Dex was standing in the doorway, the light illuminating the steel floor. He was going to have to break the news to someone. Might as well be them first...

He sighed deeply and made his way through the tangle of Jumpers to Dirk and Jack, who were still wide awake, despite everyone sleeping around them. Jack looked up, followed by Dirk.

The duo watched him carefully, but Dex gave them nothing. He gestured for them to follow him.

Dirk got up and followed Dex before Jack came over.

He let them into the room and closed the door behind them.

Dirk looked at Dex, who went to the curtain surrounding a bed. "Is she...?"

"She's alive." Dex pushed the curtain aside.

Computress, Professor Utonium, and Five were all standing around checking her machines. Gwen was holding onto Dixie's right hand, the top still in her left, all of them were not really looking at anything but Dixie.

Dixie's eyes were bandaged, her torso was covered by cloth. Her mouth was drawn open by a breathing tube. She looked like a car had hit her and taken her out. She quietly breathed in with the machine, and out with the weight of her chest.

Dirk slowly lowered his gaze as he walked closer. "Is it safe?" he asked Gwen.

Gwen nodded and stepped aside for Dirk. "Here, take her hand." Gwen was quiet as she moved aside to let Dirk closer. She noticed Jack looked unreadable and somewhat concerned, at least in his eyes. She nodded to him and moved aside to let the warrior come closer.

She turned around at the door before closing it softly behind her.

Gwen breathed a sigh when she noticed Ben in the corner, watching her with his intense hazel eyes. "What?"

"Is she going to survive?"

"I don't know." Gwen looked through the window pane in the door. "She's not very responsive to anything other than physical contact. She's kind of comatose and kind of catatonic. We're not sure what to do with her."

-Five-

She pushed off the wall as she took notice of the other KND members walk through the door. "Any news?" was all they asked.

Five shook her head. "Nothing yet. They think she'll improve if she makes it through the night. Making it through the night is a top priority right now. We don't know how well she'll do with the antibiotics."

One just sighed and scratched his head. "We've got no choice but to hold out the Fusions while the Jumpers recover from the blow." He looked at the KND that were in the clubhouse. "Kids Next Door! Emergency meeting on the Moon Base!"

Five nodded and looked down at her slightly trembling hands.

This was going to be bad. REAL bad.

-Professor Utonium-

He pushed open the door to DexLabs and noticed that there were several of the Network's characters. They were all gathered about the large monitor along with some of the older Jumpers, the one's who knew how to move on from losing one of their own.

"Good, Utonium's arrived." Numbuh One nodded to the Professor. "Now, we're all here, so, we can get started."

"On what?" Utonium asked as Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup floated down beside him.

"What we're going to do while majority of our Jumpers are out. We can't fight Fuse without the help and support of all the Jumpers. Since only one percent of them are still up and about, we need to figure out how to keep the Fusion at bay until Dirk or Dixie can come back to battle."

Utonium nodded and situated himself with the gang. He looked around and noticed some very familiar faces.

Hex was using Mojo as a leaning post, the Delightful Kids from Down the Lane were whispering with Ben and Gwen while Kevin was sizing up Utonium.

This was going to take some effort...