Well, last time, you recall, Pippi had accidentally signed the wrong list to the Pocket Monster Super Battle Tournamento, causing him to battle against his will. Digda had also volunteered in battling, and so did his pals, Ken and Gordon the Tauros and Golem. Meanwhile Rex Kamex became a comedian of the Tournamento. He and Bana Bana discovered that Pippi won the match against Dawgasu the Koffing, as Pippi discovered that Dawgasu could only explode with sticks of TNT! Well, now that the preliminaries were over, it was time for an unexpected comedian halftime, and to make things even more unexpected, there was an unexpected comedian. It was… DIGDA!? What the barnacle? Well, find out what happens next today!

Chapter 10- "Rexinator VS Digga-Digga Tough Guy"

Bana Bana and Rex, not to mention Pippi, couldn't believe their eyes as they saw Digda on the stage.

"That's Digda? Our Digda?" shouted the puzzled Blastoise, scratching his head. "The same one we know?"

"But it can't be," said Pippi. "It must be another one."

"You see any other Digda around here?" Bana Bana said, looking around, despite his own rhetorical question. Then he said, "By the way, Rexinator, aren't you supposed to be up there with the other comedians waiting in a line on the stage?"

He pointed to a part of the stage that was almost completely covered by a red certain. Behind it were some comedian Pokemon that were standing in a line waiting for their turn to get on stage. The Pokemon at the front were the same Machop and Jynx that signed the comedy list before. Anyway, Rex said, "Oh, right! Well guys, I'd better get going. Wish me luck!" And so he went off through the audience and to the stage, saying, "Excuse me, pardon me."

Meanwhile, Digda, who was already telling jokes using a microphone that a Mr. Mime was holding for him since he had no arms, said, "…and so I said, 'Hey, at least I'm not a loser!"

The Pokemon audience laughed.

"And now with my last joke," said Digda. "HEY WAIT! WHAT'S THIS?"

He saw Rex Kamex getting up to the stage.

"IT'S A BLASTOISE! This Pokemon reminds me of my last joke, which is about the time I met this Blastoise named… Rox Kamox, and later I met his Clefairy pal Poppi! And Poppi was a big fat pig!"

"Man, Poppi sounds like a familiar character," said Pippi. "I must've bumped into this guy sometime before."

Bana Bana sighed.

"Man, and this Rox Kamox guy was stuuuuuuuuupid!" continued Digda. "Man, he and his pal Poppi were always living under this lake near my house! We got into a fight, and Poppi was stupid enough to destroy Rox's house in the process!"

"Hey," said Pippi, as the audience laughed. "That's just what happened with me! Man, how come I've never noticed this Rox guy or Poppi guy before? Maybe they live in another lake. Have I been missing a lake from nearby?"

"So anyway," Digda went on, "after we all battled on and Poppi destroyed the house, he and Rox were begging for mercy, and so me and my buds, which helped me battle, left them."

"Hey, wait a minute," said Rex Kamex, who was now at the back of the line, after passing Digda, forgetting to ask him why he was even there. "Digda… he can't be talking about... he is!!!"

Meanwhile, Pippi was thinking about what Digda had been saying. "Hey," he said, "this really is almost like what happened with me and Rex! So he's just using what happened and made up character Pokemon and a new outcome of the battle."

"What do you mean?" said Bana Bana.

"Well in our battle, Digda and them all left," answered Pippi, "but here, Poppi and Rox Kamox surrendered."

"I see," said Bana Bana.

"But why did he make my character sound dumb?" asked Pippi.

"Er, you do realize that he's just insulting you while giving you new names, right?" Bana Bana responded.

"No way," said Pippi, shocked beyond belief.

Bana Bana sighed. Again.

"OUT OF MY WAY, PEOPLE!" shouted Rex Kamex as he pushed through the line of comedians. "WHY DIDN'T I NOTICE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS BEFORE?"

"And anyway," Digda continued, "my buds and I just laughed and laughed and laughed, and then we laughed some more. And then we-"

"SHUT UP, PUNK!" shouted Rex Kamex. The audience gasped as the big blue turtle grabbed the microphone from the Mr. Mime to say, "Sorry about that folks, but it looks like it's my turn now."

"No it isn't," said the Wanriki. "We were here first! You cut in front of us, you big jerk!"

Rex Kamex started talking through the microphone. "I couldn't help but hear this Digda's story about Rox Kamox, and it reminded me of something that happened with me and a Pokemon named, um, er, Dugda. Yeah, that's it, his name was Dugda! And he was a Diglett! Anyway, my Clefairy pal Pippi and I fought Dugda and his pals Ben Bentauros the Tauros and Jordan Jolone the Golem, see? We won that fight, and so the three "stooges" we were fighting got scared and ran away. Man, Dugda was begging for mercy the entire time!"

"THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED!" shouted Digda, moving up to the microphone.

But the Kamex moved the microphone away from Digda's "grasp", and so Rex said, "HOW WOULD YOU KNOW? WERE YOU THERE?"

Dugda, uh, I mean, Digda, just replied, "Oh, please, I know where you got that story from. You got it from me! Ripper-offer!"

"OH PUH-LEESE," said the Kamox, um, I mean, Kamex, I mean, Kamix, I mean, Blastoise! "Your story made it seem like you were all big and bad."

"Well you're just using my story to make up one of your own!" shouted the Digda. "I know it!"

Meanwhile, the Barrierd was trying to get the microphone from Rex, as Rex said, "Man, you only made up the part of the story where you won. It wasn't you who won that battle. It was ME! Uh, I mean, Rox Kamox!"

"GIMME THAT MICROPHONE!" shouted Digda.

"IN YOUR DREAMS, YOU BRAINLESS BIMBO!" Rex shouted back.

The two Pokemon kept yelling at each other while the Pokemon audience was laughing, not at their jokes, but at their quarreling.

"I ADMIT THAT I WAS JUST USING YOU IN MY STORY," shouted Digda, "BUT YOU PUT ME IN YOUR STORY USING THE NAME DUGDA! MAN, I DID NOT SURRENDER, I JUST WANTED TO SAVE THE BATTLE FOR LATER!"

"WHICH IS WHAT YOU SHOULD'VE DONE IN THE FIRST PLACE!" shouted Rex in response.

"I WAS IMPATIENT AT FIRST! BUT NOW I AM PATIENT ABOUT BATTLING YOU HERE, ONLY TO FIND THAT YOU'RE NOT EVEN ABLE TO BATTLE!" Digda was circling through the ground around Rex in a very quick manner.

"What's all the commotion about?" asked a little pink Jigglypuff comedian Pokemon who was in around the middle of the comedian line. He was about Pippi's size, and he was wearing glasses and had a moustache, too…

"Two of the comedians are having a fight," answered the Jynx comedian.

"A fight, eh?" said the Jigglypuff, whose name was Purin. "If they don't knock it off, they're gonna get kicked out of this comedian contest!"

"Yeah, I know," said Machop, "but I don't care about that. It just easily gets rid of the competition."

Meanwhile, Rex and Digda were still fighting in front of everybody.

Digda screeched, "GIMME THE FREAKIN' MICROPHONE, YOU DUNCE!"

"I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?" Rex said, trying to step on the circling Digda, only to experience watching Digda burrow underground at the speed of light.

"IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME THAT MICROPHONE, I'M GONNA 'BUT WHAT AM I' YOUR FACE!"

"WHAT IN THE FLIPPITY FLIP-FLIP McFLIPPER IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?!?!?"

"I DON'T KNOW!" shouted Digda. "BUT YOU DON'T SEE ME COMPLAINING, DO YA'?"

"AND WHAT'S WITH DIGLETS ANYWAY, FOLKS!?!?!?" Rex hollered into the microphone. "THEY HAVE NO ARMS, BUT THEY CAN USE SLASH! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"

"WELL WHAT'S UP WITH BLASTOISES, EVERYBODY!?" Digda screamed, trying to get everybody's attention. He leaned his body towards the Blastoise. "I MEAN, LOOK AT THIS DUDE'S FACE! IF I REALLY WANTED TO SEE SOMETHING SO UGLY, I'D TAKE A LOOK AT THAT MONSTER FRANKENSTEIN, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!"

"YOU MORON," Rex retorted. "FRANKENSTEIN WAS THE DUDE THAT MADE THE MONSTER!"

"Oh…" said Digda. Then he paused. Then he said, "Well I bet he was ugly too…"

The crowd laughed at that too.

"AND WHAT KIND OF POKEMON HAS TO STAY IN THE GROUND, ALL OF THE TIME!?" shouted Rex. "THAT'S WHAT THIS HERE DIGLETT DOES ALL DAY!"

"IT BEATS BEING FAT!" shouted Digda.

"ARE YOU SAYING I'M FAT?"

"NO, I WAS SAYING THAT YOUR PAL PIPPI IS FAT," corrected Digda, "BUT WHY WOULD YOU THINK I SAID THAT YOU WERE FAT, UNLESS YOU WERE FAT!?!?!?"

Rex gave Digda a nasty look. "YOU WANNA PIECE OF ME, BUDDY!?"

"THIS IS A COMEDIAN TOURNAMENT, NOT A BATTLING TOURNAMENT!"

"WELL YOU WANTED TO BATTLE HERE ANYWAY!"

"WELL TOO BAD, LOOOSER! I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW!"

"BUT ALL THIS TIME YOU'VE BEEN WANTING TO-"

"SHUT UP!"

"HOW COME YOU'RE PARTICIPATING AS A COMEDIAN, ANYWAY, DIGDA?"

"BECAUSE," answered Digda, still in his booming loud voice (hence the bold and capital letters), "I WON THE LOTTERY HELD LAST NIGHT TO WIN THE PRIZE OF PARTICIPATING IN BOTH CONTESTS. WERE YOU THERE TO WIN IT? NO! THAT'S BECAUSE YOU WERE BEING TOURMENTED BY TRAINERS BECAUSE YOU HIT THAT LOSER, PIPPI!"

"HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?"cried Rex.

"THAT WAS JUST A GUESS!" said Digda. "YOU MEAN THAT REALLY HAPPENED TO YOU? MAN, DUDE, YOU'RE MORE OF A LOSER THAN I THOUGHT! ALTHOUGH NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, THAT WOULD HAPPEN TO IDIOTS LIKE YOU."

Bana Bana sighed, as the Pokemon continued bickering the day away, okay? (Nothing like a little rhyming to… oh, never mind.) "Man, Pippi, will they ever stop arguing?" he said.

But Pippi was too upset that once again, someone called him fat. He was trembling like there was an earthquake or something like that.

Rex was steaming mad, now. He shouted at the top of his lungs (no, he wasn't doing that before), "I HATE YOU, YOU STUPID, DUMB, UGLY, EVIL, LOSER FROM THE PLANET DUMMY THAT IS A DUMMY!"

"YOU'RE THE DUMMY WHO IS THE DUMMY FROM THE PLANET DUMMY, YOU DUMMY!" Digda shouted back.

"I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I?"

"YOU'VE USED THAT ONE BEFORE, YOU UNORIGINAL BUFFOON!" Digda screeched at him. "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'VE JUST RIPPED OFF YOURSELF!"

"Well," said Rex, thinking a bit. "… Well it just doesn't change the fact that you're dumb!"

"I'M RUBBER AND YOU'RE SUPERGLUE," said Digda. "WHAT YOU SAY BOUNCES OFF ME AND STICKS TO YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!"

Rex was baffled at this. "Gee, that was clever," he said. "You're really good at this insulting stuff. You're a genius!"

"Heh heh, why thank you, Rex," said Digda. (If Digda had a mouth, he'd be grinning.) "I'm glad you think that way."

"HA! YOU'RE RUBBER AND I'M SUPERGLUE!" said Rex, pointing at the Diglett with his free hand. "MY COMPLIMENT BOUNCED OFF YOU AND STUCK TO ME FOREVER! I'M A GENIUS! HORRAY!" Then he laughed like an idiot.

"SHUT UP, YOU GOON!" shouted Digda.

"I know you are," said Rex, "but what am I?"

"WILL YOU PLEASE STOP SAYING THAT?"

"NEVER!"

"WHY, YOU…"

"STUPID FACE!"

"LIAR!"

"DORK!"

"PUNK!"

"CHUMP!"

"ROOSTER!"

"ROOSTER!?" said the baffled Blastoise. "WHAT'S THAT!?"

"YOU, YOU BIG GOONY, STUPID, LYING, DORKY, PUNKY, CHUMPY ROOSTER!"

"HEY, YOU USED SOME OF MY INSULTS!" said Kamex.

"I DON'T SEE YOU'RE NAME ON THEM!" Digda answered.

"Oh, so now you can use my insults," Rex said, lowering his voice, "but I can't reuse my own insults? Brilliant logic there, buddy."

"I AM NOT YOUR BUDDY!"

"And you never will be."

"GOOD!"

Okay, now the audience had gotten bored with this, and they wanted to move on to more comedians, so they started booing. Man, even I'm starting to get tired of this, and I'm the one controlling the story! Meanwhile, Rex started shouting again. Rex took a deep breath and then…

"I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE YOU!" he screeched into the microphone. Every one in the audience, including Rex and Bana Bana, covered their ears.

"I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOATHE YOU!" shouted Digda.

"I HATE YOU MORE!"

"I LOATHE YOU MORE!"

"HATE IS STRONGER!"

"NO IT'S NOT, LOATHE IS!"

"WELL AT LEAST MY HATE IS STRONGER!"

"GIMME THAT MIKE, REX!"

"NEVER!"

"CREEP!"

"MORON!"

"YOU'RE AN IDIOT!"

"YES YOU ARE, DIGDA!"

"HEY!"

"WHAT DOES 'DIGDA' STAND FOR, ANYWAY!" Rex said, now turning away from Digda and to the Pokemon audience.

"HUH?"

"LET'S FIND OUT!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"

"D IS FOR… DUMMY!"

"WHAT?"

"U IS FOR UGLY, G IS FOR GOOFY, THE OTHER D IS FOR DISASTEROUS, AND THE A IS FOR ART!"

"ART?!"

"I RAN OUT OF IDEAS, OKAY?"

"WHAT?"

"Okay fine then," said Rex. "If it makes you any happier, that's A for 'abstract art'… okay?"

"IT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT, PUNK!"

"TOO LATE? TOO LATE? TOO LATE?" Rex cried. "I'LL SHOW YOOOUUU WHAT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT, PUNK!"

"ALL RIGHT, THAT'S ENOUGH, YOU TWO!"

Digda and Rex turned around to see an angry Mr. Mime charging towards them. "TURTLE! GIMME THAT MICROPHONE OR PEEEEERIIIIISH!"

"Eek!" Frightened by Mr. Mime's crimson red face, Rex threw the device to… Mr. Mime. Then he joined Digda… in taking deep breaths and calming down…

"YOU GUYS HAVE DEFINITELY STAYED UP HERE FOR MORE THAN TWO MINUTES COMBINED, TIMES IT TWO THE SECOND POWER AND MULTIPLIYED TIMES TEN!" shouted the Mr. Mime.

Members of the audience agreed and said things like, "You tell 'em!"

Digda said, "Wait… you counted, Mr. Mime, sir?"

"Noooo, we haven't stayed that long," said Rex, still mad enough to pick a fight with the mime Pokemon. "I mean, we've been here for a while but not that long."

"You'd be surprised," said the Mr. Mime, looking at the watch he was wearing.

"You're still exaggerating."

"Oh, all right, you know what I mean," said the Mr. Mime. "Now go away. Now."

"HA! Did you hear what he said, you tubby turtle?" said Digda. "He said to go away!"

"AND THAT GOES FOR YOU TOO, DIGDA!!!" said Mr. Mime, pointing at Digda.

"Man, I thought mimes were supposed to be silent," said Digda, "but you're one mime of a kind, you know that?"

"Whatever," said the mime.

Afterwards, all of the other comedian Pokemon participants had taken their two-minute turn to tell some jokes, and the audience had managed to laugh. Then the judges had made their decision to eliminate the twelve worst ones. So who were they, you ask? Well, I'll tell you who stayed.

Somehow, Rex Kamex managed to stay.
Unfortunately, so did Digda. (Well, fortunately if you liked the little guy.)
The Jynx comedian I kept mentioning before had made it.
So did the Machop.
So did Purin.
Besides that, so did a Pikachu. (MASCOT!)
Also, so did a rocky Pokemon called Nosepass.
Not to mention there was a Volbeat that stayed as well. Volbeat was a bug-like Pokemon.

"Congratulations, Rexinator," said Pippi and Bana Bana. (Yes, Pippi called Rex that, too.)

"Why thank you, guys," Rex replied.

Now, the three of them were eating some pizza in the big, blue, restaurant area of the stadium before the actual battles of the Tournamento would come.

"Man, with victories like mine," Pippi said, taking a big, juicy bite (I'm making you hungry, aren't I?), "I'm guaranteed to win the Tournamento without lots of pain!" Unlike before, he was now confident enough to succeed in the battles.

Just then, Digda came along.

"Oh great, it's you," Rex said, in an annoyed tone.

"Silence, you punk!" shouted Digda. Then he turned to Pippi. "Pinky," he said, "you may have won your preliminary match, but that was only because everybody was trying their hardest to get in the Tournamento. But, now many of them have, they're gonna try even harder to stay in the Tournamento! So if you thought that your previous battle was too tough, just you wait till you battle your next opponent. Heh, maybe your next opponent will fly away! No wait, he'll just get caught by the camera that's tracking him down. WAHAHAHAHA!"

As Digda left, Rex said, "Don't listen to him, Pippi. You'll do fine."

But it was too late. Pippi had turned white as a sheet again.

"But I wonder," continued Rex, "how Digda would know if Pippi's opponent could fly or not…"

"Maybe they've already told who would face who," said Bana Bana. "You don't, by any chance, think that Pippi's flying opponent could be… nah."

"I doubt it," Rex answered.

"Who? Who?" Pippi asked, after regaining his pinkish pigment.

"Oh, it's just an old friend of ours," said Rex, "but don't worry about it. I don't think it's him. You know what, maybe Digda was speaking hypothetically about the flying thing. You know, saying that if your opponent could fly, she'd fly away."

Double Bana turned to him. (Yeeeeaaaah.) "What makes you think it'll be a she?"

"What makes you think it'll be a he?"

Bana Bana couldn't find a response to Rex's question. "You're right, my friend. Forgive me. A she it is, then!"

"Maybe it's a he-she," suggested Pippi, taking another bite of pizza. The two other Pokemon stared.

At that moment, a Raichu ran over to the three Pokemon in total. "Haven't you heard?" the orange mouse-like creature said to the three of them. "They've shown who will face who on a chart! Come on and see!"

"Oh…" said Rex. "Well that would explain why not that many Pokemon are here…"

So Rex and Bana Bana went over to a big bulletin board, which had all the 64 battling Pokemon, each beside who they would face. Pippi didn't go with them yet, as he wanted to finish his last slice of pizza. The Blastoise and Venusaur finally managed to get through the crowd of Pokemon to see the name. Of course, it did help that many Pokemon left after this.

"Look, Rex," said Bana Bana, "at that!"

Rex looked to the direction that Bana Bana was pointing at. There, at the end of the chart was a picture of Pippi (though I don't know when anybody took his picture- stupid plot hole) next to his opponent. Rex and Bana Bana looked at each other with frightened faces.

"OH NO!" they shouted at the same time. "IT IS HIM!"

"And I told you it was a he!" Bana Bana turned to Rex, saying such words.

"Well, no, you never actually said words stating that it was indeed a he, you see… you were just questioning why I was so sure that Pippi's opponent was indeed a she," Rex corrected him. Then he looked at the poster. "But this is incredible."

"Yeah," said Bana Bana. "In all my years of knowing you've I've never heard you talk like that."

"Long time, no see, guys," said a voice from behind them.

The two Pokemon turned around to see a familiar face walking to them. (Because faces walk. Yeah.) Well, it was familiar to them, anyway. Now this particular Pokemon was an orange one that happened to be the same one as Pippi's opponent, but who was it? Only Rex and Bana Bana know for now…

That's right, my friends, WHO'S THAT POKEMON?

Well, next you will next find out next what next happens next in the next chapter of… THIS STORY!

Neeeeeeeext!

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(I know you're next, but what am I?)