The Legendary Smartyness of Smart Fish

previously on Smidgeons the Fish...

"But how do you know that Smart Fish?" tped his sister

"And what the heck is a pet?" tped his brother.

"I know because the big person who fishnapped us told all so last night! Wasn't anybody paying attention but me!?"

There was a short silence, as it dawned on all of Smidgeons' siblings, just how smart their brother Smart Fish really was.

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"You can understand the Big Things?" His sister closest (by proximity) tped, finally breaking up the fishy silence.

Chapter 3!
The Legendary Smartyness of Smart Fish!

"Of course i understand them! How many times do i have to tell you people! If you wanna learn to speak a language all you have to do is listen to it for awhile! Their language is even easier than minnow!"

The rest of the fish, shifted in their plastic cups. None of them had bothered to learn minnow speak despite Smart Fish's urgings.

"And don't call them Big Things! It makes you sound stupid. They're called humans."

Smidgeons' closest (again, in proximity: [That's distance]) sister, did not much like being called stupid. If not for the fact that they were in separate cups, she would have swam up to him and bit smart fish right on the nose, which is the greatest insult one goldfish can give to another, and must, according to fishy custom, be followed by an immediate race through a deep sea cave, to establish dominance.

But she and smartfish weren't in the same cup together, which meant she'd have to defend herself with words instead. She puffed her cheeks in discomfort... being much better with nose biting than she was with words.

"Yer the one who started calling em big things in the first place!" she fped accusingly.

"That was before i learned their proper name," Smidgeons retorted to his sister. "Sheesh, buy a clue! Seriously!"

Smidgeons' sister was struck silent buy this remark, namely because like the rest of the dishes in cups surrounding and listening intently to smidgeons, she had no idea what it was to buy something, nor did she have any notion of what a clue was. Still they could all tell from Smidgeons' movements, tone, and fin language, (that's the goldfish equivalent of body language) that this had be a most dreadful and horrific insult, and none of them dared ask him what he meant for fear of it being suggested they ought to "buy" yet even more "clues".

Needless to say, had Smart Fish's sister been in the same cup with him, she'd have bit him on the nose very hard at least three times in retaliation. Since she was not, she instead let out a very long angry fish-growl. (A goldfish's fish-growl sounds something like this: "fphtphfphtphfphtph" and it is not considered very threatening by any fish in all the world, including other goldfish, and even smaller fishies such as minnows. Which makes a lot of sense considering how at the time goldfish were quite widely regarded as the least harmful species of fish in the entirety of all the oceans. [Including the lesser known Atlantacific Ocean, located just between the North Pole and Greenish-blue land.] A fact which will we will come to consider somewhat ironic, what with the havoc our Smidgeon would come to wreak upon the world once ruled by man.)

A sea of questions ensued:

"Well what're they gonna do to us then!?"

"What's a human!?"

"How come they don't wanna eat us? They crazy or something? Am I not sexy!? Am I not delicious!?"

"Could you repeat everything you just said!? I wasn't listening!"

"How come these cups are so small!?"

"I'm sleepy."

"Do I have a name!? I forgot it!"

"Why they keep throwing balls at the rings!?"

"Silence dullards!" boomed smidgeons. "We'll never get anywhere like this! We need some semblance of order! Now listen here!'

And they did listen...

And before long the very first meeting of the very first ever (to my knowledge) goldfish assembly was called to order.

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