Author's note: Here is another chapter! I apologize for being so slow on the updates. I will attempt to speed this story up by uploading a chapter tonight (it's nearly twelve am here) and, if possible, two chapters tomorrow. Anyway, let me waste no more time boring you, and let's get to the actual chapter!

I expect this story to be finished in about two chapters. I'll upload both this chapter and chapter five today, then the last chapter, chapter six, tomorrow afternoon. As for my story 'Happy Birthday Tommy,' that will hopefully be completed today.

Disclaimer: I do not own Rugrats nor its character. Zack belongs to celrock, Jesse belongs to Jesse Barrow Stories, and Peter belongs to TCKing12, currently going by the name PatchythePirate1999.

Another fourth of July!

Chapter Four

After having a rather confusing talk with the babies, Peter returned to his seat in the kitchen, where Stu was still stressing out. Even his own wife seemed to be tired of it by now.

"Stu, it's not all that bad," Didi attempted to assure him.

"Not all that bad?" Stu shouted in reply. "Deed, it's almost the first of July! I barely have anytime! In fact, it's five-thirty in the afternoon on this day! Do you know how close that is to July fourth? Huh, Deed? Do you?"

The king, realizing that perhaps he could be a help, glanced up at Stu and, without announcing his arrival into the kitchen, gave the best advice that he could.

"Stu, perhaps if you actually got to work on that toy of yours now and stopped focusing on stopping the firework ban, then things won't be so bad for you on the Fourth of July," Peter explained.

Stu and Didi both stopped in their steps, having completely forgotten that the king of Confederacy was in their home.

"Oh, my, Peter, I apologize, we didn't realize that you were here," Didi said.

"Yeah," Stu agreed.

"You are right, though," Didi said with a smile. "Stu, you should take Peter's advice. Surely someone else will do something about the firework ban."

Stu sighed.

"Well, if it's coming from a king…"

"I assure you, Stu, I have just given you some of my best advice," Peter told him. "Now, if you want a successful July Fourth toy, I suggest that you go down to your basement and begin making it."

Stu, deciding that there was no point in arguing with a king or his wife, strolled down to the basement. Once he was gone, Didi looked up at Peter, sighed, and smiled.

"So, would you like to continue tea with a discussion?" Didi asked.

"I'd be pleased to, Deed," Peter told her, taking his seat and sipping some of his tea.

Meanwhile, the Rugrats were, in the most simple of words, lost at what to do. Their former plan had failed, and they were currently back in the playpen trying to come up with another plan.

"I told you guys that it wouldn't work," Zack complained.

"Yeah, sorry bout that, Zack," Tommy apologized. "But guys, we still can't give up! We gots a Fourth of July to save! 'Member?"

"Yeah, but we can't save the Fourth of July without a plan," Phil acknowledged.

"That's why we gots to come up with a plan," Tommy reminded him. "C'mon, guys! We can't give up! A baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do, 'member?"

Zack sighed.

"Tommy's right, guys," Zack said. "Even though our last plan failed, we still have to try, or else we'd just be quitters."

"Yucky quitters!" Dil said.

"That's right, Dilly," Tommy said. "Quitters are yucky."

"Awe, so does that mean that I can't quit already?" Chuckie asked.

"No, Chuckie, cuz quitting isn't any fun," Kimi remarked. "C'mon, you're three! Someday you'll be real old like Tommy's grandpa and you're gonna be sad cuz you spent most of your years sitting here all alone, with no fun 'cept for that ball. You don't want that, do ya?"

Chuckie shook his head vigorously.

"Okay then, I guess that means that everyone wants to do this… or at least agreed to it," Zack acknowledged. "Okay, so while Kimi gave Chuckie that… uh, what's it called? Well, I'll just call it a talk for now, yeah. While Kimi gave Chuckie that talk, I came up with a plan."

Everyone's faces brightened up, since in truth, most of them thought that Zack's plans were the best. They were usually not only intelligent plans, although they also had an excellent amount of adventure in them. In other words, Zack's plans usually described him in general.

"Okay, so my Aunt Celeste once told me that the mayor usually has meetings and stuff," Zack explained. "And I heard her saying this morning that the mayor is having a meeting at the park today to officially ban fire works. We gots to be there."

"That's a good idea, Zack," Kimi said. "But we should draw the pictures firstest."

The little blonde boy nodded, and they all began drawing their pictures, each including a picture of fireworks, which they had all seen go off before.

Once they were finished, they all showed Zack their pictures. He smiled at each and every one of them.

"I think they're good enough," Zack decided. "Now, let's continue our plan. What are we gonna ride in?"

It was soon agreed that they would ride on Reptar, whom Tommy had gotten for his birthday.

"I already had the bestest birthday ever, and I'm pretty sure that now, I, along with you guys, am gonna have the bestest Fourth of July ever!" Tommy said. "C'mon, babies, let's get in Reptar!"

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I apologize for this being such a crappy and rushed chapter, although I am seriously tired. While I enjoy writing stories, I really kind of don't enjoy taking a six hour nap and waking up at seven pm, only to realize that I have two stories to finish pretty soon. I swear, after July ends, I am going to stop putting dates on my stories, especially if I, on that day, realize that I can't even live up to the dates.