Chapter 10: If I Were King of the Forest

The gang rushed to a door the citizens of Oz were crowded at as a gray man with black hair and black armor and was clearly Cardassian based on his scales was holding them back.
"Here!" The figure called out. "Here, here! Everything is alright! Stop that now! Everything is alright! It's alright! The Great and Powerful Oz has got matters well in hand... I hope. So you can all go home, and there's nothing to worry about. Go on home. Go home."
As the crowd dispersed, the group walked up to the guard.
"If you please sir," Nyota said calmly. "We wanna see the Wizard right away. All four of us."
"Orders are nobody can see the Great Oz!" The guard barked. "Not nobody! Not no how!"
"But please, it's very important!" Nyota pleaded.
"And I got gussied up just for the occasion." Worf added.
"Not nobody! Not no how!" The guard repeated.
"But she's Nyota!" Spock blurted out, pointing at Nyota.
"The witch's Nyota?" The guard asked before looking her up and down and noticing the Ruby Slippers. "Well, that makes a difference. Just wait here. I'll announce you at once."
The guard then walked through the door.
"Did you hear that?" Spock asked. "He'll announce us at once! I've as good as got my brain!"
"I can barely hear my heart beating!" Data remarked excitedly.
"I'll be home in time for supper!" Nyota pointed out just as excited.
"In another hour, I'll be king of the forest!" Worf remarked. "Long live the king!"
If I were King of the Forest,
Not queen, not duke, not prince.
My regal robes of the forest,
Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz.
I'd command each thing, be it fish or fowl.
With a woof and a woof and a royal growl - woof.
As I'd click my heel, all the trees would kneel.
And the mountains bow and the bulls kowtow.
And the sparrow would take wing - If I - If I - were King!
Each rabbit would show respect to me.
The chipmunks genuflect to me.
Though my tail would lash,
I would show compash
For every underling!
If I - If I - were King!
Just King!
The group then helped dress Worf up as a king as they smiled.
Monarch of all I survey.
Mo-na-a-a-a-arch of all I survey!
"Your majesty, if you were king, you wouldn't be afraid of anybody?" Nyota asked with a smile.
"Not nobody!" Worf remarked proudly. "Not no how!"
"Not even a rhinoceros?" Data asked.
"Impossiros." Worf remarked with a smirk.
"How about a hippopotamus?" Nyota asked.
"Why I'd trash him from top to bottomus." Worf remarked again.
"Supposing you met an elephant?" Nyota went on.
"I'd wrap him up and sell himphant." Worf went on.
"What if you met a brontosaurus?" Spock went on.
"I'd show him who's king of the forest!" Worf finished.
"How?" The group asked at once.
"How?!" Worf asked aghast. "Courage. What makes a king out of a slave? Courage. What makes the flag on the mast still wave? Courage. What makes the elephant charge his tusks in the misty mist or the dusty dust? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage. What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage. What makes the dawn come up like thunder?! Courage. What makes the Hottentots so hot? What puts the ape in apricot?! WHAT HAVE THEY GOT THAT I HAVEN'T GOT?!"
"Courage." The other three said.
"You can say that again." Worf said with a chuckle before stopping. "Wait."
Just then, the guard burst in.
"The wizard says go away!" The guard shouted as he returned to his post."
"Go away?" Everyone asked, dejected.
"Looks like we've come a long way for nothing." Spock said as he shoulders bowed in embarrassment at coming at all.
"Oh, and I was so happy!" Nyota sobbed, thinking about Aunt Kiara and what Professor Picard had said. "I thought I was going home!"
"Do not cry, Nyota." Data said, trying to comfort her. "We are going to get you to the Wizard."
"We certainly are!" Spock agreed, no one knowing that the guard had begun listening to the poor girl crying.
"Aunt Kiara was so good to me." Nyota went on, unable to control herself. "And I never appreciated her. Running away and hurting her feelings. Professor Picard said she was sick... She may be dying, and it's all my fault!"
The guard continued to blubber as the three try to comfort Nyota.
"Oh, I'll never forgive myself!" Nyota wept. "Never, never, never."
"Oh, please don't cry anymore!" The guard blubbered. "I'll get you into the Wizard somehow! I had an Aunt Kiara myself, once!"
The guard continued to blubber and cry as he let them in.

Oh... That was so sweet!