POKÉMON X NIMJA: Play the Game

Chapter Nineteen: The Show Must Go On

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING, MUCH LIKE CHAPTER 7 BEFORE IT, SERVES AS A LOVING TRIBUTE TO THE CAST MEMBERS AND SKITS OF MONTY PYTHON. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THOUGH, IT SERVES AS A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDARY ERIC IDLE, WHO SERVES AS A CHARACTER IN THIS STORY. THANK YOU TO ERIC IDLE FOR CREATING SUCH A HILARIOUS COMEDY GROUP. IF, BY ANY CHANCE, YOU'RE READING THIS, KNOW THIS: I ADORE YOU. I ADORE MONTY PYTHON. AND I DO NOT OWN "ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE." YOU DO, OF COURSE.

AMSTERDAM 23:00
DECEMBER 26th, 2020

RECORDING: START

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

IT'S...

SLANG'S POV

S-sir... are you absolutely sure you want me to do this again...?

Y-you know I'm no good at telling stories...

...Oh...

Are you sure...?

Are you absolutely sure...?

Oh... okay, then, sir... but I'm just warning you, I might start crying during this--! It's too sad! Especially the ending!

...Sir...?

W-what are "tihshoes"?

Is that a Dutch thing?

Like papernotes?

Oh...!

Our dimension doesn't have those. Apparently you do...

Thank you, sir... maybe it will help...

Gulp...

H-here goes nothing...

Um... h-hello... it's me again...

It's Slang... the cute and cowardly Dunsparce...

Nimja wanted me to record something for you guys again... and I was terrified for a few moments because I thought it was going to be something else...

B-but no...

It's worse-!

Much, much worse---!

I swear to you that I'm going to start sobbing while I'm recording this--! This story is just too sad for me to tell all the way through...

Um... sir...?

W-what do you mean, sir...?

N-no! I can't do this, sir... the day I met Era Kidol was the saddest day of my life--!

...What do you mean I'm saying it wrong, sir...?

...Era Kidol.

...T-that's what I said, sir... Era Kidol...

...B-but sir... that's how his name is pronounced...!

...N-never mind, sir... regardless... this story's too sad...

Oh.

T-true...

Good point, sir... it was happy, too...

A-alright, sir... I'll tell the story, sir... but the ending... it's- it's just...

...O-okay. Anyways... this is the story of how I met Era Kidol.

...You know who Era Kidol is, don't you...?

He's one of the members of Monty Python... he's very funny... he made a bunch of skits...