*clickety* Three fat, ugly, wrinkled, old women and one cute blond sat around a small, coffee-table-shaped object. The oldest and the ugliest begins to speak. "Welcome the View, I'm you're sexy host, Bahbwa Waltahs." "I'm Meredith V-something, a single mom with a drinking problem." she said as she spilled a glass of water down the front of her blouse. "Mm'hm. Yo check dis, foo' I is the sassy black chick lawyer, Starr Jones. Oh yeah!" She and Barbara high-five, then go into one of those eclectic handshake greeting things, that involve a lot of slapping and resembles a game of paddy-cake. "And I'm Debbie Mattenopoloptagusenhiemersteindeberg. I like shiny things!" Barbara, after smacking the ditzy blond upside the head, began her dissertation. "Today on the View, we awe going to show you how to tuwn thwee pounds of toxic waste into a nice quiche de la morte, how to macweme youw ass into the sofa and how to laugh politely at what one can only assume to be jokes coming fwom thwee talentless hacks. Plus, the music of Weevus. A wockin' young group of go-getters with tight asses." Meredith put in her contractually mandated two cents: "Our special guest host to day comes to us all the way from Umloch, North Dakota, he's the self-proclaimed master of funk," she paused momentarily and looked down at the card. "What the heck is a handjive?" "I'm a lawyer." Starr guessed, nodding sagely. Debbie ventured a guess, "Well, when my boyfriend asks for one, he wants me to unzip his pants and use my hand to... no wait, you said _jive_, sorry." Barbara smacked her over the head with a giant spatula. Meredith continued, "Anyway, our special guest is the second in command of the tenth rising of one Count Dracula. Not only is he a bad mutha-" "I'm a lawyer!" Starr interrupted, with much self-confidence and sagely nodding. "Shut up, Starr. Tonight, on his first talk show appearance ever, Black Priest Shaft!" Shaft's latest single, "Stayin' Undead" played, skipping to the good parts, as he emerged from the side stage and crossed the set to the designated guest sitting area. Tossing back his cloak with great flourish, he sat dramatically in the chair. "Shaft! Gweat to have you on the show! Have you met the giwls?" "Hi! I'm Meredith, (you male chauvinist pig)," Meredith said in a militant feminist sort-of way. "I'm a lawyer! Word up!" Starr went for a high-five which Shaft quickly stared down. "I have a kitty named Shopping, which almost sounds like your name!" Debbie bounced. Barbara shot her. "So, have you come to pwomote youw new single?" Shaft's gaze drifted towards Barbara. Not a word left his mouth. "You'we... okay. So what awe youw plans fow the-" "You will all die." "-futuwe, gonna... pawdon?" "Your oblivion is at hand. Soon, Drac's bad self will conquer the earth and lead it into an era of blackness and eternal suffering. Where the party will never end and the blood will flow like wine. You will all become nothing more than puppets for our amusement." Fire flowed from Shaft's hands and flames soon engulfed all the View girls. They all died viciously, except for Debbie, who was already dead. No one seemed to notice. *clickety* ~!@#$%^&*()_+ Improfanfic couldn't give a rat's ass about: Castlevania 1970: Disco of Evil This chapter is #9 on your FM Radio dial. Send all hate mail to: ELRutt, (elsteven@pacbell.net) Responsibility for this rests solely on: Gaijin Dan Mastriani +_)(*&^%$#@!~ *clickety* Gerald Reinhart checked his hair in the mirror hanging outside the final door. Flawless, as always. "I am a sexy bitch," he said to himself, in an overly deep and masculine voice. "Yes, I am a magnificent, wonderful, manly, macho, entirely butch, and not at all homosexual or gay in any way, shape or form, a man whose love for women with large breasts and not little boys in sailor outfits is only matched by the size of his enormous wang. Damn, I am a straight man!" he finished off with a slight lisp. Obvious deep-seeded personal issues were seeping to the surface. He had been like this ever since that party on that fateful night. Too much alcohol combined with the Village People, made for an extremely traumatizing experience. He wasn't really... you know, that way, he often told himself. Really he wasn't. Looking back into the mirror, he adjusted his eyebrows and flicked his wrist slightly. 'NO!' his mind screamed. Proudly, with a broad grin plastered under his thin mustache, he flung open the main door and sauntered into the chamber of Lord Dracula. "You bastard! How dare you come back into my life!" Drac greeted his guest. "Monster! How can you say such a thing when I'm carrying your baby?" Gerald motioned towards the stroller that he wheeled in that I didn't mention earlier. Faint crying could be heard from within. "Yo man, chill out. Why do you have to be so uptight? Don't you know that I love you?" "If only I could believe that." "You know I'd never do anything to harm you!" "AAAGGHH!" Death burst into the scene, "I have amnesia!" "Death? Are you back from the war?" Dracula ran to the side of his forgetting comrade. "Death! How dare you show your bony bitch-ass around here!" Gerald grabbed the Reaper firmly by the shoulders. "Who... are you?" Death looked lost, lost for an expressionless skeleton, anyway. "Hold on, how do you _know_ you have amnesia?" Gerald looked deeply into Death's empty eye holes. "I don't know... I must have forgotten!" Death would have looked nervous, if he had a face, that is. Dracula, not wanting to be left out of the dialogue, stated, "It's not my baby! I stole it from Death after sleeping with his mother!" "It doesn't matter, I've come to kill you both!" Gerald announced. "... what about the baby?" Dracula asked. "There is no baby, it was a red herring!" Gerald pulled a fish out of the crib. "Gimme back my baby!" Death rushed at Dracula. "I gave it to him, stupid." Dracula pointed to Gerald. "I thought he stole it..." Death wondered. Before Death had a chance to rush a Gerald, he (Gerald) announced, "It's too late! Your baby is no more!" "What?!" Death cried out. "What do you think is in that cake you're eating?" Death looked down at the cake which conveniently appeared in his hand. "..." A massive sweatdrop would've appeared on the back of his skull, had he possessed pores. A low rumble emanated from within Death, soon it built it's way to a high pitched scream. The pair of glasses Dracula was wearing for some reason, shattered. "It's nothing personal really, it's all a part of my character, now stand back as I speech!" Gerald posed dramatically for heightened visual effects. "I, the massively legendary and extremely mighty- Well, when I say massive and extreme, I use those terms relatively. I mean that while the levels of my legendariness compared to my mightiness are not exactly equal, they are both on much grander of scale than other persons legendariness and mightiness. Look, I don't think I'm making myself very clear here, hold on a second." Gerald pulled from within his cape a stand and a stack of cards and set them up. Dracula tapped his foot impatiently. Pulling out a point, Gerald began his presentation. "Now you see on this pie graph how the amount of legendariness is less than my level of mightiness on a three to five ratio." He removed the pie graph to reveal a new card. "Now you see on this graph that column A represents the average level of legendariness for the normal person, and column B shows my level of legendariness. You see how the two compare? Now this next card..." *clickety* "Welcome back to Forgive or Forget, I'm your host Mother Love. Let's meet today's guest." Bob Belmont wandered confusedly onto the set. "His name is Robert Belmont and he hails from... I can't read the card. Anyway, shake your thing for us Bob!" The audience cheered loudly and many cat-calls were heard. Bob looked around, a bit scared. "Come on, boy! What are you, a wussy?" Timidly, Bob stood up and wiggled his hips a little. The audience nearly exploded with delight. "Oh, you can do better than that! Come on, show us what you got!" Pop music piped in from mysteriously hidden speakers and Bob, still quite unsure of himself, shook his groove thing like there was no tomorrow. "Yeah, baby, you know how to please Mother Love!" The music fades out slowly, leaving behind a bewildered Bob. Slowly, he sits back down. "Now, you don't know who you're on the show to forgive or forget, do you Bob?" "...No." "Would you like to find out?" "...Okay." "Well we won't tell you directly, first we'll tell you how she's wronged you." "Why?" This caught Mother Love off guard. "...It's how we run the show, now shut up and listen." A deep, masculine, unearthly voice flowed into the theatre from the land that such voices like to flow from (the sound system). "Robert Belmont, this is your life. You met her in the eighth grade, from the beginning you thought she was an angel. You'd follow her everyday and know she was yours. Sadly, it was never meant to be. You were too much of a wussy. You wouldn't even talk to her. You'd just giggle incoherently when she wore a tight shirt you could see her bra through. You weren't going to get laid by this Fine Fox, baby. The closest thing to sex you ever got was masturbating under the sheets with a flashlight." "You saw that?" Bob was becoming increasingly uncomfortable. "Shh. I haven't finished. But things were not to last, soon she moved away and left you alone, holding your willy." "You mean, Debra is hear?" Bob's spirits perked up. "No. We just wanted to make fun of you." *Flush* went Bob's hopes down the toilet. "The girl you are here to meet is one who you knew only passingly. She has come here tonight... err, this afternoon to seek your forgiveness. She never could return the love you gave her. She broke your heart into a million pieces, set fire to it and pissed on the ashes. Worst of all, she brutally murdered your whole family-" "My... parents are... dead?" "Yes. She has since realized the error in her-" "I... can't believe they're gone..." Tears welled in Bob's eyes. "Would you shut up for just five minutes? I'm trying to earn a paycheck here!" "I'm sorry, please continue." Bob silently wept to himself. "She realized the error in her ways, and only seeks redemption. She is deeply sorry for becoming a minion of your arch-nemesis. Her name, for those of you who are complete morons and haven't figured it out yet, is Sally! Sally T. Vampire! Do you forgive her or forget her?" "I-" "Let me remind you before you answer, that _if_ you forgive her, both of you will win a week on the Exotic Caribbean Cruise Ship the Thightanic!" Stock commercial cruise footage is shown. Bob hesitantly gave his reply, "I... I... I forgive!" The audience erupted in applause and odd hooting noises. Enough confetti to soffocate three large water buffalo and the entire population of Arizona rained down from the ceiling. A beautiful model in a bathing suit walked out onto the set, handed Bob a bouquet of flowers and put a glittery tiara on his head. During all this, the voice continued. "Congratulations Bob! You win the grand prize! Now let's let our lucky bachelor meet his dream date! Come on out Sally!" Sally rushes onto the set from the wings. "Die Slayer Bitch!" she screamed as she lunged at Bob with a spear. Bob quickly whipped out his... whip and whipped the whippings out the blood- sucking whore. Once he finished with Mother Love, he turned to Sally. "What's a matter, lover? You found me beautiful once," she sneered and teased and that sort of thing. "Honey, you got real ugly." His whip lashed out as whips tend to do and little "-34"s became a quick death for the vampiric man-user. *clickety* Hecubus is shown in a series of provocative poses, each more alluring than the last. A voice typical of this sort of thing, but different than the last voice heard says stuff, "The Plaintiff is an ex-evil mastermind, hell-bent on revenge for something involving his sister which has no bearing on this case. He's five-foot seven and a mean shuffleboard player. He enjoys long walks on the beach and teaching old dogs new tricks. Evil is his middle name, it's Hecu- "Evil" -bus! He is suing the defendant for emotional damages summing up to thirty trillion yen and forty-seven Canadian pennies." The pictures shift to shots of Alucard, none are very provocative, mostly just him staring blankly at the camera. The voice continues so as to establish a narrative pattern. "The defendant is a hero of the ages. His sexy looks combined with his quiet, brooding personality make him a firecracker just waiting to pop. He is an ancient half breed whose long hair and impeccable taste in dress have made him the talk of the town since fourteen fifty-eight. His name is Alucard and his style is as quick as his slashing-things ability! Let's give him a big round of applause!" Typical fake canned applause is played and then cut off abruptly. The same voice speaks again, but says different words. "But they are both really screwed now, because they are about to enter the courtroom of Judge Judith Sheindlin, and she's going to tear them a new one, tonight, on Judge Judy!" An opening theme, typical of opening themes for shows such as this, runs. When it quits (after way too many excruciating verses and an extremely painful seventeen minute drum solo) the courtroom is shown. People fill the audience to the point where it is full and not at all empty. When they notice the camera is on, they begin to talk loudly. Judge Judy banged her little gavel, "Hey! Hey! Order in the damn court! Shut the hell up, people!" Silence filled the courtroom like a fat man would fill one of those funny little clown cars. She turned to the bailiff. "Alright, what's the next case, bailiff?" "Yo, yo, yo, check dis. That pale dude over there with the salad bowl haircut and the black long johns is suin' dat foo' over there with the long hair and protrudin' pectoral muscles." "Thank you, Rap-Master Bailiff." "Word up." "So you are suing this guy?" Judy pointed towards Alucard. Hecubus responded quickly, "That is correct." "Shut up! Did I give you permission to speak? Sit your ass down and shut the hell up! Now, why are you suing this man?" "Can... can I speak now?" "You speak only when I tell you can speak or else you'll find a size seven pump shoved so far up your ass, you'll be tasting what I stepped in for the next three weeks!" Hecubus looked around nervously. "Well?" Hecubus continued looking nervous. "Are you going to answer my question or am I going to have to hold you in contempt of court?" "... Yes, your honor. A... Alucard, the defendant, interrupted my work and got me fired from the job I had held for twenty years. He pretty much got me blacklisted in the entire business. I have nothing left of my life anymore." Hecubus began to put on a poor display of crying. "No phony dramatics in my courtroom!" "Yes... your honor." "Sir, are you drunk?" "A little bit, yes." "Why the hell do you come into my courtroom drunk? What the hell is your problem? I hope you brought enough for everybody." Hecubus pulled out a bottle with two large 'X's on it and passed it around the courtroom. "Now you." Judy pointed at Alucard. "What the hell do you want?" Alucard, seeing the opportunity to expound, opened up his big yapper. "I, your honor, am the hero of ages, the defender of the free, champion of those who need championing, savior of-" "No long-winded exposition in my courtroom!" "Yes, your honor." "Defendant, are you chewing gum?" "No ma'am, it's just the bad American dubbing." "Very well, let's hear your side of the story." "I-" Alucard began and didn't get much farther. Interrupting, Hecubus interrupted, "I haven't finished, though-" "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT SPEAKING OUT OF TURN, YOU DRUNKEN PILE OF MONKEY SPIT?!" Judy threw a large book containing many words, and not all of them in English, at Hecubus. "Continue, please, Mr. Alucard." "Please, call me Kenny." "Why Kenny?" "Fine, don't call me Kenny. This man is evil." Kenny, er... Alucard stated, indicating the evil man (Hecubus). "I put a stop to his evil doings. That is all there is to it." "So you think it's your place to judge people and put labels onto their activities?" "Isn't that what you do?" "Yes, but I'm certified." Judy held up her Bar certificate or whatever the hell is the equivalent of that. *clickety* A red-headed, spiky-haired, freak of a man smiled darkly at the camera, as a leather and chains clad duo exited the set. "There's going to lots of sex, guns and violence in that High School tonight!" Obligatory laughter poured out from the audience. "So, do you folks want to meet the next contestant? (Correct answer: Yes.)" The audience paused for a moment to consider for a moment, this rather difficult brain teaser. The jeopardy theme played quietly in the background. Just when the host was about to say something stupid, the reply blasted out from the stands. "Nes!" "Yo!" "Could you repeat the question?" 'This is job just doesn't pay enough. Even if I'm being blackmailed to be here.' The brightly clothed host thought to himself through the magic of Narrated Inner Monologue. One has to pause to explain things to all two of you who haven't noticed that the current program being mocked is none other than- *static* FEED LOST *static* Just kidding. Thought I'd screw with both of you. Anyway it's- *static* ERROR! ... ... ... ... I'm such a bastard! (Insert obligatory maniacal laughter here.) *static* "Jack! Put down the remote control and get back to hosting the show!" the associate producer called from off stage. A voice from the heavens (in stage terms, that is) called down, "That's right! And the show he's hosting is the one and only show he hosts (except for that _other_ show) the-" *static* Okay, I'm done really. *static* "Welcome back to the Impro Dating Game! I'm your host Controversial Jack and I haven't been to England, but I'm willing to pass judgement on it's people all the same!" Jack smiled his typical pompous game show host smile. "Our next contestant really has some personal issues. Is it a man or a she? A lady or an it? A horse or a super-powerful, omnipresent being? It's probably not the last one... Give a big round of applause for, Syphilis Q. Beldandy!" As he... sh... _it_ walked out (currently in male form, it being daytime and all) and calmly corrected, "IT'S FERNANDEZ!!!!!!" As Jack picked himself up off the floor, Plaz regained it's composure. "but you can call me, Plaz." It smiled in a way that would have been kawaii, had it been in girl form. Since it was the male form, however, it just looked... you know, that way. "(Must fake amusement for Mr. Duck's sake. Must fake amusement for Mr. Duck's sake. Must fake...)" Jack slowly returned to what most people considered normal (for Jack). "Let's meet the androgynous bachelor... -ettes? Whatever. I'll just use Guinea Pigs. Guinea Pig number one comes all the way here from New York, New York. It's bumbling antics amused us all, let here it for... it..." Jack's smile seemed to waver as visions of jumbled pronouns danced around his head. The first subject for vigorous scrutinization wandered meagerly out onto the set. It's loose khaki pants and neutral-shaped blue shirt left a [LOT] to the imagination. As it sat on it's designated stool, it adjusted it thick framed glasses and ran a quivering hand through it greasy black curls. The audience looked as if it was going to be sick. As Jack suppressed the urge to vomit, he continued with the introductions. "Our second Guinea Pig comes from a 'What-if?' land of the future and enjoys running stuff over and blowing things up! Clap for him as the APPLAUSE sign demands it." The second option walked... er, rolled out onto stage. Very loudly, I might add, but didn't because it would be rude. It's metallic body glistened as metallic things are wont to do. A grand cheer rose from the audience as they were easily amused by the large shiny object. Jack moved onto the third card in his stack of cards listing things he should be paying attention to if he really cared. "Our third Guinea Pig or Guinea Pig Number Three, as his friends like to call him, comes all the way from the super market. It's part of a balanced breakfast and stays crunchy even in milk! Let's give him a big- no, it a big- Oh, screw this show!" Jack threw his cards in the air and tromped off the stage. Plaz looked around confusedly. The bachelor(ettes) didn't seem to notice. The assistant peeked her head out. "Ask the questions," she whispered. "What?" Plaz asked confused. "Ask the questions," she hissed a bit louder. Plaz looked around, lost. "On the cards, stupid!" Just now noticing the card on it's lap, Plaz smiled in a weak 'I knew that' attempt. Slowly, it read, "Eh heh, bachelor... uh, Guinea Pig number one, if you were a grapefruit on the first manned mission to Mars and you had with you only one coloring book, what kind of rock would you say best represents Abraham Lincoln?" The first... thing on the other side of the stage looked around. "Ehhh, well I um... oh, I can't stand everyone looking at me... ohh." Plaz pretended it had something to write on the card. "Number Two, same question, different language." A hollow mechanical voice replied, "Computing... Requested answer: Der Stein." "...Right. Number three if you were a firework, what would you sound like?" *SNAP CRACKLE POP* "How exciting." Jack wandered back onto the stage, extremely drunk, despite the fact that he had only been gone for five minutes. "Llllook, ah'll tell ya somefing... dis show is a sham and I know 's realll secret." Jack stumbled across the stage and awkwardly opened up camera number two. Inside was a hamster running on wheel. When the hamster paused to sniff the air the lights dimmed considerably. "Seee?" Jack stammered, "slave labor..." and promptly passed out in a pile of his own drool. The Associate Producer rushed out onto the set and tried to speak but only ended up laughing nervously for twenty minutes. Finally, she spit out: "Well, heh heh, that's our show. Tune in next week-" she looked down at Plaz sitting frightened on it's stool. "Oh yeah, pick a number between one and three." "Huh?" Plaz was lost. "Don't question me, just pick the damn number, already!" "Three?" "Great! You win a dream date with bache... the third perso... thing, congratulations!" The AP crossed to the other side of the screen in time to witness the first... "it" scarfing down the last of the third... "it". "Sorry, I got a little hungry... ooohh..." Number one apologized. "Great!" the AP turned to face Plaz. "One or two?" "Two?" "Good, you win, blah blah blah. The one you didn't pick was Pat from Saturday Night Live and the one you tried to pick was a bowl of Rice Krispies. Meet your blah blah blah, Sherman the Tank from FAQing Hostile. Now piss off, the show's over." Plaz smiled weakly a she stood in front of the enormous tank. *clickety* "... Now if you look at the graph here, you'll see that the X-axis represents my legendariness, while the Y-axis represents my mightiness. You see this point here I have labeled 'A'? Now, look at the curve. As X approaches A, the ratio decreases and the numbers begin to even out. A is a crucial point, because after A my mightiness would reach a level which does not exist in the real world. Every point after A would be a theoretical quantity, and thus be discounted in Pasviscoti's Theorem, which states that, while all egos are infinite, the definable character levels can only reach a specified point before things start to get silly. Using this Theorem and applying the basic principles of bullshit calculus (which I've always felt to be a redundant term) we get the equation-" "Shut up!" Dracula demanded. "You've been talking for three _days_ now and you haven't even told us your name!" "Oh, right. It's Gerald Reinhart. Now, if you examine this table here, which we made from computing-" "Prepare to die, Gerald Reinhart!" Dracula lunged at Gerald. Before Gerald had the chance to say something pompous, Dracula tore out his intestines and used them to strangle the vampire hunter. Much blood squirted out in all the directions. Death screamed, "You sonnovabitch! You killed him!" "So?" Dracula replied. "I see your point," Death stated and both of the beings of evil began playing Ping-Pong. *clickety* Bob, who would have screamed "Nooo!" in slow motion for forty minutes, had he witnessed the preceding scene, was instead wondering what he was going to do with two tickets for a cruise. He opened the door to the Church of Scientology and stepped outside it to the sunlight. Behind him, Plaz and Alucard stepped out as well. "Wow," Plaz expounded in much the same way as Bob had in previous segments. Bob turned to greet his companions. "That has to be one of the weirdest dungeons I've ever been in." "Really?" Alucard asked, "And just how many dungeons _have_ you been in?" "Well... I... uh... shut up." "That's what I thought. But it was a success!" "You mean, you found the key?" Plaz asked. "I..." Alucard began, "...shit." "Looks like it's back into the church for us." Bob stated the obvious, for like the fifth time this chapter. "Can't we just get a key made somewhere?" "No." Alucard answered. "You really suck, you know that." Plaz crossed his arms and stamped his foot in an effeminate way. "You know what else sucks?" Bob said in the best transition I could come up with. "I found out that my whole family is dead and I was forced to kill my first girlfriend today." "Wow, that sucks," Plaz said in an incredibly bad attempt to comfort Bob. "Hey guys," Alucard broke in, "let's not say sucks anymore, okay?" "Yeah, but at least it's not a total loss. I did get Debra's phone number of one of the producers, before Sally poked a bunch of holes in his chest." Alucard and Plaz nodded like they knew who Sally was. All three heroes rode of into the sunset on their mighty steeds. *clickety* "Got any threes?" "Go fish." And fish he did. Death drew from the deck a three of... one of the four suits. "Ha ha! I got a three! I get to go again! In your face! Hoo hoo hoo!" Death chanted as he danced on the table. "Just go, already," Dracula demanded. "Got any queens?" "Who are you calling a queen? I am most certain not a poof!" Gerald exclaimed, leaping to his feet. "I killed you!" Dracula pointed out that fact to those who had skipped the middle section. "Oh yeah?" Gerald countered. "Fine, I'll do it again." And so Dracula ground Gerald into a fine paste-like substance and ate him on toast with peanut butter. Death had some too, but no one I told that to seemed to care. *clickety* END OF PART. STOP READING NOW. ... ... ... ... HOLD ON, READ THE AUTHOR'S NOTES AND _THEN_ STOP READING. Author's Notes: Boy, do I love writing chibi! Wai! Rags n' stuff! Prereading and whatever! Swordfish too! Even though he told me everything was A-OK! *clickety* Wait, did I say into the sunset? I meant back into the church... Without the horses. *clickety*