Thought I'd get this up while I could. Enjoy!
(Kuki's POV)
"Well, well, well. If it isn't numbuh 3 and her band of armed toddlers." The delightful teens from down the lane said in their creepy unison voice. "It's just sad to see the legendary sector V turn into a nursery, but that won't save you from us destroying you." They say and start firing lasers at us.
We all dodged them and I yelled out, "Kids Next Door! Battle stations!"
It's weird being leader. To be honest, I actually don't like it. I mean, my team respects me fully and listen to everything I say. But I'm not a leader. This was numbuh 1 or 5's job, not mine.
It took a little while but we defeated the delightful teens and flew back to the tree house.
We were eating pizza and my team begged me to stay and eat with them. I'm not used to this. They all look at me like this legend that's saved the world a bagillion times, but I just don't. They always beg me to tell them stories of my old missions with my old unit and I do sometimes.
As my team was laughing and talking in their little group in front of me, I thought about when I hung out with Wally four days ago.
It was just so nice. I was finally able to talk to him again. It filled that void that I had for a long time.
It was a little different though. I mean, he was still Wally without a doubt, but, I don't know, he seemed different. The way he acted around me was a little different than I remember, but I guess that just came with him becoming a teenager.
He also kind of changed clothes wise too. He still had his same jeans and white sneakers, but he traded his orange hoodies for an orange t-shirt.
I was also surprised that he cut his hair. I thought I'd never see him in anything but the cute bowl cut that he had ever since I met him, but I really liked his hair now. It was cut into what looked like a caesar cut. The way his cute blonde hair fell slightly over the top of his forehead made him look so…
"Numbuh 3!" My whole team yelled and it freaked me out so much that I was this close to falling out of my chair.
"What?!" I say still freaked out.
"Numbuh 3, are you okay?" Numbuh 121 asks me as she pushes her glasses back up on her nose. "Yeah, of course I'm okay. Why?" I ask, not getting why they're all looking at me funny.
"Well, you've been staring off into space for the last 10 minutes." Numbuh 92 says. I shrug. "Sorry guys. I'm just tired I guess." I assure, trying to brush it off. They seemed to believe me because they just went back to talking.
I got up and walked to my room.
I was smiling to myself, still thinking about Wally.
(Two days later)
It was Monday and I was walking to lunch.
"Hey Kuki." I look and see numbuh 5. I smiled and replied, "Hi Abby."
"Hey, can you follow me really quick? I need to tell you something." She says smiling. "Okay." I say and we go to locker 1002 in the 6th grade hallway. Abby opened it and we walked into the KND Harper Junior High surveillance room.
"What's going on numbuh, OW!" I wince as she smacked me across the face with her hat.
"Girl, are you out of your mind?!" She says looking really mad. "What was that for?!" I say still mad and confused as to why she hit me. "Oh, I think you know." She says and pulls out her communicator and shows it to me.
I look at the screen and my eyes went wide and my mouth fell open.
It was a picture of me and Wally holding hands and smiling at each other at the ice cream parlor last week. I slowly looked back at her. She was giving me a hard look. I gulped.
I'm so busted.
"Numbuh 5, I can explain." I say. "Well, you better start talking to numbuh 5 now." She says crossing her arms. I told her about the incident at the park and how he found me after school last week.
Her expression relaxed, but only by a tiny bit.
"You do know you're still crazy though, right?" She asks me. "Look, Abby…" "Kuki, do you have any idea how insane this is? KND central command would hit the roof if they found out about this." She says.
"Oh really? Really Abby? Coming from the girl who talks to Hoagie Gilligan everyday." I say but I regretted saying it right after I said that.
She looked at me stern. "You know my situation is different. Hoagie and have known each other since we were in daycare as little kids." She says. I was mad.
"It's just not fair! Why should numbuh 4 and I have to forget knowing each other after we're decommissioned?! It's just not fair." I say again and kick the floor. It was dead silent.
"You're not going to report me are you?" I ask scared.
She sighs.
"No, I'm not. But you must promise numbuh 5 now that you will not do anything stupid to get yourself caught. Deal?" She says and holds out her hand. I nod and grab her hand. "Deal." I say.
I am so lucky that Abby trusts me and is my best friend or I'd be so busted right now.
(The next day)
I got back to the tree house and I froze. All the KND leaders from the moon base command were standing in front of me. I gulped. Please let this not be about what happened last week on Monday.
"Numbuh 3, we've been waiting for you." Numbuh 202 says, the new supreme KND leader. "Y-you, you have?" I stutter nervous. "Yes, follow us." He says. I walked into the tree house secret meeting room.
"Where's my team?" I ask seeing none of them were around. "We told them to go. This is very secretive." He says. I gulp.
They know. I just know it. I'm busted and they're going to do something to me for it. Decommissioning or worse…
We all sat down and numbuh 202 started talking, "Okay numbuh 3, we know how much of a seasoned operative you are and we have one thing to say to you." Oh no. "It's no secret numbuh 3. You're in your last 5 months on KND duty and we just have one thing to say." He says.
Here it goes.
"Congratulations." He says. "What?" I say confused.
"Congrats, you've been selected from a pool of 12 year old operatives like yourself to do reconnaissance work at teenager gatherings. It's no secret numbuh 3, you could pass for 13 at this point and go totally unnoticed by the teens." He explains.
I was shocked… but as long as I'm not in trouble… "What do you need me to do?" I ask.
"Numbuh 86." 202 says and she starts to show a hologram.
"Word on the street is that 8th grader Kenny Thomas is throwing a party at his house since his parents are going out of town for a business trip, we need you to go in and see if you find anything suspicious." 202 explains.
"So, what do I do at the party really?" I ask. "Just… blend in. But stay on your toes, who knows what the teens might be doing at that party. They could plan to destroy us again. Remember numbuh 3, you tell no one about this. It's a complete secret." He says.
I nod and say, "Yes, supreme leader sir." Well, at least I'm not in trouble. But, this is so weird. I shrug.
Well, I guess I'm going to a party Friday night.
What will happen at the party? Stay tuned for the next chapter to find out. Thanks for reading and please leave a review. I'd love to hear your opinions of the story thus far.
