Chapter 10: If I Were King of the Forest

The gang rushed to a door the citizens of Oz were crowded at as a man with bleached blonde hair and a white robe 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," Kara 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!" Kara pleaded.
"And I got gussied up just for the occasion." J'onn added.
"Not nobody! Not no how!" The guard repeated.
"But she's Kara!" Green Arrow blurted out, pointing at Kara.
"The witch's Kara?" 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?" Green Arrow asked. "He'll announce us at once! I've as good as got my brain!"
"I can barely hear my heart beating!" Kal-El remarked excitedly.
"I'll be home in time for supper!" Kara pointed out just as excited.
"In another hour, I'll be king of the forest!" J'onn 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 J'onn 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?" Kara asked with a smile.
"Not nobody!" J'onn remarked proudly. "Not no how!"
"Not even a rhinoceros?" Kal-El asked.
"Impossiros." J'onn remarked with a smirk.
"How about a hippopotamus?" Kara asked.
"Why I'd trash him from top to bottomus." J'onn remarked again.
"Supposing you met an elephant?" Kara went on.
"I'd wrap him up and sell himphant." J'onn went on.
"What if you met a brontosaurus?" Green Arrow went on.
"I'd show him who's king of the forest!" J'onn finished.
"How?" The group asked at once.
"How?!" J'onn 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." J'onn 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." Green Arrow said as he shoulders bowed in embarrassment at coming at all.
"Oh, and I was so happy!" Kara sobbed, thinking about Aunt Martha and what Mr. Knight had said. "I thought I was going home!"
"Don't cry, Kara." Kal-El said, trying to comfort her. "We're gonna get you to the Wizard."
"We certainly are!" Green Arrow agreed, no one knowing that the guard had begun listening to the poor girl crying.
"Aunt Martha was so good to me." Kara went on, unable to control herself. "And I never appreciated her. Running away and hurting her feelings. Mr. Knight 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 Kara.
"Oh, I'll never forgive myself!" Kara 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 Martha myself, once!"
The guard continued to blubber and cry as he let them in.

Oh... That was so sweet!