Well, here's the next chapter everyone. I do not own anything in this story.
Charles, Logan, Max, and Ororo stare at the empty hanger in disappointment. "Aelita has struck once again." Logan mutters in distaste.
"We don't know it was her." Max tries to reason.
"I can smell her along with Danny, Rachel, and Scott."
"How did Scott get involved in all of this?" Charles asks no one in particular.
"We won't know unless we contact them." Max answers pulling his phone out.
"It wouldn't matter. The Blackbird is too fast for you to be able to get a proper signal with one of them." Logan tells Max making the man sigh and put the phone away in his pocket. He looks over at Charles and asks, "What do you think we should do Charles?"
"We wait. Aelita never does anything like this without a reason. This must be very important for her to do this, but we will talk to her about this when they come back." Charles responds with a sigh. "The rest of the students must not know about this including Jean and the others."
"I don't know Charles. Something like this can hardly be kept under wraps especially with a teleporter and a telepath." Logan points out.
"He's right." Ororo says agreeing with Logan. "This is a secret that we can't keep, but I think one of the students might know what is going on."
"Rogue…" Charles mutters sadly.
Rogue walks into her room closing the door behind her and opens the drawer to Aelita's desk. She pulls out a U.S.B. and shuts the drawer. "Why did yah have to ask me to do this?" Rogue mutters before leaving the room. She walks down the hall and enters Professor Xavier's office to find it empty. She closes the door behind her and mutters, "They're probably at the hanger." She walks over to the desk and sets the U.S.B. drive down on the desk. "Ah better rejoin the others before the professor comes back." She exits the office and heads back down the hall. She walks into the garage and pulls Danny's truck keys.
"Are dose Danny's truck keys?" Kurt asks.
Rogue gasps and turns around in surprise to see him standing against the door frame with a raised eyebrow. "Don't scare me like that Kurt, and yes, they are. Why do you care?"
"You never drove his truck, and neither have I. I doubt he would allow you to have zem unless he isn't here." Kurt points out getting Rogue to sigh in defeat. "Vere is Danny going Rogue?"
Rogue closes the door to the garage and says, "What you are about to hear is supposed to remain secret between you and me."
"Zen start talking." Kurt replies back with a serious look in his eyes.
"Yah know about Lyoko and what happened to her father?"
"Yeah…"
Rogue walks away from Kurt and sighs, "Aelita's dad sent a letter into the supercomputer for Aelita to find."
Kurt's eyes widen in surprise. "Really? Her father is still alive?"
Rogue nods her head. "Yeah, and the letter he sent told Aelita her mom is still alive as well. Aelita, Danny, and Rachel went to France to find some clues that could lead her to her mom."
"Zat's amazing news! Vait, vhy is she keeping zis a secret zen?" Kurt asks raising an eyebrow in confusion.
"That's her story to tell." Rogue answers turning her attention to Danny's truck. "Yah want to go for a small ride?"
"As long as I get to drive a bit."
"That could be arranged." The two enter Danny's truck and leave the Institute going to town.
Danny lands the Blackbird in the forest and says, "Ok, this is probably the closest we can get to Aelita's home without being seen by the crowd."
The four teens unbuckle and exit the Blackbird just in time for the sun to start rising in the distance. "Why is the sun rising? I thought we would have a few hours until the sun comes up." Rachel says glancing over at Aelita.
"There's a big time difference between New York and France about five or six hours to say the least." Aelita admits getting Scott to sigh.
"It doesn't matter. We're here now, and no one saw us land which is good, but how far away is our location from here?" Scott asks Aelita.
Aelita pulls a small holo-screen out and pulls up the map looking over the directions. "We have about a thirty minute walk, and that's not including the traffic we could run into on the way." Aelita answers before closing the small holo-screen.
"Well, we better get started and arrive there quickly. We cannot afford to stay here too long." Scott tells the group. "I know you were joking Aelita, but this is about your mom, and the sooner we find something about your whereabouts the better."
Danny nods his head. "Agreed, but we need to take precautions as well. Aelita's school happens to be close to her old home, and we can't risk anyone seeing her." He reminds them.
"Great, what should we do then? We can't suit up out here, or we'll stand out in the crowd, and she needs to come along with us to the house as well." Rachel replies crossing her arms over her chest.
"We'll have to wing it and make sure Aelita stays close by in hiding before we arrive at her old home." Scott replies with his serious voice. "While we should not worry too much about the old classmates, we don't have time to be sidetracked by them wanting to talk with Aelita either."
"Let's get going then." Danny says motioning Aelita to lead them.
Maurice gets off the plane at the airport and tosses a piece of gum into his mouth. He looks around carefully and keeps walking until he was outside the building. He sees a car pull out in front of him and enters the vehicle sitting next to Nick Fury. "Good to see you decided to come." Fury tells him.
"Didn't give me much of a choice." Maurice replies back not glancing at the adult as he buckles up. "What is going on that you need me to help you with?"
Fury hands a folder to Maurice who grabs it. "We've been keeping an eye on some specific people that have been acting suspicious, and it just happens to be kids that are from outer space."
"Galactic Kids Next Door, never heard of this team." Maurice replies back.
"They're a secret organization that hires specific kids to become special kid agents to protect multiple planets."
Maurice turns the page to see a familiar face. "What does this have to do with Numbuh 1?"
"He was one of the kids recruited into joining the team, but we've been seeing recent activity of kids landing on the planet all over the world that have no actual record from living on the planet." Fury explains him.
"Do you think they're trying to take over the planet? I worked for the Kids Next Door, but this is starting to sound stupid." Maurice replies back while flipping the page in the file.
"What was one thing you believed as a kid?"
Maurice sighs, "Fine, you got me there, but it still doesn't excuse you for accusing the kids for trying to take over the planet."
"I know that it is hard to believe, but you might want to turn the page." Maurice turns the page and widens his eyes at the picture. "We were able to get a device inside one of their ships and found out that they plan on raiding the planet with your friend in charge of the raid."
"This can't be real. Nigel Uno would never do something like this." Maurice mutters as he looks over the device. "He might be reckless sometimes and will do anything for kid rights, but this is taking things a bit far."
"We know, but they convinced Nigel Uno into believing that all adults and teens need to be eliminated on earth. I know this is hard for you Maurice, but you need to understand what is coming."
"Why are you telling me this?" Maurice asks as he closes the file and sets it down on his lap. "I might have agreed to work with you Fury, but I didn't sign up to fight an old teammate."
Fury sighs, "I don't expect you to, but we need to know what we are about to face."
Maurice glances at Fury and asks, "Why are we here in France?"
"The Galactic Kids Next Door has a small group of disguised kids that are setting up a secretive base here, and we need to know what they are up to before the invasion starts." Fury explains narrowing his eyebrows at the thought. "I never thought children are capable of this."
"It surprises people for what kids can pull off these days." Maurice admits shrugging his shoulders. "If Nigel is involved with this, how did they convince him to do it?"
"I don't know, but what we do know is that Nigel was manipulated somehow. If you could find out how they manipulated Nigel and what they plan for the invasion, we might be able to counter attack whatever they have planned."
Maurice closes his eyes then opens them with a determined look in them. "I'll do it. Does anyone else know about this?"
"At the moment only five agents including us know about it." Fury answers as the car stops in front of a bakery. He pulls out a pair of sun glasses and hands them to Maurice. "These are special identity revealer glasses. They will allow you to see which kids are actually the aliens and will also tape everything you see into a secret computer room back on the Helicarrier."
Maurice grabs the sun glasses and puts them on. "Ok, do I get anything else, or do I have to improvise?"
"You have to improvise. If you carry any more gear on you, then they will be suspicious of your actions. They already caught the men surveying the area, but I'm not expecting you to free them. That will be something for us to worry about later."
"They know what they're getting into." Maurice says agreeing with what Fury meant. "Sometimes, if you want to save those captured, you need to wait until the perfect moment arrives."
"Exactly. Good luck kid."
Maurice nods his head and exits the vehicle leaving the file on his seat as he closed the door. He pushes the tiny button on the side of his glasses and looks around carefully as the car drives away. He turns to the bakery and smiles, 'Might want to get me a snack so I won't be hungry.'
A teen girl with blue hair looks over a magazine when she hears the bell ring signaling that someone has entered the store. She looks up from the magazine to see Maurice and says, "Hello, welcome to Tom & Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Wow, wasn't expecting to see someone young behind the counter early this morning." Maurice comments as he walks up to the counter while putting his sunglasses in his front pocket.
"Well, you must be from out of town then, because this is my parents' bakery. I'm guessing you don't know what you would want then."
Maurice smiles sheepishly and rubs the back of his neck. "Yeah, I'm not one for doing this kind of stuff, but I figured I needed something to eat before walking around town."
The teen nods her head and smiles, "Well, then let me get what I know would help you with that then."
"Thanks, I appreciate it." Maurice watches the girl leave to grab some of the food then turns his head back to the window outside. 'He said they would look more like children. I doubt anything suspicious would be going on here.'
"Here we are." Maurice turns back around to see a small bag filled with a couple croissants and a couple pastries. "I hope this works well for you."
"This will work fine for my appetite." Maurice says before paying for the food she gathered up for him. "Maybe I'll see you later."
"Who knows? I'm Marinette."
"I'm Maurice. Well I better get going then. See you later." Maurice waves 'goodbye' to Marinette and smiles softly as he exits the bakery. 'Well, she seems like a nice girl.' He thinks as he takes a croissant out of the bag. 'Better get back to work.' He puts the croissant into his mouth then puts the sun glasses back over his eyes. 'Let's do this.'
Marinette watches Maurice leave then turns around to see her mom coming through the back door. "Thanks for watching the counter Marinette." Sabine tells her daughter.
"It was no problem mom. We only had one customer, and he was from out of town so everything was fine." Marinette assures her mom. "Anyway, I need to go meet up with Alya about something important."
"Do you know how important it is?"
"Probably about some of the latest stuff she got for the Ladyblog." Marinette shrugs her shoulders getting her mom to smile softly at the answer. "Well, I better get going." Marinette grabs her purse and hugs her mom 'goodbye' before heading off to meet Alya.
Rogue pulls Danny's truck into the garage at the Institute and turns the truck off immediately. Kurt grabs Rogue's shoulder and teleports them out of the truck and into the hallway right outside her room. "We stayed out a little too long." Kurt tells her while looking both ways down the hallway.
"No kidding, but Ah did it because Ah did not want to talk with Professor Xavier on why Aelita and the others left." Rogue replies back.
"Agreed, but you still have to talk wid him in da morning."
Rogue groans, "Don't remind me. Ah hope that flash drive would explain everything."
"Yeah, maybe you'll get lucky, but you should always be ready for zat talk." Kurt tells her getting her to sigh in agreement. "Well, I better get to bed before zey find us out here."
"Good night Kurt."
"Good night." Kurt teleports to his room, and Rogue enters her room closing the door behind her quietly.
Aelita leads the group to a park and stops outside it with her three friends. "Why did we stop?" Rachel asks her curiously.
Aelita looks around the area carefully. "There are more kids then there use to be. I doubt that many people moved here." She tells them finding it suspicious.
"Aelita, they're just kids. Maybe they're here on vacation." Scott suggests.
"No, she's right about this. Kids don't usually come to Paris unless forced to, but no parents are stupid enough to let their kids come here while school is going on." Danny says narrowing his eyebrows as some kids were walking by. "Why does this seem suspicious?"
"I might be able to answer that." Maurice says as he walks up to the group. "It's nice to see you again Rachel."
"Maurice, what are you doing here?" Rachel asks as she walks out in front of the others.
"I'm here investigating the unnatural amount of kids that have started showing up in specific parts around the world." He explains.
Rachel raises an eyebrow in confusion. "Wait, why would TND have you investigate the unnatural amount of kids? That doesn't make any sense."
"TND?" Scott asks Rachel.
"I'll explain later." Rachel answers keeping her gaze on Maurice.
Maurice sighs in defeat. "I was hired by Shield to investigate the event of children suddenly appearing here in France. Director Fury told me that the kids have no record of being on the planet until five minutes before they are even seen."
"Why would something like that happen?" Aelita asks curiously
Maurice looks around the area carefully and stops when his gaze lands on a couple kids walking into the park. The sun glasses show him their real form making him smirk. "Got yah. Follow me while I try to explain." Maurice tells them before walking into the park. The four teens look at each other then follow Maurice into the park. "When Rachel and I were younger we were part of a force known as the Kids Next Door. We were kids who fought for the rights of what parents and teens tried to destroy."
"That sounds pretty stupid if you ask me." Scott remarks.
"We were kids back then." Rachel reminds him. "There were some people who wanted to ruin the lives we had as kids, and there were some who wanted to enslave the young. I'm not joking either."
"Sounds rough." Danny says as they follow Maurice further into the park.
"It was." Maurice agrees with Danny's statement. "I remember some of those missions where some kids had to be taken out of commission, because of specific events."
"I'm not going to ask." Scott mutters in distaste.
"Good, we weren't going to tell you about that stuff anyway." Rachel says giving Maurice a hard stare. "We weren't supposed to tell them about the KND anyway."
"Sorry Rachel, but this situation is worse than you think." Maurice apologizes as they stop near some trees to see the kids jump over the fence protecting an old run down house. "The kids are members of the Galactic Kids Next Door, and Fury said that they plan on invading our planet and kill everything that is or is not a kid."
"Wait what?" Rachel asks in surprise. "How did they find this out?"
"Believe it or not, Fury said they got a device onto one of the ships and were able to get information about this event and who will be leading it." Maurice explains with a rough sigh escaping his lips.
"Who is leading the invasion?" Aelita asks as everyone stares at him.
Maurice moves the sun glasses up and looks at Rachel with worry in his eyes. "Nigel Uno…"
Rachel gasps and takes a couple steps back. "No…" She mutters in surprise.
"Rachel?" Danny asks as the X-men look at her to see her surprised expression.
"Maurice, please tell me that they're wrong." Rachel begs in worry. Maurice does not turn to look at her getting her to widen her eyes even further. "Maurice, Nigel wouldn't do something like this."
"I know, but Fury had evidence to back up everything he told me. I still don't want to believe it even after seeing those pictures." Maurice tells her balling his hands up in anger. "Nigel was the best agent we had at the KND. When I heard about this earlier today, I never wanted to believe it, but Fury explained that Nigel might have been convinced into doing this. I don't know what to believe right now, but the invasion is happening."
Rachel's fear turns into determination catching the X-men off guard. "Then we're going into that hidden base inside that house and figure out what will be happening." She says pointing at the house.
Aelita looks back at the house and says, "Rachel, that's the house I used to live in with my parents."
Scott raises an eyebrow at the odd connection and mutters, "Well, it seems we were on our way here anyway."
"This was supposed to be a stealth mission, and I doubt it could stay like that with you guys here with me." Maurice tells them as he looks at the house carefully.
"Good thing we have powers to help with that then." Danny says which got Maurice to look back at them.
Maurice looks over at Rachel with a raised eyebrow who sighs in defeat. "You remember the recording I was listening to back at home?" She asks Maurice.
Maurice blinks a couple times and asks, "Was the surprise you developing powers?"
"Yes, it was. I can create barriers and force fields." She explains making a small force field in her hand. "It's been really helpful."
"What can the rest of you guys do?" Maurice asks turning his attention to them.
"I can use all type of electronics with a motion of my body or with these." Aelita says making a holo-screen in front of her.
"I can shoot lasers out of my eyes, but I can't control it without having these glasses or my visor on." Scott explains pushing his glasses up a bit with his index finger.
"That must be rough." Maurice remarks which got Scott to sigh in agreement.
"You have no idea."
Danny glances over at the house and says, "I can do multiple things, and two of them are turning intangible and invisible. I can create ice and manipulate the ecto-plasmic energy in my body."
Maurice nods his head and says, "Ok, what I need to do is get inside the building and find out what their plans are for the invasion. What are you guys doing here anyway?"
"My father sent a letter saying that my mom is still alive, but she was kidnapped while I was young. That house is the last thing I have that could lead me to find any clues about my mom's kidnappers." Aelita explains.
"That definitely complicates things." Maurice mutters turning his head to the house.
"Your mission is more important than my mission." Aelita tells him. "This is mainly a long shot for me anyway, but those kids are on private property that happens to belong to me."
"I think I have a plan." Danny says getting the others to look at him with serious looks. "Here's the plan…"
"We're you followed?" A red head kid asks the two kids as they enter the secret base that was below the house.
"No, no one suspects a thing." The first kid with blond hair says. "How long do we have to stay in these silly disguises anyway? I want to go back out in space and leave this stupid planet."
"The invasion will happen in a few months Numbuh -97. We have to trust the council that Numbuh 1's plan will work."
"That's not the point Numbuh 384.5." Numbuh -97 sighs in defeat. "We've been waiting these past few months that it seems Numbuh 1 doesn't want his planet to be destroyed."
"The council has set the date not Numbuh 1. My superiors told me that Numbuh 1 has been trying to move the date forward since all our teams are now in place." Numbuh 384.5 tells the soldier. "We need to trust that the invasion will go well."
Numbuh -97 scoffs, "The invasion will go well. Whenever has an invasion failed? I certainly don't remember there ever being one."
"He's right. The closest fail we ever had was the failed recruitment of Numbuh 274." The blond haired girl says for the first time.
"That might be true Numbuh -23, but this planet feels different from our own planet. They have people here who wield special powers. Numbuh 1 happens to be one of them, remember?" Numbuh 384.5 asks them.
Numbuh -97 snaps his fingers at the memory. "Right, I forgot about his special ability he unlocked back at home base. Well, guess there's a good reason he's leading the charge then. Wish my planet had people like him."
"We better hope that there are not more people like Numbuh 1 though." Numbuh -23 says while crossing her arms over her chest. "Last thing we need is for the humans with powers to find out about our operation."
"Do we even know what the humans have even created on this planet that could be a threat to us?" Another blond hair female agent asks.
"We got company." Everyone turns their attention to the agent who said that and looks up at the screen to see three teens enter the house getting the kids to widen their eyes in surprise.
"What are teenagers doing here at the abandoned house for? It's abandoned for a good reason." One agent says gripping the weapon hanging on his waist. "We need to take care of them immediately."
"Yeah, and risk us becoming exposed to the public." Another agent replies sarcastically. "We can't face exposer to the public too soon. If they find out about us, then you can kiss this invasion goodbye."
"We never failed in the past. Why would we fail now?" Numbuh -97 asks.
"I'll take care of them." Numbuh -23 says putting a G.U.M.Z.O.O.K.A and a S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R. on her belt.
"No, I'll take of them." Numbuh -97 says putting two laser pistols on his belt. "We can't use standard KND weapons against innocent teens anyway, or KND will find out about it."
"You think people won't find out about the laser pistols then?" Numbuh -23 retorts.
"This is something that we are just gonna have to risk." Numbuh -97 tells her. He walks over to the teleporter and enters it saying, "This shouldn't be long, and if things do get complicated then come up and take care of them." He teleports to the closet on the second floor and exits it looking around carefully. "Let's do this."
Marinette and her friend Alya walk through the park with Marinette looking around nervously. "Alya, why are we all the way out here at the park, instead of shopping or something?" She asks curiously.
"When I heard about the incident that happened at Kadic Academy, I was surprised that Ladybug happened to be there to help them. Unfortunately, there was no video of anything about Ladybug, but I was wondering if there was something that made her come all the way out this way." Alya starts to explain.
Marinette crosses her arms over her chest with her right eyebrow raised in confusion. "That still doesn't explain why we're all the way out here."
Alya smiles nervously and looks around. "I heard there was an abandoned house where some suspicious kids go to, and I thought Ladybug would be going there to check it out."
Marinette gives Alya a flat stare and asks, "Did you seriously ask me to come with you about some rumor on Ladybug? You told me we were going to the mall to go shopping and meet up with Adrien and Nino."
"Well…I'm sorry I lied, but I wanted to check it out, and I knew you would refuse doing this with me, but I didn't want to do this alone." Alya admits.
Marinette sighs at Alya's idea and mutters, "Fine, but if anything gets bad we leave the place immediately."
"Trust me. What could go wrong?"
"Are you sure there could be clues about your mother here?" Scott asks Aelita as Aelita, Rachel, and Scott walk into the living room.
"No, but this is the only place that I remember living at that has some connection with my mother." Aelita answers while walking up to a bookshelf.
"Where do you expect to find anything in this place anyway?" Rachel asks as she grabs a picture off a coffee table.
"I really don't know. I hope to find the location to my old house before my mom was kidnapped at least." Aelita sighs and runs her hand over the books on the shelf before pulling a random one off the shelf. "I'm not certain if there is anything to find either."
"Meaning our trip here was not needed." Scott summarizes before opening a drawer to a table to find the drawer empty. "Did your father have anything secretive about this place?"
Aelita puts the book back on the shelf and puts her hand on her chin. "Hm, he probably does, but he kept me out of everything…"
"Freeze teenagers!" The three teens turn their attention to the kids pointing two laser guns at them. "I'll make this simple and easy for you. I need you guys to put your hands up and walk down that hallway."
"Those are not authorized weapons of the KND." Rachel says catching the kid off guard.
"How do you know about the Kids Next Door? Everyone is supposed to have their memory wiped after they turn thirteen." The kid replies back narrowing his eyebrows at Rachel.
"You're right."
"Then how do you know about the weapon authorization?"
Rachel smirks, "My mind is immune to memory wipe." She runs at the kid who points both laser pistols at her.
"You're making a big mistake." He fires both pistols and watches as Rachel jumps over the lasers and kicks the kid in the stomach. The kid flies back and hits the wall dropping both of his pistols on the floor while groaning in pain. "That actually hurt you stupid teen."
"I know, but I rather avoid unnecessary pain since you are not from the Kids Next Door." Rachel tells the kids as she walks up to the kid. "Now who are you really?"
"I'm Numbuh -97 of the Kids Next Door, and I doubt you know anything about them anyway." The kid gets back up on his feet about to grab the pistols.
"I was Supreme Leader Numbuh 362, Rachel McKenzie." Rachel tells him getting the kid to freeze in surprise. The kid looks back up at Rachel with wide eyes. Rachel grabs both laser pistols and throws them behind her saying, "Negative numbers were banned after the parallel universe was discovered by Sector V."
Numbuh -97 grits his teeth knowing he was in trouble. "How did you keep your memory from being wiped? No one is immune to the memory wipe."
"You're right, but it doesn't matter now. I know about you agents working for the Galactic Kids Next Door, and I know what you guys are planning." She grabs the kid's shirt and pulls him towards her seeing the fear in his eyes. "Why are you guys planning to invade our planet?"
"How do you know about that?" The kid asks back in surprise.
"We're more aware of you guys than you think." She replies back with a glare. "Now," she puts the kids up against the wall keeping a hold on his shirt, "why are you guys going to destroy our planet?"
"How do you know…?"
"Just answer the question!"
The three teens hear a noise of something charging and turn their heads to a group of kids pointing their guns at them. "I suggest you let our agent go teen." The kid in the front says with both laser pistols pointed at Rachel.
Rachel snickers, "Please, I was just about to say the same thing about you and your guns."
"You seem to underestimate us ex-Numbuh 362."
Rachel smirks, "Actually, you're underestimating us."
The kid fires one of his lasers at Rachel and smirks as the laser flies past her head. He frowns when he doesn't get a reaction out of her. 'She seems too confident.' The kid thought before firing the other pistol straight at her head. All the kids widen their eyes in surprise as the laser bounces off an invisible force and flies back at them. "Duck!"
The kids drop to the ground and hear the laser fly over them hitting the wall behind them. "Well, cat's out of the bag." Scott mutters pulling his glasses off and putting his visor on. "Now, we'll ask you guys again. Why are you guys planning to invade our planet?"
"We don't have to tell you anything!" Another kid yells getting up pointing his guns at Scott. "You teens think that you are always better than kids! You always make us stop having fun taking away our rights!"
"At least you have a good childhood, kid." Scott says confusing the kids on what he meant. "My parents were killed in a plane crash, and my brother and I were separated from each other for years believing that our family was completely gone. I lost everything as a child. You tell me how you would feel losing your family."
"That's a nice story teen, but your sob story means nothing to the Galactic Kids Next Door." The leader says narrowing his eyebrows at Scott. "We don't care about that, and this planet will fall just like multiple other planets that we've destroyed."
"Hm, it seems they lost their childhood way sooner than we did." Aelita comments getting the kids to look at her in surprise.
"We still have child life. Those who are trying to stop us from having fun need to be taken down!" The agent being held by Rachel says angrily.
"You mean kill." Rachel corrects the kid who looks back at her with a glare. "You Galactic agents make me sick. I signed up with the Kids Next Door to protect kid rights, and I will keep on doing that even as a teen, but what I am seeing here are rogue kids from multiple planets threatening my planet and the kids on it."
"Believe what you want, but teens have never supported our kind on any planet. All adults and teens will be the same, and you special teens will not stop us from our job." The leader explains as the agents point their pistols at the three teens.
"I think you kids should lower your guns." Someone says. Everyone turn their heads to the person and stare as the teen in a red jumpsuit with black spots on it walks up with the teens. "As of now I suggest you do as I say before someone gets hurt."
"Ladybug…" One of the kids mutters in surprise. "Why is the resident superhero here?"
"You're far away from your usual area Ladybug." The leader remarks in surprise.
Ladybug narrows her eyebrows. "You're right, but after the last incident I showed up at a few months ago I decided that I need to extend my usual area." She tells the leader and grabs the yo-yo off her waist. "Now, you will drop those weapons and will call off the invasion."
"It isn't their call." Rachel says.
Ladybug looks at Rachel curiously. "What do you mean?"
"The one leading the invasion isn't on the planet. He's out in space leading the army to this planet as we speak." Rachel explains.
"What?" Ladybug whispers in surprise.
Rachel slightly releases the kid then tosses the kid over to the other agents. "Numbuh 1 is in charge of the invasion." The kids widen their eyes at the statement. "My best agent, my best male friend, and my crush is leading this invasion."
Ladybug's eyes lower a bit at the sentence. "I…I don't know what to say."
"Neither do I really."
"It doesn't matter. You teens will face our wrath and will not be coming out of here alive!" The leader exclaims.
Maurice and Danny stick their heads through the wall into the secret Galactic base and notice that it was empty. Danny pulls them through the wall and releases Maurice saying, "You better get that information."
"I'm on it." Maurice runs up to the controls and sticks the flash drive into the slot. He starts typing on the keyboard quickly and asks, "How is Rachel doing with you guys?"
"She's doing great. She stayed in the Institute for a week before leaving to see the town with me and Aelita. Now she's a secret superhero along with us as well."
Maurice smiles at that. "That's actually nice to hear. I'm glad she isn't being a normal teen or going against our moral code against the Kids Next Door." He stops typing and hits 'enter' getting all the files about the invasion to start downloading onto a flash drive. "Do you guys train with anything besides your powers?"
"Yeah, Aelita and I are the only ones going through the tougher training right now, but we're helping Rachel and the others with their training as well."
"I might visit sometime then. I want to see what type of cool powers you guys have." Maurice remarks with a smirk.
Danny raises an eyebrow and asks, "Are you serious?"
Maurice turns around and nods his head. "Yeah man, you guys seem so cool man. I bet it must be tough controlling all these types of powers."
"It is."
"I'm envious of you guys. Once I become eighteen, I have to go out into life like a normal human. I might end up working for Fury, but I'm not certain what life has for me man." Maurice admits rubbing the back of his neck with his right hand. "You get what I mean?"
Danny chuckles, "Yeah, but you could try to become a hero like the three of us are."
Maurice blinks a couple times and asks, "Are you…" The two hear a beeping noise behind Maurice and turn their attention to the red light on the control panel. "Shoot."
"What's up?"
"Someone is trying to contact this sector." Maurice answers trying to see what he could do.
"Can you stop it?"
Suddenly the big screen opens up revealing a bald kid with a visor over his eyes. "What is going on here…Maurice?" The kid asks in surprise neither realizing that Danny went invisible.
Maurice looks up at the screen and says, "Hello Numbuh 1, it's been a long time."
"How are you here, and how do you still have your memories?!"
"I got recruited into joining the Teens Next Door. Now I'm a teen agent still working to protect kids over the globe." Maurice tells his friend.
"That's good to know actually. I'm really glad for you man, but why are you in a secret base in France?" Numbuh 1 asks holding in specific information.
Maurice sighs and runs his right hand through his hair. "I guess there's no point hiding it. I'm investigating something suspicious going on here, and it turns out that there are kids here attacking teens that are just innocent bystanders."
"Kids Next Door agents don't do stuff like that Maurice. You should know that."
"I do Numbuh 1, but I know that these kids are not normal."
Nigel narrows his eyebrows at the statement and asks, "What are you talking about?"
Maurice narrows his eyebrows and asks, "Why…" Nigel raises an eyebrow at the word. "Why are leading an army of kids to destroy our planet?"
Nigel's eyes widen behind the visor. He looks Maurice right in the eyes and sighs, "You know about the invasion then."
"Yeah, I do." Maurice balls his hands up into fists and asks, "Why are leading kids to destroy our planet?"
"Our planet has become infected with teenagers and adults Maurice. They need to be taken care of before there are no kids left at all."
"No, there's more to it than that." Maurice denies catching Nigel off guard. "Kids Next Door protect innocent kids from losing their privileges caused by adults who hate kids, but this invasion is something no one would approve, not Abby, not Wally, and especially not Rachel."
"You wouldn't understand Maurice."
Maurice slams his fists down on the control panel. "Then help me understand Nigel! We were teammates, friends. What are you going through that I wouldn't understand?!"
"I have powers that are almost exactly like Father's." Nigel answers showing Maurice his hand covering up in black with fire covering his hand. "I can't take the risk and have someone from the family teach me how to control this power. Plus, our kind becomes afraid of what we don't understand. The other kids taught me that when I was still learning out here."
Maurice sighs at the situation. "Nigel, you're probably right about humans fearing about mutants, but…"
"Mutants?!" Nigel exclaims in surprise.
"Yeah, mutants. I found out there are people who are like father just not evil like that man. They could help you man…"
"I doubt there is anyone who can help me control this power Numbuh 9." Nigel interrupts with a small sigh. "I'm sorry my friend, but there isn't anything you could say that…"
"Rachel is a mutant." Maurice slips out getting Nigel to stop in surprise.
"She is?" Nigel whispers.
"Yeah," Maurice smiles, "she's learning a lot man."
"Does she control fire like I do?"
Maurice shakes his head. "No man, she can create these special types of barriers, and she's learning so much about her powers dude. She explained to me earlier about it all man."
Nigel crosses his arms over his chest and sighs, "That's actually nice to hear. Have you heard from the old team?"
"I'm not supposed to intermingle with the old team once I become thirteen. Abby is the only one who knows about my job, and she's almost thirteen as well. I heard the TND plans on recruiting her into our organization." Maurice explains which got Nigel to smile. "Nigel, you need to call off the invasion."
Nigel sighs, "I'm sorry Maurice, but this needs to be done my old friend. I might be able to convince them to have some people stay alive, but don't expect much."
Maurice lowers his head having his hair covering his eyes. "Then you better be ready to face what we are about to do back, because we are not letting you guys destroy our planet." Maurice says before ending the call.
Danny makes himself visible and asks, "What do you plan to do when the invasion happens?"
"I plan on fighting him."
"What if Rachel wants to fight him instead?"
Maurice turns around with a determine look in his eyes. "I won't allow her to do it. I was assigned this mission, and everything has gone south already." He hears a beep again and pulls the flash drive out of the slot. "The other kids are distracted with the others. I wonder…" He starts typing quickly and brings up a camera of the holding cell to see… "Oh no…"
"This is bad." Danny mutters not liking what he was seeing.
Maurice turns around at Danny grabbing a S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R. in each hand. "We're finishing this fight and taking the kids to Fury."
"Agreed." Danny grabs Maurice's shoulder and flies them through the ceiling.
"Don't know how much longer I can hold this barrier up." Rachel tells the others as lasers kept hitting her barrier.
"We're still working on a plan!" Ladybug replies back.
"Then work faster!"
"How can we attack kids without doing much harm to them?" Scott asks them.
"I wish I knew, but if they are from outer space then we should be able to expect them to take hits better than normal kids." Aelita summarizes thinking of a way to take the kids out.
"We need to disarm them then take them out or cage them." Cyclops suggests.
Ladybug rubs her chin at the thought. "That could work, but there are too many of them for us to do it quickly." She tells them.
"Then we better do it quickly." Cyclops says.
"Couldn't Aelita just hack their weapons and end this quickly?" Rachel asks putting her thoughts into the situation.
"I would if their tech wasn't alien technology." Aelita points out.
"Barrier is about to go down!" Rachel yells at them. The three teens went behind cover before the barrier went down. Rachel drops the barrier and jumps back avoiding the lasers shot at her. She jumps behind the door frame and asks, "What is the plan you guys?"
Maurice and Phantom come up through the floor behind the GKND agents and nod their heads at each other. "Hey Galactic Kids Next Door, your plans are permanently canceled." Maurice says as the two start walking up to the agents.
"What are you…" The one kid turns around and stops talking when his eyes come on Maurice and Phantom behind the group. "We got company boys!"
Maurice and Phantom run at the agents getting the ten GKND agents to put their focus on them instead of the others. Maurice grips his Splankers and smashes them into the faces of the first two agents. He jumps over them and kicks the next agent behind them away from the others.
"That's Numbuh 9!" One agent yells pointing his laser pistol at the teen. "Open fire! What the…?" A yo-yo comes rapping around his pistol and pulls the gun out of his hands. He turns around and gets smacked in the face with Rachel's fist.
Two agents open fire on Danny and stop immediately when they see the lasers go right through him. Danny makes his hands glow green and shoots the pistols out of their hands making them look at him in fear. Danny walks right in front of them and puts them in a green force field. "This should hold you two." He tells them.
"Let them go!" A female agent yells pointing his laser pistol at Danny.
An energy field knocks the pistol out of the agent's hand followed by Rachel knocking the agent out with a punch to the face. "You guys took your time." Rachel comments.
Danny shrugs, "Eh, you wouldn't like what we found out."
Scott knocks the laser pistol out of the last three agents' hands, and Ladybug ties them up with her yo-yo immediately right after. "That could have gone better." Ladybug remarks dryly.
Maurice walks up to the three agents and smacks all the agents out with the Splankers. He tosses the weapons onto the ground and turns to the two agents held in the force field who were cowering in fear. "Why did you do it?" He asks them.
"W-What a-are you t-talking about?" The younger female agent asks.
"Why are those Shield agents in your team's cell dead?" He clarifies.
"We don't have to tell you anything!" The other agent answers glaring at Maurice before flinching back slightly as Maurice turns his glare at the young boy.
"Let's have the police handle things from here." Ladybug suggests.
"We can't do that." Maurice says turning his attention to Ladybug. "The police won't take the situation serious, and if the public finds out about this, then there would be chaos in the world, and that is something we don't want to happen."
Ladybug nods her head agreeing with Maurice. "What do you suggest then? If the police can't do anything about this, what will happen to these kids?"
"It's a good thing we have someone who can help us with these kids."
"When I sent you to do a recon mission, I was not expecting you to come out with all the kids captured and with some heroes." Fury admits as the five teens stood a few feet behind Maurice. "I guess I only have one thing to say…Good job at completing the mission kid."
"Thank you sir, but what will happen to the kids?" Maurice asks keeping a straight face.
"They'll be going into interrogation to give us the information that you should have already gotten for us." Fury answers before turning his attention to Ladybug. "I have to thank you Ladybug for coming out here to help them with the situation.
Ladybug smiles nervously, "Well, I just happen to be in the neighborhood and heard some yelling going on over in this area."
Fury nods his head. "That's good to hear. I'm glad there are people out there willing to do what's right for the people."
"What's our next move?" Danny asks getting everyone's attention. "The invasion will be happening soon, and I doubt any of us are just going to sit here and let it happen."
Fury nods his head. "You're right Phantom. What you and the others will do is entirely up to you guys, but my team will take care of any threat of kids here on earth. The X-men aren't equipped with the technology to go out into space yet which leaves Tony Stark as your supplier."
"Oh great, that's exactly what we need." Aelita mutters with a sigh. "We'll see what we can come up with. Right now I need to the job I came here to do." She walks off towards the old house with Scott, Rachel, and Maurice following her.
Ladybug watches Fury leave her and Phantom alone and says, "It's nice seeing you again Danny."
"I could say the same Ladybug." Danny replies back with a smile. "In all seriousness though, I doubt you were over here on patrol or anything like that."
Ladybug lightly giggles, "Yeah, I was with Alya. She wanted to check out some rumors about kids hanging out at the old house at the park. She knows I'm not a fan of being lied to, even though I lie to her about this."
Danny chuckles, "Yeah, I bet that's true. Lying to the ones you care about isn't fun, but anyway, I better go help Angelic Code find anything that could give her a clue to her mother."
"What's wrong with her mom?"
"She was kidnapped when Aelita was young." Danny answers which got a gasp from Ladybug. "Yeah, she found out recently her mom is still alive and wants to see if her father left anything that could lead her to get closer to finding her mom."
Ladybug looks back at the house then asks, "May I help?"
"I don't see why not." Danny answers.
"They aren't back yet?" Logan asks as he walks into Charles' office.
Charles looks up from his desk and shakes his head. "No, they are still gone in France."
"What was on the flash drive that we found on your desk?" Logan asks as he was near the desk.
Charles turns the wheelchair around and looks out at the sun coming up. "Aelita left a message that she, Rachel, and Danny were going to France to search for some clues to her mother's whereabouts."
"Why would she need to do that?"
"She found a letter left by her father, and he mentioned that her mother was still alive. The only clue she has is at her last home she lived at before she was stuck on Lyoko for ten years."
Logan grunts and walks up next to Charles. "She decided to finally tell you about the virtual world, huh?"
"Yeah, I guess it was the only thing she could do in order to leave on such short notice." Charles admits with a sigh. "I didn't know her story has become this complicated. I knew that the project was important, but a virtual world…it seems almost impossible to seem true."
"Agreed, but her father built it. Now she's continuing her father's work and plans on getting her family back together." Logan crosses his arms over his chest and asks, "Are you going to stop Danny, Aelita, and Rachel from their hero work?"
"No, things have become so complicated that the only way to make it simple is for them to take care of what they have gotten themselves into."
"That could be their whole life."
"I know, but pulling them out will only make things worse. I just don't want the others to get pulled into working with Aelita. It will only distract them." Charles admits about his fear of the virtual world.
"You want me to punish Rogue and Kurt for leaving late at night?"
Charles chuckles, "No, I'll let this one pass since Rogue wanted to escape us talking to her about the others."
Logan shrugs his shoulders, "Whatever you say Charles."
"They're back." The two look up to see the Blackbird fly over the Institute making the two sigh in relief. "All four are back safe and sound."
Marinette stares out at the town sitting down on the chair on the balcony from her room and doesn't notice Tikki, her kwami, floating up next to her head. "Are you okay Marinette?" Tikki asks her partner.
"I'm a little scared Tikki. I don't know if I should stay here on earth or go with the others into outer space." Marinette admits looking down at her lap in thought.
"Well, you don't have to go if you don't want to. The other heroes can take care of it for you. Plus, France will become invaded just like the rest of the planet." Tikki tries to assure Marinette.
Marinette stands up from her seat and looks out over the town. She stares out at the town and says, "You're probably right, and while the world might not know about the invasion, we will, and I can't stand back knowing I could do something."
"Then you're going to help against the invasion?" Tikki asks with hope in her voice.
Marinette turns back to her partner with a smile on her face. "Yes, those kids better watch out because they are going to be facing our planet's heroes."
Nigel Uno stares out the window of the space station owned by the GKND and balls his hands up in anger. 'Maurice…Rachel…'
"Rachel is a mutant." Maurice slips out getting Nigel to stop in surprise.
"She is?" Nigel whispers.
"Yeah," Maurice smiles, "she's learning a lot man."
"Does she control fire like I do?"
Maurice shakes his head. "No man, she can create these special types of barriers, and she's learning so much about her powers dude. She explained to me earlier about it all man."
"She's just like me." Nigel mutters in distaste. "A mutant…I never wanted to have powers, but now I have them, and they're exactly like Father's power. This invasion is for everyone's good Maurice. I can't risk anyone becoming evil and destroy everything that we believe in." He walks away from the window determined to destroy the adults and teens planning to ruin the lives of kids.
Well, this is definitely taking an interesting turn. For those who do not know, I wrote a little side story on how Ladybug and Phantom met for the first time which actually happens to be a side story of chapter 6 of this story when Aelita was introduced. If you want to read that then go ahead.
GKND Invasion arc will not be for a few chapters. No romance this chapter which I think is good, because we tend to focus too much on that anyway. Nigel can control fire like Father can which I know a lot of you were expecting, and the only reason he was in the chapter was for Maurice to confirm if Nigel has given up on his belief on protecting kids. Yes, Maurice will be the one who will fight Nigel during the arc so expect that to happen.
Will Maurice become a hero? That's for me to know and for you to find out.
Anyway, we will be getting a couple more characters the next chapter from a couple other cartoons going to be added to the story, and no one would be expecting these characters to become a part of the story line. I do have one question though about one specific character.
Should Zak Saturday become a mutant or stay with his secret life in the shadows with only the heroes knowing about the work he does with his family?
I want to know your opinion on Zak Saturday since he was requested by a couple people.
Well…R&R