Author's Note: A while ago, I had plans to end this story at eight chapters, as you saw the conclusion more or less at that time back in late July of 2015, but since then, I thought up two more original characters, and meant to put those chapters out sometime late last year, like in November or December, but as you've seen, time more or less, got away from me. However, on top of that, Boris Yeltsin sent me several more original character profiles over the 2016 summer season, and while I doubt if I'll feature them all in this story, the chapter I'm about to present here will introduce the OC of his I know for sure will play a major role in a future chapter of Pre-School Daze (Reboot), while chances are most of the other OC's he's given me, will be mostly cameos, but it's quite possible that the character being presented in this chapter, will talk a little bit about some of the other OC's, especially if they're related to them, and or close friends with them. With that said, let's move on, to chapter 9, and I hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 9, Buffy
A bright red curtin closing off a stage was pulled back to reveal Boris Yeltsin, wearing his signature plad buttondown shirt, blue jeans, and brown sneakers.
"Good afternoon boys and girls, and to King Peter Albany of the Confederacy, it is I, Boris Yeltsin, here to present to you all, another OC of mine." Boris Yeltsin announced to the audience, as the toddlers sitting in the seats down below, clapped and cheered.
Sitting before him were of course, Susie, Angelica, Chuckie, Kimi, Phil, Lil, Jesse, Zack, Tommy, Dil, and King Peter Albany of the Confederacy, all eager to see who the new OC was, and who from their past on Rugrats, would be interviewing them. Once the applause died down, Boris Yeltsin cleared his throat and continued his introduction.
"Allow me to introduce to you all, my OC, Buffy Summers, and interviewing her will be Gabriel Lasky, from the season 5 Rugrats episode, Fugitive Tommy." Boris Yeltsin announced, as the two toddlers entered stage left, and walked over to the two plastic blue and red toddler chairs sitting across from one another in the middle of the stage.
Seeing that it had been two years since Gabriel made his appearance on Rugrats, he still had blond hair, but all of his baby teeth had come in by now, and the three-year-old still dressed like Tommy, only now, he not only wore the plain light blue t-shirt, but a pair of dark blue shorts to match, white socks, and black sneakers. Coming in shortly behind him was a little girl, around the same age. She had light blond hair pulled back into a single ponytail with a blue ribbon, wearing a blue t-shirt to match, a pink jumper, white ankle high socks, and pink tennis shoes that matched her jumper. She also had blue eyes, which complimented her outfit quite nicely. The little girl sat down in the blue toddler chair, while Gabriel sat down in the red chair, and Boris Yeltsin had moved over to stage right at this point, to allow the audience to see the toddler being interviewed.
"Hello, my name's Buffy." Buffy greeted.
"Hi, I'm Gabriel." Gabriel introduced himself, reaching out to shake Buffy's hand, which she reached out and shook.
"Nice to meet you." Buffy said.
"Thank you." Gabriel replied.
"So, we're required to ask you this, before you ask me some questions. How do you know the Rugrats?" Buffy asked.
Gabriel got a small knot in his stomach, as a look of guilt crossed his face, remembering back to that day at the park, when he accompanied his grandfather to an afternoon of gaming with the McNulty's grandfather and the Pickles grandfather. Part of him didn't want to go that day, mainly because his teeth were bothering him so much, but his grandfather was watching him for the afternoon, thus, not having any choice in the matter. After taking a few deep breaths, he spoke up and began his story.
"Well I don't know everybody out there in the audience. Only Tommy. Though he's sure grown since we last metted, gots a nice head of dark purple hair I see, and his clothes still match mine, but that day at the park wasn't a very happy day. You see Buffy, I'm normally not a bad kid, but on this particular day, I was getting some new teeth, and they were bothering me something awful. The only thing that helped, was biting on stuff to help them feel better. I ran into Teddy McNulty, the youngest of the brothers. He was playing with a fun ball, which to me, looked like something good to chew on. He fell over, and not being able to resist my urge, I bit on it and ran away, not wishing to get caught by his older brother Timmy, who could be quite mean at times. I also finished some animal cookies I had in my diaper at the time, but that only made me thirsty, and I ran into Tommy, where he even asked me why did I do that to my ball, seeing the broken ball in my hand. Tommy had dropped his bottle, after managing to get the cover off, and before he could pick it up, I bit the nipple off and had me a drink of milk to wash down the cookie crumbs. He was obviously, not happy about what I did, but I didn't care. I left him there with the ball, and snuck off to hide, feeling guilty about what I did, not being sure of how to tell Tommy or the McNulty boys what I had done. Unfortunately, I left Tommy there to get framed, and eventually, they all found me, and were pretty mad. Boy was I thankful that despite breaking Teddy's ball, he wasn't mad at me, and understood how I felt once I explained myself, as he, too, was starting to get teeth, and knew how much it hurt. So the broken ball soon became our newest teething toy for both of us, and I guess in the end, we all got along, I just wish I hadn't done what I did, leaving Tommy to get in trouble for doing something he never did in the first place. And to Tommy out there in the audience, I'm sorry I left you to get in trouble." Gabriel said.
"It's okay Gabriel, besides, it happened a long time ago." Tommy replied.
Gabriel smiled at him, before turning his attention back to Buffy to finish the interview.
"Now then, I believe it's time for me to ask you some questions, and after telling that story, do you recall having trouble with teeth pain as a baby?" Gabriel asked.
"Actually, I do. I was probably about a-year-old too, and I made my older sister Dawn, who was six at the time, and my mommy Joyce, very upset. Me and my sister had a playroom, and I kept chewing on the hand of her favorite doll, until one day, I finally chewed it off, and she was very upset with me. I don't think she spoke to me for an entire week, or at least, it felt that long to a small baby like me, and I felt bad, cuz like you, I was simply, in pain. I didn't mean to hurt anything I chewed on, including one of the baskets my mommy had made for an upcoming art show that she had worked really hard on. Boy was she pretty upset with me for chewing off the handles on it, as she had worked so hard on it. I even tried to glue the handles back together, but I got more glue on the carpet than where it needed to go, only getting in more trouble. Only thing I recall after that, was lots of things being put up high out of my reach, and being left to only play with teething rings and my baby toys. Luckily, the pain eventually went away, and once I wasn't chewing on stuff anymore, I guess my mommy and sister finally forgave me, though I wish they could have understood me when I was that little, but back then, my words only sounded like baby babble to them." Buffy said.
"I remember those days. We could talk to other babies, but not growed ups. Glad everything turned out okay in the end though, and that the days of teething are long behind us." Gabriel said.
"Me too." Buffy replied.
"So, you mention having a mommy and an older sister. What about your daddy?" Gabriel asked.
Buffy looked away for a minute, as a frown came to her face.
"I don't have a daddy." Buffy replied.
"How come?" Gabriel asked.
"I don't know. I just don't gots one. Maybe someday, my mommy or sister will tell me what happened to him." Buffy replied, looking about ready to cry.
"I see this is hard for you, so let's move on. What story will you be mostly involved in on Fan Fiction?" Gabriel asked.
"I'm one of those kid's classmates in Miss Weamer's preschool class, which everybody can read about in the soon to be continuing story, of Pre-School Daze (Reboot). There's going to be an episode called, Buffy's Secret, where Kimi, she's the little Japanese looking girl down in the audience with dark hair pulled back into three pigtails, who's the little sister of Chuckie, he's the little boy out there with the long red messy hair and glasses, well, she sleeps over and learns a secret of mine. I tell her not to tell everybody, but then, everybody at school finds out, and, well, better not say what else happens, as it might spoil it, but the plot is going to be an homage to one of the lesser liked episodes of a show my older sister likes called Hey Arnold, and for me, I actually like it, cuz I side with Iggy quite nicely in that episode. I didn't like how it ended though, and not to worry, the situation I go through with Kimi will end very differently, but still, I play a major role in an upcoming chapter of that story, hince, why I was brought here today by my mommy and older sister to have this interview." Buffy explained.
"I see. Interesting." Gabriel said.
"I'm curious, what's your involvement been like on this, Fan Fiction thing?" Buffy asked.
"Sadly, we one-shot characters from Rugrats, get forgotten. And who can blame the authors out here reading this piece. Why would anybody want to include somebody in their stories, who left Tommy to get in trouble? I mean, I was so much, a bad guy during that episode, even though by nature, I'm not mean, that I don't blame the fans and authors out here, for completely forgetting all about me." Gabriel replied with a sigh.
"I see." Buffy replied.
"So Buffy, moving on to my nextest question, what do you like to do for fun?" Gabriel asked.
"When the weather's nice, I love to play outside. I love doing things with my older sister. Thanks to her, I already know how to jump rope and I can sort of, play Hopscotch, when I remember the rules." Buffy said.
"Cool! I like playing outside too. I love playing in the sandbox, and playing ball. Yes, I actually play with them now, they're not chew toys no more." Gabriel said.
Just then, Boris Yeltsin chimed in with an announcement.
"Uh, Gabriel, your time's almost up, so you can ask one more question, as your grandfather will be here shortly to pick you up." Boris Yeltsin said.
"Thank you Boris Yeltsin." Gabriel said, turning in his direction, before turning his attention back to Buffy to ask her his last and final question.
"So, you say you go to preschool at the community center and are in Miss Weamer's class with the Rugrats that are out in the audience. Did you enter her class at the beginning of the school year, not knowing nobody? Or were you lucky enough to have a few friends in her class?" Gabriel asked.
"Oh I have plenty of friends in her class. There's my friend, Clover Baker, my friend, Alex Vasquez, though she's technically too little to go to preschool, but on, bring your sibling to school day, since my big sister couldn't get out of school for the day because she had been out the week before as a result of a bad reaction to a Flu shot, I got to take Alex to school with me, which she enjoyed, as she misses me most days while I'm at school, and she's looking forward to going to preschool someday when she's biggerer, so I'm glad I could show her what preschool will be like. Then there's my friend, Santana Fabray, who was adopted, along with two of her younger sisters, and she has a third younger sister who was born into the family by their mommy. Unfortunately, not a lot of people like her mommy, cuz she looks pretty young. My family only knows them because Santanna's mommy did something called a internship for my mommy once at the art museum, and I metted Santana one day while playing with Alex at the park, as Alex is friends with Santana's little sister Rachel, and Tara, the little sister of my big sister Dawn's bestest friend, Willow, yeppers, they're both eight-years-old now and go to school together, Tara's one, and she's good friends with Santana and Rachel's baby sister Beth. Oh yeah, and sometimes, when my big sister and Willow have school projects to work on, they sometimes bring home this boy from school named John Philby. I don't know him all that well, but he thinks I'm sweet. Unfortunately, he's sometimes hard to understand, and even my sister and Willow find him hard to understand, cuz he's from somewhere across the ocean. I think my sister toldid me he's British, whatever that is." Buffy explained.
"And finally, do you get along with your friends just as well at school as you do outside of school?" Gabriel asked.
"Yes, I do, and it's great to be going to preschool with friends of mine I know so well." Buffy replied.
Just then, Gabriel heard footsteps come out on stage, and felt a hand rest on the back of his shoulder. Startled, he quickly turned around to see his grandfather standing before him behind the chair.
"Gabriel, time to go." Grandpa Lasky said.
"Okay grandpa." Gabriel replied, standing up from his chair.
"It was nice to meet you Gabriel, and thank you for talking to me. I hope we can meet again sometime." Buffy said.
"Maybe we'll see each other at the park sometime. Sadly, I don't go to preschool as I spend most days with my grandpa. I'm looking forward to kindergarten in another couple of years though when I'm a bit olderer." Gabriel said.
"Well thank you for coming in Gabriel to interview Buffy." Boris Yeltsin said.
"No problem Boris Yeltsin." Gabriel said with a smile, before turning towards back stage, and taking his grandfather's hand, and walking off stage.
"Goodbye everyone." Grandpa Lasky said.
"Goodbye." Everybody in the audience said, before Buffy turned her attention out to the audience.
"Okay, it's now time for each of our audience members to ask Buffy one question each, before I send her older sister in here to get her to take her home, and I clear the stage for Celrock to return, and introduce her other two OC's to you guys." Boris Yeltsin announced.
"Okay, so, who wants to go firstest?" Buffy asked.
"I will. What's your favorite Disney movie?" Peter asked.
"I love Lilo and Stitch, because for one, it takes place in Hawaii, some place I've always wanted to go, and two, I love the bond that Lilo and Stitch form as friends throughout the movie." Buffy replied.
"What would you like to do when you grow up?" Susie asked.
"I think I'd like to be an artist, like my mommy, or maybe a gardner, and own my own flower shop." Buffy replied.
"So Buffy, what's the big secret you're gonna get given away at preschool?" Angelica asked.
"I'm sorry, but I can't answer that question." Buffy replied.
"You answer it, or else!" Angelica threatened, throwing a clinched fist in Buffy's direction on stage.
Peter, who was sitting two seats over, reached out his hand, and slapped Angelica hard on her stretched out wrist.
"Outch! Hey! What was that for?" Angelica griped.
"Young lady, you know we're suppose to be kind to our fellow OC's." Peter reminded her.
The five-year-old blond simply growled at the king, and slumped back in her seat, staring down at the floor the rest of the time.
"Uh, Buffy, while you don't member ever having a daddy, do you ever dream about one sometimes? Before I learndid about my mommy, I use to dream about her, developing my love of flowers and butterflies." Chuckie said.
Buffy put a finger up to her lips and thought about this for a few minutes, before answering Chuckie's question.
"No, can't say that I have." Buffy replied, looking sad.
"What's your favoritest food?" Kimi asked.
"I love chocolate ice cream!" Buffy replied happily.
"Do you like Reptar?" Phil asked.
"He's okay, but I like Cynthia more." Buffy replied.
"What's your favoritest holiday? Mine's Christmas." Lil asked.
"Hmmm, I guess, mine would have to be Christmas too, cuz I get to decorate the Christmas tree with my big sister Dawn, and get lots of presents from Santa Clause!" Buffy replied.
"Are you ever gonna forgive me for blabbing your secret all over preschool?" Jesse asked.
Buffy gave Jesse a dirty look and stuck her tongue out at him.
"Never!" Buffy snapped, crossing her arms.
Jesse looked down at the floor, feeling bad.
"Do you have any pets?" Zack asked.
"Nope, would love to get a kitty cat though, but my mommy isn't interested in getting us a pet." Buffy replied.
"Have you ever thought about getting a pretend pet?" Tommy asked.
"I have, but it just, doesn't sound as much fun as a real one, so usually, put the thought out of my mind." Buffy replied.
"What's your favorite book to have read to you at bedtime?" Dil asked.
"Oh that's easy! My mommy will read me the story of Cinderella. It makes me feel grateful I don't got an evil step mommy and evil step sisters." Buffy replied.
"My daddy read me that story right after I gotted my new mommy and little sister in Paris, and I was worried that I'd become Finsterella, specially since nobody had toldid me about a party my family was having welcoming my mommy and sister, but I'm glad it was only a dream, and that the party turndid out great, even if my fairy Bob brother didn't help me like the fairy bob mother helps Cinderella in the story book." Chuckie said.
"Well what did your fairy bob brother tell you?" Buffy asked.
"Oh he toldid me that if I could stop my daddy from marrying that coocoo lady in Paris, I could do anything. So I snuck off, only to find no car in the garage. Luckily, Kimi founded me, claiming she was my fairy bob sister, and tooked me to the backyard where there was a party after all." Chuckie replied.
"Well I'm glad it all worked out." Buffy said.
"Me too Buffy." Chuckie replied with a smile.
Just then, an alarm sounded on Boris Yeltsin's wrist watch. He turned it off and scooted over towards center stage where Buffy was still sitting.
"Well Buffy, that alarm means it's time for you to be going." Boris Yeltsin said, just as footsteps were heard, and soon, a slightly taller figure, wearing a white blouse, black skirt, with long brown hair flowing freely down her back and blue eyes, came on to the stage.
Buffy turned and recognized the girl who was standing to the left of her instantly.
"Hi Dawnie." Buffy greeted happily.
Dawn blushed a deep shade of red, looking embarrassed.
"Buffy! You're not suppose to call me by my nickname in public." Dawn scolded, rolling her eyes.
"Sorry." Buffy quickly apologized.
"It's okay. Anyway, it's time to go to our ballet class." Dawn said, helping Buffy to her feet and taking her hand.
"Bye!" All of the toddlers except for Jesse and Angelica, called out in the audience in unison.
"Bye guys, see you at preschool, well, except for Susie, Angelica, and Dil, cuz you're either in kindergarten, or too little to go to school, and Peter, guess I'll see you the nextest time you come to pick up my friends, or on school helper day." Buffy said.
"Goodbye Buffy, have fun with your sister at ballet class." Peter said, waving goodbye.
"Thanks Peter." Buffy said, before walking off stage with her sister.
At this point, Boris Yeltsin stood in center stage, blocking the two toddler chairs, as he pulled out a Braille index card out of his pants pocket, and read it over.
"So, who's nextest?" Tommy asked.
"Well, I will be disappearing, and returning the stage to Celrock, where she'll be introducing you all to her OC, Zadon, who will be interviewed by Freddie." Boris Yeltsin replied.
And with that, the red curtins came down, and the screen faded to black.
And this, ends chapter 9.
Author's Note: Rugrats episodes referenced in this chapter, were obviously, Fugitive Tommy from season 5, from Gabriel's point of view, and the story that Chuckie told towards the end was a reference to the season 7 Rugrats episode, Finsterella. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter, and be looking for more, coming soon.