On our last piece, Becky's silly, slightly nonsensical style is mirrored by Gail's similar writing style. This one, she's played off against the much more serious stories of Sir Fumblies. His reactions make a lot of her random humor work quite well and her humor adds some variety and humor to his story in return.
   I seriously grin when I reread this one, due mostly to the contrast.

It's been a few hours since had left the throne room in the former seat of the Goblin King. He ponders how he will to put together his team of minions. After much thought he finally settles on a simple but effective plan. A plan that he shall now put into motion as he steps into the Elite training barracks. The thing that first stands out was Becky Joy herself, the silly one. Dressed up more fancy than any Knob Goblin despite being only in a leather dress and skirt. But anyway, she also has four Knob Goblins around her. Two of them look bored, and the other two are talking to Becky about zoos.

"Yeah, that'd be really cool but I think it'd hurt the puppy!" Becky says, frowning. Fumblies shakes his head in amusement and then takes a deep breath as he notices the small group gathered there. He takes a deep breath and then starts smiling.

"AT-TEN-HUT!" Fumblie speaks his one word with the inner conviction of one who knows that he was to be obeyed.

Becky just looks around confused?! "Ten huts?! Who is at ten huts? I don't even see one hut! You better show yourself or I'll get mad!"

The two Knob Goblins that had been talking to Becky just look confused. One of the serious Knob Goblins salutes, but the other one draws his weapon and steps in front of Becky. He looks old. "I'll protect you, Miss Becky Joy!"

With a sigh of exasperation Fumblies decides to change his tactics a bit. He raises his slightly to show that he meant no harm then glares at the gathered Knobs. "On the orders of Her Majesty Queen Catrina I am here to put together a platoon. Now any of you who aren't currently on assignment head to the sparring grounds."

"I iz doin an assignment!" Becky says, holding up a math paper. "Addition!"

"Then it looks like you don't need to head to the sparring area now does it?" Fumblies asks the question as he walks past her following the line of Knobs heading to the sparring area. He knew that what was about to follow would be interesting.

"I wanna go!" Becky holds her hands up. "Come on, Team B!"

Fumblies takes a deep breath as he shakes his head. He knew how insane Becky could be but still it didn't help the annoyance. There's about fifty Knob Goblins in all in here, but only twenty or so of them are listening to Fumblies as he speaks.

Becky looks around the room like she's bored. "Whatchya doing?"

"Putting together my platoon." Fumblies replies while looking over the assembled Knobs. With a grin he decides to issue his first order. "Any of you who have other orders in the next couple of days are to either leave or take a seat." Fumblies watches to see how this initial thinning would be taken. In just moments he was left with twenty Knobs left for consideration.

Becky takes her four Goblins aside and says, "I'm sorry but you can't have mine cause their my new buddies and not your new buddies, and that's why they're mine and not yours and.. and and.. that's it."

"I hadn't planned on taking any of your team." This is said with an upward eye roll while he looks at the twenty Knobs that looked attentive. With a nods to himself he prepares his next order. "I need the best eight of you to step forward." Fumblies crosses his arms with a frown while he watches the Knobs start to fight amongst themselves as each thought they were the best of the group.

"Oh!" Becky held up her hand. "If you wanna know how good they fight, make 'em show you how they do with training dummies!"

Fumblies nods slowly then takes a deep breath while he ponders that suggestion. He quickly takes a deep breath in preparation to issue his order. "Use the training dummies!"

"Red training dummies or pink training dumimes, sir?!" A Knob Goblin barber asks.

Becky held up her hand. "Oh! Oh! I go to Seaside Town now, kay?!"

"Which ever set is harder and see you there Becky." The answer is spoken with an air of impatience as Fumblies starts to watch the training.

The chronological order Becky appears in is a bit screwy for this mission. This one takes place directly after the previous one, though. Her previous one, in fact, takes place before pretty much everything else since Rollover even though a couple other appearances were written first.

I might even like this one a bit more than Becky/ Awaken, but only by a maybe-bit.