"Greetings and salutations, Scavenger Hunt fans; we have quite the competition for you today, do we not, Chip?" The black-haired boy began as he faced his bespectacled and brown-haired boy beside him who was not Eric Needles.
"Right you are, Nick!" The brunette replied. "Kids and supervillain evil adults alike will be searching the world for items on this list!" he then brought out a scroll which was very long and even touched and spread to the ground. "Each one with a different point value!"
"And the person or team with the highest point value at 8:00 will win The Delightful Children's mouthwatering, tastylicious birthday cake." Nick added.
"Holy cheese sticks, Nick! It sounds like Stickybeard's already got a jump on the competition!" Chip reported. "Let's check it out live!"
Said pirate ship had crashed into someone's house, and the pirates were ransacking the place.
"Outta the way, nerds!" Stickybeard remarked.
"Get out, get out, get out!" whined a nerdy-looking boy. "You can't come into our secret basement clubhouse unless you know the password!"
"I know the password," Captain Syrup glared as she suddenly grabbed him by his ankle and shook him suddenly and trading cards fell out of his pockets. "GIVE US YOUR YIPPER CARDS, YA BUCK-TOOTHED BRAT!"
"Ow! With the pulling and the shaking and the schoolyard bullying!" The boy cried out, sounding like a very young Jerry Lewis. "HOIGLE!"
"Anythin' good, Syrup lass?" Stickybeard asked as she soon dropped the boy in the background and she checked the card.
"These all look the same to me, but I think I found it," Syrup smirked as she showed one card. "Number 87!"
"The rarest card in the set and worth 200 points for The Scavenger Hunt!" Stickybeard grinned with her.
The adult pirates soon cheered at their success.
"Give... It... Back... Give... It... Back!" The nerds demanded as they suddenly turned into zombies and came after the pirates.
"Run for it, lads!" Syrup called out before she dashed off. "Women first and that means me!"
MEANWHILE, ON SECTOR V'S SHIP...
"Look at this list!" Numbuh 1 groused. "We'll never get enough to catch up in time!" he threw the list down. "We may as well quit now."
"Hel-LO?! Has anybody seen Numbuh 1 around here?" asked Numbuh 5. "'Cause this guy definitely isn't him!"
Numbuh 3 looked over. "Sure he is! Look, he's got the bald head and the glasses..."
"And yet you didn't notice this when Mandy was disguised as him?" LJ asked.
"It was a good disguise!" Numbuh 3 replied.
"No, she only wore the red sweater and glasses," LJ retorted. "And you all bought it, hook, line, and sinker!"
"She must've duped me!" Numbuh 3 pouted.
"Yeah... That's it..." LJ rolled his eyes. "Sooo clever of Mandy. If I see that blonde hellion again, it'll be too soon."
"Besides, Numbuh 1 is talkin' about givin' up!" Numbuh 5 soon said. "That's not the Nigel Uno Numbuh 5 knows!"
"Then who is it?!" Numbuh 3 glared. "'Cuz he looks like Numbuh 1 to me! ...Is it Mandy again?"
LJ groaned and face-palmed at the airheaded girl.
"What if 363 is right?" Numbuh 1 asked glumly. "What if we are getting too old for the big missions?"
"Look. You know we can win the cake and have fun doing it!" said Numbuh 5. "But even if we fail, there's going to be other missions! And as long as we're all together, that's all that matters. So who's with me?"
"236!"
"2,772!"
"218!"
"51!"
"43!"
"5!"
"4!"
"3!"
"2!"
"1!" Numbuh 1 finished, his confidence renewed. "...Thanks, guys."
"Not a problem," LJ replied. "We got'cher back."
"Now and forever." Kimberly added.
"So, what're we waiting for?" Akito asked. "Let's get that cake!"
"Right!" Numbuh 1 replied. "Numbuh 5, Numbuh 218, and Numbuh 2772, find the next item on the list! "3, 4, 43, 236, and 51, prep all weapons so we're ready to ride! And Numbuh 2?"
"Yes, Captain!" Numbuh 2 beamed and saluted, excited about his own mission.
"Steer the ship, we're about to hit a mountain." Numbuh 1 said dryly.
Numbuh 2 panicked and went back to work.
"He's back." LJ and Akito smiled at each other.
MEANWHILE...
The Third Street School group was making headway in the competition themselves.
"Who the heck even makes walrus pie, anyway?!" asked Spinelli as she and Gus had to carry the large pie, which had two tusks sticking out.
"At least we didn't get the one with the octopus inside," stated Vince. "Bad news for those Robin Hood guys."
"I'd hate to imagine eating this thing." Gus remarked as he carried the pie.
"I believe that was 400 points for us then." Gretchen smiled at her friends.
"Great start then!" Spinelli replied. "We better get that cake and it better be good."
"Step on it, Numbuh 2!" shouted Numbuh 1. "Count Spankulot's medallion is worth 200 points!"
Numbuh 4 was having trouble aiming the blasters since Spankulot was moving around too quickly to be shot. "Hold still, you cruddy spank-happy vampire!" he groused.
Count Spankulot laughed with glee as he flapped through the air, until he was beaned by a lucky shot. "GARLIC?!" he wheezed as he went into a tailspin. "NO...!"
LJ snorted. "Talk about a disgrace," he remarked. "My mother's a better vampire than this Nanook, figuratively and literally."
"No kiddin'." Akito commented.
"Got him!" Numbuh 2 announced once Count Spankulot was taken care of.
The operatives soon left their ship with protective masks and filed out.
"Quick! Get that medallion before he wakes up!" Kimberly told the others.
"WAIT!" Numbuh 3 cried out as she suddenly stopped. "I find a pinecone! How many points is that worth?"
"About the same as we got over here!" Numbuh 5 glared as she and the others surrounded Count Spankulot who was missing his medallion. "Zilch!"
"His medallion is gone?!" Numbuh 1 cried out as a chimp in a diaper was shown to have it before giving it to Numbuh 363.
"You this medallion?" Numbuh 363 smirked as he got the medallion from the chimp as he was shown with Lee, Sonya, and a boy with short blonde hair in a blue and white striped T-Shirt, red shorts, and white and black sneakers. "You guys are waaaay too slow!"
"Yeah, give it back you guys or-" Raul glared before seeing the blonde boy. "...Wait, who's that kid?"
"Kenny..." The KND operatives replied.
"...Who?" The other group asked.
"Kenneth Thomas Kennedy, AKA Kenny," Numbuh 1 explained. "He lives next door to our treehouse. Kenny, what're you doing here with these Sector W brats?"
"Getting even with you guys!" Kenny glared. "All you do is cause me and Chimpy a lot of trouble with your crazy treehouse and I'm not even apart of the Kids Next Door, and now I'm gonna help these guys out so I can be relieved of your chaos and mischief!"
"Yikes." Akito said.
"Anyway, that medallion is ours!" Numbuh 2 glared. "We shot Spankulot down!"
"You did wha-a-a-at?" asked Numbuh 363, faking like he couldn't hear.
Numbuh 4 took off his gas mask. "We shot that dumb, ugly, good-for-nuthin' cruddy vampire!" he shouted, as Spankulot began to rise behind him. "OUT OF... THE... Sky?"
Long story short, Spankulot was cheesed off.
"...Did I mention he's handsome?" Numbuh 4 tried to save face, but it didn't do much good when he attacked them.
Numbuh 363 just laughed his head off as Sector V got spank-pummeled, though Lee and Sonya winced visibly. "C'mon, let's get a move on!" he told his teammates.
"But... Shouldn't we at least help Sector V?" asked Sonya.
"Not if you wanna win!" Numbuh 363 remarked. "Now move it, Numbuh 83."
Sonya frowned and whimpered as she went after her Sector while Sector V got the pain of a lifetime once the vampire woke up.
Eventually, they went back to the ship and rubbed their sore bottoms.
"Ugh! I still can't believe we let Sector W get away while we got paddled!" Numbuh 1 complained.
"Well, at least we managed to get one of Nurse Claiborn's apple crumbles." Numbuh 5 remarked.
"Speaking of which, how many points is that worth?" Raul asked.
"Ooh! 1,000 points!" Numbuh 3 beamed as she checked the list.
"Okay... Not bad..." Numbuh 1 had to admit.
"Not bad indeed!" Numbuh 2 muffled as he was shown to be eating the dessert. "And I still can't believe she uses pink-eye crust as topping!"
"You do remember what the filling for those is, right?" asked LJ, as the others looked like they were about to vomit.
BACK AT THE STAND...
"Well, you can slather some butter or jelly on Sector V, Chip, cuz they are toast," declared Nick.
"Right you are, Nick," replied Chip. "There's no way they can get back in this game. Especially with the commanding lead of Sector W, led by the plucky rookie Numbuh 363!"
"Just check out these highlights of the superstar in action," Nick said before showing footage of Numbuh 363 grabbing a box of Rainbow Munchies from a shelf and plowing through a squadron of Ice Cream Men that tried to block his path.
Numbuh 363 moved as swift and quick as a football player with the winning ball at the Super Bowl as he dodged and avoided the Ice Cream Men who kept trying to slam down and tackle him with the cereal box.
"Look at those moves!" Chip exclaimed before the footage paused with a play-o-matic. "Now watch this! He's gonna duck right which gets him one... Two guys off him, but then takes the third guy out of the picture!"
"And he's off!" Nick added as the footage continued after a quick play-by-play. "He eats a handful of cereal and throws like a Hall of Famer Cereal Box Passer!"
Sonya soon jumped up and caught the Rainbow Munchies before Lee took the box and paid for it, meeting Kenny and Chimpy outside of the store.
"That is nifty." Nick remarked.
"And that's 3,000 more points for Sector W!" Chip added. "But wait... Several other teams are racking up the points as well!"
A house was shown as the front door had the doorbell rung and a Skunky Scout was shown with some cookies as Numbuh 13 took the box and slammed the door shut, crossing it off the scavenger hunt list, but unfortunately for him, that little girl was known as Laura Limpin: The Big Badalescent. She grew in size and roared, nearly destroying the house. Professor XXXL was shown to be making the perfect snowcone in his lab, only for it to be taken by Numbuh 3's younger sister, Mushi, and her boyfriend, King Sandy. A boy named Willward Wallace was sitting on a dock while fishing before a giant monster which was a big white asparagus come to life came out of the water and suddenly slammed down and appeared to swallow him whole. The Great Puttinski was playing his favorite sport of Mini Golf before his club was taken and Mr. Fizz had his soda taken from him and was replaced by a very unpleasant substitute.
"And it looks like the new kids from Third Street School are definitely no slouches either." Nick declared as he showed footage of the Recess gang managing to take some of the stuff that the other adults had snagged during the competition.
"GET OUTTA MY FACE BEFORE YOU'LL BE WEARING IT WITH MY FIST!" Spinelli threatened anyone who would get in their way.
"Man, these kids face some weird villains," TJ commented. "It makes our lives back on Third Street look like a cartoon."
"Just try and stop me if you dare!" The Heli-Teacher glared as she arrived with her squadron of villains known as The Faculty 4: Mr. Psychically Fitastic, The Unintelligible Tutor, Thesaurus Rex, and The Human Text.
"And who are you supposed to be?" Gus asked another woman who was with the group.
"I am Edna Jucation and I represent the holiday of Substitute Teacher's Day which no one seems to know or care about!" The woman glared.
"There's a holiday for substitute teachers?" Mikey asked.
"SEE?! That is exactly what I'm talking about!" Edna complained. "Let's get 'em!"
The Third Street crew glanced at one another.
"We don't have time for this baloney!" Spinelli groaned. "Let's just make this quick!"
"You can try, but the bad guys are going to win this round," The Heli-Teacher smirked. "Just try and stop-"
Suddenly a water balloon was thrown at her.
"All right, we've dealt with worse with Prickley and Finster, let's get going then!" TJ glared at the villainous schoolteachers.
And so, a battle broke out between them before Gus found a way out of it and soon went to get the next item on the list which was a very, very, very rare comic book. "All this trouble for this old book," he said to himself. "I mean, if it was Senor Fusion, I'd understand, but this looks like something my dad would read. Well, a win is a win." the bespectacled boy shrugged as he checked it off the list.
"Yes, those Third Street kids sure are going to have a bright future in the world of Kids Next Door." Nick remarked.
"You said it, Nick!" Chip agreed.
"And Numbuh 1, your team has been in dead last," Nick soon reported at a museum, talking with the leader of Sector V as the others moved a macaroni portrait of a Rainbow Monkey Mona Lisa. "You've been spanked by Spankulot, yelled at by 362, and embarrassed by her little brother."
"Is there a question in there?" Numbuh 1 glared as he crossed his arms.
"Indeed there is!" Nick nodded. "The world is dying to know: will you go to Numbuh 363's funeral?"
"Huh?" Numbuh 1 blinked. "What do you mean?"
"Did he call my mother a fat cow?" LJ glared sharply. "Did he say she wasn't scary? Did he do anything to make her angry?"
"Haven't you heard?" Chip replied. "Numbuh 363's going after the item worth the most points ever! Besides, I thought your mother doesn't know what happiness is."
"Watch it, pal!" LJ glared. "My mother might be cold and dark, but she loves us all, no matter what happens! Even when she scolds us for going in her secret room without permission! So what's this sacred item on the Scavenger Hunt list?"
"Father's pipe!" Chip and Nick replied with horror in their voices.
LJ chuckled, before breaking into a full-blown laugh. "So, that little tapeworm is going right into the flames? This should cut him down to size! Yesss..."
Kimberly soon helped the others with the macaroni painting.
"Hey, Kim!" LJ called out.
Kimberly turned her head.
"363's going to get Father's pipe!" LJ told her.
Kimberly laughed a bit, trying not to go overboard. "LJ, I'm carrying a priceless artwork!" she then said.
"My bad! My bad!" LJ chuckled. "I'm gonna send Chrissy a text about it!" He took out his phone and rattled off a text to her. A second later, the response that came back was: ROFL, LMBO (Laughing my butt off).
Chip and Nick just looked scared, though it was unclear if they were scared for 363's life or if they were just glad they weren't in his shoes right now.
MEANWHILE...
"But Father!" whined the Delightful Clones. "How could you promise all the villains a slice of our cake?"
Father put up a hand. "Silly Delightful Children; how else can we win that scavenger hunt without even looking at the list?" he replied. "By pooling all their items together, we can't lose!"
"But Father-"
"Come now," Father continued. "You honestly think I'd even consider sharing your birthday cake with ANYONE? Once it's back in my hands, those good-for-nothing villains will get nothing, and LIKE IT!" he cackled.
The DCFDTLs laughed as well, albeit shakily.
"Oh, look! How time flies when you're laughing with maniacal glee," Father smiled. "To the finish line, my children! The items will be waiting for you!"
The clones bowed. "Yes, Father." they replied as they left the room, snickering to themselves.
The operatives of Sector W were soon shown.
"Could we invite Kingsley and Queenie over to relish in the victory?" The Delightful Clones then asked.
"Of course, my children, they should see this too." Father approved.
The Delightful Clones then nodded and went off together and waited for their best and only friends.
"Well, I could use a quick mad-with-power nap." Father said as he sat in his chair and went to drift off to sleep for a while, placing his pipe on the stand next to him.
"Okay, Chimpy, remember to be quiet." Kenny whispered to his sidekick.
Chimpy hooted a bit while nodding at Kenny.
"Shh!" Kenny shushed urgently before he let out a terrified scream as he was suddenly pulled back.
"What're you doing here?!" Numbuh 1 glared. "Father is way out of your league!"
"Plus I wanna catch this on camera." LJ added as he showed his camera.
Numbuh 363 shoved Numbuh 1 back. "Don't TOUCH me!" he shouted. "Don't ever touch me! And if you think I'm letting you get to Father's pipe before I do, you're crazy!"
"We're not here for the pipe, kid," Numbuh 5 retorted.
"We're here to rescue your big dumb squirrel teeth!" Numbuh 4 added.
"I don't need rescuing!" Numbuh 363 snapped. "Especially from a buncha has-beens like you old farts and a fakey blonde stereotype!"
Numbuh 4 and Chrissy lunged to grab the little loudmouth, but the others had to hold 4 back, while LJ had to hold Chrissy back, even though he wanted to let her rip the brat limb from limb.
"Look, why don't we just get out of here before Father wakes up?" asked Sonya.
"Whose side are you ON, Sonya?" retorted Numbuh 363.
"EVERYONE'S!" replied Sonya. "We're all supposed to be on the same team!"
"Fine, I'll do it myself," Numbuh 363 snapped, as Numbuh 1 put his hand on his shoulder.
"You've got a lot to learn about working with your team," said Numbuh 1 calmly.
363's eyes were wide with fury. "DONT! EVER! TOUCH! ME!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"...We're all dead." Raul looked wide-eyed.
"I better handle this." Akito suggested.
"Huh?" Father snorted as he soon woke up and looked around. "Who's there?"
Suffice to say, he was not happy about finding them in his house and thus began a chase.
"I AM NOT HAPPY FINDING YOU IN MY HOUSE!" Father roared as he grabbed a huge fireball and soon threw it out at them with a big wall of fire right behind him.
The kids screamed and soon, there was a huge hole in the middle of the floor once the flames cleared.
Father chuckled once he stood over the hole. "I guess I'll have to redo the flooring." he then said to himself.
Akito suddenly dropped down from a chandelier and had a weapon ready, right behind Father, catching him by surprise which was a B.E.A.R.H.U.G.G.A.H: Big Enormous Assault Rifle Hurls Ugly Grizzly Giving Agonizing Hugs. The grizzly bear was soon launched as it roared at Father and suddenly gave him a great big bear hug.
"Hey! Get off of me! Get off!" Father cried out before he suddenly fell to the floor with the bear.
"NOW RUN!" Akito told the others and soon ran away with them.
"Got it!" Numbuh 363 grinned once he picked up the pipe. "The cake is mine!"
"Dang it." LJ and his friends complained that Numbuh 363 was able to get the pipe, unscathed.
"Whaddya think of that, Numbuh 1?" Numbuh 363 gloated. "I am the future of K.N.D., not YOU!"
Father continued to struggle with the bear. "Get... Off... Of... ME!" he shouted, sending the bear flying off.
As Numbuh 363 gloated, Numbuh 1 wasn't paying much attention; rather, he was more focused on the important things. Case in point: a monster-sized problem. "...No!" he could only exclaim.
Father's fingers became talons, massive wings grew from his back, and his teeth became very sharp fangs.
"...Because I am so totally aweso-Huh?" asked Numbuh 363 as he turned around, seeing that Father had transformed into a massive, flame-covered dragon.
"LOOK OUT!" Numbuh 1 tackled him out of the way as Father let loose a massive stream of flames, which tore a hole right through the Earth itself.
"I wonder if anyone else felt that?" Kimberly asked.
"I wouldn't worry about it." Chrissy suggested.
"You think Father's family might be linked to Prince Zuko?" Raul randomly commented.
"KIDS NEXT DOOR, BATTLE STATIONS!" Numbuh 1 soon called out urgently and fiercely.
Numbuh 5 soon slid under Father and jumped high in the air and tossed out her hat. "5!"
"4!" Numbuh 4 added as he caught the hat and tucked and rolled like a ball or Stitch before he tossed the hat next.
"3!" Numbuh 3 called out as she hopped in the air, catching the hat and tossed it like a Frisbee.
"2!" Numbuh 2 called out as he then caught Numbuh 5's hat while sitting on Father's dragon head and tossed the hat to the Sector V leader.
"1!" Numbuh 1 concluded as he wore the hat before it puffed up suddenly just as Father was about to stomp on him.
Father was then pushed back suddenly and fell into the deep hole. The others soon gathered around as that looked like the end of Father.
"Nice work, team!" Numbuh 1 approved.
"...Is he?" Akito wondered.
"Hard to say." Chrissy replied.
"I must say, that was the finest example of teamwork I've had the honor of seeing during my time as a member of this outfit." LJ complimented.
Numbuh 363 was laying on the ground nearby, groaning, as Lee and Sonya raced over to their leader.
"Numbuh 363, are you alright?" Sonya asked.
"I won...!" the boy grunted, holding up a familiar object. "I got the pipe...!"
Sonya was absolutely LIVID. "Is that all you can think about?! Sector V just saved your life and all you can say is, 'I won'?!" she snapped. "GIMME THAT!" And she took the pipe from him and gave it to Numbuh 1. "You guys deserve it more than us."
"Nooooo!" whined Numbuh 363, before he got a yo-yo jammed in his mouth.
"Cork it, Harvey!" remarked Lee.
Sonya handed Sector V the keys to their vehicle. "Take our ship, it's got all our scavenger hunt stuff in it," she explained. "If you hurry, you can catch up to those delightful dorks and win this whole thing, for all the Kids Next Door!"
"Thanks, Sonya," Numbuh 1 smiled.
At that moment, a feral roar was heard from inside of the hole. Father was coming back, and he sounded very pissed.
"Well, he's back," Kimberly sighed. "Nice work there though, Sonya. I think you can I could become great friends."
"I'd like that, Numbuh 218." Sonya replied.
"And it looks like Father's comin' back!" Numbuh 4 remarked to the others.
"That's right!" Numbuh 5 added. "So get goin', Numbuh 1! We'll hold him off!"
"No way!" Numbuh 1 replied. "My place is with you guys."
"Should we go then?" Akito wondered, referring to himself and the extra operatives.
"Hey, we may as well," LJ replied. "No way am I keepin' outta this battle!"
"Besides, we'll take care of it, just go," Numbuh 2 added. "Make sure to save us some cake when you win."
"But what about-" started Numbuh 1, before Numbuh 3 shoved him and the others off.
"JUST GO ALREADY!" Numbuh 3 yelled. "Hmph! That guy want a personal invitation or something?"
The others looked a bit startled from Numbuh 3's temper, but decided to just go rather than provoke her any further. Numbuh 1 then went back to the amusement park with Akito, LJ, Raul, Chrissy, and Kimberly as the others would deal with Father and the Delightful Children. It was time for one last battle with those five little snots, even if they were clones of the missing members of Sector Z, so they were still a threat after the case of Operation: Z.E.R.O.