King Dede
"The portents are grave, your majesty." Wizard kid(?) said to king Bob as he looked into a bowl.
"Try again." King Bob said in a raspy voice. "It must be some kind of mistake."
"The soup never lies."
"Why do these things always happen to me, why?"
"But your majesty, it's only a tonsillectomy." Said Jordan.
"There's no reason to be scared." Said Jerome.
"Scared, I'm not scared. Oww.said king Bob holding his throat. "I mean, for myself. But look at them." Bob looked out to the playground. "What will they do when I'm gone?"
"What we need, your majesty is someone to take your place." Suggested Jerome.
"Take my place." King Bob tried to yell.
"Just temporarily oh great king Bob your majesty sir."
"Only until your recovery, you know, like a substitute king." Suggested Jordan.
"Substitute king? Yes, yes it's perfect. But who?" Said king Bob.
"How about Eric, he's strong." Said Jerome pointing to a boy walking past the jungle gym, Bob looked at him before looking at his own biceps.
"Maybe too strong."
"Or Susan, she's smart."
"Maybe too smart."
"But you majesty-."
"What I need is someone that'll not let the power of king go to their head, someone who can think for themselves and make sure everything runs smoothly, someone like….her." King Bob said pointing to Dede who was running over to Gus who's chewing gum bubble just popped in his face.
"Her?" Questioned both Jordan and Jerome.
"Her." Bob said watching Dede help Gus clean the gum off his face. "Bring her here at once."
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"Ohhh…why does this always happen to me?" Asked Gus.
Dede, who was picking the gum out of his hair, replied. "You just don't have any luck when I come to blowing bubbles." She smiled before she was grabbed from behind and dragged away. "What?? Hey!! Jordan? Jerome? What are you doing?"
"The king has requested to see you." Said Jerome and they both threw Dede on the floor in front of king Bob.
Before anyone could say anything they heard Gus call out to them as he dropped next to Dede. "Hold on, Dede didn't do anything, please let her go, here's my milk money, I know it's not a lot but it's all I have."
"Gus?" Whispered Dede as she watched her friend try and get her out of whatever was going on.
"Silence, it is my decree that from now until Thursday you are to be king." King Bob said, pointing at Dede.
"No please you can't do that to her, I beg of……king?" Gus asked.
"Huh???" Dede's brain stopped working.
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"Wow, this is great." Said Vince after Gus told the others what happened.
"With you as king, we'll finally have some say in what goes on around here." Said TJ.
"Yeah, the 6th grader won't be able to push us around anymore." Said Spinelli. "We'll be calling the shots for a change."
"But you guys I'm not cut out to be king, somethings bound to go wrong." Said Dede.
"I'm always having to run off, what if there's something bad going on here and I need to go, what do I do then?"
"Don't worry Dede, the probability of you running off when there is an incident is….actually, never mind." Said Gretchen.
"Oh…what am I gonna do?"
"De, De, De, You're looking at this all wrong." Said TJ putting his arm around Dede's shoulders.
"I am?"
"Sure. Being king is the easiest thing in the world. All you gotta do is sit around on top of the monkey bars and be kingy. There's nothing to it."
"Really?"
"Of course and if you need to run off to whatever it is you do you can just call on us, we'll be happy to help you out." Said TJ.
"We'll be with you every step of the way." Said Vince.
"You guys are the best friends a girl could ask for, you know that." Said Dede.
"Oh boy, this is gonna be great." Said Spinelli rubbing her hands together.
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All the students were now gathered at the bottom of the monkey bars watching the temporary coronation.
"Do you Dede swear to be a good temporary for a few days only king. Until the joyful day of my return."
"I…er…do?"
"Then I hereby defer upon you the holy scepter of power." Bob handed Dede his hockey stick. "The most high empereal crown." Bob removed his crown and took off Dede's hat before putting the crown on her head. "And the royal plastic ring." Bob said, taking the ring off and putting it on her finger. "With these symbols of authority I vest in you…."
"What about the cape?" Someone shouted from down on the ground, making King Bob roll his eyes.
"Fine, use the cape." Bob sighed as he took it off and handed it to Dede who in turn put it on. "Anyway. With these symbols of authority and jester of kingship I vest in you ..."
"Bobby." A voice called out after a car horn blasted, interrupted King bob again. "Time to go honey."
"You're king, don't screw it up." Said Bob before he left. Dede turned around when Bob wasn't there any more and everyone bowed to her.
"Your majesty."
"Your throne awaits." Said Jordan and Jerome, bowing with their arms out pointing to the chair. When Dede sat down the students below started cheering.
"That was beautiful." Said Mikey as he wiped a tear away.
"Come on, let's go congratulate her." Said TJ.
"Yeah, and get in on all that royal booty." Said Spinelli, already excited about what she can get.
On the way to the monkey bars the group of six were stopped by Jordan and Jerome. "And just where do you little fourth graders think you're going?"
"We're just going to go say hi to Dede?" Said Vince.
"That's king Dede to you." Said Jerome.
"We knew her before she was royalty." Stated Spinelli.
"So now you think you can just waltz on up there and have a chat with her majesty whenever you please?" Questions Jordan.
"Uhhh." Said Mikey as Gus replied with a "yes?"
"Sorry kid, it might set a precedent."
"Exactly, if you wanna see the king you've gotta go through proper channels." Explained Jordan.
"I don't remember there being anything about proper channels with King Bob." Said TJ as he and Spinelli were getting annoyed with not being able to see their best friend.
"Well there's a new king now."
"And we're gonna start doing things right around here." Jordan and Jerome as they nodded at each other before leaving the group of six alone.
When both boys got back to the top of the monkey bars and were standing on either side of Dede, they could see she was looking around for something. "So…uh what do I do now?"
"Do? your majesty, why noting."
"Your slightest whim is our duty and our pleasure to fulfill."
"Wow, really? So if I wanted some crackers…" Dede was cut off by Jerome holding a platter of crackers out to her. "Or some apple juice?"
Jordan was the one to hold out a platter this time, only it had a bunch of different brands of apple juice on it. "Just name the brand and vintage, your majesty."
"Thank you, maybe this won't be so bad. Do you know where my friends are?" Said Dede as she took one of the juice bottles and started to look around for her friends.
"I'm sorry your majesty, but being king means that there's not much time for such trivial things." Said Jordan making Dede look down while whispering a little "oh."
"Is there anything we can get you, a king can't be sad on the throne." Said Jerome as he and Jordan looked at each other, hoping to find a way to cheer her up without letting her friends interfere, as knowing the infamous group, it always leads to trouble and that was not what king Bob wanted.
"Would you be able to get me some paper and pencils, if I can't go and play with my friends I'd at least like to draw if I can." Dede looked up at the two boys hoping she could at least do some drawing.
"Right away you majesty." They said before running off to get the requested items. When they got back and handed Dede the paper and pencils they bowed to her as she thanked them before standing by her side again and watched as she doodled. "Err..your majesty?" Said Jordan looking away as Dede looked up at him.
"Yes?"
"I'm sorry your majesty, but pressing royal duty require your attention." Jordan said pointing down below where two first graders were fighting over a doll. "Each of these first graders both say that the doll is hers."
"You must decide, to which of these girls the doll rightfully belongs to." Explained Jerome as all the kids surrounding the two first graders started chanting 'royal judgment'
"Well….uh..I judge.. uh that the doll will be cut in half." Said Dede unsure as she watch the two girls closely, waiting to see their reactions.
As soon as Dede had finished her sentence all the surrounding students, including Jordan and Jerome, gasped, the girl on the left, with blonde hair, however had agreed straight away, while the one on the right, with red hair, held the doll close to her and started crying. "Cut her in half? No. Not mrs blifers please, oh just let her have it all." The ginger girl cried as she went to hand the doll over before Dede stopped her.
"There we go, the doll rightfully belongs to you." Dede pointed to the ginger haired first grader, making her stop crying and smile, hugging the doll close to her again, while the blonde one looked on in shock, not happy that she didn't get the doll, while the students cheered.
"WHAT? Why does she get my doll?" Asked the blonde first grader.
"It's simple, I was never going to have the doll cut in half, I just needed to see which one of you had a connection to the doll, the one who cared about the doll more was the rightful owner, since you didn't have any issue with the doll being destroyed and the other girl did, it was pretty easy to tell who was the really owner of the doll." Dede explained her reasoning to everyone that was around naking them cheer as the blonde first grader stormed off.
"Thank you." The ginger first grader said before running off to play with her doll.
"Your majesty, that was simply amazing." Said Jordan as Dede turned to look back at them both.
"I'm glad it turned out alright." Dede signed putting a hand up to her chest. "I was really worried I was going to choose wrong."
"Not at all your majesty, It was the best decision that you could have done."
"It couldn't have turned out better."
Jordan and Jerome said, making Dede smile as she was still unsure about being king. "That's good, maybe this won't be so bad after—." 'Beep beep beep' "oh no, I gotta go to the bathroom, can I leave you both in charge while I'm gone. Great, thanks." Dede said, covering her bracelet as she ran off.
"But…your majesty." She heard them both say before she was too far away, once she got into the girls bathroom she made sure it was empty before pressing a button and getting zapped up to her ship. When they arrive at the interstella diner they enter to see the place completely destroyed and the manager talking to the galaxy police.
"This looks bad." Said sparky looking around as everyone gasps at them.
"Don't worry folks, we'll get to the bottom of this." Said Dede trying to calm everyone down, but it only seemed to make it worse as some of the occupants screamed.
"She's the one, arrest her officer." Said the manager pointing at Dede.
"Atomic Candy, I'm afraid you're under arrest for the destruction of this diner." Said one of the officers.
"My sensors indicate something is not right." Said X-5.
"You have the right to." The officer holding the handcuffs was interrupted by X-5.
"Might I suggest an orderly exit." X-5 suggested before all three of them ran out of there with the officers following them.
"They're gaining on us." Said sparky as he tried to manoeuvre the ship to lose them.
"X-5 where's the nearest asteroid field?"
"Steer twelve degrees left." Sparky did as he was told and after awhile he managed to lose the officers chasing them.
"What was that all about?" Asked Dede as admiral Degill appeared on the screen.
"Atomic Candy, the galactic council is up in arms, the owners of the interstellar diner are furious and practically every law enforcement in the known is out looking for you. What have you done?"
"Nothing sir, I was nowhere near the diner when it got hit, I was at school thrown with the responsibility of being a temporary king of the playground."
"This is a problem, that diner was only one in the number of places that were turned over by someone looking like you." Degill said, pointing to a screen behind him that showed a video of Dede, but wearing an orange galactic uniform instead of her usual blue one, destroyed a wall. Another Dede, wearing red, was robbing a bank and one wearing pink was stealing candy from some babies.
"It wasn't me, I'm being framed."
"Really?"
"You believe me, don't you?"
"Of course, the captain's reputation is unblemished, the culprit is nearly an alien being that looks identical to her in every way, shape and form." Said X-5.
"She must be found." Said Degill. "I can give you twenty four hours to clear your name, after that you'll have to turn yourself in and the galaxy will know you as atomic Candy, criminal." The connection finished.
"Chief, I think we've found the lookalike. There's been another Candy sighting on celebra." Said sparky.
When they arrived on planet Celebra they saw the Candy lookalike throw someone into the announcer making them both fall into the wet cement as a few others crowed the impostor. "Hello, surprised to see the real me." Dede said when the surrounding people saw her standing there.
"Who is this impostor?" Said the Dede in pink.
"You're the impostor." Said Dede pointing at her. "Take this." Dede jumped at pink and a fight had started out between them, it looked to be going in Dede's favour until pink stretched her both and wrapped her arms around Dede, who struggled but managed to get her arm free and sent a signal to the ship to shoot and electrical wave at pink, making her let go of Dede and distracting her long enough that sparky and X-5 were able to capture her.
"Problem solved, I knew you could do it chief." Said Sparky. "By the way you are the real chief right?"
"Sparky!" Dede said offended.
"It's just hard to keep track." Sparky defended himself before he was cut of by laughter as two more Dede's showed up.
"It just got a little harder." Said X-5 looking back at Dede as she got into a fighting stance making red and orange charge at her. Red jumped into the air and turned into fire before shooting flames at Dede forcing her to dodge.
"X-5 I could use some help here."
"I was thinking the same thing." He said as he was held in the arm of pink, while spark charge at orange who grew in size and punched him away.
As spark landed by Dede the spectators started to boo. "Geez, celebra is one tuff planet."
"It's time you met daddy." Said orange in a deeper voice as she grabbed both Dede and sparky and took them to see 'daddy' which turned out to be Maximus.
'You've made your dads very happy." Said Maximus as the three galactic guardians were in a cage.
"Does that mean we can each get our own phones now?" Asked red.
"I want my own room too." Said orange. "I'm sick of sharing with clone Candy three."
"You're the one alway stealing my clothes miss clone Candy two." Said pink.
"Girls please." Said Maximus trying to stop the fighting before it could escalate. "You are all too special to fight." This made the three clones laugh.
"Huh, they're not so special, can they move their head like this." Said minimus in jealousy before spinning his head around. "Crummy clones."
"They're super Candy clones, I introduced DNA from optiga the fire witch." Maximus said, pointing to red. "Destructor, the rock princess." He rubbed orange's head. "And Roxanne, the rubber women." He pointed to pink. "From my home planet of splatty. Now maybe you'll come to the realisation that you're up against intellect far greater than you own." He finally said the Dede.
"Daddy, Candy three is wearing my boots." Said red.
"Am not, you're such a liar." Said pink, making red gasp and start another fight between them.
"Be quiet, I need peace and quiet. To think of the perfect way the dispose of atomic Candy once and for all." Maximus rubbed his hands together before calming down and walking away. "Now girls, be good."
"It would appear that we are trapped and that there is no way out." Said X-5.
"Hmm." Said Dede as she looked around the room. "I have an idea." She said as she was able to grab a pillow. "Pillow fight!" She threw the pillow at pink who in turn grabbed it and threw it at orange, the clones kept on throwing the pillow at each other.
"What is she doing?" Asked Sparky confused.
"It would appear she has triggered some form of sisterly competition." Said X-5 watching the clone continue to have a pillow fight, until it turned into them throwing everything they can get their hands on, effectively destroying the lair.
Maximus walked back Into the room to see the mess being made. "Candy's what are you doing to my lair, stop this at once, I command you." He ran up to the three clones fighting and tried to get them to stop. "Stop it. Daddy's not happy."
"Maximus, I can stop the fighting if you let me out of this cage." Suggested Dede.
"It's a trick, she's desperate." Said minimus before both he and Maximus dodged a table thrown at them. "But do it."
"Minimus, unlock that cage before my lair is reduced to a heap of rubble." As minimus unlocked the cage all three occupants jumped out before Dede walked over to the clones.
"Stand back boys, this is a battle that I must do on my own." When the fight had got started Dede was at a disadvantage however she managed to tie up orange and red before dodging pink and tying her up as well before spinning them around and releasing them having orange first at the wall destroying it, resulting in all three clones falling out. "Bye bye Candy's."
"Excellent, now I can eliminate the real atomic Candy in peace." Said Maximus as he picked Dede up by the back of her uniform.
"I should have known, never trust a super villain." Said Dede unaware of the arm stretching up to where her, Maximus and minimus were, at least until it grabbed minimus and a voice had said 'daddy.'
"I'm not your daddy." Said minimus as he grabbed onto Maximus, only for them both to be pulled out as well.
Dede just stood there watching them fall before she gasped. "Oh no, I've left the school without a king, I need to go back before anything bad happens."
"We'll take this back with us to prove your innocence chief." Said Sparky and she and X-5 stood next to the cloning machine.
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When Dede arrived back on earth she ran out to the playground to see it was chaos, she ran up to the jungle gym and saw Jordan and Jerome standing there trying to calm people down.
"What's going on here?" Asked Dede making everyone look at her.
"Your majesty, thank goodness your back." said Jerome.
"Everyone here needs your help." Said Jordan as everyone started to crowd Dede and shouting what they needed help with.
"Okay, okay." Dede shouted to get everyone called down before whispering under her breath. "I could really use those clones right about now, to lessen the burden." Dede eased her voice again so she can be heard by everyone. "Alright everyone line up and I'll deal with you all one at a time." It took awhile but Dede managed to calm everyone down and sort all the issues out before she climbed the jungle gym and sat down on the throne, exhausted.
"That was excellently handled, your majesty." Said Jerome as both he and Jordan joined Dede up top.
"King Bob really has a tough job, doesn't he?" Asked Dede.
"He does, but he enjoys it." Said Jordan. "May I ask what took you so long?"
"Ahh.. well on the way back I ran into Ms Grotke and she wanted to talk about some homework I handed in, sorry, I didn't think I would be that long."
"Hey Dede, you having fun?" A new voice asked.
All three occupants looked over to Dede's six friends all standing there, smiling at her, Dede smiled back about to greet them. It was cut off by Jordan and Jerome.
"What are you doing here?"
"Your interrupting her majesty's royal duties."
"What royal duties? She's just sitting there?" Asked Spinelli, pointing at Dede.
"You kids don't need to know what the kings duties are, now shoo."
"Oh come on Jordan, Jerome. Can't they stay at least for a little bit, I miss hanging out with my friends." Dede pleaded hoping to spend some time with her friends.
"I'm sorry your majesty, but king Bob wanted a temporary replacement that'll run the playground smoothly and not reek havoc." Said Jordan.
"Well I'm the king now, aren't I? Recess is almost over Can't I just hang with them until then and the rest of the week I'll do as king Bob wanted. Please."
"Fine. But only for today." With that both Jordan and Jerome left as the gang all walked up to Dede.
"We saw what had happened when you came back." Said Gretchen. "You handled that quite splendidly."
"Yeah, a natural born leader." Said Gus.
"Thanks, but it's not the same without you guys, but you heard them, king Bob wants it run smoothly so I can't do too much in fulfilling your requests."
"Nah, don't worry about it." Said TJ waving Dede's worries away.
"Yeah, we understand that there's only so much you can do." Said Spinelli. For the rest of recess all seven friends stayed up on the monkey bars just enjoying the time that they had together.
After that the rest of the few days went by as smoothly as they could, given the fact a lot of kids needed help with things and as soon as king Bob came back Dede was more than happy to give him back his title and crown and said to him before departing. "I gotta tell ya king Bob, your job is not as easy as it seems." When Dede got to the bottom of the monkey bars she turned around and saw her friends standing there.
"Hey there your majesty." Spinelli smiled teasingly before Dede ran and hugged her.
"I've missed you guys so much, it was awful not being able to play or even talk to any of you during the time I was king, I never wanna be king again." Dede whined into Spinelli's shoulder, fake sobbing, as Spinelli just patted Dede's back.
"There, there, it's all back to normal now." Spinelli said.
"It must have been rough for ya." Said Gus.
"Yeah, we saw you had to run off a bunch of times." Said Mikey.
"You know, with how mush you need to run off, I'm starting to wonder if your a spy or something." Teased Vince making Dede just laugh nervously.
"Excuse me, which one of you is Spinelli?" Said a guy standing not far from them.
"I am."
"King Bob wants to see you, something about an application to be lord emperor of the west playground."
"YES at last." Said Spinelli pulling away from Dede. "And this is only the beginning, I'll rule the world I tell ya, the world" she ran off to see king Bob while laughing the whole way.
"Application? Lord emperor of the west playground? What'd I miss?" Dede looked to her other friends as they all just smiled and shrugged their shoulders before they all went off to play some basketball.
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Author note:
Hey, sorry about not publishing any new chapters for this story, just with everything going on I keep forgetting about it, but I am by no means abandoning this story, it's just gonna take awhile for me to upload any chapters.
Thank you all for bearing with me :)