Drill Sergeant Daddy

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"Drill Sergeant Daddy" is a new episode of Pencil 2.O, and until recently, there has been neither number nor date associated. In this episode, After being faced with the death of a colleague, Pen changes the way he treats his kids when asked to complete a project for someone.

Federal Court of Courtes

• gavel^{[char tag?]}: Will the jury foreperson please stand? Has the jury reached a unanimous verdict?
• OJ: Yes.
• gavel^{[char tag?]}: If the jury has reached a verdict, the clerk will get the verdict form from the foreperson and had it to the judge. The judge will read it silently before handing it back to the clerk for the reading of the verdict.
• scrunchie^{[char tag?]}: The jury finds the defendant not guilty.
• gavel^{[char tag?]}: The jury is thanked and excused. Court is adjourned.
• Court Announcer: This concludes our mock trial in the Federal Court of Courtes. We thank all of you for coming today and for taking part in our program.
• gavel^{[char tag?]}: Wait a second, you hired me for a mock trial?
• OJ: Of course! I can't see any of this happening at a regular court here.
• Clover: It's about getting an former exile out of another country into Kenya.
• OJ: That doesn't have to mean we have to get all up Hiroo Onoda in the place.
• iodina^{[char tag?]}: Why would this happen at the Federal Court of Courtes? I thought this was the one that I had to do jury duty for.
• gavel^{[char tag?]}: No, the Federal Court of Courts is the one that is the one you must be in, not the Court of Courtes. See, there is another "e".
• iodina^{[char tag?]}: Aw, dijonnaise!
• gavel^{[char tag?]}: Where is the defendant?
• OJ: We have covered them with a large cloth, them referring to her and her husband. The public does not have a good opinion on them, My Lord.
• gavel^{[char tag?]}: The defendant is cube-shaped.
• Clover: Oh yeah. We have rented them a cage so they don't escape or show recognition, My Lord.
• gavel^{[char tag?]}: A defendant has the right to be seen, citizens!
• OJ: Then it is a good thing that almost everyone has left.

[Judge Gavel removes the cloth from the defendant's chair; underneath it are Leafy and Firey.]

• Leafy: Ah!
• Firey: Hello!
• OJ: You guys, you're free to go.
• Leafy: We would have known, but Firey was sleeping so well in there.
• Firey: Who cares, we can go now!

On the streets of Nairobi

• Firey: H- how long have we been walking?
• Leafy: A long time.
• Firey: This is terrible. We've been rejected from every house we wanted to buy.
• Leafy: Yeah, and we can't even get a realtor. Firey, you shouldn't ask if there are military discounts because that turns them down.
• Firey: Yeah, that's the thing. Leafy, ever since you've been at Yoyleland, you've been seen as a symbol of betrayal.
• Leafy: No, that's Quisling!
• Firey: That sport from those books where— Hey, wait! That leaves me with a great idea.
• Leafy: Which is? I mean, what?
• Firey: Do you remember that girl from the first season of BFDI?
• Leafy: Which one, there were ten, me being one of them!
• Firey: What was her name? Oh yeah, Bubble!
• Leafy: You want us to go to Bubble's house?
• Firey: Yeah! You know that I gained my memory of BFDI's past … Leafy … Bubble … frieeeeeeeeeeends. [he does the appropriate hand gestures]
• Leafy: Ex-friends. She tried to kill us with her little Vietnamese friend.
• Firey: Maybe you have a point. I mean, she's not going to be accepting at all.
• Leafy: Gee, that surely cheers up a lady. Now let's just go to Bubble's house and we can see if she'll let us in or not.

Bubble's house

• Bubble: Oi'd be glad to let you in!
• Firey: A house for us?
• Bubble: Of coirse! We do have a very special froindship.
• Leafy: Oh my gosh, thank you so much Bubble! I can't start telling you how bad I feel about betraying you … and you betraying me and me feeling bad about the feeling I got once I got betrayed …
• Firey: Bubble, let me just say that I can't wait to see what kind of interior you have!

Inside

• Leafy: It's very—
• Firey: Where are the furniture?
• Bubble: It is a part of my coilture to live the small loife. That means living in honest modesty and no flashy stuff.
• Firey: Bubble, your country is like the sixtieth richest country in the world. I'm sure you can afford stuff!
• Bubble: I'm sure you're roight. But I reject material culture, and Oi'm not one of those people who stalk celebrities on the Internet.

Pencil's house

• Pencil: Citlali, wot're'ee doin'?
• Citlali: Stalking celebrities on the Internet.
• Pencil: Turn'e off. Y'know the rules! No devices smaller than Daddy's ego a' the table.
• Citlali: Aw, come on! If I can't catch up on Greenlynn and Madagasker Card-Ash-Yin, how will I stay catch up on life?
• Pen: Yeah!
• Pencil: Y'agree with this, bruv?
• Pen: Of course. I think that a child has the ultimate right to know what's going on with the Card-Ash-Yin family, even if their theme of naming is misspelled islands.
• Pencil: Wote'er, m8! An' 'Avier, no playin' with food a' breakfast!
• Javier: I'm not playing with it, I'm composing it! It's good enough that you gave us alphabet soup for breakfast, I'm trying to recreate The Complete Works of Shakespeare, and I am 0.01% done!
• Pencil: I should'a known thet was a mistake.

[The phone rings.]

• Pencil: Nobody get thet!
• Salvador: [going to the phone] I don't follow directions.

[He picks up the phone. On the other line is Firey.]

• Firey: Hello?
• Salvador: Who is this?
• Firey: Um, it appears that I have the wrong number. I am looking for Pencil and Pen, who appear to have the same address according to the Green Pages.
• Salvador: DAD, MUM, IT'S FOR YOU!
• Ximena: Ow! I'm afraid of loud noises.
• Pen: I got it from here, son. [he takes the phone] Schreiber residence.
• Firey: Sir, you've got to come here!
• Pen: Firey, I'm a veteran soldier, not a 999 dispatcher. Where's "here" supposed to be?
• Firey: Bubble's house.
• Pen: Bubble's house?
• Pencil: Give me thet … aye, wot about Bubble's 'ouse?
• Firey: Woah, sir! Your voice turned into Pencil's!
• Pencil: No, this truly is Pencil.
• Firey: Wait. You guys live together?
• Pencil: Wot'n'ale? We're married!
• Firey: Huh? I could have sworn that Leafy and I were the only couple on the show.
• Pencil: If yer goin' to call us jus' to deny our existence or says Leafy's name, I'm a-leavin'.
• Firey: Wait!

[She hung up.]

• Sio: Mum, you're supposed to say "goodbye" before hanging up. I feel like this should be a more enforced rule around here!
• Yaretzi: So should the aboition of anger, yay!

[Pen is on his phone.]

• Pencil: Oi, give'e.
• Pen: Wait, it's important!
• Pencil: Okay, I shall wait.
• Citlali: Mum, the Card-Ash-Yins are important too.
• Pencil: I guess they are.
• Pen: Alright everyone, we have to go to Bubble's house.
• Pencil: An' we've got two kids still sleepin'. Pen, dear, wake 'em up please?
• Pen: Yes, honey.

[He goes upstairs.]

• Pencil: Alrigh', we're all goin' to Bubble's 'ome!
• Zorah: Is it far?
• Pencil: No, it's a' ther intersection o' Sierra Leone Street an' Liberia Lane.
• Yaretzi: Yay, I love street endings with four letters!
• Cil: Goo!

Girls' room

• Saye: Hey, everyone, today's going to be a really important day today; we're going to help out some of our friends. So in order to make this day better, why don't you all wake up?

[No response.]

• Pen: [from upstairs] HEY, PENC, THEY'RE NOT GETTING UP!
• Saye: [waking up] Uggh, we're awaaaaaake, Daddy.
• Zorah: Why so early, Dad, it's noon.

[Enter Pencil.]

• Pencil: Wot's goin' on, are they awake?
• Pen: Apparently they are now!
• Saye: Good morning, mum, dad, can I sleep now?
• Pen: There's no time, we have to leave, like, soon!
• Zorah: What's the big rush, there's not another Bar Mitzvah again, is there?
• Pen: No, look, your sisters are already coming in.
• Saye: I'm awake and hiding my diary, dad!

Downstairs

• Javier: What is with mother today? She's never usually this mean!
• Salvador: Are you kidding? Pencil's amazing right now. The only thing I'm worried about is Pen. He's starting to sound like you, Javier, just without that … y'know, thing you're known for.
• Javier: Intelligence?
• Salvador: Yeah.
• Sio: You do realise that he's always like this. I mean, when our mother acts mean, Dad becomes relatively nicer. It's a law that Lego taught me after we climbed Machu Picchu.
• Javier: You climbed Machu Picchu.
• Sio: Yeah! On Moogle Mirth.
• Salvador: Boo!

A few minutes later

• Pen: Alright everyone, Firey needs us and our mission is to help him.
• Saye: Wait. Firey from, like, BFDI?
• [ Saye · Citlali ]: Omg, omg, omg!
• Citlali: I heard that he won!
• Sio: It's too bad we didn't finish the series after mum left.
• Pencil: Aww, y'didn' watch the finale?
• Salvador: We didn't watch anything.
• Javier: Alright everyone, I have the directions for the car.
• Pencil: Car? Why drive an' waste precious petrol when we can walk?
• Zorah: Why walk?
• Pen: I don't think it's such a bad idea; it's a very short and easy route: we travel west from Kenya Key to Equatorial Guinea Extension, and from there we go north to the Neck of Nigeria, and if we travel west further, we'll end up at the intersection of Senegal Street and Liberia Lane.
• Yaretzi: Street endings with four letters, my favourite!
• Pencil: Why don't we all start walkin'?
• Sio: Yeah, let's go before weird things happen.