Transmission Re-established. . .

Posted: July 16, 2004

Chapter Six:

It was the middle of the afternoon as Kuki came walking through her apartment door. It was a small place that she shared with Wally, that her father was paying for. After decommissioning, it was Kuki that had changed the most. She was no longer the giggly and bubbly child she once was. She was serious and uptight and a smile barely ever crossed her face.

But she was different when she was around Wally. She always seemed so happy and carefree when she was around him, everyone around them chalked it up to love, but Mushi knew it was that and more. It had been a long time since Kuki parents had seen her act the way she used to when she was a child, so they were happy to be welcoming Wally into their family.

"Wally?" she called for him as she kicked her shoes off at the door. She undid her bun and shook her head until her hair fell down.

"You look like a wet cruddy dog," Wally said as he came from the back room eating a sandwich.

"Don't tease." She smiled just as Wally's cell phone rung.

He went to go pick it up off the coffee table. "Hello?" His eyes grew wide and he dropped his sandwich. He hurried and picked it up off the floor. "Yeah, yeah."

Kuki wondered what was wrong as he slowly walked away from her. After leaving his food on the kitchen counter, he took the phone into the back room. Kuki sat on the couch and waited. When he came back out he had a bewildered look on his face. "What's wrong?" Kuki asked.

"Put on her shoes." Wally grabbed the car keys. "We need to go pick up pick up Mushi." He was almost out the door.

"Wait," Kuki stood up, "where are we going?"

A small smile crept up on Wally's face. "To see a old friend."

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"Maybe this isn't a good idea." Abby said as she hung up the phone. "He must think I'm crazy, to just call him up out of the blue."

"What did he say?" Hoagie asked her.

"That our theory makes sense. He said he had the same connection with his fiancé and then something about her crazy sister, and brainwashing." Abby shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know."

Brainwashing? Hoagie thought to himself as he heard the doorbell. He went to go open Abby's front door, only to be face to face with Nigel. "Hello." Hoagie kept his cool. He wanted all the facts before anything went down between them.

Before long Hoagie, Abby, and Nigel were all sitting in the living room in a mass of awkward silence when the doorbell rung. "Thank God." Abby jumped, not meaning to say that, she went and answered the door. "Hey, Wally."

"Abby." He hugged her. "Long time no see."

"Yeah." She saw Kuki and Mushi. "This must be your fiancé Kuki and her sister Mushi." Abby smiled. "Hi."

"Hi." Kuki nodded her head, she had no ideal what she was going here. And neither did Mushi until the front door was opened. Kuki looked at her sister to see that she was now just beaming in delight. Abby? Kuki thought.

"Come on in." Abby lead them to the living room. "This is Hoagie and Nigel. Guys this is Wally, Kuki, and Mushi."

"Hey, man." Wally directed towards Hoagie. "Meeting you yesterday, I would have never thought you were the guy, I lost Abby out to." Hoagie only smiled. "But then again how many guys are named Hoagie?"

"What's going on here?" Kuki finally blurted out everyone stared at her.

"I know." There attention went towards Mushi. She took a deep breath. "You guys were apart of a top kids organization called the Kids Next Door."

"Mushi, shut up. No one wants to hear you babble on about your made up world," Kuki snapped.

"No, let her go on," Hoagie pleaded. Kuki was even more confused.

"You guys used to battle through tyrant-like adults, candy pirates, the Delightful Children Down the Lane, and countless others." Mushi was excited that someone was willing to listen to her other then her therapist. "You." She pointed to Nigel. "You were known as Numbah One. You were the leader and the master tactician. And you." She pointed to Hoagie. "You were known as Numbah Two. You were the brains of the group and you could program, built, or fly anything."

Mushi looked to her sister. "You were Numbah Three. You were strong and the master of distraction. And you did your job happily and always with a smile." Mushi tired not to let the memory of the sister she used to have overcome her.

"You were Numbah Four." She looked to her future brother-in-law. "You were the hand-to-hand combat specialist. And you." She finally turned towards Abby. "You were Numbah Five..."

Numbah Five. Hoagie thought back to his dream, no a memory.

"...you weren't the best, but you were good at what you did. You were the spy of the group. And all you guys were a team and the bestest of friends. But one day Kuki came home and I asked her about her day, something had happened and she didn't remember you guys. And I've been trying to prove I wasn't crazy ever since." She turned back to her sister. "You've got to believe me now. I'm not crazy."

"I still don't remember these people," Kuki whispered to Mushi. Mushi looked defeated she didn't know what else she could do.

"How about we just tell each other what we do remember." Nigel had heard Kuki. "It's worth a shot. Who wants to start? "

"I'll go first," Haogie spoke up.

Tansmission Interrupted. . .

A/N: I meant for this to be my last chapter, but it started to become long... and I got hungry. )

The last chapter will be up tomorrow. I'm really glad you guys have enjoyed this story, I've put alot of my soul into it.