Rip went through the portal and immediately ended up high in the sky: Ancient Greece. A few friends looked very excited to be here.
"Oh boy Ancient Greece!" Rudy said, excited.
"I wish we had more time here so that we can explore." Jimmy N agreed.
"Don't worry you guys will see some sights," I smiled. "We have a long journey ahead of us."
"Wait a minute." Hermione said. "Wouldn't that give Voldemort time to ambush us or something? I mean we heard him disapparating earlier and if the Death Eaters are here then it's obvious that he's here too."
"Yes he is here." I smiled. "But he doesn't expect us 'til later."
"Huh?" Hermione said, confused. "Wouldn't coming here right away be obvious?"
"Exactly." I replied. "He thinks were going to trick him by arriving later but instead…."
"We'll actually trick him by arriving now." AJ laughed.
"A bloody brilliant strategy General." Ron W teased, saluting me.
He was teasing me in good humor about coming up with a strategy for him. After all he's the strategist. I chuckled.
"Just a little thing I've learned from being a double agent for the Kids Next Door." I replied, grinning. "'Think like the enemy'."
"Very clever." Hermione smiled without any form of teasing.
We soon passed the clouds and neared a town.
"Uh Miranda." Timmy said. "Even I know that the Fates don't live in a town like that."
"You're right," I agreed. "But this town, Thebes to be precise, is on the road to the Fates' second home which is most known to me and Mickey. We haven't even been to the Fates' real home before. A friend of Mickey's and mine does most of his work here."
"What's his name?" Jimmy E asked.
"I'll give you a hint." Mickey said. "Thebes is the town with the most trouble. 'Town of trouble' is what the folks around here nicknamed it."
"Well that obviously means that a hero works there." Wanda thought aloud.
Since there are so many Greek/Roman heroes, it took a while before someone finally came up with the answer.
"Hercules!" Velma said. "The friend is Hercules."
"You got it." I replied. "I thought we could take a moment to say hi before moving on."
You can bet everyone was excited to meet the most famous Greek/Roman hero ever known. We landed on a road in the town and Rip switched from flying to driving. As we moved on my friends noticed that none of the townspeople stared at us, though many waved to me and Mickey. The obvious answer for that was that Mickey and I have already been through here so we weren't new to the townspeople, and if you guessed that you were right. We soon reached a crosswalk.
"How will we know when to cross?" Patrick asked.
"Look to your left." I smiled.
Everyone did and saw a man standing near the curb holding an urn in his hand. The image on the urn was a red hand, familiar looking to those who lived in the time of cars – not counting automobiles of course.
"An ancient stoplight." Cosmo realized.
"Wow that's cool." Jonny agreed.
"The history books never mentioned this." Jimmy N mused. "But of course every World is different."
The stoplight urn switched to a green walking person and we moved on. We soon reached a square that was almost empty except for a group near a low oval well. I think it was an ancient version of a restroom sink or something, but I've never really been sure.
"Boy Hercules's popularity reached the skies." Ron S smiled, apparently joking.
"What in the world made you say that?" Kim asked.
"Take a look up there." He said, pointing up and to our right.
The rest of us grinned as we saw what he was pointing at: there was Hercules's statue in plain sight and it indeed looked as if it reached the sky. At that moment the group near the well ran over to us, and looked very happy to see us. I recognized the people in the group immediately.
"Apparently Hercules isn't here after all." I half-muttered to the others. "Hercules isn't here is he?" I asked knowingly the group as they reached us.
They immediately almost looked disappointed.
"Er…no." The largest guy said.
"You're not here to substitute for him are you?" One guy who looked almost completely burnt and carrying a gray and bedraggled cat asked.
"Sorry no," I replied. "Where is Hercules?"
"He and his wife Meg are on a picnic with Pegasus and Phil." A sort of plump woman answered. (She's the one who mentioned the flood in the movie.)
"Oh. Oh well." I shrugged.
"S-s-so where a-are you guys h-heading?" A woman holding a cracked urn stammered.
This was caused by the fact that she was shaking, she still hasn't gotten over her fear of earthquakes.
"We're going to…MMMPH!" Mickey had just clapped a hand over Snap's mouth.
"It's just a little business," I answered. "Nothing for you guys to worry about. Well, we've got to get going."
The team and other Superwolves and I left. Mickey didn't remove his hand from Snap until we were out of earshot of the group…who are probably sounding familiar to you guys. If not, here's a hint: think of the people Hercules encountered just before his first real heroic act.
"What did you do that for?" Snap asked Mickey bitterly after Mickey removed his hand.
"The last thing those people need is the knowledge that Voldemort and the Death Eaters are here." Mickey replied. "They freak out at the slightest thing. I mean if they knew that even just the Death Eaters were here they'd leave the country!"
"Okay I wouldn't really blame them for that," Ron W said. "But that's still dramatizing it."
"You don't know them." I pointed out. "Over a year ago they dealt with a fire, flood, and an earthquake before Hercules showed up. And this was one after the other too, you can even still see the effect it had on some of them."
Remembering the burnt looking man and the shaking woman, everyone nodded.
"And then the large man suddenly decided to move to Sparta after one little locust arrived," I continued. "Fortunately Hercules arrived at that point."
I do visit this World often, just not enough to memorize everyone's names.
Everyone rolled his or her eyes at the locust detail. After a few seconds, Lupin suddenly looked thoughtful.
"Did one of those disasters cause that large man to lose his tooth?" He asked. "I noticed he was missing one."
"Actually that was from insulting Phil." I smiled.
"Yeah," Mickey chuckled. "Never get a satyr angry."
"Satyr?" Kaya repeated.
"That's a man with goat legs and horns." Velma explained. "So how did that man insult him?"
"Phil's a hero trainer," I explained. "So all that man had to do was tease him about the last failed hero he trained: Achilles."
"Don't tell us," Jimmy N smiled. "Someone hit Achilles' heel."
"Yup." I smiled. "Er…well it was specifically 'barely a nick' but yeah."
The team and I fell silent for a long while, enjoying the scenery, until we came to a fork in the road. Make that many forks, there were so many roads that we could barely count them all. I frowned.
"So which way?" Chester asked.
"I'm not sure," I said. "There weren't that many roads the last time I came through here, there were only five."
"Goddard analyze," Jimmy N ordered. "Data name: number of roads."
Goddard did, and the amount soon appeared on his screen.
"According to Goddard there really are only five roads!" Jimmy N said, shocked.
"A hologram, I think Voldemort set this up," Hermione frowned. "Well Miranda what do you have to say to this?"
"I did not miss-plan." I snapped. "Voldemort must have set this up only as a precaution."
"Well let's go." Ed said.
"Knowing Voldemort set this up that's a stupid idea!" Kevin snapped.
"Kevin's right," I agreed, picking up a nearby rock. "Watch this."
I tossed the rock towards the side, which immediately disintegrated as soon as it hit the hologram, leaving a temporary burn behind!
"That's what would have happened to us if we went through." I added.
Everyone almost understandably looked pale.
"Way to go," Jonny said dryly to Ed. "First you cause Harry's death and now you almost cause ours!"
"What's wrong with you Eds?" Nazz added.
"Calm down, I know a way out." I said.
"I hope so because I've never dealt with holograms before." Ron W added.
"Actually I haven't either," I said. "But I've seen a group deal with one in a comic book, and what they did to escape was to use someone the enemy never knew about, and that someone was able to lead them the right way. Magic holograms like these only work for the ones the enemy intends it to."
"Well you can't use Jasmine," Hermione pointed out. "Voldemort already knows about her."
"I know," I chuckled. "I saw her attack Voldemort when I re-watched the last Adventure. But Voldemort doesn't know about my other pets." I got off Rip and opened the seat. "Early!" I called.
A robin flew out of the opening and landed gently on Rip's left handle.
"Hello everyone." Early smiled.
I got back on Rip as the others said "Hi." back. They were used to my talking pets by now.
"Go a little to the left, a little more…." Early kept on directing me until we made it through the other side unharmed. "…. Perfect! You can take it from here." Early finished.
I let Early back into my compartment as the others thanked her and waved bye. We pressed on for a really long time, until Shaggy noticed a foreboding forest.
"L-like, we a-aren't going into that f-f-f-forest, are we?" Shaggy stammered.
"No branching roads to take." I pointed out. "Don't worry I've been in there before, it's safe."
"We'll take your word for that." James replied.
We kept on, until we reached a clearing near the forests, one on each side of the road. The team and other Superwolves noticed that the forest on the right did not look as spooky and, well, Halloween-y as the one on the left. I stopped Rip.
"Six o'clock." I said, getting off Rip. "Time to break for dinner."
You're probably wondering how Rip can keep time when we move through different Worlds. Well, Rip can immediately change his clock to suit the World we're in, or keep it to the one we were previously at. In this case he left it at the Pocahontas World setting because that's the clock we were using for this Adventure. In this world it was probably more like noon or something, at least according to the position of the sun.
Suddenly we heard "Hello!" coming from far down the clearing to our right. We looked there…and saw Hercules, Meg, Phil and Pegasus! This Adventure was taking place a year after the movie, so Hercules and Meg were already married and were even expecting a child. Most of the team couldn't see this though since it was early, but since Mickey and I visit this World now and then we and Rip already knew.
Rip let loose our food carpet – which gives us food the same way that the tables in the Great Hall at Hogwarts does – and we went over to them. Rip, however, stayed on the road. The carpet stooped right in front of the food Hercules and his friends were eating and revealed everyone's favorite foods.
As we ate we talked, and found out that Pegasus led Hercules and his friends there as if he knew to expect something. Apparently he had a feeling we would show up, and I guessed that the Horse Stone God had a 'hoof' in that. Everyone else agreed. Then we told Hercules and the others what we were doing and he offered to help. I explained that he might be helpful and he might not be, but whichever it was he still wouldn't be able to come without a compartment to ride in. At that point a new compartment appeared in the back of the others. Guessing that Boss wanted Hercules to join I agreed to let him come.
"Say Miranda?" Hercules asked. "Did I thank you for the lion skin you gave me long ago?"
"You did." I smiled.
"Well I'll have to thank you again because I can't use it anymore, the old portrait painter quit and the new one has never wanted it in his paintings. I've been carrying it – except on hero missions – hoping to get a chance to give it back to you."
"You keep it anyway," I smiled. "It's of no use to me and the lions related to him will never want it back. You can now use it for a throw rug."
"I can't, it's got paint on it remember?" Hercules said, glancing at Phil.
Phil grinned sheepishly.
"Oh right, I forgot." I said. "Well then maybe you can use the un-painted parts for clothing or something.
"Okay." Hercules smiled.
"Lion skin?" Eliza said, shocked. "Miranda you hate taxidermy as much as I do!"
"I know," I laughed. "I didn't kill the lion he was killed by hyenas."
"Hyenas?" Tintin repeated, suspicious.
Hercules took the lion skin out of a bag, and everyone who was drinking something spat it out in shock.
"That's Scar!" Haddock cried.
"You got it." I smiled. "Hercules needed a lion skin for a portrait so I thought I'd do him a favor and put Scar to use for once in his life at the same time."
"So you give the skin to Hercules," Hermione said. "But what did you do with the bones?"
"There weren't any."
"Huh?" Hermione said.
"Hyenas eat bones." Eliza explained.
You can bet everyone didn't look comfortable with that fact, especially Grim.
They then noticed the paint covering Scar's face and asked how it got on him. This lead to Hercules explaining about trying to restore his godhood so that they could understand why he stopped holding still for his portrait – which is done on urns in this World – and caused the painter to give up, mess up the painting, and storm out. Phil of course tried to tell him to calm down, but the painter responded by hitting Phil in the face with his palette. Everyone chuckled at how Phil's paint covered face was described – like a clown – and the explanation ended with Phil wiping the paint off his face and onto Scar.
"Say Hercules," Penny P said. "Did you ever restore your godhood?"
"Actually I did," Hercules replied. "But I decided to stay on Earth with Meg."
He continued the rest of his story, ending with Zeus creating a constellation of him since that was part of Phil's previous dream.
Suddenly, Grim looked as if he saw a ghost – well, that doesn't work very well considering he's seen worse supernaturals then that but whatever.
"Uh Miranda," He said. "I don't think using Scar's skin like that was a good idea."
Those on the same side of the carpet as him, the ones facing the forest, agreed according to their expressions.
"Why?" I asked, confused.
"Look behind you." Billy pointed.
I did, and saw the ghost of Scar glaring right at me! Instead of being scared however, I calmly went back to eating. Scar started making scary faces behind my back, but that didn't work either.
"Do you mind? I'm eating here!" I snapped at him.
I then noticed that the other Superwolves and the team, as well as Hercules and his friends, looked very confused about my lack of fright.
"The ghosts in The Lion King World are just like clouds, they can't hurt you." I explained, smiling.
Understanding, and relieved, the team and Hercules and his friends went back to eating too. Even though Scar couldn't hurt us, he still tried to swipe at me, which was a little annoying since his paws went right through me. Shaggy excused himself and walked over to Rip – but not before saving his 'Shaggerific-sandwich' from Scooby. Rip, after Shaggy said something, brought out a phone, an old-fashioned French telephone to be exact. As a matter of fact it was the same telephone Shaggy used near the end of the Beauty and the Beast Adventure. Shaggy started dialing, and after a few seconds started talking into the phone.
"Miranda," Hermione said. "You live in the twenty-first century what's with the old-fashioned telephone?"
"You'll see." I smiled. "I only use this phone to call three particular friends."
"…. Can you come right over?" Shaggy finished into the phone.
"Why coitainly pal." Freako replied, suddenly coming through the cord and out the mouthpiece!
Freako then reached into the mouthpiece and pulled out Shreako by the arm.
"Merci monsieur." Shreako joked.
"What's this 'merci monsieur' stuff?" Freako demanded.
"This is a French telephone *nyuk-nyuk* amusin' huh?"
"Yeah, real snappy." Freako agreed sarcastically. "Hey Meako, what's keepin' ya?" He called into the mouthpiece.
"*Woo-woo-woo* I'm stuck." A lump in the phone cord answered.
"Well I'll 'un-stuck' ya." Freako replied, pulling a mallet out of nowhere and hitting the phone cord behind the lump.
Meako sailed out of the phone, but fortunately Shaggy caught him. A few people laughed, especially me.
"You installed that phone just for that purpose didn't you?" Hermione smirked, a little amused.
"Well that routine has always managed to make me laugh." I replied.
"Sheesh." Scrappy said. "They seem to like redoing conversations, I mean that's the second time that they've done that so far as we know."
"Comedians usually have favorite routines or gimmicks." I explained. "Take Abbot and Costello, they did the 'Who's on First' routine even in movies and on their TV shows. It's their most famous one."
Meako rejoined his brothers and both he and Shreako faced Freako so that their backs faced us.
"Looks like we have a poachin' job to do Boo Brothers." Freako joked.
The team doesn't approve of the term, but of course this wasn't real poaching so they didn't say anything.
"Aw man, can't we have 'im hard-boiled?" Shreako joked.
"Or howzabout scrambled!" Freako retorted, whamming Shreako's head into his body so that he appeared headless.
Meako pulled Shreako's head back up.
"Thank you." Shreako said to Meako.
"Okay Boo Brothers, attention!" Freako ordered.
Shreako and Meako stood straight and stiff.
"Aboouut face!" Freako ordered.
Meako turned around but Shreako didn't.
"What about my face?" Shreako joked.
"It's facin' the wrong way that's what!" Freako retorted, pulling Shreako's face and letting go so that Shreako's face snapped back.
"Yow ow!" Shreako cried, grabbing his face.
"Let's go!" Freako ordered, twisting Shreako around so that his face and legs were facing opposite sides. "Hut! Hut! Hut! Hut!"
Freako marched as Shreako's top half followed him…but not his lower half. Suddenly noticing that Shreako's legs fell behind Freako flew back to them.
"Will you come on?" Freako cried, annoyed, as he grabbed Shreako's legs and moved them towards Shreako's top half.
The team and other Superwolves and I laughed again, even more than we did last time. Hercules, Meg, Phil, and Pegasus were amused too.
Shreako and Meako marched so that they had their backs facing the forest, waiting like soldiers. Freako stayed behind a little so that he could survey the situation. Scar, obviously not wanting to be captured, started running past Shreako and Meako.
"Okay Boo Brothers, grab that villain-ghost!" Freako ordered.
"Aye-aye Freako!" Shreako and Meako replied, saluting.
Scar suddenly ran the other way, startling Meako. Meako quickly shook his head and jabbed it in Scar's new running direction…which accidentally resulted in his head going through Shreako's body.
"Don't do that!" Shreako laughed; Shreako is very ticklish.
"Sorry." Meako replied sheepishly, pulling his head free.
Scar started running back towards Freako, so Meako pulled a rope out of his hat and he and Shreako lassoed Scar. However Scar was so strong that he not only pulled Meako with him but also Shreako as well. Freako stood in front of them with a large net ready.
"Okay boys, I got 'im, I got 'im!" Freako said.
Wrong, Scar got Freako by running into the net and pulling Freako along.
Scar continued on for quite a while before turning back, and when he did he soon caused Shreako to hit a branch. Getting an idea, Shreako took the rope and tied it around the tree that the branch was connected to. The rope soon tightened, and the jolt caused Freako and his net to fly off as well as causing Scar to fall over backwards. Grabbing extra ropes out of their hats, the Boo Brothers started tying Scar up, causing all of them to spin really fast in a whirl of color. Shreako suddenly stopped tying and flew out of the whirl of color. Confused, Freako flew out as well.
"Look the Eiffel Tower! *Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk*!" Shreako joked.
He brought his hands apart and sure enough there was the Eiffel Tower made out of his rope between his hands.
Freako grabbed the rope and started twisting it. He then used it as a whip on Shreako's face. Once again, Shreako grabbed his face and cried in pain.
"Now quit messing around and get him tied up!" Freako ordered, tossing Shreako back the rope.
"Ah, lowbrow." Shreako retorted as he and Freako went back to tying Scar up.
Unfortunately, Shreako and Meako got a little over excited and tied up Freako by mistake.
"Not me ya ding-a-lings him!" Freako said angrily.
Shreako and Meako sheepishly untied him. Fortunately, Scar was too dizzy from the Boo Brothers attempts to make a break for it so they were able to restart without trouble.
"Come on get it right this time ya wackos!" Freako snapped.
This time he stayed out of the tying and stuck to supervising:
"That's right, now do some square knots, then some granny knots…."
"I can't." Shreako said, stopping again.
"Why not?" Freako said, annoyed.
"Because my granny never taught me how to tie knots!" Shreako cracked up at his joke.
"Speaking of 'knots'." Freako said to us through his teeth, pointing at Shreako.
"I got a kick out of that!" Shreako laughed, resting in the air.
"Well get a kick out of this!" Freako retorted, mushing Shreako into a ball shape and kicking him into the forest behind us.
Shreako started bouncing off the trees as he disappeared into the forest. At this point, Meako finished tying up Scar.
"Good work, now I'll need the golf clubs you borrowed." Freako said to Meako.
Meako suddenly looked nervous for some reason, but he started searching in his hat anyways.
"Doggone…. Where is that…?" Meako muttered to himself.
Still searching, he resorted to flying into his hat and tossing out some of his stuff. Mallets, chains, bowling balls, anchors, even a skull or two flew out of his hat.
"Here it is!" Meako said, flying back up with a set of golf clubs.
Freako took his clubs and looked at each one: not only were there only three left, but also two of them were busted.
"What happened?" Freako asked Meako sternly.
"I had trouble with my slicing." Meako replied sheepishly.
"Never mind. We'll just pick up some new ones from the golf course." Freako said, taking the un-busted one.
"Pick up clubs from the golf course? Not a sports shop?" Cosmo said, confused.
"You know how frustrated golfers toss away their golf clubs? I think that's what he meant." I explained.
"Isn't that stealing?" Patrick asked.
"Considering that the golfers abandoned the clubs they toss away I doubt it." I smiled. " Besides, it's not like the Boo Brothers can just walk into a store and buy some."
Everyone agreed to that, after all a lot of people – even adults – are just automatically scared of ghosts. Not noticing that Shreako had come back, Freako prepared to use the club on Scar.
"Fore!" Freako called.
"Four what?" Shreako joked from behind Freako, interrupting his swing.
"Four clubs!" Freako retorted.
At that he grabbed Shreako and flapped him into a golf club shape before using him to hit Scar. This dazed Shreako.
"Say," Spongebob said. "What's he aiming at?"
His questioned was answered as we watched Scar sail through the air and fall down a hole. No ordinary hole unfortunately, this hole was colored with hypnotic red, orange, and yellow swirls! Flames and flares shot out of the hole and singed the grass! I fortunately was able to ignore the hypnotic effects but I noticed that they had almost gotten Herimone, Ron W, the team, and Hercules and his friends! That or they were just frozen with fear, but either way I knew the portal had to be gotten rid of. Fortunately Rip noticed and had the exact same thought. He quickly unleashed a hose and drenched the portal, taking care not to hit the Boo Brothers who were fortunately too far away to be affected. The portal immediately melted away in a puff of steam.
Unfortunately, the team and Hercules and his friends seemed to be stuck in a daze. I quickly put on earmuffs, and knowing what to do Rip brought out an air horn. Rip used a mechanical arm to press the button and the blare woke up those who were dazed. As they recovered from the sound, I noticed that some of them were more affected than others – which included Tintin and Rudy – because they not only looked pale but also seemed ready to faint.
"Wh-what was that?" Kaya asked, slightly dazed.
"That was the portal to Hell." I said calmly but seriously.
Everyone looked so shocked that I almost started to believe that nonsense about your face freezing if you make a face for too long.
"It's all right guys, it's over." I said, snapping everyone out of their shocked state. "Let's forget about it and…." I stopped because I noticed Shreako whispering something to Freako.
Following my gaze, the team and Hercules and his friends also watched as Freako disappeared into the forest.
"SCRAM YA SNEAK!" Freako's voice called out of the forest.
We then heard a cry of fright and the sound of someone disapparating.
"What a creep." Freako added as he left the forest; then he noticed us staring at him. "Death Eater, don't worry I got rid of him." He explained.
Realizing that the Death Eater was a spy we sighed with relief and thanked Freako for scaring him away. Good thing Voldemort doesn't know about the Boo Brothers. The Boo Brothers left for home as we all said good-bye to them.
Then we started talking about different subjects and soon the conversation led to Kids Next Door related subjects.
"I've been thinking," Jackie said. "Since Father is made up of fire in a way haven't you tried weakening him with ice weapons?."
My fellow operatives first looked startled about an adult suggesting that. Then their expression changed to sadness.
"We did try using ice cream and other operatives have tried ice weapons but they only worked temporarily," Numbuh One explained. "He just can't be stopped."
"But what about his big plan?" Uncle pointed out. "Something has to be done before his plan is put into operation."
"We know but there's nothing we can do," Numbuh Five said. "Except for figuring out how to stop the device from ever being built but…say, Numbuh K9 do you think you could take care of that?"
"Wish I could but Father's kept his death machine plans locked up and hidden." I explained, obviously not happy with this. "I'm planning to send a drone to spy on him and his mansion but first Jack needs to build one that can go through walls. Fortunately drones don't take Jack a long time to build so he can be done long before Father makes a good head start on his machine. Unfortunately according to the regular drone I already have there Father has finished the plans and is planning to get all the supplies he needs pretty soon."
"What about that antidote of his ancestors?" Numbuh Two suggested. "Maybe you can do something about that."
"Don't worry about that." I smiled. "That's not a desperate-causing situation at the moment. And as soon as I get the plans I'll destroy them."
"But wouldn't he just 're-invent' the machine again?" Hermione pointed out.
"Not if we kill him first." I replied.
"Oh no!" Numbuh Four said. "No one can kill Father without getting himself or herself killed! Not a single weapon works on him, and if you attempt to choke him or something like that you'll be a pile of ashes before you can reach his throat!"
"An ordinary operative yes," I agreed. "But what about a 'super' operative?"
A few friends thought about that for a while.
"Wait…no…. Numbuh K9 you're not seriously thinking of…?" Numbuh One began.
"Me?" I finished. "Yes, I'm planning to kill Father myself."
A whole bunch of my friends started to try to talk me out of it. Those that didn't looked shocked looked almost closed to tears.
"Quiet everyone!" I ordered; I only used that tone because I knew it was the only way to shush them. "There is no way you can talk me out of this, I already made up my mind long ago. Besides, with my Superwolf powers I'll be more likely to kill Father before I die than you five or any other operative would. I doubt I'll die anyways, it's not like Boss would let me."
"Does Boss…know about this?" Ron W asked.
"Of course…and he agrees it's a good idea."
At that the team gave up on arguing with me, they knew if Boss was going to let me do it then there was no way out. I noticed that Numbuh Three almost looked ready to cry though so I comfortingly smiled at her.
"Numbuh Three don't worry," I said gently. "I'll be fine."
Numbuh Three didn't cry but she still looked sad. So did everyone else for that matter.
"Numbuh K9," Lizzie said. "When are you planning to kill Father?"
"Right after all of these Adventures are over." I replied. "That'll only be another year or so for the four of us since we'll have to break for Hogwarts now and then. That won't be a problem for you guys anyways since not much time will pass between the Adventures for you. And I'll bet you Father'll even secretly apply the antidote to himself early without the other villains knowing."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Besides," I continued. "Father will kill me – or at least try to kill me – if he finds out about my spying against him anyway."
"Wasn't Numbuh 274 supposed to kill Destructo and Mega in order to prevent that?" Numbuh Four asked.
A.N No one wanted to bring up the subject with Numbuh 274 during the Beauty and the Beast Adventure so they didn't ask him.
"He already has," I explained. "But I'm not a good actress and soon I'll crack and slip up. I won't be able to pretend to be on his side much longer, and if I do I'll go crazy! I just can't handle it, two years is already too long for me."
"You are a good actress Miranda…." Hermione began.
"No I'm not!" I interrupted. "A good actress or actor would be able to play an enemy – a villain or badguy – without feeling bad about it. When I have to it…hurts, it really hurts. I always feel a sharp pain. Fortunately my dad introducing me to old-time comedy has built up my sense of humor, but even fake-laughing at an anti-kid joke hurts. And now I have to worry about what Numbuh 362 and the other operatives will do to me thanks to a certain someone…." Close to tears, I stopped to take a bite of a cheeseburger.
"I know you have been dreading getting decommissioned all this time and I'm sorry I caused that." Hermione said. "But you should've told Ron, Harry, and I about what you were doing for the Kids Next Door in the first place."
"What and get myself killed?" I snapped.
"Are you crazy?" Numbuh Five added.
"Just because I'm a teenager doesn't mean that I'd join Father's side!" Hermione said angrily.
"No but you just don't understand. I'm under a lot pressure from both sides." I said. "I've been worrying about being decommissioned or Father killing me before I can kill him the whole time. Though to be perfectly honest I'd rather be dead with my memories than alive without them. And about telling you guys about my being a double agent it's not you it's the risk of someone eavesdropping."
"But how can there…oh you mean Jojo." Hermione realized.
"Yes, I asked Boss about Jojo moving into a different World and it turns out that it's more than that. Jojo has been moving between many Worlds in order to keep from being found." I explained. "However I did find out from Boss that Father has helped Jojo into hiding in the Kids Next Door World. Jojo isn't quite sure whether I've succeeded in being a double agent yet, but he's waiting to find out before exposing me. He's also not a good fighter, so he'll tell Father about me after he's been trained in fighting and after he finds out. That way once he's learned how to fight he can tell Father…and then help him kill me. This way he can be backup just in case if Father fails to kill me. So it's a good idea to make sure that he won't find out, if he does he'll speed up his training and Father'll try to kill me before I'm ready."
"You really think Jojo'll…he wouldn't…." Tuck stammered.
"He's that evil." I replied. "Luckily it'll take a long time before he'll be finished with his training if he never finds out."
"So, Numbuh 274 has already killed Destructo and Mega?" Stitch asked, changing the subject. "When, how?"
"He borrowed poison from Jack and applied it to the coffee in his ex-parent's house before sneaking away that same night." Sirius explained. "He did it that night after both he and Destructo and Mega returned to their World after dealing with us."
"How did you know that?" Daphne asked.
"He moved into the rooms above Jack's lab where the three of us are living now." James explained. "And according to Miranda's drone the other villains buried both Destructo and Mega the day after…and haven't found out who killed them yet."
"Wait a minute…." Hermione cut in. "Jack has poison?"
"Yeah," I smiled. "One of each kind. Not only did we know that they would come in handy but Jack needed them to help with his advanced bezoar potion."
"Oh."