I DO NOT OWE CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR OR AMERICAN MCGEE'S ALICE.
The Gnome elder started peddling towards the Skool.
"What's the point of going to Skool when the cruddy rabbit told us that elixirs are at the Vale of Tears wherever that cruddy place is," Numbuh 4 said.
"Because we can't get to the Vale of Tears without being small and he said the elixirs were at the Skool," Numbuh 3 said. "And thanks for calling that place cruddy."
"What's so special about it?" Numbuh 4 asked envying the cat that Numbuh 3 was tracing the scar on.
"You'll see," The cat replied grinning.
"And possibly the card guards already have them gone so we need to make more," Numbuh 1 said.
They passed a pillar that had kids running in place with a little fire to the side and once they past it a kid jumped off.
"Oh dear, Numbuh 5 hopes that kid will be alright," Numbuh 5 said.
"He'll be dead and not used for experiments," The gnome replied.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Numbuh 2 asked.
They start hearing church bells as they get closer to the Skool. "There's a fortress coming up and inside it there is a Skool. You need to find certain items in that Skool to create a potion for making you small," the gnome elder said.
"What items exactly?" Numbuh 1 asked.
They went a closer to the Skool and saw the drawbridge before the gnome replied, "Items, items, boy. You'll know them when you see them. Speaking of being seen, we should try to avoid knowing the card guards that we are here- Damnit! We've been seen."
Red card guards came out and started shooting. "Later on you will have to blast walls like these but for now- JUMP!" the gnome said as the cat disappeared. They jumped off and landed on their but Numbuh 4 almost lost his balance if Numbuh 3 didn't grab him.
"Thanks Numbuh 3," Numbuh 4 said as they went through a door dragging Numbuh 1 before he touched the lava that was coming out.
Numbuh 3 smiled "Your welcome."
They went in and looked around, "Clear!" Numbuh 1 yelled before they went into another door that was finely decorated with pillars with rubies on them and fine wood floor.
Numbuh 1 went in and was knocked back into the wall by a sheik that came from a ghost with a red dress, torn black coat on, skeleton hands and face.
"What's that?" Numbuh 2 asked as he threw a knife and missed which had the ghost sheik at him knocking him into Numbuh 1.
"They're banshees!" Numbuh 4 hollered as he hit one with one of his knives.
"What are banshees?" Numbuh 5 said as knife hit the same ghost as Numbuh 4.
"Banshees are an Irish legend that whenever they scream someone dies!" Numbuh 4 yelled back as the last ghost shrieked at him but Numbuh 3 threw a knife at them.
"Good guess but wrong," Numbuh 3 said as she distracted the ghost from attacking until her knife got back. "They're Boojums and I hate them as much as another enemy."
She threw the knife which killed the Boojum and the meta-essence came out. A red heart had come out of them both but the first heart was down to a triangle which Numbuh 2 took while Numbuh 1 got the heart.
Three card guards came out and started charging at them. They were a 2 of spades, 5 of spades, and 7 of spades. Numbuh 2 took care of them and they were transformed into a new weapon the, card deck. It appeared in their hands.
"What is a deck of cards going to do for us?" Numbuh 4 asked. "Hey Banshee, wanna play a game of gold fish?" Numbuh 4 asked.
The cat appeared. "52 card pick-ups is a juvenile game but when the deck slices and dices, it's no laughing matter" then disappeared.
Numbuh 3 yelled, "There's stairs on the other side,"
They started to run for it but once Numbuhs 1, 2, 4, and 5 made it near them the floor started to come apart.
"Numbuh 3!" Numbuh 2 yelled.
"Go on! I'll catch up!" Numbuh 3 replied back as five red card guards came from behind her.
The floor kept getting farther and farther apart. "Numbuh 3 c'mon!" Numbuh 5 said.
Numbuh 3 looks back at her friends and look back at the card guards.
Numbuh 4 swallowed a lump that had appeared in his throat, "Numbuh 3 please jumps!"
Numbuh 3 heard the desperation in their voices and took a running leap across only to miss and start falling until Numbuh 4 reached down to grabs her.
"Numbuh 3 hold on!" Numbuh 4 said.
"No, let me go or the card guards will hit you," Numbuh 3 said as Wally slowly started to lose her grip.
"But we need you! You know this place better than –"Numbuh 4 started to say but was interrupted as Numbuh 3 saying, "Trust me Wally."
Numbuh 4 looked away with tears coming into his eyes as he let go of Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 1 grabbed Numbuh 4's hood and pulled him back and up the stairs.
"How are we going to make this jump?" Numbuh 2 asked as they looked where the portal was and gasped.
On the other side Numbuh 3 appeared near the portal, "Be patient!" As soon as she said that the floor boards went up and formed an 'S' shape. "One at a time and be careful it tilts!"
"Numbuh 5 go!" Numbuh 1 said.
"Numbuh 5 will ask why she goes first when we get over there," Numbuh 5 said as she dashed over there and took a jump and was helped up by Numbuh 3.
"Both girls are safe now for Numbuh 2," Numbuh 1 thought. "Numbuh 2 go!"
"Why me?" Numbuh 2 asked as he looked where Numbuh 3 had fallen into and it was black blue swirls.
"Just go!" Numbuh 4 said as he pushed Numbuh 2 on to the platform.
Numbuh 2 freaked out as he went across he took a jump and Numbuh 3 and 5 both helped him up.
"Numbuh 1 go! You're the leader," Numbuh 4 said as he threw his knife at one of the guards shooting at them.
Numbuh 1 looked shocked at Numbuh 4 but went on ahead. Numbuh 2 pulled Numbuh 1.
They were now too far apart for Numbuh 4 to jump.
"Numbuh 4 come on!" Numbuh 2 yelled nervous for his friend.
"I'm not going to make it!" Numbuh 4 replied back.
"Try it!" Numbuh 1 said.
Numbuh 4 took a deep breath and went across as fast as he can jump and barely touched the ledge but continued going down then he felt claws go through his hoodie and saw the cat holding on to him but was also falling until Numbuh 3 grabbed the Cat's tail. The cat gave out a hiss but allowed Numbuh 3 to left him and Numbuh 4 up.
"Thanks Cat," Numbuh 4 said as everyone hugged him
"It was nothing," the cat replied back as he inspected it his tail.
"Sorry Cheshire Cat," Numbuh 3 said as she gave him a hug.
Cheshire cat licked her cheek and said, "It's fine but please be gentle next time."
They went through the portal into a dimly lit hallway.
"We must be inside the school," Numbuh 1 said.
"No we are not," Numbuh 3 said as she went forward.
They all went out into the more lighted section and found one red ball that were glowing on a red stand that was on a pedestal with Numbuh 3's face on it.
"What's that?" Numbuh 2 asked scared as they got closer but all of a sudden card guards and Boojums appeared out of nowhere.
"Watch and see," the cat replied as he scratched one card guard through the stomach and licked his red claws.
Numbuh 3 got closer to it and the cat said as red dust came to Numbuh 3 from the one with her face, "Time to wreck some havoc! The dogs of war are loose! Please introduce yourself to devil Kuki."
Numbuh 3 groaned in pain and covered her face as blood went all the way down her already blood stained sweater, her arms and face where covered with it and her eyes were red, horns grew out of her head and swirled her hands also grew, her back was covered in blood.. Numbuh 3 grabbed the deck of cards and threw them at the Boojums who was killed with one shot. After all the Boojums were killed she grabbed the knife and sliced five card guards before she became her normal self, but there were still many more card guards to kill. The meta-essence was transferred from her weapons to her who helped her out. Numbuh 5's face appeared next.
"Looks like its Numbuh 5 turns," Numbuh 5 said as they same thing happened to her only horns had appeared through her hat, her braid was around in her neck and she was faster. Once her time was done Numbuh 1's face was next. Everyone was exactly the same only minor changes like Numbuh 1's head was covered in blood, Numbuh 2 was able to shoot fire and Numbuh 4 grow and had a tail.
"That was fun," Numbuh 4 said as he changed back to his self before they continued on.
"Numbuh 5 thinks this will be a great ideal for our English project," Numbuh 5 said.
"Oops, I totally forgot about that," Numbuh 1 said before they got to a brown door that Numbuh 2 opened and they went through a series of doors until they got to a place that was where Numbuh 3 had fallen down but higher up. They saw a boat go by.
"I don't think we are in Kansas anymore Tutu," Numbuh 2 said looking at the Cheshire Cat.
"I'm not Tutu," Cheshire cat replied snidely.
"I know I always wanted to say that line through!" Numbuh 2 thought.
Numbuh 3 and 5 shook their heads as the cat disappeared.
"What do we now?" Numbuh 1 asked as he calculated the jump, "There is no way we can make it over there by jumping!"
"Numbuh 5 thinks we wait until platforms show up to jump on," Numbuh 5 said. Just then a platform showed up far enough to jump to, "Numbuh 5 also thinks that Numbuh 4 should go first since he went last the last time."
"No, I can go last again, I didn't mind it," Numbuh 4 said. As they argued for five minutes another platform didn't appear so Numbuh 3 got an idea.
She jumped on the platform and another one appeared. "Numbuh 1 jump to the platform," Numbuh 3 said.
"Why?" Numbuh 1 asked
" I want to try something?" Numbuh 3 replied.
Numbuh 1 jumped on her platform and jumped on the platform that Numbuh 3 wanted him to and another appeared. "I get what you are saying now Numbuh 3," Numbuh 1 said.
Numbuh 2 was next so he jumped on Numbuh 3's platform than Numbuh 1's until he got on the one that appeared when Numbuh 1 jumped on his platform and then another one appeared.
"Hey Numbuh 4!" Numbuh 3 yelled which had Numbuh 4 and 5 look at her. She pointed near the vacant platform near Numbuh 2. "Get over there!"
"Why?" Numbuh 4 asked as he jumped to her platform.
"We need to advance," Numbuh 1 said. Numbuh 4 jumped to the platform Numbuh 1 was on and Numbuh 5 jumped to Numbuh 3's platform where Numbuh 3 whispered something in her ear which had Numbuh 5 eyes show that she understand what Numbuh 3 was going through.
Numbuh 5 jumped to the vacant platform that appeared when Numbuh 4 jumped on his. Numbuh 3 jumped on Numbuh 1's 2's 4's and 5's before she jumped to the portal. Numbuh 1 followed suit along with the rest of them when the one behind them got to the portal.
They heard tree different rhymes two different ones at the same time and one by itself with the doors closing in the next area and saw one red card guard, one black card guard and 2 Boojums.
"Great," Numbuh 2 said, "More Boojums or Banshees whatever you want to call them." Numbuh 2 and 5 threw their deck of cards at one of them while Numbuh 1 threw his knives at one. Numbuh 3 and 4 went down the stair that were off to the side and saw three levers.
The Cheshire cat appeared and said, "The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You too?" then disappeared.
"I know what to do here!" Numbuh 4 said as he pulled one of the middle levers that played the rhyme that was by itself.
"We pull these two first at the same time," Numbuh 3 said happily before she hugged Numbuh 4 who started to get red in the face.
They pulled the two outside levers and Numbuh 4 tried to pull the middle one but Numbuh 3 went in front of the lever and pushed towards Numbuh 4 which played the rhyme and sent Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 rolling and once they stop Numbuh 4 was on top of Numbuh 3. Numbuh 4 quickly got off and pushed himself off of Numbuh 3 and helped her up. "We should get back to the others," Numbuh 4 said as he grabbed her hand and went up the stairs.
Once they got up there with the other three members they saw the doors open. "Good work you two," Numbuh 1 said before they jumped on the platforms and went over to the other side.
They got past two doors a red card guard jumped down from the ceiling. Numbuh 4 threw a knife at him and waited behind the wall until his knife reappear and threw it again missing. After two more misses Numbuhs1 and 2 were giving him a bad time until he ran up to the card guard and throw the knife in his face. Numbuh 1 needed the Meta essence so he grabbed it before they went through the portal.
The first thing they saw was part of the floor flipping and breaking into pieces that went up or down and side to side.
"Numbuh 5 is going out on a limb saying this is a puzzle again," Numbuh 5 said.
"We are almost there," Numbuh 3 said which had the boys cheering.
Numbuh 2 stopped and said, "I wonder how that gnome dude is doing?"
"He's doing fine," Numbuh 3 said trying to cheer the boys up.
"Yea, Numbuh 5 thinks he's waiting for us inside Skool," Numbuh 5 said playing along with Numbuh 3.
"Then let's go!" Numbuh 4 said.
"Kids Next Door! Move out!" Numbuh 1 said which had the boys jumping on the platforms and up to the top within fifteen seconds.
"Numbuh 5 didn't know those boys could move that fast," Numbuh 5 stated which had Numbuh 3 agreeing.
They got up there and Numbuh 2 said, "What took you so long? We've been waiting for a minute!"
Numbuh 5 stepped on his foot before grabbing Numbuh 3's hand and jump through the portal followed by the boys.
The next area they were in had platforms all over the place and three doors that had just changed. They went to the middle and decided to stay there. The door that was there was green so when the doors changed Numbuh 4 being the stupid one he is charged forward thinking it was green but when the door opened and it was red, Numbuh 3 grabbed the hood of Numbuh 4's hoodie and pulled him back right before the door closed. While Numbuh 5 and 2 defeated the Boojum that appeared and had cracked Numbuh 1's glasses using the deck of cards.
"What was that for, Numbuh 3?" Numbuh 4 asked.
"That portal wasn't green," Numbuh 1 said as he held a short funeral for his glasses.
The doors shuffled again and this time the portal was green so they went through. They appeared to be on the outside of the Fortress.
"Hey look I can see our school from here!" Numbuh 2 said as he pointed to the building that was rocking. "Get it? Since we are going to that school it's our school!" then he started laughing.
Numbuh 5 slapped him upside the head with the king of hearts playing card, "Numbuh 5 thinks Numbuh 2 belongs to an asylum."
Numbuh 3 looked ahead and spotted a Boojum plus two card guards. "Three more enemies left before we are home free for the Skool," Numbuh 1 said. "Numbuh 2 and 5 take care of the Boojum, Numbuh 3 and 4 take care of this card guard."
"What are you going to do Numbuh 1?"
"I'm going to face this card guard that is behind us," Numbuh 1 said as he turned around and charged at the Red Guard that was behind them.
Numbuh 2 and 5 jumped on the ledges to past the card guard while Numbuh 4 threw his knife at the card guard. Numbuh 3 jumped over the card guard but the card guard slashed her back with his weapon while she was in midair. He sent her over the edge.
"Numbuh 3!" Numbuh 4 as he looked down to see Numbuh 3 falling near the Skool. He didn't wait for his knife to spawn; he grabbed the deck of cards and threw them at the guard which cut his head off.
Numbuh 3 landed on her back which had her groan out in pain. She got up and dusted herself before she started climbing up some rocks to get back with Numbuh 4. Numbuh 1 saw her trying to climb up so he helped her up. "Thanks Numbuh 1."
"No problem Numbuh 3! That's what friends do!" Numbuh 1 replied.
Numbuh 2 and 5 were making quick work of the Boojum. Numbuh 5 did a flip in the air to get onto its back but the Boojum shrieked at her making her hit the ledge hard where she was unconscious.
"Numbuh 5!" Numbuh 2 yelled as he tried to threw some more cards but couldn't. "Why can't I throw anymore cards?"
"Because your sanity is too low right now," the Cheshire cat said as it sat on the ledge near the Skool's open window.
Numbuh 2 picked up Numbuh 5 making her hat come off. Numbuh 4 came running up with tears in his eyes. "What's wrong Numbuh 4? Can you pick up Numbuh 5's hat for me please?" Numbuh 2 asked.
Numbuh 4 picked up Numbuh 5's hat and said, "Kuki got knocked over the edge by the card guard and I couldn't save her. She's saving my cruddy butt more than I am hers."
"Numbuh 4, Numbuh 3 has more experience here than any of us four, I said four," Numbuh 2 said looking at the cat that looked at him with an expression that said 'I live here, I have more experience than all five of you'.
"Team, report," Numbuh 1 said as he came forward with Numbuh 3.
"Numbuh 5 is unconscious and I have cuts on my arms, nothing major," Numbuh 2 said.
"A deep gash in my back, possibly a broken arm and a bloody nose, one more hit and I'm done," Numbuh 3 said.
"Numbuh 3!" Numbuh 4 exclaimed as he hugged her. "Your alive."
"Of course I am silly, if I lose my health I'll become unconscious just like Abby," Numbuh 3 said.
"Numbuh 4 report!" Numbuh 1 said.
"Same as Numbuh 2," Numbuh 4 said,
"What about you Numbuh 1?" Numbuh 5 mumbled barely audio.
"Just lost my spare glasses," Numbuh 1 said.
Numbuh 3 jumped on the ledge and ran towards the window where the Cheshire cat was, "Entering Skool requires a real leap of logic," then disappeared. Numbuh 3 jumped through the window when the Skool was leaning near her. The others followed her steps.
Numbuh 5 woke up, "What happen?"
"You lost all your health Numbuh 5," Numbuh 1 said with his glasses back on. "We regained all of our health when we entered."
A kid with a weird brace on him was walking around like a zombie and ran into Numbuh 3 and continued to try to walk forward but was prevented by Numbuh 3.
"I see the kids haven't changed," Numbuh 3 said before looking at the door.
This was 9 pages long. Please read and review and I'm thinking about adding one more knd operative? Any ideas
