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A Sweet Promise

Chapter 7

The Truth Unfolds

Danielle and Abby had been everywhere in town trying to locate the TND headquarter. So far they had no luck. Danielle was getting desperate.

"I say, let's grab a kid we know is in Kids Next Door and see if he knows." Abby looked at her. She wasn't sure of the plan, but wasn't in the mood to argue. Danielle jumped out of the tree they were sitting in and looked around. She began to walk down the street. Abby quickly followed. Danielle made a sharp turn into a store. Abby saw that it was the candy store.

"Doesn't that girl get enough candy?" In a few moments Danielle came back out, casually talking to a kid who had the number 32 patched on his shoulder. When they were completely out of the store, Danielle grabbed the kid by the collar of his shirt and pulled him into an alleyway.

"Listen kid, tell us where the TND Headquarters are, and I'll let you go with your body intact." Abby gasped and began to stop Danielle but stopped. Hopefully Danielle had a pretty good reason why she was doing this.

"I-I, I don't know anything." He said sharply, struggling to get from Danielle's grip. She wasn't going to let up, so she lifted the kid into the air and pushed him against a wall. Holding him by one hand she reached for her knife. She aimed it at the poor kid.

"So you want to play that way huh?" She said mockingly, waving the knife around.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you. It's a quarter-mile in the woods, east of the park." He said quickly, flailing his legs freely. Danielle dropped him, and placed her knife back. She smiled at the kid and threw him a piece of candy. She motioned for Abby to follow her.

"Ok, I know being a pirate has made you gung-ho, but did you have to pull out your knife?" Abby asked. Danielle gave her a cold look, but her eyes then softened.

"Hey I was a kid once. I know what KND operatives fear. Teenagers and death. I just use that to my advantage. But I would never hurt a kid, unless they absolutely deserved it." She spoke in a sincere voice. Abby mumbled, but went along with it. They reached the park and followed the kid's directions. And sure enough, a quarter-mile in was a massive tree house. Danielle stood just on the edge of the trees, before they stop leaving a field to the tree house. She gave Abby a smug look.

"I bet this is it. Wow they don't branch to far out when it comes to headquarters to they?" Abby shook her head.

"We shouldn't get to close, they might have monitors." She said, grabbing the binoculars around her neck. She searched the house for any outside cameras or anything. When she didn't see anything she began to walk closer. Danielle followed closely. When they got close enough Danielle walked ahead and started climbing up the branches. When she reached the first floor she looked into a window. She looked down to Abby.

"Hey come up here and see if you know anyone." She whispered loud enough for her to hear. She made her way up. When she reached Danielle she looked in the window. She instantly saw Fanny's flaming red hair. Luckily enough she was watching TV, facing the opposite way. She looked around and saw a few operatives she didn't know. Her breath caught when she heard someone singing. If the voice wasn't recognizable enough, the song she was singing would give it away.

"Rainbow Monkeys, Rainbow Monkeys…" The girl sang as she skipped along. Her teammates would give her a look of disgust as she hopped by, but Abby smiled. The sweet sound of Kuki's happy voice brought back heart-warming memories.

"Uh, Numbuh 3 will yah stop?" The Aussie asked, stepping into view. Kuki just bounded over to him. She started bouncing and singing around him. Wally's face got red, from anger and embarrassment. Kuki noticed and stopped right in front of him.

"Say it." She said calmly.

"Say what?" He asked, face growing even redder.

"You know silly." She said waving her hand at him.

"If I do you have to stop." He spoke blandly.

"Um…Okey-Dokie."

"I love you." Abby gasped as she heard this. If he had said it so easily now, that means he must have admitted it already.

"'Bout time." She whispered. She gazed around the room. She had also spotted Hoagie. She had become interested and started climbing higher into the tree. Danielle watched her, wonder where she was going, but kept quiet. Abby was peeking in every window as she climbed. When she had gotten very high, she reached a deck. Stepping onto it she walked up to the door. To her luck it was slightly ajar. She opened it quietly. Poking her head in, she let go of breath she didn't know she had been holding. There in the corner of a room, writing on some paper, was the one and only, Nigel. Abby felt her heart race. Then she felt a little disappointed. She was still going to be Nigel's enemy.

"Uh…Abs I think we should go...Now!" Danielle said her voice rushed. Abby looked over the balcony. Danielle was backing away from where she was standing, her hands poised. She jumped down. Wally was standing there with an S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R. Abby kept her face away from him. She was happy they had gotten in their pirate clothes. She would be less recognizable. Grabbing Danielle's wrist, they ran away, as fast as their legs could carry them. Wally got mad that they had gotten away. Fanny came out and gave him a bad look.

"Good job, they got away…stupid boy." She mumbled the last part walking back inside.

Nigel stood on his deck, watching the two girls run away. He had recognized the pirate to be the same one that attacked them after Abby's decommissioning. He didn't get to see her face, again. He only got to see one eye last time. An eye can't help much; some people have the same eye color. But for some reason Nigel couldn't shake the feeling that the pirate seemed familiar. When he had looked into her eye, his heart had skipped a beat. He threw himself onto his bed. He picked up a picture he had of Sector V. Him and Abby stood next to each other. They were smiling, and he had his arm around Abby. Kuki had managed to get a hold of Wally, and he was blushing a very vivid red. Hoagie had tried to give bunny ears to Wally and Abby, but you could see his hands behind their heads. Nigel smiled at the picture, but silently wished he had a better one. He couldn't see Abby's eyes. He wished he could, they were one of his favorite things about her. Nigel placed the picture back and went to his computer. He had to find something about that pirate or he would drive himself crazy. He sat at the computer and started typing.

"Stickybeard's Pirates." He spoke as he typed it. A long list of pirates came up, including Chewy, Gooey, and Dumb John Silver. He scrolled down. All the pirates were male. He returned to search.

"Female Pirates." He typed. There were only two results. He clicked on the first one, and read the information out loud.

"This pirate is suspected to have just join Stickybeard recently. She has attack KND once so far, but has attacked many candy stores along with another female pirate. She has also been spotted attacking ice cream stores. Strangely she didn't steal any ice cream she just destroyed toppings like jimmies." Nigel heard Abby's voice in the back of his head. 'They're called sprinkles not jimmies.' He scrolled down and saw a picture of the pirate that attack after Abby left. Her face was covered by the bandana and eye patch. Her one eye mocked Nigel. He knew it was familiar but from where? He clicked on the link for the other female pirate. He gasped when he saw the picture.

"Danielle…?" He recognized the girl from school. She was friends with Abby. Nigel read the information on her.

"15 years old, has connections with Father and Mr. Boss, very skilled with a sword and/or her knife, has attack KND over 70 times, not to be taken lightly. Oh man. I better warn Abby about her, she could be in danger." Nigel said, walking out of his room.


Abby and Danielle had make it to the park, far enough to feel safe. They sat on a bench to catch their breath.

"So what now? Should we get some troops and attack or…?" Danielle trailed off. Abby could feel the pressure from the older girl.

"I've got an idea." Said a cool voice from behind them. Before facing the voice the two girls gave each other a smug look, already knowing the owner of the voice.

"Cree." They said in unison. Smiling mischievously at them stood the Teen Terror, Cree.

"Well if it ain't little Abby. I see you had the pleasure to meet Danni." Cree smiled warmly at her sister and old friend. Abby's first instinct was to fight her sister. She held back because, now, they were fighting on the same side. Danielle on the other hand, sat shocked. She was incredibly happy to see her best friend again after 2 years. She tried not to show it by just sitting silently, beaming.

"So what's your plan then?" Abby asked, her voice had a hint of disgust. It was hard to think of Cree as an ally after so many years of being rivals.

"We should attack the Teens Next Door…together." She said drawing out a pause for suspense. Danielle hopped up in agreement, but Abby wasn't so reluctant to join them.

"I dunno, what makes you think we can beat them?" Abby asked. Cree gave a smug look.

"Oh please Abby, don't doubt our power. I'm Father's strongest teenager, and you two are Stickybeard's finest. Together we are a force to be reckoned will." Abby smiled at her sister's confidence. I would be nice to get back the sisterly friendship she had with Cree before KND. She looked up at the two older teens. Cree had almost a puppy-dog look, and Danielle stood there arms crossed, trying her hardest to keep her stone-cold pirate face. Abby thought about it. She was willing to join them; she was just worried about her old team discovering her. She wanted to badly to keep a friendship with them. If they found out, she would lose them forever. Abby looked up with an idea.

"I'll go, only, if I get some Battle Ready Armor." Cree snickered.

"Oh, Abby. You're finally at the age to wear a bra. Oh I am so proud of you." She mocked, clasping her hands together. Abby looked down in embarrassment.

"I just want to keep my identity secret from my friends." Abby's voice was so sincere and depressed that Cree instantly stopped.

"Alright fine." She looked to Danielle, "I'll get you and Danni some. That would really throw them off from you two. I could careless if they know I'm attacking them." Danielle nodded, and started to walk off. Abby began to follow her then turned.

"Thanks…," Abby smiled warmly at Cree, "Sis."


The next day,

They met up at the park. Cree got Abby and Danielle their own B.R.A.s. They all had laser guns in a holster on their waists. They began through the woods until they reached the massive tree house.

"Ready?" Cree asked, initiating her B.R.A. The other two girls followed, and armor covered their bodies and half their face. Cree looked to the two girls and saw that Abby looked almost exactly like her. It was almost eerie. They ran at the tree house. Cree threw a small explosive. It blew an opening for them, and left a ton of smoke as a delay for them. Quickly getting inside, Abby thought that it was going to easy. Of course when she thinks that she's, generally, right. Within a sec they were surrounded by 10 operatives. Abby recognized the four members of Sector V, Numbuh 86, and Numbuh 362. Suddenly Hoagie but down his weapon, and gazed stupidly at the girls.

"Cree…" He said drooling. Cree acted like she didn't hear it. She glared at the younger teenagers.

"I can't believe they got you guys to be in the Twerps Next Door." She spat pointing at the ex-Sector V. Abby cringed at Cree's remark to her old team, but kept her weapon pointed. Danielle snuck behind Hoagie and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. She lifted him in the air. Everybody turned to her.

"Alright no one move or the kid gets it." Abby and Cree got a sense of what she was doing, and quickly moved. Cree picked up Kuki and Wally. Abby got Nigel in a headlock and aimed her weapon at his head. Nigel turned his head just enough to look into her eyes. He knew those eyes. They were the eyes of that pirate. Nigel then realized he knew where else he had seen those eyes before, but before he could register it in his mind, the butt of her gun him in the head. Cree and Danielle knocked the other three out, and left as quickly as they had come. They reached an empty warehouse, Father set up for them. After tying them up, Abby stood back and came to her senses. The entire time of the attack, she had been in a primitive state. It was like she had known only to attack. She stood only a few feet away from her friends. She almost broke down in tears. What was wrong with her? She was the biggest traitor. Then she looked down at herself. Not only was she a traitor but she was a coward. She was allowing herself to betray her friends but she wouldn't let them know that she was doing it. She pressed the button and her armor pulled off her body. Cree and Danielle gave her a questioning look but shrugged it off. Abby sat in front of her friends. Slowly she saw Wally stirring. He groaned and tried to move. When he noticed his lack of mobility his eyes shot open.

"What the crud? Hey you cruddy teens, untie me right…Abby?" He stopped. Abby cringed at her name. She looked up at Wally. She was slightly happy he had woken up first and not Nigel. It was still hard to tell someone that you loved like a brother that you captured him.

"Wait a minute… why are you working with Father's teenagers, I thought you worked for Stickybeard." Abby froze.

"Whaddya mean, I thought you worked for Stickybeard?" Wally smiled at her sheepishly.

"Oh yeah…um Kuki told me. No hard feelings alright?" Abby couldn't believe what she was hearing. First of all Kuki had broke her promise and told her secret. Second, was Wally trying to make peace? Abby looked at Kuki who had woken up. She giggled.

"My oopsies." She said. Abby couldn't help but smile. Hoagie now woke, moaning.

"Oh my head, oh my leg," His stomach growled, "Oh my stomach." Abby giggled lightly. Hoagie looked to her.

"Abby? What's going on?" She then told them her whole story. From the promise to now. Hoagie's jaw was about to touch the floor. Wally looked slightly surprised even if he knew most of the story already. Kuki didn't seem the slightest phased. Abby untied Nigel and dragged him to another room. She wanted to talk to him alone. She walked up to a window that had steel bars running down it. Abby grabbed onto them. Then she freaked.

"What if they bring me to the Artic Prison?" she looked at Nigel.

"They really should." She said to herself. She wondered how that would go over with her parents. Nigel woke up. He didn't make a sound. He looked around the empty room. Behind him stood a girl in a blue jacket and white Capri's. Everything that had happened earlier came back to him. He remembered being captured. He pulled out his mustard gun. Grabbing the girl by her shoulder, he quickly turned her around. He stared right into those eyes. The same eyes that had been taunting him since Abby's disappearance, and much to his dismay, he now saw that they were the same eyes, he fell in love with.

"A-Ab-Abby?" He stuttered, a small part of him still had hope that it was just someone who looked incredibly like her. When she nodded slightly he could feel his heart crush. She was that pirate. She betrayed the team. Worst of all she betrayed him.

"Abby, how could you? How could you leave us for Stickybeard?" He said. Abby could feel tears coming. She noticed that Nigel was still pointing his mustard gun at her.

"Look Nigel, I had to. If I didn't Cree would have persuaded me to join Father. Either way I would have ended up on the bad side." Nigel looked down.

"At least this way, I have no one to blame but myself." She said. She lifted his face by his chin.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Abby suddenly couldn't hold back anymore. She lost normal calm, cool, and collected personality, and totally lost it.

"I'm sorry for everything. I'm sorry for making you sneak into the Delightfuls' Mansion. I'm sorry for causing you to lose your hair. I'm sorry not getting you a cherry flavored candy on your birthday. But most of all, Nigel, I'm sorry for leaving you. I'm sorry for betraying you." She looked directly into his blue eyes and spoke quietly, "I'm sorry for loving you, and I'm sorry for not telling you till now." Nigel blinked. What did she say? He broke away from her. Abby was looking at him with tear-filled eyes.

"You what?" Abby looked down, causing the weight of her tears to fall. Dark grey spots marked her tears on the concrete floor.

"I love you Nigel. I had since I first met you. It took me till Kids Next Door to realize it, and until now to say it." Nigel would have jumped for joy, if it didn't seem so inappropriate. Instead he walked up to Abby and kissed her on the lips. Abby pulled back after realizing what happened. He looked into her eyes, and wiped a lone tear from her face.

"I love you too Abby. I wanted to tell you, I just never got the chance. And when I did get the chance I was interrupted." He said thinking back to her birthday at the theme park. This time Abby kissed him. Nigel didn't want this moment to end. Neither did Abby, until she pulled away again.

"What are we going to do?" She asked. Nigel cocked his head to one side.

"What do you mean?"

"Well we are supposed to be enemies, what are we going to do?" Nigel paced for a second thinking. He stopped.

"You know, we don't really have any candy. That's what Stickybeard is after, so maybe…just maybe, we could create a truce, or an alliance. Then we would be more like teammates. Or we could set up something and we could get you to be a member of Teens Next Door." Abby smiled. That was crazy enough to work. She walked over to the door and looked out it. Danielle was there but Cree had disappeared. She walked out.

"Where's Cree?" Danielle looked at her.

"She wanted to hurt them." Danielle said pointing to the other 3, "I wouldn't let her, and so she got mad and ran off."

"Why did you protect them?" Nigel said walking into the room.

"Well, first reason, I don't hurt people unless they give me a very good reason to, and you guys have given me no reason to hurt you. And second, because you guys are Abby's friends, and friends are something that should be cherished forever." Abby smiled at Nigel and then to the other three. Danielle couldn't have been more right. And if she was lucky she could be with her friends again. Then she felt bad. She was looking at Danielle who had protected her friends, even though she doesn't know them, and they are the enemy. She felt bad because, if she joined TND, then she would leave Danielle. Which would suck too, because Danielle had taken Abby under her wing, and she was like a sister to her. A much better one then Cree too. Abby wrapped her arm around Nigel and turned their backs to everyone.

"Listen, if you can get me on the Teens Next Door, we have to get Danni too." Nigel looked at her like she was crazy.

"You, I can easily get, but her, I don't know she has a bad history with KND." Abby stared at the ground. Then back up at him.

"Well me and her were disguised, maybe if we bring you guys back, we would seem like the heroes and they would accept her." Nigel thought, it was a long shot, but why not try. They called the others over and devised a plan.


30 minutes later,

Fanny was pacing back and forth.

"I can't believe we let them get away, with operatives." She cried. Numbuh 362 finally got upset with her bickering.

"NUMBUH 86, WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT UP!" Fanny cringed,"Someone's PMSing." She mumbled as she sat down. Numbuh 362 glared at her but turned to the computers.

"Hang on, it picked up a signal. They are headed back here."

Five minutes later, Abby and Danielle made it to the base of the tree house. They jumped in the elevator, hoping desperately that the alarms wouldn't go off. She looked down at Nigel who was lying on the floor pretending to be unconscious. He looked up and winked at her. The elevator doors opened, and all eyes turned to them. Instantly, all the operatives pulled out a weapon. Abby and Danielle grabbed the others and pulled them off the elevator. Fanny looked at Abby.

"Abby, what on earth?" Abby let go of, Nigel and Kuki, who she pulled in.

"Um…Let me explain. I saw my sister with these four, so I got Danielle here to help me, help them…" Fanny stopped her.

"Okay fine, but you said you don't know me, so I figured you must have gotten captured and decommissioned, what really happened?" Abby knew she didn't want to let Fanny know she was working the other side, or it would lessen her chance of getting on TND.

"Well, I lied because, I freaked when you remembered me, and I didn't want to get decommissioned, so I figured, if you thought I was, I'd be all set." Fanny nodded.

"Alright, now how did you know where our Head Quarters are?" Again Abby didn't want them to know she was on the opposite side, and she didn't want them to notice who Danielle was.

"Well, I got Kuki to tell me just before she passed out." Abby replied, pointing at Kuki. On cue, Nigel started coughing, and sat up.

"Numbuh 1, are you alright?" Nigel looked up at Fanny.

"Oh yes, a little sore but…" Fanny interrupted him.

"Okay wonderful, great," She said in a non-caring tone, "So did Abby save you?" Nigel looked at Abby.

"Yes, you should have seen her. Acting just like the old Kids Next Door operative she is." He said, then looked at Danielle, "Her too, she helped a lot too." He said pointing, pretending he didn't know her. When the other 3 'woke up' they verified the story.

"Well, we should do something for you two then." Numbuh 362 said, "Maybe make you honorary members of Teens Next Door." She finished. Fanny's jaw nearly dropped.

"But, but, Numbuh 362, Abby skipped out on decommissioning, and we know nothing about the other girl." Fanny whined. Numbuh 362 was still very much annoyed with the Irish girl's complaining.

"Well we know that they saved these four, that's a good enough reason for me. Besides, if you think about it, we skipped out on decommissioning too." She concluded. She walked up to Abby.

"We will have an official ceremony later, but welcome back Numbuh 5." She said holding out her hand to Abby. After shaking it Numbuh 362 moved to Danielle.

"And Welcome to the Teens Next Door, Numbuh 7." She said. Danielle took her hand.

"Wait who's Numbuh 6?" From behind her Kuki squealed.

"Oh that's Bradley!" Danielle looked to Abby.

"Who's Bradley?" Abby chuckled.

"Long story girl."


Oh i had to add in the Who's Bradley bit, its an infamous question. Oh poop that was the end. OH wait epilouge. yay! im going to do that...Right now! I'm kinda glad i ended it here, otherwise I would have never been able to stop. Oh and just to clear things up, Numbuh 3 and 4 are dating, in case you didn't get that back up there.

ok now go REVIEW...please, with sugar and a cherry and sprinkles(not jimmies) on top!