The day was cloudy as the ceremony for the new king began. King Freddie was gathering every kid on the playground from all four corners. As the kid who knelt before him everyone knew of the tales of T.J Detweiler and how he saved recess. As Freddie was knighting T.J to become the new king, a few kids were walking away from the scene as they headed towards the cheese box. "T.J is such a joke, we need a way to rid us of the allegiance to the six graders." a short 3rd soon to be 4th grader who wore a black beanie over his head. He stared at the other two who were nodding their heads. "Jake, you know if we dare do anything, his head enforcer will have us at the dodgeball wall for recess then we would have to deal with her after school." the shorter of the three boys said who wore an army striped jacket.

"Luke is right Jake. and if we even start something it will end without support from the other kids. He has such a history of helping out the kids from all corners of the playground. No one will join us. Plus we can't start anything like that here anyway, it could lead us getting expelled." the remaining kid who had slim glasses on, while wearing a black hoodie. "If we have no other choices we have to bid our time till the inevitable happens."

"What do you mean Rich?" Luke asked as Rich just laid back on the edge of the cheese box. "I mean when he goes power mad, remember when Bob had us all build the pyramid, or when we had the monstickers where we had to pay to do anything fun? Where he became a monster of a 'millionaire' where he overpriced everything just to get the last set of stickers. I'm saying what our history teacher always quotes. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So we just wait for the time it goes to his head and we just spark absolute disloyalty." The other two just stared at Rich who was yawning as he was about to rest his eyes. Till a loud sound came ringing as the cheese box was hit. "Whoever is in there you must go to the coronation ceremony now or face the justice of our new King Teej.". The trio soon emptied the cheese box to see an angry girl who appeared to have foam escaping her mouth. "Uhh, sorry Spinelli, we just didn't want to miss our last day of recess of fun." Luke said while fidgeting out of fear. She quickly calmed down as she motioned to them. "I understand but rules are rules and for the new crowning of a king is mandatory for all of us to be there." she said with a soft smile.

Rich and Luke both looked cheerful that they didn't get beaten up by her, but Jake was just steaming with fury as he had to comply or be met with force. He balled up a fist before releasing it. "so , uhh any news to who will be in his cabinet? like is Weems joining his council or anything?" Jake asked as Spinelli just laughed. "Randell? there's no way he will ever be a part of his group. Gratchen will be his advisor, I'll be his personal guard and I will also be his head of security, Gus will be his strategist. Mikey will be the poet and diplomat. And Vince didn't want to be a part of his council so he will just be our friend like usual but we won't be hanging with him that much." a sad look enveloped her eyes. "Just between us four theres a group who is planning to overthrow our crown authority since king Bob was in power." she said as she stopped and looked at us. "I'm just saying this to make sure you three are safe. We just found out about this threat today and everyone needs to be there and if anyone who fails to arrive or leaves is considered a traitor and will be dealt with." she said with her two fists clenched together.

After the end of the ceremony Jake, Luke, and Rich arrived in class but they felt eyes were on them but when each of them turned around a couple of heads moved towards the chalkboard. They started to be on edge for the remainder of the day of school. They started to walk home after school to Jake's house, they stopped every fifteen minutes and looked behind them to see they were being followed. Luke and Rich wanted to run, "wait you two, we must not seem suspicious. And we must remain innocent." he softly said as they soon slowed down. As they reached Jake's house they climbed to his brother's treehouse. "We are safe here, for the time being." Jake said as he looked out of the window and saw Gus and two others he didn't recognize. "What are we gonna do? If she heard us talk about that we are screwed." Luke said frightened.

"Relax, Luke. if she had proof we would have been thrown into the dodgeball wall. Like she said we may be suspects to the group that's been plotting since king Bob." Rich said. "She also said they would be watching to see who left. We are suspects right now. They can't do anything until they get proof".

"Tomorrow my Brother is taking me to play paintball since he got home from the war, we can ask him to teach us some small unit stuff for our paintball team we are forming." Jake said while looking away from the window. "If we do this we need to be prepared and we won't do anything that will be at 3rd street. If we do this will be out of there." the other two looked at him and nodded their heads.

"Jake, we will still need help to free us from the crown." Luke said while sitting on the with a set of dice. "If we do this alone the risk will out way the reward.". He got up and looked out the window seeing a couple more kids appear with Gus. "They are gathering a force, we are the prime suspects right now. We need to place the suspicion somewhere else.". He said while turning his back to the wall of the tree house and having his head glancing out the window. "If we stay here we will be overwhelmed if they try to capture us, we need a base to hide out when things get too tough and to be a secret. We may have to get captured for the time being and to try to focus the blame on someone else."

Rich walked to the window and followed Luke's motion and stayed on the opposite side of the window. "We may gain information on the other group and we could join them.". He said while placing a hand on his glasses bringing them to the ridge between his eyes. "If they are here to take us somewhere we need a way to escape and a plan to say. We have to have the same story or they will know something is up.". He started to walk to the back side of the tree house and sit down in a chair. "We need information. Why did you ask if Randell is going to be a part of the council of theirs?".

Jake started to chuckle. "Because he has eyes and ears everywhere. Plus remember when he trained the Tylers, he can help us but we have to be careful he has no loyalties. He will betray us if he gets a better offer. My cousin in 98th street, he has been approached by a group there to join them. He says they are like our group to take down the monarchy. There may be groups like this in the other two streets. Heck they may be connected. That may be our in. he is staying over this weekend so we may have our one and only opportunity to do this. But we will be working for our own goals, we won't install a new king, we will make the street a republic, run the laws we forge, we will vote each semester to install a new council with each representative, for our greater good." The other two looked at Jake, smiled and nodded their heads. They soon agreed to a story and climbed down the treehouse. They started to walk down to the sidewalk and walk to Luke's home before a group of kids approached them, led by Gus.

"Please stop walking and come with us." Gus commanded, to the dismay of the trio. "What if we don't want to. You can't force us to go with you anywhere." Gus just shook his head, before snapping his fingers. The group of goons surrounded them and grabbed their arms while motioning them to follow them. "Don't worry you three won't get sent to the dodgeball wall we just need to talk to you." Gus said.