Okay, Soooo, I'm new here, to this "side" of the fandom errr or whatever y'all call it, hehehe. So don't be so harsh on me XD.
I Hope Y'all enjoy the read.
I Apologize for the OOCness!
I Sincerely Apologize for any type of Mistakes I might make!
Rated: T
(For) - Language, Mentions of real Alcohol (Gasps!) and Um, Other Teen stuff ;)
Genre:
Drama, Romance (Later on), Adventure, Hurt/Comfort, and Slight Angst.
Chapter: Enlighten Me
"Long Time to feel young, Short Time to get Old"
"Fanny..."
"Wot'?"
"Are you sure about this? Do you really want this?"
a small moment of silence passed.
Two girls looked at each other, both gazing deep into each others eyes. They were standing in an empty hall.
The small moment of silence was nearly deafening.
"Rach...'m positive, It's for the best. I mean, we all gotta grow up one day right?"
"But-"
"Sir, I don't want you to go pullin' some 'strings' fer' me. I don't want' any special treatment. I want to go like any other Operative with honor...I'd like to leave this 'me' behind.", The Scottish girl paused, she wore a small smile on her lips, "I want to 'grow' up"
Hazel eyes looked away, the girl that had been begging her fellow cadet to remain by her side a little while longer, gave in. "Very well, Numbuh 86"
The girl stood straight and saluted her superior, "It's been a great run, 'Numbuh 362'."
Numbuh 362 saluted back, she wore a firm expression, chewing on her bottom lip, anxious to try and convince a fellow Operative she deemed worthy of taking on a spot in the higher ups, the TND.
But she failed to persuade her friend.
'Friend', Numbuh 362's eyes now followed her loyal cadets back, as the girl was going to the decommissioning deck. "Goodbye, Fanny"
Said girl halted in her steps, she turned to look over her shoulder, "Goodbye, yer' self"
"Hey girl? You doing alright?".
"Huh? Oh er, yeah, sorry Abby". Hazel eyes averted any contact with the other girls' eyes.
"Hmmm, Somethin' tells me something's on your mind. and Numbuh 5's never wrong.", The red cap wearing girl hummed and touched shoulders with the Hazel eyed girl.
"Uh, Just...I slept pretty late last night-"
"Hmph, How many times are you gonna feed me the same excuse? Numbuh 5 just wanna help if she can".
"Sorry, Uh, it's nothing really-"
"Guys!", a cheery upiddy voice squealed in what seemed to be delight, "Wally's waiting for us with Numbuh 2!"
Abby turned to the girl that had been walking beside her, "This talk ain't over"
Rachel gulped.
"C'mon", Abby dragged Rachel with her, both girls running the Japanese girl's way.
"Lead the way, Girl"
"Okay!", the Asian smiled brightly and lead the two girls down the packed hallway and out the side door of the their high school.
A blonde haired boy leaning against a black van.
"Gosh' Kuki, took you long enough' to find 'em, and er, hey there 362, sir", a tall blonde haired boy greeted the sandy brown haired girl with a salute.
"At ease, I'm as ordinary as an operative can get", Rachel said as she crossed her arms over her chest.
It was true, maybe back in the KND she was something, but all she wanted at this point, was to be 'normal', well, a normal TND operative, not some 'Supreme Leader' like she was back then.
Things weren't the same anymore, something was missing from her life.
Suddenly the van's door slid open, revealing a brown haired boy, he wore a smile. "So? we still and always will, respect you, 362"
"But-"
"Oh, Girl, there's no time for arguing right now, we gotta crack down on them teens!", Numbuh 5 said as she cracked her knuckles.
"Yay! We're gonna beat up some bad guys!", Kuki said and skipped towards the van, and happily, jumped in.
"Move it, Numbuh 2!", the blonde haired boy jumped in as well.
Numbuh 5 tossed her bag to Numbuh 2, "So, Numbuh 362, Gonna' come or not?"
Rachel shrugged, "Coming of course, anything's better then sticking around for algebra class"
with that, both girls entered the van, and the van drove off.
"Oi, Kuki, What were doing with jerk face yesterday?", Wally asked with a frown. His arms crossed over his chest as he sat in his seat in front of a computer screen.
Kuki shrugged, "Who? Brad?", The girl spun around in her chair to look at Wally's figure.
"Yeah, That Guy", Wally said as he turned his body in his seat to look at the Asian girl.
"Whaaat? He's really nice"
And so bickering began to fill the van.
"Ohhh here we go", Abby rolled her eyes, she knew where this would go, Numbuh 4 was acting like some jealous boyfriend, he had been for quite some time, But Neither Kuki or himself could bring themselves to admit that it seemed like that.
"Tell me about it", Number 2 said with a sigh as he drove the van.
Rachel remained put and quite, she blocked out the bickering that was starting to build up between Numbuh 3 and 4. She sat with her arms crossed, seemingly in thought at this point.
Abby looked up at her the small mirror, and saw Rachel sitting in the back, she wore her usual distant look.
'This girl', Abby thought as she narrowed her eyes, all she wanted was to help out the girl that went from her superior, to her close friend. But the girl just wasn't opening up about anything really.
"I heard 'she' came back", Numbuh 2 said, his eyes still on the road.
Abby hummed and now turned her attention to her friend, "Who?", Abby shifted a bit to get closer to Numbuh 2
"Um...", The boy lowered his voice, "Numbuh 86"
Abby rose an eyebrow and sat back in her seat, she chewed on her bottom lip slightly, and stared forward, as if in thought.
'She's back, aye...Wonder if that's why Rachel's acting this way'
"Keep this between us, for now"
"Right"
Rachel was in her own thoughts, she was thinking about many things.
"What'd she say?".
A boy with black hair asked as he walked up to the fidgeting 'supreme leader'
Rachel held a frown on her face, the young girl shrugged and kicked at the floor a few times, she was feeling frustrated all of a sudden.
"She wants to go through with it."
"Boy, Fanny's tough huh? brave for wanting to willingly go through with it."
Rachel nodded her head.
The boy sighed out, "Ya' know, I might even say...she's tougher than me".
Rachel didn't really put much thought into what the boy was saying, she was still stuck on wanting to call of Fanny's decommissioning.
Nothing of what the kid was saying, was sinking in to Rachel's head.
"-I'm sorry to have to do this to you, Rach."
"Huh?"
It was only with that sentence that the boy said, that something finally clicked in Rachel's head.
but it was too late.
"I'm sorry!", the boy shouted now, "So sorry!"
Rachel's hazel eyes widened, and then, suddenly, pain racked though out her body and black closed in on her vision as she fell to the floor.
"RACH!"
"Supreme leader!"
"Sir!"
many shouts of concerns were filled Rachel's hearing, then an explosion and an Identification.
"PATTON!", a Scottish accent was the last thing Rachel heard.
"WOAH!", Rachel jumped, she looked at Kuki and Wally
Wally was clearly agitated at this point.
"Hoagie, if you don't drive right, I'mma stick my fist down your throat!", Wally threatened.
"Hehehe, Sorry guys, a few speed bumps, we're almost there".
Rachel sighed out.
"Chill out y'all", Abby said.
the teens were currently heading to a 'parking lot', they were going to some type of briefing on...Traitor Operatives.
'Patton'
Rachel gritted her teeth slightly.
she was betrayed.
"Finally, Y'all, we're here", Abby was the first to hop out of the van, Numbuh 2 parked the van behind the small mart.
Kuki and Rachel opened the van's door and hopped out.
Wally and Hoagie being the last two out, shut the doors and locked the van.
Rachel rubbed the back of her neck, "Hey, go on with out me, I'm gonna get some stuff from the mart, want something?"
Wally rose a hand, "Cream soda"
"Oh, Oh Oh! I want some rainbow monkey gummies!", Kuki clapped her hands together enthusiastically.
Hoagie smiled, "Since you offered, A Chilidog, extra Cheese, and a can of ginger ale, please"
Rachel nodded, then turned to Abby, "You?"
Abby nodded, "Gum"
Rachel hummed and then nodded, "Alright, I'll see you guys down there in a bit."
"Right"
"Thanks, 362", Kuki smiled and pulled Hoagie and Wally with her.
"See ya' girl, don't take so long", Abby said with her hands on her hips.
"Got it", Rachel waved the girl off and turned around to head towards the small stop and go mart's entrance.
...
The sandy brown haired girl grabbed all the snacks she could carry, bringing them up to the register, a boy behind the counter checked her items out.
"That'll be 10.50 ma'am."
Rachel took out her wallet and pulled out a 10 dollar bill and the two quarters, she handed it to the boy.
"Alright, here you go", The boy gave Rachel her bags.
"Thanks", Rachel took her bags and left the counter.
'Traitor Operatives...Will he be on it...Of course he'll be on it...he started the Ninja Fude.'
Rachel felt her chest tighten, she knew it was bound to happen, she knew that this 'meeting' would take place, People that betrayed the KND and defected, were highly dangerous, they knew a lot about the KND, their secrets, their plans and way of doing things...Traitors made everything so complicated.
'Patton'.
day in and out, Rachel wondered why her best friend had betrayed her.
and when Rachel wasn't thinking of the traitor, she'd be thinking of a certain short tempered Scottish girl she missed ever so much.
'Fanny-'
"Omph!?"
"Umph?"
Two thuds came about on the cement of the parking lot just outside the mart.
One of Rachel's two bags remained on the floor, luckily the bags were tied tightly. One bag was in Rachel's arms.
Rachel sighed out and stood up, she dusted herself, she was in no mood right now, what so ever.
"My stuff-"
Just before Rachel could give complain, A sight before her made her swallow her words.
Rachel's eyes widened momentarily, 'What'
a red/orangy haired teen sat before her, she rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, a small shy smile curved her lips.
"U-Uh, So-Sorry, I've been a bit clumsy lately, and now I've gone and made you drop yer' stuff'-"
"No!", Rachel dropped her other bag and stepped to help the girl with the Scottish accent up, "It, it was totally my fault!", the sandy brown haired teen exclaimed nervously.
'It's her...It's really her!'
"You don't 'ave ta' help me"
"No, no way!. Uh it was my fault, I wasn't paying any attention to where I walking, Fanny"
Whoops.
The girl held onto Rachel's shoulder to support herself, she looked at Rachel with slight confusion in her eyes.
"Fanny? I don't reckon telling you my name, Stranger.", The girl rose an eyebrow, "And it'd be Francine To you"
Rachel winced slightly, "Urm...Uh...Well I, uh-"
"Rachel, what's taking so lon- Uh!?", Kuki just turned the corner, surprise washed over her facial features. "Woah...Uh-he...", Kuki backed away and turned the corner once again, awkwardly.
'Seriously!'
"Friend of yers'?", Fanny looked at the taller girl that she still held onto.
Rachel nodded, "yeah"
Fanny sighed slightly, "Um, well, I still have a question...how do you know my name? and so intimately"
'I-Intimately?!'
Rachel's cheeks flushed slightly at the mention of such an 'adult' word.
"Well uh, Um...", 'crap', Rachel needed to find a way out of this...if she doesn't, she could end up compromised.
Fanny remained quietly staring, awaiting an answer.
"Um...Uh"
Nothing.
Rachel looked like some stuttering idiot.
'what can I say!?'
Rachel was going to open her mouth once again, but it snapped shut when a rough deep voice called out to them.
"Francine, Sweety! Hurry up, what's the hold- Oh! McKenzie!".
It was Fanny's father.
Rachel tensed up slightly,'Mr. Boss', "Uh...Mr. Fulbright, hello sir", Rachel greeted slightly nervously.
Fanny stepped away from Rachel, breaking the physical contact, she stared with confusion at her father, "You know her?"
"What! Of course, sweety, she's your childhood friend, geez, we've only been away for two years and you've already forgotten"
Fanny hummed and turned to the sandy brown haired teen with questions written all over her face.
Mr. Fulbright Smiled lightly, cigar in mouth, "Youngin's I guess, so forgetful. you two should catch up. As a matter of fact, We're having a 'small' get together, it's going to be a business function type of thing, but You should come along with your father.", The man spoke to Rachel.
Rachel avoided meeting eyes with Fanny, but she could feel the girl's eyes burning into her.
"Uh-ha, I don't know sir-"
"Non-sense! Fanny's going to be starting fresh here again, It'd be nice if she had someone to 'hang out' with, as you teenagers call it.", Mr. Fulbright said with a wave of the hand, "'sides, your father'll be there anyways, he got transferred back to my firm. Just come along."
Rachel shrugged lightly, she rose a hand and ran it through her own hair, "When's the 'function'?"
"That'a girl, It'll be tomorrow night".
'Tomorrow!', Rachel flinched, too soon, she thought.
"O-Okay, I'll see if I could pull it off".
The Scottish girl looked in between her father and this mysterious 'Childhood friend' 'I don't even remember her!', Fanny thought to herself.
"Hope so, I'll remind your father", the man winked at the girl, clearly he was determined to get Rachel to go to the function.
"Right"
"Alright, nice seeing you again, McKenzie, I'm sure we'll be seeing you again, and maybe so often, Say goodbye for now, Francine."
Rachel turned to the girl, she found Fanny with arms crossed and an eyebrow risen.
"Bye", she spoke slightly sassy-like.
"B-Bye", Rachel said.
With that, the two walked by her.
'Crap, Tomorrow! I can't, there's no way I can go!'
Rachel stood in place.
"Rachel!", a group of voice called out to the standing teen.
Rachel turned to the group of teens.
"What happened with 86?"
"Where's Fanny?"
those two questions were first to fly out of Kuki and Wally's mouths.
Abby and Hoagie on the other hand, remained silent.
"Um, I bumped into her...I...had no idea she came back", Rachel trailed off slightly to rub the back of her head.
how did she not know, surely Paddy and Harvey would have told her...Heck, Paddy should have told her.
"Numbuh 85 didn't warn you, girl?", Abby asked as she walked towards the confused teen.
Wally and Kuki also walked beside Abby, Abby stood in front of Rachel, while Kuki and Wally grabbed the bags filled with snacks.
"No, I..."
"It's alright, girl.", Abby patted Rachel's shoulder.
"Paddy didn't say anything to me, he didn't...he hasn't contacted me in weeks."
"Maybe the kid's been too busy to, ya' know", Wally chimed in.
"Yeah, I heard with all this Teen Ninja war thingy going on, the KND have been a bit tied up, I mean, think about it, when the KND askes the TND for help, it means that it's really serious.", Kuki said as a matter of factly.
"Kuki's right", Hoagie said with a reassuring from where he was.
'They're right, gosh', "Yeah, umm...uh by the way, Abby, I'm gonna have to take a day off tomorrow".
"Huh", the group all hummed.
This was a first.
Never has Rachel asked for a day off.
"Woah, girl, slow down...is this about Numbuh 86?", numbuh 5 asked.
"Yeah, Her father saw me, and he of course recognizes me...he wants me and Fanny to...um-"
"Get a bond going again?", Hoagie said as he rubbed his chin.
"Yeah...that", Rachel sighed out. "Her father will tell my father about it, and I'll have to go, I mean, He's my dad's boss"
"Oh maaaan! Tomorrow's the party?", Kuki spoke up with a frustrated sigh, "Urgh, My mom works with him too, She'll make me go"
Abby sighed out and Looked at Hoagie, "Anyone else calling out tomorrow?"
Wally and Hoagie shrugged, "We're good"
Numbuh 5 rested her hands on her hip, "Alright, You two won't be around. Me and these two are going to moon base, we have a meeting with the supreme leader, I was hoping you two would be free, but Clearly you two aren't."
"Sorry"
"Sorry, Abby"
"well, I guess we should go back to that briefing for now. After the briefing we'll be heading to Moon base, we'll fill you two in on what's happening when we see each other at school. Cool?"
"Right", Rachel and Kuki nodded their heads.
Fanny sighed heavily, she wasn't one to wear scowls, but for some reason, it just wasn't leaving her face.
'That girl'
Fanny swore she never recognized the girl, she swore she'd never seen her before, never...so how could that girl be her 'childhood friend'?
Fanny shook her head, she began to re organize her room, her room remained largely the same as she had left it two years ago, she left everything in place, her father telling her that he was sure they'd come back to this house.
and surely, they did.
Fanny only unpacked some clothing from her luggage.
'She called me Fanny...only people really close to me call me that...', Fanny sighed out once again.
frustrated she sat on her bed, 'Only family call me that, I don't have friends.'
That was true, while Fanny was quite popular, she wasn't exactly close with anyone, for some reason, she kept everyone around her at arms length.
It was strange for someone to truly be so familiar with her. and by the way that girl called her 'Fanny', it said a lot, especially with her father backing up with a claim, saying that she was her childhood friend.
"Tomorrow I'll find out for sure", Fanny said to herself.
At Tomorrows function, she was sure she'd get some answers from the Sandy brown haired teen.
Tomorrow.
Whale, Hope this was a good read, for now of course, hehehe.
Like I said, I apologize for the OOCness. and other mistakes I might have made.
Reviews are always welcomed!
Till next update!
Bye!