Alright, basically this is kicking off a side project of mine. OCs included, will be seeing Rachel, Fanny, and Patton later on.
Discalimer: I do not own Codename: Kids Next Door. Cartoon Network has that covered.
The bus was in motion, on its way to the next stop: Quahog, Rhode Island. Leaving Providence, a girl with red hair in a ponytail, blue jacket and black pants, sat alone at the end of the bus, her mind occupied.
"Don't disappoint us now, Carol."
"You won't make it in life being second best, honey, you need to try harder, you need to study more often."
"Failure, that's all this is, failure."
"You don't want to disappoint us now, right dear?"
"Study, bring your grades up, don't be a failure."
"You have to be the best, if you aren't you're the worst."
"Is this seat taken?"
"Hm?" The girl turned to see a boy with dark hair standing at the end of the aisle. The girl turned to the window to find the Bus had reached its final stop before reaching their destination.
"Is the seat taken?" the boy asked nervously.
"Can't you find another seat?" The girl spoke harshly.
"Well…there aren't any other seats available…." The girl sighed and stood to scope out the seating situation, only to find the boy was telling the truth. The twenty-four other rows were completely filled out.
"…Fine…you can sit here." The girl turned back to the window as the bus set off.
The boy sat down, setting a backpack on his lap. The boy pulled down the zipper and removed a zip-lock bag of cookies from the pack. "Want one?" the boy smiled as he presented the bag of cookies. The girl looked to the corner of her eye to see the boy waving the bag of chips. "Come on, they're chocolate chip."
The girl sighed. She stuck her hand out and reached into the bag, pulling out a cookie. "…Thanks." She muttered before taking a bite out of the cookie.
"No prob." The boy smiled. "So…how'd you…ya know?"
The girl sighed once more as she wiped the crumbs away from her face. "Do I really have to tell you?"
"I'll tell you how I got here if you tell me how you got here." The boy said before throwing a cookie into his mouth.
"One of their scouts saw me in action, I guess…" the girl turned to the window, noticing snow begin to fall. "Some girls at my school pranked me…I retaliated." The girl spoke coldly. The boy's smile slowly faded away at the girl's tone. "…So…how'd you get here?"
"I got involved in a scuffle back in Quahog…" the boy let out a humorless laugh. "One thing led to another…four-one-four asks me if I wanted to join up. I said yes. So what do you think it'll be like?"
"Not sure…" The girl's eye narrowed.
"You have to be the best! You always have to be the best!"
"…Either way…I have to be the best…" the girl spoke under her breathe.
"What was that last part?" The boy asked, raising a brow.
"Nothing." The girl stated. "I think we're almost there."
"How can you tell?"
"There's a tree sticking out of the ice." The girl pointed the said tree as their bus drew closer.
"That's it?" The boy rose a brow as he looked over out the window. "I don't think we can train or do anything there."
The bus driver hit a muffin button on a panel, causing a Television Screen to drop down from the buses ceiling. "This is Cadet Super Speedy Transport 001, asking for permission to land, over."
"Arctic Command to Cadet Super Speedy Transport 001, you are clear for landing. Welcome back to the Arctic." A kid on the T.V. screen welcomed the bus.
The bus soared through the air as its wings tilted for its descent. The ice below began to separate revealing a landing pad. The bus hovered above the landing pad and slowly descended. The bus rocked as it touched down on the pad.
"Alright, this is more like it." The boy smiled as he looked out the window.
The landing pad descended downwards, along with the bus, into the multi-use base of operations.
Kids Next Door Arctic Base: Arctic Training Facility
Four Years Prior to Operation Z.E.R.O.
"Welcome to the Kids Next Door Arctic Base, Cadets!" the child bus driver exclaimed over his shoulder. "This is where we make operatives out of shrimps like you."
"Where we make operatives…" The girl repeated as the interior of the Arctic Base was revealed to them.