Hello, people who like my stories. Welcome to chapter 11 of From Ireland To America. In this chapter, Fanny, Patton and the others will go to the Artic Base where they'll meet a bunch of people including a certain OC. Let us begin!
Disclaimer: I don't own Codename: Kids Next Door or any of the character. They belong to Mr. W. I only own the OCs and the story.
To The Artic Base! Fanny Meets another Fanny
Random Clearing in the Woods AKA Kids Next Door Hidden Cadet Transport Area
Fanny Fulbright stood in a landing area hidden deep inside the woods, waiting with a bunch of other possible trainees, for the KND aircraft that would take them to the Artic Training Base where they would be trained to fight evil adults and teenagers that threatened the children of the world. Next to her, Patton looked like he was about to explode with excitement.
"This is cool guys! We are actually going to train to be KND operatives!" said the Polish boy for about the bumillion time, annoying Fanny along with Bartie, Rachel and Virginia who were behind the two of them. "I still can't believe! And I'll keep disbelieving 'till someone pinches me so I know I'm not dreaming- OW!" he yelped when he felt a pinch on his left arm. "It was a figure of speech Bartie!" He glared at the only other boy in their group while rubbing the place that got pinched.
The other boy rolled his hazel eyes, crossing his arms. "I know! I just want to stop with your constant repeating about 'I can't believe we got accepted into the KND!' before I lose my head, along with the girls!" he motioned the three females and Patton finally noticed the all three of them were looking at him in annoyance.
"Oh, so I'm annoying you too?" Patton asked them, though he knew the answer.
Fanny confirmed this by making a noisy respond. "Well Duh! Aye mean, Aye'm also excited about training at the Artic Base but Aye'm not constantly repeating it at the top of me lungs!" The Irish girl yelled angrily.
"Well SO- REE!" He yelled back, glaring at her light green eyes with his dark black ones. "I didn't realize that my excitement bothered you so much!"
"Is not that we aren't excited, Patton." Bartie told him. "It's just that we aren't spending all out time repeating it to everyone!"
"Aye, so do a favor to everyone here and shut yer mouth, Drilovsky!"
"If someone needs to shut their mouth is you, Fulbright!" Patton said back in anger, his voice rising. "After all, yours is the biggest here!"
Fanny grinded her teeth, outraged by what Patton had said, her eyes lighting up with green fire. She looked like she was about to pounce on Patton and would have done it if Rachel hadn´t decide to intervene.
"Ok, guys that's enough!" the blond gal said, stepping in between her friends. "We don't want to get in trouble by fighting!"
Both Fanny and Patton looked at Rachel then at each other before simultaneously saying, "Fine," crossing their arms.
"Good," Rachel nodded.
"Does this mean that Patton is going to stop repeating how excited he is?" asked Bartie.
"Yeah, is he?" also asked Fanny.
Patton rolled his eyes. "Fine, I'm going to shut up if that makes you happy."
Virginia had ignored the whole quarreling that had happened behind her as she was busy looking at the other kids that were recruited as cadets. Her gaze fell on a certain group of five and with a big grin, began to get the others' attention. "Guys, check this out! Looks like baldy and his friends also were accepted in Cadet Training."
The others looked at where she was pointing and saw Nigel, Hoagie, Kuki, Wally and Abby standing together a few feet away, also waiting for the ship.
"Well, what do you know?" Rachel grinned looking at her crush and the others. "They are here too!"
Fanny looked at them without much interest. "Yeah, I bet Abby's sister being one of the best Sector Leaders had something to do with it."
"Possibly, but remember that they also handled pretty well those teenagers at the park. The guys in charge must have seen that they had potential to be operatives." Pointed out Bartie at which Fanny rolled her eyes.
Suddenly, an engine noise was heard and the kids looked up to see a bus-like airship come out from the clouds, flying toward the clearing. The ship hovered above the ground for a few moments before landing smoothly. A large door opened on the side and a ramp was lowered as a male voice was heard through a speaker. "Attention all recruits! Please board the ship in a single file without pushing!"
All the kids did that and began boarding the ship. Fanny climbed up the ramp after Rachel with Patton, Bartie and Virginia behind her. The inside of the ship also reminded the Irish girl of a school bus with a row of two-person seats on each side and an aisle in the middle where the kids were walking. Fanny took a seat on the left row with Patton who was seating next to the window. The lass looked around for her other friends, quickly finding Rachel seated in front of them with Nigel, Bartie and Ginny on the right row in between Wally & Kuki in front and Hoagie & Abby behind.
Fanny though that there was something weird with who was next to who but didn't think about much because a boy of about 12 years old with light brown hair, green eyes and wearing some sort of attire came from the ship's cockpit in front and began to speak. "Attention recruits, welcome aboard to the KND Cadet Transport. I'm Numbuh 59.55 and I'll be the one responsible to transport you to the Artic Training Base. Now, before we take off I'll ask you to buckle up your seatbelts and if anyone gets airsick they're barf bags under all the seats. Ok, without anything else to say enjoy the flight!"
Numbuh 59.55 was about to head back to the cockpit when a boy seating behind Patton and Fanny stood up on his seat and waved at the pilot. "Hi Fernie! Hey everyone! Guess what! That guy Numbuh 59.55 is my cousin and I'm gonna be a great pilot like him!" he boasted, pointing to the pilot.
"Ugh! Doug!" Numbuh 59.55 or Fernie groaned as he face palmed while his cousin continued to boast and to annoy Fernie and the other recruits.
"I'm gonna fly ships to transport operatives to mission locations and in any kind of weather no matter how dangerous it is! No matter if it is rain, hail, fog, sleet, lightning storms, tornados, and sn-OW!" The boy, Doug, yelped when he was grabbed by the ear and pulled back down to his seat. "Gweeenn!" he whined to the girl next to him that had been the one to pull him by the ear as he rubbed it. "That hurt!
The girl, Gwen just shaked her head clearly being used to Doug's antics.
Fernie sighed then straightened up. "Well, if there isn't someone else who wants to boast about what great operatives you are gonna be," he swept the entire group with a firm look. "Ok then, we are gonna take off now!" with that said, Numbuh 59.55 returned to the cockpit and began to prepare the ship to fly.
"Finally!" exclaimed Wally, glad that they were leaving. "I thought that we were gonna had to stay here listening to that kid!"
There were murmurs of agreement from the other kids and some of them gave a glare to Doug, who scratched his head in embarrassment.
The ship then took off, taking its occupants toward the artic and the Artic Training Base. After a while of flying, Fanny and the others noticed that it was beginning to get colder and when they looked out of the windows, they saw that they were flying over a vast plain of white snow.
"Hey Fanny!" called Patton, looking out of the window. "I think we are almost there!"
Fanny looked over Patton and saw that the ship was flying lower and they were approaching what looked like a single pine tree with a KND flag waving from the top. "That's it?" asked Fanny, raising an eyebrow. "That doesn't look like a base or anything."
But the lass spoke too soon as a secret hatch on the ground opened, large enough for the ship to enter. Once inside, the hatch closed and the ship landed in a docking area next to other ships similar to it, from which many other kids were coming out off.
"Abby thinks that those ships must have brought other recruits from around the world." The red-capped girl said to Hoagie, who was thinking the same thing.
Once on the ground, the ship was turned off and once again Numbuh 59.55's voice was heard by the intercom. "Welcome to the Kids Next Door Artic Training Base, recruits. Please, proceed to the exit without any pushing. Numbuh 59.55 out!"
Fanny and Patton got up from their seats and followed the other recruits out of the ship. They gasped when they finally saw what the base looked like. The Artic Base was constructed underneath the snow, the walls, floor and ceiling were made out of ice and there were a bunch of technologic stuff everywhere. Operatives walked on every direction, doing stuff like operate the tech, guard stuff or talk to each other.
Fanny and her friends walked up to where the other recruits that traveled on the other ship were. Abby was talking to another African-American girl in purple clothes; Hoagie discussed scientific stuff with a nerdy-looking red headed boy with braces while an African-American boy with a diplomatic vibe on him watched. Bartie was talking to a chubby boy that also had a nerdy look along with that Doug kid, about what she assumed was boy stuff like Yipper, while Virginia was a few feet away chatting with that Gwen girl.
Patton and Rachel were talking to a pair of identical twin boys while Hoagie was giving goggle-eyes to a pretty red-headed girl that was talking with a chubby African-America boy as Abby looked on in annoyance and a hint of jealousy.
As Fanny walked around looking at the other kids, she didn't see that she was walking toward someone until she bumped into that person. Both she and the other kid fell back with a groan.
"Hey, watch it!" Fanny yelled angrily at the person she had bumped into. It was a girl of about her age with dark brown hair in a pony-tail, brown eyes that were behind dark purple glasses and wearing blue clothes. In her hands was a book titled "Wolves of the Beyond: Watch Wolf" that depicted a silver-gray wolf on the cover.
"Oh sorry!" the girl apologized, standing up and offering her hand to help Fanny. "I should have been watching where I was going but instead I had my nose in this book."
Fanny accepted her outstretched hand and got up, brushing some snow from her skirt. "It's ok, lass. Aye wasn't watching where I was going either." She looked at the book the girl had. "So, ye like ta read, eh?"
"Yeah, it's one of my favorite hobbies, apart from drawing and watching TV." said the girl. "I like to read about animals, especially dogs, cats and wolves, and paranormal stuff."
"Paranormal stuff? My younger brother likes to read that stuff too!" said Fanny, surprised. "No offence but I think that stuff is for weirdoes."
The girl didn't appear to be offended. "No taken. I believe that everyone has the right to have their own opinions and they should be respected as a well a respect the opinion of others. So, I really don't mind be called a weirdo. I'm different from everyone else and that makes me proud."
Fanny was impressed by the beliefs that this girl had and how she wasn't bothered by being different. "I guess you are right, eh… Sorry, I think I didn't get your name." she said awkwardly, feeling stupid by not asking for her name before.
"Oh yeah. Well, my name is-"
"Hey Fanny!" Both girls looked and saw Patton and Rachel approaching, apparently having been done talking with the twins.
"Hey guys." greeted Fanny, though she was kinda annoyed by the interruption.
"Who's your friend, Fan?" asked Patton, turning toward the girl that appeared to be surprised for some reason.
"I don't know her name yet." told him Fanny, crossing her arms still annoyed.
Rachel stepped back in shock. "You don't know? Why? Didn't she tell you?"
"She was about to when we were interrupted." she glared daggers at the two of them, who looked embarrassed. Shaking her head, the lass turned back to the girl. "Sorry about that. These are my friends, Patton Drilovsky and Rachel McKenzie."
The girl still looked at them in shock before snapping out of it and responded. "Oh, it's nice meeting you. Um, did they say that your name was Fanny?" she asked the redheaded girl, as if she wanted to confirm it.
"Yeah, my name is Fanny Fulbright. Why?" Fanny answered, wondering why the girl looked very surprised by her name.
"Oh, nothing." She said, smiling. "It's just that it is kinda funny."
Fanny frowned, not liking what the girl said. Was she making fun of her? "What do ya mean my name is funny? Do you think is something to laugh at?" she asked, her face getting all red in anger.
"Oh boy." said Rachel, backing up a bit. "This might not end pretty." She told Patton, the boy agreeing with her.
The other girl backed up too, clearly frightened by Fanny's rage face. "No, no, no, no! That's wasn't what I meant!" she said quickly, waving her arms in front of her. "What I meant was that your name is funny because that's also my name."
Fanny's ire was replaced by shock as her face returned to its normal color. She looked back at Rachel and Patton, seeing identical looks of shock in their own faces then looked back at the other girl, now revealed to be also Fanny. "Y-Your name is Fanny too?" she asked, as if she had trouble believing it.
The Other Fanny smiled and nodded, sensing that the danger had passed. "Yeah, my name is also Fanny, Fanny Freyre."
Still surprised at this revelation, Fanny Fulbright, Patton and Rachel remained silent for a while before the blond girl managed to find her voice. "Well, now that we have introduced, how about telling us where you are from?"
"Yeah, yeah," nodded Fanny Fulbright and Patton, also regaining the ability to speak.
"Ok," smiled Fanny Freyre. "Well, I'm from Puerto Rico, a tropical island located in the Atlantic Ocean. It's also one of the points of the Bermuda Triangle and birthplace of the Chupacabra legend."
"Wow! You live near the Bermuda Triangle?" asked Patton, excitedly. "You must see lots weird stuff when you look at the ocean."
"Not really. I live in the South Coast toward the Caribbean Sea and the Triangle is located on the North Coast. Besides, my house isn't even near a large body of water." She explained.
Fanny Fulbright raised her hand. "I have a question." What's a Chupacabra?"
"Oh, it's supposed to be some creature that comes out at night to suck the blood out of farm animals, like goats. That's where it gets its name as Chupacabra means 'goat sucker' in Spanish. The myth is also common in some parts of the United States and Mexico."
"So, it's like a vampire?" asked Rachel.
"Yes,"
"And you believe in it?"
"Well, I believe that people have seen something and that it might be true."
"I don't. These things like monsters, aliens and zombies aren't real to me. The only thing close enough to paranormal that I believe is the afterlife." stated Rachel.
"Oh I believe in the afterlife too and in God as I'm a Christian and firm believer in Jesus." Freyre said.
"I'm Catholic too, being Polish and all." Joined in Patton.
"Me too," also said Fanny Fulbright.
Their conversation was interrupted when an announcement was made through some loudspeakers. "Attention all recruits! Please direct immediately toward the Meeting Room for the welcome speech by our Supreme Leader Numbuh 100! Thanks you!"
"Well, I must be going now. Nice, meeting you!" Freyre said, about to leave when she was stopped by Fanny Fulbright.
"Wait! Before you go, I need to ask you something. Do you have any nickname that we can call you instead of your full name at least when we are around?" she asked, "Because we can't always refer to you by your full name all the time."
"Yeah, we should refer to you by a different name, like our middle name perhaps." Agree Patton.
"I suppose you are right but it can't be my middle name, because only my family calls me by that name." She pondered for a moment before replying. "You guys can call me either Fanny M. or simply F.M."
"F.M. it is then," nodded Rachel. "Now, we better go before we miss the speech."
"Right, well see ya later!" F.M. walked off, resuming reading her book as Fanny, Patton and Rachel walked to the Meeting Room together.
The three were soon joined by Bartie and Virginia. "Hey, guys! What's up?" asked the Goth girl.
"We meet a girl from Puerto Rico that has the same first name as Fanny." Told them Patton.
"Cool!" said Bartie.
The five friends soon arrived to the meeting room that had many rows of seat directed toward a stage. Some of the seats were already taken but they still found some good ones on the third row on the left. Rachel sat to the right next to Nigel who happened to be there, Bartie and Virginia next to each other in the middle while Fanny sat on the left side with Patton at her right and those kids Gwen and Doug on her left.
As the other kids looked for some seats, a skinny nerdy boy with glasses tripped because his shoes were untied and bowled into a blond girl in front of him. The girl looked back at the boy in anger. "Watch it, Billy!" she yelled at him, with an accent of someone from Nashville.
"Hehe, sorry." chuckled Billy, in embarrassment.
"Boy, what a klutz!" exclaimed Fanny.
"Tell me about it," agreed Gwen. "He also tripped on the other room, knocking me into Doug making the three of us fall."
"Aha," nodded Doug. "It's gonna take a miracle for that guy to become an operative."
While they were talking, the other kids had found their seats. Everyone then stopped talking as a boy with brown hair wearing a pot as a helmet and some armor with the number 100 written on the chest plate walked up to the middle of the stage accompanied by a blond haired kid also wearing armor with the number 274 on it and two guard-looking operatives flanking him. It was obvious to the kids that this was Numbuh 100, the Supreme Leader of the KND.
"Wow, that's Numbuh 100! I never thought I would see him in person." said Patton very excited.
"Me neither, but who's that blond kid with him? He looks important." asked Fanny, pointing to the blond boy.
"Of course he's important! That's Numbuh 274, the best operative of the whole world." said Doug.
"He is also Numbuh 100's second-in-command." added Gwen.
"That is impressive." Fanny looked back at the stage where Numbuh 100 looked like he was about to speak. "Shhh he's about to speak."
"Welcome KND cadets to the Artic Training Base," Said Numbuh 100 to all the kids in a voice the commanded respect. "Where you guys will train to be official members of this organization. You will undergo two whole months of training in which you are going to learn important things like piloting, hand-to-hand combat, using 2x4 Technology, among other things." He then looked at them with a serious expression. "But let me warn you, this training will not guarantee that you'll become real operatives. We can show you how to be one but you must do the rest. Fighting adult tyranny is not a game and not every kid can do it." He looked at each of them closely but it appeared that he was specifically looking at Billy. Having finished with the looking, he directed to the kids one more time. "I can offer you just one thing and that's good luck, cadets!"
Numbuh 274 stepped forward and lifting his fist into the air, he yelled, "KIDS NEXT DOOR RULE!"
"KIDS NEXT DOOR RULE, SIR!" yelled back Fanny, Patton and the rest of the cadets, all of them raising their hands into the air.
"Dismissed!" yelled Numbuh 100, once the cheering had died down and he, Numbuh 274 and the two guards stepped down from the stage.
After they had left, another announcement was made through the speakers. "All recruits report to the training area where the Drill Sergeant, Numbuh 600 will meet you to begin training! Thank you!"
Fanny and Patton got up from their seats and joined their friends as all the kids walked toward the training area to start their training. One though crossed Fanny's mind as she walked next to Patton and Virginia. 'I'll show them! I'll show them that I have what it takes to be a real Kids Next Door operative!'
And done! Another chapter up! Next time we meet Numbuh 600 and begin the actual training. But it might not come out quick because I will be trying to update my other stories, mainly my Warriors one. But I'll try to work on it from now and then.
Numbuh 59.55 or Fernie belongs to me but he won't be of much importance until future stories where he'll be a teen. If you haven't guessed, Fanny Freyre is my cartoon representation. So, all that she (or should I say I) said about myself is true. I do like to read, draw and watch TV; I'm a Christian who believes in God, I do believe in the paranormal, wear glasses, likes blue and I'm only my family calls me by my second name. Also the book that I was reading, Wolves of the Beyond: Watch Wolf is a real book that I have and I love it. The only thing not true about me is that my nickname is F.M. That part I invented it for the story. Oh and Doug, Gwen, Billy and all the other cadets mentioned are real characters from the show but they either have minor roles or only appear once in the show. See, if you can guess who they are and don't worry if you can't because I'm revealing their names in the next chapter. Ok, I think I'm done so let's close this chapter!
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KND Operative Numbuh 227 out, peace!