"Hey everyone" popped up on the screen of Finn's computer. The person who typed it, Dell Philby, sat anxiously at his computer, waiting for a reply. He had something urgent to tell his fellow Kingdom Keepers.
Seconds later, a reply came back, sent by Finn. "What's the haps?" was the reply. Finn knew it was serious. He wondered what could be so important that Philby had sent him an IM this early in the morning.
Philby's fingers flashed over his keyboard. Finally he got the message all typed out. "Wayne told me we're getting a new KK. We need to get ready for him tomorrow nite. It was such short notice, or I would have told u earlier."
A long silence played over the screen, but Finn managed to type back after about 2 minutes "What is his name?" Philby quickly replied "Michael Weldon".
Finn typed back "C u 2nite.", and left the chat room. He shut down his computer, and prayed that it wasn't an Overtaker trap.
Later that day at school, Michael Weldon and Finn just "happened" to bump into each other. Finn whispered "Sit at the Loner's Corner at lunch." Referring to the table he and Amanda sat at. Michael nodded, collected his binder, and headed the opposite direction to his 2nd period class.
Finn sat next to his neighborhood pal Dillard Cole, and they practically snored through the lesson had it not been for Amanda to give them a little push every now and then. But Finn's mind kept drifting towards lunch, and that night.
At lunch, Finn debriefed Michael on the whole Kingdom Keeping thing the same way Wayne had. He told him he would show him that night and then noticed Lousy Luowski approaching. "Oh great" Finn groaned, telling Michael to hold on one second and approaching Luowski.
Mike Horton had stopped helping Luowski, leaving Greg and Kreuter to bully Finn. Instead, Horton had become another of Finn's neighborhood friends, and seemed to know Michael as well. The three of them stood up and faced the green-eyed, zit-infested bully. "Leave 'em alone, Luowski." Horton said threateningly. "Oh yeah? Or what?" Greg retorted.
Horton took a swing at Luowski, knocking him many feet backwards with some "pushing" from Amanda. Luowski went headfirst into the nasty green Jell-O, and the whole cafeteria rumbled with laughter. Luowski's face was covered in Jell-O, and he walked out of the cafeteria, head down. Michael and Mike high-fived, the cafeteria congratulating Horton and still laughing.
Luowski never came back