But, with Sector V, they were enjoying their recess with a friendly game of catch. As Arnold was lost in his thoughts as he sees his friends having a good time. (this is more calming than that crazy cinder ball game), Arnold thought to himself but came back to reality as he sees his friends calling out for the ball.

Over here, Kuki yells out waving her hands about.

Hey, I'm open, Hoagie says as he's doing the same.

YaYa, keep your pants on, Abby says as she was the one with the ball. But then she threw it to Nigel, but before he could catch it, Fanny suddenly came up and grabbed it.

Hey, you stopped our game, Wally said upset by Fanny's sudden stopping of their game.

Not now, Number 1 I just got some big news that your sector needs to hear, Fanny said getting to the point in a serious tone.

So, Number 86, it must be that important for you to come to us right now, Nigel said a bit curious about the info Fanny had.

Yes, it's important it's about Father, Fanny said Seriously.

So, it's that bad fanfan, Arnold said in a somewhat joyful tone.

Yes, it is, and don't call me that, Fanny yells out at Arnold for the nickname and then continues with the information.

So, the KND has found out that father has started hiring new faces into his army, Fanny said with a sense of unease in her voice.

Ha, we can take anyone father sent our way, Wally said confidently that it would be easy.

It's not as funny as you think number 4, Father is being more specific into the strongest participants and a bigger problem is that we know nothing about these guys, and I think it might be bad, Fanny said with a sense of fear and concern.

This made sector V go silent until Nigel speaks out. Number 86, I know my team is very much prepared for anything to come at us and Father might have just got some low-grade villain, as usual, Nigel said thinking that his team can take any foe that faces them.

Nigel, you need to take this more seriously, Arnold said with a serious look on his face.

Really, man, it's nothing, Wally said thinking Arnold was just overthinking things.

Guys, you need to understand that Father might be trying to be serious with this, Arnold said to his friends in the same serious tone.

You don't need to worry about it, we always find a way to save the day, Kuki said with a smile trying to calm her friend down.

Your kinda right for me to not worry too much, but we can't underestimate any new enemies, because we don't know what they're capable of and that the one thing humanity fears the most is the dangers of the unknown and its unpredictability of it, Arnold said it calmly.

This made Abby see what he means. I get what you mean, these new goons Father's getting might have strange tricks we never seen before and that's kinda creeping number 5 out, Abby says feeling a sense of unease from what Arnold said.

That's some surprising information you brought out, where you learn all of this, Nigel said curiously in how Arnold knew that type of knowledge.

My mom tells me stories of where she was born, it was a chaotic place to grow up in, with crime and corruption around any corner, with that if there's one bad meet, there will always be a bigger bad out there, like the with fishes in the sea, Arnold said in a mellow tone.

Wow, that sounds pretty dark, that might explain some of your mom's defensiveness for you, Hoagie said feeling a bit of a chill from hearing it.

Ya, it just got worse after my dad died, it was when I was a baby, Arnold said feeling a little sad. Let's just return to the game and thanks for the info fanfan, Arnold said return to a happier demeanor.

Sector V returned to their game as Fanny leaves, But Fanny was feeling sorry for Arnold. (he lost his dad while he was a baby, that's a lot of his stress for his mom, but Arnold must have been forced to be a big kid by a young age, looks like both of us went through hard times in different ways), Fanny thought to herself as she walks away to play somewhere else in the playground.

But after school with Arnold who just got off the school bus and sees his mom who was waiting for him and he ran to his mom for a hug. How was your first day of school, Arnold's mom said with a smile as they stopped hugging? Good, mom, everything went well mom, so in a bit can you take me to the treehouse, Arnold said happily.

Okay, son it's good that you have friends, but I don't want you forgetting about your mother though, Arnold's mom said feeling a bit sad about the idea of her son no longer spending time with her.

I won't forget about you mom, Arnold said hugging his mom, so she won't feel down.

Thank you, Arnold's mom said returning the hug with a few tears from her eyes.

A while later at the Sector V's treehouse, Arnold was looking around the halls making sure his friends weren't having trouble. But when he went to check Wally's room, he sees Wally sitting in a chair and working on his homework with a seeable amount of stress on his face.

Hey Wally, is something the matter, Arnold said with concern for his friend.

I'm trying to do my homework, but I just can't get it, Wally said sounding discouraged.

Ou that, I already did mine, but it's surprising they give homework out on the first day of school, Arnold said a bit confused by that.

Ya, but I get bad grades in the class and I need to fix that up soon this year or I'll get a one-way trip to boarding school, Wally said with a sense of upsetness and fear.

That's bad…, wait I can help, Arnold said remembering something.

You can, how, Wally said confused by what his friend was thinking up.

My mom taught me through homeschooling, so I know these questions pretty well, Arnold said with a grin.

Okay, that might be a great help so take a look, Wally said as he wants him to see his homework.

Then Arnold went to check on what his friend has done on his homework but was shocked to see that Wally put answers in that make no sense and even misspelled his name. Wow, you need help on this do ya, Arnold said to his friend.

Ya, I'm good at remembering fighting but, when doing this I just don't get it, it just goes out of my head, Wally said feeling a bit confused by his problem.

I think I'm starting to see your problem, you have a concentration issue, Arnold said with Wally just giving him a confused look. I mean that you concentrate on one thing so much that, when trying to do it on another thing, you're not as interested and it just goes over your head, Arnold explains to Wally about his problem with working on homework.

So, how do I get better at it, if I can't concentrate on it, Wally said his question to Arnold with a sense of unease.

You need to get yourself interested in it, Arnold said with a smirk.

How can you get me interested in it, Wally said in confusion and unease?

By doing it differently, by try thinking it likes how you treat a fight instead of how your normal think of homework, Arnold said his words of wisdom to his friend.

Okay, so you've gotta help me with my homework now, Wally said with a sense of impatience.

I get it, so let's begin, Arnold said as he starts going into the homework and explaining it to Wally.

But while there doing that the rest of sector V walked into the room to see Wally and Arnold studying.

I didn't expect to see this today, Nigel said a bit surprised from seeing this.

Number 5 is surprised as well, number 4 is studying, Abby said surprised as well.

So, this is surprising, it looks like they're joining the geek side, Hoagie said laughing at his joke, but this got Kuki somewhat upset as she looks at Hoagie with a grumpy look on her face. But when Hoagie sees that Kuki was not happy, he starts getting a bit of cold sweat as he sees that Kuki was giving him a grumpy look and fire-like anger in her eyes.

Don't say that about either of them like that never again, got it, Kuki said with a serious yet upset tone to her voice.

Got it, Hoagie said out of a sense of fear of seeing Kuki like this.

Looks like Number 2 unleashed the dragon from her den, Abby said in an amused tone.

Ya, and I got burned by it, Hoagie said with a not amused tone to what Abby said

We were going to ask for help in training, but it looks like we should leave them be, Nigel said knowing to leave them alone to their work. Let's go, team, Nigel continued to his team as they leave Wally's room and leave them to their study session.

I do not own Any of Codename kids next door, nor do I make any money from writing this story.

Characters and situations and locations were created by Mr. Warburton.

Except My OC's Arnold and his mom