A/N: AHH! I know I promised I would have it up, but I forgot it when I got into a writing spree for my new original story: Echolon, which I have begun posting earlier than planned on fiction press, so you should check it out! So sorry! I won't keep you waiting now, so onward!

Chapter 8:

3 turned around slowly and gasped when she saw the delightful's standing there, though thankfully without the robot.

"Um, High guys! What's up? Do you want me to leave? Cause I'll leave at a moment's notice, really I will!" she exclaimed with a bright smile.

"Oh no, Kuki dear, we insist that you stay for our party!" they replied in unison.

"OK! Will there be cake? And ice cream! Oh! What about a piñata? I LOVE piñatas! And-"

"NO! you fool!", they cut in, "we are the ones who will be having a party, you will be the ones watching!"

"Really? YEA! A film party! Can we watch Rainbow Monkeys 3: even more fun and songs? No wait! I wanna watch Rainbow Monkey Pretty Princess and the Pea! Or maybe-"

"AH!" the delightful's exclaimed, smacking their heads with the palms of their hands, "That's not what we meant! Now kindly stop talking so we can lock you up with the others!"

"But, but…" Three began with tears forming in her eyes, "I wanted to watch Rainbow Monkey Pretty Princess and the Pea! WAHHHH!" she finished with streams of water gushing from her eyes.

"Ugh, why did she have to soak the new floor?" the delightful's asked in disgust at the scene that lay before them."

"What is she doing out there!" Numbuh 1 exclaimed, "Why doesn't she fight back or somethi-"

"Hush!" 5 hissed, manuvering something in her mouth.

"What's in your teeth?" one inquired in a hushed tone.

"Getting us outta here." She mumbled back as she maneuvered the piece of metal back and forth across her chains.

"Hey! Where'd you get that?" Numbuh 4 exclaimed.

"SHHHHH!" numbuh 2 hushed, then in whispered tones added, "From numbuh 3. didn't you see when she slipped it through the bars?"

"ohhhh… SWEET! HOW'D SHE THINK OF THAT?"

"HUSH!"

"What was that?" the delightful's exclaimed in the middle of their shouts and other attempts to get the girl to stop crying.

Immediately numbuh 3 stopped crying, as though she never had needed to cry at all and asked, "What was what?"

"That!"

"What's that?"

"That, that… that noise!"

"What noise?"

"The noise that came from the cell!"

"Oh that noise? Well you should have been more specific, silly!"

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"Well, what was that noise! Explain yourself!"

"What noise?"

"That noise that, oh never mind you foolish little girl, enough games!"

"Oh! Games? I LOVE games! Are we gonna play pin the tail on the donkey, or ring around the rosie? I KNOW! Let's play hide and go seek! You're it!"

and with that she ran off down the halls, into the deep maze of the dungeons.

"Hey! Come back here! Argh!" the delightful's yelled before they ran after her.

"See, look at that number 1! She kept talking so they wouldn't hear us, and now she's led them away so we can get out and retrieve the weapons she left, and numbuh 2 can put the scraps together!" 5 explained, tossing the metal piece to numbuh 2 who was chained next to her, "And you thought that she was useless? I think this proves you wrong!"

"Yeah!" Numbuh 4 exclaimed, "I told yeh my Kuki could do it!"

"…." Numbuhs 1,2,and 5 gave 4 a plank expression before bursting into laughter.

"Your Kuki? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" 2 taunted.

"hahah, wait a minute guys, don't make too much noise, only 2 of us have our chains cut and we need to assemble the 2 weapons! We need to keep as much time as possible, so don't make so much noise!" 5 interupted.

"Yeah, what she said!" numbuh 4 exclaimed, glad to be rid of his embarrassment. (for now.)

"Numbuh 2, now that you're free I need you to assemble the weapons as soon as I get this door opened." 5 ordered, already using the broken chains to loop around the weapons and pull them up to the bars.

"Everyone duck now so I can blast the lock." 5 cautioned then shot at the lock, sending it's fragments everywhere, "Hurry up now, you guys, we don't have much time now that they've heard the shot!"

"I'm working on it!" 4 called, vigorously running the metal piece back and forth across his chains.

Numbuh 1 surveyed the scene around him, still chained to the wall, feeling very replaced as a leader, not that he deserved to be a leader anymore with his recent behavior.

"Hey numbuuh 1, why the grim face?" numbuh 5 asked.

"Oh, I'm just thinking that I'm no longer qualified to be a leader anymore." He replied darkly, sadness frosting the edge of his words.

"Oh, don't be silly numbuh 1, everyone makes mistakes, it doesn't mean that you should stop being the leader."

"Even so, I believe you've already taken charge, numbuh 5, perhaps it should stay that way."

"hey, numbuh 1!" 4 called, "heads up!"

Numbuh 1 caught the metal and immediately began freeing himself from his chains, signaling the end of his and numbuh 5's discussion.

"Alright then," Numbuh 5 conceded, "I'll take charge for now, but feel free to step in any time, you're always needed."

"Hey numbuh 5? I think I hear them!" numbuh 2 called from his station at the front of the cell where one weapon was repaired and the other half done.

A/N: Well, there's chapter 7, I forgot about the prologue junk, so last chapter was really chapter 6, and the one before chapter 5. oh well! Stay tuned for the real chapter 8!