Chapter 4
Everything went fine the following day. They had no red-alert missions, they had no homework, they got to laze around all day and they got free ice cream (I don know where they got it from…)
Well, let's just say there was nothing to see her-
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHH!' came a Numbuh Four-ish type of scream from Numbuh 4's room.
A certain boy with brown hair, a pilot's cap and round goggles looked around lazily and said 'That sounded oddly like a Numbuh 4-ish scream, from Numbuh 4's room. I wonder who it came from…'
They (Numbuhs 1, 2, 3 and 5) went to check out the source of commotion. Nobody was present at Numbuh 4's room, so they decided to turn back to their unnecessary, lazy and pointless lounging about, when they all heard loud gasps coming from Numbuh 4's room.
'Numbuh Four?' called Numbuh 1 while knocking on the door. The door swung open at his touch and inside, they saw an excited blond boy in his PJs looking as if he had lost his first tooth and the tooth faerie had left him 50 dollars.
'Guys! Guys! Guess what!' squealed an overactive Numbuh 4 while jumping up and down
Numbuh 5 rolled her eyes 'What? The tooth faerie left you fifty cents?' she asked in a mockingly sarcastic tone.
He shook his head 'No, even better! I – I - well, just look for yourselves!' he said as he brought down a magnifying glass to his chin – there, you could make out the tiniest little small blond single hair.
There was a number of 'ooh..'s and gasps. 'Numbuh 4, is that a hair on your chin?' asked a serious looking Numbuh 1 who hardly reacted to this bit of news. 'Yep, it sure is' responded Numbuh 4 looking immensely happy.
Numbuh 1 took out a small book from his back pocket entitled 'KND Rules' and ignored everyone as they continued to stare at Numbuh 4's new found um…appearance.
After five minutes of gawking, Numbuh One finally emerged from his book looking triumphed, 'AH HA!' exclaimed he 'You can't have started puberty yet if you're in the Kids Next Door, at least, not for boys. You have to get rid of it! Ha-ha! I mean – um – too bad Numbuh Four. It was you first step to actually prove you were not immature…bla bla bla bla bla…'
Numbuh 3 nudged Numbuh 5 and whispered 'Is it just me, or is Numbuh One really saying "bla bla bla…"?'. 'It's just you' was the reply with a little smirk, Numbuh 3 always gets messed up about these kinda things. Numbuh 4 had to get rid of that teenie tiny hair very (And I mean VERY) reluctantly.
-- Later that afternoon --
'I just remembered!' exclaimed Numbuh 2 and turned to Numbuh 4 'remember that you had moaned about leaving something behind? What was it?'
Numbuh 4 immediately turned pink and stammered 'Um…um- I – I – we –well… It must've been the …um…affects of Gadget X…I – she was my bunny rabbit, Coco, the stuffed toy I had when I was 4? It got into a bee hive and I sorta – well – stuck my head into the hive thing, to take Coco out but I ended up getting stung all over the face and I remember being dragged into a bed or something and someone removed the hive. Then, I think, I blacked out and woke up on a surgical table. I think the rabbit thing was because of Gadget X's effects' said Numbuh 4 very quickly in one breath, turning even redder.
This was followed by a lot of laughs
-- That evening –
Far away, in a distant land, there lived Suko! The evil toy maker of darkness and he planned on… (Something. Do you really think I'd tell you here?)
He walked and stood near the window, his short black hair gelled back with … um …gel with a blue business suit and an angry expressing plastered on his face. He was waiting for a phone call, he checks his watch, it was 2:59pm and the seconds was approaching 12. The moment it did, the phone rang, which Suko raised to his ear and listened:
(Someone): They've taken it
Suko: Excellent
(Someone): No, you don't understand sir; they've taken the original thing
Suko: What!
(Someone): They had removed it from its spot before we had a chance to duplicate it
Suko: When did this happen?
(Someone): 5:45pm Yesterday
Suko: Very well, but they have not won. It'll come back to us. I taught it how to.
-- Back at the treehouse –
Numbuhs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 had assembled into the cool bus; they were going to the KND's Top Secret Moonbase.
An hour later and they were there and inside section 5-B which was experimenting on weapons and new KND transportation methods.
They were being led by Numbuh 46, who was the head of that operation. 'Over here we have Gadget "X" or so you call it' she said in a boring business tone 'though we found some things in it way further than our intelligence. We found out something else as well, someone activated it and we can't find out how to turn it off. And well –' She paused and pressed a red button that was on the wall, that made the metal shutters to fly up to reveal a room with a black box in the far corner of it (They were watching through a glass window), several KND operatives were in the room and wearing all sorts of forms of protections from armors to shields and slowly approaching the black box, one particular girl was a little too close to it, it emitted a green glow and then zapped something at the girl which caused her to whirl around in circles.
Everyone in there ran to her aid. '-There is a different reaction with the box every time. It seems to be going in some random pattern'.
Numbuh 4 looked puzzled and started 'Wha – ohh!' and started to stare at the scene in front of him, everyone in the room was backing away from the girl. Something very weird was happening to her, she first looked a bit green and then, threw up – balloons; a green balloon. Then her terrified face changed blue and then she burped out a blue balloon.
Then, Numbuh 46 pressed the red button again making the metal shutters fall back down. She continued to walk along that corridor, motioning them to follow 'There is more. Numbuh 31. She was affected diversely too' and led them to a room in the end of the corridor. Knocked twice and entered. Numbuh 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 let out loud gasps. Numbuh 31 looked back at them sadly; she was a fish (in a bowl). How did everyone know that was her? Her dark red hair tied a ponytail at the back of her (now) fish head.
'This is getting ridiculous!' exclaimed Numbuh 5 watching the little gold fish move around in the bowl.
'Can you explain how and why this is happening?' asked Numbuh 1 to Numbuh 46. She shook her head 'Not entirely, the box attacks at random, sometimes severely or otherwise very un-noticeable. I've already been informed about Numbuh 4's chin hair appearance. We don't know what the adults had planned for this, but they really want it back. Watch' she said and pointed a remote at a television that was in Numbuh 31's ward.
On came the news and in that a reporter was seen on scene at outside a house. The lady spoke into the microphone 'I am Kristina Dole, live at the residence of the Smith household' she knock on the door and went n (without bothering for a response for the people at the house). Inside there were many 'Police' tapes securing an area which was the middle of a living room. The reporter made her way to a couple who were sobbing and telling the police the details of something. Kristina held the mice to them and the lady was heard saying (hysterically) 'it - sob was so - sniff horrible. They – came in - cry - and – and – asked if they could visit my - sniff - son's treehouse – when I asked who they were - moan - they pushed me out of the way and ran to the back yard. cry I ran to the back but then I saw, they were raiding the treehouse or something - wail - and – and then, I heard screams, I couldn't enter my son's treehouse because of some password or something, well, after some time, those horrible men flew out of the treehouse in some kind of plane thing', At this point, the lady burst into tears.
It took sometime to calm her down, the she continued 'They took the children! The treehouse let me in after that, and I couldn't find my son or his friends anywhere, and I'm sure they were up there. They were kidnapped!'
Numbuh 46 turned off the television. And spoke again in her business-like tone 'As you have just seen, these "horrible men" must be the enemy's. They are searching for Gadget X. That's the third attack and kidnap on a KND sector. They are stopping at nothing to get their hands back on it'
Numbuh 3 raised her hand (as if she was I class). Numbuh 46 nodded and Numbuh 3 spoke 'Just who exactly is the enemy?'
Numbuh 2 said 'We don't know yet. But I'm sure they'll be another attack tomorrow'
A/N: WOOO! Chapter Four finally over! Okay, so I broke my promise in updating fast. I may not this time…for reasons unknown :)
Review please and tell me your views or I see no need of continuing this fic...