[Ub3rD4n]

Glad to see the positive responses to the fic so far. The easiest part of a fanfic for me to write is the beginning and end. So, here's the easiest part to write of this fic!

Chapter 5: Dance, Puppets, Dance!

Duchess' door opened, and one of her bodyguards wheeled a large box tied with ribbon in. "A gift for you, M'Lady."
"Of course. My subjects must be thanking me for my wise and charismatic rule. Bring it in!" The box was wheeled up to Duchess' bed. "Now leave me!"
After her bodyguard had left, Duchess put her face up to the box to examine it, and the box popped open to reveal Mac and Bloo! Bloo swiped the crown off of Duchess' head.
"Ha! I'm king now!" he proclaimed
Duchess swiped the crown back and yelled "Guards! Guards!" (any time I can make a Terry Pratchett reference is a good one).
"We took care of your guards." Mac stated evilly.

Cut to outside Duchess' room, where the two bodyguards are watching Coco perform the Russian Dance. The doors burst open as Duchess ran screaming out of the room, pursued by Mac and Bloo. Coco and the bodyguards stared for a while, then took up chase. The chase was wild, with Duchess tipping over random furniture to slow down the pursuers, and it only tripping over her bodyguards. She eventually got backed up to a balcony overlooking the construction of her new statue (which was impressively close to being finished). Desperately, Duchess put her foot up on the balcony railing.
"I'll jump! Don't force me to jump!" she yelled. Mac and Bloo just looked at each other evilly and Bloo shouted out to the friends below: "Hey! Who wants a crack at Duchess? Well, she's up here!" at which the residents of the house all looked up, came out of their holes, and began walking towards the wall of the house that Duchess' balcony was on.
"I'm sure someone down there will catch you." stated Mac, smugly, as the friends began to scale the wall. Duchess then jumped straight over Mac and Bloo and began to run downstairs. Mac and Bloo chased her again, and the balcony began to overflow with a tide of friends joining the chase, including, for some reason, Cheese. "I liiiike this game!"

Duchess was tackled eventually in the main foyer. Her crown fell to the ground and Mac was the first to grab it.
"Haha! Now I'm the king! I'm king of Fosters!"
"Actually, Mac, you aren't an imaginary friend, so you're just some guy with a cheap crown." Bloo corected. Mac was then dogpiled by a whole crowd of friends. His crown bounced out of the dogpile and landed between Bloo, Coco and Slugger. The three stood glaring at one another, waiting for the other to move. Eventually, they all dived at it, almost at once. Coco got it but Slugger knocked it out of her foot, and Bloo jumped up and grabbed it.
"Aha! As king I proclaim it illegal to steal the king's crown!"
Everyone paused, staring.
"Why didn't I think of that?" asked Duchess.
"Now everyone listen up! I've been trying to be king for WEEKS! So you're all gonna do as I say! Now, we're all gonna play a game called "Do what Bloo do!" Bloo did a little tap dance. Everyone else reluctantly copied. Bloo spun around. Everyone else did too (except Mac, who was recovering from being dogpiled). Bloo slapped himself in the face. The others stared at him.
"Baliff Cheese?"
"Doooooo iiiiiiit!"
And there was a chorus of face slappings. Bloo laughed manically. Bloo ran around on his side. Everyone else copied. Bloo kicked the air to the left of him. Everyone else kicked the friend to their left in the butt, and was kicked by the friend to their right. Bloo slammed his head into the wall. The others copied, in many cases sending their heads straight through the wall. Bloo grabbed the wallpaper and tore off a huge peice. The others ripped out huge chunks of wallpaper. Bloo spun around, rebounding wildly off the walls of the room. The others copied, causing a lot of damage in the case of the larger friends. Bloo jumped onto the chandelier. As many friends as could jumped onto it too, causing it to rip out of the celing and take half the celing with it. Bloo laughed maniacally some more, only to have Slugger snatch the crown off of him.
"Hey, no fair! I said that was against the rules!"
"Well, as King, my first act is to give myself a full and complete pardon!" Slugger began to laugh insanely. "Now, finally I rule YOU! You all have no choice but to pay attention to me, for I am-"
"What is the meaning of this?" came an indignant cry from atop the stairs. Mr Herriman came hopping down the stairs to see the foyer completely ruined. Wallpaper ripped off, holes in the wall, ceiling and chandelier lying all over the floor, furniture wrecked, and friends standing bruised and beaten, in the middle of it. "I go to my office for a mere two weeks to catch up on filing, and I return to find such a state of dissarray. You should all be ashamed. And who, may I ask, is in charge here?"
Bloo and all the other friends pointed to Slugger.
"Whoo...boy...." he said, as a loud thumping could be heard from the bathroom.

The End.

Epilouge: Slugger trying to get Cheese to leave.
"Cheese, you don't live here. Go home."
"Chhhhheeeeeeee......okay."
Pause.
"You're not going anywhere!"
"I got hemmaroids!"
"Grrr....go! Home!" Slugger said, trying in vain to move Cheese.
"I like chocolate milk."
"If I get you some chocolate milk, will you go home?"
"Chhhhheeeeeee..........okay."
Slugger went to get some chocolate milk, came back with it, and gave it to Cheese who proceeded to drink it in that gargling, open-mouthed way he has. He then spat it in Slugger's face.
"Noooooooooo! Chooooocolate milk!"
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

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Whoo! Well, that story was a blast to write. I'm especially glad that the plot involved Duchess, who, IMO, doesn't get enough screen time in Fosters. And I'm glad you all liked it, I hope you all like the ending. Like I mentioned, endings largely write themselves for me. Not much else to say except thanks for reading, and I'll get to work on the next one soon!