Knob at Night
A/N: Fortunately there will not be a single knob at night in the chapter, it's simply the title of the original episode. I own nothing but the idea, all characters and material belong to their original owners.
Announcer: For the past few years, Lock, Shock and Barrel have been having a series of pointless –and stupid- conversations. This is one of them.
Shock: Who is that man and why is he narrating our show?
Lock: MY show, thank you very much. I don't see your name in the title.
Shock: Well it should be!
Barrel: I have been dragged out of bed at sunrise to record this. I did not want this. I wanted to sleep. As I can't, I demand this finishes soon. Get on with it and say something.
Lock: Fine. Shock, you're the one in charge of the fan letters. What do we have?
Shock: We have two. One of them is just terrible, and the other, you'll be pleased to know, is a report from the human world.
Barrel: Don't care...
Lock: Humans? Do tell.
Shock: It's a newspaper headline, saying "Lion mutilates 42 midgets in Cambodian ring fight."
Barrel: What's a Cambodian?
Lock: 42 people? Mauled by a lion? That's a hell of a headline, I wanna know more now.
Shock: "Spectators cheered as the entire Cambodian Midget Fighting League squared off against an African Lion. Tickets were sold out three weeks before the much-anticipated fight,. The fight was organised after an angry fan contested Yang Shinimoni, the president of the CMFL, claiming that one lion could defeat his entire league of 42 fighters."
Lock: Hold on a sec. What maniac is going around organising fights between midgets and lions?
Barrel: Apparently a very determined one, it happened didn't it?
Lock: True. So what happened to the midgets?
Shock: It says "The fight was ended after only twelve minutes, after which 28 of the midget fighters were declared dead, and the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs." Basically, they couldn't fight back.
Lock: The lion was ok, right?
Shock: It appears the lion was unharmed, yes.
Lock: Okay, good.
Barrel: So we're just going to ignore the fact that 28 midgets died?
Shock: Yes.
Barrel: Oh.
Lock: Well, that was amazing. A lion versus 42 Cambodian midgets. What a story.
Shock: Barrel, what are your thoughts on this? Your tiny brain must be able to formulate an opinion on this.
Barrel: It was stupid. Why would you agree to fight a lion?
Lock: You're just jealous because you wanted to eat it.
Barrel: Yeah.
Shock: The lion or the midget fighting league?
This was a lot shorter than the last chapter, and I apologise for that, but what is discussed next is something that the trio would have no interest in doing/discussing. I will try and make the next chapter longer, thank you to anyone reading this story, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! :)
