Chapter Seven: The Delightful Teenagers From Down the Lane

While the former KND members were looking around for Britney, she was actually making plans with the Delightful Teenagers. They were planning an attack on the tree house and needed someone to get the former members there. Kuki finally stumbled unto the control room and saw Britney in there. "What are you doing in here? Everyone else is—" she started, but was silenced but a loud rumbling noise. Britney and Kuki quickly ran back to the main room just in time to see a giant robot pounding the tree house with all five of its giant claws. The Delightful Teenagers were inside and were all laughing monotonously.

"Well, well, well, look who it is. The former Kids Next Door."

"What are you cruddy losers doing here?!?!" shouted Wally. None of them had expected this, but what really surprised them was the gas emerging from the robot. They were all immediately put to sleep and snatched up by the robot's claws. Britney had already climbed into the robot and stood next to the Delightful Teenagers as they laughed evilly and plotted their next move.

Hoagie was the first to wake up and he soon noticed that he was in a dark and damp place, most likely to be the Delightful Teenagers' basement. All four of his friends were still passed out in their cages. Abby and Nigel were in one cage together and they were lying really close to each other. Wally and Kuki also shared a cage and he had his arm around her, as if protecting her. Poor Hoagie was all alone in this uncomfortable cage. (A/N: I really need to pair him up with someone. But who??) Meanwhile, Britney was nowhere to be found. That girl just keeps disappearing...maybe she went to look for help, he thought. Kuki was next to wake up and she gently shook Wally to get him up.

He fidgeted a little and mumbled, "No, Mom, I don't wanna wake up...five more minutes.. "

"Wally, wake up!! And I'm not your mom!" Kuki yelled loud enough to get him to open his eyes and take in his surroundings. Abby and Nigel had were also awake and confused about where they were.

"Where are we?" asked Nigel.

"And where's Britney?" added Abby.

"I don't know about Britney, but I think we're in the Delightful Teenagers' basement." answered Hoagie.

"This place is so smelly and dirty!!" complained Kuki. "And I'm cold!"

"It's OK, Kuki," reassured Wally, and he came over and put his arms around her to keep her warm.

They sat there content for a few minutes but were startled when the Delightful Teenagers came in and said, "Sorry to interrupt, you lovebirds, but GET UP!!"

"What do you want with us?" asked Nigel, but nobody answered him. Instead, the Delightful Teenagers opened their cages and handcuffed their hands and feet. They led them to another dark and dirty room, which looked like a torture chamber. Then they were chained to the walls and had their mouths bound and gagged. The Delightful Teenagers and Britney, who emerged from a dark corner of the room, turned on a computer screen which said, "Now contacting Kids Next Door Moonbase." The former Kids Next Door members were at a loss for words and couldn't believe that Britney had just double-crossed them. After a few minutes of total and complete shock, Wally started to struggle with his chains and screamed through the cloth binding his mouth. He muffled most of the words and the Delightful Teenagers couldn't hear him. It was a little irritating after 10 minutes so they took the cloths out of their mouths.

"I can't believe you Delightful Dorks—," started Wally.

"And you!!" ::pointing to Britney::: "You betrayed me!! I thought we were friends!!" screamed Kuki.

"We were, before I found out you were a part of the Kids Next Door. Now my loyalties belong to the Delightful Children."

"Why, you little—," began an angry Abby, but was cut off by the noise from the computer screen.

"What is the meaning of this?!? Why are you contacting the Kids Next Door Moonbase?!??" questioned a girl with red hair and a terrible temper. She looked just like Numbuh 86 and was probably related to her somehow.

"We have something you want, Numbuh 54, " said the Delightful Teenagers in that creepy tone of theirs as they stepped out of the way to reveal the former Kids Next Door members in chains.

"Is-is that the former members of Sector V? They were the best we had!" said a flabbergasted Numbuh 54.

"That's right, and we're going to kill them if you don't give us what we want."

"But...but.. why do you think I would care? They're not part of the Kids Next Door anymore?"

"Yes, but you still wouldn't want them dead would you? To feel guilty? To know that you could've done something to stop us?"

"Well, y-y-yes...but..."

"And we're going to broadcast everything over national television to send a message out to kids all over the world. After seeing this, they're not going to want to join the Kids Next Door and the ones who already joined would want to drop out."

"T-t-that will leave us defenseless. Nobody will be here to defend the Moonbase."

"Exactly. NOW GIVE US WHAT WE WANT OR ELSE!!"

"B-b-but what do you want?"

"You know what we want, the code module."

"But...but...but.."

"No buts!! You have an hour to send us the code module or they die!"

"An hour!?!?"

"Yes, an hour. Do you have any problem with that?"

"N-n-no, it'll be ready in an hour." The computer screened turned off and the Delightful Teenagers and Britney turned around to face the former KND members.

"You can't do this!!" said a scared Kuki. "You can't!!"

"And why not?" asked the Delightful Teenagers."

"Because it's inhumane!" "Crazy!" "Psychotic!!" "Homicidal!" "Cruel!!" "It's wrong!!" All of the former members were yelling and causing the Delightful Teenagers to go crazy and shout, "SHUT UP!!! WE CAN DO WHATEV—" They were interrupted by a crash in the roof. There was a gigantic hole in the roof and suddenly green smoke filled the room, causing the Delightful Teenagers and Britney to fall to the ground unconscious. The former KND members were strong, but couldn't withstand the gas. They tried not to breathe it in but it didn't work. They all slowly drifted off to sleep, but Kuki, the last one to fall asleep, saw a figure dressed in all black coming through the roof. "Natalie...?" said a drowsy Kuki, who immediately dropped her head down and nodded off.

A/N: Ughh....sorry that chapter sucked but I'm having some serious writer's block. I was trying to add Natalie to the story, but I'm not even sure if she should be bad or good. I really need help. Any ideas? I don't even know how to end this story. It was supposed to be shorter but somehow I kept going on and on. And I've been thinking about changing the summary cuz it's a little vague. Wow, I sound really desperate and pathetic right now so I'm just gonna stop talking. :::sulks in corner:::