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Moonbase – KB room
"Get Number 362, Number 60, and Number 86 in the room now!"
"But..."
"Do you know how to take orders or not!"
"On my way, sir!"
There sat a boy in a room surrounded by one computer and a bunch of TV's screens. (Imagine a room surrounded with screens all over the walls and one computer.) While he waited, he tapped his fingers against a mouse. After about five minutes, he heard the door open.
"What the crud is with you? You know how busy we all are! This had better be important or it's off with you." Ranted a Number 86.
"That's enough, Number 86. She is right though, Number 2, we can't stay away from our spots too long. What's the emergency?" Number 362 spoke up.
"Number 60, you said the overwrite code didn't work right? That everything has been reset?" asked Number 2.
"For pete's sake! You called all of us here for a silly stupid confirmation!" complained a Number 86 in the background.
"Yes, Number 2 that is what I said." Number 60 replied ignoring Number 86.
"Ah, Well I don't think whoever was here, I don't think they overwrote it. They just made it seem that way. You see this code here and this one here. Notice one difference. This one has an extra code. Whoever was here simply added an extra amount of codes. It took a bit of time but I managed to decode part one."
"What's part one?" interrupted Number 362.
"When you enter any password that isn't the correct one, it automatically takes you back to the first page. I thought that was strange too but then I looked back at the puzzle we were left with. I think the puzzle's answer is the password."
"So you're saying that we have to answer this puzzle and input the answer as the password to the computer to get into the file?" Number 362 repeated in a question.
"Yes sir." Number 2 replied.
'Well what are we doing standing around here? Let me see that puzzle!" Number 86 nearly shouted.
"No no Fanny. You and Number 60 go back to your post. Number 2 you can take a break or go check out how the rest of the other security heads are working on our new security. I'll get Number 56 and 221B here. If anyone can solve it, it'll be them.
"You're serious?" gasped Number 86.
"Yes. Doyle and Watson will be arriving to take over the case. Now get moving. We've spent enough time here." Number 362 finished.
Lincoln Household
The sun rays shined in her face slowly waking her up. She opened one eye but immediately closed it again. She turned her body so that it was no longer facing the sun. Then she slowly opened her eyes to get adjusted to the light. She then yawned and stretched her arms out. Still stretching as she got out of bed, she grabbed some clothes to change into for her shower and headed out of her room.
Walking out into the hall, she headed to the bathroom. She proceeded to turn the door knob to find it was locked.
"CREE! CAN YOU HURRY UP IN THE BATHROOM?" Abigail aka Abby shouted!
"NOPE!" Cree shouted back.
"COME ON! I BET YOU'VE BEEN IN THERE FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR NOW!"
"WHAT'S YOUR POINT?"
"CREE!"
The bathroom door clicked and opened to reveal an older version of Abigail. Cree opened the door with a towel on her head, a pink shirt, and jeans. She made her way out of the bathroom.
"Geez, would it kill you to say "please" one of these days?" taunted Cree.
Abigail responded with a door slam.
After Abigail was finished getting ready for the door, she made her way down the stairs.
Her dad and sister were sitting at the table. Her dad was reading the newspaper while drinking coffee while Cree was reading a magazine and eating.
"Morning." Abigail said as she walked into the kitchen.
"Morning baby sis. There's some food on the stove for you." Cree said, pretending as if there was no fight to begin with.
"Morning princess." Dr. Lincoln said.
Abigail found pancakes sitting in the pan on the stove for her. She placed them on a plate, grabbed syrup and a silverware, and put them on the table. Halfway finished with her food, her father got up. Before he left the kitchen, he stopped.
"Oh, princess, your sister and I had a talk last night. Ever since your brother left for college, I never noticed until now how much Cree and you had distanced away. I know. I know. Sisters have their family arguments but you two used to be inseparable. So why don't you guys throw a house party. Your mother and I will be gone for a week so I trust that whatever my two responsible young ladies decide to do, that they'll keep the house in shape. However tonight when I come home, there had better be both your friends(pointed at Cree) and your friends(pointed at Abigail) at the party. Bond a little together by being the perfect hosts." Dr. Lincoln said before leaving for work.
Abigail eyed Cree.
"What are you up to Cree?"
"Nothing baby sis. See you at the party tonight. Don't forget to invite all of your friends. Oh, don't worry. Just tonight we'll be neutral. You tell your friends, I'll tell mine. Any funny business, we kick them out, kay?"
"Alright…"
Cree put her dishes in the sink, grabbed her magazine and left the room. Abigail sat there pondering what could go wrong with a house party. (Between the kids and the teens, the party is actually neutral.)
Back at Moonbase
"The new security system is finished, sir." Number 60 reported.
"Very good, has Number 56 and 221B arrived yet?" Number 362 asked.
"Just now they have. Number 2 is talking to them in the KB room." Number 86 said coming into the room.
"Alright. Number 86 take over. Report to me if something happens. Number 60 come with me."
Number 362 and Number 60 walked into the KB room where Number Two was seen talking with two other kids.
"Ahh, Number 56 and Number 221B, welcome to Moonbase and thank you for coming so urgently." Number 362 said.
"Haha. It's our pleasure." Number 56 aka Doyle said.
"So Number Two, you were saying?" Number 221B aka Watson asked.
"Oh right, well, this is the puzzle(he pointed at one of the screens on the wall) that has been left for us. Whatever the answer is, it's the password for getting us into the birthday file."
"Hm…well it looks like letters to me. What do you think Watson?" Number 56 said.
"Yea. Yea. It does." Number 221B replied.
Number 362, Number 60, and Number Two stared at them in disbelief. How did they(56&221B) see letters, when they(362,60,2) saw numbers!
"Excuse me but Number 362, you have an incoming transmission from Sector V." a kid said before leaving.
Number 362 and Number Two exchanged a confused look.
"Alright. Number Two, you're free to go whenever. Thank you for your time and work. Number 60, you know what to do. Numbers 56 and 221B, when you completely finish decoding, please send the puzzle transmission to me."
Number 362 got to her office where she received the transmission. On the other side of the screen was Number One.
"Nigel?"
"Rachel, I know you said the next time you wanted to see me was away from everyone else but what if…"
"Nigel…"
"Let me finish, please? Abby and her sister are throwing a house party tonight for us. I was wondering if you wanted to go as my date?"
"Isn't Cree a teenager, Nigel? What are you thinking!"
"I know it sounds bizarre. I had the same reaction too. However, all teens and kids are to be neutral at that party. Afterwards, we can go back to hating each other. So what do you think?"
"You're sure? Complete neutral? Like swear on your position in the Kids Next Door sure?"
"I swear on my position as Number One in the Kids Next Door organization that tonight's party will be completely neutral between teens and kids."
"Alright Nigel Uno, I'll go to the party tonight as your date."
They smiled at each other until the screen turned black.
Before she had time to do anything else, another transmission was sent. She opened it to find Number 56 and 221B were on the otherside of the screen.
"Number 362, we were right. The numbers placed there were code. We haven't finished decoding the numbers but this is what we managed to get. This is what the numbers look like. It should be fax to you in seconds. If you look closely, there are periods. We assume those are periods. In the puzzle it translated to some type of break. So we input periods instead. That is what we managed to so far to get done. When we fully decode it, we'll get back to you. Number 56 out."
Rachel grabbed the paper and looked at it in horror.
"9 315135 914 11212 198116319 1144 19926519.
52251825 1611820 156 135 8119 1351149147. 9
113 1392454 239208 11212 31512151819 2015
185161851951420 23815 9 113. 9 19201144 1425
7181521144 239208 1618945 211420912 1325
51451325 69149198519 135. 15141225 208514
238514 9 12125 2015 1851920 113 9 9141921122054
1144 1852091854 6181513 1325 16151920. 23915 113 1."
(A/N: if you want you can try to solve it but I'll reveal it slowly as you continue to read down. Don't hurt your head like I did mine though. D;)
She was then glad she had decided to go down to a party with Nigel. At this point, she really needed a break.
"Byeeee auntie Chiyo! Byeeee uncle Akio! See you when holiday seasons come!" waved Kuki.
The Sanban's were saying bye to each other as Chiyo and Akio were getting ready to depart.
"Remember now, Kimiko, you behave or we're come right back here and pick you up." Chiyo said.
"Oh Chiyo, it'll be fine. Don't worry about it." Genki cut her off.
"I guess you should know huh Genki?" taunted Chiyo.
"That's enough now. Goodbye sister. Bye Kani. Bye Kuki. Bye Mushi. Be good Kimiko." Akio rolled up the car window and they were off.
"Alright. I need to go to work now. Kimiko, Kuki and Mushi can show you around if you need anything."
"Mommy, can Kimiko and I go to Abby's house tonight? Pretty please. We'll be home late though."
"Fine fine." Genki said in a rush.
"What about me!" Mushi pouted.
"Mushi, you have tutoring tonight, remember?" Kani interrupted.
"Oh, right." Mushi frowned.
"Maybe next time Mushi." Kuki said patting her head.
Genki left for work. Kani and Mushi went inside the house. So now it was just Kuki and Kimiko.
"So whose Abby? What are we doing at her house?" Kimiko questioned.
"House party. There will be teens and kids there at her house. I'm supposed to tell you, you can't pick on any kids while you're there. Not that you would anyways." Kuki said.
"If you say so. Ha, come on, let's go get dressed then. I'll race you to your old room." Kimiko said running in.
When both girls made it into Kuki's old room, now Kimiko's, they both laid on the bed.
"Hey Kimiko, while you get changed here, I'm going to go to this other place. It has my clothes there."
"Oh, if you wait, I could go with you."
"No no its fine. I'll be back before Spelling Bee Champion Rainbow Monkey can finish spelling rainbow monkey."
When Kimiko saw that Kuki had left the house, she pulled out her phone and started texting. After waiting for it to send, she went for a shower. After she was done, she struggled to find what to wear. She needed the perfect outfit. She decided with putting it in a high ponytail like usual. She put on eyeliner and blue eye shadow. Her bangs swayed to the side covering her left eye. Not wanting anything too fancy, she grabbed a white spaghetti strap shirt and put a white dress shirt over it. She reached for some black jeans and put them on. Unsatisfied, she looked for her studded belt and her black tie. She slipped in the white studded belt. Unbuttoned her dress shirt and put on her tie. Now she was satisfied.
She sat down on the bed and started texting until Kuki arrived. About 20 minutes later, Kuki came and knocked on the door. Kimiko looked up at Kuki and smiled.
Kuki had a green headband on, green halter top, black shorts, and her green socks.
"Hey."
"Hey, ready to go?"
"Ya, let's get going."
New Transmission has arrived.
Rachel looked at it while she was getting ready for the party. It was in text message format. When she opened it, it read:
It was just as we thought, the numbers can be decoded as letters. We'll send you the message once we finished decoding.56 out.
Arriving in front of the Lincoln's household, Kuki rung the doorbell and wait. Cree and Abigail opened the door together.
"Hello guys, welcome to the party" Cree said.
"We're your hosts tonight. We hope you have a wonderful time. No fighting between teens and kids allowed or you'll be asked to leave."Abby said.
"Hey Abby. Hey Cree. This is my cousin Kimiko. She'll be staying at my house for the summer." Kuki said cheerfully.
"Hi guys."Kimiko waved.
Once in the house, Kimiko lost Kuki in the crowd…on purpose. Making sure she was out of sight, Kimiko went her own way. Walking out into the hallway, she crashed into someone. Looking up, she found herself looking at a blonde boy. He was wearing an orange shirt over a white long sleeve and blue pants.
"Oii, sorry bout that. Wasn't wotching where I was looking." When he looked up, he froze. "Kuki? Is that you?"
Kimiko found herself at lost of words when she stared into his green eyes.
"Eyy, you there?"
"Sorry, I'm not Kuki, I'm actually her cousin." Kimiko said snapping out of the trance she was in.
"Aww crud. My apologies. Hi, uh, my name is Wallabee but you can call meh Wally." Wally said.
Kimiko giggled.
"Nice to meet you Wally, I'm Kimiko,"
"My pleasure, now if you'll excuse meh, I gotta find my friends."
It wasn't until he got up, that Kimiko noticed his height. She frowned when she realized, he was only just a kid. Getting up, she reached for her phone. Looking down at it, she noticed she had a message. After finishing reading it, she put the phone back into her pocket. She then proceeded up the steps to the second floor.
Rubbing his head, Wally searched the rooms until he found his friends minus Abby. There in a corner were Nigel, Hoagie, and Kuki talking together.
"There you guys are." Wally interrupted their conversation.
They looked up and greeted one another.
"Hey Kooks, I didn't know your cousin was here."
"Oh, ya, I was going to introduce her to you guys but we seemed to have gotten lost by all the people dancing."
"It's alright. We still have all night." Nigel said.
"Hey Nigel, didn't you and Lizzie break up?"
"Last time I checked, we were broken up yes. Why?"
"So then you weren't the one who invited her here." Hoagie said pointing at the door.
Nigel looked up toward the direction of the front door. Cree and Abigail had just finished greeting the guest. He looked at the guest in horror. There stood his ex girlfriend, Lizzie Devine. She seemed to have spotted him and started heading for his direction. He panicked. Before he had a chance to hide, she already started calling out to him.
"Nigel Uno! There you are!"
"Lizzie, what a wonderful surprise." He half-smiled.
"Ooo I love this song. Nigie, aren't you going to ask me to dance?"
"Uh…"
"Sorry but if I'm correct, you, Lizzie, dumped him and left him to cry and lay in his puddle of self pity." Hoagie interrupted.
"Ya, it took us forever and like a few days to get him back to his normal self." Wally joined in.
"Geez guys, look at him, he's still not completely himself." Kuki joined in.
"You guys, you aren't helping." Nigel interrupted.
"Well, Nigie, aren't you going to ask me to dance?" Lizzie glared.
"Sorry Lizzie, but you aren't stealing my date. You had your chance with him." Came another voice.
They all looked up to see Rachel McKenzie. (A/N: Typo on her last name from the last chapter. Supposed to be McKenzie not MacFarlane.) She was out of her uniform and into casual clothes.
Nigel laughed to himself and what great timing she had.
"Sorry Lizzie but she's right. You broke up with me and now I've moved on. Excuse me guys but Ms McKenzie, may I have this dance."
"Why yes you may, Mr. Uno."
The two walked off into the dance floor holding hands.
Hoagie finished his last gulp of punch and decided to hit the dance floor.
Lizzie stood their outraged after being stood up by 'Nigie'.
Wally, not wanting to stick around with her, barely managed to ask Kuki to dance. They headed to the dance area leaving Lizzie to stand there by herself.
About two dances went by before Rachael and Nigel decided to take a break. Nigel went to grab them punch while Rachael got out of the way from those who were still dancing. Checking her phone, she noticed a new text message. It read:
We decoded the message. It's being forwarded to you. We ask for permission to start guessing, sir.
She scrolled down and opened part two of the message. It read:
I come in all shapes and sizes.
Every part of me has meaning.
I am mixed with all colors to represent who I am.
I stand my ground with pride until my enemy finishes me.
Only then when I lay to rest am I insulted and retired from my post.
Who am I?
After reading the message, she texted back two words. Permission granted.
Somewhere in another location, there was a room full of people. They were at computers typing away except for one.
One sat in a chair with a checkerboard in front of them.
"Hey boss, they've started guessing. Looking at their guesses, I assume they finished decoding the message. I think they're just trying to solve it now."
"Ahh. Good good. Merge the second puzzle into their database for when they solve this one. It shouldn't be long before they get it."
"Got it boss"
"Hm. This should be fun. I wonder if they can get to the bottom of the case before the special day arrives. If not, I guess, it's going to be one really hard goodbye."
They moved a piece on the opposite side of the checkerboard.
"How great are you, Kids Next Door?
-Transmission Interrupted-
..Can you solve the riddle? I'm not sure if it's obvious or not. Haha. I'll reveal the answer in the next chapter though.
..Operative 56 and 221B are fictional characters made up by me. They're supposed to be like Sherlock Holmes apprentices. I named 56, Doyle because Arthur Conan Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories on Holmes. I picked 221B and Watson because Watson was like Holmes' sidekick and 221B Baker Street was where they worked together.
..Bye for now. [=