There was a knock on the door of the tree house. Numbuh 3 answered it and in the door stood two women. Really big women. They had red and white striped dresses with no sleeves and dark sunglasses. They both had greasy brown hair put up in a very neat bun.
"We're here to pick up Kuki Sanban. Her parents said she would be here," one said in a deep un-womanly voice. Numbuh 3 was quiet as she looked up at the two women. The other five sat where they were and froze. Kuki slouched in her seat next to Numbuh 4 and held his hand tightly. Numbuh 2 stood outside the kitchen with a bowl of popcorn in his hands. It was as if time stopped.
The other woman cleared her throat. "Well is she hear or not? We are willing to nock over every-"
"I'm here," Kuki interrupted her standing up with her head held high. The women smiled revealing yellow-almost brown- teeth.
"Ah, Kuki," the first woman said. "So glad you could come back with us." Kuki walked over to them and the three walked out the door and outside. Numbuhs 1-5 ran outside with them and looked down from the tree house. They watched them walk to a van while Kuki held her head up high and brave. Then out of nowhere, Kuki stopped walking and the two women were in front of her. They turned around.
"Kuki, come on. We're not going to wait forever," one said impatiently. Kuki then pulled on their buns and they fell on their backs and she ran off.
"Woohoo! Wait to go Kuki!" Numbuh 4 cheered but Kuki was too busy running to hear him.
Numbuh 3 nudged Numbuh 1. "We should help her." Numbuh 1 nodded and the five grabbed their weapons and ran over to help Kuki. Just for fun while the two women were down, Wally jumped on their stomachs and shot them with his weapon. After that they were both almost knocked out. The five caught up to Kuki and ran beside her.
"Now what?" Numbuh 2 managed to ask.
"I don't know," Numbuh 1 answered.
"Well we can't keep running!" Numbuh 4 said. Numbuh 3 looked over her shoulder and saw the two women standing up.
"There's nowhere to run, Kuki! You know we'll find you!" one called.
"Jeez, Kuki, what'd you do?" Numbuh 3 asked (of course, she didn't know about her leaving).
"It's a long story," Kuki told her. They kept running until a lasso flung into the air from behind them and tightened around Kuki. Before it could pull her back, Numbuh 5 grabbed Kuki's arm to stop her. Then Numbuh 4 grabbed her other arm. Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 1 helped Numbuh 5 while Numbuh 2 helped Numbuh 4. But it was no use; the woman who threw the lasso was stronger than the five of them.
"What the crud are they doing with a lasso?!" Numbuh 4 said annoyed. The woman pulled hard at the lasso and Kuki flung back and landed in the back of a truck that was parked behind the two women. The other woman slammed the back of the truck shut. They got in the truck, and drove off. That was it.
"We have to save her!" Numbuh 4 shouted when the truck was out of sight.
"How?" Numbuh 3 said sounding desperate. They all thought then after much thinking and pacing Numbuh 5 snapped her fingers.
"I got it!" she exclaimed. "Follow me." They followed her into the tree house then into her bedroom as they watched her tear up all of Kuki's stuff.
"Numbuh 5, what are you doing?" Numbuh 1 asked with his arms crossed.
"It's gotta be here somewhere," Numbuh 5 said to herself; though it was a little loud to actually be said to herself. She opened drawers, ignoring Numbuh 1's question, and threw everything in them across the room. Things like, socks, shirts, pants, shorts, skirts, underwear and she threw a bra that landed on Numbuh 4. He screamed and threw it across the room like it was a giant spider or something. Then Numbuh 2 burst out laughing.
"I thought she was your girlfriend," he managed to get out.
"Yeah, but that's still disgusting!"
"Aha!" Numbuh 5 said holding up a crumpled envelope. "It's a cruddy envelope, what's the big deal?"
"The big deal is, Numbuh 4," Numbuh 5 explained, "this is the envelope that Kuki got the letter saying she has to go back to B.S.S.G." They looked at her confused (well, Numbuh 3 would look confused because she has no idea what's going on).
"So?" Numbuh 2 said. Numbuh 5 rolled her eyes and was about to say something but Numbuh 1 beat her to it.
"So, it means where ever Kuki is, we'll be able to find her because the address is on that envelope."
Numbuh 5 smiled at him. It was a mixture of pride and surprise. "Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking."
Numbuh 1 shrugged but couldn't hide his big smile. "It was your idea in the first place. I would have never thought of it if you didn't show us the envelope."
"I bet you would've thought about later." Numbuh 2 started getting jealous at the way they were praising each other and smiling the way they were. He knew Numbuh 1 already liked Numbuh 4, but Numbuh 5 didn't know that.
"Okay," he said before anything else happened. "We should get going now. I mean," he took the envelope and looked at the address. "how far is this place?"
"Yeah! Road trip!" Numbuh 4 cheered jumping in the air. Numbuh 3 giggled and messed up his hair.
"You need to be old enough to drive and have a car for a road trip, Wally."
"I can drive," he mumbled angrily.
"All right, Kids Next Door, board the ship for a rescue mission!" Numbuh 1 demanded. Four of them rushed to the Cool Bus, but Numbuh 3 stopped them.
"Wait!" she shouted. They turned to her.
"What?" Numbuh 4 said annoyed. Even though he saved her and it may have seemed he was getting softer, he still thought she was annoying. And love crazy.
"We can't go out like this!" They looked at their clothes. They were dirty and smelly and slightly torn in some places. Besides that, they really didn't think there was anything wrong.
"Why?" Numbuh 2 asked.
"Are you blind? We look disgusting! Now, all of you," she demanded sounding like their mothers, "go back to you rooms and get cleaned up and change into some nice, decent, fat-women-butt-kicking clothes!" The four sulked over to their rooms, dragging their feet as if they were little kids being punished. When they were in their rooms getting dressed, Numbuh 3 nodded to herself proudly then she, too, went to her room and changed.
They came out smelling good, looking fresh and clean and almost glowing. They didn't wear long sleeves because it was getting warmer. Numbuh 1 was wearing a short sleeve red shirt and gray pants. Numbuh 2 was wearing a white short sleeve shirt and brown pants. Numbuh 3 was wearing a turquoise short sleeve shirt with jeans. Numbuh 4 was wearing an orange hoodie with no sleeves with baggy jeans and the last person, Numbuh 5 was wearing a spaghetti strap dark blue shirt and black Capri's.
"Perfect," Numbuh 3 said after inspecting all of them. "Okay, now we can go on the Cool Bus." They rolled their eyes and sighed then loaded on to the Cool Bus.
"Is everybody ready?" Numbuh 2 asked feeling excited to be behind the wheel after a long time.
"Just go already!" Numbuh 5 shouted.
"Okay, okay. Calm down." They started it up and off they went!
