while having drinks and watched the two adults play like children. "He's not anything like our dad." Rod said. "But, you know, I like him."

"Yeah, same with the mom." Laura agreed.

"So how come you're not with your mom and dad?" Max asked them, only curious.

"Hmm?" The two of them responded by looking down sadly.

The D-Team looked at each other as they realized what they were implying, or at least assumed what they were implying. "I never knew my parents." Rex spoke up. "I was adopted when I was a baby, so I don't know anything about them. I don't know who they were, what they looked like, why they left me, or if they're even alive. Dr. Owen has raised me like his own son ever since."

"I'm so sorry." Laura said to Rex.

Rod nodded in agreement before noticing something on the table by the door. "Hmm?" Squinting his eyes, he saw it as one of the Dino Holders, most likely Zoe's. He was starting to get an idea, but quickly shook his head to get the nasty plot out of his thoughts.

As all that went on, Brontikens was still looking out the glass window, watching the snow fall. "You gonna eat that?" He looked and saw Terry standing next to him, looking down at his cake.

"Knock yourself out." Brontikens told him, pushing the plate away from himself.

Terry sat down and began eating the cake. "What're you thinking about?"

"What's it to you?"

"I'm just curious." Terry defended as he put his arms in the air.

Brontikens sighed and looked out the window. "I'm assuming the only reason you're here is because the Parasaurolophus told you what I told her back at the island. Otherwise, you'd try and stay as far away from me as possible."

Terry didn't say anything and looked out as well. "I lost my family at one point, too." He told Brontikens. "My herd was passing through a canyon during a severe thunderstorm."

Various Cretaceous dinosaurs crossed a growing river as a storm continued. Terry was among them as he helped his mate across while carrying their offspring."My family made it across the river right before we all heard a loud noise approach us."

Various dinosaurs looked near the head of the canyon and saw a huge flash flood coming towards them.

"The largest flood I have ever seen was racing towards us. The herd began to panic and quickly started racing up the hill to high ground."

Terry tried to stay with his mate, while also holding onto his offspring. But a Styracosaurus bumped into him and caused the Tyrannosaurus to fall to the ground, his children falling off his back. Terry saw his kids and quickly got up to get them, but he was soon pushed away from them by a Saltasaurus. "No, wait! Stop! I have to help them!"

"It's every dinosaur for themselves!" The Saltasaurus responded as it contiued on running towards the top of the hill, dragging Terry with it, before the flood arrived where the herd was and carried many away to a watery grave.

"When the waters receded, we desperately searched for those who were lost. We found quite a few, both alive and dead, but none of them were my family."

Terry walked across the river as he looked frantically for his mate and children. But he had not found them after days of searching. He knew the herd could not stay around any longer and that they'd have to move on. He gave out a loud roar of sadness before he started breaking down, Chomp walking over to comfort him.

"That was the last I ever saw of them." Terry finished.

"I'm sorry that happened to you." Brontikens said, having never moved his gaze from outside.

"I lost everything that day. But instead of giving in to despair, I held onto hope. Hope that my future would get better. And considering how I met Max and everyone else, and survived the extinction, I think it has." Terry said as he finished the cake and left Brontikens to ponder what he just said.

About an hour or so later, Spike and Aki returned to the kids with presents. "Ho, ho, ho! Gather around, kids! Robin Claus and his wife are here with Christmas presents for everyone!"

"Wow! All right!" The kids all got excited and accepted the gifts that Aki and Spike handed them. "Thanks, Mom and Dad!" Max thanked his parents.

"This is great!" Rex smiled.

"I can't wait to open it!" Zoe exclaimed as she hugged hers.

"Here you go." Spike handed one to Rod and Laura.

"Huh?" Both of them said in confusion.

"Merry Christmas, kids!" Spike told them.

"It was kind of last-minute, so it's nothing too fancy." Aki told them while smiling as Rod took the gift from Spike.

"It's a book with Aki's drawing." Spike told them. "And she's pretty good."

"It's not much, but I hope you enjoy it." Aki said.

"This is amazing." Rod said as he examined the gift before handing it to Laura. "Thank you both so much!"

"Merry Christmas." Laura said as they both smiled and began to open their present.

Aki and Spike chuckled and hugged as the kids opened their presents. They were all books that Aki made drawings for. "This is so cool." Rex said as he flipped through the pages. "I have pictures of Ace and Tank in mine."

"And I have pictures of Spiny and Paris!" Zoe gushed at the cute pictures. "Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor!"

"Wow." Rod and Laura quietly exclaimed as they looked through their book, which was filled with pictures of Brontikens. Some looking absolutely adorable, which the Apatosaurus would never do.

The only one who wasn't so happy with his gifts was Max. Sure, he got a picture book of Chomp and Terry, but he also got a larger math book with it. "Hey, what's the big idea of giving me a dumb old math book?" He asked his parents, sounding very disappointed.

"You got that extra book because your math grades aren't so great, Max." Aki told him. "And we thought you could do some studying over winter break."

"What?!" Max gasped at what she was saying. Studying over winter break? "That really stinks!" He yelled as he threw the book away, causing everyone, sans Brontikens again, to gasp before it landed open on Aki's face.

Once he did that, the mood turned from happy to very tense. "Come here, Max!" Spike told him sternly. His son needed a talking to.

But Rod beat him to it. "What's wrong with you?!" He furiously asked the brunette. "Apologize to your mom!" He demanded before he grabbed Max's collar and pulled him closer to his angry face.

"Let go of me, you creep!" Max told him.

But Rod wasn't done with him. "Your mom and dad have you something to help you with school because they care about you! Don't you understand that?!"

"Oh, yeah?!" Max replied. "Like I really need to hear a lecture from some Christmas Eve party crasher like you!" Max told him as he removed Rod's hand from his costume. "No one wants you here, so why don't you just get out!"

Everyone else's eyes widened when he said that, guess whose didn't. "Oh, Max." Aki said, shocked at how harsh he was to Rod. Even Rex and Zoe found his wording to be very harsh.

"Laura, it's time for us to go." Rod said to his sister as he took off his party hat and went over to Aki. "Thank you so much for everything." Rod told her as he and Laura bowed as a sign of respect before they both left.

"Not at all, kids." Spike told them.

"You're welcome." Aki said before turning to Max. "Max, I am appalled you would treat anyone so rudely!"

"You don't understand." Max told her as he looked away in disappointment at his parents.

As Rod and Laura left, they took something extra with them as a thank you gift. Something that Zoe quickly noticed. "Hey! That's strange. My Dino Holder was right there, but now it's gone!"

"Oh!" Max gasped as he realized what Rod and Laura's true intentions were. "Rod and Laura stole it!"

"Max, I do not want to hear-"

"Sorry, Mom!" Max said as he and the others took off their costumes. "But this is why you don't invite people into your house that you know nothing about!" He told her before the three of them left with their dinosaurs to chase after them. "Especially if they're putting on the poor kids act!" He glared before slamming the door on his parents and getting out his Dino Holder.

Rod and Laura continued on running away back to their craft with Zoe's Dino Holder. "Ha, ha, ha! That worked out well!" Laura laughed as she carried their book.

"Yeah! And I think when he sees this, Grandpa will finally repair the time machine for us!" Rod agreed.

"Then we'll finally get to go home to see Mom and Dad again!" Laura realized.

"Yep!"

Unfortunately for them, their plans had a bit of a setback. "Hold it, you two!" Max called out to them as he and the rest of the D-Team tailed them from behind, sounding very pissed.

"Give me back my Dino Holder, you thieving thieves!" Zoe yelled at them.

"Here they come, Rod." Laura told her brother.

"I guess they wanna play." Rod smirked as he recalled Brontikens and brought out Gigas' card.

"ALPHA SLASH!"

The four Alpha Dinosaurs appeared and blocked the D-Team's path. Seeing they'd have to battle to get Zoe's Dino Holder back, Max and Rex quickly grabbed their own dinosaurs.

"DINO SLASH! GO, TRICERATOPS! ROAR! FLAME UP, TYRANNOSAURUS!"

"DINO SLASH! CARNOTAURUS, BLOW THEM AWAY! SHAKE 'EM UP, SAICHANIA!"

The four dinosaurs appeared and immediately selected their individual opponents for the fight. "We can't lose this one!" Rod said as he rightly gripped his Alpha Scanner.

"We have to win so we can get back home!" Laura added.

Terry roared as he went for Brontikens. The Apatosaurus responded by swinging his neck, which Terry blocked with his body as the two of them tried to knock the other one over. "And to think I actually took pity on you!" Terry snapped at the sauropod as he started biting on his neck as well.

"That was your mistake!" Brontikens responded as he lightly raised his neck, forcing Terry to let go to keep his footing.

On the other end, Gigas was repeatedly hitting Chomp on the face with his tail. He gave one final swing and went Chomp flying, at the same time Armatus tackled Ace away. The two of them rolled until they crashed into the Santa statue. "Chomp!" "Ace!"

"We're OK." Ace assured them as the dust cleared. "But not so much the statue." He was referring to the fact that he was now dressed like Santa while Chomp hand on reindeer antlers.

The rest of the D-Team couldn't help but laugh. "It's Dino Claus and his reindeer Chomp!" Max laughed.

"All right, guys, let's send 'em all home for the holidays!" Rex said as he grabbed a Wind Move Card. "Mayfly!"

Ace roared before he went for Armatus, only to disappear. Having never seen Mayfly in action before, Armatus was confused. "Where'd he go?"

"Right here!" Ace responded before attacking the Stegosaurus from all sides and defeating him.

"Spike Arrows!" Tank announced as her tail glowed before spikes started shooting at Maximus, hitting her before she had a chance to escape and defeating her.

"Plasma Anchor!" Chomp said before he grabbed Gigas with an anchor of electricity, lifted him into the air, and slammed him back to the ground, carding him once the anchor disappeared.

"Heat Eruption!" Terry roared to the sky as tons of meteors started falling from it and landing right on Brontikens. The Apatosaurus gave out a roar of pain from the fire caused by the meteors before finally getting defeated when one landed directly on top of him.

"Huh?" Rod and Laura gasped as their dinosaurs got defeated so easily by the D-Team's new Move Cards.

"Yo-hoo!" A familiar voice called out. Turning around, Rod and Laura saw Ursula and her partners running towards them. "The A-Team is here now, so we'll take care of this!"

"Oh, no, it's the old lady." Max said.

"How dare you call me that!" Ursula yelled with a 'scary' face as Zander and Ed tried to hold her back. "If I weren't so full of Christmas cheer and goodwill, I'd stuff you up a chimney!"

"Just use the card!" Zander reminded her.

"Oh, yeah. I almost forgot." Ursula regained herself and held up the card. Due to not having a scanner, they'd have to use the bright Christmas lights to summon their new weapon. She held up the card and it caught the lights, and immediately started to glow. "We've brought a Christmas present for you!" She said as a rainbow light engulfed them all.

When the light disappeared, there was a Time Warp and the Megalosaurus was out. He roared as he landed on the ground, his shine disappearing, and an Alpha Ball flew around his head to signal he was under Alpha Gang control.

"I've never seen him before." Max said as they all stared at the new challenger.

"A Megalosaurus!" Rex identified.

"Look at all those colors." Zoe pointed out. "He must be another Secret Dinosaur."

The Megalosaurus immediately charged at them, smashing all the rocks in his path. The D-Team's dinosaurs all charged toward him as well, but he went through them like a bowling ball and caused them all to fly into the air before landing on each other, thankfully for them largest to smallest.

The Megalosaurus started to glow again as he roared in anger. Looking up, everyone saw small meteors coming towards them. "Please tell me this is just part of the Battlefield!" Chomp pleaded as he looked at all the countless meteors descending in their direction.

"Regardless of where they came from, run!" Ace yelled as the four of them got out of the way before one crashed on them all, the blast knocking them off their feet. The kids saw the same thing and hid under a rock to avoid getting killed.

The Alpha Gang did the same and looked at the Megalosaurus in fear. Despite being under the Alpha Controller's influence, it was as if he was still wild. "He seems a bit on the reckless side." Ursula quivered. "Do you think he realizes that we're all on the same team?"

"I'm not gonna be the one to tell him." Ed quickly responded.

"It would appear that Secret Dinosaurs would be harder to brainwash than normal ones." Zander guessed. "Too bad we had to find that out the hard way."

The meteor shower stopped and the Megalosaurus glowed again. He locked eyes on Terry and Ace and began to use his Super Move on them. The two carnivores got engulfed in a rainbow glow and were starting to get lifted into the air. "What's happening?!" Terry asked as he tried to get out of the grasp, but to no avail.

"He's using Zero G Throw!" Ace told him as he tried to do the same. "This is going to hurt a lot!"

The Megalosaurus lifted them higher and higher until the glow disappeared. The two theropods fell to the ground and were carded the second their backs made contact. "No way!" Rex gasped at the Super Move.

"Don't worry. Chomp will get him." Max assured his friend as he pulled out a Move Card. "Thunder Bazooka!"

Chomp charged towards the Megalosaurus before leaping into the air and spinning around. What no one expected was for the Megalosaurus to glow again, this time unearthing several large boulders and hurling them at Chomp. One of them collided with the Triceratops and knocked him away while another one slammed into Tank, causing her to slide across the ground before she was carded alongside Chomp.

"Ha! That Gigantic Fall has just made it so victory is ours!" Ursula cheered as she pulled out the Grabbling Claw, unaware that the Time Warp was still active.

"Victory!" Zander and Ed cheered as the claw extended and grabbed the four cards of the D-Team.

"No!" Max and Rex cried as they tried to stop the Alpha Gang from taking their partners.

But they noticed another meteor falling and stopped. "Wait a second." Squinting his eyes, Max recognized the meteor. "Get back!" He quickly pulled Rex out of the way before it crashed. The meteor landed on the cord of the claw and caused it to snap, sending the claw over to the D-Team and allowing them to grab their cards.

Out of the meteor leapt out Dino, Danno, and Sue as they hissed at the Megalosaurus. A boulder suddenly burst as Diamond revealed herself. And a bunch of trees were slashed away to reveal Teddy.

The Alpha Gang gasped in horror at the new Secret Dinosaurs that joined the battle. "Good thing Guru told us to go first when we got your call." Dino said to Max as she hissed at the Megalosaurus again.

"Let's send this guy back to the Jurassic period!" Diamond yelled as she charged towards the Megalosaurus, making sure her dome head was blinding him so he couldn't use any Super Moves, and began hitting him repeatedly. "He's all yours, wimp!" She told Teddy as she got out of the way.

"Gyro Claw!" Teddy called out as he began spinning towards the Megalosaurus before hitting him into the sky with his claws, making the theropod crash on the ground.

"Here, have a sleigh ride!" Diamond told him and she pushed the sleigh from the statue towards the Megalosaurus. The sleigh caught the carnivore and sent him right into a large boulder.

"All right!" Max cheered at the teamwork of the Secret Dinosaurs.

"Look out!" Zoe quickly cried as smaller, but still large, chunks of the boulder started raining down.

"They're coming down!" The Alpha Gang cried as they tried covering themselves, only for a rock to land almost on top of them and send them all flying into the air. "We're going up!"

"Aah!" Rod and Laura screamed as they lost grip of everything they were carrying, including Zoe's Dino Holder.

The Megalosaurus got back up, still able to fight, but very tired. "All right, sisters, let's finish this with Spinning Attack!" Dino declared as all three of them leapt into the air and started spinning towards the Megalosaurus. The Megalosaurus was able to dodge Danno and Sue, but Dino would have made contact if the Alpha Ball hadn't appeared in front of her. She spun on the ball until it was destroyed before she spun on the Megalosaurus until she had no spin left. "Finish him!" She told Danno and Sue as she pointed at the Megalosaurus, who was left dazed from both the attack and the Alpha Ball being destroyed.

"Crossing Attack!" The younger sisters announced before they made an X right through the Megalosaurus. The Megalosaurus stumbled a bit before he was finally defeated and returned to his card.

With his defeat, the Time Warp vanished. "That was a close one." Max said. "But at least we won."

"The card!" Rex reminded him as they all went to grab it before the Alpha Gang could reclaim it.

"Already taken care of." Dino said as she grabbed the card.

"Another dinosaur for our herd." Rex said as he ran over to her. "Considering his attitude, I think Grumpy's an appropriate name."

"We also have this thing." Danno said as she grabbed the broken claw of the Grabbling Claw.

"Awesome". Max said as he grabbed Zoe's Dino Holder. "And I even got Zoe's Dino Holder back, too!" He celebrated before noticing Rod and Laura. "Huh?" The two of them didn't even try to get any of the cards aside from their own. Instead, they were just dusting off the book that Aki gave them. "Really? You wanted that book more than the Dinosaur Card?" He asked them.

"Huh? We'll be back to get those cards next time!" Rod told him as they both left.

"Ed, you tell Dr.Z that we didn't get the cards!" Ursula instructed as the trio joined them. "Zander, you tell him we didn't bring back Megalosaurus!"

"What about you?!" The two men asked.

"I'll tell him I didn't have anything to do with it!"

"There they go." Max said as he watched them leave, at the same time, the dinosaurs went back to the lab while his parents caught up with him.

"I do hope you made up with them after being so unkind." Aki said. "I know they stole Zoe's device, but I still think-"

"Yeah, I think they're okay." Max said

"That's good." Aki replied.

"Mom and Dad." Max said, turning around to face his parents. "I'm sorry for what I said. I'll do the math workbook... I guess... at least, I'll try." He looked away while blushing in embarrassment.

"That's all we ask." Aki smiled as she hugged her son. "I'm sorry for inviting those two without asking you all first."

"Now that everything is better again, what do you say we all head back to the house and get this party going again!" Spike suggested.

"Yeah!" Max agreed as they all started walking back. "After all, it's still Christmas Eve."

"All this excitement made me kind of hungry, Aki." Spike said to his wife. "Is there any more cake left?"

"Not for you." Aki told him. "You boys had your share. Zoe and I get the rest, right, Zoe?"

"Right!" Zoe agreed.

"Come on, Robin Hood!" Max urged his dad. "Aren't you supposed to steal stuff, like cake, and give it to us poor guys?"

"Not when it's your mom, no."

After the trio left, Rod decided to stay a little longer while Laura went back with them. At the moment he was currently walking around the town, looking at all the various Christmas decorations that were out. "I thought I'd find you here." Turning around, he saw Laura run up to him before she caught up with him and they started walking together.

"I told you that I'd be fine with getting back." Rod told his sister.

"Yeah, but I thought you might want the company. "

Merry Christmas. My song for you

They continued on walking together in silence, the only form of communication was the occasional tap of the shoulder to show the other some cool decorations they may have missed. "Why did you change your mind?" Laura finally asked.

"What'd you mean?"

Negai ga kanau you ni

"Back at the party, I saw you eye Zoe's Dino Holder earlier, and I know that's when you got the idea. But then you seemed against it until Max told you to leave. Why?"

Santa kuroosu minna no machi

Rod sighed as they stopped at the spot where they had their battle, shaking the back of his head. "I guess I didn't want to take it at first because I saw how much fun they were all having together. And, it just felt wrong to steal from them on Christmas. The only reason I took it was because... I guess I just wanted to get back at Max for being so ungrateful to his parents."

Kite kudasai kitto

"So it wasn't just so we can return home?" Rod nodded. "Why? Don't you want to see Mom and Dad again?"

Merry Christmas. I sing. With you.

"Of course I do. More than anything." Rod answered. "But I've spent time away from home before when it came to school-related stuff. You haven't experienced that feeling before. I guess, I wanted to be a good brother and give you the Christmas present of seeing our parents again when I got the idea."

Negai ga kanatta nara

Tears started to fall out of Laura's eyes before she hugged her brother. Rod returned the hug and patted his sister on the head. "Merry Christmas, Laura."

Te to te tsunagi tenshi ni naru

"Merry Christmas, Rod."

Kagayaite umare kawaru yo

At the D-Lab, the rest of the dinosaurs were finally able to have the holiday party. The D-Team had managed to sneak out without Spike or Aki noticing earlier and were now having fun with the rest of their herd-mates. Majority of them were listening to Mia's singing, with Lucky on Guitar, one that he was able to play, and Thorn using a drumstick in his mouth to play the drums.

Mabataku hikari de

Romeo and Juliet lifted up Shep so he could see his mother sing.

Kikazatta yureru tsurii

Among the crowd watching was Terry.

Kyanadoru no honoo

Terry felt something brush against his face. Something plant-like.

Mabushikute me wo hosometa

Looking to his side, he saw that it was a mistletoe attached to a blue tail dangling lightly over him.

Inori no kotodama sukui no te no hira

Looking down, he saw Ally crouching down playfully before giving Terry a wink.

Sekaijuu no daremo ga

A flustered Terry slowly backed away before running off, leaving a pouting Ally behind.

Mattre iru no

Mia winked at Iguano, who blushed in return.

Kono hi dake no mahou

Utah gave Grumpy the signal to start levitating the rocks he painted.

At the same time, the song reached the cue for Hana to swing her tail and ring some bells attached to it.

Merry Christmas. My song for you

The kids and various dinosaurs; including Beta, the guards, Pawpaw, Bali, and even Trooper and Nessie, clapped and roared at the performance.

Negai ga kanau you ni

At the buffet table, Sushi was dining on the sushi while Francine and Comet unknowingly shared a leaf until they both came to the end of it and touched beaks.

Santa kuroosu minna no machi

Guru nodded at Grumpy, giving him the cue to drop the boulders.

Kite kudashi kitto

Sweet Tooth and Coal fired their Fire Cannons at the boulders, creating fireworks with each one that made contact.

Merry Christmas. I sing with you.

Chomp and Paris lay next to each other as they watched the fireworks.

Negai ga kanatta nara

The rest of the D-Team joined them laid down beside them.

Te to te tsunagi tenshi ni naru

All of them watched the fireworks together.

Kagayaite umare kawaru yo

At Zeta Point, Seth stood on a cliff and looked up at the night sky. "I will someday seize control of that harmony."

Next time on Dinosaur King:

Beta: How do I talk to him?

Trooper: You could try the mating dance

(Beta doing awkward dances in front of Ace)

Trooper: I was joking!

Salty: You ate Hanna!

Coal: What're you talking about?

Terry: Ally, this joke about you liking me is getting old!

Ally: But it wasn't a joke

Guru: Okay, Spiny. Let's see where you are.

A/N: Merry Christmas... in the middle of August. Well, I'm sure this chapter coming out is like Christmas to some after the wait.

For those that didn't read the last author note, I was on a cruise for a while week. And cruise ships don't have good internet. Or any without making you pay. Fucking cheapskates.

Anyway, the idea for the holiday party was something that was always planned for this episode. Allows me to use characters that I haven't used much of before. The song that was at the end is Tenshi no Inori from Digimon. The full version is able to be found on YouTube. A lot of scenes were also inspired by the Smash King Winter Festival, also on YouTube.

As for the battle of Secret Dinosaurs, again, always planned. That's actually part of the reason why I cut Diamond from the last chapter. And, yes, Grumpy got his name from Land of the Lost.

I've made a new poll, so go vote on that.

And, finally the trailer for next chapter. You're probably thinking 'what the hell was that?' Simple, we're finally in original chapter territory. Yay!

So while that's a plus, the downside, possibly, this is only the worst-case scenario, is that these chapters may take more time since I don't have an episode to work off of, or barely anything else and have to actually start putting in effort. People seem to like my original scenes, but now I have to do original chapters, so the next one is a bit of a test.

Wish me luck.