A/N: Nothing belongs to me except Birchwood, Numbuh 178, and Numbuh 563. The KND belongs to Mr. Warburton and Holly belongs to Eoin Colfer.

Chapter 6: School

Numbuhs 2 and 86 looked at the school building in silent horror. They didn't like school at the best of times but now... well you know what I mean.

Numbuh 86 pulled Numbuh 3 aside as she walked past with Numbuh 4.

"What do we do?" She asked.

Numbuh 3 smiled sympathetically at the normally calm girl.

"Just lay low. Don't do anything to cause unnecessary attention. Oh and you might want to tell each other your locker combinations." Numbuh 3 grinned and walked away with Numbuh 4.

"Lovely." Numbuh 86 grumbled as she and Numbuh 2 walked into the building.

"What's your locker combo?" Numbuh 2 asked looking nervously at the school bell, which was due to ring any second.

"24-19-74." Numbuh 86 replied. "And I've got science first."

"21-09-65, PE." Numbuh 2 said before waving and walking down the hall in the direction of Numbuh 86's locker.

Numbuh 86 sighed, scowled and went in the opposite direction.

"This is too strange." She muttered twisting the dial on Numbuh 2's locker.

In a second she leapt back in disgust. Books, papers, pens, and homework fell out of the locker like an avalanche.

"Stupid boys. Can't they be organized?" Numbuh 86 muttered as she stuffed the school supplies back into the locker.

"Hey Hoagie." Came a slightly accented voice to her right.

Numbuh 86 turned and faced none other than Brittany Gonzales. The prettiest girl in school who was positively hated by Numbuh 3, Numbuh 5, and Numbuh 178 and Lizzie. Why? She always tried to steal the guys they liked, Numbuh 4, Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 563, who was going to their school for a couple months.

"What?" Numbuh 86 asked rudely. She'd never had a reason to hate Brittany Gonzales before but she was considering starting now. Who did Gonzales think she was? Trying to steal Numbuh 3 and Lizzie's boyfriends and Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 178's crushes? Not to mention hers.

Brittany giggled. "You remember? You said you'd help me with my science homework this week if I left you alone last week."

Numbuh 86 steamed with jealousy. Numbuh 2 had always offered to help HER with her science homework. Everyone knew that he was the best science student in school.

"Did I say that?" Numbuh 86 asked tapping her chin. "I don't remember that."

Brittany pouted. "Come on Hoagie, you remember. I said you could come to my house and we could study together. Very closely." She giggled.

Numbuh 86's complexion cranked up a few notches.

"Oh yeah? Well when I say leave me alone, I mean it!!" She ended in a shriek.

"NOW GO AWAY!! I HATE YOU! YOU'RE JUST A BOYFRIEND STEALER!!" She screamed.

Everyone in the high school hallway froze at this accusation. Of course they all knew it was true but no one had ever dare yell at Brittany Gonzales like that.

"YOU THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE PRETTY, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO STEAL MY FRIEND'S BOYFRIENDS?" Numbuh 86 yelled. You can't really blame her. She's had a really stressful couple of days and now a girl was trying to get to her crush.

"NO! YOU'RE JUST A SNOB! TRYING TO TAKE NUMBUH 4 AND NUMBUH 1 AWAY FROM THEIR GIRLFRIENDS! WELL I GUESS YOU GOT A SURPRISE WHEN THEY REFUSED!"

With that Numbuh 86 stomped away leaving a livid Brittany Gonzales and a cheering audience. Mostly from the girls but boys too.

"Take that you jerk." Numbuh 86 muttered before she entered her classroom.

Numbuh 2 was walking down one of the many hallways to lunch when a girl motioned for him to come over. He did frowning. He wanted to get to lunch and see how Numbuh 86's day had gone.

"Hey Fanny, did you hear what happened today?" The girl, Numbuh 2 recognized her as Danielle 'Danny' Smith said.

"No, what?" He asked curious despite himself.

"That cute guy you live with in that tree house, Hoagie Gilligan, totally blew up at Brittany Gonzales. He told her off and shouted at her in front of everyone... hey where are you going?" She called as Numbuh 2 started sprinting to the cafeteria.

"Numbuh 3 said to LAY LOW!" He said angrily. "Now Gonzales will try to get back at me... still Numbuh 86 probably got the slut off my back."

He skidded to a stop just in time to avoid slamming into the cafeteria doors. He pushed them open impatiently and looked around. There was Numbuh 86 sitting with Numbuhs 1,3,4,5,178, 563 and Lizzie.

He gritted his teeth and stalked over to her. He sat down next to her and scowled.

"Would you care to explain the interesting rumor I heard?" He hissed under his breath.

"What? About Gonzales?" Numbuh 86 asked innocently.

"Yes."

"She was being a jerk. I couldn't take it any more. You know how she tried to get Numbuh 1, Numbuh 4 and Numbuh 563 to go out with her. Enough was enough." Numbuh 86 shrugged.

"You owe me." She continued. "I got a slut off your back."

Numbuh 2 relented. She was right after all. He stood up and walked to the lunch line. He bought lunch and went back to the table. He bit into a hamburger thinking hard.

What could have made him, Numbuh 86, Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 switch bodies like this? It didn't make sense. It...

"What?" Numbuh 2 asked, jerked out of his thoughts by everyone at the table staring at him.

"What are you doing, Numbuh 86?" Numbuh 5 asked.

"What do you mean?" Numbuh 2 asked confused.

For an answer Numbuh 178 pointed at his napkin. Numbuh 2 looked down and almost groaned. There upon the white napkin was a complicated design of a new aircraft. Whenever Numbuh 2 thought hard, he always doodled designs. However Numbuh 86 most certainly did NOT.

"Oh...Numbuh 2 gave me drawing lessons." He stammered, crumpling the paper in his fist.

"That's pretty good." Numbuh 1 said thoughtfully. "What do you call it?"

"Er nothing. I was just practicing a design that Numbuh 2 is designing right now." Numbuh 2 said hurriedly. It was the truth, He was thinking about this ship.

Numbuh 86 glared fiercely at him. When everyone went back to their lunches Numbuh 2 mouthed, 'Sorry' to Numbuh 86.

She rolled her eyes, the meaning obvious. 'You're going to blow our cover!'

'Sorry!' Numbuh 2 mouthed again before going back to his lunch.

A/N: Ok that was pretty short. sorry. Review!!!