...Transmission re-established.
Numbah 1, his whole body riddled with sores and aches, opened his eyes slowly. "Ah, good, you are awake." came the accented voice of a young boy.
Numbah 1 looked to his right, and saw a short, blocky and orange haired boy wearing glasses and a white lab-coat was looking at a medical chart. Nigel then scanned the room around him. It filled with all kinds of sleek medical do-dads and had gleaming white walls. "Where... where am I?" he asked. The only thing he could remember was Numbah 2 landing in the hanger, then it all went blank.
"You are in the secret la-bor-a-tor-y of Dexter, boy genius!" the short kid said. "As you may have already deduced, I am Dexter, Numbah 1."
"How did you know...?"
"Your Numbah, position as leader of Sector V of the global anti-adult organization known as the Kids Next Door?" Dexter cut him off. "Your ID was in your pocket."
"Oh... yeah. That." Numbah1 replied sheepishly. Then, he noticed his teammates begin to stir. "They're waking up!"
"Uh, me aching head" grunted Numbah 4.
"I just got blown in from Sector V, and boy are my arms tired!" Numbah 2 said, not able to resist cracking a terrible joke.
"If Numbah 5 wasn't hurting so much, she would smack you over the head that lame-o joke. Where are we anyway?" Numbah 5 asked. "And where's Numbah 3?"
"Yeah, where is Numbah 3?" Numbah 1 asked.
"She's not... not in like some kind of intensive care is she?" Numbah 4 asked.
Dexter looked puzzled. "You four were the only kids I found at the blast site."
"BLAST SITE!" everyone exclaimed, having lost their memory of what happened to the tree house.
"Perhaps I should start from the beginning." Dexter said. "It all began when a signal was patched into my secret la-bor-a-tor-y by an outside force. It was a video of an intimidating blond girl denouncing the Kids Next Door and offering children around the globe a home in these mysterious flying cities that have been popping up all over the place..."
"Wait, you know about the Kids Next Door?" Numbah 1 asked.
"Did I not tell you that I am Dexter, boy genius?" he said back. "Only an idiot wouldn't notice that gigantic Moon Base growing on the moon!"
"I guess it IS a little obvious..." Numbah 1 said sheepishly.
"Now where was I..." Dexter continued. "In the transmission, this Mandy person claimed to be working with my arch-enemy, Mandark! I traced the signal to a massive flotilla of warships in high orbit."
"The fleet that destroyed the Moon Base..." Numbah 2 concluded.
"Precisely. It did not take me long to determine they were Mandark's creations. I quickly calculated that my chances of success alone against Mandark were extremely low, and I set out to find allies. Your tree house was nearest to my location. It had detonated several minutes before I arrived. I picked the four of you out of the wreckage, and brought you here, where my med-bots have healed you in only an hour." Dexter concluded.
"I guess we should tell you our side of the story." Numbah 1 began. "It all started when Numbah 2 came across some intruders early in the morning..."
Meanwhile, back in the swamp base, Mandy observed The Kid, still under tie induced mind-control, land in the hanger bay on a video screen. Just as he opened the cargo hold, the screen fizzled, and the image of The Kid was replaced with Cartman. "Mandy, Mandy, can you hear me! I am in seriously need of help!" he shouted.
"What is it you fat moron?" Mandy asked.
"Stan and that stupid Jew Kyle survived! They somehow beat my army of drunken Civil War Re-enactors, and they're coming after me!" he panicked. "Help me god-dammit!"
Mandy pinched her brow in frustration. "All right, I'm sending Mandark with a ship. You'll help him destroy Dexter, then go to your city. It's time to go to stage 3." she said before turning off the monitor, cutting off Cartman's (undoubtedly profanity laced) response.
She then picked up a remote, and pressed several buttons. The entire base began to quake and hum, then blasted out of the swamp and into space, where the cities had fallen into a loose formation.
(KND symbol)
Back in Dexter's lab, Numbah 1 had finished explaining their part of the story, then tried contacting any remaining Operatives. Although it seems like every tree house on Earth had been bombed, most of the operatives were okay, and the global command structure, including Numbahs 362 and 86, had escaped the Moon Base.
Meanwhile, Dexter had used his wide array of technological equipment to locate the targets and survivors of other villain attacks. He had just finished compiling a list of locations they'd need to visit. "I will have my robots prep us a ship." Dexter said while the KND operatives double checked their weapons. "While you were knocked out I modified your weapons. They should be all around better."
"We need to move quickly. One of my team is more then likely in the hands of the enemy, and we need to get her back!" Numbah 1 said.
They quickly loaded into one of Dexter's transports and flew away. A few minutes after they left, a large tunneling machine smashed through the floor and began to pour out warbots. They began to tear apart any resistance, and after several minutes Mandark and Cartmen stepped out. "So, it seems we are too late to stop Dexter. Robots! Grab as much technology as you can fit on the ship! We will destroy Dexter when he launches his attack on the cities!" Mandark ordered before cackling his signature laugh.
"Can we leave already?" Cartman spoke up. "This science crap is for nerds."
Mandark scowled, then nonchalantly as possible pushed a beaker of deadly acid onto Cartman, who immediately began to scream in pain. "What the BLEEP did you BLEEP-ing do that for you BLEEP-ing pile of BLEEP-ed BLEEP!"
Mandark rolled his eyes at this. "Maybe that will teach you to respect science." he muttered while ordering some robots to get a life support tank ready. Cartman might be a fat, foul mouthed pest, but Mandy wanted him alive as leader of one of the cities for an unfathomable reason.
"Still, just because I need him alive, doesn't mean I can't make a few changes..." Mandark muses before laughing his signature laugh. "Get him into the surgical chamber and keep him alive. I'll operate on him after I see to a personal matter..."
(KND symbol)
The first stop for our heroes was the town of Porkbelly, where a giant invincible statue of a fat kid was still causing chaos all over town. Dexter's ship flew in low, and saw that the statue was chasing a fiery headed boy and his dog.
"Scanning statue and analyzing for weakpoints." Dexter said as his machines electronically examined the lumbering engine of death.
Meanwhile, on the ground, Johnny Test commented "jeez, this is one slow statue. We've been running from it for, what? Three hours?"
Strangely enough, his dog spoke back in perfect English. "I know, but none of your sister's inventions have put a scratch on it!"
Meanwhile, back in the ship, Dexter's eyes widened when he saw the scan results of the statue. "IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!" he exclaimed in shock. Numbah 2, however, was not concerned.
"Not to worry Dexter. The Kids Next Door have developed a weapon for just this occasion." he said while brandishing a large explosive device scrapped together from the KND's typical assortment of junk with the word "New" (the E had been painted on backwards) across the side. "the N.E.W.B.O.M.B.!
(KND symbol)
Kids Next Door N.E.W.B.O.M.B.
Neatly
Envisioned
Weapon
Blasts
Opponent
Mostly
Beaten
(KND symbol)
"Bombs away!" Numbah 2 shouted as he tossed the explosive into the statue's path. It detonated a few seconds later, enveloping the terrible tribute in a cloud of smoke. When the cloud cleared, the statue was perfectly intact, but had stopped moving. "Wait for it..." Numbah 2 encouraged.
On the ground, Johnny had walked up to the stone statue, then lightly tapped it. The colossus quivered and shook, then thousands of spidery cracks spread all over its surface, before the entire thing shattered into a million little pieces. "Success!" Dexter exclaimed while bringing the ship in for a landing.
"Thanks for helping me and all, but, uh, who are you guys?" Johnny asked as the five children dis-embarked. "By the way, my name's Johnny. Johnny Test. And this here is my best friend who happens to have a horrible hair disorder."
"Hi." Dukey added.
"I am Numbah 1 of the Kids Next Door, a global organization dedicated to the protection of children everywhere!" the team leader explained.
"And I am Dexter, boy genius!" the child prodigy replied. "Saaayyyyy, I feel like I've heard of you before. You wouldn't happen to be a part of the world genius association would you?" Dexter asked.
"Nah, you must be thinking of my sisters." Johnny replied calmly. Then he remembered. "Bling Bling Boy has Susan! He took her to one of those flying cities that have been all over the news!"
"And that is exactly why we are here Johnny!" Numbah 1 exclaimed. "Those cities, and the children who run them, are being commanded by an evil mastermind who once nearly hi-jacked the Kids Next Door! If you help us defeat them, you'll get you sister back. So Test... are you in, or are you old?"
"Of course I'll help you! Do you have any idea how long I'll be grounded for if I don't get Susan back!" Johnny exclaimed. "Good thing I grabbed a bunch of my sister's inventions out of the lab before that statue started chasing me. Speaking of which," the fiery headed boy then turned to Dukey. "Go back to the lab and do whatever you can to help Mary." Dukey nodded before sprinting home on all fours.
"Allright then, Kids Next Door, MOVE OUT!"
(KND symbol)
The next stop was Townsville, where are heroes find that Mushi and Sandy were still arguing with Princess Morebucks over who do the physical labor. They were so involved in their argument that they didn't even notice the KND operatives sneak out, grab the unconscious Power Puff Girls, and fly away.
Somehow, over the roar of the jet engines, the children inside could still hear the futile cries of "I'm PRINCESS Morebucks, and I order YOU to do the work!"
"Well I'm QUEEN Mushi, and I order YOU to do the work!"
"I really wish my cousins didn't have football practice today..."
(KND symbol)
Meanwhile, back at the Gilligan residence, all is quiet as the veil of night descends over the neighborhood. The sole source of light is a flickering welder's torch inside the Gilligan garage. Outside, a dark figure lurks.
Inside, Tommy Gilligan, A.K.A. The Tommy, is making some adjustments to his Tommy-mobile, when a voice enters his ears. "I am the scythe that harvests the ears of heroes, I am the black manure in the garden of injustice, I am..." The pre-teen vigilante turns to see a boy a little older then him wearing a gourd over his head and a dark jumpsuit and cape "THE GOURD!" he exclaimed. "And you, Tommy Gilligan, shall be one of the first of many heroes to fall before my splintery fury! Prepare to..."
Any further words from the wannabe super-villain were cut off by the sudden firing of at least twelve different 2x4 defense lasers rigged around the garage. They hit the evil-doer with enough force to punch him through the garage door and into a tree across the street, which he promptly got his over-sized head stuck in.
Tommy strolled calmly out of the garage, leaned against the new opening in the door, and dusted his hands. "And that's why you don't mess with The Tommy." he said smoothly. Them however, his face became serious. "I wonder what he meant by 'one of the first of many...' Could Hoagie and his friends be in danger! This looks like a job for... THE TOMMY!" he exclaimed. Then a rocket formed from beneath his hat, and the young vigilante rocketed off into the sky.
"Uh, hello? Can someone get me down? Go for help, Plank!"
(KND symbol)
While all this was going on, Numbah 1 and Dexter had successfully met and recruited the other targets of the Conspiracy, as well as contacted what was left of the KND and arranged a meeting, where they would prepare for a final, last ditch attack on Mandy.
Numbah 362 stood on a podium before the massive crowd of kids before her. "My fellow kids, for weeks we have been on the run, hiding in fear of Mandy and her followers. That ends TODAY!" she exclaimed, earning cheers from the crowd. "I know that some of you have never even heard of the Kids Next Door, and are scared of battling an enemy that has so far seemed invincible. But I assure you, I know from personal experience, that if Mandy isn't stopped, the last few weeks will look like a summer vacation! We must end this threat now!" the crowd roared with applause. "I will now give the mike to Numbah 1, who has drawn up the plans for out attack."
Numbah 1 stepped on the stage. "Thank you Numbah 362. Our battle plan is simple and strait-forward." he declared while a holographic projection of the massive spherical cities came to life. They hung in loose formation, forming a perimeter around a (comparatively) small skull shaped building/station. Mandark's fleet was spread around, providing maximum defense. "We believe that Mandy and most of her important player are here." he began while pointing to the Doom-based Hall. "While our fleet, which has been equipped with computer scrambling devices by Dexter to nullify Mandark's robotic gunners engages the fleet, a strike team of our best fighters will board the HQ and take Mandy and her council prisoner. Knowing Mandy, she likely has some kind of self-destruct or remote control system linked to the fleet or the cities or both. Once the HQ is under our control, we will evacuate the cities and slag the fleet." he finished.
Numbah 1 began to leave the stage, then turned back. "I cannot begin to express how important it is that we win this fight. Although our reasons for fighting are different, I can assure you all, if Mandy is allowed to rule over those poor children she has deceivedinto living in these cities, they'll be worse off then they would be under any adult." Everyone became stoic at this. Then a small grin crept onto Nigel's face. "So let's get up there and kick some butt!" he shouted, and cries of "Kids Next Door rule!" echoed throughout the chamber. "In three hours, we attack!" Numbah1 finished, unaware that up on the ceiling, a mechanical spider listened and transmitted...
Up in space, Mandy removed a pair of headphones. "And I'll be waiting for you, Nigel Uno." she spoke with hate, before walking away.
Transmission interrupted...
What will happened to Cartman? Will the KND succeed? Where is Numbah 3? What was the deal with that strange bomb? (figure it out and you win a billion points!) Tune in to find out!