Chapter 2: The Calm Before the Story

*One month earlier*

The Supreme Leader paced back and forth on the Moon Base Bridge, assessing the usual complaints and reports from operatives. It was like any other ordinary day on the Moon base, running an organization containing a buhmillion kids with short attention spans.

As Rachel continued her path, she couldn't help but feel annoyed on how trivial and pointless most of this paper work was. In fact most of it consisted of operatives complaining about how their candy rations were too low, or how they were tired of the same ice cream flavors their sectors were given. She could never understand why kids could be so distracted by such minor inconveniences while the evils of adulthood leered at every corner.

She was much more mature and educated than most children in the organization. She understood the process of business and government, the art of manipulation, as well as strategic planning. Her former job as an espionage agent also gave her an advantage over most of the others.

Rachel was just about to enter the halls of the Moon Base before she suddenly overheard a small group conversation nearby.

"Man, I hear Father's doin' another one of his rally's again, all the adult villains of the world are attending". One of the kids in the group said in a quite worried some voice

Another operative in the group, a pilot, said in a cheerful voice to his fellow operative. "Hey man, don't even trip, Father does this quite frequently, it's nothing to be worried about, I'm more worried about Night Brace coming to my Sector and flossing my teeth CLEAN." This seemed to lighten the mood in the group, as all of them proceeded to laugh.

Rachel began to think to herself, the worried kid did have a point, Father's rally of adult villains was suspicious, but did happen from time to time. She thought nothing of it and continued to head to her office.

"Whatever, I have other matters to attend to" she murmured to herself.

She walked down the last segment of the Moon Base bridge, with operatives scurrying, gossiping, and running all over the place, and the sound of Numbuh 86 shouting orders at unsuspecting victims. It was just another busy day for her; same old boring and repetitive job as Supreme Commander of the Kids Next Door.

"Hey Rachel!" A familiar British accent said while she was just about to enter her safe haven.

Being caught off guard, she replied back sheepishly. "Hey Nigel, what brings you up here to the Moon Base?"

The two have formed a close bond after the I.T incident, and it was common for the two to refer to each other by their real names rather than their code numbers. Lately, Rachel begun to develop something unique towards Nigel, but she never had the time to think about it. Besides, the boy was still recovering from his break up with Lizzie, and she didn't feel it was right to open up old wounds. Not to mention the fact that it's not every day your tree house goes renegade.

Nigel frowned back, his enthusiasm seemed to die down. "Just filing another report about an encounter with Sticky Beard, I hate doing these".

Rachel smiled at Nigel "Yeah, filing these reports after every encounter does get quite annoying, but it's necessary."

Nigel shrugged as he finished filling in the final part of the paper. "I guess. Hey Rachel, I'll catch you later, seems like you're a bit busy and I have some matters to tend to at my sector". She replied back, getting a good look at the British boy, "Ok, see ya' around Nigel." She then turned away, promptly entering into her office.

As Nigel begun to walk to the Moon Base dock a thought entered his mind. The way Rachel addressed him with her soft voice always put him in a slight trance, an effect no girl ever had on him, not even his ex-girlfriend Lizzie. He dismissed the thought and entered the S.C.A.M.P.E.R that was returning to his sector.

"She's just a good friend, that's all."

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NOTE - Chapter has been edited, grammatical errors corrected and sentences may have been rephreased

UPDATE (12/19/12): I have changed the events that are happening to one month prior to the events in Chapter 1

This means that it is no longer "ONE YEAR LATER" but "ONE MONTH LATER", this is so it properly fits the story time frame