Ch.3: Destiny You Can't Deny
The funeral for Numbuh 3 was a sad one for my entire sector to endure. Numbuh 1 gave a gracious speech on how important Numbuh 3 had been to the team, and promised that someday he would bring Numbuh 3's killer to justice.
Once we arrived back home in the treehouse, there were no smiles on my team's faces. Numbuh 2 hid his sorrow in his workshop tinkering with something that wasn't really working. I just took postion on the couch and started randomly flipping through channels. Numbuh 5 approached Numbuh 1.
" Do you think Numbuh 3's death could be linked with the someone sneaking out information from the Moonbase?" she asked.
"No doubt" said Numbuh 1 " Numbuh 3 must have seen him or her sneaking out the information. Knowing to much, the plant had silence Numbuh 3 before she told anyone else,"
"Poor Numbuh 4" said Numbuh 5, looking in my direction " he must have been close to the command deck when he heard Kuki scream. That's two friends he lost since Darkwind appeared,"
"Hmmm," said Nigel, thoughtfully.
"What?" asked Numbuh 5, looking at Numbuh 1.
"When you mentioned Darkwind" said Numbuh 1 " and Numbuh 4 losing two friends, something clicked. All these events since Darkwind first appeared have been connected to Numbuh 4. Its like someones out to ruin everything he cares about. His family, friends, and even the Kids Next Door,"
"I see what you're getting at" said Numbuh 5 " but what Numbuh 5 remembers is that Darkwind wants to rule over both kids and adults, and thier orginization died months ago with the death of Thomas,"
"We don't know that for sure" said Numbuh 1 " someone could have revived the orginization, and reset the vendetta agianist Numbuh 4. We have to find out the connection between Darkwind and Numbuh 4 before he or anyone else close to him gets killed,"
I barely piad attention to what Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 5 were talking about, and soon that whole conversation I overheard was earased from my mind. Turning off the T.V. I left for my bedroom and settled down for a restless sleep.
Little did I know, that during the night, Numbuhs 1, 2, and 5 deciding to go out investigating to see if Darkwind was still around. They must have went dozens of places 'till at one pub Numbuh 5 happened on a stroke of luck.
"Its true" Numbuh 5 heard one of the kids whisper " Darkwind is back in business,"
"Vixen leading the troops?" asked the other kid.
"Yep" said the first kid " and now she's got that fool Numbuh 4 working for her,"
At that statement Numbuh 5 froze, but she didn't stop listening.
"That's a risk isn't it?" asked the second kid " wouldn't he find out why Vixen is using him to target the Kid's Next Door?"
"You've seen the guys school grades?" said the first kid " he couldn't guess Vixen's secret even if he wanted to. But its to late now, once those adults reverse engineer those plans and create the Adultifier, Darkwind will be the only ones who stand victorious,"
Numbuh 5 had heard enough and went quickly to tell Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2 about what she had just overheard. The only part that remianed shrouded in mystery was the secret Vixen was hiding from me.
But right now, that question didn't matter to them. What did matter is what was I doing joining up with Darkwind. When they woke me up at the treehouse and asked I at first tried to deny it, until I realized all the Darkwind spies were at the Moonbase, not right here.
"I was forced to" I finally said, pointing to the silver bracelet on my arm " if I tried to leave this thing would explode taking me with it,"
"Understood" said Numbuh 1 " we'll find a way to remove it. But leaking out information is to difficult for one kid to do. There had to been more agents in on the plan. Who are they?"
"Numbuh 261 mainly" I told them, the tone of my voice growing cold " he's the one...who killed Numbuh 3,"
"He's probably off in hiding by now," said Numbuh 2.
"Was there anyone else?" asked Numbuh 1.
"Yeah" I admitted " but I didn't memerize thier numbers. Guys, I'm sorry, if I hadn't had killed Thomas none of this would have happened,"
"What do you mean?" said Numbuh 5 " you weren't even there at the Darkwind headquarters when we went after them a first time,"
"I got there before you guys did" I confessed " pushed Thomas off a ledge and ran before you guys could get there. It wasn't until Darkwind recruited me a few weeks ago that I figured it was all part of thier plot. They wanted me to join them, but I don't know why,"
"What did they tell you?" asked Numbuh 2.
"Vixen said it was because she loved my anger" I said " I think she holds a grudge agianist the Kids Next Door. Father explianed that it was a personal reason,"
"Right now it doesn't matter what reason it is" said Numbuh 1 " if Father is involved with Darkwind then the information they stole could mean bad news for us. Numbuh 2, get that bracelet off Numbuh 4 and trace its signal in order to find Darkwind's base. We're going to pay Darkwind a little visit,"
Meanwhile, at Darkwind's base, the Darkwind leader, Vixen, was standing in old room, brimmly shining with light. Her blue eyes were full of saddness as she picked up a lone picture from the table in front of her.
The picture showed a younger Vixen, smiling happily, as she pounced on a laughing eleven year old boy. Vixen cried and held the picture even closer to her heart as tears started to fall. Suddenly Numbuh 261 had to enter, spoiling the moment.
"What is it Nick?" asked Vixen.
"Information retrieved" said Numbuh 261 a.k.a Nick, handing over the file to Vixen " but Numbuh 4 has just ratted us out to his team. Should I activate the self-destruct?"
"No" said Vixen " they probably already removed it by now and are trying to trace it back to us,"
"Then what do you want me to do?" asked Nick.
"Let them come" said Vixen " its time Numbuh 4 heard the truth,"