Full Summary: Ratstropolis crowned a new Queen of the sewers who is very strict and proper, and who found out about the Toad catastrophe with Roddy, Rita, Le Frog and the Henchrats. Since the sewers are in fear of another flood and cult happening again, she orders everyone involved (including Roddy and Rita) to go to Charm School, with Liam and Sid tagging along. While there, crushes start taking over everyone's minds including Roddy & Rita's new friends, and the Henchrats brew up plans to break everyone up. Meanwhile, Roddy starts having strange dreams that make him question his life. Fights will begin, there will be tears, and may be too much for some rats (& frogs) to bare. Could everyone learn to get along and realize the real reason why they're at Charm School? Or is it just like a regular school full of drama that causes mayhem?
~Insipired by the reality show "Charm School."
~I made a soundtrack for this fanfic as well! It will be in the last chapter (: There will also be song references in which will tell you what songs are on the soundtrack (some of them are a little too obvious). But see if you can find all the songs before the last chapter if you read this story all the way through (;
Hint to song game: The song references are only in the dialogue, (except the ones that are obviously pointed out)
Chapter 1, A New Queen
Roddy tightened his grip. He inhaled deeply, squinted and leaped. The rope scraping his calaysts on his hands. He swung around off the edge of the Jammy Dodger II above the green water and swung back above the boat. When he landed, he had a big grin on his face and tied it to the mast. "That is always fun." Roddy said out loud. "But I do have to admit, I don't have the softest hands in the world by doing that." Roddy walked away to do some other chores on the boat. The giant ipod was blasting music towards the front of the boat. The slugs also sang with the lyrics to the song.
Roddy, Rita and Liam shared the human-sized ipod that had fallen from up top. They each had their own playlist of their favorite songs. Naturally, Roddy being the easy-going type, loved every genre of music. It wasn't as good as having the big boom box his owner Tabitha used to have though. Roddy and the slugs were singing and dancing to the song "For a Pessimist, I am Pretty Optimistic," by Paramore. That was Rita's favorite band. Rita loved the alternative and rock music the best.
"I put my faith in you so much faith and then you, just threw it away." Roddy and the slugs sang as Roddy was mopping the deck.
The boat was parked, waiting for Rita. As Roddy and the slugs sang a little while longer, Liam rode up on his skateboard. The skateboard was originally a minature toy from up top. Liam and Roddy were pretty close. Although, most of the time, Liam and Rita would always be bickering. Typical brother and sister mode. Liam greeted Roddy with a smile, which exposed his new electric blue braces he had gotten a month ago. "Hi Roddy!" Liam said picking up his skateboard and laying it on the little couch on the boat. Roddy returned the hello, wiping sweat off his forehead.
"Is Rita still at the post office?" Liam asked. Roddy nodded. "I can't believe you all couldn't check your mail with the henchrats chasing you guys down," Roddy added. "Ugh, I know." Liam replied. "They've been chasing us for months. It kind of ruined my sophmore year. I was too afriad to skateboard by myself after school for a while. But, I eventually got used to it. They wanted Rita more than the rest of us." Rita eventually walked onto her boat with a pile of letters and a newspaper in hand.
"A-hoy Captain!" Roddy saluted. Rita rolled her eyes playfully. Strans of her red hair dangled on the sides of her face escaping her messy bun. It was even tied with a navy blue bandana. "So what mail have we been missing out on?" Liam asked. "Mostly junk," Rita replied. "Also a few bills, and... hey, what's this?" she asked finding a flyer for a a ceremony in town square for a new Queen.
"There's a woman elected as Queen for the sewers?!" Liam asked in disbelief. "I guess so," Rita replied. She then looked at the date. "Wow, and it's today!" "We should check that out." Roddy replied. They both then walked to Town Square.
As the trio was walking, two shadows lurked behind a crate in a market adjacent to the Jammy Dodger II. They belonged to Spike and Whitey. Spike had hand-made binoculars up to his beady blue eyes, glaring at the rats that cost him his job. "I hate them so much." Spike murmured. "And I am not homeless! I live with me mum!" Spike continued spying on them. "I know but Spike, they've walked somewhere." Whitey said, making it a little too obvious. Spike shot him a look.
"Well don't just stand there staring at me with your freak-ish pink eyes!" Spike said. "Let's follow them!" They then started following them stealthy hiding behind several objects until they found a spot behind a minature market booth where they had a good view of Roddy, Rita and Liam. There was a minature stage set up out of cardboard boxes in Town Square, and an old woman was standing on it with a middle-aged man in a tuxcedo. There was also an audience, and they were clapping making the old woman smile brightly and cheery. She was about 75 years old.
A silver tiara with fake amethyst jewels that once belonged to a doll was on her head. "I present to you, your new Queen; Queen Genevieve!" the middle-aged rat said as the audience clapped. Roddy, Rita and Liam admired the new Queen. "Now, as your Queen, I have some simple changes to our sewers." she started. "But first, as you may know, a brave young rat has saved us all from the great floods. If he is here today with us, I would love for Roddy St. James to come up on the stage!" the audience clapped and Roddy blushed a little. Several heads turned to look at him.
Rita nudged him with his elbow to go up on stage. He climbed up the cardboard stage and was very shy. "Don't be shy dear." she said. "In fact, why don't you bring your friends up?" Rita and Liam then came up on stage next to him. Roddy put an arm around both Rita and Liam. "Now, I admire how brave and heroic it was for you to save us from the horrible flood!" Queen Genevive started. She then looked at Rita and Liam. "And you must be Rita, and perhaps one of her relatives?" Liam nodded to the Queen. "I heard everything about how your family was in that whole situation with the Toad, and I feel that it is an outrage.
Because of that, I feel that these henchrats or whatever they are called, need to be taught a very important lesson." "Yeah!" Rita and Liam shouted and high-fived each other. Spike growled at this through his paper binoculars. "But," The Queen continued on to make Liam and Rita focus more on her speech. "I feel that since you were all involved in this flood/Toad catastrophe, all of you rats, including that rude french frog, need to learn more class and charm on how to get along. " Roddy, Rita and Liam's smiles started disappearing.
"I don't want anyone fighting and being hunted down anymore! So I am sending all of you to Edison's Charm School." By then, everyone's mouths had dropped, including Spike and Whitey's. This meant that Spike and Whitey had to go as well, as well as all the other henchrats and Le Frog. "Wait, why do we have to go to Charm School?!" Rita asked angrily pointing to her and Roddy. "Especially Roddy! What did he do to make him go to Charm School? I mean, he's the one rat here that is very posh and intelligent!" The Queen wasn't very happy with Rita's tone of voice, but stayed calm about the whole situation.
"Well, maybe you will all learn a lesson, and anything to stop fighting and aggressiveness." The Queen replied. With Roddy being so close to Rita as friends, he can predict her every move and know what she was thinking. He knew she wanted to pounce on her. Roddy grabbed her hand before Rita made a single move. However, Rita would never hurt an old lady, even though she was really upset with her and was imagining it. There was nothing Roddy and Rita could say, so they just walked off the cardboard stage and walked home in silence.
Spike and Whitey weren't very happy either. "I can't believe she did that!" Spike said a little too loudly. Several heads turned to the direction of the booth and both Spike and Whitey ducked back down. Roddy, Rita and Liam saw them, but Spike and Whitey were the least of their worries right now.
