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"What we have here is a classic act of adult tyranny!" Numbuh three sixty two stood on her podium addressing all of the Moon base staff along with sector V. "I've been getting reports of isolated incidents all across the map. We must fight back! For the KND and kid's everywhere!" The staff cheered, number four whooped though he didn't understand half of what she said, number three waved a rainbow monkey in a black suit in the air and laughed happily, but numbuhs one, two and five exchanged looks.
"Was it just me or did she not say ANYTHING about what's actually wrong?" Nigel whispered.
"Numbuh five thinks she's just stalling."
"I thought you said she'd know what was wrong." Number two's eyes looked teary even through the goggles. Numbuh one looked up at the podium where Rachael was stepping down,
"I thought she would. I mean it's not like she doesn't know everything that goes on in the KND…" Straightening his glasses, Numbuh one ran off towards the KND leader, followed close by numbuh two. Numbuh five paused to yell at the rest of sector V,
"Come on you two!" pulling numbuhs three and four behind her. The three of them caught up in the Moon base mission room. Number three sixty two was keying into the main database,
"This mission is on a strictly need to know basis. The last thing we need is a bunch of panic crazed kids tearing apart their houses."
"Why would they do that?" Numbuh five caught her breath and stood next to numbuh one.
The KND leader sighed, "I hoped that we had solved this problem for good back when numbuh two…I mean Chad, was the leader. There have been reports of cruel and unusual punishment of Kids across the globe, all with different symptoms ranging from shock, like Tommy, to complete mental break down. Some kids have even been reduced to candy hating, documentary watching, vegetable loving drones."
Sector V gasped, "That's worse than the Delightfuls!" numbuh one growled.
Number three sixty two nodded solemnly, "At first I thought it was just a coincidence. Until I saw this…" She brought up a screen showing a massive factory, "This is the same factory that the KND destroyed five years ago."
"Why didn't numbuh five here about this?"
"Corners have always been classified to only a select few."
"Did…did you say…corners?" Numbuh two's voice warbled. Numbuh one tried to hid the shaking of his hands,
Kid's Next Door Database: Corner
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"I thought they were a myth." Numbuh two mumbled
"What the crud is a Corner?!" Numbuh four yelled
"It's a kid torture devise. Rumors about it started way back in the sixth age when Grandfather was in control, but they weren't used until years later to interrogate captured operatives. Someone figured out how to mass produce them and parents started buying them to teach their children how to 'behave.'" Numbuh three sixty two shook her head, "A fully operational corner can speed up time within a small area. It makes time seem to pass so slowly that even seasoned operatives have been known to break in less than an hour. Its borifying effects are just too powerful. Tommy was fortunate, he only got a two minute dose. Five minutes can cause permanent desire to do their homework. Six minutes and a kid will stop eating candy for weeks. Seven minutes and most kids loose it, they start doing chores, joining the honor roll, and eating vegetables. The longest known survival of time in a corner was ten minutes but…by the time we got her out there was nothing we could do. We had to decommission her."
There was a long silence, "What can we do?" Numbuh one asked quietly.
"The factory is operational again, that is the primary target. Destroy it and we can at least contain the problem. The secondary target is here." She indicated a large mountain, "This volcano is the power source for corners all over the world. If you can disable the machinery there, it will give the KND time to make sure than corners are gone for good this time!" Rachel looked up, "Well, can you do it?"
Nigel looked at his team, "Numbuh three sixty two, on behalf of my team, we are honored to be called upon to serve kids everywhere." Abigail rolled her eyes, but smiled and nodded. Numbuh stiffly saluted the KND leader, numbuh four looked confused but determined, and numbuh three….
"Yay! I have my double triple secret covert Ops Rainbow Monkey!"
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