Author's Note: In memory of Stan Lee.

The song featured here is a parody of the Abraham Lincoln song in the Ghost and Molly McGee.

I thought a lot about which historical figure to use here, and this was probably my best idea. I don't know how you'll react, but I made this chapter to honor the great man who will be substituting for Abraham Lincoln.

Any and all comments are welcome.

"I tell you, Loki, this place is party central!" Scratch said as he floated in line in front of the clubhouse in the ghost world. "You're gonna have the time of your afterlife."

"We'll see about that." Loki said with skepticism.

"Oh, we'll see all right. We'll…" Scratch was interrupted when he bumped into someone. "Hey! Buddy, watch where you're…"

"Oh, terribly sorry about that."

Scratch gasped seeing the ghost he just bumped into. "Hey! You're Stan Lee, aren't you?"

"In the flesh, so to speak. Ooh. They're opening the door."

The bouncer opened the door allowing many ghosts to go through, especially Stan Lee. However, before Scratch could make it there, he was stopped by the bouncer's large hand.

"Hold it right there, buddy. This club's for VIP's only."

"And I gotcha." Scratch said. "I'm actually here as the plus one of a VIP. Isn't that right, Loki?"

Loki stared intensely at Scratch. "Wait. Did you really just invite me to the Ghost World to get into this club?"

"It was the best idea I had."

"And it still failed." The bouncer said. "Sorry, but since Loki is technically not a ghost at the moment, he is not allowed entry here."

"Oh, that's just stupid." Scratch complained. "I demand that you…"

The bouncer grabbed Scratch and opened a portal. He tossed Scratch right in. Loki sighed and followed willingly.

The portal lead back to the McGee living room where Molly had several decorations hanging everywhere, each having a different theme. The two of them sat next to Molly herself who was on the phone.

"What do you mean I can't rent a gorilla? What kind of zoo are you? Hello? Hello?" She put down her phone and gasped in joy seeing Loki and Scratch. "Scratch! Loki! You're back! I missed you!"

"We were only gone for about 2 hours." Loki said.

"137 minutes to be exact." Molly said. "I know. I counted."

"Of course, you did." Loki groaned.

"What's all this?" Scratch asked looking at all the themed decorations.

"This old thing?" Molly asked. "It's for Living History Day at school. Everyone has to bring the past to life by dressing up as a famous historical figure. And it's fun, so I've been helping all my classmates get costumes and props. Kat needed a Joan of Arc suit of armor."

"Always on a crusade, that one. You know what I mean?" Scratch said.

"I made Sheela some glowsticks as radioactive uranium for Madam Curie."

"Glowing personality."

"And Jeremy wanted a National Farm Workers sign for Cesar Chavez."

"Great guy. Better hair."

Loki raised an eyebrow. "Wait a minute. I'm your classmate too. Why didn't I know about this?"

"You said you would repress today from your memories." Molly answered.

"Yeah, that makes sense." Loki said. "So remind me, who did I get?"

"Well, I got Norse and Viking gear, because you were assigned with.. Leif Erikson!"

Loki's eyes widened before frowning. "This is the type of irony that I hate."

"Right now, I'm stuck on finding a gorilla for Libby." Molly said. "She can't be primatologist Dian Fossey without a gorilla. Loki, think you can use your shapeshifting powers to…"

"Not for all the gold in the Nine Realms!" Loki interrupted. "Just put Darryl in a gorilla costume."

He's primitive enough. Then again, most of you mortals are."

"Aha! Good idea, Loki!" Molly said.

"If you went out for everyone else in your class," Scratch said, "I can't wait to see how overboard you've gone on your own project."

Molly's eyes widened as wide as dinner plates. Realizing her mistake, she chuckled nervously and walked away. "Yeah, my project. Well, I gotta go get some sleep. Since my all my work's done. Excellently, I might add. Sure-fire A! Classic Molly. Good night!"

After running up to her room, Scratch and Loki looked at each other before following her up. They found Molly pacing around her room full of panic.

"Let me guess." Loki said, "You've done nothing."

"I'VE DONE NOTHING!" Molly freaked out. "But you know what, it's not too late. My presentation's about Stan Lee, the most popular comic book writer ever. There's gotta be lots and lots of info about him out there."

After a long night of going through the internet, Molly came up with one conclusion…

"THERE'S TOO MUCH INFO! I can't sort through all of this by morning! I can't insult a great guy like Stan Lee by having the worst presentation! I'M LETTING HIM DOOOOOOOWN!"

"Relax!" Scratch cried out. "Loki and I saw Stan Lee yesterday, and I promise you, he's not gonna care…"

"WHAT?!" Molly yelled out. "I've been studying for nine hours, and you've known Stan Lee this whole time? You have to ask him to help me!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Loki said. "Scratch, don't give her the wrong idea. You'll mislead her."

"Oh, I see." Molly said. "So you don't actually know Stan Lee. You don't have to lie about it."

"ME?! LIE?! How dare you?" Scratch asked. "I'll have you know, Stan Lee is a very good friend of mine! So I'm gonna bring back my good pal Stan-Lickity split! And you know what, Loki, just for that insinuation, you can't go with me!" He opened a portal and went through without saying another word.

"Well, I'm not sticking around to see this crash and burn." Loki said. "I'm going to go get some sleep before I have to go to school."

"Okay. I left your costume and props in your room." Molly said. "Just read the script at the presentation, and you should be fine."

Loki didn't smile once, even during school. All around him, every other student had a different costume from other eras on. He especially wore a theme that he felt ashamed of. With his Viking armor, helmet and axe made of cardboard, he felt humiliated. He was approached by the history teacher.

"Hello, Lucas. I mean, Leif Erikson."

"Hey, Mrs. Roop." Loki said with a deadpan expression. "Yep. I'm Leif Erikson, Norse explorer who established a settlement in Vinland. Most people don't know this, but I'm the first European to have set foot in what would soon be North America, just centuries before Christopher Columbus."

"Oh, I do so love Norse history, especially since we now know that the myths are real, even Thor, the greatest and strongest hero in all of mythology." Mrs. Roops said much to Loki's chagrin.

"Well then, Lancelot, Hercules, and the goddess Andraste are gonna be mad when they hear that." Loki muttered.

"And the forth day of the week, Thursday, was named in Thor's honor."

"Yes. 'In his honor'. Which why we call him Thur, God of Thonder'."

"Did you say something?" Mrs. Roop asked her student.

"I was just asking how I did?" Loki lied.

"Oh. Well, you get an A." Mrs. Roop said.

"Yay." Loki said without enthusiasm.

Later on, Loki looked around and saw Mrs. Roop approach Molly, who wore a white mustache, a pair of sunglasses, and a dress shirt and jacket. Loki noticed all the other kids laughing at her presentation while Mrs. Roop was getting mad. He was confused until he saw a ghost with a mustache and glasses behind her.

"Hmm. That's weird. Stan Lee really is here… even though Scratch doesn't really know him… and he put on a lot of weight." The wheels turned in Loki's head until he suddenly realized what he was seeing. "OH, YOU ECTOPLASMIC IDIOOOOOOT!"

Loki looked around ferociously until he saw Scratch. Quick as a flash, he rushed over to him and grabbed him pulling him out of the mess hall.

"Hehe, hey, Loki." Scratch greeted nervously.

"That's not Stan Lee! That's Geoff!" Loki yelled out. "What the Helheim are you doing?!"

"I'm sorry!" Scratch pleaded. "I wanted to prove to Molly that I wasn't a liar, so I morphed Geoff to look like Stan Lee. He was supposed to be here for only a second, but Molly convinced him to stick around and help her with her project. But the guy's way too dumb to tell the difference between a comic book artist and a pirate!"

"You have to fix this!" Loki yelled out.

"I know! I know!" Scratch said. "And there's only one way to do it."

A ghost with a pizza box approached the bouncer to the Haughty Haunts club. "I have a pizza here for Stan Lee."

"I'll take it to him." The bouncer said taking the box. As soon as he left, the delivery ghost changed back into Loki in a flash of green.

"You better know what you're doing, Scratch."

Inside the club, the bouncer carried the box over to the Recently Deceased Lounge. He looked around and saw Stan Lee conversing with other ghosts.

"I gotta ask," one ghost said, "Where did you get the idea to guest star in all those movies?"

"Well, that's actually a funny story." Stan Lee said. "You see…"

"Sorry to interrupt you, Mr. Lee." The bouncer said. "But I have a pizza here for you."

"A pizza?" Stan Lee asked. "Hmm… I don't remember ordering a pizza… but I'm not complaining. Thanks, true believer." He accepted the box.

"You're welcome, sir." The bouncer said turning around. Just when he was out of sight, he giggled excitedly. "He called me true believer."

Back in the lounge, Stan Lee licked his lips. "Maybe I can save a slice for Joanie." But as soon as he opened the box, Scratch popped out.

"MR. LEE, I NEED YOUR HELP!"

"GADZOOKS!" Stan Lee gasped stumbling backward. "Where did you come from?"

"Sorry, Mr. Lee. Name's Scratch. Big fan, but that's not the point! I need your help! There's this human named Molly, okay? She's bombing a school presentation on you, and well… it may be because I slightly led her to believe I knew you."

Stan Lee raised a ghostly eyebrow. "Wait. You lied to her?"

"Okay, yes! I lied to her and set her up with a fake Stan Lee!" Scratch admitted. "I didn't want her to find out I'm such a loser in the Ghost World!"

"Hmm… Extraordinary." Stan Lee said. "Not a lot of ghosts would just care what humans think of them."

"Well, I do. I really do care what she thinks of me. Now, she's spouting nonsense at school. She's a laughing stock. She's gonna fail her class because of me."

"Scratch, was it?" Stan Lee asked. "Tell me, what does this Molly girl mean to you?"

Scratch sighed. "When we met, I kinda thought her to be the most annoying child on the Earth. I mean, don't get me wrong. I still think that. But it's like I can't imagine a world without that annoyance. If she can make me care for someone, then I would probably die all over again for her."

Stan Lee completed his smile. "'Nuff said. Since you went through all this to right this wrong, I might as well help you see this through."

"Really? Thanks!" Scratch cheered. "We just gotta pick up Loki and we'll be gone."

"Oh, Loki's here?" Stan Lee asked. "What's he really like?"

"Believe it or not, you portrayed him precisely. How'd you get so accurate?"

"Hehe. Trade secret."

Molly was laughed all the way to the bathroom where she slouched on the floor. She buried her hands when Geoff floated in still wearing his Stan Lee disguise.

"I don't get it, Mr. Lee." Molly said. "I'm telling them the truth, but they don't believe me."

"Molly!" Loki cried out as he ran in with Scratch behind him. "Scratch has something to say to you."

"Right…" Scratch said nervously. "I am so sorry… to say that this Stan Lee is an imposter!" He brushed off the fake mustache and beard from Geoff revealing his true form. "Geoff! How dare you pretend to be Stan Lee?"

"But you…"

"Da-da-da-da-da-dah!" Scratch interrupted pushing Geoff out of the bathroom. "Don't worry, Molly. I brought you something better."

Stan Lee floated into the bathroom proud and tall. "The real Stan Lee, at your service."

Molly was surprised for a moment, but then turned her disappointed face toward her friends. "So you did lie to me?"

"Whoa! I never lied!" Loki said. "I wanted to tell the truth… which is kind of a first for me."

"Okay, I lied." Scratch admitted. "Look, I just wanted you to think I'm important because… you're important to me."

"So you nearly ruined my grade because you care about me?" Molly pulled Scratch in for a hug. "That's the nicest thing you've ever done, Scratch!"

"Really? He lied to you, and he gets a hug?" Loki asked.

"Friendship works in strange ways." Stan Lee said. "Now, Ms. McGee, let's go fix your presentation."

Molly returned to her presentation just before Mrs. Roop was ready to finalize her grade. The kids continued to laugh at her, but she didn't care. "I'm glad you're entertained, because I, Stan Lee, was well known for my humorous tales which I portrayed in some of my earliest stories during the Golden Age of Comics." That got Mrs. Roop's attention. "All jokes aside, I'd like to give my real presentation. Now, it's a little out of the ordinary, but I think it really brings history to life."

Loki flipped all the lights off. A second later, he lit up one light revealing Molly sitting at the front of a piano. Right next to her was the ghost of Stan Lee who no one else saw. Together, they played on the keys on the piano singing the presentation.

Molly:

Mr. Stan Lee wrote comic books

About superheroes who fight super crooks

'Cause he wanted to bring light through our lives

And that's why his legacy still thrives

From his armored avenger to his web-slinger

Each hero he creates makes the Marvel universe bigger

And if that's not enough, he guest starred in his own shows

And that's why he's famously called the King of Cameos

So remember his words of wisdom fondly

"With great power comes great responsibility"

As long as we work hard with words that that in hand

Then we'll truly honor our man, Stan

Molly and Stan Lee:

Stan Lee was the Man

Stan Lee was the Man

Everybody, give the guy a hand

Stan Lee…

Molly:

Stan Lee was the Man

The entire school body applauded at the end of the song and Mrs. Roop proudly gave Molly an A+.

At the end of the day, everyone was putting up their projects. Loki approached Molly after finally getting rid of his Leif Erikson costume. He was joined by Scratch and Stan Lee.

"Thank you, Mr. Lee." Molly said.

"No need for thanks, true believer." Stan Lee said. "Just remember, one person can make a difference. 'Nuff said." With that, he floated out of the mess hall.

"I'm just glad this whole mess was fixed." Loki said. "I thought I'd have to cast another spell and risk getting caught again. Never lie again, okay, Scratch."

"Oh. I promise." Scratch said.

"Okay, everyone!" Miss Lightfoot yelled out to everyone. "Time for the science fair!"

The announcement made Molly widen her eyes again full of fear. "Science fair? Oh, no! I completely forgot again! Scratch, do you know Einstein?"

"Yes, because I've learned nothing!"

Loki slapped himself in the face.

Just outside of the mess hall, Stan Lee gave a slight chuckle. He then turned to YOU. "Well, I guess some things take time. Well, thanks for having me here! Farewell, true believers! Stan Lee, out! EXCELSIOR!"