I will refer to everyone by their KND Numbuh or name just to make it easier on readers. I will just call my OCs by their names since that's what they prefer. Only when they are on missions will you see their TND codenames (Numbuh T.1, T.2, T.3. etc.)
Livin' Life on a Sugar High
Chapter 1
Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored. With no missions TND can get really…boring. Well TND does have missions but so far KND has preferred to keep missions to themselves. The fact that it was storming outside made it extremely gloomy. Now that Numbuh 1 isn't a full time leader anymore he doesn't have to worry about paper work or anything. Numbuh 2 hasn't been working on his inventions. Numbuh 4 will sit punching a pillow until someone yells at him. Numbuh 5 ventures around the tree house, as she is still getting used to it. Even Numbuh 3 will get so bored, that she hardly even moves. Something has to be done. Even if TND gets the smallest of small missions, it would be something. Numbuh 1 stood up from the couch. Movement caused the old Sector V to look his way, just to see if something was happening. Of course all he was doing was just getting a drink. Numbuh 5 walked into the room, struggling with a crate. Numbuh 1 moved to help her, and they brought the crate to the middle of the room. The occupants of the room swarmed the crate in curiosity.
"Oo…What is it Numbuh 5?" Numbuh 3 asked.
"Hehe..., "Numbuh 5 chuckled as she looked around the room, then she came closer to the group and whispered, "Got this off ol' Stickybeard's ship before I spilt." She pulled off the top, and the sweet aroma of sugar and artificial flavoring filled the room. The young teens did everything but dive inside of the crate. Numbuh 5 watched her fellow operative's and chuckled. She grabbed a piece of candy and popped it in her mouth.
"No one every gets too old for candy." She mumbled. The group was pretty noisy as they scrambled for candy. So it wasn't that surprising when they attracted the attention of the other TND operatives.
"What on earth is that?" A female voice asked from behind the group. The teens looked up to face their two older leaders, Cooper and Natalie. When they caught sight of the candy they practically threw themselves at the younger teens.
"Mm…Where'd you get soo much candy?" Cooper asked. Natalie stood behind the group looking at the crate longingly.
"Who cares where they got it, I want some." She said walking up to the crate and grabbing a handful. Abby stood looking at Cooper.
"I got it from, uh, tons of places." She said stepping a little closer to him, "This is just a part of my 'collection.'" Abby said. Cooper looked utterly confused, but let it go. Natalie rested her back against the couch after successfully getting a handful of candy.
"Soo…Abby your dad wouldn't happen to be, Dr. Lincoln would he?" Natalie asked popping a piece of candy in her mouth.
"Uh, yeah he is. How'd you know?" She replied.
"Oh yeah, uh, long story." When Natalie said this, Cooper grunted from trying to hold in a laugh.
"A ton of stories." He said, then turned to the group, "Natalie here is accident prone." Natalie gave Cooper a cold glare.
"No…well, yeah, but that's not why." She turned back to Abby, "I was born with bad kidneys. During a mission, I had gotten injured and one of my kidneys failed. I had to have a transplant." Natalie said, lifting her shirt a little to show a now faint, but long scar. "Your dad was the surgeon who operated on me."
"That and your accident prone." Cooper added.
"And your dad kept a lot of my visits secret, since most of the time it concerned Kids Next Door. Good man though, your dad." After a few minutes they had gotten bored sitting around the candy. Wally and Kuki had pulled a pile of candy with them over to the TV and had started playing video games. Hoagie and Nigel were leaning against the couch on the floor, deep in conversation. Abby threw herself on the couch and kissed the top of Nigel's bald head. Hoagie chuckled at them. Hoagie had no girlfriends, but he does have a gi-huge-ic crush on Fanny. But he also had a celebrity crush on Natalie, the kind where you crush on the person, but there is like no way you'd every date them. But Natalie was a good person to fawn over. For 3 reasons. She's pretty, she's an inventor, and she's older. Hoagie walked over to her desk. On it was a blue print sheet. Natalie had tons of doodles over it, most were scribbled over, but two were circled.
"Natalie what's this?" Hoagie asked. Natalie walked over to him; follow by the rest of the team.
"Oh that. Those are just some weapon designs. These ones," She said pointing to the circled ones, "Are the weapons I designed when I was in Kids Next Door. But Global Command denied my request to make them. I was hoping that now that I'm in Teens Next Door maybe I could get a chance to make them." She said. She seemed very proud of her designs, Hoagie noticed. The same pride he held in his own designs.
"I'll help you if you want." Hoagie said, excited to get to work with is Second-in-Command. Natalie smiled and nodded in response. As they walked out, Numbuh 86 and 362 walked in. They were completely soaked, and looked like drowned rats. Numbuh 4 stifled a laugh. Cooper gave them a strict glare.
"Where have you two been?" He asked sternly.
"The mall, giving Danielle to Stickybeard." Numbuh 86 replied. Numbuh 362 flopped down on the couch.
"Then we might have gone shopping. But if that's against any rules then no we didn't go shopping." She said calmly. Cooper shook his head and climbed up a tree branch. 15 feet above the floor was a hammock that Cooper put in. He liked to be in the air above everyone else, he could see everything in the room. Plus he could drown everyone out and just think up there. The huge computer blinked on, and the face of the new KND leader appeared.
"Teens Next Door, come in Teens Next Door." He said in a commanding voice. Numbuh 362 moved to the computers.
"Numbuh T.362 here, what's the problem?" She asked bringing back her times being Global Commander.
"I think we might just have a mission for you. It seems that Father has been showing a lot of activity lately. Buying machinery and parts. Who knows what he could be up to? I want you guys to be ready at any moment for us to send you in." Numbuh 362 saluted him and he blinked off the screen. She turned and faced the team.
"Well…what should we do?" She asked, looking up to Cooper. He had already started to descend from his hammock.
"I have to tell Natalie first. She would love to her she might get a chance for revenge." He said walking off. Numbuh 86 huffed on the couch.
"I thought we had gotten rid of Father when we grew up. I mean not that I would love kicking his butt everyday, but he seems old news now." Numbuh 1 watched Cooper walk down the hall.
"Mm…but won't Natalie love to hear about it." He said. The other ex-members of Sector V nodded.
"Why's that?" Numbuh 362 asked. Nigel took a seat on the couch opposite of her.
"Well you know that Natalie had a mishap during her decommission right?" Fanny sat up.
"I do, they told us in decommissioning training." She said now fully paying attention. Numbuh 362 nodding in agreement.
"Ok, I was the one that took her home. But she couldn't remember her home or anything…" Numbuh 362 interrupted him.
"Yadda yadda yadda we all know this part, I was the one who told you to take her back to base and watch over her."
"Ok fine. Well while she stayed with us, her parents were killed by Father." Numbuh 86 gasped, "She didn't find out until her memory was recovered, nearly 5 months later." Numbuh 5 interrupted this time.
"She read the obituary in the newspaper and didn't even know it was her own parents." She said quietly. Numbuh 362 felt a pang in her heart for the poor girl.
"Yeah, Father had burnt their house down to the foundation. Nothing was salvaged. That's why Natalie is very keen to that gold chain. It belonged to her dad." Numbuh 1 spoke softly. "Apparently they had all been in Kids Next Door together. They were on a mission in Professor Triple Extra Large's lab. He captured Father and Natalie's parent tried as hard as they could but they couldn't save him. Professor XXX-Large threw Father in a tank of some sort of experiment. That's how he got his fire powers." Nigel finished. Numbuh 86 and 362 jaws had dropped.
"But they did try to save him did they, doesn't that count?" Numbuh 362 asked.
"Naw Father just thought that kids were helpless, weak, and useless." Numbuh 5 said. At that time Natalie, Cooper, and Hoagie walked in. Cooper retreated to his hammock. Natalie had a depressed look. Hoagie came over and sat next to Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 86.
"Natalie's okay right?" Numbuh 1 asked. Over the time Natalie had stayed with Sector V she had become very close to the team. Her and Numbuh 1 became like brother and sister.
"Yeah, I think that thinking about Father brought up some bad memories." He replied. Natalie stood in front of the hallway she came from. She was clenching and un-clenching her fist. Then she walked up to Hoagie looking like a completely different person. She looked, revengeful.
"Hey listen, I think you and me should work together and make a mad crazy machine to take Father down." She said, slamming her fist into an open palm for effect. Hoagie smiled and agreed. They walked to his room. Natalie pulled out a blue print paper. This one had a picture of just one weapon. At the top it read F.R.E.E.Z.E.
"This will help us for sure against Father. The hot-head won't be able to handle the heat we'll bring to the fight." Natalie said clenching her fist. "F.R.E.E.Z.E.
Frosty
Ray's
Extreme
Energy
Zaps
Enemies."
She said writing down the code's meaning. She smiled. The weapon needed to be held with two hands. It looked almost like a shotgun, except it had a blender full of ice near the trigger. Natalie smiled at Hoagie.
"Do you think we can do this?" He smiled at her.
"Of course." He pulled out a blank sheet of paper, "Now let's make that machine."
"If you don't mind I'd like to operate it." Natalie said quietly. At first Hoagie was hurt slightly. He operated every machine he made. Then he got over it. He knew Natalie meant no harm she just wanted to get revenge. And who wouldn't.
"Um sure." He finally replied. He drew a stick figure. In the head he made a square and drew 5 lines coming from the sides to another little stick figure inside. "This will be you." He said motioning to the smaller stick figure. "I bet if I go to the KND Junkyard, I'd be able to pick up an old body controller from the W.R.A.S.L.E.R." (The giant Robot with a Merry-Go-round for a head In OP. HUGS.) In about an hour the two had spit-balled enough ideas and came up with a robot slightly larger then Father, complete with the body controller, giant versions of F.R.E.E.Z.E. to be placed inside of the arm, (So it shoots out of the palm), and fire shields on it's forearms and shins.
"How long do you think it would take to complete this puppy?" Natalie asked. Hoagie looked at the paper one more time for good measurements.
"A month max." He said.
"A Month! But we might be called to fight by then!" Natalie complained. Hoagie shrugged.
"I said max, we could finish faster." Natalie sighed. She wanted to get to beat up Father soon. Her biggest worry was that she and Hoagie would be working on this robot and they won't be prepared to fight Father when the time comes. Natalie and Hoagie left his room and returned to the main room. Everyone looked just as extremely bored as they did before. It was still pouring outside. Hoagie moved to the couch and placed himself next to Fanny, who smiled at him as he sat. Natalie looked at her watch.
"Crud." She muttered under her breath, "Uh guys I'm going out." Everyone turned to face her.
"Girl it's pouring out. So unless you teleport there, you gunna get
soaked." Numbuh 5 replied. Natalie just shrugged.
"I'm just going to hang out with some friends. I'll be back home later." She said waving Numbuh 5 off. She turned to her room. It is a pretty plain room, something you'd find in a normal person's home. Except on the roof was a window. Natalie clicked her heels together causing her jet boots to activate. She flew up to the window and slid it open. She quickly flew out and closed the window, trying to keep out as much rain as possible. She pulled her hat on tighter and flew off into the rain.
Wally was pacing around the room. He was getting stir-crazy. He walked over to the couch and punched the pillow before falling onto it. He pulled his hood over his eyes and tried to relax. His attempt was short-lived. With a small squeal, someone jumped on top of Wally. He groaned from the weight hitting his stomach. Pulling his hood up he saw Kuki smiling from ear to ear. She had now turned and was resting her head on the arm rest and was lying on Wally's lap. His anger that formed after being hit dissipated because of her smile. Kuki looked up into Wally's eyes deeply. Their faces became really close before…
"Oh my god is it 8 already!" She exclaimed. Quickly she rolled off of Wally and dived for the remote. She flipped through the channels rapidly landing on…
"Super Chunky, Bring love where ever they go, Everybody's made of a big rainbow! Red and orange, pink and blue, Rainbow Monkey's! Rainbow Monkey's! We love you!" Everybody in the room sighed loudly. Wally gave Kuki a menacing look.
"If we have to be stuck in this tree house with nothing to do, we are sure not watching this crud." He exclaimed trying to pry the remote from Kuki's hands. She pulled away quickly and stuck her tongue out. Moving fast Wally grabbed the tip of her tongue.
"'Ey Leggo." She stuttered. Wally had been taking a lot of martial arts so he had become quicker and more agile. (He failed the whole patience and peace part.) But he didn't loosen up his grip on her tongue. He chuckled softly. While all this was going on Hoagie had crept over and snatched the remote. He quickly flipped the channel to Yipper. Wally heard this and jumped to the seat next to him. Abby groaned loudly and walked in front of the TV. The guys leaned over to look around her. She gave them a smug look, and hit the power button.
"HEY!" The two boys yelled. Hoagie picked up the remote and turned it back on. But Abby retaliated by turning it back off. By now everyone in the room had their attention on the two. The TV was flicking on and off madly. Every time it turned on you would get a part of a word. Eventually it had gotten on everyone's nerves. Nigel walked behind the TV and pulled the plug. Clicking of the remote could still be heard.
"Look what you did Numbuh 5." Hoagie said.
"What Numbuh 5 did?" She demanded.
"Yeh killed the battery." Wally had taken the remote and was hitting the power button rapidly. Nigel snuck out from behind the TV quietly, snickering. Abby was giving the two boys a death stare. She turned and tried to turn the TV on.
"Oh great yah broke the TV." Wally complained. Abby whipped around and started towards Wally.
"What is going on in here?" A rough voice demanded. Everybody turned to face Cooper. Abby had managed to make it to Wally and she was holding him up by his sweatshirt. She dropped him quickly. Cooper looked around the room.
"Where's Natalie?" He asked, still searching the room.
"She left." Fanny answered.
"Where'd did she go it's still raining?" He was glaring at each of the younger teens.
"She went to hang out with some friends." Numbuh 362 answered. Cooper checked his watch.
"At 8:45?" Everyone looked to each other for help. Kuki was looking at the TV. 'The fight over the TV went on for almost an hour.' She thought. Cooper looked out the window.
"Oh no..." He muttered. Everyone looked out the window.
"What?" Hoagie asked.
"I have to go get her." He said quickly. He grabbed a jetpack.
"What? Wait, you are going to fly to her friend's house and pick her up?" Kuki asked, watching him move frantically.
"No I'll fly to my house and get my car." He grabbed a pair of goggles, and flew out the window. Everyone was absolutely confused. Kuki got a scared look on her face.
"Is hanging out with friends bad?" All the teens looked at her in disbelief. Fanny looked out the window that Cooper just flew out.
"I wonder what she could be doing that would cause Cooper to act like this?" She asked no one in particular.
Yay I love TV wars. Me and my brother do that all the time. They don't last 45 minutes though.So yeah I tried to leave a little bit of a Cliffie there, but it might be a while before I update again. It's hard to update during the summer, and I promised a friend that I would post a story for So I have to type up that first.
Please review! It might make me update faster..
