Operation: TIME-TRAVEL

Today or
In time
Many
Erupt

Time
Rocks
Aviators
Very crazily
Even
Loony

By Ahhelga

Author's Note: Well, I'm feeling lovely. I kinda hit a dry spell while making this. So…if it's off, please don't get mad, 'kay? Thanks. Here's Chapter 6.

Disclaimer: There are a few things in this world I wish I owned. Like the Garden State or Napoleon Dynamite DVD, so if I can't own a couple DVDs, do you think I could own a show?

Chapter 6- Developing

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"Are you sure about that, Numbuh 4?" Kuki asked, tilting her head.

"Positive," he said. "That's grown-up 86 alright, but what puzzles me is how she turned out. Did something happen to her?"

Kuki shrugged. "I'm not even sure that's her. Are you sure?"

"I already answered that, Kuki!" he replied, crossing his arms, and making his face into different expressions (that were quite dramatic). "Uh…"

"Are you alright?" she asked, bending lower that she was now eye-level with him.

Wally felt uncomfortable, with Kuki so close to him (not to mention all the paintings on the walls' eyes—they all seemed to be watching him). Kuki pat his back and then started heading back to the room. And after a moment's realization, he head back with her.

"So, what do you think of this whole thing?" Kuki said, her eyes drifting to the ceiling (which appropriately was a scene of different mind-boggling pictures in a brain).

"Uh, I dunno…" he whispered back. "It's too confusin' for me. So, what else is there to think other than 'it's just a dream'?"

Kuki chuckled in response and opened the door to Calli's room. Everyone else seemed to be in a deep conversation. Once they glanced Kuki's way, they ceased. She ignored this quickly and skipped over to them. Before anyone spoke though, Wally scratched his head in confusion. He sensed that they were hiding something.

"What's wrong?" Willy asked him.

"Um…nothing…" he responded. "Except…there's this one adult we met up going to the bathroom."

"Err, did you?" Willy replied strangely high-pitched, scared he found anything he didn't need to know.

"Yeah!" interrupted Kuki. "She was real sweet too!"

"Well, she-she's not supposed to be nice…but she was," Wally said. "I think—err—I think that it was Numbuh 86. Fanny."

Willy sighed in relief. The others gasped, except for Calli who just stared. Kuki did too.

"I heard that name before…and that Numbuh…" she whispered—she being Calli, not Kuki.

"Probably from one of our parents, they always bring guests here…" Willy shrugged.

"No," she said, rubbing her finger on her chin. "I heard it on…on Moon Base—I mean, the first time I went to Moon Base."

"Well, I know there is no Numbuh 86 since their time (referring to Numbuhs 1-5), so why would they be mentioned?" Willy said. "More importantly, who mentioned it?"

"Ack, I can't remember!" complained Calli, seemingly to be lying.

In return, Willy shrugged as he raised a brow. Calli turned around, as if to hide her expression on her face. It seemed to amuse the KND to see all this happening. Or, at least, they were interested in all this, unaware of their own problems and upcoming mistakes.

"It doesn't matter now," Willy said. "We have to get these five up to Moon-Base."

"Right," Calli said urgently.

"Hey! Why can't we stick around for a few days…or at least hours?" asked Wally.

"We should send you now," warned Willy in a strict tone. If he weren't younger or shorter than Wally, he would've been very intimidating.

"Fine," growled Wally. "Jeez, it's not like you're my dad…"

'It's kinda the opposite,' thought Calli.

"Okay, then, let's be on our way," Nigel said.

"Yay! Another trip!" Kuki exclaimed.

Willy sighed, touching the wall slightly, resulting in the elevator opening up once more. Everyone followed him inside. And when they were all in, he pressed the "Up" button, somewhere where the KND had not been yet.

It took a while to reach their destination. It felt like any other elevator, so it wasn't very eventful. When the doors opened, they found themselves on the rooftop. It seemed empty, but you could sense that something was there, anyone could feel it.

"Invisilin off," Calli said. She then turned to the five, "It's something that makes things invisible just by the sound of a voice."

During Calli's explanation the others hadn't noticed a small ship appear on the roof. It seemed to be there all along, just covered by the "Invisilin". They walked towards it as the door opened suddenly. When they reached the inside, they realized that it looked almost the same as Hoagie's "C.O.O.L.-B.U.S." They sat, almost unconsciously towards five seats in the back, while Calli and Willy sat at the front with the controls.

The ship started to rumble, and the doors started to close and it all lifted up from the ground. It was like a normal experience for them, going to Moon Base. Calli then put it on Auto Pilot, and turned to the back.

"It's going to take a while," Willy said. "About a decade ago, the moon went further away from earth due to the gravitational pull's blockage from the "Greenhouse Effect", which baffled scientists. So, yeah, relax."

"Anyway, we're not entirely sure on what you have to do when you reach there, anyway…" Calli said. "Do you?"

"All we know is to get to the leaduh of KND," muttered Abby, looking out the window of the ship.

Calli nodded, and turned around to the front once more. Willy smiled at them and joined his sister. They felt as if it was going to be a long, long trip.

"Numbuh…" he said again. "Numbuh; Numbuh…"

"What's the matter, Nigel?" Fanny asked. "You keep repeating yourself…"

"Numbuh! That's part of…well, something!" he exclaimed, shaking her shoulders, and then did a quick skid over to the rest of the adults. "Well, it sparked something!"

"Hey, mine too!" Wally exclaimed, standing up now.

"And mine!" Kuki said grinning.

"Hey, you got somethin' there, Nigel…" Abby said.

"And surely affected me…" Fanny muttered, which Hoagie only heard from his side. He dared not say it aloud, though.

Nigel smiled, and spoke, "Well, it sounds like 'number', so…could it be 'number' not 'Numbuh'? I did after all say 'Numbuh 86'."

"Hm, seems likely…" Abby said it, trying to stand up like the rest but couldn't (because of her belly). "And it makes sense. Let's call it 'number'."

"…Somehow, it doesn't have the affect Numbuh had…" Hoagie said, observing.

"Yeah, Hoagie's right…" Wally said.

The group lost it then. They had only a few small words to say, but that was it. And the end of their "meeting".

"I hope we have the same productive day today, this weekend, 'kay?" Nigel said, standing by the doorway, telling the others. "And Fanny…take care of yourself. We're not sure how many are out to get us, especially you. Good bye, all. C'mon Abby."

He wrapped his arm around Abby's waist. She silently thanked God that she had something to lean on then.

As Fanny watched, her face boiled, in shame and anger. For some reason, after the "Accident", she found herself angrier at Abby for…dating Nigel. However, she knew that she could never have him, for she was in captive and taken control of. She couldn't…

But she then thought, 'Did I have these feelings before…Lizzie?'

The sun had been long ago set and there was only one thing seen in the darkness—a silhouette of a man. He had been standing on the roof of the Beatles' home. It felt empty. He knew that there was nothing up there other than a carefully hidden elevator, chimney top, and a flat surface. Had he been too late?

"Ack! Why am I such an idiot?!" exclaimed the figure.

He cursed under his breath as he walked to the edge of the roof. He opened the zipper of the third pocket to his left. He took out a slender cigarette and lit it with his lighter from his back pocket.

'I really should get off of these,' he thought looking at the neighborhood. 'But I'm so darn stressed.'

He glanced around him. He rubbed his rough goatee, and pulled off his bandana, showing off his blonde hair. It had been so messy, that it looked impossible to comb.

To think it was ever groomed. To think, someone who was such a high-status was now a lowly time-traveler, a changer, a life saver. He was someone who helps, not like the other trained clones, if only they were exactly like their master.

Author's Note: I'm so super sorry it took forever. I wasn't so inspired. Ack. Don't worry, I will post the next chapter up on by birthday, or somewhere around there (which is on January 22nd). Well, please be so kind and review, thanks.

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Ahhelga
AKA Pauline