Fern was shocked; tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at the oak wand in her knapsack, she pulled it out, "I can't undo the spell, I don't know how to…"

All Mr. Kane had to ask was, "Where did you get that from?"

"Terra, Sue Ellen and I were stranded there, we were both taken care of in separate villages, the Dark Mages gave me this wand as a gift for helping them out around the village, Sue Ellen which I am totally embarrassed of right now, lived in the mog village, she… let me put it in kind words, lost touch with civilization right at the moment she was in the village. She was wearing leaves! Carrying a slingshot around!"

"Wow," Buster replied as he overheard Fern's outbursts, "Got any photos?"

Fern sighed, "Buster…"

Buster walked away.

"Where is Sue Ellen now?" Prunella asked curiously as she looked around for the cat girl.

All Fern said was, "Mrs. Armstrong took her home, she insisted on it, apparently because of this Sue Ellen was really stressed out to get a few days of well deserved rest."

Prunella had some insight, "She needs it, if what you are saying happened, happened, then she could use a few days rest, I could notice her stress levels are through the roof, keeping her home from school can calm her down because she won't obsess over Max's condition."

Mrs. Armstrong just came from the parking lot hearing the conversation, "I will be sure to leave her at home for a few days, I sometimes find it a struggle raising her, she needs a few days rest before something bad happens she thought I was going to die because she couldn't believe me, so I had to go to the doctor and he assured her."

The Brain had joined the conversation, "I honestly think Sue Ellen is right, she needs to realize this, and she can't be patronized by anyone about what her thoughts and feelings are on this."

"Alan, you have some very good insight, but I told Sue Ellen to stay home from school, I may find myself disagreeing with her and she will get upset."

Buster had rejoined the conversation; "Is it true that you are related to Max?"

Fern sighed, "Shut up Buster."

"Fern!" Mrs. Armstrong yelled in shock, she turned to Buster, "Yes, he is a distant cousin of mine."

"Does that mean Sue Ellen is an alien?"

Mrs. Armstrong looked at the simple rabbit boy, "I wouldn't go as far as saying that… Max was born on a planet called Tigris his ancestor had twins, one lived on Earth, married my ancestor, the other one lived on Tigris, and married someone on there, so Sue Ellen and I are part Tigrisian."

Mr. Kane was amazed; amazed that he didn't know that about Sue Ellen and her mother, "I didn't know that."

She continued to talk, "Sue Ellen and I were born in Elwood City by the way. My husband was born in Crown City."

Buster of course not the real intelligent one of the group had his say, "Can I go online to my blog saying that Sue Ellen is an alien?"

"If you want a detention, but can you please be nice to her? She has been under a lot of stress this week and I don't want her to get even more upset than she already is; it is only Wednesday, I don't want her to come to me saying that you posted something online about her."

Prunella chuckled, "Buster, I think you should focus on something else, why don't you talk to Arthur?"

Mrs. Armstrong looked at Buster, "Or keep my mother company, people told me you took quite a shine to her."

"Arthur has been busy with Muffy," Buster whined, "He will hit me!" and added, "I don't know."

Fern chuckled at Buster's strong lack of confidence, "No, your mom probably hit you when you were younger because you always misbehaved."

"Fern shut up!" Buster yelled didn't need Fern's attitude; he went to see Arthur, he was sitting with Muffy, she was upset, "I can't believe someone kidnapped Francine!"

"Calm down, Mr. Frensky, your father, and his friends are working diligently on getting her back…"

Arthur's voice soon turned quiet, "They are stealing cars in exchange for her, and I heard it from Mr. Crosswire himself; why would there be an increase of auto theft?"

Muffy was shocked, "Don't say that about my father!"

"Aliens?" Buster asked.

Arthur sighed, "Why don't you and Fern do some detective work?"

"I don't want Fern's attitude, if I do it and it prevents Francine from coming back then I will get in trouble."

"Yes you will…" Muffy explained by showing her fist and she chuckled, "That story your grandmother told about showing you how to sit on a swing and you crying because you didn't know how to get down are priceless, those are the memories that last a lifetime…"

Buster was shocked, "I was five years old! And I don't you mention that again! If you excuse me I am going to sit on the swing."

"Do you need help getting off when you are done using them?" Arthur joked.

D.W. overheard and she just laughed at him.

Mrs. Armstrong went to talk with Buster, "Buster, I think you should, it will enrich your life if you do something, and she won't bite."

Buster had no choice "As long as I get to play scrabble with Muffy, Binky and Fern."

"Ok…"

They went back into the classroom; Mrs. Armstrong called Muffy, Binky and Fern, for the game as she went to the teachers lounge.

Buster had the one in a million word, the one word that he had gotten before which was just a mixed up bag of letters and those letters were 'Kwyjibo'

His eyes lit up, and he had a huge grin, Fern noticed him, "Looks like Buster has a good word."

Buster put it down, "K-w-y-j-i-b-o, so that means, that I get 26 points, plus the j for double letter, which brings me up to 34, plus triple word score which brings me up to 102 plus 50 for using all of my letters and now I have 152 points, looks like I win."

As Buster got up Muffy grabbed his arm, "Tell me what it means…"

Buster fumbled with an answer, "A North American ape, the older ones are balding, no chin…"

"And a short temper…" Binky added as Buster ran.

Muffy chased Buster and all he said was, "Uh-oh Kwijibo on the loose!"

Until she caught up with him, "I will show you a kwijibo!"

Within moments Mrs. Armstrong came back into the room, Buster looked terrible as if he was in a nasty fight, "Hospital please…" and he passed out.

She looked at her classmates, "Does anyone know what happened here?"

Behind Mrs. Armstorng's back, Muffy leered at Binky and Fern making silent threats of violence to them, "No he was doing some sort of trick on the desks and fell."

Mrs. Armstrong didn't believe them, "I will take Buster and he should tell us his side of the story."

Mrs. Baxter revived Buster and she taken him out of the office, Muffy went to her locker which was a few lockers behind from where Mrs. Armstrong was standing, "Ok, Buster, what happened?"

Muffy was doing some more silent threats which caused Buster to lie, "I was being stupid… I did a lame dare."

Mrs. Armstrong sighed, "Buster you need to be more careful…"


Sue Ellen was at home with her father, he was slightly caught off guard that she was home that he nearly spilt out coffee, but he decided to make the best of it, "Sue Ellen, I am not impressed your mother sent you home from school but let's make the best of it ok?"

"…'k," She sat down with him across from the kitchen table.

She wasn't too happy that she was sent home, she thought her mom was the only person she could look up to, was Sue Ellen really that much of a pain?

She had decided to ask her father, "Do you think I am well…" her cheeks turned an embarrassing red, "A pain?"

Mr. Armstrong gave her a sad look, "What makes you think that?"

She was almost going to cry, "Like you and mom have tolerated so much, that I feel… that I am a burden on you both…"

"Don't say that; what my mother always said was 'when life gives you a lemon, you make lemonade.'" He stated as he sipped his coffee.

She rolled her eyes indigently, "But there is one thing in life that I learned, to try and have enough patience to deal with a Baxter."

"Buster has been bothering you again?"

"Well he said some things…" She paused, "And I got upset with him, I'd thought after two years of knowing him he would show… or have enough tolerance to meet different people, he thinks that Max is an alien, Leena an alien, Moss an alien, Buck an alien the list goes on…"

Mr. Armstrong tried to make some conversation, "Leena, the half bear rabbit girl right?"

"Yea, how is she doing?"

"I rarely talk to her; I guess she is doing ok…"

"I spoke with her mother at the coffee shop; she seems to be doing well, why don't you spend some time with Leena or something?"

Sue Ellen didn't say another word.

Mr. Armstrong had a good suggestion, "What's wrong? If you are having problems with some classmates talk to others you don't normally talk to, as it would be good to break the ice."

Someone was knocking at the door, it was Muffy, Sue Ellen was shocked, and Muffy was a bit shocked for her actions, "Guess what I did?"

Sue Ellen sighed; it was obviously going to be dumb.

"I beat up Buster…" Muffy admitted as Sue Ellen was shocked, "I got to get back to school."

Sue Ellen sighed as Muffy got into the limo and Bailey drove off.


After school Buster took a deep breath, Mrs. Armstrong called Mr. Baxter to tell that he was going to spend some time with her mother.

Mrs. Knight was reading the paper, when her daughter dropped him off, "Hi Christine."

"Hi, how is it going?" Mrs. Armstrong asked.

"Good, your father is out back," her mother replied as an older cat man who was her father joined him.

"Christine, I didn't expect you to come, how are you?" Mr. Knight asked, then looked at Buster, "Who is this?"

"He is a student from my class; he wants to spend some time with you both."

Mrs. Knight smiled at Buster, "I see no problem with that."

"I don't know…" Mr. Knight replied nervously.

"Oh Hank…" His wife chided him.

"Buster is a good kid, he is all about good behavior," Mrs. Armstrong explained, "Thanks for letting him keep you both company I believe you both could change his life."

She drove off.

"Buster, would you like to see that news paper that I was talking about?"

"Yea!" Buster replied as he was excited.

She went inside the small cozy house and found the paper, and they had both read it.

As two hours had passed Mr. Baxter and Carla drove by, "Buster, it is time to go."

Mrs. Armstrong's parents came up, in particular her father, "Your son is very nice, and he kept us great company, and tell him he is welcome here anytime."

"Thanks."

They had driven off, "That was very kind of you Buster." Carla admitted.

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Mr. Frensky and company was looking for some cars, "Ok we have 8 cars down, we need to seriously think of our options here, my neighbor has a few of the cars he collects the ones from the James Hound movies, we need to steal them at night."

Buck stroked his goatee, "The police are starting to get onto us; if we steal more cars, and of course he will get in touch with higher law enforcement."

"I had seen one of the cars on the list, it is the rarest of the rare, the Fiat."

"Where?"

"This guy has some cars from different countries; we could go there and steal it."

Buck, Moss and Mr. Frensky did the honors and drove to the place.

To Be Continued.