Kids Next Door

Operation: A.N.G.E.L.

Angelic

Nuisances

Guardians

Eliminate

Loftily

Chapter 03: First Battle

Note: Vensy is used with permission of Vensy-Chan her creator.

The E.V.A.N.G.E.L.I.O.N. fell to the ground. The angel walked up to it and picked it up by its head.

Then something snapped.

With an easy that Numbah Four never had the E.V.A.N.G.E.L.I.O.N. unit found its feet to the ground and started to attack it. The tall purple machine rammed into the brown monster and knocked it down on it's bottom. The unit then started to pummel where the "head" of the angel seemed to be, the creature was so unlike anything the Kids Next operatives had ever seen, they didn't realize that Numbah Four was apparently going for the red gem that was located in the middle, underneath what resembled visible ribs, until the E.V.A.N.G.E.L.I.O.N. unit was stabbing it with its knife.

Numbah Three went from grieving her friend to being almost horrified by the violence. It was the grossest thing she had ever seen, she knew keeping it from hurting other operatives was important, but right now it looked like Numbah Four in Numbah Two's invention was holding the angel down stabbing it with a large knife.

Suddenly a very quiet "crack" was heard, then the angel exploaded. Half of a block was destroyed, and the E.V.A.N.G.E.L.I.O.N. unit's exterior was almost completely melted. The Operatives were barely able to get an unconscious Walley out.

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"Oh darn it," Xanthanos said silently cursing to himself. "The angel has been defeated."

Luvara looked at her husband sympathetically. She knew what it was like to have magic go bad, she hated when it happened to herself. She put her arms around her husband and held him tight, trying to lend him her strength and support.

"I should have summoned a stronger angel," Xanthanos said dispassionately, trying to analyze where he went wrong. Luvara hushed him with a kiss. Xanthanos smiled inwardly to himself, no matter what, he felt, he was always going to be the happiest and luckiest Summoner in the world because Luvara was his wife.

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"I'm surprised they invited us back," the Tolienator said to kill the silence on his way to Luvara's with his son.

"I guess it's either to tell us good news or bad news," Luke said plainly. "Oh! Maybe I can talk Xanthanos into teaching me some magic!"

The Tolienator raised an eyebrow but smiled, it was rather charming how naive and hopeful his son was. He was glad that he boy was no longer mopping around, but had goals and plans. The Tolienator's headache returned, his brain just wasn't used to doing as much thinking as he'd been doing lately.

It was a nice day out. The sun was shining the birds were chirping. Luke paused for a moment, having thought he heard an odd bird call. He remembered hearing it before when he was younger; he looked over in the direction he thought it came from.

What he saw was not a bird; it was not whatever made the sound. It was a dear old friend of his, Vensy. Normally he'd be pleased as punch to see her. But he saw that she wasn't alone. She was with Kids Next Door operatives…

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"Um, apparently the angel we summoned wasn't enough." Luvara said after brief greetings had been exchanged. "We can summon something stronger but it'll take more time."

"Um, ok," Luke said awkwardly. "Anything you need us to do?"

Xanthanos shook his head, "no."

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That night:

Luke looked over at his alarm clock. It was already 10:30pm. He had gone to bed almost two hours ago. He stared up at his ceiling, unsure of what was bothering him. He was pretty sure it had something to do with those Kids Next Door operatives he saw with Vensy, he felt as though there must've been something special about them. He couldn't put his finger on what though.

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The next day, the Tolienator woke up to find a letter sitting on the seat of the golden toilet.

"To: The Tolienator and son"

It read on the top, the handwriting looked like an archaic script. Not the mention the paper itself looked as though it belonged in a museum. The Tolienator had recently made a policy of not reading any of his mail especially that addressed to his real name; but he made an exception for this, as it was to his codename and he figured it wasn't from any government department.

"It has come to our attention that we will require the spear on longus to be able to summon a demon powerful enough to defeat our enemy. It was last scene in America, in the Smithsonian. Please retrieve it for us at your earliest convenience so that we may continue our efforts to defeat the Kids Next Door.

Luvara and Xanthanos"

The letter smelled of a lovely perfume. Tolienator pondered for a minute, he was rather surprised he didn't find Luvara unbelievably attractive, as she had many good qualities, plus her perfume smelled nice.

This was going to take some planning. The Tolienator rolled up his sleeves and got to work, hoping to be ready to execute the plan by the time Luke got done with school for the day.

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Luke was surprised to see his dad waiting to pick him up when school let out. He had been hoping to talk to Vensy about the people he saw her with the other day. "Dad? What are you doing here?"

The Tolienator smiled, "Come on kid, we've got work to do!"

"Where are we going?" Luke asked raising an eyebrow as the Tolienator put a hand on his son's shoulder to guide him.

"The Smithsonian," the man replied, quickening his pace. He hated being in public. "We're going to go visit the Longus Spear!"

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The Tolienator's plan was rather simple. Luke was a young boy and young boys often go places where they shouldn't. The Tolienator had the magic couple divine the exact location of the Spear, and he just played the part of the inattentive father after telling Luke where to retrieve it from.

Luke had little difficulty finding the spear. It wasn't really a spear, but more of a spearhead. He quickly tucked it under his shirt to conceal it as he heard footsteps approach.

"Now there, young man," a gruff old voice spoke. "What do you think you're doing here?"

Luke turned around to see an older man, with a big thick mustache. He giggled nervously. He mumbled a half hearted explanation, "I thought I saw something so I came back here and everything looks so neat..."

"Well, little fellow," the guard suggested kindly, seeing the kid was embarrassed and nervous already. "Why don't we go find your mom or dad?"

Luke nodded, "I'm here with my dad."

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"Wow, they did it!" Luvara said. She was very surprised, she knew that they duo would try to get the Longus Spear, and may even see it, she wasn't actually expecting them to successfully take it out of the Smithsonian. "Honey, we should teleport them here. We shouldn't let them wonder around Washington D.C. with such an artifact."

Xanthanos nodded in agreement, he doubted either the boy or the father would have any idea the magnitude of power the artifact they were carrying held. He chanted a surprisingly quick spell, and the father-son duo appeared with a poof of white smoke.

Unfortunately the Tolienator, not paying attention to where he was, did not realize that there was a wall not three strides away. With a thunk he hit the wall and fell down dazed.

Luvara, smiling sheepishly at the Tolienator, and said, "We thought it would be easier on you two if we gave you a little lift here."

"Here you go!" Luke said proudly as he pulled the spearhead from where he kept it. In a carefree manner, the boy tossed the artifact at Xanthanos, who never considered that anyone would handle such an artifact so loosely. Luckily the mage was able to catch it in time; it took him diving to the ground to accomplish it.

"Child! Do not throw this artifact ever again!" Xanthanos barked once he had pulled himself up.

"Why not?" Luke asked. "I don't think it can be broken anymore than it is." The spearhead was old, and very worn.

"This is a powerful artifact," Xanthanos stated plainly. "It is said to grant immortality and increase magical power many times over."

"So," Luke asked, "what you're saying is that you'll be able to live forever?"

Xanthanos nodded, "And be able to summon a very powerful angel to destroy the Kids Next Door."