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Marching Punishments: Hubert Van Retbergern
Leonce the Romantic Lion: (narrating in English) Hello, and good day to all of you. You know me as Leonce the Romantic Lion, Leo the Patriotic Lion's French counterpart. It's been a few months since FIFA ended, but since we have tendecies to narrate these adventures at random, we thank you for your patience. The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an interesting one to some folks because the United States men's team didn't even make it. Canada's team didn't make it, and neither did Italy's. Part of me does want to see the men win it for the USA because they've never done it. Ever. The women, by contrast, have done it several times since the first one was played in 1995. That's how you can always tell who is playing when you have these things happening every four years; the men's FIFA World Cup happens the same year as the Olympic Winter Games. The following year has the Women's World Cup. The year after that has the Olympic Summer Games (which helps Americans get their minds off the elections and everything that goes with that), and the year after that has the fascinating World Baseball Classic, which the United States has won.
But the World Cup sadly didn't happen without any scandals, because we literally can't do anything without a scandal and/or terrorists showing up; likewise, Danger Dawg's roller derby league always has somebody trying to turn his legimate sport into a three-ring circus. This was a scandal worth noting, however; what you have to bear in mind is that because all us parallels of Leo are spirtually connected to him, endangering one's health endangers everybody's health. If one dies, we all die, and the world dies with it, falling to a heartless attack just as it did before. (When the world was resurrected, it acted and felt as if nothing happened, because that's the way a time paradox works.)
So what was the scandal, then? Well, Brazil has a football (soccer to you Americans) player with the last name of Neymar, who is infamous for faking injuries to stall for time. Crush, however, has shown time and time again that he has no bias, and if you fake an injury like that, he'll give you a red card. (He'll do the same to any skater playing roller derby, but that's less likely to happpen because there are plenty of injuries that come with roller skating.) Indeed, Neymar got a red card. That didn't stop Hubert Van Retbergen, a Belgian member of the Dissidents, from trolling him and starting a viral internet meme; the meme consisted of teaching pugs to roll around like Neymar. Lieven (the Belgian parallel) lost his temper, and confiscated the belongings in question (some of which he also destroyed). An agreement was made that the Forsythians would enact a marching punishment on Hubert if the red devils (the Belgian football team) lost a crucial game, where he would literally travel on foot from Russia all the way home to Belgium. Lieven went to Eterna (home of the white kitten named Zanta) for counseling since he lost his temper and endanger the health of all those other lions, including yours truly.
This journal entry solely highlights the marching punishment and nothing else (mind you we won't be telling you everything), but to tell it to you properly, we need to go back to the beginning.
*Russia*
*France celebrates a 1-0 win over Belgium, winning a key game in the tournament.*
Super C: Uh-oh. The red devils couldn't pull it off. Sorry, Hubert, but I think you know what's coming next, don't you?
*Eterna*
*Some G-52s have gone to check on Lieven.*
Lieven: He's going to have to march like a soldier all the way home. But the karma is also going to strike me because I lost my temper with him, and I destroyed his toys and his 3D printer.
Monarch Major: No; I think the act was justified. I would have done the exact same thing. The whole Forsythe system shares one universal code of morals; Kriegland's just the planet that tends to take it too far.
Lieven: What planet are you from, then?
Monarch Major: Leonine. I was their king at the time of the planet's end.
Chuong: St. Petersburg to Belgium is about little more than enough right there as it is. But even that, the punishment Neymar's fans face must be much worse. If anyone is going to march 4,000 km at least, it would be the Brazilian fans who displayed unsportsmanlike conduct over Belgium beating them. So many of those Brazilians used so much profanity, I could hear them from here in Eterna and I don't even have super-hearing abilities!
*Russia*
Hubert: *Is crying.* Yes I know... I am so not looking forward to this...
Avon: *In Dutch* If Lieven caught you crying, he'd make it worse on you.
*Later, Hubert and the Belgian fans who participated in the Neymar trolling incident lined up with the Krieglandonian-Belgians. Even the pugs are lined up in formation.*
Hubert: *In Dutch* So if King Leo is not the one beating the drum behind me, then who will?
Avon: *In Dutch* Who cares? *Picks up a bass drum with a note attached on it. The note contains instructions in Dutch on how it should be worn. He reads them a bit* Okay. Have subject remain standing and have him wear it like a backpack. Then tighten rope to make sure drum rests snugly against the subject's back so the drum will not move around when subject is marching. This should be easy. *To Hubert in Dutch.* Are you ready?
Hubert: *In Dutch* No; I'll never be ready! I wanna go home already, play my games, and work on projects with my friends!
Avon: *In Dutch* Well, too bad. If you are a sergal who is not afraid to enter unauthorized areas to hack into servers, then you are not afraid to do this.
Hubert: *In Dutch* You do realize that I have no military experience, right? Just because I'm fit and slender doesn't mean I'm from the military! Even if I was, this would be torturous to me!
Avon: *In Dutch* What are you talking about? I had to literally run with 7 kg of stuff on my back in basic training! You're just marching with 7kg of this bass drum on your back!
Hubert: *In Dutch* From St. Petersburg to Brussels yeah right! Fine. Do what you need to do.
Avon: *In Dutch* Don't move or pull any tricks. I'm a UN1024 and I will know before you even do that. Arms out first. *Hubert spreads his arms out as he puts the bass drum on Hubert and tightens the rope to secure the bass drum on his back.* Arms down. *Hubert then puts his arms down as Avon picks up an M1 Garand rifle. He notices another note on the rifle in Dutch and reads it quietly before giving it to Hubert.* Hold it like this. Before we start, according to the note, it says hold your rifle out in front of you with arms straight out.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Okay. *Holds the M1 Garand rifle out with both arms straight out.* Oh my gosh, Avon! It's heavy! I can't hold it like this!
Avon: *In Dutch* That's the point. Now hold it back as you were.
Hubert: *In Dutch after holding his rifle back into its original position.* This is what rifles were back then? And this is what it means to hold a ceremonial rifle, too?!
Avon: *In Dutch* Exactly. The reason why they are popular as ceremonial rifles is because of the story and history behind them. Those who carry them today in ceremonial duties carry the burden of the troops who died before them so they can live to perform their current duties.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Avon, I'm seriously going to march from St. Petersburg to Brussels holding this heavy thing diagonally like this?
Avon: *In Dutch* Yup with a lion pounding the drum on your back.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I think this is overdoing it a bit. And what kind of materials is this rifle made from? No wonder why today's combat weapons use military grade polymer blends instead of sheer metal and wood at least!
Avon: *In Dutch* Hubert, I'm sure your father and your grandfather can handle this.
Hubert: *In Dutch* They were just draftees then. At the end, most people in my family were medical scientists and doctors!
Avon: *In Dutch* We all have a burden to carry. We cannot take things for granted. Now stop whining and good luck! *To the Krieglandonian-Belgians in Dutch.* We need a lion drummer behind Hubert as per Lieven's request.
*Eterna*
Lieven: *in French* You have a point there.
*Russia*
*A lion drummer steps forward and takes the bass drum mallets. Forsythian soldiers and band members line up in formation and begin a drum roll, and eventually a cadence.*
Krieglandonian-Belgian Lion 1: *in Dutch* Forward, march!
*The parade begins.*
Hubert: *In Dutch as he marches with his rifle as the lion beats the drum on his back.* Oh my gosh; what the heck?! Is this what Krieglandonians do on a daily basis?!
Avon: *In Dutch* Shut up, Hubert!
Hubert: *In Dutch* It's barely a quarter of a kilometer and already I feel like I'm gonna break!
Avon: *In Dutch* Whatever you do, do not drop that rifle.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Which country are we going to? Because I don't want to embarrass myself with the border guards with too many countries! They all hate my guts because I'm a hacker!
Avon: *In Dutch* They'll understand and we're marching to Belarus.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Belarus?!?! Oh no that is a scary country! They monitor your social media activities like crazy and its so dark and foggy there! Beautiful country but scary country! I don't want to meet Liavon the Authoritarian Lion at the border in Belarus! He's scary and-
Avon: *In Dutch* You sure like to complain a lot don't you? You never complained about the risks of being a hacker let alone possible retaliations from those Brazilians if you were to proceed with your trolling plans.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I hope Belarus has a good resting spot for us. Even the pugs are whimpering. I hope Belarus has good food before we continue marching to Poland; the land of pierogis. Poland; the real European country that truly sets an example to all European countries for them to learn from. My arms are shaking I think.
Avon: *In Dutch* Focus and don't drop that rifle! As for the pugs, they will be fine. Same with your fellow fans who thought it would be funny to be part of your mass trolling plot against the Brazilians.
Hubert: *In Dutch* What if I drop the rifle?
Avon: *In Dutch* You don't want to know. Keep marching to the border with Belarus. I'm a nice pink foxy so just think about pierogis in Poland and you'll be fine. Trust me.
Hubert: *In Dutch as he whimpers as he holds on to his rifle.* I pray that Liavon is not at the border. I don't want him to see me and know what I got myself into. To see an upset Authoritarian Lion would be my ultimate nightmare. I'd feel like I'm a prisoner in Belarus if I see him.
*Belarus*
Taras: *In Belorussian* I'm sorry, Hubert did WHAT?!
Frost Fox: *In Belorussian* According to the memo, Hubert plotted to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians in that match which could have sparked a riot. Apparently, it involved pugs, rolling around like one, and mocking Neymar whilst screaming "OW MY LEGS!". I don't know if we should bring Liavon the Authoritarian Lion to the Belarussian-Russian border or not.
Taras: *In Belorussian* That is a problem. Mecha Major. Your thoughts on bringing Liavon to the border?
Mecha Major: *In Belorussian* I say do it. When they go to Poland, Leonek the Hussar Lion will meet Hubert at the border after Liavon follows the Belgians to there. Then the pattern repeats with Luitpold the Germanic Lion until they finally reach Belgium. But that's up to their choices to decide that since in the end, we are in our own countries and we live our own lives in our homeland.
Liavon: *In Belorussian* You called?
Taras: *In Belorussian as he takes out his smartphone to pull up a map.* They will be crossing the border near the town of Jeziaryšča. Feel free if you wish to go there.
*Russia*
Lion Drummer: *in Dutch to Hubert* No more talking! Just march! Hup, 2, 3, 4! Hup, 2, 3, 4!
*Belarus*
Liavon: *in Belorussian* I think I will go there. Serves him right for starting that riot. He could have destroyed the world.
Taras: *In Belorussian* Almost started the riot but haven't.
*Later, everybody arrives at the Russian-Belorrusian border before the Belorussian town of Jeziaryšča.*
Taras: Welcome to Belarus.
Soldier 1: *In Belorussian* Marching on highway traffic to here? Oh, great. Papers, please!
Soldier 2: *In Belorussian* Passports!
*Each Belgian submits their passports to be stamped before they are returned to them.*
Soldier 3: *In English to Hubert.* You've been noted. Liavon has legal authority over you now. If you sneak away from your band over your stupidity you caused back in Russia, Liavon can legally detain you for dodging your consequence to cause a public disturbance in Belarus. Don't do anything funny. Also, hand your smartphone over to Liavon.
Hubert: Oh... my.... gosh... He's going to see those videos of me leading Belgian fans to a shelter to adopt some pugs in Russia, before making them wear Neymar jerseys before training them to roll on command and stuff! He's going to look into my e-mails and messages, too, because I briefly mentioned about this to Espen and other Dissident members about trolling the Brazilians! I don't want to be detained over this!
Soldier 3: In our system, Lieven the Burgundian Lion made a note that you will be coming to Belarus and that Liavon, under our laws, can have legal authority over you to make sure you don't do anything sneaky and crazy. Therefore, under the command of the Belorussian government, hand Liavon your phone and other electronics. He is allowed to have full access to them and it's up to his discretion for him to decide your fate. So don't get yourself detained.
Hubert: I can't believe I'm being subjected to this. There goes half of my privacy. *Hands Liavon his smartphone, laptop, and tablet with no locks on them.* Return them to me when we reach the Polish border. I'll be good; I promise.
Belgian Fan 1: Wait, Liavon has legal authority over us to keep us in his sight throughout Belarus?!
Belgian Fan 2: This isn't fair...
Taras: Welcome to Belarus, fans of Belgium and Hubert Van Retbergen. And yes Liavon has legal authority over you. If you escape from his sights, be prepared to be detained and questioned if your antics against him.
Hubert: That's Krieglandonian-level fear right there. *To Liavon.* Are we really legally under your command under Belorussian jurisdiction?
Frost Fox: They don't call him Liavon the Authoritarian Lion for nothing. Get used to it!
Mecha Major: Understand that Belorussian authorities, including myself, can conduct random inspections on you without your consent. Those suitcases you wear on your backs, we can inspect them to make sure you have no weapons or anything that is illegal. I shall be marching with you to make sure not a single Belgian soul escapes under Liavon's watch.
Liavon: Indeed you are under my command. Other parallels will be keeping their eye on you as well. So when we reach Poland, Leonek will do that. Focus on marching to the beat, and the positive of how many calories you're possibly burning over this. Obey the drummers. Also be prepared to talk to Lieven again when you finally reach Belgium, because he's suffering.
Hubert: Suffering? Oh, no! I owe him an apology! I would never harm him or let anyone harm him. I just wanted to get back at the Brazilians over Neymar, since Neymar's fans kept denying things.
Avon: Just stay positive, Hubert. We'll be resting in Belarus tonight. You'll have food, drinks, and comfort.
Liavon: You will indeed. You won't march 24 hours a day. But you have to bear in mind that Lieven and I are Leo's international parallels. If one gets hurt either physically or emotionally, we all get hurt. Think about that for a moment. *to the band* At ease.
Hubert: Well... I'm sure you were aware how Laurencio felt when Neymar flopped. Then you had the Mexican fans trolling Neymar. Then soon, the entire world caught on to that. The blame is solely on Neymar in my views because he's the one playing in the game not me.
Avon: But why add petrol to the flames?
Hubert: I gave in to temptation to lead and attempt to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians. Not even the Brazilian coach protested over this. We Belgians just wanted to show how we felt when we found out we were going to face the Brazilians.
Avon: Again, why add petrol to the flames? Think about that for a moment. Think of what you could have prevented if you didn't attempt to engage in mass trolling.
Hubert: Hmm... *Thinks for a moment.* A global disaster... No... How can mass trolling possibly cause a global disaster? On top of that, knowing how Brazilian fans tend to riot over football, that could've gotten the Russian military involved and all chaos would break loose! I could have shut down FIFA this year over this?! Impossible!
Avon: Yup! If you proceeded in trolling, think about the damage you could have caused on the world. Yeah; the Mexican fans were trolling Neymar in response, but what you were doing took things a bit too far. You're the one who sought to take advantage of social media in hopes of making your trolling antics with your fans and pugs go viral. Think about it.
Hubert: But it was a joke, too... How can a joke possibly destroy the entire world? Doesn't make any sense. I get it that the parallels won't like it but to what extent would my damages cause if I proceeded in my trolling plans?
Avon: Everything! The parallels would be gone, heartless would rule Earth, and we would never live to embrace the progress we have made as a diverse global civilization. Hemp, bamboo fiber for clothing, delivery robots, vertical farming, job automation technologies, advanced networks of maglev trains for passengers and shipping, e-sports, thorium, instant internet, computer integrated desks that also stand up, modular apartment homes, live public views from the heart of any town and city, everything.
Everything you love and appreciate for, such as that waffle cafe in Brussels that uses job automation technologies to create your waffle with your desired toppings fresh on demand, online shopping, everything, would be gone if you proceeded in mass trolling against the Brazilians over Neymar.
One bellow from any of those lions, the American lion suffers, and everything falls with him. Even places as far as Vietnam, Bhutan, Nepal, and even seemingly isolated countries like Iceland, would fall with him. Despite being separate nations, we all are connected one way or another. Think about what you could have caused, Hubert, and the destruction that brings with it, all because you think it would be funny to parade around with your fellow fans with pugs in Neymar jerseys and making jokes about Neymar and the Brazilians.
Hubert: Pure destruction... That's like reviving hell to take over Earth! That's bringing Earth down to hell where we will never even hear about heaven! No, Avon! I don't want that happening! Other than our technological advancements, I don't want to lose my friends and our cute pugs! And I want my waffles, too, be it the ones in Brussels or the small ones from Liege which is popular around the world not just all over Belgium!
Avon: That's not all. As you know, imagine trying to explain to the white kitten of what you did that led to that destruction on a global scale.
Hubert: He'd screw me over... And his mum would have a word with me and have me know Leo more. But if its too late, well, that's the burden I'd carry forever. I don't want that.
Avon: Exactly! There was a good reason why Lieven asked you and your fans to cease with the trolling first but you never listened. If you weren't punished, everything you hold dear and appreciate for will go down with you. If something happens to Lieven, Belgium would be screwed! Then of course, the whole world. There's also a reason why the border soldiers of Belarus told you to hand your phone, tablet, and laptop to Liavon; its to prevent any risks of you attempting to troll that could trigger a global catastrophe. There's also a reason why here in Belarus, if you do anything funny, you can legally be detained here and questioned before being interrogated until you realize that your acts could have technically ended the world. All this, is for your own good.
Hubert: Wonderful... How am I ever going to have fun after this ordeal?
Avon: Hey you can still play online games during the night and wander around about in the day or whatever. No one said you can't have fun. Play some sports or make videos too. Travel, something. You got this.
Hubert: True. Well, I can't play any games since we get to Belgium since Liavon is holding on to my electronics until we reach Poland. Poland, then Germany, then Belgium.
Avon: Later after all this once we get to Belgium. Now, take a look around you in this town. What do you see?
Hubert: Construction workers, children, mother from a distance in the suburbs, and lots of newly built vertical factories here. Pretty much people just working and caring for their families.
Avon: Exactly. Something happens to the parallels, it hurts Liavon, and these families, you may never see them again and they may never see the day of light again. People have families to look after.
Hubert: No that won't be a pleasant experience... Life has to grow and go on. As the environment around us improves, trees get taller, more animals multiply, and so do people among us but upwards. I would never let a family be harmed!
Avon: Now you get the idea. You will be able to think better of your acts after your punishment.
Hubert: That really sucks... Wished I knew about this earlier but I was just so tempted. Some of my fellow fans were mad that we had to face those Brazilians but at least we won and that's all it matters. Nobody wanted them to win because of Neymar. Had Brazil beat us and won the World Cup, boos would be echoed from the world. But this time, I rather have Croatia win because their team is often the underdog and their players play with honour and always try their best to win. We Belgians are only used to opponents who fight and play with honour like those Croatians.
Liavon: That's natural enough. Croatia defeated England, I have discovered. But let what Avon has told you sink in. Also, do note that when you get to Poland and Germany, Leonek and Luitpold will do the same thing I am doing. That's not fair to them either, but they're doing it for your own good.
Hubert: Yup. And it's so embarrassing that I have to march through those countries with people wondering what did I do wrong. But might as well march with it. On the bright side, at least I can rest here knowing that I wasn't one of those Mongolian coaches who stripped nude in public over a wrestling match in the Olympics.
Leo: (narrating) That was the last time I had lost my temper, but since Zanta said the anger was justified, the world didn't end. One more bellow and it will, so good behavior is more important than ever. Karma will kill us as well as you if nobdoy behaves, so think about that, people.
Liavon: Oh, yes; that was really embarrassing. Thank heavens that's over.
*next day*
*Everybody did their morning routines before having breakfast. They then get ready to march again.*
Hubert: The draniki was excellent! And it looks like we'll be crossing Minsk from here!
Avon: Yup! Two more countries and we'll be home! *To the Krieglandonian-Belgians in Dutch.* Continue what you're doing for Hubert's parade of shame once you're ready.
Hubert: *Puts on his bass drum on his back and comments in Dutch.* 7 kg of bass on my back whilst carrying this heavy rifle that nobody uses in war anymore. I don't want to be told to hold this M1 Garand rifle out with arms outstretched for a minute!
Avon: *In Dutch* Don't make anyone mad with your whining. Liavon was way more than nice enough to let you have a perfect full night sleep for this. Even though they call him Liavon the Authoritarian Lion, he's being very generous with you. Don't screw this one up. Remember, he legally has command over you as well as control over you even if our Krieglandonians are in charge of your punishment.
Lion Drummer: *in Dutch* Forward, march!
*The parade continues. Liavon walks alongside.*
Liavon: I want you to focus on the positives, Hubert. For one thing, you're getting plenty of exercise. Second, you're getting to see all the sights of Belarus you probably wouldn't see if you took a vacation under normal circumstances. You'll experience the same thing with Poland and Germany, and fortunately, your parade of shame is not going to involve the Autobahn.
Hubert: Mainly because highway systems are built underground for the sake of Earth's environment. More room for trees to grow taller before outwards meaning more places for animals in the wild. Just like how we build taller to accommodate more homes and work without taking up unnecessary space.
Avon: And more space to march in the wild too to experience nature. Belarus' environment is actually quite lovely!
*Later, they made their way into Minsk.*
Hubert: Whoa! That's the national capital of Belarus? This city looks like a modern concrete castle from a distance at first and the city looks very modernized at the street level too! The streets are very clean.
Dmitri: Welcome to Minsk!
Sergei: Beautiful isn't it? Check out the national library there!
Hubert: Whoa! Looks like something you'd see from those anime science fiction movies or something to that effect from Japan!
Taras: *Looks at a butterfly that landed on his own tiny fennec fox nose and speaks in Belorussian.* Butterflies everywhere. They sure bring much life to us when we take care of nature like this.
Hubert: Big and busy city. People here seem to live very well!
Avon: And you're doing an excellent job holding on to that rifle.
Hubert: Really? Thanks I suppose.
Avon: When you think about the positive things, anything negative doesn't bother you.
Hubert: Belarus is a lovely country, but this city impresses me!
Dmitri: There's that modern art museum there too and then there's that history museum there.
Hubert: The museums look like they're always updated and well taken care of. And that modern art museum looks a luxury department store in a mall filled with modern interior designs and fixtures at least! That modern art museum looks so squeaky clean inside too. I never thought I'd fall in love with the city of Minsk! Very impressive city and national capital here!
Dmitri: Too bad you can't stay here forever, since you have to march your way to Poland, where you'll meet Jarek and the others along with Leonek there instead.
Hubert: I know, but I'll be visiting Minsk one day after this!
Avon: And try not to get too distracted too when you're marching because I will guarantee you that by the time we return home to Belgium, you'll be too tired to go any further. You will then think about this mistake and how you will prevent this from happening again.
Hubert: I just want to stay positive.
Avon: Yes, you should, but at the same time, think about how to prevent this from happening again.
Liavon: Don't get distracted, but this parade is not continuous. You'll have times to rest. Just not now. Good observations, however.
Hubert: Looks like we can rest here in Minsk since my legs are shaking. At least its pleasant here. Very cosmopolitan much to my surprise here. Sucks that I won't be able to make it to the party of the winning country because by the time we reach Belgium, it'll be long over.
Avon: That's part of the consequences for attempting to engage in mass trolling by using all forms of it as much as possible.
*Poznan, Poland*
*Hubert takes a break from marching with the others to eat some pierogis.*
Hubert: *In Dutch* Avon. Belgium beat England and is in third place. Can we just take the train to Belgium please?
Avon: *In Dutch* No. Lieven told me that he looked into your messaging history and saw that you were contemplating with Espen about ordering a Japanese body pillow with Neymar on both sides of him in his flopping position from the World Cup.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I didn't order the dakimakura (Japanese word for a certain body pillow) with Neymar on it I swear I didn't.
Avon: *In Dutch* If Lieven didn't stop you, you would have proceeded to order the dakimakura to be made in Japan and have it shipped to you immediately into your hotel room in Russia. According to those messages, you plotted to show off the Neymar dakimakura in the middle of the Belgian crowd to troll the Brazilians during our match against them.
Hubert: *In Dutch* How come Liavon didn't tell me anything about this?
Avon: *In Dutch* He wanted me to tell you instead because he knew you're afraid of him.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I hope Leonek doesn't know about this since we're marching under him. Good thing about Poland is that the government here isn't as scary as the Belorussian government. Yet, the Polish government has their priorities in place and don't bow down to political correctness just like Belarus.
Avon: *In Dutch* What do you think people would see when you run around in public with a Neymar dakimakura?
Hubert: *In Dutch* A Belgian sergal trolling Neymar for his antics.
Avon: *In Dutch* Do you even know what dakimakuras are actually used for and are associated with?
Hubert: *In Dutch* I know that and no people will not see me as a pervert for running around with a Neymar dakimakura.
Avon: *In Dutch* But some will because the dakimakura was originally designed for perverts.
Hubert: *In Dutch* But Neymar is clothed in the image. But hey at least there's no Neymar dakimakura. Anyways, can we please take the train to Belgium because we beat England in third place?! Please? PLEASE?!
Avon: *In Dutch* Nope! You're still marching throughout Germany after this! These deviant trolling plans you had in mind, you could have caused a catastrophe. You could have stressed these lions out beyond their existence just through your sheer antics alone. And as an Eternal, I have to bring you to that world and make you explain to several Eternal agents on how you set off a chain reaction around Earth that led to the heartless taking over all because you think it would be funny to carry out various forms of mass trolling against the Brazilians after they defeated Mexico with Neymar rolling around.
Hubert: *In Dutch* The Mexicans have the world's sympathies. They have mine as well. We all know how that feels when they lose to a cheater. And besides, the Mexicans were trolling him as well.
Avon: *In Dutch* There's a difference between you and them. They trolled after the match. You want to take it way further to the point that you would cause disruptions around Earth. Lieven saved your life when he caught you with the 3D printer in your hotel room that you used to print out that Neymar toy. If he saw you with a Neymar dakimakura, he would have bellowed you out of your own hotel suite. The pugs rolling on command and the mass mocking of Neymar from our fans were way more than enough as it is.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I just... I don't know... But cheaters don't deserve to win; they never do. I wanted to voice my discontent for it in a way that forces the message to all of Brazil over Neymar. I'll never understand why Neymar is still so popular and rich to this day. He's just so lucky that he gets to live like a king and still play like a fool without repercussions other than Crush's red card.
*Some of the Polish restaurant workers feed the pugs dog-friendly pierogis.*
Civilian 1: *In Polish* Oh my; what a cute little chubby dog!
Civilian 2: *In Polish* The black ones are cute, too!
Civilian 3: *In Polish* What an adorable grumble of pugs!
Civilian 4: *In Polish* I personally think having them march with the Belgians is a bit too much.
Civilian 3: *In Polish* According to the Belgians, they taught them to roll on command when they say "Roll like Neymar!" or just "Neymar!".
Belgian Fan 1: *In Dutch* All this marching is killing me! I wanna go home too by train already!
Belgian Fan 2: *In Dutch* But Lieven wants us to march through Germany instead which isn't fair! Why can't he be happy for once that our team beat England and won third place in the World Cup?
Belgian Fan 3: *In Dutch* And he's not happy that we adopted these pugs to give them our homes with them. When winter is coming, its nice to have some dogs inside at home. These pugs are low maintenance, but high in fun, too!
Belgian Fan 4: *In Dutch* Just feed them the right food or else they'll unleash some nasty acts.
Avon: *In Dutch* Let's not get there. That is not an appropriate topic of discussion anywhere!
*Translations are provided both ways.*
Leonek: *in Polish to Hubert* Exactly. Your stupid act could have killed us all off and subsequently ended the world. Is that what you really want?
Hubert: *In Dutch with the translators helping.* No but I shouldn't be taking all the blame for this. That would be Neymar. Leandro didn't blow his top off when his people engaged in mass trolling against Neymar after the match.
Leonek: *in Polish* Still no excuse for what you did. Neymar is, however, on his way to being the most unpopular man in the world.
*Poland*
Hubert: *In Dutch* Because he deserves to be the most unpopular man in the world! Remember, be happy that we Belgians stopped him and his team otherwise they'd unfairly win with dishonour.
Belgian Fan 1: *In Dutch* But what if he comes back in Tokyo in 2020 for the Olympics? Remember what happened back in Rio with their Olympics when the Mongols decide to strip nude in public over a wrestling match? That Neymar kid is going to come back and cause another scandal but in Japan and the Japanese don't seem fond of this.
Belgian Fan 2: *In Dutch* What are you talking about? You think the Brazilians are going to strip nude in public if their team loses in football? I doubt it! And besides, this is Japan we're talking about! If you do that, your name instantly goes on their country's persona non grata list meaning people who are marked persona non grata means they are banned from entering the country. And good luck trying to convince the Japanese government to let you in after that because they'll simply just say "No!" and that's it. If anything, Neymar and his team are going to lose their sponsors and that's it.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Oh that? Wait, so you're telling me that no one will sponsor Neymar because he's a jerk who builds most of his fame from ad revenue?
Belgian Fan 2: *In Dutch* Exactly! He's better off being in e-sports, assuming Brazil's e-sports team would accept him, and being a YouTube star and internet celebrity. But even that, he'll never have the talents that Blaster Cat has and she's from Korea. Koreans know how to make the best out of the internet. Goes to show that karma can bite really hard and quick.
Avon: *In Dutch* That's correct and if you didn't proceed to follow Hubert in his journey to mass trolling against the Brazilians, this wouldn't have happened. But at least you get to enjoy the pierogis. Note that once we enter Germany, all of us must speak in German since both Belgium and Germany recognizes German as official languages.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Yeah. So happy that we aren't going to be marching through some German state called Bavaria because there's mountains allover that German state! From here, we just go straight to Berlin, then westwards as usual before reaching Belgium. If we marched through the mountains, I'd be dead.
Avon: *In Dutch* I climbed the mountains there before. Don't whine like that. And be lucky that you're just marching on mostly flat land than over the mountains. But if you do stuff like this again, then we could have you march over the Swiss Alps.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Nope! Not happening because after all of this brutal torture I have to deal with, I won't be doing anything like this again! Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, then Belgium, that's five countries five too many! Marching through five countries is torturous as it is!
Avon: *In Dutch* Could've been worse back on Kriegland you know. You almost had to march across Russia then through Europe before going home in Belgium.
*Leonek then gets a text from Gourmet Gopher; the text was sent to Hussar Husky, but Gopher accidentally double texted and also sent it to the Polish parallel.*
Leonek: *in Polish* Whoops; I don't think he meant to send me that. *to Hussar Husky, who is there* Congratulations. The American gopher chose you to have your name attached to the dish since he does a foreign specialty dish every other week, or something like that. I know he'll never do Brazil again.
Hussar Husky: *In Polish* I don't blame him. I'm so happy we don't have to deal with Brazil because of Neymar. But as for these Belgians, how did they end up here?
Civilian 1: *In Polish* They wanted to engage in mass trolling against Neymar during their match against Brazil.
Civilian 2: *In Polish* Several of them mocked Neymar like this. *Pretends to roll around like Neymar as he holds on to his legs as if he had an injury.* OW MY LEG! MY LEG! OWIE OW OW OW! *Stops mocking and gets back up.* That.
Hussar Husky: *In Polish* And why are there so many pugs with those Belgians?
Civilian 3: *In Polish* To compare Neymar to them because he rolls like them. They also made videos of them counting their dogs' body rolls in English to compare them to Neymar rolling on the ground. They were adopted from Russia for that purpose and to keep as pets for their pet videos.
Civilian 4: *In Polish* And Hubert had a Neymar toy and he almost ordered a Neymar dakimakura from Japan.
Hussar Husky: *In Polish* What is a dakimakura?
Civilian 4: *In Polish* A body pillow with a printed character on them from their front and rear side on the respective sides on that pillow. In Hubert's case, he wanted a body pillow of Neymar in his rolling position on his front side and the rear side respectively so he could go around in public and run around with them whilst holding the body pillow high up in the air as his fans show of their pugs in Neymar jerseys.
Hussar Husky: *In Polish* He wants to do WHAT?! *In English to Hubert.* What did you do exactly in Russia that got you here like this?!
Hubert: Yeah I know. Using pugs to troll Neymar, made a Neymar toy with a 3D printer for laughs, and almost ordered a Japanese body pillow with Neymar on it. I sent a message to Espen about me running around with a Neymar body pillow in public whilst holding it high up in the air for laughs. Also wanted to hold the body pillow in the middle of the Belgian crowd during our match against Brazil. We also rolled across the hallways in the stadium pretending to be Neymar too.
Hussar Husky: Wow that's beyond childish! You know, that kind of act could have set Lieven off and hurt Leonek here. Back when Brazil had the Olympics, when the Mongolian coaches stripped nude in public over a wrestling match, several people cheered as others leave turning their stadium into a literal strip club! Yul, the Mongolian parallel, bellowed and so did COP. What you could have done could have ended our world. I can see why Lieven decided to have you punished with marching time.
Hubert: Yeah I know and it sucks! *Picks up his M1 Garand rifle.* Have to march all the way from Russia to Belgium on foot with this big bulky thing in my hands whilst wearing a 7 kg bass drum on my back with a lion beating it! And to be honest, I hate carrying this big bulky thing that they call a ceremonial rifle these days!
Hussar Husky: You have no military experience I can tell. The least any soldier can do is to learn how to march with a ceremonial rifle for long periods of time.
Hubert: Oh yeah Lieven almost had me march all the way from eastern Russia to Belgium which is beyond insane and impossible!
Hussar Husky: Guess you don't know life in the past century then. Soldiers marched several kilometers long before. And do you think we hussars solely relied on our horses to help us win in our battles? Do you know what we relied on to beat the Ottoman Empire from conquering Poland? Our hearts. We prayed before battle, we planned our strategies, and through them, we put our faith through them in our hearts and that's how we beat the Ottoman Empire and made the hussar one of history's most successful and deadliest warriors to exist! That's why the Hungarians are our brothers. When they saw us and met us, we formed an alliance that is so powerful, not even several wars could tear us apart. And to this day, our strongest ally is Hungary because we fought through thick and thin in the worst of times and yet, we are still here. They didn't rely on their horses to win in battle since they knew the Ottoman Empire was a threat so like us, they relied on their hearts to win the battle. Then of course, that's how the Austro-Hungarian Empire came to be to ward off the Ottomans at the time. The rest, I'm sure you know. In other words, you're a very fortunate person but need to learn to listen to your parallel for our world's safety.
Hubert: True... Just one more country and then in Belgium, once we reach Brussels, we're gonna crash and rest.
Hussar Husky: And you won't be thinking about this trolling antics again.
Hubert: After this, I'd never want to do this trolling again!
Hussar Husky: Was it worth the punishment?
Hubert: NOOOOOOOOOO! My legs are going to collapse by the time we reach Belgium for heaven's sake!
Hussar Husky: Don't sound too whiny like that! At least you get to burn some calories from all that marching.
Hubert: I'm not Chuong you know! I don't eat that freaking much as he does to burn off that much calories! I'm slim and athletic and I'm just a hacker and now I'm so embarrassed because with my passports stamped, my identity is recorded in countries like Belarus as a visitor meaning if I were to hack anyone for any reason in those countries, I will get marked as a person of interest and authorities will be asking me why I hacked someone there!
Hussar Husky: That's just their jobs. And I am praying hard that you don't get punished for whining too.
Avon: Don't make the Krieglandonian-Belgians punish you where you have to hold that M1 rifle out with your arms outstretched for a few minutes or so!
Hubert: Fine then! I just wanna go home, do my job, and eat some waffles.
Leonek: *in Polish with translations provided* It could be worse; you could have been on Kriegland. Their soldiers march for hours at a time on end, and they padded when they marched. Of course, long periods of marching and musical abilities are two things that are like second nature to them. A typical journey for them is five times as long as what you have to go through, so stop complaining if that's what you are doing! If not, then I'm sorry I ranted. I didn't bellow. I just snapped.
*The bands line up again.*
Lion Drummer: *in Dutch, now that Hubert is ready* Forward, march!
*The parade begins.*
Hubert: *In Dutch as he marches.* And so we leave the wonderful land of pierogis, smoked cheese, kielbasa, and bacon. We say goodbye to the land of hussars as we enter our next country; Germany. Good thing for us Belgians, we can speak and understand German.
Avon: *In Dutch* With Russia, Belarus, and now Poland witnessing your march of shame, the Germans are going to be curious too.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Germans have hearty hospitality and are diverse in their personalities throughout their states. At least the Berliners won't mind us much since they're relaxed.
Avon: *In Dutch* Also the hipster capital of Germany as well. At least they have local traditional music throughout their country. Just one more country!
Hubert: *In Dutch* Berlin is known for their tasty pastries as well. I don't think I'm worried; its after we continue to march when we leave Berlin. If we leave Berlin and head towards Belgium, where would we stop next in between?
Avon: *In Dutch* I'm going to guess Goslar, then Cologne, before we cross the border to Belgium.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Meh. At least the Germans have great food. All this marching is making me hungry! They also have a nice variety of nonalcoholic drinks as well!
Avon: *In Dutch* Just think of the good things in Germany then. You're doing a great job holding on to that rifle!
Hubert: *In Dutch* Uhm, yeah. Probably the last time I'd be doing this, too.
C.K./King Leo: (narrating) Since I had no involvement myself, I had no inclination to teach Hubert the skill of rifle twirling as American soldiers do in ceremonies (think of the U.S. Marine Corps' Silent Drill Platoon). We taught that to the Demons of Heaven, but not as part of the punishment; we just thought it would be a useful skill for them to learn.
Leonek: *in Polish with translations provided* Let's hope it's the last time. You do something else that's very rash, and you're bound to be doing it again at twice the distance. Well, I'm taking a wild guess at that.
Hubert: *In Dutch with translations provided thanks to fellow hussars, who still ride on their horses to this day, who are with Leonek, who's also on horseback.* I won't be doing anything nuts like this again but okay. Remember how the Mexicans felt about losing to Brazil and I think I can see the German border from here!
Avon: *In Dutch* Then remember that we all must speak in German once we cross the border. Even the Krieglandonian-Belgians will be commanding and communicating in German from that point on.
Hubert: *In Dutch* German food and music here we come!
Avon: *In Dutch* Don't get too overconfident now.
Hubert: *In Dutch* And we're heading to a German border town called Frankfurt an der Oder. The only Frankfurt I know of is Frankfurt am Maim but we won't be going there. At least they have excellent hotdogs!
*Germany*
Civilian 2: *In German* Why would we be rude or mean to Hubert and his fellow fans? I would've done the same thing if we faced Brazil. We beat them in the last World Cup you know.
Civilian 3: *In German* Ooooh they would love our hospitality and culture! They have so much in common with us!
*The Belgians arrive at the border crossing and go through the process with the border guards.*
Border Guard 1: *In German* Passports please!
Border Guard 2: *In German* Welcome to Germany. You are now in Frankfurt an der Oder.
Border Guard 3: *In German* I need to see your pets too before I let them through.
Belgian Fan 1: *In German* Here.
Border Guard 3: *In German* Welcome to Germany.
Avon: *To Leonek in English.* We'll see you later then. *Shows his passport to get it stamped before crossing the border.*
Civilian 2: *In German* Hey, Hubert!
Hubert: *In German* Hello! Wow; the Germans love me!
Civilian 3: *In German* Welcome to Germany, my friend! This is Frankfurt an der Oder. The city of Frankfurt the world knows of is actually Frankfurt am Main.
Hubert: *In German* Yeah. I want some wursts here.
Civilian 4: *In German* Hey, guys; leave Hubert alone! Let him march with his band there!
Civilian 5: *In German* Awwww; look at their pugs marching with them too! They're so cute!
Hubert: *In German* Yeah. I'm sure you know the story about them. *One of the pugs passes gas on Hubert, and he starts smelling it and reacts negatively in German.* OH MY [BLEEP] GOSH; THAT IS DISGUSTING! EEEW EEEW! It smells horrible!
*He drops his rifle to the ground and goes off course and complains in German with the bass drum on his back.*
Avon: *In German as he waves in front of his nose.* Oh, goodness; that is gross! And Hubert, the Krieglandonians have to get used to all sorts of icky and gross things from the battlefield, so get back in formation now!
Hubert: *In German* I can't! And I'm not Krieglandonian! Luckily, our culture does not allow me to pad!
Avon: *In German to a civilian who fed a pug a small piece of boiled broccoli.* What are you doing?
Civilian 6: *In German* I forgot that feeding broccoli to a pug is a bad idea. But this black one is so cute though.
Civilian 7: *In German as she grabs Hubert by his shoulders.* No no you are not boarding the train. Your compatriots want you with the band. *Walks Hubert back to his band.* Luitpold has messaged all of us citizens to make sure you do not sneak out to the trains. If you use our trains to sneak away, someone is going to know about it and intercept Hubert before he escapes.
Hubert: *In German* But marching from here to Belgium is going to be a pain! At least your country has excellent cuisine and culture! A big plus that you don't seem to mind much about us Belgians at all since we have a lot in common.
Civilian 7: *In German* That's true but Luitpold wants you to stay with your band and march with them to Belgium. And besides, don't you want to enjoy Germany more slowly by marching instead?
Hubert: *In German* Why, of course! And I have to say that you're a cute lady!
Civilian 7: *In German* Good then! Just be a good sergal with your compatriots. Luitpold will make sure you have a place to rest at after marching.
Hubert: *In German* That would be Berlin which isn't that far from here.
Civilian 7: *In German* Excellent city to rest in then! You'll love it! You'll have plenty of energy after your rest to return home to Belgium on foot.
Hubert: *In German* True. So glad we're near Berlin and in Germany. Lovely hearty country with big spirits! At least the World Cup isn't in Qatar, yet otherwise I'd be marching under the scorching hot sun through the desert. Perhaps, can I add you on social media?
Civilian 7: *In German with a giggle.* Nah, I prefer people I know very well around me in Germany first.
Avon: *In German* Hubert; this is not the time to be flirting with German chicks! You're going to embarrass us all and drive Luitpold mad!
Luitpold: *to the dog in German* Bad dog! Bad dog! *to the owner* Don't you ever do that again! You disrupted the punishment he's going through. Be lucky you don't have one coming. *to Hubert in English* Sorry about that. Luckily for us you have shoes on. And you're not going to be distracted one more minute.
*Leonek, who had Hubert's belongings under his supervision, transfers them to Luitpold.*
Luitpold: Thank you.
Leonek: Not a problem.
Luitpold: (narrating in English) He should have just fed his dog proper dog food. Don't feed your dog broccoli, people!
Belgian Fan 1: *To Luitpold in German.* He's just a dog; he can't help it. No one tells their dogs to do that on command! They just let it go because that's what they are as dogs.
Belgian Fan 2: *In German* Should've told that German guy to not give your dog broccoli!
Avon: *In German* Exactly. You are responsible for keeping your pets under control and telling others not to give your pets certain foods.
Belgian Fan 1: *In German* True. Too bad pugs don't seem to like marching much.
Avon: *In German* Well, they eat a lot, so they can march to burn off the excess calories.
Hubert: *In German to Luitpold.* Hope not. At least your country has nice people, food, and culture! I'm excited to see what's up in Berlin! Can't wait to meet some German hipsters there! I know you're from Munich, which is the actual city that bears your country's stereotypes.
Avon: *In German* German hipsters who are also chefs? Yeah they tend to overdo it on the presentation of their food. They're good but I wished they keep things a bit simple. The dessert scenes in Berlin tends to be complicated but at least they're good. The people in Berlin are very nice and open.
Hubert: *In German* They're also much more relaxed than their Bavarian counterparts, which includes Luitpold, too, since he's Bavarian.
Avon: *In German* Right. Pick up that rifle and let's march to Berlin then.
Hubert: *In German* Yes, sir! *Picks up his M1 Garand rifle.* And to Berlin!
Avon: *In German* Berlin is one of Luitpold's least favorite cities because it tends to be overrated and people there are more drawn to modernism than traditionalism despite it being the national capital of Germany. He'd rather visit Stuttgart instead because people there know how to incorporate modernism in a way that makes life more productive without negatively affecting traditional elements in culture. Stuttgart is also the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz.
Hubert: *In German* They have a very sleek and impressive city library, too!
Avon: *In German* Which Luitpold visits often every time he goes to Stuttgart. Libraries are not and will not go away anytime soon. There's even tourists who visit Stuttgart's city library to read and bask under its sleek modern bright interior.
Hubert: *In German* Proof that in European heaven, the Germans are the engineers. Lets march forward to Berlin. I want to fall in love with that city and never let go but sadly, I can't stay there forever.
Avon: *In German* Just hope Luitpold doesn't cut your break time short once we stop in Berlin. *To the lion drummer in German.* You can proceed on drumming on Hubert.
Hubert: *In German* Yup. 7 kg of punishment on my back whilst a lion drumming on it is so not fun!
Avon: *In German* That's what you get for plotting to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians. You engage, you pay the consequences for your own actions. Fall in!
*The Belgians get into formation with their equipment.*
Civilian 1: *In German* Good luck fellow Belgians! You're going to need a lot of it!
Civilian 2: *In German* Berlin is up ahead! Just keep going forward!
Civilian 3: *In German* You'll make it and you'll love Berlin! It may not bear the stereotypical Germany that most people think of, but its fun and has some German elements to it!
Lion Drummer: *in German* Forward, march!
*The parade continues. The bands find some appropriate German marches to play.*
Hubert: *In German as he marches.* Don't forget the Belgians ones with it too. I'm sure you can mix that in with the German tunes easily.
*The band also plays Belgian tunes.*
Hubert: *In German as he marches.* Almost there to Berlin. I can smell the pastries and the cuisine from that city! Oh the hipsters that frolic free throughout that city! And the artists that express themselves vibrantly there too! They are welcoming, tolerant, and kind!
Avon: *In German* You'd be lucky if Luitpold lets you chill more after you eat your meal there like us.
*Meanwhile in Berlin, the civilians can spot the Belgian marching band approaching their city.*
Civilian 1: *In German* So those are the trolls against Brazil? Lets welcome them with open arms!
Civilian 2: *In German* You're my hero Hubert!
*Several civilians cheer and wave their arms towards the Belgian band to welcome them.*
Civilian 3: *In German* Welcome to Berlin fellow Belgians! We would've trolled the Brazilians the same exact way you know! Then again, we already owned them before! Stupid Brazilians! You Belgians did the right thing!
Civilian 4: *In German* That's so stupid that Lieven ordered them to be punished over their antics! The Brazilians deserved every bit of that trolling over Neymar!
Civilian 5: *In German* Doesn't help that our parallel is actually Bavarian; you know the part of Germany that bears our national stereotypes where more than half of them don't apply here in Berlin?
Civilian 6: *In German* I want to be their friends! They deserve our hospitality and treatment in our restaurants and hotels!
Civilian 7: *In German* Guys? You do realize that their trolling could have ended the world you know. Laurencio was almost at his breaking point and so was Lieven. The parallels are spiritually and emotionally connected. When one gets hurt, the others get hurt and if their health suffers, a time paradox could occur. And when that happens, there would be no Oktoberfest, no Mercedes, no Berlin, no German modernism, no wursts, no salads, no anything! And all the modern art museums in Berlin that inspires this city's modern culture to show through its traditional facade could've been gone!
Civilian 6: *In German* But if we treat the Belgians with love, Luitpold isn't going to get mad I don't think.
Civilian 7: *In German* I think he would because they're supposed to be punished not spoiled.
Civilian 6: *In German* But we want to take selfies with them and be friends with them to share our memories before they go home. And besides they adopted those cute pugs from Russia and even if it was meant to troll Neymar, they will take good care of them because they made social media accounts for their pets to share contents about their pets to the world. The world needs more love and joy to keep things going around about. And besides, they should be able to use our trains to go home to Belgium.
Civilian 7: *In German* No! They're supposed to march all the way to Belgium! Its better for them to feel that pain than to lose our entire world! We lost our entire world, once! We thought it was the end days as the Bible claimed but luckily, we got our world back and our country has improved a lot from there since then with more Germans with us! We also have families left and right too producing lots of children again! And when we have this many children in our new and improved world from that destruction, we need to teach our children why these Belgians are marching so they don't grow up and make their mistakes!
Civilian 8: *In German* Chill man! Go have some beer and wurst!
Civilian 7: *In German* I don't drink beer.
Civilian 8: *In German* Fine then some lemonade, juice, water, or whatever.
Civilian 9: *In German* We have honey factories throughout Germany and I want to show the Belgians one of our honey factories here! Those bees are important for Earth's economy and sustainability.
Civilian 7: *In German* Okay but Luitpold is going to most likely tell these Belgians to keep marching than to take time to enjoy themselves with us.
Luitpold: *to the civilians in German sternly* No! Don't you encourage them either! They're continuing their parade, and that's that, so go home!
*The people go home.*
Hubert: *In German with a frown.* Awww I just wanna visit my fans and friends in Berlin...
Avon: *In German* This is punishment not pleasure!
Hubert: *In German* But Liavon said marching allows us to explore the world around us way back in Belarus so that includes meeting new people too.
Avon: *In German* No he did not say it like that and that was not what he meant! This is supposed to be your punishment!
Hubert: *In German* So no pastries in Berlin? No coffee or anything?
Avon: *In German* Probably not.
Hubert: *In German* What a killjoy! I have 7 kg of bass drum on my back with someone pounding it and I'm holding this rifle yet I can't even take one second to enjoy my own pleasures in Berlin?!
Avon: *In German* Nope! Before WWII, Berlin isn't this pleasurable city of hipsters and modernists that we know of as today. And besides, this is punishment. There are still places in Berlin where people still do things the traditional way and you're going to do just that.
Hubert: *In German* Boring!
Avon: *In German* Do you want to go to Japan in 2020?
Hubert: *In German* Of course!
Avon: *In German* Then behave!
Hubert: *In German* Avon, you cannot stop a Dissident from doing what they want. We are hackers and we will get what we want as long we get to do what we want. So, now that we are in Berlin it seems, no chocolate? Coffee? Hipster cafes? Swanky hotels? Modern art museum visits?
Avon: *In German* None of those!
Hubert: *In German* Lemonade at least?
Avon: *In German* Sure.
Hubert: *In German* At least I know of places in Berlin that sells the best breakfast sandwiches in town. As long mine has sausage and gouda cheese, I'm happy!
Avon: *In German* And that's probably all you're gonna get.
Hubert: *In German* So, no waffles?
Avon: *In German* Maybe not.
Hubert: *In German* Berliner pfannkuchen?
Avon: *In German* No.
Hubert: *In German* Rollmops?
Avon: *In German* Maybe.
Hubert: *In German* Wursts!
Avon: *In German* Only if you are less annoying.
Hubert: *In German* Fries!
Avon: *In German* If you're good.
Hubert: *In German* Schnitzels!
Avon: *In German* Most likely not since that's more of a Bavarian thing and only the Germans there make the best schnitzels in this country.
Hubert: *In German* Taking pictures of me with cute German ladies!
Avon: *In German* No don't go there! You're not supposed to act like a tourist!
Hubert: *In German* Pork chops!
Avon: *In German* Maybe not.
Hubert: *In German* Potato pancakes?
Avon: *In German* Sure.
Hubert: *In German* Coffee?
Avon: *In German* I said no coffee tonight!
Warlord Wolf: *In German* Hubert knock it off! You're about to set Luitpold off! If you make him bellow because you think that's funny, you're going to destroy this world and everything you hold dear!
Hubert: *In German* Sorry but Luitpold seemed to have destroyed the spirits of the Germans of Berlin.
Warlord Wolf: *In German* They're not supposed to be pleasuring and spoiling you! You're supposed to be punished! And besides, we can always make this worse on you if you don't stop being a troll! Do you want to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant near the Vietnamese embassy there? I can have you go to places that are not German in Germany so you don't go around bothering my people into having fun with you. Not to mention, you're probably doing this so you can distract them and have them help you board a train to head off to Belgium by yourself. And when the parallels find out that you did this, they're going to lose their cool. Its better to deal with the punishment and walk on this earth than to destroy this world because you just want to have fun at the wrong time. Do you want to ask yourself if sneaking out or annoying people was worth the destruction of Earth? Because I'm sure that Neymar trolling wasn't worth it for this!
Hubert: *In German* Oh no no no I don't want Earth to go boom on us! And I thought its when in Rome, do what the Romans do. And in Germany, its do what the Germans do depending on the state and area we're in here. If the Berliners are open and friendly, I want to have fun with them too.
Warlord Wolf: *In German* Do you know how lucky you are that you aren't marching through Bavaria? The Germans there not only bear our national stereotypes, they're also hardcore and tough. If we are in Bavaria right now, they'd tell you to shut up and keep marching. Worse, they might ask you to help them in their farm work too as extra punishment. We may have modern farming everywhere, but traditional farmers will always exist everywhere mainly as sights of tourism and to preserve the legacy of traditional farmers and traditions in general. I'm sure you don't want to be asked to assist in helping Bavarian farmers load beer barrels on carts by hand and milking their cows at least too.
Hubert: *In German* Goodness no I don't want to spend all day and night working with my hands until they're hard and dry!
Warlord Wolf: *In German* Then don't be a whining fool. And I'm sure you know Bavaria has hills and mountains galore too so be lucky you aren't marching through such terrain!
Hubert: *In German* ARGH! This rifle is killing my arms! I can't believe I have to hold it this long!
Avon: *In German* We're almost there to our resting point in Berlin. Don't you dare drop that rifle!
Luitpold: *in German* Stop complaining and just focus on your march! Keep it moving! You're not here to have fun, and you are not speaking with anybody! Got it?
Hubert: *In Germany* Yes sir. *Keeps marching as he holds on to his rifle as much as he can.*
*Denmark*
*Some of the civilians are viewing Berlin from their live city cameras on their devices.*
Civilian 1: *In Danish* What happened to Berlin? Everybody seems to be inside.
Civilian 2: *In Danish* I could say its summer but look who's marching.
Civilian 3: *In Danish* What did they do this time?
Civilian 4: *In Danish* According to Lenarth the Naval Lion, a Belgian sergal named Hubert Van Retbergen plotted to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians over Neymar because Neymar dived in football with this theatrics. Hubert was going to use pugs, a Neymar toy, and a Neymar body pillow with his fellow fans to troll the Brazilians to rile them up more in hopes of adding insult to injury when they lose to the Belgians.
Civilian 3: *In Danish* That's a bit much.
Ice Pirate: *In Danish* More like too much. I don't approve it because we all know what happens to one lion affects the others right? Then goes our world with it. We can't lose our lovely land that is Denmark.
Civilian 3: *In Danish* Yeah which sucks a lot. Props to Laurencio for managing to keep his cool with Neymar and Hubert wanting to troll his entire country and people over one idiot.
Ice Pirate: *In Danish* Thanks to technology, the world is watching. Danger Drummer knows. We all know. Even Cold Cut knows.
Cold Cut: *In Danish* Let this be a warning to those who wished to engage in trolling in sports. So far, despite our rivalry with Sweden in sports, at least everybody on both sides behaved well.
*Germany*
*Luitpold keeps a stern eye on Hubert.*
*Denmark*
Lenarth: *in Danish* Heed his advice, people. You behave yourselves or the world will end. We went through it once; you know this. Do you really want to do it again?
*The civilians shake their heads to say "No."*
Danger Drummer: *in Danish* I didn't think so.
*Germany*
*The band arrives in Berlin and the civilians act normal as if the marching band didn't happen.*
Avon: *In German* This should be it. And Hubert, do not give in to your own temptations in this city.
Hubert's Thoughts: This city is eye-candy and the temptations to explore outside of my band is way too strong! I don't know if I can handle this but this rifle is killing my arms! My desires for mischief is growing too strong for me to contain!
Warlord Wolf: *In German* Welcome to Berlin. *To Hubert.* Focus. This is for your own good. Think of the parallels' health and you will be fine.
*Sweden*
*Words of Hubert's march of shame reaches Sweden as people watch the live video on TV.*
Civilian 1: *In Swedish* What did they do this time?
Civilian 2: *In Swedish* Plotted to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians over Neymar after Mexico lost.
Civilian 3: *In Swedish* Uhm... If Hubert was Swedish, he'd be dead because legends claim that those who witnessed the berserker's wrath of Lennart the Viking Lion never lived to tell about it.
Civilian 4: *In Swedish* Making a huge Viking lion mad who's armed with a gigantic battle axe is never a good idea. Only the suicidal would do that. Everybody knew how the Vikings were back then. We can't have another Viking rage today.
Civilian 5: *In Swedish* Yeah we can't have him go berserker. When Vikings go berserker mode, things get really ugly. Think of it as Game of Thrones on steroids.
Civilian 6: *In Swedish* Not a pretty sight. Man we should've warned Hubert about this or else he could have unknowingly end our world all by himself finishing Bendraqi's plans a thousand times over. I'd personally email Hubert if I were you to beg to him to never do this trolling stuff again or else he'd end the world faster than the GSAF and Bendraqi can together.
Civilian 7: *In Swedish* Not only that but we may never have Earth back if our world ends because of someone's stupidity.
Ragnarok Rocker: *In Swedish* Probably not. But if you want to email Hubert to never troll again in sports because that could have drove the parallels into insanity that our world ends, be my guest.
Civilian 8: *In Swedish* I'm an accounting manager with eight beautiful Swedish children and I will let Hubert know that I'm a father of eight living in a tall beautiful suburban home with a beautiful wife and that his trolling antics could have destroyed my family life because he made one of the parallels at least mad. Actually, that would be two; Lieven and Laurencio. He has to know that most people have family to look after and he should take that into consideration before doing stupid stuff like that again.
*Germany*
Luitpold's thoughts: Heaven help us all if he gets distracted. He ought to continue his march of shame all around his home country of Belgium.
*Canada*
*Hubert's march of shame reaches the news there.*
Levi P.: Boy, am I glad I got home when I did. But bear that in mind, citizens. Make me or any of my counterparts angry, and the world's as good as gone.
*Germany*
Hubert: *In German silently to Avon.* Are we there yet in Berlin?
Avon: *In German* No and focus or we'll keep marching outside of Berlin!
Hubert: *In German* This rifle is killing my arms and the drum is wearing me out; especially with it being beat and it sucks!
Avon: *In German* Focus and you'll do fine and stop whining!
*Canada*
Kirk: Wow Hubert you managed to tick off two parallels at once in that Belgium vs Brazil match. You don't see me and Jack doing stuff like that when our countries compete.
Noel: Hubert almost got himself banned from visiting Brazil even if it's over Neymar.
*Vietnam*
*Citizens become curious about Hubert.*
Civilian 1: *In Vietnamese* What did he do?
Civilian 2: *In Vietnamese* Who's Neymar?
Civilian 3: *In Vietnamese* The Brazilian footballer who rolls more than the pugs the Belgians adopted in Russia.
Civilian 4: *In Vietnamese* Hey I have four pugs. They're cute.
Anh: *In Vietnamese* Please note that the parallels are spiritually and emotionally connected. If anything happens to one of them, the rest are affected. Not even Luong is safe.
*Italy*
Civilian 1: *In Italian* Boooo! Neymar is a disgrace in football! I think what Hubert did was justified!
Civilian 2: *In Italian* It won't be worth the health of Leonardo the Renaissance Lion since Hubert almost pulled off a huge prank!
*Germany*
Luitpold's silent thoughts: What's he blabbering about? He needs to stop complaining or he's going to double his distance.
*Canada*
Levi P.: I had to fight off the temptation of banning him from ever entering Canada again. Or do you want me to ban him?
Lyon: No. I think his march of shame is punishment enough.
*Vietnam*
Luong: *in Vietnamese* I admit I haven't been feeling too well lately; now you know the reason.
*Italy*
Leonardo: *in Italian* All of a sudden, I don't feel so well. Let this be evidence to you, though; his one act could have ended the whole wide world.
*Germany*
Avon: *In German* We are almost there.
Hubert's Thoughts: I want to cause mischief and escape but the world will end if I do that.
*Canada*
Kirk: Don't ban him. He's not a threat to Canada.
*Vietnam*
Anh: *In Vietnamese* You should stay at home inside and drink plenty of cold drinks or cold water then.
Civilian 1: *In Vietnamese* Its stormy and rainy outside anyways. That's why there's no traffic and people outside.
Civilian 2: *In Vietnamese* Get something cold and refreshing like chè or boba tea then.
*Italy*
Antonio: *In Italian* It would've been a disaster if that happened and everything we hold dear will be gone!
Armando: *In Italian* Unfortunately, he's a Dissident like me and knowing him, he can be quite a troll.
*Norway*
Glass Wing: *In Norwegian* Hubert is part of your group. Aren't you going to punish him before he pulls another stunt that could end our world?
Espen: *In Norwegian* I don't want to be too harsh on him but I'm going to suspend him from using the internet until August. Problem is that he may find loopholes because we Dissidents are known to exploit loopholes.
Glass Wing: *In Norwegian* Avon could get in contact with Hubert's ISP (internet service provider) and ask to suspend his internet until August. He can also put a tracking brace on Hubert's ankle and order him to be on a curfew so he can't sneak out in the night. That would be a very appropriate punishment for him.
Icebreaker: *In Norwegian* I agree that his internet needs to be suspended until August and that he should be monitored with a tracking ankle brace and remind him about his curfew. 2100 hours is when he needs to be home and 700 hours is when he can leave his home.
Espen: *In Norwegian* Lucky for him, he's very close to work so he has plenty of time to be there. He usually works from home though since more jobs are going to the telecommuting route. But because of this incident, I will have him show up at work in person until August. And how is Leiel the Nordic Lion?
Icebreaker: *In Norwegian* Not good thanks to one of your members from Belgium thinking it would be funny to lead a mass trolling operation that would drive all of Brazil and their people into madness over Neymar.
Glass Wing: *In Norwegian* I don't want this world to end. Norway is too beautiful to die.
Civilian 1: *In Norwegian* Wienerpølse! Come line up and get your wienerpølse!
Civilian 2: *In Norwegian* We may not be known for football, but I do agree this mass trolling over Neymar needs to stop. They may think it's funny but when one lion pops a gasket, we all die!
Civilian 3: *In Norwegian* Thanks to Hubert, I'm not going to see Leiel at the beach with me at Stavanger! He has to stay home and recover and possibly take some medicine!
Fiddle Cat: *In Norwegian* I hope this is the last time he'll do that again.
*Saudi Arabia*
Riyadh City Intercom: *In Arabic* There is a heat warning put in place. Do not drive your vehicle and always store them inside. Drink plenty of water and stay indoors as much as you can and use the skybridges. All taxi businesses are to refrain from conducting business until the heat warning expires. Always use the mass transit systems underground to get around. The heat warning will be put in place indefinitely. Thank you for your cooperation with the city of Riyadh.
Civilian 1: *In Arabic* Haidar the Saudi Lion isn't feeling too good not because we didn't make the World Cup but because a Belgian sergal decided to step up his trolling game against Brazil over Neymar. This is why his punishment is the march of shame.
Civilian 2: *In Arabic* How uncivilized! A clown like him shall never visit our lovely kingdom!
Civilian 3: *In Arabic* We are Saudis; we only cheer for our teams. We do not troll others over petty things. We don't even troll the Iranians despite our rivalry with them.
Civilian 4: *In Arabic* We need to check on Haidar regularly to make sure he's okay or else we get a nurse to be his home aide.
Civilian 5: *In Arabic* I checked on him and he just needs to rest.
*Armenia*
Varteni: *In Armenian after words of Hubert's march of shame reaches Armenia.* Oh wow what a troll! No wonder why Levon needs to rest!
Civilian 1: *In Armenian* Guess Hubert forgot how to "love thy neighbor" not "troll thy neighbor".
Civilian 2: *In Armenian* Yes Neymar sucks but this trolling could have meant the end of our world! We made it this far so we can live life comfortably and safely but nope! Hubert almost destroyed all of humanity's progress because he thinks it's funny to troll the Brazilians up to high heaven to the point that people will be literally screaming for Jesus Christ to come and take them before the world ends.
Civilian 3: *In Armenian* Well the world ended once. We were there. But it wasn't our fault. It's always the foreigners of the west looking to stir up trouble these days. Hubert is one of them.
*Germany*
*Eventually the band reaches their destination, and they are ordered to halt. Hubert is still ordered to hold his rifle, but the drum is taken off his back. This is because the band decides to play the German national anthem.*
*Canada*
Levi P.: Duly noted. I can feel his pain, though; I'm having to take cough medicine now. *He does so according to the doctor's orders.* There we go.
*He writes an entry in his journal.*
*Italy*
*Leonardo goes inside his home to rest.*
*elsewhere around the world*
*Other parallels feeling under the weather rest.*
*Germany*
*The civilians stand and sing their anthem in German. Afterwards, they cheer but when they see Hubert, everything goes quiet as they step aside out of fear of angering Luitpold if they socialize with Hubert.*
Hubert: *In German* Uhm... Okay. Can I-
Avon: *In German* Wait until your superior says you can rest first.
*Canada*
Kirk: You should rest then Levi.
*Iceland*
Civilian 1: *In Icelandic* I hope Leonhard is going to be alright. We would never do anything that would make him mad. But it doesn't help that he's spiritually and emotionally connected to the other parallels.
Civilian 2: *In Icelandic* We're Icelandic people; we have zero control over what happens outside our homeland.
Civilian 3: *In Icelandic* What Hubert did is an example of how not to behave at football. Football is supposed to be about fun and all. Sure what Neymar did was wrong but what Hubert did however, was it worth the risk of fanning the flames? He could have gotten all of Brazil on his tail and the parallels would blow their tops off and we know what happens from there.
Civilian 4: *In Icelandic* We didn't have all this modern stuff that we have today. We never took the internet for granted because we don't use it to troll other people like Hubert does. We didn't even have modular apartments like we do today. We didn't even have a loft until recently. Even our national capital wasn't a city until very recently. Some of us still remember when our capital was just a tiny little town. What I'm trying to say is that people should not take our world for granted today.
Civilian 5: *In Icelandic* Yup! Funny thing is that to this day, foreigners still ask us if its cold all year round and if our country is always covered in ice and snow. They got it right on the earlier but the later, not always though we do have moments of that.
Civilian 6: *In Icelandic* I think we still need to check up on Leonhard since everybody here knows him personally.
Guitar Guardian: *In Icelandic* Relax and he will be fine. Nothing to get stressed over. Just leave him alone a bit and he'll join us again. We may not have control over what happens outside of our nation but as long we continue to behave as a proper society, that's all that matters the most.
*Canada*
Levi P.: I will.
*He goes inside to rest.*
*Germany*
Luitpold: *in German* At ease, Hubert. *to the citizens* Nicely done; keep your distance. I'm not saying you can't talk to him, but what you say may still anger me. I had the band play the national anthem to represent the conclusion of this portion of the march of shame. When he finally reaches Belgium, the same thing will happen; the bands will play their national anthem.
*Iceland*
*Leonhard rests in his bedroom, but writes a journal entry to jot this thoughts down. In it, he states he looks forward to the next time he gets to march with the Drumbums since there's now a whole lot more of them.*
*Germany*
Hubert: *Relaxes and puts his rifle down and speaks in German.* Oh yeah Belgium would be finally home for me after I march myself to Brussels. I don't know how my people would react but all I want them to know is that at least we won third place in the World Cup and that's better than losing to England.
Civilian 1: *In German* But your antics though... That could have been the last World Cup on Earth. Do you really want to end our world like that?
Civilian 2: *In German* Our pastries, our art, technology, sports, the environment that we helped take care of and clean up our messes from our early days of modernism, we worked so hard to make Earth as close to a utopia this far. We eliminated poverty, pollution, and deforestation at least. We even perfected thorium power and improved solar power with better solar panels so we can have infinite energy without hurting the environment. We also made our infrastructure and devices more efficient with better quality. And the best part, desks have built in computer parts in them where desks double as computers these days which are being mass-produced around the world! We, as a global species of people, helped improved our global economy to keep things going and improving. And how long have we enjoyed this? Probably less than a decade. And your antics could have destroyed all of these progresses we made!
Civilian 3: *In German* Berlin was built and destroyed multiple times throughout its history until recently! Your antics could have reversed everything we made so far! And if you did this again, you will never see our signature pastries in Berlin ever again!
Civilian 4: *In German* Family life is a lot better and more fun these days. We only ask you for one thing; please be a good example and never be a troll again.
Hubert: *In German* I don't want this world destroyed. We have to keep improving to prove that we can handle anything. And of course, we want to have lots of fun too. And kitchen appliances these days are a lot more convenient. Oh and those automated restaurants in the train stations? They are way more fun, convenient, and much cleaner than McDonald's! They are a satisfying sight to see since they do all the work serving lots of people at once as much as possible. In Brussels, there's a cafe that doubles as a mini-factory for waffles and coffee. I place my order before I go inside and get my meal fresh and tasty there for a lot less with more value these days.
Civilian 5: *In German* Well, thanks to the Swedes, I own an unmanned store. Gotta love how the world moves without repetitive human labor these days. Critics say it steals job yet its part of humanity's survival and its written in our genes to maximize production and efficiency as much as possible. Customer service agents are still in high demand since they require a person behind them to call or even just instant message. The best part about them is that they don't need too much training or experience; just train them if they're new, get them to remember their stuff, and go. Most young workers these days work at home doing the instant messaging of customer service for most companies. Lot more comfy than working at fast food right?
Hubert: *In German* Of course and modular homes are cheaper and better too! Amazing how far we came these days.
Civilian 5: *In German* Now don't screw all of this up Hubert because this almost could have been the last time you will ever appreciate such things in today's lifestyle again! Now go get yourself some rest in that hotel.
Hubert: *In German* Know of any good places I can eat?
Civilian 5: *In German* The place you will be sleeping in. This is a punishment march after all. You're lucky that you're staying in a hotel where you can simply call up the front desk or a customer service agent who will relay the message to the hotel kitchen to get your food served to you! You're not supposed to be going to places to socialize with us anyways. Luitpold knows that pleasure comes way after your punishment. If this is what he wants for you, so shall be it!
Hubert: *In German* Great...
*The band enters the hotel to unload in their rooms.*
Avon: *In German to Hubert.* You are so lucky. The Krieglandonians had to camp outside! In their world, no one marched between cities to rest at their inns and hotels. You know how fortunate you are to be born in this world? In this world we call Earth, is a world of automated productivity and constant pleasures of life. And yet, in most countries, people are conscripted into the military to help maintain their reserves for defensive readiness. But in worlds like Kriegland when they used to exist, conscripts were sent to the battlefield. Here on Earth these days, soldiers can volunteer to partake in battles and conscripts can just stay on their home soil and help maintain military equipment and defensive capabilities. On top of that, even trade workers on Earth live relative luxurious lives compared to those like from Kriegland. Earth's construction workers use large advanced 3D printing systems to build their buildings for them with better quality. Nearly every job on Earth involved the use of a computer these days that can do the job of a thousand men. You don't know how lucky you are to be born here and yet your antics could have nearly destroyed thousands of years worth of progress that got us here today!
Hubert: *In German* I know... But it was just a joke. I will never understand why.
Avon: *In German* A joke that could have costed the world. Once we return to Belgium, you owe an apology to not only our people, but also to everybody in Brazil on live video at the podium in Brussels. You also owe an apology to Neymar as well. And you can still speak in Dutch, French, or German, though I prefer Dutch, there since translators are already provided for both sides.
Hubert: *In German* That's a lot to think about.
Avon: *In German* That's the point. When you rest tonight, think about how you will apologize to the Belgians and Brazilians over your antics as well as apologizing to Neymar for your trolling. Also think about everything you hold dear and appreciate in your daily life that could have been gone if Lieven bellowed and our world gets destroyed because of you.
Hubert: *In German* Fine... This is really tough for me... Guess some jokes aren't just worth it.
*Eterna*
Chuong: *Is lazing around on his bed at his vacation home.* You just had to learn the hard way don't you Hubert? If Lieven said to stop, he had good reasons on why he wants you to stop. But you had to keep going didn't you?
Luckily, you didn't destroy our world otherwise you would be held accountable over billions of lives because you wanted to troll the entire nation of Brazil into heaven over Neymar. I shall return home to Vietnam once Juno and Zax are checked out and good to go after their exposure to CNG.
*Germany*
Luitpold: *to Hubert in German* Some will forgive you and some will not. All I know is there's debate as to whether to charge you a huge fine and who to pay.
Hubert: *In German* Why would you want to charge me with a huge fine? Did I commit a crime or something? I am very sure I did nothing wrong here in Germany!
Avon: *In German to Luitpold* I don't think charging people fines is your duty since that's usually the duty of the courts and law enforcement authorities like the police. Hubert has not committed any crimes back in Russia to now. However, had he proceeded with his trolling antics in Russia, he could have been charged for disorderly conduct and possibly property destruction back in Russia if the Brazilians respond by rioting.
Hubert: *In German* Yeah. Cut me some slack will you please? I know how things work too myself and this whole marching thing is enough as it is.
Avon: *In German* Well I'm the one directly involved in government affairs and stuff unlike you. You're not even in the military like me.
Hubert: *In German* You do realize I have hacked into government agencies before right? I can always do that again in say the Western Republic of Ireland if they continue to take in illegals from Britain. Without us Dissidents, illegals would be everywhere and the cases of human trafficking would worsen. All I have to do is sneak in to a Ministry of Interior Affairs at least or whatever their equivalents are, enter their immigration systems, and enable automatic detection of illegal immigrants and run without leaving a trace behind. Once that system goes off, automated messages warning about illegal immigrants in the area will be automatically broadcasted and their soldiers will respond to them by conducting immigration raids on several buildings to haul illegals into their recall pods and have them sent back. That's all I have to do.
Avon: *In German* Is that so?
Hubert: *In German* Yup and thanks to INTERPOL's technologies, its easier to spot who's a wanted criminal coming in to the country and who isn't. If a person wanted for a felony is on the run and is trying to say flee to Thailand, Thai customs agents can simply pull up their criminal record and see that they are wanted in their home country so they would immediately send them back. And that's how the Thai city of Pattaya is no longer the city of perversion of trafficking and booze. These days, nobody knows that Pattaya was once a criminal hideout as well as a place for drunkards and prostitutes. There were so many bars before but now, they all have been replaced with buildings from clinics to sustainable factories like clothing made from bamboo to factories that produce items made from hemp.
Avon: *In German* Same could be said of Amsterdam these days when it was once known for their infamous Red Light District.
Hubert: *In German* Because we Dissidents shut down the prostitution rings and these days on Earth, cases of prostitution is rare but in most countries, they're nonexistent. Even in Las Vegas in America, prostitution is nonexistent there. Why do that when people can work in hemp producing factories to make quality sustainable products instead? Crops like hemp brings big money and keeps the economy going and everybody is safe.
Avon: *In German* Yeah but remember Hubert, despite the good things you have done before that, you still have to suffer the punishment because you did not listen to Lieven when he told you to stop trolling. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. But remember this Hubert; once we get home in Belgium, I will have your ISP cancel your internet until August and with the Belgian government's permission, put a tracking ankle bracelet on you until August.
Hubert: *In German* Are you serious, Avon? Why are you doing this to me!
Avon: *In German* So you don't sneak out and do stupid things. You need discipline. You can survive without them until August and I know you will find something else productive outside of work. Trust me in this.
Hubert: *In German* Great... There goes all my nightly fun until August... No gaming either... I am going to be so bored in my loft! Cleaning isn't going to help much either.
Avon: *In German* You can make videos of yourself doing things like cooking. You just can't upload your videos through the internet on social media until August. Also, with the ankle bracelet on you, I will have a curfew enforced on you. You are to be home between 2100 and 700 hours at least.
Hubert: *In German with a slight groan.* Fine... I'll deal with that after my march of shame is done.
Luitpold: *in German* No, I only said there were rumors a fine was going to be imposed. I don't have the authority to issue that fine, nor do I know who gets the money, Avon. However, you said everything I was about to say, regarding the ban on the internet until next month, and the ankle bracelet.
Avon: *In German* And that right there is a bit much but appropriate for his punishment since they're not extreme. *To Hubert in German.* Get going and rest up.
*Hubert proceeds to unload his stuff in his hotel room before bathing himself before relaxing in his room.*
Hubert: *In German to himself.* Just one more of this trip Hubert. You got this. Belgium isn't too far away. Gosh this marching sucks! Might as well just roll with it! How do people like Corps Coon get used to this ridiculous amount of marching outside when we live in the future these days?! He could walk across Japan and never get tired one bit! Even Japanese parades only go from one side of the city to the other. I'd rather do the Gloucestershire cheese roll challenge instead of this and at least that's a tradition in that part of England!
Corps Coon: (narrating) How do I get used to it? I was born to march to the music, for one thing. But I probably wouldn't have unlimited stamina if CNG hadn't exposed me. The same is true for all my pals who belong to the G-52 Drum & Bugle Corps.
Luitpold: *to Avon in German* Don't let him lose his concentration or that rifle.
Avon: *In German* I won't and judging by the hotel's architectural designs, I doubt Hubert will sneak away without being caught. He should be able to just get a good night's rest and get plenty of his energy back before we continue marching the next day.
Luitpold: *in German* Sounds good.
*Everybody rests up in their hotel as Hubert sleeps and mumbles to himself in German.*
Hubert: *In German* How will I survive under my punishments? I know! Maybe I can work with my architecture friends part-time for extra money and maybe help design transparent walls that also double as donation boxes as well as a Plinko board for coins! That's right! Some train stations have those along with hospitals, hotels, and other places of business! Plinko walls that take coins in for donations! Since the American G-52s love game shows, I'm sure they will love Plinko and my ideas of putting that idea into great use as walls that double as donation boxes for currency coins! Hah I'm a genius! Plinko donation boxes that double as walls will encourage more people to donate to causes like providing extra resources for children with autism and extra money for research on autism! They may take away my internet, but at least I have my CADD programs for real life and the virtual world! Maybe just one or two more marches and I'll be finally home in Belgium! Home sweet home! *Rests up and snoozes on his bed.* Freshest sheets and very comfy mattress ever!
*Bulgaria*
Ice Jaguar: *In Bulgarian to Grozdan* You don't seem happy as usual. What happened?
Grozdan: *In Bulgarian* One of our own members in the Dissidents has to do the march of shame because he thought it would be funny to disobey Lieven by plotting his trolling plans in his hotel room back in Russia. There's a reason why Lieven asked him to stop first but he didn't listen. He has no idea what he could have done to Earth after all the progresses humanity on Earth has made so far as a whole to get us where we are at today and to our promised future. We are so close to our promised future but terror groups like GSAF and even Neo Britannica are holding us back.
Radko: *In Bulgarian* I know that feeling.
Grozdan: *In Bulgarian* The feeling of fear of how one's stupid antics could have ended the entire world. Lieven, Laurencio, oh and even Lyuben too since he's spiritually connected to the other parallels. Yes Neymar sucks we get it but my goodness Hubert did not listen when he was asked to stop trolling him. The same applies to his fellow Belgian fans too who thought it would be funny to keep trolling Neymar with their pugs and their other antics. Radko, you know what the end of the world means right? No cat videos on the internet, no watching satisfying automated robotics perform repetitive tasks without breaking down 24/7, no working from home jobs, no modular apartment units, no underground maglev trains, no automated logistics, no ordering online from the internet, no farming towers, no environmental sustainability initiatives, no farming towers for honeybees to mass produce honey in a humane way for them, everything that provides us infinite production without consequences along with more pleasures in our lives. Bulgaria wasn't caught up with the world like this not too long ago.
Radko: *In Bulgarian* No cat videos? No dog videos? How can Hubert be so oblivious to the consequences despite Lieven's warning and the fact that Laurencio was with the Brazilians at the time?! If Laurencio saw the Belgians and Hubert troll against Brazil during their game, that could mean the end of the world when they blow their tops off!
Grozdan: *In Bulgarian* Exactly! Nobody takes the pleasures we have today for granted! Most countries, including Bulgaria, still have their conscription laws enforced because someone has to defend their country to continue the pleasures we have today from all of this. After high school, people get drafted but only to serve as home reserve units these days for a year or two. Thank heavens conscripts aren't forced off to war these days and they let volunteering soldiers go first. I wished Hubert understand this that we aren't defending our world in vain; each and every single one of us still have a responsibility to defend our world by defending our countries first and reminding each other that nothing is taken for granted and if a parallel says to stop, then stop! There are good reasons behind this.
Radko: *In Bulgarian* True. Lyuben the Resilient Lion will recover in no time! There's a reason why he's called Lyuben the Resilient Lion. Like our country from the past, he will eventually recover.
*Germany*
*next day*
*The band and Hubert line up again in their formation. Hubert again holds the rifle and has the drum on his back accordingly.*
Lion Drummer: *in Dutch* Forward, march!
*The parade begins again. The bands play Belgian tunes.*
*Germany*
Hubert: *In German* Waaaaaah; I just wanna go home already.
Avon: *In German* You will if you stop complaining.
Luitpold: Exactly; not another word out of you now. You're getting closer anyways.
*Belgium*
*Later, Hubert finally arrives in Brussels and the band finally comes to a halt at Avon's command.*
Avon: *In Dutch* Company, halt! At ease! *In Dutch to the curious civilians.* I see you have some words you wanted to say to Hubert and his fans here in Brussels. How appropriate here in our capital. Let's see what you have to say.
Civilian 1: *In Dutch* You're a funny guy Hubert but that wasn't worth the risk of ending our world. I understand how you felt when we had to face the Brazilians in Russia at the time when they unfairly beat the Mexicans. But you didn't have to plot your massive trolling plans against the Brazilians.
Civilian 2: *In Dutch* I haven't seen Lieven for days since you decided to disobey him. Do you realize what you could've done?
Civilian 3: *In Dutch* Imagine life without waffles. Imagine life without dreams. Is that what you wanted Hubert? I have children! Four beautiful children of my own for Belgium! I run a shop around town here.
Civilian 4: *In Dutch* Hey you go to my cafe because you enjoy my waffles made with Belgian beer batter. Its one of the best waffles you could ever have on Earth. Too bad that could've been your last waffle in your life.
Civilian 5: *In Dutch* Hubert! I'm a science teacher and people like you make teaching science fun to kids! I got students telling me they want to grow up to be a director in IT security for a company because of people like you! If this world got destroyed because of you and Lieven blowing his top off, that kid is never going to obtain his dreams! Please Hubert; think of the children of Belgium! Learn to set an example to others here! You may be a hacker, but you're also one of us!
Civilian 6: *In Dutch* Come on Hubert I didn't become successful from my craft beer brewery for nothing. You know darn well that Belgium is known for beer and we get tourists for that. Not only that, Belgium is one of the world's major exporters of fine beer. And no I don't sell them to people who just want to drink. I got top chefs buying my products as ingredients for their stuff! We're talking about top pastry chefs here from around the world even as those as far as from Japan! I have a business to run so I can live my life! Do your part by not ticking Lieven off by being a huge troll!
Civilian 7: *In Dutch* Yes what Neymar did was wrong. But why would you do this when Lieven asked you to stop? Come on now! I haven't seen Lieven for a while! Do you realize you almost destroyed Earth?!
Civilian 8: *In Dutch* Hubert, life is a mess as it is with these terrorists! Do you really want to drag all of us to hell because of you wanting to be a troll? Please! You gotta pay attention! Earth needs these parallels to stay calm! You need them and Earth to live! Please have some decency and don't roll around like a pug because Neymar did it!
Hubert: *In Dutch* I'm sorry, fellow Belgians. You guys are great people and you bring a lot of life to this country. And I'm happy to see that we have our own Belgian parallel, Lieven the Burgundian Lion, with us to see the progress we have made as a nation and our ways that defined us in our world. The artistry to our dedication to science is what makes us one of Earth's most inspiring nations. I do love the nightlife here too and its not just here in Brussels. I'm from Liege and its nice too. However, before I give my apology speeches, can all of you make sure Lieven is here in Brussels? He must be present before I give my speech at the stadium. With the power of the internet, I want all parallels to pay attention to my speech because I never intend to wish any harm on anyone; not even the people of Brazil or Neymar. I wanted them to understand why I did the things I did but how we can continue to enjoy life without endangering the health of these wonderful lions.
Avon: *In Dutch* Lieven! Are you here anywhere? The city of Brussels called; they want you at Hubert's speech!
Civilian 9: *In Dutch as he rides on his bicycle around.* Hey look for Lieven!
Civilian 10: *In Dutch* On my way!
*Lieven arrives after the civilian on the bicycle finds him. Nobody had seen him return from his Eternal house to Earth. He goes to the podium where Hubert is to make his apology.*
Lieven: *in Dutch* Hello, Belgium. I have returned. Well, returned from hiding, that is. I can confirm every single parallel, including the greatest of us all, the American lion, is watching this right now. You all saw what he did. You saw his march of shame, coming home on foot all the way from Russia. However, I have one request. Before Hubert gives his apology, please rise for our national anthem.
*Hubert's marching punishment is complete with the drum taken off his back, but he still has to hold the rifle over his shoulder and salute in the proper manner as the band plays the anthem. He does so. After the national anthem, everybody cheers and wave their Belgian national flags before Hubert and his fellow fans line up behind the podium with their pugs before Hubert gives his speech.*
Hubert: *In Dutch behind the podium after Lieven steps aside.* Hello Belgium. I know what I did was wrong but I thought it would be funny at first. The story behind thing began when Neymar rolled and faked his injuries during their match against Mexico and again with their match against us. It was annoying and cheap so when the Mexicans began to troll the Brazilians, my fans and I joined in because that was whom we are going to face. It was our way of sympathizing with the Mexicans and the world joined in on this. We wanted to remind Neymar that his antics are not acceptable but we didn't do so properly. Neymar, if you're watching this, understand that you are one of the most talented people in our world we call Earth. Heck! You are way more talented and loved than I am. But don't waste them in your theatrics since you're better than this. The same could be said of your team in general too and we really look forward to seeing you in Japan in the upcoming Olympics. You are way better than this and you deserve respect. You got a huge fan club too so set an example to them please since you got talents and a huge future ahead of you.
We Belgians do not wish anything ill or negative on the people of Brazil. We don't even hate your country. You have the best party places in the world and you know how to have fun. You have a lot of beautiful men and women too whom the world looks up to as well. You got great footballers and we want to let you know that we do recognize their talents as well.
I also want to apologize for getting my fellow fans to adopt pugs in Russia for the sole purpose of trolling Neymar first before keeping them as new additions to their families. We did get carried away by posting online videos of our pugs rolling on command to "Neymar!" and "Roll like Neymar!" because like everybody else, we were annoyed by his theatrics alone. Like I said, we hold nothing against him as a person; just his theatrics alone. Despite the fact that we have Neymar dog jerseys for these pugs, we are not treating Neymar like an animal. We have made comparisons of him rolling around like a pug but we know he's human too.
I also used a 3D printer in my hotel room to produce a rolling Neymar toy with the intent to show off in public during our match for laughs but Lieven confiscated it and disposed it. I just didn't want people to win through cheating because we Belgians are only used to taking on opponents with honour. I hope Brazil learns from this so they can do better in Japan then Qatar soon.
I wished I knew how a joke like this could end our world if taken too far. What I did was indeed disrespectful to not only to Lieven and his parallels but also to the people of Brazil. Once again Brazil, I apologize and good luck in winning in Japan.
We Belgians hold no grudges to anyone because we live to enjoy life and contribute to keep our productivity going. I want to let you Brazilians know that you are more than welcome to visit our country but know that we are way more than just beer, waffles, and to a degree, especially in Brussels, hipsters. Just like how I see that Brazil is way more than just beautiful women, beaches, Carnival, and football.
We all have celebrated what was needed in this year. I don't know what happens next but I ask that we move on from this and enjoy the rest of this year. So once again, on behalf of Belgium and our fans who took part of my mass trolling plans, I am sorry for almost causing a global chain reaction of destruction by making Lieven mad with my antics. Please pray for the health of these lions.
*The civilians clap as Hubert steps aside.*
Avon: *In Dutch to Lieven* Did you want to say something?
*Brazil*
*Portuguese translations of the speech is provided.*
Civilian 1: *In Portuguese* That's all good man. I'm planning to visit Belgium over Christmas anyways but yeah beer and waffles man!
Civilian 2: *In Portuguese* No. Its beer batter waffles these days.
Civilian 3: *In Portuguese* No hard feelings Hubert. Neymar needed that wakeup call anyways.
Civilian 4: *In Portuguese* See you in Tokyo, Japan in 2020 too!
*Belgium*
Lieven: *in Dutch at the podium* I now wish to say that on behalf of the nation, I accept his apology. I don't want anything like this to ever happen again from anybody, anytime, anywhere. One stupid prank will end the world; that's a guarantee. I hope I didn't overreact when I confiscated and destroyed his toy. I also took away the 3D printer he used to make it and destroyed it; that's how angry I was. Then I disappeared to save myself from any further doom. So that's what I have to apologize to you for, Hubert.
*The slides that are shown prove that this is true.*
Lieven: *in Dutch* Please forgive me for that. No hard feelings?
Hubert: *In Dutch* Understandable but you kinda went overboard with the 3D printer but that's alright. I'm not too mad. Good thing I have access to a 3D printer with wireless access but Avon is going to have my internet service provider cut off my internet until next month which is going to suck.
Avon: *In Dutch* Yeah. Surprised you didn't mention how you wanted to order a Neymar dakimakura from Japan for laughs.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Dude that's inappropriate though! These days bored dudes would be running around in anime conventions with them holding dakimakuras up in the air for the world to see and laugh at.
Avon: *In Dutch* Yeah well at least you didn't place the order for a Neymar one straight from Japan for laughs because that act would've guaranteed the end of our world.
Lieven: *in Dutch* Then all is forgiven, provided it never happens again. To conclude this presentation, our bands will play the national anthem of the World Cup winners: France.
*The Forsythians play the French anthem. The citizens sing it to show respect to the French, and the people in France watching the event on live TV or a live stream also sing along. All people clap after the anthem ends.*
Lieven: (narrating in English) So the punishment was complete. I'm not willing to tell anybody, not even Hubert, how I destroyed his stuff, but it was the angriest I'd ever been in years. Hubert's distance from Russia to our homeland was way longer than the distance marched by anybody else that had to undergo a Forsythian marching punishment, be it Zachary Chandler or the Demons of Heaven. As promised, his internet was cut off and he had to undergo a curfew. Still upset with myself with the way I behaved, however, I did the same thing to myself. At least my people knew I was home. The memory of the trolling still haunts my dreams to this day, because that's how karma works.
Still, the tale has been told, and the lessons to be learned are to be learned by the world. If you really don't want to end, world, behave yourselves, and keep your stupid thoughts and actions to yourself!
THE END
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Marching Punishments: Hubert Van Retbergern
Leonce the Romantic Lion: (narrating in English) Hello, and good day to all of you. You know me as Leonce the Romantic Lion, Leo the Patriotic Lion's French counterpart. It's been a few months since FIFA ended, but since we have tendecies to narrate these adventures at random, we thank you for your patience. The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an interesting one to some folks because the United States men's team didn't even make it. Canada's team didn't make it, and neither did Italy's. Part of me does want to see the men win it for the USA because they've never done it. Ever. The women, by contrast, have done it several times since the first one was played in 1995. That's how you can always tell who is playing when you have these things happening every four years; the men's FIFA World Cup happens the same year as the Olympic Winter Games. The following year has the Women's World Cup. The year after that has the Olympic Summer Games (which helps Americans get their minds off the elections and everything that goes with that), and the year after that has the fascinating World Baseball Classic, which the United States has won.
But the World Cup sadly didn't happen without any scandals, because we literally can't do anything without a scandal and/or terrorists showing up; likewise, Danger Dawg's roller derby league always has somebody trying to turn his legimate sport into a three-ring circus. This was a scandal worth noting, however; what you have to bear in mind is that because all us parallels of Leo are spirtually connected to him, endangering one's health endangers everybody's health. If one dies, we all die, and the world dies with it, falling to a heartless attack just as it did before. (When the world was resurrected, it acted and felt as if nothing happened, because that's the way a time paradox works.)
So what was the scandal, then? Well, Brazil has a football (soccer to you Americans) player with the last name of Neymar, who is infamous for faking injuries to stall for time. Crush, however, has shown time and time again that he has no bias, and if you fake an injury like that, he'll give you a red card. (He'll do the same to any skater playing roller derby, but that's less likely to happpen because there are plenty of injuries that come with roller skating.) Indeed, Neymar got a red card. That didn't stop Hubert Van Retbergen, a Belgian member of the Dissidents, from trolling him and starting a viral internet meme; the meme consisted of teaching pugs to roll around like Neymar. Lieven (the Belgian parallel) lost his temper, and confiscated the belongings in question (some of which he also destroyed). An agreement was made that the Forsythians would enact a marching punishment on Hubert if the red devils (the Belgian football team) lost a crucial game, where he would literally travel on foot from Russia all the way home to Belgium. Lieven went to Eterna (home of the white kitten named Zanta) for counseling since he lost his temper and endanger the health of all those other lions, including yours truly.
This journal entry solely highlights the marching punishment and nothing else (mind you we won't be telling you everything), but to tell it to you properly, we need to go back to the beginning.
*Russia*
*France celebrates a 1-0 win over Belgium, winning a key game in the tournament.*
Super C: Uh-oh. The red devils couldn't pull it off. Sorry, Hubert, but I think you know what's coming next, don't you?
*Eterna*
*Some G-52s have gone to check on Lieven.*
Lieven: He's going to have to march like a soldier all the way home. But the karma is also going to strike me because I lost my temper with him, and I destroyed his toys and his 3D printer.
Monarch Major: No; I think the act was justified. I would have done the exact same thing. The whole Forsythe system shares one universal code of morals; Kriegland's just the planet that tends to take it too far.
Lieven: What planet are you from, then?
Monarch Major: Leonine. I was their king at the time of the planet's end.
Chuong: St. Petersburg to Belgium is about little more than enough right there as it is. But even that, the punishment Neymar's fans face must be much worse. If anyone is going to march 4,000 km at least, it would be the Brazilian fans who displayed unsportsmanlike conduct over Belgium beating them. So many of those Brazilians used so much profanity, I could hear them from here in Eterna and I don't even have super-hearing abilities!
*Russia*
Hubert: *Is crying.* Yes I know... I am so not looking forward to this...
Avon: *In Dutch* If Lieven caught you crying, he'd make it worse on you.
*Later, Hubert and the Belgian fans who participated in the Neymar trolling incident lined up with the Krieglandonian-Belgians. Even the pugs are lined up in formation.*
Hubert: *In Dutch* So if King Leo is not the one beating the drum behind me, then who will?
Avon: *In Dutch* Who cares? *Picks up a bass drum with a note attached on it. The note contains instructions in Dutch on how it should be worn. He reads them a bit* Okay. Have subject remain standing and have him wear it like a backpack. Then tighten rope to make sure drum rests snugly against the subject's back so the drum will not move around when subject is marching. This should be easy. *To Hubert in Dutch.* Are you ready?
Hubert: *In Dutch* No; I'll never be ready! I wanna go home already, play my games, and work on projects with my friends!
Avon: *In Dutch* Well, too bad. If you are a sergal who is not afraid to enter unauthorized areas to hack into servers, then you are not afraid to do this.
Hubert: *In Dutch* You do realize that I have no military experience, right? Just because I'm fit and slender doesn't mean I'm from the military! Even if I was, this would be torturous to me!
Avon: *In Dutch* What are you talking about? I had to literally run with 7 kg of stuff on my back in basic training! You're just marching with 7kg of this bass drum on your back!
Hubert: *In Dutch* From St. Petersburg to Brussels yeah right! Fine. Do what you need to do.
Avon: *In Dutch* Don't move or pull any tricks. I'm a UN1024 and I will know before you even do that. Arms out first. *Hubert spreads his arms out as he puts the bass drum on Hubert and tightens the rope to secure the bass drum on his back.* Arms down. *Hubert then puts his arms down as Avon picks up an M1 Garand rifle. He notices another note on the rifle in Dutch and reads it quietly before giving it to Hubert.* Hold it like this. Before we start, according to the note, it says hold your rifle out in front of you with arms straight out.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Okay. *Holds the M1 Garand rifle out with both arms straight out.* Oh my gosh, Avon! It's heavy! I can't hold it like this!
Avon: *In Dutch* That's the point. Now hold it back as you were.
Hubert: *In Dutch after holding his rifle back into its original position.* This is what rifles were back then? And this is what it means to hold a ceremonial rifle, too?!
Avon: *In Dutch* Exactly. The reason why they are popular as ceremonial rifles is because of the story and history behind them. Those who carry them today in ceremonial duties carry the burden of the troops who died before them so they can live to perform their current duties.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Avon, I'm seriously going to march from St. Petersburg to Brussels holding this heavy thing diagonally like this?
Avon: *In Dutch* Yup with a lion pounding the drum on your back.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I think this is overdoing it a bit. And what kind of materials is this rifle made from? No wonder why today's combat weapons use military grade polymer blends instead of sheer metal and wood at least!
Avon: *In Dutch* Hubert, I'm sure your father and your grandfather can handle this.
Hubert: *In Dutch* They were just draftees then. At the end, most people in my family were medical scientists and doctors!
Avon: *In Dutch* We all have a burden to carry. We cannot take things for granted. Now stop whining and good luck! *To the Krieglandonian-Belgians in Dutch.* We need a lion drummer behind Hubert as per Lieven's request.
*Eterna*
Lieven: *in French* You have a point there.
*Russia*
*A lion drummer steps forward and takes the bass drum mallets. Forsythian soldiers and band members line up in formation and begin a drum roll, and eventually a cadence.*
Krieglandonian-Belgian Lion 1: *in Dutch* Forward, march!
*The parade begins.*
Hubert: *In Dutch as he marches with his rifle as the lion beats the drum on his back.* Oh my gosh; what the heck?! Is this what Krieglandonians do on a daily basis?!
Avon: *In Dutch* Shut up, Hubert!
Hubert: *In Dutch* It's barely a quarter of a kilometer and already I feel like I'm gonna break!
Avon: *In Dutch* Whatever you do, do not drop that rifle.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Which country are we going to? Because I don't want to embarrass myself with the border guards with too many countries! They all hate my guts because I'm a hacker!
Avon: *In Dutch* They'll understand and we're marching to Belarus.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Belarus?!?! Oh no that is a scary country! They monitor your social media activities like crazy and its so dark and foggy there! Beautiful country but scary country! I don't want to meet Liavon the Authoritarian Lion at the border in Belarus! He's scary and-
Avon: *In Dutch* You sure like to complain a lot don't you? You never complained about the risks of being a hacker let alone possible retaliations from those Brazilians if you were to proceed with your trolling plans.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I hope Belarus has a good resting spot for us. Even the pugs are whimpering. I hope Belarus has good food before we continue marching to Poland; the land of pierogis. Poland; the real European country that truly sets an example to all European countries for them to learn from. My arms are shaking I think.
Avon: *In Dutch* Focus and don't drop that rifle! As for the pugs, they will be fine. Same with your fellow fans who thought it would be funny to be part of your mass trolling plot against the Brazilians.
Hubert: *In Dutch* What if I drop the rifle?
Avon: *In Dutch* You don't want to know. Keep marching to the border with Belarus. I'm a nice pink foxy so just think about pierogis in Poland and you'll be fine. Trust me.
Hubert: *In Dutch as he whimpers as he holds on to his rifle.* I pray that Liavon is not at the border. I don't want him to see me and know what I got myself into. To see an upset Authoritarian Lion would be my ultimate nightmare. I'd feel like I'm a prisoner in Belarus if I see him.
*Belarus*
Taras: *In Belorussian* I'm sorry, Hubert did WHAT?!
Frost Fox: *In Belorussian* According to the memo, Hubert plotted to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians in that match which could have sparked a riot. Apparently, it involved pugs, rolling around like one, and mocking Neymar whilst screaming "OW MY LEGS!". I don't know if we should bring Liavon the Authoritarian Lion to the Belarussian-Russian border or not.
Taras: *In Belorussian* That is a problem. Mecha Major. Your thoughts on bringing Liavon to the border?
Mecha Major: *In Belorussian* I say do it. When they go to Poland, Leonek the Hussar Lion will meet Hubert at the border after Liavon follows the Belgians to there. Then the pattern repeats with Luitpold the Germanic Lion until they finally reach Belgium. But that's up to their choices to decide that since in the end, we are in our own countries and we live our own lives in our homeland.
Liavon: *In Belorussian* You called?
Taras: *In Belorussian as he takes out his smartphone to pull up a map.* They will be crossing the border near the town of Jeziaryšča. Feel free if you wish to go there.
*Russia*
Lion Drummer: *in Dutch to Hubert* No more talking! Just march! Hup, 2, 3, 4! Hup, 2, 3, 4!
*Belarus*
Liavon: *in Belorussian* I think I will go there. Serves him right for starting that riot. He could have destroyed the world.
Taras: *In Belorussian* Almost started the riot but haven't.
*Later, everybody arrives at the Russian-Belorrusian border before the Belorussian town of Jeziaryšča.*
Taras: Welcome to Belarus.
Soldier 1: *In Belorussian* Marching on highway traffic to here? Oh, great. Papers, please!
Soldier 2: *In Belorussian* Passports!
*Each Belgian submits their passports to be stamped before they are returned to them.*
Soldier 3: *In English to Hubert.* You've been noted. Liavon has legal authority over you now. If you sneak away from your band over your stupidity you caused back in Russia, Liavon can legally detain you for dodging your consequence to cause a public disturbance in Belarus. Don't do anything funny. Also, hand your smartphone over to Liavon.
Hubert: Oh... my.... gosh... He's going to see those videos of me leading Belgian fans to a shelter to adopt some pugs in Russia, before making them wear Neymar jerseys before training them to roll on command and stuff! He's going to look into my e-mails and messages, too, because I briefly mentioned about this to Espen and other Dissident members about trolling the Brazilians! I don't want to be detained over this!
Soldier 3: In our system, Lieven the Burgundian Lion made a note that you will be coming to Belarus and that Liavon, under our laws, can have legal authority over you to make sure you don't do anything sneaky and crazy. Therefore, under the command of the Belorussian government, hand Liavon your phone and other electronics. He is allowed to have full access to them and it's up to his discretion for him to decide your fate. So don't get yourself detained.
Hubert: I can't believe I'm being subjected to this. There goes half of my privacy. *Hands Liavon his smartphone, laptop, and tablet with no locks on them.* Return them to me when we reach the Polish border. I'll be good; I promise.
Belgian Fan 1: Wait, Liavon has legal authority over us to keep us in his sight throughout Belarus?!
Belgian Fan 2: This isn't fair...
Taras: Welcome to Belarus, fans of Belgium and Hubert Van Retbergen. And yes Liavon has legal authority over you. If you escape from his sights, be prepared to be detained and questioned if your antics against him.
Hubert: That's Krieglandonian-level fear right there. *To Liavon.* Are we really legally under your command under Belorussian jurisdiction?
Frost Fox: They don't call him Liavon the Authoritarian Lion for nothing. Get used to it!
Mecha Major: Understand that Belorussian authorities, including myself, can conduct random inspections on you without your consent. Those suitcases you wear on your backs, we can inspect them to make sure you have no weapons or anything that is illegal. I shall be marching with you to make sure not a single Belgian soul escapes under Liavon's watch.
Liavon: Indeed you are under my command. Other parallels will be keeping their eye on you as well. So when we reach Poland, Leonek will do that. Focus on marching to the beat, and the positive of how many calories you're possibly burning over this. Obey the drummers. Also be prepared to talk to Lieven again when you finally reach Belgium, because he's suffering.
Hubert: Suffering? Oh, no! I owe him an apology! I would never harm him or let anyone harm him. I just wanted to get back at the Brazilians over Neymar, since Neymar's fans kept denying things.
Avon: Just stay positive, Hubert. We'll be resting in Belarus tonight. You'll have food, drinks, and comfort.
Liavon: You will indeed. You won't march 24 hours a day. But you have to bear in mind that Lieven and I are Leo's international parallels. If one gets hurt either physically or emotionally, we all get hurt. Think about that for a moment. *to the band* At ease.
Hubert: Well... I'm sure you were aware how Laurencio felt when Neymar flopped. Then you had the Mexican fans trolling Neymar. Then soon, the entire world caught on to that. The blame is solely on Neymar in my views because he's the one playing in the game not me.
Avon: But why add petrol to the flames?
Hubert: I gave in to temptation to lead and attempt to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians. Not even the Brazilian coach protested over this. We Belgians just wanted to show how we felt when we found out we were going to face the Brazilians.
Avon: Again, why add petrol to the flames? Think about that for a moment. Think of what you could have prevented if you didn't attempt to engage in mass trolling.
Hubert: Hmm... *Thinks for a moment.* A global disaster... No... How can mass trolling possibly cause a global disaster? On top of that, knowing how Brazilian fans tend to riot over football, that could've gotten the Russian military involved and all chaos would break loose! I could have shut down FIFA this year over this?! Impossible!
Avon: Yup! If you proceeded in trolling, think about the damage you could have caused on the world. Yeah; the Mexican fans were trolling Neymar in response, but what you were doing took things a bit too far. You're the one who sought to take advantage of social media in hopes of making your trolling antics with your fans and pugs go viral. Think about it.
Hubert: But it was a joke, too... How can a joke possibly destroy the entire world? Doesn't make any sense. I get it that the parallels won't like it but to what extent would my damages cause if I proceeded in my trolling plans?
Avon: Everything! The parallels would be gone, heartless would rule Earth, and we would never live to embrace the progress we have made as a diverse global civilization. Hemp, bamboo fiber for clothing, delivery robots, vertical farming, job automation technologies, advanced networks of maglev trains for passengers and shipping, e-sports, thorium, instant internet, computer integrated desks that also stand up, modular apartment homes, live public views from the heart of any town and city, everything.
Everything you love and appreciate for, such as that waffle cafe in Brussels that uses job automation technologies to create your waffle with your desired toppings fresh on demand, online shopping, everything, would be gone if you proceeded in mass trolling against the Brazilians over Neymar.
One bellow from any of those lions, the American lion suffers, and everything falls with him. Even places as far as Vietnam, Bhutan, Nepal, and even seemingly isolated countries like Iceland, would fall with him. Despite being separate nations, we all are connected one way or another. Think about what you could have caused, Hubert, and the destruction that brings with it, all because you think it would be funny to parade around with your fellow fans with pugs in Neymar jerseys and making jokes about Neymar and the Brazilians.
Hubert: Pure destruction... That's like reviving hell to take over Earth! That's bringing Earth down to hell where we will never even hear about heaven! No, Avon! I don't want that happening! Other than our technological advancements, I don't want to lose my friends and our cute pugs! And I want my waffles, too, be it the ones in Brussels or the small ones from Liege which is popular around the world not just all over Belgium!
Avon: That's not all. As you know, imagine trying to explain to the white kitten of what you did that led to that destruction on a global scale.
Hubert: He'd screw me over... And his mum would have a word with me and have me know Leo more. But if its too late, well, that's the burden I'd carry forever. I don't want that.
Avon: Exactly! There was a good reason why Lieven asked you and your fans to cease with the trolling first but you never listened. If you weren't punished, everything you hold dear and appreciate for will go down with you. If something happens to Lieven, Belgium would be screwed! Then of course, the whole world. There's also a reason why the border soldiers of Belarus told you to hand your phone, tablet, and laptop to Liavon; its to prevent any risks of you attempting to troll that could trigger a global catastrophe. There's also a reason why here in Belarus, if you do anything funny, you can legally be detained here and questioned before being interrogated until you realize that your acts could have technically ended the world. All this, is for your own good.
Hubert: Wonderful... How am I ever going to have fun after this ordeal?
Avon: Hey you can still play online games during the night and wander around about in the day or whatever. No one said you can't have fun. Play some sports or make videos too. Travel, something. You got this.
Hubert: True. Well, I can't play any games since we get to Belgium since Liavon is holding on to my electronics until we reach Poland. Poland, then Germany, then Belgium.
Avon: Later after all this once we get to Belgium. Now, take a look around you in this town. What do you see?
Hubert: Construction workers, children, mother from a distance in the suburbs, and lots of newly built vertical factories here. Pretty much people just working and caring for their families.
Avon: Exactly. Something happens to the parallels, it hurts Liavon, and these families, you may never see them again and they may never see the day of light again. People have families to look after.
Hubert: No that won't be a pleasant experience... Life has to grow and go on. As the environment around us improves, trees get taller, more animals multiply, and so do people among us but upwards. I would never let a family be harmed!
Avon: Now you get the idea. You will be able to think better of your acts after your punishment.
Hubert: That really sucks... Wished I knew about this earlier but I was just so tempted. Some of my fellow fans were mad that we had to face those Brazilians but at least we won and that's all it matters. Nobody wanted them to win because of Neymar. Had Brazil beat us and won the World Cup, boos would be echoed from the world. But this time, I rather have Croatia win because their team is often the underdog and their players play with honour and always try their best to win. We Belgians are only used to opponents who fight and play with honour like those Croatians.
Liavon: That's natural enough. Croatia defeated England, I have discovered. But let what Avon has told you sink in. Also, do note that when you get to Poland and Germany, Leonek and Luitpold will do the same thing I am doing. That's not fair to them either, but they're doing it for your own good.
Hubert: Yup. And it's so embarrassing that I have to march through those countries with people wondering what did I do wrong. But might as well march with it. On the bright side, at least I can rest here knowing that I wasn't one of those Mongolian coaches who stripped nude in public over a wrestling match in the Olympics.
Leo: (narrating) That was the last time I had lost my temper, but since Zanta said the anger was justified, the world didn't end. One more bellow and it will, so good behavior is more important than ever. Karma will kill us as well as you if nobdoy behaves, so think about that, people.
Liavon: Oh, yes; that was really embarrassing. Thank heavens that's over.
*next day*
*Everybody did their morning routines before having breakfast. They then get ready to march again.*
Hubert: The draniki was excellent! And it looks like we'll be crossing Minsk from here!
Avon: Yup! Two more countries and we'll be home! *To the Krieglandonian-Belgians in Dutch.* Continue what you're doing for Hubert's parade of shame once you're ready.
Hubert: *Puts on his bass drum on his back and comments in Dutch.* 7 kg of bass on my back whilst carrying this heavy rifle that nobody uses in war anymore. I don't want to be told to hold this M1 Garand rifle out with arms outstretched for a minute!
Avon: *In Dutch* Don't make anyone mad with your whining. Liavon was way more than nice enough to let you have a perfect full night sleep for this. Even though they call him Liavon the Authoritarian Lion, he's being very generous with you. Don't screw this one up. Remember, he legally has command over you as well as control over you even if our Krieglandonians are in charge of your punishment.
Lion Drummer: *in Dutch* Forward, march!
*The parade continues. Liavon walks alongside.*
Liavon: I want you to focus on the positives, Hubert. For one thing, you're getting plenty of exercise. Second, you're getting to see all the sights of Belarus you probably wouldn't see if you took a vacation under normal circumstances. You'll experience the same thing with Poland and Germany, and fortunately, your parade of shame is not going to involve the Autobahn.
Hubert: Mainly because highway systems are built underground for the sake of Earth's environment. More room for trees to grow taller before outwards meaning more places for animals in the wild. Just like how we build taller to accommodate more homes and work without taking up unnecessary space.
Avon: And more space to march in the wild too to experience nature. Belarus' environment is actually quite lovely!
*Later, they made their way into Minsk.*
Hubert: Whoa! That's the national capital of Belarus? This city looks like a modern concrete castle from a distance at first and the city looks very modernized at the street level too! The streets are very clean.
Dmitri: Welcome to Minsk!
Sergei: Beautiful isn't it? Check out the national library there!
Hubert: Whoa! Looks like something you'd see from those anime science fiction movies or something to that effect from Japan!
Taras: *Looks at a butterfly that landed on his own tiny fennec fox nose and speaks in Belorussian.* Butterflies everywhere. They sure bring much life to us when we take care of nature like this.
Hubert: Big and busy city. People here seem to live very well!
Avon: And you're doing an excellent job holding on to that rifle.
Hubert: Really? Thanks I suppose.
Avon: When you think about the positive things, anything negative doesn't bother you.
Hubert: Belarus is a lovely country, but this city impresses me!
Dmitri: There's that modern art museum there too and then there's that history museum there.
Hubert: The museums look like they're always updated and well taken care of. And that modern art museum looks a luxury department store in a mall filled with modern interior designs and fixtures at least! That modern art museum looks so squeaky clean inside too. I never thought I'd fall in love with the city of Minsk! Very impressive city and national capital here!
Dmitri: Too bad you can't stay here forever, since you have to march your way to Poland, where you'll meet Jarek and the others along with Leonek there instead.
Hubert: I know, but I'll be visiting Minsk one day after this!
Avon: And try not to get too distracted too when you're marching because I will guarantee you that by the time we return home to Belgium, you'll be too tired to go any further. You will then think about this mistake and how you will prevent this from happening again.
Hubert: I just want to stay positive.
Avon: Yes, you should, but at the same time, think about how to prevent this from happening again.
Liavon: Don't get distracted, but this parade is not continuous. You'll have times to rest. Just not now. Good observations, however.
Hubert: Looks like we can rest here in Minsk since my legs are shaking. At least its pleasant here. Very cosmopolitan much to my surprise here. Sucks that I won't be able to make it to the party of the winning country because by the time we reach Belgium, it'll be long over.
Avon: That's part of the consequences for attempting to engage in mass trolling by using all forms of it as much as possible.
*Poznan, Poland*
*Hubert takes a break from marching with the others to eat some pierogis.*
Hubert: *In Dutch* Avon. Belgium beat England and is in third place. Can we just take the train to Belgium please?
Avon: *In Dutch* No. Lieven told me that he looked into your messaging history and saw that you were contemplating with Espen about ordering a Japanese body pillow with Neymar on both sides of him in his flopping position from the World Cup.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I didn't order the dakimakura (Japanese word for a certain body pillow) with Neymar on it I swear I didn't.
Avon: *In Dutch* If Lieven didn't stop you, you would have proceeded to order the dakimakura to be made in Japan and have it shipped to you immediately into your hotel room in Russia. According to those messages, you plotted to show off the Neymar dakimakura in the middle of the Belgian crowd to troll the Brazilians during our match against them.
Hubert: *In Dutch* How come Liavon didn't tell me anything about this?
Avon: *In Dutch* He wanted me to tell you instead because he knew you're afraid of him.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I hope Leonek doesn't know about this since we're marching under him. Good thing about Poland is that the government here isn't as scary as the Belorussian government. Yet, the Polish government has their priorities in place and don't bow down to political correctness just like Belarus.
Avon: *In Dutch* What do you think people would see when you run around in public with a Neymar dakimakura?
Hubert: *In Dutch* A Belgian sergal trolling Neymar for his antics.
Avon: *In Dutch* Do you even know what dakimakuras are actually used for and are associated with?
Hubert: *In Dutch* I know that and no people will not see me as a pervert for running around with a Neymar dakimakura.
Avon: *In Dutch* But some will because the dakimakura was originally designed for perverts.
Hubert: *In Dutch* But Neymar is clothed in the image. But hey at least there's no Neymar dakimakura. Anyways, can we please take the train to Belgium because we beat England in third place?! Please? PLEASE?!
Avon: *In Dutch* Nope! You're still marching throughout Germany after this! These deviant trolling plans you had in mind, you could have caused a catastrophe. You could have stressed these lions out beyond their existence just through your sheer antics alone. And as an Eternal, I have to bring you to that world and make you explain to several Eternal agents on how you set off a chain reaction around Earth that led to the heartless taking over all because you think it would be funny to carry out various forms of mass trolling against the Brazilians after they defeated Mexico with Neymar rolling around.
Hubert: *In Dutch* The Mexicans have the world's sympathies. They have mine as well. We all know how that feels when they lose to a cheater. And besides, the Mexicans were trolling him as well.
Avon: *In Dutch* There's a difference between you and them. They trolled after the match. You want to take it way further to the point that you would cause disruptions around Earth. Lieven saved your life when he caught you with the 3D printer in your hotel room that you used to print out that Neymar toy. If he saw you with a Neymar dakimakura, he would have bellowed you out of your own hotel suite. The pugs rolling on command and the mass mocking of Neymar from our fans were way more than enough as it is.
Hubert: *In Dutch* I just... I don't know... But cheaters don't deserve to win; they never do. I wanted to voice my discontent for it in a way that forces the message to all of Brazil over Neymar. I'll never understand why Neymar is still so popular and rich to this day. He's just so lucky that he gets to live like a king and still play like a fool without repercussions other than Crush's red card.
*Some of the Polish restaurant workers feed the pugs dog-friendly pierogis.*
Civilian 1: *In Polish* Oh my; what a cute little chubby dog!
Civilian 2: *In Polish* The black ones are cute, too!
Civilian 3: *In Polish* What an adorable grumble of pugs!
Civilian 4: *In Polish* I personally think having them march with the Belgians is a bit too much.
Civilian 3: *In Polish* According to the Belgians, they taught them to roll on command when they say "Roll like Neymar!" or just "Neymar!".
Belgian Fan 1: *In Dutch* All this marching is killing me! I wanna go home too by train already!
Belgian Fan 2: *In Dutch* But Lieven wants us to march through Germany instead which isn't fair! Why can't he be happy for once that our team beat England and won third place in the World Cup?
Belgian Fan 3: *In Dutch* And he's not happy that we adopted these pugs to give them our homes with them. When winter is coming, its nice to have some dogs inside at home. These pugs are low maintenance, but high in fun, too!
Belgian Fan 4: *In Dutch* Just feed them the right food or else they'll unleash some nasty acts.
Avon: *In Dutch* Let's not get there. That is not an appropriate topic of discussion anywhere!
*Translations are provided both ways.*
Leonek: *in Polish to Hubert* Exactly. Your stupid act could have killed us all off and subsequently ended the world. Is that what you really want?
Hubert: *In Dutch with the translators helping.* No but I shouldn't be taking all the blame for this. That would be Neymar. Leandro didn't blow his top off when his people engaged in mass trolling against Neymar after the match.
Leonek: *in Polish* Still no excuse for what you did. Neymar is, however, on his way to being the most unpopular man in the world.
*Poland*
Hubert: *In Dutch* Because he deserves to be the most unpopular man in the world! Remember, be happy that we Belgians stopped him and his team otherwise they'd unfairly win with dishonour.
Belgian Fan 1: *In Dutch* But what if he comes back in Tokyo in 2020 for the Olympics? Remember what happened back in Rio with their Olympics when the Mongols decide to strip nude in public over a wrestling match? That Neymar kid is going to come back and cause another scandal but in Japan and the Japanese don't seem fond of this.
Belgian Fan 2: *In Dutch* What are you talking about? You think the Brazilians are going to strip nude in public if their team loses in football? I doubt it! And besides, this is Japan we're talking about! If you do that, your name instantly goes on their country's persona non grata list meaning people who are marked persona non grata means they are banned from entering the country. And good luck trying to convince the Japanese government to let you in after that because they'll simply just say "No!" and that's it. If anything, Neymar and his team are going to lose their sponsors and that's it.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Oh that? Wait, so you're telling me that no one will sponsor Neymar because he's a jerk who builds most of his fame from ad revenue?
Belgian Fan 2: *In Dutch* Exactly! He's better off being in e-sports, assuming Brazil's e-sports team would accept him, and being a YouTube star and internet celebrity. But even that, he'll never have the talents that Blaster Cat has and she's from Korea. Koreans know how to make the best out of the internet. Goes to show that karma can bite really hard and quick.
Avon: *In Dutch* That's correct and if you didn't proceed to follow Hubert in his journey to mass trolling against the Brazilians, this wouldn't have happened. But at least you get to enjoy the pierogis. Note that once we enter Germany, all of us must speak in German since both Belgium and Germany recognizes German as official languages.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Yeah. So happy that we aren't going to be marching through some German state called Bavaria because there's mountains allover that German state! From here, we just go straight to Berlin, then westwards as usual before reaching Belgium. If we marched through the mountains, I'd be dead.
Avon: *In Dutch* I climbed the mountains there before. Don't whine like that. And be lucky that you're just marching on mostly flat land than over the mountains. But if you do stuff like this again, then we could have you march over the Swiss Alps.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Nope! Not happening because after all of this brutal torture I have to deal with, I won't be doing anything like this again! Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, then Belgium, that's five countries five too many! Marching through five countries is torturous as it is!
Avon: *In Dutch* Could've been worse back on Kriegland you know. You almost had to march across Russia then through Europe before going home in Belgium.
*Leonek then gets a text from Gourmet Gopher; the text was sent to Hussar Husky, but Gopher accidentally double texted and also sent it to the Polish parallel.*
Leonek: *in Polish* Whoops; I don't think he meant to send me that. *to Hussar Husky, who is there* Congratulations. The American gopher chose you to have your name attached to the dish since he does a foreign specialty dish every other week, or something like that. I know he'll never do Brazil again.
Hussar Husky: *In Polish* I don't blame him. I'm so happy we don't have to deal with Brazil because of Neymar. But as for these Belgians, how did they end up here?
Civilian 1: *In Polish* They wanted to engage in mass trolling against Neymar during their match against Brazil.
Civilian 2: *In Polish* Several of them mocked Neymar like this. *Pretends to roll around like Neymar as he holds on to his legs as if he had an injury.* OW MY LEG! MY LEG! OWIE OW OW OW! *Stops mocking and gets back up.* That.
Hussar Husky: *In Polish* And why are there so many pugs with those Belgians?
Civilian 3: *In Polish* To compare Neymar to them because he rolls like them. They also made videos of them counting their dogs' body rolls in English to compare them to Neymar rolling on the ground. They were adopted from Russia for that purpose and to keep as pets for their pet videos.
Civilian 4: *In Polish* And Hubert had a Neymar toy and he almost ordered a Neymar dakimakura from Japan.
Hussar Husky: *In Polish* What is a dakimakura?
Civilian 4: *In Polish* A body pillow with a printed character on them from their front and rear side on the respective sides on that pillow. In Hubert's case, he wanted a body pillow of Neymar in his rolling position on his front side and the rear side respectively so he could go around in public and run around with them whilst holding the body pillow high up in the air as his fans show of their pugs in Neymar jerseys.
Hussar Husky: *In Polish* He wants to do WHAT?! *In English to Hubert.* What did you do exactly in Russia that got you here like this?!
Hubert: Yeah I know. Using pugs to troll Neymar, made a Neymar toy with a 3D printer for laughs, and almost ordered a Japanese body pillow with Neymar on it. I sent a message to Espen about me running around with a Neymar body pillow in public whilst holding it high up in the air for laughs. Also wanted to hold the body pillow in the middle of the Belgian crowd during our match against Brazil. We also rolled across the hallways in the stadium pretending to be Neymar too.
Hussar Husky: Wow that's beyond childish! You know, that kind of act could have set Lieven off and hurt Leonek here. Back when Brazil had the Olympics, when the Mongolian coaches stripped nude in public over a wrestling match, several people cheered as others leave turning their stadium into a literal strip club! Yul, the Mongolian parallel, bellowed and so did COP. What you could have done could have ended our world. I can see why Lieven decided to have you punished with marching time.
Hubert: Yeah I know and it sucks! *Picks up his M1 Garand rifle.* Have to march all the way from Russia to Belgium on foot with this big bulky thing in my hands whilst wearing a 7 kg bass drum on my back with a lion beating it! And to be honest, I hate carrying this big bulky thing that they call a ceremonial rifle these days!
Hussar Husky: You have no military experience I can tell. The least any soldier can do is to learn how to march with a ceremonial rifle for long periods of time.
Hubert: Oh yeah Lieven almost had me march all the way from eastern Russia to Belgium which is beyond insane and impossible!
Hussar Husky: Guess you don't know life in the past century then. Soldiers marched several kilometers long before. And do you think we hussars solely relied on our horses to help us win in our battles? Do you know what we relied on to beat the Ottoman Empire from conquering Poland? Our hearts. We prayed before battle, we planned our strategies, and through them, we put our faith through them in our hearts and that's how we beat the Ottoman Empire and made the hussar one of history's most successful and deadliest warriors to exist! That's why the Hungarians are our brothers. When they saw us and met us, we formed an alliance that is so powerful, not even several wars could tear us apart. And to this day, our strongest ally is Hungary because we fought through thick and thin in the worst of times and yet, we are still here. They didn't rely on their horses to win in battle since they knew the Ottoman Empire was a threat so like us, they relied on their hearts to win the battle. Then of course, that's how the Austro-Hungarian Empire came to be to ward off the Ottomans at the time. The rest, I'm sure you know. In other words, you're a very fortunate person but need to learn to listen to your parallel for our world's safety.
Hubert: True... Just one more country and then in Belgium, once we reach Brussels, we're gonna crash and rest.
Hussar Husky: And you won't be thinking about this trolling antics again.
Hubert: After this, I'd never want to do this trolling again!
Hussar Husky: Was it worth the punishment?
Hubert: NOOOOOOOOOO! My legs are going to collapse by the time we reach Belgium for heaven's sake!
Hussar Husky: Don't sound too whiny like that! At least you get to burn some calories from all that marching.
Hubert: I'm not Chuong you know! I don't eat that freaking much as he does to burn off that much calories! I'm slim and athletic and I'm just a hacker and now I'm so embarrassed because with my passports stamped, my identity is recorded in countries like Belarus as a visitor meaning if I were to hack anyone for any reason in those countries, I will get marked as a person of interest and authorities will be asking me why I hacked someone there!
Hussar Husky: That's just their jobs. And I am praying hard that you don't get punished for whining too.
Avon: Don't make the Krieglandonian-Belgians punish you where you have to hold that M1 rifle out with your arms outstretched for a few minutes or so!
Hubert: Fine then! I just wanna go home, do my job, and eat some waffles.
Leonek: *in Polish with translations provided* It could be worse; you could have been on Kriegland. Their soldiers march for hours at a time on end, and they padded when they marched. Of course, long periods of marching and musical abilities are two things that are like second nature to them. A typical journey for them is five times as long as what you have to go through, so stop complaining if that's what you are doing! If not, then I'm sorry I ranted. I didn't bellow. I just snapped.
*The bands line up again.*
Lion Drummer: *in Dutch, now that Hubert is ready* Forward, march!
*The parade begins.*
Hubert: *In Dutch as he marches.* And so we leave the wonderful land of pierogis, smoked cheese, kielbasa, and bacon. We say goodbye to the land of hussars as we enter our next country; Germany. Good thing for us Belgians, we can speak and understand German.
Avon: *In Dutch* With Russia, Belarus, and now Poland witnessing your march of shame, the Germans are going to be curious too.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Germans have hearty hospitality and are diverse in their personalities throughout their states. At least the Berliners won't mind us much since they're relaxed.
Avon: *In Dutch* Also the hipster capital of Germany as well. At least they have local traditional music throughout their country. Just one more country!
Hubert: *In Dutch* Berlin is known for their tasty pastries as well. I don't think I'm worried; its after we continue to march when we leave Berlin. If we leave Berlin and head towards Belgium, where would we stop next in between?
Avon: *In Dutch* I'm going to guess Goslar, then Cologne, before we cross the border to Belgium.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Meh. At least the Germans have great food. All this marching is making me hungry! They also have a nice variety of nonalcoholic drinks as well!
Avon: *In Dutch* Just think of the good things in Germany then. You're doing a great job holding on to that rifle!
Hubert: *In Dutch* Uhm, yeah. Probably the last time I'd be doing this, too.
C.K./King Leo: (narrating) Since I had no involvement myself, I had no inclination to teach Hubert the skill of rifle twirling as American soldiers do in ceremonies (think of the U.S. Marine Corps' Silent Drill Platoon). We taught that to the Demons of Heaven, but not as part of the punishment; we just thought it would be a useful skill for them to learn.
Leonek: *in Polish with translations provided* Let's hope it's the last time. You do something else that's very rash, and you're bound to be doing it again at twice the distance. Well, I'm taking a wild guess at that.
Hubert: *In Dutch with translations provided thanks to fellow hussars, who still ride on their horses to this day, who are with Leonek, who's also on horseback.* I won't be doing anything nuts like this again but okay. Remember how the Mexicans felt about losing to Brazil and I think I can see the German border from here!
Avon: *In Dutch* Then remember that we all must speak in German once we cross the border. Even the Krieglandonian-Belgians will be commanding and communicating in German from that point on.
Hubert: *In Dutch* German food and music here we come!
Avon: *In Dutch* Don't get too overconfident now.
Hubert: *In Dutch* And we're heading to a German border town called Frankfurt an der Oder. The only Frankfurt I know of is Frankfurt am Maim but we won't be going there. At least they have excellent hotdogs!
*Germany*
Civilian 2: *In German* Why would we be rude or mean to Hubert and his fellow fans? I would've done the same thing if we faced Brazil. We beat them in the last World Cup you know.
Civilian 3: *In German* Ooooh they would love our hospitality and culture! They have so much in common with us!
*The Belgians arrive at the border crossing and go through the process with the border guards.*
Border Guard 1: *In German* Passports please!
Border Guard 2: *In German* Welcome to Germany. You are now in Frankfurt an der Oder.
Border Guard 3: *In German* I need to see your pets too before I let them through.
Belgian Fan 1: *In German* Here.
Border Guard 3: *In German* Welcome to Germany.
Avon: *To Leonek in English.* We'll see you later then. *Shows his passport to get it stamped before crossing the border.*
Civilian 2: *In German* Hey, Hubert!
Hubert: *In German* Hello! Wow; the Germans love me!
Civilian 3: *In German* Welcome to Germany, my friend! This is Frankfurt an der Oder. The city of Frankfurt the world knows of is actually Frankfurt am Main.
Hubert: *In German* Yeah. I want some wursts here.
Civilian 4: *In German* Hey, guys; leave Hubert alone! Let him march with his band there!
Civilian 5: *In German* Awwww; look at their pugs marching with them too! They're so cute!
Hubert: *In German* Yeah. I'm sure you know the story about them. *One of the pugs passes gas on Hubert, and he starts smelling it and reacts negatively in German.* OH MY [BLEEP] GOSH; THAT IS DISGUSTING! EEEW EEEW! It smells horrible!
*He drops his rifle to the ground and goes off course and complains in German with the bass drum on his back.*
Avon: *In German as he waves in front of his nose.* Oh, goodness; that is gross! And Hubert, the Krieglandonians have to get used to all sorts of icky and gross things from the battlefield, so get back in formation now!
Hubert: *In German* I can't! And I'm not Krieglandonian! Luckily, our culture does not allow me to pad!
Avon: *In German to a civilian who fed a pug a small piece of boiled broccoli.* What are you doing?
Civilian 6: *In German* I forgot that feeding broccoli to a pug is a bad idea. But this black one is so cute though.
Civilian 7: *In German as she grabs Hubert by his shoulders.* No no you are not boarding the train. Your compatriots want you with the band. *Walks Hubert back to his band.* Luitpold has messaged all of us citizens to make sure you do not sneak out to the trains. If you use our trains to sneak away, someone is going to know about it and intercept Hubert before he escapes.
Hubert: *In German* But marching from here to Belgium is going to be a pain! At least your country has excellent cuisine and culture! A big plus that you don't seem to mind much about us Belgians at all since we have a lot in common.
Civilian 7: *In German* That's true but Luitpold wants you to stay with your band and march with them to Belgium. And besides, don't you want to enjoy Germany more slowly by marching instead?
Hubert: *In German* Why, of course! And I have to say that you're a cute lady!
Civilian 7: *In German* Good then! Just be a good sergal with your compatriots. Luitpold will make sure you have a place to rest at after marching.
Hubert: *In German* That would be Berlin which isn't that far from here.
Civilian 7: *In German* Excellent city to rest in then! You'll love it! You'll have plenty of energy after your rest to return home to Belgium on foot.
Hubert: *In German* True. So glad we're near Berlin and in Germany. Lovely hearty country with big spirits! At least the World Cup isn't in Qatar, yet otherwise I'd be marching under the scorching hot sun through the desert. Perhaps, can I add you on social media?
Civilian 7: *In German with a giggle.* Nah, I prefer people I know very well around me in Germany first.
Avon: *In German* Hubert; this is not the time to be flirting with German chicks! You're going to embarrass us all and drive Luitpold mad!
Luitpold: *to the dog in German* Bad dog! Bad dog! *to the owner* Don't you ever do that again! You disrupted the punishment he's going through. Be lucky you don't have one coming. *to Hubert in English* Sorry about that. Luckily for us you have shoes on. And you're not going to be distracted one more minute.
*Leonek, who had Hubert's belongings under his supervision, transfers them to Luitpold.*
Luitpold: Thank you.
Leonek: Not a problem.
Luitpold: (narrating in English) He should have just fed his dog proper dog food. Don't feed your dog broccoli, people!
Belgian Fan 1: *To Luitpold in German.* He's just a dog; he can't help it. No one tells their dogs to do that on command! They just let it go because that's what they are as dogs.
Belgian Fan 2: *In German* Should've told that German guy to not give your dog broccoli!
Avon: *In German* Exactly. You are responsible for keeping your pets under control and telling others not to give your pets certain foods.
Belgian Fan 1: *In German* True. Too bad pugs don't seem to like marching much.
Avon: *In German* Well, they eat a lot, so they can march to burn off the excess calories.
Hubert: *In German to Luitpold.* Hope not. At least your country has nice people, food, and culture! I'm excited to see what's up in Berlin! Can't wait to meet some German hipsters there! I know you're from Munich, which is the actual city that bears your country's stereotypes.
Avon: *In German* German hipsters who are also chefs? Yeah they tend to overdo it on the presentation of their food. They're good but I wished they keep things a bit simple. The dessert scenes in Berlin tends to be complicated but at least they're good. The people in Berlin are very nice and open.
Hubert: *In German* They're also much more relaxed than their Bavarian counterparts, which includes Luitpold, too, since he's Bavarian.
Avon: *In German* Right. Pick up that rifle and let's march to Berlin then.
Hubert: *In German* Yes, sir! *Picks up his M1 Garand rifle.* And to Berlin!
Avon: *In German* Berlin is one of Luitpold's least favorite cities because it tends to be overrated and people there are more drawn to modernism than traditionalism despite it being the national capital of Germany. He'd rather visit Stuttgart instead because people there know how to incorporate modernism in a way that makes life more productive without negatively affecting traditional elements in culture. Stuttgart is also the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz.
Hubert: *In German* They have a very sleek and impressive city library, too!
Avon: *In German* Which Luitpold visits often every time he goes to Stuttgart. Libraries are not and will not go away anytime soon. There's even tourists who visit Stuttgart's city library to read and bask under its sleek modern bright interior.
Hubert: *In German* Proof that in European heaven, the Germans are the engineers. Lets march forward to Berlin. I want to fall in love with that city and never let go but sadly, I can't stay there forever.
Avon: *In German* Just hope Luitpold doesn't cut your break time short once we stop in Berlin. *To the lion drummer in German.* You can proceed on drumming on Hubert.
Hubert: *In German* Yup. 7 kg of punishment on my back whilst a lion drumming on it is so not fun!
Avon: *In German* That's what you get for plotting to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians. You engage, you pay the consequences for your own actions. Fall in!
*The Belgians get into formation with their equipment.*
Civilian 1: *In German* Good luck fellow Belgians! You're going to need a lot of it!
Civilian 2: *In German* Berlin is up ahead! Just keep going forward!
Civilian 3: *In German* You'll make it and you'll love Berlin! It may not bear the stereotypical Germany that most people think of, but its fun and has some German elements to it!
Lion Drummer: *in German* Forward, march!
*The parade continues. The bands find some appropriate German marches to play.*
Hubert: *In German as he marches.* Don't forget the Belgians ones with it too. I'm sure you can mix that in with the German tunes easily.
*The band also plays Belgian tunes.*
Hubert: *In German as he marches.* Almost there to Berlin. I can smell the pastries and the cuisine from that city! Oh the hipsters that frolic free throughout that city! And the artists that express themselves vibrantly there too! They are welcoming, tolerant, and kind!
Avon: *In German* You'd be lucky if Luitpold lets you chill more after you eat your meal there like us.
*Meanwhile in Berlin, the civilians can spot the Belgian marching band approaching their city.*
Civilian 1: *In German* So those are the trolls against Brazil? Lets welcome them with open arms!
Civilian 2: *In German* You're my hero Hubert!
*Several civilians cheer and wave their arms towards the Belgian band to welcome them.*
Civilian 3: *In German* Welcome to Berlin fellow Belgians! We would've trolled the Brazilians the same exact way you know! Then again, we already owned them before! Stupid Brazilians! You Belgians did the right thing!
Civilian 4: *In German* That's so stupid that Lieven ordered them to be punished over their antics! The Brazilians deserved every bit of that trolling over Neymar!
Civilian 5: *In German* Doesn't help that our parallel is actually Bavarian; you know the part of Germany that bears our national stereotypes where more than half of them don't apply here in Berlin?
Civilian 6: *In German* I want to be their friends! They deserve our hospitality and treatment in our restaurants and hotels!
Civilian 7: *In German* Guys? You do realize that their trolling could have ended the world you know. Laurencio was almost at his breaking point and so was Lieven. The parallels are spiritually and emotionally connected. When one gets hurt, the others get hurt and if their health suffers, a time paradox could occur. And when that happens, there would be no Oktoberfest, no Mercedes, no Berlin, no German modernism, no wursts, no salads, no anything! And all the modern art museums in Berlin that inspires this city's modern culture to show through its traditional facade could've been gone!
Civilian 6: *In German* But if we treat the Belgians with love, Luitpold isn't going to get mad I don't think.
Civilian 7: *In German* I think he would because they're supposed to be punished not spoiled.
Civilian 6: *In German* But we want to take selfies with them and be friends with them to share our memories before they go home. And besides they adopted those cute pugs from Russia and even if it was meant to troll Neymar, they will take good care of them because they made social media accounts for their pets to share contents about their pets to the world. The world needs more love and joy to keep things going around about. And besides, they should be able to use our trains to go home to Belgium.
Civilian 7: *In German* No! They're supposed to march all the way to Belgium! Its better for them to feel that pain than to lose our entire world! We lost our entire world, once! We thought it was the end days as the Bible claimed but luckily, we got our world back and our country has improved a lot from there since then with more Germans with us! We also have families left and right too producing lots of children again! And when we have this many children in our new and improved world from that destruction, we need to teach our children why these Belgians are marching so they don't grow up and make their mistakes!
Civilian 8: *In German* Chill man! Go have some beer and wurst!
Civilian 7: *In German* I don't drink beer.
Civilian 8: *In German* Fine then some lemonade, juice, water, or whatever.
Civilian 9: *In German* We have honey factories throughout Germany and I want to show the Belgians one of our honey factories here! Those bees are important for Earth's economy and sustainability.
Civilian 7: *In German* Okay but Luitpold is going to most likely tell these Belgians to keep marching than to take time to enjoy themselves with us.
Luitpold: *to the civilians in German sternly* No! Don't you encourage them either! They're continuing their parade, and that's that, so go home!
*The people go home.*
Hubert: *In German with a frown.* Awww I just wanna visit my fans and friends in Berlin...
Avon: *In German* This is punishment not pleasure!
Hubert: *In German* But Liavon said marching allows us to explore the world around us way back in Belarus so that includes meeting new people too.
Avon: *In German* No he did not say it like that and that was not what he meant! This is supposed to be your punishment!
Hubert: *In German* So no pastries in Berlin? No coffee or anything?
Avon: *In German* Probably not.
Hubert: *In German* What a killjoy! I have 7 kg of bass drum on my back with someone pounding it and I'm holding this rifle yet I can't even take one second to enjoy my own pleasures in Berlin?!
Avon: *In German* Nope! Before WWII, Berlin isn't this pleasurable city of hipsters and modernists that we know of as today. And besides, this is punishment. There are still places in Berlin where people still do things the traditional way and you're going to do just that.
Hubert: *In German* Boring!
Avon: *In German* Do you want to go to Japan in 2020?
Hubert: *In German* Of course!
Avon: *In German* Then behave!
Hubert: *In German* Avon, you cannot stop a Dissident from doing what they want. We are hackers and we will get what we want as long we get to do what we want. So, now that we are in Berlin it seems, no chocolate? Coffee? Hipster cafes? Swanky hotels? Modern art museum visits?
Avon: *In German* None of those!
Hubert: *In German* Lemonade at least?
Avon: *In German* Sure.
Hubert: *In German* At least I know of places in Berlin that sells the best breakfast sandwiches in town. As long mine has sausage and gouda cheese, I'm happy!
Avon: *In German* And that's probably all you're gonna get.
Hubert: *In German* So, no waffles?
Avon: *In German* Maybe not.
Hubert: *In German* Berliner pfannkuchen?
Avon: *In German* No.
Hubert: *In German* Rollmops?
Avon: *In German* Maybe.
Hubert: *In German* Wursts!
Avon: *In German* Only if you are less annoying.
Hubert: *In German* Fries!
Avon: *In German* If you're good.
Hubert: *In German* Schnitzels!
Avon: *In German* Most likely not since that's more of a Bavarian thing and only the Germans there make the best schnitzels in this country.
Hubert: *In German* Taking pictures of me with cute German ladies!
Avon: *In German* No don't go there! You're not supposed to act like a tourist!
Hubert: *In German* Pork chops!
Avon: *In German* Maybe not.
Hubert: *In German* Potato pancakes?
Avon: *In German* Sure.
Hubert: *In German* Coffee?
Avon: *In German* I said no coffee tonight!
Warlord Wolf: *In German* Hubert knock it off! You're about to set Luitpold off! If you make him bellow because you think that's funny, you're going to destroy this world and everything you hold dear!
Hubert: *In German* Sorry but Luitpold seemed to have destroyed the spirits of the Germans of Berlin.
Warlord Wolf: *In German* They're not supposed to be pleasuring and spoiling you! You're supposed to be punished! And besides, we can always make this worse on you if you don't stop being a troll! Do you want to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant near the Vietnamese embassy there? I can have you go to places that are not German in Germany so you don't go around bothering my people into having fun with you. Not to mention, you're probably doing this so you can distract them and have them help you board a train to head off to Belgium by yourself. And when the parallels find out that you did this, they're going to lose their cool. Its better to deal with the punishment and walk on this earth than to destroy this world because you just want to have fun at the wrong time. Do you want to ask yourself if sneaking out or annoying people was worth the destruction of Earth? Because I'm sure that Neymar trolling wasn't worth it for this!
Hubert: *In German* Oh no no no I don't want Earth to go boom on us! And I thought its when in Rome, do what the Romans do. And in Germany, its do what the Germans do depending on the state and area we're in here. If the Berliners are open and friendly, I want to have fun with them too.
Warlord Wolf: *In German* Do you know how lucky you are that you aren't marching through Bavaria? The Germans there not only bear our national stereotypes, they're also hardcore and tough. If we are in Bavaria right now, they'd tell you to shut up and keep marching. Worse, they might ask you to help them in their farm work too as extra punishment. We may have modern farming everywhere, but traditional farmers will always exist everywhere mainly as sights of tourism and to preserve the legacy of traditional farmers and traditions in general. I'm sure you don't want to be asked to assist in helping Bavarian farmers load beer barrels on carts by hand and milking their cows at least too.
Hubert: *In German* Goodness no I don't want to spend all day and night working with my hands until they're hard and dry!
Warlord Wolf: *In German* Then don't be a whining fool. And I'm sure you know Bavaria has hills and mountains galore too so be lucky you aren't marching through such terrain!
Hubert: *In German* ARGH! This rifle is killing my arms! I can't believe I have to hold it this long!
Avon: *In German* We're almost there to our resting point in Berlin. Don't you dare drop that rifle!
Luitpold: *in German* Stop complaining and just focus on your march! Keep it moving! You're not here to have fun, and you are not speaking with anybody! Got it?
Hubert: *In Germany* Yes sir. *Keeps marching as he holds on to his rifle as much as he can.*
*Denmark*
*Some of the civilians are viewing Berlin from their live city cameras on their devices.*
Civilian 1: *In Danish* What happened to Berlin? Everybody seems to be inside.
Civilian 2: *In Danish* I could say its summer but look who's marching.
Civilian 3: *In Danish* What did they do this time?
Civilian 4: *In Danish* According to Lenarth the Naval Lion, a Belgian sergal named Hubert Van Retbergen plotted to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians over Neymar because Neymar dived in football with this theatrics. Hubert was going to use pugs, a Neymar toy, and a Neymar body pillow with his fellow fans to troll the Brazilians to rile them up more in hopes of adding insult to injury when they lose to the Belgians.
Civilian 3: *In Danish* That's a bit much.
Ice Pirate: *In Danish* More like too much. I don't approve it because we all know what happens to one lion affects the others right? Then goes our world with it. We can't lose our lovely land that is Denmark.
Civilian 3: *In Danish* Yeah which sucks a lot. Props to Laurencio for managing to keep his cool with Neymar and Hubert wanting to troll his entire country and people over one idiot.
Ice Pirate: *In Danish* Thanks to technology, the world is watching. Danger Drummer knows. We all know. Even Cold Cut knows.
Cold Cut: *In Danish* Let this be a warning to those who wished to engage in trolling in sports. So far, despite our rivalry with Sweden in sports, at least everybody on both sides behaved well.
*Germany*
*Luitpold keeps a stern eye on Hubert.*
*Denmark*
Lenarth: *in Danish* Heed his advice, people. You behave yourselves or the world will end. We went through it once; you know this. Do you really want to do it again?
*The civilians shake their heads to say "No."*
Danger Drummer: *in Danish* I didn't think so.
*Germany*
*The band arrives in Berlin and the civilians act normal as if the marching band didn't happen.*
Avon: *In German* This should be it. And Hubert, do not give in to your own temptations in this city.
Hubert's Thoughts: This city is eye-candy and the temptations to explore outside of my band is way too strong! I don't know if I can handle this but this rifle is killing my arms! My desires for mischief is growing too strong for me to contain!
Warlord Wolf: *In German* Welcome to Berlin. *To Hubert.* Focus. This is for your own good. Think of the parallels' health and you will be fine.
*Sweden*
*Words of Hubert's march of shame reaches Sweden as people watch the live video on TV.*
Civilian 1: *In Swedish* What did they do this time?
Civilian 2: *In Swedish* Plotted to engage in mass trolling against the Brazilians over Neymar after Mexico lost.
Civilian 3: *In Swedish* Uhm... If Hubert was Swedish, he'd be dead because legends claim that those who witnessed the berserker's wrath of Lennart the Viking Lion never lived to tell about it.
Civilian 4: *In Swedish* Making a huge Viking lion mad who's armed with a gigantic battle axe is never a good idea. Only the suicidal would do that. Everybody knew how the Vikings were back then. We can't have another Viking rage today.
Civilian 5: *In Swedish* Yeah we can't have him go berserker. When Vikings go berserker mode, things get really ugly. Think of it as Game of Thrones on steroids.
Civilian 6: *In Swedish* Not a pretty sight. Man we should've warned Hubert about this or else he could have unknowingly end our world all by himself finishing Bendraqi's plans a thousand times over. I'd personally email Hubert if I were you to beg to him to never do this trolling stuff again or else he'd end the world faster than the GSAF and Bendraqi can together.
Civilian 7: *In Swedish* Not only that but we may never have Earth back if our world ends because of someone's stupidity.
Ragnarok Rocker: *In Swedish* Probably not. But if you want to email Hubert to never troll again in sports because that could have drove the parallels into insanity that our world ends, be my guest.
Civilian 8: *In Swedish* I'm an accounting manager with eight beautiful Swedish children and I will let Hubert know that I'm a father of eight living in a tall beautiful suburban home with a beautiful wife and that his trolling antics could have destroyed my family life because he made one of the parallels at least mad. Actually, that would be two; Lieven and Laurencio. He has to know that most people have family to look after and he should take that into consideration before doing stupid stuff like that again.
*Germany*
Luitpold's thoughts: Heaven help us all if he gets distracted. He ought to continue his march of shame all around his home country of Belgium.
*Canada*
*Hubert's march of shame reaches the news there.*
Levi P.: Boy, am I glad I got home when I did. But bear that in mind, citizens. Make me or any of my counterparts angry, and the world's as good as gone.
*Germany*
Hubert: *In German silently to Avon.* Are we there yet in Berlin?
Avon: *In German* No and focus or we'll keep marching outside of Berlin!
Hubert: *In German* This rifle is killing my arms and the drum is wearing me out; especially with it being beat and it sucks!
Avon: *In German* Focus and you'll do fine and stop whining!
*Canada*
Kirk: Wow Hubert you managed to tick off two parallels at once in that Belgium vs Brazil match. You don't see me and Jack doing stuff like that when our countries compete.
Noel: Hubert almost got himself banned from visiting Brazil even if it's over Neymar.
*Vietnam*
*Citizens become curious about Hubert.*
Civilian 1: *In Vietnamese* What did he do?
Civilian 2: *In Vietnamese* Who's Neymar?
Civilian 3: *In Vietnamese* The Brazilian footballer who rolls more than the pugs the Belgians adopted in Russia.
Civilian 4: *In Vietnamese* Hey I have four pugs. They're cute.
Anh: *In Vietnamese* Please note that the parallels are spiritually and emotionally connected. If anything happens to one of them, the rest are affected. Not even Luong is safe.
*Italy*
Civilian 1: *In Italian* Boooo! Neymar is a disgrace in football! I think what Hubert did was justified!
Civilian 2: *In Italian* It won't be worth the health of Leonardo the Renaissance Lion since Hubert almost pulled off a huge prank!
*Germany*
Luitpold's silent thoughts: What's he blabbering about? He needs to stop complaining or he's going to double his distance.
*Canada*
Levi P.: I had to fight off the temptation of banning him from ever entering Canada again. Or do you want me to ban him?
Lyon: No. I think his march of shame is punishment enough.
*Vietnam*
Luong: *in Vietnamese* I admit I haven't been feeling too well lately; now you know the reason.
*Italy*
Leonardo: *in Italian* All of a sudden, I don't feel so well. Let this be evidence to you, though; his one act could have ended the whole wide world.
*Germany*
Avon: *In German* We are almost there.
Hubert's Thoughts: I want to cause mischief and escape but the world will end if I do that.
*Canada*
Kirk: Don't ban him. He's not a threat to Canada.
*Vietnam*
Anh: *In Vietnamese* You should stay at home inside and drink plenty of cold drinks or cold water then.
Civilian 1: *In Vietnamese* Its stormy and rainy outside anyways. That's why there's no traffic and people outside.
Civilian 2: *In Vietnamese* Get something cold and refreshing like chè or boba tea then.
*Italy*
Antonio: *In Italian* It would've been a disaster if that happened and everything we hold dear will be gone!
Armando: *In Italian* Unfortunately, he's a Dissident like me and knowing him, he can be quite a troll.
*Norway*
Glass Wing: *In Norwegian* Hubert is part of your group. Aren't you going to punish him before he pulls another stunt that could end our world?
Espen: *In Norwegian* I don't want to be too harsh on him but I'm going to suspend him from using the internet until August. Problem is that he may find loopholes because we Dissidents are known to exploit loopholes.
Glass Wing: *In Norwegian* Avon could get in contact with Hubert's ISP (internet service provider) and ask to suspend his internet until August. He can also put a tracking brace on Hubert's ankle and order him to be on a curfew so he can't sneak out in the night. That would be a very appropriate punishment for him.
Icebreaker: *In Norwegian* I agree that his internet needs to be suspended until August and that he should be monitored with a tracking ankle brace and remind him about his curfew. 2100 hours is when he needs to be home and 700 hours is when he can leave his home.
Espen: *In Norwegian* Lucky for him, he's very close to work so he has plenty of time to be there. He usually works from home though since more jobs are going to the telecommuting route. But because of this incident, I will have him show up at work in person until August. And how is Leiel the Nordic Lion?
Icebreaker: *In Norwegian* Not good thanks to one of your members from Belgium thinking it would be funny to lead a mass trolling operation that would drive all of Brazil and their people into madness over Neymar.
Glass Wing: *In Norwegian* I don't want this world to end. Norway is too beautiful to die.
Civilian 1: *In Norwegian* Wienerpølse! Come line up and get your wienerpølse!
Civilian 2: *In Norwegian* We may not be known for football, but I do agree this mass trolling over Neymar needs to stop. They may think it's funny but when one lion pops a gasket, we all die!
Civilian 3: *In Norwegian* Thanks to Hubert, I'm not going to see Leiel at the beach with me at Stavanger! He has to stay home and recover and possibly take some medicine!
Fiddle Cat: *In Norwegian* I hope this is the last time he'll do that again.
*Saudi Arabia*
Riyadh City Intercom: *In Arabic* There is a heat warning put in place. Do not drive your vehicle and always store them inside. Drink plenty of water and stay indoors as much as you can and use the skybridges. All taxi businesses are to refrain from conducting business until the heat warning expires. Always use the mass transit systems underground to get around. The heat warning will be put in place indefinitely. Thank you for your cooperation with the city of Riyadh.
Civilian 1: *In Arabic* Haidar the Saudi Lion isn't feeling too good not because we didn't make the World Cup but because a Belgian sergal decided to step up his trolling game against Brazil over Neymar. This is why his punishment is the march of shame.
Civilian 2: *In Arabic* How uncivilized! A clown like him shall never visit our lovely kingdom!
Civilian 3: *In Arabic* We are Saudis; we only cheer for our teams. We do not troll others over petty things. We don't even troll the Iranians despite our rivalry with them.
Civilian 4: *In Arabic* We need to check on Haidar regularly to make sure he's okay or else we get a nurse to be his home aide.
Civilian 5: *In Arabic* I checked on him and he just needs to rest.
*Armenia*
Varteni: *In Armenian after words of Hubert's march of shame reaches Armenia.* Oh wow what a troll! No wonder why Levon needs to rest!
Civilian 1: *In Armenian* Guess Hubert forgot how to "love thy neighbor" not "troll thy neighbor".
Civilian 2: *In Armenian* Yes Neymar sucks but this trolling could have meant the end of our world! We made it this far so we can live life comfortably and safely but nope! Hubert almost destroyed all of humanity's progress because he thinks it's funny to troll the Brazilians up to high heaven to the point that people will be literally screaming for Jesus Christ to come and take them before the world ends.
Civilian 3: *In Armenian* Well the world ended once. We were there. But it wasn't our fault. It's always the foreigners of the west looking to stir up trouble these days. Hubert is one of them.
*Germany*
*Eventually the band reaches their destination, and they are ordered to halt. Hubert is still ordered to hold his rifle, but the drum is taken off his back. This is because the band decides to play the German national anthem.*
*Canada*
Levi P.: Duly noted. I can feel his pain, though; I'm having to take cough medicine now. *He does so according to the doctor's orders.* There we go.
*He writes an entry in his journal.*
*Italy*
*Leonardo goes inside his home to rest.*
*elsewhere around the world*
*Other parallels feeling under the weather rest.*
*Germany*
*The civilians stand and sing their anthem in German. Afterwards, they cheer but when they see Hubert, everything goes quiet as they step aside out of fear of angering Luitpold if they socialize with Hubert.*
Hubert: *In German* Uhm... Okay. Can I-
Avon: *In German* Wait until your superior says you can rest first.
*Canada*
Kirk: You should rest then Levi.
*Iceland*
Civilian 1: *In Icelandic* I hope Leonhard is going to be alright. We would never do anything that would make him mad. But it doesn't help that he's spiritually and emotionally connected to the other parallels.
Civilian 2: *In Icelandic* We're Icelandic people; we have zero control over what happens outside our homeland.
Civilian 3: *In Icelandic* What Hubert did is an example of how not to behave at football. Football is supposed to be about fun and all. Sure what Neymar did was wrong but what Hubert did however, was it worth the risk of fanning the flames? He could have gotten all of Brazil on his tail and the parallels would blow their tops off and we know what happens from there.
Civilian 4: *In Icelandic* We didn't have all this modern stuff that we have today. We never took the internet for granted because we don't use it to troll other people like Hubert does. We didn't even have modular apartments like we do today. We didn't even have a loft until recently. Even our national capital wasn't a city until very recently. Some of us still remember when our capital was just a tiny little town. What I'm trying to say is that people should not take our world for granted today.
Civilian 5: *In Icelandic* Yup! Funny thing is that to this day, foreigners still ask us if its cold all year round and if our country is always covered in ice and snow. They got it right on the earlier but the later, not always though we do have moments of that.
Civilian 6: *In Icelandic* I think we still need to check up on Leonhard since everybody here knows him personally.
Guitar Guardian: *In Icelandic* Relax and he will be fine. Nothing to get stressed over. Just leave him alone a bit and he'll join us again. We may not have control over what happens outside of our nation but as long we continue to behave as a proper society, that's all that matters the most.
*Canada*
Levi P.: I will.
*He goes inside to rest.*
*Germany*
Luitpold: *in German* At ease, Hubert. *to the citizens* Nicely done; keep your distance. I'm not saying you can't talk to him, but what you say may still anger me. I had the band play the national anthem to represent the conclusion of this portion of the march of shame. When he finally reaches Belgium, the same thing will happen; the bands will play their national anthem.
*Iceland*
*Leonhard rests in his bedroom, but writes a journal entry to jot this thoughts down. In it, he states he looks forward to the next time he gets to march with the Drumbums since there's now a whole lot more of them.*
*Germany*
Hubert: *Relaxes and puts his rifle down and speaks in German.* Oh yeah Belgium would be finally home for me after I march myself to Brussels. I don't know how my people would react but all I want them to know is that at least we won third place in the World Cup and that's better than losing to England.
Civilian 1: *In German* But your antics though... That could have been the last World Cup on Earth. Do you really want to end our world like that?
Civilian 2: *In German* Our pastries, our art, technology, sports, the environment that we helped take care of and clean up our messes from our early days of modernism, we worked so hard to make Earth as close to a utopia this far. We eliminated poverty, pollution, and deforestation at least. We even perfected thorium power and improved solar power with better solar panels so we can have infinite energy without hurting the environment. We also made our infrastructure and devices more efficient with better quality. And the best part, desks have built in computer parts in them where desks double as computers these days which are being mass-produced around the world! We, as a global species of people, helped improved our global economy to keep things going and improving. And how long have we enjoyed this? Probably less than a decade. And your antics could have destroyed all of these progresses we made!
Civilian 3: *In German* Berlin was built and destroyed multiple times throughout its history until recently! Your antics could have reversed everything we made so far! And if you did this again, you will never see our signature pastries in Berlin ever again!
Civilian 4: *In German* Family life is a lot better and more fun these days. We only ask you for one thing; please be a good example and never be a troll again.
Hubert: *In German* I don't want this world destroyed. We have to keep improving to prove that we can handle anything. And of course, we want to have lots of fun too. And kitchen appliances these days are a lot more convenient. Oh and those automated restaurants in the train stations? They are way more fun, convenient, and much cleaner than McDonald's! They are a satisfying sight to see since they do all the work serving lots of people at once as much as possible. In Brussels, there's a cafe that doubles as a mini-factory for waffles and coffee. I place my order before I go inside and get my meal fresh and tasty there for a lot less with more value these days.
Civilian 5: *In German* Well, thanks to the Swedes, I own an unmanned store. Gotta love how the world moves without repetitive human labor these days. Critics say it steals job yet its part of humanity's survival and its written in our genes to maximize production and efficiency as much as possible. Customer service agents are still in high demand since they require a person behind them to call or even just instant message. The best part about them is that they don't need too much training or experience; just train them if they're new, get them to remember their stuff, and go. Most young workers these days work at home doing the instant messaging of customer service for most companies. Lot more comfy than working at fast food right?
Hubert: *In German* Of course and modular homes are cheaper and better too! Amazing how far we came these days.
Civilian 5: *In German* Now don't screw all of this up Hubert because this almost could have been the last time you will ever appreciate such things in today's lifestyle again! Now go get yourself some rest in that hotel.
Hubert: *In German* Know of any good places I can eat?
Civilian 5: *In German* The place you will be sleeping in. This is a punishment march after all. You're lucky that you're staying in a hotel where you can simply call up the front desk or a customer service agent who will relay the message to the hotel kitchen to get your food served to you! You're not supposed to be going to places to socialize with us anyways. Luitpold knows that pleasure comes way after your punishment. If this is what he wants for you, so shall be it!
Hubert: *In German* Great...
*The band enters the hotel to unload in their rooms.*
Avon: *In German to Hubert.* You are so lucky. The Krieglandonians had to camp outside! In their world, no one marched between cities to rest at their inns and hotels. You know how fortunate you are to be born in this world? In this world we call Earth, is a world of automated productivity and constant pleasures of life. And yet, in most countries, people are conscripted into the military to help maintain their reserves for defensive readiness. But in worlds like Kriegland when they used to exist, conscripts were sent to the battlefield. Here on Earth these days, soldiers can volunteer to partake in battles and conscripts can just stay on their home soil and help maintain military equipment and defensive capabilities. On top of that, even trade workers on Earth live relative luxurious lives compared to those like from Kriegland. Earth's construction workers use large advanced 3D printing systems to build their buildings for them with better quality. Nearly every job on Earth involved the use of a computer these days that can do the job of a thousand men. You don't know how lucky you are to be born here and yet your antics could have nearly destroyed thousands of years worth of progress that got us here today!
Hubert: *In German* I know... But it was just a joke. I will never understand why.
Avon: *In German* A joke that could have costed the world. Once we return to Belgium, you owe an apology to not only our people, but also to everybody in Brazil on live video at the podium in Brussels. You also owe an apology to Neymar as well. And you can still speak in Dutch, French, or German, though I prefer Dutch, there since translators are already provided for both sides.
Hubert: *In German* That's a lot to think about.
Avon: *In German* That's the point. When you rest tonight, think about how you will apologize to the Belgians and Brazilians over your antics as well as apologizing to Neymar for your trolling. Also think about everything you hold dear and appreciate in your daily life that could have been gone if Lieven bellowed and our world gets destroyed because of you.
Hubert: *In German* Fine... This is really tough for me... Guess some jokes aren't just worth it.
*Eterna*
Chuong: *Is lazing around on his bed at his vacation home.* You just had to learn the hard way don't you Hubert? If Lieven said to stop, he had good reasons on why he wants you to stop. But you had to keep going didn't you?
Luckily, you didn't destroy our world otherwise you would be held accountable over billions of lives because you wanted to troll the entire nation of Brazil into heaven over Neymar. I shall return home to Vietnam once Juno and Zax are checked out and good to go after their exposure to CNG.
*Germany*
Luitpold: *to Hubert in German* Some will forgive you and some will not. All I know is there's debate as to whether to charge you a huge fine and who to pay.
Hubert: *In German* Why would you want to charge me with a huge fine? Did I commit a crime or something? I am very sure I did nothing wrong here in Germany!
Avon: *In German to Luitpold* I don't think charging people fines is your duty since that's usually the duty of the courts and law enforcement authorities like the police. Hubert has not committed any crimes back in Russia to now. However, had he proceeded with his trolling antics in Russia, he could have been charged for disorderly conduct and possibly property destruction back in Russia if the Brazilians respond by rioting.
Hubert: *In German* Yeah. Cut me some slack will you please? I know how things work too myself and this whole marching thing is enough as it is.
Avon: *In German* Well I'm the one directly involved in government affairs and stuff unlike you. You're not even in the military like me.
Hubert: *In German* You do realize I have hacked into government agencies before right? I can always do that again in say the Western Republic of Ireland if they continue to take in illegals from Britain. Without us Dissidents, illegals would be everywhere and the cases of human trafficking would worsen. All I have to do is sneak in to a Ministry of Interior Affairs at least or whatever their equivalents are, enter their immigration systems, and enable automatic detection of illegal immigrants and run without leaving a trace behind. Once that system goes off, automated messages warning about illegal immigrants in the area will be automatically broadcasted and their soldiers will respond to them by conducting immigration raids on several buildings to haul illegals into their recall pods and have them sent back. That's all I have to do.
Avon: *In German* Is that so?
Hubert: *In German* Yup and thanks to INTERPOL's technologies, its easier to spot who's a wanted criminal coming in to the country and who isn't. If a person wanted for a felony is on the run and is trying to say flee to Thailand, Thai customs agents can simply pull up their criminal record and see that they are wanted in their home country so they would immediately send them back. And that's how the Thai city of Pattaya is no longer the city of perversion of trafficking and booze. These days, nobody knows that Pattaya was once a criminal hideout as well as a place for drunkards and prostitutes. There were so many bars before but now, they all have been replaced with buildings from clinics to sustainable factories like clothing made from bamboo to factories that produce items made from hemp.
Avon: *In German* Same could be said of Amsterdam these days when it was once known for their infamous Red Light District.
Hubert: *In German* Because we Dissidents shut down the prostitution rings and these days on Earth, cases of prostitution is rare but in most countries, they're nonexistent. Even in Las Vegas in America, prostitution is nonexistent there. Why do that when people can work in hemp producing factories to make quality sustainable products instead? Crops like hemp brings big money and keeps the economy going and everybody is safe.
Avon: *In German* Yeah but remember Hubert, despite the good things you have done before that, you still have to suffer the punishment because you did not listen to Lieven when he told you to stop trolling. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. But remember this Hubert; once we get home in Belgium, I will have your ISP cancel your internet until August and with the Belgian government's permission, put a tracking ankle bracelet on you until August.
Hubert: *In German* Are you serious, Avon? Why are you doing this to me!
Avon: *In German* So you don't sneak out and do stupid things. You need discipline. You can survive without them until August and I know you will find something else productive outside of work. Trust me in this.
Hubert: *In German* Great... There goes all my nightly fun until August... No gaming either... I am going to be so bored in my loft! Cleaning isn't going to help much either.
Avon: *In German* You can make videos of yourself doing things like cooking. You just can't upload your videos through the internet on social media until August. Also, with the ankle bracelet on you, I will have a curfew enforced on you. You are to be home between 2100 and 700 hours at least.
Hubert: *In German with a slight groan.* Fine... I'll deal with that after my march of shame is done.
Luitpold: *in German* No, I only said there were rumors a fine was going to be imposed. I don't have the authority to issue that fine, nor do I know who gets the money, Avon. However, you said everything I was about to say, regarding the ban on the internet until next month, and the ankle bracelet.
Avon: *In German* And that right there is a bit much but appropriate for his punishment since they're not extreme. *To Hubert in German.* Get going and rest up.
*Hubert proceeds to unload his stuff in his hotel room before bathing himself before relaxing in his room.*
Hubert: *In German to himself.* Just one more of this trip Hubert. You got this. Belgium isn't too far away. Gosh this marching sucks! Might as well just roll with it! How do people like Corps Coon get used to this ridiculous amount of marching outside when we live in the future these days?! He could walk across Japan and never get tired one bit! Even Japanese parades only go from one side of the city to the other. I'd rather do the Gloucestershire cheese roll challenge instead of this and at least that's a tradition in that part of England!
Corps Coon: (narrating) How do I get used to it? I was born to march to the music, for one thing. But I probably wouldn't have unlimited stamina if CNG hadn't exposed me. The same is true for all my pals who belong to the G-52 Drum & Bugle Corps.
Luitpold: *to Avon in German* Don't let him lose his concentration or that rifle.
Avon: *In German* I won't and judging by the hotel's architectural designs, I doubt Hubert will sneak away without being caught. He should be able to just get a good night's rest and get plenty of his energy back before we continue marching the next day.
Luitpold: *in German* Sounds good.
*Everybody rests up in their hotel as Hubert sleeps and mumbles to himself in German.*
Hubert: *In German* How will I survive under my punishments? I know! Maybe I can work with my architecture friends part-time for extra money and maybe help design transparent walls that also double as donation boxes as well as a Plinko board for coins! That's right! Some train stations have those along with hospitals, hotels, and other places of business! Plinko walls that take coins in for donations! Since the American G-52s love game shows, I'm sure they will love Plinko and my ideas of putting that idea into great use as walls that double as donation boxes for currency coins! Hah I'm a genius! Plinko donation boxes that double as walls will encourage more people to donate to causes like providing extra resources for children with autism and extra money for research on autism! They may take away my internet, but at least I have my CADD programs for real life and the virtual world! Maybe just one or two more marches and I'll be finally home in Belgium! Home sweet home! *Rests up and snoozes on his bed.* Freshest sheets and very comfy mattress ever!
*Bulgaria*
Ice Jaguar: *In Bulgarian to Grozdan* You don't seem happy as usual. What happened?
Grozdan: *In Bulgarian* One of our own members in the Dissidents has to do the march of shame because he thought it would be funny to disobey Lieven by plotting his trolling plans in his hotel room back in Russia. There's a reason why Lieven asked him to stop first but he didn't listen. He has no idea what he could have done to Earth after all the progresses humanity on Earth has made so far as a whole to get us where we are at today and to our promised future. We are so close to our promised future but terror groups like GSAF and even Neo Britannica are holding us back.
Radko: *In Bulgarian* I know that feeling.
Grozdan: *In Bulgarian* The feeling of fear of how one's stupid antics could have ended the entire world. Lieven, Laurencio, oh and even Lyuben too since he's spiritually connected to the other parallels. Yes Neymar sucks we get it but my goodness Hubert did not listen when he was asked to stop trolling him. The same applies to his fellow Belgian fans too who thought it would be funny to keep trolling Neymar with their pugs and their other antics. Radko, you know what the end of the world means right? No cat videos on the internet, no watching satisfying automated robotics perform repetitive tasks without breaking down 24/7, no working from home jobs, no modular apartment units, no underground maglev trains, no automated logistics, no ordering online from the internet, no farming towers, no environmental sustainability initiatives, no farming towers for honeybees to mass produce honey in a humane way for them, everything that provides us infinite production without consequences along with more pleasures in our lives. Bulgaria wasn't caught up with the world like this not too long ago.
Radko: *In Bulgarian* No cat videos? No dog videos? How can Hubert be so oblivious to the consequences despite Lieven's warning and the fact that Laurencio was with the Brazilians at the time?! If Laurencio saw the Belgians and Hubert troll against Brazil during their game, that could mean the end of the world when they blow their tops off!
Grozdan: *In Bulgarian* Exactly! Nobody takes the pleasures we have today for granted! Most countries, including Bulgaria, still have their conscription laws enforced because someone has to defend their country to continue the pleasures we have today from all of this. After high school, people get drafted but only to serve as home reserve units these days for a year or two. Thank heavens conscripts aren't forced off to war these days and they let volunteering soldiers go first. I wished Hubert understand this that we aren't defending our world in vain; each and every single one of us still have a responsibility to defend our world by defending our countries first and reminding each other that nothing is taken for granted and if a parallel says to stop, then stop! There are good reasons behind this.
Radko: *In Bulgarian* True. Lyuben the Resilient Lion will recover in no time! There's a reason why he's called Lyuben the Resilient Lion. Like our country from the past, he will eventually recover.
*Germany*
*next day*
*The band and Hubert line up again in their formation. Hubert again holds the rifle and has the drum on his back accordingly.*
Lion Drummer: *in Dutch* Forward, march!
*The parade begins again. The bands play Belgian tunes.*
*Germany*
Hubert: *In German* Waaaaaah; I just wanna go home already.
Avon: *In German* You will if you stop complaining.
Luitpold: Exactly; not another word out of you now. You're getting closer anyways.
*Belgium*
*Later, Hubert finally arrives in Brussels and the band finally comes to a halt at Avon's command.*
Avon: *In Dutch* Company, halt! At ease! *In Dutch to the curious civilians.* I see you have some words you wanted to say to Hubert and his fans here in Brussels. How appropriate here in our capital. Let's see what you have to say.
Civilian 1: *In Dutch* You're a funny guy Hubert but that wasn't worth the risk of ending our world. I understand how you felt when we had to face the Brazilians in Russia at the time when they unfairly beat the Mexicans. But you didn't have to plot your massive trolling plans against the Brazilians.
Civilian 2: *In Dutch* I haven't seen Lieven for days since you decided to disobey him. Do you realize what you could've done?
Civilian 3: *In Dutch* Imagine life without waffles. Imagine life without dreams. Is that what you wanted Hubert? I have children! Four beautiful children of my own for Belgium! I run a shop around town here.
Civilian 4: *In Dutch* Hey you go to my cafe because you enjoy my waffles made with Belgian beer batter. Its one of the best waffles you could ever have on Earth. Too bad that could've been your last waffle in your life.
Civilian 5: *In Dutch* Hubert! I'm a science teacher and people like you make teaching science fun to kids! I got students telling me they want to grow up to be a director in IT security for a company because of people like you! If this world got destroyed because of you and Lieven blowing his top off, that kid is never going to obtain his dreams! Please Hubert; think of the children of Belgium! Learn to set an example to others here! You may be a hacker, but you're also one of us!
Civilian 6: *In Dutch* Come on Hubert I didn't become successful from my craft beer brewery for nothing. You know darn well that Belgium is known for beer and we get tourists for that. Not only that, Belgium is one of the world's major exporters of fine beer. And no I don't sell them to people who just want to drink. I got top chefs buying my products as ingredients for their stuff! We're talking about top pastry chefs here from around the world even as those as far as from Japan! I have a business to run so I can live my life! Do your part by not ticking Lieven off by being a huge troll!
Civilian 7: *In Dutch* Yes what Neymar did was wrong. But why would you do this when Lieven asked you to stop? Come on now! I haven't seen Lieven for a while! Do you realize you almost destroyed Earth?!
Civilian 8: *In Dutch* Hubert, life is a mess as it is with these terrorists! Do you really want to drag all of us to hell because of you wanting to be a troll? Please! You gotta pay attention! Earth needs these parallels to stay calm! You need them and Earth to live! Please have some decency and don't roll around like a pug because Neymar did it!
Hubert: *In Dutch* I'm sorry, fellow Belgians. You guys are great people and you bring a lot of life to this country. And I'm happy to see that we have our own Belgian parallel, Lieven the Burgundian Lion, with us to see the progress we have made as a nation and our ways that defined us in our world. The artistry to our dedication to science is what makes us one of Earth's most inspiring nations. I do love the nightlife here too and its not just here in Brussels. I'm from Liege and its nice too. However, before I give my apology speeches, can all of you make sure Lieven is here in Brussels? He must be present before I give my speech at the stadium. With the power of the internet, I want all parallels to pay attention to my speech because I never intend to wish any harm on anyone; not even the people of Brazil or Neymar. I wanted them to understand why I did the things I did but how we can continue to enjoy life without endangering the health of these wonderful lions.
Avon: *In Dutch* Lieven! Are you here anywhere? The city of Brussels called; they want you at Hubert's speech!
Civilian 9: *In Dutch as he rides on his bicycle around.* Hey look for Lieven!
Civilian 10: *In Dutch* On my way!
*Lieven arrives after the civilian on the bicycle finds him. Nobody had seen him return from his Eternal house to Earth. He goes to the podium where Hubert is to make his apology.*
Lieven: *in Dutch* Hello, Belgium. I have returned. Well, returned from hiding, that is. I can confirm every single parallel, including the greatest of us all, the American lion, is watching this right now. You all saw what he did. You saw his march of shame, coming home on foot all the way from Russia. However, I have one request. Before Hubert gives his apology, please rise for our national anthem.
*Hubert's marching punishment is complete with the drum taken off his back, but he still has to hold the rifle over his shoulder and salute in the proper manner as the band plays the anthem. He does so. After the national anthem, everybody cheers and wave their Belgian national flags before Hubert and his fellow fans line up behind the podium with their pugs before Hubert gives his speech.*
Hubert: *In Dutch behind the podium after Lieven steps aside.* Hello Belgium. I know what I did was wrong but I thought it would be funny at first. The story behind thing began when Neymar rolled and faked his injuries during their match against Mexico and again with their match against us. It was annoying and cheap so when the Mexicans began to troll the Brazilians, my fans and I joined in because that was whom we are going to face. It was our way of sympathizing with the Mexicans and the world joined in on this. We wanted to remind Neymar that his antics are not acceptable but we didn't do so properly. Neymar, if you're watching this, understand that you are one of the most talented people in our world we call Earth. Heck! You are way more talented and loved than I am. But don't waste them in your theatrics since you're better than this. The same could be said of your team in general too and we really look forward to seeing you in Japan in the upcoming Olympics. You are way better than this and you deserve respect. You got a huge fan club too so set an example to them please since you got talents and a huge future ahead of you.
We Belgians do not wish anything ill or negative on the people of Brazil. We don't even hate your country. You have the best party places in the world and you know how to have fun. You have a lot of beautiful men and women too whom the world looks up to as well. You got great footballers and we want to let you know that we do recognize their talents as well.
I also want to apologize for getting my fellow fans to adopt pugs in Russia for the sole purpose of trolling Neymar first before keeping them as new additions to their families. We did get carried away by posting online videos of our pugs rolling on command to "Neymar!" and "Roll like Neymar!" because like everybody else, we were annoyed by his theatrics alone. Like I said, we hold nothing against him as a person; just his theatrics alone. Despite the fact that we have Neymar dog jerseys for these pugs, we are not treating Neymar like an animal. We have made comparisons of him rolling around like a pug but we know he's human too.
I also used a 3D printer in my hotel room to produce a rolling Neymar toy with the intent to show off in public during our match for laughs but Lieven confiscated it and disposed it. I just didn't want people to win through cheating because we Belgians are only used to taking on opponents with honour. I hope Brazil learns from this so they can do better in Japan then Qatar soon.
I wished I knew how a joke like this could end our world if taken too far. What I did was indeed disrespectful to not only to Lieven and his parallels but also to the people of Brazil. Once again Brazil, I apologize and good luck in winning in Japan.
We Belgians hold no grudges to anyone because we live to enjoy life and contribute to keep our productivity going. I want to let you Brazilians know that you are more than welcome to visit our country but know that we are way more than just beer, waffles, and to a degree, especially in Brussels, hipsters. Just like how I see that Brazil is way more than just beautiful women, beaches, Carnival, and football.
We all have celebrated what was needed in this year. I don't know what happens next but I ask that we move on from this and enjoy the rest of this year. So once again, on behalf of Belgium and our fans who took part of my mass trolling plans, I am sorry for almost causing a global chain reaction of destruction by making Lieven mad with my antics. Please pray for the health of these lions.
*The civilians clap as Hubert steps aside.*
Avon: *In Dutch to Lieven* Did you want to say something?
*Brazil*
*Portuguese translations of the speech is provided.*
Civilian 1: *In Portuguese* That's all good man. I'm planning to visit Belgium over Christmas anyways but yeah beer and waffles man!
Civilian 2: *In Portuguese* No. Its beer batter waffles these days.
Civilian 3: *In Portuguese* No hard feelings Hubert. Neymar needed that wakeup call anyways.
Civilian 4: *In Portuguese* See you in Tokyo, Japan in 2020 too!
*Belgium*
Lieven: *in Dutch at the podium* I now wish to say that on behalf of the nation, I accept his apology. I don't want anything like this to ever happen again from anybody, anytime, anywhere. One stupid prank will end the world; that's a guarantee. I hope I didn't overreact when I confiscated and destroyed his toy. I also took away the 3D printer he used to make it and destroyed it; that's how angry I was. Then I disappeared to save myself from any further doom. So that's what I have to apologize to you for, Hubert.
*The slides that are shown prove that this is true.*
Lieven: *in Dutch* Please forgive me for that. No hard feelings?
Hubert: *In Dutch* Understandable but you kinda went overboard with the 3D printer but that's alright. I'm not too mad. Good thing I have access to a 3D printer with wireless access but Avon is going to have my internet service provider cut off my internet until next month which is going to suck.
Avon: *In Dutch* Yeah. Surprised you didn't mention how you wanted to order a Neymar dakimakura from Japan for laughs.
Hubert: *In Dutch* Dude that's inappropriate though! These days bored dudes would be running around in anime conventions with them holding dakimakuras up in the air for the world to see and laugh at.
Avon: *In Dutch* Yeah well at least you didn't place the order for a Neymar one straight from Japan for laughs because that act would've guaranteed the end of our world.
Lieven: *in Dutch* Then all is forgiven, provided it never happens again. To conclude this presentation, our bands will play the national anthem of the World Cup winners: France.
*The Forsythians play the French anthem. The citizens sing it to show respect to the French, and the people in France watching the event on live TV or a live stream also sing along. All people clap after the anthem ends.*
Lieven: (narrating in English) So the punishment was complete. I'm not willing to tell anybody, not even Hubert, how I destroyed his stuff, but it was the angriest I'd ever been in years. Hubert's distance from Russia to our homeland was way longer than the distance marched by anybody else that had to undergo a Forsythian marching punishment, be it Zachary Chandler or the Demons of Heaven. As promised, his internet was cut off and he had to undergo a curfew. Still upset with myself with the way I behaved, however, I did the same thing to myself. At least my people knew I was home. The memory of the trolling still haunts my dreams to this day, because that's how karma works.
Still, the tale has been told, and the lessons to be learned are to be learned by the world. If you really don't want to end, world, behave yourselves, and keep your stupid thoughts and actions to yourself!
THE END
Marching Punishments: Hubert Van Retbergen
Hubert Van Retbergen, a Belgian Dissident, thought it would be funny to troll the Brazilian soccer player Neymar (who got a red card from Crush for faking injuries as a way to stall for time) by training pugs to roll on command in the style of Neymar, and creating a toy with a 3D printer. Lieven blew his stack, destroyed Hubert's possessions, and ordered the Dissident to march all the way home with a bass drum on his back and while carrying an M1 Garrand rifle. All involved with the trolling (even the dogs) march with Hubert.
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That's quite a long story that you wrote. And consider Hubert would learn from this.
(Hubert and Lieven are Belgians not Dutch despite the fact that they also speak Dutch.)
Avon: Hopefully we don't have anymore sports nonsense in Tokyo 2020. I hope you learned your lessons Hubert.
Hubert: That punishment sucks and that rifle was dense and heavy! On the bright side, we adopted the pugs from Russia to give them new life!
Jon: I do appreciate the world sympathizing with us Mexicans on this issue but we also want to let you know that we always do better than the Brazilians and we'll only get better after every defeat.
Avon: Hopefully we don't have anymore sports nonsense in Tokyo 2020. I hope you learned your lessons Hubert.
Hubert: That punishment sucks and that rifle was dense and heavy! On the bright side, we adopted the pugs from Russia to give them new life!
Jon: I do appreciate the world sympathizing with us Mexicans on this issue but we also want to let you know that we always do better than the Brazilians and we'll only get better after every defeat.
(How embarrassing! How did I miss that?)
(I fixed it, though.)
Super Slash: A promise is a promise, though. You don't even think about doing something like that again!
C.K./King Leo: Or you may end up ending the world, and if I'm correct, the white kitten would really explode.
(I fixed it, though.)
Super Slash: A promise is a promise, though. You don't even think about doing something like that again!
C.K./King Leo: Or you may end up ending the world, and if I'm correct, the white kitten would really explode.
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