Chapter five
Numbuh One was not happy at all with Edward Venn. He had to be up to something – maybe to spy.
And to make it worse, Edward Venn was the Delightful Children from Down the Lane's older brother. What was his mother thinking?
He made his way to the tree house and was about to walk into his room when he noticed toilet paper stuffed around the Kids Next Door security alarm system.
Which meant one thing: the Toilenator was loose somewhere in the tree house and up to no good. Most likely, someone put him up to it. Someone like his baby-sitter downstairs. Ah well, it would keep him busy for a few hours before he had to face Edward again.
Downstairs, Edward was sitting in Mr. Uno's chair and had taken out a small box which contained the prototype Red Bell spy fly. It was an advanced model of the Blue Bell spy fly his siblings used to spy on the Kids Next Door, only this one had an another use: to download information from the Kids Next Door central computer.
He activated it and the fly eyes lit up, meaning it had been successfully activated. "Go to the tree house and steal the data from the central computer," Edward ordered.
The fly did as ordered and flew away upstairs. It was joined by two Blue Bell spy flies, there to make sure Toilenator did his job right and to provide Edward with any information on the tree house.
Numbuh One had made his way to the armoury and armed himself with a Blaster to begin his search for the Toilenator. Numbuh One was getting very annoyed; normally the Toilenator just attacked alone, and out of all the villain the Kids Next Door ever faced, he was the chap, simply because he used toilet paper as a weapon and was overcome by a desire to be popular with the other villains.
It was than that the Toilenator attacked. "I was beginning to thing no one was at home," said the Toilenator.
"Well, I'm here and I am going to kick you out," said Numbuh One as he began firing his Blaster at the Toilenator.
The Toilenator fired his toilet paper at Numbuh One, but Numbuh One just ducked and set off his rocket boots, firing at the Toilenator again.
Edward was watching the battle via the spy flies, and was not impressed at all by Toilenator.
Any time now, Numbuh One would disable Toilenator and discover the Red Bell fly linked to the Kids Next Door computer, unless Edward got involved and joined the battle. The problem was, that would risk him being seen, and confronting Numbuh One's fears about him bring a Delightful operative.
That was an easy problem to solve. Edward pressed his belt and armour began forming on his body, his face being covered by a helmet.
"Now to teach Numbuh One some respect," said Edward in a monotonous tone.
Up in the tree house, Numbuh One was still fighting Toilenator, and Toilenator was near to winning the fight.
"I'm going to flush you, Numbuh One, and then the other villains will have to respect me," said Toilenator. "And all because I received this tip, you would be home alone with some baby-sitter," said Toilenator.
"Well, that's where you're wrong, you freak," said Numbuh One, hitting a button on the control unit. The Toilenator was catapulted out of the tree house, because he had been standing on the springboard.
"Well, that deals with him," muttered Numbuh One, about to walk back into his room when he was hit on the shoulder. As he blacked out, falling to the floor, the last thing he saw was an armoured figure looking at him.
Edward Venn was pleased. The Red Bell fly was still downloading from the computer and would be finished in five minutes, which only left the problem of what to do with Number One. He was considering getting rid of Number One once and for all when the doorbell downstairs rang.
Edward pulled Number One into his bedroom and placed him on the bed. He went downstairs and pressed his belt again, which got rid of his armour and helmet, and headed for the door.
There was a girl at door. "Yes, what do want?" asked Edward.
"Is Nigel in?" she asked. "I'm his girlfriend and we're suppose to be on a date."
"I'm not sure, but I think he went to bed. But I ordered pizza, so if you want to stay round and have some with us, you're more than welcome," said Edward.
"Ok, I will. Are you Nigel's baby-sitter or something?" asked the girl.
"Yes I am, so what's your name?" Edward asked.
"Oh, it's Lizzie Devine. And you are?" asked Lizzie.
"It's Edward Venn. So how long have you two been going out for?" Edward asked as they walked into the living room.
"About 12 months now, are you sure Nigel's not up?" asked Lizzie.
"Why don't you go up into the tree house and find out if he's up?" Edward suggested.