Disclaimer: I do not own Codename: Kids Next Door, but I did change the natures of the spank-happy vampires and the werepoodles so that their purpose is a little scarier, easier to take seriously, and much more traditional. The plot is also mine. I'm not that much of a ripoff.
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Owww... my eyes are hurting... so much... what happened? Where am I?
Ugh. Not again! Why does this keep happening to me? Did I pass out again?
Yes, I think I did... but - no.
Yes! I think I was knocked out... that would explain a whole lot.
Am I in bed? Oh no! What if I'm not? What if no one found me?
No... I'm not in bed! I'm sitting up! Then why does it feel like I'm stuck inside my own brain? I have to remember... I was gone, visiting Wally, and he had been beaten up. And he said - he said - ohhh CRUD.
Flashback
"Kooks... yeh shouldn't be here."
"Why, Wally? What's wrong? Tell me - tell me your eye was caused by an accident!"
"It wasn't. Yeh have to get home before dark!"
"I'm not leaving until you tell me what's happened. Who attacked you?"
"I couldn't see. I think it was - it had to be a person."
"..."
"Kooks? Are yeh alroight?"
"... you think it was a person?"
"Well - "
"OF COURSE IT WAS A PERSON!"
"Ehe - "
"What else could it be, then?"
"Er... ah dunno..."
"..."
"Look. Ah need to give you something. It tried to attack me with - with this."
"What is it?"
"Ah dunno - Kooks, the sun's setting."
"Alright, alright."
"An' Kooks?"
"Yes?"
"Ah..."
"...?"
"Ah... ah want yeh to give it to Abby. She'll know what to do with it."
"... okay... is there... anything else you want to tell me?"
"Ehh..."
"... Wally?"
"Ah... don't mess with it, okay? Ah couldn't stand it if there was anything... if anything happened to yeh."
"... right."
"Ah mean, it would be my fault if yeh - ah dunno..."
"... Wally, don't get up! What are you doing?"
"Ah wanted to - to eh... to help yeh, I guess..."
"With wha - oh. Thank you."
"Goodbye, Kooks."
"Goodbye Wally. See you at school."
"Yeah - and Kooks?"
"Yes?"
"Ah... ah love yeh..."
"Thank you, Wally. I love you too."
End Flashback
Oh... I was sooo disappointed when he just help the door open for me... but it was all okay when he told me that. That reminds me of when I was little... There's this one thing that I can remember...
Flashback
"Mushi... you've asked me a million times if it's true."
"Is it, though? Why wouldn't you tell me?"
"Because..."
"Is it the Kids Next Door? Will they do something bad if you tell?"
"No... it's just..."
"Am I not allowed to know?"
"Yes. You are allowed to know. It's just that I don't want to know it... myself. You already know it, but if I say it, it's different. It's hard to say. If I admit it – to anyone – it's like sealing a letter. Mushi, I don't want to say it."
"Why?"
"Because..."
"Please tell me, Kuki."
"But..."
"I'll help you remember after you're decommissioned, I promise!"
"..."
"Please? I'll help. I'll do anything I can to help, I promise."
"... okay..."
"..."
"Well, I think - "
"...?"
"I think I'm in love."
"Oh, wow! With who, with who?"
"With... Wallabee Beetles. Numbuh Four."
"...!"
"Stop giggling!"
End Flashback
That was funny. Wallabee Beetles... and now I know he loves me back.
That's so perfect.
Or at least it WOULD BE. If I weren't STUCK in my frickin' BRAIN.
HONESTLY.
Okay... calm down, Kooks... cool it. Chill.
Heh... I sound like Abby. "Chill, gurl!" Hahaha.
Anyway. Where was I?
Ah, there... where we get to how I passed out... let's see...
I was walking away from the Beetles' house...
Flashback
"Hey, I wonder what happens when I twist this stick around?"
ZAP!
End Flashback
Well... that explains a lot. Now... how to get out... Maybe Mushi can help me! But I can't talk to anyone out of my brain... hmmm... waiiit a second. She said that she'd promise to remind me of Wally after I was decrapitated... or whatever that was. But I haven't heard ONE word about one adorable, Australian Beetles. With green eyes, so I can't be talking about Joey, who is also Australian and also quite cute, but... he has blue eyes. Or, at least, blueish green, or whatever.
Hmmm... where was I?
Oh yeah. She didn't keep her promise. Grrr... all the time I could have spent, at least e-mailing my one true love...
I revolt me! My mind keeps straying to thoughts of lurv, while extreme dangers are afoot!
How am I going to tell the rest of the gang? Wally must have been wanting to get that device thingee - the sphere with the ball stuck on the end - to someone who could figure it out. But, luckily, it came into my hands first, so they will know NOT to twist that stick around, thanks to my numbskulled sacrifice. I wonder when someone will get me out of -
Kuki Sanban's pen rolled out of her hands, onto the floor. She was in the middle of the class. Not caring that the teacher himself was talking, she raised a trembling hand into the air.
"So, the battle of Marathon - Yes, what is it, Miss Sanban?"
She swallowed painfully. She was going to be sick.
"Please, sir... I feel very sick... can I go to the bathroom?"
Mr. Frybingle surveyed his young Japanese student for a second. She did look sick indeed, pale and clammy. Beads of sweat were forming around her trembling lips... "Yes, you go, Kuki, and please tell the secretary if you plan on going home. I'll write you a hall pass."
Kuki thanked him, then rushed out of the classroom. She rushed into the girls' bathroom, locked herself into a stall, and promptly threw up into the toilet. Then she heard the door swing open. She climbed on top of the toilet seat as quietly as she could, and listened. The two girls were making no effort to lower their voices.
"No one here." Said the first, in a high, breathy voice.
"Good." The second sounded like an ogre compared to the first. Her voice was gravelly and nasal. "Mrs. Thomas has sedated him. He'll just feel like he's had a normal day, only he stayed the night at Mrs. T.'s house."
"Okay. How's he taking it?"
"Taking... the news on former Numbuh 5?"
Kuki inhaled sharply. She had dreamed about a Numbuh 5...
"Yeah. I think he loved her or something. Anyway - Tala's asking for a set of digging robots - I can only wonder why." The ogrish one sounded very sarcastic as she said this.
"You mean... she's actually making a move on the Count's recruiting?"
"Yes, Father thinks so anyway. He just says let them duke it out, in their desperation they might come up with new weapons."
"Oh my gosh... she's going to make an underground base?"
"We're pretty sure, yeah."
Kuki leaned closer to the stall door. The high-pitched voice spoke again, nervously.
"Full moon's next week."
Kuki frowned. Talk of full moons made her stomach turn...
"Yeah. Take this."
"It's a nail file."
"Yeah, but practice with it... all next week, keep it with you. The tip is made of silver. Wear anything made of real silver all next week, too. It'll keep you safe. Come on, Alice, we have to get back to class."
"Wait."
"What?"
"Do you think Mrs. Thomas will try to bite Hogarth?"
Kuki nearly fell of the toilet seat. Hogarth... Hoagie's name.
"I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe she'll let Valerie do it, she's been salivating for blood for ages."
The door closed. Kuki realized she was shivering.
Have to get home. Have to help Hoagie. Werewolves. Full moon.
She stood up, left the toilet stall, and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked like death warmed over.
She washed her face with warm water, dried it, sang herself a song, then decided the coast would be clear. She peeked out of the bathroom. No one there.
15 minutes until class ends.
She raced to the stairway, tiptoed upstairs as fast as she could, then speeded towards her locker. Out went her backback, containing her pencil case and a small notebook, then she pulled on her coat, and stuffed a mythology book into her backpack. Off she went again.
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"All brainwashed subjects have regained conciousness. To regain control over said subjects, they must recieve another delightfulization ray."
Nigel sighed. "If we're right, Kuki's back to normal."
"Ah hope so..." Wally looked at the screen. "Hey, hold on... how about 'Werewolf/Vampire feud'?"
"Hmm?"
"There." Wally pointed at a square. Nigel stuck his finger into the screen, which was not solid, opening a window about the situation between werewolves and vampires. Nigel had already seen that the Database was updated practically once a second, so this would be the most recent discoveries about this situation. According to the information at the top of the page, the article had just been updated.
Most recent news
Hogarth Penniwhistle Gilligan, Jr., has been fooled into trusting Tala Thomas, leader of the Werewolves. Thomas is planning on countering the recent Vampire activity, and rumor has it that she is going to let Hogarth be bitten by Tala's second-in-command, Valerie (last name not yet discovered) and become the first in a long line of new recruits for the Werewolves.
While Nigal sat there gasping, Kuki burst into the hallway.
"Hoagiewerewolfbitefullmoondelightfulthankyouquick!" she yelled, sounding slightly crazed.
"We know." Nigel said.
"Hey... what are you doing here?" Kuki said, the oddness of the situation finally dawning upon her.
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Yes, yes, dumb ending, but it had to end somewhere, didner it? I didn't know how to get them out of the Sanban's house and off to wherever they're going next and still be able to call it a chapter, not a drabble connecter thing.
Mrs. T's first name, Tala, is a Native American girl's name meaning wolf.
Also, I'm very sorry that Mushi's Memory, mentioned in an earlier chapter, is all mushy and about love.
Update!
... update? I have been reviewing other peoples' stories far too often. Review, I mean!