Hello Everybody! How's everyone doing? Welcome to my new story, Herbert For President. I hope you all enjoy this story, I'm really excited for it. :)

It was another beautiful day on Club Penguin Island. Lake Blue1 was busy getting ready to go to work, like every other day. She slipped on her grass green T-shirt, river blue pants, and popped on a white jacket. She swung her apricot orange bag into her shoulder and left her igloo. She walked slowly to the Pizza Parlor, taking note of all the signs she saw along the way.

'Vote Arnold Greenerwich' One sign said in big letters.

'Vote Bill Henderick Number One' said another sign with streamers hanging over the edge.

'George Foxington is No Penguin. Vote Bill Henderick' A third said.

Lake Blue giggled a bit at the third sign. During the few weeks leading up to the election, all the candidates go crazy, trying to get everybody to vote for them. They also say some pretty mean things about the other candidates. They usually post it somewhere really public, like in the Town or on popular social websites like MyPenguin and Fisha. (MySpace and Twitter)

After a few more minutes, Lake Blue arrived at the Pizza Parlor.

"Good Morning!" She called to her friend Mewcat, who was busy serving a customer. She nodded back as a greeting.

Lake Blue put on her apron and tied it around her waist as she walked into the kitchen.

"Hi!" Lake Blue's friend Jessie9095 called out cheerfully. She was making a simple cheese pizza. Lake Blue parked herself next to her and help Jessie make the next pizza.

"One fish pizza with extra hot sauce!" Mewcat called from the doorway.

"Coming right up!" Jessie called back.

"So, who are you voting for for the election?" Jessie asked as she squirted the hot sauce onto the pizza dough.

"Hmm, not sure yet. Greenerwich and Henderick don't sound like really good candidates to me." Lake Blue answered in thought. "You?"

"I'm thinking maybe Bill Henderick. He seems to have a good sense of humour. Kind of like Rookie." Jessie added while arranging the fish nicely on the pizza.

"I guess. Arnold Greenerwich is kind of like Jet Pack Guy. He's pretty adventurous. I heard he used to have his own jet pack. Isn't that cool?" Lake Blue asked.

"One triple seaweed pizza!" Mewcat interrupted.

Lake Blue started chuckling. "Sounds like something Herbert would order." She explained after seeing Jessie's puzzled look.

Then Jessie giggled a bit too. "Which reminds me." She added. "Herbert has been pretty well behaved, hasn't he? I mean, he hasn't done anything bad for a while."

Lake Blue thought for a moment. "Maybe he's thinking about who he's going to elect?" She answered with a cheeky look on her face. Jessie slapped her playfully and exclaimed, "Polar Bears can't vote!"

"Maybe he might dress up as a penguin." Lake Blue fantasised. "Or he decided to go run for President himself." She added.

Jessie gave her a yeah-right look. "Yeah, that's going to happen. Everyone's going to vote for him after Operation Blackout." She said sarcastically.

Seeing as there were no more orders, Lake Blue, Jessie, and Mewcat decided to take a break and go to the EPF. They took out their EPF spy phones and teleported to the EPF.

"GAAAAAAAAARYYYYY!" Was the first thing they heard when they arrived. Rookie ran down the steps and bumped into Lake Blue as he raced down the stairs.

"Watch where you're going!" Lake Blue called after him. Rookie ignored her and kept running to Gary.

"Gary Gary Gary Gary Gary Gary Gary!" Rookie panted.

"Why the urgency?" Gary asked in a puzzled voice.

"Wha?" Rookie questioned, really confused.

Gary sighed. "What's the matter Rookie?" He asked again.

"Oh! Nothing's the matter." Rookie said cheerfully.

"Then why the rush?" Gary asked.

"Oh. Just wanted to say...Hi!" Rookie then bounded towards Lake Blue, Mewcat, and Jessie.

"Hiiiiiiiii!" Rookie greeted happily.

"Heya!" Mewcat waved.

"Good morning Rookie." Lake Blue said.

"Bye!" Jessie said randomly.

"Where are you going?" Rookie asked Jessie, confused.

"To play on Ficebook and Tweetah." Jessie joked.

"Wha-a?" Rookie blurted out, even more confused. Lake Blue and Mewcat just laughed.

"It's a funny way of saying Fishbook and Fisha." Mewcat explained while still in bursts of giggles.

"Ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Rookie nodded his head dramatically. Then he bounced away to annoy Jet Pack Guy, probably.

"I think he ate too many donuts." Lake Blue whispered to Mewcat and Jessie. They nodded in agreement. Jessie then went to train on System Defender, while Mewcat left to train for field op missions. Lake Blue waddled over to Gary.

"How are the voting machines? No bugs?" She asked Gary, who was sipping his mug of coffee.

"Yep. I think they are up to par." Gary said.

"By the way, who are you voting for?" Lake Blue asked curiously.

"That is my vote and my own business. You do not need to know." Gary told her.

Lake Blue shrugged and asked, "Can I see the candidates available so far?"

"Sure." Gary agreed, handing her a list of the four candidates.

Arnold Greenerwich

Bill Henderick

George Foxington

Cherry Rudd

"Cherry Rudd?!" Lake Blue exclaimed.

"Yeah, she's a new candidate. Fairly young too, but she does have a lot of potential. She could be a really good leader, if penguins will get over her age. If she is voted on, then she will be the first EPF agent to ever become President." Gary explained.

"No, not that." Lake Blue said. "Cherry Rudd is one of my best friends!"

"Really?" Gary asked, surprised. "That's very interesting."

"I know!" Lake Blue nodded in excitement. "I'm going to find her. I'll be right back!" She teleported to Cherry's igloo, where she expected her to be. Cherry was in her front yard, typing on her laptop. When she saw Lake Blue, her eyes lit up.

"Lake! How are you?" She exclaimed, jumping to her feet and waddling towards her.

"Pretty good. Haven't seen you in a while. What's up?" Lake Blue greeted cheerfully.

"Yeah, sorry for not really hanging out. I was very busy with stuff." Cherry explained.

"Yeah, I heard that you're running for president. I think that's awesome! You are really like a leader." Lake Blue complimented. But it was true. She even looked like a leader. At least most of the time when she's outside. She usually wears a blouse, a skirt, and a blazer. But today she was wearing something much more casual. She was wearing black jeans, a forest green long sleeve, and a blue vest over it. Cherry was really good at dressing up.

"Um, yeah. But I don't think I will get that many votes, since Bill Henderick is a really popular figure. I'm guessing he will probably win." Cherry admitted, a little disappointed.

"Well, I'm voting for you. Bill Henderick is kind of...loud." Lake Blue assured. (Sorry Mr. Hendbert!)

"Thanks." Cherry smiled. "Well, I need to keep campaigning. Only two weeks left. It's becoming a fierce battle." She giggled a bit.

"Yeah." Lake Blue giggled too. "'George Foxington is No Penguin. Vote Bill Henderick'." She quoted.

"I know. That's kind of mean, but oh well. It is the President position we're talking about." Cherry shrugged.

"Yeah. Well, I gotta go now. See ya soon!" Lake Blue said as she closed the fence gate behind her. She waved one last time before teleporting back to the EPF headquarters.

At the HQ, the first thing Lake Blue saw was Jessie and Mewcat teaming up against Rookie, who was running around the command room like crazy.

"What happened here?" Lake Blue asked Dot, who was also watching Rookie run.

"I think Rookie was hungry, so he ate all 10 boxes of pizza that was reserved for lunch. So Mewcat and Jessie went to buy more pizzas. About 8 boxes of pizza. The moment they entered the door, Rookie raced to them, grabbed all 8 boxes of pizza, and the slices that Jessie and Mewcat were about to eat, and stuffed it all in his mouth. So Mewcat and Jessie are now chasing Rookie and trying to keep his restrained so he doesn't eat the boxes of pizza we're going to buy. I'm surprised he can still run after eating 18 boxes of pizza. And each box has 8 slices, sooooo yeah. That's about.." Dot explained.

"144 slices." Lake Blue finished in amazement.

After about 5 more minutes, Rookie started tiring out. Jessie and Mewcat were able to catch up to him much more easily. Then all of a sudden, Rookie tripped over a can of paperweights. Jessie was able to grab him before he fell flat on his face.

"Duct tape!" Mewcat called to Dot, who threw her a roll of silver duct tape. Jessie held Rookie down while Mewcat rolled the duct tap around his beak so he wouldn't eat any more pizzas.

"There." Mewcat finally said. "That should stop him."

"At least until after we finish the pizzas." Jessie added.

Right on cue, Jet Pack Guy came in with another 7 boxes of pizza. Rookie's eyes lit up when he saw the pizza, and charged towards it. He grabbed the boxes out of Jet Pack Guy's flippers, and raced away to the other side of the room. After finding out he couldn't eat the slices, he started complaining.

"Mph fur hmmf mur hmmph!" He whined, but it was all muffled because of the duct tape.

"Just let us eat and then we will untape your beak and maybe give you one slice." Lake Blue told him sternly.

After a minute of considering, Rookie nodded reluctantly. He handed the slightly crumpled boxes of pizza back to Jet Pack Guy and he set the boxes on the table. The crisp smell of the pizza filled the atmosphere.

"Finally! I'm starving!" Dot exclaimed, reaching for a slice of pizza, just like everyone else. Except Rookie, that is, who sat on a chair, staring sadly at the pizzas.

After everyone finished eating, there were some slices of pizza left over. Mewcat went to untape Rookie's beak so he could have the rest of the pizzas. Rookie was all hyped up, trying to reach for the pizzas. The moment the last bit of tape was unraveled, Rookie raced for the last pizzas. He wolfed them down pretty easily. Then he spent the next hour running up to everyone and saying hi.

Meanwhile, Lake Blue was talking to Gary about the Election.

"So how do the Voting machines work?" Lake Blue asked curiously.

"Well, the candidate names are inserted in the system. When a name has been voted, it will pretty much add one vote to the penguin's name. After the votes have been entered, the machines will show a percentage that represents how many people voted for the penguin." Gary explained briefly.

"Uh huh." Lake Blue nodded, half distracted. She was scanning the room carefully. While Gary was explaining, she was positive she saw a shadow sneak into the gadget room, just as the door was closing.

"What's the matter? Did I not explain clear enough?" Gary asked.

"Uh, no no no no." Lake Blue replied quickly. "I just thought I saw someone going into the gadget room." She explained.

"Maybe you were seeing things. The gadget room is usually locked unless I'm in it." Gary said, a little confused.

Lake Blue shrugged. "Maybe I was." She agreed, but she was still a little suspicious.

"LAKE BLUE!" Rookie yelled from the other side of the room. Lake Blue shrugged to Gary and waddled to Rookie.

"Something wrong Rookie?" She asked.

"Huh? Oh nothing." He said quickly, glancing around the room.

"Are you running for PRESIDENT?" Rookie asked her after a while.

"Um, no." Lake Blue answered simply, a bit confused as to why he asked.

"Oh." Rookie said, and yelled, "JESSIE!"

Jessie came waddling over after a few seconds. "What now Rookie?" She asked.

"Umm. Are you running for PRESIDENT?" He asked the same question.

Jessie looked puzzled. "Moof." She said, making both Lake Blue and herself laugh. Jessie says a lot of random words, so Lake Blue wasn't surprised when she said 'moof', since it was the word she was saying recently.

"Wha-a?" Rookie blurted out, tilting his head in confusion.

"Never mind. Someday you'll understand." Jessie told him. Rookie then went to everybody else, asking them if they are running for President.

It was 9:30 at night, and Lake Blue, Jessie, and Mewcat were taking the night-time watch.

"I don't like night-time shifts. I'm supposed to be in bed right now." Lake Blue complained, bored and tired.

"Well, nobody sleeps as early as you." Mewcat commented. Lake Blue shrugged and yawned.

"Let's do something fun!" Jessie declared.

"Like?" Lake Blue asked.

"Um, like play scrabble?" Jessie suggested, only to receive a shake of the head from Mewcat.

"We can...umm...talk about...umm...Herbert!" Jessie suggested. "So it's weird how Herbert hasn't caused any trouble recently."

"Yah, maybe he's planning something really big." Mewcat agreed.

"Something that will send the EPF and all of Club Penguin into deep trouble." Lake Blue added dramatically, waving her flippers in the air.

The girls laughed at Lake Blue's acting.

Suddenly, a loud crash was heard downstairs. The girls were immediately alert. They got up and went to investigate. The first thing they saw when they went into the unlit hallway was a figure on the floor. He or she was covered with a white cloth and was clutching a piece of paper in his/her flipper.

"Woah!" Lake Blue yelped, still a little startled by the crash.

"Shh!" Mewcat shushed. She approached the still writhing figure and signalled Jessie to turn on the lights. At the same time, she yanked the cloth off the penguin.

"Rookie!" The three girls yelled in unison.

"What? Oh hi!" Rookie sat up on the floor.

"You scared all of us. We thought it was a robber or something." Mewcat scolded.

"Oh. I'm sorry." Rookie apologised, getting up. "I just wanted to ask you guys something."

"What?" Jessie asked.

"Is this pizza coupon still good?" He asked, handing Jessie the piece of paper.

Jessie studied the piece of paper. "Yes, yes it is. You can get five pizzas for the price of two." She said.

"Oh yay!" Rookie squealed. "I'm off for pizza."

"At 10 PM?" Lake Blue questioned.

"I guess." Rookie answered, turning to leave.

"Wait Rookie!" Lake Blue called. Rookie turned back around. "Where did you get this white cloth?" She asked.

"What? Oh, that thing? I think I tripped over my feet and ran into the curtain as I fell." Rookie recalled.

"Wait, so it wasn't you who made the crash noise?" Lake Blue asked hastily.

"No." Rookie answered, turning around to leave.

"What's wrong Lake Blue?" Jessie asked.

Lake Blue was really quiet. "I think we have an intruder in the building." She finally whispered.

And that is the end of the first chapter of Herbert For President. I hope you all liked the chapter. Please consider reviewing and giving feedback, as I'm always open to improvements. :)

That's all for now, i'll see you all soon. Have a great day!