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Continuing Transmission...
Chapter 12
Rebirth, History, and Conspiracy
Roland emptied the can into the fuel tank and let it drop to the floor and reached for another one. He had decided to check up on the fuel tank and saw that it was running low so he decided to fill it up.
He lifted up the can and began to fill it for the final time. "Almost done." He muttered.
As he filled it up he looked up and around, noticing the spots that Grandfather had hidden when he snuck on the ship. He noticed something hidden behind a pipe that caught his attention. It looked familiar. He finished filling up the tank and dropped the can. He saw that they had about nine or ten gas cans left, plenty.
He hoped.
He went over to the pipe and reached into the pipe and felt something. "Now what's this?" he said to himself. He grabbed it and pulled it out.
He held up his hands and saw that it was Emma's tracker.
"Oh no..." he whispered, shocked and just plain terrified that Grandfather could have a way to find him. He noticed that in now had legs and a camera attached to it.
He quickly ran out of the engine room to get Jenna, he covered the camera with his finger, fearing what Ryan could be seeing on the other end.
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Jenna finished reading the notebook and looked at Ally.
"So what do you think?" Ally asked.
"I don't know what to make of it. If this is true we need to have a long talk with Numbuh 5 about this and if we win this we have another long talk with Numbuh Infinity X3." She said, planning a good old fashion beating on the nerds.
"But what do you think? What happens if we win this and Numbuh Infinity X3 and the science nerds manipulate it so we have an early decommissioning?" Ally asked.
"We fight it. I believe that Sector V will protect us from that. But when Numbuh 362 gets back we should probably show her this." Jenna said, although she did fear the fight between Abby and Rachel that could most likely happen.
"Do you really believe it? Aliens and stuff? I mean when you think of it the idea of Numbuh 1 just flying off in a spaceship of to fight evil alien adults does sound kinda silly." Ally said. Jenna nodded, it did sound rather insane, but when had anything in the world of the Kids Next Door been sane?
Roland came through the door. "Jen! We got a teeny-weeny problem!" he said as he held out the spy robot, its camera now had taped a small torn bit of paper to the lenses.
Jen looked at it. "Wait a minute, isn't this Emma's tracker?" she asked, worried.
"Yep, we should probably get Ray." He said.
Jenna used a pole she had in the room as a crutch and she followed Ally and Roland out of the ship.
In the control building Bianca walked inside to see Ray throwing a ball against the wall over and over again.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
Ray glanced back at her and answered "Playing catch, need something to do."
"Well I got something for you, I've been checking out the hangars and I saw something interesting. A Safety-Bot." she said.
Ray nodded, "Yeah, the Kids Next Door scientists before my time salvaged it. They figured it could be reconstructed for better use." He said.
"Then why is it just standing in the hangar gathering dust?" Bianca asked.
"We had an incident with the original A.I. program. It came back online so we had to take it offline." He said.
"Have you tried reworking it?" she asked.
"Yeah, but the A.I. has several back up components hidden inside the body. We decided it was too much trouble so we just shut it down and propped it up." He finished.
"Could we use it to fight?" she asked.
"Probably, but what's to stop it from just turning on us if we win the battle? It nearly took over the world last time it was active. So we can't risk it." He finished.
"It makes sense, but it's an advantage and we could easily convince it that Ryan is a threat to children's safety." She said.
Ray considered it.
"Not a bad idea, we could..." He didn't finish his sentence before Jenna, Roland, and Ally came through the door.
"Ray! We might have a problem!" Roland shouted.
Ray stood up and saw the mini-spy bot. He took it from Jenna and inspected it.
"Hmm. Standard issue KND tracking device re-engineered to be a spy-bot." he said, he put on a headband like device that had magnifying glasses on the top. He flipped them down and looked closer at the tracking device.
"Well you can stop worrying about it tracking us here. Numbuh 8886 designed this thing so that no enemy tracking device could reach beyond the ceiling." He reassured.
"But it's not an enemy device; it's somewhat on our side." Bianca reminded.
Ray shook his head. "Nothing to worry about. When the brainwashing happened I shut off all tracking devices inside the facility and I reconfigured the shields to block all KND tracking technology built in the last month, so that includes this." He said.
Bianca breathed a sigh of relief.
"But if they can see us with that camera?" asked Ally.
"Good question, so let's get an answer." Ray said as he placed the spy bot on a computer console that had a scanning hole on the top.
He pushed a button and a red light scanned the spy bot and a schematic appeared on the monitor.
Ray began reading the readouts and computer data. "Let me see... okay here we go! Audio receptors are down and out, probably a really rushed job. Camera functional, legs operating just fine, transmitters looking good, tracking equipment could be better though. All in all we got nothing to worry about." He said as he handed it back to Jenna.
"Nice thinking." Bianca said, nodding in approval.
"Thanks, I got a little quirk about being prepared for anything and everything." He said, smirking proudly.
"Nice, I'll ask Numbuh 5 about it, and if you can re-re-engineer it we can use this to our advantage." Said Jenna, somewhat glaring at the camera lenses.
"Of course I can, and with Numbuh 2's help I can get the 'ears' working again. Plus, I got a teleporter with a direct link to the moon base." Ray said.
"A teleporter?" asked Bianca.
"Why didn't you tell us?!" yelled Roland.
Ray healed his hands up defensively. "Back up man! I've already deactivated it and if I used it without immediately destroying it they'd be able to find us!" he said.
"Roland, calm down and let me talk to him." Said Jenna. Roland walked away to the corner of the room as Jenna approached Ray.
"You have a teleporter right?" she asked.
Ray nodded in confirmation and said "And since Numbuh 1 Billion didn't know about us our teleporter was hidden in the depths of the moon base so it's a good chance nobody will notice the teleportation."
Bianca stepped in the conversation. "So you can rework this thing for us and we can use it to spy on Ryan, even fix it so we can hear up there and cut off the connection to Ryan so we can trick Ryan into thinking we destroyed it And we'll destroy your teleporter immediately after sending this little spy-bot up and we can spy on him instead."
"Not a bad idea, I must admit. Should we get Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 362's approval?" Ray asked.
"I already said we would, but I want you to get working on this thing right away, cut the camera feed and fix the audio things." Jenna said.
"Can do." Ray said as he took out of the room to his own little workshop somewhere in the control sphere.
"Ray, wait a second." Jenna called as she held up Ian's notebook. "Do you know anything about the GKND?" she asked.
Ray looked at the notebook and shook his head. "I've heard about it from the theorists and such but really I got nothing. I'm the lowest ranking scientist here so they really didn't let me in on much. But if you want to know my thoughts; I just plain don't know." He said as walked away.
A beeping sound came from the radio console in the room.
"Come in Fortress, come in. This is the C.R.A.F.T. We are inbound and arriving, open the hatch." Said the voice of Hoagie.
Ray rushed back in. "So much to do..." he muttered as he took up some headphones and spoke into the mouthpiece, "Roger that Numbuh 2, we're receiving and opening the hatch now." He said as he pushed some buttons.
Up on the surface the hidden door opened up and allowed the scarlet ship entrance and quickly closed behind it.
"We're in, has Numbuh 5 reported back yet?" asked Hoagie.
"Negative, but I think we'll hear from her soon enough." Said Ray as he saw the ship appear out of a tunnel and fly forward, and then softly landing down on the floor.
The doors opened and all of the teens stepped out, most of them gaping in awe of the Fortress.
"This place is pretty epic." Muttered Ted as he admired all of the 2x4 Technology around him like the good old days.
"Okay troops, welcome to your temporary home until we win this." Rachel said, "Any problems with that?" she asked.
"No sir!" Patton sounded off.
"No we fine." Said Arthur, loving the designs around him.
"I'm cool." Said Bartie.
"So am I." added Virginia as she looked around in awe.
The others all made various agreements.
Rachel nodded; they were completely okay with staying underground in a secret base for possibly weeks on end.
Wally saw Joey running ahead of Silas, Hailey, Tony, and the others to greet them.
"Wally! You guys okay? Did you kick some bad guy butt?" he asked.
"You bet we did!" Wally said, rubbing his little brother on the head.
"So who did you manage to get?" Jenna asked as she came up to them.
Rachel gestured to all of the rescued operatives as she introduced them. "Numbuh 60, Numbuh 35, Numbuh 23, Numbuh 10, Numbuh 65.3, Numbuh 1-Love, Numbuh 78, Numbuh 42, Numbuhs 44 a and 44 b, and Numbuh 74.239." she said.
Jenna nodded to them all as Patton walked up to her.
"You Jenna?" he asked, she nodded. "Beatles told me you got what was left of your crew and got a way to get us all recommissioned, despite everything being thrown at you. Thanks." He said as he offered his hand for a shake.
Jenna accepted it and shook it. "Your welcome, I lost a lot of friends since this thing started and I needed some experienced help." She said.
"Well I hope we don't disappoint you." Said Peter.
"We hope so too." Said Silas as he arrived to greet the group.
As the two separate generations of Kids Next Door operatives began to mingle, Jenna saw Rachel lead Numbuh 74.239 away.
"Okay, listen up; I want to know why I wasn't informed about the Remnants." she demanded quietly so the others would hear her.
"Alright, I would've been in major trouble. I was expressly forbidden by the other higher ups and Numbuh Infinity to tell you or anyone without their permission. If I told you or anyone else there would be very bad consequences for me. They would make me disappear forever. Trust me if you want to yell at anyone you should have saved Numbuh Infinity." He said, this made Rachel ease up.
"Okay, right. Sorry. I found out about it from Abby so you can understand how... angry it made me." She said, trying to calm herself down. She realized she didn't know everything about the Kids Next Door. "I thought I knew all the important stuff about the KND, since I was the supreme leader and everything. So years later I get my memory back and I find out I was left in the dark about some pretty important things." She said.
Isaac nodded understandingly. "Okay, so we're good?" he asked.
"Not really. But I'm not going to be on your case but we're not going to be on friendly terms." She said, still a little bitter about being lied to and let out of the loop.
"Oh, um, good." Isaac said as he stumbled his way back to the others.
Bianca walked up to Hoagie and tapped him on the shoulder. "Hey Hoagie, when Abby gets here we need to talk, something's come to light that we can use to our advantage." She said to him.
Hoagie nodded. "Sure when she gets back." He said.
"Do you think she managed to convince Numbuh 274 to come back?" she asked.
Hoagie paused. Honestly he didn't know what to think; from what Nigel had told them after the treaty operation Chad might be in a permanent fowl mood whenever it came to the Kids Next Door and it would be very unlikely that he would help them out.
He looked at Bianca and simply said; "I don't know."
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Fanny shoved her way past a teen ninja and walked past him.
It was pure pandemonium at Teen Headquarters and things were not looking too good for them.
Over a hundred and seventeen bases worldwide had been attacked and devastated by the Kids Next Door forces and there were very few escapees, and those who did escape were not in good condition. Every medic they had was working overtime to attend to the wounded.
She walked into the stockade and looked as the guard saluted her.
"At ease guard, I'm taking over for the time being." She said.
"Are you sure Captain?" he asked.
"Quite, now go to the ammo room, they need as many hands as they can get to load the guns." Fanny said.
The guard asked no further questions and left into the busy hallway.
Fanny walked down to a cell where her younger brothers both glared at her. Shortly after the school attack she went to get Shaunie, who had been decommissioned six months ago, from his middle school so they couldn't recruit him as well.
"What do you want?" Paddy spat.
"Yeah, it's not enough that you drugged Paddy, you had to throw us in a jail cell while something big is goin' on?!" cried Shaunie
"Listen, I know you don't trust me right now and quite frankly I don't blame you. But I did it for the best... I don't want either of you getting hurt." She said, knowing her two brothers wouldn't believe her.
"Oh really? If you didn't want us to get hurt you would've helped Lee, Hoagie, and those other kids take down that big white guy!" Paddy shouted, stomping his foot down.
Fanny didn't flinch or back down. "Did they tell you about the Kids Next Door?" she asked.
Paddy nodded. "A little, yeah." He said.
"Listen, all three of us used to be in this Kids Next Door, I was the head of decommissioning; that means wiping memories of agents when they turn thirteen because they might turn traitor. I didn't want to have my memories to be taken away so... so I ran. I blew a bomb in their moon base and I ran." Fanny admitted.
She truly was ashamed of it. For years until Shaunie was decommissioned she kept a distance from her brothers, fearing that they would report her to the KND. She had considered decommissioning herself out of shame like Paddy thought she had, but she had someone to turn to.
Cree Lincoln.
"You see..." she continued, "I realized that the brain drain thing was wrong. Sure I enjoyed the hell out of it when I was the one doing it to other kids, but when my time came I...I..."
"You could dish it out but you couldn't take." Said Paddy bitterly.
Fanny shook her head affirmatively. "I joined up with Cree and the teens and we fought with the KND for about half a year before they made one big push on us with a DPW. A Decommissioning Pulse Wave, it wasn't as successful as they hoped for, but it did the job well enough to cripple us." She said.
She remembered being rather satisfied when she found out that Abby had the DPW destroyed and all schematics and blueprints burned so it could never be used again as she deemed it un-kid.
"Anyway I kept it secret for years that I remembered and over time we rebuilt our army and we were preparing to destroy the Kids Next Door around next year, but now things have changed." She said
"What? You realize they were right? You didn't get decommissioned and you turned traitor!" accused Shaunie.
Fanny was about to argue, but she knew she couldn't.
She had betrayed them, even after she had hunted down and tormented thirteen year olds for years, even when they hadn't done anything wrong.
It was like karma and irony teamed up to hit her at once.
"Okay, I admit it, it was really hypocritical of me to do that, but I didn't want to forget. And it looks like I made the right choice since the Kids Next Door are now hunting down and capturing all former operatives; teens or adults. They're attacking high schools, colleges, middle schools, work places, anywhere that former agents are they're going to hunt. So count yourselves lucky I put both of ya in here, otherwise you'd be hunted down too. So before you go damning me any further, consider that." She finished, as she began to walk away.
"Okay, ya did that, true. But you really put us in here so we couldn't help Sonya and Lee and the others." Called Paddy as he looked through the bars to see Fanny returning to the hallway.
She stepped outside and a younger teen accidentally bumped into her. "Oh! I'm sorry Captain..."
"Shove it!" she yelled. She grabbed him by the shoulders and pushed him into the cell block. "Guard duty until further notice!" she yelled as she withdrew her torso and leaned back, letting the door shut itself.
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Abby flew her runner into the hatch and she sped down the dimly lit tunnel.
She wondered how many of their old friends or even operatives after their time they had managed to save. Patton? Matt? Bartie? Numbuh 13... now there was someone they could deal without.
She landed the ship down gently as she saw some familiar faces coming towards her. Namely Roland, Arthur, and Patton.
She force the cockpit opened and jumped down.
"Baby, am I happy to see you two!" she said as she rushed over and slapped hands with Arthur.
"Long time no see girl, how you been?" he asked.
"Been better." Abby said as she shook hands with Patton.
"Nice to see you in good condition Numbuh 5." He said like the old fashion soldier he like to be.
"At ease soldier boy, just call me Abby. Got no need for numbers now." She said.
"I've heard. So this Ryan punk thinks he can take over the world using our Kids Next Door? We'll teach him a thing or two." He said, smirking.
Abby looked to see old friends like Bartie, Virginia, Tara, Pete, and Peter mixing with new friends like Karl, Silas, Hailey, Tony, and Danny.
"So how are they doin'?" Abby asked.
"Good, well as good as they can be I guess." Said Roland. Abby nodded, wasn't everyday a spaceship full of kids came down trying to shoot at you and you get saved by a bunch of people your age, you tend to get a little weirded out.
"So Numbuh 274 was a no show? Figures that traitor would stay and hide." Patton muttered. Abby was about to say something, but decided against it.
"Oh and Abby, Rachel and Hoagie and this Jenna girl plus two or three others want you up in the control sphere, need your approval for some big plan they're working on." Arthur said, gesturing at said building with his thumb.
"Plan?" she asked.
"Yeah, and after that Jenna and Ally need to talk to you and Numbuh 362 about something else." Added Roland.
"Oh boy." Abby muttered as she ran over to the control sphere.
She arrived in the main control room where Hoagie, Ray, Herbie, and Isaac had created a makeshift work desk and were hard at work reconstructing the spy bot. She also saw Wally and Kuki sitting together, Abby was rather amused when she saw Kuki stroking Wally's unshaven neck, with Jenna, Bianca, and Ally nearby. "Abby, welcome back!" said Kuki, causing Hoagie's head to jerk up, which in turn caused the other nerds' heads to look up.
Isaac cringed when he saw Abby in person. Things were not looking up for him.
"Abby, glad to see your back." Rachel said from beside her, "I don't see Chad, so I take it his answer was no?" she asked.
Abby nodded. "Yep, and I don't really blame him considering what he told me." She said, glaring at Isaac.
"So what'd he say?" asked Wally.
"Later, right now I wanna know what this big plan you got is, then I need to listen to Jenna and Ally, apparently they got something to tell me. Go ahead smart guys, shoot. Whatcha got for Abby?" she asked as she sat down on a chair and put her legs up against a computer terminal.
Hoagie couldn't help but notice her long, beautifully shaped legs. He quickly snapped himself out of it and cleared his throat.
"While we were gone Roland discovered that Grandfather had taken off a tracking device they placed on him earlier and somehow sent it up to the moon base via a teleporter. He then got it back and placed it on the away ship all during the brief time they spent in Sector U-3. When it was somehow sent up it was reworked, and a very rushed job if I may add, to be a spy robot. Although there were still some issues; tracking equipment is shoddy, audio receptors are gone, but camera feed and legs still functional and don't worry about the tracking bit, Ray already explained to us that we're safe. He's reconfigured the shields around us so that tracking devices or any recent KND tech can't be picked up by sensors and so on..." Hoagie noticed Abby was starting to lose interest.
"Anyway, we need to get on with it so... Ray told us he had a teleporter all set up with a direct link to the moon base and since Ryan doesn't know about the Fortress, they had to hide in deep within the moon base. We'll destroy the teleporter once we send it through so he won't be able to find us and we'll use the spy bot to spy on him!" Hoagie finished.
"Is the current camera cut off?" Abby asked.
"Duh! Want am I stupid? Well technically Ray did it, but still! So whaddya think?" Hoagie asked.
Abby nodded. "I like it, it's a bit crazy, but it'll work. What do you think Rachel?" Abby asked her co-leader.
"I'm with you. It will probably work and we'll need the advantage. Problem is Ryan might be suspecting it." She said.
Hoagie nodded and motioned for Herbie to speak. "That's why we activated its 'destroyed' signal. It's a little thing that we scientists put into all our micro-devices as well call 'em to signal their destruction. I managed to safely trigger it. So this Numbuh 1 Billion guy will think we destroyed it." Herbie explained.
"But shouldn't these shields stop that?" asked Abby.
"Not really. Basically its 'life readings' are monitored on the moon base and when it's destroyed, even shielded they'll know, buy not where." Ray answered.
"Ugh, all this geek talk is givin' me a headache." Wally groaned causing Kuki giggle with her usual bubbly laugh.
"Okay, get to work and finish it up. I want this done as soon as possible." Abby said. She then turned to Jenna.
"Okay Jen, what did you want to talk to me about?" she asked.
Jenna glanced at Ally who really didn't know what to do. Jenna took a deep breath and held up the notebook so Abby could see it.
Abby gasped, as did Wally. "On no..." whispered Kuki. Hoagie looked up from his work and saw it, he nearly fell out of his chair.
"What? What is it?" Rachel asked as she looked at the notebook. "What's the GKND?" she asked, causing Isaac to look up with dread in his eyes.
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Ryan looked at the screen and pounded his fist down in frustration. "They've found it. Before I even got a chance to use it they found it. Damn." He said to himself. He wished he knew where they were so he could his newest operative, Numbuh 9, after them. His radio buzzed and he answered it. "Talk to me." He said.
"Master, our count is nearing over ten thousand. Do you want to start the procedure?" asked a high ranking officer.
"Yes. Yes, by all means. Bring them all here so I can enlighten them, this auditorium is big enough to hold them all." Ryan said. He hung up and then picked up his radio again. "Yes, retrieve Ian for me. You know what to do." Ryan ordered to the guard on the other end of the line.
He turned to see his master lurking behind him. "Master, is something wrong?" Ryan asked.
"Yes, I was wondering where could our enemies be hiding? The tracking device was poorly worked on." Grandfather said.
Ryan nodded; he couldn't help but to agree. "Yes, I should've had more than one scientist work on it, but it was late in the game and I didn't want to arouse suspicion. Ah well, not like they can do anything with it. As to their location it's a mystery; since the damn thing barley worked we got nothing but occasional flashes of their possible location. Last one was somewhere in upper Mississippi and that was hours ago." Ryan explained.
"They could be anywhere by now." Grandfather said, tightening his fist.
"Not to worry, they most they have right now is thirty against our million! They don't stand a chance." Ryan said as he stood up; ready to add a rather large number to his army's population. "Now, time to kill Ian in front of an audience." He said.
"Don't be so hasty to kill him yet. We will kill him, but we must give him a chance my student, because I need you to pass a test, and Ian is part of that test." Grandfather said.
"What test?" asked Ryan.
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Ian's breathing was ragged. He only had about half an hour of life left, and he was going to waste it being strapped down and would be killed in front of a live studio audience soon enough!
He glanced around the labs, trying his best to see anything that could help him. He saw weapons, blueprints, and robots, all of which were way out of his reach. And with a lack of glasses it was all somewhat vague and blurry.
He saw one of the science nerds walk by him. "Hey man, come on! Can't you feel something's wrong with you?! You can fight it man, come on!" Ian called as the nerd ignored him.
He saw several guards come in and approach the head scientist. "We are here to escort the prisoner to the Master." Said the lead guard.
The scientist nodded. "He's all yours, take him, please. He's been whining almost non-stop." He said.
They unstrapped Ian and forced him into a two-wheeler and strapped him in. "Going all out for me huh? Come on! At least one of you has to be trying to fight it." Ian said, but he knew it was hopeless as they wheeled him out of the labs.
Ian looked out a window as they passed it and saw a piece of Stardust on the outside ledge. But there was something else; despite his vision problems he could still make out dozens upon dozens of KND ships that were approaching the moon base, and Ian noticed that nearly all of them were prison ships. He sighed, wishing he could do something, anything, to get out and fight. But for now he was helpless.
They went into the elevator and the lift took them downwards.
"So could you at least tell me what's going on? I saw a lot of ships coming to the moon base and I've been hearing a lot of ship activity, so fill me in guys!" Ian said.
"I guess it won't hurt to give you a heads up." Said the lead guard, shrugging. "Okay, so after your friends recommissioned Sector V and the others he had Numbuhs 9 and 3134 captured, then he decided 'why stop there?' and now he's ordered the capture of every former KND operative so our numbers will grow sky high." Said the second guard, who pushed Ian along in the two-wheeler.
He struggled, trying to over turn the two-wheeler, but the guard who pushed it had a firm grip on it. "Give it up Numbuh 1615, just accept your fate. You are important for the Master's plan." The lead guard said, trying to clam him down.
"Oh yeah, real honor." Snarked Ian.
Suddenly the third guard stopped and knelt down to the ground, groaning in pain. "Numbuh 52804! What's wrong?" asked the lead guard as he went to check on his fellow soldier. The second guard stopped pushing Ian and set the two-wheeler down.
"It... hurts!" cried Numbuh 52804. Suddenly he stopped squirming and shot up and blasted the lead guard in the chest, sending him down to the floor instantaneously. The second guard drew out his zapper, only to have it shot out of his hand.
The guard turned to run, only to get blasted in the back several time, falling down in a slump.
"Hey, thanks dude..." said Ian, before he saw Numbuh 52804 point the blaster at him. "Okay no thanks! No thanks!" cried Ian, bracing himself to be shot, but instead he felt the leather straps being blasted off and freeing him.
Ian hopped down and looked at the shuddering guard. "Um, are you alright?" Ian asked.
"No! Can't...fight it much longer AHH!" Numbuh 52804 screamed as he fell to his knees, clutching his head and shaking in pain.
Ian went to help him up, when his head jerked up and looked straight at Ian. "You h-have to get back to the labs... oh god..." he moaned.
"Why?" Ian asked.
"Because Numbuh 1 Billion has a-a microchip in t-there! If he puts t-t-that thing into-o the mind control device it'll put us under s-stronger control! And if we try to resist we'll die of a brain aneurysm! You gotta destroy it!" he said.
Ian grabbed the guards' guns and loaded the up. "Right, where is it exactly?" he asked.
"I saw it was where the head scientist was. Get down there and smash it!" yelled the boy as he struggled horribly.
Ian couldn't stand to see this kid suffer so he blasted him, knocking him out cold.
He heard footsteps approaching. "We heard laser fire! Is there any trouble down there?" called the voice of another guard, and by the sound of it he was being followed by at least four or five others.
Ian knelt down and tore open an air vent grate. He crawled inside and turned around, brought the grate up, blocking the vent just in time as the six guards arrived in the hall. Ian quickly crawled away into the vents.
"Call the Master, looks like we got an escaped prisoner on our hands." Said the leader. He jerked his head as he saw the grate had been taken off. The leader kicked the leaning grate down and shot off into the air vent.
"He might be in the air vent, so spread the word." The leader said.
Ian crawled in the small cramped space. "Great, half an hour of life left and I spend it crawling around in air shafts." He muttered as he crawled up an incline.
He could feel weightlessness beneath him, so he must have entered a room and was out of the safety of the tunnels.
Just then he heard a blasting sound. Up ahead he saw once of the vent sections had been shot through. Then the one next to it was shot, then the next, getting closer to him!
"What are you doing?" asked a voice.
"Numbuh 9009 said a prisoner escaped in our area and was trying to get away by using the air vents." Said another voice, coming from below Ian.
"Well the prisoner probably isn't heading here! He's probably going to a hangar, and the closest hangar in this section is in the opposite direction." Said the, clearly smarter, voice.
"Oh yeah, I guess that makes sense." Said the shooter. But he still lifted up his gun and fired into the vent right in front of Ian, blasting a clean hold through it and nearly grazing Ian's hair.
"Would you stop that?! Come on! Let's go, we gotta escort new arrivals for enlightenment." Said the smarter guard as he dragged the shooter out of the room, allowing Ian to breathe a sigh of relief. He crawled over the blast hole and out of the room.
Ian continued to crawl down the shafts, he considered that he should help these new arrivals, but he couldn't risk being caught. He crawled over another grate and saw some guards ushering fourteen teenagers down the hallway.
"Get moving you! Our Master has plans for you!" a guard said.
"Yeah well your Master can kiss my.. AH!" cried a girl as she was bashed in the shoulder with the butt of a gun.
"I said get moving!" yelled the guard.
Ian couldn't believe it, while she did look very much like her and he couldn't be certain, but her voice confirmed it. It was his old informant; Grey.
1 Year Ago
Ian got off the barstool and paid the bartender. "Good night Numbuh 1615." Said the bartender, Lime Mickey.
"Night Mickey." Ian said to the tender, who had inherited this place from his brother, Lime Ricky.
He pushed open the door and held it open for some rather worn out looking KND operatives who were coming in. "Thank you." Said the female leader of the unit. Ian simply nodded as a reply and walked away into the dark night.
He walked into an alleyway and leaned against the wall, waiting for his contact to meet him.
He waited for a good ten minutes, but saw nobody coming.
"Where are you?" he whispered to himself.
A few minutes later he got tired of waiting so he began to walk out of the alley, when he heard something landing on the ground behind him. He whipped around, aiming his zapper forward, but lowered it when he saw his contact Grey was what had jumped down.
"Feeling jumpy Ian?" she asked.
"I was beginning to think you weren't going to show." He said.
"You should know better than that." She said, smirking.
"You got it?" he asked.
"You know it." She said, taking out a CD case with a DVD inside it.
"You never let me down." Ian said, grinning.
"Never will." She said as she gave it to him.
He held it up to his face. On this disc was the recordings of the decommissionings of Sector V.
"You got my thing?" she asked.
Ian nodded and took out a DVD case. "Edward Scissorhands autographed by Tim Burton." He said as he handed her DVD back to her. "Thank you! So what'd ya do to get this? Approach him in the street?" she asked.
"Nope, snuck into his house at night and got him to sing it. That guy snores something fierce." Ian answered.
Grey laughed. "Ian, you are a weird guy." She said.
"So how'd you get this?" Ian asked, holding up the CD case.
"I managed to get a pass into the moon base archives. But it wasn't easy! If they had found out what I was doing it'd be endgame for me bro." she said.
"Did you take out the real recordings or did you copy them?" he asked.
"Copied 'em, duh. If I'd taken the real deals out I'd be hunted down like a deer." She said, using her finger like a knife across her throat to get her point across.
"I appreciate you taking this risk for me. But answer me this; why did you do this for me?" he asked.
"You're my friend, plus I think you're cute." She said, leaning in and giving him a flirty look.
Ian blushed. "Yeah... well I'd better get going. Gotta watch there before my team gets back in the morning." He said.
"Sure thing. How are they?" she asked.
"Fine, all fine." He said.
"Good, Hope I can meet them someday. I'd better get going. I just got my new assignment." She said as she began climbing up the wall.
"Thanks Grey. For everything." He said as she climbed on the roof.
"See ya later." She said winking at him.
A few days later she had been decommissioned for turning thirteen. And Ian knew for a fact that she wasn't thirteen.
Ian saw Grey and about thirteen others being ushered down. He internally argued with himself. 'What do I do? Leave them or save them? Oh man...' he thought, he was so busy mentally deliberating he didn't notice his nose had began to bleed again.
His blood dripped down on a guard, splashing on his nose. "Huh?" he said as he looked up and saw Ian's head looking down on him. "The prisoner is up there!" he cried as he aimed his gun up. The other guards looked up and just in time to see their fellow operative blasting the grate open.
'Guess he decided for me. Damn haemophilia!' Thought Ian who pulled himself out of the vent and landed on top of the guard, hitting him right in the face, rendering him unconscious. He jumped up and began firing on the other guards, trying his best to avoid the hostages. If he couldn't save himself he could at least save them.
He felt a laser slug into his upper arm, right under his shoulder. "Ah!" he cried as he swung around and blasted two guards down. Three down three to go.
"Take them ahead! I'll deal with him." Said the leader as he rushed forward and socked Ian in the cheek, allowing the remaining two guards to slowly try to lead the captured teens out, when one of them grabbed one of their guns and tried to struggle it away from him.
The punched threw Ian into the wall where he banged his head and reeled himself backwards, avoiding another punch meant for the back of his head. He caught the next punch with his fist and kicked the lead guard in the shin.
The guard didn't give up however; he grabbed Ian's head and flung him into the other side of the hallway. The lead guard approached Ian's body, ready to stomp on him, when he was blasted away by the hostages who had freed themselves and taken a gun.
Ian lurched forward and landed on top of the lead guard. He punched him once in the head, knocking him out.
He turned himself over to see the fourteen teens finish doing the same to the remaining guards.
Grey ran over to him. "You okay kid?" she asked as she helped him up, making sure he was okay.
Ian smiled, seeing his old friend again. "Who are you?" asked the, rather big, African-American guy who had wrestled the gun away from the guard.
"A good guy, now let's go." Ian said as he picked up a gun that one of the guard he had blasted earlier.
"Hold up man, is what they told us true? That we used to be in some secret organization that fought evil adults and got our memories wiped when we turned thirteen and all that shit?" asked the African-American guy.
Ian nodded. "Yes, it is now let's go, I gotta get to the labs and get something while you guys can hijack a ship outta here." Ian said.
"How can we trust you?" asked a girl.
"I'm not trying to capture you and I don't have a monotone voice, right now that's reason enough." Ian said as he began walked past them and turned down a hallway that led to another elevator.
"Good enough for me." Said the African-American guy as he followed Ian, picking up another gun as he went. Grey sighed and followed, as did the others, having no alternative.
"Hey man, I'm Eli, who are you?" the African-American guy asked, offering his hand for a shake.
"Ian." Ian said as he accepted it.
"So what's your story? Why ain't you all hive mind?" asked a boy from the back.
"Wasn't here when it happened and Ryan's got plans for me." Ian said.
"Who's Ryan?" asked Grey.
"The nut job responsible for hypnotizing the Kids Next Door and turning them into his own personal army." Ian said.
"So he's the guy we gotta take down?" Eli asked.
"We're not taking him down, we're getting you guys out of here and I'm going to make sure something Ryan needs gets smashed up good." Ian said as he walked into an elevator and the others crammed inside with him.
"What floor do we go to?" asked Eli.
"I don't know... um seven floors up." Ian said. Eli pushed the button and they began to ascend.
Grey looked at Ian and noticed the sweat on him, the wound on his arm, the small stream of blood running down from his nose, and his ragged breathing.
"You don't look so good." She said.
Ian nodded. "I don't feel so good either, but I'll hold for now Grey." He said as he covered his nose.
Grey's eyes widened. "How do you know my name?" she asked.
Ian smiled and said, "Let's just say we're old friends." He said.
"So what was I like a soldier or something?" she asked.
"No, you were a spy." He said, knowing what her reaction would be.
"Me a spy? Oh kick ass!" she said as they felt the elevator stop, but Ian could tell they were still one floor short of their destination. Before Ian could ask why they had stopped the door opened and they came face to face with a small group of guards.
"Oh crap." Said one of the girls, but Ian and Eli quickly blasted down the guards and led the group out of the elevator.
"We got a runner!" yelled a male teen as he saw a guard running down the hall to get help.
"Forget him; we have to get up to the labs! Up ahead there should be an emergency fire exit so let's go!" Ian yelled as the alarms began sounding off.
Eli nodded, "Come on!" he cried as he followed Ian down the hall.
Very soon they came to the ladder that led up to the lab floor. It was in a big hollowed out chamber that connected two floors together via a thirty five foot ladder.
"Okay climb up, peeps, they'll be any minute." Said Eli as he aimed his gun down the hallway, ready to shoot at the oncoming hordes. They began climbing up, but one girl shuddered in fear of climbing something that high.
The girl looked up at the ladder and shook her head. "No way, nuh-uh, I ain't climbing that thing!" she said, with a slight southern accent, as she began to back away.
"We don't have a choice." Said a boy who Ian recognized as Numbuh 3429, Lance, former head of decommissioning and Numbuh 86's successor.
"Screw that! I'm hiding in this closet." She said as she went into a closet off to the side and slammed the door behind her.
"Are you crazy girl?!" yelled Grey in frustration.
"Forget her and start climbing, I hear them coming!" Ian yelled.
Grey, Eli, Lance, and four others were all that was left to go up. "I'll help you hold 'em off." Said Eli as he held up his rifle.
"Count me in too!" said Lance as he took a gun he had snatched off of one of the unconscious guards.
"Give me one, I can help." Grey demanded. Ian nodded and tossed her a zapper.
Eli glanced at the teens who were climbing up as fast as they could. "Hey dude... what's your name?" Eli asked.
"Lance." He said.
"Go up with 'em, we'll need some death from above when we have to climb."
Lance nodded. "Okay, going up." He said as he climbed after the others.
Grey saw the shadows of the guards rushing down the hallway. "Here they come!" she screamed as he began shooting on the oncoming guards.
The three stood their ground, firing at the seemingly endless supply of KND operatives that surged at them.
Ian saw blasted down the ceiling tiles and pipes, causing some debris to fall and give them some cover, though minimal.
Ian got hit in the chest and he recoiled back and slammed into the wall next to the door. "Ian, are you alright?" Grey asked as she waved her gun in a sweeping motion so she would hit as many of the kids as she could.
Ian laughed and he clutched his head in his hands and he shook his head. Grey looked down at Ian, concerned. He was now laughing like a madman, tears beginning to fall down his face. He looked up at her and smiled and said "No."
He jumped up and began blasting the oncoming enemies as if nothing had happened.
"Man, there must be a whole battalion's worth!" cried Eli as he blasted away another one.
"More than that! Grey start climbing up we can't hold them back forever!" called Ian.
Grey didn't argue and grabbed the ladder and began climbing up.
"How bad do they want us?" Eli asked over the havoc of the fight.
"Badly! Just keep firing!" Ian yelled as a blast grazed his cheek.
Grey reached the top. "They just won't quit." Muttered Lance as he fired off a few shots, blasting the few that he could. Grey saw that the alcove they were in had a small hallway that led to only one door; a way to get into the labs.
"They're like zombies!" cried Eli as he dodged a blast meant for him.
"What kind of zombies? Undead ones or hypnotized ones?" Ian asked, really wanting to use the 'By Romero's Beard' line.
"Undead! Since when does hypnotizing have anything to do with zombies?" yelled Eli.
"Well technically the word zombie doesn't mean..."
"Guys I've made it to the top come on!" she yelled to them interrupting their conversation about zombies.
"You wanna go first?" asked Eli.
"No, you go first." Ian said.
"You sure?" Eli asked as he fired off once more.
"Just go!" Ian yelled. Eli didn't want to fight the only ally he had in this crazy place so he began to climb up while Ian backed up so Lance and Grey could pick off the incoming mooks.
Ian backed up and saw that some of the guards were ignoring them and had instead broken down the closet door and had grabbed the girl who had hid in there. He heard her screaming as they dragged her out. He shook his head as he grabbed the ladder and began to climb up.
Eli, Lance, and Grey all shot down at the kids below them, making sure they didn't hit Ian.
It didn't work. As Ian was nearing the top he was shot it the center of his back, right between the shoulder blades. He let out a scream of pain as he curled his legs around the ladder bar to keep himself from falling as he dropped backwards.
Ian was now hanging down dangerously. He looked at the guards below him and began to yell in exhilaration as he began firing down on them.
"He's nuts." Muttered a guy behind Eli.
"Yeah, but at least we have a chance to get out of here now." Said Grey as she assisted Ian in firing at the enemy below them.
One of the guard captains reached out with his arm and a jump rope shout out of his gauntlet, aiming it at Eli. Eli dodged it and it wrapped around the boy behind Eli.
"Help me! Nnnoooooaaa!" he screamed as he was tugged to the ledge where he lost his balance and fell, landing in the crowd of hypnotized kids.
Ian shut his eyes as the guy disappeared in the waves of kids. Ian used his legs to haul himself up and he was met with a hand right in front of his face. He looked up to see one of the girls he didn't know the name of offering him a lift. "Take my hand!" she said. Ian grabbed her hand and she helped him into the alcove.
Ian felt blood running down his back. His little death from above stunt must have torn the skin on his back. "My back okay?" he asked a girl.
She lifted up his shirt, seeing the bloodstains, and looked at the wound, a small laceration. "It's a small tear, but you might need stitches." She said.
Eli blasted the ladder's screws and bases, causing the ladder to fall forwards against the other end of the tall room. Eli, Grey, and Lance then blasted it into pieces so the KND guard beneath them couldn't use it.
Ian looked at the girl who had helped him; she was an average looking African-American girl.
"Thanks." He said.
"No prob, I'm Iris by the way." She said.
Ian nodded, "Nice to meet you." He said.
"Let's get moving!" said Lance as he walked ahead of the group that was down two people.
They closed the door behind them and Ian sighed, sweat still dripping off of him profusely. "Okay, I recognize this place. The labs are just ahead." He said.
They ran up the hall and came to the main entrance to the labs. Ian knocked on the door and a guard opened it. Ian held his zapper to the guard's face. "Knock knock." He said as he blasted the guard, dropping him to the floor.
"Jesus! That was brutal." Said Iris.
"Yeah, it was." Ian said, not in the mood for politeness. He only had less than twenty minutes left and he had to hurry. He had to contact Jenna one last time.
Ian, Grey, Eli, and Lance all walked in aiming their guns at the science nerds and the few guards inside.
Eli ran up to one of the guards and smashed the gun out of his hands, knocking the guard down and pinning him down with his foot. Lance and Grey both blasted the other guards down, not hurting them, but enough to make them drop their weapons.
Ian walked up to the head nerd. "Where is the microchip?" he demanded as the other teens grabbed the weapons from the downed guards and aimed them at the other nerds, motioning for them to gather around in a circle.
"The what?" asked the scientist, playing dumb.
Ian grabbed the nerd's head and put the zapper right in front of his face. "Ryan's microchip! The one he needs to make the control he has on the KND stronger? Where is it?! Answer me fast man, I don't want to hurt anyone!" Ian demanded, feeling his hands begin to shake.
The scientist nodded fearfully. "Right, right. I-I'll take you to it just don't hurt me." He begged. Ian now felt bad for threatening him; none of this was his fault. He was just a pawn in Ryan's sick game.
"I'm sorry, I don't want to hurt you. Just show me where it is and I need a few other things from you." Ian said.
The scientist nodded. "Okay, right." He stuttered.
"Hey Ian! What do ya want us to do with the rest?" asked Eli.
"Lock them in a closet, they'll be fine, we're not staying for long." Ian said.
"Right, kids in closet." Muttered Lance as he began leading the brainwashed scientists and guards into a closet.
Ian followed the head scientist into the labs and up a small staircase to a giant sized desk with a glass case on top of it. Inside the case, held up by a thin metal pole was the microchip. He opened the case and gently took out the microchip. He had it, now he had to destroy it.
"So what's so important about this microchip and why does Ryan want it so bad?" Grey asked.
"If Ryan gets this, he'll use the mind control device on his army all over again, but this time if anyone resists him they'll die of a brain aneurysm, that is why I have to destroy it." He said.
"So crush it and let's get out of here!" she said.
"No, if I crush it, he can reassemble it. But if I melt it down he'll have to start all over again and that'll slow him down long enough for my friends on earth to stop him." Said Ian.
"Okay, so where are you going to melt it?" she asked.
"The cheese room. The moon base has the biggest supply of molten cheese in the world. I'll melt it in all ten tons of it." Ian said.
"Cheese room?" Grey asked doubtfully.
"Yeah, does sound kinda stupid doesn't it?" Ian said as he walked down the steps.
He glanced back up at the lead scientist and motioned him to come down. "Hey... uh..." he noticed the number on his lab coat read 99.48. "Numbuh 99.48, I need to know if you have a communications room and a hangar around here." Ian asked.
Numbuh 99.48 nodded. "Yes, the communications room is over there." He said pointing to the room on the other end of the labs. "And the hangar is through the rear entrance, walk a few hundred meters and you'll come to it, you can't miss it." He said.
Ian nodded. "Thanks, and one more thing..." said Ian as he took Numbuh 99.48's glasses. He put them on himself and said "Not exactly my prescription but it'll do. Grey make him lock down all but the rear exit so our little zombie friends can't get in and then put him in the closet with the others. I need to go make a phone call." He said. Grey nodded back to him and led Numbuh 99.48 to said closet.
Ian walked over to the communications room and saw Iris staring at something.
"Get a load of that!" said Iris, stunned by what she was looking at. "What? What is it?" asked Ian, she pointed up and Ian looked to where she was pointing and his jaw dropped.
In front of them, hidden in the back of the lab surrounded by scaffolding was a robot that looked like a Frankenstein style hybrid of different dinosaurs, all of which Ian recognized due to a fascination with Dinosaurs he had. It had the head of a Spinosaurus, the horns of a Triceratops, the torso of a Giganotosaurus, the wings of a Quetzalcoatlus, the arms of a Therizinosaurus, the legs of a Tyrannosaurus, the tail of a Stegosaurus, the foot claws of a Deinonychus, and the back shield of an Ankyolsaurus.
"What is this thing?" Ian asked aloud as he approached it.
"Something big, bad, and scary looking." said Iris. Ian looked at a blueprint of the robotic suit attached to the wall that read 'Kids Next Door: X.T.R.E.A.M.A.S.A.U.R: Xteamly Terrifying Reptile Enspired Assault Mechanoid Aimedfor Supreme Annihilation Uv Rivals' Ian could see that the Triceratops horns could be used as guns and there was rooms for two pilots. One would operate the horn guns in the head while the other would be seated in the chest area, operating everything else. "We could do some major damage with this thing." Ian said, grinning as he got an idea.
"You aren't thinking of making our getaway in that are you?" Iris asked.
"No, just want to cause a little ruckus." Ian said as he walked away, he could hear the brainwashed army outside, banging on the door. "No time for it now though!"
He ran into the communications room. Since he didn't know where Jenna was he'd just send out a widespread message. Everyone who got away needed to know about Ryan's plans. Only fifteen minutes left of living, he needed to make it count.
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"So let me get this straight; Aliens were the first ones who fought adult tyranny, they came down and taught our ancient ancestors how to do it, left us alone here, we forgot about them through the various ages of the Kids Next Door. They contacted us again about thirty five years ago and began taking the operatives they thought best suited for the task of joining them in the stars, and Nigel and Numbuh 100 were among these best of the best, and I was left in the dark and Abby was forbidden to get involved even after she found out about them?!" Rachel said, each little question getting angrier and angrier.
Isaac shrunk in his chair, shivering in terror. "Y-y-yes." He said, fearing what Rachel would do to him. Hoagie, Ray, and Herbie kept working on the spy bot, despite distractions from what was going on not ten feet away.
Abby wasn't surprised by how angry Rachel sounded, because she had every right to be, but she was afraid of what Rachel would say to her; Rachel had trusted her with the entire Kids Next Door organization and Abby had lied to her.
Rachel smiled. "Okay then." She said, sounding unnaturally chipper, given the circumstances. She walked over and picked up and empty chair, inspected it, and then suddenly dropped her smile into a furious scowl as she smashed it against the wall, shattering it to pieces, startling everyone else in the room.
She let out a scream of anger and frustration. She whipped around and looked at Isaac. "I've never felt so betrayed in all my life!" she screamed. "I wish I had left you at the mercy of those brainwashed agents!" she said as she began to walk out of the room.
"Rachel, where are you going?" Abby called.
"To see if they put in a bar 'cause I need a frigging drink!" Rachel called as she walked out the door.
There was silence for a brief moment and then Wally broke it. "Well that went about as well as expected." He said.
Kuki shook her head. "I've never seen her so mad before, not even when Father became our leader." She said, hanging her head guiltily.
"And she has every right to be. I lied to her, despite my good reasons for it." Abby said. Wally smashed his fist down.
"I swear if I ever see one of those GKND punks I'll..."
"You'll what? Punch 'em? They're aliens Wally! Advanced beings, I don't think they'll be willing to listen to a bunch of humans' beefs with 'em." Abby said.
"Then we should make them listen!" Jenna said as she stood up.
"Oh and how are you going to do that little miss badass?" asked Isaac condescendingly.
Before Jenna could answer the communications console began beeping. "Hello to all remaining KND operatives on earth and possibly beyond. This is Numbuh 1615 of Sector C-5, sending a message to all survivors of the Ryan's mind control device." Said the voice over the radio.
"It can't be..." said Ally, eyes wide and moth agape.
"It's Ian!" screamed Jenna as she rushed to the radio to listen closely.
"It's not possible..." whispered Kuki.
"But it's him! I know his voice!" said Jenna as she pushed a button that allowed the entire fortress to hear Ian.
"This message goes to all of you, but especially to my girlfriend Jenna and all of those she has saved and to the recommissioned Sector V. I am alive, Ryan and Grandfather resurrected me somehow, I don't know... some kinda ritual mumbo jumbo... anyway; I was brought back to life so they could use me as an example of what happens when someone tries to stop them, so I am going to try and stop them. I am sending out this transmission to anyone who will listen to me; Ryan has constructed a microchip for the mind control device, it'll make his control over everyone stronger and if they try to resist him they'll die of an aneurysm!" Ian said.
"What?" whispered Abby in horror. How could anyone, be they good or bad, go through with that?
"Ryan is beyond redemption people! He's working with Grandfather, yes The Grandfather, to take over the world! We need to stop him now. I have saved a small group of captured former operatives and we are hold up in the moon base labs, I have the microchip now, but if I fail to destroy it someone has to. Please. This goes against everything the Kids Next Door stand for, so we can't let him get away with this." Ian said, getting passionate about what he was saying.
Jenna smiled, that was her Ian. "I don't have long left to live. The ritual only lasts for an hour and I only have twelve minutes of life left but hey; a lot can happen in twelve minutes." He said.
Jenna's eyes widened. Only temporary? She had to lose him twice? Twice in the same week? What kind of sick joke was this? Was some Greek God using her as a chew toy? This couldn't be happening, maybe it wasn't Ian, it couldn't be. It had to be some guy impersonating his voice, but she couldn't deny it. She knew it was her Ian.
Her legs gave up and she fell into a chair. "No... not again." She whispered, tears now falling form her eyes.
"We have to get up there and help him." Said Wally.
"We can't if we go up there we'll be slaughtered, and even if we did make it inside he'd be dead before we could even reach the upper atmosphere." Hoagie said.
"I don't care! We can't just let the kid die! Get us there in the teleporter!" Wally said to Ray.
"I can't! it only works on inanimate objects, no exceptions! Last time we tried it on a living creature we tried it on a mouse and what we got back didn't live long, thank god." Ray said.
"Okay, new plan then." Wally said.
"The plan is get that spy bot working as fast as you can, maybe we can try and see what's going on up there, and maybe a way to help Ian somehow." Abby ordered.
Ian continued. "Jenna, this is for you; I think we kinda rushed into our relationship, it was an in the moment situation, so I want you to know that no matter what I'll always love you, if I hadn't died and I never wanted us to fight like a lot of couples do I want you to know that I'd never hurt you and I'd never stop loving you, so I hope you feel the same. I love you. Very much." Jenna could hear him begin to cry, not as hard as she was, but he was crying very subtly. "And if Roland and Ally are listening I love you guys too! You're my family. To everyone else who got away, take care of them and yourselves. I need you all to be brave. And to Sector V; you guys are my heroes. So win this for me okay? One last time Jen, I love you!" he said as he ended the transmission.
Jenna faced Abby. "We need to help him! Get the spy bot fixed now!" she yelled desperately.
Abby didn't know what to do; she only hoped that Jenna's mind wouldn't snap if she lost Ian again.
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Ian cut the transmission and walked out of the room to see Grey, Eli, Iris, Lance, and the other teens staring at him.
"So you were dead and they brought you back to life?" Iris asked in bewilderment.
"Yeah I'm a Lazarus but not for long, I'm dead in thirteen or twelve minutes so let's get you guys out of here." He said.
"What about you?" asked Lance.
"I'm staying behind to destroy this chip and give Ryan a few punches to the gut." Ian answered as he loaded up his gun and checked that he had enough ammo.
"I'm not leaving you behind." Eli said.
"You've got no choice. I'll show you how to fly a ship, and you guys can get to the cops and they'll protect you as much as they can." Ian said.
There was an incredibly loud banging sound. "They've broken through!" cried one of the girls.
"Let's go!" yelled Lance as Ian ran towards the exit and the group ran after him.
Ian shut the door behind them and yelled "Run!" as he chased after his team.
"That won't hold 'em for long!" called Eli.
"Doesn't have to, we just long enough to get you out!" Ian yelled as he saw the hangar's door.
The hangar wasn't very big, being a hangar for the science labs, but it did have a S.C.A.M.P.E.R and Ian knew that it was fast enough to outrun most ships that would come after them.
He ran inside and activated the ship, turning on the engines. "Okay, do any of you know how to drive?" he asked.
"I do." Said Iris as she sat down in the pilot's seat.
"Okay, this is kinda like that, except you'll be flying in outer space. Just use the pedals and steering wheel like you would a car, okay?" he asked. She nodded as she grabbed the wheel to get a feel of it. "Okay, push this button to start the engines, push this one to shut them off, and push this one to start the landing gear. Got it?" he asked. Iris nodded, memorizing the buttons as she mentally labeled them carefully. "Okay good." He said as he went over to Eli. "These terminals here are the weapons systems; this one is front guns, this one is back guns, and this one is the missiles. Got it memorized?" he asked.
"I got it man, but I'd feel a whole lot safer if you'd come with us." Eli said.
"Yeah, well I'm dead anyway." Ian said as he walked to the exit.
"Ian wait!" said Grey as she grabbed his shoulder.
"Don't try and stop me Grey..."
"I'm not trying to. I just wanted to know how do we know each other?" she asked.
Ian turned to face his old friend who had just met him. "Ya know that autographed Edward Scissorhands DVD?" he asked. Grey nodded. "I got it for you in exchange for some information you got for me." He said.
"What was this information?" she asked.
"Closure." He said as he stepped out of the S.C.A.M.P.E.R.
"You should come with us... maybe we can help you." Grey offered.
"You can't. If I'm going to die, then I'm going to die a hero." Ian said to her.
Grey looked at him sadly and then leaned him to kiss him on the cheek. "Ian, this Jenna girl is lucky to have you." She said as he left the ship.
"Wrong, it's the other way around." He said, smiling at Grey for the last time.
She closed the door and the ship began to lift off. "Good luck, Ian." she whispered to herself.
Ian made his way to the exit on the other side when the guards rushed inside from the entrance. "Freeze!" a guard yelled.
Laser fire came out of the S.C.A.M.P.E.R, forcing the KND agents to back off and retreat. Ian waved at the S.C.A.M.P.E.R as it hovered clumsily in the air, giving him enough cover fire to retreat.
As Ian made it through the exit and shut the door the S.C.A.M.P.E.R blasted out of the hangar, speeding towards earth.
"Contact the main hangars and send fighters after them! Let's get Numbuh 1615!" yelled the commander as he blasted open the door that Ian had shut.
Down the hall Ian had heard the blast and knew his time was narrowing down. He had to throw this damn chip into the molten cheese and quick.
He came to an elevator door and blasted it open, he jabbed the zapper in his pocket and used the strap of the rifle to hang it around his neck. He grabbed the wire and slid down, crying out in pain as he got rope burns from sliding down. He used his feet to slow himself down and he saw that he was now at the prison level.
He blasted open the doors and jumped inside, ignoring the pain on his hands as he took the guns out of his pockets.
He walked into the prison block and shot down a guard who had sprung up and preparing to fire at him. He closed the door and locked it, turning to see that there was only one villain in the cell block.
"Hey Numbuh 1615! Long time no see!" the prisoner called.
"Oh jeeze it's the Toiletnator!" Ian groaned. This idiot was one of the last things he needed, why couldn't a villain that could actually be useful be locked up in here?
"So what's going on? None of the guards are saying anything to me, they're just ignoring me!" Toiletnator whined.
"They must have built a tolerance to you." Ian muttered as he blasted the cell door opened.
"Thanks Numbuh 1615, but why are you freeing me? Have you turned thirteen?" Toiletnator asked.
"No, Numbuh 1 Billion turned out to be evil, brainwashed most of the KND, can you help me fight them?" Ian asked. Toiletnator might have been an idiot, but he could be used as a distraction.
"Oh you bet! What are we gonna do?" Toiletnator asked enthusiastically. Ian saw KND operatives on the other side of the door, banging, trying to get in, getting their guns out.
"Where's the cheese room?!" Ian yelled.
"Out that way and down the hall, final door and then go down the stairs! They've made me clean it up enough times so I should know where it is!" Toiletnator said. Ian handed the Toiletnator his rifle.
"Okay gotta go just hold 'em off for me thanks!" Ian yelled as he took off, running for all he was worth.
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Down in the Fortress Hoagie, Ray, Isaac, and Herbie worked as fast as they could.
"How's it coming Hoagie?" asked Abby, trying not to rush her friend.
"Almost done; since we don't have much time we might not be able to get much use out of it." Hoagie said.
"Please hurry." Muttered Jenna, she hated sounding like some desperate woman, but she couldn't hide her worry for Ian.
"Should be done now, let's just make sure all systems are functioning." Said Ray as he took off his goggles.
"Well hurry it up! My buddy is up there all alone for all we know and we need to know how he's doing!" Roland shouted.
"Roland, calm down. Yelling at them is not doing anything." Ally said.
"Sorry, I just feel so useless right now and I hate it." Roland said, hating the fact that his friend was up there without any help at all to his knowledge.
"Don't worry mate, we'll help him." Wally said.
"Okay, camera's working, legs functional..." Herbie said as he began operating it with a remote control.
Ray clapped his hands to test the audio. "Audio is good." Said Isaac.
"And test the jumping..." muttered Hoagie as Herbie pressed a button on the controller and the spy bot jumped in the air like a spider.
"It's ready as it will ever be! The teleporter now!" Hoagie ordered and Ray quickly placed it gently on top of the teleporter pad and got up and pressed the button on the console.
"Sending now!" Ray said as the pad began to light up brightly and the spy bot disappeared.
"Now Numbuh 4!" Ray called. Wally took out his blaster and shot the pad, causing sparks to explode out and a small fire to erupt.
"Done." Said Wally.
"Okay, now the teleporter is well hidden, right in the cheese room where no one would ever suspect." Said Ray as he hopped into his seat and began watching on the monitor. "I can fix this one, if we ever need to sneak something into the moonbase again. And... We're in." he announced.
"Good." said Abby, who noticed Patton, Arthur, Virginia, Bartie, Danny, Joey, Hailey, Tony, Karl, Sonya, Lee, and the rest had all entered the room. Even Rachel who now had a glass full of soda in her hand, but she avoided eye contact with everyone else.
"So what do you think we'll see?" asked Tara.
"To be honest I don't know." Said Abby as she kept watching the screen.
"Okay, moving it out." Said Ray as he carefully maneuvered the spy bot out.
The camera turned around and saw the catwalk that was suspended above the boiling hot cheese containers.
"Look someone's coming in." said Bartie.
"It's Ian!" said Jenna.
"I'll be damned it really is him." Said Silas in amazement.
"Amazing." whispered Karl.
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Ian walked to the middle of the catwalk and held out the microchip, ready to drop it. "Adios." He said.
Before he could let go something wrapped around his wrist. He was jerked around so he was facing the door frame and he saw the Toiletnator grinning evilly at him.
"What now Toiletnator?!" Ian demanded. Then he saw Ryan step out from behind the toilet themed villain.
Ian quickly put two and two together. "Oh shit." He said as the Toiletnator forced his hand to throw the chip to them.
"No!" yelled Ian in anger as Ryan caught the microchip.
"Well done Ian, I honestly doubted you'd get this far." Ryan said as he held up the chip and crushed it.
"W-why would you do that?!" screamed a confused Ian. "Don't you need that for your evil plans?" he asked.
"A microchip? Yes, but not this one. This was a fake you dolt! The real one is safely in my throne room." Ryan said, grinning in triumph.
"B-but that guard told me..."
"Oh did we lie?" asked a voice from behind him. Ian whipped around to see Numbuh 52804 standing on a ledge to the right. "We're sorry, we have a habit of doing that." He said as he began to split into two parts, revealing...
"The Mysterious Twins From Beneath The Mountain!" Ian cried, it was a trap the whole time and he fell for it like an idiot!
"Yes, it was quite easy to fool you." Said the Sister.
"Almost too easy for my liking." Added the Brother.
Too easy. That's it! This thing had been way too easy! The lead scientist had been way too compliant for one of Ryan's hypnotized lackeys and the guards should've easily gotten into the labs faster than they did!
He had been a blind idiot.
"A nice touch employing some villains to help me out, don't you agree?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah, but why Toiletnator of all bad guys?" Ian asked.
"I learned that despite his utter stupidity, that when properly motivated he can be quite the threat." Ryan said.
"That's right! And now everyone will now that the Toiletnator is not to messed with!" cheered said the pathetic bathroom themed adult.
"So what was up with the deception?" Ian asked.
"What was the point of leading me on like this?" he demanded.
"I have cameras hidden all over this room; they are transmitting to screens placed in the auditorium of my throne room, it's here that I'll kill you in front of all of them and Grandfather so they will know to never disobey me when they become my servants." Ryan said.
"Not if I kill you first!" yelled Ian.
"Don't be so angry Ian. This was your choice after all. I gave you an opportunity to join me or fight. And you chose to fight. I admire that." Ryan said sincerely.
"Admire my butt you monster." Ian snarled.
Ryan laughed. "Oh Ian, I'm not a monster. Not yet, you haven't even seen me at my worst." He said.
"Well your best never exactly thrilled me either." Ian said as he glared at Ryan with scorn.
"Very well have it your way Ian." Ryan said.
And with that Ryan launched himself at Ian, colliding into him and they both fell against the railing. Ian clawed at Ryan's face with his finger nails and Ryan slapped Ian across the face.
Ian forced Ryan off of him and kicked him in the side. Ian drew out his zappers, only for Ryan to grab hold of Ian's wrists.
Ryan pulled and pushed Ian's arms back and forth and Ian did the same, trying to aim at Ryan's face.
Ryan finally managed to force Ian against the railing and he twirled around and kicked Ian in the back, landing the kick right on the torn skin.
Ian screamed out in pain and dropped the zappers into the area below.
Ian grabbed Ryan's foot and flipped him over, slamming him down on the catwalk. Ian stomped his foot down on Ryan's stomach, forcing Ryan to cry out in agony.
Ryan grabbed Ian's foot as he lifted it up and flung it into the railing, causing Ian to lose his balance and fall on the railing. Ryan took this opportunity to jump up and sock Ian in the neck.
Ian grabbed Ryan's fist before he could pull away and used all his strength to send him flying over the railing and onto the hard concrete floor below, bit Ryan held on and dragged Ian him. Ian lost the glasses in the process as they fell into and melted in the cheese.
Ian landed with a dull thud, cracking a rib or two, but Ryan didn't land.
Ian turned over and saw Ryan hanging from the edge of the vat of molting cheese. "Come down here!" Ian yelled as he forced himself up.
Ryan was about to respond when a blob of scolding hot cheese popped out of a bubble and landed on his finger. Ryan was taken by surprise and fell onto the hard floor.
"Aw, did the evil brat burn his hand?" Ian asked in a mocking voice as he approached Ryan, intent on finishing this fight one way or another.
Ryan saw a screwdriver lying on the floor. He reached for it as Ian continued to talk.
"Listen Ryan! Just give up and we can stop this right now!" Ian begged. "I don't want to hurt you... much."
"Funny. Because I want to hurt you. A lot!" Ryan yelled as he slashed Ian on the side of the head with the screwdriver, creating a hook-shaped scar on the side leading to the center of the forehead.
Ian recoiled, screaming his head off in pain.
"Finish him off!" called the Sister.
"Yes! End him!" called the Brother.
Ryan made the mistake of glancing up at them, allowing for Ian to grab the screwdriver and slam Ryan into the side of the vat.
"I may only have minutes to live but I'm not going to lose to you!" Ian yelled as he began punching Ryan in the face. Ryan kneed Ian in the groin and then punched Ian off of him. Ian ran backwards, weakly, trying to get away from Ryan. He crouched down, and looked up, seeing the outline of Ryan's body.
Ryan breathed hard. It was time to finish this little pest once and for all!
Ryan jumped and leaped forward. From Ian's point of view he looked like some demonic dog or lion leaping at a mouse.
Ian ducked and held up the screw driver slicing through Ryan's shirt and cutting him down the torso.
Ryan screamed as he landed in a heap, shuddering and moaning in pain.
"You... you could've killed me!" Ryan yelled as he forced himself up, revealing a long cut down the chest and stomach.
"Not so nice when the shoe's on the other foot, eh?" Ian said. Ian smirked, blood steaming near his eye, "I told Jen I'd impress you. I hope I have."
Ryan scowled evilly at him, "And I told Grandfather I'd kill you myself." Ryan hissed.
Ryan looked downward and saw one of Ian's zapper. "And yet I'm still alive." Ian said.
"Not for long!" Ryan yelled as he launched himself forward and grabbed the zapper.
He aimed up and fired, hitting Ian in the chest and stomach several times, and finally blasting him in the forehead.
Ian fell to the ground, just barley alive.
His time was almost up.
Ryan stalked over to Ian and hoisted him up, slamming him into the wall. "Once I kill you this time, it's over for you! No one can be resurrected twice!" he ranted.
"Tell that to Optimus Prime." Spat Ian. Ryan laughed and began to punch him over and over again.
Once he stopped Ian was a bloody, bruised, mess. "This is what happens to all who resist me!" he yelled to the hidden cameras.
He looked right into Ian's eyes. "You know, when I find your girlfriend, I might just make her my own personal..."
"Don't you touch her!" Ian yelled as he struggled in Ryan's grip.
"What are you going to do about it? You're dead." Said Ryan as he punched Ian once again. Just then Ian growled out in defiance and forced his arms out in a mighty punch, knocking Ryan back and managing to free himself. He kicked Ryan in the chest, knocking him down to the ground. Ian saw his other Zapper and ran for it, snatching it off the floor. Ryan rolled over and shot Ian in the side. Ian cried out as he fell to his knees and Ryan got up. Ian screamed in defiance as he opened fire on Ryan shooting him, four times. Ryan jumped towards Ian and slammed into him, sending them both colliding into the wall.
Ian grasped both guns, one in his hand and the other in Ryan's as they both fought for the two guns.
"Someone will stop you." Ian gasped out.
"Maybe, but that somebody won't be you." said Ryan as he bashed his forehead against Ian's driving Ian to the breaking point.
"Any last words?" Ryan asked sadistically.
"Yeah. Bang." Ian said as he wrestled both guns towards Ryan and pulled both the triggers. Ryan was flung backwards and landed on his back.
"You asshole I'll kill you... oh." said Ryan as he looked up and saw that Ian was dying. He fell to the ground, his injuries overtaking him. His time had come.
Ryan looked at Ian's body as Ian rested weakly on his knees. "Finish him off!" called Brother.
"Do it!" yelled Sister.
Ryan picked up the zapper and looked at Ian, he aimed it at Ian's head. "Please Numbuh 1 Billion... don't..." Ian said weakly.
Ryan pulled the trigger.
Up above on the catwalk Toiletnator looked away.
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In the auditorium in front of the throne an amount of people nearing ten thousand were strapped to the seats and forced watch in horror as Ryan ended Ian's life for the second time.
"That poor boy..." muttered a woman, mortified by what she had just seen.
"That kid is a monster." Muttered a twenty-something year old guy.
"Bastards!" screamed the teenage girl who tried to hide in the closet.
On the stage Grandfather laughed. "Well done Ryan! We are truly partners now!" he said as he walked over to the mind control device and activated it.
"Welcome to the team my new slaves!" Grandfather yelled as he activated the device, brain washing everyone.
Grandfather laughed in evil glee, but he didn't notice Ryan's new body guard Violet twitching.
"Soon this world will die! And my world will once again be reborn!" Grandfather yelled as he knew, his victory was at hand.
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Tears fell from Jenna's eyes as for the second time that week she saw the love of her life die once again. Permanently this time. They had seen everything through the spy bot.
Everyone else was shocked. This was who they were up against?
"He's insane." Said Peter.
"And in desperate need of an ass kicking" said Arthur.
"Good Lord..." muttered Tara in horror.
"Well... at least we know how our enemy will act when we beat him." Said Patton.
"What do you mean?" asked Danny, who didn't look away from the grizzly sight on the screen.
"He's crazy, he's immature, and a brat so he'll go down like one." Patton elaborated.
Jenna walked out of the room and Roland and Ally followed her, tears in their eyes as well. "Jenna! Wait a minute! Where are you going?" Ally called.
Jenna turned to show them her face, she was brink of collapsing with tears. "Guys, I need to be alone for a while." She said
"Are you sure you'll be okay alone?" Roland asked.
"Not really, but I need it." She said. Roland was about to object when Ally took hold of his hand.
"Okay." Ally said, trusting Jenna not to do...
"Jenna! You won't do something crazy like go up to the moon base by yourself now, right?" Ally called.
"No, that'd be stupid and careless. I just need some sleep." Jenna said, now trying her hardest to keep herself from weeping.
Ally nodded and Jenna ran to the away ship to hide her breakdown. Ally saw Bianca passing them up. "Bianca, Jenna said she needs to be alone." Ally said.
"Yeah, she said that, but she also needs someone right now." Bianca said as she followed Jenna to the ship.
Jenna entered her room and closed the door behind her. She let it all out.
Tears erupted from her eyes and a scream rocketed out of her mouth. She punched the wall so hard that the wood cracked. She picked up a stool and flung against the other wall. She fell on the bed, punching it, as she broke down crying.
She hated this. Crying. She rarely cried, but it seemed to be happening so often now with all that was happening to her.
She tried to hold it in, but she knew she couldn't. Who could blame her for crying really? She had just witnessed the boy she loved die. Again!
She saw the sword that she had tossed onto the bed. She picked it up and held it, looking at the light glare from the blade.
"I will make you pay Ryan. You and Grandfather will both pay for everything you've done to us." She whispered.
"Jenna!" cried Bianca's voice. Jenna looked over and saw Bianca standing in the doorway.
"You're not going to kill yourself are you?" she asked. From the looks of it, it seemed that Jenna was about to commit suicide the way she was holding the sword.
"No, that'd be letting Ryan win. And I cannot and will not let that happen." Jenna said as she stabbed the sword into the floor and sat down on the bed.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Bianca asked.
"In the morning." Jenna said, "Right now, I'm just so, so tired. Please let me sleep."
Bianca nodded. "I'll be here in the morning for you. We all will." She promised as she walked away.
Jenna pulled the covers over her body and silently cried herself to sleep.
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Abby didn't know what to make of it; a killer had taken over the KND and had added ten thousand former operatives to him army.
How could they possibly win this?
Another beep came on the radio. "What now?" asked Hoagie as he pushed a button.
"Hello to all unenlightened Kids Next Door operatives; this is your glorious leader Numbuh 1 Billion, but you may call me Master from now on. You know me for brainwashing your friends and driving you all into hiding, but you may not know this, but I have just murdered Numbuh 1615 with my bare hands. That's right I admit I have murdered someone. Someone who would not submit to me. And that is what will happen to all who try and resist me. Are you afraid? Good! Be afraid, be terrified, and give into every dark, sick, held back part of the human soul as a result of your fear! Do unto them before they do unto you! Fear anything that is different! Kindness and compassion are weak and cruelty and apathy are strength! I have won this battle already and no one, not even the great Sector V will stop me! Anyone who opposes us will be destroyed. Good day." Ryan finished as he ended the transmission.
Everyone stood still, to angry, disgusted, or horrified to speak.
"We won't let him win." Said Abby, catching everyone's attention.
She turned to all of them. "We can't let him win! This asshole is the complete antithesis of everything I stand for! Of everything you stand for! We are going to show these two psychos that basic humanity, kindness, and compassion are not weaknesses! We are going to fight and win this! We're gonna save the Kids Next Door or die tryin'! Who's with me?!" Abby yelled.
"We got your back Abby." Said Hoagie.
"Always have." Added Kuki.
"Always will." Finished Wally.
"I'm in, can't wait to whoop me some ass." Said Arthur.
"It'd be an honor to fight with you." Said Patton.
"I'm going to shove that Ryan punk into a small, tight room, lock it and literally throw away the key!" yelled Sonya.
"He's uncool." Said Lee.
"He's a monster and like all monsters he will be slain." Said Karl.
"Just promise me I get to punch him!" cried Joey.
"He will learn to fear The Tommy!"
"Freaking good idea." added Tony.
Rachel threw her empty drink into a trash can. "Fuck it, let's go for it!" she said, earning the cheers of the others.
Abby smiled. "I knew I could count on all of you to help me. Tomorrow we go get as many allies as we can We're gonna need 'em, but for now we all need rest. We can't save the world if we're tired." Abby said.
"Abby, tell them." Rachel said.
"About the GKND?" Abby asked soberly.
"Yes." Rachel said bitterly.
"The what?" asked Patton.
"Bit of a long story and you may not believe it." Abby warned them.
"Try us." Virginia said.
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The S.C.A.M.P.E.R fell from the sky like a rock as it made its way to earth
"We're through the clouds and I see a city... I think it's San Francisco!" Iris said as she piloted the ship as best as she could.
"Can you land it?" Eli asked.
"Don't know but I'll find out soon enough!" Iris said as she tried to steady the ship.
"Do we still have any followers?" asked Grey.
"No, we lost them once we got into the atmosphere." Eli said.
"Hang on everyone! Here it comes!" yelled Iris as they began to land.
They landed on a dock, but they couldn't stop in time so they fell into the harbor waters.
"We're going down!" yelled Lance. Eli got up and shot the doors open, opening a floor gate, but leaving enough room for everyone to swim out
"Everyone okay?" Grey asked as she moved her arms back and forth to keep herself a float.
"I'm good!" called a guy.
"I'm okay, but been better." said a girl.
"Things are going swimmingly." joked another girl.
"Despite the bad pun I'm fine." said Eli. Everyone else chimed out that they were alright.
"I don't believe it! We actually survived that!" Grey said.
"We can't either!" said a voice from above them.
All ten escapees looked up and saw a ship hovering over them.
"Oh shit!" cried Eli as he pulled his blaster up from the water.
"Talk about a bad day..." muttered Iris.
"Don't shoot! We're not with the Kids Next Door! We're teens and we're here to help you!" said the voice, or girl since they could now see who was talking to them as the ship hovered next to them.
"Help us? Why?" asked Grey.
"We saw you come down and since you seemed to be running away from the moon base we figured that you'd escaped and we guess right." the girl said.
"What can you do to help us?" asked Eli.
"We'll take you to our leader Cree, she'll protect you and keep you safe, honest!" the girl swore. She honestly did want to help them.
Grey reached up. "Offer accepted." she said as the girl pulled her on board and the others followed in suit. Grey looked up to the night sky and sighed. "Ian... I'm sorry. Goodbye."
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Wally stepped out of the shower and dried himself off. What a day. He had called his parents and had used the excuse that everyone was now using, that the government had taken them all into protective custody and would keep them safe from this Consortium. While his dad naturally bought his mom was rather skeptical, but she trusted him with Joey's safety.
Wally pulled his jeans on and looked in the mirror. "Damn I need to shave." he muttered as he tool out a razor that he had been lucky to find, now what these nerds needed with a razor blade he didn't know, but at least he could shave himself now.
"You okay?" asked a voice from beside him. Wally jumped, accidentally cutting himself, as he turned to see Kuki standing in his bathroom doorway. They had decided to share a room together, but Kuki had left to go check on Jenna
"Oh! I'm so sorry Wally! I didn't mean to scare you." She said, walking in to inspect the cut.
"It's all right Kooks; just me being clumsy, you didn't scare me." He said.
"Lair." She said, smirking as she used a paper towel to rub the blood away and clean the wound.
After she was done she took the razor from him "Let me do it." She said.
She gently ran the blade down the neck, slicing off the growing hairs. "I feel bad for Jenna; it's probably the first time anyone had to lose someone they loved twice, and at so young too." Kuki said.
"How's she taking it?" Wally asked.
"Still asleep." Kuki answered, "So she's probably going to be very mad in the morning."
"Kuki, if I lost you, or even thought I'd lose you I just don't know if I could hold myself together." He said, glancing down. "Seriously, I'd breakdown crying right then and there." He confessed.
Kuki felt touched by the notion that Wally would break his tough guy persona for her. "And I'd be hysterical if I ever lost you." She said as she leaned in and kissed him on the freshly shaved cheek.
"Kuki, I've been thinking about what Ian said, about taking things too fast and how love might not last forever..." This made Kuki stop.
"Do you think we won't work out?" she asked, feeling a little hurt.
"No, no! Oh god no. I'm just saying that if we rush into it, I'm afraid I'll get tired of you or you'll get tired of me and I really don't want that to happen." He said, looking deeply into her beautiful violet eyes.
"I don't want it to happen either Wally. I love you too much to get tired of you." She said as she continued to shave him.
"Right Kuki, and I love you just as much, so promise me this; that if we ever fight we won't let it get so bad that we hurt each other, emotionally I mean, that we need to stop each other, right?" he asked.
"Sounds good to me." Kuki said as she continued still.
"Kuki, this doesn't mean I'm planning on quitting you, it means I want us to stay together." He said, worried that she misunderstood him.
"I understand Wally, and thank you for worrying about us, I mean we did kinda rush into it." She said, blushing, caused by a combination of bashfulness and the sight of a shirtless Wally.
"Good, I don't wanna put ya off or anythin'" he said, blushing but trying to hide it, and failing miserably.
"You aren't." she assured him as she finished shaving him.
Wally inspected himself in the mirror and rubbed his now hair free neck and cheeks. "Nice job." He said.
"Thank you." She said, blushing a little brighter as Wally tugged his hoodie down to cover his muscular chest.
"Let's get some sleep Kuki, we're gonna need it." He said.
As they lay down together Wally asked "We could've saved him right?" Kuki didn't know how to answer.
"I don't know Wally, maybe." She said.
Wally snuggled into her, hugging her like a security blanket and she hugged him back like he was a giant Rainbow Monkey. "I won't let anyone else die again." Wally said to her as he closed his eyes.
"Wally, do you think the other will hold a grudge against us for not telling them about the GKND sooner?" she asked.
"Nah, they'll get over it by tomorrow." Wally said. A few of them, like Tara, had been angry at the revelation of the GKND, but most of them were just plain amazed that aliens really existed. Karl openly wondered if they were going to send help, something most of them wished for.
The two slept in each other's arms that night. For the first time in years feeling whole again, like a feeling on loneliness had been taken away and replaced by a feeling of joy.
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In the communications room of the Fortress Isaac operated a long range communicator that was kept for a single purpose. He typed into the computer;
Sending Transmission to Galactic Kids Next Door: We do not require assistance, I repeat: Do not require aid. Situation under control. Please recall any and all operatives you have sent to assist us. End Transmission.
And he sent the message.
Transmission Interrupted...
Poor Ian. He's dead for real now, no Kenny or Rory Pond or Waspinator immunity for him. He's dead and he ain't coming back. This is a turning point for Jenna because I wanted to deconstruct their young puppy love. They had rushed into it and realistically it wouldn't have worked out. But no matter what they would always love each other. Ian's death is going to be used to motivate Wally for his future.
Poor Jenna too. If she isn't a woobie by now, I don't know what will make her one. Well...
I wanted to include the bit with Kuki and Wally at the end to analyze their relationship. They love each other and even though they bicker a lot they'd never purposely hurt each other. They are going to be together, but they themselves are not so sure about that yet.
Since this chapter turned out longer than it was supposed to be the next chapter is going to be a short one, but we'll finally get some villain back-story.
