Author's note: This is the last chapter that I am uploading of any story today. I am, as I mentioned at the end of the last chapter, grumpy, although I'm writing this to make you guys happy because you guys are my good friends.

After I upload this chapter, I'm going to try to finishing writing celrock's Rugrats challenge and perhaps upload it on the twelfth or thirteenth , then I'm going to eat dinner (please don't ask why I eat dinner at ten pm), and I'm finally heading off to bed, around eleven pm. I need beauty rest, too. Oh, and I'm also going to reply to any fanfiction messages that I received tomorrow, because hopefully by tomorrow I'll have had a good night's rest, and maybe I won't be so grumpy. That also gives me another story idea for a one-shot that I might do in late July or August, but I'm NOT putting an exact date on it because I won't live up to it. I know I won't.

Please, though, if I send you any messages, don't respond to them immediately because not only is there a good chance that I won't even answer until tomorrow afternoon or night, but my iPad turns on at night if I receive a message, or, even worse, if I receive an email, and that annoys the living crap out of me because it disturbs my sleep. If you do end up accidentally replying, then please wait until it's early in the morning.

Anyway, if you've finished reading that long rant, then why don't we actually move onto chapter five?

Crazy chapter here, ay?

Another Fourth of July!

Chapter five

After Zack had decided that their drawings were cute enough, mainly liking Kimi's, they found Tommy's Reptar doll that Peter had given him for his second birthday on the couch. Tommy was about to click on the button, although Chuckie stopped him.

"Tommy, it's gonna go through your roof if ya do that," Chuckie reminded him.

"Oh, yeah," Tommy remembered, instead setting his Reptar doll on the floor.

The two-year old boy then clicked on the button while the others watched in glee as the small robotic Reptar doll turned into a large robotic version of Reptar.

"Wow," Jesse whispered. "This is what Tommy gotted for his second birthday?"

"Uh huh," Kimi whispered back. "Isn't it just amazing?"

Once he was pretty sure that the Reptar doll was now of its full size, he smiled.

"Jump in, babies!" Tommy shouted.

They all climbed in. The last two in were Tommy and Dil. Dil could've gotten on earlier, although he still couldn't walk and couldn't talk to them much, either, so Tommy ended up carrying his brother onto the robotic Reptar.

Since this one had been made by a king, this robotic Reptar was noticeably different and better. There were actually seatbelts and car seats now, which made the whole experience safer. This seemed to calm Chuckie's worries.

"Can someone turn down the volume of Reptar so that the growed ups don't know that we're on here?" Tommy asked.

Zack nodded, and turned down the volume of Reptar's steps considerably.

"Thanks Zack!" Tommy shouted.

"You're welcome, Tommy," Zack told him, taking a seat between Kimi and Chuckie.

"Before I start Reptar, I gots to do what my mommy and daddy always do and make sure that everyone's buckled in," Tommy explained. "So, is everyone buckled in?"

The Rugrats, understanding what he meant, were either already buckled in or buckled in after he asked. Since Dil was too little to buckle himself in, Chuckie, being the good best friend he was, got up and buckled in Tommy's younger brother for him.

"Yep," they all responded.

"Great!" Tommy said, as Chuckie sat back next to him and helped him control the handles.

They began moving, which all the Rugrats, especially Zack and Jesse, found to be an exciting experience.

"Isn't this so cool?" Kimi asked Zack.

"Yeah, it really is," Zack said with a smile.

"I still can't believe that we're doing this," Chuckie said.

Phil and Lil were in the back, making sure that Reptar had enough fuel, while the others were pretty much there just to look around.

"Awe, calm down, Chuckie, it's been fun so far, hasn't it?" Tommy asked, looking out the 'window' while Chuckie controlled Reptar. "Sides, we're almost there! I can tell cuz my mommy takes me to the park all the time!"

"Yeah, Tommy's right," Zack agreed. "We are almost there."

"Ooh, I really like the park," Kimi said.

"What if we get in trouble by our mommies and daddies?" Chuckie asked worriedly.

Kimi rolled her eyes playfully.

"Chuckie, we never get in troubles," Kimi reminded him.

"That's true, but what if we get in troubles this time?" Chuckie asked.

"Chuckie, don't be a worrywart," Zack told him. "Just have some fun for now."

"Guys, we're here!" Tommy shouted. "Chuckie, move in a bit closer, and let's get out!"

Chuckie sighed, nodded, and, using the control panels, made Reptar walk ahead. They indeed found that they were in the right place, although the huge Reptar robot scared many people.

"Alright, now we exit," Zack reminded them.

They each began to walk out of the robot after Tommy clicked a button to make the door open.

"Look Mommy, aliens!" a little girl shouted.

However, her words went unheard by the Rugrats, because Phil and Lil were too busy fighting with each other.

"No, I should get off first because I'm a lady and mommy always says ladies first!" Lil argued.

"Well, I'm younger, which means that I, as your little twin brother, should go firstest," Phil decided.

"Ladies first!"

"Younger kids first!"

"Ladies!"

"Younger!"

"Ladies!"

"Younger!"

"Guys, stop," Zack told them. "Really. It's getting annoying."

"Zack's right, we didn't come here for you guys to argue, we came here to show them our pictures," Tommy reminded them. "In fact, let's go up there right now and show them!"

"Oh, guys, are you so sure about this?" Chuckie asked, but it was too late. Kimi and Zack had already gotten out their bag of pictures that they had carried.

Chuckie sighed, and they all slowly walked up to the stairs, where the woman who was passing herself off as the mayor was standing.

Immediately, Phil decided that he kind of liked the mayor. She had strawberry blonde hair that was put into a short ponytail, and one might assume that her hair was a bit longer than shoulder length. While she was not 'curvy' per say, she certainly did had curves. Her head was a bit big, though that was no matter to Phil. He was sure that he had a crush on her.

"We can't make no 'nouncement because the growed ups can't understand all of us yet," Zack whispered. "Kimi and Chuckie can tell them somethin', though."

The mayor looked down at all of the Rugrats, which made them a bit nervous, but they – most of them, stood up out of bravery. Chuckie cowered on the floor, in fear.

"Umm… this is rather odd," the mayor said, glancing back to back from her confused and somewhat frightened audience to the nervous and frightened babies. "I certainly did not expect to see a few children… babies or toddlers, I'm assuming, to come from a huge Reptar robot… heh, heh. Do you children have anything to… s-say?"

She was clearly frightened, as the occurrence of around ten babies was not something that happened every day.

Kimi, however, decided that it was time to use her 'speaking' skills, so she smiled and said, "Uh huh."

"It appears that one of them can talk," the mayor announced. "What do you have to show us?"

They pointed to their bag full of pictures, with Chuckie cowering in fear.

"Oh, it appears that there's something in the bag. May I see it, sweetie?"

Kimi giggled and nodded.

The mayor took the back from her, reached into it, and slowly pulled out the first picture, which belonged to Zack. It was a picture of fireworks going up in the air on the Fourth of July, and Zack had drawn himself smiling. He had also drawn, on the side, a picture of no fireworks and him crying while his Aunt Celeste attempted to calm him.

Feeling a bit disappointed in herself, she moved onto other pictures, hoping that they wouldn't make her feel as guilty as Zack's had.

She was wrong, though, and they did make her feel guiltier about banning fireworks. That, mixed with the fact that she was under a lot of pressure and simply had a lot of problems going on in life, made her do what she did next.

She began crying. No one had expected it. Even the paparazzi held off their pictures for now, as though this was surprising and good for more views, even they, under their cold exterior, had hearts.

The Rugrats felt terrible, and assumed that they had made her cry.

"I-I feel like the terriblest person on the planet," Kimi whispered, prepared to cry herself.

"Y-Yeah," Tommy agreed.

Chuckie, however, had no shame in crying on national television.

"I feel like the worstest person in the world!" Chuckie shouted.

"Oh, no, kids, it's not you," she told them through her tears. "It's me! It's all me and my stupid partner, Nick!"

"What?" Zack asked.

"Nick has been forcing me to do things for him because we're engaged!" she shouted, seemingly not caring that there were children there. "And he's always hated fireworks, so he made me ban them!"

Meanwhile, in the Pickles home, Stu had just finished making his new toy, and ran upstairs to announce it to Didi and Peter.

"Hey, you guys!" Stu shouted. "I made my fireworks toy! They are gonna love it!"

Peter and Didi glanced up from their lunch, and smiled once they saw Stu's toy.

"Stu, as a king, I must say that your toy will indeed be a bestseller," Peter told Stu.

"I've got to go show the kids!"

Stu ran into the room, only to scream once he saw that the kids weren't there. After hearing such a scream, Peter walked into the room.

"What is wrong, Stu… oh, my."

Indeed, the kids were all missing. However, Peter was sure that he knew what to do, and turned on the television set.

"Peter?" Stu shouted frantically. "What are you doing?"

"Please, Stu, give me a second, I'm sure that I can identify the Rugrats' belongings," Peter insisted.

"Identify their belongings? HOW?"

"Stu, you surely are being frantic, it's becoming irritat…"

Before the fourteen-year old king could finish his sentence, he saw the mayor and the Rugrats crying on television.

"Oh my god!" Stu shouted.

"Oh, those little Rugrats," Peter mumbled, angry at both them and himself. "I should've known that they would do something crazy like this."

About a moment after this, Didi walked in.

"What's all the ruck – AGH!"

She had taken one glance at the television screen and realized that those were the children that she was supposed to be watching on television!

"Stu, Peter, get in the car!"

Neither of them argued with her, and ran outside as quickly as they could, hopping into the car. Didi hit the breaks before she was even sure that they were buckled in, and drove as quickly as she could. After about five minutes, they all arrived at the park, and got out of the car.

Even on her red pumps, Didi ran as quickly as she could, not caring that she could trip. Once she had reached the stairs, she began crying tears of joy, and hugged them all. Peter did not realize that the mayor was there, and walked up the stairs, scolding the Rugrats.

"You guys could've gotten seriously hurt, and the robot, you took the robot," Peter scolded.

"Next time tell mommy or daddy before you wanna go," Didi whimpered, hugging them.

"I am so glad to see you guys!" Stu cried.

Turns out that the crying was contagious, as everyone began crying, either tears of joy, sadness, or… just tears of confusion.

The 'mayor,' realizing that Peter was there, walked over to him.

"Sir, I'd like to put our rivalry behind us, as I've realized that I don't want to run against you anymore," the mayor told him.

Peter, although still crying, managed to give her a sad smile.

"I'd like that, though I am not sure if I can trust you after all you did. I mean, you went against me for nearly a year."

"It's a long story as to why I did. Would you like to discuss it over a beverage soon? Tea, perhaps?"

"Oh, yes, I love tea, and I'd love to do that, as well as get to know you more, miss… what was your name? I do not believe that you ever stated it."

The blonde woman giggled.

"That's because I didn't, but my name is Melanie, and I hope that we can get along."

Peter smiled at this.

"I hope we can too, Melanie. I hope we can too."

Meanwhile, Stu was having people sign up to buy his toy, which, by the way, was a talking bear with a flag that would tell kids how the independence was signed, while Didi put the kids in the car with a watery smile.

It, for once, seemed that everything would be alright.