Five years since I've first started my Xmas comic tradition so, let's do something special for this year's play...

Let's begin...

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Our story begins in November 2007, where a huge meeting was taking place in Anime City's Town Hall...

The chairman of the meeting was Sonic the Hedgehog himself. "All right, is everyone here? OK... Tails, start the roll call!"

Tails nodded, looking at a clipboard. "Right, Sonic! Knuckles the Echidna?"

"Here!"

"Amy Rose?"

"Here!"

"Velene Psion?"

"Here!"

"Alphamon?"

"Here!"

"Omnimon?"

"Here!"

"Dynasmon?"

"HERE!!!"

"...with his megaphone... my poor ears..." Tails groaned. "Gallantmon?"

(WHAM!!!)

"Here..."

"Nice shot with the shield!" Tails said. "Dynasmon's going to be feeling that for a while... Yugi Muto?"

"Here!"

"Joey Wheeler?"

"Here!"

"Flara Shade?"

"Here!"

"Tai?"

"Here!"

"Davis?"

"Here!"

"BlackGuilmon?"

"Here..."

"SkullSatamon?"

Silence...

"SkullSatamon?"

Silence...

BlackGuilmon sighed. "Why aren't you replying to your name?"

SkullSatamon snored in reply. He was fast asleep.

"Gallantmon, can I borrow your shield?" BlackGuilmon asked.

Tails rolled his eyes. "All present, Sonic!"

Sonic smirked. "All right. Let's get the meeting started!"

Dynasmon rubbed his face where Gallantmon had smacked him with his shield. "Can we hurry up? I've got a lot of teasing to do when we get back to headquarters with the newest member of the Royal Knights."

"Examon, right?" Tai asked. "I've seen him before... he's a large red dragon that doesn't look like a knight. Why is he a member?"

Dynasmon pointed at Alphamon. "Ask him!"

Tai glanced at Alphamon. "So, why is Examon joining your team?"

Alphamon tapped his chin. "Well, I was curious to see if a red dragon that hardly looked like a knight could be a member of our organization. According to our records, the Royal Knights have never been fully fully staffed by thirteen members. that is slowly recovering. Omnimon and I thought he possessed the sort of qualities that made him a true hero, so let him join us."

"I thought he got in because he was your cousin..." Davis said.

Alphamon blinked and glanced around shiftily. "Er, well, I, ah, do have cousins, but Examon isn't my cousin...or nephew...no sir...who told you that?!"

Davis pointed to Dynasmon's seat. "Erm... the one hiding under the table..."

"Be with you in a second!" Dynasmon called from below. "I dropped my wallet!"

"Did you drop your common sense as well?" Gallantmon muttered.

Alphamon sighed. "Dynasmon, why did you tell everyone that Examon only joined the team because he was my cousin...or nephew?"

Dynasmon climbed back into his seat. "UlforceVeedramon told me! He said he got in because he was your cousin... or nephew."

Omnimon sweatdropped. "So, that's why Vulko asked Alphamon if Examon was his nephew a couple of hours ago..."

Gallantmon palmed his face. "Dynasmon, UlforceVeedramon said that Examon was Magnadramon's cousin and Goldramon considers Examon his nephew..."

Dynasmon sweatdropped. "Oh, really? Oops... must have drank a bit too much..."

"2 gallons isn't a bit much, it's TOO much!" Alphamon said. He glanced at Sonic. "Sorry about that, let's continue..."

Davis raised his hand. "Hold up, how come Tails didn't call out me and Tai's last names?"

"'Tai and my'," Tails corrected. "And you didn't write them down..." he muttered, showing him the clipboard.

Davis sweatdropped. "Oh... we thought you wanted our autographs..."

Tails rolled his eyes. "Ah...right...well, Sonic does the same thing, all the time, so I guess it's not that important."

Davis smiled. "See?"

"Even though Sonic wrote his full name down KNOWING it wasn't going to be an autograph..." Tails pointed out.

"Eheh...can can we move on?" Davis muttered.

Sonic nodded. "Of course. Now, as we all know, it's 2007 and it's been five years since Knuckles hosted the very first Annual Christmas Play."

"Don't remind me..." Knuckles grumbled.

"I just did!" Sonic quipped. "And to celebrate the fact that we've done this for five years, we're going to do the Nativity again for this year's Annual Christmas Party!"

Knuckles paled. "No..."

"However, Knuckles won't be directing this year's play!" Sonic added.

Knuckles pumped his fist into the air. "YES!!!"

"Gee, you look so upset, Knuckles... " Amy giggled.

"Hold on!" Velene spoke up. "If Knuckles isn't directing this year's play, then who is?"

BlackGuilmon scoffed. "I feel sorry for the unlucky moron who's been picked to direct this piece of rubbish..."

Dynasmon blinked. "Why do you feel sorry for Gallantmon?"

(WHAM!!!)

Gallantmon casually polished his shield while Dynasmon groaned from the floor. "Tut tut...I got some dirt on my shield...what a shame."

Sonic brought out a book from under his seat. "Tails and I have compiled alost of people living in this city who would be suitable for directing this play." He opened the book. "It was difficult, though, because there were so many people who could do the job!"

"So, who's on the list?" Flara asked.

"Well, it's pretty long... will only take a couple..." Sonic said, glancing at the book. "BlackGuilmon..." There was a pause and he closed the book.

Omnimon sweatdropped. "A couple of hours or a couple of seconds?"

BlackGuilmon stared at Sonic. "Me? Why me!?"

"Believe it or not, BlackGuilmon... you've gotten great reviews on your directing skills!" Sonic said, jerking a thumb at Knuckles. "In fact, everyone says you're much better than Knuckles."

"WHAT!?" Knuckles bellowed, leaping from his seat. "I may be happy to get a break from directing plays this year, but that doesn't mean I'll just sit here and let myself get insulted like this!"

"Come on, Knuckles... you're overreacting..." Sonic said with a smile. "We insult you all the time and it doesn't make a difference..."

"Actually, he reacts all the time to the insults..." Tails pointed out.

"Really? Whoops..." Sonic chuckled.

"You remember the Nutcracker play, Knuckles?" Yugi asked. "Critics were impressed how the Nutcracker didn't have as many flaws as the first three plays...though there were a few mishaps."

"What mishaps?!" BlackGuilmon asked.

Velene counted on her fingers. "Well... first off was the locked door, then Soln trying to remember a difficult German name, then Magnamon trying to hide his newly painted pink armour from the audience by wearing a paper bag and there's also the... Mouse King's army of Raikou chasing away the Nutcracker's army, which consisted of Sleipmon and some guys in electric-proof rubber suits..."

"Oh, she remembered..." Tai muttered, hiding underneath the table.

"Who could forget...?" Davis groaned from under the table as well.

Sonic nodded. "That's right, BlackGuilmon! Which means your directing skills will be perfect for the Nativity play! What do you say?"

BlackGuilmon got up and coughed. "I'll say..."

"If you try and run, forget it... Shadow and Silver are waiting outside the door, and we have a heavily-guarded trampoline standing underneath the window in case you try to jump out," Sonic quickly added.

BlackGuilmon sweatdropped. "I'm in..."

Sonic nodded. "Thank you, BlackGuilmon! To start off, we'll give you a week to get over the shock of your new position."

"And then?" BlackGuilmon asked.

"Well, after the week is over, you can start auditioning for your cast!" Sonic said. "Tails will give you a list of parts that need to be played for the Nativity."

BlackGuilmon nodded. "OK. I'm honoured to have been selected to direct this play."

"We've also got Knightmon guarding the exits, Digmon burrowing through the underground, and Megadramon patrolling the skies in case you were thinking of escaping that way," Tails added.

BlackGuilmon's left eye twitched. "Ah...I see...how thoughtful of you..."

Sonic nodded. "Good. All right, meeting's over, everyone!"

Alphamon stood up. "Thank you, Sonic. Now, Dynasmon..."

Dynasmon got up from his seat and ran out of the room. "Can't talk, Alphamon sir! Just remembered that we need to protect Jaden Yuki from Seto Kaiba's top skilled mercenaries for some reason! See you later!"

"That's in a different story, you idiot!" Gallantmon snapped. He shook his head. "Oh well... at least I'm not involved..."

"Gallantmon, go and bring him back to headquarters, please," Omnimon said.

Gallantmon grumbled. "Spoke too soon on that one..." He got up and went after Dynasmon. "Sleipmon, UlforceVeedramon, it's time to execute Operation Capture Dynasmon!"

"AGAIN!?" Came a couple of groans.

Knuckles stomped out of the room, rubbing his wrists. "I'm going to give those critics a piece of my mind!"

"Not a good idea, Knuckles!" Sonic warned his hot-headed friend.

"Why not?!" Knuckles snarled.

Amy smiled, twirling her Piko Piko Hammer. "Because I'm one of those critics..."

Knuckles gulped. "Erm... I have nothing to say..."

"There's a first time for everything..." Tails muttered.

Joey patted BlackGuilmon on the shoulder. "Good luck, man!"

BlackGuilmon sighed. "Thanks, I think..."

Joey nodded, backing away from BlackGuilmon and out the door. "Don't worry, man. I have faith in you!"

"Even though you have your fingers crossed behind your back?" Yugi asked.

"Shh!" Joey hissed.

The meeting room was now empty, except for BlackGuilmon and three others...

"Is it safe yet?" Davis asked from under the table.

"Dunno... good thing I brought those earplugs with me so we wouldn't have to hear Velene keep talking about our rubber suit problem from last year's play!" Tai replied.

"I think you brought those earplugs so you could sleep, Tai..." Davis said.

"What makes you say that?" Tai asked.

"Well, you're wearing eyeshades for some reason..." Davis muttered.

"Just be quiet and don't make a move!" Tai snapped.

BlackGuilmon rolled his eyes. "Should I tell him or not? Ah, I'm a nice guy... Oh wait, I forgot to put 'not' between 'nice' and 'guy'."

"Hey, Tai..." Davis said.

"Yes, Davis?" Tai replied with a sigh.

"How can we hear each other if we're wearing earplugs?" Davis asked.

Tai sweatdropped. "Good question..."

"Plothole..." BlackGuilmon said, rolling his eyes.

"Fair enough..." Tai and Davis replied.

BlackGuilmon shrugged, leaning back into his chair. "Well, all we gotta do is end this chapter... Question is, how...?"

SkullSatamon snorted, waking up. "Huh? Oh, the meeting... I suggest invade Burger King Land before they come for us!" He glanced around, noticing that only he and BlackGuilmon were left. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! IT'S TOO LATE! THEY CAME!!!!!!"

BlackGuilmon sighed, pulling a mallet out from underneath his seat. "That'll do, bonehead...that'll do."

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That's it for now. Wait and see who'll be in the Nativity Play! I promse you, it'll be a different set of cast unlike last time!

Until next time, see ya!