Hi, pretty short chapter but don't worry, I'm starting on the next one straight away and you will be waiting no longer than a week for it. If I go over my cerfew please feel free to nag me. Anyway, enjoy.

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"Numbuh 1! Numbuh 1! Kuki needs help! Quick!" Wally yelled as he ran into Nigel's tent.

"What are you talking about Numbuh 4?" Nigel groaned from underneath his pillow.

"Numbuh 3's been kidnapped!" Wally said, trying to calm down.

Nigel shot up in his bed.

"Wake Numbuhs 2 and 5, Numbuh 4!" He said calmly.

"Aww do I have to? You know what happens when I wake them up!"

Nigel just glared at him. "Wake Numbuhs 2 and 5!"

Wally ran out of the tent and into Abby's.

"Numbuh 5, Kuki's been captured! Numbuh 1 said you've gotta' get up and out!" He yelled.

Abby stirred from under her blanket and Wally then had to dive out of the way of a dive bombing slipper which had been launched at him.

He decided to let her wake up and ran into Hoagie's tent.

"Come on Numbuh 2! Red alert! Numbuh 3's been kidnapped, we need to go and help her!" He bellowed, the only response he got was an angry snore. He walked out of the tent where he met a fully dressed Nigel.

"Well, where are they Numbuh 4?" Nigel asked him. Wally just shrugged. Nigel shook his head.

"Honestly Numbuh 4, I give you one simple job?" He muttered. Wally scoffed at him. Simple?

"Kids Next Door! Battle stations!" Nigel yelled. Almost straight away, Hoagie and Abby arrived outside their tents, fully dressed, saluting.

"Numbuh 3 has been kidnapped. She needs to be rescued. Immediately. Numbuh 4, did she say where she was?" Nigel ordered.

"She was going to but the cruddy guy ended transmission." Wally replied.

"Great! Well now we don't have a clue how to find her." Nigel smacked his forehead with his hand.

"Hey boss! Look!" Abby said, pointing towards a trail of bright coloured feathers.

Nigel followed her gaze and then looked back up at her, smiling wickedly.

"Good work Numbuh 5." He said to her. "Now we can find Numbuh 3."

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"Man! This is crud!" Numbuh 4 whined as they climbed over the huge rock.

"If that guy has hurt Numbuh 3..!"

Abby and Hoagie sniggered behind him. Wally turned and frowned at them. "What?"

"Yeah, we're just picturing what will happen to that guy if he's hurt Numbuh 3, Casanova!" Hoagie replied, both him and Abby still chuckling.

Wally just shrugged and carried on climbing. Abby and Hoagie glanced at each other.

"Numbuh 5 thinks that Numbuh 4 wasn't paying attention in history the other day." Abby whispered to him.

They walked for miles, following the trail of feathers. They came to the edge of a cliff and found that they were very high up. The cliff opposite wasn't very far away but it was definitely too risky to jump it.

"Aww man! Where could they be? There's no way they would have made that jump! Unless…" Hoagie gazed down the drop intently.

Wally ran over and also looked down in desperation. "K…Kuki?" He said quietly.

Hoagie burst out laughing.

"Don't worry Romeo!" He wiped a tear from his eye and pointed over to the other side. "There are more feathers over there, so they obviously got over safely."

Wally glared evilly at Hoagie and thumped him hard as he walked past.

"Numbuh 2, this is no time for jokes! By the way that Numbuh 4 is talking; Numbuh 3 could be in fatal danger!" Numbuh 1 scolded, looking around for some way to cross.

Abby pointed out a large tree with a vine which seemed strong enough for them to swing across. One by one they used it and carried on following the trail.

They climbed hills, trees, rocks. Eventually, they saw smoke above some treetops.

"I think we're here gang!" Nigel grinned, they jogged over to a nearby bush and peaked through it.

Right in front of them, the saw Kuki. She was knelt down, her head was drooped and the gang were sure that they saw tears in her eyes, although the hair covered her face, making it uncertain. She was tied to a carved away tree. The bottom was a smooth pole, the top was carved as some strange bird.

In the far end, the KND saw a young teen, he seemed about 15. He had a long stick and was practicing a kind of fighting skill with it. He wore a grass skirt which went to his knees and a bright headdress, flowing with bright, multicolour feathers.

Nigel gathered them into a huddle to try and come up with a plan.

"Okay gang. If all of us go over to Numbuh 3, it will only attract attention. So here's the plan, we make a distraction and a rescue! We don't know how dangerous this teen is, so we could probably do with as many hands as possible. Numbuh 4, you untie Numbuh 3, the rest of us will cause an abstraction."

The gang agreed and ran off separate ways…