Well hey guys, sorry if the update was a little long. You know, college finals and stuff hahaha.

Wow, I didn't expect this story to catch so much attention, and I thank all of you for the support(this includes follows, favorites, reviews, everyone, duh!").

Anyway, enjoy this next chapter!

Chapter 15: Second Chance

...Connection Re-Established...

Battered and bruised, the operatives were harshly forced to kneel down before the Hasayan commander. Leader grinned, what a more perfect way to signify his power by capturing the KND Supreme Leader and the infamous Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 900.

"I take it my men gave you quite the beating?" He laughed silently to himself.

Rachel was the first to speak up. "It's going to take more then a few kicks and punches to make us surrender." She wasn't going to play the role of being a victim, it wasn't her character at all.

"Oh. Don't worry, you will all bend to my will soon enough." Defiant to the bitter end, but utterly futile Leader thought to himself as he signaled Chamenos and several men stationed at the Chamber which was placed in the middle of the large room to begin the powering up sequences.

Determined to figure out the Hasayan plot, she finally popped the question. "What are you planning anyway Leader?" Maybe just maybe, Leader would ramble long enough for possible back up to arrive she thought, but that was just wishful thinking.

Leader paced back and fourth, formulating his response to the blonde girl.

"Isn't it obvious? You see, I created this organization when I realized the imperfections the Kids Next Door suffered from. It's promotion of freedom, individuality, equality, and tolerence, all ideas that disgusted me." he snarled.

He cleared his throat and continued. "Funny how the Kids Next Door aided in their own demise, I even used their own scientists to help me develop this machine... whether they agreed with me or not."

Oh great... the usual pointless villain rambling. At this point Rachel just began to assume this is what all villains did. "Cut the crap Leader and tell me what your planning already."

Seeing it fit that he tell his opponents his plans before they met their demise, he quickly answered back.

"World domination of course... for far too long has mankind bickered amongst themselves. What I offer here is the chance to eliminate the flaws that us humans suffer. This machine will create a more obedient, stronger, and much more intellectual individual, stripping them away from their emotions and morals that so hold us back. Using this machine, I will create the perfect soldier..."

How could someone be so cold and cynical? "But why test it on us? We're just kids!" she responded instataneously.

"Because 'Supreme Leader', children are much more vulnerable and undeveloped. The younger the person, the better results... No more petty child dreams or fantasy's, just reality."

What? Rachel thought to herself, this teen must have no soul. "But all those traits you wish to eliminate are what make us human... it's what makes us tick, it's who we are." she said back.

"Fool, all those things are what makes us imperfect beings! My creation will bring about a new era, an era where this stupid power struggle between children and adults will cease to exist, an era where we are all united under one banner. Imagine, a world of total obedience and complete suboridination! Just think of the possibilities!"

"Your crazy." Nigel muttered under his breath.

Rachel looked at Nigel, praying Leader wouldn't just shoot him on the spot for such an outburst.

Taking note of the British boy's comment Leader slowly walked closer and closer until they were face to face "Crazy you say...?"

"Yeah... you heard me CRAZY" he yelled back.

"Rebellious till the end I see, we'll see how your opinion changes after I change you and your team mates..." the commander taunted, causing a chill to travel up the boys spine.

"Everyone in position?" Abby whispered into her communicator.

"Sector Q in position"

"Sector A" in position."

After all sectors and teams checked in, Abby signaled her Sector and several S.R.S.S.T soldiers behind her to move at the edge of the forest. Earlier, Sector V managed to get to a KND outpost where they then radioed in their situation. Seeing that the Supreme Leader was in great danger, global command sent in a battalion of soldiers and armored vehicles as well as a company of S.R.S.S.T forces. Several Sectors were also allowed to help in the rescue mission. The Kids Next Door could not spare anymore additional forces then what was provided, for the war was still being fought in the European and Asian theaters. It was the best Sector V was going to get, and they had to make do with what they had.

Abby took out her binoculars, and scouted her surroundings.

In the middle of the clearing was the entrance to the Hasayan compound, which appeared to be much more heavily guarded then when they first infiltrated. Several dozers were clearing the forest across from them in order to make way for future projects. The once quiet forest was littered with Hasayan activity, and the construction of multiple buildings and hangars began taking place. It was now clear, they were preparing for total world domination, and this would be the place where it would all start. Abby looked out, they were out numbered and outgunned. In the forest and in the clearing alone she could tell that there was a whole brigade. And that was just what appeared on the surface, no telling how many more Hasayan's were in the entire region.

Preparing for an attack, Abby signaled again for several tanks to pull up quietly behind the vegetation and trees that made up the forest.

"I want you to choose your targets carefully, take out the enemy tanks first and then the machine gun nests, got that?" Abby radioed in as she and everyone around her made final battle preparations.

"Loud and clear Numbuh 5, just tell us when to fire."

Abby turned to face Numbuh 2. "Do we got air support?"

"Unfortunately no, they said they'll be able to send in a couple of helicopter gunships and S.C.A.M.P.E.R's, but that wont be for another hour or two."

Things were going to get tougher now, but the more they waited, the less time they had of rescuing the three operatives.

"Everyone ready?" Abby was nervous, they all were. Sure they'd fought countless missions and battles before, but never one with such importance.

They all nodded quietly.

Taking a deep breathe, she yelled into her communicator that signaled the start of the battle

"Fire!"

The allied tanks near them unloaded their shells, causing many of the enemy tanks to explode and the infantry around them to fly in the air. A wave of bullets traveled out of the forest, hitting their Hasayan targets. The enemy was caught off guard, and Abby used this to her advantage.

Numbuh 5 and Sector V rushed out of the forest, machine guns blazing. They were soon followed by KND soldiers and several tanks which provided cover and fire power for their advance.

The room violently shook. What sounded like distant explosions and machine gun fire echoed throughout the room.

Tooken by surprise, Leader demanded to know what was going up on the surface. What the hell is going on up there?!"

Chamenos ran to the computer monitors in the room and checked the footage of several cameras posted up top near the entrance of the base. He scanned them all intently, realizing that it was a full on assault.

"We're being attacked by the Kids Next Door."

Leader looked at the three operatives. Nothing, absolutely nothing would stop him from fulfilling his plans now. "It seems that your friends have arrived with some back up. No matter, their attempt will prove to be futile."

"Now it's time for you all to be the next generation of perfect soldiers." At the snap of his fingers, several soldiers began to bring the operatives to the front of the Chamber, where they would all be transformed.

Serena looked at the Chamber, it was different from when she last remembered. In front of the Chamber sat two capsules with thick glass doors. Protruding from the Chamber into the capsules were large tubes and several wires. Before it was much more simpler, but now it seems that Leader in a cruel sense had 'improved' this heartless contraption of his.

He pointed at Nigel and then Rachel "I would like you two to be first."

The brown haired girl gasped. Leader merely laughed. "Now you will get to witness those closest to you lost again!"

Serena looked in horror at the machine, she could care less what happened to her, but she couldn't handle watching Nigel and Rachel turned. She couldn't stand the thought of both of them suffering the same fate as Aiden, who was now a mindless tool of control. Out of desperation, she begged for Chamenos to do something, hoping that maybe somehow he would remember who he once was.

"Aiden, you can't let him do this to us! Please, don't let those two suffer like we did, please I beg you!" Serena yelled, her voice echoing throughout the large room.

Her voice hit the boys ears like a sharp needle. Chamenos soon found an internal conflict raging inside him, a flood of memories entered his head. His once supressed memories hit him hard, almost like water rushing over a collapsing dam. He began to remember everything, his real self, his real name, the S.R.S.S.T, and most importantly Serena.

Now he remembered the meaning of the bracelet that both Serena and he wore.

Now he remembered who he truly was.

Just above the underground compound, the battle between Allied and Hasayan forces raged on.

"Think you guys can provide cover for us while we run to the front?" Abby questioned the S.R.S.S.T squad that was with them. Around them the hulls of tanks from both sides were burning and the sound of soldiers shooting and hitting each other with rifle butts flooded all of their senses. Armored trucks from both sides peppered each other with round after round of machine gun fire, and the sound of constant explosions nearly deafened Sector V. Combat was brutal, and all around them the battle seemed to be intensifying.

"Yeah!" the commanding officer replied back, reloading his rifle, his voice nearly interpretable due to the sheer amount of fighting going on around them.

Sector V was preparing to charge when suddenly more enemy reinforcements flooded out of the entrance of the Hasayan compound.

"Oh for god sake, there's no way we can get in there now!" Wally shouted as he threw a grenade into an enemy truck that was dropping off reinforcements

"We can always ask them if we can enter nicely." Kuki suggested, causing everyone including several operatives around her to give her a weird look.

After a brief moment of no dialogue, Abby finally spoke up, her voice competing with the sound of the ensuing battle "Um...Yeah, guess they got a whole army here, Numbuh 2, can you find another way in possibly?"

Numbuh 2 pulled out a tablet that showed a space view from one a KND spy satellite overhead, he scanned it intently, but could find no other way in beside the front entrance.

"Don't see any other way in from here Numbuh 5."

At this moment Abby realized that the only way they'd be able to enter the facility was to fight there way through the influx of Hasayan soldiers guarding the entrance.

They were forced closer and closer to the chamber one by one, one step at a time. It was a despairing situation, now was no chance of escape for them. Now, it appeared, their time was up.

The three were abruptly stopped only a few feet away from the cruel conversion chamber. A soldier grabbed Rachel by the hand, and she turned to look at Nigel one last time. He looked back at her, smiling at her and giving her a sense of comfort, even though he knew deep down inside they were all basically as a good as dead. She didn't understand how he could be so calm, knowing that all of them were about to be shadows of their formal selves, forced to carry out the orders of a mad man. Rachel felt like crying, after she was turned, she wouldn't remember a thing, not even Nigel.

Funny how things occurred she thought. Nigel risked his life for her, only for her to be captured by the very entity he sought to protect her from. And it was all her fault, if she didn't decide to come to this place so recklessly, perhaps they wouldn't be in this situation at all. She wanted to say one last thing before her memory and her being was wiped out from the face of the Earth.

She was one step in front of the metal capsule before Leader ordered the soldier to stop. Rachel turned her body and faced Nigel. She couldn't take it anymore, she wanted Nigel to know how she truly felt, she wanted to know that if what they had was more then a friendship.

"Nigel, I..."

The guard rudely forced her into the capsule, causing her body to violently slam against the metal. This was it, she was in the feared indoctrination chamber, where her very soul would be destroyed.

Nigel tried to break free from the soldier holding him back, but it was hopeless. He was pushed into the capsule, which contained nothing but few openings where the tubes were placed. Both of them were now trapped in the small capsules, with Serena forced to watch.

Leader went up to the Chamber, and pulled the lever that seemed to bring the contraption to life. "Time to power up this beautiful machine."

He stepped back, admiring the completion of his works. The tubes that entered into the metal capsules were now flooding with a red liquid, waiting to be converted into a gas which would then enter into the capsules.

"I assure you... the process is relatively painless" Leader said to himself chuckling under his own breath.

Nigel turned to to look at Rachel through the small glass window located at the side of the capsule. He quickly came to the conclusion that this was it, this was the last time he'd ever be able to see his blonde commander. Her deep brown eyes were so gracious, but now full with sorrow. The boy couldn't take it. There was nothing he could do, nothing at all, to help rescue Rachel. He looked out too Serena, but even she had given up any attempt to escape.

The room was silent, with the exception of the liquid traveling through the tubes. Then, something unexpected happened.

Out of no where, the sound of a gun firing echoed throughout the room, and then another, and then another. One by one the guards in the room fell, until only Serena and Leader were left standing. Serena turned to the primary source of the gunshots.

She saw the owner of the gun was Chamenos, Leader's right hand man. But why did he take out his own soldiers and why was he pointing a gun at his own commander? It didn't make sense, Unless...

No... it couldn't be.

"Aiden...?" She called out.

The teen looked back for a moment, a sign that he recognized his name. His eyes returned back their formal emerald green color, and something about the boy seemed to have changed, or rather, return.

"Is... is... that you?"

"Yeah... it's me Serena." Aiden replied back, gun still pointed at his formal commander.

She couldn't believe it, it was him. All these years that she thought she had lost him he was still there, just trapped inside the mazes of his own mind. She didn't think it was possible, she assumed that once someone was turned, they could never come back.

"But how?" Serena said back weakly, overflooded with emotions.

"I'm not really sure." he responded back.

Leader spoke up abruptly. "You were the perfect soldier, but now you've digressed back to your inferior and weak self. I was aware of the flaws of my first machine, but I assure you it will not happen again."

The Hasaayan Commander produced a devilish smile, and Aiden looked to the Chamber were Rachel and Nigel were still in. They were both trapped, and he had to do something fast if he wanted to prevent them from being converted.

Aiden, seeing that untying Serena would only take more time, ran up to the chamber and pulled the lever. The red liquid that was flooding the tubes stopped, and receded back into the Chamber where they originally came from. Rachel breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Nigel through the glass window at the side. Their ordeal however was far from over.

Aiden went to Nigel's capsule first, but he insisted that he get Rachel out before him. Listening to Nigel, he came up to Rachel's capsule.

"I'll get both of you out, don't worry." He said.

Rachel nodded, but she was still on edge. Being in this small space gave her an erie feeling.

"Look out!" Serena called out.

A bullet whizzed right past Aiden. Instinctively, he ducked down and ran behind the cover of the Chamber. He peeked out, and spotted not one or two, but a dozen Hasayan soldiers. He needed to find a way to kill all those guys before he could rescue Nigel and Rachel.

"Ah, finally reinforcements have arrived." Leader taunted while the Hasayan soldiers came up in front to shield their master.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Serena ran towards Aiden, her hands still cuffed behind her back.

Aiden took notice, is she... wow she really is... "What the hell are you doing?!"

Serena didn't respond back until she rendezvoused with Aiden behind the Chamber.

He grabbed her by the shoulders. "You could've got killed!"

"Well I don't think waiting in the open as a damsel in distress while bullets fly over my head was any safer." She protested back. "Are you going to untie me or not?"

Aiden grunted and slowly untied her hands. He'd only been back for less then half an hour and already she was being stubborn towards him. But oh well, that's one of the reasons he loved her to begin with.

After he untied her, he grabbed a rifle from one of the nearby fallen soldiers and handed it to Serena. "Here, make yourself useful."

Serena smiled, the boy she once knew was standing right before her, his memory finally restored.

"Your really back."

"Yeah, we'll talk after, right now we need to take out those enemy guards and rescue your team mates."

Serena agreed, but how they would do that, she wasn't sure.

Rachel was still stuck in the confinements of the capsule. Although the conversion process had been stopped by Aiden, she still felt a sense of danger. All around her bullets were flying in her general direction, and every once awhile a stray bullet would bounce off the thick glass door. She could hear the muffled yells of Aiden and Serena, who were desperately fighting for their lives.

She wanted to something, but she couldn't, so long as she remained trapped in this tight and squished coffin. The blonde commander turned to Nigel, who already seemed to be planning on how to free himself from his limited space. He stopped for a brief minute and looked at her. He appeared to be frustrated, and then he finally took out a strange looking object from his pocket, one that even Rachel didn't know was on him.

"Maybe this cube will help me." He thought aloud to himself as he examined the strange constantly moving metal alloy of the object. It was simplistic in nature, but Nigel knew that in reality it was probably complex. He still wasn't sure what it was supposed to do but he was hell-bent on figuring it out. He tried prying the cube open, but no results. Nigel tried all sorts of things to activate this strange cube, ranging from yelling commands, to just staring at it.

The cube appeared to be almost... alien. It didn't make any sense, how can something that appeared to be some type of liquid maintain a cube shape while being as hard as titanium.

"What the hell is this stupid piece of crap suppose to do!" he yelled in total frustration. He threw the object on the ground and started mindlessly pounding and kicking at the thick glass door.

"Well if this thing isn't going to help me get out of here, then I'd ratherswell do something else that will" he thought aloud.

After several minutes of constant kicking, he decided to try one last time. He pushed his body against the back of the capsule and with one swift blow, kicked both of his legs into the glass door. To his amazement, the door flung open. He slowly got out of the capsule, realizing that any sudden movements can get him killed by the Hasayan soldiers that were still locked in a gun fight with Aiden and Serena.

He looked around, slowly crawling towards Rachel's capsule. Wow, he thought, those two must be putting up quite a fight for the soldiers not to notice him. Realizing that the Hasayan soldiers were far to occupied to even care about him, he crouched and ended up in front of Rachel.

"Rachel, all you have to do is kick the glass open with both of your feet! Put all your energy into it!" He shouted to Rachel through the glass door.

Barely able to hear his muffled voice, she nodded. She pushed against the capsule with all her might and lifted her legs off the ground, and with all her energy, kicked the door open. She was now free, and glad of it.

Nigel quickly helped Rachel out of the capsule and on to her feet.

"Thanks Nig... LOOK OUT!" She pointed behind him as a barrage of bullets headed straight for them. Acting on pure reflex, Nigel grabbed Rachel and lunged both of them away from the onslaught of lead.

They were on the ground for a brief moment, still in disbelief how they got out of that hopeless situation. Nigel was practically ontop of Rachel, his hands still clinging to her shoulders. The two stared at each other, until their little moment was interrupted by the sound of Serena yelling at them.

"Are you guys just going to sit there or what?!"

Once again, another perfect moment ruined by duty.

...Transmission Interrupted...

Ok, so Nigel and Rachel are 12 years old, and you know with their teenage years on the way, yeah whatever you guys get it. Just easing anyones concerns about the last part.

I'd also like to say, in case you haven't noticed, this story is reaching it's climax and eventual end :(. Sad, I really enjoy writing this story.

Will keep you all updated soon!