“Come on. Let’s go talk to Numbuh 362. Together.”
“I used to scrub this floor,” Harvey said without turning around. “Numbuh 86 made me. Said my mopping technique was ‘a disgrace to the concept of cleanliness.’” He laughed softly. “She was a jerk. But she was our jerk.” Codename Kids Next Door
“We got a bogey, Numbuh 1. Scrambled I.D. signature. It’s… it’s not a Teen. Or an adult.” She squinted. “The heat signature is weird. Too small. But the weapon profile is off the charts.” “Come on
Numbuh 1 walked over and knelt beside him. “You’re not wrong about the system, Harvey. It’s broken. It hurts people. But breaking things isn’t the same as fixing them.” “Numbuh 86 made me
Numbuh 1 stood in the doorway. “You sure about this?”
Twenty minutes later, the Sector V treehouse was a war room. Numbuh 362, Supreme Leader of the KND, appeared on a holo-screen, her face grim.
“What you’re seeing is Numbuh 4.7,” she said. “Or rather, what he used to be. Real name: Harvey Hapsburg. Decommissioned at age thirteen, standard protocol. He was a promising operative. Sector M. Invented the S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R. (Strategic Post-Logical Anomaly Neutralizing Kinetic Energy Rifle).”
“Come on. Let’s go talk to Numbuh 362. Together.”
“I used to scrub this floor,” Harvey said without turning around. “Numbuh 86 made me. Said my mopping technique was ‘a disgrace to the concept of cleanliness.’” He laughed softly. “She was a jerk. But she was our jerk.”
“We got a bogey, Numbuh 1. Scrambled I.D. signature. It’s… it’s not a Teen. Or an adult.” She squinted. “The heat signature is weird. Too small. But the weapon profile is off the charts.”
Numbuh 1 walked over and knelt beside him. “You’re not wrong about the system, Harvey. It’s broken. It hurts people. But breaking things isn’t the same as fixing them.”
Numbuh 1 stood in the doorway. “You sure about this?”
Twenty minutes later, the Sector V treehouse was a war room. Numbuh 362, Supreme Leader of the KND, appeared on a holo-screen, her face grim.
“What you’re seeing is Numbuh 4.7,” she said. “Or rather, what he used to be. Real name: Harvey Hapsburg. Decommissioned at age thirteen, standard protocol. He was a promising operative. Sector M. Invented the S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R. (Strategic Post-Logical Anomaly Neutralizing Kinetic Energy Rifle).”
