Authors note: Yay new story, well I was watching Anastasia the other day (as you do), and I thought wow! Amazing ¾ story, so here's my adaptation of Anastasia, ¾ style. Hope you like it .

The Kids Next Door were once again under pressure. Another operative had just turned thirteen and wouldn't go without a fight. Numbuh 42, the now teenage moon base nerd, had decided to make a bid for freedom at the last moment. Of course, the whole of the Kids Next door present in moon base were chasing after him.

When they all chased him around a corner, he doubled back and ran back into the decommissioning room. Typing rapidly on the decommissioning machine.

When the rest of the gang had caught up with him, he gave an evil laugh.

"I helped build this new machine!" He stated. "You don't think that I know how to work it and what else it can do?"

"What's he talking about?" Nigel whispered to Rachel, aka Numbuh 362.

"No idea." She whispered back." But it can't be good."

"If I'm getting decommissioned, everyone else will be! I've set this machine to decommission this whole base in just a few minutes!"

Everyone began to panic. They ran in blind panics.

The only choice to save them was to destroy the machine. Sector V gathered together in a corner along with Numbuhs 86 and 362 to plan.

"We've got no other choice. Someone's going to have to sacrifice and turn it off manually." Rachel told them.

"What!?!" Nigel yelled back. "But anyone who touches it could easily get decommissioned!"

"Would you rather one operative or the whole of Kids next door Numbuh 1!?!" Fanny screamed in his face.

Nigel looked around at the room of panicked children, running around in terror. He sighed and faced his team.

"Okay team, we've got a tough choice to make." He said to them sorrowfully. "Anybody volunteer?"

The team exchanged hesitant glances for a few seconds. Then Kuki spoke.

"I'll do it." She said quietly.

The whole teams eyes widened with surprise and fear.

"No! Numbuh 3 y…you can't!" Wally chocked, grabbing her hands unknowingly.

"I'd rather do than watch it happen to any of you guys." Kuki replied, talking more to Wally than to the rest of them.

"I'll do it instead." Wally told her, tearing up.

"No!" She shook her head, wrapping her arms around him and hugged him tightly. "You're the hand to hand combat operative, sector V needs you!"

"They need you too!" He whispered.

"I don't care who goes as long as you do it quick!" Fanny yelled, pulling the two apart. She was the only one in the group who wasn't touched by this moment. The others had shed a tear or were very close to it.

Kuki walked backwards towards the decommissioning machine, her eyes scanned Wally and the rest of her friends before staring at Rachel.

"You need to pull all of the wires out at the back to switch it off." Rachel told her, and then pulled her hand to her forehead in a salute. "You're real brave Numbuh 3, thank you!"

Kuki returned the salute, then met eyes with Wally one more time, slowly twisting her finger around the necklace, before turning around and running towards the machine which was beginning to gain a fearful red glow around it.

The rest of the team separated to calm other operatives and restrain Numbuh 42.

Kuki quickly opened the back of the huge machine and retreated her hand back at the speed of lightning when a spark of blue electric ran around the wires. She held her breath in fear and grabbed all seven coloured wires in her small hand. Pain entered her body.

She couldn't be sure whether she was being electrocuted or decommissioned, she tried to pull the wires, but found that she was unable to move. She couldn't let go. The pain was increasing rapidly. She screamed.

"Kuki!" She heard Wally's voice. The next thing she knew, she felt two hands grip around her waist and pull her violently. She fell backwards and looked to her side to see Wally lying beside her.

His hair was slightly spiky from the electric. He rolled over and looked down at her in concern.

"Numbuh 3! Are you okay?" His voice seemed to echo in her head. Her world was spinning. Wally seemed to have two heads, her vision blurred and her pupils dilated until they were so big, her violet iris could hardly be seen.

Wally shook his head in dread, he placed his hand under her head and lifted it up so that he could lean down and kiss her gently.

His lips touched her, and that's all Kuki saw, before she lost conciseness.

He yelled with sadness and anger. Holding Kuki's feeble body close as to him.

Wally stared up at Numbuh 42, who was being led out of the room by Rachel and Hoagie. Wally stood up and ran over to them. Punching Numbuh 42 hard in the nose as he reached them.

"Numbuh 4! Stand down!" Rachel ordered.

Abby noticed the commotion and ran over to hold Wally, refraining him from attacking Numbuh 42 again. Nigel also soon came over and held Wally back.

"If you hadn't have done this she'd still be okay! She wouldn't have gotten hurt! I hope you're real proud of yourself! You cruddy coward!" Wally screamed as Rachel and Hoagie left the room with Numbuh 42. The rest of the kids from other sectors followed them out of the room, congratulating and cheering as they passed Wally, patting him on the back and ruffling his hair.

When the room was empty, Nigel and Abby let Wally go. He slowly walked over to the unconscious Kuki and knelt down beside her, pulling the upper half of her body up to hold her close.

Rachel and Hoagie returned and stood next to Abby and Nigel, a few steps away from Wally and Kuki.

"Why won't she move? She's still alive right?" He said quietly.

Rachel stepped forward and Wally allowed her to touch Kuki's neck to check her pulse.

"She's just unconscious, probably an electric shock, or maybe just the fear of it or something." Rachel told him. "But chances are she won't remember a thing when she wakes up. She got too much of the decommissioning rays, she might not even know fully who she is."

"But, you can recomission her right? Like you did with all of us before?" Wally begged desperately.

Rachel shrugged.

"Probably, but it'll take ages to fix this machine, we can't do anything until it's fixed." She said with sympathy.

Wally sobbed and pressed his cheek against Kuki's forehead.

"Numbuh 4? We'd better go." Nigel said quietly.

Wally nodded and stood up, he picked Kuki up in his arms and carried her out of the doors carefully.


He stared at her lying on the medic bed as he sat at his station in the C.O.O.L.B.U.S. she was still unconscious. He sighed. The others hadn't seen him pull her from the machine, or kiss her, they were all too busy doing the rest of their jobs.

"Chill out Numbuh 4, she's going to be fine." Abby faked a smile at him. "We'll just have to jog her memory a little."

"That's right Numbuh 4," Nigel looked back from his chair. "We're not going to kick her out just because she doesn't remember us."

Wally nodded, still not convinced. He wanted her to remember. To remain the Kuki that he had always known and loved.

They landed soon after, Hoagie opened the doors of the C.O.O.L.B.U.S. Wally jumped from his seat and walked over to Kuki to pick her up.

"Er, Numbuh 4, let's get the stretcher, it'll be easier to get her off the C.O.O.L.B.U.S. and down the stairs." Nigel stated.

Wally nodded and followed the rest of them out.

When they returned with the stretcher, Kuki was gone…