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Rachel was being pushed around Moonbase by Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60, a few operatives whispered as the Decommissioning officer and the drill sergeant pushed the supreme leader of the Kids Next Door towards the hangar “A-Are you guys sure about this? I know about the rules but…”
“Sir, you haven’t take a vacation in over 14 months! Every operative has at the very least one off period during the year according to KND regulation” Numbuh 86 said while she pushed Rachel
“But I have nothing to do at home, I’d rather tie shoelaces up here, at least I get to do something” Rachel said crossing her arms turning around to look at Numbuh 86
“It’s not our fault Sector FP had a hurricane last year and couldn’t host the annual leader vacation, I went surfing in Sector H, Numbuh 86 went diving in Egypt, even Numbuh 1 that maniac for missions went on a camping trip with Numbuh 0” Patton said while he opened the door to a transport ship for Rachel
“Yeah… I kind of decided to finish some files and meetings around that time to ease up on my workload” Rachel shrugged kinda bashfully as she got pushed inside the ship “Are you guys going to be okay taking care of stuff while I’m away?”
“Yeah sure, my schedule is free of decommissioning and he has only three recruits at Arctic base” Numbuh 86 said smiling at Patton then turning to Rachel
“You have your own Roadstar, I heard Montana is nice this time of the year” Patton sais
“Yeah Yeah I will think of something, but I will call you every chance I get to see how things are going” Rachel said as the ship departed and she headed for one of the seats
“Alright, want me to take the first turn?” Patton asked while stretching himself
“Go ahead, I have to see some stuff with the decommissioning squad and then I’m free for the week” Numbuh 86 said
“Sure, crazy how she could take a month off but decided to just get one week huh?” Patton said
“Please, she will be depressed by the second day, if she takes a month off there will be no Numbuh 362 to return to the base. she is allergic to doing nothing” Numbuh 86 said
Rachel arrived home a few minutes later, she looked up as the transport ship departed, the girl sighed and just went inside her house, she went to the living room where her brother just lazed around laying on the couch watching cartoons “Lazing around Harvey?”
“Sis? I-I mean, Numbuh 362 Sir!” Harvey saluted his sister “We just got back from a mission” The boy said
Rachel just ignored the boy and headed for the kitchen where her mother prepared some food “Rachie?” Her mother looked at the kitchen door and smiled “You finished playing with your friends early today huh?” She said approaching her daughter “Here, I’m trying a new recipe, strawberry pudding”
“I’m really not feeling like it m-” Before Rachel could complete her sentence her mom had already shoved a small spoon with the pudding inside her mouth, the pudding was delicious but her mother is a bit pushy about food sometimes which always makes tasting her food a Russian roulette game to the supreme leader “Could use some more condensed milk…” Rachel said
“I knew there was something wrong, thanks sweetie” Her mother said as she started preparing another batch
“No problem, where is father?” Rachel asked
“He is fixing the car in the garage” Her mother said
“Can’t he just bring it to a mechanic?” Rachel sighed
“You know how he is about that old car of him” Her mother giggled
“It’s not old, it’s a historic mark of pure V8 potency” Rachel’s father appeared behind the girl patting her shoulder “Your friends had other plans?” He asked his daughter while patting her head
“You could say that” Rachel said as she grabbed his hand and pushed it away from her head a little embarrassed “Now my hair is all messy dad!” Rachel complained while her mom and dad laughed among themselves, the girl sighed and went to her room upstairs
Rachel’s room was a medium-sized room on the second floor of her house, it was decorated with aqua-blue wallpaper, in the corner of her room a table with a small laptop could be seen, on top of the table was her bunk bed with dark blue rainbow monkey sheets and two rainbow monkeys one red and one blue, the setup served as a quite relaxing office for the girl for when she wasn’t in moonbase and when she got tired she could just leave the table and climb up to sleep, right next to the bunk bed a door leading outside to a small veranda could be seen
“Alright, let’s see…” Rachel sat at her desk and immediately proceeded to press a button under the table, soon enough her laptop and her desk rotated inside the wall as a KND personal console appeared right in front of her “Let’s see… there must be a couple of missions I can do today…” Rachel fidgetted with console for a while seeing adult villains secret bases that KND knew of, Rachel was ready to plan her fun for the day when a video call notification popped up out of nowhere “Crap, Numbuh 86 is spying on m-” Then Rachel noticed the photo of a bald boy wearing shades as the song of the video call played in loop, Rachel smiled at the screen blushing slightly as she pressed the accept button
“Sir, good afternoon, I’ve read you are on vacations” Numbuh 1 saluted the girl who groaned in response
“Would it kill you to start a conversation with just Rachel for a change?” Rachel said slightly annoyed
“Sorry, it could be bad for both of us if I call you Rachel in an official meeting so it’s good not to be too casual” Numbuh 1 said
“Yeah yeah sure” Rachel sighed smiling a little disappointed “Anyway, more like forced vacations” Rachel said
Numbuh 1 laughed “I know what you mean, my team drags me to some boring place every time they think I’m working too much, you’re lucky it doesn’t happen too often with you”
“Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60 would melt if they stayed more than a week as supreme leader, I bet they will tell me to return before the week is over” Rachel said
“Anyway, doing something for fun during the break you got?” Numbuh 1 asked
“We could hang out if you have any free time, but my main fun will be spying and maybe taking out some adult villains” Rachel said
“Uhhh… Alone? Without telling anyone?” Numbuh 1 ask slightly concerned
“Spy job is meant to be done alone, sorry” Rachel said shrugging apologetically to Numbuh 1 “And I can’t really tell anyone besides you about this, Numbuh 86 wants me to go surfing or hiking, I couldn’t care less about this stuff, now, espionage, that’s what really makes me relaxed and happy” Rachel said smiling to herself “Aaaanyway, what your team is doing lately?”
“We didn’t get many missions this past few days, just your usual ice cream man base raid to get some ice cream for kids in the area and the occasional delightfuls attack on our base” Numbuh 1 sighed “The rest of the team is taking the time to do their own stuff, Numbuh 5 has been candy hunting every night lately, Numbuh 2 is fixing our ships, Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 are trying to crack down a rainbow monkey smuggling ring”
“That last one seems like fun” Rachel said chuckling
“Not my cup of tea, it seems to involve those rainbow monkey cultist girls” Numbuh 1 said shuddering at the thought
“Not a fan?” Rachel asked
“After I was transformed into one? I think the plushies are good enough, not going to a rainbow monkey park for a while” Numbuh 1 said
“The CCTV from moonbase was sooo funny though” Rachel chuckled “A shame I couldn’t be there to see that” Rachel said
“Anyway, are you really going forward with this alone spying stuff? It can be dangerous” Numbuh 1 said
“Eh, spy work is dangerous” Rachel shrugged unpreoccupied “Look, I got away from a bunch of stuff just fine, but if it worries you so much I will attach a tracker to my private communicator in case anything happens, we can even talk a bit with it, I will send you the tracking module and the comm frequency, you can lose some sleep seeing where I will be going tonight”
“Better than nothing I guess” Numbuh 1 said as he received the program in his console now connected with Rachel’s tracker and communicator
“Rachie! Come down do eat!” Her mother yelled from downstairs
“Rachie?” Numbuh 1 smiled at her teasingly
Rachel blushes smiling at him slightly annoyed “That was a great opportunity for you to be formal and pretend the mic didn’t get that, call me tomorrow so I can brag about my spoils from the hunt” Rachel grinned at Numbuh 1 then ended the call and went downstairs, the girl sat at the table and looked at her plate, spinach with mashed potatoes and beef, the girl promptly started to eat the food
“Soo… Was it Numbuh 1 you were talking to upstairs?” Her mom asked
Rachel immediately blushed with her mouth full of food looking at her mom, the girl swallowed the food and answered her mom “And what if it was…?” Rachel asked a little worried
“Are you guys planning to go on a date?” Her mother smiled at her daughter barely able to contain her excitement
“Moooom!” Rachel blushed deeply “No! I was just talking to him normally, he is a friend” She sighed in annoyance and resumed eating her food
“But he seems to be such a nice boy” Her father pointed out while eating his food
“Not this again…” Rachel groaned “Harvey, not a word”
“But I didn’t-” Harvey tried to respond but was immediately interrupted by his sister
“But you thought” Rachel said
“Alright Alright sheesh, I prefer you when you are working” Harvey said as he quickly finished his food and left the table
Both her parents shared a laugh among themselves while Rachel looked at them with an exhausted expression “Alright sorry sweetie, but if you ever change your mind you know you can bring him here, right?”
Rachel blushed again and sighed “Yeah Yeah sure” The girl said as she finished her meal and hurried back to her room “Aaaaalright, good to know they are the same as always, better than trying to make me old” Rachel chuckled to herself as she remembered the events of Zero where her parents turned into Senior Zombies and how they were much less weird back when it happened, the girl headed to her closet and after searching for a bit she finally found a ninja-like costume only it was a little more geared up compared to her Numbuh 206 disguise, it had a slight dark blue hue mixed with black to it now compared to the old black and red design, it now had an utility belt filled with all sorts of gadgets and to top it all off it had a staff made out of rules precisely glued together “There we go, learning how to sew and how to tinker with 2x4 will really paid off” Rachel grinned as she put the costume back inside her closet and went to her KND personal console and opened a huge map of the entire state she lived in
The map showed a bunch of question marks while other marks showed known villains marked on the map
“Now let’s see… Alright so Count Spankulot is already on Sector W list for tonight, good thing Harvey will be busy tonight, I wonder how Sonie will deal with that” Rachel chuckled a little worried by the cutesy operative “Sector V has nothing but special ops will be taking care of a Ninja raid at the next city’s amusement park, Numbuh 86 will be all over that better stay clear of that area” Rachel sighed “Gramma Stuffum is quiet for today though it will take a while for me to get there though, I may as well give her place a try” Rachel marked Gramma stuffum’s hideout “Hmmm… Question mark location, but it hasn’t been updated in a while, better check it out, with this raid happening tonight I doubt we will have any spies poking around random possible hideouts” Rachel proceeded to mark the mysterious location “May as well do a little lookout at the Delightfuls once I’m done with these two places, could help Numbuh 1 and his team” She smiled to herself as she marked Father’s mansion, as time went on Rachel worked on her route a little more and finished doing a few touch-ups to her costume the girl then went downstairs and went outside, the girl headed to a fairly big bush next to her house and entered inside it
“What happened in the sixth episode of Doctor Time Space and the Continuum” A robotic voice spoke as Rachel went down a tunnel inside the bush
“A black hole in the Mesozoic period sent dinosaurs to the present but the doctor managed to send them back by simply using a combination of time portals and chicken, LOTS of chicken” Rachel grinned
“Access Granted, Welcome Numbuh 362” The robotic voice opened the tunned allowing Rachel to enter a garage with her Roadstar parked right in the middle of it
“Alright just need to fidget with a little detail” Rachel went under the car and after looking for a bit she finally found a tracking device right under the fuel tank “Alright, need to detach the air traffic tracker from the Roadstar without turning off the tracker or Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60 will find out eventually” Rachel was whistling while she soldered a bunch of cables to the tracking device that was connected to a car battery, the girl carefully detached the tracker from her Roadstar without turning it off and placed it in a nearby workbench “This battery should last for a week without an alternator” The girl said then left the garage, when she left it she noticed it was already getting dark, she looked at herself and noticed she was full of grease from the roadstar “Alright, there is no such thing as a smelly spy” Rachel laughed to herself as she headed home and went straight upstairs with a towel and change of clothes in hands
“Not going on a date huh?” Her mom said smiling at the girl
“I’m just going to take a bath” Rachel said
“Suure…” her mom said while quietly leaving the hallway while her daughter entered inside the bathroom
“Boy they really want a son-in-law, thank god Numbuh 1 is off-limits in this house” Rachel sighed in relief glad she at least has some peace inside the bathroom, the girl proceeded to take a bath and once she was satisfied the girl got in her casual clothes and went inside her room “Alright, just a few more hours until I start getting ready for mission, once I’m done with dinner I will wait mom and dad to go to sleep and go kick some butt” Rachel said “I may as well check up on Numbuh 86 while that” Rachel approached her console and starts calling Moonbase
Numbuh 60 answered the call promptly “I knew you would call” Numbuh 60 said smiling at Rachel over the screen
“Where is Numbuh 86?” Rachel asked
“Sleeping, she has been working the entire day so now I’m covering her up, we have this big operation wit the ninjas that needs out focus after midnight so I told her to rest” Patton said as a boy approached him “Just a sec” Patton turned to the boy and started yelling at him “NUMBUH 86 ALREADY TOLD YOU WE ARE NOT YOUR PARENTS, LEARN TO TIE YOUR SHOES”
The boy started running away crying as he left the room
“You are too soft on these guys, Numbuh 86 and I got them under our palm” Patton chuckled
“I’d rather not be the hated kind of leader” Rachel sighed “What about files?”
“I was doing them while she was doing the yelling and ordering” Patton said “Anyway, how are the vacations doing?”
“You know I’m not a radical sports person like you two” Rachel said smiling at him as she sighed “I just spent the day sleeping and trying to make mom and dad leave me alone” She said
“Yeah parents are always a problem, that’s why I would always find an excuse to hang out with someone during my break, 86 and I are a bit tied up right now as you know but you could hang out with the folks at Sector V, their area hasn’t seen much action these past few weeks” Patton said while seeing a map of the Sector V suburban area
“I would need to find a way to hide I’m going to hang with Numbuh 1 first, my parents think we are a couple now” Rachel sighed clearly annoyed
“Trust me I know the feeling, I managed to convince Numbuh 86 to go snowboarding together once, turns out my parents found out about it and saw us two off like a couple, it was pretty embarrassing” Patton blushed while seeing a few images of a gallery with photos of him and Numbuh 86 together
“You kinda like her though, no?” Rachel said smiling to Numbuh 60 over the screen
“Ehhh… we get along well, whatever getting along well means in that crazy redhead of hers” Patton blushed looking at the girl sleeping a few stations from him “I’d rather not think about this kind of stuff though, you know what I mean? Gets in the way of the job and risks ruining a perfec- tolerable friendship, would be nice if she stopped yelling about “stupid boys”, she probably thinks the same anyway” Patton shrugged as he opened a can of soda
“I think I get you, Numbuh 1 would probably be a great date but… I kinda have a duty you know?” Rachel said
“I guess he feels the same anyway, guy is crazy over missions” Patton said before sipping some of his soda
Rachel paused for a second and nodded “You’re probably right, he does likes his missions” She laughed a little morbidly
“Anyway, enough about this sappy stuff, wanna do some target practice? Arctic Base will be open tomorrow for everyone, we will use toiletnator for target practice” Patton snickered
“You can sign me up, I’ve been relying too much on the yield sign lately, my aim is probably a little off” Rachel said
“Rachel! Time for Dinner” Rachel’s mom called for downstairs
“Well, time for me to go, I will try calling earlier tomorrow to see if I can talk to Numbuh 86” Rachel said
“I will tell her you say hello once she wakes up” Patton said as he turned off the transmission
Rachel headed for dinner and started eating her dinner, her mom made spaghetti with meatballs and some liver, this last one was too much even for Rachel who avoided it like the plague
“I swear to god, you get older and older but your hate for liver never goes away” Her mom chuckled
“That’s my limit” Rachel smiled at her mother slightly embarrassed while shoving a meatball down her throat
“Anyway, not going out tonight to meet your friends or… Numbuh 1?” Her mother chuckled
Rachel rolled her eyes then shook her head “Not hanging out with anyone mom, you know I’m not that sociable… especially for what you are implying” Rachel pouted a little bit
Her mother laughed“Sorry about that dear, just remember to tell us if you are going to spend the night with one of your friends, you father and I get a little worried when you don’t show up sometimes” Her mom said
Rachel smiled calmly at her mother “Don’t worry, I will probably be at Fanny’s if I don’t show up”
“Her father and I still need to settle that arm wrestling dispute now that you mentioned… if you see him tell I sent the arrow with the message” Her father said grinning defiantly while banging on the table with his fist
“Yeah yeah sure thing” Rachel laughed a bit at her father’s antics, dinner went on as normal as it could have from them on, Rachel brushed her teeth and went to her room, the girl spent the next two hours or so checking her gear for the night.
It’s midnight when Rachel finally is ready, the girl is wearing her ninja gear with a utility belt and her ruler staff, she opens the door to the veranda right outside of her room and jumps from it right inside the bush next to her house, the girl soon leaves her neighborhood, it doesn’t take long for Numbuh 1 to contact her “You are on the move?” His voice came from a the tracker attached to her ear
“Yeah, managed to calm down mom and dad and I believe I did enough to fool Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60, did you…” Rachel squinted
“No, not a snitch, though I still think it’s a bad idea leaving without warning moonbase” Numbuh 1 said
“Relax, you are talking to the best spy in this organization alright? If Grandfather doesn’t show up I will be perfectly fine” Rachel laughed
“You could defeat him, depending on the circumstances” Numbuh 1 laughed
“I’d rather not steal your light” She said laughing as she drove off into the night sky.