Jenny hugged to Vincent as they were teleported instantly. Grandfather seemed as though he had won the fight this time, but he was wrong as he had missed a few kids, adults, animals, and Pokemon. Cree and Chad were both then tied up by magic by the Fudo twins.
"Dang..." Numbuh 5 frowned. "She's my sister!"
"Oh, don't worry, Abby, I got your back!" Cree then kicked her younger sister.
Numbuh 5 was then zombified since Cree touched her. Akito, panicking, used his magic and turned Numbuh 5 back to normal and also Cree since she also somehow got zombified.
"Did it work?" Akito hoped his magic was enough to turn Numbuh 5 back to normal.
"Come on, let's get out of here!" Cherry took his hand and ran off with him.
"Cherry, calm down!" Jackson said. "We are now safe from that tyrant."
"For now..." Cherry said. "He won't stop... They thought they wiped mine and Atticus's memory, but we were adopted after Numbuh 0 began his reign."
"So Numbuh 0 was real, ma'am?" Jenny asked.
"Yes..." Cherry slowly nodded.
"Who were his orphaned comrades then?" Jenny then asked.
"You're looking at one of them." Cherry replied.
"So, then that must mean that Dad must have been the other orphan." Vincent said.
"He was..." Cherry said.
"Do you remember who Numbuh 0 was?" Estelle asked her aunt.
"As unbeleiveable as it might seem, Numbuh 0 was Nigel Uno's very own father, Monty." Cherry revealed.
"Wait, my dad is Numbuh 0?!" Numbuh 1 asked out of disbelief.
"Hey, I hate eavesdroppers!" Cherry glared, not knowing he had been standing there.
"Him and the others were teleported here." Estelle said.
"Sorry, Aunty." Akito replied nervously.
"Come on, we better get you home." Cherry told Numbuh 1.
"But how will we even be able to get him to remember who he was?" Numbuh 1 asked.
"We're going to your house, we'll talk about this later." Cherry sounded like she knew what to do.
"You'll need this." Jackson said, showing the module he stole from Father.
"That's right." Cherry replied.
"How did you...?" Chad asked.
"Not important." Cherry cut him off.
"Listen, even though we are teenagers and we should be punished for the bad things we've done to your brats, why don't we call a truce until Grandfather is defeated?" Cree asked.
"What?!" the Kids Next Door operatives gawked at her.
"I knew you weren't all bad." Numbuh 2 smirked and purred to Cree seductively.
"Oh, brother." Cree groaned.
"Just as long as you teens don't try anything funny." Cherry glowered to Chad and Cree.
"We promise." Cree and Chad said.
"You had better..." Cherry sounded firm as she kept a tight hold on her daughter.
"I feel like this is all my fault," Numbuh 1 sighed. "I'm no Numbuh 0, I'm just a zero..."
"No, you're not." Larvitar said.
"Yes, I am..." Numbuh 1 sighed.
"No, you're not," Jackson said. "Listen, kid, this might be a first thing for me, but you are not a zero, you are the son of the very first KND member that started the Kids Next Door in the first place."
"Come on, kid, let's get you home." Cherry said.
"Uh, Aunt Cherry; I think taking him back home might be a bad idea." Estelle said, worried once she saw what was happening to the earth.
"Numbuh 0 can only help us, that and the missing operatives from Sector Z." Cherry said.
"But, they're missing, no one's even seen them and it's unknown if they were even decommissioned." Numbuh 1 said to the woman.
"Trust me, anything's possible, we still have to get away from the zombies before it's too late." Cherry said.
"Uh, Maman, you might wanna see what's happening to the earth." Felicity said, frightened once she saw what was going on with the earth.
"What's happening now?" Cherry sighed, not too unfazed, but she took a look.
The others looked to see what was going on with the earth other than the zombies invading the town, and where everything started to change.
"What is going on?" Cherry asked.
The clouds seemed to be getting dark and were changing as well.
"They can't be..." Cherry looked up to the cloud formations. "Windigos?"
"Windigos?" Estelle asked. "Wait, you mean like the ones I, um, 'accidentally' summoned on Hearth's Warming Eve?"
"You what?" Cherry looked back.
"Maman, do you not remember our first Hearth Warming's Eve with you, Tante Mo, and Uncle Atticus?" Felicity prompted.
"That was you?!" Cherry gawked at Estelle.
"Uh-huh." Estelle nodded with a frown.
"Estelle..." Cherry crossed her arms.
"I'm sorry, Aunt Cherry..." Estelle said.
Cherry then looked back down. "Was this by any chance your 'Uncle Sombra's' idea?" she then asked.
"Kind of," Estelle frowned. "He influenced me into doing a spell that would get rid of Hearth's Warming Eve just like the spell Snowfall Frost was going to use."
Cherry groaned.
"Who?" the others asked.
"What's Heart Warming Eve?" Numbuh 4 asked.
"Hearth's Warming Eve," Estelle corrected. "It's basically the Equestrian version of Christmas."
"Ohh." The others said, now understanding.
"Equestria..." Numbuh 3 sounded as though she knew about that place. "It's no Rainbow Monkey Island, but it's paradise in the universe!"
"Well, we'll need to go down to Earth anyway so then we can find Nigels dad." Akito said.
"It's dangerous, we'll need a special way." Cherry replied, she then looked to Akito, Estelle, Vincent, Jenny, and Felicity. "Which one of you still has your Loonatics bracelet?"
"That would be me." Akito said.
"Of course it's you..." Cherry said like she already knew since Akito was more like his father in logical senses and abilities than Estelle or Vincent. "We need you to hurry us down to Earth at the Uno residence, but not too fast where we burn up on reentry, do you think you can do that, Akito?"
"Yeah, I can instantly teleport us back to Earth." Akito said.
"Get to work." Cherry told him then.
"Okay." Akito said before teleporting them back to Earth and this time to a random place, this time and where they ended up in front of Nigel's house.
"Where are we?" Vincent asked.
"This is my house." Numbuh 1 realized.
"Let's see if anyone is home." Larvitar said.
Numbuh 1 fiddled with the doorknob to see if it was unlocked.
"Oh, Nigel, my boy!" Monty opened the door with a smile. "Having fun with your friends and your Kids Next Door... Something or other?"
"Hey, Monty." Cherry waved.
"Oh, well, I can't say I've seen you in a long time..." Monty said to Cherry. "You haven't changed much, you look great for a mother."
"Thanks..." Cherry said as she absentmindedly rubbed the back of her neck which was why she looked a lot younger than she actually was.
"Hello, sir." Estelle said with a curtsy.
"Monty, you need to let us all in, right now." Cherry said.
"But someone has to protect our tree house!" Numbuh 2 panicked.
"Half of us will have to go to the tree house." Akito said.
"And the other half will stay here with you." Estelle then said.
"We better go back to the treehouse then." Numbuh 2 said, referring to himself and the other Sector V members.
Numbuh 3 took Numbuh 4's hand with her head bowed. "We'll go..." she then instantly perked up brightly. "I have to get my Rainbow Monkey Sunscreen anyway!"
"Um, okay." Estelle said.
"With enough luck, you all should be safe from the invasions." Cherry said.
"We don't need luck," Numbuh 3 said lowly. "We need a hero."
"We better get inside before any zombified people come." Scruffy said.
With that, everyone split up and made sure they would be under their own protection.
"Monty, I want to show you something, come with me." Cherry said secretly to Sector V's leader's father.
"What's that, dear?" Monty asked.
"Come with me..." Cherry repeated and took him to a hidden hallway.
"We better follow her." Akito said.
"Mm-mm..." Felicity shook her head since her mother wanted to be alone for a moment.
"Um, guys, about these Windigos, what would they look like?" Numbuh 1 asked, worried once he saw something outside.
"Well, they're kinda like when you sit on a hill and watch the clouds," Estelle began. "They make all kinds of shapes and usually have menacing eyes... Aunt Twilight told us the story about a unicorn named Snowfall Frost who was intelligent, yet bitter. She was like Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, except she had magical powers and even tried to get rid of Hearth Warming's Eve with the help of the Windigos who she once believed were only an old filly's tail."
"Yeah, um, but what did they look like entirely?" Numbuh 1 asked, not finding that part of the information important.
"Oh, they basically look like horses made out of clouds float/flying through the sky with light blue glowing eyes," Estelle said before becoming worried herself. "Why?"
"Oh, no reason..." Numbuh 1 gulped as he looked even more paler than usual.
"They're right outside bringing along a blizzard of snow, aren't they?" Akito asked with a knowing look.
"Afraid so..." Numbuh 1 gulped.
"MAMAN!" Felicity cried out.
"Come on," Cherry said softly as she poked her head out with Nigel's father who looked very serious and determined now like he did when he was a kid. "We have to meet someone who can help us now."
"Uh, Aunt Cherry, why does Nigel's dad look serious and determined all of a sudden?" Vincent asked.
Cherry took out the recommissioning module. "He may still be an adult, but he still has the spirit of Numbuh 0 in him, now let's go, we're gonna need a lot of help, not just about the Windigos, but the future of the Kids Next Door as well."
"But how?" Numbuh 1 asked. "The Windigos are outside and mostly everyone has been zombified."
"Surely you haven't forgotten a little something?" Cherry kicked one wall of the house which then showed a secret passage way out to transport them to anywhere.
"Come on then, everybody, move." Monty told the others like a serious leader.
"But where are we going?" Snow White asked.
"To one who can help us." Cherry replied.
Oliver stood with Snow White protectively. "Don't worry, I won't let anyone hurt you."
"And who exactly did you have in mind?" Estelle asked.
"Patience, children..." Cherry said.
They took the secret way away from the Uno residence, on the way, Cherry decided to tell the kids a little history.
"Atticus and I helped Monty out with creating the Kids Next Door to be reborn," Cherry said on the way. "Our memories weren't erased though like they were with any other KND Operative. You see, sometime after Monty overthrew his father and the kind caretakers took charge of the orphanage again, we were happy for a while until Cinderella and her father came and they adopted us and our adventures started afterwards."
"Ohh." Akito smiled.
"We may had won the battle, but a home was all that either of us had ever wanted since our parents gave us up when we were only babies." Cherry continued.
"Ooh." The pets and the Pokemon said out of interest.
"Is this far enough, Monty?" Cherry asked.
"Should be, go for it, old girl." Monty nodded to her then.
Cherry nodded back and opened up the ground to show that they were close to a certain mansion which looked very familiar to Numbuh 1.
"A mansion?" Akito asked.
"Trust me, I know what we're doing." Cherry said as Monty rang the doorbell.
Father opened the door as he was in a fluffy bathrobe and had a tub of chocolate ice cream in his arm. "Oh, happy day..." he greeted sarcastically. "It's you... Well, come on in, I guess..." he then walked them inside of his mansion, looking rather miserable.
"Miss, are you crazy?!" Numbuh 1 pulled on Cherry's arm. "I know you have this amazing past and my dad's Numbuh 0 and he's been away and all, but that's the Kids Next Door's arch enemies!"
"Try listening to what's going on, Numbuh 1," Monty told his son with a smirk, "You just might learn something."
"Well, come on in already!" Father told them. "Atticus and his wife and their pets are already here."
"Why don't you take off that ridiculous outfit?" Monty asked.
"What, this?" Father gestured to his feathery robe which looked quite feminine. "It matches my eyes!"
"Not that... This!" Cherry said before ripping off the robe and the black thermal suit that came with it to show Father's true form and he was just a normal guy in glasses, suspenders, and a pipe like a 1950's father figure.
"Say 'uncle', son." Monty told his son.
"But Dad, we haven't lost yet." Numbuh 1 replied.
"And you're supposed to be the smart one," Father scoffed as he got comfortable. "I'm your dad's brother, Benedict, your uncle!"
"Yeah, you should know that by now." Atticus said as he, Mo, Patch, and Colette came out from the kitchen.
"I was wondering when you'd get here." Cherry folded her arms to Atticus.
"The moment I saw Grandfather back; I knew that we had to get over here and it didn't help that those evil horse spirits came back." Atticus said, referring to the Windogos.
Estelle flinched slightly at the mention of the Windigos. Numbuh 1 was still freaking out with Father being his uncle and that would mean Grandfather is his grandfather.
"Gee, and he's supposed to be the smart one." Patch muttered.
"You said it..." Colette sighed.
"Thank you, glad we're on the same page." Benedict grumbled over his nephew's reactions.
"Then, wait, who are the Delightful Children from Down the Lane?" Numbuh 1 asked.
"It's funny you should mention that, they should be coming in any minute now." Mo replied.
"Yeah, and where with their hands behind their back, tied up with no weapons." Atticus said.
"That was a bit of a double standard teamwork." Mo smirked as she looked to her husband in response to that.
Scruffy and Dot came to their parents and bowed their heads.
"Sorry we ran away, but we thought Akito and Estelle would need our helps..." Dot pouted.
"Yeah..." Scruffy nodded in agreement. "They can't go anywhere without us."
"That just shows what loyal pets you both are." Colette smiled proudly.
"Indeed." Patch added.
"Can we have our hands untied now?!" The Delightful Children's voices asked.
"Hmm..." Atticus and Mo smirked slightly.
"Not yet." Monty said before letting Cherry use the module on the obnoxious children as Atticus began to start recite a spell to make the affects from Benedict's experiment wouldn't be permanent on the five children any longer.
The five children were then out of their school uniforms/sailor dresses and were in battle combat-like outfits.
"The members of Sector Z thank you." The taller girl then walked over and bowed her head to the adults for finally freeing them for their delightfuliziation prison.
"The Delightful Children from Down the Lane are the missing Kids Next Door operatives of Sector Z!" Numbuh 1 freaked out again.
"Yep and with the combined powers the recomissioning module and the magic spell I just casted, the affects of Benedict's experiment are no longer in affect and where they will stay this way forever." Atticus said.
"Forever?" Numbuh 1 asked.
"Yes, they can rejoin the Kids Next Door in their own sector, no more Delightful Children." Cherry promised.
"And don't start complaining, Benedict." Atticus glared.
"I didn't say anything..." Benedict scoffed as he sulked in his chair. "Besides, how did you know?"
"Come on, Ben," Monty rolled his eyes with a smirk. "Five kids with that sort of tactical genius and strategy, had to be the ex-Kids Next Door you delightfulized until something went terribly wrong."
"You mean something went terribly right!" Benedict grinned darkly. "My Delightfulization Chamber will increase its power in a billion hold and I used the machine and five, perfect, delightful children!"
"But we thought the effects were permanent." the dark-skinned boy commented.
"Well, they were, but not anymore," Atticus said. "Thanks to a combination of magic and technology or whatever that thing is."
"Thanks to Atticus's magic, who knows how long your transformation could've lasted?" Mo said softly.
"Well, I'm glad we'll never have to wear those dorky outfits again." the short blonde boy replied.
"What's the plan?" the tall brunette boy added in.
"Yeah, Dad, what's the plan?" Estelle added.
"Well, Grandfather's coming here." Atticus started.
"How do you know?" Numbuh 1 took out a notebook.
"He wants the book of KND," Monty replied like it was obvious.
"So hide it again!" the short blonde boy replied. "That worked last time!"
"That's only because he didn't know it existed," Cherry informed. "But now, he won't quit until he's sure he's eliminated the book."
"So, then what are we going to do?" Snow White asked.
"Yeah, there's no way on Earth we can stop him," Numbuh 1 added in, then did a double take. "I can't believe I just agreed with a cat."
"You're right," Monty replied. "Not on Earth."
Cherry sighed as she bowed her head. "I was hoping it wouldn't come to this."
"The Moon Base." Akito smiled.
"That's right," Cherry said before muttering to Atticus. "He is so your son."
"Yes, yes, he is." Atticus nodded.
"Hard to say if it'll be safe enough though..." Cherry said. "Grandfather was unstoppable before we came along."
"Well, last time, you guys didn't have magic on your side." Patch said.
"Real magic?" The lost members of Sector Z asked.
"My parents once believed in magic, as long as it doesn't come from anyone from the other side." The dark-skinned boy sounded wary.
"Well, Grandfather now has the Windigos on his side." Estelle frowned.
"Can't you guys stop the Windigos with your medallions?" Felicity asked her mother, aunt, and uncle, knowing all about their adventures in Equestria back when Twilight was still just a princess who used to wonder what friendship could be before the others shared its magic with her.
"I'm afraid not," Atticus said. "The only way would be Hearth's Warming Eve and the songs from it."
"But then who would summon them in the first place?" One of the members of the lost sector asked.
"Are you gonna sing?" Cherry asked Atticus. "Please tell me you're not going to sing or at least make me sing."
"All of us will have to sing as well as the one that had first summoned them." Atticus said.
"All of us?" Felicity felt anxious. "Oh, no... No... Uncle Atticus, I cannot sing..."
"Uh, me neither..." Jenny felt just as nervous.
"Do you two want everything to be covered in snow for all time?!" The Pokemon and pets asked them.
"Well, no, but..." Jenny rubbed her arm.
"Jenny, you can sing," Oliver reminded her. "Just think about that time with the piano, you had a great singing voice! Not only that, but remember Chuckie's dad and Kimi's mom's wedding?"
"Plus you girls won't be singing alone." Patch said.
"I sing best with the music like Papa..." Felicity pouted.
"Do you really think your father sings better with his music?" Cherry crossed her arms. "Fliss, I know your father seems boring and dull, but he actually has a very beautiful singing voice for who he is."
"Well, if you say so, Maman." Felicity shrugged.
"Trust me, your father has a very charming singing voice..." Cherry hid a sultry smirk.
"Well, alright." Felicity said.
"We better hurry," Cherry looked out one window. "It sure is getting ugly out there."
"Numbuh 1, you will have to go up to the moon base with Sector Z while the rest of us handle Grandfather and the Windigos." Akito said.
"You're going through with this?" Numbuh 1 sounded nervous since Akito was younger than him. "I don't know if I could let you do that."
"Dude, we've seen a lot, we can handle anything..." Vincent crossed his arms. "Sure, I'm not as strong as my little brother, but we've seen a lot and I mean a lot."
"Yeah, and besides, it's my fault the first time they were summoned back." Estelle cringed from her past.
"Estelle, we know what you did, but it's okay, it's over now, you don't have to worry anymore." Mo soothed her daughter.
"Your mother is right." Atticus said.
"I guess..." Estelle sighed as she felt haunted by that memory even to this very day.
"Alright, well, you kids better get to the moon fast." Cherry said.
Suddenly, the roof crashed and everyone was worried it would either be Windigos or Zombies, but they saw Simon as he slid down after sending down a rope and held pistols in both his hands as he looked back and forth in seriousness.
"Simon?" The Fudo siblings asked.
Simon looked around, then looked to Felicity and looked actually relieved that she wasn't hurt.
"Simon, why aren't you with your father?" Cherry asked.
Simon took out four bracelets that Estelle, Vincent, Jenny, and Felicity recognized instantly that matched the one that Akito had always worn ever since those adventures started.
"Our bracelets." Estelle smiled.
Simon nodded once. The kids each took their bracelets and they were suddenly in their Loonatics uniforms and they felt like the powers from their adventures with the Looney Tunes' descendants were all coming back to them, even after the Loonatics became the Guardians of the Galaxy and the kids went back home after Ace and Lexi's wedding.
"We're kind of running out time." Cherry said, once seeing Grandfather, his army, and the Windigos were getting closer.
"Maman..." Felicity frowned.
"Sweetie, you've spent the first eight years of your life without me," Cherry put her hands on her daughter's shoulders. "Go with the others and save the day, it's up to you kids, I know you can do this."
"We can do this." Jenny said.
Felicity looked anxious and nervous.
"Come on, Felicity!" Vincent urged. "We got work to do!"
"Yeah!" Misdreavus said.
"Oh, I guess..." Felicity pouted.
Simon decided to go with his sister to help her do her job since her nerves seemed rattled about being away from their mother once more. Numbuh 1 and the members of Sector Z left for the moon base, and were then launched right then and there through the void of space.
"Welcome back, Sector Z." Cherry said to the kids formerly known as the Delightful Children from Down the Lane.