A space battle was taking place. Several spaceships bearing the symbol of the KND could be seen battling against more sophisticated spaceships. These sophisticated ships belonged to their worst enemy: the adults. Leading the Kids Next Door's ships was a ship with green and blue paintwork. Its shape resembled a Jedi fighter like Anakin Skywalker's in Revenge of the Sith. However, this fighter was less technological, as you could see various other things making up the fighter, such as wooden wings and spare parts. On the radio, you could hear several children talking through the communicator.
- There are so many of them!
- How could adults have come up with this technology?
- Stop chatting, Numbuh 500, and concentrate on destroying their fighters!
- Yes, sir!
Other children were screaming in terror.
- 409 Get those fighters out of my... ARGH!
- HELP, THERE'S TOO MANY OF THEM ON MY TAIL!
- I'VE BEEN HIT! NO!
The children were losing this battle, many adult ships were attacking them, and even with the moon base's artillery, it wasn't enough to repel them.
- Supreme Leader, what are we going to do? If we carry on like this, we'll lose the battle!
Numbuh 3000, the supreme leader at the time, was out of options.
- We may lose the battle, but we will lose it with DIGNITY AND HONOR! - exclaimed Numbuh 3000.
- No! We will not lose.
Suddenly, the blue-and-green fighter jet flew overhead, shooting down several of the adults' ships.
- Numbuh 14!
- LET'S SHOW THOSE MEDDLING ADULTS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY MESS WITH THE KIDS NEXT DOOR!
A shout could be heard from all the operators, they had their top leader with them helping him, and now, all the fighters gathered in formation to fight directly with the adults.
- KIDS NEXT DOOR RULES!
The view of the battle began to go black. His senses were returning to normal, but he could hear people talking in the background. He didn't know if he could trust them blindly, after all, he wasn't expecting to wake up. He began to pay attention to what they were saying while pretending to be asleep.
- HE MUST BE DISMISSED IMMEDIATELY! - shouted Numbuh 86.
- HAVE YOU GONE MAD? - replied Chad. - The boy may have a huge knowledge of the history of the KND! And you want to take him to the dismissal room to erase his memory?!
- THAT'S THE RULE, YOU T-E-E-N-A-G-E-R! - 86 replied.
Chad leaves the room huffing with rage. He turns into a corner of the corridor, looks around to see if anyone is watching, and then presses his watch. As he does so, he disappears. When he reappears, he is in a room with the infinite Numbuh in front of him and some other agents who are working on monitors. It seems that Numbuh infinity was already waiting for Chad.
- I just want you to answer me Numbuh Infinity: by any chance, is it him? - Chad asked.
- Yes 274, replied infinity. - it's the legendary Numbuh 14.
Everyone in the room was amazed and started whispering to each other.
- How could that be? I thought he was just a myth.
- Numbuh 0 was a myth, Chad. - answered infinite. - But when Grandpa attacked us, he was found and reinstated by Numbuh 1.
Chad just stayed silent.
- We can't let 86 erase his memory. Even if we have the readmission device with us. It's too risky to do that with an agent who may have been from the generation before Numbuh 0. Go back there and try to convince Numbuh 362 to stop this madness... or at least convince her to let him go without being dismissed for a few weeks.
- As you wish. - replied Chad
Meanwhile, in the hospital wing of the lunar base, Numbuh 362 orders 86 to leave and leave her with the patient. Fanny (Numbuh 86) leaves the room grumbling.
362 looks at the patient. He is wearing a mask so that he can breathe better. His outfit consists of a green sweatshirt, blue pants, a gray thigh protector, a plaque in the center of his green sweatshirt with the Numbuh fourteen, long black hair that is frizzy, and a scar on the left side of his face. Numbuh 362 put his hand to his forehead in a gesture of affection and lifted the locks of hair that were there. He was measuring the temperature, but he knew that this boy attracted him for some unknown reason.
- Numbuh 86 wants to erase your memory, but I agree with Chad about leaving you with it. Although it goes against the KND rule. It might be possible for you to pass your story on to our data. What gives me the most pity is that when they erase your memory, you won't have any parents or friends left, since everyone you knew must be dead because of the passage of time...
Rachel (Numbuh 362) was unknowingly being listened to by Numbuh 14, who was still pretending to be asleep.
- "Who could it be? You have a beautiful, attractive voice, but I sense a sadness in your tone. I'd like to open my eyes to see you, but you might want to get information out of me. There's no way I can let that happen!".
Rachel leaves the room. When she hears the door close, Numbuh 14 opens her eyes and investigates her situation as quickly as she can, without getting out of bed.
- "From the medical ward and from what I've heard of their conversation, there's no doubt in my mind... I'm really awake and I'm back on the moon base... No, I wasn't supposed to be awake, that was a mistake! I was supposed to be hibernating or something. But now I can't go back, I must find out how much time has passed..., but something isn't right... I ordered the Kids Next Door not to go after me or any signal I gave off. That was a direct order... could it be... no, I'll find out on my own, but first I need to get the timing of the agents entering and leaving this room right, otherwise I'll be in serious trouble. And I can't move very well yet either. I need time to regain my strength if only a little... how I hate this side effect of hibernation."
Numbuh 14 waited for a few days until he could move more easily.
- "It's today! I know that if I escape to Earth I'll be in trouble because I still don't know exactly how much time has passed... luckily, I can go to the command room of the moon base and use my code to stop the agents from capturing me or something. After all...".
Numbuh 14 gets out of bed.
- I'm Numbuh 14!
Numbuh 14 opens the door. He checks the corridor to see if anyone is coming. The corridor is long and leads off to both the left and the right, and in both directions, you can see doors leading to rooms for injured or seriously injured agents. The walls were full of steel plates. There was a corridor of light bulbs in the ceiling that illuminated the corridor, and the floor was metallic. When 14 notices that no one is coming, he follows the corridor to the right. Since he knows, he can't risk exposing himself too much, he tries to find a cleaning room.
- There must be a room around here.
14 continues looking for the room until he finds a room to the left with a door that reads: CLEANING. However, at the end of the corridor, two agents were walking towards him. Numbuh 14 knew that if he risked running towards the door he would be seen, so he stuck to the ceiling. He scaled it quickly. Even though he was on the ceiling, the agents could still see him. Then he groped around for a power cord. When he found it, he clicked the plate on his thigh, which made a blade appear. He picked it up and cut the wire, and immediately the corridor went dark.
- What was that? - asked an agent.
- It must have been a power failure, that's not unusual. - replied to the other agent.
Numbuh 14 waited for the agents to get underneath him.
- "Even though they were using flashlights, they didn't see me... Too bad, but that works in my favor!".
14 waited for the agents to get underneath him and... fell on one of them and knocked him out in an instant.
- WHAT THE?! - shouted an agent.
14 turned around and punched the other agent twice. When the agent hit the wall, he was almost knocked out. When he regained consciousness, he could only see something coming at him at speed. And then he blacked out.
- That wasn't so hard. - commented Numbuh 14. - But now comes the boring part.
Numbuh 14 opened the door where the cleaners kept their objects and utensils. He checked that no one was there and when he had confirmed this, he dragged the agents into the room. It took some time, but as well as hiding the agents inside, he found what he wanted: a cloak. He then tried to see which of his uniforms would suit him best, but none did.
- Damn, that's no good. I don't know how long it will take for them to realize I'm outside the medical room.
14 picked up the cloak, put it on, and walked out the door. He walked through several corridors and, although it had been a long time since he had last been on the lunar base, he still knew the way to the command center. From time to time, he had to answer to one guard or another, making up some excuse like: I'm cold or I've got the flu. Sometimes he also had to go back and retrace his route because of the side effects of hibernation. He thought that if carried on like this, He might make it without any alarms going off. Then, as he was walking up a ramp, he heard something he didn't want to hear...
- Stop right there, Numbuh 14!
He was surprised. No alarm had gone off or anything. There was no way anyone could have discovered him, after all, he was always wearing his cloak. He turned around and saw the agent below on the same ramp.
- How did you find out Numbuh 86?
- You were clever enough to check all the corridors, but you didn't do the obvious thing of checking your room.
Numbuh 86 shows a device that was in the room. It was like a hidden camera.
Numbuh 14 takes off his cloak and starts applauding.
- Congratulations. But I already knew about the device.
- So why didn't you do anything? - asked Numbuh 86.
- I did - replied Numbuh 14 - But if you didn't realize what I did, then I don't need to explain myself to you.
Numbuh 14 assumes a fighting stance. But Numbuh 86 pulled out a gun and pointed it at him.
- I don't think you understand Teenager, you're not going back to bed, you're going straight to the discharge chamber!
- First thing: despite my appearance, I'd be the equivalent of 10/12 years old.
- And the second? - Numbuh 86 asked.
- You should have asked please.
Numbuh 14 flies towards Numbuh 86 who starts shooting. He uses one of the leg plates as a shield to protect himself from the shots. 86 jumps to the side when she realizes that 14 is getting close, so she can dodge, but 14 is faster. So, when he lands, he throws the leg plate to hit the gun and manages to disarm Numbuh 86. As he does so, the leg plate turns around and stops in the hand of Numbuh 14, who puts it back in place.
86 tries to engage in a hand-to-hand fight, but her blows are either deflected or blocked by Numbuh 14. 14 manages to kick her, making her almost lose her balance, because the ramp leads to a platform with another ramp leading down, but on this platform, there is a kind of large window. Furious at the situation, Numbuh 86 runs towards Numbuh 14 and grabs him, but as she does so Numbuh 14 head-butts her, causing her helmet to fall off and roll down the ramp. Just as Numbuh 14 was about to land another blow, he stopped. 86 looked at him and it seemed as if he didn't want to fight her anymore.
- What?! Are you afraid of me?!
Numbuh 14 remained silent.
- ANSWER!
He got out of fighting position.
- I won't fight you. Redheads are like rare stones. They're extremely hard to find. I can't keep fighting and risk hurting someone like you.
86 went mute and his face turned red. It was one of the first times a boy had complimented her; after all, she had an authoritative air and, it was very rare for a boy to approach her like that. She felt as if what had been said was a declaration of love.
- you... do you think I'm ... the prettiest?
Numbuh 14 walks slowly towards her until he stops right in front of her.
- Yes, it's like I'm seeing an angel in front of me.
Numbuh 86 smiled and began to move his face closer to Numbuh 14.
- Do you have a name 86? - asked Numbuh 14 in a seductive voice.
- You can call me Fanny if you like.
- Fanny... it's a good nickname... want you to excuse me.
- For what?
Numbuh 14 just hits the side of her neck, knocking Fanny unconscious. He holds her so she doesn't fall and puts her on the floor.
- For that.
Just then, the alarm on the moon base starts ringing.
- Oh no, I don't have much time!
Numbuh 14 runs up the ramp. When he reached the command room, a figure was there. With his orange and aqua blue sweatshirts (Orange on top, aqua blue underneath). That was 362.
- You're not going anywhere, 14 – said Numbuh 362.
Numbuh 14 was paralyzed. Something was born inside him at that moment.
- "No, it can't be... in all the generations I've been part of the Kids Next Door, I've never felt anything like this. My friends and colleagues talked about it sometimes. They said it was a strange feeling, but good. I'd never felt that... I wonder if that's what they call it...".
Numbuh 362 went on the attack, taking poor Numbuh 14 by surprise as he was thrown backwards. She landed a few sharp blows on him, who could do nothing as he was still processing the feeling. He gradually regained his senses and then began to block Numbuh 362's blows.
- Stop it, I'm not your enemy!
- It's not what it looks like since you knocked two agents unconscious.
Numbuh 14 started trying to throw blows, but it seemed that his blows were hitting her.
- "That's bad. Because of the hibernation, I can't fight with my 100%. If I carry on like this, she'll get the better of me and I'll be dismissed! I must do something fast!".
Numbuh 14 pushes 362 with a kick. As he does so, he begins to hear footsteps and some talking in between. The room would soon be full of agents from the Kids Next Door. He had no choice but to use his code. But if he tried to use one of the computers there, he'd have problems, as time was not his friend there. So, he took a deep breath, climbed onto a table, and prayed that whatever he tried would work.
- COMPUTER! ACTIVATE EMERGENCY CODE 14!
The computer issued a voice command.
- EMERGENCY CODE 14 REQUIRES DNA SAMPLE. PLEASE INSERT YOUR DNA INTO THE SCANNER.
Normally, any DNA sample taken in the Kids Next Door is through the snot. However, in this case, Numbuh 14 used the same blade that cut the wires in that corridor and made a small cut on his finger. In doing so, he dripped his blood on the scanner that analyzed his DNA. By now, the command room was full of agents from the Kids Next Door, but the supreme leader was so surprised by this that she just let it go on uninterrupted. The computer issued a response.
- DNA SAMPLE SCANNED. DNA MATCHES. WELCOME BACK NUMBUH 14.
Suddenly, weapons started appearing all over the lunar base, both on the inner and outer sides.
- I'm safer now... whew.
- But what does that mean? - asked 362.
- COMPUTER, INTRUDUCE ME! - shouted Numbuh 14.
And the computer replied.
- HERE'S AGENT NUMBUH 14. ONE OF THE 20 FOUNDERS AND SUPREME EMPEROR OF THE KND.