Operation: F.A.T.E.

F – Fate

A – Already

T – Told

E – Eternally

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Nigel sat in one of the bedrooms at the mansion of Father and DCFDTL. He had no idea where Abby was and that worried him. He knew Father had claimed that he was doing his Dad Mr. Uno a favour, but if so why save Abby? Father wasn't a do favours for free kind of guy. Nigel knew something was up.

Suddenly Lenny stepped inside the room.

"What do you want?" Nigel asked suspiciously.

"Good Afternoon Nigel," Lenny said formally, "are you hungry?" he asked.

"You're going to serve me food?" Nigel asked.

"Of course not," Lenny responded, "the maid or the butler will bring that."

"Well don't worry them because I'm not hungry," Nigel told him.

"You worry about Abigail," Lenny guessed.

"Where is she?" Nigel asked darkly.

"She is safe," Lenny told him.

"Where is she!" Nigel shouted angrily.

"She is safe," Lenny repeated.

Nigel glared at Lenny angrily.

"Forget you," Nigel decided.

But after a few minutes Nigel noticed that Lenny was still standing there.

"Are you watching me?" Nigel asked.

"I follow my orders," Lenny said.

Nigel simply snorted.

Meanwhile Abby sat in an unfurnished room with an icepack on her head and bandages on her wounds.

"It's in the afternoon," Cree said suddenly, "you must be better by now."

Abby immediately jumped to her feet. Before she had thought she was being held captive by the KND. But hearing Cree's voice proved to her that she was mistaken.

"What are you doing here Cree?" Abby demanded.

Cree walked closer in the dimly lit room.

"I saved you Abigail," Cree told her.

"Liar!" Abby shouted.

SMACK!

The sound of Cree slapping Abby in the face resounded across the room.

"Listen to me you ungrateful little…" Cree exploded, "Father had reconsidered taking you," she revealed to Abby, "if I hadn't changed his mind he would've left you for your fellow operatives from the KND," she told Abby.

Abby was silenced by the revelation. Of course the slap helped too.

"You saved me?" Abby asked softly completely surprised.

"I guess I can't totally hate my baby sister," Cree said, "tell anyone I said that and you're dead," she immediately added.

"You don't hate me?" Abby asked in a cracked voice her eyes filled with tears.

"Don't get all…" Cree started dismissively.

"You don't know how much I've missed you!" Abby shouted and hugged her teenage sister tightly, "all the time in the KND, the friendship we shared before your decommissioning which you escaped from, nothing, I never forgot anything big sister!" she cried and started sobbing.

Cree was taken a back. She had long forgotten her sister's soft side, her memory clouded by the cold Numbuh 5 who'd go as far as deceit to beat her older sister Cree, former Numbuh 11.

"I missed you too," Cree said and hugged her back.

A single tear rolled down Cree's cheek.

It was almost nighttime at a hospital where Mrs. Genki Sanban and her five-year old daughter Mushi Sanban were hospitalised. Both were conscious but Mrs. Sanban was unresponsive. This was because when she woke up in the morning and was informed of her daughter's and husband's death, she immediately freaked out. Screaming about it being her fault, about people following them, that she should've listened to the kid who called her that night, and other things incoherent with her screams, bawling and woeful sobs. She was immediately sedated and given several medications to keep her calm. The doctors had concluded that she had a mental breakdown from the news of her older daughter and husband's death and had her transferred to the psych ward for further observation and medical care. They saw Mrs. Sanban's claims as delusional and nothing more. They only told the young girl Mushi that her family was very sick and she couldn't see them right now.

Mushi sat up in bed in her hospital gown as she ate some candy that a nurse had snuck in for her. She didn't remember what happened last night. She remembered going home, her Dad complaining as she hugged a Rainbow Monkey and that was it. She never remembered what happened after that, except her mother asking her something about weirdoes. Or maybe it was Cheerios. She couldn't remember. When she tried to she either got a headache or remembered marching feet, heavy footsteps. Once she tried too hard and passed out. She woke up on a machine but after checking her the doctors took her off it.

"Mushi," a voice whispered and Mushi looked around fearfully, "it's me Numbuh 4," he revealed and came out of hiding, "I just wanted to check on yah," he told her.

Mushi looked at him fearfully. It was almost as if she didn't recognize him.

Suddenly her eyes grew blank.

"Oh no," Numbuh 4 whispered knowing what that meant.

Numbuh 4 got out the window just before it was closed with iron bars and ran off as fast as he could. Numbuh 365 had warned him against visiting Mushi until she could form a team to break Mushi out of the hospital. Telling Numbuh 4 that the hospital used hypnosis drugs on kids causing them to inform on their own friends without realizing it. And that was the early stage. If they didn't break her out soon, the effects would become permanent and Mushi would report anyone doing unlawful activity in the adult's eyes without care or remorse.

Seventh Tear Shed