Numbah 5 starting swimming downwards, clawing at the water and pedaling her legs with all her strength. Numbah 4's pool just seemed to keep going deeper and deeper, she could see a bright white light at the bottom of the pool which is where Numbah 1 and that strange blue blur must've gone. The deeper and deeper she went, the closer and closer she got to the bright light, but the deeper she went the louder her lungs begged for air, she couldn't stay underwater for much longer. She pushed herself forward, just a few more feet and she would be able to touch the bright light. Numbah 5 threw her head into the bright light and was relieved when cool air greeted her on the other side, the girl gasped for air, blinking against the clorine stinging her eyes. She could see what looked like the edge of the pool so she swam towards that, once she reached the edge of the pool she pulled herself up onto dry land, rubbing the chorine from her eyes and letting her aching muscles rest for a moment.
Once the chorine in Numbah 5's eyes had subsided and she had gotten her strength back, she stood up and looked around to see where see was. It looked like her world, but the sky was covered with a thin layer of mud brown smog, the streets were completely slient, no streetlights were on, no cars were driving along the road and there was no one in sight. Numbah 5 peeked inside Numbah 4's house, there was no one home and all the lights were off, it looked like the house had been abandoned for a long time. "Hello?" "Numbah 4?" "Mr. Beetles?" "Mrs. Beetles?" Numbah 5 called out as she hesitantly stepped into the house, but her only response was deafining silence. Cobwebs were bunched up in the corners of the ceiling, dust bunnies sat in random places on the floor and a cold draft blew through the house, causing Numbah 5 to shiver with cold and hug herself in an attempt to stay warm. Numbah 5 checked each room in the house but the whole house was empty, from Numbah 4's bedroom to the pantry, the house was still dead slient except for Numbah 5's quiet footsteps.
Numbah 5 stepped out of the house and into the backyard, thoroughly creeped out, what kind of alternative dimension had she thrown herself into? It didn't seem like the Negative-Verse, at least that place had some life to it, but in this realm it was like the whole world had been abandoned. Numbah 5 cautiously exited Numbah 4's backyard and stepped out onto the street, starting to walk down it. All the homes and businesses looked abandoned just like Numbah 4's house, all the lights were off and their was no sign of movement inside any of the buildings. Numbah 5 carefully pushed open the front door of a clothing store, the door easily swung open, the place looked just as untouched and abandoned as all the other's. Numbah 5 stepped away from the clothing store and starting walking down the street again, "Numbah 1?" "Numbah 1?" "Nigel, where are you?!" Numbah 5 yelled down the street, using Numbah 1's real name at the end but getting no response.
A sudden wave of red searchlights and loud clicking and whirring noises around the corner at the end of the street caught Numbah 5's attention, she was shocked when around the corner came two huge robots, standing at least 10 feet tall, the robots looked like Rainbow Monkey plushies but metalic and twisted, red light emitting from their eyes. It took the robots a few seconds to spot Numbah 5 at the other end of the street, once they had noticed the girl their blank expressions twisted into a look of evil and they charged towards Numbah 5, Numbah 5 realized what was happening and turned on her heel, almost falling down as she franticlly scrambled back the way she came, sprinting into the clothes store and quickly hid herself under the counter. Numbah 5 felt a wave of slient panic wash over her as he heard the whirring and clicking of the two robots and then loud, heavy, metalic footsteps as the two robots stepped into the store. She could hear them looking around the store, their heavy metal feet were a dead giveaway to their location, the sound of racks of clothing being pushed around, the sound of changing room and bathroom doors being opened.
They were looking for her. And they likely wouldn't stop looking until they found her.
Numbah shrunk back under the desk even more when one of the robots started getting close to her, her heart was pounding in her chest like a crazed drum and her hands were trembling with fear, she covered her mouth with her hands and held her breath as one of the robots came behind the desk, looking around the room with only it's head. She was trapped, the only way to go was out the front door and there was no way she'd make it out the door and far enough away in time to avoid getting caught. The robot bent down on one knee, it was about to look under the desk, Numbah 5's heart skipped a beat, this was it, she was doomed!
"What are you two nitwits doing?!" "Get out here right now!" The voice of Numbah 4 barked from the entrance of the store, Numbah 5 was stunned as the robots obeyed her friends voice, the robot that was about to look under the desk standing up, the sound of heavy metal feet getting further and further away from her until the sound stopped outside the entrance of the store.
Numbah 5 took a few seconds to sliently catch her breath before peeking her head up over the counter, only the top of her head and her eyes visble. Standing outside the entrance to the store with the two robots lined up opposite to him was what looked like Numbah 4, but with a few key differences, he was wearing a red hooded sweater, dark green jeans and brown sneakers. The middle of his hands were wrapped up in snow white bandages and there was a small X shaped scar on his face, just above his nose, it looked like his nose had been broken a long time ago. The alternate Numbah 4 stood there angrily scolding the two robots who could only stand there, seemingly ashamed with their heads down.
"You two can't be running off and looking around random places when we've got a prisoner that needs guarding!" "You don't want Mr. Uno's good mood to be spoiled too quickly, do ya?" The alternate Numbah 4 snapped, putting his hands on his hips as he glared daggers at the robots. "Forgive us sir." The robots replied in monotone unison, the alternate Numbah 4 sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "It's alright, we're all in this together I suppose." The alternate Numbah 4 lamented grumpily, calming down for the most part, "Let's head back to base and see if anything needs fixing." The Australian boy stated, before one of the robots bent down and let the alternate Numbah 4 climb up onto it's shoulders, then the two robots blasted off into the smoggy sky with the alternate Numbah 4 in tow. Once they were gone Numbah 5 walked out from behind the desk, rubbing her chin in thought. "Mr. Uno", isn't that the nickname Father calls Numbah 1?" "Maybe in this world Numbah 1 is evil and runs the show around here?" "Even still, that weird version of Numbah 4 was talking about a prisoner, maybe it's Numbah 1..." Numbah 5, she decided to keep exploring this weird dimension in hopes of some answers, Numbah 5 peeked her head outside the entrance of the store, double checking to make sure that the coast was clear before quickly running down the street, now that she's had a taste of how dangerous this world could get so quickly, she didn't want to stay out in the open for too long.
Numbah 5 kept running through the abandoned and dismal realm for a few minutes, she didn't see any more of those creepy Rainbow Monkey robot things but she also didn't see any signs of life. Her mind kept drifting back to Operation P.O.O.L and the Negative-Verse, she'd learned from that experience that there were evil version of the K.N.D, if there was one evil version of the K.N.D what's stopping the possibility of muiltple alternative dimensions where the K.N.D is evil? "But why would Numbah 1 be evil?" "What would happen that would be so terrible, so awful that it would make someone as heroic as Numbah 1 turn to the dark side?" Numbah 5 thought as she aimlessly explored the strange realm, she didn't know what would cause Numbah 1 to go evil and she wasn't sure she even wanted to know.
Numbah 5 stopped running when she found herself next to a junkyard, a massive chain-link fence at least 30 feet high surrounded the junkyard, huge piles of scrap dotted around the area. There was an entrance that had at one point been padlocked shut but now the padlock was broken apart and had been cast aside on the ground with footprints leading into the junkyard. Numbah 5 stepped into the junkyard, following the footprints etched in the dirt, the footprints were pretty big, definitely adult sized and the footprints were pretty recent too which meant that someone might be in here with her. "Hello?" "Is anyone here?" Numbah 5 called out, her only response being the whistling of cold wind.
Shuffling noises and the sound of metal hitting dirt from behind a particularly large pile of scrap in front of Numbah 5 caused her to nearly jump out of her skin with surprise. Numbah 5 stealthy tip-toed behind the large scrap pile, she was shocked to see Toiletnator, of all people looking through the scrap, holding up the rusted head of one of those Rainbow Monkey robot things to inspect it. Toiletnator's outfit had definitely seen better days, the sleeves of the outfit were torn, there was a crack across the left eye on Toiletnator's mask and there were stitch marks all over the body of the outfit, like it had been torn apart and sown back together.
"Toiletnator?" Numbah 5 asked aloud, taking a few steps forward, Toiletnator jumped at the sound of Numbah 5's voice, he turned his head to look at her and dropped the rusted robot head in shock. Toiletnator's eyes were full of fear, not the fear of a coward though, this was genuine fear. Toiletnator sprinted away from Numbah 5 as fast as his legs could take him, causing Numbah 5 to give chase after the evil adult. "Hey, come back here!" Numbah 5 yelled, barely able to keep up with him as Toiletnator was much faster then her, so fast that it was difficult for her to keep track of where he was going. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Toiletnator using his powers to make a grapple hook of out toilet paper and use that to easily scale his was up the chain-link fence, by the time Numbah 5 had caught up to him Toiletnator was alright on the other side of the fence and running away from Numbah 5.
Numbah 5 lept upwards and started to climb up the chain-link fence, once she'd climbed up and over and climbed down the other side of the fence she resumed her chase. She kept running in the direction Toiletnator had been running, turning a corner and skidding to a stop in surprise when she saw what looked like the Kids.Next.Door Treehouse, but it was completely mechanical, various cannons and laser blasters pointing out of the sides of the treehouse where the leaves should've been. On the side of the treehouse were massive letters that spelled out "W.K.N.D" carved into the metal. Connected by long thick chains at the top of the treehouse was what looked like a massive floating rubix cube, but the cubes four sides were different shades of grey instead of multicolored like a normal rubix cube.
"What...is going on around here?" Numbah 5 muttered aloud, taking a few steps back. She needed to get out of here right now, if there was one thing Numbah 5 had learned from her experiences in the K.N.D was that something like this was bad, bad news. She needed to get back to Numbah 4's pool, get her to her world, round up an army and then come back here.
"Wouldn't you like to know." The voice of Numbah 2 rang out from behind her, Numbah 5 spun around to see another alternate version of one of her friends, it looked exactly like Numbah 2 but he was wearing a light purple shirt, black pants, sky blue and white shoes with an old gray aviator hat fit snugly on his head and black and purple flying goggles over his eyes, he also had a jetpack on his back. "You... you're not Numbah 2!" Numbah 5 said, fists up and ready to fight if necessary. The alternate version of Numbah 2 chuckled darky, "Correct Positive Numbah 5, I'm a much better, much more refined version of Numbah 2." The alternate Numbah 2 stated smugly, "Where is Numbah 1, you better not have hurt him!" Numbah 5 growled, "Oh, relax, if you want to see Positive Numbah 1 so badly, I'm more than happy to help you out." The alternate Numbah 2 said, his voice laced with bad intentions as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small remote with a big red button in the center and an antenna at the top, the alternate Numbah 2 pressed the button and a red electric current shot out of the antenna on the remote, Numbah 5 realized what happening a second too late and was shocked by the red electricity, letting out a scream of pain as she was shocked, after a few currents the electrical current stopped and Numbah 5 fell face-first to the ground, breathing but unconscious.
The alternate Numbah 2 waved one of the Rainbow Monkey robots and started to order it around, commanding it to pick up Numbah 5 and take her inside the metallic treehouse. While all this was happening, the worn down Toiletnator from earlier watched from under the cover of a manhole, far enough away from the alternate Numbah 2 that he couldn't be heard, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a walkie-talkie, after a few seconds the device crackled to life.
"Boss, we've got ourselves a bad situation!" "The W.K.N.D has opened a portal somehow and they've captured a member of the Positive K.N.D!"
"What-a portal?!" A long sigh was heard on the other end of the walkie-talkie. "Get back to base, we have to get a rescue team together and save them."
"Yes sir."
The worn down Toiletnator then disappeared underneath the manhole covering and disappeared out of sight.