Chapter 1

Operation: F.I.L.L.E.R

Filling

In

Literacy

Leaks

Entertaining

Readers

(Author's note: Lame acronym, I know, but those aren't really easy.)

It was a mild, somewhat warm saturday morning, Wally Beatles was at home, watching some TV in the living room. His mom suddenly enters room, holding a duster, and quickly started with dusting parts of the living room. She was dusting alot faster than usual, as if she was preparing for something.

"Eh, mom?" Wally said, "Is something up? I don't remember you cleaning things up that fast."

"huh? oh, I'm getting us prepared, Wally," Mrs. Beatles replied, "We're gonna have some new neighbors coming shortly, they're still making arrangements to move into a new house, so your daddy and I offered to let them spend the night over, and I want them to feel as welcome as we can make them."

"New neighbors?" Wally asked, somewhat confused, "Who are they?"

"A nice small family of Italian immigrants," Mrs. Beatles replied, " I think I remember them calling themselves 'Antonios'."

Wally about about to comment, but stopped himself, remembering the run-ins he and his friends had with the KET recently, how Nick Antonio got them to help him rescue his dad and grab a recommissioning device to help him bring back his decommissioned mom, as much as Numbuh 86 likely is upset about those turn of events, Wally didn't really mind, as much as be still begudges the KET for capturing him and his friends and trying to lock them up, but he does like how they're fighting Numbuh 86 and her Decommissioning Squad on a daily basis, however, this was about as much credit as he can give them. And Wally came to like Nick, who is the son of the KET's Supreme Commander Mr. Antonio, quite abit when he helped him and his team escape from T.H.E.R.E, plus, Wally found it enjoyable to see how Nick was able to kick the butts of afew KET when he unleashes one of his mood swings.

By the time Mrs. Beatles was finsihed cleaning the living room, she heard a knocking on the door and said, "Oh! must be them!" She turns to Wally, "Now, Wallabee, try to be on your best behavior, they're new to this neighborhood as well as this country, we shouldn't leave a bad first impression."

Somehow Mom, Wally thought, I don't think that will be the problem.

Mrs. Beatles heads over to the front door with Wally following her, She opens the door and, as Wally suspected, those particular 'Antonios' that his mom brought up were the exact same Antonio family Wally and the rest of Sector V unintentionally crossed paths with; Nick and his parents. Nick and his father, Mr. Antonio, look at they did when he last saw them, but Nick's mom, Mrs. Edmonda Antonio, had a somewhat different appearance from when Wally last saw her back in T.H.E.R.E, She had her black hair in what seemed like pretty good volume, it was worn strictly downward with no hair ties, but she had a long bang of her hair cover one of her eyes just as her son Nick does, she wore the same little black dress that seemed just long enough that her bulging belly containing the still-currently unborn baby girl that will soon be Nick's little sister. Edmonda also wore some simple slip-on girly dress shoes but without high-heels, had a polished black leather purse, some black mascara around her eyes, and red lipstick on her, well, lips.

Oh crud, Wally thought to himself, It's just as I thought, them again. Well, at least I get to hang with the Italian mood-swinger Nick, his dad is that sort of person who never stops showing up, and doesn't shut up, he's like an over-used commercial. Nick's mom, I haven't seen much of her so I don't know what to think.

Mrs. Beatles friendily greeted the newly arrived Italian family, "Welcome! welcome to the Beatles Residence!" She said, "Make yourselves at home!"

" I think we certainly will," Mrs. Antonio replied calmly in a slightly slow pace, shaking Mrs. Beatles' hand, She then looks at Wally, pretending to have just met him, "And-a who might-a this strapping young man be?"

"Oh, That's my oldest son, Wally," Mrs. Beatles replied, she then turned her head to Wally, "Say hi to our soon-to-be new neighbors, Wallabee."

Wally gives out a weak "Hi," with a hand wave at Nick's parents, but grins and winks at Nick.

Mrs Beatles noticed Nick and crouched to his eye level, "Now who's that.. how do you Italians put it? 'Little meatball?'"

Nick shyly moved behind his mom's legs.

Nick's mother chuckled slightly, "You'll have to forgive Nick here, he's abit shy around new people," then thought of the non-Operative variety anyway.

"Is he now?" Mrs Beatles said, somewhat amused, "Well, I'm sure he'll warm up, I've seen his type before. Anyway, My husband's out at work at the moment, but he figured you'd come before he gets back and he'll be back shortly, and I'd introduce you to Baby Joey, but he's napping right now and Wally and I don't want to disturb him. So, should I get you set up in the master bedroom? my hubby and I already decided we'll let you borrow our bed."

"Thanks, but that's not nessisary," Mrs Antonio said, "We can go with the living room, it looks spacious enough for our tastes and we already have sleeping bags handy in our luggage."

Wally walked closer to Nick and placed his hand on Nick's back as a friendly gesture, "Yer welcome to share my room with me if ya like."

"Wow, Wally," Mrs Beatles said, "I see you already made a new friend."

"Yeah he seems like the type I'd go for," Wally responded, then thought In the 'tends to let out enjoyably violent mood-swings' way anyway.

After Wally took Nick to his room, he closed the door and they started talking.

"Okay," Wally said, "As much as I like seeing you again, what the heck are you and ya parents doing here?"

"It was my father's idea," Nick said, "He wanted to make sure the Splinter Cell wouldn't get to me, so he decided we'll move here, he said that the large KND presence combined with all KET Operatives here on full alert would make it near impossible for them to try to get to me without further revealing themselves."

"Yeah, I guess that makes sense," Numbuh 4 said, "Considering that crazy girl SC agent tried to drag you off and nearly killed ya for it."

"Maybe," Nick said, then tilted his head, looking pretty depressed, "Personally I wish we could've stayed in Rome, I liked it here much better. Although my dad did promise we'll head back there once the whole Splinter Cell thing is resolved."

"Hey, cheer up!" Wally said to Nick, smacking him lightly in the back, "So what you got would-be adult-killers coming after you? at least you can now come and go as you please! your dad did trap you in an underground hole earlier, didn't he?"

"Well, si," Nick said, "I guess you're right. This will be over one way or another, so I shouldn't let it get to me."

"By the way," Wally said, then sudddnely added, "You know that thing you do when you go completely berserk? like how you reacted when Numbuh 5's sis insulted your dad?"

Confused, Nick responded, "Uh yeah, why?"

"Are there other things that tick you off that badly?" Wally asked, thinking deviously, "Or is it just when someone talks bad about your parents?"

"Actually," Nick said, "There are quite afew things that have made me go berserk like that, a good amount of them aren't even good reasons to be mad."

Like what?" Wally asked.

"Well," Nick started, "there were people that made fun of my hair, my body shape (they called it a 'girlish figure'), a few non-Italians have made fun my accent..."

I know he only calms down when someone tells him too, Wally thought, but I wonder if he make a good... wrestling partner when crazed with anger.

"Yeah," Wally said, "Your hair does look pretty girly."

"Now, quit it!" Nick said sharply, already showing obvious signs of getting mad.

"And ya do look pretty scrawny," Wally said, "Makes me wonder if people thought you were a girl, or a closet nerd!"

Already, Nick tackled Wally in response, trying to wrestle him down. But Wally was quickly able to turn the tables by pushing Nick off of him with little effort and was able to pin him to the floor. Nick wasn't able to break free and instead was rather violenting waving his limbs around like he was having a seizure and was speaking in what was clearly gibberish, though Wally assumed he was speaking Italian.

"Ah ain't gonna say it!" Wally exclaimed, "You can't have other people tell you to calm down, you can do it yaself, Ah think it degrades your self-respect."

Nick continues shaking, as if completely losing his mind and focusing just on getting the older yet slightly shorter Aussie off him. But unfortunately for him, Wally had superior hand-to-hand combat skills and was physically stronger, there was no way Nick would be able to get out from under him.

"Geez what's ya problem?," Wally asked as Nick stubbornly struggled to break free while being apparently incoherent, "I know even I don't act anywhere near that crazy when I'm angry, my mom doesn't act that way whe she gets frustrated, heck, not eventhat ink blot Father acts that way, sure he bursts literally into flame and shouts alot, but he can at least not act like he thinks he's a hyena. But you, Nick? you're acting like a dingo with rabies!"

Nick's feral, yet in vain, attempt to escape the pin down that Wally placed him seemed to last well around an hour, Nick finally calmed down by himself to find Wally pinned him to the floor with 1 hand and the weight of his body and used his free hand to read a comic book. Nick seemed as though he was just waking up, as if that feral outburst made him only barely conscious.

"Uh, what are you doing?" Nick politely asked.

"Huh? oh!" Wally noticed Nick finally calmed down by himself and gets off of him, "Took ya sweet time to get ya head on straight, but at least we now know ya can do it yourself."

"Well, thanks, I guess," Nick said unassured, "So what happened?"

"Ya mean you don't remember flippin' out like heck?" Wally asked, confused.

"I guess not, all I remember is you making fun of me, me losing my cool about, then next thing I knew you were laying on me." Nick replied.

Wally dropped his jaw.

(Author's note: Hello! hoped you enjoyed that, this is my way to putting in filler in case I can't get into doing fanfics required of the story line, OP:FILLER's plot revelent, but might not be enough that you need to read it to know what's going on in the storyline. I'll update as soon as I'm able, so please review and if you have any questions regarding my fan faction, the KET, or on my storyline in general, please let me know.)