Rachel was walking the moonbase hallways returning to central command still with the image of Numbuh 23 and Numbuh 35 fresh in her mind "Couldn't even muster the courage to tell those two off, this is a headquarters not a restaurant for you guys to date" She then remembered her earlier interaction with Numbuh 1, how she complimented his clothes and he praised her hair "Crap… It's getting to us too…" The supreme leader took a long breath to steel herself then patted both her cheeks "Alright, focus, it's just a chemical response to growing up, it makes you dumber" She said as she reached Central command

"You okay?" Numbuh 86 who was right next to the door heard Rachel talking to herself and looked at her friend a little worried

"Just trying to keep focus, how are things going over here?" Rachel asked

"We just finished cleaning everything, Numbuh 2 and some nerds are analyzing some scrap from the bomb Numbuh 1 is with them, Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 well… Some things never change" She said looking to Numbuh 4 yelling at the asian operative while she giggled at him "Patton is talking to the guys over at Arctic, it was a huge commotion when they saw his new look but it's okay now"

"And Numbuh 5 is just chilling" Abby said while resting against a wall next to the door

Rachel just walked to Numbuh 1 who watched Numbuh 2 and some agents from the 2x4 division, some were teenagers while others were still kids "How come some of you are still kids?"

"They just arrived from the deep sea lab, we just managed to get comms back with the rest of the world" Numbuh 1 said

"Oh, I see, did you guys find anything about the bomb?" Rachel asked trying to avoid looking at Numbuh 1 and focusing on Numbuh 2 and the scientists

"Looks like Father stuff but… it has some 2x4 tech with it, and we can't quite figure some parts as well" Numbuh 2 said

"Quite the advanced stuff though, with our current technological development we would get decommissioned twice before reaching this kind of stuff" Numbuh 74.239 said\

"A new villain?" Rachel asked approaching the boy to get a closer look

"No idea, could you back off? I don't feel comfortable around teenagers" Numbuh 74.239 looked at Rachel a bit grossed out

"Hey! She is still your leader watch your mouth" Numbuh 1 grabbed the boy by the collar of his white coat

"Great, now the teenager wants to beat up the kid, typical" The scientist said

"Would the two of you quit it, look you will have to get used to having teenagers around you until we find out how to revert this stuff" Rachel said then looked at Numbuh 1 "And you, don't go grabbing kids like that, it looks really bad, he was just being a jerk, I can deal with this kind of stuff" Rachel sighed as she noticed Numbuh 1 looked a little sad after getting a scolding from her, the girl felt a little sad too but did her best to hide it, after that she spent some time between the main console and the scientists who kept investigating what remained from the bomb "Alright, time for a meeting, we need to investigate who did this and how to reverse the effects" Rachel said as the members of Sector V, Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60 approached a meeting table

"According to our findings the countdown was activated remotely from outside the base, we pinpointed the location to the old lunarian chocolate bars factory" Numbuh 74.239

"Ugh… talk about bad venture, Numbuh 100 shouldn't have tried to get in the candy-making business" Numbuh 2 whispered to Numbuh 5

"Good… Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60, you are up, keep you comms open so we can communicate all the time" Rachel looked at her two friends who got up and saluted their leader

"Yes Sir!" Both operatives said then left the room

"As for the bomb itself, we found traces of grape soda and hair gel, both used as the aging factor, we also found magnetic traces from a speaker, we believe the bomb was assembled at a party around this area" One of the scientists pointed to a neighborhood near Sector V

"Alright… Numbuhs 3,4 and 5, head to the location and try searching for anything that can clue us on who made the bomb and how to revert the effects" Rachel said

"What about us?" Numbuh 1 asked looking at Numbuh 2

"Numbuh 2 will stay here and help analyze the other bombs that detonated around the base with the other scientists, While that you and I will investigate that fake message that made you guys come to moonbase, could trace back to one of your villains" Rachel said

"Sounds good" Numbuh 1 nodded then looked at Numbuh 5 "I know you don't like it that much but… I'm placing you as leader for the party mission"

"Don't worry, try to have some fun" Numbuh 5 chuckled while looking at Numbuh 362 who frowned a little at the girl in response, Numbuh 5 just smiled at the supreme leader and left with Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 right behind her

Rachel approached Numbuh 2 who was also leaving the room with the rest of the scientists and whispered to him "Try to keep an eye on 74.239, the base is full of teenagers and I don't want any more trouble than what I already have" She said to which Numbuh 2 answered with a nod before leaving the room

"So? How are we going to track that fake message?" Numbuh 1 asked

"Your communicator" Rachel extended her hand while she looked at Numbuh 1, the leader of Sector V took off the communicator from his arm and handed it to his boss, Rachel then sat on the communications console and started opening Numbuh 1's communicator "I'm still a spy at heart, this is child's play" she smiled at Numbuh 1 "I'm going to reverse engineer this fake message by using the two signals that connect for the message to go through"

"Wow… you really are a nerd, that's pretty cool" Numbuh 1 laughed a bit then noticed the disrespect "S-Sorry, No offense"

Rachel was blushing but wasn't about to let it show so she lowered her head and with a monotone voice said "None taken…" The girl said while her face shone bright red


"Numbuh 362 had to go and give us the worst mission huh?" Numbuh 60 said while entering a 2x4 lunar rover

"Would you quit being a baby and stop throwing a tantrum?!" Numbuh 86 yelled at the boy while she sat on the driver's seat "Just be glad we won't have to deal with those nerds like Numbuh 2"

"I think he is right on his element with those guys if you ask me" Numbuh 60 scoffed

"Says the guy who plays yipper with the cadets on his free time" Numbuh 86 said while leaving the moonbase with the rover

"So? Getting used to the teenage body?" Numbuh 60 asked

"Could be worse, I just don't get the pierced ears" Numbuh 86 said

"Really? I thought girls liked this stuff?" Numbuh 60 said while looking out at the window at the lunar plains

"I'm just glad I didn't have to FEEL the pain of getting my ears pierced" Numbuh 86 said while touching her ear

"That makes two of us" Numbuh 60 said

"What do you mean? Don't tell me y-" Numbuh 86 looked to her side and then saw a small metal piercing on Numbuh 60's ear "No way… Teenager Numbuh 60 is so lame!" Numbuh 86 started laughing

"Right? looks so dumb" The boy said "I tried taking it off earlier while you guys weren't looking but it won't budge"

Numbuh 86 sighed then stopped the rover

"What are you do-" Numbuh 60 stopped mid-sentence as he noticed Numbuh 86 approaching his face then looking at his ear

"Don't move" Numbuh 86 carefully grabbed both ends of the piercing and then carefully pulled both apart taking off the piercing all this while Numbuh 60 could feel the Head of decommissioning's breath right next to his face, the boy almost got hypnotized by the smell of her perfume "Here" Numbuh 86 handed the boy his piercing "It looked really lame but hey if you want to put it back on just say the word, stupid boy like you could end up getting blood all over his ear if you tried doing it alone" She grinned at him before starting the rover again

"Thanks, I guess" He smiled at her then stored the piercing in his pocket, he looked out at the window with a slight blush making sure Numbuh 86 couldn't see his cheeks

"We arrived" Numbuh 86 said as she stopped the rover right in front of the factory "Let's see… Weapons?"

"Check" Numbuh 60 lifted a duffel bag full of 2x4 rifles and pistols

"Comms?" Numbuh 86 asked as she left the driver's seat and went to the back, the girl grabbed a space helmet and put it on while Numbuh 60 looked at his communicator

"Check" Patton said while testing the audio to the moonbase, he then left the passenger seat and put a space helmet as well "You hear me?"

"Loud and clear" The girl said as they both left the rover and headed to the factory's entrance, Numbuh 86 approached a console and pressed a few buttons to no avail "No energy, Rachel are you sure the bomb signal came from here?" Numbuh 86 asked while tapping the side of her helmet

"I'm sure, the signal is all over the place, I took the liberty to check it as well, the scientists weren't lying" The girl said "Look, I'm trying to reverse engineer a signal, just call me if you find something alright? Rachel out" The supreme leader said

"God why does she have to be such a nerd sometimes?" Numbuh 86 groaned as she looked at the factory, she then noticed Numbuh 60 was already in the process of placing explosives on the front door "What the hell are you doing?"

"You are smart, you will figure it out" The boy chuckled as he kept placing the explosives

The girl sighed then grabbed the boy by the shoulder, she then pointed to a long glass window right next to the door "Put those away before someone gets hurt" the girl said while grabbing a laser weapon from the duffel bag "Let's keep the explosives for when we need to make a run for it"

"You don't think the base is empty?" Numbuh 60 asked while putting the explosives back in the bag

"That's Right, you didn't read the report about this place did you?" Numbuh 86 asked while cutting the glass window with her weapon

"I thought the chocolate here was terrible and nobody wanted to eat it" Numbuh 60 said

"That too" Numbuh 86 entered through the window followed by Numbuh 60 "You see the chocolate here was bad, but the factory got closed because of an attack by gramma stuffum" the girl grabbed a night vision scope then handed it to Numbuh 60 while she pointed to the roof

"Huh, that's new" Numbuh 60 saw thousands upon thousands of small chocolate bars with bat wings sleeping on the roof "We should've bombed the place"

"I told Rachel the same thing but higher-ups have plans to use it as a second base for us on the moon in the future, just pure bureaucracy if you ask me" Numbuh 86 said

The two operatives proceeded deeper into the factory while searching for the source of the bomb signal "So? Wanna go to a party later" Numbuh 60 grinned

"Are you serious?" Numbuh 86 looked at the boy a bit dumbfounded

"Isn't that the type of stuff teenagers say to girls?" Numbuh 60 laughed while entering a room and looking at some old computers

Numbuh 86 chuckled "I just hope teenager Numbuh 86 doesn't end up on the cheerleader squad" She said a bit morbidly while sighing

"Now that would be nice" Numbuh 60 blurted out then realized what he just said and turned around to see Numbuh 86 blushing a bit "Sorry… bad take"

The girl sighed then went back to searching a bookcase "Just… do your job" The girl said sounding almost disappointed, she scratched the back of her head a little embarrassed then headed out of the room with Numbuh 60 following behind, the two kept silent for a while until they reached a set of stairs "This looks bad" Numbuh 86 noticed the stairs and air bridge were all rusted

Numbuh 60 looked down and saw a bottomless pit under the platforms, he could hear some movement deep below though but didn't want to find out what it was "This place is too big"

"Yeah, and the signal already went off so no way to track it precisely" The girl stopped for a second to think, she looked around then saw a sign, she approached it and smiled "Would you look at that…" The girl said looking at a map of the floor they were currently in

"Hmm… This is the entrance, this is the room we were just in and this is where we are, there are still some rooms to search but at least we got an idea of how we are doing" Numbuh 60 smiled at Numbuh 86 who smiled back at him confidently

"Hmmm… We missed the factory floor, we were supposed to turn right instead of left at the entrance hall" Numbuh 86 said while making a rough copy of the map "Alright, you go to the factory floor and I go to the second floor" Numbuh 86

"That's a bad idea" Numbuh 60 said as he noticed Numbuh 86 heading for the rusted stairs "Don't get cocky just because we got a map"

"I think I know how to take care of mys-" Before the girl could finish she felt her body falling followed by the sound of something snapping in two she looked down only to see one of the rusted steps of the stairs had broken, the only thing she could see was the endless pit getting closer, the girl grabbed on to the stairs like her life depended on it "Well… that's it for me…" She said as she felt the step she was holding starting to break as well, the girl closed her eyes and accepted her fate

"Not so soon" Just as the girl was about to fall Patton grabbed her hand

Numbuh 86 looked at Numbuh 60 then sawa rope tied around his waist, the other end of the rope was tied to a broken down forklift that rested among some rubble "Patton?" The girl looked at the boy in admiration but it was cut by a few sounds from below, the girl looked down only to see what looked like sugar plums but with beetle wings and antennae the girl immediately started panicking as she held Numbuh 60's arm tight

"Come oooooon!" The boy yelled as he pulled the girl out of the bottomless pit, she fell right on top of him as the boy layed on the floor exhausted

Numbuh 86 hugged the boy tightly while Patton panted on the floor, Numbuh 86 was crying still restless from the near death experience "They were going to eat me… I will bomb this place to the ground once I reach moonbase I don't care what Rachel says anymore" the girl said while still hugging patton resting her head against his chest

"I'm with you on this one…" Patton slowly sat down on the floor then looked at the room and noticed the chocolate bats got riled up after his yelling, the boy proceeded to cover Numbuh 86's mouth and stop breathing, the boy pointed up while looking at Numbuh 86 who looked at him confused

Numbuh 86 noticed the bats flying around the factory then nodded as Numbuh 60 gestured with his hands to their blindness, the two operatives slowly got up and walked back to the entrance hall "Coast is clear…" She said before taking out her helmet

"Bats must have followed my voice and left this room" Patton smiled at her taking his helmet off as well

"Thanks" Numbuh 86 lowered her head as she sat on the floor

"Hm?" Numbuh 60 looked at the girl while opening his backpack and taking a bag of chips and a can of soda out of it "What? the falling thing? I wasn't about to let you die" Patton laughed as he opened the bag of chips

"Just accept my thanks" She smiled at him and punched the boy on the shoulder lightly, then she grabbed her backpack and took out some nachos and a can of soda, the two ate their lunch silently until Numbuh 86 broke the silence "You really think I would look nice with the cheerleader stuff?" The girl asked bluntly while drinking her soda and looking at Numbuh 60

Patton almost choked on his soda as he heard that "Uhhh… I mean… I guess?" He smiled at the girl nervously

Numbuh 86 blushed slightly while looking at him "You wouldn't look half bad wearing a football uniform now that I think about it" She laughed while grabbing a handful of nachos nervously and shoving them down her mouth

"Really? I think Chad looks so lame" Patton laughed a bit embarrassed by her compliment, he proceeded to shove a handful of potato chips down his mouth as well

"He IS lame" Numbuh 86 laughed

"I hope that by some miracle I don't end up in the teen ninjas after KND, I can't imagine seeing me wearing one of those… What is their name?" Patton asked

"What? The bras?" Fanny burst out laughing "It wouldn't suit you, you're right on that one, those guys look ridiculous!" She said "I don't know how they wear that thing, since I turned into a teen I just want to get this stuff off" She said then proceed to drink some soda, midway through drink she realized she was just commenting about her underwear with a boy she… did not dislike she thought now confused while looking at Patton

"Yeah…" Numbuh 60 laughed a little bit noticing the girl felt a little awkward now "Can you give me some?" He pointed at the Nachos that rested in a bag on her lap

"Sure, give some of the chips too" She smiled at him

As Patton got up with his bag of chips he felt a sharp pain across his torso that made him hunch over "Crap…"

Numbuh 86 immediately got up and approached the boy, she kneeled next to him and noticed his hand was on top of his belly, she looked at him with a serious face "The shirt, out, now"

"What? No! Look it's nothing" Patton blushed then was thrown off guard as Numbuh 86 pushed the boy on the floor then got on top of him

"It wouldn't be nothing for you to hunch over like that" The girl grabbed his shirt and lifted it up showing the burn marks of the rope he had just used to save her life, it ran across his belly and back, Fanny looked angrily at him "Patton what the hell?"

"What?" He looked at the rope marks on his belly and forced a smile at her "This? It's just a bruise" He laughed confidently

"Uh-huh" Numbuh 86 said then with her thumb she pressed the rope mark prompting a loud scream of pain from Patton

"Numbuh 86 what the hell?!" He said looking angry at her

"It's Fanny" She said while searching through her bag

"Huh?" He looked at her confused as the girl grabbed a small pouch filled with bandages and some ointment

"My name is Fanny" She said with a serious expression at him while putting some ointment on the bandage and then putting it on top of his wound, Patton could see the girl was fully focused now

"Oh…" He paused for a second "What are you doing… Fanny?" He blushed a bit while the girl put another bandage over his burn mark

"This is basic stuff you learn when you are a nurse at KND… It will sting a lot less when you try to move" She said "Turn around, I will also put them on your back"

Patton turned around and let Fanny take care of his wound, the boy blushed a bit as he felt her breath close to his neck "Thanks…"

The girl chuckled "Don't get used to it, you are still a…" The girl paused for a second "A boy" she said before finishing treating his wound "You're welcome…" She said as sat right next to him and ate some of his potato chips, her head was a bit confused now, why did she think twice before calling him stupid? Why didn't she call him stupid?

"Is it okay if I move? He asked while grabbing some of her Nachos

"Give it a few minutes, the ointment will settle and you will be good as new… mostly, when we get back to base I will drag you to the infirmary" She said

"Thanks, I guess" Patton laughed, the two operatives finished their lunch and then after making sure Patton was in shape to proceed with the mission Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60 headed to the factory floor, the room had tons of treadmills with chocolate bars on top of them "Another dead end?"

"Don't think so, look" Numbuh 86 pointed to a panel in the back of the room with an orange lightbulb turned on, right next to it "It's the only thing here that still has power" Fanny looked around the poorly illuminated room and approached the panel with Numbuh 60 following right behind, she looked at the panel then smiled after seeing behind it "Jackpot" The girl said looking at an antenna on the floor connected to the back of the panel along with a car battery that connected to the inside of the panel, the girl grabbed her communicator and called Numbuh 362 "Sir, are you listening?"

"Yeah, you two were out for quite a while, something happened?" Numbuh 362 asked while soldering two copper cables together under a computer table

"We found the signal transmitter, it was using a car battery and one of the panels from the factory" Numbuh 86 said

"Great job, any signs of who is the attacker?" Numbuh 362 asked

"Whoever it was left a while ago" Numbuh 60 said while grabbing a can of cola and tasting it "Like… 5 or 6 hours ago" the boy said as he spat the lukewarm cola

"Eeeew…" Numbuh 86 looked at the boy grossed out "Anyway, the place has no energy, no way to catch whoever did this, sorry"

"Don't worry, we can work something out with just the stuff they left behind, bring me the transmitter along with the car battery, I won't need the panel"

"You heard the girl" Numbuh 86 nodded to Numbuh 60 as the boy grabbed everything and placed the devices inside a special compartment in his backpack "Alright, signing off, talk to you later Sir"

"Be careful on your way back you two" Rachel said before getting back to focus on Numbuh 1's communicator

"Well, it was fun" Patton grinned at Fanny who was grinning back

"Yeah, you know what? We should do missions together more often" She smiled at him

"For real?" Numbuh 60 laughed at her proposal but was happy to hear it "We could compete to see who kicks more butt against ice cream man later"

"Now you're talki-" Before Fanny could finish her sentence she felt something grabbing her by the backpack, the girl could barely react as she was swung around left and right and then thrown against a wall

From the shadows a giant wolf-like creature made of candy and rusted metal appeared right in front of Patton, the boy looked at Fanny and noticed the girl was crawling to safety still conscious, he turned his attention to the creature with a fire in his eyes he had never felt before, from inside the duffel bag Patton grabbed what looked like a shotgun with glowing spheres that resembled jawbreakers, the creature jumped at Patton who responded by hitting it with the weapons's stock smashing the creature's head against the floor, the boy then spun the shotgun and shot right in the monster's face making the creature back off from the boy who looked at it with pure rage in his eyes

Numbuh 86 rested against a wall, the girl was checking herself for any injuries but couldn't help but watch Patton beating the creature with sheer violence that she herself couldn't mimic, she then noticed the creature looking at her and running in her direction only to have Patton mount on top of the beast and guide it towards a wall hitting the wolf like creature's head against it, he then proceeded to shot several times with his shotgun at the now stunned beast

Patton finished the beast by grabbing a grenade and shoving it down the creature's throat, the beast fell to the floor completely defeated as it's insides were now completely charred, the boy ran towards Numbuh 86 a bit desperate "Are you okay?"

"I was just watching you beat that thing" The girl got up then cleaned some blood from her forehead "Wanna get out of here?"

"Need to solve some stuff first" Numbuh 60 lifted the duffel bag and showed the contents inside to which Numbuh 86 smiled

A while later now outside the factory the two operatives rested inside the lunar rover "Hey, that thing you did to that chococerberus? pretty cool" Numbuh 86 smiled at Numbuh 60

"You gave it a name?" Patton looked a bit incredulous at Fanny "Anyway… I thought it had hurt you for real… don't know what came over me right there" The boy sighed a bit confused

Fanny looked at him in silence then stopped for a second to think, she looked at the factory and everything that happened inside, she blushed a bit and lowered her head she then turned to the boy "You still have that piercing?"

"Hmmm…" Patton searched his pocket and showed the girl his piercing "You want it?" He grinned at her

Fanny grabbed the piercing and approached the boy, she then proceeded to put it back on his ear "There we go" she smiled at him

"What was that for?" He asked feeling a little silly with the piercing back on

"I lied" Fanny lowered her head smiling

"Hm?" Patton looked at the girl a bit confused

"I think it looks cool on you" The girl laughed while looking out at the windows to the emptiness of the moon, the girl seemed deep in thought "Am I really doing this?" She thought to herself

Patton laughed then smiled at Fanny "Teenager you likes some pretty lame stuff huh?"

The girl chuckled then turned to him "Tell me about it" she rested her hand on his cheek then pulled him gently for a kiss, she felt his surprise turn into acceptance as he went along with the kiss rather quickly

The boy kept kissing her until he ran out of breath, he looked at her a bit embarrassed "No fair…" He blushed then pulled her in for another kiss "Is this teenager Numbuh 86 speaking for you or is this Fanny?"

"No idea" She smiled at him then rested her head against the seat of the rover "I think I always had something for you but… I think the teenager has more courage" She said

"Yeah… I feel the same" Patton sighed then pressed a button in a controller that rested in his pocket, the chocolate factory immediately exploded "I love you"

"Yeah, me too" She smiled "After this teenager stuff is finished… Do you wanna go for pizza or something like that?" The girl blushed as she watched the candy creatures die outside the rover

"A date?" Patton asked resting his arm around her shoulder

"If you want to call it that" She laughed teasingly at him still feeling a little awkward

"Sure" He smiled at her then kissed his girlfriend again "About time to go back" He said

"Right… Let's… Let's try keeping this a secret from the others for now, it's just… I don't want to make a scene" Fanny said

"The last thing I need is people gossiping, I'm with you on this one" Patton patted the front of the vehicle's panel as Fanny started driving back to moonbase.