Four kids woke up in their respective rooms in an enormous tree house, like they usually did.
Four kids got up then gathered around the breakfast table, like they usually did.
Four kids yawned and ate their cereals and did their best to chase the last remnant of sleepiness from their bodies and minds, like they usually did.
Wait. They were only four. This wasn't a normal morning at all.
It was Sector V's first morning in their tree house since Numbuh 1 left Earth. The silence around the table was so deafening the remaining members of Sector V were almost relieved when the apparition of a big sphere of blinding light right next to the breakfast table gave them something else to think about.
The four of them leapt away from the breakfast table and grabbed the nearest weapons in one swift motion. They readied their S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R.s while the sphere disappeared to reveal… a person?
The mysterious individual was covered head to toe with armour very similar to what you would find on some KND operatives except it also incorporated various LED and dials (notably on the right arm) even Numbuh 2 didn't know the purpose of. Large ski goggles masked the top half of the stranger's face and the mouthpiece of their helmet covered the lower half.
"Is… Is Numbuh 1 here?" they asked Sector V.
"Who are you and how did you do that?" Numbuh 5 replied.
It was quite difficult to determine the intruder's age, but Abby was pretty sure they were too tall to be a kid : they were taller than her sister.
The stranger pointed to the number 111 painted in red on their chest piece.
"I'm Numbuh 111. I'm a teen operative from the future. We built a time a machine so I could help you. I take it Numbuh 1 left Earth already?"
"How do you know that?" asked the current leader of Sector V.
"I'm from the future. Numbuh 1 is legendary in my time. Anyway, it might be too late to see him now but it's not too late for the other thing."
Numbuh 111 extended their gloved hand towards the kids and pressed a small button on their wrist, causing a small hologram of the Earth to appear. In the projection, some place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was marked with a flashing red X.
"The adults pump- will pump a very special kind of coffee in this location. It's ten times stronger than the strongest coffee previously discovered. It made the adults too powerful to be stopped. They rule- I mean, will rule the world and the few operatives left have to hide to survive."
Numbuh 2 observed the tiny hologram projector carefully, Numbuh 3 lowered her weapon and asked the teen if there were Rainbow Monkeys in the future (or rather, she asked about a very long list of all the kinds of Rainbow Monkeys that had ever been available on the market) and Numbuh 4 looked uncharacteristically deep in thought.
Numbuh 5 spoke again :
"And why should we trust anythin' you say? We don't know you."
"Because otherwise you're taking the risk of letting the evil adults take over the world", the teen explained, "and have the Kids Next Door being reduced to a dozen rebels hiding in an abandoned building without being able to fight back the coffee-crazed villains. And without Rainbow Monkeys because the grown-ups keep them all to themselves."
The last part caused Kuki to scream in terror. To their teammates' greatest surprise, Wally didn't seem to react. He was still thinking.
"We need to save the Rainbow Monkeys from the adults right now!" Numbuh 3 stated, already storing as many 2x4 weaponery as she could in her pockets.
And finally, Numbuh 4 spoke :
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
The visitor from the future stared at him in silence for a few seconds before replying :
"Hum… No. And how is that relevant anyway?"
The second after that, since no-one could say no to Numbuh 3, the kids got the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. ready.
It was a long ride to the still-under-construction coffee rig indicated by Numbuh 111 ; therefore the members of Sector V took some time to interrogate them further.
"How did you get to be a teen operative?" Numbuh 5 asked as she leaned back into the leader's chair. She froze for a second and sit up straight again when she realised what she was doing, then went back to her more comfortable position when she remembered this wasn't Nigel's seat anymore, but rightfully hers.
"Well, we don't decommission teens as much as you did", Numbuh 111 explained. "All youth need to stick together if we want to survive in the adult-dominated world and… Alright, they kept me because I make the best cakes."
"They kept a cruddy teenager in the Kids Next Door for some cruddy cake?" Numbuh 4 shouted.
"Hey, my cakes are not cruddy!"
"We should be talking about plans or somethin'" Abby stated. "What can we expect once we get there?"
The teen extended their hand again and started their hologram projector.
"Of course Cuppa Joe will be here, that's his coffee rig" they told the others as a full-colour, 3-dimensional image of said villain appeared right above their palm. "But he needed some funding to get newer, better machines and stuff, so he called for Mister Boss' help", they continued as the projection changed to Mister Boss. "And also the help of…" the hologram changed once more, this time taking the form of Father, before Numbuh 111 finished : "…Big Matchstick here. They're supposed to meet up and discuss their evil plans together, but we should arrive and sabotage the place before the last two arrive. We infiltrate the rig, we find the pumps, we destroy them, we booby trap the place so no-one can build anything there ever again and we leave. How's that for a plan?"
They closed their fist, turning their hologram projector off.
"Speaking of booby traps", Numbuh 2 said, "I got a joke-"
"Please don't", Numbuh 111 interrupted him.
Abby thanked the teen for their intervention and Hoagie mumbled something about the other two not having any idea what good humour was.
Numbuh 5 got up, walked to the time traveller and whispered so only the two of them could hear :
"Numbuh 5's warning ya : if this turns out to be some of trap-"
"I didn't flippin' flee my own home so I could join the KND to have my allegiance questioned" they replied in the same tone.
Abigail nodded and went back to her seat. She would trust this teen operative for now. Even if something did go wrong, she knew from experience her team could survive it.