Ok a few things before you read...

-Numbuh 3's dream is one of those where you can see everything happening. Like you know you can actually see yourself in the dream. Has that ever happened to any of you? It's happened to me and it's really weird...

-I refer to the Numbuh 3 in the dream as her 'dream-self'. You know since Numbuh 3 is actually seeing it all happen, I needed a way to tell the difference between her, and the dream one. You'll see what I mean when you read! ...hopefully.

And you remember the meteor shower part from the last chapter? According to Lakrahe, there's a belief that if you watch one with someone of the opposite sex, that person is the "one" for your life. And I didn't even know that! That's actually pretty coincidental don't you think? ;) Anyway a special thank you to Lakrahe for mentioning that!

Ok, I'm gonna stop now so you can read now.

Disclaimer: Mr. Warburton owns KND. Not me. Ha! That rhymed! =D

Chapter 4: The 'Unreal' Dream

Numbuh 3's dream:

At first all she could see was black. And then slowly, everything came into focus, one thing at a time.

The first thing she saw was what she was standing in. Sand. Sand? She thought. Why am I standing in sand? Am I at the beach or something?

And it was then that she noticed that she wasn't herself in her dream. Well she WAS in the dream but she could see herself from a distance. It was kind of like she was watching a TV show; only she was in the show too. Like she was in two places at once.

When the dream became a little clearer, she realized she wasn't at the beach. She was at the park. And she was standing in…a sandbox? What in the world would I be doing standing in a sandbox? Along with the sandbox, she saw herself holding her THUMPER. My THUMPER? But I only use that when we're on a… A mission! That's what I'm doing! We must be on a mission at the park!

By now, everything else in the dream came into focus, and sure enough, when she looked around she saw her teammates around her in different areas of the park. They were all looking in one direction at something but were also firing their weapons. Numbuh Three followed their gazes and saw who their opponent was. Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb were in one of their machines with the many legs. Numbuh Three wasn't sure why they were there in the first place but she didn't need to know. They were obviously doing something bad and Sector V was called in to stop them.

But…there was something strange about this dream. For one, she couldn't hear the shots that were being fired from her teammates or their enemy. Come to think of it, she couldn't hear anything at all. Not even her teammate's voices. All she could her was her own thoughts.

As she was watching herself and her teammates battle Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb, she noticed something else strange. Her dream-self wasn't doing anything. She was standing there in the sandbox doing nothing. She wasn't firing teddy bears from her THUMPER and she didn't look like she was going to anytime soon either. When Numbuh Three looked a little closer, she saw her dream-self was looking directly at Numbuh Four with a terrified look on her face.

Why would I look at him like that? It's not like I'm scared of him or anything… Out of the corner of her eye she saw Numbuh One turn to her dream-self. He was yelling something at her, but because she couldn't hear anything, she didn't know what it was he was saying. But from the look on his face he looked angry. But her dream-self paid no attention to Numbuh One. Her eyes were still glued on Numbuh Four.

Numbuh Three was beginning to get mad at dream-self. Why was she standing there not paying attention to the fight at all? Why was her dream-self so interested in Numbuh Four? Why was she scared? And why couldn't she hear a single sound? All she could hear were her thoughts, which were only filled with so many questions and anger.

I don't get it. Why aren't I doing anything? Why am I just standing there? Do I not know what's going on or something? She thought maybe she could just tell her dream-self to do something by yelling. And maybe her dream-self would hear her and actually help in the battle that, even without her, they seemed to be winning.

Well it's great that we're winning but… I feel bad if I don't help… Maybe I'm just daydreaming! Maybe if I say something to myself I will realize I'm not doing anything and maybe I will snap out of it and help!

She tried to talk to her dream-self but her attempts to speak with herself were useless. Her dream-self probably couldn't hear her either. Numbuh Three felt herself grow angrier. She never felt this angry before. But she also felt incapable. Incapable of doing anything. Anything to help her dream-self wake up from her so called 'daydream'. She couldn't do anything. The only thing she could do was watch. And that's exactly what she did.

After about another minute of watching her dream-self still glued to the same spot on the ground and her other teammates participate in the ongoing battle, Numbuh Three's anger switched to curiosity. The longer she watched, the longer she wondered if her dream-self would actually do something during this battle. She wondered f she would ever move from her one spot in the sandbox.

For a moment she considered that maybe Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb had done something to her that made her incapable of moving. But even if they had done that, she still would be able to participate in the fight, and one of her teammates probably would have gotten her free, so that couldn't be the reason.

She was wondering a bit longer when she saw Numbuh Five shout something over to Numbuh Two. He gave her a thumbs up in return and yelled back to her. He pulled out a blaster of some sort out of his pocket and flipped a switch on it. It looked like the ray on the end of it was charging up some kind of beam. Probably some type of weapon that would get rid of Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb and end this fight sooner…

While this was going on, she thought she check in on her dream-self again to see if she had moved. And much to her surprise, she did. Well, she was still standing in the exact same spot as earlier, but she was now looking at Numbuh Two and the charging ray gun he held in his hands with wide eyes. She seemed to look from the ray gun, to Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb's machine, back over to the ray gun, and finally over to Numbuh Four.

Numbuh Three was more than confused. Why did her dream-self seem to do anything but move from her spot or participate in the fight? And why did she look at Numbuh Two like that? It was like she didn't want Numbuh Two to use the ray gun on Wink and Fibb's machine. But that was silly and she knew it. By now, the ray gun had been fully charged since it let loose a huge beam of light directly at Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb's machine.

What happened next happened so fast that Numbuh Three didn't think it was possible for all of it to happen in just a matter of seconds. She was shocked at first. For the first time in her dream, Numbuh Three heard something. But it wasn't something she wanted to hear. In fact, it was the last thing she had expected to hear.

She heard her dream-self scream as soon as the light from Numbuh Two's gun was released and then saw her dream-self do one of the things she had wondered if she was ever going to do. She moved. Actually moved from her one spot in that sandbox. She dropped her THUMPER and started to run. Run in the direction of Numbuh Four. Numbuh Three was confused at first, but soon saw why her dream-self was headed straight for Numbuh Four. The impact from Numbuh Two's gun had sent Wink and Fibb's machine straight into a collision course. With Numbuh Four as its target.

Numbuh Three saw Numbuh Four look up at the huge machine just as it was beginning to fall. It was falling so fast that he wouldn't have been able to get away from it in time, had it not been for her dream-self. At the last possible second, her dream-self had pushed Numbuh Four out of the way just as it fell to the ground. If her dream-self hadn't pushed him away in time, she didn't know what she would have done. Cried probably. All she saw after that was a huge cloud of smoke. Just as the smoke was clearing, she heard a voice.

"Numbuh Three! What's wrong? We heard you scream!"

Numbuh Three awoke with a jolt. She saw all of her teammates had rushed into her room, all of them carrying some sort of weapon. They lowered them as they saw nothing seemingly wrong had happened. She sat upright in her bed, and began breathing very rapidly. Her heart was hammering in her chest.

They heard me scream? I guess that was me I heard screaming instead of my dream-self…

She took a deep breath and then let it out before answering her leader's question. "N-nothing. J-just a bad d-dream…" A REALLY bad dream… she thought as she remembered that machine almost falling on Numbuh Four. She stared at him for a second before looking down at her bed sheets trying to calm herself down.

"Well…alright. If there's no need for me to stay I'll be going back to sleep." Numbuh One stated and left the room. The other three walked closer to Numbuh Three's bed.

"It's alright gurl. It was just a bad dream. Nothin' more." Numbuh Five said as she sat down on one side of Numbuh Three's bed. Noticing her scared look Numbuh Five added, "You want to talk about it?"

Numbuh Three grew tense as Numbuh Four approached her bedside. Even if her dream-self had saved him, she felt weird to be around him. But it was just a dream right? Numbuh Three shook her head to answer Numbuh Five's question.

Numbuh Four sat down next to Numbuh Three on the other side of her bed. "Yeh sure yeh're alright Numbuh Three?" He asked as he put his hand on her shoulder. "Yeh shakin'." He stated as he felt her tremble beneath his hand.

"Hey Numbuh Two! Can ya get her something to drink please?" Numbuh Five asked as she too noticed that Numbuh Three was shaking.

"Right on it." He said and left the room.

Numbuh Five smiled sympathetically at her friend. She didn't like having bad dreams either so she understood how she felt. Only Numbuh Three was the most sensitive one of the group, so her dream had probably frightened her more than Numbuh Five thought it did.

"It'll be alright gurl. It was just a dream. We're here for ya now."

"Yeah! We wouldn't let anythin' get ya while we're around." Numbuh Four said looking at her.

But Numbuh Thee didn't look back at him. She didn't look at Numbuh Five either. All she did was stare down at her bed sheets, trying to calm herself down.

Why would I have a dream like that? I mean it was a little random to have one like that. Okay. So we were on a mission…and I think… I think I somehow saved Numbuh Four didn't I? But…why would I dream about something like that? Well I saved him but…still. How could I even think of letting that machine fall on him? Well then again… I couldn't really DO anything in that dream anyway could I? She shook the bad thoughts away from her, trying to convince herself that it was only a dream. Well it doesn't matter! It was just a dream!

By this time, Numbuh Two had entered the room again with a glass of water in his hands. He walked over to Numbuh Three and handed her the glass. "Here you go! Drink some water."

She looked at Numbuh Two for a second before taking the glass from him and drank the whole thing. Numbuh Two took the glass back from her and smiled. Numbuh Five smiled too.

"There. All better right? Now why don't you try and go back to sleep now? It's still pretty late."

Numbuh Three nodded. "Yeah. It is."

Numbuh Five got up from the side of her bed and Numbuh Four did too. "Alright guys. Let's leave Numbuh Three alone now so she can get some sleep."

She walked over towards the door with Numbuh Two and Numbuh Four following. Numbuhs Two and Five left, but Numbuh Four hung around by the door.

"Yeh sure yeh gonna be alright now? Ah mean Ah know yeh said before that yeh couldn't go ta sleep cuz of the meteors… And now ya woke up again, so…yeh gonna be able ta fall asleep this time?"

"Yeah. It was just a dream. I'm sure I won't have it again." Numbuh Three said with a smile. And she truly thought that too. I don't usually have bad dreams like that, but when I do I fall back asleep and I won't have another for a really long time.

"Alright. If yeh're sure. Goodnight."

"Night."

As soon as Numbuh Four had left her room, she laid down to go back to sleep. I still don't understand my dream, but it probably means nothing. So I shouldn't worry about nothing! She turned onto her side and closed her eyes. And yet… I called what I had dreamt a dream. But dreams are usually happy places! Not like what I had dreamt earlier… So it couldn't be a dream. But if it wasn't a dream then what was it? A nightmare maybe?

And as she thought about it, she had come to a conclusion. A conclusion that her 'dream' couldn't be anything more or less than what it really was: a nightmare.

Honestly, I didn't really think that this chapter was my best. I re-read it and it just didn't seem that good to me, but that just might be me. I was going to make this and ch.5 one chapter, but I'm going to the beach tomorrow and I didn't finish the whole thing and I thought it's a been a while since I updated so I thought I would post what I have right now and put the rest into the next chapter.

So as to what's gonna happen next, well... let's just say that there's more to that dream then Numbuh 3 thinks. I don't think it's too hard to guess what's gonna happen next but, you'll find out soon!