Chapter Four

Sonia was scared as Michael, Tommy and Shaunie (with great difficulty), picked up their babysitter and carefully thrust her onto the couch (in other words, they threw her).

"Be careful!" Sonia exclaimed, hearing the older girl's helmet clank upon the couches' arm.

"Eh, what she doesn't know won't hurt her…much." Shaunie answered with a shrug.

"Yeah, and she deserved it anyway." Michael added bitterly.

Sonia huffed. "Just because she's mean, doesn't give you the right to hurt her while she's out cold! Plus, Lee can't look after Joey all afternoon." She pointed to her Sector team member, who was attempting to entertain Joey. Unfortunately the little toddler didn't appreciate being in his arms, and began crying once more. Lee began to panic, and began doing various tricks with his yo-yo. This made Joey cry even louder.

"I told you!" Sonia yelled over the heart wrenching screams as she covered her ears.

"Go and get water!" Mushi yelled.

"Who's Josh Porter?" Tommy asked loudly as the screams echoed through the whole house.

"NO, WATER!" Mushi squealed so loud it made the boys cringe.

"Why do you want water? I thought he drunk milk?" Michael stated.

"NOT FOR HIM, FOR FANNY YOU IDIOT!" Mushi screamed. She grabbed Tommy by the wrist and dragged him to the kitchen, where the looked for a large container of some sort.

Meanwhile, Sonia's wristwatch was beeping. She headed for a more quiet space, and answered the call.

"Numbuh 83 reporting in." She answered as she received the transmission.

"Numbuh 83, this is Numbuh 362."

Sonia's heart skipped a beat. She seriously wasn't ready for the supreme commander to be contacting her now.

"Umm, Numbuh 362, hi." She replied unconvincingly. "How's your mission going?"

"Not so good. They thought they could hold us in a cell, but Numbuh 2 is drilling us out as we speak. We just hope we don't run into anymore trouble." 362 sighed. "Just answer me one thing; why is Numbuh 86 not responding to my transmissions? I've been contacting her for the past hour and no response."

Sonia panicked. "Huh, well you see, she hasn't exactly been around to answer, if you get what I mean."

"Umm, actually I wouldn't have a clue what you mean."

"Well, we were attacked again, and let's just say she hasn't come around since then." Sonia mentally screamed in frustration at her boss's face. "Don't worry, we haven't been attacked since then. We're doing all we can to wake her up."

"I was afraid you were going down that lane." 362 shook her head at the operatives behind her. "I'm afraid I can't help you, otherwise I'd be there in an instant. Look, contact Numbuh 60 if you have any problems. Numbuh 362 over and out."

Sonia wiped her forehead and sighed with relief as she slid down the wall. She thought it would've gone much worse than that.

"Sonia, it's not working!" came a cry from the living room. Sonia got up, and headed back to see their baby sitter was still not responding to anything. Tommy and Mushi had dumped a whole glass bowl of water on her, and all she was now was soaking wet.

"We've tried everything; dump water on her, yell in her ear, call her names she doesn't like, drop a cat on her…" Michael ticked off every possibility with his fingers. "We don't know what to try next."

"Well, I…wait, you drop what on her?" Sonia exclaimed. She saw a few sheepish faces upon the boys. "Never mind. Well, we've gotta wake her up some way or another. And have you tried to calm Joey down?"

Lee held the toddler in question up, who was still crying, but his volume had toned down slightly. Sonia pondered for a moment, then clicked her fingers in success.

"Her, hand Joey to me." Lee basically shoved him in her hands, and waited with the others to see what she was planning to do.

"Right, while I do this, I want the rest of you to get those villains and lock them in the basement; 362's orders." Sonia said. As the other kids went to do their job, Sonia tried to make Joey scream louder. She pulled scary faces, and it seemed to be working. Joey screamed really loudly, and Sonia smiled as she saw Fanny stir. The red head opened her eyes slowly, and groaned as she sat up.

"Ah, my head." She complained softly, rubbing the back of her head. "What happened?"

"Well, you got knocked out." Sonia explained, attempting to now hush Joey.

"Oh yeah, now I remember." Fanny sat up and took Joey from the younger girl, and he instantly stopped crying. "Where are the others?"

"They're taking care of the villains like 362 asked." Sonia said. "We were getting worried about you, you've been out for at least an hour…"

"WHAT?" Fanny stood up (with great difficulty) and breathed heavily.

"It's ok, they were good. I promise you." Sonia said, waving her arms in front of her to reassure the older operative.

"Well, as long as we weren't attacked, I guess it's fine." Fanny sat back down, and her communicator started to beep. She pressed a button, and a fuzzy message was transmitted through. Fanny was shocked as she saw her boss through the fuzzy lines.

"Don't have much time…being attacked…can't hold off…I…"

The message cut off, and both Fanny and Sonia looked at each other in disbelief.

"What happened?" Sonia asked, trembling a little. Fanny place arm around her to pull her in for comfort.

"Don't worry, we'll find out soon enough." Fanny whispered. "Because we're going to go and help them."

"Help them? But how?" Sonia questioned.

"Simple, we become a rescue team." Fanny replied with a wink. "Never underestimate a decommissioner, no matter how secretive they may be."

Sonia looked up at Fanny, and for the first time ever, she saw the eyes of a leader. Sonia nodded, and saluted Fanny for a brief moment.

"So boss, what's the schedule?"