Chapter 51 – Best Single Line and Best Reviewer

While "Baby One More Time" played, the Queen chuckled, holding her personalized scissors tightly.

"Tightlips, do you have a camera lock on where the wannabe's clothes are at?" she asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty! They are backstage in the pit, as you can see right here!" Tightlips replied, pointing to their discarded Fannies ceremony clothes for their Global Justice uniforms.

"Excellent! Servants 69 and 151, come with me to the dressing room!" Bonnie decreed. "We'll have to make a few alterations to K's clothes!"

She stood up and adjusted up her undone overalls and took her scissors. She headed out the door with Servants 69 and 151 and into the elevator.

When the song concluded, Sharper appeared back on stage

"And welcome back, everyone! We are in the final stretch of this year's ceremony, the 12th of the 14 segments for tonight! Presenting the award for Best Single Line is myself, PhantomDiver, Tennente, and the legendary MrDrP! Give 'em a round of applause as they come to the stage!"

The crowd gave a standing ovation as Ten, MrDrP, and Phantom all came back to the stage to present the next Golden Rufus. MrDrP was the one with the Golden Rufus in his hands.

Phantom unfolded his speech on the specs of the award.

"A single line in a story grabs the attention of the reader, like George Orwell's 1984 'It was a cold day in April and the clocks were striking 13.' or, if you wanna go much farther than that: Don Quixote by Cervantes 'Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind'. In the world of KP fanfiction, single lines is what defines the whole fanfic."

Ten also said, "Tonight features six nominees. The first one is from Shocking Turn Events by OriginSlayer

Ron stared at her for a minute. "Packing what?" A panicked look crossed his face. "Please tell me my parents aren't moving again!"

"The reason this line was chosen was that Kim, Ron and the cheerleaders are all on the bus and the cheerleaders, wondering about Ron's physical attributes, have just asked her if Ron "was packing" as if he was moving away."

Sharper announced the second nominee: -Levi2000a1 – From Past And Present - "It was for your own good." The sentiment that was on Kim's mind when she inadvertently broke up with Ron in college, what Bonnie said to both Ron and Michelle when she divorced him, believing that it was the only way to keep him from living and ultimately believing in a lie to keep his family happy, and it was what Michelle said to Ron when she was mistaken in why Kim had showed up to try and work out his and Kim's problems. It almost led to his suicide because it had become a Stoppable family oath to never use that phrase.

Phantom announced the third nominee: -ChrisTheCynic – From Life After - As it was he was staying alive mostly by means of having arms. The dogs were big, the dogs were scary, the dogs were fast, but they were incapable of changing direction as quickly as a human being who could reach out, grab onto something, and pivot around it as if they hated their shoulder with a fiery passion and were just begging it to become dislocated.

Sharper then announced the fourth nominee: -GerbilHunter – Bat Out of Hell - The single line I like best from ether of them is from BooH: "In her mind's eye she could see herself sweeping down on them, bringing ferocity and terror, like a bat out of Hell."

Ten then announced the fifth nominee: RufusPrime54 – Connecting The Dots - James Possible at Kim's funeral:

She was my everything, my little Kimmie Cub, my only daughter, my protector and overall, even though I build Rockets, she is one of the best things I've ever made

Phantom announced the sixth and final nominee: -Campy – Tell it to the Marines – spoken by Jessica "Oh Bonnie, you're still trying to make me insecure about my looks like you did in high school, hoping I'll meeky follow you around? Give it up already! I am so done with that!

Once the nominees were announced, Sharper opened up the envelope.

"The Golden Rufus for Best Line goes to...Connecting the Dots by RufusPrime54

RufusPrime stood up from his seat once more and came up to the podium. He accepted the Golden Rufus statuette from MrDrP.

He opened up his speech and said,

"Thank you so much for this award. Wow! Three awards in one night? Who would have thought? Well, this time around, I would like to thank the Kimmunity that so graciously took me in these last couple months. They welcomed me like I had been there forever and it has led to some pretty interesting, but also great times.

This line comes from one of the most emotional chapters I have ever written in a book. To give a little background on it, to establish their new aliases as Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton, they had to get rid of their identities as Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable. The easiest way to do that was to, die if you will. This line comes from James Possible at their funeral, expressing his extreme sadness and gratefulness for his daughter. The line reads, "She was my everything, my little Kimmie Cub, my only daughter, my protector, and overall, even though I build rockets, she is one of the best things I've ever made."

That line wasn't as long as some of the other nominees, who all wrote amazing lines by the way, but it conveyed just as much emotion as the others and really highlighted, not just that chapter, but the entire beginning of the book and the series. Again, thank you so much for this award!"

With that, he returned to his seat.

"Thank you, once again, RufusPrime, for the victory!" Sharper complimented, "And to present our next award, I'd like to welcome Zita and Felix Renton, plus Steve Barkin, alongside with Sentinel, to the stage!"

Felix utilized his wheelchair to go up the accessible ramps. He looked so much different with the long mullet in the back. Personality-wise, he was still the easygoing guy. He had been married to his wife, Zita, for the past three years. Mr. Barkin, meanwhile, had retired from teaching at Middleton High for about 7 years now, and is now in his late 60s.

"Okay, people, listen up!" Barkin began. "To leave a good review, you must have a complete oversight of the entire chapter, surveying the strengths and weaknesses of grammar, proper punctuation, and proper MLA format. Unfortunately, some punks think that it's appropriate to toss it in the trash can and leave mean and scathing reviews, just like one peculiar former student of mine loves to leave burning dog waste on the front of my doorstep! Luckily, these six nominees, luckily, are not the latter type!"

Zita came up to the microphone to announce the nominees. "Please, by Golgotha's Mace, stand up when your name is called. Refrain from applause until the winner has been announced!"

"The following people stand up...HopefulHusky...Jimmy1201...Sharper the Writer..."

"Uhm...Zita, I'm already standing up." Sharper said.

"Point obviously taken. The other three nominees are CajunBear...Daccu65...and GerbilHunter."

"Felix, the envelope please!" Zita said.

Felix obliged and gave the envelope to his wife.

"The Golden Rufus for Best Reviewer goes to...CajunBear73!"

CajunBear got up to the sea of applause from the crowd and went on stage. He accepted the award from Zita.

After looking out over the audience, noting several familiar faces before settling down behind the podium.

"I'd like to thank those of you out there for writing so I can review, as well as those who nominated me and voted me this award.", CB73 said to a few chuckles.

"But a bit more seriously, I'd like to thank Sharper for stepping in and taking this on when things took place for our old buddy, whitem, from continuing. For this, you have all of the Kimmunity's gratitude for keeping the Fannies alive.", CB73 said to applause directed to the young writer from Mississippi.

After the applause faded, CB73 continued, "I'd also like to thank all of you who contribute to our site, whether it be as a Writer, Editor, Beta, Reviewer or Reader, we would not be here if not for you. And for that you have my gratitude.", and then stood back a bit from the podium as the audience rumbled in appreciation.

Pausing for this to settle, he approached the mic once again. "As I said before, I enjoy reviewing the tales that I do and am glad to be recognized in this. It is my hope that I help writers continue when they are hesitant to go on, or offer something they hadn't thought about, or just give them a laugh when they need it."

Holding the Golden Rufus aloft, "Thank you and see you online.", then stepped toward the wings of the stage before disappearing behind the curtain.

"Thank you very much CajunBear, for the kind words that you've given me!" Sharper said with a smile. "And also congrats to both him and RufusPrime for their wins tonight! People, we're coming down the stretch with just four awards to present left! We're going to take a small break, but when we come back from commercial, we're going to present the CPNeb Kimmunity Award and the Kimmunity Achievement Award. So why don't y'all sit back and listen to a blues legend who supposedly sold his soul to the Devil at the Crossroads so he can have success.

With that, Robert Johnson's "Crossroad Blues" song played through the speakers.

While the song was going on, Sheila was checking through her smartphone for any whereabouts of those juvenile delinquents that had escaped...and had stolen a couple of smartphones of their own.

"I'll get those two twerps if it's the last thing I do!"

One of the MUSD resource officers came through the double doors.

"Mrs. Lispky! Camera footage captures the smartphone thieves in Miss Rockwaller's laboratory to the Northeast of the mansion!" the resource officer exclaimed.

"Good, Officer!" Sheila said, commending him for his alertness. "Get whatever resource officers you have on the property. We're going to arrest those delinquents once and for all!"