Operation: S.H.R.E.E.K.
Skillful
Hero
Resists
Enemy's
Ear-piercing
Kries
It's morning, and we see Aaron and Greta walk towards the computer in their day clothes.
Greta yawned before sitting in front of the computer and turned it on saying, "P.H.I.N., did you find anything?"
"I HAD TO DO SOME DEEP RESEARCH, AND BYPASS ONE FIREWALL. IT WASN'T EASY, BUT IT WASN'T CHALLENGING BECAUSE IT WAS QUITE LITERALLY DESIGNED BY CHILDREN.
TO SUMMARIZE, THE EARTH OF THIS REALITY IS CONSTANTLY UNDER A WAR BETWEEN AGE RANGES. CHILDREN ARE REPEATEDLY BEING ATTACKED BY THE INTERFERENCE OF ADULTS AND/OR TEENAGERS WHO ARE TRYING TO RUIN WHAT THEY CAN FOR THEIR CHILDHOODS."
"I was right." Aaron said, "They didn't trust me, and that's why."
"PRECISELY. THE FIREWALL I HAD TO BYPASS WAS MADE TO PROTECT THE NETWORK OF A ORGANIZATION RUN BY CHILDREN, CALLING THEMSELVES THE KIDS NEXT DOOR."
"The Kids Next Door?" Greta asked.
"CORRECT. THERE WERE FILES UPON FILES OF INFORMATION. FEEL FREE TO GO THROUGH THEM."
Greta took hold of the mouse and went through the computer.
She and Aaron went through all the data P.H.I.N. found.
First, they went through the enemies they've made. Best to make sure who to watch out for.
They were both speed readers, so they went through it pretty quick.
Knightbrace was the only one that both did and didn't confuse them, as if that was even possible. Like sure, dental hygiene's like happiness: It's a must, but there's no excuse to force it. I mean, Aaron and Greta brush their teeth regularly.
As annoying as the routine is, they like taking care of themselves. Do you really want a smelly, yellow and/or black, mouth full of holes? That's the last thing you want to see when someone smiles at you.
The Common Cold was the only one they were grossed out by.
The guy shot SNOT from his nose to make other people sick, what did you expect?
"Man, these kids have to go through so much." Aaron said.
"Yeah." Greta followed up, "Hey, check these out."
Aaron looked at what Greta found, and on the computer was a big enemy of the Kids Next Door.
The Delightful Children From Down The Lane.
The picture of them on the file showed who was who. The blonde in front was Bruce, the girl with the bow was Alessandra, the tall one in the back was David, the glasses girl with the braids was Constance, and the boy in the helmet was Lenny.
Everything about these kids almost creeped out the Superstars. The picture of them felt like it had a thousand mile stare, the file said they share birthdays, and it even said they can possibly feel each other's pain and talk in unison.
Aaron and Greta: "That's creepy on so many levels. *shudders*"
"And check out their dad." Greta said, pulling up the next file.
Their father named...Father.
"How original..." Aaron sarcastically commented.
The Delightful Children might've been a big enemy of the K.N.D., but these two learned that Father was way worse.
Especially when he was angry. A guy with fire abilities is a dangerous guy when they're furious.
Trust me, they've seen it.
"Aaron, if some of these bad guys teamed up with our bad guys..."
"Let's not think about that right now. Let's just go through some more stuff."
So they did.
For the long list of operatives, they tried to remember every possible kid they could and the information about them. Not as easy as it sounded, but they did their best.
Next came their tech, or 2x4 Technology as they called it. In Greta's opinion, it was impressive, but she thought she could make anything better than the stuff they have. Though, she thought the acronym thing for the names of their vehicles and weapons was clever.
The bases...well, they were clever and not so clever. All you had to do was look for a large tree house if you wanted to find one. There was an Arctic base in the Antarctic, which made no sense. They even have a base on the Moon.
Well, makes sense: kids were the first to travel to space...Yes, Greta and Aaron know. In their universe, schools teach the true history and don't drain kids' minds.
More on that later.
All in all, these kids had a lot going on, and it looked like they handled things pretty well.
After seeing everything, that just left these two with one thought.
"If the Kids Next Door find us together...Aaron, what do we do? We might want to have them on our side if we ever want to get home."
"...We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."
"What if one of our villains shows up?"
"We deal with it. They're our villains, it's our responsibility. *turns around and walks to elevator* Now c'mon, we're going out."
"Why?"
"Because we've been here for three days, and we need a decent meal. We're going grocery shopping."
Greta's stomach then rumbled. She then got out of her chair and followed Aaron to the elevator out of the hideout.
Much later...
Aaron and Greta are seen walking down the street, walking back from the grocery store, bags in their arms.
In them were packs of meat, bread, eggs, dairy products, spices, and fresh produce. Yes, that means fruit and vegetables. The latter might be gross, everyone from their reality thought so...at first. Veggies aren't as terrible as you think unless you cook them in just the right way. And after you eat them cooked, the taste starts to grow on you.
After all, Aaron likes bell peppers, and Greta likes carrots. And broccoli ain't too bad in their universe either. I know, broccoli. Hard to believe.
"I'm thinking B.L.T.s for lunch. What about you, Greta?"
"I'm okay with anything, as long as you're making-"
"Greta..." "Please, Aaron? We bought the stuff for it."
"Fine, I'll make your favorite: peach pie." "Yes!"
As Aaron rolled his eyes at Greta's love for peaches, he suddenly stopped.
"Aaron? You okay?"
It was Aaron's sixth sense going off again.
He looked in the northeast direction before turning to Greta and answering, "My Astro-sense is going nuts." So that's what he calls it. "There's something over that way."
"Villain?" "Doubt it. Something's giving off some weird energy. It's really powerful."
"...Do you think it's..."
"Only one way to find out. But we can't go now, we just bought groceries and I do not want this ice cream melting."
"I can go take a look."
"You sure?"
"Yeah." Greta started giving Aaron the groceries she was carrying. "You can go put these away back in the hideout, and I can go see if I can find any weird energy signatures over there until you're done."
"Okay, just remember what I taught you when there's a villain."
"Um, keep your mind straight, spirit strong, and have fun?"
"Attagirl. *ruffles Greta's hair* See ya in a bit. Good luck."
After Aaron sped off back to the hideout to put away the groceries, Greta put her goggles on her eyes and walked in the direction Aaron felt the energy pulse from.
With those goggles, Greta can see things no one else can.
For example, they can locate anything specific.
Right now, through Greta's goggles, she can see a red dot where the energy's coming from.
It's a long way, but she can make it.
After a couple of units...
Greta's seen walking up to some halted traffic.
Something way up ahead must've made traffic stop.
Yet, Greta had to go through it. Her goggles told her the energy was coming from somewhere in the traffic jam.
So, she went into it and tried to make her way through.
It wasn't too hard; Aaron's been teaching her parkour.
Man, this traffic is not letting up. I mean, just look at that school bus.
It was meant to get the kids onboard to school, but it's been gridlocked there since this morning.
The kids onboard were bored out of their minds, while one was looking at footage at a particular device.
On it we can hear, "What's the matter? Seeing stars?" before hearing lots of crashing sounds.
The kid who was watching it was Nigel Uno. He was watching the footage of Aaron and Marble's fight at the construction site that was taken by the K.N.D.'s 2x4 Technology.
"Super speed, super strength, making stars appear out of thin air..." Nigel listed.
He kept watching up until the point where Aaron used those stars of his to blind everyone that had him cornered so he could escape.
He pulled out the star that Aaron had left behind at the scene and examined it.
"Just who or what are you?" Nigel thought out loud.
"Hey, who's that?"
Nigel's attention was taken away when another passenger on the bus spotted something, causing him to look out the window with everyone else on the bus.
They saw Greta who was doing agile movements over and past some of the cars.
Greta didn't notice because by looking through her goggles, she saw that she was close to what was making so much energy.
She made it to a particular garbage truck that was a few cars away from the bus.
Greta's goggles showed that the energy was coming from inside the truck's hopper.
She hit the button the side of the truck, which opened the hopper, revealing the large sum of garbage inside.
Greta spotted something suspicious in the back of the trash. She lifted her goggles off her eyes, just to make sure she was seeing this correctly.
And she was. There was a faint purple glow in the back behind all this trash.
Obviously, Greta didn't feel like getting herself dirty, grungy, or grimy from going into the trash. Luckily, she has a solution for that.
What if I told you that her backpack did much more than hold things?
Greta rose her hand up to her hairclip and pressed on it which activated something.
Then in no time flat, three extendable mechanical arms rose out of Greta's backpack before they all reached into the hopper of the garbage truck.
These arms are controlled by Greta's mind through a device built into her hairclip, and up to twelve total can come out. Fascinating, huh?
Even the kids on the bus thought so. See their awestruck expressions?
They were even more so when they saw what Greta's arms brought back from the garbage.
It was some kind of sizeable, faintly glowing. bright purple, uncut gemstone.
Greta herself was awestruck when she saw the gem. She then lowered her goggles to see if what she was seeing really was what she thought it was.
Greta's goggles can also scan and/or analyze anything Greta wants.
After scanning the gemstone, the goggles showed the power level it had, which said, 'Unlimited'.
This confirmed Greta's suspicions.
"I knew it! This is part of the-"
She was stopped when she heard a distant, but very loud shriek.
A few seconds later, she saw people running in the other direction of the sound in a panic.
She looked in the direction they were running from. She had to get to higher ground if she wanted to see what was going on.
Greta climbed up to the top of the garbage truck as the mechanical arms went back into her backpack, taking the gemstone with them.
Atop the truck, Greta looked ahead in the street to see what everyone was running from.
Another loud shriek came from that direction, and some cars came flying the front of the traffic jam.
Greta acted fast.
On her smart watch, she pressed three buttons which had an effect on her sweater and shoes.
The wool making up Greta's sweater began to unravel a bit and expanded in length before the strands of wool wrapped around her body, from the bottom of her neck to where her ankles met the insides of her shoes.
Speaking of which, the color of her shoes and laces had switched.
Along with her goggles, Greta now had on an bodysuit that was cut at the ankles that was blue with grey line patterns and one star each on her chest and back, and blue shoes with grey laces. The straps of her backpack were intertwined with her suit threads so it won't come off.
In a blue blur, Greta went to where each car was gonna land, and one by one, caught them in a stack without effort. She then placed the multi-ton stack on the street.
Since this is pre-typed, I can't answer your question involving how Greta's able to do that in person, but I can answer it as you're reading this.
Since Greta wasn't born with powers like Aaron was, she designed herself a suit so that she can keep up with Aaron and help him save the day called the Starsuit.
The Starsuit can amplify her strength and speed, but she learned some other things from Aaron. This is actually her forty-ninth model of it.
After making sure that the cars were empty, Greta looked ahead once more to try to find out what made the cars go soaring down the street.
She saw the cause of it rise from afar and fly towards her. What was it? I think you mean 'who'.
It was an adult woman who looked to be in her late twenties. Her face and skin were pale, her hair was red, white, long and flowing, and there was black running down from the bottom of her completely white eyes, as if they were tears. She's also wearing a long white dress, is barefoot, and there's a white aura around her.
"Banshee..." Greta thought out loud, recognizing her, "She's here too."
Banshee is in fact who and what this woman is. Well, kinda.
If you don't know what a banshee is, they're spiritual beings who indicate the death of someone close, usually by screaming, wailing, or shrieking.
She's got all the abilities of one: flight, sonic scream, enhanced senses, teleportation, immunity, stuff like that.
Only thing is, she's a pseudo-banshee; not an actual one. You see, she wasn't always like this.
Let me explain.
Her real name was Sora Green, who loved to travel around and see what new places had to offer. She heard of this urban legend in a town that she decided to check out. When she tried to see if the legend was true, she ended up getting cursed and turning into the way you see her now. Everyone was startled by her appearance, and she wasn't able to get help to get rid of the curse. Until she stumbled into the town Aaron lived in.
Things escalated then.
One day, Aaron saw her while walking through midtown, and he went over to calm her down because the people around them were frightened with her in the area and she didn't like it. Aaron offered to take her to a friend he knew that could help her, but she was suddenly tased from behind by a police officer. Thinking that Aaron was trying to set her up, even though he was genuinely trying to help her, she let out a loud, sonic, ear-piercing scream that blew away everything and everyone around her. She then went on a destructive flight through the city.
Aaron managed to stop her in the end, but she now hated him with a vengeance. Over a misunderstanding!
Right now, in the air, Banshee spotted Greta after she flew over and scowled.
If Greta was here, Aaron wasn't too far behind. Banshee thought he could be in the area somewhere.
"Where is he?!" she demanded to know from Greta.
Greta didn't answer and glared back at her as if to say, 'Do your worst, I'm not talking'.
An less than a second or two, Banshee disappeared, leaving behind black smoke, then reappeared in front of Greta, grabbing her by the collar of her Starsuit and lifting her to meet her eyes.
"WHERE?!" she asked again, almost blowing Greta away with her voice from being a bit louder.
Greta retaliated by making an arm from her backpack extend from it and punch Banshee in the face, causing her to release her.
Greta sped off, and Banshee angrily flew after her.
The kids in the bus watched the chase ensue.
"Banshee, can't we just talk about this?!" they heard Greta say as they watched them weave through and above the cars.
"The time for talking's over! I'm getting back at your brother, and you're not stopping me!"
"He was just trying to help you!"
"Liar! Just like Aaron; nothing. But. LIES!"
Banshee let out a loud and powerful sonic scream. Greta managed to run away from it, but same can't be said about the cars that had blown in her direction.
While running, Greta's backpack had let out eight arms which all extended out to catch the cars and place them safely on the street.
As they went back into the bag, Greta flipped and landed onto a minivan.
Banshee teleported in front of Greta.
The seven year old aimed an open palm at her.
"You don't wanna talk?"
Banshee was about to let out another scream, but a white glob of glue shot out of the palm of Greta's Starsuit and onto Banshee's mouth, taking her by surprise.
"There you go."
That's a special glue that Greta had formulated for her suit to shoot out. She got the inspiration from a comic book hero, but she couldn't remember the hero's name at the moment.
Something-Man? She'd find out when she got back to base.
Banshee kept tugging on the glue until she finally got it off her mouth.
She flew at Greta and gripped her by the shoulders, taking her with her.
She initially tried to slam Greta into a lamppost, but Greta, broke free and climbed over her, causing Banshee to crash face first into it.
She backed up from it and held her face from the pain.
While on Banshee's back, Greta yanked some strands of her hair, causing her to let out another scream.
After, Banshee flew around frantically with Greta gripping onto her hair and staying back. She was trying to get Greta off.
"Let go of me!" "Make me!"
Greta put a hand in front of Banshee, and shot another glob of glue in her face, blinding her.
Greta jumped off just in time before they crashed into the street.
Greta dusted herself off, before Banshee got back up.
She pealed the glue off her face, turn to face Greta and took in deep breath.
"Uh oh." Greta said, knowing this'd be a big one.
Banshee screamed as hard and as loud as she could, causing Greta to backflip away, and the cars around her to be propelled back.
Then, it was as if time slowed down.
While bent back mid-backflip, Greta spotted the bus with all the kids inside, and from the panicked looks on their faces, they were watching the whole fight, and they knew that if the scream reached their bus, or if any of the cars hit it, they'd be in big peril.
The bus driver's gone too. Coward must've sneaked away when he saw Banshee. Typical.
Quickly, Greta examined the scene around the bus, and her goggles told where the cars would land.
After doing some calculation involving how much glue to use, when to shoot, how many arms she needed, and how long she had to withstand the scream for, Greta made her move.
"Math, don't fail me now!" she thought.
Greta aimed her hands to her left and right, made streams of glue shoot out of her suit's palms, and she held her fingers in the middle of the streams, making both streams split into lines of glue.
On each side of Greta, two lines caught the incoming cars, and the other two held them in place.
She made the end of the streams stick to the bus, and when she landed, she glued her feet to the ground and made ten of her arms extend from her backpack and grab the cars hold and onto them tight.
As time returned to normal, the scream came, and Greta covered her ears.
It should have blown her away, but Greta's glue prevented that. Let's forget to mention the cars that her pack's arms were holding still, were what was keeping the bus flying away via the lines of glue that was stuck to them and the bus.
All it did was shatter the bus's windows because of the high frequency. The kids covered their ears when the scream entered the bus.
When the scream passed, Greta's arms released the cars because there was no more need to keep the bus from soaring off.
Greta turned her head to the vehicle and said loud enough for them all to hear, "Everyone off the bus! Get somewhere safe!"
Under different circumstances, no one would've taken Greta seriously due to her age. But after seeing what she did to save their lives, and knowing that she knew what she was doing by the way she was handling Banshee currently, they did not need to be told twice.
They opened the doors to the bus and one by one, everyone scurried out of it.
While Greta's mechanical arms were cutting her free from the asphalt street she was glued to, she was being watched by Nigel and his four other friends who were peeking from behind the bus.
He pulled out the star from before again, and from his line of vision, aligned it with one of the stars on Greta's backpack.
The stars looked almost similar! He had a hunch that this girl had something to do with Aaron.
That, or it was a slim coincidence and he was wasting his time thinking about this.
Greta's arms retracted back into her bag after they chipped away a decent amount of the asphalt around Greta's glued feet into a circular shape.
The reason being that right after, Banshee came diving at Greta, and she fought back with a cartwheel that ended with the asphalt chunk on Greta's feet hitting Banshee on the head. The asphalt shattered upon impact, freeing her.
After getting up and rubbing her head from the pain, Banshee zeroed in on Greta and the two fought again.
From the sidelines hiding behind some knocked over trashcans and boxes, five kids, Nigel being one of them, were watching Greta hold her own against Banshee.
"You're only making this worse for yourself, Banshee!" Greta said, landing a punch on Banshee's face.
"I. Don't. CARE!" She said back, screaming the last word as loud and long as she could.
Greta covered her ears again. So did the kids.
"Geez! Does she have to be that loud?" said Kuki Sanban, who was rubbing her ears a bit after the scream passed.
Banshee was stunned by Greta kicking her in the head when she spun around. While she was caught off guard, Greta used all twelve of her backpack's arms and delivered a quick and swift barrage of punches at Banshee at all parts of her body before they all uppercutted her down the street before going back into the bag.
"Whoa..." Said Hoagie Gilligan, who was fascinated by Greta's backpack.
Greta let out an exhale. Seeing Banshee trying to get up from the ground, she said, "That oughtta give me some time to breathe. Now to lock you up."
She held out her hand behind her and arm from Greta's bag put a gadget in her hand.
"...If I can manage to finish this thing."
The gadget was star-shaped, grey, and had blue tech patterns on it as well as a red button on it right in the middle.
Greta whipped out a screwdriver, and started getting to work on the gadget.
She whipped it up back in her and Aaron's universe, but it remained a prototype for some time and she never got a chance to use it.
Well, there's no time like the present. She just needs to fix it up first.
She heard footsteps approaching from behind, but she was too occupied to care about who it was.
"Hey-" "Shh! Gotta concentrate."
Abigail 'Abby' Lincoln raised an eyebrow at her before looking back at her friends with a look that said 'What do you think?'.
"Move over, let me try." said Wallabee 'Wally' Beetles as he approached Greta's right from behind.
"Hey, kid." "Kinda busy."
"Hey-!" "In a minute!
"Look at m-!" "Hold on!"
He was already starting to not like this girl.
"You know what?"
Wally took the gadget out of Greta's hands.
"Hey! Give that back!"
Greta grabbed onto it and tried to pull it out of his grasp. The two went back and fourth for a minute.
The others were watching this happen, missing Banshee getting back up on her feet.
"You don't know how important this is! I need it for Banshee!"
"What's 'Banshee' gonna do? Scream my ears off?"
"You so haven't been paying attention, have you? Give it back or else!"
"Or else what?"
"Or else this!"
Greta jumped up, and sent a full force kick right into Wally's face, sending him flying into a trashcan.
Really not liking this girl now, Wally got up with a snarl and the two marched at each other to fight, but the others came and stopped them.
Kuki and Hoagie were in front of Wally to keep him back, and Abby and Nigel held Greta back from her shoulders.
"Lemme at her!" Wally fumed.
"Try me, Shrimp!"
"Your shorter than me!"
"*points to her brain* Not up here!"
"Okay, okay! Break it up you two!" Nigel said.
"You don't get it! I need that thing!"
"Pfft, what's so important about this thing anyway?"
Not knowing what it could do, or trying to listen to Greta, Wally looked at the device and pressed the button.
"No! It's a-!"
Wally yelped when the gadget burst into a blue light and some glowing bindings of the same color wrapped around him binding his arms and torso and legs together.
He let out a noise when he fell to the ground.
"*facepalms* -capture gadget. Well, at least I know it works..."
Wally tried to break free, but those binds weren't letting him.
"Get me outta this!"
"I can't." Greta said, "I built it so nothing can break free of them. It'll deactivate in two hours."
"*grumbles* Great. Got kicked in the face by a little girl, now I'm stuck like this for two hours. What else can go wrong today?"
Everyone knows that's something you should never say.
Right after those words left Wally's mouth, Banshee's scream was heard, and it blasted all six kids down the street.
When they stopped tumbling, Banshee teleported next to them and grabbed Abby and Nigel by the back of their shirt collars before floating upwards.
"*sighs* Aaron's right. This job never gets easier." Greta said, seeing this happen.
He should be panicking because an adult villain that Nigel didn't know just grabbed him and Abby and held them a distance above ground, but his mind went elsewhere when Greta mentioned the name that came out her mouth.
'Aaron'. From watching the footage of what went down yesterday, that statue guy mentioned that name a couple of times.
Nigel was right, this girl had to know that teenager.
He came back to reality when Banshee suddenly flew off.
Greta was about to go after them when she remembered the mess in the street.
She pressed some buttons on her watch, then suddenly some bipedal, human-esque, smiling, blue and white robots with flashing green eyes and antennas on their heads that were half Greta's height came out of Greta's backpack one by one until there were eight of them.
"Gizmos," Greta addressed to the robots, "clean this street."
The Gizmos' hands were replaced with repair tools and cleaning supplies before splitting up and repeating, "Make clean. Make clean." while fixing the mess that Banshee caused.
While they started cleaning, Greta sped after Banshee with the speed in her Starsuit.
Wally, Hoagie, and Kuki just watched her go before a Gizmo each came towards one of them, helped them onto their feet, and cleaned them up.
"Make clean. Make clean. Make clean." they all repeated while doing so.
After they were done, they went back to cleaning the street.
...Though, still being tied up, Wally fell to the ground again before grumbling.
His friends could've helped, but they were occupied watching the Gizmos at work.
In a blue blur, Greta's speeding down the street trying to catch up with Banshee.
She had her in her sights. Wherever she flew, Greta would follow.
She chased her through two and a half districts before she had to run vertically up a high building to chase her when Banshee flew up the side of it.
She then said into her watch, "P.H.I.N., get Aaron here!" "AFFIRMATIVE."
They reached the top with Banshee suspending Abby and Nigel over the multi-story drop, and Greta who's using the arms from her backpack to hold onto the side of the building.
She aimed her palms at Banshee, threatening to shoot if anything happens to the kids she had.
"Ah-ah-ah! Glue me one more time and these two will be stains on the pavement!"
"You better let them go!"
"Poor choice of words~" she jerked the kids in her hands and they let out yelps.
Banshee continued, "Listen you, either you bring your brother here, or you'll have these kids' deaths on your conscience."
"For the zillionth time! Aaron was trying to help you!"
"Stop lying to me! I'm done listening to you!"
"You never started!"
Greta then noticed a gold blur, that ran up the other side of the building, come to a stop behind Banshee.
It was Aaron in his Starwear -his goldish-yellow clothes/look-, and Banshee's enhanced senses haven't recognized him yet apparently.
He looked at Greta as if to say, 'Get ready.' as a flash star appeared in his hand.
Greta focused as Aaron signaled down with his other hand, 'Three, two, one. GO!'
He flew the flash star past Banshee's head and before she could react, it curved around and went off when it hit, blinding her.
She screamed at the sudden burning and dropped Nigel and Abby who screamed themselves as they fell.
Greta quickly jumped up and shot glue at Banshee, sticking her hands to the building and mouth shut.
Aaron and Greta then ran down the side of the building with all their speed, trying to catch up with the falling kids.
Right when they were two miles from the ground, they lunged at them and Aaron caught Abby and Greta caught Nigel.
The turned and landed on their feet on the ground.
The let them on their feet, panting from the frightening experience they just had, and Greta let out a big exhale.
She was finally done.
"So, what took you so long?" Greta said, feeling winded.
"I was frying the bacon and baking the pie. I thought I'd be done when you were done. Guess not; pie's still in the oven."
"Peach pie sounds good right now..." she said as her suit changed back into her sweater and her shoes changed back to their normal colors.
"Uh, hold that thought." Aaron cut Greta off when his Astro-sense went off.
He looked up and saw Banshee, who still had her mouth glued, had gotten her hands free and had now flown away.
"*sigh* Just great."
Aaron was about to go after her, but Greta stopped him.
"Can we get her later? I'm tired and I need to show you something."
Aaron looked up and breathed out through his nose.
"...Okay. You did a good job by the way."
"Thanks. Carry me?"
"Eh, you deserve it. *crouches down* Hop on."
Greta climbed onto Aaron as he got up, carrying her piggyback style.
"Hey, wait a minu-"
"Thank her later, man. We're off to lunch."
Aaron then sped off before Nigel could finish.
"Is it just me, or did Numbuh 5 just witness a nice teenager?"
"...You didn't imagine it Numbuh 5. We both saw it happen."
After a semi-quick run, and a quick trip to pick up Greta's Gizmos, she and Aaron were back in their hidden base.
Right now, Greta finished eating her B.L.T. sandwich and is now eating a second slice of Aaron's peach pie.
Aaron sat down next to her at the table she was at, after doing some dishes, and said, "So what did you want to show me?"
Greta swallowed the bit of pie that was in her mouth and answered, "Look at what I found."
Greta's backpack opened and the arms carried out the gemstone from earlier.
Aaron went wide eyed when he saw it, and his Astro-sense went off.
"Is that a piece of..." "*nods* It has to be."
The reason Aaron's reacting like this is because what Greta just found was a part of something super powerful.
So powerful, it's the soul reason Aaron and Greta are in this universe!
What is it exactly? Well, I have to take you back a bit to answer that.
Back to the day this all began.