Now Loading KND Operation: DARK MIRROR
Disclaimer: I do not own the Kids Next Door organization or show. I just wish I did. Oh, yeah, but own Numbuh 192,776.
Summary: What happens when an evil and more powerful version of the Kids Next Door from another dimension discovers and decides to invade our universe? One word: CHAOS!!! Can the KND beat them…or will they be forced to call for help from their dreaded enemies? Join them as they combat their worst foes ever: THEMSELVES!!!
Note from author: Hey, everyone! Sorry for the delay. I was in the middle of my exam week. You know how intense that is. But hey, those are the responsibilities of a high school life. Anyway, the last chapter was a bit of an experiment since I was experimenting on a writing on a new genre: as you noticed in the last part of the chapter, romance. Anyway, I was originally planing on testing out comedy for this chapter by placing Negatives 3 and 4 in a awkward situation but, somehow, I decided not to. Instead, I'll show the everyday life of the CND. Although this and the chapter before was kind of inferior, I promise that the coming chapters will be much more interesting with action in every paragraph. Thanks. I hope you enjoy.
PS I also made a revision of Chap 2 removing all known errors. However, if you know of any others, please contact me in my email address(see my profile).
Chapter 3: Preparation for War
That morning in the CND tree house between the park and the forest…
Negative 4 was heading for the bridge(control room) where he and the other major officers' outposts were. He didn't have much of sleep that night due to the lengthy and painful medical procedures Negative 3 had to perform in order to remove the shards of glass that could disrupt the healing process and/or cause new wounds with normal movements. Despite the many discomforts of that night, it was ok because he had an excuse that night to be with Kuki, something very rare due to his and her strenuous schedules. As he walked, he noticed many people were looking at him and murmuring something to each other. He walked to a cadet who was also staring at him.
"Anything wrong, cadet?" he asked.
"N-nothing, sir," he replied cautiously, "just wondering where you got those wounds from, sir. You know, out of concern, no disrespect meant."
Looking at his cadet(Negative 75), who was somewhat a friend or acquaintance, he answered, "I got it from a fight with Negative 1 last night. That rat! He was at it again, just about to beat Negative 3 again for the delays he started himself. He gives people projects and then, when we least expect it, he gives us delays and kicks the deadline closer to us. When we fail to give it on time, he punishes and ridicules us for the delay. And when we give it on time, he shouts at us for bad quality. It's a lose-lose situation!! What kind of a leader is that!?!"
"A bad leader," answered the cadet, "Obviously, someone has to challenge him for his position(a fight to the death; common practice in their world, in fact, the very method Negative 1 got into power in the first place) or teach him true leadership."
"Yup, but the only question is 'who?'" said Negative 4, "I mean, everyone fears him and no one dares to correct him! Anyone who challenges always dies the duel. So far, no one who's been able to even come close to beating him since he always mashes the challenger before he or she even has a chance! Those who tried to correct him always, no matter how security conscious he is, is always found dead by tomorrow!"
"I see what you mean," the cadet responded with a frown, "It seems, there's nothing we can do for now."
"Anyway," Negative 4 said turning to the hallway leading to the bridge and away from his saluting friend, "Nice talking to ya! See you tomorrow!!"
Quickly, he went to the console in a elevator, looked around to see in anyone was spying on him, and punched a few keys. The sliding door hissed open revealing an empty room inside. Stepping in, he ordered the elevator. "Bridge. Deck 2!"
He felt the g-forces pushing him down as he went up. Suddenly, the door opened revealing a large room. The room had a large, console-filled table facing a large screen, which was also in front of two chairs. In front of the table was a the Captain's chair with Negative 1 on it and First Officer's chair with Negative 5 on it. Around them was the monitors and major officers in front of their monitors.
"Permission to enter," requested Negative 4 to the supreme commander acting as if what happened last night never happened.
"Permission granted," answered Negative 1 who also stood and inquired, "And what took you so long?! You are 2.76 minutes late! You ought to be demoted for that!"
"But-but, sir, by clock says that I'm exactly in time," replied the Chief of Security Negative 4 showing his time piece, "I-I thought you'd be pleased to see me according to the new schedule."
"It's your job to be on time, Negative3," growled Negative 1, "and, if you can't do that, you'd better quit while it's still early!"
"Negative 1, let's just skip this and get to the important stuff," replied Negative 5 rising from the First Officer's seat and trying to avoid a conflict.
"Very well, Negative 5," said Negative 1 sitting down with the second-in-command, "Negative 4, access the spy satellites and give us images of our new foes."
Instinctively, Negative 4 pressed the buttons in his console to reveal the KND tree house on magnification setting 4.
"Hmm…," said Negative 1, "Negative 4, increase magnification."
Obediently, Negative 4 pressed a few keys to change it to setting 4.5.
"Um, that's a little too much, Negative 4," responded the commander, "adjust it."
The Security Officer did so by decreasing the magnification, which automatically returned to setting 4 again.
"Negative 4!!" shouted Negative 1, "that's the same magnification as the first! Bring it in between!!!"
Nervously, he pressed the keys in his console, which brought no response from the screen.
"What are you doing, you idiot!?!" demanded Negative 1, "Bring it in between!!!"
The screen flickered many times switching from settings 4 and 4.5. Seeing this, Negative placed his hand on the table and leaped to Negative 4's outpost just behind his.
"Let me do it, you fool!!" shouted the leader pushing the Chief of Security aside and attempting to carry it out himself grumbling, "If you want work done right, you have to do it yourself."
When he himself could not perform the task, he thrust his fist into the monitor causing the other monitors to go blank. Observing this, he glared a Negative 2, who was on the other side of the room trying to figure out the reason for his computer to go off. Finally, he went to where Negatives 1, 4, and 5 were to asses the damage and called to his follow engineers for backup.
"Negative 2, what's the cause of all this?" inquired the boss pretending he had nothing to do with it and quickly hiding his somewhat bloodied fist, which Negative 2 saw anyway.
"The monitors… well… I just… um, I kinda made a mistake in the wiring," the Chief of Engineering reported nervously and told himself, "I knew I should have used the series circuit instead of the parallel one."
"Well, Negative 2, what are you waiting for!?!" barked the leader, "You have work to do in these repairs and the nuclear missiles I ordered five days ago. Don't think that you're exempted from that now that you have this to do. After all, this is all your fault."
Turning to everyone else, he called out, "For our new routine, we'll all go to the training ground to brush-up or our skills by 07:50 hours and head for the shower houses at 11:00 hours. Then we have lunch at the cafeteria at exactly 12:00 followed by your appointed lectures to the cadets, rookies, and new comers. By 19:00, all of you are to be in the cafeteria for dinner and nightly news and updates on our progress in the invasion. By 20:00 you are to be back in your sleeping quarters. As usual, indolence(laziness) will not be tolerated and will be punished quite severely. Understood!?!"
"Aye, sir!!!" cried everyone in the bridge giving him a salute.
"Good!" said Negative 1 before turning around, "This is your schedule, the schedule of shift 1. There will be 4 shifts in total so that when one group is busy, there is still another 3 shifts defending. Now, head for the training grounds!! I've already informed shifts 2-4 of this timetable. Shift 2 should be here by now…"
Suddenly, the door slid open and a group came in to relieve the first shift of their bridge duty.
"Permission to enter?" asked leader of that group in a sharp Russian accent. (Obviously, he's lower in rank than Negatives 1 and 5.)
"Enter!" shouted Negative 1 to the high commander. He turned to the others and called to them before leaving, "Everyone in shift 1, excluding Negative 2 and his engineers and assistants, head for the training grounds, NOW!!! Meanwhile, I'll be in sickbay…" The sliding door shut.
"Sorry about that, Negative 2," apologized Negative 4 to his over-worked comrade, "Don't worry, I'll make it up to you. I'll contribute some extra guards to help you. Also, I just called in a reinforcement of engineers yesterday when I heard of that you had too little manpower for all your projects."
"Thanks, Negative 4," the Chief Engineer answered, "That would be a big help considering all the jobs he gives us and all the deadlines and all the stress!"
Suddenly remembering the new schedule, he cried out to Negative 2 while running to the elevator, "Oh, crud!!! I have to go! Hopefully, Negative 1 doesn't notice I'm not there yet. See ya!!"
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In the KND tree house…
"Well, operatives, reinforcements will be arriving after breakfast. With the greater manpower, all the refits and upgrades should be completed in record time," Numbuh 1 told the others while they gobbles up their milk and cereals.
"In a sense, I'm kinda grateful for this big battle," said Negative 2 pausing from his breakfast, "It's been a long time since I've upgraded this place. Not to mention, when we beat them, think of all the altered technology we'll find and assimilate! Perhaps my counterpart has been able to succeed in the projects and experiments I failed on. Our 2x4 technology would definitely benefit from this!"
"Yup," agreed Numbuh 4 before taking in a spoonful of his General Krunch cereal "We'll also have the utmost pleasure of kickin' their butts!!! Ha ha!"
"I wonder if my counterpart also likes Rainbow Monkeys," said Numbuh 3 as she poured her Rainbow Monkey O's into her bowl, "I hope she does! Then, she can be my friend and we can have tea parties together! Then we'll play around and play around and pick some flowers and…"
"Numbuh 3," interrupted Numbuh1, "I hate to disappoint you but, if you remember, THIS IS A WAR!!! We'll be fighting them and destroying their base!"
"Oh, ok!" she answered with her perpetual smile as she took a bite of her rainbow colored sugary cereal.
"Um, Numbuh 1," inquired Numbuh 4, "How do we know that they're planning to attack us?"
"I happened to see their plans," their leader told them, "and they don't seem to be too friendly. The word 'invasion' told me immediately that they're up to no good."
With their morning meal done, Numbuh 2 readied his toolboxes for use and Numbuh 4 unlocked the emergency arsenal containing 15 belts of ammunition, 10 mustard-bottle handguns, 5 soda-battle rifles, and 5 S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R.'s. After arming themselves adequately, KND operatives started the refitting and upgrading processes. In about two hours, they saw ten KND carrier aircrafts containing 26 agents each. They all landed in the around the tree house, where Numbuh 1 and the others met them. As the crafts opened and operatives poured out of them, Numbuh 1 noticed a familiar-looking individual in a red and blue suit and black-clad armor with a short sword sticking out of his belt.
"Numbuh 192!!!" gasped Numbuh 1 in amazement.
"In the flesh," answered the agent turning his head to his new appointed leader.
"I thought you were recommissioned to serve back in the moon base!" said Numbuh 2 also stunned.
"After hearing of this future battle, I requested to be sent back here with you guys," the agent responded, "After all, I wouldn't want to miss all this action, would I? Now, if you excuse me, we have a lot of work to do!! We have refits and upgrades to perform and we have to do it all before we are attacked."
"You're right," Nigel responded and turned to everyone, "Everyone to work!!! Numbuh 4, you and a group of people should refit and upgrade the weapons and defenses. Numbuh 2, you and another group should work on the scanners and generators. We need lots of energy to run the additions we'll be adding. Numbuh 3, you and another group should work on…"
And so, everyone was assigned with a particular task. By the end of the week, the tree house was working at full efficiency with camps, barracks, war factories, laboratories, airstrips, road blocks, and other stuff around it that made the place look more like a military installation than a neighborhood. Meanwhile, in the negative tree house, battle plans and strategies were being made and so were tanks, assault ships, aircrafts, and other devices of warfare were being manufactured. Soon, a battle would start and would reek havoc this world. This war would be something that Kids Next Door was unprepared for… a war in which the conventional rules of their warfare would not apply, a war where their enemies knew them very well, a war that would determine the existence of this human race… a war against themselves.
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There it is KND Operation: DARK MIRROR Chap. 3!!! So what do you think of it? What will happen in the coming assault against the KND tree house? Will the CND be successful in their quest for world domination? Will this story end just in the chapter after?(Of, course not!) After that offensive, what terrible thing do the KND operatives discover? Find out in the next adventure Chap.4 The Battle Begins!!!
