Chapter 1 - the break in.
"Tomato surprise, just when you thought it was safe to go back into the lunch room." Said TJ as he was handed a bowl.
"Last time I had this stuff my gut was on fire for a week. It's like acid." Exclaimed spinelli.
"Citric acid really." Replied Gretchen as she grabbed a bowl. "Carbon based, electro magnetic heated to create a synthetic compound which has some admirable qualities." By now TJ, spinelli and Gretchen had arrived at the table their other three friends where at.
"You means it ok to eat?" TJ questioned pointing at his bowl.
"No, I mean if you let it age it can burn a hole in the concrete floor."
"It doesn't have too far to go right now." Replied Vince as he pulled his spoon out of his bowl, only for it to disintegrate.
"You're lucky, you always bring a lunch from home Dede." Said mikey, looking at her lunch in slight envy.
"My moms very persistent about me eating proper, edible food." Dede replies taking a bite out of her sandwich.
"That's it, this time they've gone too far." Proclaimed TJ standing up. "All this year they've been feeding us fish stick made out off cardboard, macaroni and cheese stuck together with paste and now this." He said pointing to the bowls 5 of the 6 kids had on the table before slamming his hands on the table. "Well I've had enough, I say it time we go back there and find the good food they've been keeping from us all along."
"TJ you've gotta be crazy." Exclaimed Vince.
"Maybe, but at least I'll be full, now who's with me."
"Im in." Said Spinrlli.
"I'm in." Said mikey.
"Me to." Said Gretchen.
"Why not, could be fun." Joined Dede.
"Great, then let's go and get us our food." Said TJ as he then got on the floor with the others all joining him. As they were crawling under a table Mikey bumped his head on the table make TJ gesture to him to go a bit more careful, when they knew the cost was clear they then all went to the doors leading to the kitchen with Spinelli and Vince on one side and TJ, Dede and Gretchen on the other. "Cover me, I'm going in."
As TJ walked in he was looking around the filthy kitchen before a golden light caught his attention, it turned out to be a fridge with them good food' written on it. The moment TJ reaches out to open the fridge the sound of alarms blasted through the kitchen, startling TJ before a hand landed on his shoulder making him turn around, only to see ms Finster.
"Ms Finster, how nice to see you." TJ said innocently.
"TJ Detweiler, we meet again." Said Ms Finster gleefully, before dragging him out of the kitchen and up the stairs to the little look over thing. (Really have no idea what it's called. I never had one of them in my schools.) "let's look at a boy who seems to enjoy breaking school rules." Shouted Ms Finster getting the attention of every student in the cafeteria. " a boy who scribbled crude caricatures on the walls on principle Prickles door and now this." Ms Finster pointed at TJ who was waving his arms in the air like he just won a award. "Pilfering food from the cafeteria kitchen, what'd you suppose we should do with a boy this bad? Say I have an idea, no recess." This made everyone gasp in horror.
"Why does the teacher tear out his soul." Shouted Mikey in dispear.
At recess while everyone was playing around and having fun the school snitch Randall cam running up to Ms Finster.
"Ms Finster Ms Finster, those girls over there said a bad word."
"Good job Randall, here's a cookie." Ms Finster fed him a cookie like a dog. As they were both distracted Dede, Spinelli, Vince, Gretchen and Mikey all snuck behind the and ran to the window leading to the cafeteria.
"Psst, TJ." Whispered Spinelli.
"Hey guys." Replied TJ as he came to the window.
"How you holding out buddy." Asked Vince.
"Oh you know keeping busy, but there is one thing I'd like you guys to do for me."
"What's that?" Asked Dede.
"GET ME OUT OF HERE." Shouted TJ grabbing Vince's shirt.
"TJ please." Pleaded Vince as TJ let him go.
"I'm going crazy in here you guys, I've counted the ceiling tiles 13 time already, there 1,678, YOU HEAR ME 1,678."
"Don't worry TJ, we're with you man." Said Spinelli trying time calm him down.
"Yeah, no matter what happens we're all in this together." Vince reassured him.
"HEY." Ms Finster shouted as she rounded the corner and saw the 5 friends by the window. "What are you kids doing there?"
"Cya." Exclaimed Vince as the 5 friends ran away with Ms Finster chasing them.
"You guys, come back." Begged TJ waving his arm out of the window.
The group of 5 kids was able to lose Ms Finster and hide behind some dumpsters, sitting down so that they are more hid.
"Poor TJ, he's really loosing it in there." Vince said worried for his friend.
"A kid without recess, it too horrible for words." Exclaimed Mikey.
"Well I say we go in there and bust home out." Suggested Spinelli.
"An admirable suggestion Spinelli, but based on my calculations and attempts at rescue has a 70% chance of failure." Replied Gretchen making them all look down sad that they couldn't help their friend.
"Hey I got an idea." Exclaimed Mikey making the other 4 jump and look at him. " let's go and ask the guru kid."
"It's worth a shot." Dede shrugged and got up leading the other to where guru kid was.
"Oh great guru kid, our friend has been thrown into detention and we know not what to do." Asked Mikey.
"Consider the bumblebee, alone he's worth nothing, but with his fellow bees he becomes a swarm and enjoys bountiful quantities of honey." Replied Guru kid.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Questions Spinelli.
"Don't you see, we're the bee." Said Mikey. "We can't save TJ alone, but if we had help…?"
"Actually he may have something there." Exclaimed Gretchen taking out her notes. "If we're able to get all the other kids on the playground to help us, our likelihood of success will increase 10-15%."
"Then what are we waiting for, let's go." Said Spinelli.
"Thank guru kid." Thanked Mikey as they all ran off. As they had left the guru kid another kid had walked up to him to ask for some advice as well.
"Oh great guru kid, how can I get an A on my next spelling test?"
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"So let me get this straight, you want me and Sam to dig under the lunchroom, break through the floor and bust TJ out just so he can have recess?" Asked Dave.
"Ummm, yeah that about the size of it." Replied Vince.
"Neat." Both diggers replies before getting to work, however it go a smoothly as Vince would have liked. "Hey Dave, you're digging the wrong way."
"What are you crazy, that's how you get to the Principals office."
"Who are you calling crazy, stupid."
"Stupid? I'll show you stupid." And then they started to hit each other with their shovels.
"Their not gonna help us, are they?" Questioned Vince.
"Not in a million years." Replies Gretchen. The group of 5 decide to leave the diggers alone and walked off, before Mikey came up with an idea.
"I'm telling you, the swingers always up for new adventures, she loves this kinda stuff." Assured Mikey.
"What's she doing now?" Asked Gretchen.
"Trying to go over the swing set, to go where no kid has gone before." Replied Mikey.
"Great, but will she help us?" Questions Spinelli.
"Sure." Exclaimed Mikey, however the swinger girl never got to help us as she went flying off of the swing. "As soon as she gets back from the nurse." The next idea that the group was trying was a plan Gretchen had came up with, her plan was to ask the kindergarteners for help.
"I can't believe we're gonna talk to kindergarteners, it's humiliating." Facepalmed Vince.
"No one else will help us." Said Spinelli.
"I've been studying these primitive grads now for some time and I think I can communicate with them, follow me." Said Gretchen as she walked out of the bush they were all hiding in with the other following close behind her. "Hello kindergarteners, we have come from the land of the big kids, across the wide playground, to ask you help." Gretchen leaned closer to Spinelli and whispered "I'm gonna use the aluminum foil." Before she took a piece out of her pocket. "Look, shiny metal, do you like the shiny metal? If you help us we'll give you the shiny metal, what'd you say kindergarteners?"
"Let's eat them." Said one kindergartener.
"RUN." Screamed Gretchen as the 5 older kids all ran away with the kindergarteners chasing them. After awhile they fourth grader managed to lose the kindergarteners as they were back behind the trash bins.
"Oh man, what are we gonna do now?" Asked Vince.
"Yeah, it's like nobody wants to help." Sighed Spinelli.
"Well there is still one person we can ask." Said Dede as she stood up.
"Yeah, and who's that?" Replied Spinelli.
"King Bob, if we can get him to help then all the other kids will help as well."
"I don't want to see him Dede, I'm scared." Said Mikey.
"He better help otherwise he's gonna meet my good friend madam fist." Replied Spinelli.
"Listen Spinelli, dealing with a kid of Bibs status takes finesse, not brawn, just leave the talking to me, ok." Said Vince as they all started for the jungle gym. Once they had arrive and were in front of king Bob Vince got done on his knee. "Oh great King Bob, overseer of the playground, we come to ask your favour. You see my leege, our best friend TJ has been caught by the Finster and we gotta bust him out."
"Hey, get that first grader off of my sand." Demanded Bob as the group looked back only to see some other sixth grader drag the first grader away.
"What I'm trying to say here is, that we can't do it alone."
"Yeah, we really, really need your help." Pleaded Mikey.
"You hear that, the fourth graders need my help." Said King Bob before he burst out laughing. "Of corse you need my help, everyone needs my help, I'm the king."
"Great, so you'll help us?" Cheered Mikey.
"I didn't say that, you see being king of the playground is a heavy responsibility, it is I who must make sure the first graders don't get all uppity, it is I who must make sure that is sixth graders are treated with respect, I can't be helping every single kid, with every single problem they bring to me, my royal mind is just too busy, you understand, TOO BUSY."
"But your majesty.." Vince tried to reason.
"Enough." Bob interrupted Vince. "I've got better things to do then worry about some dumb kid."
"Some dumb kid?" Asked Spinelli as she started to get mad. "Who does he think he is calling TJ some dumb kid."
"Now Spinelli you promised." Vince tried to calm her down.
"No she's right." Said Dede as she walked up to Bob and pointed at him. "You sit there on your sixth grade butt ruling over the playground like some sort of big shot."
"Let us tell you something mister playground king. Said Spinelli as she joined Dede In front of king Bob. "You are nothing but some dumb kid."
"Dede, Spinelli." Vince said shocked. "They didn't mean it your highness."
"I'm afraid I have to concur with my friends." Said Gretchen as she stepped up.
"Gretchen."
"Well I mean, technically they are correct, Bob is dumb and he is just a kid."
"Yeah and if you think about it, we're all just some dumb kid to somebody's this crazy mixed up universe." Said Mikey.
"My big brother thinks I'm some dumb kid" said corn chip girl.
"My mom called me some dumb kid this morning." Said one of king Bob's 'guards'.
"I'll bet even you've been called some dumb kid at some time or another, right mister king Bob sir." Asked Mikey.
"It's not nice being called a dumb kid is it?" Questioned Dede as Bob looked down.
"So next time you go around calling a guy some dumb kid, just remember this, you're one too." Said Spinelli.
"And let's face it Bob, if we kids don't stand up for each other, then who will?"
"The midget girl is right." Said Bob as he stood up to address the kids on the playground. "Kids of the playground, the dumb kid should be free." Not long after the kids finished cheering the pan got set in motion.
Spinelli was by Ms Finster as she whistles up to Gretchen who was on the jungle gym, who gave a thumbs up to Dede who was tying a rope around the bottom of the swing set. Once she finished Dede told swinger girl she can do her thing, when she got high enough she let go and managed to wrap the rope around a pole so the kindergarteners could climb. As the got to the top and opened one of the panels of the roof, they held onto upsidedown girl and started to swinger her, opening the door for our 5 fourth graders to come running in.
"It's jammed." Stated Spinelli as she couldn't open the door to the cafeteria.
"Stand back, I've got just the stuff." Said Gretchen as she took out a vile of a red liquid. "Tomato surprise." Gretchen put some of the tomato surprise on the hinges and door handle before pushing the door down easily. With that they all ran inside and looked around for TJ finding him on one of the tables, as Vince shook him they found out it was just his jacket and hat.
"I'm free, I'm free, I'm free." They all heard TJ's voice only to look and see him outside.
"TJ, what are you doing out there?" Asked Vince.
"What are you guys doing in there?" TJ asked back.
"That's my question as well." Said a voice behind them, they all turned around only to find Ms Finster standing at the door of the cafeteria that Gretchen knocked down. "But since you seem so eager to return to the classroom, you'll be happy to learn that recess will be over in just about, now." As soon as Ms Finster said that the bell signalling the end of recess went off.
"No, no, noooooo." Screamed TJ falling to his knees as Ms Finster laughed.
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"Well TJ, we did our best." Said Vince as all 6 were walking home after school.
"Yeah, sorry we didn't get to you in time." Spinelli said.
"Hey come on, you guys did something most kids wouldn't even try, you the best friends a kid could ever have." Reassured TJ.
"Thanks TJ." Dede smiles at him.
"Actually it was a relatively entertaining recess." Said Gretchen.
"Yeah." Agreed Spinelli.
"We had the upsidedown girl, the swinger, the diggers….. hey whatever happened to the diggers anyway?" Asked Vince.
"Why knows." Replied Dede.
"Yeah, Dede right, they'll turn up tomorrow like nothing happened, now who wants to go to Kelso's." Said TJ slightly running ahead, before they could go to far though they heard a beeping sound.
"Errr… you guys go ahead, i just remembered I've gotta get home." Said Dede covering her bracelet before running off, leaving all her friends confused.
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Meanwhile All the way in Beijing China a floor tile moved out of the floor and digger Dave popped out.
"Alright TJ, we're here."
"Hey, wait a minute, this isn't our school." Said Sam as he looked around.
"Errr Dave?"
"Yeah."
"Do those kids look like kindergarteners to you?" The kids said something that the diggers couldn't understand before starting to run at the diggers, which made them run away.
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AN - this is gonna kinda be a crossover of two of my childhood cartoons, them being recess and atomic Betty, I will only be adding episodes of atomic Betty if they fit well with the recess episodes.
also Betty won't actually be in any episodes she'll be replaced with my OC 'Dede'. Dede's full name will be released in a later chapter as I don't know if I can make a chapter with the idea I have now.