A/N: Sorry if this is a bit short, I want it to end on the climax here and the next chapter will focus on the later conflicts with the climax. So let's do this thing!

Over the next school days, flyers stating VOTE BIGBY-COOK '07-'08 spread around the school. At the same time, flyers with VOTE MOSELY-CRABGRASS '07-'08 were making the rounds, yet went for the most part ignored. There were two other people running against the two teams but they didn't stand a chance compared the heated battle between Ned and Moze. As part of the election, the two top candidates had to have a debate so on the Wednesday after the first week of school right before the freshmen would have to vote a debate was held in the school gym. Mr. Grimes walked up to a microphone between two podiums in the center of the gym as the students sat on bleachers.

"Um… could I have everyone's attention?" Mr. Grimes said into the mic. "We're going to start the debate now. This is for the election; you'll be listening to the top 2 candidates discussing some issues at the school. Mr. Borland will be asking the questions." He gestured towards Mr. Borland who waved to the students from his desk facing the two podiums. (A/N: For the record, this is a crossover. Mr. Borland is Al Borland from Home Improvement. More on how he became a teacher in a future story…) "So, let's give a warm welcome to our candidates Ned Bigby and Jennifer Mosely."

The two candidates came out from separate entrances to the gym, shook hands and stood at their podiums. Ned was dressed in a blue suit with a red neck tie and he had dyed his hair grey. Cookie was giving Ned a standing ovation. Mr. Borland began to shuffle the note cards that had the questions on them. He was shuffle them for quite some time until Moze yelled out "Just pick a question!" making him throw the cards in the air from jumping and he randomly picked up a note card.

"Okay, we'll start with Ms. Mosely. The first question is… what would you do to help the school in general?" Mr. Borland asked.

"Well, I think that this school is pretty much flawless but I think we should give it a little oomph. You know what I mean? Maybe a few more events outside the plays and sports or something like that." Moze responded.

"That's reasonable. Mr. Bigby?"

Ned cleared his throat: "My answer is bring them on." He said in a Texan accent. At first there was dead silence but it soon evolved into thunderous applause.

"All right, that had nothing to do with the question. But I guess we'll take it. The second question is… what is your opinion on the school board?"

"Well, I think the school board is great." Moze formally answered. "I think they are a great group of people and I would love to work with them on ways to improve the school."

"Mr. Bigby?" Borland gestured towards Ned.

"There a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'"

Ned received more applause.

"What would you do to help improve the school?" Borland asked.

"Well, there are things we need to fix up. I'll look into them as time progresses if I win but I think we can make this into a better school than it is now." Moze looked around for reactions and saw her dad was in the gym and immediately came back with a "Not that it's a bad school at all. Ha-ha."

"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together." Ned said.

Mr. Borland asked a few more questions, Moze tried to give serious answers and Ned was still pecking away with his random answers. Borland finally asked "Any final thoughts?"

"Vote for me!" Moze yelled. "It'll make my dad and I mean... I'll be the best president this school's ever seen!"

"Listen, Jennifer Mosely is a very tough opponent. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from." Ned once again received applause.

"All right, so that's the debate!" Mr. Borland said. "You can all go vote now!"

The students fled to the voting booth and filled out what party they wanted to win. While Ned may have received tons of applause, Moze still had a lot going for her. Nobody knew who was going to win. Maybe neither of them was going to win and that other guy was.

When social studies came around, the results had been tallied. Principal (Bill) O'Reilly came on the loudspeaker, it was only a coincidence that he looked exactly like and had the same name as the political commentator for Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor. "If I could have everybody's attention, we have tallied the results of the elections. The 9th grade president of the 2007-2008 school year is…"

"You've got this, Moze." Ned whispered to her.

"Freshmen, your class president is Ned Bigby!"

"WHAT?!?!" Ned and Moze both said in unison.

"And your vice president is Simon Nelson-Cook. So if you two can come to the first student council meeting for your grade next Monday we can start the student council's work."

He went on to mention the winners in the other grade. Moze gave Ned the angriest look she could possibly give him, Ned just tried to smile.

A/N: Isn't this so awesome? Finally, a Ned's story with some political satire! In case you're wondering, all of Ned's lines during the debate came from "Bushisms" section of the political humor section of Next time… Ned and Cookie start their reign of student council president-ness. Will they stay in office? Will they give up? Final part of this first story to be posted soon!