Chapter 6

Unexpected Twist

The wind quietly blew threw the dark pink plants, that sat in-between a small boulder. A sneeze was heard. "Numbuh C15! Will you please be quiet.. We're on a mission.." whispered Numbuh 44H3. "C'mon Claudia.. She didn't mean it.." stated Numbuh 42FW. The girl rolled her eyes, and continued to watch from behind the boulder. "What are we waiting for again?" asked C15, while forgetting the last conversation. "We are waiting for Clock Works to come out of his lair." replied the ex-leader. "Actually we're not waiting for him.. We are waiting for the pits of lava to cool down a bit." replied Numbuh 1. He stared down at the small pits of lava that sat near a cave behind the boulder. The planet they were on had canyon of razor sharp rocks, and special, unique plants that only grew there. A occasionally there a few pits of lava, with different temperatures, and lots of green shrubbery everywhere. Claudia rolled her eyes yet again, and leaned on the boulder. A small panel was clicked, and all of four of them fell backwards. "Come in Numbuh 1.. I can't see you from up here?" asked Numbuh 190.L2. He was speaking to the communicator, while he was flying in a grey spaceship. But there was no reply. The leader had fallen into a trap.

The group fell down a large hole, that lead to the lair of Clock Works, the evil alien scientist. "Okay.. I never saw that coming.. He's got new tricks." stated Nigel, as he stood up from the ground. "Yeah.. Last time it was the ropes, now a hole.. Wow he's getting more advanced.." said Claudia sarcastically. Julietta giggled, while Waldo leaned on a wall. "Can we please just find this guy, so I can watch the Galactic Flame-thrower game." said Waldo. Claudia nodded her head, and went first up the dark stairwell.

Cobwebs, and wore-away grey stone, decorated the walls. It gave off an eerie fell, as it came from a scary movie. The team slowly made their way threw the dark eerie halls, that seemed to be lit by only candlelight. "Where the hell is he?" whispered Waldo. "He's probably in the large hall, like always." replied Claudia. Nigel rolled his eyes. As they almost got near the large hall, a loud piercing sound came out off a nearby wall.

Two sharp blades, with a silver tint to them, sliced threw a wall, and a nearby flowerpot. "Duck!" screamed Nigel. Everyone did as they were told, as the blades whizzed by them. "Well, that was close." stated Julietta. They all entered the hall, safe and not in pieces.

A tall golden thrown, stood in the middle of the room. Beside it, there was a little wooden coffee table, and a small blue mobile phone on it. The windows in the room were blacked out. There was only two doors in the entire room, which had a creepy crystal chandelier swinging from the ceiling. It also had the haunted house feel to it. "I wonder where he is…" said Julietta out loud. Without warning, the large door, they had just walked threw, snapped suddenly. "I've been expecting you." laughed a low voice. A large red octopus floated into view. He had been hiding in the shadows. He had on a long green sparkly cape, which was tied with a black ribbon around his neck. "Clock Works!" shouted Nigel. "Why it isn't the hero from Planet Earth." sneered the alien. Claudia rolled her eyes. "Yes, we have acknowledged he is from Earth.. Can we get back to the situation at hand." she said, as she held her yellow lightning gun in her hand. "Why it's my lovely bride-to-be." laughed Clock Works. "I will never be your bride!" screamed Claudia. "Well if you don't marry me, the whole Universe will be destroyed." chuckled Clock Works. Waldo grabs a flower, from the nearby flowerpot and places it in Claudia's hands. "She's ready to wed you." replied Waldo. Claudia gives him an evil stare. He places his head near her ear. "Good luck." he whispered. He slowly walked to the large door, but a giant robot stood in front of it. "Oh.. Hi Jeremy." smiled Waldo, but the robot did not move. "Don't be stupid Clock Works, I mean I'm still a young Cetanion, you want an older woman." stated Claudia. "No, I don't want someone twice your age.. Your age is perfect." the alien glided over to the girl. He placed two tentacles around her waist. She quickly zapped them off with her gun.

"Ow!" he screamed in pain. He glared at the girl. Jeremy thumped his way towards his master, and picked up Claudia by the neck. "Don't ever hurt Clock Works." commanded the robot. "Whatever! I need to see the final the now!" shouted Waldo. He fired at the robot, with his flames, and it fell backwards. Waldo did flips over his team, and landed on the robot. Full force. The robot came tumbling down. "Jeremy!" shouted Clock Works. But the robot was burnt, and turned to rubble. Waldo stood up, and turned towards Clock Works. "I've had enough of you!" he shouted, while throwing flames at his head. Clock Works ducked a couple of times, and threw various clocks, and time-bombs at him. Smoke filled the room.

"I can't see anything!" moaned Julietta. She was walking around the room, with her hands in front of her. She continued to walk around the room, until she touched a lever on the wall. She pulled it up, and squealed when the floor moved. "Don't touch that!" screamed Clock Works, but it was too late. He was thrown into a little rocket, and fired into space. "Oops." said Julietta. Nigel rolled his eyes. "Let's go!" shouted Waldo. Claudia nodded her head, and everyone ran towards the door.

But the floor began to shake, and move again. This time two large hammers came up from the black tiled floor, and began to smack anything that was in their paths. The hammer reached the team, and just missed Waldo, but he ducked. The other hammer smacked the ground in front of Claudia and she stumbled. She fell onto the floor. The other hammer flew up, and fell down above Claudia's head. "Claudia!" shouted Nigel while he pushed her out of the way. The hammer smacked his right arm, and a loud crack was heard. Julietta grabbed Claudia's gun, and fired at the hammers, until they were burnt. "Thanks." blushed Claudia, as her Leader helped her up. "It's no problem. We're a team." smiled Nigel. He winced when Claudia hugged him tightly. Julietta, and Waldo grinned, and tip-toed out of the room. "Sorry.. I forgot about your arm." she laughed softly. "It's okay." All of them left the Lair, and headed towards the ship where Azortarg was waiting in.

"Wow! What happened to your hand?" Azortarg. Nigel mouthed 'Later', and sat down in his Leader's seat. Numbuh 190.L2 turned on the engines, when the last person sat down. He guided the ship upwards, and away from the ground. The ship then went into Hyper-drive, and zoomed past planets and stars. It landed in the dock of the Galactic Kids Next Door. "Hey, Numbuh 1." smiled an alien, with long flowing black hair. It stopped to the floor, and had different colour of clips in it. He also wore an Hawaiian blue shirt, with white shorts, and trainers. "Hey Numbuh " replied Nigel, while he held his right arm. "Numbuh 1!" shouted Numbuh 5200. She droved her hovercraft near him, and stared at his arm. It was now swollen, and purple. "Come with me." she commanded. Nigel nodded his head, jumped on her vehicle. She droved it to the Medical Bay.

"Ow!" shouted Nigel. The alien doctors were trying to straighten out his arm. "It's indeed broken.. But I don't know why his arm is swollen.." said one of the doctors. "Maybe there was some kind of chemical on the hammer.." suggested the other doctor. "Yes, indeed I think you're right." said the other one. "When will I be able to move my arm again?" asked Nigel. "Well.. I say in about a day or so, if you don't touch it, and take your medicine." said the doctor. Nigel shivered. He better not get any medicine involving needles… "Here you go.. Goodbye." smiled the other doctor. He placed Nigel's arm in a slink, and also gave him bright yellow tablets. The next patient was called in after him.

Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 44H3 were sitting in the living room of their sector. "So.. What did they say?" asked Claudia, curiously. "I'm just not to move my arm, and keep taking my tablets. About six the now, then six later." replied Nigel. Claudia awkwardly shifted in her seat. "It's all my fault." she said sadly. "No.. It's no one's fault, but Clock Works." said Nigel, as he reassured her. She weakly smiled up at him. "Numbuh 1." said a voice in the shadows. The pair of them jumped, as Yevena walked out of the shadows. "Oh, commander.. Sorry never knew you were there." stated Nigel, while saluting. "At ease Nigel.. We have a guest." said Vevina. Nigel nodded. A giggle was heard from the shadows, and Ai Sanban walked out, wearing a long black cloak. "Ai!" Nigel shouted. Both of them embrace each other with a hug. Nigel sort of winced. "Hey, Nigel." smiled Ai. "Oh, sorry Numbuh 44H3, this is Numbuh A. She is Nigel's friend's cousin." smiled Yelena. Claudia looked a bit confused, until she re-run the sentence again in her head. "Oh, nice to meet you." said Claudia. Ai and her shook hands.

"So, what brings you here.. Well a better question would be, how did you get here?" asked Nigel. "Well, I know people in high places." grinned Ai, while she did a weird hand-shake with Vevina. Yelena rolled her eyes at the pair. "Anyway.. Ai has something to tell you." stated Yelena. "Well.. Your future kids has told me.. To tell you, to get your ass back down to Earth." chuckled Ai. "What.. I need to leave now?" asked Nigel, while staring at Claudia. "Well.. The fate of your future, and your friends, and don't forget Earth depends on it.." replied Ai, as she pulled her loosen purple striped sock over her knee. "But.." began Nigel, when he received a glare from Ai. "But.. What about my aging-defect?" he asked. "That can be easily fixed.. With Angela's Age-defyer." laughed Ai. Yelena pulled out a small green gun from her back. Claudia sat speechless. Everything was moving too fast. Yelena stood in front of Nigel, and was about to pull the trigger when Claudia stopped her. "Wait!" she bellowed. Tears fell down her cheek. "You don't need to do this.. You can get someone else to do it." she replied. "I'm sorry, but it has to be him.. No one else.." stated Ai. "But.. What if he doesn't want that future.. What if he wants a better one." suggested Claudia. "But the fate of Earth is depending on this!" shouted Ai. "So what! It's only Earth! Plenty more planets out there!" Claudia demanded, as more tears fell. "I'm sorry Claudia.. But I need to do this." replied Nigel. Yelena nodded, and pulled the trigger. Nigel grew taller, and his face began to look more masculine. "Nigel!" cried Claudia. She touched his face, as if he wasn't there anymore. "I'm still the same Nigel.. Just a bit older." he replied. The other team-mates walked into the room. They were eating pink goo and ice-cream. "Whoa.. What's going on here?" asked Waldo. Azortarg looked down at Claudia, and then at Nigel. His face turned a bright green colour, and he lunged for Nigel. "Numbuh 190.L2!" shouted Julietta. Waldo ran over to the boy, and pulled him off him. "Dude, calm down!" he shouted. "I can't.. If he did something to Claudia!" shouted Azortarg. "Numbuh 190.L2! In this base, there will be no fighting while I am here! Is that clear!" shouted Vevina. "And you will be doing toilet duty for a week, starting tonight." shouted Yelena. Waldo dragged Azortarg out of the room, Julietta stood out of the way. "Are you okay?" asked Ai. Nigel nodded, but his face was still in shock. "I think it's time for you to leave." suggested Yelena, while he nodded. "Where are you going?" asked Julietta. "I'm going back home." he replied. "But isn't here, your home." she said. Nigel scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "I guess, I have two homes." he grinned. He hugged all of the four girls. They all had tears in their eyes. "Remember never to forget us." said Claudia sadly. "I promise.. And also I'll try and visit." he replied. All of them let go off each other.

"I think it's time." said Ai, while tapping the boy on the shoulder. He entered a small escape-pod, that sat near the window. Ai was about to step into it, with Nigel, when she thought of something. She took Claudia by the hand, and dragged her to the other side of the room. "I think you're confused, and your perfect match is Azortarg. He clearly cares for you." Ai whispered into Claudia's ear. Her eyes grew big, and the alien girl stood staring at Ai. Ai on the other hand waved goodbye to everyone, and hopped into the escape-pod with Nigel. The coordinates were punched in, and the sealed glass was put over their heads. The vehicle was then released by Julietta, as the others were too emotional to do it. "Goodbye Nigel Uno, may the God of all things pure and good make your journey successful." said Julietta out loud, as she placed a hand on the window. The escape-pod was now nowhere to be seen, it was on the other side of the galaxy. "Good thing, I've got his email." laughed Yelena. Claudia nodded her head, as she smiles. The boys came back into the room. Claudia blushed, as Azortarg stare into her eyes.

Maybe Ai was right, he's always been there for me.. And he even got me that chocolate heart on Valentine's Day, thought Claudia.

Guys hold on.. I'll be there soon, and our future won't be damaged.

How did you like it?.. I finished this.. Whoop-whoop! =] Sorry, for not updating sooner but I've been busy with school, my boyfriend, and generally being lazy.

Lots of Love from Littlemissfg.

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Julietta: (Somg voice) Pleaseeeeee, push the button to let me know, if you're reviewing…

Waldo: What are you doing?

Julietta: Getting more reviews for Littlemissfg.

Waldo: Who is that?

Julietta: *rolls eyes* The one who has been narrating this all damn story!

Waldo: What story?..

Julietta: Sometimes, I worry for you.. A lot.. (walks away from him)

(looks around the place..)

Waldo: I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way..

Me: Waldo…

Waldo: Who the heck are you..

Me: I am your Fairy Godmother..

Waldo: Really?..

Me: Nope.. But I can make pancakes from thin-air…

Does a flip, and pancakes rain everywhere.

Waldo: Wow.. Can you do that again.. Except with hotdogs..

Me: Sorry.. I'm only a one-trick pony.. (Disappears into nothingness)

Waldo: O.O O_O