Hiya guys! Welcome to the tenth chapter of Totally Kids Next Door. I'm sorry once again for the really, really long update time (especially to Eventyraren, sorry about that); I guess I'll never change. Anyway, to the story. I've revised all of the chapters (something I've been doing over the time between the updates), fixing mistakes, adding minor details, occasionally taking something out etc. One of the biggest changes is that, last chapter, Numbuh 1 was the one to fall down the trapdoor with 225, Sam and Alex, not Numbuh 226. I found it easier to write this chapter with him instead of 226 - also, I've rewritten Sector V more into the story in several of the chapters. Anywho, I hope you enjoy chapter 10!
Disclaimer: Pbm23 does not own Kids Next Door or Totally Spies - if I did, neither series would have finished. I do however own the KND Commandos.
On with the show!
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Last Time...
"What was that?" asked 225. No-one had a chance to answer, however, as a trap door opened beneath all of their feet, sucking them in with unnatural speed.
"Whaaaaaaaaaat's goooooing ooooon?" screamed Numbuh 1, wind rushing into his face and distorting his voice.
"What a time to be woohped, huh?" yelled Alex at Sam.
"This is normal for you!?" roared 225 over the wind.
"Yes, though it can sometimes be worse!" shouted Sam. "The landing hurts a lot though, so watch out!" They continued falling for ages, until...
The WOOHP tunnel suddenly curved out, ejecting the screaming teens and kids into Jerry's office. Alex and Sam landed rather painfully on the chair, but Numbuhs 1 and 225 dropped in a heap behind them, out of sight. Jerry promptly turned around in his chair, hearing the noise, and almost had a heart attack when he saw the girls rubbing their heads in front him.
"Girls!" he exclaimed, standing up. "We thought we'd lost you! Where were you?" Stopping to breathe, he noticed something. "But… where's Clover? Wasn't she with you?" Alex and Sam both started talking at exactly the same time, in one big long sentence.
"We were attacked by these kids and they knocked us out then we went to the moon and we talked to this girl and then they sent us to this prison cell and then Clover was brainwashed by Mandy and then the kids became nice and then we went to the South Pole and now we're here…" Jerry raised his eyebrows as the girls stopped to breathe.
"I'm sorry… You were attacked by who and then what happened?" It was at this time that Numbuh 1 decided to make his appearance. He stood up, groaning and rubbing his head.
"Woah… That was a bit of an impact… Lucky I landed on something before the floor, or that could have really hurt!"
"Yeah… Lucky you…" grumbled 225, getting up as well. Jerry stared incredulously at the pair.
"Uh… Who are they?" Sam turned around and saw 225 and Numbuh 1 trying to dizzily stabilize themselves.
"Oh, they were the kids who attacked us."
"My three best WOOHP agents were beaten and taken prisoner by two kids?!" asked Jerry weakly, sitting down in his chair for support.
"Well, more than two, but, yeah, pretty much." confirmed Alex.
"…How…?" was all that Jerry could say. Alex looked over at Sam, who smiled.
"Well," she said. "It's quite a long story…"
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Twenty Minutes Later…
"So, let me make sure I've got everything straight." Jerry said, looking up from the archive screen he was typing into. "You were attacked and knocked out by these two and some others-" he nodded at 225 and Numbuh 1, who stared back at him with undisguised hostility.
"Yup." said Alex from over the other side of the room.
"-then you went to the Moon, talked to some leader-"
"More or less." said Sam, standing behind 225 and Numbuh 1.
"-then you were sent to a prison cell, but on the way you were attacked by your neighbour, Mandy and an army of other teenagers, who brainwashed Clover into the joining them,-"
"That's right." Alex agreed, pushing her hair out of her eyes.
"-then you went to the Antarctic and raided a base, where you found information about plans for world domination?" Jerry finished.
"That's the gist of it." confirmed Sam. There was a long pause.
"If I didn't know you better, I would have thought the landing from the WOOHP might have scrambled your brains…" Jerry sighed. "But Clover's missing and I suspect we're running out of time to stop this project these evil teenagers have."
"You know," Numbuh 1 cut in, "We could help you with that… If you take these off us." he grumbled uncomfortably, displaying the handcuffs both he and 225 had been forced to wear after Sam had finished telling Jerry what had happened.
"Aw, come on shortie, it's all about karma." giggled Sam. "You lock us up, you get locked up yourselves. But fine, we forgive and forget." She pulled the key from her pocket and unlocked 225's handcuffs, then did the same for Numbuh 1. 225 nodded in thanks, then reached into his own pocket and produced a small black computer microchip.
"That contains the data from the computer we found in the Antarctic." he said, passing the chip to Sam, who nodded and passed the chip to Jerry. He placed it into the computer and began to read the contents. When he had reached the second file, Alex spoke up.
"Do you think we could use the info from the second file to reverse whatever Mandy did to Clover?" She asked hopefully. Jerry sighed and stood up, moving over to his desk.
"I should think so, I'll get the WOOHP laboratories to work straight away on some opposite nanotechnology which we can use to cancel the effect of the spray used on Clover. In the meantime ladies, your mission is to try to track down the exact location of the bigger project." He pressed a few keys on his computer and the familiar drop-down video screen appeared behind his desk. A map of the world appeared on the screen, which zoomed in to an area in the south east of the USA.
"The twin daughters of one of the leading science experts in the world were two of the most-recent kidnap victims. He has offered WOOHP the chance to examine the crime scene, as the police have so far not yet finished their report. Which, ladies, is precisely what you will be doing on this mission." Jerry pressed another key and the screen retracted into the ceiling.
"Ok, if it's all right with you, we'll just be leaving then…" Numbuh 1 called out from the back of the office - he and 225 had crept slowly towards the exit with the hope of attaining freedom. Sam and Alex looked at Jerry, who shook his head. The two female spies then grinned at each other devilishly and chased the kid operatives, easily catching up to them and grabbing them before they had reached the door.
"Let us go!" growled 225 as the spies dragged him along with Numbuh 1 back in front of Jerry.
"Sorry shortie, you're coming with us." Sam grinned at him.
"What if we don't want to?"
"Well, it's either go with Sam and Alex on this mission, or spend twenty years in a maximum security WOOHP prison for three accounts of kidnapping." put in Jerry decisively. The two operatives looked at each other and shrugged.
"Fine, we'll go."
"Works for me." Sam and Alex stood in front of the desk, took out their snow-covered X-powders and suited up.
"Bring on the gadgets Jer!" Jerry walked behind his desk and pulled out a tray full of gadgets.
"First, for Alex - the All-weather umbrella." He took picked up the umbrella handle and passed it to Alex. She flicked the switch on the side, activating the force-field and causing 225 to gasp in surprise. "Next, for Sam, mostly on past performances - the Windtunnel 9000 Tornado Blast Hairdryer." Sam picked up the hairdryer and grinned, remembering the previous occasions of its use. "Finally, as standard issue, both of you will receive the expandable-cable bungee belt, the jetpack backpack, the laser nail file and, because of the nature of your mission, the anti-hypnosis contact lenses." Loaded with gadgets, the girls nodded at Jerry.
"We'll find Clover and put a stop to the bad guys, don't worry!" said Alex.
"Well, then TTFN. Your car is waiting." Jerry pressed yet another key and the floor opened underneath Sam, Alex and Numbuhs 1 and 225. They fell down and, as normal for the two girls, screamed as the metal sides of the tunnel blurred. They were ejected out into a large hallway with a large, purple car parked in the middle; the same car from when the spies had put a stop to an evil ice cream man's plan of freezing Beverly Hills. Sam landed fairly well in the driver's seat and Alex had similar luck beside her, but once again Numbuh 1 landed on 225 in the back seats. Once they had all strapped in, Sam hit the ignition and the car shot out of the hallway, onto a side-road from the Beverly Hills main street.
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Meanwhile…
"So what you're saying…" growled Numbuh 362 at Numbuhs 5 and 226. "is that two officers of the Kids Next Door, including the two teens they were watching over… have just… vanished?" Upon their affirmative nods, she groaned and sank back into her comfortable high command chair. Numbuh 2 and Numbuh 5 stood to the left of the chair, whilst Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 226 stood to the right.
"They were s'posed to meet us back here, but they just didn't turn up." said Numbuh 5, adjusting her hat more firmly on her head.
"We've scanned almost everywhere for them and detected absolutely nothing." added Numbuh 226. "It's most likely that they left the South Pole and were intercepted mid-transport. They could be anywhere by now." Beside her, Numbuh 86 suddenly had a thought.
"Ah said that we should nae have trusted those teenagers!" she said loudly. "Ah bet they've gone and backstabbed us! Yeh should never trust any teenager!" The goggle-wearing operative on the other side of the chair wasn't so sure.
"I dunno, I don't think they would have-"
"Shut up, stoopid boy!" shouted Numbuh 86.
"All right, all right, I get the picture!" roared Numbuh 362, quickly acting to prevent a verbal brawl between Numbuh 2 and the fiery irish red-head opposite to him. "All of you, just... go find find them." The other KND members saluted and left to their ships and scanners, leaving Rachel Mackenzie, aka Numbuh 362, to try to sink into her lovely, warm chair and pretend, just for a moment, that nothing was wrong.
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Next time, our heroines and heroes examine the crime-scene and start trying to track down the location of the main teenz force, whilst Sector V begins to search for the "missing" operatives. Tune in next time for the full thing. Until then, R/R please!