Chapter 65: High School Fete


The first week of October has arrived and classes are in progress in the high school.

In one class, "Deco, fill in the blanks for the answer to this question." Mrs Val instructed as the hip-hop student went to the whiteboard. He filled the answer but what he wrote made the class laugh. "No Deco, wrong answer. Who can rectify it?"

"I will!" Violet raised her hand, went to the whiteboard and filled in the right answer for the question on board is, "As clean as a _." And her answer is whistle.

"Excellent!" Mrs Val praise Violet as Deco sighed. "I knew I shouldn't have put, "Toilet." He thought as he and Violet went back to their respective seats.

In another class, "First time doing practical in the lab for physics! Now let's first get started with some measurements and play with mass, force and weight!" Ms Turpin announced as the lessons began. "This subject can be a dead 'weight' sometimes." Gosalyn whispered to Dewey. "Mass-ive amounts of fun to do in the lab." Dewey whispered back as he started playing with the weights. "Better not play around or I'll 'force' you to behave." Webby discovered and realized something. "Did we just made physic puns?!"

And in another, "This is gonna be your first time in the chemistry lab so whatever you do, do not touch all the chemicals and try some stupid experiment that will blow all of us to hell."

The students cringe but Louie and Lena snickered. "It'll be fun to make a chemical bomb." Louie whispered to Lena. "And it'll be fun to blow a portion of the school with it and then, no school for several days!" Lena whispered back. They snickered over it when, "Louie! Lena! What are you doing?!"

The class stared at them. "Nothing." Louie replied. "Pay attention! Now, let's first the study the apparatus and after that..." The chemistry lesson was useful and no chemicals were used during the lecture and practical runs.

Lunch break...

"Halloween is coming soon in a few weeks time." said Shard. "Last year, you threw a party that made our mood dark and satisfying." said Ennui as he ate a portion of his chicken pie. "Oh yes. I love the horrors of the night." said Leticia as she drank her grape soda. "Heh. This is why it gave me the impression that I can have someone like you be part of this clique." said Louie. "I know. And I enjoyed it." Shard replied as he ate a chili dog.

As the besties clique continued their lunch, an announcement was made.

"Attention students of Duckburg High. The school is gonna organize a fete to raise funds for charity. If you are interested to help out, present your ideas to the student council after school. You have until Wednesday to present your idea and you can work in groups. The fete will be this Saturday on October 9. Do encourage your family to attend this event."

Upon hearing that, many started to talk about it immediately as they discussed what they can do to help raise some money. For the besties, "Should we do something like that together?" Huey asked Louie. "It'll be better if we do it in small groups of 3 to 5 members. All of you can freely decide on how you can contribute to the fete." Louie suggested and already, the clique discussed among themselves as Lena tapped Louie. "What do you have in mind greenie?"

"I think I can reuse what we did. Lots of popping and drinking we did before..." Louie replied as, "I see...can Lana and Luna be part of it?" Lena asked. "Sure babe. But where are they?" He asked. "Getting dessert." She replied as they began discussing.

After school...

It cuts to outside the room where the student council is seen attending to some of the students as they present their ideas to them. Violet along with fellow student council member Laura Frizzfeather now a third year student are seen talking to some second year students. "This idea of organizing a treasure trove puzzle game is useful and educational. It is recommended that you get started on this idea right away." Violet advised the students as Laura took down their names, contact numbers and their idea. "We'll contact you again for further details."

Once they're done, Violet and Laura attended to the next group as already, 2 more slots were open and between them as the student council really have a lot of work to do. On one booth, "Sorry to say that we can't accept the idea of carving skulls on a tree." Jordan told 2 punks and 2 bullies. "Yes and not to mention it's an act of vandalism." Jerome added. "Curses!" The punk named Wolver exclaimed as he and his group left.

Inside the room, some of the members are discussing on how the fete should be organized. "Alright people. 50 booths in the football field, soccer field, tennis courts, badminton courts and squash courts! We need a layout on how it should be arranged." Gene told the members. "At least 4 booths can fit into the tennis and badminton courts." said Ernest. "I heard some students are planning something big. It's recommended that they can use the fields for their activity." Javan suggested. "We split them too if possible. Each field will have half of it for the major activities and the other half for the minor ones." Bryan suggested.

"Ha! Ha! Now that's I call teamwork! Alright, submit the finalized layout once we got at least 50 groups of volunteers for the fete and don't forget to list them in their assigned booths!" Gene ordered and this guys sure is improving in his leadership skills as the student council members began discussing.

On Thursday...

After school, the student council called for the students that volunteered for the fete. Each member got to work as they assigned each group to a certain area to work on their booths for their ideas. So far, the football field, soccer field and the courts are being used. The booths are already set up and all the students have to do is to organize their ideas in the booth in terms of layout.

In one booth, "I've got plenty of vampire bat plushies in my house. I can bring them here tomorrow." Shard told Leticia and Ennui for the trio are gonna sell Halloween themed plushies. "I managed to get werewolf plushies." said Ennui. "And I got my hands on some raven plushies." said Leticia as the trio got to the planning.

In another booth, "We can put the tables at the far end and there, we stack the cylindrical cans in pyramid form of 10 cans." Ricardo told Park. "I will handle the cans also."

"Alright then. I'll get some balls and we need to work on the prizes." Park stated. "Don't worry, Damien will handle it." Ricardo assured. "Sweet dude!" Park replied and they fist bump.

And in another, "Never thought our booth's in the tennis court." said Lena as Louie studied the booth they're assigned. "The popcorn machines can go here and the boxes to store them will be below and-"

"Hey guys!" Lana and Luna arrived as, "Thanks for making us part of your group! What's the plan?" Luna asked. "Greenie's working on the layout first. Next will be roles and finally, the servicing." Lena told her bandmates as they watched Louie study the angles and work on the plan. "He really is sharp." An impressed Lana noticed with a smile as

Back at home...

"So what's going on in your school?" Della asked as the family had dinner which is . "We've volunteered to help out in the upcoming high school fete this Saturday." Huey began. "Yeah! Me, Webby, Casey and Kirby are planning something big and juicy to help raise funds!" Dewey exclaimed excitedly as he and his girlfriend hi-5 each other. "That's amazing!" Donald exclaimed. "I'm gonna do some selling with my girlfriend and her bandmates." Louie stated. "And me, Violet and 2 of our other friends will be working things out together." said Huey.

"I see. So what are they?" Donald asked. "All will be revealed on the day itself Uncle Donald." Louie replied. "I must say, I look forward to this school fete!" Scrooge spoke up. "Why?" Webby asked. "Your school called your uncle to come and open the fete." Goldie revealed and she's taking care of Diamond who's looking around while her mother is cuddling her.

"What the-"

"Not in front of the baby Louie." Huey reminded him strictly. "Right..." He replied as, "My wife is correct. Principal Aquila called me today at work and asked me about tha school fete. He came to tha right duck for I am tougher than tha toughies, smarter than tha smarties an sharper than tha sharpies! In the end, I accepted."

"Whoa..." The teens exclaimed.

On the day of the fete...

As predicted, Scrooge is seen with the Principal as he gave him instructions. Goldie is with him as "Now when I call for you, you come out to meet me and I will hand you a pair of scissors. Cut the red streamer and the fete is open!" Principal told Scrooge and they're in the carpark discussing.

Once done, the principal made his way to the front entrance of the school as already, large crowds of students and other people are gathered outside and Vice-Principal Skylar is waiting for him. "Is it time?" She asked. He nodded and she handed him the mike. Once ready, "Thank you all for coming to the High School Fete. A lot of surprises await you all for our students have worked tirelessly to contribute and volunteer for this event. Now to begin with, may I invite the well-known, Scrooge McDuck to come up here and cut the ribbon to open the fete!"

All gasped when they heard the name and then, Scrooge emerged from behind as he entered the front gate and upon noticing him, all cheered as he made his way to the front and there as planned, he took the scissor and made his move.

"SNIP!"

All cheered again as Scrooge handed the scissors back and, "Vice Principal Skylar will lead you all to the back of our high school. The fete is located there." Principal Aquila announced as the crowd followed her in. As for Scrooge, he just waited until, "Alright Scroogey. Let's have a look around."

"Right. I hope our little bundle of joy is doing good." said Scrooge. "Relax. Beakly can handle her for us." Goldie replied as Della, Donald and Launchpad showed up. "Right, everyone's here. Let's go."

At the back...

When they arrived, "Whoa..."

The fete is packed with booths that host games, sell goods and provide F&B. The students all had fun running them as they interacted with some of the people. "Where shall we start?" Della asked. "Huey's. He's running his booth somewhere in the football fields." Donald assumed as the family started looking around.

A few minutes later, "There he is!" Donald found it as Huey, Violet, Melvin and Jennifer are seen running to together. "Hi Uncle Donald!" Huey called out. "Salutations! Welcome!" Violet greeted as the adults went to their booth. "Ah...pies and chocolate tarts eh?" Scrooge noticed. "The pies are Violet's idea and the chocolate tarts are Jennifer's idea and it's her favourite food." Huey explained as Launchpad paid Melvin some cash for 2 chocolate tarts. He then prepped the tarts and placed them in a box. "Handle with care fellow traveller."

"Huh?" Launchpad looked confused as, "He tends to roleplay." Jennifer explained as she poured chocolate into the empty tart shells. As Huey, he can be seen packing some pie for Scrooge as he ordered a whole piece. Once done, "I recommend you eat it during lunch hour." He advised his family as, "Sure thing smartie." Goldie replied as the family left.

And then, "Curiosity kills me Huey, how did you know chocolate tarts are my favourite food?" Jennifer asked. "I kinda dug into your profile a bit...in social media." Huey replied as they continued running the booth.

After that, the adults had fun trying out some games. They went to a booth run by a trio of freshmen and threw balls at some cans. Donald missed all his shots and his rage was ignited to the point he grabbed and threw it at a prefect who was buying doughnuts from Park, Vickson and Damien's booth. Next, darts as Goldie threw 5 of them hitting the bullseye and won a teddy bear. "Diamond's gonna love it." She thought when, "OW!"

She looked behind and saw that a teacher had a dart on his ass. "What? It slipped off my hand." Donald explained as the pissed teacher gave chase and Donald ran off as those around the area laughed including the family.

After that, "I wanna see how Dewey and his girlfriend are doing." Della spoke as the group went to find the blue triplet. They soon found him, Webby, Casey and Kirby running their booth as Webby is seen serving some students, Dewey is cooking hot dogs, Casey is deep frying French fries and Kirby is putting chili and cheese on the hotdogs and fries.

As Webby finished her service to the students, "Oh my...you teens are doing something big we see." Goldie spoke up. "Hi there!" Kirby greeted as the teens went to meet them. "Want a chili cheese dog Uncle Scrooge and Uncle Donald?" Dewey asked. "It goes well with the chili cheese fries." Webby added. "Sure! We'll buy some!" Della then took out some money and paid them as, "5 orders of chili cheese dogs and 5 orders of chili cheese fries coming right up!" Dewey cheered as he and his peers began prepping.

"Yo Dewey! Add 2 more chili fries for me!" Launchpad called out. "Gotcha LP!" Dewey replied as he gave new instructions as, "I gotta a feeling your pilot's gonna be in the bathroom for a long time soon enough." said Goldie as they waited. Several minutes later, their food is handed to them in plastic bags and they're kept in boxes as, "Enjoy!" Webby called out as they waved at them. "Dudes! We're making plenty of money!" Kirby cheered as, "Whoa bro! Better not keep the money for yourself. It's for the donation stuff." Caasey reminded him. "Which reminds me of an incident that happened a few years ago."

"Incident?" Dewey and Webby asked. "I heard that a few years ago, 2 girls tried to steal the donation money for themselves. They were caught by the prefects and spent 3 months of detention." Casey explained. "That punishment sure is hardcore." said Kirby.

But unknown to them, "Mandy, I heard something interesting." Hiding nearby is Tracey as she told her leader everything. From behind the bleachers, "Good. Let's do it and lay low until we meet up." Mandy ordered as she and several of her friends huddled together. "Here's the plan. After the fete, everyone will give the earned money to the prefects and they'll keep them in a large box but we'll steal it all before they could keep it and frame that outcast Webby! Once she's exposed, her life will be ruined! HA! HA! HA! I also wish she's expelled but that can wait. We'll screw her pathetic life first before we move to the expulsion part. We wait and enjoy the fete for now even though it's fucking lame." Mandy explained and they nodded. "Wait, where's Connie and Kimberly?" Simone asked. "They went to help Nick run his booth. Heard he's selling football stuff. Don't bother with them. Focus on the plan later!" Mandy ordered as she ended the meeting.

Meanwhile, Louie, Lena, Lana and Luna are handling their booth well. "Popcorn's coming right up!" Louie cheered as he got a batch of the hot buttered flavour ready. He then poured them in the glass box below the counter as Lena handed a box of cheese flavoured popcorn to some kid while Lana handed a can of soda to another kid and Luna is seen adding salt to a batch of popcorn. As they run their booth, Lena saw Lisa and Bonnie walking together smugly. "I sense a scheme..." She thought as she called for Luna. "Tell greenie I'm gonna use the bathroom."

"Okay." Luna replied as Lena left. She then followed them secretly and after a while, they stopped by to buy some burgers from a quartet of third year students. After that, they sat on benches as they ate and chat.

"You think this plan will work Bonnie?"

"Of it will Lisa! All we have to do is steal all the money collected at the end of this useless fete, stash it on Webby, tip the prefects and finally, her life is screwed. No one will ever know."

But someone knew already and, "If that's how you want to play with my best friend, I'll play along...in my own game."

Meanwhile...

Scrooge, Goldie, Launchpad, Della and Donald are having their lunch now as the ate the chili cheese hotdogs and fries. "Wow this lunch is good. Good thing I bought some cans from a nearby booth." Goldie took out a plastic bag containing soda cans as the family took one each and started drinking. "This fete is awesome! Plenty of game booths, souvenir booths and F&B booths! Yummy!" Launchpad already ate up all his fries and he just finished his chili cheese dog. He then opened a can of cola and chugged it down. Once down, he burped out loud and, "Oh no...I...I don't feel so...good!" He ran off leaving all confused by his behaviour. "I told you." Goldie stated as she sipped her soda.

After waiting for an hour, Launchpad returned refreshed as the family continued their fun. They visited a shooting booth as Scrooge had a keen eye for the targets as he used a dart rifle and sniped them all. "Dude, I think he has the aimbot hack." A freshman told his friend. "Idiot. Why do always believe in those real life hacks." His friend replied as he gave Scrooge a goodie bag.

Next, they watched some people try out archery as they shot arrows at balloons stuck onto the target board. The prizes depends on how many balloons shot and they're given 5 arrows.

Then, they checked out some souvenirs from some of the booths. During that, Donald dropped one and it broke and he had an argument with the student and was forced by Della to pay for the damage. As for the broken souvenir, it was thrown into the trash. Nearby, Launchpad had fun buying plenty of Darkwing Duck merchandise from a booth run by 3 second year students who are also fans of this superhero.

And finally, "Ooh! I see Sharpie over there Scroogey." Goldie pointed at Louie's booth as the couple went to see him. There, Louie and his crew just sold some popcorn and soda when, "Business is good I see."

"Oh hi Uncle Scrooge and Aunt Goldie." Louie greeted as Lana and Luna went to see them and at the same time, Lena just returned. "I didn't expect them to drop by at this timing." She thought as she entered the booth. "Wow...so much popcorn!" Della exclaimed. "Until now, you still got connections from Fort Duckburg?"

"Of course mom! I wouldn't forget how much corn was stored in the Cornelius Coot attraction." Louie replied as, "Lana! How's the batch?"

"Almost done!" She called out as Luna filled a cup full of soda from the soda dispenser machine. "The best part is getting free drinks." She thought as Principal Aquila and Vice-principal Skylar dropped by to buy a drink. Yup, even the teaching staff is enjoying themselves. Mr Gaston knocked down a stack of cans from the booth Park, Ricardo and Damien ran, Ms Tilly is seen buying an accessory from some students who run their booth in selling artistic accessories and not to mention they're from the art club and the science teachers are seen eating cheeseburgers together and they bought the stuff from a quintet of second year students.

Some time later...

"Attention everyone in 10 minutes, the fete will come to an end. Make use of the remaining time here and after that, the booths will close. For those running the booths, gather outside the student council room and hand over the money earned."

Upon hearing that, all made use of the remaining time to enjoy the fete a bit more until time's up. With that, all who visited the fete exit the school while those who volunteered started cleaning up. "Make sure all the trash is thrown away!" A female prefect called out. "By tomorrow, all the equipment and goods brought for the fete must be brought home!" A male prefect called out.

So the students got to work as Louie is seen making a phone call. "Alright. You can bring them out and back to Fort Duckburg tomorrow. Yes, everything." He then ended the call and told the girls. "All we can do is keep the popcorn and soda, the rest will haul the stuff back for us."

"Wicked." said Lana as the 4 of them had a drink first before the keeping.

Most of the students kept the stuff and threw some of them away. For those who run the F&B, they packaged them first and gave them away to some of their peers. For instance, "Yo we got 10 chili cheese hot dogs and 10 chili cheese fries left. What do we do with them?" Kirby asked. "Simple. We give them to the prefects and the student council." Dewey suggested. Just then,

At the same time, "I'll bring this box of chocolate tarts home. Is it okay Jennifer?"

"Sure! Go ahead and you can take more!" She encouraged as Huey decided to take another box and, "Ah! We sold all the pies!" Melvin told Violet. "Good. I can finally bring the oven back home." Violet replied as they started cleaning up their booth.

Some time later...

Around the evening, all the volunteers are lining up outside the student council room as they handed them the cash earned from the fete. At the same time, "Wait till everyone finishes with the money since the majority of the volunteers are still cleaning outside. Wingsor sisters, steal the box and then leave a tip off for the prefects to make their move fast. While this is happening, we put the money in Webby's bag for some of the students brought their backpacks and we can use this to our advantage, stash the money in and she takes the punishment!" Mandy then laughed wickedly to herself as she and her friends left not knowing that, "That was their plan? Lame, I can change that..."

Back at the line it's getting shorter and several minutes later, "That's the last supply." Javan thought to himself as he dropped the money in the box. He then brought it into the room and it's empty. So with that, the Wingsor sisters sneaked in stealthy and stole the box. "We got it." Lacey reported. "Now hurry and stash all of it in that bitch's bag!" Mandy ordered as Bonnie handed her a piece of paper. "Tip off written."

"Good. That way, they'll believe. Really stupid of them if you ask me." Mandy stated as Bonnie sneaked in and left the paper. Then, "We're done!"

"Wow Stacey. You and your sisters are fast! I trust that you put the cash in the right bag?" Mandy asked. "Of course. You told us what it looks like." Stacey replied as, "Good. Now let's watch the show and see the suffering of Webby Vanderquack! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Meanwhile outside...

Everyone is still cleaning when, "We got an emergency! A theft took place!" The prefect, Anthony called out as all gathered before him. "Alright I seek your cooperation but I want all of you to go to the gymnasium and stand by your bags. We were tipped that the person who stole the fete money left in their bag. Please follow me and my peers now." All were confused but obeyed.

It cuts to the gymnasium as all stood by their bags. All the prefects are here as, "Alright make this quick and search each bag now." Horatio ordered as the search begins. From outside, "Heh! Heh! Glad we didn't bring our bags. That way, no one will ever know..." Mandy thought with a smile when suddenly, 2 of the prefects, Frank and Peter showed up and approached Horatio. "We got a new tip off." Frank whispered first. "Yeah. We found it in our turf." Peter whispered along and after a private discussion, "Change of plans! To the lockers at level 4!" Horatio ordered as the prefects stopped what they're doing and followed their clique leader. "What? What just happened?" Mandy exclaimed in confusion as Lisa thought of something. "They mentioned lockers at level 4 right?"

"Grrr...we're going there now!" Mandy exclaimed as the 8 girls left and, "Huh? Where are they going?" Kimberly noticed as, "Ah! Found it!" Connie took out her phone. "I wonder why I don't hear anything in my skirt pocket the whole day?"

At the 4th level...

By the time Mandy and her peers arrived, the prefects are seen examining the lockers. "I recognize those lockers! They belong to Mandy and her skanks." Olivia exclaimed. The girls gasped and it was a little too loud. "Aha! Surround them!" Horatio ordered and they did. "Now be good and open your lockers." Horatio ordered. The 8 girls complied and opened their lockers.

In an instant, cash flew out of their lockers leaving them flabbergasted as, "It seems you crossed us prefects for too long." said Ingrid. "You know that means?"

"Permanent detention for 2 months." Cornelius finished. "WHAT!? NO! This is not what you all think!" Mandy protested when, "No more excuses! Besides, I got a score to settle with you all from that one time you all came to class late but you disrespected me by kicking my shin bone!" Josef exclaimed.

"Yeah! One time, one of them tore my orange sash!"

"And last week, they disrespected my authority!"

The comments of the prefects is a lot and thus, "Settled it is. 2 months of permanent detention and you girls can start it right now! Cornelius, Ingrid, tell the volunteers they can pack up and go home. These 8 disrespectful students will clean up their mess!" Horatio ordered as the prefects cheered. "And if all of you don't turn up, I can report this to the principal and the vice principal and worse, I'll even rat out all your offenses to them! Who knows what they'll do to you."

All the prefects cheered some more as the 8 girls got on their knees in defeat. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Mandy shouted as nearby, "Ha! My plan worked like charm! Especially in the magic." Who would have guessed that Lena planned a pretty good scheme as she vanished via her magic.

Soon enough...

"Wow! Who would expect the fact that we can go off early." said Louie as the group left the school and greeted their goodbyes to their peers. "C'mon Vi. Let's go and take care of the oven you brought."

"I know, I know." Violet replied as the sisters went into the ride as Lena started the engine. "See you guys in school!" Lena called out. "See ya!" Webby called out as the car drove off.

"The fete was successful! We raised a ton of money!" Huey brought up. "And soon, it'll go to charity." said Webby. "Remind me that tomorrow, we need to get the equipment because we borrow that grill from Uncle Donald." said Dewey as the 4 teens got on their bikes and left.

It looks like I had too much fun during Christmas. To the point that oh crap, I nearly forgot all about the updating. Ha! Ha! I had plenty of coke during the fun.

Anyway, we are near the end of 2020 and entering 2021. All I can say is a belated merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the writers here!

This year is kinda unexpected due to a pandemic and a few other crazy stuff which I will not talk about. As we enter 2021, let's hope things will be better...I dunno why I saying this...

But one thing's for sure, season 3's gonna reach it's end soon. Dunno what it's gonna be like but knowing that this epic show will end like adventure, I'm gonna miss it and I will keep writing even if it ends! And I also encourage the writers to keep writing and let the legacy of this show be preserved and remembered! Woo-hoo!