Legendary!
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They were sitting under one of the tables, watching as Barney's mother and Rick's nanny moved around to organized everything for the pageant.
"So, why are you here?" Rick asked Barney slipping him a piece of candy he had smuggled in.
"Making my mother proud."
"Seriously?! I'll get a light saber and a free suply of candy during an entire year."
"That is awesome."
"I know right!" he beamed.
"Ricky! Come out, come out wherever you are. It's time for the beauty part of this show. Come and get your tux on."
Rick made a face but crawled out of his hiding spot.
"Wish me luck, bro!" Rick said raising his hand for Barney to high-five.
"Luck!"
Rick nodded and stood going towards his nanny.
"Barney, come here." he heard Barney's mother calling him and sure enough Barney came out of their hiding place.
"You know what, Barney?!" Rick called out from across the room to him.
"We should create a brohood."
"What's that?"
"Well, brotherhood is for brothers and brohood is for bros. And we're bros, right? Super spies in a mission."
"And we could make rules that a bro could never break."
"Totally." Rick beamed.
"Awesome!" Barney beamed back.
"But we have to do it in our secret hiding place." he whispered.
"Awesome."
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They were in a room cramped with crazy moms wearing way too much perfume and little girls wearing too much everything.
"Look at them." Rick whispered "They look like plastic dolls."
"I kinda like it." Barney disagreed.
"Well, yeah. But you now, natural is always better. And less perfumed. And with real teeth."
"You can't discuss tastes bro."
"We can at least agree that the blond one sitting in the corner is pretty."
Barney looked over where Rick was pointing and smiled "We can agree. High-five?"
Rick high-fived him and then sat on the floor in the back near the trophies where mothers and daughters were circling around like vultures.
They were both in tuxedos, the only difference being that Barney had a tie and Rick had a bowtie, and both boys had their hair pushed back and gleaming with hairgel.
A man stepped into the podium and started announcing the contestants and making the girls go on stage and do their twirls and routines and wow the juries with glittering dresses and hair tightly placed together with hairspray.
"Boys. Your age division is next. Go stand in line." Nanny ordered them.
Barney and Rick got up and went to wait besides the stairs that led to the stage.
"What's her name?" Barney asked, eyeing Rick's nanny.
"I don't know."
"What? You have to know. What do you call her?"
"Nanny." he answered easily "Or Crazy Nanny. Depends on the level of craziness she has."
"And now on stage we have number forty-seven, Rick." the man announced making Rick climb up the stairs and walked around like they practiced. Smiling charmingly at the juries and winking his eye and then leaving the stage.
"Next we have number forty-eight, Barney!"
Barney got up on the stage and did his steps and slow turns, always looking at the judges and smiling broadly, walking a fine line between adorable and charming.
"I think that we did awesome, bro." Barney beamed when he came off stage. "Pageant-five."
Rick furrowed his eyebrow "What's that?"
"It's when you wave your hand as if your the queen of England and then high-five." Barney said excitedly.
"Awesome!" Rick cheered lifting his hand at the same time as Barney, waived and then high-fived Barney.
"Now, come on! Lets ask my nanny for some candy!"
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Barney and Rick had went back upstairs to change from their tuxes to their outfit of choice wear.
Rick had managed to get some candy bar from his nanny.
"So, what're you going to be?"
"I'm going to be a cowboy." Barney said excitedly "I have a big cowboy hat and everything. What are you going to be?"
"I'm gonna be a cop. I have a gun and everything. And a cop hat."
They were back in their hiding spot, under one table that was tall enough and large enough for both of them fit under.
"I lied of course." Rick suddenly heard his nanny say.
"Shh, Barney. Have you heard that?"
"What?" the other kid asked, having Rick shushing him again.
"I'm not gonna give the kid a light saber or candy. Are you kidding me? That would cost more than all of his outfits together."
Rick's mouth fell open.
"Well, my Barney is a sweet boy and he didn't need blackmail to get into the pageant. Of course that I wanted James to come instead, because he's a lot more charming but my James is too old for this and besides I'm afraid he'll figure out he's gay."
Barney stared at Rick in shock.
"Those little-" Rick said angrily.
"Not cool, mom. So not cool." Barney complained "What should we do? Tell them we quit the pageant?"
"Oh, no, no, no. We should do something worse. I think we should make sure they never try to put us in pageants ever again."
"How?"
"We're going to ruin this little event." Rick said conspiratorially rubbing his hands together and getting a devious look on his face.
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Rick was dressed up as a cop and Barney as a cowboy and both boys were riding the elevators down alone. They had tricked the responsible-little-lying-adults into going after them.
"You get what you have to do?" Rick asked again, going over their plan of revenge.
Barney nodded.
"It's gonna be Legend-"
"Wait for it." Rick said as a woman got in the elevator in one of the floors.
The boys smiled politely until the woman left the elevator five floors below.
"Dary!" Barney cheered as soon as the elevator doors closed behind the woman.
Rick smiled deviously and high-fived Barney.
They got out on the lobby and headed for the ballroom.
The double doors opened before them, introducing them to a room full of girls in costumes, some of them too short for girls that age to be wearing and some of them outright ridiculous.
All of them easy prey that didn't know what awaited them.
Barney turned to Rick, both with serious expressions.
They shook hands and nodded.
"I wish you luck on your journey, bro." Barney said seriously.
"And may The Force be with you."
The boys nodded again to each other and went separate ways to put their plan into action.