Shadowedstar213 - The team is 12 or about that. I think I wrote it down in a later chaptah....

hEyBaByDoLl - I promise the story will be slowing down soon. I got kinda quick through the summer months, but it'll be another couple chaptahs until we slow it down And the journals actually don't benefit Kuki and Wally... but that's all I am going to reveal!

-Signy

Chaptah 6

'I wonder when I should tell them...' Nigel thought to himself as he walked through the treehouse. It had been a week since they had sent Villain 368 back into custody and he still hadn't told his team about decommissions. He looked up and found himself standing outside Abigail's door. Knocking tentatively, he voiced her name.

"Abby, are you in there?"

"That you boss?" she asked, opening the door.

"Uh, yeah. I uh, never mind." He turned and started to walk away but Abby stopped him.

"Num- Nigel." His name sounded almost foreign to her tongue.

"Wha?"

"You and I, we need to talk." Abby took his hand and led him into her room. Nigel felt her touch shoot through his body like electricity. Abby released his hand and sat on the edge of her bed, where he joined her. "You know what this is about."

"Uh..." Nigel gulped. "My birthday?"

"More then that. You're hiding something... something big."

"Oh really? And what is that Abby?" Nigel said, trying to play cool. He knew that if she truly inquired he'd tell her anything.

"Something about that mission last week. Does it affect all of us, or just you? And even if it only affects you, why won't you share with us, or at least me? Aren't we worthy of that?" she sounded almost sad, like she was about to cry. Her voice tore at Nigel's heart and he confessed immediately.

"We aren't going to be decommissioned. That was the deal I made with headquarters, but I didn't want the others to know yet. I don't know, maybe I figured it'd be like a surprise." Nigel took her hand in his as he was speaking.

"No joke?" Abby asked, looking at her hand in Nigel's.

"No joke." He replied. He heard Abby's squeal of joy as she enveloped him in a hug.

"Thank you." Abby whispered into Nigel's ear. "This means everything."

"There is one thing though." Nigel said. Abby pulled out of the embrace in one swift movement and gave him a confuse look. "We'll still have to quit the KND."

"No way! Nu-uh not going to happen." She replied defiantly.

"Not to worry." Nigel laughed. "We've been selected to start the TND. Sector V will lead the KND into the new millennium.

"Teenagers Next Door?"

"Precisely. We'll be going on the most difficult of missions, ones that the new recruit KND operatives wouldn't be able to handle."

"How could you not tell me something like this? This is amazing! We have to tell the others!" Abby exclaimed, jumping up and racing for the door.

"No!" Nigel shouted as he slammed the door shut with his left hand.

"Numbah 1," Abby started, turning around to face him.

"Yes?" he answered, smiling down at her.

"Uh..." she mumbled. 'I don't remember him being so tall. I practically have to stand on my toes to look into his eyes!' she thought as she said, "I won't tell them."

"Good—"

"If and only if..." she continued with a devilish gleam in her eyes.

"If?" Nigel questioned. Abby motioned for him to get closer so she could tell him the conditions. He leaned down and waited for her answer.

"Your secrets safe with me." She whispered, giving him a shy kiss. Then ducking under his arm she jumped into her laundry shoot and sped down to the main room.

'What a girl...' Nigel thought, opening the door.

"We should go to the beach!" Kuki exclaimed, tugging on Wally's arm.

"Oi, I need that!" he snapped trying to squirm out of her grasp and press the buttons on his controller. On the television screen there was a crash and Hoagie stood up and cheered.

"I win, I win!!" Hoagie laughed while doing his victory dance.

"Now why'd you have to go and do that?" Wally growled, throwing his controller at the ground. He hated losing DBZ Butiki, especially to Hoagie.

"I just wanted to go to the beach." Kuki said with eyes brimming full of tears.

"I'll go with you." Abby said from the doorway.

"Really?" Kuki twisted around to look at her friend.

"Yeah, Numbah 5 could use some sun."

"Yay!" Kuki shouted, running off to her room.

"You know Numbah 4, Numbah 3 doesn't really have the best of luck at beaches. Last time she got kidnapped and almost had to marry King Sandy." Abby noted to the Aussie. A look of horror crossed his face as he raced to his room

"Wait Kuki, I'll go too!" they heard him call.

"So how was the beach guys?" Hoagie asked when Wally, Kuki, and Abby walked into the treehouse.

"The usual. Numbah 5's tanning got interrupted by Kuki getting kidnapped again." Abby said, stifling a yawn.

"King Sandy?" Hoagie asked, his eyes getting wide.

"No, this time it was his cousin, Baron Bart. Seems before Sandy met Mushi he mentioned his super cute girlfriend to Bart, who got jealous and decided to take her as his own." Abby explained.

"Ah, I get it." Hoagie replied.

"But it really doesn't matter cause I kicked both their butts!" Wally yelled triumphantly, throwing some punches in the air.

"Yeah, that was cool, but I don't understand why I owe you a quarter." Kuki said.

"I'll explain some other time." Abby smiled. Kuki giggled and skipped out of the room. Once they couldn't near her anymore, Hoagie spoke up.

"Jeez, Numbah 3 must owe you a dollar by now, with all of those quarters she owes you!" he and Abby started laughing as Wally turned red and walked out of the room muttering about his silly compadres.

A/N: -snort- I thought of that last line during istep testing... I was doing a writing prompt for the English portion and it just came to me, so I thought I'd better not mess with something that fit so perfectly... Your writing extrodinaire, Signy