Mimi and friend's Christmas Carol part 7

Strong Bad looked up to see that he and Nathan had arrived in the streets of a poor neighborhood. He looked puzzled. He hadn't been to this part of town before.

"Uh, what in blazes are we doing here?" asked Strong Bad puzzled.

"Well, it's Christmas here too, Strong Bad." chuckled Nathan in amusement.

"But I don't know anyone who lives here!"

"Oh, of course you do. This is the home of your overworked, under pay, yet loyal employees, Wagassiertchi, Homestar Runner, Jak and Sly Copper." explained Nathan pointing at the house.

As Strong Bad looked at the house surprised, the narrators themselves, disguised as chimney sweeps, climbed up a ladder next to the boy's household."'Perhaps it was the spirit's own generous nature and his sympathy for all poor men that led them straight to the home of Strong Bad's two faithful clerks'." narrated Mimi/Marie as she climbed up the ladder "it my friend down there" asked Daxter "Quiet" whisper Mimi.

Daxter got to the roof and sniffed something coming out of the chimney that he could easily fit into. Once he had smelt the smell, Daxter smiled.

"Goose!" Daxter laughed with glee as he ran over. "They are cooking goose down there!"

Daxter stuck his head down into the chimney top, sniffing happily. That was until Homesilvis pushed them aside.

"Daxter, get out of the way." Homesilvis said as she began cleaning out the chimney with a chimney sweeper.

"Hey! Don't be sweeping the chimney now, Homesilvis! You're blocking the smell!" snapped Daxter angrily.

Down below, Strong Bad looked concerned as he looked from his employee's house back to Nathan.

"So uh, this is Wagashietchi, Homestar Runner, Jak and Sly Copper's house, right?" asked Strong Bad pointing at the house.

"Who told you that?" asked Nathan puzzled.

"You did. Just now."

Nathan looked surprise, then he smirked. "Ah, I am usually trustworthy." He chuckled as he and Jack looked into the window.

Strong Bad saw two people by the stove cooking dinner.

"Hey, who's the four girls dressed in dark pink, purple, sea blue and blue?" Strong Bad asked, pointing at the woman.

"They're four your employees' wives. Or otherwise known as Sunny Funny the Sunflower, Wagashietchi's wife, and Marzipan, Homestar's wife" Nathan said nodding.

Strong Bad looks shocked. "Does that mean the other girl in orang is Sly's wife? And girl with a fairly pale ears Jak's wife?"

"Indeed, she's Carmelita Fox and Keira Hagai". Inside, the four women, four of them Sunny Funny, Marzipan, Keira Hagai and Carmelita Fox were indeed cooking. Sunny has petels pink hair on her head, blue eyes, and wears a red and blue long sleeved dress, green boots and a bleached blue apron, Wagashietchi's wife. She wears her hair in a bright yellow ponytail, wearing a purple dress embellished with white trim and gold buttons, along with a matching hair band Homestar's wife. Keira on the ears with a fairly pale She wears a white top mostly covered by a dark blue button covered long-sleeved coat with a yellow collar. She still wears purple pants but these are more rugged and give the impression that she will be doing some actual adventuring. She wears a new pair of brown boots, that don't go very high, and a necklace with a blue-white crystal, but keeps the same choker and goggles as before.. Jak's wife, Carmelita the fox now has the sleeves of her coat rolled up and wears a skirt that end at her thighs and has different boots, although these seem to be the only major changes in her outfit Sly's wife. The girls sniffed the dinner and smiled. She turned to see a small creature slowly turning the spit that was rolling the goose Daxter was sniffing nearby.
He was a Koopaling with orange body, his green face with two marks, wobbly eyes, and also has multi-colored hair at is his orange spiked shell, two spike bracelets on his heads, He has recently sported a yellow ponytail in addition to his mohawk and belly area and the tip of his small tail. This is Lemmy Koopa, He is not as evil as most of his siblings.

"Lemmy, don't stop turning that spit." Carmelita instructed to the koopaling creature.

Lemmy nodded as he kept turning the spit a little faster. "After that, that is how the roasted goose is properly made". added Marzipan.

"It smells so good, stepmothers." said Lemmy smiling.

"It does, doesn't it?" asked Sunny smirking as she looked in a mirror.

Back on the roof, Daxter smirked as he called Timmy to get a whiff of the goose from another chimney.

"You're right Daxter, that smells wonderful." Timmy sighed happily as he stuck his head down. However, he slipped and fell right into the chimney yelling madly getting the others' attention.

"Oh, good grief." groaned Mimi as she saw what happened.

"Hey! I'm stuck! Get me outta here!" yelled Timmy, stuck in the chimney itself.

Bassy Girl just sighed. "I knew you weren't suited for literature."

Back inside the house, Timmy struggled trying to get free from the chimney. Soon he got free and screamed. Luckily for him he landed on something. Unluckily for him, he didn't know what it was at first.

"Well, I landed on something soft." Timmy said with a relief sigh. But then his feet felt something and he looked down. He yelped as he realized he landed on the goose itself! "And hot!" He jumped up and down yelling 'hot' many times like mad.

Sunny looked around. Then thinking no one, including Marzipan was watching, she helped herself to some chestnuts. Unfortunately, a teenage girl spotted her doing this. 

She wears a pink mame cap with a yellow bow, and a pink fancy dress similar to a petticoat. This was Chamametchi.

She came up, exclaiming, "Stepmother Sunny! I thought you and stepmother Keira, Marzipan and Carmelita said we couldn't eat those chestnuts until stepfather Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly and Applebloom get home!"

"Yeah sweetie," agreed Carmelita who was mixing up plum pudding for her family dinner. "Didn't you and I agree on that, didn't we Keira?"

Sunny yelped and put the chestnuts she was eating anyway. She turned quickly and innocently to Chamametchi and Keira saying, "Now, now. I wasn't eating them! I was checking to see that they aren't burnt. It's how cook do it, dear, and don't shout Little Sister."

"Uh, I'm Chamametchi." Chamametchi pointed out frowning.

"I'm Little Sister!" This came from a girl Chamametchi's age with her normal blue eyes and brown hair with a pony tail and right now wearing a green fancy dirty dress that had a blood stain going around the middle, along with a small white bow on her head and she also wore that reach just below their knees. Her barefoot while they explore. Both she and Chamametchi hated it when stepmother Sunny got them mixed up.

Sunny looked back from each girl and said nervously, "Uh, I need that. Right," She turned to Little Sister, "Chamametchi"?"

Little Sister rolled her eyes annoyed. "Little Sister!"

Marzipan looked back and forth confused. She groaned. "Whatever!" The girls hmmph on this while Keira just shook her head while she kept stirring the pudding.

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Strong Bad heard some singing. Both he and Nathan turned and saw three figures approaching. One of them was Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly themselves were carrying another girl as a pony Chamametchi, Little Sister, Iggy, Tommy, Mac, Simon, Tallulah, Lemmy, Thoedore and Sackgirl's age with Brilliant gamboge eyes and Brilliant amaranth hair and right now wearing a yellow fancy dress that had a white ribbon belt going around the middle, along with a Light brilliant crimson bows on her head and she also wore white socks and black shoes. She was currently carrying a crutch as her stepfathers held her. Her name was Apple Bloom. Nathan smiled as both stepfathers and stepdaughter began singing the same song Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly was singing before.

Apple Bloom: 'Tis the season to be jolly and joyous

Four: Fa la la

Apple Bloom: With a burst of pleasure we feel it arrive

Four: Fa la la

Apple Bloom: It's a season when the saints can employ us

Four: Fa la la

Apple Bloom: To spread the news about peace

Four: And to keep love alive

The three laughed as they stopped by their own house. Strong Bad looked at this, mostly at the young girl as Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly put her down.

"Come on, Apple Bloom." Homestar said with a smile.

"Yeah!' Apple Bloom said laughing. Strong Bad noticed that the young girl was walking barely which explains why she was using a crutch to support her. "Let's see if stepmothers Sunny Funny, Marzipan, Keira Hagai and Carmelita Fox finished Christmas dinner yet."

"Indeed!"

The three laughed as Apple Bloom opened the door, making sure not to fall.

"Careful, girl." said Jak with precaution as the three came in. He didn't see Mimi and the others, down from the roof, running in quickly.

Once Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak, Sly and Apple Bloom were inside themselves, Sly closed the door and announced, Wagashietchi, Jak and Sly saying "Merry Christmas," Homestar saying "Happy Decemberween" all together "everyone!"

The kids and Dukey saw Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly and got excited.

"Stepdad Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly" squealed ten types Chamametchi, Little Sister, Iggy, Tommy, Mac, Simon, Tallulah, Lemmy, Thoedore and Sackgirl at once as they ran towards the boys.

"Homestar, buddy!" laughed Dukey and Empress as they ran towards them as well.

Four Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly got a bit squashed as both their stepdaughters and Dukey hugged them tightly.

"Heh, heh. Merry Christmas, girls and boys." Jak said chuckling.

"Merry Christmas, Dukey." Added Homestar happy to see his dog buddy.

"Merry Christmas!" said Dukey.

"Calm down, everyone." chuckled Keira smiling as she came forward. "Set the table. Go on."

Apple Bloom joined her siblings and pets as they did, "Hey know, wait for me." The crutched kids said.

Sunny Funny, Marzipan, Keira Hagai and Carmelita Fox turned and smiled at their husbands and said, "Merry Christmas, girls."

"Merry Christmas, boys." Said the girls smiling as they both gave their husbands a kiss and a hug.

"Sunny Funny..."

"Marzipan..."

"Keira..."

"Carmelita..."

Sunny Funny, Marzipan, Keira Hagai and Carmelita Fox lets go and smiled the same time their husbands did.

Nearby, Timmy groaned as he felt his feet and tried to cure them with ice as his friends came over.

"Ooh. Daxter tricked and made me fall down the chimney and landed on a flaming hot goose." groaned Timmy.

Daxter just made a sheepish grin.

"Awww, you have all the fun." groaned Homesilvis irritably. Timmy glared at him annoyed "What's that you friend"said Toro sees him "It jak right there."said Daxter point there. "What?"

Back inside, Applebloom laughed as she goes to the table where dinner is now set.

"All right! Dukey and Empress! The Christmas dinner! The goose! The goose," Suddenly Applebloom began to cough badly. The stepparents noticed and looked concerned.

"Now, now, girl, you're getting too excited." Sunny said quickly and sadly. "Go sit in your chair for a moment and rest, okay?"

Applebloom nodded. As the young lad went to sit in her chair in a corner nearby, Carmelita turned to Sly and smiled a bit. "So how was she at church?"

Jak smiled. "She was as good as gold and better." He continued as Applebloom sat down. "She told me that she hoped the people saw her in church because it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind man see."

Usually, Strong Bad wouldn't care much about this. But for the first time ever, he felt sad and guilty for the young Applebloom. "She's a remarkable kid." He felt it for a good reason. It reminded him of him when he was young and defenseless.

As Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly's family sat down to eat, Mimi narrated as she and her friends watched.

"'And with that, Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly's family came to what was surely the happiest single moment in all the livelong year'." said Mimi smiling.

"The feast looks so...meager." Strong Bad observed.

"Yet very well appreciated." added Nathan nodding.

"Man, I pay them both a small amount."

"Strong Bad" begins Wagashietchi.

"Wagashietchi!" said Strong Bad excited. Thinking either Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak or Sly had seen him; he stood up and went to the door exclaiming, "Sly!"

He went through the door like a ghost. But as he came in, he realized that four Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly didn't see him at all. In fact...

"I think it would be fair to lift a cup to my employer." Jak said as he lifts his cup up. "To Strong Bad, the founder of the feast!"

Sunny, however, just scoffed at that. "Founder of the feast, indead!"

"Yeah!" agreed the girls with a frown.

"In fact, if he was here, I would show him a thing or two and I hope he chokes on it!" scoffed Sunny. some more.

"Choke!" agreed Chamametchi, Little Sister, Tallulah and Sackgirl.

"Sunny!" scolded Keira.

"Now, now, Sunny." Wagsatchi said chuckling nervously. 

"Remember the children and Christmas Day." added Jak.

"Yeah Sunny, I say that on the blessed day of Christmas, one must drink to the health of Strong Bad." explained Keira. 

Sunny signed, "Okay Keira, even though he is odious, stingy..." Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly grunted in agreement as she continued, "...wicked, cruel and unfeeling..." Chamametchi, Little Sister, Tallulah and Sackgirl grunted some more. "...and badly dressed..."

This caused the girls to gasp.

"And..."

Apple bloom interrupted her stepmother as she lifted her cup up, quickly before she said something else, "To the founder of the feast. Strong Bad!"

Sunny sighed in annoyance and reluctantly raised her cup as well. "To Strong Bad. Let him be merry and happy this day, I have no doubt."

"No doubt." nodded Chamametchi, Little Sister Tallulah and Sackgirl reluctantly.

Strong Bad looked downcast. Although Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly were loyal to him, Marzipan, Chamametchi, Little Sister, Iggy, Tommy, Mac, Simon, Tallulah, Lemmy, Thoedore and Sackgirl couldn't even stand the girl. Strong Bad now felt bad of the times when he was mean and cruel to Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly.

"Cheers!" said Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly.

Apple Bloom smiled as she said these simple words, "God bless us, every one."

As everyone watched and as those at the table begin to eat, Apple Bloom began to sing.

Apple Bloom: Life is full of sweet surprises, everyday's a gift

The sun comes up and I can feel it lift my sprit

It fills me up with laughter,

And all the good times hurry by so fast.

Keira smiled as she hugged her little girl.

 it fills me up with song

I look into the eyes of love and know that I belong

Bless us all,

 who gather here

Sunny: The loving family I hold dear

Wagsatchi: No place on Earth, 

compares with home

Jak came over and joined in.

Jak & Apple Bloom: And every path will bring me back from where I roam

All: Bless us all, that as we live
We always comfort and forgive
We have so much that we can share

Apple Bloom: With those in need we see around us everywhere

Apple Bloom & Keira: Let us always love each other

Apple Bloom: Lead us toward the light

Apple Bloom/Carmelita: Let us hear the voice of reason

Apple Bloom: Singing in the night

Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly: Let us run from anger
Sunny, Marzipan, Keira Hagai and Carmelita: And catch when we fall

Apple Bloom: Bless us all with playful years

Apple Bloom's voice began to get weak a bit as she continued singing. This put a shred of tear in one of Strong Bad's eyes as he continued to feel sad for the crippled girl.

With noisy games and joyous tears

All: We reach for you, and we stand tall

Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly: And in our prayers and dreams we ask you bless us all

Apple Bloom: We reach for you, and we stand tall
And in our prayers and dreams we ask you bless us all

(Author's note: I'm using the song ends instead because I feel like doing something different plus my friend Cosmo Prower Tomahak used different songs for her stories)

After Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly finished the song, she began coughing once more, concerning the family some more.

"We better get eating. Let's have dinner, everyone." Carmelita said to the family sadly as they went to sit down.

Strong Bad looked sadly as well. He could tell from the cough that little Apple Bloom didn't have much health care, medicine, etc. Add to the fact that Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly wouldn't be able to afford a doctor...

"Nathan, please tell...will Apple Bloom be okay?" Strong Bad pleaded to Nathan as he watched on.

"Sorry, Strong Bad." said Nathan with a sigh as he stood up. He was getting older as time passed. "That is the future. My realm is in the present."

"Please. I've got to know." Strong Bad said looking at Nathan sadly.

Nathan could see something in Strong Bad's eyes: full of love and concern for young Apple Bloom.

"Well, Strong Bad, I do see a vacant seat by the chimney corner and a crutch without an owner. If these shadows of the future remained unaltered, then I'm believe...the child...will die."

"No." whispered Strong Bad as he looked at miserable at the young smiling crutch holding girl. Apple Bloom had no idea of what lied in her future.

"Why the concern, Strong Bad," Nathan asked sternly. "If she's going to die, she'd better do it and decrease the surplus population."

"Oh, Nathan." said Strong Bad sadly.

"'And as Wagashietchi, Homestar, Jak and Sly's family vanished into the darkness, Strong Bad kept his eyes upon Apple Bloom until the last'." narrated Mimi some more.

Soon both Strong Bad and Nathan were in darkness. Nathan puts his arm around Strong Bad's shoulder as he said.

"Let's go. My time grows short." Nathan sighed.

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Strong Bad and Nathan arrived at a church that was abandoned. He looked nervously around. Then he began to notice Nathan's becoming a bit transparent.

"Um, Nathan, are you disappearing?" asked Strong Bad in surprise.

"Yes! I am." Nathan said nodding.

"Are spirits' lives so short?"

"My time on this planet is very brief." sigh Nathan as he sat down on a bench nearby. "I believe it will end on the stroke of midnight."

As he said this, the church bell began to ready. It was being rung by Timmy, Homeslivis, Toro, Jawel, Amy and Daxter who were taking turns ringing the bell.

"One!" yelled Timmy after groaning and ringing the bell.

"Two!" said Homeslivis with a cringe.

Strong Bad gasped in shock, then, as the bell rang the second time, he said to Nathan, "Now? But, Nathan! I have learned so much from you!"

"Three!" strained Daxter as she rung the bell the third time.

"Four!" exclaimed Timmy with a heavy heart as he rung the bell the fourth time.

"'Nothing Strong Bad could do or say could stop the relentless march of those terrible bells'." said Mimi grimly to the "audience".

"Five!" yelled Homesilvis as she rang the bell.

"Oh Nathan, do not leave me!" yelped Strong Bad as Nathan began to disappear into green sparkling mist.

"Sadly, I must, Strong Bad." sighed Nathan.

"But you changed me! You mean so much to me!" protested Strong Bad sadly. He felt Nathan was his newest friend who had grown him how great Christmas is.

"And now, I leave you with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come." said Nathan grimly.

"You mean the future?" yelped Strong Bad in fear. "Must I?"

"Go forth, Strong Bad, and know him better, my friend!" said Nathan as the bell rang for the 12th time as he said his last words. "Merry Christmas and good luck…" And with that, Nathan disappeared into sparkling green mist, leaving Strong Bad, with the exception of the narrators still hiding, all alone.

"Oh no." groaned Strong Bad, not liking what could come next.

End of Chapter 7

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