Officer Mickey

Captain Rodney, the leader of the Safety Rangers and a few others were giving a presentation. Rigalli whispers to Vance that she is looking for a few good spitballs. Rod points at the kids in the class by asking if any of them up for the challenge, which makes Rigalli yawn, the only one that seemed interested in what Rod was saying was Mickey. Rod announces that to wear the orange belt of honor, to hold high the sacred sign of safety and finally to live by the ancient bio of the safety rangers. Rod snaps his fingers and one of the kids behind him pressed play on a cassette player. He would like to conclude with a moving slide presentation of last year’s safety rangers graduation, and requests that someone could someone get the lights. Mickey volunteers and jumps up to do just that, but in his haste of excitement he ends up tripping over his desk, sending the projector flying threw the head of a safety rangers cardboard cut out, effectively decapitating it, marking all the kids in the class laugh. Mickey apologises, and Rod gets annoyed at him.

Rigalli says, “1 BLT on Peter going once, going twice and sold to the kid with braces for a portion of his pie (don’t think that’s what she said but I can’t really hear what she say?).” She is doing a lunch auction at recess, there are quite a few students around Rigalli wanting in on it, however Mickey was sitting a bit away looking at the Safety Rangers as the marched across the playground. C.J. is assuring Mickey that there is a double chocolate brownie up for trade and he didn’t even put in a bid. Mickey sighes that it was just a brownie. Rigalli, Vance, Greta and Rus repeated what Mickey said. Greta says, “98.6, seems normal.” She put her hand onto Mickey's forehead before grabbing his wrist. She thinks pulse is good. Mickey assures that he is okay, and it was just that ever since Captain Rod came to our class this morning all I can think about is them. He was looking over at the Safety Rangers, who was still marching about. Rigalli asks that Mickey means how dumb they look in those goofy uniforms. Mickey says no and he wants to wear one of those goofy uniforms, which means he wants to be a Safety Ranger because if he was a Safety Ranger everything would be different. It is because he wouldn’t just be Mickey, he would be Mickey the Safety Ranger. He would wear the uniform of all the great Safety Rangers who came before me, he would learn the secret hand signs, I’d be the last line of defence between humanity and the evils of technology. Children everywhere would love and adore him, and animals too. It was his dream, to protect and serve, to be respected by all mankind. It is just a fantasy, they’d never take him. Vance replies that he heard Captain Brad, and Captain Brad and the others are looking for a few good kids. Mickey insists that Vance has got to be cut from a special cloth to be a Safety Ranger. Rus insists that Mickey is cut from a special cloth. Greta assures that Mickey is honest, loyal, hardworking and he is the perfect candidate. C.J. says that Captain Rod will be thrilled that Mickey wants to join up and C.J. could hear Rod. However, it didn’t go as the friends had planned, when they walked into Rod and asked him all he did was laugh at them. Rod teases Mickey rudely that he couldn't even cross his own legs without tripping before he starts laughing again. Mikey hopes that is a maybe. Brad answers that it was a never and reminds that he has done to Safety Tim, as he pointed over to the cardboard cutout of the Ranger Mickey had decapitated earlies, it had its head put back on with tape but it didn’t last long as it fell off again. Rod grumbles that Safety Tim would never be the same. Rigalli insists that it was Mickey's dream. Rod knows her as a Jaywalking punk anarchist. Rigalli starts walking towards Rod she starts lifting her sleeve as a sign that she wants a fights before she is stopped by C.J. C.J. assures Rigalli that Rod doesn't have the right to say who is in and who is out. Rod takes out a book and shows it to the gang, which is the official Safety Rangers handbook and according to this he is the guy handling out the orange belts and he is the guy who decides which kid stands on which corner, and he is the guy who gets to approve on who is in and who is out and since this is not the future dorks of America club, and Mickey is definitely out. Rod starts to lead his fellow Safety Rangers away with a March, because Rod and his fellow Safety Rangers have got their morning drills to finish up. Rigalli tries to cheer Mickey up, and Rus agrees that it is Rod's loss. Mickey thanks Rigalli and Rus for trying to make him feel better, but it was no use. Mickey thinks being a Safety Ranger is the only thing he ever wanted and now it looks like his dream would never come true. Spinelli has never seen Mickey like this before, and Rus wishes there was something he could do to help him. C.J. explains that if Rod said that Mickey can't be a Safety Ranger, then Mickey can't be a Safety Ranger. Greta explains that it was not necessarily. C.J. asks Greta where did she get a handbook. Rigalli grumbles about Captain Rod and insists that no one calls her a jaywalking pink anarchist. Gus insists that the handbook has to been given back. Spinelli accepts, but she is keeping the watch. Greta reads from the book and explains that the point is according to rule #76j, the captain gets to pick who is in and who is out, but according to amendment 76k and I quote ‘the captain maybe be overruled if a potential recruit is personally sponsored by two other guards. Vance agrees but asks that where are he and the gang going to find two guards out of the gang of Safety Rangers to stand up to Rod. C.J. thinks she might know just the guys. She is looking at the Safety Rangers, at the back of the pack were two guys Lennie and Dill going a bit slower than the rest and Rod is yelling at them.

Just like planned, after school the Recess Gang took Lennie and Dill to Morrison’s and brought them ice cream. Gretchen ask Lennie and Dill more nuts, and Rigalli asks them whipped cream. Vance tells them to tell him and the gang of the hot fudge that starts to cool off and nothing worse than cool hot fudge. Dill assures that everything was great, and Lennie adds that it is real nice of the gang to treat them to all the stuff. Vance comments that they deserve it and standing at those corners all day, helping kids cross back and forth back and forth. C.J. explains to Lennie and Dill about Mickey who loved to be a crossing guard, much to Lennie and Dill's shock. Ronnie asks that C.J. is kidding, and Dill worries that Captain Rod would be mad if he and Lennie went around Mickey. Rigalli tries to convince Lennie and Dill that it is Mckey's dream. Dill explains that he and Lennie got a dream too, but tells C.J. that she doesn't see anyone going out on a limb for them. C.J. suggests that she and the gang can make their dream come true, and asks them to help them. Then Lennie and Carl agree. C.J. asks them what is their dream. Ronnie and Dill respond that their dream is to sing the National Anthem over the PA at the weekly flag raising ceremony. Vance thinks that he and the gang are dimmed, and C.J. replies that it is not necessarily.

The next day when at school Mickey was still upset about the event of yesterday so he was off on his own, but it wa perfect as it gave the other six a chance to make his dream come true, they were starting but talking to Brinklow. C.J. asks him that he helps Miss Orange with the flag raising ceremony every week, which Brinklow confirms that it is correct. Vance adds that Brinklow does so as Miss Orange's helper. Brinklow cuts him off as he is not her helper and he is her aide. Vance explains to him that Brinklow gets to see the list of who gets to sing the National Anthem as Miss Orange's aide. Brinklow tells Vance and Rigalli to go behind the yellow line and warns that the counter area is for office personnel only. Rigalli asks what if next week and Lennie and Dill's name just happened to appear on the list, which makes Brinklow drop the stack of paper work he is holding. Brinklow gets worried that if Miss Orange ever found out he did that, she would take away his filing privileges for life. It is because it is alphabetical order only. C.J. explains that this is really important to her and the gang, as Brinklow picks up the paperwork, and tells him to do this for them and they'll do something for them. Brinklow asks that depends on what. Vance responds about anything and tells him to tell them what he wants and they will take care of it. Brinklow agrees and explains that he wants to carry Aubree E's book home for her after school and she is different from the other Aubrees, that hair, the way her name sounds, Aubree E. Best girl in filing in his heart. Vance says goodbye to him and wishes him good luck, but C.J. explains that this may be doable.

Out on the playground, the gang started looking around for the Aubrees, eventually finding them in a circle braiding each others hair and explained the situation to Aubree E, who asks that all she has to do is let Brinklow carry her books from school to the corner of her street. C.J. responds that is all. Aubree E adds that she can cover them in plastic so he did not actually touch them. Greta adds that she and the gang would be happy to wrap them themselves. Aubree E refuses, making the other Aubrees laugh. C.J. encourages and asks her that has she not ever wanted something she could not have. The Aubrees responds that as if. Aubree R explains that there is nothing that she and the other Aubrees want that they don't have. Aubree E gets horrified that there was a snail, making the other Aubrees run away in disgust. Aubree E reluctantly agrees and gives the gang and explains that she is nothing she wants but there is something she needs. She tells them about her little Amy stole her diary and she could blackmail him forever with just pages five through eight. She enlists the gang to get it back and she will let Brinklow carry her books. Rigalli states, “One little diary, piece of cake.” Vance asks Aubree E where her sister is. Aubree E confirms that her sister is in kindergarten.

In kindergarten, the kindergartners had tied up Margaret. The gang looks out from a bush at the kindergartners playing. Vance is unhappy that he and the gang can't believe Aubree E's sister is in kindergartner. C.J. determines that Aubree E is in kindergarten and she and the gang had got to do it. Rigalli says that Mickey must appreciate this, as she walks out of the bush to the kindergarteners, getting their attention. She announces that she comes from the land of the big kids who ride two wheelers and she comes for a formal sit down with she who goes by the name of Amy. When she finished, four girls walk forward. Rigalli notices Amy E, and three of the girls walk away. Rigalli berates Amy E for taking her big sister's writing book and orders her to give it back. Rigalli would give her candy, which makes her shake his head. She would give her money, which makes her shake her head again. Rigalli promises that she will give her anything she wants. Amy E thinks her big sister's diary is very valuable and has a big price tag. She thinks she has a big dream. So the gang decide to go to see Queen Barb.

When they get to see Queen Barb and explain that Amy E wants something. Queen Barb gets shocked and outraged that Amy E does so after the gang explained the situation. Vance explains that it is just once. C.J. explains that every little kid wants to sit on a big kid's chair at one point or another. Queen Barb agrees, but asks that Amy E would sit on her throne. C.J. pleads to her to grant her and the gang a request and they will never bother her again. Furious, she orders the guards to take the gang to the dodgeball wall. As two guards grab C.J. by her arms, C.J. reasons that it is Mickey's dream to be a Safety Ranger. Rigalli encourages Queen Barb that she must of had a dream at some point in her life and it is part of being a kid. One of the guards scoff at the idea is ridiculous and crazy. Before he could finish, he and his companion got interrupted by Queen Barb who tells them to leave after realising that the gang is right. Two guys put C.J. down before leaving. Queen Barb agrees that the great queen like her has a dream. Once just once she wishes there was somebody who would like her for what is on the inside, not her royal title and someone who will look past the crown and the jersey and see just plain Barb, the regular kid she is underneath, she would give the gang anything, if they could just give her a real friend. Vance tells Queen Barb might as well get the dodgeball punishment over with. C.J. thinks that there might a be a way.

Later, every kid has a dream. Queen Barb is playing with a puppy. The puppy is licking her face, making her laugh, while Amy E sits on Queen Barb's throne. Amy E then takes out Aubree E’s diary and throws it down to her, which left Aubree E to oily her books, plastic wrapped, to Brinklow who follows her. With all that done Dill and Lennie get to be able to sing the National Anthem at the flag raising ceremony which meant that Mickey is finally able to get the Safety Rangers uniform and sash, as Captain Rod reluctantly gives Mickey the Safety Rangers uniform and sash before he scoots off in a huff. Everyone give cheers to Mickey.

Mickey allows some kids to cross the road. Rigalli is impressed with Mickey for doing so as she and the gang stand on the sidewalk watching him. C.J. is impressed, as it starts to rain, making the five friends go inside. C.J. comments that was a good thing they did making Mickey's dream come true. Greta states that they think about it, they made a lot of kids' dreams come true. Rus adds that best of all and they helped a pal, as they all reach the cafeteria however when they open the door they ware all shocked to see Mickey in there, back in his normal clothes. The gang run up to Mickey, and Rigalli asks him what is he doing. Mickey responds that he is eating a Milker Dinger and asks if the gang wants it. Rus scolds him that he is suposed to be outside helping little kids cross the street as he pointed outside. Mickey replies that he is and admits that I quits, much to his friends' shock. Mickey explains that he wasn't cut from the cloth after all. Rigalli gets angry that Mickey isn't ater all, as C.J. puts her hand on her shoulder stopping her before she walks forward. C.J. tells Mickey that he didn't even do it one whole day. Mickey complains that it was a rotten day because he has got to get up early, miss breakfast, and it rains. Also, when he tries to stop kids from skateboarding, they spit at him. C.J. insists that is was Mickey's dream. Mickey insists that it was anymore, and he now has a new dream. He was reading a magazine, that means he wants to be a jet pilot, and tells his friends about how the guys fly around in the clouds. As he finishes talking he notices the gang has left from the cafeteria. Mickey wonders where did everybody go, looking around and not seeing his friends anywhere.

The End.