Alas, the final chapter. I will try to make this one a long one...doesn't this feel like watching the last episode of a series? Feels like you're doing everything for the last time. *sob*

Disclaimer: I own only the storyline. Everything else is Paramount's.

[Our beloved cast is located outside of the school. Badly painted signs adorn the sidewalk as police approach the very few protesters.]

Officer 1: I heard that there was a public disturbance taking place. Where is it?

Tasha: Disturbance?

Officer 2: A protest, in layman's terms.

Beverly: THIS is the protest.

Officer 1: Oh really? It looks as if you're hardly trying.

Worf: It is not honorable to insult others' freedom of speech.

Officer 1: I don't think protesting falls under freedom of speech in the Constitution.

Officer 2: And just what are you protesting?

Will: Bras.

Deanna: Will!

Jean-Luc: We're protesting the school's use of money, and how the cuts affect students.

Officer 2: This is odd. Normally, a school official would be here, trying to regulate the crowd.

Officer 1: There isn't a crowd. It doesn't seem that the school even minds that these students are out here.

Officer 2: Well then...who called us?

[Data steps forward.]

Data: I did.

Beverly: Data! We're not supposed to call, the school is!

Data: In every record of protests I have read, the law intervenes. When an appropriate law enforcement agency did not arrive, I assumed the responsibility of calling.

Geordi: That's our Data!

Officer 1: You realize we can't possibly arrest you.

Officer 2: We have no charges to bring up.

Officer 1: We'd look like idiots.

[Guinan puts her arms around the officer's shoulders and stands in between them.]

Guinan: Gentlemen, gentlemen. I've got something that will make you see it our way.

[Guinan pulls out some drugs, which, last time I checked, are illegal.]

Officer 1: We can't arrest for the protest. We CAN arrest for these.

[Officer 1 puts Guinan in handcuffs and Officer 2 takes the drugs and puts them in an evidence bag.]

Geordi: Damn, they got her!

[The Officers shove Guinan into a police car and leave.]

Tasha: Let's go scrounge up some bail money.

Data (in Sherlock Holmes voice): Yes, we shall free the fair Guinan from her confinement.

Tasha: Stop that.

[Q pauses the scene.]

Q: Like so many other projects I begin, I grow bored of this one. I shall end this story now. Or close to now...

[Q begins time again.]

[In the cafeteria, the gang tries to get money for Guinan's release. They are in groups: Bev and Jean-Luc, Will and Deanna, Tasha and Data, Worf and Geordi.]

[Beverly and Jean-Luc try their luck first.]

Beverly: Hey, do you have any spare change?

Jane Doe: No, I don't. I'm too POOR to have change.

[Jane runs away crying.]

Jean-Luc: Beverly, let me try.

Jean-Luc: Do you have any extra money?

Allen Chase: No, but I've got an extra condom. Want it? Looks like you and you're girlfriend haven't been satisfied in a while.

Jean-Luc: No thanks.

[We go to see how Will and Deanna are doing.]

Will: Hey, you got any money?

Billy Joe Bob: Nope. I ain't got no cash.

Deanna: Thanks anyway. (to Will) Will, how are we ever going to find any money to free Guinan?

Billy Joe Bob: Y'all say "Guinan?"

Deanna: Yes.

Billy Joe Bob: When Guinan's in trouble, I come to get her an'at. Here, have all of my money.

[Billy Joe Bob gives Will five dollars.]

Will: Thank you for your contribution.

[Now to check up on Tasha and Data.]

Tasha: Emily, do you have any money?

Emily: What's it for?

Data: Guinan is in jail. She has been imprisoned. We must free her. So, should we not pay bail?

Emily: I don't know, I've never been there.

Tasha: Do you or do you not have a bit of money to give.

Emily: Sure! Why not!

[Emily pulls a five out of her wallet and gives it to Tasha.]

Emily: So glad I could help!!!!

[Finally, Geordi and Worf. How are they doing?]

Worf: I do not think it is honorable to beg for money off of others.

Geordi: Do it for Guinan.

[They approach a table.]

Amanda: What do you want?

Worf: We are collecting funds to release our friend from prison.

Amanda: I don't give out money.

Geordi: But the slammer must be awful...just like you.

Amanda: Wait! My horoscope DID say to be generous today...all right, I'll spare one penny.

[All of the cast meet up and add up their money.]

Will: We have a grand total of...ten dollars and one cent.

Beverly: That's not enough!

Jean-Luc: What do we do now?

Will: Let's ask Ryan Andrews.

Jean-Luc: Already did. Said he couldn't 'spare a pound.'

[Q pops in, but lets them see him.]

Q: Thus, this is the end of your adventures. You can't do anymore here, although you really tried. You're just too boring.

Will: How can you judge? You've got the worst hair cut in the universe!

Q: Damn straight.

[Q uses his fairy powers to send everyone back home. (including Guinan and Wes.)]

Q: And may they have no memory of this.

THE END.

Or is it?

I used a few people I know, as models for the students I apologize to them for making them look so bad. (Save Em, of course, she helped with her character.)