KND: Second Strike
Kirikou
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Alright, the kids have met each other. Let the arguing begin!! (and another note. I've only seen like, 2 episodes, so don't rat on me for the spelling or something that I wasn't aware of..sorry..)
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The next morning was a beautifull one indeed, taking everyone's problems away for an instant as the sun came slowly over the horizon, signifying a new and much better day. Breakfast made everyone happier, before the kids went back to what they where doing before. Numbah 2 was excited to be able to tell someone about their technology, to the eager ears of Grey, the note-taking-pocket-protector-boy. (but, dispite a few differences, they got along like they'd known each other their whole lives.) Oso and Numbah 4 got along well, finding that they had the same interest in music and a few other minimal things. Mimi and Numbah 3 got along as well. (must I explain?) In fact, to make a long story short, they all did...save for two that is. Lenai came to sit beside Numbah 1, who was devising some strange plan as far as she could tell. His silence annoyed her, but she only stayed next to him, trying to get something out of him.
"So, how long you've been goin' at this exactly?" She asked. He only shrugged, adjusting his glasses.
"About two and a half years even."
"Two and a quarter!" A voice yelled out from nowhere. Numbah 1 glared in the direction, where he saw two heads poking out of a device. "How many times am I going to remind you?!"
"Why does it matter??"
"When someone asks, we're gonna say, since 2000." He said matter-of-factly, dissapearing again as Numbah 1 rolled his eyes. That made no sense at all.
"Forgetful are we?" Lenai smirked, leaning back on the little couch comfortably. He only glared dangerously at her, turning his gaze to another direction of the room, watching Oso and Numbah 4 take out some card game, probably go fish or something of the sort. Mimi and Numbah 3 where well on their way to the television to watch an hour of Cuddly Ponies. Lenai continued to stare at him, though his gaze had shifted. He never once looked back at her, and she wondered why. Does he always take everything so personally? She thought to herself. Probably just thinking of a comeback...
"Riiight." He suddenly said, as though answering her own question. But, as she soon found out from a loud bang, it was only for the boys across the room with black faces and a blown up object.
"Think the colaberation wasn't quite right...have to adjust.."
"How's it comming over there?" Numbah 1 directed to the two, who smiled with a thumbs up.
"This doohicky was too tight, and that little thing.." Grey went on, scribbling as he spoke. Numbah 2 grinned, trying to fix the thing as the boy pointed quirks out. A grin flashed across both their faces, silence following, before they both said "hydrolics!!" together as it blew up in their faces again. Numbah 1 smiled, Lenai shocked to see him on the floor with laughter. The other kids looked over in fascination, to see if something was wrong with him. It was a rare thing to see that from him. Oso only grinned, turning back to his card game, which he was winning. Lenai continued to watch him as he finnaly found the breath to sit up, and get himself back on the chair.
"Alright then." She said, as he turned towards her, as if to answer, but quickly stood to his feet, going over a ways and ripping out some blueprints, sitting on the floor with a pen, and maping. Numbah 4 and Oso came to watch, as Numbah 1 described his idea to the clueless kids beside him.
"We're going to get in here, and possibly, if we succeed that is, not saying that we won't now, that we can get rid of the delightfull children for a few weeks." Numbah 4 sighed in relief. It was a good idea. They where constantly ripping holes in their place, then going away and practically demolishing all of them. They'd dealt quite a hand with Numbah 1, and now it was his chance for revenge.
"So, back or front?" He asked, ready to do both, but would much prefer knocking in the front door and scaring the crap out of anyone there with blasters or something big and deadly. Oso was thinking the same thing.
"We in on this two man?" He asked curiously. Numbah 1 looked about, nodding his approval and putting some more dots on the paper. He had five more to place. The rest of both groups had suddenly appeared over his shoulder, checking the idea and calculating for themselves. The two smart ones pointed out a few flaws, which Numbah 1 corrected without question. He handed the blueprints to Grey, who overlooked them carefully.
"Guard here? That's unusual."
"They're quite unusual people..." He answered quickly.
"No kidding...they tried to turn us into adults with some weird zappy thing!! And they did!!!" Numbah 3 exclaimed, her arms waving frantically. The other group gasped. Someone was sick enough to do that?! Numbah 1 nodded, explaining how he'd managed to survive that...and quickly mentioned that he wished never to do it again.
"Can't put that person there."
"What?!" Numbah 1 looked up from his work to see Lenai pointing at a spot on the map.
"They'll get stuck." He looked it over again, shaking his head.
"Nope. Be fine." She said nothing, only pointed to a place a few feet from where that dot was. His eyes widened in astonishment, and somewhat frustration. Grey and Numbah 2 agreed, flaw in the plan. That would work instead. The person was put a few yards from there.
"And who's gonna be backup!?" Numbah 1 brought up, confusing them again. "Someone has to cover that spot!! Someone will figure if they don't!" Grey looked it over again, and Numbah 2 stared at it blankly. He was right...
"Someone else. Where will you be?" Lenai asked him. He pointed. She looked around. He put a color tack into the paper. She was going to take that spot. They finally all agreed on it, taking the papers and moving out.
On the grounds, the paper was spread out again, outside the premesis.
"Their guard is up from last time. They're expecting us, that's obvious." Numbah 1 glanced about over the horizon, noting the change the place had undergone. Security was the main function from the outside it seemed.
"Alright..." He whispered, as they all crawled in through a small duct in the wall. They all got back into their circle. "This will be your first mission with these guys. Be carefull, and don't get caught! You don't want to know what they'll do to you..And, don't go untill the signal!!" He hissed, fixing his shades and getting to his feet and immediately backing against the side of the wall, for cameras where watching their every move. He had his defense, something to shoot if nessassary.
"KND, move out!" He hissed again, watching as the 9 kids spread out over the entire span of the property, silent as mice. He waited to see four span the wall, and the rest move out to the mansion. They turned back to him, who looked about carefully for any suspicious characters, waving. They entered the building, crawling under wires, ducts, and anything they had to. Numbah 1 had finnaly made it to the main room, where he watched the enemy, obviously in the middle of something. What, he couldn't see from there. He looked over, Numbah 3 in plain view on the other side, but only to himself. Numbah 4 was on the other side of the room, while Numbah 2 was in another room, on his way there. 5, meanwhile, was with Oso and Grey. Safer in numbers as he'd put it. As he was about to swing down, a sound was heard, that almost made him fall out. A squeek, then a scream and alarms. The children turned, their sights right in the duct where he was sitting.
"Found you." They all said in unison, a thing he never realy did get used to. In moments 4, 3, and 2 where caught and squirming. He jumped out of the duct after them, but a shout from 4 had stopped him in his tracks as they came after him.
"Get outa here!! They have 5 and Lenai!!!!" Numbah 1 could only stand their shocked, untill his legs told him to bolt. he busted out of the room, into the next hallway, trying desperately to remember the way through the corridors that where about as bad as a labarynth. He fell against a wall, panting for breath, trying to find his bearings. A scream from down the hall confirmed his location. He gathered his strength, skittering as silently as he could into the room where the sound was heard. he opened the door a crack, gasping at what he saw.
There was Lenai tied to a chair, but numbah 5 was nowhere to be seen... Which was precisely whom he had been looking for in the first place!!
"Come in Numbah 1!! You caught?!" A voice came from a walky talky attached to a pocket.
"Who is it!!??" He squeeked.
"I's 5!! I got away for now, but they're still...after me..I'm gonna...go get the others..."
"Wait!!" he yelled, trying to get her back, but the side had already gone dead. "Damn!!!" he couldn't help but shout, then realized that the soap would be in order. Lenai had already seen him in the meantime and was squeeking under the ropes and gag. Numbah 1 went over, quite reluctantly, to let her go, taking a small knife and cutting them up as quickly as he could.
"What the heck...??" Lenai said as soon as the gag was removed, glaring at Numbah 1 with the most evil he'd ever seen a person stare.
"Look, I'm not in the mood for an argument, so just SHUT UP and come on!!" He took her by the wrist, wrenching her off the chair and dragging her behind him to the door, throwing her against the wall as he left.
"I don't know what the blazes is going on here, but we need to get out. Now!"
"But..."
"They know we're here, and there's reinforcements now!"
"Oh, Numbah 1..." Two voices where heard down the hall. He backed up against the wall, holding his breath, hopping that they hadn't already seen him. "Let's have a little fun. You want to play hide and seek?" Lenai could only shudder from the strange unison of the voices of these kids. No life whatsoever, as if they where androids of some kind...She looked over at Numbah 1, shocked at what she saw. It was a split moment of fear. She hadn't thought these kids where much of a threat, but from his terror stricken face, they where definately not something he wanted to deal with alone...
"Come out, come out wherever you are...you know we'll find you." He gulped nervously, trying not to expose the fact that he had to have been shivering to the girl beside him. But those voices...they just wheren't the natural thing to hear in your mind day to day. "We see you..." His eyes darted in all directions, but he couldn't see them at all. The voices where practically next to them, but the children where nowhere to be seen. Lenai looked up, gasping.
"Numbah 1!! Camera!!!!" Only the word sent him sprinting down the hall, dragging her as quickly as he could behind her. He almost screamed at the sight of a dead end. Footsteps where heard behind them now, and there was no way he'd turn around, Lenai knew right away. He cursed again, trying to find something that would get him out of there, anything..."
"Hey! Up here!!" He looked up sharply, seeing a pair of eyes in the vent. It was Oso. He took Numbah 1 by the wrist, hauling him up, who didn't need much help to scramble the rest of the way in. Lenai climbed up herself, as they continued down the vents untill a spot of light was in view.
"Alright..." Numbah 1 was trying to gather his thoughts, but just about all of his teammates where captive, and probably half of Lenai's team as well...
"Hello...we know you're there...." The sound came over the walky talky, but made all three of the kids jump. The children's voices... "You can't hide from us..." Numbah 1 gasped, turning the walky talky off as quickly as he could, silencing the sound he couldn't stand to listen to for another second.
"Hey!" Lenai said, completely exasperated. "We could use that!!"
"They're tracking us with it!!!!" Numbah 1 shouted, putting it back on the pocket it had been attached to. "One less way to get us." Oso nodded, noting the freaked look on his face. He had the same amount of fear in him, glancing around like a paranoid. Numbah 1 pulled out a map, glaring over it, trying to stop the paper from shivering in his hands.
"Alright...we're here...and they're probably there...oh crap." A sound was heard in the vent, though it was unplaceable. Oso turned, covering a scream. One of the children where there, only feet away. He smiled grimly, fakely, waving slowly.
"Found you." The three screamed, trying to get away, but he already had them cornered. Numbah 1 looked down into the light the vent had brought, seeing just how far the ground was from this one. he tried the grate. It moved. He tried not to look at the height they where at and the injury that could cause...
"No choice!!" He screached, ripping out the grate, and jumping down, landing with a thud on the ground below. The other two didn't even hesitate to follow after him. They got up, Oso limping a little as they scrambled into the next room with the sound of "drat" from the grate. Lenai only thought then, as they hit another wall together, that the children where all around them and nowhere at the same time, which was probably the case. The three where running out of steam, and there was no let-up of the security. A little laugh was heard, as they scattered into another room together, panting and gasping for air. Numbah 1 let out a sigh of relief when he saw the rest of his group there, as well as the rest of Lenai's, tied down.
"mffmmff...nffmfmfmfmfmf!!!" Numbah 4 muffed, in inaudible tones. They where thankfull to see others. As soon as Numbah 1 was about to cut the ropes, the lights went out.
"Joy. Night tag." The voices where heard again, on the walky talky. Numbah 1 gasped in disbelief. He'd turned it off!! He checked the signel. It was on, but the device was off... He got to his feet as his eyes adjusted to the light. He was forced to take his shades off to see. He raised the walky in his hand as high as he could, slamming it into the ground as hard as his arm was able. A smash was heard, and a strange noise as batteries scattered all over the floor. A whimper was heard.
"I'm scared of the dark..." It was Numbah 3. One of the other people tried to keep her calm, another voice heard somewhere on the other side of the room.
"You know that won't work." The voices where heard...the light on the walky talky was still on...Numbah 1 could only stare in horror at the device. He looked over at Numbah 2, who was just as horrified at the breaking of electrical laws. Numbah 1 sighed.
"Sorry I have to do this to your invention 2..." he took out his knife, jabbing it into the system a few hundred times with a gasp and upset from numbah 2, who was quite annerved from this. He then went to 5, taking hers and smashing it as well, destroying them the best way he knew how. A crunch was heard, and the sound of dead air. Numbah 1 grinned, finnaly rid of the only things they could track them by. His was still blinking, despite the huge knife holes it had embeded into it, but was no longer transmitable to anything. Only fuzz and the occational buzz.
"We've got to get out..." Lenai started, trying to feel her way around. She could only see who was immediately beside her, which was her brother, who was looking at her. A shuffle was heard, then Numbah 1 came into view, knife in hand, chopping ropes as carefully as he could in the dark.
"Night vision would be good right about now.." He mumbled, taking out the last of the ropes. A sqeek.
"Not so hard!! You almost got ME!!!" Numbah 5 complained, turning to him visiusly, taking an amazed glance at the knife. "Who's parents would be insane enough to give their kid a KNIFE anyway!!!???" Numbah 1 shrugged, as the knife popped back on the spring it was activated from.
"They wanted to put me into Boy Scouts. I wouldn't let them."
"We have more important things to think about. We need out!" Grey said in quick tones. He looked about. "But, light's a problem. They've got us good."
"Time to play." The voice was heard, to their dismay, as they heard a door squeek...they where there...
"Let go!!!!" They heard Numbah 1 scream out, and a slight struggle.
"But you're so fun." Lenai cringed at the sound of the most horrified scream she'd ever heard, the kind that almost brought her to tears in feeling so sorry for him...The noises and scuffle where still going on. It was obvious by the screaming and struggle that he'd give his all before he let them take him anywhere...
"Stop squirming...you're only wasting your energy. Don't you want to play?"
"NO!! I don't!!! Let me GO!!!!! GET OFF!!!!!" A scream was heard, but it wasn't his. The lights suddenly came on, blinding the kids, untill they got a look at what was going on, gasping in horror. They saw one of the children shrink back, giving him the chance to squirm from their grips, landing back on his feet, knife in hand.
"I knew this thing would come in handy.." He panted, grinning. "I told you I didn't want to play." The one who had shrunk away came forward, the sight astonishing anyone. Blood trickled down her arm, now dripping onto the floor in little drops.
"You'll pay for that little boy." An older voice came from behind the children, a man comming up from behind his children.
"Father.." The man took the little girl's arm, investigating the incision Numbah 1 had made, turning back to him quickly, eyes narrowing, flaring.
"Children aren't supposed to play with sharp objects..."
"Well, I'm not one of your little kids man." He spat angrilly, poised to run, and even slash out again, anything to get away. The other kids where amazed at this sudden bravery.
"Well, that's too bad. You don't have much to defend yourself this time it seems." He was looking for any ice-cream trucks, but found none, to his ultimate satisfaction. The little girl who was cut did not cry, only held her arm, standing next to her "siblings" without feeling it seemed. Numbah 1 looked around desperately, seeing nothing in the room but the ropes, batteries, broken ealky-talkes, and the pocket knife he held. It seemed bleak indeed... The delightfull children grinned, knowing they had him cornered this time.
"After we're done with you," They chanted together, their voices pulling together as if one. "We can REALY play with you." He gasped at the thought of what they meant by "play with him." He shook his head, trying not to let their voices get to him. Lenai could only watch this in horrid fascination. There was nothing like this in her country...
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Part 3: Play
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Woah...that came out good!! So, what's gonna happen to poor Numbah 1, the victim of the Delightfull Chidren's trap??? What about Lenai and her group??!! Find out in the next chapter, duh!!
Kirikou
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Alright, the kids have met each other. Let the arguing begin!! (and another note. I've only seen like, 2 episodes, so don't rat on me for the spelling or something that I wasn't aware of..sorry..)
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The next morning was a beautifull one indeed, taking everyone's problems away for an instant as the sun came slowly over the horizon, signifying a new and much better day. Breakfast made everyone happier, before the kids went back to what they where doing before. Numbah 2 was excited to be able to tell someone about their technology, to the eager ears of Grey, the note-taking-pocket-protector-boy. (but, dispite a few differences, they got along like they'd known each other their whole lives.) Oso and Numbah 4 got along well, finding that they had the same interest in music and a few other minimal things. Mimi and Numbah 3 got along as well. (must I explain?) In fact, to make a long story short, they all did...save for two that is. Lenai came to sit beside Numbah 1, who was devising some strange plan as far as she could tell. His silence annoyed her, but she only stayed next to him, trying to get something out of him.
"So, how long you've been goin' at this exactly?" She asked. He only shrugged, adjusting his glasses.
"About two and a half years even."
"Two and a quarter!" A voice yelled out from nowhere. Numbah 1 glared in the direction, where he saw two heads poking out of a device. "How many times am I going to remind you?!"
"Why does it matter??"
"When someone asks, we're gonna say, since 2000." He said matter-of-factly, dissapearing again as Numbah 1 rolled his eyes. That made no sense at all.
"Forgetful are we?" Lenai smirked, leaning back on the little couch comfortably. He only glared dangerously at her, turning his gaze to another direction of the room, watching Oso and Numbah 4 take out some card game, probably go fish or something of the sort. Mimi and Numbah 3 where well on their way to the television to watch an hour of Cuddly Ponies. Lenai continued to stare at him, though his gaze had shifted. He never once looked back at her, and she wondered why. Does he always take everything so personally? She thought to herself. Probably just thinking of a comeback...
"Riiight." He suddenly said, as though answering her own question. But, as she soon found out from a loud bang, it was only for the boys across the room with black faces and a blown up object.
"Think the colaberation wasn't quite right...have to adjust.."
"How's it comming over there?" Numbah 1 directed to the two, who smiled with a thumbs up.
"This doohicky was too tight, and that little thing.." Grey went on, scribbling as he spoke. Numbah 2 grinned, trying to fix the thing as the boy pointed quirks out. A grin flashed across both their faces, silence following, before they both said "hydrolics!!" together as it blew up in their faces again. Numbah 1 smiled, Lenai shocked to see him on the floor with laughter. The other kids looked over in fascination, to see if something was wrong with him. It was a rare thing to see that from him. Oso only grinned, turning back to his card game, which he was winning. Lenai continued to watch him as he finnaly found the breath to sit up, and get himself back on the chair.
"Alright then." She said, as he turned towards her, as if to answer, but quickly stood to his feet, going over a ways and ripping out some blueprints, sitting on the floor with a pen, and maping. Numbah 4 and Oso came to watch, as Numbah 1 described his idea to the clueless kids beside him.
"We're going to get in here, and possibly, if we succeed that is, not saying that we won't now, that we can get rid of the delightfull children for a few weeks." Numbah 4 sighed in relief. It was a good idea. They where constantly ripping holes in their place, then going away and practically demolishing all of them. They'd dealt quite a hand with Numbah 1, and now it was his chance for revenge.
"So, back or front?" He asked, ready to do both, but would much prefer knocking in the front door and scaring the crap out of anyone there with blasters or something big and deadly. Oso was thinking the same thing.
"We in on this two man?" He asked curiously. Numbah 1 looked about, nodding his approval and putting some more dots on the paper. He had five more to place. The rest of both groups had suddenly appeared over his shoulder, checking the idea and calculating for themselves. The two smart ones pointed out a few flaws, which Numbah 1 corrected without question. He handed the blueprints to Grey, who overlooked them carefully.
"Guard here? That's unusual."
"They're quite unusual people..." He answered quickly.
"No kidding...they tried to turn us into adults with some weird zappy thing!! And they did!!!" Numbah 3 exclaimed, her arms waving frantically. The other group gasped. Someone was sick enough to do that?! Numbah 1 nodded, explaining how he'd managed to survive that...and quickly mentioned that he wished never to do it again.
"Can't put that person there."
"What?!" Numbah 1 looked up from his work to see Lenai pointing at a spot on the map.
"They'll get stuck." He looked it over again, shaking his head.
"Nope. Be fine." She said nothing, only pointed to a place a few feet from where that dot was. His eyes widened in astonishment, and somewhat frustration. Grey and Numbah 2 agreed, flaw in the plan. That would work instead. The person was put a few yards from there.
"And who's gonna be backup!?" Numbah 1 brought up, confusing them again. "Someone has to cover that spot!! Someone will figure if they don't!" Grey looked it over again, and Numbah 2 stared at it blankly. He was right...
"Someone else. Where will you be?" Lenai asked him. He pointed. She looked around. He put a color tack into the paper. She was going to take that spot. They finally all agreed on it, taking the papers and moving out.
On the grounds, the paper was spread out again, outside the premesis.
"Their guard is up from last time. They're expecting us, that's obvious." Numbah 1 glanced about over the horizon, noting the change the place had undergone. Security was the main function from the outside it seemed.
"Alright..." He whispered, as they all crawled in through a small duct in the wall. They all got back into their circle. "This will be your first mission with these guys. Be carefull, and don't get caught! You don't want to know what they'll do to you..And, don't go untill the signal!!" He hissed, fixing his shades and getting to his feet and immediately backing against the side of the wall, for cameras where watching their every move. He had his defense, something to shoot if nessassary.
"KND, move out!" He hissed again, watching as the 9 kids spread out over the entire span of the property, silent as mice. He waited to see four span the wall, and the rest move out to the mansion. They turned back to him, who looked about carefully for any suspicious characters, waving. They entered the building, crawling under wires, ducts, and anything they had to. Numbah 1 had finnaly made it to the main room, where he watched the enemy, obviously in the middle of something. What, he couldn't see from there. He looked over, Numbah 3 in plain view on the other side, but only to himself. Numbah 4 was on the other side of the room, while Numbah 2 was in another room, on his way there. 5, meanwhile, was with Oso and Grey. Safer in numbers as he'd put it. As he was about to swing down, a sound was heard, that almost made him fall out. A squeek, then a scream and alarms. The children turned, their sights right in the duct where he was sitting.
"Found you." They all said in unison, a thing he never realy did get used to. In moments 4, 3, and 2 where caught and squirming. He jumped out of the duct after them, but a shout from 4 had stopped him in his tracks as they came after him.
"Get outa here!! They have 5 and Lenai!!!!" Numbah 1 could only stand their shocked, untill his legs told him to bolt. he busted out of the room, into the next hallway, trying desperately to remember the way through the corridors that where about as bad as a labarynth. He fell against a wall, panting for breath, trying to find his bearings. A scream from down the hall confirmed his location. He gathered his strength, skittering as silently as he could into the room where the sound was heard. he opened the door a crack, gasping at what he saw.
There was Lenai tied to a chair, but numbah 5 was nowhere to be seen... Which was precisely whom he had been looking for in the first place!!
"Come in Numbah 1!! You caught?!" A voice came from a walky talky attached to a pocket.
"Who is it!!??" He squeeked.
"I's 5!! I got away for now, but they're still...after me..I'm gonna...go get the others..."
"Wait!!" he yelled, trying to get her back, but the side had already gone dead. "Damn!!!" he couldn't help but shout, then realized that the soap would be in order. Lenai had already seen him in the meantime and was squeeking under the ropes and gag. Numbah 1 went over, quite reluctantly, to let her go, taking a small knife and cutting them up as quickly as he could.
"What the heck...??" Lenai said as soon as the gag was removed, glaring at Numbah 1 with the most evil he'd ever seen a person stare.
"Look, I'm not in the mood for an argument, so just SHUT UP and come on!!" He took her by the wrist, wrenching her off the chair and dragging her behind him to the door, throwing her against the wall as he left.
"I don't know what the blazes is going on here, but we need to get out. Now!"
"But..."
"They know we're here, and there's reinforcements now!"
"Oh, Numbah 1..." Two voices where heard down the hall. He backed up against the wall, holding his breath, hopping that they hadn't already seen him. "Let's have a little fun. You want to play hide and seek?" Lenai could only shudder from the strange unison of the voices of these kids. No life whatsoever, as if they where androids of some kind...She looked over at Numbah 1, shocked at what she saw. It was a split moment of fear. She hadn't thought these kids where much of a threat, but from his terror stricken face, they where definately not something he wanted to deal with alone...
"Come out, come out wherever you are...you know we'll find you." He gulped nervously, trying not to expose the fact that he had to have been shivering to the girl beside him. But those voices...they just wheren't the natural thing to hear in your mind day to day. "We see you..." His eyes darted in all directions, but he couldn't see them at all. The voices where practically next to them, but the children where nowhere to be seen. Lenai looked up, gasping.
"Numbah 1!! Camera!!!!" Only the word sent him sprinting down the hall, dragging her as quickly as he could behind her. He almost screamed at the sight of a dead end. Footsteps where heard behind them now, and there was no way he'd turn around, Lenai knew right away. He cursed again, trying to find something that would get him out of there, anything..."
"Hey! Up here!!" He looked up sharply, seeing a pair of eyes in the vent. It was Oso. He took Numbah 1 by the wrist, hauling him up, who didn't need much help to scramble the rest of the way in. Lenai climbed up herself, as they continued down the vents untill a spot of light was in view.
"Alright..." Numbah 1 was trying to gather his thoughts, but just about all of his teammates where captive, and probably half of Lenai's team as well...
"Hello...we know you're there...." The sound came over the walky talky, but made all three of the kids jump. The children's voices... "You can't hide from us..." Numbah 1 gasped, turning the walky talky off as quickly as he could, silencing the sound he couldn't stand to listen to for another second.
"Hey!" Lenai said, completely exasperated. "We could use that!!"
"They're tracking us with it!!!!" Numbah 1 shouted, putting it back on the pocket it had been attached to. "One less way to get us." Oso nodded, noting the freaked look on his face. He had the same amount of fear in him, glancing around like a paranoid. Numbah 1 pulled out a map, glaring over it, trying to stop the paper from shivering in his hands.
"Alright...we're here...and they're probably there...oh crap." A sound was heard in the vent, though it was unplaceable. Oso turned, covering a scream. One of the children where there, only feet away. He smiled grimly, fakely, waving slowly.
"Found you." The three screamed, trying to get away, but he already had them cornered. Numbah 1 looked down into the light the vent had brought, seeing just how far the ground was from this one. he tried the grate. It moved. He tried not to look at the height they where at and the injury that could cause...
"No choice!!" He screached, ripping out the grate, and jumping down, landing with a thud on the ground below. The other two didn't even hesitate to follow after him. They got up, Oso limping a little as they scrambled into the next room with the sound of "drat" from the grate. Lenai only thought then, as they hit another wall together, that the children where all around them and nowhere at the same time, which was probably the case. The three where running out of steam, and there was no let-up of the security. A little laugh was heard, as they scattered into another room together, panting and gasping for air. Numbah 1 let out a sigh of relief when he saw the rest of his group there, as well as the rest of Lenai's, tied down.
"mffmmff...nffmfmfmfmfmf!!!" Numbah 4 muffed, in inaudible tones. They where thankfull to see others. As soon as Numbah 1 was about to cut the ropes, the lights went out.
"Joy. Night tag." The voices where heard again, on the walky talky. Numbah 1 gasped in disbelief. He'd turned it off!! He checked the signel. It was on, but the device was off... He got to his feet as his eyes adjusted to the light. He was forced to take his shades off to see. He raised the walky in his hand as high as he could, slamming it into the ground as hard as his arm was able. A smash was heard, and a strange noise as batteries scattered all over the floor. A whimper was heard.
"I'm scared of the dark..." It was Numbah 3. One of the other people tried to keep her calm, another voice heard somewhere on the other side of the room.
"You know that won't work." The voices where heard...the light on the walky talky was still on...Numbah 1 could only stare in horror at the device. He looked over at Numbah 2, who was just as horrified at the breaking of electrical laws. Numbah 1 sighed.
"Sorry I have to do this to your invention 2..." he took out his knife, jabbing it into the system a few hundred times with a gasp and upset from numbah 2, who was quite annerved from this. He then went to 5, taking hers and smashing it as well, destroying them the best way he knew how. A crunch was heard, and the sound of dead air. Numbah 1 grinned, finnaly rid of the only things they could track them by. His was still blinking, despite the huge knife holes it had embeded into it, but was no longer transmitable to anything. Only fuzz and the occational buzz.
"We've got to get out..." Lenai started, trying to feel her way around. She could only see who was immediately beside her, which was her brother, who was looking at her. A shuffle was heard, then Numbah 1 came into view, knife in hand, chopping ropes as carefully as he could in the dark.
"Night vision would be good right about now.." He mumbled, taking out the last of the ropes. A sqeek.
"Not so hard!! You almost got ME!!!" Numbah 5 complained, turning to him visiusly, taking an amazed glance at the knife. "Who's parents would be insane enough to give their kid a KNIFE anyway!!!???" Numbah 1 shrugged, as the knife popped back on the spring it was activated from.
"They wanted to put me into Boy Scouts. I wouldn't let them."
"We have more important things to think about. We need out!" Grey said in quick tones. He looked about. "But, light's a problem. They've got us good."
"Time to play." The voice was heard, to their dismay, as they heard a door squeek...they where there...
"Let go!!!!" They heard Numbah 1 scream out, and a slight struggle.
"But you're so fun." Lenai cringed at the sound of the most horrified scream she'd ever heard, the kind that almost brought her to tears in feeling so sorry for him...The noises and scuffle where still going on. It was obvious by the screaming and struggle that he'd give his all before he let them take him anywhere...
"Stop squirming...you're only wasting your energy. Don't you want to play?"
"NO!! I don't!!! Let me GO!!!!! GET OFF!!!!!" A scream was heard, but it wasn't his. The lights suddenly came on, blinding the kids, untill they got a look at what was going on, gasping in horror. They saw one of the children shrink back, giving him the chance to squirm from their grips, landing back on his feet, knife in hand.
"I knew this thing would come in handy.." He panted, grinning. "I told you I didn't want to play." The one who had shrunk away came forward, the sight astonishing anyone. Blood trickled down her arm, now dripping onto the floor in little drops.
"You'll pay for that little boy." An older voice came from behind the children, a man comming up from behind his children.
"Father.." The man took the little girl's arm, investigating the incision Numbah 1 had made, turning back to him quickly, eyes narrowing, flaring.
"Children aren't supposed to play with sharp objects..."
"Well, I'm not one of your little kids man." He spat angrilly, poised to run, and even slash out again, anything to get away. The other kids where amazed at this sudden bravery.
"Well, that's too bad. You don't have much to defend yourself this time it seems." He was looking for any ice-cream trucks, but found none, to his ultimate satisfaction. The little girl who was cut did not cry, only held her arm, standing next to her "siblings" without feeling it seemed. Numbah 1 looked around desperately, seeing nothing in the room but the ropes, batteries, broken ealky-talkes, and the pocket knife he held. It seemed bleak indeed... The delightfull children grinned, knowing they had him cornered this time.
"After we're done with you," They chanted together, their voices pulling together as if one. "We can REALY play with you." He gasped at the thought of what they meant by "play with him." He shook his head, trying not to let their voices get to him. Lenai could only watch this in horrid fascination. There was nothing like this in her country...
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Part 3: Play
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Woah...that came out good!! So, what's gonna happen to poor Numbah 1, the victim of the Delightfull Chidren's trap??? What about Lenai and her group??!! Find out in the next chapter, duh!!
