Author's Note: Tried to write this chapter/episode yesterday afternoon, and kept getting distracted, so sadly, had to put it off until now. No matter, thanks to not being able to sleep, because my schedule is all messed up, and on top of that, there being no extended Rugrats marathon tonight on Nick Splat, I'm going to attempt to get it written up and posted now. And this next chapter/episode, was thought up by Boris Yeltsin, and stars one of his OC's, as the title character belongs to him, but it's a parody of one of my least favorite Hey Arnold episodes, with a twist. Which episode is it? And what did I change to improve this version of the episode featuring Rugrats characters and OC's? See if you can figure it out, but just in case you can't, I'll reveal it all, come the end of the chapter. With that said, let's get started, and I hope you enjoy it!
Episode 7, Buffy's Secret
It was a beautiful, sunny Friday in mid autumn, and all of the kids in Miss Weemer's preschool class were sitting around the big table, playing with Clay-doh. Kimi however, seemed particularly excited on this particular morning.
"What are you so excited about Kimi?" Lil asked.
Kimi stopped working with her green Clay-doh to make her statue of Robosnails to look up at Lil with a huge smile on her face.
"I'm going to Buffy's house tonight for a sleepover!" Kimi said, pointing to a girl at the far end of the table with blond hair wearing pink and blue clothing.
"Neat!" Lil said.
"Yeah, my sister's been excited about this all week since our mommies set it up." Chuckie added, looking up from his blue Clay-doh, where he was trying to construct a spaceship.
"I can't wait until tonight." Buffy said, as she continued to work with her pink and purple Clay-doh, making seashells.
"Me neither Buffy, it's going to be lots of fun!" Kimi said, making the head of Robosnails and placing it on the body she had previously constructed.
The day continued to go on smoothly, as preschool finished and Kimi went home to pack up her stuff. Early that evening, Kira took her over to Buffy's place, and exchanged a few words with her mother, Joyce. Once Kira left, Buffy took Kimi into the living room.
"Want for me to show you our house?" Buffy asked.
"Sure!" Kimi replied excitedly, as Buffy took her hand, and showed her around.
She took her through every room, from the kitchen, to her mother's office, where she had been working on making some new baskets to sell to the art museum, and even took Kimi upstairs, where they peaked into her older sister Dawn's room, where she was busy working on homework. Noticing the tiny sound of footsteps on the floor, Dawn looked up from what she was working on.
"What do you want?" Dawn asked.
"Dawn, meet my friend, Kimi. We metted at preschool, and she's sleeping over tonight. Kimi, meet my big sister Dawn. She's eight-years-old, practically a growed up, and goes to big girl school." Buffy said.
"Pleased to meet you!" Kimi cried, shaking Dawn's hand.
"Nice to meet you too Kimi. Now Buffy, if you wouldn't mind taking Kimi off to play, I have a lot of homework to do, thank you." Dawn said, pointing to her bedroom door leading back out into the hallway.
Without saying another word, Buffy did as her big sister instructed, and led Kimi out of her room. Buffy then showed Kimi where the bathroom was, and finally, where they'd be sleeping, which was Buffy's bedroom. The bedroom was covered in pink and purple wallpaper, and looked like a typical three-year-old girl's room, only Kimi noticed something different about it. Over in one of the corners, was a changing table. Curious, she turned to Buffy and asked about it.
"Uh Buffy, what's that changing table doing here? You're potty trained, right?" Kimi asked.
"Um yeah, of course I am. We just, recently redid my room right before I started preschool, and my mommy has yet to move the changing table out of here." Buffy replied.
The two little girls sat down on the floor where they played with some of Buffy's Cynthia toys, until dinner was ready. They then had dinner and their bath, and so far, the sleepover was going great, but as they were getting ready for bed, is when it happened. Kimi was curled up on the floor in her Dummi Bears sleeping bag, when she looked over in the direction of the changing table, where she saw Dawn placing a diaper on to Buffy.
"Now stay still Buffy, I'm almost done." Dawn said, applying the powder and then the diaper.
"All set, you can now go snuggle up in your sleeping bag next to Kimi, and soon, it will be time for story time." Dawn said, helping Buffy down from the changing table, where she pulled her purple nightgown over her diaper.
She couldn't help but glance over at Kimi, who was trying to stifle her laughter.
"What's so funny?" Buffy asked.
"You wear, diapies?" Kimi asked.
Buffy's cheeks went red with embarrassment, as she curled up in her sleeping back next to Kimi, and Dawn left the room.
"Okay, okay, that changing table is in here, well, because, at night, I still have accidents, so I wear diapies to bed." Buffy explained.
Kimi started laughing again, but covered her mouth, trying to stifle it.
"It's not funny Kimi, and you'd better not tell nobody I still wear diapies, got it? If you tell anybody, peoples might think I'm a baby or something. I'm three-years-old and in preschool now, and I'm making lots of friends. If everybody finds out I still wear diapies at night, my friends go bye bye." Buffy said.
"No worries Buffy, I promise, I won't tell nobody." Kimi said, as Buffy's mother came in to read them their story.
"Do you really promise?" Buffy asked.
"Cross my heart, poke the sky, stick a poodle in my eye, I promise." Kimi said, behind a fit of laughter that she was trying to control.
"That you tell nobody?" Buffy asked again.
"That I tell nobody." Kimi repeated.
Buffy breathed a sigh of relief, but she wasn't totally sure if Kimi would keep the secret. She had noticed over the short time she had known her, that Kimi was indeed, one of the more outgoing girls in her preschool class, she only hoped that keeping secrets wasn't one of her weak points. Soon, their story had been read to them and it was lights out, and the girls went to sleep, but while Kimi more or less, slept peacefully, Buffy had quite the interesting dream.
In the dream, Buffy was placed into a tub of water, but as soon as she was placed into the tub, she started to shrink in size, as her blond hair started to disappear, and it suddenly hit her, she was turning back into a baby-baby.
"Look at that! Buffy still wears diapies! She must be a baby-baby!" Kimi was heard saying from outside the bathtub, as her loud giggles could be heard, echoing throughout the bathroom.
The water got rough, as baby-baby Buffy started to sink, causing her to start crying at the top of her lungs. A few minutes later, she awoke from the dream, breathing heavily and noticed her diapers were wet, forgetting Kimi was in the room, she started crying. Both, her mother and sister came running into the room, and everybody, including Kimi had awakened to the sounds of Buffy's crying.
"What's the matter Buffy sweetie?" Joyce asked.
"Mommy, I had a bad dream, where I turned back into a baby, all because I still wear diapies at night." Buffy cried.
"Now now Buffy, you can't help your condition, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Speaking of which, you need a change." Dawn said, lifting her sister out from inside her sleeping bag, and taking her over to the changing table.
However, Joyce decided to take care of the diaper change this time, and sent Dawn back off to bed. Kimi watched silently, feeling bad that Buffy had a nightmare, but decided she wouldn't add to the situation, possibly making things worse if she did. Soon, Buffy was in a new diaper, and everybody went back to sleep. The rest of the sleepover was uneventful, as the girls had breakfast together the next morning, and Kimi went home sometime later on that Saturday morning.
Things were relatively calm, until Monday morning rolled around, and it was Jesse Barrow's mother's turn to drive car pool to preschool that day. Kimi, along with her brother, were picked up by the Barrows to head off to school, along with Tommy, Zack, Phil, and Lil.
"So, how was your sleepover at Buffy's?" Lil asked.
"It was great!" Kimi replied, as a tiny giggle escaped her lips.
"What's so funny?" Zack asked.
"Nothing!" Kimi snapped, stopping her laughter dead in its tracks.
"Then why are you laughing? Did something funny happen at Buffy's house?" Phil asked.
"Well, yes and no, but I promised I wouldn't tell." Kimi said.
"Come on Kimi, you can tell us, we won't tell nobody, right guys?" Tommy said.
"Right." All of the other toddlers said in unison, except for Chuckie, who didn't appreciate how everybody was pestering his little sister.
"You guys, if Kimi don't wanna share what happened at Buffy's, we should respect that." Chuckie said.
"Chuckie's right, and as Kimi's bestest friend, I echo what he's saying here." Zack added.
"Come on Kimi, what happened?" Jesse asked, clearly not paying attention.
"All I can say is, it had to do with something she was wearing, but that's all I'm saying." Kimi said.
"Was it a Reptar costume?" Phil asked.
"No Phil, while Halliween is around the corner, it had nothing to do with her costume." Kimi said.
"Well then, what was it then?" Lil asked.
"Yeah, she's potty trained, isn't she? I mean, it's not like she still wears diapers or something." Jesse commented.
At that moment, Kimi's heart jumped up into her throat, as her face turned red.
"Buffy wears diapers!" Jesse chanted.
"I didn't say nothing!" Kimi griped between clinched teeth, as Jesse's mother turned into the community center parking lot.
"Come on Kimi, I can tell by how you're acting." Jesse said.
"Gosh, Buffy must be the onliest three-year-old in all of the world who still wears diapers." Phil added.
"Look, I promised I wouldn't tell, so you guys can't say nothing neither, got it?" Kimi barked.
However, while Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Zack kept their mouths shut, Jesse proceeded to tell everybody in their preschool class about the juicy secret he had learned about Buffy. Unfortunately, he managed to tell everybody else in their class right before Buffy arrived at school, making the start to her week, a very unpleasant one at that. Upon walking into the classroom, and going to sit down at circle time, she ran into Tom Daniels and Teddy McNulty, who had this to say to her upon greeting her.
"Oh look everyone, it's the diaper wearing baby!" Tom Daniels said.
"Do you wear bunny pajamas too?" Teddy asked.
Buffy screamed with anger, pointing a finger at Kimi, who started to cry. For the rest of that day, Buffy did all she could to avoid Kimi, and didn't speak to her. The next day, Kimi tried to confront her.
"Buffy, I just wanna say, I'm very sorry about what happened. I didn't mean for your secret to get out." Kimi said to Buffy, who was sitting in a bean bag chair in the book nook at play time, looking at a Dummi Bears board book.
The blond simply peered over the cover of her book, and rolled her eyes at Kimi, unimpressed by her apology. Kimi however, wasn't giving up. Come snack time, she took out the two Reptar bars she had brought from home, and gave one of them to Buffy.
"Here Buffy, have a Reptar bar. I gotted it, specially for you." Kimi said, handing Buffy the Reptar bar.
"I love Reptar bars, thanks!" Buffy said.
"So, do you forgive me?" Kimi asked.
After chewing a bite of the Reptar bar, Buffy simply stuck out her now green tongue at Kimi, which told her not yet.
"Come on Buffy, what do I gots to do to make us friends again? I've gots an idea, I'll be your stuper helper for the nextest week." Kimi suggested, taking a bite out of her Reptar bar.
Buffy relaxed a little, as a small smile came to her lips, giving this idea a try. And so, over the next week, Kimi did several little small favors for Buffy, everything, from getting crayons for her at coloring time, to hanging up her jacket, and even feeding Buffy her snack at points. Finally, it was the following Monday, when they were playing out on the playground on the Hop-scotch court. On Buffy's way over there, she passed by the big toy, where Tom Daniels had this to say to her, from the top of the slide, as he observed Buffy walking out to the playground.
"Good job baby Buffy, you know how to walk really well!" Tom Daniels said in a teasing tone of voice, before sliding down the slide.
This only caused Buffy to glare over at him angrily, before joining Kimi at the Hop-scotch court.
"So, Buffy, are we friends again? Do you forgive me?" Kimi asked.
Buffy simply balled up her fists and gritted her teeth, staring angrily at Kimi.
"Never!" Buffy screamed, turning her back on Kimi and stomping off to the opposite side of the playground.
Kimi simply sat down on the concrete, and started to cry, getting Tommy and Zack's attention, who were playing with a ball in the grass. Noticing this, they ran over to her to try to help cheer her up.
"Hey Kimi, what's the matter?" Tommy asked.
"It's Buffy! No matter what I do, she won't forgive me and be my friend no more." Kimi said.
"Well, why don't you just tell her that it wasn't your fault that the secret got out?" Zack suggested.
Kimi lifted her head out of her hands, wiped her tears away with her sleeve, and looked over at Zack with a smile.
"You're right Zachary, Jesse was the one who pushed it out of me, I've gots to tell her. Thank you for helping me, when we go back inside for free play, I'm going to tell her the truth." Kimi said, standing up, looking more determined than ever.
Tommy and Zack gave her approving smiles, as everybody saw to lining up single file by the door, and headed back inside the building. Buffy had left for a doctor's appointment while they were outside, so Kimi would have to wait and confront her the following day, but she would confront her nonetheless. Meanwhile, Buffy had enough of this being pushed into having to make up with Kimi, so she came up with a plan for Kimi to get revenge on her. Packing one of her plane dark purple shirts and one of her diapers into the bottom of her backpack the following morning, she knew what she had to do if Kimi begged for her forgiveness again. That morning at indoor playtime, Kimi noticed Buffy sitting alone at one of the tables, coloring in a Cynthia coloringbook, and decided, this was the perfect opportunity, to make her move. So she quietly tip-towed over, took a seat in an empty chair next to Buffy, and spoke up.
"Buffy, I've gots something to tell you." Kimi said.
"If you're asking for forgiveness, you can save your breath." Buffy said, cutting Kimi off.
"Wait I'm not finished!" Kimi cried.
"I don't care. There's only one way and one way only, I'm going to forgive you." Buffy said, getting out of her chair and running over to her backpack, where she pulled out the dark purple shirt and diaper, and brought them back over to the table, dangling the two articles of clothing in front of Kimi's face.
"You expect me, to wear, that?" Kimi asked.
"Yes, and you can wear that, and only that, as looking like a baby and being humiliated in front of everybody at preschool is the only way I'll forgive you." Buffy said.
Kimi reached out and grabbed the shirt and diaper out of Buffy's hands, and angrily threw them across the room, where the diaper proceeded to land on top of Phil's head, making several kkids laugh.
"Never! Dressing up like a baby-baby isn't gonna solve nothing! Besides, you already embarrassed me by trying to get me to dress like this, and oh yeah, I'm not the person you should be mad at. If you should be mad at anybody, be mad at Jesse, he's the one who pushed your secret out of me, and went and blabbed it to everybody in school." Kimi explained.
Overhearing this, Jesse came out from behind the block tower he was building with Tommy and Chuckie, with tears streaming down his cheeks.
"Well what do you know, Jesse Barrow's a cry baby." Teddy said, laughing.
Jesse just gave him a dirty look, before staring over at Buffy, who gave him an angry glare. Before going towards Jesse, she briefly turned her attention back to Kimi, and gave her a hug.
"I'm sorry Kimi, I should have had more faith in you." Buffy said.
"And I should have said something sooner." Kimi added.
"Are we friends again?" Buffy asked.
"Of course! That is, if you wanna be friends again." Kimi said.
"I do." Buffy said, as the two little girls gave one another another hug.
"I'm sorry too." Jesse said, still crying, as he went and attempted to join in the group hug with Kimi and Buffy.
However, Buffy wasn't ready to forgive Jesse yet, as she kicked him in between his legs, and knocked him to the floor, where he proceeded to wet his pants.
And from that day forward, Kimi and Buffy became great friends. The same can't exactly be said for Buffy and Jesse, but at least, she was mad at the right person this time.
And this, ends episode 7, of Pre-School Daze (Reboot).
Author's Note: I hope everybody enjoyed that chapter/episode. Also, if you didn't figure it out, the episode of Hey Arnold that chapter/episode was a parody of, was Arnold Betrays Iggy. Now, you maybe thinking, how low down and stupid could I get, to bring up such a repulsive episode? Well, that's where things changed. Did you notice how in my version of that episode to feature Rugrats characters, Kimi didn't dress up as a baby-baby, rather, she confronted Buffy and they made up, while Buffy was finally mad at the right person? That's what should have happened in that Hey Arnold episode. When Iggy wanted to seek revenge, by having Arnold wear a pair of bunny pajamas in front of everybody in the neighborhood, Arnold should have refused to go through with the plan, and confronted Iggy right then and there. It also would have been a good opportunity to tell Iggy who really spread his secret around, and while I could see Iggy no longer being friends with Sid, Stinky, and Harold for all eternity, like how it became for Buffy and Jesse in this version of that episode, at least Arnold would have been doing the right thing, rather than stooping so low as to go along with Iggy's ridiculous plan, which, only made him mad and embarrassed in the end, and as anybody knows from seeing the episode, it didn't solve anything. They continued to remain x-friends, and that's all he wrote. I surely hope I did that horrible Hey Arnold episode justice here, and be looking for more chapters/episodes, coming sometime soon.