"You know? We should stop meeting like this" Numbuh 1 said while looking at a bomb on the floor right in the center of Global command room on the moonbase

Rachel sighed while sitting chained to a chair and looking at Numbuh 2 who was sitting right next to the bomb cutting a few wires "To be honest I'm just glad it wasn't a gross attack for once like common cold last week or lice like last month, I wish villains just flat out tried to kill us like this more often" Rachel said while Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60 were sitting on the floor also chained

"Look at the bright side, we evacuated most of the operatives" Numbuh 86 looked at Rachel a bit doubtful of Hoagie's skills

"Relax… in case Hoagie fails at least we will bring these dorks down with us!" Numbuh 4 said as he kicked the Delightful Children who were tied up right next to the bomb

"It's just a bazillion tons of Steel and Duct tape you idiots! Release us immediately, you can always build another one!" The delightful children said as they tried to rip the ropes to no avail

"Would you guys shut up! I'm trying to focus here" Numbuh 2 said while fidgeting with a few wires inside the bomb "Where did you guys even get this thing? Doesn't look like adult technology to me" Hoagie said while taking out a panel from inside the bomb

"A crazy man on the street offered it to Father as a gift…" The Delightful children said as they lowered their heads a bit embarrassed

"I've never seen a bomb like this as well…" Numbuh 23 was sitting right next to Numbuh 2 helping him with the bomb "Why don't we just throw it out in space?"

"The other operatives tried, it's welded in the floor panel" Patton said "Plus, it seems it was rigged to explode if taken out, geniuses" Patton looked at the Delightful Children

"Ow!" Rachel said, suddenly everyone looked in her direction startled only to see Numbuh 35 with a peanut blowtorch trying to free the supreme leader "Easy with the fire Numbuh 35" Rachel said as she noticed Numbuhs 83 and 84 were also freeing Patton and Fanny with blowtorches

"Sorry, The ones we had in the maintenance closet were empty so I had to grab a few on the other side of the base with those two, just a few more seconds… there we go" Numbuh 35 said as the chains were melted while Rachel blowed her hands

"Alright…" Rachel sighed "You think you can disarm it in time Numbuh 2?" Rachel asked

Numbuh 2 looked at the timer on the bomb saying one minute "If I get the correct wire…" Hoagie said

"Relax… You can do it" Numbuh 5 patted him on the shoulder lightly

"I'm sure you will manage" Numbuh 1 said as he approached Hoagie to get a better look inside the bomb

Numbuh 2 gulped and proceeded to cut a green wire, it was soon followed by a failure song, Numbuh 2 just jumped on top of Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 5 as the bomb exploded

Numbuh 4 saw the flash of light and Jumped on top of Numbuh 3 trying to protect her

"You should've gone for the red wire!" Numbuh 23 said as the flash of light engulfed her and Numbuh 35 along with Numbuhs 83 and 84

Rachel tried to protect herself using her chair to no avail as the light engulfed her

Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60 tried protecting their faces as they closed their eyes in reaction to the bright flash of light


Numbuh 4 woke up in a forest, he scratched his eyes yawning as he looked around still having a certain difficulty seeing where he was exactly due to the brightness after just waking up "Am I dead?" Numbuh 4 then realized he was sitting on top of something soft he looked down only to see Numbuh 3 sleeping with a smile, she was dressed like the kind of nerd Numbuh 4 would usually make fun of, he quickly got up blushing a bit embarrassed for sleeping with Numbuh 3 "Alright… Focus Numbuh 4…" Wally said, he then noticed he had similar nerd clothes, he wore a helmet with two small horns, a shirt made out of animal fur and a sort of skirt made out of fur tied with a leather belt, he could also feel the skirt was part of some kind of cloth underwear he was wearing, Numbuh 4 expression turned to anger "I look ridiculous! What is this?! a Skirt?! Must have been those Delightful Dorks when I get my hands on them I will-" Numbuh 4 then noticed right next to the sleeping Numbuh 3 giant battleax on the ground "Alright, not so ridiculous" Numbuh 4 said as he grabbed the battleax with both hands and rested it on his shoulder "Alright… Pretty cool" he smiled to himself and then noticed a couple of feral wolves approaching with their eyes set on Numbuh 3, Numbuh 4 looked at the wolves swinging his weapon for a bit testing its weight "Could be lighter… eh, it will have to do" Numbuh 4 smiled at the wolves and jumped at one with his ax, he hit it right on the head killing it instantly "If the situation was different I would just beat you, but I have to defend the dork behind me…" Numbuh 4 gnarled at the wolves readying his ax for another attack as the wolves growled at him

A few hours later, the sun was setting already when Numbuh 3 woke up, she scratched her eyes and looked around, the ground was covered in blood while Numbuh 4 sat right next to a campfire as he roasted the wolf's meat, he was also covered in blood as he ate a piece of meat and then burped while picking his teeth with a shard of bone from a wolf "Numbuh 4!" Numbuh 3 rushed to his side desperate after seeing him covered in blood "Are you okay? What about the bomb? did we die?" Numbuh 3 grabbed Numbuh 4 and shook him looking at him scared

"Yes, Don't know, and I guess not since I'm able to feel pain now that you are shaking me and putting your hands right where the wolf bite me" Numbuh 4 said

"Aren't you afraid of blood?" Numbuh 3 looked around at the wolves dead on the ground

"Just when I see my blood, Could you do first aid in my arm by the way? I haven't tried looking at it for a couple of hours already and I think I'm starting to get a little dizzy" Numbuh 4 said before eating another piece of meat

Numbuh 3 sighed "You are hopeless…" She smiled at him as she got closer and took a closer look at his wound "It went pretty deep…" Numbuh 3 looked at it a bit worried she then looked around and saw a huge ax right next to Numbuh 4 "What is that?" Numbuh 3 pointed at the giant battleax that was covered in blood and wolf guts

"Woke up right next to it earlier, it's pretty strong but a bit hard to use" Numbuh 4 said "I went to a nearby river and grabbed some water by the way" He said pointing to his helmet on the floor filled with water

"This should come in handy" Numbuh 3 said as she grabbed the helmet and poured some of it over Numbuh 4's arm

"Ow! it stings, what the hell Numbuh 3?" Wally said as he tried to grab her hand but had it slapped by Numbuh 3 who ripped her clothes a bit and wrapped it around his wound

After making sure it stopped bleeding Numbuh 3 sighed "This won't do… The wound must be all dirty" she sighed as she finally took a look at her clothes, she wore a set of green and black robes, she had four books attached to a utility belt of sorts around her hips, two books on the front and two on the back, her right sleeve was torn and was being used on Numbuh 4's wound "Hmm…" Numbuh 3 took out one of the books and started reading it for a bit while Numbuh 4 kept eating the wolf meat, he offered Numbuh 3 some but she was grossed out by eating dogs, she drank water from his helmet though from time to time and went back to a nearby river often to drink some more water. A few hours later it was already dark, Numbuh 3 kept reading, this time she had all four books, she discovered each book talked about a different kind of magic she was giggling to herself thinking it was kinda funny, she thought it was a fairy tale book, one book was about offensive magic, the second was about healing magic, the third was about potions and alchemy and the last one was about enchantments and summoning "Hehe, this book that came with my new clothes is so fun" Numbuh 3 said while reading something on the offensive book

"Yeah: like what?" Numbuh 4 asked while poking the campfire with a stick

"Let me see…" Numbuh 3 started drawing something in the air with her hands while looking at Numbuh 4, all of a sudden a red circle surged from her hand and a small ball of fire flew in Numbuh 4 direction

Numbuh 4 was lucky that he was looking at Numbuh 3 at the time and saw the fireball coming at him, he quickly grabbed his ax and used the thicker blade part as a shield as the fireball exploded around him leaving a charred mark on his ax's blade but leaving him unscathed "HAVE YOU GONE INSANE?!" Numbuh 4 looked at her with pure anger on his face

Numbuh 3 looked at her hands a bit scared "I-I swear I didn't mean it!" Kuki said scared at him and at herself

Numbuh 4 sighed and took a deep breath trying to calm himself, he licked his thumb and rubbed it against the ax blade cleaning the charred area "You are a mage or something?"

"Well…" Numbuh 3 leafed through her book and read the introduction "You just got your copy of the first volume for Defense arcane arts, this book goes through elemental and pure arcane offensive magic for apprentice wizardry, please buy our Healing, Alchemy and Miscellaneous apprentice handbooks as well, let's learn magic together" she read in the book

"So yeah, a mage, cool, you can help me sort out what the hell happened to us" Numbuh 4 scratched the back of his head

"N-No way, this thing looks dangerous" Numbuh 3 said as she looked at a few drawings on her book of electric attacks hitting a person

"Look, one of them says healing, it can't be dangerous, this thing hurts like hell, you wanna try your hand at it?" Numbuh 4 smiled at her showing Kuki his arm that had a light shade of purple around it

Numbuh 3 sighed as she took the green healing book and started reading it "It says here I can heal wounds like yours but the deeper the wound the more pain you will feel as it mends your flesh, it says here the advance book has a healing one that doesn't hurt but it's harder to cast…" Numbuh 3 said as she approached Numbuh 4 and started drawing with her finger near his wound as she paid close attention to the book, a green light soon followed by a moment of silence

Suddenly Numbuh 4's eyes went wide in pain as he felt his arm spasming wildly, Numbuh 3 took out the tourniquet she had made only to see his flesh regenerating, the teeth marks were closing and his swollen arm returned to normal after a few seconds, Numbuh 4 was sweating a lot and panting as he looked at Numbuh 3 "You need the advanced one that doesn't hurt…" he said then collapsed on the ground exhausted

Numbuh 3 giggled at him and patted him on the head "So cute" she said as she smiled while blushing at him, she then read a bit more but started getting sleepy again "Let me see…" Numbuh 3 leafed through the summoning book and smiled upon seeing a spell that suited her needs, she then started drawing in the air with her finger once again, a green glow came out of her finger and went into the nearby trees who suddenly started moving towards her as they formed a small cocoon of wood around her and Numbuh 4 protecting them for the night, she fell asleep soon after

Numbuh 4 woke up the next morning in a dark place "I had the weirdest dream…" He yawned and then noticed he was hugging something "Hmmm… so soft" he smiled still a bit sleepy "My pillow is comfier than usual today…" he said smiling to himself

Numbuh 3 giggled a bit embarrassed "Thank you, And I didn't even do my skin routine before sleeping today" she summoned a small ball of light with her fingers, that was when Numbuh 4 noticed he was hugging Numbuh 3 all along

Numbuh 4's eyes went wide open as he let out a loud scream blushing a deep shade of red as he released Numbuh 3 and went to the other side of the cocoon "W-Where are we?!"

"A wooden shelter I made with magic" Numbuh 3 giggled "You hugged me in your sleep, it was so cute I just couldn't wake you up" she laughed with a pink embarrassed color on her cheeks

Numbuh 4 was covering his face in shame "I wanna die…"

"Don't be like that hehe…" Numbuh 3 giggled at him while enjoying his embarrassing outburst, suddenly they heard a loud slam outside the cocoon and Numbuh 3 smiled "The others must have found us" she said as she opened the cocoon with magic only to see a giant wolf thrice their size outside their cocoon, Numbuh 3 closed it again immediately "You had to eat her puppies didn't you?" she looked at him a bit sad

"The mother seems delicious as well, where is my ax?" Numbuh 4 smiled as he cracked his knuckles

"Outside, it was too big to fit in the cocoon dummy" Numbuh 3 said smiling as they heard another loud slam coming from outside, the wolf was biting the cocoon trying to crush the two operatives alive with her mouth

"Well… You have fireballs… you mind killing it for me?" Numbuh 4 asked Numbuh 3

"You know I could never hurt a doggie Numbuh 4" Numbuh 3 said giggling

"You have got to be kidding me…" Numbuh 4 sighed in annoyance kind of already predicting she was going to say something like this "Open the shelter, I'm gonna try reaching for my ax, you stay inside or do whatever you want for all I care" Numbuh 4 said

Numbuh 3 looked at him a bit sad but did as he told and opened a small hole in the shelter, Numbuh 4 managed to slip through it

Now outside Numbuh 4 could clearly see the size difference between him and the wolf, it was about the same height as a Scamper and only its head was already bigger than Numbuh 4, Wally quickly rolled to his ax and grabbed at it "Just so you know they started it!" Numbuh 4 said as he rushed to the giant wolf branding his battleax, the wolf just hit him with its head and threw Numbuh 4 against a tree

Numbuh 3 sighed looking at the wolf sadly as it approached Numbuh 4 "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" she said as she drew a rune with her hands in the air as a lightning bolt came out of her hand and hit the wolf leaving it staggered, she then rushed to Numbuh 4's side "Anything broken?"

"I can take it" Numbuh 4 got back on his feet "So? What do we do?"

"I haven't read much about it but…" Numbuh 4 took a stone nearby and grabbed his ax, she drew a symbol on the blade "This should work, it won't last forever though" Numbuh 3 handed him his ax and then drew a sign with her hands while looking at the ax

Numbuh 4's ax suddenly started catching fire on the blade Numbuh 4 smiled at it "That's useful…" Numbuh 4 smiled at the wolf ready for round 2, the wolf just jumped at Numbuh 4 again

"Calm down…" Numbuh 3 grabbed Numbuh 4 by his fur shirt and took him out of the wolf's way as it hit a couple of trees

Numbuh 4 looked at a couple of destroyed trees behind him "What are you doing?!" he asked her angry

Numbuh 3 sighed and just drew a sign while looking at Numbuh 4 followed by another one, a green and blue light shone around Numbuh 4 "I'm buffing you dummy, I made you nimbler and able to take more damage, I haven't figured out how to improve your damage though…" Numbuh 3 scratched the side of her head a bit confused while reading one of her books

Numbuh 4 felt himself stronger than ever, he grinned at the wolf as it got up ready to attack him again, they both clashed with each other as Numbuh 4 hit it with his ax leaving a deep wound on its face the wolf proceeded to bite Numbuh 4 on the leg and swung him around, it threw him against a couple of trees, the boy got up feeling severe pain but noticing that it could have killed him as he saw a couple of split in half trees that he went across "Thanks Kuki" Numbuh 4 said a bit embarrassed

"Anytime" she waved at him giggling, the wolf then turned his attention to Numbuh 3 snarling at her, before Numbuh 3 could do anything the wolf hit her with it's paw and launched her against a tree, Numbuh 3 felt intense pain as she felt her bones breaking from her back to her torso she quickly drew a healing sign on herself as she started feeling maddening pain as her bones started mending themselves

While Numbuh 3 screamed in pain as her body was being healed the wolf rushed to her ready for the kill only to have Numbuh 4 jump on his side and swing his ax right against her torso, the wolf howled in pain as it started to thrash around feeling it burn its insides while Numbuh 4 held his ax, Numbuh 4 was launched a few meters away from the wolf as his ax flew with him from the wound he left on the wolf's torso "HEY! YOU MUTT, COME HERE RIGHT THIS SECOND!" Numbuh 4 grinned at it swinging his fiery ax taunting the beast with success as the beast rushed in his direction

Numbuh 3 had managed to heal herself fully while they fought "I really need the spell that doesn't hurt…" she said a bit dizzy, she then proceeded to read her healing book "I don't understand, it says right here, Constitution, Agility and Charisma… Oh! Wait a second…" Numbuh 3 took the red book with offensive spells and leafed through it "There we go" she stopped on a page and pointed at a section that said offensive buffs "Couldn't they have just put all buffs in one single book?"

Really cool that you are learning magic and everything but… COULD YOU GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE RIGHT NOW?!" Numbuh 4 said as he held the beast back by putting his ax's handle on its mouth, the beast was much stronger than Numbuh 4 though so it pushed him around while Numbuh 4 tried holding it firmly against its mouth

Numbuh 3 smiled in her usual way and rushed to his back, she drew two symbols on his back, the blue and green light was replaced by a red and green light around him "there we go, now you have more strength, I kept the speed one, just be careful to not get hit this time"

"Let's see…" Numbuh 4 took his ax out of the wolf's mouth and hit its chin with the pommel sending it flying across the forest "Yeah, I definitely few the strength one" Numbuh 4 smiled at the wolf he then noticed the hilt of his ax doing a few songs as he saw some smoke and sparks coming out of it "What did you do?" he looked at Numbuh 3 a bit scared as his ax started transforming

"I did nothing" Numbuh 3 said looking at the ax with curiosity

The blades of the ax started lowering themselves on each side giving space to an inside mechanism on the handle as it went up, Numbuh 4 then finally realized what had happened and smiled at it, his battleax had just turned into a greatsword "This is the most absurd thing I've ever seen, I love it!" he kissed the blade of his greatsword and felt it burn his lips a bit "Ow…" he said but kept smiling at it, he then noticed the wolf was getting up and rushing madly at him, Numbuh 4 took a stance readying himself, he started rushing at the wolf with his increased strength and speed, in a matter of seconds Numbuh 4 passed through the wolf, he had cut its midsection like butter as the wolf fell motionless on the floor, his sword turned back into a battleax soon after

"I'm going to puke…" Numbuh 3 rushed to a nearby bush as she saw the organs of the wolf spilling out

"Don't be fussy, come on let's eat it, it's meat, we just need to watch out for the liver" Numbuh 4 said as he approached Numbuh 3 patting her on the back

"I ate a few fruits while I was getting water yesterday… I pass" Numbuh 3 said grossed out

Numbuh 4 grabbed the two halves of the wolf and walked around the forest with it until they reached the entrance to a small settlement "How much for this much pelt?" Numbuh 4 asked a Merchant that was in front of the settlement

After a few minutes of negotiation Numbuh 3 managed to get a good price for the giant wolf but handed it to Numbuh 4 since he was the one who killed the wolf, he bought food for Numbuh 3 who ate it desperately "Finally… real food!" Numbuh 3 said while eating steak

"The wolf was Real food as well…" Numbuh 4 sighed as he grabbed a mug of juice and drank from it, he then saw a dwarf staring at him "What are you looking at?" Numbuh 4 asked in an annoyed tone

"I'm just wondering how a halfling like you can hold such a big progression ax" the dwarf laughed

"Progression wh… Wait, did you just call me a halfling? what the hell is that?" Numbuh 4 looked at him already quite annoyed

A mage that was right next to the dwarf coughed, she was smaller than Numbuh 4 and had elf ears " "That" is my race just so you know" The small woman said a bit offended but she proceeded to drink her beer calmly

"I see…" Numbuh 4 grabbed his ax and got on top of his table pointing it at the dwarf, the dwarf who was provoking him did the same thing but he held a great hammer with skulls on each side, both of them had bloodthirsty eyes as they looked at each other

"You two will do no such thing" Numbuh 3 and the halfling said as they levitated the two barbarians and moved them back on their seats "Sorry about my friend here, Barbarians are always a chore to deal with" The halfling said chuckling to Numbuh 3

"It's okay… look we are kinda new to the region, where is the nearest city? I was looking for a few books on magic, I can't keep healing him making him feel pain" Numbuh 3 said smiling at the halfling girl

"You are an apprentice mage and you managed to kill that wolf we saw outside? I'm impressed" The halfling applauded them as she took from her bag two books "You can have these, I'm an expert already, you can have my intermediate ones" she smiled at the two, the nearest city is a few hours walking or a couple of minutes by horse to the north" she pointed "It's past the fields, big city with giant gray walls, you can't miss it, it should be easy to get in" she said

Numbuh 3 thanked the halfling and took the new books "Here" she handed them a few gold coins from the wolf they had just killed, they also bought a few leather bags to carry their food and Numbuh 3 books and headed north for the city, they decided to walk just so they could save some money when they reached the city

The halfling was sitting on the table ordering more beer with the gold Numbuh 3 had given her "I love helping newbies, don't you?" she smiled at the dwarf gently who looked at her a bit annoyed

"At least she gave you gold for the help" The dwarf groaned as he drank more beer and kissed her "Did they look familiar to you?"

The halfling giggled at him "I wonder…" she laughed as her cheeks started getting red from her drunkness

Numbuh 3 was walking while reading the new books the halfling gave her, Numbuh 4 walked behind her looking at their surroundings from time to time "Hmm.. interesting, Now i can buff you even further now, I can increase your stamina now, and there is even a section here for making you immune to certain elements, uh… poison immunity…" she said smiling

"Is there a return home spell on this one?" Numbuh 4 asked her in an ironic tone of voice

"No, I didn't wanna ask that halfling girl something like that, she would say we are weirdos" she said

"That never stopped you from being a weirdo near me" Numbuh 4 said

Numbuh 3 giggled "Well you are special" she blushed, they were suddenly interrupted by a giant spider who descended from a tree that grabbed Numbuh 3 while she was distracted with her book "Woah!" Numbuh 3 looked at the spider up close as it tried to bite her

"I'M COMING FOR YOU!" Numbuh 4 readied his ax

Numbuh 3 took a deep breath and drew a rune on her other hand, in a matter of seconds a spirit-like sword formed in her hand as she cut the spider in half, she then put on her hood before falling on the floor as the spider poison fell on her "Ewwww…" Numbuh 3 said as she took off her robes revealing the simple medieval-like clothes she wore, a white shirt with leather details along with a leather skirt, she also wore a pair of leather boots

"That was a sword?" Numbuh 4 looked at her surprised

"I can do even better, watch it" Numbuh 3 grabbed a book and drew a different symbol on her hand, this time she summoned a progression ax a bit simpler in appearance than the one Numbuh 4 used but just as big, she couldn't hold it though and just fell to the ground with its weight "That… was embarrassing" she said as she released the ax as it disappeared on the ground, she then stored her robes on a bag she was carrying and resumed the trip to the city

As they walked a road that had fields with a variety of cultures from rice and wheat to corn and soy on either side, they saw the city the halfling had talked about in the distance, a few farmers greeted the operatives on their way to the city, Numbuh 3 stopped to ask information about the city and learned its name "Hmmm… Magnolia" Numbuh 4 said "Looks weird for a city name"

"It's a flower dummy" Numbuh 3 said giggling at him as they reached the city gates

"Halt, who goes there?" A guard asked them both

"We… are travelers, we are waiting for some friends who got lost in here for a few weeks" Numbuh 3 said

The guard took a scroll and looked at them "Names?"

"Kuki Sanban" Numbuh 3 said

Numbuh 4 groaned "This is stupid… Wallabee Beetles"

"Kuki Sanban… this is Stupid Wallabee Beetles" The guard laughed at Numbuh 4 and proceeded to write his name correctly while chuckling at the boy frowning at him "Pretty weird names, are you foreigners?" The guard asked

"You could say that…" Numbuh 3 giggled nervously

"If you are a party you should try going for some money in the adventurers guild some time" The guard nodded to another guard on the gate as the gates to the city were lifted

Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 managed to get inside the city "So… Where should we go now?" Numbuh 3 asked

"We will make it up as we go… come on…" Numbuh 4 said as Numbuh 3 followed him now around the city streets