Numbah 5's eyes fluttered open, she was in a slumped over sitting position, laying against something cold, she was seeing double and the whole world seemed to be swaying back and forth. She felt dizzy and wobbly, like her limbs were made of jelly. "Hello...?" Numbah 5 groaned feebly, putting her hands out in front of her to try and get a grip of her surroundings, her hands touched cool glass, she backed up and her back collided with something as well, she turned her head to see that it was glass once more. She tried to stand up but her head smacked against metal causing her to wince, once the ache on her head went away, her vision had returned to normal, it was a relief because now she could see where see was.
She was trapped in some kind of floating capsule with red metal on the top and bottom and glass on the sides, beyond the capsule was some kind of holding cell, grey concrete on all sides with a big metal door in front of her. Numbah 5 pounded her fist against the glass a few times but the glass didn't break or even crack. "Hey!" "Someone get me out of here!" Numbah 5 yelled, but she didn't hear anything, the last thing she remembered was Numbah 1 getting pulled into Numbah 4's pool, her diving in after him and ending up in some kind of creepy alternate dimension. The sound of footsteps drawing close to her and then the large metal door in front of her opened to reveal a Rainbow Monkey robot standing in the doorway. The robot stepped forward and took ahold of the capsule Numbah 5 was imprisoned in, carrying it out of the holding cell and into the hallway. Numbah 5 squinted and leaned forward, in front of her were shadows and she could faintly make out the outline of a person standing there.
"Enjoy your nap, positive me?" Numbah 5's own voice rang out from the shadows, sending a terrified shiver down the girls spine. The figure stepped out of the shadows to reveal yet another alternate version, this time it was of her. The doppleganger looked identical to regular Numbah 5 except for her outfit, the doppleganger was wearing a white striped orange shirt dress, with a white cap on her head and black Mary Janes shoes. The alternate version of Numbah 5 grinned evily upon seeing the terror on regular Numbah 5's face. "You're me...but that's impossible!" Numbah 5 cried out in shock, scooting away from the doppleganger standing before her. "It is possible, you have living proof right in front of you." The alternate version of herself replied quite smugly. "Who-what are you?" "What is this place?" Numbah 5 asked quietly, the alternate version of her chuckled at her surprise, "You're in the Switched Up-Verse, the best varient of your world there is." "You can just call me SU Numbah 5 for the sake of simplicity." The doppleganger explained. SU Numbah 5 snapped her fingers and started to walk down the hallway with an elevator at the end, the giant robot, who was still holding the capsule containing Numbah 5 started to walk behind her.
"Where am I?" Numbah 5 asked, feeling around her tiny prison for some kind of weak spot but coming up empty. "Your in our base, as our prisoner." SU Numbah 5 replied, "I saw an alternative Numbah 2 and 4, is everyone from the K.N.D in this universe or is it just you guys?" Numbah 5 asked again, SU Numbah 5 let out a small chuckle that made Numbah 5's skin crawl. "Yes, most of the K.N.D, excluding a few traitors, are in this world." "Although, we go by a slightly different name here." SU Numbah 5 explained, her tone of voice going from calm and cold to spiteful and loathing at the mention of traitors. SU Numbah 5, the robot and a still captured Numbah 5 turned a corner and entered a fancy looking elevator, the elevator had glass walls but a metallic floor and ceiling.
The trio stepped into the elevator and SU Numbah 5 started pressing buttons on a small control panel located on the right side of the metal elevator doors, the elevator jolted for a moment before descending downwards, Numbah 5 looked around, pressing her face up against the glass walls of her prison to look out at the area below. The African-American girl could make out a factory line with a large machine of some kind at the north and south end that was constantly having something fed to it via the factory lines. Upon closer inspection Numbah 5 was horrified to make out kids working the factory lines, putting Rainbow Monkey plush dolls on the line one after the other. They seemed pretty calm and casual, like this was a normal day for them, "Don't worry, they agreed to do that." SU Numbah 5 coldy reassured her positive counterpart, having probbly sensed the uneasy slience coming from Numbah 5. "Where is Numbah 1?" Numbah 5 asked, her voice feeble and timid, still staring out the side of the capsule. She turned back to face SU Numbah 5 who was standing by the control panel with her arms behind her back, her face harsh and expressionless, she didn't respond to Numbah 5's question at all.
"Where is Numbah 1?" Numbah 5 asked again, her voice a bit louder and more confident. "If you hurt him, I promise you that-" Numbah 5 started to warn but was stopped by another jolt of the elevator, the elevator was slowing down now, it's speed almost to crawl. SU Numbah 5 hesitated for a second before turning her head to glare at Numbah 5. "Oh relax, I'm taking you to him right now." "Where do you think we're going, dum-dum?" SU Numbah 5 groaned, rolling her eyes at Numbah 5 just as the elevator stopped completely. SU Numbah 5 turned her head again, this time to face the doors of the elevator which were now opening. The doors opened, a bright light filling the elevator, Numbah 5 squinted her eyes and sheilded her eyes with her hand as SU Numbah 5 walked into the bright room and the giant robot followed, carrying her into the bright room, the bright glare disappearing after a few seconds.
Numbah 5 could see that see was in some kind of huge control room, the north of the room was bathed in darkness but the majority of the room was lit up. Two control panels with a comfortable looking office chair were to the right of the room while a small table and a few chairs were on the left. In front of her, in front of the darkness stood the alternate versions of Numbah 4 and Numbah 2 that she'd seen before, the two of them were playing rock-paper-scissors when SU Numbah 5 walked into the room, they immediately stopped their game. Standing next to the alternate Numbah 4 was Numbah 3's doppleganger, she, just like the others, looked exactly like Numbah 3 except for her outfit of oversized pink sweater, brown leggings, pink socks and yellow and white converse shoes. She was holding what looked exactly like a Rainbow Monkey doll, but the doll was mechical. The alternate Numbah 3 was hugging the doll and holding it close to her. "See?" "I told you she looks just like our Numbah 5!" SU Numbah 2 declared to SU Numbah 4 while pointing at Numbah 5. "Mr. Uno is going to be so happy!" SU Numbah 3 exclaimed, jumping up and down on the spot, the robot doll being jostled up and down in her arms as she jumped. "I know, hopefully he'll cut us all some slack." SU Numbah 5 said as she walked over to SU Numbah 3.
"You still never gave me a straight answer, where is Numbah 1?" Numbah 5 asked, "Wow, she's so impatient compared to you Numbah 5!" SU Numbah 3 taunted, grinning evily at Numbah 5. SU Numbah 5 didn't respond to the other girl's taunt. "Hey Numbah 2, turn on the lights." "Let's show my positive counterpart what's become of her priceless Numbah 1." SU Numbah 5 said while motioning to SU Numbah 2, the doppleganger nodded and ran over to the control panel on the right of the room. He started pressing buttons at random and after a few seconds two spotlights lit up the front of the room, Numbah 5 gasped in horror when she saw the state of her friend.
Numbah 1 was strapped to an operating table, handcuffed to the table by his ankles and wrists. Even worse, a large glass tube was hooked to the center of his chest, sucking a glowing ranbow liquid out of his body and transporting it into a large see-through vat that sat just besides him, the vat had some kind of spout attached to it with a handle on top of the spout. Numbah 1 would let out the occasional flinch or mumble, breathing but unconscious.
"What...?" "What did you do to him?!" Numbah 5 cried out, turning to SU Numbah 5 who wasn't bothered by her outburst at all. "We're draining his essence, isn't it fascinating?" SU Numbah 2 explained giddly, running back over to SU Numbah 5. "What a wonderful thing Essence is, a byproduct of simply living!" "Some people produce more then others, like him!" "That's why we took him!" SU Numbah 2 excitedly rambled, jumping around the room with a big grin plastered on his face. "Essence is so cool, you can do so much stuff with it, like power machines and open portals and-" "Numbah 2!" "Stop telling her so much secret stuff!" SU Numbah 4 interjected, putting a stop to SU Numbah 2's rambles. "Sorry..." SU Numbah 2 replied sheepishly.
"What's all this about, no one told me she was awake already?" Numbah 1's voice asked aloud from the room's entrance, everyone except for Numbah 1 spun around to see the shadowy boy from the start of this story walked into the room, the light revealing that the shadowy boy was none other then the Switched-Up counterpart of Numbah 1 as he walked into the room. He, just like the others, looked identical to Numbah 1 except for his outfit of a navy blue sweater, black shorts and dark red shoes and round black sunglasses. Behind the sunglasses Numbah 5 could see dark circles under the counterparts eyes. "Numbah 1, Numbah 1!" "There you are, we we're just showing positive Numbah 5 what we did to her friend!" SU Numbah 3 proudly exclaimed, SU Numbah 1 looked over at Numbah 1, unconscious and restrainted to the operating table, then he smiled and turned to face his partners in crime. "I can see that, you all did very good." "Mr. Uno is going to be quite pleased with us." SU Numbah 1 declared to his team before turning to Numbah 5.
"You must be very confused, positive Numbah 5, allow me to explain your situation." SU Numbah 1 said, "You are in the Switched Up-Verse, our world, a perfect world where adults and teenagers are done away with and kids run wild!" SU Numbah 1 continued, pausing for dramatic effect. "And we...are the Wicked.Kids.Next.Door!" "Evil and unstoppable!" SU Numbah 1 evilly declared, adding in a manaical evil laugh at the end.
"Okay, you guys are evil versions of me and my friends, I get that part." "But what do you want with my world?" Numbah 5 asked. "Isn't it obvious?" "We want to rid your world of all adults and teenagers and combine the forces of the W.K.N.D and the K.N.D under one leader, whether they like it or not!" SU Numbah 1 proclaimed, puffing up his chest with pride. "As if, the Kids.Next.Door will never work along side you!" "Even if you try and force us into your ranks, the K.N.D will always resist and always come back stronger!" Numbah 5 declared confidently, SU Numbah 1 rolled his eyes at the girl, "Believe whatever you like, it won't save you in the end." "The K.N.D will obviously be smitten with a much better, practically perfect version of their beloved Numbah 1 and will be begging to join our side." SU Numbah 1 said, his tone of voice quite cocky and overconfident.
While SU Numbah 1 was talking, SU Numbah 2 had detached the pipe connected to Numbah 1, leaving Numbah 1 restrained on the table, groggy but slowly getting his wits back. SU Numbah 2 walked over to the massive vat with a small plastic cansister he held the cansister under the spout and turned the handle, rainbow liquid started to flow from the spout and quickly filled up the cansister, once the cansister was filled he turned off the spout and locked a top onto the cansister.
"Why do you think the K.N.D would ever listen to you?" "You're nothing like Numbah 1!" Numbah 5 protested, "Oh really, how so?" SU Numbah 1 asked sarcastically, "Simple, when I look into Numbah 1's eyes, I see someone who's kind, someone who prides himself in doing the right thing every day, not a spoiled brat with an ego bigger than the sun!" Numbah 5 snapped at SU Numbah 1, the doppelganger didn't take Numbah 5's little comment particularly well, his face twisted into an expression of both rage and humiliation, his body stiffened and his hands balled up into fists. "Why you little-" SU Numbah 1 growled, stepped towards Numbah 5 menacingly, but before the kid could finish his sentence a low rumbling shook the building.
The room went quiet for a moment for a moment to two, then a massive explosion and a burst of smoke came from the left side of the room, laser blasts firing out from just out of Numbah 5's line of sight. Numbah 5 was stunned to see that the ones firing out lasers were none other than The Delightful Children, or their alternate versions at least. They looked the same as the regular Delightful Children but they were wearing matching white and green striped shirts, pink and white running shoes, the three boy Delightful's were wearing blue jeans while the girls were wearing long blue skirts and as they charged into the room, letting out a perfectly synchronized battle cry as they did so. SU Numbah 1's face dropped in shock, none of the evil counterparts expected this. After a second SU Numbah 1 regained his composure and spoke up. "Tch, if it isn't The Wonderful Children For Troublemaker's Support." "Here to join our cause?" SU Numbah 1 asked sarcastically, already knowing what the response would be. "Nope, we're here to kick your butt!" The Wonderful Children declared in perfect unison, pulling out one laser gun each and starting to fire at SU Sector V.
The evil dopplegangers were taken by superise and tried to fight back with their own laser guns, but they were slowly restrained one by one by the laser blasts, when a blast hit one of them the laser would instantly transform into a glowing blue rope that would wrap around the kid like a snake and leave them squirming around helplessly on the floor.
One laser blast hit the vat full of rainbow liquid, or Essence as SU Numbah 2 called it and the vat shattered instantly, spilling Essence all over the floor which quickly fizzled away. Another laser blast hit the capsule Numbah 5 was trapped in, the capsule rocked from left to right wildly before clattering to the ground, the top of the capsule separated from the rest of the device. Numbah 5 wasted no time crawling out of the capsule, standing up as she looked around the room, it was chaos, laser blasts firing out every which way which and a low blanket smoke creeping across the floor.
"Abby!" "Help me!" Numbah 1 yelled out from across the room, having fully regained his senses and was now struggling to escape the restraints holding him to the operating table. Numbah 5 carefully made her way across the room, ducking and dodging lazer blasts as she did, all 5 doppleganger Delightful's were still standing, slowly advancing through the room while their was only SU Numbah 1 and 3 left standing, the rest had been tied up. Numbah 5 left a short burst of relief wash over her when she reached the operating table, she immediately started tugging at the handcuffs, trying to pry the handcuffs off to no success, no matter how hard she tugged the restraints barely moved and weren't getting any looser.