I am no longer satsified with taking over the world. Now I am taking over the solar system in the name of dwarf planets. To quote Ru-kun, the mob rouser of this delicate operation: "We shall no longer be dwarf planets of the solar system! We shall be the planets of the Solar Federation!"

Watch out. If you hear about a dwarf planet uprising, you will know that my friends and I were successful. 

I have an amazing idea. 

Official Copyright: The Lemming War and all ideas directly borrowed from it (ie. lemming armys, irrational use of lemmings, posioned cupcakes, etc.) are now copyrighted. Anyone wanting to use such ideas must ask my noble permission and give me a lemming. And aknowledge that it wasn't their idea. I acknowledge that poisoned cupcakes and the penguin king were not my ideas, but belong to their respective owners, namely SC and Madam Quintus. The End. Signed, Red's Official Lawyer. 

It doesn't feel right for me to leave this without a speech. This is what I do. I make speechs. They are terrible, but they are speechs.

The Lemming War was a complete joke. I mean it. The whole thing was a joke. I didn't expect to be followed by people, and I certainly didn't expect to start a war. Some people slip into a room and stand around the edge nervously and some people fling themselves into the party wholeheartedly. I am one of the latter. And this was my way of flinging myself in. 

I almost expected people to shun me or scorn me. I thought I would have to "slink away", so to speak, with figurative rotton tomatoes thrown at me. Instead I found myself recieving the warmest welcome a guy could hope to imagine and eventually found myself caught up in a tidal wave of lemmings and fun. Eventually, I woke up one day and found myself one of the most well known on the website (if I may toot my own horn, world's oddest phrase). I was really quite surprised when I saw on Blackberry E.'s "welcome back" page, that: Ikeep thinking about all my friend here, esp Melody, Red.

The Lemming war is the reason for everything, and I want to thank a few people for lots of things. I'm often the one associated with the Lemming War but, to be honest, I think these people made it possible.

I'd like to thank Ru-kun for being the best advisor I have ever had in my entire life, and I would like you to stay my adviosr, when you're not to busy being everyone's conscience and everyone else's advisor and charging them all for your service. Thank you for warning me of poisonous cupcakes and for telling me how to spell things and drawing stupid battle plans all over my planner in science class and for putting up with all my crazy ideas and mostly just for being a friend and there for me.

I'd like to thnak Silverwing for being the first person who agreed to join my army that I didn't already know in real life. I had absolutely no confidence at first. Who would join me? SC, the cool, well known, girl of the Chatterbox, or just some crazy new kid? The choice was obvious and I watched in dismay as SC gathered a herd of followers and I had none. So when you joined my side, I don't think you realised what it meant to me, and it meant a lot. So if Quintus is reading this, she needs to drag you over to the computer right now. I mean it.

I want to thank Miki and Gollum who I am lumping together very unfairly. Miki was my second follower, which really meant a lot to me, and she had no idea who I was, but she took a chance and joined me, and I want to thank her for that. I wasn't so desperate for followers at the time that Gollum appeared, but I want to thank her for New york and her great sense of humor. And your love of books. 

I want to thank everyone on SC's team for the great nightmares you gave me about losing heroically and for your ability to capture countries faster than I could. Individually, I thank Tiffany for her great kindness in everything and her amazing love of dragons (I know she left, but if anyone knows how to contact her, you need to tell her to come back as she is sorely missed.), Alexandra for being Alexandra, Zach the Traitor for putting up with me, Listening Daisy for making valient conquering efforts, and Ivy for loving Harry Potter and not being afraid to show it.

I'm thanking SC and Quintus, the best enemies a guy will ever have, because without these two brilliant minds, there would never have been any Lemming War. Thank you, thank you, SC, for trying to kill me with cupcakes and waging war on me. I forgive it all. And thank you for your surrender, because I honestly think Quintus would have won. Ah, Madam Quintus. Thank you for putting up with my teasing and talking about Rush and continuing the Lemming War when SC was too busy. Without you, the Lemming War would have been a heck of a lot less epic.

I'm also thanking the Admins for being here this whole time and not saying anything silly like, "War is bad, let's all be friends!" or "Why don't we call it a draw? In my book, you're both winners!" And thank you for publishing everything and thank you, everyone at Carus Publishing, for making such an awesome website and such awesome magazines that bring us all together. And thank you, everyone who reads Cricket, because in my mind you're all awesome and winners of your own wars.

The Lemming War is over and there is no need to pretend otherwise. Let's just hope that the future is as exciting and fun as this War was! Right, captcha? My captcha says rgih, so I guess that's a yes! Here's to a new great year!