Chapter 2: First Auditions! Costume Madness!
By Ninetalesuk.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The Megaman show I'm referring to is Megaman NT Warrior.
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In an office room, three members of the Chaotix were napping when they are suppose to be working. Vector, Mighty and Espio. Vector sat at a desk with only a phone, Mighty just leaned against a filing cabinet while Espio was sleeping at another desk with a type writer.
They still slept until they all suddenly woke up and sprung into action when the door started to open. Vector picked the phone up and started to speak into it, Mighty started to check the papers and Espio started to type words into the type writer.
Enter Knuckles and when he saw his friends working, he shook his head. "OK... I'll give you a five second start to run away before I hit you for sleeping on the job and not working!"
"Yes, yes... Hold on..." Vector said, putting his hand onto the speaking reciver of the phone. "Do you mind, Knuckles? I am talking here... besides, how can you be sure we weren't working?"
"Because, my crocodile friend..." Knuckles said, picking up the wire of the phone that connects to the wall, showing it has been broken. "The phone hasn't worked since the night after WWE Wrestlemania 20! And you still haven't replaced it!"
Vector sweatdropped. "Oops..."
And the next thing Vector knew, he was flying out of the door and into the wall. Knuckles poked his head out and called to Vector. "Don't sleep!"
"Got it..." Vector muttered.
Nodding, Knuckles went back in before turning to Espio. "Your turn..."
"You can't prove that I've been asleep!" Espio said, typing more words down onto the type writer. "I've been typing for a while right now!"
"Oh really? Let me see what you wrote so far... Oh wait, I CAN'T!" Knuckles said, pointing to the type writer which contains NO paper! "In order to write something on a type writer, you need paper! You woke up too quickly to not notice that your writing nothing!"
Espio sweatdropped as well. "Oh no... Vector! Wait for me!"
Yep, Espio also flew out of the door and crashed into the wall beside Vector. "What took you?" Vector muttered as he got up.
"Shut up... Your still on Knuckles' war path after that snowball bazooka thing." Espio said.
"Don't remind me..." Vector muttered.
Mighty, continuing to file the papers in the cabinet, turned to Knuckles. "Hey! I'm no sleeper, Knuckles! Look, I'm filing the paper!"
Shaking his head, Knuckles walked over to the cabinet and took some papers out. "Mighty, your filing BLANK papers."
"Huh?! Ah, nuts..." Mighty said, dropping the papers and walking to the door. "I'll show myself out. I don't want go to the dentist to have plaster taken out of my teeth."
Groaning, Knuckles pulled Mighty back in. "Get back here, you..." He turned to the door. "Vector, Espio! Get in here right now!"
Moans and groans came from Vector and Espio as they walked into the door. "Mighty, you were lucky this time..."
"Sorry." Mighty said, grinning sheepishly.
"Right! It seems that you three aren't getting enough sleep! Vector, why aren't you getting enough sleep?" Knuckles asked.
"I keep having these weird dreams..." Vector said.
Espio shook his head. "He is a bad sleeper."
"Not true! I saw a strange purperly thing in the air in my dream!" Vector retorted.
Mighty sighed. "Vector, two things! First of all, you ARE a bad sleeper! Second of all, you saw a Gastly! He was popping into our rooms looking for a soul mate."
"OK... Let's move on..." Knuckles muttered. "What about you, Espio?"
"I was awake because of Vector SINGING!" Espio replied.
Vector grinned sheepishly. "OK... I am a bad sleeper... I just sing to get myself to sleep!"
"Well, your not helping me or Espio!" Mighty said.
Shaking his head, Knuckles sat down. "I don't believe this! I'm gonna start an audition for the cast of A Christmas Carol and I found out that two of my Chaotix crew member can't get to sleep because of a night-time singing crocodile!"
"Don't worry, Knuckles! Tonight, me and Espio won't be listening to Vector's singing anymore!" Mighty said, proudly. "Because we are going to a fancy dress party!"
"Really? For what reason?" Knuckles asked.
Espio smiled. "To join in the fun, to have a conversation with other people and gain new friends, to express our joy."
"And to win the top prize." Mighty added.
Knuckles shook his head. "Knew it! What is the prize?"
"A top of the range PC that costs £30000! We can get it free if we win!" Espio said.
"And how will you win it? What sort of costumes will you wear?" Vector asked.
Mighty just grinned. "Famous comic characters! I'll be dressed as X-Men's Wolverine!"
"And I'll be dressed as Spiderman!" Espio said, looking pleased.
A sweatdrop appeared on both Knuckles and Vector as they imagined Mighty as Wolverine and Espio as Spiderman. Vector shook his head. "This is too weird for me..."
"All right... I wish you guys luck..." Knuckles said, sighing. "Come on, let's get the audition started! We are taking it in the main room!"
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It was much later as Knuckles sat down at a desk with Espio and Mighty at his side. Vector stood near the door as some sort of heavy. "Why am I here? The last time you did the auditions, you had Davis and Yolei from that Digimon show." Espio said.
Knuckles nodded. "Yep, I'll rehire them once I'm done with the auditions. OK, Vector! Let the first one in!"
"Right, Knuckles!" Vector said, opening the door. "Number one, please enter!"
The first one entered the room and it was Tristan Taylor, Joey's best friend and a character from Yu-Gi-Oh. What gave him strange looks from Knuckles and the others is the fact that he was wearing a Christmas present, with his head, arms and legs sticking out. "All right, I'm here to audition! What now?"
"Tristan!? What are you doing here dressed like that?!" Knuckles asked.
"Joey told me to come here for the auditions dressed like a Xmas Present. He didn't told me why or what the play is called." Tristan explained.
Knuckles groaned. "This is like Tai and the Elvis suit that happened last year..."
Smirking Espio grinned towards Tristan. "The play is A Christmas Carol and you happen to dress as the Ghost of Christmas Present!"
Face going red, Tristan slapped his head. "When I find Joey, I'm gonna kill him..."
"Never mind... We have a spot for you but, your not gonna be the Ghost of Christmas Present." Knuckles said.
"Thank god... If I do have to play as that character, I would have to kill Joey for dressing me up for a crummy joke!" Tristan said.
Laughing, Knuckles pointed to a seat. "Go and sit over there, I'll tell your character in a minute."
Nodding, Tristan walked over to the seat and tried to sit down. Problem was, the present suit he was wearing kept getting in the way so, he had to sit at the edge of the seat. Sweatdropping, Tristan groaned. "Oh yeah... when I get my hands on Joey, he is a deadman!"
"NEXT!" Vector called out.
The next one to enter was Huskymon, whom looked peaceful and content.
"Ah, Huskymon. Calm down yet? Last time I saw you, you were chasing Inumon towards to the North Pole." Mighty said.
"Don't be silly... It was the South Pole..." Huskymon muttered. "Anyway, I am here to take part in the Christmas Carol."
Knuckles smiled. "Really? Who do you want to play?"
Huskymon giggled. "Pretty simple. I wanna play as..." She turned and saw Tristan as a Christmas present. She pouted. "Aww, nuts... Somebody already beaten me to the part..."
"I'M NOT GONNA BE THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT!!!" Tristan roared.
Sniggering, Espio stepped up. "No worries... You got the part of the Ghost of Christmas Present, Huskymon."
"YAY!" Huskymon grinned. "I'm so happy!"
"Just remember your not the Ghost of Christmas Pizza! We know why you wanted to kill Inumon!" Knuckles warned.
Blushing, Huskymon scratched the back of her head. "O...K..."
"Right... Dealt with two but, I'm still waiting for someone to play the main character, Scrooge." Knuckles said.
Mighty sniggered. "How about that Disney character? Scrooge McDuck?"
Laughing, Knuckles shook his head. "Nah... someone different..."
"I have one in mind!" Huskymon said, grinning eviliy. She walked out and came back in with a tied up Inumon. "He'll do..."
Vector blinked. "Inumon?"
"HELP ME!!! GET ME AWAY FROM HER!!! PLEASE!!!" Inumon whimpered.
Sniggering evilily, Huskymon turned to Knuckles. "Have him become the main character..."
Inumon stopped paniking. "Main character?"
Sighing, Knuckles wrote something down. "Congradulations, Inumon. You are now playin the main character of A Christmas Carol. Scoorge. Any comments?"
"WHY ME?!" Cried Inumon.
"Nice comment..." Espio said in a sarcastic voice.
"Right... you two sit over there with Tristan. Be nice and he might give you a present." Knuckles said, pointing to Tristan while laughing.
"Shut it..." Tristan muttered.
Vector grinned before he turned to the door. "NEXT!"
Next one is Velene Vulpina, female Vulpix hybrid of the Silesia World from Digimon Frontier:The Revival of Valmarmon. "Hi, everyone."
Mighty blinked. "Hey! It's that Vulpix chick from Silesia! What is she doing here?! This isn't Silesia! Knuckles, what is going on here?!"
Velene shook her head. "First of all, Silesia only exists during a story! And second of all, I am the best Pokemon hybrid that the author has created! He even said so himself!"
"Why are you his best?" Espio asked.
"Good personality, good background, what else do I need?" Velene asked before she saw Tristan. "Oh, your gonna go as the Ghost of Christmas Present?"
Tristan's face went red. "I promise ya, if anyone... I repeat, ANYONE, says anything to me about Christmas Present, I'll go insane!!"
"No... Huskymon will be playing the Ghost of Christmas Present, Inumon will play as Scoorge and I have a special part for Tristan." Knuckles explained.
"Really? I didn't know there is a special part in A Christmas Carol." Velene said.
Knuckles grinned. "Oh, it's gonna be REAL special indeed. Now, who do you want to play as?"
"I wanna play as the Ghost of Christmas Past." Velene said.
"You got it!" Knuckles said, grinning. "Welcome!"
Huskymon shook her head. "Unbelivable! Velene, here! And no one seems bothered that Silesia exists?! Why is that possible?!"
"Use your imagination, Huskymon." Velene said. "I mean... look, I'm gonna play as the Christmas Past Ghost... Inumon is gonna play as Scrooge..."
"Yeah... I get it! This is gonna be wonderful! I'm gonna be the Ghost of Christmas Present!"
"More like the Ghost of Christmas Terror..." Inumon muttered.
Suddenly, there was a cloud of white dust full of bashing, punching and growling.
Sweatdropping, Knuckles saw Inumon leaning against the desk with pain from Huskymon's beating. "Any comments now?"
"I've got five bites on my tail, four wacks on my head, three kicks in the groin... two black eyes..." Inumon groaned.
"And a baka dog in the nut tree." Mighty finished.
Tristan shook his head. "This is gonna be an intresting play..."
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It was much later and the auditions were done. Every character in A Christmas Carol has been taken. The meeting with the directors and the people who joined will meet in the stage hall tomorrow. Right now, Mighty and Espio were getting ready for their party. One problem though...
"Dang it! We forgot to pick up our suits!" Mighty said, slapping his head.
Espio growled. "What do you mean we?! YOU were the one who was suppose to pick our customes up!" He checked his watch. "The shop will be closed in about 30 minutes and we don't have time to get them! How on earth are we gonna fix this mess?"
There answer came as a familiar blue blur zoomed past them. "Hi, guys!" Said Sonic.
Both Mighty and Espio grinned at each other. "Aha..."
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Once again, much later... Night as arrived and through the back allways...
"This is your fault!" Came Mighty's voice.
"What do you mean it's my fault!?" Espio demanded.
A sigh came from Mighty. "You were the one who made this mistake in the first place!"
"Listen... We can still win this! In order to make sure no one sees us, we can go through the alleyways and straight to the house where the party is located." Espio said. "IF we run fast!"
Mighty groaned. "Sonic wouldn't have this sort of problem..."
"Of course not, he is FAST!" Espio said. "Now, come on! Don't worry, no one will see us! What are the chances of that happening?!"
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Meanwhile, there was a confrontation between a couple of small groups. Knuckles, Vector, Rouge and Megaman were dealing with Team Rocket. AKA, Jessie, James and Meowth.
"Give it up, you losers! I've seen you battle over 350 episodes of Pokemon and you guys keep losing. What is the point of facing us now?!" Megaman asked.
Jessie laughed. "Pretty simple! We are fed up of losing so, we are going to show the writers that the bad guys can win sometime!"
"Yes... We deserve some victory in our arsenal side." James said.
"And lucky for you, you are our first target!" Meowth added.
Rouge lowered her eyes. "So... your just gonna attack us because we aren't part of your Pokemon clan nor carrying Pokemon?"
"Meowth! That's right!" Meowth said.
Vector crossed his arms. "Oh yeah?! Think again, I have a strong set of Pokemon, ya know!"
Rouge sweatdropped. "Vector... Pokemon from your Fire Red doesn't count..."
"Nuts..." Vector grumbled.
Knuckles growled, crossing his arms. "I gave you a part in the play last year and this is how you repay me after a year?!"
"Well, how do you feel after losing so many battles?!" James screamed.
"You should talk to Eggman..." Vector muttered.
Knuckles started to crack his fists. "Right! If you do not leave, you'll feel my wrath! And no one, NO ONE, would ever want to know how angry I get! So, unless you leave, your history!"
Team Rocket stood there before they screamed, turned and ran off in fear. This caused Knuckles and Vector to blink while Rouge and Megaman looked behind them.
"Wow... you did it, Knuckles..." Vector said.
"I...I guess I did..." Knuckles replied.
Rouge shook her head. "No, you didn't... Look over here..."
Knuckles and Vector turned around and their eyes widen. Megaman spoke in awe. "No way..."
Coming through the alleyway were two familiar superheroes. One of them dressed as a bat warrior while the other wore the suit of the bat warrior's sidekick. At first, everyone thought that Batman and Robin were actually here until they got closer and...
Knuckles' eyes widen even more when the two came closer. He reconised who were in the suits. "MIGHTY?!?! ESPIO?!?!"
The two figures screeched to a halt and smiled sheepishly. Mighty was wearing a Batman costume while Espio wore a Robin one. Mighty was the first to speak. "Hey, Knuckles... How are ya...?"
"What the heck are you two dressed like this?!" Knuckles asked.
"Erm... fancy dress..." Espio whispered.
Vector scratched his head. "Then, why are you two dressed like Batman and Robin? They are DC type comic characters, not Marvel characters! Remember, you said you two are gonna dress as Wolverine and Spiderman!"
Mighty coughed. "Well, we erm... had a little slightback... You see, we forgot to pick our costumes up and we only had 30 minutes left to pick them up."
"That was when we asked Sonic to pick them up. We gave him our tickets and he got them in under 4 minutes." Espio said.
"Let me guess... Sonic picked up the wrong costumes, right?" Megaman asked.
Espio shook his head. "No... Sonic picked up the RIGHT costumes!"
That got Knuckles confused. "Then, how the heck Batman and Robin be the right costumes if you wanted to dress up as two popular Marvel characters?!"
Laughing slightly, Mighty spoke up. "Well... The tickets have numbers for each costume. Spiderman is 906 while Wolverine is 999."
"So?" Rouge said, raising an eyebrow.
"Turns out... those costumes were already taken and the store owner thought he did us a favour and gave us these instead." Espio explained. "And here is the bonus part, our tickets didn't say 906 and 999.... they said 609 and 666! We held them upside down!"
Groaning, Knuckles shook his head. "Well... THAT was smart... Looks like your chances of getting that prize has gone down even lower..."
"It wasn't high at the start." Vector said.
"So, Batman... What are you two gonna do now?" Megaman asked.
"We are gonna head over to the party and nothing can stop us!" Mighty said. "Come, Robin! Let's move!"
"Don't quit your day job..." Espio muttered as he and Mighty ran off.
Vector and Rouge sniggered while Knuckles sweatdropped. Megaman on the other hand was thinking. "Party... party... Hey, they are going to that fancy dress party with the expensive PC as the prize?"
Knuckles nodded. "That's the one..."
Then, Megaman was confused. "But, that's tomorrow night..."
"TOMORROW NIGHT!? Those morons got the date wrong! Again!" Vector muttered.
Rouge blinked. "But, I heard there was a party tonight... Who's it for...?"
Megaman sweatdropped. "The Very-Boring-People Party."
Moments later, a zipping Batman and Robin zipped by Knuckles' small group. "SAVE US FROM THE BOREDOM!!!" Mighty screamed.
"THIS IS THE LAST TIME I GO OUT WITH A FANCY DRESS PARTY WITH YOU!!!" Espio roared.
Once again, Knuckles shook his head. "Oh brother..."
TO BE CONTINUED...
Next chapter, the cast of A Christmas Carol. And you'll find out about Tristan's 'special part', which you might find amusing. Heh heh...