*comfort hugs*

*hugs back*

you feeling ok?

Yes, I am. Did this bother you?

no, but it made me worried you might be upset.

Oh, I see. This is more along the lines of illustrating how Wildcat City's events are making it into a soap opera.

*sighs* why can't the drama just... stop for a bit?

I know. It's frustrating. It's only going to get worse with the terrorism growing, and all the villains wanting to unleash darkness by killing Bendraqi.

If i just...took care of things....

That's one way to do it.

(Forgot to credit me for using my characters in this and  16weeks for referencing Eterna.)

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Zachary: My theory on Wildcat City's founding fathers are more like cult leaders to me. Hence after St. Patrick's, I'll be literally digging that city to see what artifacts I can find. And my assumption tells me its not pretty. You've seen Kriegland's past. Now, its Wildcat City's turn.

Art: The craziest thing is that five years ago, you can't bring your electronics to school. Today, you can and I'm talking about grade school. Talk to the American middle school students today and tell them that five years ago, what they did was against school rules. Watch their reactions; its funny!

Zachary: Oh man I love telling little kids that! They went from "No way!" to "Why?" and we would explain to them why and sometimes, they would be shocked. Its amazing how the educational landscape has changed so fast. Plus, there's a series of videos on YouTube where kids are introduced to older technologies and they are often clueless about them as well as shocked about them. Oh and I actually lived in China they claim to be textbook communist when in reality, they are utilizing aspects of capitalism in their country and there's lots of private businesses in China. Their government regulates them heavily though. Vietnam does the same today; they claim themselves to be textbook communist when in reality, they do allow capitalism to a degree with the government regulating the economy to prevent any downturns. Every country today is a mix between capitalism and I guess you can say, communism. We're neither or; we're just are.

Chuong: Zachary, if you exposed Wildcat City's truth, wouldn't you give more residents reasons to move out of that city too?

Zachary: People don't leave Wildcat City because they're afraid of the truth; they leave Wildcat City because they have been told lies. You know what John Hopkins University's Latin motto is?

Chuong: I've known folks from there and I know what it is; the truth will set you free.

Zachary: Mmhmm! I'm going to expose Wildcat City's truth and tell the former residents that if they spent more time in looking into their city's actual history and learn from their mistakes, they would help make Wildcat City a better city.

(Fixed it; sorry about that.)

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Cripto: Then that means Grandma was sorely mistaken. Her hatred, she claims, all roots back to the cruel reign of Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong). But was he really as evil as she claimed he was?

Leo: 1976, our bicentennial, was the year he died, and I consider that year's 4th of July the greatest day of my life. Well, I used to. I think that winning the battle in our nation's capital to end your reign, Zachary, was what I said trumps the day in 1976. As for your grandmother claiming he's evil, that's just her being nuts. She may have hated him adopting theories from Marxism-Leninism. Supporters of credit him with modernising China and building it into a world power, promoting the status of women, improving education and health care, and increasing life expectancy as China's population grew from around 550 to over 900 million during the period of his leadership. People who oppose and criticize him, including your grandmother at the time, consider him a dictator who severely damaged traditional Chinese culture, perpetrated systematic human rights abuses, and who is responsible for an estimated 40 to 70 million deaths through starvation, forced labour and executions, ranking his tenure as the top incidence of democide in human history.

Zachary: Mao Zedong was indeed a threat to his own culture because he believed that the old Chinese culture is what's holding China back from her future. When Deng Xiaoping came into power after Mao, he relaxed some of his policies and allowed restoration of Chinese culture. One could argue that had Mao not come into power, China would collapse to other imperial powers and there wouldn't be memes like the Little Apple meme which is of Chinese origin. In a perverse way, Mao did help modernize China. The difference between me and Mao was that during my reign, I upheld the American culture and protect its constitution.

Johan: *in Dutch to Jill* Back in the past, there was starvation. Now, there's the threat of obesity thanks to the Feeder Foxes. I forgot to tell you a story when the Feeder Foxes used to order the Mercedes Sprinter vans as limo vans for their business but a German intelligence agent found out and warned Mercedes-Benz about the Feeder Foxes. Germany has always been a country obsessed with physical health and power to the point that Mercedes-Benz has adopted that idea so when they heard about it, they decided to lie to the Feeder Foxes that the vans they requested have to be delayed due to other companies placing high demands for them. When the Feeder Foxes kept pestering the luxury auto car company about it, they refused to respond for months. When they did, they told them that they had a contract with a German game show that promotes health and that they have to honor the contract hence they were unable to provide the vans for their business hence they stuck with Cadillacs and other luxury auto cars. That's before Zachary's reign.

Jill: *in Dutch* Wow... Either way, glad all that's over; for now. We can't have anymore violence from our enemies against them.

Cripto: Well, that's something Grandma didn't know. I meant about Mao stating the old was holding back the new. Meanwhile, the game show lover in me is wondering what the show in Germany is.

Super C: Well, it's not their version of Wheel that they don't have anymore, that's for sure.

*The Avenger translates.*

Luitpold: Most likely The Biggest Loser Germany and yes that's considered a game show too where people compete for a better health and the winner usually gets some type of reward. In fact, look at all The Biggest Loser shows today? Look at their ratings today. With the Feeder Foxes on the loose and our villains holding them back, they have way more participants than ever.

Johan: A good number of them are former fat furs like myself who used to eat on camera for a living. I was in that show. *shows a picture of himself in the show and after* Yes that was actually me before I lost all that weight. I won some cash reward for this. Others have won other things like better luxury cars or luxury sports cars. Do know that luxury sports cars aren't made for fat furs for obvious reasons since they can only hold the weight so much. What I learned from the show is that you enjoy life a lot better when you're healthy or at least making efforts to be. The US Marines also saved my life too hence I'm a Marine officer. Yes I was that desperate to lose all that excess weight because like any sane person would, no one would want to spend their entire lives eating and getting fat on the camera to make money and keep those luxuries.

Jack: And I'm glad you're with us Johan.

Johan: I'll never want to go back being a fat fur model. I'm just glad my servants realized what I need when I told them that I couldn't live that way anymore and I needed a change. And they helped me. Now, my former servants have their own families to look after and have much better careers and have their own lives. We all experienced true freedom since then; being able to care for yourself, to go wherever and whenever you want, to breathe freely, everything. Talk about a relief!

Zachary: Me thinks the Feeder Foxes are going to be held in whatever underworld Eraquis or Vilmani sent them to. Only psycho left is Bendraqi and we'll just continue our duties as usual.

Cripto: I don't really think of that as a game show, but in a sense, it is a competition, so it would count.

Leo: *to Johan* How did you do? Did you win the top prize? Were you in fifth place? Anything like that.

Johan: Fifth place where I was runner-up. But hey! That show changed my life and so did the US Marines! I am forever in their debt for saving my life you know. Hence I'm a bodybuilder and movie actor today. I am aware of your views on most celebrities in Hollywood and those celebrities you speak of before are sellouts. Me? I am an actor and bodybuilder because I want to set myself as a better example to the world and tell them how life is more important than money. Yes I live in an upper class house and drive a Bugatti but even my life is more valuable than them. I just want people to rethink what being rich means because how the Feeder Foxes defined rich is not right and insulting to the American Dream.

Leo: Well, congratulations on the success of that!

Death threats.....Even I'm guilty of making them.

You can learn from the mistake and leave it behind.