Chapter 52 Quiz Bee: A day of Encouragement
NMD1MU1: Hallway in Dimmsdale Elementary School, Dimmsdale, California, USA February 3, 2012 8:45 am local time
Germany is now the substitute teacher again for Timmy's class. He is seeing the three wielders as somewhat wondering on something.
"Timothy Tiberius Turner, I want you to answer the problem on the board!" Germany yelled while pointing an equation of 2784 multiplied by 1000. Timmy came in front and tried to solve it and the answer he thought of is 3784.
"WHAT KIND OF MATH DID YOUR TEACHER TAUGHT YOU!" Germany yelled at him.
"Um… addition?" Timmy replied. Nearly every students laughed at him. Germany could easily notice that he has a problem that he wouldn't tell.
"Alright… now, go back to your seat and I'll teach you how to do this simple problem…" Germany said.
Dimmsdale Elementary School Hallway, Dimmsdale, California 7:37 am
The principal announced that Timmy, Trixie, and Tootieis being called to the guidance counselor's office and the thought immediately freezes the three. The three got no choice but to go there. However, instead of the guidance counselor, it happens to be…
"Arthur, what are you doing here!" Timmy yelled.
"The counselor's absent again so I took this position temporary since the others are neither willing nor have time…" Britain replied. "Right now, I'm going to inform to you that the wands will not guarantee your success in life."
"What do you mean by that?" Trixie immediately questions Britain.
"The wands are strict followers of the moral law, therefore you cannot use it to oppress others and use it to have higher exam scores, especially now that this day is a Quiz bee day. Aside from that, the wands has its own mind and conscience and it readily loses power if the user decides not to follow the Law. However…" Britain immediately continues "… that will not happen if the user is brainwashed or upon acquiring the wands, the user wants to do things that is contrary to its moral law. In those cases, the wand only acts as a conscience to the darken mind of the wielder, but can't do anything…"
"What are you talking about Arthur?" Trixie shouted.
"I'm saying this because someone among the fairies told me about the identity of the 4th wielder and he only just said it now…"
The three wielders are thinking about who the 4th wielder is all along and they are only just guessing on who that is.
"Who could that be?" Trixie asks herself. At that moment, Japan came and announced that there will be a quiz bee competition and only three people in their class will compete. When thy returned, the class immediately took the surprise elimination round, with Timmy notably leaving blanks on the papers. Break time finally came and everyone came out of the room.
Nearly everyone in the canteen freaks out upon feeling a very dark aura in the cook's corner. Ukraine serves as the cashier lady and the Baltic Trio serves as the waiters of the day. America is now seen on the corner, really scared on what is happening now.
"Commie…commmie…commie…communism must not reign…."America chanted, acting as if he is drunk.
"What the bloody &^&*%^ is wrong with him?" Britain asks the others.
"America's acting weird since he heard that Russia's the cook for today…" Japan said.
"Here's the food…" a very sad-faced Belarus said at Timmy, Chester, Sanjay, and Elmer when she brought in a plate of pastry buns. This would invariably scares the five boys out. Timmy took the taste of it and comments that it is way better than the English because it is cooked fully… in Russian. This also triggered the panic button on all the countries present, especially that of America who suddenly goes to a mental collapse. Germany has no other choice but to send America to a mental hospital for treatment.
"What's wrong with him-aru?" China incidentally asks.
"He really thought that the students are speaking Russian when I heard that it is American English…" Japan said in his accent. In reality, nothing weird happened except that it's Latvia who served the Pirozhki to the five boys and the students remarked in English that it is delicious than yesterday's food.
"He might have suffered from mental breakdown because the thoughts of the Cold war was still not over and Russia dominating him clashed in his mind…" Germany said.
Russia, in the kitchen, thought that his plan is a success.
"Da, you're right Germany, the war is far from over until China and America becomes one with me…" Russia said while stirring his dish for the lunch.
After break…
"This is the results of the elimination round…" Germany yelled to the students "Too bad that the smartest in your class is out sick…"
Actually…
"So, why are we here? It is not usual for me to skip class just because of a KND leader's meeting…" Phineas Flynn, a.k.a. #834 asks A.J., #725.
"It has to be on something…" A.J. continued. They are now actually in the moonbase to talk about something very important.
"…however, based on your performance, Trixie Tang, Veronica Star, and Tootie De Leslie acquired the spot."
"WAIT, how did THAT HAPPEN!" Timmy protested.
"I do appreciate your reaction but your score is on the average at best…" Germany said. Even the whole class was amazed at that. Timmy has no questions how because Trixie just have China with her and Tootie asks Japan's help on training her for martial arts every end of class since she learned that she's a wand weilder. But Veronica…
"Alright, all three of you must go to the school grounds and wait for your turn."
The 5th grade quiz contest started right after lunch time. Russia gave them his best meals and everyone was happy and filled well. Now, Trixie, Tootie, and Veronica went to the stage and is now going to represent their own class.
"Kesesesesesesese…" Prussia said on stage. When America got sent to the mental hospital, Prussia replaced him as the host of the historical quiz bee.
"Welcome to the Awesome Me's Awesome Historical Quiz Bee! As your Awesome host, I would like to ask the five sections of the 5th grade of this boring, I mean, awesome quiz bee." After interviewing the first three sections' representatives, it's now Timmy's section. Prussia knows he will be beaten to pulp by Trixie so instead, he went straight to Veronica.
"So, you really do think that your section could win this quiz contest?" Prussia said.
"Yes…"
"I heard news that you are awesomely popular but not as awesomely popular as me, so what do you say to your die-hard fans?"
"Um, hi everyone. "
"WE LOVE YOU VERONICA!" Veronica's male fans yelled.
"So, keseseseses…" Prussia went towards Tootie "So, I never thought that you would enter here in this contest, so what made you enter?"
"Perhaps the way that most of the questions are on the American History?" Tootie replied.
"So, you think you could win using that in your mind? I can't see any way you could win. Let me tell you kiddo, did you know that the questions are about the history of the world?"
"Um, I do know about a little on Eastern…"
"How about those of the Awesome Kingdom of Prussia?"
"Well…"
"There you go!" Prussia remarked.
After finishing the the interviews…
"Now, I want to announce to you everyone that this quiz be would be divided into three categories… the first one is about the dumb American History, next the world, and lastly, personalities…" Prussia said. "I'll let my not-so-awesome brother to continue the rules…" Prussia leaves the stage and Germany took over. Germany announced that each correct answer for the first round is one point, the second one is three points, and the other is five points. For each round there are ten questions and all answers must be written down by hand. Now, the first question is now laid out.
"#1, what is name of the president who was involved in the American Civil War?" all five groups answered Abraham Lincoln and are all correct.
"When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1945, who was the president?" everyone got the correct answer once again.
Right after the first round, The first, second, and fourth group got it perfect and got a total of 10 points. The other groups are lagging behind with 8 points each.
Germany now begins the first question.
"During the WWII, there are five major powers that formed the Allied Forces. Give all of them." This time, Group 1 answered Canada, Britain, America, France, and China and Group 2 answered Britain, France, Poland, America and Australia. The other groups correctly answered it as America, France, Britain, Russia, and China, earning them three points.
"What is the name of the Chinese Dynasty that is well-known for the invention of gunpowder?" Only Group 4 and 3 got it correct. It was actually the name sake of Trixie's dad, the Tang Dynasty.
The scores where all pretty decent this time around. Group one got and Group 2 got 4 items correct while Group 3 got 8 items correct. Group 4 got 7 and group Group 5 has an incredible problem even. As a matter of fact, they got only 3 correct answers. In point tally, Group one got 12 points, Group 2 got 12 points, Group 3 got 24 points, Group 4 got 21 and five 9 points respectively. The totals are as follows by the sequence of order: 22, 22, 32, 31, and 17.
"Section 3 is ahead on us by one point!" Trixie said to them.
"We could do it… but without A.J…." Veronica now begins to feel the pressure.
"Come on, we have a historical genius right here…" Tootie said, pertaining to Trixie "She's going to pave our way!"
The start of the Personalities round now begins and it starts with Germany's peculiar question.
"Who is considered the 'Great Malayan'?" This made frantic on all groups. The answer, Jose Rizal, was answered by Group Five who has a Fil-Am member in them.
"Who is the top-scoring ace of World War Two?" Trixie knows that the answer and wrote Erich Hartmann and their group got a point.
"This man is a well-known symbol in Indian independence from British rule and advocated the use of non-violent protest. Who is this man?" Group 2, 3 and 4 answered Mohandas Gandhi but Group 2 got the spelling wrong.
The Personality round is an intense fight to the last. Groups are getting inside the race and the first evidence goes from the neck-to-neck battle between Groups 3 & 4. However, Group 2 goes in a comeback by simultaneously answering many questions in a row, so is the underdog group 5. However, as the quiz contest goes to a close, Group 4 can't keep up to the neck-to-neck battle and ended in third place, with a total score of 46. Meanwhile, Groups 2 and 3 would now head on to the tie-breaker round, each having three questions with 10 points each, to decide on who ends up in the 1st place. Their scores totaled to an amount of 47 points. Group 5, the underdog, now ended up in 4th place with a score of 42, and Group 1 ended up on the last place with a total score of 37 points. On the tie-breaker round, which is about random current events around the world, ended up with Group 2 answering all the tie breakers and Group 3 can't answer the last item.
Despite ending in third place, everyone in Timmy's section was surprised that they could stand up in quiz bees if their adviser would just arrange the correct team as Germany did (usually, Mr. Crocker frequently includes Tad, Chad and A.J. for the contest). In fact, the kids are thankful that the German is their teacher for that day.
"You know what kids, the victory you have today can still be attained in the months to follow if you ever allow yourselves to excel despite on how your teachers treat you. For example, Einstein was considered the student with the lowest grades in his formative years, but he turned out to be the smartest man the world has ever seen. As your teacher, I truly believe in the skill the students have, as a matter of fact…" Germany approaches Timmy and gives to him his report card with average remarks.
"Wait, what…"
"I rechecked your exams and found out that your professor Denzel Crocker checks the paper you have with an absolute bias. I also saw that having a teacher giving a lot of Fs to a student without ever consulting his or her students a little bit disturbing. In fact, most of the time, he fabricated the results you have for a reason that is not justifiable by the American Law. In fact…" Germany then gave to him some kind of paper "…I'm more than willing to improve your talent if you allow me. I'm impressed more on how you applied your lesson more than on how you answer it on paper by the actions you have done." Everyone on the room clapped at Germany's remarked and some of them crying. Aside from that, Francis also has a talk with Germany and his heart of stone just got melted. Germany said all these things to everyone and when the day ended, nearly everyone in their room shed some tears.
"We are ending the 8-week study tomorrow with a Family day for the students…" Germany said to the remaining countries in the sunset-lit cafeteria "We need to find a way to make the three kids learn on the basics of flying."
"That is something KND could easily do-aru…" China replied. "However, 11 days are not enough!"
"They are used to simulators da!" Russia said "In fact, I hacked my way in their computers and found out that they are playing the similar game that is made in my country!"
"But they need to get use to being in the cockpit." Japan said "Simulators and dogfighting are entire things different." At that moment…
"I do have an idea!" Germany said. "Britain, remember the time you requested Japan that two particular teenagers from Misaki City High School you excuse and let them travel with you having the expenses and teaching them education?"
"Yes, why?" Britain immediately said
"In that case, I would want to do that as an excuse for them to train, and I'll be the one to teach them not only in the physics of flight but rather on the other subjects as well!"
"However, to approve that, we need to have America and he is now in the menta…" At that moment, a hole was blown on top of them and this stopped what Hungary has to say. America came down rappelling towards them in a helicopter. He removed the rappelling equipment and the helicopter flew away.
"WHY THE %&^^#$$%*%^%&*^&^*^&(8 DID YOU DO THAT!" Britain yelled at America.
"Well, I wanted a heroic return for my epic comeback!" America yelled. "Oh yeah, China, could I borrow some funds to build what I destroyed when I go here?"
"Sure-aru…" China smiled grinningly.
"Alright, America, we are actually…"
"All taken care of!" America said. At that moment, several Army teams came rappelling down towards him thru the hole America made. They gave to America some papers and retreated to the roof top. "I'm granting them a scholarship using the US Air Force!"
"But the military can't do that remember?" Britain protested.
"Yeah, right. In America, my rules prevail!" America then gave them a hysterical laughter.
That night…
"Mom and Dad will come for the family day tomorrow." Timmy remarked to the two before sleeping.
"So is mine. Uncle Yao said that he will also add his family members tomorrow…" Trixie said "How could a country have family members?"
"Well, I hope everything will be ok…" Tootie remarked. She then continued "Who do you think is the 4th weilder?"
"Only time will tell…" Timmy followed.
