30th of May 1425
Ashton, Sean and General Richemont were sitting in a lavish tent, on a hill, near Paris. 10 000 Cavalry soldiers were conducting drills on the field and the kings of France looked at them. The French soldiers looked miserable. Their weapons were rusty and they had saucepans and pots as helmets. The horses looked alike cross-breeding of everything and honestly said nobody of the soldiers could ride properly.
Ashton: Richemont. Why is our cavalry so crappy?
Richemont looks at his superiors like a dog that just has been used as a piñata.
Richemont: Ehh, you know this feudal system kinda sucks ass. All my troops come from some fancy nobles who couldn’t care less if the English would invade us. That’s why they send us the crappiest peasants and servants they can find and give them the most starving inbred horses they can scavenge from the dark corners of their stables.
Sean: But shouldn’t they become good soldiers after proper drilling and training. If you wouldn’t be concentrating on creating masses upon masses of cavalry and would think a bit about quality our army wouldn’t suck so much. Down on the field a drill sergeant starts shouting at a group of cooks on horses. They all start crying.
Ashton: RICHEMONT! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO SCREW EVERYTHING UP?
Richemont (mumbles to himself): If I would follow your every order France would be under the boot of bloody Navarre right now…
Sean: We need someone to teach ‘ol Richemont here to drill his troops.
In the horizon they all can see something flying through the air, against the backdrop of an red sunset.
Is it a plane!
NO!
Is it a bird?
NO!
It is…
The bulky man in a black leather jacket lands right on top of a cavalry formation and the ground explodes. A huge mushroom-like cloud emerges after the firestorm. The shockwaves rip the tent apart and Richemonts toupee flies off. Richemont tries to cover his bald spot.
Ashton: Dude! That was Sweeeeeet!
Sean: Yeah!
The cloud dissolves and reveals a humongous crater filled with dead horses and men. The man with the black leather jacket comes to the hill.
Stranger: Thiz iz a good day to fly! Jawohl!
Ashton: Do I know you?
Stranger: Hey! It’s Ashton and Sean! Howz it hanging, dudes!
Sean: Hey Arnold Von Schwarzenegger!
Ashton: Do you know this guy?
Sean: No, but the name’s written in his jacket.
Ashton looks at the jacket and sees the humongous neon sign stating: “My name iz Arnold Von Schwarzenegger”.
Arnold: I luvd your last film guys!
Ashton and Sean: A FILM?! WHAT IS IT?
Arnold: Ach! That iz a concept too hard for me to explain. But long time no zee.
Sean: But we don’t know you. We can’t remember anything before the morning we woke up as France’s kings.
Arnold: Jah. Ze blow to your puny heads was too great.
Ashton: What punch?
Arnold: You both stepped on Paris Hilton’s dogs while dancing on the bar table half naked and drunk. It was that guy’s birthday. I just can’t remember his name…
Sean: So you know where we were before we lost our memory.
Arnold: Ze is true.
Ashton: Where are we from?
Arnold: You really don’t remember?
Sean: No.
Arnold: Ach… But you come from America, ze home of liberty and ze Twinkie bar.
Ashton and Sean: What is a Twinkie bar?
Arnold takes three cake bars from his jacket pocket.
A divine light shines from the Twinkies. Even after being hundreds of years in Arnold’s jacket’s pocket they still are as soft and calling as on the day they were bought in a moment of temporary insanity.
Sean:*looks at the Twinkie bars and drools* Can I have one?
Arnold: *pulls the Twinkie bars out of Sean’s reach* No! Ze Twinkie is zo poisonous zat if a mere mortal eats it he will be killed by the horrible chemicals used to preserve ze Twinkie forever.
Sean: Why did you come here anyways?
Arnold: Well you called for my help.
Ashton: No we didn’t!
Arnold: Yes you did. Here is ze extact words: “We need someone to teach ‘ol Richemont here to drill his troops.” I am ze Foreign Drill instructor. You give me 250 ducats and your troops will miraculously become better. They also become more expensive and your fortresses become more expensive for a reason one cannot understand.
Sean: Oh.
Ashton hands a humongous gold coin to Arnold. It weighs so much that Ashton has to roll it in the ground to get it move. The coin being square shaped doesn’t help that too much. Arnold picks the coin up with ease and puts it into his bottomless jacket pocket.
Sean: *looks frightened* Won’t that crush the Twinkies?!!!!
Arnold: *looks at Sean, the field in front of them has started burning and the flames reflect from his sunglasses.* Ze Twinkie is eternal!
The reflection of the flames grows so intense that Sean, Ashton and Richemont have to close their eyes. When they open them Arnold is gone. The advisor comes back pulling his zip up.
Advisor: *looks at the troops who now have proper equipment and are moving in perfect organisation* What happened here while I’m gone? Did Richemont screw up again?
Ashton: No, but I just found out where we come from, America!
Advisor: Nope, doesn't ring a bell. It doesn't exist.
Richemont (whispers): Pssst. You need to wait until some stupid guy is brave enough to chart the uncharted waters. Or you could just suck up to Spain and Portugal for their explorations.
Ashton:
Dude, where's our coutry?!
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1st of January 1425
There is a map of France on the floor of the great royal hall. It used to depict the situation of the war in France, but Ashton and Sean are now playing with the small figurines representing armies. Their shrieks of joy and not-so-realistic imitations of explosions, which have made the map wet of spit, fill the hall. Luckily there is only the advisor present; otherwise the prestige of the French kings would be severely damaged along with their reputation as unbeatable military commanders (a great feat from the French propaganda department). The advisor is going through the month’s mail. The stack is quite large and the letters look very formal.
Ashton: Hey, advisor!
Advisor: What is it?!
Sean: What are you doing?
Advisor: I’m going through your mail your royalnesses.
Sean pretends being interested of the advisors “new haircut” while Ashton grabs the letters.
Ashton: A HA!
Advisor: You could have just asked.
Ashton and Sean go through the mail.
Sean: Hey wait a minute! These are all peace offers! You haven’t told us anything about peace offers!
Advisor: *cough* Ehm… Those offers are so crappy that I wouldn’t even let my dog wipe its arse in them. But a few years ago we accepted one from Burgundy. They gave us Flanders and Artois.
Ashton: We are at peace with Burgundy?!
Advisor: Yes.
Ashton: So is it bad if I would have sent the king of Burgundy insulting letters, pictures of their flag being used as toilet paper and random body parts after the peace deal?
Advisor: It would have been catastrophic.
Ashton and Sean: D’Oh!
Advisor picks up a small paper note from the floor. The note was short and it had a bloodstain in it.
Advisor: Oh, and here’s a note from General Richemont. Apparently he’s doing well.
Ashton: What has he screwed up this time?
Advisor: Uh… *thinks hard of the answer*
Sean: Yeeeeeeees?
Advisor: Erm…. *blushes*
Ashton: Spit it out! We won’t tell Richemont that you busted him.
Sean: *tries not to giggle* That’s right.
Advisor: In that case. *speaks very quickly hoping that the kings won’t hear* AragonianshavetakenCalais.
Ashton and Sean: WHAT?! THAT IDIOT! It’s just typical of him to screw up like this. Send our royal guard to dispatch those bastards.
Advisor: But you highnesses! Your royal guard died last week when you sent them to find that messenger that died three years ago.
Sean: Shit. I remember that. Getting trampled by a mob of children *and* pigs must have been humiliating…
Ashton: And painful.
Sean: Especially when our royal guard is 10 000 men large.
Ashton: Yes.
Advisor (suggesting tone): Richemont is just a few days ride away from here…
Ashton: NO! We won’t let that twat screw things up again.
Advisor: Well, it’s your fault in the first place. If you hadn’t sent the garrison in Calais to find out what happened to the royal guard we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.
Ashton: *points at Sean* He invented that plan!
Sean: *wakes up* Huh?
Ashton: See he’s not even denying it!
Advisor (a metallic voice): S e l f d e s t r u c t i o n a c t i v a t e d i n t e n s e c o n d s . . .
Guy with the stainy apron: TAKE COVER.
Ashton and Sean jump under the map. The advisor explodes. The usual factory sounds begin again, but suddenly you can hear a Windows blue screen sound.
Guy with the stainy apron: What the fuck?! They said that the last update fixed the security failures in Internet explorer!!!
The Guy with the stainy apron comes from the factory.
Guy with the stainy apron: Hi! I’m going to have to be your advisor for a while until we get Linux.
Ashton: Okay… Who are you?
Guy with the stainy apron: My name is Guy with the stainy apron, but my friends call me Bob.
Sean: Okay Bob.
Ashton: What should we do?
Bob.: Ummmmm…. *thinks hard, Ashton and Sean can hear his brains ticking*
Sean: C’mon.
Bob: *looks at his watch* Oops! My law regulated winter holiday just began! Cya!
Bob runs out of the hall.
Ashton: Guess we have to figure this out on ourselves…