Leia: Boo!

Kuki: Yay! Scary author!

Abby: they finally get to read 'bout what I got planned!

Leia: Yuppers! I just couldn't wait to put up this chapter!

Review Response:

Blazekin: Thanks! I hope everyone else thinks it's interesting too.

DarkSpyroIke: yeah, Bradley the skunk was #6, but he got replaced and his numbuh changed according to me. (see end of this chapter)

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Disclaimer: I don't own KND, or the various inventions that I cant remember the names of, or the SPLANKER. I do own #6 and these inventions: W.I.N.G.S., D.E.C.K.G.U.N., R.E.S.T.-H.A.T., M.A.G.N.E.T. S.H.O.T.,

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CH 3: Freedom and a Reminder

Morning aroused the leader with an annoying (clock) alarm. From the floor, he opened his eyes and realized he was off the bed and had pulled his blankets after him. He

The R.E.S.T.-H.A.T. (Revitalizing Energy Saved Thanks to Helmet And Time) had given him rest to equal 10 hours of sleep. The helmet allowed you to rest in limited amounts of time for what felt like much, much longer. He took off the metal sleeping cap, set it on his nightstand, and turned off the alarm. And after dressing and haphazardly throwing the sheets back on his bed, he went down to the kitchen for some breakfast.

#2 and #5 were admiring what she had been working on last night (since 3 AM). "What's up guys?" he inquired, gathering Milk, cereal, a bowl, and a spoon.

"This" Abby said, holding up a weapon that looked like a giant syringe.

When he saw it, he dropped the spoonful of cereal and questions began spilling out of his mouth. "What is it? Did you make it? How does it work? Will it change them back-"

"Hold on, hold on." She said, putting up a hand to silence him. "It's my invention, I call it the M.A.G.N.E.T. S.H.O.T." (Magnetized Ammunition Gives off Negative waves Easily Tripping-up System Helping Opposing Team)

"The gun shoots a 'bullet' filled with negatively charged powder. The powder makes its way to the brain through the blood stream and changes the polarity back to south of whatever got changed."

"Brilliant!" Numbuh 1 exclaimed, "alright team, get something to eat, then prepare to leave. We need to pay those Delightful dorks a visit..."

The KND operatives gathered together what they'd need. Numbuh 5 got three pairs of W.I.N.G.S. (see ch2) and after pausing to think, grabbed three more and stuffed 1 each into the other 3 W.I.N.G.S. knapsacks.

#2 was in charge of weapons. He grabbed the SPLANKER (TV show) for #1, the ice-blender thingy for himself, the gumball shooter for #3, the mustard gun for #4, the popcan-laser for #5, and the newly invented D.E.C.K.G.U.N. (Device Emits Cards Kwikly, Getting User's Nemesis) for #6. He also had to carry the 3 shot-like guns. (I've got no idea what any of them are called except the SPLANKER TV show and DECKGUN mine!)

They each holstered a M.A.G.N.E.T. S.H.O.T., their favorite weapon, and one of the other trio's favorite.

Placing helmets -with magnets all the top- on their heads; the ventured out and down the street to the mansion of the Delightful Children from Down the Lane.

"Open up you freaks!" Nigel yelled, impatiently ringing the doorbell and slamming his fist on the door. When nobody answered, he kicked the door in frustration. It was just past noon but he was determined to free the kidnapped operatives. And then with an eerie creak, the double doors opened into a huge room with a chandelier and shiny, wooden floors.

They trekked inside, not knowing what to expect. They wandered in, past what looked like a living room, past the kitchen, and into the office that Father was usually in. (where they were in operation GRADUATES when they got turned into animals)

"Keep on your guard, you never know when- AAAHHH!" Numbuh 5 was sinking rapidly through the carpet and soon had been swallowed by it. #2 and #1, wide-eyed with fear, got up on the desk, but the desk began sinking as well. #1 successfully jumped from it to a curtain, but Hoagie was unable to move quick enough and the ground swallowed him too.

Nigel clung to the red velvet with all his might, but strength alone wouldn't help him in this situation. Finally, the velvet slipped from his sweaty hands. Closing his eyes, he sighed in defeat. He sank slowly and when his head went under, he knew no more.

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But that wouldn't be the end of him, far from it.

A hazy light and the cold tile under him woke Nigel Uno. He sat up and saw #2 and #5, stirring and moaning. He stood and found he was in a laboratory. Computers hummed, chemicals hissed, and sheets upon sheets of complicated calculations lay on the counters. He checked his watch and was startled to discover that it was now 6:45 PM, only leaving 15 minutes to get his friends back.

He walked out into an open area of the tile. The light didn't go any farther than where he was, but he could sense people just beyond his vision.

"Guys?" he called, "Something's over here."

"Kids Next Door." Said the blue-eyed siblings as the fluorescent lights flared brightly, blinding the operatives for a moment; "We thought you'd never come!" they said in mock joy. Laughing insanely, they called to the DCND and the 3 Delightfulized operatives appeared out of the darkness that was now behind him.

"Your friends will only fight you, cure them, and they might stop...might." And with that, the DCFDTL disappeared like whispers on the wind.

The 3 were slowly moving towards the still weak Numbuhs 2 & 5. Aiming carefully, as he only had one shot, Nigel pressed the trigger, sending the magnetic antibiotic at #6.

The capsule sank into her arm and she fell to the ground, writhing in pain as her skin took on a more lifelike color and her eyes began to change back to normal.

"What happened? OH CRUD!" Janey rolled out of the way as a metal tube shot down at her. With an unbalanced leap, she dodged it again and landed on top of it. As the tube looped around to catch her, she stood waiting. "Just a few more seconds...aaaaaannnnnnd, NOW!" she slid down the side and the tube slammed into itself, completely destroying it. Then, seeing the pandemonium, she ran over to help.

"STOP!" she shrieked as #3 (still delightfulized of course) began choking #5. #3 didn't listen, or else didn't hear her, but in any case, Janey put her in a headlock and held her for Numbuh 5 to 'un-delightfulize'.

"Hi guys! Why is Numbuh 4 all weird?" she chirped after returning to normal.

"We'll explain later!" 1,2 and 5 said in unison. Abby handed Kuki her gumball shooter and some W.I.N.G.S. and Hoagie gave Janey the D.E.C.K.G.U.N. and W.I.N.G.S.

"Now, now, we can't have that" the 5 voices chorused. "You only have 3 minutes to save your stupid friend, and once this is permanent, your stupid little friend will be one of us, forever..."

#4 started to get a little taller. His hair became more like that of the DCFDTL boy in front, and his eyes were turning bluer by the second.

"NUMBUH FOUR!" Kuki wailed. She dashed forward and hugged him, "No! Don't change! Don't be like them!" Wally's expression was confused and the eyes got greener, then bluer, then greener, etc.

Meanwhile, Hoagie was aiming at #4's arm when he realized that there was no ammunition in his M.A.G.N.E.T.S.H.O.T., "Guys! There's no ammo left for Numbuh 4!"

"Oh yes there is!" Numbuh 3 cried. She took the empty syringe from him and picked up the ½ empty bullet from her cure, "This will just have to do." And fired.

The shot made contact and they saw the pain splashed across his face. He clutched his head as he rolled on the white tile in pain. Up on his knees again, he said in a normal voice, accent and all, "Numbuh 3! I'm sorry-" and his eyes shut, only to open again, blue as the 5 pairs glowing behind him.

#3 watched horrified as the 5 went froward to claim him as their own, but something else made Wallabee Beatles collapse entirely.

"WHAT?" the DCFDTL shrieked.

"Sorry, but I can't let you have this victory, not now, not ever." Janey said, swooping over the 5 children and aiming at them, with the D.E.C.K.G.U.N.

#3 felt someone strapping a pack on her back, and she opened the W.I.N.G.S. up, following the rest of her team into the air, clutching the gumball shooter.

The rapid firing from #6's weapon was deflected back at her by the bubble-shield of the Delightful Children.

"Since when do they have technology like that?!" #2 asked nobody in particular. Just the same, he swooped in and used the ice-blender to freeze the floor around the Delightfuls.

The girls were bent on weakening the shield, so they continued fire on the super-strong blue bubble.

#4 was up by now and had just grabbed the mustard gun when the strangest whistling filled the room. Looking up, he saw the tall girl blowing a tiny flute.

"That won't do yeh any good, delightful dweebs!" he said confidently.

"Au contraire, Numbuh 4." They said politely as multicolor bubbles began coming from the fizzing chemicals on the counters all over the room, forming a kind of octopus that began shooting bubbles at all of them

"A giant squid?" #4 laughed, "is that the best you can do?!"

The delightful children were enraged at this, and shot the bubbles at him. He was instantly trapped in a green bubble and no matter how much he tried, he couldn't break out of it. He squirted the mustard gun, but it just splotched on the inside of the bubble, oozing down grossly. The other operatives saw this new prison and took cover behind the many tables and counters.

"What are we gonna do?!" Hoagie whimpered. They could hear #4 yelling, but didn't dare try to hear better by peeking over the top of their only protection.

"I'll tell you what we're gonna do." Numbuh 6 said, eyes bright and full of fire "We're gonna win this thing, once and for all! Now here's the plan..."

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Wally was now cracking rude remarks at the DCFDTL. They were ignoring him, so he yelled louder, beating on the glass-hard encasement, finally plopping down and crossing his arms in

"Where are you fools? We're becoming bored of a certain simple-minded boy."

"Oh, are you looking for US!?" Numbuhs 1,2,3,5 & 6 soared out from different parts of the room with the 2x4 creation; each headed straight for the bubble-creature. As a distraction, #3 and #6 were shooting at the place where the Delightful Children were. As planned, the bubbles didn't pop and the annoying laughing started with comments about how stupid they were to make that mistake 2 times in a row.

The real attack went on as Abby heated multiple bubbles with the laser from her gun. Hoagie followed close behind, freezing them. #1, using the SPLANKER, broke the spheres with a single hit each.

In his head he admired how #6's observations had spotted this flaw. The bubbles could be easily broken after encounters with extreme heat and cold in a short space of time.

They continued to do this to all the legs until the DCFDTL realized their octopus only had 2 tentacles. Their eyes widened with either fear or rage, nobody really found out, but the 2-legged contraption collapsed and the Delightfuls disappeared before the team could reach them.

#4's bubble burst and as he had no W.I.N.G.S., he fell rapidly to the ground, but #3 caught him at the last second and set him down gently. Numbuh 6 threw him a pack, and turned back to the other 3 who were gathered around #1's wrist communicator and talking to someone at the Moon Base.

"Thanks." He mumbled to #3.

"Why were you all weird before, Numbuh 4?"

"I don't know."

"Okay." They stood in an awkward silence. #4's back was turned to her and they both had a pinkish tinge in their cheeks.

#6 turned away from the group, obviously miffed from her conversation with #86. She saw the 2 and practically squealed with joy. Gliding over, she slung an arm over both their shoulders. , "You guys know that the new assignment ball is in 4 days, right? And it's mandatory."

Both were shocked at her arrival, but this seemed to have struck something in #4. His eyes were the size of tennis balls and he started sweating.

Pleased with her work, #6 scooted away, whistling a love song. She knew they belonged together, he just wouldn't admit it, and she was completely in the dark about it. 'Oh well' she thought, 'if things don't work out naturally, I can always encourage a little.' Smiling mischievously, she yanked open the door she had found and stepped into the late afternoon sunlight.

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Leia: whew! Chapter 3!

Wally: that was un-called for!

Leia & Janey: oh, we know. Identical evil grins

Kuki: what didn't call?

Wally: never mind...

Leia: before the next chapter, I need 3 more reviews (non-flame as always)

Kuki: why are you Numbuh 6? I thought Bradley-

Janey: I replaced him. He's much happier as Numbuh 729.

Leia: smirks all right enough now. See you again in chapter 4!