"'And with that, the spirits of Strong Bad's partners vanished into the darkness, leaving him once again alone in his room'." said Mimi AKA Marie as she narrated from outside.
"Whoa, that's spooky stuff. Shouldn't we worry about the kids reading this story?" asked Pierre in concern.
Mimi just chuckled. "Nah, that's alright, this is culture."
Daxter paused then felt something in his pocket. He laughed as he said, "Hey! Look what I found!" He takes out his bellybeans, which he thought he lost in the snow. "Oh, um a jellybean, I had them in my pocket all along!" Homesilvis, Timmy, Toro, Bassy Girl and Boxxy Boy just stared while Mimi groaned. Daxter asked irritably, "What?"
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Back in his bedroom, Strong Bad went to his bedroom, putting the candle on the table next to his bed. He looked around and frowned.
"Humbug!" sneered Strong Bad as he blew out the fire.
He got on his pajamas with his night robe then closed the curtains around his bed and went to sleep.
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Outside, Mimi, Tizzy, Doody, Amy, Jewel, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Daxter, Homesilvis, Boxxy Boy, Bassy Girl and Clank had to climb over a gate near Strong Bad's home in order to get to the next point of their story. They were waiting for Timmy who was hesitating at the top of the gate.
"Timmy, come on!" said Mimi in frustration.
"But I really hate this!" protested Timmy frightened.
"You want to know what's happening, right?" asked Homesilvis with a frown.
"Now Strong Bad's bedchamber is on this side of the house," Boxxy Boy said, gesturing to the window that leads to Strong Bad's bedroom. "Jump!"
"There's only two things in this life that I hate. Heights and jumping from them!" yelled Timmy still not moving from where he was.
"Too late now, Timmy, come on, I'll catch you." Mimi said.
Timmy groaned then he prayed, "Oh, Cosmo, Wanda, save my broken little body."
Suddenly, something or someone poked Timmy with a needle causing him to screamed as he jumped from the gate top. Mimi reached out to catch him. But Timmy just went by her and landed in the snow.
"Oops." Mimi said, as he turned to see Timmy getting up and glaring in annoyance. "Missed."
"Okay, guys. Let's go." Bassy Girl said as she turned to leave.
"Hold on a sec." said Daxter. "I forgot my jellybeans." at that moment, Daxter flew over the gate, picked his jellybean bag and needle up and came back. Daxter then noticed the gang glaring at him.
"What?" asked Daxter puzzled.
"You poked Timmy with a needle?!" asked Clank in disbelief.
Boxxy looked at the needle and shrugged with a stupid toothy grin. "Uh, yeah?"
The gang then continued walking on, as Mimi looked over his shoulder, and yelled at the otssel boy. "You're a complete idiot pulling a stunt like that!"
"What? What? What did I do wrong? What?" asked Daxter as he followed the others.
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The night moved on as Strong Bad slept in his bed all peacefully. As he did, the clock near his bed was almost to one.
Outside the window to his bedchamber, the group was climbing up a nearby tree using rope to do so.
"Hang on, guys." Boxxy Boy said as she climbed the rope.
"Strong Bad slipped into the empty silence of a dreamless sleep'." narrated Mimi as she climbed the rope as well.
Timmy yelped he looks down from where he was at. "Someone could break all his bones falling from this tree!"
Yumemitchi taken to climb up was at and Whisping. "You want to know what's going on, right," Homesilvis asked as she climbed.
"Yeah."
Mimi looked and saw Strong Bad's bedchamber window. "There's Strong Bad's window."
Inside the bedroom, Strong Bad was still sleeping. That is until he was awoken by the sound of a bell chime. He opened one eye as he glared at the candle that was suddenly lit and blown out.
Outside, as the others watched, Mimi began to yell out very loudly, "EXPECT THE FIRST GHOST TONIGHT WHEN THE BELL TOLLS ONE!"
Just as Mimi yelled it out, a bright light glowed in the bedroom, making Strong Bad stand up in his bed alarmed. Outside, Bassy Girl clung hard to the tree trunk for her dear life but Timmy yelped and almost fell out of the tree but Mimi grabbed him by the jacket, pulling him back up.
Nervously, Strong Bad took the cane and opened the curtains, expecting an intruder. All he was greeted was a blond bright light that nearly blinded him. When it dimmed down a bit as he put his monocle back on, he saw girl figure floating in the room.
She is a girl, she had blond hair put down on her head, and red eyes. She is right now wearing a Light yellow gown, a black scarf on neck, black bands on her hands and has Candles Headband in her head.
Strong Bad looks at this and looked puzzled. "Are you the spirit who I was told is coming?"
"I am" The girl confirmed.
"But, you're just a child but you're a gravity queen!"
"I can remember nearly 2100 years. I'm Cathy the Ghosts of Christmas Past, but you may call me Kat." Kat explained.
"What business has brought you here?" asked Strong Bad.
"Your welfare." Kat said.
"Ha! My unbroken sleep can take care of that!"
Kat chuckled. "All right, how about you're salvation then, now then, let's get going." she said to Strong Bad. She then clicked her fingers, generating a pink spark.
As Strong Bad took of his robe and put his coat, night cap and cape back on, he turned as the window opened mysteriously. The narrators were still watching from outside. Of course, no one in the room noticed them.
Strong Bad did notice something as he gulped, "I beg you Kat but I'm alive yet liable to fall."
"A touch of my hand and you shall fly." said Kat holding out her hand.
Strong Bad hesitated but gave in and took Kat's hand. Kat and Dusty, with Strong Bad with them, began to lift up. Soon they flew out the room.
As they did, Mimi picked up a rope with a hook, swang it around, and, when Kat, Dusty and Strong Bad flew by, she threw the rope. The hook caught Strong Bad's cape.
"Good!" said Mimi with a laugh.
"Uh, what are we doing?" Kiraritchi asked puzzled.
"Nothing."
"What?" asked Timmy concerned.
"Just hold on, guys." smirked Mimi as she grabbed the rope.
The entire gang nodded (some nervously, and others in understanding) grabbed the rope. Luckily for Homesilvis, Mimi held onto him with one arm. Soon enough, they all ended up screaming as they held on as the rope (which was caught to Strong Bad) pulled them from the tree, making them fly through the air. While the others laughed, Timmy yelped and screamed.
"Cool! I always wanted to fly!" exclaimed Bassy Girl.
"Hey, Timmy, chimneys at twelve O'clock!" warned Daxter but too late, as Timmy collided with some chimneys knocking them down.
"Ouch!" yelled Timmy.
The others continued laughing as they continue to hold onto Strong Bad still flying, thanks to Kat.
"Hello, Toon Town!" laughed Daxter.
"Goodbye, lunch!" yelped Timmy looking like he was about to give.
"Uh, Spirit?" asked Strong Bad as he looked around amazed.
"Please call me Kat and do you want?" asked Kat as she looked at Strong Bad.
Strong Bad thought he heard some laughing and screaming from nearby but he just shook the feeling off. "Nothing."
As everyone continued to fly on, they were approaching a bright light up ahead.
"Guys, look!" said Jewel pointing to the light up ahead.
"I don't want to look!" yelled Timmy, covering his eyes.
Strong Bad saw the light and looked confused. "Kat, what is that light? It cannot be Mimi!"
"It is the past." explains Kat.
"Oh my gosh. It's beautiful!" said Homesilvis in delight with sparkling eyes.
"Mommy!" screamed Timmy in a panic as everyone was covered in a white light.
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After the blue light dimmed down, Strong Bad and the others found themselves above a forest somewhere. As the Strong-b looked on, Kat began to fly down.
"Uh oh. We're going down." Daxter said alarmed. "Hang on!"
As everyone who was holding onto the rope yelled, they went into the forest crashing into stuff, making a few things scream.
"Sorry, madam!" apologized Mimi.
"Ouch!" yelped Timmy.
"Coming through!" exclaimed Doody.
"Excuse us!" exclaimed Bassy Girl.
"Sorry!" said Homesilvis.
"Look out!" yelled Timmy, Mimi, Tizzy, Doody, Amy, Jewel, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Daxter, Homesilvis, Boxxy Boy, Bassy Girl and Clank.
Kat, Dusty and Strong Bad rise up again, unknowingly removing the group out of the forest doing so. They had got some stuff and a green platypus with a brown hat that was sitting on Homesilvis's head.
Daxter chuckled as she said, "Everyone this is Perry the Platypus!"
"Yeah." groaned Timmy as he spat out a leaf. "We've met!"
Soon, they arrived at a school where Kat began lowering Strong Bad and the rope holders down.
"'And so, they arrived in Strong Bad's childhood." said Mimi to the "audience".
"That was the worst trip of my life!" groaned Timmy.
"Well, it's over now." Boxxy Boy said.
"Good. Safe at last," Timmy sighed as he and the others landed when heard a growling sound. At first, he thought that it was his stomach, only to realize that he ate earlier. He then turned and saw a green girl named Vendetta with her huge hamster named Grudge who is looking at him hungrily.
(Author's note: Vendetta and Grudge are from Making Fiends)
"No." groaned the buck teethed boy. He screamed as he ran off with Grudge giving chase much to Vendetta's amusement. "Stop it! Bad hamster! Bad hamster! Cut it out! Go away! Leave me alone!"
The others shook their heads. Nearby, Strong Bad noticed a school. For some reason which was now clear to him, he remembered it as he saw some kids playing and having fun.
"'It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve and Strong Bad was conscious of a thousand odors, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys and cares...Long, long forgotten'." said Mimi as she and the others (besides Timmy, who was pretty much running for his life from Grudge) turned to see Strong Bad landing on the ground gently next to Kat.
Strong Bad looked around and gasped, "It's my old school! Heck, I was a student here!" He looked and saw some kids running by. "Why, that's ShimajirÅ! And Mimirin! My good friend! Plus my former minions when they were younger! Hey guys! Hello? Hello?" Strong Bad looked confused as, for some unknown reason; none of the kids pay attention to him. Strangely, they didn't see the spirits either.
Kat chuckles as she said, "These are the shadows of your past Strong Bad, they can neither see nor hear you, come, let us go inside."
As Strong Bad, Kat and Dusty went inside the school, Mimi, Tizzy, Doody, Amy, Jewel, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Daxter, Homesilvis, Boxxy Boy, Bassy Girl and Clank turned to see Grudge still chasing Timmy.
"Timmy! Stop playing with that overgrown hamster!" said Homesilvis in annoyance.
"Tell her that! Save me, guys! Save me!" yelled Timmy alarmed as the big hamster was getting dreadfully close.
"Follow us, Timmy. Quickly!" said Clank as he and the others went inside the school.
The buck teethed boy looked panicked as Grudge got ready to pounce him. Just then, Amy, grabbed a broom jumped right behind Grudge. Amy, gave the hamster a huge "WHACK!" in a head with a broom, which caused Grudge to be knocked out.
"Ya know, for a red macaw like bird, you sure pack a wallop with that broom." said Timmy, hugging Bassy Girl on the head. With a smile, the two went inside.
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Inside a classroom of the school, statues of famous people were on a shelf, ranking from left to right. Next to the statues were few famous and boy narrators, one of the girl narrators from the ground began to speak.
"'And what a flood of memories came back to him as Strong Bad beheld his old classroom'." said Mimi as she and the others looked on at Strong Bad looking around in amazement at his old classroom as Kat.
"Wow, I know this place very well." said Strong Bad with a happy sigh as he looked around. "The desks are familiar, the smell of chalk is familiar. I chose my profession in this room."
"And is he too familiar?" Kat asked pointing at someone.
Strong Bad turned and gasped in surprise. In a desk studying was a stretchy skinned boy about seven-years-old who was wearing a gary coat, red scarf and a white hat.
"'Strong Bad beheld a small boy...a small boy he knew, oh very well indeed'." narrated Mimi.
"Why… it's me!" gasped older Strong Bad.
As Strong Bad studied, some of his classmates were leaving.
"Strong Bad, hurry up!" announced ShimajirÅ.
"Yeah, The last bus for home is leaving!" added Mimirin.
Strong Sad chuckled. "Ah, forget it, guys. He never goes home for Christmas."
"Ah, who cares about stupid old Christmas, anyway?" snapped Strong Bad angrily as the other classmates left.
Strong Bad sighed sadly as he said, "To tell you the truth, I was often alone. That gives me more time to read and study. Christmas is the chance to get some extra work done. Give me solitude, it does. Unfortunately, I often felt...alone."
"Eh, Fox like my friend Paula don't understand these things." remarked Kiraritchi as she watched.
"She was never a lonely child?" asked Mimi softly.
Kiraritchi remarked, "She has eight brothers, ten sisters, a dad, a mom, a grandfather, a grandmother, and nine cousins, and a bunch of relatives her species!"
Kiraritchi groaned, "You're right. Fox like you don't understand these things."
"Plus, she's in the story too but Kiraritchi, don't give away spoilers, okay?" asked Mimi.
"Sorry about that." said Kiraritchi.
"Maybe we should see another Christmas in this place." suggested Kat softly as she noted Mimirin looking sadly.
"How could we? They are all much the same. Nothing has changed." Strong Bad said sadly.
"You changed." Kat pointed out.
The pink skinned boy paused and looked on. His childhood passed by as if by magic. The young Strong Bad began to grow little by little and soon he was slightly taller, six feet tall, seventeen-years-old, and in his twelfth year at the school.
"'The years performed their terrible dance and in a moment, Strong Bad has seen almost his entire childhood pass. He saw his old schoolroom age and decay'." Mimi narrated.
Just then, as she said that, Jewel tugged Mimi's dress a little bit.
"You shouldn't have said that last part."
"Why not?" Mimi asked confused.
Yumemitchi pointed up the shelf where the boys are sitting at just as the nose of a statue of Mark Twain had broken off.
"What the...?" asked Timmy in confusion as he noticed.
Suddenly, the statues began to push right into the boys, making them yelp.
"Ow! Ow! Hey! What's going on?" yelped Daxter as he was getting squashed.
Young Strong Bad looked up to see a figure hop into the room. She was a violet plumage pelican with white feathers on the end of her wings wearing a black eye-liner and mascara, with lilac eye-shadow. She also wears red lipstick just like older Strong Bad's.
"Well, master Strong Bad, its graduation day!" announced the crimson pelican in an Englishwoman's accent as she hops next to Strong Bad.
"It's my old headmistress, Phyllis!" gasped older Strong Bad. He went next to Kat and Dusty and chuckled, "He taught me my greatest lesson!"
"Stand up, lad." said Phyllis as she stood young Strong Bad up. "It's time for you to build your life just like this school!"
Meanwhile, the narrators were pushing the statues back.
"Push back, guys!" groaned Timmy.
"My ear, my ear!" yelped Daxter as he kept on pushing in pain.
The gang yelped as the statues squashed them again.
Phyllis continued, unaware of what was going on the nearby shelf. "You must work hard, long, and be constructive! Life is a golden opportunity, Master Strong Bad. Today, you go forth into the real world. Your must keep your nose to the grindstone." As he continued, the girls watched anxiously as the boys continued pushing the statues back, more successfully this time. "Work hard, young man! And one day, your life will be as solid as this very building!"
The boy narrators had succeeded into getting themselves free. However, they made the shelf slide down doing so. Just as the girls got out of the way, they all yelled as they, along with the statues, fall onto the floor near Phyllis.
The crimson Animal Crossing observed this happening. Then she said, "I've been meaning to fix that shelf."
"Yes, Phyllis." said young Strong Bad nodding.
Phyllis smiled proudly. "Well, master Strong Bad, you have just been accepted to become a young worker in a business in a town near Toon Town. Today, you are now a man of business!"
"I'm looking forward to that, headmistress."
Phyllis smiled. "You will love big business. It is the British way!"
Mimi frowned and whispered something to Ms. Ms. Phyllis, "Uh, Ms. Phyllis?" She whispered a few things to him.
"Oh. Sorry." Phyllis cleared.
Phyllis cleared her throat and said, "It is the American way!"
"Yes. Phyllis" said young Strong Bad nodding.
"Good." said Mimi smiling, patting Phyllis on the back, then he left with the other narrators.
Phyllis looks puzzled as he turned. Upon seeing no one, he just shrugs it off. He saw a man coming in. "Ah, here's your coachman."
"Time to go, Strong Bad" Kat told the old version. "There's more to see."
"Remember, don't tip the driver." Phyllis told both young Strong Bad in precaution making the two laugh.
As Kat, Dusty, Strong Bad, and the six narrators made their exit, Kat snapped her fingers, generating a flash of blue light, surrounding them.
End of Chapter 4
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"Yeah."
Mimi looked and saw Strong Bad's bedchamber window. "There's Strong Bad's window."
Inside the bedroom, Strong Bad was still sleeping. That is until he was awoken by the sound of a bell chime. He opened one eye as he glared at the candle that was suddenly lit and blown out.
Outside, as the others watched, Mimi began to yell out very loudly, "EXPECT THE FIRST GHOST TONIGHT WHEN THE BELL TOLLS ONE!"
Just as Mimi yelled it out, a bright light glowed in the bedroom, making Strong Bad stand up in his bed alarmed. Outside, Bassy Girl clung hard to the tree trunk for her dear life but Timmy yelped and almost fell out of the tree but Mimi grabbed him by the jacket, pulling him back up.
Nervously, Strong Bad took the cane and opened the curtains, expecting an intruder. All he was greeted was a blond bright light that nearly blinded him. When it dimmed down a bit as he put his monocle back on, he saw girl figure floating in the room.
She is a girl, she had blond hair put down on her head, and red eyes. She is right now wearing a Light yellow gown, a black scarf on neck, black bands on her hands and has Candles Headband in her head.
Strong Bad looks at this and looked puzzled. "Are you the spirit who I was told is coming?"
"I am" The girl confirmed.
"But, you're just a child but you're a gravity queen!"
"I can remember nearly 2100 years. I'm Cathy the Ghosts of Christmas Past, but you may call me Kat." Kat explained.
"What business has brought you here?" asked Strong Bad.
"Your welfare." Kat said.
"Ha! My unbroken sleep can take care of that!"
Kat chuckled. "All right, how about you're salvation then, now then, let's get going." she said to Strong Bad. She then clicked her fingers, generating a pink spark.
As Strong Bad took of his robe and put his coat, night cap and cape back on, he turned as the window opened mysteriously. The narrators were still watching from outside. Of course, no one in the room noticed them.
Strong Bad did notice something as he gulped, "I beg you Kat but I'm alive yet liable to fall."
"A touch of my hand and you shall fly." said Kat holding out her hand.
Strong Bad hesitated but gave in and took Kat's hand. Kat and Dusty, with Strong Bad with them, began to lift up. Soon they flew out the room.
As they did, Mimi picked up a rope with a hook, swang it around, and, when Kat, Dusty and Strong Bad flew by, she threw the rope. The hook caught Strong Bad's cape.
"Good!" said Mimi with a laugh.
"Uh, what are we doing?" Kiraritchi asked puzzled.
"Nothing."
"What?" asked Timmy concerned.
"Just hold on, guys." smirked Mimi as she grabbed the rope.
The entire gang nodded (some nervously, and others in understanding) grabbed the rope. Luckily for Homesilvis, Mimi held onto him with one arm. Soon enough, they all ended up screaming as they held on as the rope (which was caught to Strong Bad) pulled them from the tree, making them fly through the air. While the others laughed, Timmy yelped and screamed.
"Cool! I always wanted to fly!" exclaimed Bassy Girl.
"Hey, Timmy, chimneys at twelve O'clock!" warned Daxter but too late, as Timmy collided with some chimneys knocking them down.
"Ouch!" yelled Timmy.
The others continued laughing as they continue to hold onto Strong Bad still flying, thanks to Kat.
"Hello, Toon Town!" laughed Daxter.
"Goodbye, lunch!" yelped Timmy looking like he was about to give.
"Uh, Spirit?" asked Strong Bad as he looked around amazed.
"Please call me Kat and do you want?" asked Kat as she looked at Strong Bad.
Strong Bad thought he heard some laughing and screaming from nearby but he just shook the feeling off. "Nothing."
As everyone continued to fly on, they were approaching a bright light up ahead.
"Guys, look!" said Jewel pointing to the light up ahead.
"I don't want to look!" yelled Timmy, covering his eyes.
Strong Bad saw the light and looked confused. "Kat, what is that light? It cannot be Mimi!"
"It is the past." explains Kat.
"Oh my gosh. It's beautiful!" said Homesilvis in delight with sparkling eyes.
"Mommy!" screamed Timmy in a panic as everyone was covered in a white light.
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After the blue light dimmed down, Strong Bad and the others found themselves above a forest somewhere. As the Strong-b looked on, Kat began to fly down.
"Uh oh. We're going down." Daxter said alarmed. "Hang on!"
As everyone who was holding onto the rope yelled, they went into the forest crashing into stuff, making a few things scream.
"Sorry, madam!" apologized Mimi.
"Ouch!" yelped Timmy.
"Coming through!" exclaimed Doody.
"Excuse us!" exclaimed Bassy Girl.
"Sorry!" said Homesilvis.
"Look out!" yelled Timmy, Mimi, Tizzy, Doody, Amy, Jewel, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Daxter, Homesilvis, Boxxy Boy, Bassy Girl and Clank.
Kat, Dusty and Strong Bad rise up again, unknowingly removing the group out of the forest doing so. They had got some stuff and a green platypus with a brown hat that was sitting on Homesilvis's head.
Daxter chuckled as she said, "Everyone this is Perry the Platypus!"
"Yeah." groaned Timmy as he spat out a leaf. "We've met!"
Soon, they arrived at a school where Kat began lowering Strong Bad and the rope holders down.
"'And so, they arrived in Strong Bad's childhood." said Mimi to the "audience".
"That was the worst trip of my life!" groaned Timmy.
"Well, it's over now." Boxxy Boy said.
"Good. Safe at last," Timmy sighed as he and the others landed when heard a growling sound. At first, he thought that it was his stomach, only to realize that he ate earlier. He then turned and saw a green girl named Vendetta with her huge hamster named Grudge who is looking at him hungrily.
(Author's note: Vendetta and Grudge are from Making Fiends)
"No." groaned the buck teethed boy. He screamed as he ran off with Grudge giving chase much to Vendetta's amusement. "Stop it! Bad hamster! Bad hamster! Cut it out! Go away! Leave me alone!"
The others shook their heads. Nearby, Strong Bad noticed a school. For some reason which was now clear to him, he remembered it as he saw some kids playing and having fun.
"'It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve and Strong Bad was conscious of a thousand odors, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys and cares...Long, long forgotten'." said Mimi as she and the others (besides Timmy, who was pretty much running for his life from Grudge) turned to see Strong Bad landing on the ground gently next to Kat.
Strong Bad looked around and gasped, "It's my old school! Heck, I was a student here!" He looked and saw some kids running by. "Why, that's ShimajirÅ! And Mimirin! My good friend! Plus my former minions when they were younger! Hey guys! Hello? Hello?" Strong Bad looked confused as, for some unknown reason; none of the kids pay attention to him. Strangely, they didn't see the spirits either.
Kat chuckles as she said, "These are the shadows of your past Strong Bad, they can neither see nor hear you, come, let us go inside."
As Strong Bad, Kat and Dusty went inside the school, Mimi, Tizzy, Doody, Amy, Jewel, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Daxter, Homesilvis, Boxxy Boy, Bassy Girl and Clank turned to see Grudge still chasing Timmy.
"Timmy! Stop playing with that overgrown hamster!" said Homesilvis in annoyance.
"Tell her that! Save me, guys! Save me!" yelled Timmy alarmed as the big hamster was getting dreadfully close.
"Follow us, Timmy. Quickly!" said Clank as he and the others went inside the school.
The buck teethed boy looked panicked as Grudge got ready to pounce him. Just then, Amy, grabbed a broom jumped right behind Grudge. Amy, gave the hamster a huge "WHACK!" in a head with a broom, which caused Grudge to be knocked out.
"Ya know, for a red macaw like bird, you sure pack a wallop with that broom." said Timmy, hugging Bassy Girl on the head. With a smile, the two went inside.
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Inside a classroom of the school, statues of famous people were on a shelf, ranking from left to right. Next to the statues were few famous and boy narrators, one of the girl narrators from the ground began to speak.
"'And what a flood of memories came back to him as Strong Bad beheld his old classroom'." said Mimi as she and the others looked on at Strong Bad looking around in amazement at his old classroom as Kat.
"Wow, I know this place very well." said Strong Bad with a happy sigh as he looked around. "The desks are familiar, the smell of chalk is familiar. I chose my profession in this room."
"And is he too familiar?" Kat asked pointing at someone.
Strong Bad turned and gasped in surprise. In a desk studying was a stretchy skinned boy about seven-years-old who was wearing a gary coat, red scarf and a white hat.
"'Strong Bad beheld a small boy...a small boy he knew, oh very well indeed'." narrated Mimi.
"Why… it's me!" gasped older Strong Bad.
As Strong Bad studied, some of his classmates were leaving.
"Strong Bad, hurry up!" announced ShimajirÅ.
"Yeah, The last bus for home is leaving!" added Mimirin.
Strong Sad chuckled. "Ah, forget it, guys. He never goes home for Christmas."
"Ah, who cares about stupid old Christmas, anyway?" snapped Strong Bad angrily as the other classmates left.
Strong Bad sighed sadly as he said, "To tell you the truth, I was often alone. That gives me more time to read and study. Christmas is the chance to get some extra work done. Give me solitude, it does. Unfortunately, I often felt...alone."
"Eh, Fox like my friend Paula don't understand these things." remarked Kiraritchi as she watched.
"She was never a lonely child?" asked Mimi softly.
Kiraritchi remarked, "She has eight brothers, ten sisters, a dad, a mom, a grandfather, a grandmother, and nine cousins, and a bunch of relatives her species!"
Kiraritchi groaned, "You're right. Fox like you don't understand these things."
"Plus, she's in the story too but Kiraritchi, don't give away spoilers, okay?" asked Mimi.
"Sorry about that." said Kiraritchi.
"Maybe we should see another Christmas in this place." suggested Kat softly as she noted Mimirin looking sadly.
"How could we? They are all much the same. Nothing has changed." Strong Bad said sadly.
"You changed." Kat pointed out.
The pink skinned boy paused and looked on. His childhood passed by as if by magic. The young Strong Bad began to grow little by little and soon he was slightly taller, six feet tall, seventeen-years-old, and in his twelfth year at the school.
"'The years performed their terrible dance and in a moment, Strong Bad has seen almost his entire childhood pass. He saw his old schoolroom age and decay'." Mimi narrated.
Just then, as she said that, Jewel tugged Mimi's dress a little bit.
"You shouldn't have said that last part."
"Why not?" Mimi asked confused.
Yumemitchi pointed up the shelf where the boys are sitting at just as the nose of a statue of Mark Twain had broken off.
"What the...?" asked Timmy in confusion as he noticed.
Suddenly, the statues began to push right into the boys, making them yelp.
"Ow! Ow! Hey! What's going on?" yelped Daxter as he was getting squashed.
Young Strong Bad looked up to see a figure hop into the room. She was a violet plumage pelican with white feathers on the end of her wings wearing a black eye-liner and mascara, with lilac eye-shadow. She also wears red lipstick just like older Strong Bad's.
"Well, master Strong Bad, its graduation day!" announced the crimson pelican in an Englishwoman's accent as she hops next to Strong Bad.
"It's my old headmistress, Phyllis!" gasped older Strong Bad. He went next to Kat and Dusty and chuckled, "He taught me my greatest lesson!"
"Stand up, lad." said Phyllis as she stood young Strong Bad up. "It's time for you to build your life just like this school!"
Meanwhile, the narrators were pushing the statues back.
"Push back, guys!" groaned Timmy.
"My ear, my ear!" yelped Daxter as he kept on pushing in pain.
The gang yelped as the statues squashed them again.
Phyllis continued, unaware of what was going on the nearby shelf. "You must work hard, long, and be constructive! Life is a golden opportunity, Master Strong Bad. Today, you go forth into the real world. Your must keep your nose to the grindstone." As he continued, the girls watched anxiously as the boys continued pushing the statues back, more successfully this time. "Work hard, young man! And one day, your life will be as solid as this very building!"
The boy narrators had succeeded into getting themselves free. However, they made the shelf slide down doing so. Just as the girls got out of the way, they all yelled as they, along with the statues, fall onto the floor near Phyllis.
The crimson Animal Crossing observed this happening. Then she said, "I've been meaning to fix that shelf."
"Yes, Phyllis." said young Strong Bad nodding.
Phyllis smiled proudly. "Well, master Strong Bad, you have just been accepted to become a young worker in a business in a town near Toon Town. Today, you are now a man of business!"
"I'm looking forward to that, headmistress."
Phyllis smiled. "You will love big business. It is the British way!"
Mimi frowned and whispered something to Ms. Ms. Phyllis, "Uh, Ms. Phyllis?" She whispered a few things to him.
"Oh. Sorry." Phyllis cleared.
Phyllis cleared her throat and said, "It is the American way!"
"Yes. Phyllis" said young Strong Bad nodding.
"Good." said Mimi smiling, patting Phyllis on the back, then he left with the other narrators.
Phyllis looks puzzled as he turned. Upon seeing no one, he just shrugs it off. He saw a man coming in. "Ah, here's your coachman."
"Time to go, Strong Bad" Kat told the old version. "There's more to see."
"Remember, don't tip the driver." Phyllis told both young Strong Bad in precaution making the two laugh.
As Kat, Dusty, Strong Bad, and the six narrators made their exit, Kat snapped her fingers, generating a flash of blue light, surrounding them.
End of Chapter 4
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