Disclaimer: All characters here are from "Boston Public" and do not belong to me. The idea of the recess society are from the cartoon "Recess."

Author's Note: This is a Boston Public-Recess crossover. It's mostly like Boston Public, but the school is modeled after the one in Recess. Please r/r! Oh, and if you have any ideas for further installments, I would love to hear them.

The Winslow Elementary Antics
by KitLee

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Harry Senate was sitting in his fourth grade classroom, counting down the seconds until recess began. He couldn't wait to tell his friends his latest scheme.

"Does anyone know the answer? How about you Mr. Senate?" the teacher Mr. Lipshultz asked him.

"Huh? What's the question sir?" Harry asked, snapping back to reality.

"The question was, Mr. Senate, who was the first president of the United States."

"Um, it was - um - " Harry looked around at his friends and then smiled to himself again. "Clark Kent."

"Mr. Senate, for that insubordinate attitude, I ought to - " Mr. Lipshultz began, but just then the bell rang, and everyone ran out of class before she could punish Harry.

"Whew, that was close," Kevin said once they were outside.

"Saved by the bell," Harry said. "Hey guys, I've got the best idea."

"Well wait until everyone else catches up," Kevin said.

Once their other friends, Milton, Lauren and Marylin had arrived, Harry pulled them together and shared his plan with them.

*****

It took place during lunch, which was right after morning recess. They snuck into the cafeteria early just to get everything set up. And then they waited. Finally their quarry came in.

Scott Guber, the biggest nerd in school, was so busy reading a book that he didn't notice Milton creep up to him and tie his shoe laces together as he got his lunch. When he moved to walk again, he fell forward into his lunch.

"Classic," Harry said, watching safely from his table.

Milton crawled over and sat down. "We got Guber good again," he said proudly.

"I really wish you guys wouldn't keep doing stuff like that to him," Lauren said.

"Why not?" asked Harry.

"Oh, come on Lauren. It's so funny," Kevin protested.

"Yeah, but it's really mean to Guber," she said.

"So?" asked Harry. "He's really mean to us. If he didn't keep doing stuff to us, we wouldn't have to get back at him."

"Yeah Lauren," Milton added. "I think this is pretty lame considered to how much trouble he got us in yesterday."

"Well," Marylin said. "All I'm worried about is King Stephen. You know he doesn't like kids to pick on each other."

"Just because Guber's a sixth grader doesn't mean he should get away with being such a worm," Harry said. "Now lets go play some kickball."

*****

They ran outside and were soon busy playing kickball against the fifth graders when some of King Stephen's henchmen came up.

"The king would like to have a word with you five," they said gravely before dragging them before King Stephen.

King Stephen was an impressive figure sitting atop the jungle gym. He was rather tall and strong, and standing before him, Harry couldn't help but feel a little intimidated. But he had to at least pretend to be brave.

"So, what's up kingy?" he asked flippantly.

King Stephen gave him a fierce look. "It comes to my attention that you five have been pulling prank after prank on a certain Scott Guber. Is that true?"

"Yes your majesty."

"Mmm hmm. Now, I try to be a fair king and to rule freely, but this has gotten out of hand. So far this week you've tied his shoeslaces together and put vasaline on his glasses. Last week you pushed him down the stair and poisoned his lunch with tabasco sauce. The week before that you broke his arm - "

"But that was an accident," Harry insisted. "We didn't mean to break the guy's arm."

"Silence! From now on you five are to stop playing such pranks on Scott Guber. Do you understand?"

"Yes sir," Milton, Lauren, Marylin and Kevin said.

"Harry?" King Stephen asked.

"Oh I understand sir. If you whine enough to the king, you can get away with anything you want."

The look on King Stephen's face told Harry that he'd gone too far. "I've had enough of your insubordination Harry. Now stop picking on Scott Guber or I'll send you to the dodgeball wall. You are dismissed." King Stephen waved his hand, and they climbed down.

"Harry, you shouldn't have made him mad like that," Milton said. "He is the king after all."

"Well I don't care," Harry said. "Are we gonna let some sixth grader with a stupid crown boss us around? Are we gonna bow down to Guber just because some kid on the jungle gym says so? No!"

"So what are you gonna do Harry?" Kevin asked.

"Guys, I've got a plan."

*****

The next day, Harry and his friends enacted their plan. They waited until lunchtime.

"Hey Guber, come here," Harry shouted.

Scott walked over cautiously. "What do you want?"

"The guys and I just wanted to apologize for how mean we've been to you."

"Oh," Scott said.

"And as a gesture of our new goodwill," Harry gestured at the empty seat at their table, "we're inviting you to eat lunch with us. Do you want to?"

The Milton and Kevin could barely keep in their laughter, but Scott didn't notice this.

"Okay!" Scott said happily. He sat down in the blue plastic chair and felt something wet on the back of his pants. He jumped up and looked down at the seat, which he now saw was full of blue paint. The entire cafeteria erupted into laughter. Scott tried to look at the back of his pants and leave the cafeteria at the same time. In his haste, he tripped over the chair and wound up lying face first on the ground.

This fueled the laughter. Humiliated, Scott quickly got up and hurried out of the cafeteria.

"That was great," Harry said enthusiastically. "Did you see his face when he sat down." He started laughing again.

"And then tried to look at his butt. He looked like a dog chasing its tail," Marylin giggled.

"And when he fell over," Kevin laughed, "oh man, that guy is such a klutz."

"Yeah," Harry said. "I think we proved our p- ." Suddenly Harry froze. The cafeteria and playground monitor, Mrs. Walsh was standing over them.

"Come with me you five," she said. They meekly stood and followed her out.

*****

The five of them were given detention for their prank. Mrs. Walsh led them into the cafeteria as soon as class was out.

"Now, you will sit here quietly and think about what you've done. I have better things to do than keep an eye on you, so Mr. Guber will watch you." She left, leaving little Scott Guber in charge.

Even though Scott Guber was two years old than them, he was shorter than all of them except Lauren. He wore big glasses and rarely was seen without a book in his hand. Scott Guber helped out in the office during recess.

He looked very seriously at them and said, "I don't want any shenanagans while I'm watching you." Then he settle down with his book to read.

Lauren leaned over and whispered, "I think we should at least cut down on our pranks. I mean, we broke Guber's arm."

"Hey," Kevin whispered. "All we meant to do was trip him. It's not our fault that he's such a klutz."

"As much as I dislike Guber, I'd kind of like to spend some recesses not trying to get back at him. It's getting boring."

"Besides," Milton added. "If I get in any more trouble, my parents are gonna kill me. Their gonna be really mad about this detention; I don't need any more."

"Okay guys," Harry said. "We'll stop for now." But not forever, he thought.