Operation: NECSUS, Part 2: Galactic Anniversary

Chapter 2: Galactic Anniversary

KND Moonbase

The audience chamber was packed to the brim with Kids Next Door operatives from all around. Today was a very special day, a day that happens only a few times each year. It was time to introduce brand new operatives to the KND. The newly graduated cadets lined up on the stage, very eager to sign their contract. They all looked pretty normal… except one particular girl stood about 15 feet tall or so. She was quite massive.

Zach and Maddy stood guard on the stage, and the latter looked quite glad that this giant girl was standing there. Sectors V and W7 stood in the very front, looking just as happy for this girl. Among the audience, many sectors gathered, curious if new members would be added to their teams. Sector IC looked casually (with Terry and Miyuki having frowns as usual), but the 5 felt excited deep down. Sector DR sat in one of the higher rows, with each member minding their own business, while Doflamingo Jr. sat kicked back in his chair, baring his cool look. This sector seemed to have their eye on a particular aquamarine-haired girl, probably hoping she'll join their group.

Finally, Supreme Leader Numbuh 3621 stepped up on stage and approached the podium microphone. "Boys and girls, as Kids Next Door Supreme Leader, I'm proud to introduce this year's first line of Cadet Next Door graduates!"

"YAAAAAAAHHHH!"

"The routine's the same as every year: our graduates will insert their data into the KND Code Module, choose a numbuh, and the Sooper Big Computermabob will determine a sector of which to appoint them! The first on our list, hailing from Japan, it's MOCHAAAA…" Cheren squinted at the paper, "um… there appears to be a smudge on the last name… ahem, COME on up!" The operatives roared with cheers as the giant girl with black, messy hair stepped up to the podium. "Recommended by Sector V and our Decommissioning Troupe for her heroic actions in the recent Punk Hazard Kidnapping. Mocha, you may proceed!"

"Mm-hm!" The giant nodded, and with pure confidence, she stuck her pinky up her nose and extracted a huge booger. She knelt down to insert it in the Code Module, but frowned seeing the device was much too tiny for it to fit. "Um…"

"Heheh, let me get that." Cheren offered as he scooped part of the booger in his own finger; baring a disgusted look as he did so. He stuck the booger into the module, and the Sooper Computer began beeping.

"Data for operative: Mocha received. Please: choose a numbuh."

"Ummmm…" The giant girl tapped her chin, then smiled upon reaching a decision. "I choose the codename, Numbuh 7-Feet Tall!"

"You're a little bigger than THAT!" Cheren snickered.

"I know! I just feel more comfortable with the number 7."

"Heh, well I won't judge. Anything you'd like to say while it determines your sector?"

"Mmm!" Mocha nodded happily and faced up at the audience. "A lot of you might have a similar story… but, for most of my life, me and my friends were held captive and abused by a terrible man, and we didn't even know it." She frowned while remembering this. "If it wasn't for the Kids Next Door, we all probably would've died. …" Her confident smile returned as she declared, "And that's why, the moment I escaped, I wanted to join the Kids Next Door to stop OTHER kids from sharing the same fate! I wanna save kids from all the bad people who wanna abuse them, so kids can all be FREE!"

"YAAAAAAYYY!"

"And I am also proud, to be the very first GIANT kid to join the Kids Next Door!"

"And very proud to have you!" Cheren exclaimed. "I mean, little people are way too common in the KND."

"Data and codename scanned for operative: Numbuh 7-Feet Tall. Sector determined: operative to be stationed in: Sector W7."

"YAAAAAAAH!" The aforementioned sector cheered (except April, but she was still happy).

"NEW FRIEEEENNNND!" Chimney screamed.

"Gyom-gyooooom!" Gonbe couldn't be more excited.

"Heh, I guess we have an agreement then." Cheren laughed. "Well, go on up and join them!" The girl nodded and happily ran up to her new sector.

"OOLAAAAH now we got SEVEN members!" Chimney cheered as the four girls (but April) ran around Mocha and excitedly jumped and grabbed onto her dress.

"Ha ha ha ha!" Mocha was already having fun with her new friends.

"Up next," Cheren continued, "all the way from Dressrosa, we have-…"

"Boy, I'm really glad for Mocha." Haruka smiled. "After all she's been through, she deserves it."

"Yeah, but I can't believe Maddy was the one who recommended her." Dillon remarked. "I remember back when Fybi was recommended, Maddy suggested they cut her wings off."

"Fybi did not take that well." Aurora remembered.

"Ahhh, Sector V!" The team was approached by Panini Drilovsky. "Cheren has another mission for you!"

"Awww, but we just GOT back from a mission!" Dillon whined.

"-operative Numbuh Trebol to be stationed in:…" the supercomputer continued, but they didn't pay much attention.

"This one is important: you remember Caesar Clown, right?" Panini asked.

"Naaaaawww don't we?" Haruka remarked sarcastically. In the background, Sector DR suddenly cheered, likely having gotten the aquamarine girl.

"Cheren received a call from Nebula: the people of Coruscant are deeming Caesar's actions an intergalactic offense. Both the Galactic Kids Next Door and the Galactic Council. They're demanding the GKND hand him to the council to have him court-martialed."

Court-martialed?? You mean they want him to play TENNIS? Kirie signed confusedly.

"Sigh, law court, Kirie." Pan corrected. In the background, Doflamingo Jr. was patting the aquamarine girl's back in congratulation. "We're sending Caesar to GKND H.Q. on a prison transport, and Cheren wants you to tag along with them in case they run into trouble. He feels like Caesar's customers might try to rescue him-"

"ExCUSE me, Nini." The Irish girl turned as Doflamingo Jr. approached her, his grin cool as always. "But if you ask me, escorting a criminal who possesses knowledge of Bang Gas and metahuman material might be too dangerous for a low-ranked sector like Sector V. For all we know, he might try to infect them, in ways that could drastically alter the mission. Maybe it'd be best if you send me and my sector, since we're already mutated."

"For your information, Sector V's mission success rate has been exceptionally high, regarding the Dracula and Punk Hazard incidents. And since they were the ones who captured Caesar Clown ta begin with, they might know his tricks better. Besides, they have two poisonbenders with them, not to mention two firebenders, so they're the best choice to escort a single poisonbender. If ya really want ta go with them, you should ask Cheren. 'Course, he's rather busy at the moment."

"In the meantime, we'll just go on and get this over with." Aurora figured as they began to walk off. "Later, Doffy."

"We'll send you a hologram postcard!" Vanellope joked.

"…" The flamingo boy frowned and looked smug behind his sunglasses.

Meanwhile, while Sector IC was watching the ceremony, MaKayla whispered to George, "Remember, we gotta leave soon as it's done, our parents wanted us to come home after this."

"I know, I know." George sighed in annoyance.

Planet Coruscant; Galactic Council

The humongous, dome-shaped building was filling with many alien ships from a variety of different planets. These ships carried many renowned world leaders. In other words, leaders who ruled their respective world, and also some who ruled countries of those worlds. Everybody gathered into the central meeting chamber, an enormous room where the leaders and senators took their seat on circular, floating platforms, surrounding a much larger platform in the center.

On the center platform, two aliens sat in the smaller podiums: a chubby, foxlike man in a black tux, and a smaller, skinny, bug-like alien with centipede legs, a gray shirt, red jacket, and yellow eyes. A tall, brown-skinned human, wearing a black tux and huge sunglasses, stepped up onto the center podium, and spoke professionally in a thick Jamaican accent.

"Fellow Galaxians, welcome to the Galactic Presidential Debate of the Year… um, whatever respective year it is on your planet. Here it is, same-old same-old, where our two candidates will try to present their case on why they should become Galactic Chancellor. Ahem, Nebra Phyronix, Percival Tachyon, if you will?"

"Ahem," the fox-man, Phyronix, spoke up, "well, Councilman Jeremy, the reason is simple, if I am elected Chancellor-"

"Hey, BUCK UP, thigh-boy, I WAS up first!" Percival Tachyon yelled in a high-pitch, nasally voice, throwing his scepter at the fox man. "Ah-he-hem… Fellow Galaxians… I am not going to sit here for hours and tell you why I should be Chancellor… actually, I AM, but… with a particular reason. There is a great problem many of us appear to be ignoring, a terrifying force that threatens the galaxy: the presence of the Galactic Kids Next Door!"

The auditorium filled with the sounds of exasperated moaning. "Heeere we go again…" a female alien said.

"As you know, the Galactic Kids Next Door is an ever-expanding empire of little hooligans bent on annihilating the forces of adult tyranny. For thousands of millennia, they've assimilated many planets to their liking, slowly but surely bringing buhmillions of children to their will. In fact, just recently, the children of Planet Flora has acknowledged their strength, and has formed its own child force based on their idol. HOW does that provide benefit for US, ladies and germs?? As adults, WE are in TERRIBLE danger if we just let this force roam around! Need I remind you of the incredible chaos that was caused by them more than 20 years ago?? And now that they've returned, who's to say they won't create the same conflict again?? If I am elected Chancellor, it will be my first priority to disable this force and establish a STRICT educational program that will cure them of these petty philosophies!"

"OBJECTION, Senator Tachyon," Councilman Jeremy proclaimed, "but it was made perfectly clear we've reached the agreement, that the Kids Next Door are a harmless force whose only interest is the safety of our cosmos's children, meaning all things that allow children to be happy, inCLUDING their parents, and has abandoned their focus of extermination of adults everywhere."

"Is that SO, Mr. Winkiebottom?" Tachyon exclaimed. "Because it has reached my attention that YOU were once part of this organization, and now your DAUGHTER has taken over to carry on your work! Therefore, I testify on the grounds that YOU speak with biased reasoning, and are-"

"AH-HE-HEM." This time, Phyronix spoke up. "Now then… I am unsure of any relationship our councilman may have with these Galactic Kids… but I must agree with him: the Galactic Kids Next Door have more than proven to be a reputable military force. Until four months ago, Planet Flora has been enduring a dramatic food shortage due to the inevitable war that was occurring between Earth and that crazy nature chick. With the Kids Next Door having attained victory, plant and veggie lovers alike were able to restock on luscious organic material, and Flora has entered a state of peace for the time being. And thanks to these young heroes' assistance, many intergalactic crimes have been subdued and thwarted, ensuring the safety of our young, and our republic."

"So are we to entrust the safety of our galaxy to these KIDS?!" Tachyon yelled in anger. "Do you realize what will happen?! EVEN if the Kids Next Door do not wish harm on us, HOW will our own Galactic Force look if they rely on the powers of a bunch of BEDWETTERS?! Invaders from other galaxies will see us as WEAK, and will come to establish DOMINION over us! And will the Kids Next Door come to our aid?? NO!! They DIDN'T help us during the Sith Wars, they WON'T help us NOW! Their only concern is those of their kind, NOT feeble adults! That's why we need to shut them down, and SHOW the other galaxies OUR SUPREME POWEEEERRR!!" He ragefully banged his podium like a 3-year-old. Once he finished, the senator panted tiredly.

Jeremy looked disbelieved. "…You done?"

"Yes."

"Then if I may speak," Phyronix continued, "it is true that the GKND is concerned primarily with the wellbeing of children only. However, such an invasion would very well put the children of our planets in danger, too, wouldn't it? Therefore, most of our concerns are shared with the Kids Next Door, and that therefore makes us allies in the interest of a common goal. And just as well, it's undeniable that children need adults, too, so that gives GKND no reason to harm or antagonize us."

"Oh, really?" Tachyon replied smugly. "Well, let's just bind and gag you to a chair and see if the GKND come to your rescue. You have no proof!"

"I have proof!" a voice suddenly announced. The audience looked to one of the upper floors, where there stood a familiar adult Irken in a dark-red king's cloak.

"You?... Tallest Zim?" Tachyon inquired.

"I have firsthand knowledge of the GKND's good deeds. Take note that it was my people who started the war against childhood. We were the GKND's sworn enemies… but many of our own adults opposed our plans. It was the Kids Next Door who saved them. They only view adults as evil if they openly commit crimes against childhood. And if it's for the betterment of kid kind, they will surely come to help. I know Miss King Croacus can clarify that."

"It's true!" the Okama flower king exclaimed. "Oo-we-oo-we-oo!"

"Senator Tachyon," Jeremy spoke professionally again, "I do not know what past trauma has sparked your distrust for GKND, but if you hope to obtain the position as Chancellor, you must set these feelings aside." Tachyon merely glared at the human. "Do I make myself clear?"

"Hmph… if our planet falls into ruin because I was unprepared, I will not hold blame… but I understand."

"Good. Now… I'm afraid we must adjourn this meeting. We are scheduled to hold a court trial for a particular criminal, recently captured by Earth's KND. Let us disband, and meet at the court chamber in one hour." And the Jamaican man stepped off the platform, followed by Phyronix as all of the rulers piled out of the chamber. Tachyon remained in place and glared spitefully at the man.

Planet Wisp; Galactic Kid Council H.Q.

A similar dome-shaped building was stationed on Planet Wisp, and was filling with many alien ships. The audience chamber was made up of alien leaders, the only difference being they were kids. They were the Supreme Leaders of the many intergalactic Kids Next Doors, their second-in-commands, as well as the operatives of GKND. The only one not present was Cheren. Jerome Winkiebottom, Numbuh 250 Trillion, stepped onto the central platform first, followed by the Supreme Leader of Galactic Kids Next Door, Nebula D. Winkiebottom, Numbuh Eternal. The female leader spoke as her voice echoed across the chamber.

"Fellow Galactic Kids Next Door, and members of the Galactic Kid Council, thank you for attending this ceremony, celebrating the 3rd anniversary of our New Galactic Kids Next Door!"

"YAAAAAY!"

"3 years ago today, this proud organization was revived from the ashes of its predecessor, having taken the shape of a face of good instead of evil. And thanks to our heroism, many other planets have followed our footsteps, ensuring good and peace for all kids all over the universe. We've organized a special party to take place on our H.Q.; starting at 5:00p.m.. We're having a special team come over to help us get ready, but; if anyone'd like to chip in!" she grinned vibrantly.

A cricket's chirping was the only thing heard across this auditorium.

Nebula frowned grumpily. "Recently, one of our organizations has captured a notorious intergalactic criminal responsible for the kidnapping of hundreds of kids across the galaxy, and he's currently awaiting trial at Coruscant Council. Once he is out of the way, we will meet up at H.Q. and PARTY our respective variations of rear bottoms off!"

"YEEEAAAHHH!"

"But remember, everyone: this party not only celebrates the birth of our organization, but celebrates the uniting of many alien cultures. The Galactic Kids Next Door and Galactic Kid Council is a coming together of many interracial groups for the sake of a common good. And though we have our squabbles, we must not forget our purpose, as Kids Next Door operatives who fight the evils of adult tyranny, and fight for the rights of every kid!"

"YAAAAAAAH!"

"So for that reason, we will not have any political debates today. I mean, that's adult stuff, right?!" she exclaimed jokingly. It earned small chuckles. "All we should focus on is having fun and looking forward to the future! So that our great organizations can go ANOTHER 3 years, even MORE!" And with another outburst of cheers, Nebula finished, "Kids Next Doors… dismissed!"

As everyone piled out of the chamber, Nebula and Jerome floated down to the floor below. "It's hard to believe any of them have opinions when all they do is cheer." Jerome commented.

"Well, maybe that's because I'm such a great speaker." Nebula smiled playfully. "But that all goes for you too, Jerome. You're so uptight all the time."

"Says the girl who likes to shrink her operatives when they don't follow orders."

"Hey, only with Cheren. Besides, he's used to it. Which, he's got somethin' to look forward to for not showin' up." She mumbled. "Ahem, besides, this party's meant for all of us after a hard year's work. Though in that sense, we should move it to another planet. Well, we'll make room for next year. Anyway… let's head back to the base. The prison transport may be here soon."

"Mmm." Her brother nodded. In that instant, the two warped away.

Galactic Council; dressing room

"Ooooh CURSE those know-it-all rulers and government officials!" Tachyon whined as he stomped into the room on his skimpy bug legs. "Using lousy… FACTS and…and supporting the good nature of our universe. When will they see that I deserve to be Chancellor! I deserve to have ALL the power! Just as my people did a long time ago! …And I will have all the power. One way or the other. I just need to do a little more planning…"

"Allow me to save you the trouble."

"Hah?" Tachyon turned around with surprise, seeing a thin, silhouetted figure in the door. She stepped forward, revealing herself a white-skinned being with reddish-pink hair, sticking up in two points, yellow eyes with black eyeliner, and dark-purple armor.

"You and I share a similar goal. And I would be glad to help you. You may call me… Vendra."