Yes, I have indeed returned with my inspiration recovered.
And remember, i don't own Codename: Kids Next Door or The Umbrella Corporation (how many times must I say that?) if I did I would be the most amazing guy on Earth.
The plot has changed a bit, since I realized that having Wesker kidnap Kuki while she is still inside the school would be something stupid and people would definitely notice, unless Gallagher elementary was attended, and staffed by either the blind and deaf.
She is still kidnapped, albeit in a more kidnapping friendly environment (aka. Outside, where there aren't that many people). Also, the kidnapping scene has been postponed till next chapter. Mainly due to the fact that this chapter is terribly long.
That being said, LETS GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD!! (WHAM!!)
IMPROBABILITY DRIVE: ACTIVATED!!
...Why?
William Birkin was having a bad day.
Had things been his way, he would have been safe and sound in the cool, air-conditioned haven of his lab, working on his various projects and perfecting the G-virus he was working on.
Instead he was in a decaying building, two hundred feet beneath the ground supervising the recovery of some fountain, which refused to stop working even after they had loaded it into the digger.
To make things worse, Nemesis and the guards had spotted what appeared to be a 10-year-old girl. Birkin had insisted that they let her go ("Who will believe her anyways?"), but Albert Wesker refused to take any chances and had ordered a full sweep of the room.
And, as if creation were conspiring against him, the little brat had disappeared.
Birkin sulked over to where Wesker was standing, and told him what was on his mind.
"WHY are we wasting precious time looking for a little girl??"
Wesker gave his collaborator a look, and told him for what seemed to be the hundredth time that day. "They gave us strict orders not to let anyone know of our presence here. And I'm more concerned about how she got here than what she saw."
William Birkin crossed his arms and scowled "If you want to find this brat so bad, then why don't you go find her yourself and let me get this thing to the extraction pit?"
Wesker gave this a thought "Hmmm..."
He went back inside the TBM, after a few seconds he reemerged, his lab coat replaced by a black, knee-length leather trench coat, a PDA in his hand.
"I have to agree with you on this one, Birkin." he said, idly scrolling through menus in the handheld computer. "Tell the men to stop searching for her, I can handle this on my own."
Birkin mentally rejoiced at this, but something was nagging him.
"How do you plan on following her?"
Wesker tapped the screen of the PDA a few more times."I had the whole area scanned before leaving. There are a lot more entry points than the ones you can see." He tapped the screen some more "I had the whole map transferred to my PDA on the way here."
Wesker walked towards the nearest wall, not looking up from the LCD screen of the PDA. He started pressing some of the bricks in the wall.
"What are you doing?" asked an impatient Birkin.
Wesker put his hand on another, apparently normal stone brick on the wall. This one, however, slid inwards slightly. A section of the stone wall next to it slid downwards, revealing a spiral staircase.
Satisfied with the discovery, Wesker pocketed the PDA and started to climb the staircase.
"I'll call when I've found her," he called back at the slightly mystified Birkin "In the meantime, get yourself, the men, and project Nemesis back to the extraction point."
As he disappeared into the shaft, the stone door slid back up on its own accord.
It was lunchtime in Gallagher elementary.
The first, second, third and fourth graders were enjoying a reprise from the never ending schoolwork of their teachers, which seemed to have increased over the last week.
All except for one.
"CAN YEH BULIEVE SHE GAVE MAH REPOHT AN 'F'!!" Roared Wallabee Beatles, also known as Numbuh 4, to the four kids that were seated at the same table.
Abigail Lincoln, aka. Numbuh five, looked up from her lunch drearily. "What numbah five can't believe, " she droned "is why the teacher can't give you something lower than that."
"Oh, come on!!" wailed the blonde Aussie "Yeh saw that repoht numbuh foive! It wuz powerful!"
Hoagie P. Gilligan (Numbuh 2) turned a shade of green as he recalled having being forced to read the thing. "Numbuh four, I'm trying to eat here!"
Whatever Wally was going to say in retribution for this was drowned out by the sound of Numbuh five's KND call collector going off.
Abby gave a silencing glare at Wally and answered the makeshift phone. "Talk ta me."
Leona pressed the call collector to her ear. Please pick up. Please pick up...
"Talk ta me."
"Abby, it's me, Leona!"
"Leona?! But numbah five thought..."
Leona gave a sigh. She had forgotten about what she had said last time.
"I...I'll explain later. Right now I need you to come over to the janitors office."
"Can ya at least tell me what happened?"
"Somebody stole my fountain!"
"But Numbah five thought the thing was destroyed!"
"I can't talk about this right now, you guys will have to come over."
"On it. Just stay put girl, OK?"
"OK." She said and hung up.
Albert Wesker sulked through the hallways of Gallagher elementary.
Getting in?
Easy, he only had to show his Umbrella Corporation I.D. Card and they almost rolled out the red carpet.
Making an excuse for his presence?
Even easier, he told them he was inspecting the medical standards of the school.
Finding the snot-nosed brat?
Not so easy.
So far he had only managed to find a bunch of kids who, apparently, thought themselves to be this school's equivalent of Fox News.
He took another glance over his shoulder. Damn those blasted kids.
He was so preoccupied in making sure the 'press' wasn't following him, he nearly didn't notice a group of kids going in the opposite direction until he heard them.
"Oh, I hope Leona put some makeup on," Chirped an eager, shrill voice. Wesker turned his head forward to see who had spoken, The voice sounded kind of familiar...
He spotted the speaker, a thin Japanese girl with long, raven black hair and violet eyes wearing an overlarge green sweater and black tights. "Last time, she looked like an old lady!" she said, a smile on her face.
For no immediately apparent reason, the terms "Rainbow monkey","fire" and "English classes" suddenly came to Wesker when he got a glimpse of the smiling girl.
"Numbuh three, shut it!" Hissed one of the kids that she was walking with. This one, Wesker noticed, was completely bald and was wearing a pair of sunglasses. The bald kid gave a suspicious glance at Wesker and called out in a heavy British accent. "What are you looking at, adult!? And who are you anyways?"
Wesker was about to respond, when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. He twisted around to see a horde of kids clustered in the corridor behind him.
"Look! It's Albert Wesker!" one of them shouted, waving around a microphone that had 'Galagher elementary news' emblazoned on it. The rest of them immediately ran forward, incoherently asking an annoyed Wesker for an interview.
Wesker decided that the strangely familiar Asian girl could wait and bolted past her and her friends before the kids could get a hold of him.
"What wuz that all about?" Asked Wally when the last of the nerds had hurried past.
"Numbah five has no idea." Abby said with a shrug.
Kuki, on the other hand, had put on an even bigger smile (Is that possible?)and and was cheerfully calling out at the mysterious adult.
"Hi Uncle Wesker!" she shouted, waving the direction in which the adult had ran of.
Nigel raised an eyebrow. "You know him Number three?" he asked.
"He taught me English back in japan!" Kuki said.
"He is a teacher then?" He questioned, teachers were considered a major adult hazard.
"No, he is a doctor silly!"
Nigel peered at her over the top of his sunglasses."Why," he asked "would a doctor teach you English?"
"Oh, my dad told him we were going to America, so he taught me!" she said, and, seeing that 'Uncle Wesker' was gone, gave up on trying to get his attention.
Hoagie, rubbed his chin, like the detectives he saw on the movies often did. "Wonder what he is doing here." he said.
Abby, seeing that everyone had already forgotten why they were in the hallways in the first place, interrupted Hoagie's train of thought.
"Numbah five says we should get over to Leona before anything happens." she said, striding in front of the group. "we can worry about the Wesker guy later."
The five of them continued on their way to the Janitors office.
Leona was walking back and forth between the small desk in the janitors office and the shelf of supplies some distance behind it.
What's taking them so long?
She sat down on the desk and thought about what she was going to tell them when they arrived, sipping water from a canteen that she had brought from her locker. After the incident with the Delightful Children, she had taken the precaution of filling bottles and other containers with the fountain's water, just in case something like this happened.
A knock on the door caused her to nearly spill the whole bottle.
"Leona? You in there girl?" came a voice, muffled by the door. Leona screwed the cap back on the canteen and unlocked the door.
"Yeah It's me." she said, opening the door to the sector V operatives in the hallway.
The five of them filled inside, Abby taking a seat on the desk. Nigel, ever cautious, locked the door after everyone had gotten inside the now cramped room.
Abby was the first one to speak.."So, now can you tell us what happened?"
Leona bit her lip and started telling them about the theft of the fountain.
After she was done, Nigel was the first to react.
"No offense Leona, but that is a bit hard to swallow ." He said, clearly doubtful about the whole thing. "We might have to check, you know to be sure..."
"I'm going!" Interrupted Kuki, and before Nigel could say anything about it, she disappeared down the hallway.
Almost...There! Normality restored!
Before we leave, I regret to inform my readers that I wont have a lot of time to continue writing this fic, mainly due to school. I'll do my best to continue.
Next up: Kuki meeting up with Wesker and the kidnapping scene!
