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"The time, is 11: 02 on the Dimension watch"

The Head of the Hourglass space station, Brittany White said.

She had straight brown hair, black eyes and was dressed in a gray woolly jumper, but the most distinct feature about her were her robotic leg's that were specially designed, to not only look like the real thing, but were made light and durable enough to support her weight.

You see, Brittany, had been born without leg's and for as long as she could remember, she had been confined to a wheel chair

Growing up, she would often wish she could go outside and play, like the other kid's.

She envied them for being able to run or jump.

It was the kind of thing's normal kids would take for granted, and from a young age, the reality that she would never be able to walk didn't hit her until she was 6 and able to handle the heavier stuff.

Her parents simply couldn't afford to get her robotic replacements.

She was going to stay confide in a wheel chair, until the day she dies.

Well, that's was what she thought before she met Ka.

When she was 9, she had met a boy named Ka, who had asked her to play catch.

Can you imagine her shock, because nobody had ever asked her to play catch with them?

And even though, their time together was extremely brief, he had taught her many thing's.

Ka had seen a natural born leader in her, who wouldn't care about what disability a person may have, like all the other big organization currently ruling the world, and had asked her to join an Organization that he had just made.

At first, she didn't really him it seriously because there were just a few people in it, but she accepted it anyway because she was just happy that somebody included her.

There was just something different about Ka, that stood out to her.

And before she know it, the Organization, which only had a few members, had exploded and she was put in charge of a giant space station on another planet!

It turns out, not being forced to comply to the stereotypes of the world, worked wonders on people especially, adults, whose whole lives were ruled by order and disciple.

A group of professional Inventors were more than happy to design new legs for her, free of charge.

You wouldn't believe how many people on the planet, were sick and tired of the 'Secret' war between age groups, if it was really secret, then they wouldn't fly impossible to fly machines made from parts from the damp, over thousands of people head's, or crash their invention's in the middle of the street.

But they couldn't say anything because this war had been raging on for so long, that even their grandparents would tell them, how the war was when they were kid's.

She wouldn't have thought, 3 year's ago, that she would one day walk and run but that was exactly what she did when she was given her new leg's.

The only down side to this was, she could never wear them outside the organization, how would she explain her new legs to her parent's? And when money like that is involved, it was bound to attract unwanted attention, so she could only wear them when she was on duty.

Now because, she was the official head of a whole branch, she was naturally granted a seat in the Higher up's, two days ago, she received a val which she duplicated, with some very disturbing data, that warrant a meeting with everybody who made up the high up's alerting Ka, of the discover of something that warranted his attention.

The meeting was scheduled in a pocket dimension.

Now, she had one minute to get there or she would be late, she took what she needed before putting on her specially designed Portal gun, it had taken the creator of the Portal Gun, a day or two to get them working, how they wanted them, and they had each paid him 5 bucks regardless of their countries currency. because he really was a brilliant inventor who deserved support.

She merely thought about her destination and a portal opened up, she walked right through it.

Ch 13: The gathering of the higher up's

The room she was met with was a cross between a cave and pretty much every government meeting room in the world, the higher ups of the Hourglass, had a total of 20 members and because the place was so well decorated, it made each member feel important despite no funding from any government.

Brittany, took her usually seat, while she waited for the other members to come through, her other branch leader Daniel Cross, a 73-year-old man was in charge of the Hourglass finances, with decades of experience in being an accountant behind him, who better to handle the organization's finance, then an old pro in the game of money?

She couldn't help but think of how far they've come before the Portal gun was invented, not too long ago they would meet in sound proof room in the middle of the world, for obvious reasons, those who weren't legally able to fly on their own, could never attend and just had their follow Branch members inform them of what went on.

One by one, they all came through, from their respected corners of the globe, but the Founder seat, as usual was never filled.

They all waited for five minutes' before concluding the Founder was truly not coming, only two people in the Higher ups actually know who the founder was, while those who began the recruitment of the first real member's some years back, decided they didn't want the responsibility of becoming a Branch head, especially when they realized how much paperwork was involved.

"Excuse me, by asking" Chris, Numbuh 848 of the KND and Head of the intelligence gather Branch of the Hourglass, said. "But will the founder be joining us, later? I was told everybody will be here including the Founder, since this meeting is apparently important enough to force a meeting so soon"

Usually they all met once a month.

And the rest couldn't help but agree, mainly because most of them were still trying to figure out who the Founder was.

Was the Founder male or female?

What age was the Founder?

How could one person make such an organization, right under the noses of the likes of Father and the KND?

The few time's they had seen the Founder in person, the person wore a big block cloak over themselves that gave nothing away about their figure, the person would be incredible short, but talked with a modified voice with the air of a teenager and sometimes an adult.

Meaning they got nothing to go on about the Founder's identity.

Which was extremely annoying for the extremely curiosity people in the room.

"Um..." Brittany began, looking at her follow Branch member, Fred who was only ten years' old and in charge of the food Branch, had been personally trained by Ka when he was back at the orphanage, being the only one who accepted the job of Branch head, out of all his peers.

Unfortunately, Fred hadn't heard from Ka, either.

Suddenly the screen behind them all came online, with the image of an Hourglass and a scrambled voice said. "Miss White, please continue."

They were all started.

The founder/Ka? They all thought.

"I am sorry everybody, but I cannot be here in person, there is something else that warrant's my attention." Ka Haki aka 'The Founder' apologized. "But I can hear and see everything in this room, and give my impute into this meeting. Now, Miss White, can you tell us, why we were all summoned here, more than a week before our monthly meeting?"

"Well, everybody. I was sent a vial two days ago because, I am in charge of anything concerning the galaxy or the planet as a whole. I managed to duplicate the vial for all of you to see." Brittany said, getting out several batch's and putting them in the middle of the room, several members already took some, examine the harmless looking liquid.

One Toddler, who was in charge of the Big Brain's Branch opened up one vial and took a good sniff before proclaiming. "This is just water"

They were all amazed by his sense of smell, already he managed to recognize one compound in it, but give him a few years and he would be a world-famous Sniffer.

"If this is indeed water. I don't see why, we should gather just to quench our thirst." Yui Hai said, she was an Asian, in charge of the international communication Branch, she made sure, that all corners of the world, that had people working for the Hourglass, had no problems communicating with each other despite the different languages.

"What if I told you, this isn't actually water but an actual sample of the legendary Fountain of youth?" Brittany said, making them all pause and look at her in shock.

"Miss White..." The Founder said, "Are you actually telling us. We've found the legendary Fountain of Youth?" He honestly didn't expect the Hourglass to find the Fountain before the Delightful Children from Down the Lane, did.

"I've tried it myself, and as a result, I've spent a whole afternoon with a baby head" Brittany said, that was a couple hour's she would never get back.

"I think, we should test it, you know. " Margaret Watson said, older sister of a certain member of the Rowdy Hooligans From Across The Square, like her younger brother, she had blonde hair but it was tied into a bun, she was the head of Human resources, taking in every suggestion that the member's themselves might have and presenting them at the Higher up's meeting.

The reason why she joined the Hourglass, was because she wanted to find a cure for little brother.

Ever since her brother joined 'Father', he hadn't been himself, it was like he was under a trance, later on thanks to certain member's, she was horrified to learn that he brother, had actually gone under a process called 'Delightfulization' which explained her brother's drastic change of character within a few hours.

But she couldn't cure him, not until one of the member's get into Father house and took data from the Delightfulization chamber, so that the Hourglass can use it to find a way to reverse it.

Everyone in the room looked at her with agreement, some, found it hard to believe that they had actually found the legendary Fountain, wouldn't that mean the biggest war that the planet, will ever know was knocking on their door, if the wrong people found out?

"I propose that Mr Cross, should try it" Fred said, as they all looked at the oldest of them. "I think he deserves a little youth."

The old man was more than a little bit surprised.

Meanwhile for everybody else, the more they thought about it, the more it made sense, being in charge oc the money, was the hardest and most important job of all, the man even had bags under his eyes because of late nights, but he hadn't complained once.

It was because, for somebody as old as him with no family, all he could look forward to was bingo games and pudding, many people in his situation would have got on their knees and begged, if they thought they were given another opportunity to work again.

"Everyone" Daniel Cross said, with glossy eyes before he was given a vial, which he opened before gulping it down, the effects were immediate.

His grey hair had turned into a youthful black, his face that was full of wrinkles and sagged had become smaller and younger, his false teeth had been replaced with young perfectly healthy teeth and his gut that had expanded beyond control from sitting all day long, had miraculously shrunk to the point, there wasn't even the slightest bump visible.

In front of them was no longer a man passed his prime but a youthful teenager, understandably there were gasp's in the room as many couldn't believe their eyes.

Daniel Cross could not believe it either, suddenly he felt energy in his whole body, that he hadn't felt in over 50 years.

He had to move.

Pretty soon, he was leaping off his chair, his clothes dangling from his frame and began to run around, the best part of this was, he didn't injure his hip or his back while doing it.

But his happiness was cut short when the Founder said. "This isn't permanent is it Miss White?" because a miracle like this didn't last unless, unless god himself did it, if the 'miracle' is manmade, then there were bound to be some side effects, no matter what.

So what were the side effect, for this incredible Youth holy grail?

"This is where the problem comes in" Brittany said, "The effects of the water are only temporary, soon, Mr Cross will revert back into an old man. The water is also highly addictive, so if you're not careful, you can spend your whole life dipping into that Fountain. The real problem come's when you've reached an age where normal people have long since died. The Fountain will than become a life line and force you to stay close to it, in order for you to survive."

Unfortunately, it was too late for Leaky Leona.

But Daniel Cross didn't care, he was given the chance to be young again and he wasn't going to waste it.

"Then we'll, just make one of our own, without the side effects" The Toddler of the Big Brain Branch said, the possibility of being young forever was just too tempting but what Brittany said next, shocked them.

"We can't do that, because the Key component in the water, is not from this world" Brittany said, this is where her Branch came in.

"Are you saying, the fountain comes from out of space?" The Founder said, Ka didn't have to fake his surprise.

"Yes. To put it simply, the Fountain of Youth is actually a parasite from space" Brittainy said, shocking everybody in the room.

"What do you mean, the Holy Fountain of Youth is actually a parasite?" Chris, the leader of Intelligence gathering, said.

"We might not be able to make it, but my Branch has figured out, how it work's" Brittany said, "It actually takes the energy from those around it and manifest's it into a liquid substance's. And when I mean 'it takes energy from those around it'. I mean us. It takes energy from every living thing on this planet, especially us, it's the reason why we 'age' and when it stops sucking on us, we die."

Silence.

Than an uproar, because who wouldn't be in an uproar over what the world had perceived as natural?

"QUIET!" The Founder said, and they all shut their mouths before the person saying. "Are you telling us Miss White, that the reason why we are all aging isn't because of our body getting older, but because our life energy being sucked out of us?"

"I didn't want to believe it at first, but It has been put to the test." Brittany said, getting out a stack of paper's. "I received some results from a test a group had done. In these sheets it describes how the liquid was placed near a cockroach, they were both separated by a beaker. The Cockroach was chosen because the species is knowing to have very short life spans so there would be quick result in such a controlled environment. The result of the experiment was, the Cockroach didn't even last two minutes before it dried up and died and the water actually began bigger."

"Oh, my god" Margret said, so the reason's her grandparents died, wasn't because of old age, it was because something had finished sucking them dry?!

"Impossible. I thought that story was a lie" Chris, Numbuh 848 said, making them look at him. "You see, there is a very old story going around the KND. It about how Kids, a long time ago never aged, but then they got bored, and created 'Adult's'. Nobody takes the story seriously because we all know that eventually every kid would grow up into an adult. But, if we factor in the Fountain of Youth..."

"Are you saying that the Fountain of Youth is the thing that bridged the gap between Kid and Adult?" Fred said, "Are you saying that being a Teenage is actually an unnatural thing? If that were true, what on earth is this THING doing on our planet!? Who sent it here!? This thing has been written about in books since CE!"

Just how long has this thing actually been here sucking them dry and why!?

Yes, he had raised a good point.

Imagine a world, where Kid's stay Kid's forever and Adults stay Adults forever.

Imagine a world, where no Kid would ever face the threat of being decommissioned.

Imagine a world, where nobody would go through the awkward stages into adulthood.

Would there even be a war if Kid's weren't so afraid of growing up and Adults weren't so afraid of 'childhood'?

"I SAY WE DESTROY IT!" One person shouted.

"Yes, let's destroy it. I refuse to be food." Another person said, as more people were demanding to destroy it.

"Yes, I agree with everybody here" the Founder said, making them all listen. "Something, like this should not be allowed to exist. We should find it's source and destroy it."

"I'm sorry, Founder but right now, we can't do that" Brittany said, "The Fountain has long since merged with the earth, all we can do, is destroy it's one out-lite, until we find a way to remove the Fountain energy safely from the planet and even this is difficult. The fountain's out-lite is underneath an elementary school. An elementary school, that the KND best team go to and several kids working for Father and other smaller groups. If we go in, we'll be exposed to all sides"

"Then let them destroy it themselves" Said, the Founder.

"What?" Brittany said.

"Have our member's 'leak' the existence of the Fountain, to the Delightful Children from Down the Lane, but not enough to make them welcome it." The Founder said. "All they should know is that there is an existence out their that stop's people from becoming proper adults. They are sure to go after it and try to destroy it. And by now, we all know that everything the Delightful Children do, is automatically Sector V business. I'm certain the Fountain will be destroyed in the crossfire between the two groups. Let them do the work for us, while we find a way to get rid of the Fountain for good"

And besides, he had a very disturbing thought of why the Fountain was actually here, which would put the GNK in a whole, new, very disturbing light.

And everybody blinked.

That was a bright idea.

"Now, onto other business" The Founder said. "I think it's time for us to reward our member's."

"Like a Loyalty scheme?" One adult said, thinking it would be very difficult to do that, especially, if word gets out that adults are rewarding kid's as well.

"Close" The Founder said before saying.

"Who here has heard of something called the 'Fourth Flavour'?"

And scene!

Next chapter, the discovery of the giant unknown spaceship in space, Chad is faced with the harsh reality of what he actually obtained when he betrayed the KND and comes to regret it and Gracie stands up for her little sister. Review/fav and follow!