Legends Universe

The Legends Universe

The Legends Universe, also known as Earth-11, is an alternate universe of Codename: Kids Next Door. The Legends Universe is a complete reimaging of previously established continuity, despite taking characters and ideas from the main universe as well as the KND: Universe. As of the first story to feature the Legends Universe, any and all established continuity will be considered non-canon until introduced.

Story Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11795168/1/Kids-Next-Door-Legends-Universe

History

In July of 2004, an 8 year old Nolan York and his mother move to Providence, Rhode Island, leaving their lives in Oregon behind. Having acquired a flyer from a KND recruiter at his old school, Nolan sets his sights on joining the Kids Next Door, to protect other kids, make new friends and have adventures.

After settling in their new house, Nolan leaves to the park and meets a girl named Cassie, and joins her in a game of tossing a ball. When Nolan asks about the Kids Next Door, Cassie becomes frightened, and a teen boy in a jumpsuit called Teen Tornado walks over and punishes Nolan for speaking of the KND. As Tornado beats him, a strange boy appears and shoots Tornado with a M.U.S.K.E.T., tempting Tornado to retreat and return later. Nolan asks if the boy is in the KND, and notes he wants to join, but the boy replies 'No' and leaves. Cassie states that he was Kids Next Door as he goes to a tree house with a 'Q' label. Cassie then further explains how teenagers don't let them talk about KND before Nolan decides to head to the tree house and meet this boy. After waiting outside for an hour, the boy - Dylan Buchanan - lets him in, explaining his past with his former operatives and showing him Mara, a former Sector Q operative who'd been crippled some time before. Dylan explains he's seen too many bad things and refuses to let anyone else in this town join KND. Recalling what Tornado said, Nolan decides to help Dylan battle the Teens that will come tomorrow. Dylan agrees to let Nolan help, and welcomes him to the Kids Next Door.

The following day, Nolan and Dylan wait at the park before the Teen Ninjas arrive, and a bloody battle ensues. Although Teen Tornado almost had victory over Nolan, the boy prevailed in the end, making Tornado beg him to stop. Nolan announces to all the kids in the park that they no longer to be afraid, and Cassie cheers for the Kids Next Door. Dylan looked with pride, believing Nolan may change the world. A few days later, Nolan begins to head off to Arctic Training, with Dylan asking why he wants to join the KND, to which Nolan replies he needs it more than he knows. After Nolan leaves his house, Dylan discovers a folded picture on Nolan's wall, of Nolan and his mom. The folded side had Nolan's father, ripped and drawn to make him look like the devil, and Dylan then realizes Nolan wanted to join the KND to avoid his life problems. Nolan makes it to the 2x4 bus thanks to a girl named Rachel T. McKenzie. Nolan takes his seat besides a seemingly depressed Carol Pariuhs and offers her a cookie.

Having just graduated CND Training and accepted as a spy, Rachel McKenzie is called on a mission to infiltrate a Teen stronghold to receive important documents. She was spotted, but after careful planning and timing, managed to get back to her S.C.A.M.P.E.R. with the help of Carol Pariuhs. They fly back to Arctic Base, seeing Nigel Uno fight 'The Behemoth' in his training, with many other operatives watching him. Rachel reports her success to Chad Dickson, Supreme Leader, but then informs him they were given wrong intel, insinuating there's treachery afoot. He says he'll bring it up with Numbuh 206, watched by Cree Lincoln from afar.

Later, Numbuh 274 enters 206's office, informing him that 362 told him about a mole in the Spy Sector. 206 assures he'll look into it as Chad leaves, expecting a daily report. Meanwhile, Rachel is having lunch with Carol and Fanny before she is called to Numbuh 206's office, where he informs her of a possible rogue operative in Sector V. She's sent down to Cleveland, Virginia to capture this traitor. At Sector V's treehouse, Cree informs her sister that she has business to take care of, and heads out.

Later that night, Rachel begins to follow Cree through Sector V's neighborhood as she brings KND information to some Teen Ninjas. She reports to 206 of this treachery before she and her operatives ambush Cree and the ninjas. Cree is apprehended and taken to Moonbase for decommissioning. Numbuh 416 mentions to 274 that she couldn't have worked alone, and traitors may lie in their mist. Later, Numbuhs 501 and 206 meet, in which the former mentions they need to kill Chad.

In July of 2005, an attempt on Numbuh 274’s life would be made, leading to a lengthy and tedious investigation conducted by recently promoted KND drill sergeant Patton Drilovsky and KND Nurse Fanny Fulbright. The investigation would lead to the revelation of Sector Q operative Numbuh 53, Cassandra Abrams being responsible. The ensuing attempt in Cassandra’s capture would lead Dylan Buchanan’s death and the break up of Sector Q, with all members such aside from Nolan York, leaving to join the decommissioning squad in an attempt to gain vengeance for their leader’s murder. In the aftermath of the whole ordeal, Fanny would be recruited into the Decommissioning Squad while Numbuh 274 is left concerned by the possibility that the KND has been infiltrated from within.

On the run from the KND for months, Numbuh 832, Josh Paddock, continues to evade the Decommissioning Squad after being falsely accused for a crime he and his sector did not commit. Josh’s efforts, with that of his friend Numbuh 94, Terry Tompkins, would reveal the depths that the Teen Ninjas had infiltrated the KND. Linking up with Nolan York during the course of his adventure, Josh would reveal the conspiracy, leading to a purge of many members of the Decommissioning Squad and the Spy Sector. During these events Numbuh 501, Mary Blud, would be revealed to be a teenager in disguise, Josh would turn down promotion to Head of Decommissioning allowing Fanny to ascend to the position, and Numbuh 206 would meet his end in a confrontation with Josh.

A week after those events, Numbuh 9-Lives, Violet McCleary, a solo operative, would arrive after a period of sickness to resume her operations. Taking a mission to Mt. Malladus, Violet would uncover Teen Ninjas working on an experimental Animalization Ray. Like many kids and previous KND scouts before her, Violet would find the ray turned on her person. However, through unknown causes, Violet did not change into an animal, instead into a Cat-Demon hybrid. Breaking quarantine, Violet would rally local KND forces to the goings on by Mt. Malladus, leading to the projects shutdown. KND forces would try to revert the effects of the ray on Violet, however, she would be left in a transitional state dubbed a Werecat. Violet would swear revenge and begin her efforts to hunt down those Teenagers responsible for the operation.

After the restructuring of the Spy Sector, Rachel would be promoted to head of the division, leaving her partner Carol in the cold. In an effort to prove her usefulness, Carol would take up following leads into whispers about the Teenagers’ intelligence agency called ‘Leviathan’. Her search would take her to KND Online Hub, a solo operative run online griefer station used to troll teenager activity on video game platforms, there she would find operatives Jessie Cross, Numbuh 50, and her friend Darius Flint, Numbuh 63, under assault by a Leviathan Assassin. After defeating the assassin, Carol would gleam the location of Leviathan’s whereabouts before his suicide.

In September 2005, Kayla Valera, a solo operative suffering from PTSD after surviving a plane crash and months stranded on a ravenous Rainbow Monkey Island, would begin to make strides to returning to active service. At the same time Leviathan operative Reese Martin, would push for the total destruction of the KND Moonbase, citing recent events in the disturbance of their intelligence network. His ideas would be curbed by their leader, however, those loyal to Reese would go ahead with the plan anyways. Leviathan agent Natasha would reach out to Kayla, revealing Reese’s involvement in her traumatic experience, leading Kayla to intervene and prevent the bombing while at the same time making off with Reese. Kayla would later interrogate Reese, learning she was targeted for assassination due to her seeing Leviathan’s leader Samantha Lynch’s face on a routine observation mission. Learning all she can from Reese, Kayla strands the teenager on Rainbow Monkey Island before setting off to claim her vengeance on the woman who’d ordered the attack.

By October 2005, Nolan York, Josh Paddock, Terry & Thomas Tompkins, Carol Pariuhs, Kayla Valera, John Smith, Violet McCleary and Vana Washington would converge on Rhode Island, revealing it to be the Teen Ninjas intelligence agency Leviathan’s home base. Together they would force Leviathan to flee, with Josh executing his nemesis Mary Blud. In the aftermath of the events, the assembled operatives would join together, forming The Prospectors, the KND’s counterintelligence agency.

Revelations

While the Prospector’s settled into Sector Q, Nolan and John Smith would pursue a ring of child abductions, leading them to cross the local Rhode Island syndicate as well discovering a cult run by a man named Legion in dedication to a being named Grandfather. Nolan and John would liberate the abducted children, however, John would be mortally wounded by zealot Malphas the Lesser. In his dying moment John would pass off his Sword of Ecclesiastes to Nolan and leave the operative with great guilt.

During John’s funeral, Josh, Vana and Terry would find themselves apart of a mission to a faraway KND space station that had gone silent. The events of the mission would be that of horror as the KND operatives did battle with the test tube grown Project Baphomet, a biological creature that had been created to counter the B.R.A. technology used by Teenagers. The resulting mission would see all KND operatives escape with the station personnel and the complete eradication of the creatures, but not before leaving Josh hardened by the experience and cementing his turn to lethal force.

Unproduced History

By Late October 2005, Carol found herself squabbling with KND politics with trying to prove the legible threat that Leviathan posed to the organization. These efforts would lead to her decision as leader of The Prospectors to expand their ranks and efforts. During a solo outing and mission Carol would find Numbuh 26, Griffith Volt, a savant operative suffering from amnesia and on the run from Leviathan forces. Carol would save Griffith and use the encounter and his testimony to prove Leviathan’s existence to the KND. With no memory or idea of his home, Griffith is inducted into the Prospectors.

To round out the Prospector’s ranks would consist of Josie Cross and Darius Flint, as well as newfound talent such as Numbuh 242, Numbuh UH-60, Numbuh 72, and Numbuh C-130 and Numbuh 802, with Nolan turning from tactician to trainer overseeing their integration into the team.

By the end of October 2005, Violet McCleary would oversee the Prospector’s participation in an investigation into a suspected Leviathan murder of school kids. However, further investigation would prove the culprit to be one Danika Anderson, a girl who’d discovered latent shadow powers and used them to lash out at her bullies. Among her tormentors would turn out to be Numbuh UH-60. Violet would find herself put into a position of whether to join her team in defending one of her own or answering a call from her aunt, only to choose aiding her team. Violet would personally save Numbuh UH-60 and try to help Danika. Danika would leave, however, but not before thanking Violet for her kind words and would entertain the idea of one day perhaps joining the KND, but not before atoning for her crimes. Violet would return home to find her aunt and cousin Scarlet Vargas missing. With nowhere to go, Violet would move in with her teammate Kayla.

Kayla, however, still suffering from PTSD would find herself having difficulties adjusting to her new team dynamic, having been used to working alone through a sniper’s lens. Galil, a currently incarcerated confidant of Reese Martin, would target The Prospectors for Kayla’s actions against Reese through their dreams. With Kayla and Nolan the only two unaffected by Galil’s attempts to trap them in their nightmares, due to their inability to sleep at night in part of Kayla’s PTSD and Nolan’s near crippling survivor’s guilt, the two would ascertain the method of Galil’s mental attacks leading to Kayla to enter an ethereal dream realm and aid in her team conquering their demons. Kayla would meet Galil in the dream realm and kill her, leaving the teenager brain dead in the real world.

In the closing days of 2005, Leviathan would turn to Adult Agent Iguana to assassinate Numbuh 274 in hopes of once and for all ending his proactive KND and by extension The Prospectors. Numbuh C-130, Stevie Rotorson, and Numbuh 802, Bob Johnson, would step up over the course of the adventure, working closely with Nolan and Violet to prevent the Iguana’s attempts on Chad’s life. At the same time, Carol would fight politically to keep The Prospector’s from being taken over by the Spy Sector, citing the need for her team’s independence to get the job done properly. The Iguana would attempt one final chance on Chad’s life, ending to a bitter fight between himself, Stevie and Nolan. The resulting fight would leave Stevie to fall to his death, leaving Nolan to nearly break over the loss. The Iguana would be crippled by Josh, forcing him to flee and Chad to surmise that these attacks and continued threats of wide spread death will persist with him still in command of the KND. Meeting alone with Fanny, Rachel, Patton, Numbuh Infinity, Carol and Nolan, Chad would reveal his plan to step down as Supreme Leader an use the chance to infiltrate the Teen Ninjas from within to funnel information to the KND, leading to the informal creation of the Teens Next Door.

In 2006, the KND would uncover their lost history in an old tomb. Learning of their ancient predecessors such as The Kid Next Door, Numbuh Roaring 20s, and Numbuh Liberty 1, they would first hear the mention of the fabled Numbuh Zero, who would be credited with founding this current era of Kids Next Door.

Shipping War

Having left the KND for training, in order to both reconcile his continued experiences with his friends dying and his feeling of isolation at home with his Mother remarrying, Nolan returns from his experiences to find his team being captured on a mission searching the relationship between Leviathan and the growing Tie phenomenon. Rebuking Numbuh Infinity’s attempts to lend his supposed aid, Nolan goes in alone, using his newfound training and knowledge from his journey to save his team and defeat the Tie stronghold’s champion Windsor, successfully leading to the destruction of the Ties and forcing Windsor to relocate. Nolan’s actions, however, catch the attention of Windsor’s benefactor, the Adult known as The Master.

In March of 2006, Carol would find herself entering the seedy underworld of schoolyard bike gangs. She would meet a rowdy kid named Johnny Blitz, a survivor of one of Leviathan’s children experiments. Having been imbued with the power of a demonic entity, Blitz would lead Carol through a journey of self-discovery and reflection. Ultimately she would extend an invitation for Blitz to join The Prospectors, but Blitz would refuse, not wanting to play hero. Carol would take the interaction in stride and leave with her convictions in the KND even stronger, so much so that she’d begin turning to Numbuh Infinity for consultation.

By late March 2006, Josh would return to his state of Nebraska, which had after the machinations of Mary Blud and his team’s decommissioning, led to the child populace being dominated by evil adult regime. Josh would then wage a bloody one kid war on all those who’d seek to oppress the children of Nebraska. His actions, however, do not go unnoticed by KND high command, with Numbuh Infinity managing to keep a lid on his actions in hopes of one day using the information as leverage on Josh.

In April 2006, Numbuh 59, Douglass Murphy, former Sector Q second in command and decommissioning squad operative moonlighting as a diplomat, visits his girlfriend, Princess Shia Alya, the ruler of the KND sympathetic nation New Chloris, in order to invite her for a celebratory dance held on the Moon Base.  However, Douglass arrives during a time of civil unrest. Shia’s uncle Count Thanatos institutes a coup, leading to Shia and Douglass being taken captive. News reaches Numbuh Infinity who gathers together the former members of Sector Q, Numbuh 58, Gwen Tucker, and Numbuh 99, Garret O’Neal, as well as sends for a reluctant Nolan, who only joins after Infinity stresses the importance of New Chloris to the KND continued existence as a global organization that does not infringe on the rights of other foreign nations. A group of Prospectors consisting of Kayla, Terry and Vana tag along to accompany Nolan under recommendation from Thomas citing his need for moral support. The team arrives in New Chloris and much to the Prospector’s surprise, they do not find the country’s children being harmed, instead they’re thriving. It is revealed by Nolan that Sector Q had been instrumental in forming an alliance with New Chloris, securing a nation’s backing to keep the KND out of the sights of other foreign nations who would take their existence as an existential threat. In order to facilitate this, Douglass had offered to not only date Shia, but also for the KND to turn a blind eye to the country’s child labor, these terms were agreed upon by Infinity, forever earning Nolan’s disdain. Under Infinity’s direction, the team deposes Count Thanatos, reinstating Shia. However, fed up with this course of direction, Nolan cuts a deal with Count Thanatos, with both men agreeing that the children of New Chloris will no longer be forced to work and would be treated humanely and the KND will be protected by his country’s sovereignty. The Prospectors depose Shia, freeing Douglass and the country from her rule once and for all. In the aftermath, the team returns with Douglass and Nolan finally making peace over Dylan’s death, with Douglass gifting their mentor’s personal 2x4 weapon to him. Joining the party at the Moon Base, Nolan finds word had gotten out how he’d sided with an adult over children and he finds himself isolated by his peers. Kayla, who having built a relationship with Garret over the course of the adventure, meets with both him and Infinity to discuss the threat that Nolan could possibly pose to the KND.

In late May 2006, the Sector Q treehouse is attacked at night. The Prospector’s mount a defense, only to be swiftly defeated one by one by Violet’s cousin Scarlet, who’s revealed to have undergone a similar mutation to her cousin becoming a werecat. Over the course of an entire night, Violet and her cousin Scarlet fight a heated battle that spans the east coast. Confused by her cousin’s sudden appearance, Violet implores Scarlet to at least tell her why they’re fighting. Scarlet reveals that both she and her mother had been taken by Leviathan to be used as bargaining chips to blackmail Violet, however, Scarlet’s mother refused to be used against her niece and killed herself. Angered by her Mother’s willingness to abandon her for Violet’s sake, as well as fueled b her own insecurities and jealousies nurtured from growing up together, Scarlet had volunteered to receive the same power Violet had in order to personal kill her for Leviathan. Saddened by news of her Aunt’s death and conflicted by the knowledge of her only living family member’s hate for her, Violet nearly allows Scarlet to kill her. However, before the final blow is struck, Violet sees a vision of her aunt, who talks about how much she and her biological parents had loved her and how they’d sacrificed so much to see her live on. Resolved to not let her aunt’s sacrifice be meaningless, Violet finds the will to live and gains the upper hand in her fight with Scarlet. Before their fight can reach its conclusion, however, the warehouse their fight had found its way too comes down around them. Violet is then left in the aftermath alone with a heavy heart, her argument with her cousin unresolved and her thoughts drawn not only to her aunt but to her biological parents whom she hadn’t thought about for some time.

In June 2006, Kayla has been spending more time with Garret and the members of Numbuh Infinity’s personal bodyguards Onyx Team. After a successful mission in derailing Leviathan’s spy network on the west coast, Numbuh Infinity formally invites Kayla to join his personal unit with the Diplomatic Sector. Violet, who’d just recently lost her family, finds herself freaking out as her best friend toys with the idea of abandoning The Prospectors, brings the news to the rest of the team. Carol is supportive of the idea due to her own recent dealings with Infinity. Nolan, however, vehemently argues against anything to do with Infinity. After a mission dealing with Leviathan assassin Castoff, Kayla decides not to pursue Infinity’s offer, citing the threat of Leviathan taking precedence above all else and thanks her team for their concern, subduing all concern from Violet and easing whatever tensions hung in the air. However, unbeknownst to anyone, having seen Nolan’s reaction, Kayla has bought into Infinity’s claims of the boy being a possible danger to the KND and now serves as a mole within The Prospectors to begin feeding information of their activities to Infinity.

In July 2006, summer is in full swing and after a successful mission in middle America eliminating a Leviathan espionage cell, the Prospectors decide to take a day off with many of their members heading off in groups. Josie and Darius head to the local arcade, eventually winding up in a gang war over the rights to play at the arcade. Josh answers a call from Infinity, leading to the revelation of Infinity keeping tabs on him. Instead of coming to blows, Infinity informs Josh that he would like to aid him in his violent war, with Josh parting ways telling Infinity that he’d think his offer over. With time available, Nolan disappears to the local mall to fill in orders for Christmas gifts with Kayla keeping occasional tabs. Under the pretense of seeing a movie, William drags Griffith and Bob to a bully fight ring. Carol leaves, ambiguously claiming to have a date, leading to the remaining Prospectors Kayla, Roady, Thomas, Vana and the lovesick Isaac to follow after her. As the day continues, all other members of the team conclude their business and link up with the group following Carol on her date with an unknown individual. By the end of the day Carol and the unknown boy end up a clubhouse and discover that Carol had not actually taken the day off, instead taking the time to infiltrate a pro teenager kids club conspiring to promote their ideology to aspiring CND applicants. The assembled team then leaps into action to aid their team leader after she calls upon them, having always known that they’d been following her. Defeating the pro teenager kids club, the Prospectors conclude their day getting ice cream with all cementing that it had been an ideal day.

In August 2006, Rachel has assumed the role of Supreme Leader. The pressure mounts as she is expected to juggle every facet of KND operations. In order to cope, she reaches out to Sector V and the Prospectors to ease her into her first week on the job. Carol and Nigel Uno prove to be invaluable resources to her dealing with the anxiety and stress of the job, however, Rachel endures her first test of leadership when a hostage situation involving Sector D and the group called the Student Council, with Sector D demanding laxer school policy or else they’ll harm the school’s favorite students. With all eyes on Rachel, to either support her people or disavow their actions against fellow kids, she weighs the impact of leadership as this would be the moment to mark her reign as leader. Ultimately, she decides to act against Sector D, citing that she would not be the kind of leader to sanction the harm of those whom she’d sworn to protect. This earns her the loyalty and admiration of many of her operatives, ensuring that Rachel would be a much revered leader.

By October 2016, Halloween has neared, and the Prospectors have decided to celebrate. Party animal Terry designs to host a costume party, inviting members of the extended KND, while others plan to go trick or treating. Realizing this would be her first Halloween without family, Violet decides to do neither and slinks away from festivities, only to stumble upon the KND subgroup called Eternal, composed of operatives with magic origins who specialize in dealing with the occult hanging outside the Sector Q treehouse. Eternal reveal they’re on the hunt for Frankenstein’s Monster, who’d gotten loose into the world and now poses a threat to this year’s trick or treaters. Griffith, Josie, Darius and William, having promised to take Roady with them for trick or treating mistake the Monster for their gigantic friend and leave. Carol and Isaac travel to the Moon Base to meet with Rachel about irregularities, only for both operatives to be subdued by unknown assailants. The members of Eternal, Violet and Kayla, who’d followed along to ensure Violet was doing alright given the circumstances, pursue the monster across town while the assembled Prospectors find themselves have the night of their lives scaring adults into handing over copious amounts of candy thanks to the monster’s presences, pulling pranks on unsuspecting teenagers and covering stingy adult’s homes in toilet paper. To comfort Roady for being left behind, Nolan and Josh take their teammate door to door. All roads lead back to the Sector Q treehouse with Eternal tracking the monster to the costume party. A fight breaks out ultimately with the Monster proving its humanity by trying to save the Prospectors from a fire. Eternal then apologizes and offers to take the monster in as one of their own seeing as he would fall under their jurisdiction. Eternal parts ways with Violet, but not before revealing there is something otherworldly about her mutation, something demonic in nature. The night concludes with Carol and Isaac returning with seemingly nothing out of the ordinary.

November 2006, further irregularities amongst the KND have caused Nolan to become suspicious, such as the sudden popularization of shipping amongst the organization. It becomes glaringly obvious when Rachel begins hosting a mandatory broadcast in which she, and various guest stars including that of Carol, Isaac, Patton, Fanny, Nigel, and Numbuh 23 begin discussing particular ships and whom they’d love to see together.  Such discourse begins stirring similar conversations amongst the KND populace, leading to the ‘Shipping War’, in which operatives begin arguing who they think should be together. The Shipping War is further agitated by Rachel’s insistence to the point it begins to affect the productivity of the entire KND. Nolan arrives on the Moon Base to confront Rachel over the turn of events, only to attacked with ‘Rachel’ revealing herself to be Cassandra. It falls into place that the supposed Shipping War had been a Leviathan attack to weaken the KND by playing with the kids emotions to confuse and throw their organization into disarray. Locking Nolan away where he can’t harm their plans by sending him where they’ve taken all other operatives whom they’d replace. Cassandra resumes her ‘Rachel’ disguise unaware that Kayla has been monitoring Nolan under Infinity’s orders since June. Kayla informs Violet and Josh who’ve both seemed indifferent to the whole Shipping War, the two gather the few operatives they can trust amongst the Prospectors and lead an assault on where the real operatives have been imprisoned. Freeing the real Rachel, Carol, Isaac, Patton, Fanny, Nigel, and Numbuh 23, they then head to the Moon Base to confront the faux ‘Rachel’ and her cohorts on their broadcast. They engage in combat, revealing them to be teenager sin disguise. After a lengthy battle with Rachel and Carol, Cassandra gets away again. Rachel is forced to acknowledge that despite their best efforts Leviathan had struck in a way that none could have expected, toying with the operatives emotions. This leads Rachel to cement Leviathan’s danger even further, but also she begins to question the Prospectors relevance seeing as they themselves had been infiltrated without them even knowing.

In December of 2006, Christmas eve has arrived, the Prospectors appear to be shaking off recent events, barely recovering, but only William appears to be in a worse mood. While Terry frets over not buying Christmas gifts and hurries off to the store, Nolan sets up under the tree having prepared for the day months ahead in advance. Bob is caroling and Road hangs decorations. Vana still a little jittery from the shipping war is carrying mistletoe trying to get others to kiss each other, while Griffith is left wondering of the home, he’d forgotten due to his amnesia. It seems to be a time of rejoicing and reflection amongst the team, with much celebrating, all until William steals a S.C.A.M.P.E.R. and dashes off to the North Pole. The Prospectors, sans Terry, dash off in pursuit and arrive at Santa’s workshop. William, angry for always receiving coal in his stocking, steals Santa’s sleigh, crashing it into a mountain and wounding the reindeer. In order to atone for William’s actions, The Prospectors put their technological know how to use, aiding Santa in the creation of his new reindeer to instantly transport presents into children’s homes. The Prospectors return home, with William in tow, having had a change of heart after a conversation with old saint Nick. They return to their partying, with few such as Violet lamenting on what she’d lost in family but gained in friends, what Josh thinks as being accepted by all and yet he continues to keep dark secrets as hinted by Santa giving him coal, and Carol feeling a surge of anger witnessing Vana pull out a mistletoe on Nolan and Kayla, leading to an awkward kiss on Kayla’s part. A silent night closes on the Prospectors for perhaps the last time.

The Fall

In February of 2007, The Prospectors assault a Leviathan laboratory dealing with the study of temporal anomalies under the pretense of preventing the teenagers from going back in time and preventing the KND from ever being created. However, it is revealed to them that the Teenagers are not responsible for the anomalies, that something else is. However, during the mission, Carol ends up being flung through time, leading the Prospectors to convert the Sector Q treehouse into a ship capable of going after her. The Prospectors get lost through time, with many of them seeing cracked mirror dimensions outside of reality and with Terry getting lost and encountering the otherworldly Shimmer who is investigating the peculiar nature of the Legends Universe and its relation to the deaths of alternate universes. Over the course of the adventure Josh is forced to face and alternate future version of Mary who had succeeded in taking over the KND. Carol endures a reality where the KND has never been founded leading to a totalitarian dystopia. Nolan is left in limbo where he is forced to fight an unstoppable adversary hailing from the future known as Hellbat. Kayla gets lost within a dark corrupted compound in the near future where the KND has all but been wiped out, even encountering a ding version of Nolan. Violet ends up in the past during the children’s crusade and encounters the founder of the KND, The Kid Next Door, as well as encountering a demonic entity known as Nirgal, who hints to her parents mysterious disappearance. Ultimately, Josie and Darius manage to gather the lost operatives and they return to their present, however, all are shaken by the knowledge that something out there in their world is killing entire universes. However, all are unaware that their actions have left a tear between universes and that something has followed them home.

The following month in March, Josh has taken Infinity up on his offer of assistance, beginning a series of assassination operations against adults who pose the greatest threat to the KND. Josh’s missions put him directly in the line of sight of CEO of Icarus Corp, Jonah Icarus, who financially support operations to oppress the KND. Josh wages his war, coming across that of Leviathan agents and other powered oddities. By the end of his journey, Josh arrives to a cornered Jonah Icarus, only to find that he’d already been killed. Josh discovers the assailant to be a young boy who looks alarmingly similar to himself calling himself Negative Numbuh 832. The two do battle with his opposite escaping, leaving Josh confused to the nature of their encounter, only to later find out from Infinity that control of Icarus Corp had been turned over to an upstart entity called Nega Group hours before Icarus’ death.

In April 2007, Violet, who’d since been dealing with the memory of her parents, begins a journey of self discovery in looking into her parents disappearances. Linking back up with Eternal, Violet discovers that her parents had been demon hunters, who’d disappeared on the job. Once more Violet encounters the demon Nirgal, who claims to have met her father once, that he’d tried to kill him. However, her father and mother had apparently fallen in battle with the great demon lord Malladus. Returning to the sight of her transformation into a werecat at Mt. Malladus, Violet discovers a portal with demonic energy seeping. Theorizing that her transformation had been caused in part by the leak as well the Animalization ray, Violet’s investigation garners the attention of Malladus’ shadow persona, the entity through which he is able to interact with the real world. Violet does battle with the shadow, however, it is blindingly apparent that she lacks the power to fight the foe and is forced to flee. Violet then vows to avenge her parents’ deaths and kill Malladus.

In late April 2007, during a counter intelligence operation, Kayla encounters the teenager Ghost, who matches her sniping ability shot for shot. During the confrontation, Kayla is shot and hospitalized. The incident proves traumatic enough to force her to relive her experiences on Rainbow Monkey Island and render her incapable of handling a rifle again. Kayla then is forced to finally face her personal demons as her team encounters Ghost in the field once more. Returning to the field, Kayla bests Ghost and proves herself to be the superior sniper. Following the incident, Kayla makes peace with her past experiences and is finally able to move on.

During May of 2007, a virus is released into the KND Bike Hub targeting children and effectively rendering them bed ridden forever. Suspecting Leviathan’s involvement, Carol reaches out to Infinity and through him arranges to enter to quarantine zone. Carol discovers that source of the of the infection being transmitted from recent stores of ice cream. In a race against time, Carol manages to prevent the spread to other KND sites. She then tracks the pathogen to its originating source to a secret KND laboratory, finding it had not been engineered by Leviathan at all, instead by an angry KND operative who grew to despise his fellow kids due to never getting to go on actual adventures. Taking the operative into custody and handing out the cure, operations resume. Carol shares her personal disbelief that an operative could possibly do something so inhumane to their fellow kids, with Infinity planting the seed into her mind that anyone could possibly do the very same, citing Nolan’s actions during the New Chloris incident where he sided with Count Thanatos over Shia. Carol walks away from the incident with a new perspective of her job and mission, while growing further frustrated with her working relationship with Nolan.

In early June, a series of earthquakes puts the entire east coast on edge. A cataclysmic earthquake breaks Rhode Island, with relief crews being manned by the local teenagers. With opinion of the Teen Ninjas reaching an all time high, Nolan grows suspicious of the events and investigates. What he finds are seismic charges planted throughout the east coast, proving the disaster to be initiated by Leviathan, hoping to turn the Teen Ninjas to be exemplars that kids should grow to look up to and one day wish to become. Nolan attempts to prove the incident as a sham, only to be beaten to the punch by a mysterious individual calling himself Negative Numbuh 2030. News of Leviathan’s actions reaches the public, forcing the Teen Ninajz to distance themselves from the intelligence organization, crippling the organization as well as putting Leviathan and its operations into the spotlight, taking away the organization’s primary asset: its anonymity.

In June, with the school year letting out, all of the KND rejoice with several prolific individuals gathering at Numbuh 4’s house to celebrate with a pool party. Among the partygoers are Rachel, Patton, Fanny, Sector V and The Prospectors. While the party commences, a portal opens within the pool, sucking many of the operatives over through the other side. At the same time, Nega Corp launches a global takeover with the Teen Ninjas organization crippled and the majority of KND high command sent away, the task is done with seemingly little effort. The assembled operatives discover that they’ve fallen into an alternate universe, the Negaverse, and encounter evil doppelgangers of themselves. The KND operatives attempt to find a way home with the groups splitting off into teams to facilitate both their plan to find a way home but to also suck Nega Corp, the Negaverse’s foothold into their reality back to its home universe. Over the course of the adventure the teams fight their alternate universe counterparts, with Negative Numbuh 2030, Nalon Kroy, revealing that some months back they’d been preparing to fight their counterparts studying them for weaknesses and proceed to exploit them. The operatives in charge of finding a way home discover that the Negaverse does not wish to take over their home universe, instead, they’re doing so in order to aid in their transition due to anomalies beyond reality where alternate universes are being destroyed. Conflicted by this news, the majority of operatives return home but then see the devastation committed by their evil counterparts and resolve to defeat them. Back in the Negaverse, the team consisting of Terry, Thomas and Nolan discover that Nega Corp is in fact a treehouse with its roots still laid within the Negaverse. Manning the controls to pull the tether back to its home reality, Terry sends his brother Thomas and Nolan back to their home dimension, stranding himself and the majority of Negaverse residents in their universe just as the universe destroying anomaly reaches them, killing all life within the Negative Universe. While the world celebrates repealing the invaders, The Prospectors are left to mourn the death of Terry while the few negaverse natives who’d survived the event slink off to join the Teen Ninjas.

Dark Epoch

By July of 2007, the events of Operation Z.E.R.O. occur with the return and subsequent defeat of Grandfather.

In November of 2007, Numbuh 2030 undergoes an expedition across the world in search of Numbuh Zero’s storehouse. The project is co opted by Numbuh Infinity, much to Nolan’s disdain and is forced to work with him once it becomes apparent the Interesting Twins From Beneath the Mountain are giving chase. Over the course of the expedition, Nolan finds memory keys that share with him the final days of Numbuh Roaring 20s, Numbuh Liberty 1, and The Kid Next Door, all of whom had met unfortunate ends in their service to kid kind. Nolan also finds one remaining key, revealing that Numbuh Roaring 20s had an associate named Ben, who would become the original Numbuh 1. After Numbuh Roaring 20s untimely death, Ben would fall to darkness, resolving to subjugate humanity and become the all powerful Grandfather. With this revelation, Nolan finally locates the storehouse and finds one final message from Numbuh Zero made before his original decommissioning saying that his heir would one day be necessary for vanquishing Grandfather forever. Infinity learns of this prophecy and begins to set into motion a series of events that would lead to Nigel Uno’s recruitment into the Galactic Kids Next Door.

In late November, Sector T is attacked by Leviathan with Numbuh 14, Mary-Lou Sarah-Jane Jones being the only survivor of her team.  Josh, knowing the pain of losing his original team, takes Mary-Lou under his wing and together they plot to end the threat of Leviathan forever b killing their leader Samantha Lynch. The duo train and harness Mary-Lou’s anger, with Josh doing so under the pretense of helping her control her pain so that she doesn’t end up like him, a killing machine who’s dead on the inside. Together they track down Leviathan’s headquarters and assault it, leading to the long awaited confrontation between a Prospector and Samantha Lynch. As Mary-Lou prepares to kill Lynch, Josh takes the shot for himself. Confused, Mary-Lou questions why, only for Josh to answer that Samantha had rigged the entire scenario with cameras, broadcasting the events to the world. Josh leaves as KND operatives arrive, taking Mary-Lou for questioning. Josh reaches out to Infinity for help, only for the diplomat to wash his hands of him by publicizing all of his actions, forever staining Josh’s reputation. Josh goes on the run again.

By the end of 2007, The Prospectors find themselves at a crossroads as their teammate Josh is not only wanted for murder but also killed the head of Leviathan, the organization they themselves are directly responsible for handling. With Leviathan’s end, the operatives are left wondering what to do next. At the same time, Infinity begins conversations with Carol to take the subgroup and move their focus towards internal kid affairs, to help police the worldwide kid population as evident by the sudden emergence of a masked kid named Hellbat rampaging across the KND. Nolan, having encountered a future incarnation of Hellbat, sets off alone to deal with him. However, evidence at crime scenes begin to suggest that Nolan himself is Hellbat, forcing the Prospectors to turn their sights on their teammate. Carol takes the matter of Nolan and Hellbat being one and the same seriously, having been fed doubt by Infinity and orders his capture, while Kayla attempts to terminate him due to believing his death would be for the greater good of kid kind. While most operatives give chase after Nolan, Hellbat arrives to firebomb the Sector Q treehouse, only to be stopped by Roady who’d remained behind. Roady is killed in the ensuing firefight while Hellbat retreats. The Prospectors, hearing the news of Roady’s death, are further galvanized at turn to lethal measures. Nolan, having tracked Hellbat due to his operational patterns, follows him to a secret KND bunker, the very same that he’d visited in order to recruit Hellbat into The Prospectors revealing him to be Bob. Discussion between the two reveals Bob had grown disenfranchised with the KND after the events with the Negaverse and had decided to end it all. The Prospectors converge on their location, but not before Bob reveals that the entire time he’d been a member of the Prospector’s he’d been monitoring them, revealing their own personal secrets to the group including: Vana’s parents being adult supervillains, Kayla had been working for Infinity, Darius and Josie had been bugging their team for individual operations, Isaac had been taking direction from Infinity to monitor Josh’s movements revealing how Infinity had learned of his personal war, Thomas had grown to resent Nolan for allowing Terry to stay behind in the Negaverse and had been the one to plant the evidence of him being Hellbat and how Griffith was not actually a kid, instead he was an amnesiac teenager who’d been trapped in B.R.A. The teams capture Bob and hands him over to the Arctic Prison, but the damage has already been done. Feeling betrayed by his team, Nolan enacts emergency protocol Q, effectively evicting them and returning the treehouse to standard Sector Q operational order. Many of the operatives go their separate ways returning to their original assignments and Grffith being freed from his B.R.A. and going to find his real home. Carol and Isaac remain as the sole original Prospectors and under the direction of Infinity begin to rebuild.

Months later, The Prospectors has been rebuilt, its ranks bolstered and directly overseen by Numbuh Infinity. Recently inducted operative Numbuh 31, Jaden Hayes, is conscripted into The Prospectors due to his proficient fighting abilities. Jaden proves to be an idealistic boy and comes into conflict with many of the orders and directions assigned by Infinity. On a mission with his assigned partners, Jaden comes across the remnant of Leviathan led by Cassandra. After sharing words, Cassandra manages to convince Jaden to join her cause and to destroy The Prospectors. Turning on his former team, Jaden systematically wipes out the Prospectors, sparing few, eliminating the others including Isaac, Jaden tracks down Carol and challenges her to a fight to the death. During their fight Jaden challenges Carol’s loyalty to Infinity, citing his moral ambiguity and her inability to look beyond her orders. Their fight ultimately concludes with Jaden throwing Carol off a cliff and his capturing of Infinity. Jaden then returns to Leviathan Headquarters and deposes Cassandra, deciding to take the organization to eliminate both the Teen Ninjas and the KND.

In early 2008, Carol resurfaces, no longer blind to Infinity’s manipulations, she attempts to reach out to her former team in order to recruit them to finally end Leviathan once and for all. Recruitment of her former team proves to be difficult, with Josh still on the run, Vana all but retired from the KND, Griffith attempting to integrate into the world of a teenager, Violet busy working with Eternal to discern ways to defeat Malladus, William landed a job with the Arctic Base as a pilot, Josie and Darius have since remained out of the field, Thomas won’t leave the Moon Base, Kayla had joined the decommissioning squad to be closer to Garret and Nolan refuses to answer anyone’s calls. Ultimately, the former Prospectors put aside their differences and gather to defeat Leviathan. Taking the fight to Jaden and his forces, The Prospectors engage in a climactic battle leading to Carol having a rematch with Jaden. Once more Jaden questions her convictions, but now Carol has come to terms with her naïve behavior and admonishes Jaden for his turn on his fellow kids. They fight with Carol emerging victorious. For his crimes, however, Jaden is executed by Josh who then departs. The Prospectors then liberate Infinity sharing harsh words with him over his past manipulations and turn Cassandra over to the Arctic Prison for her past crimes. The Prospectors then return to their lives with Carol returning to her old post with the Spy Sector.

Returning to Rhode Island, Nolan begins looking into the adult behind the Rhode Island Teen Cell, the one who calls himself the Master. However, his mother and stepfather fed up with his talk of the KND and under the advisement from specialists send him away to the Brookfield Mental Health Institute. Under the care of Dr. Lawrence Dream, Nolan begins to question his grasp on reality and whether or not the KND exists. However, after continued sessions, Dream begins to reinforce the importance of Nolan’s upcoming 13^th birthday, the historically feared date within the KND, which would signal his transition from childhood to his teenage years and would lead to his mandatory decommissioning. Equating it to existential anxiety, Dream begins to peer into Nolan’s doubts, subjecting him to sleepless nights and invasive mental intrusions that peel back every layer of his mind. In between madness and sanity, Nolan reaches a conclusion that it had been through Dream that he’d come to be in Brookfield, concluding that The Master, the adult behind the Teen Cell and his psychotherapist are one and the same. Amused by Nolan’s deductions, Dream informs him that he’d once subjected Dylan to these same experiences hoping to turn him into his own personal weapon and now proposes to Nolan the same opportunity. Nolan refuses, but then Dream informs him that regardless he will come to him, either willingly or afterward upon decommissioning. Haunted by the realization, that despite his best efforts to serve all kid kind, he would eventually become everything that he’d fought so hard against, that everything he’d ever been would soon die and be replaced by something else. Weeks pass and several attempts at breaking him mentally later, Nolan launches one last ditch escape attempt, making it out to the roof of Brookfield. Peering over the edge into a nearby river, Nolan is confronted by Dream and man Teen Ninjas, including Prom Queen. Dream implores Nolan to join him one last time, but resolving to let his final moments be that as Numbuh 2030 than some teen underling, Nolan throws himself over the side of the roof into the water below.

In July of 2008, KND High Command has grown fed up with Josh’s unsanctioned killings of adult adversaries, with Patton the most sickened by his actions. Rachel attempts to enlist the former Prospectors to go after their former teammate but all refuse to do so, all having been around Josh long enough to know doing so would accomplish nothing. Rachel, seeing no other option dispatches Sector V, who each individually go after Josh. Each one encounters Josh in particularly grim circumstances, with Nigel meeting him while Josh is attacking a slavers camp, Hoagie encounters him while Josh destroys the Cheese Shogun’s lair, Kuki while he is liberating a small country from a dictatorship and Wally while Josh is infiltrating an underground child boxing ring. With all operatives either failing or refusing to take Josh in, Rachel sees no other option than to declare to publicly decommission Mary-Lou, who for her actions alongside Josh, in hopes of luring him out. News reaches Josh as he attempts to figure out his next move, only to run into Nolan recuperating at an old Prospector bunker. Both operatives lament how it seems all the events in their lives had started with each other and come to terms with their seemingly final resolutions. They say their goodbyes and Josh heads off to rescue Mary-Lou. Aboard the Valley Forge, the preparations are underway for the public decommissioning, Josh stages a faux attempt to rescue Mary-Lou in order to draw the majority of operatives away and snags Mary-Lou. Josh apologizes to her for how things had gone and hopes that maybe she’ll be better than him before sending her off and with him staying behind to buy her time to escape. The full might of Sector V and the Decommissioning Squad comes down on Josh who continues to fight in spite of the odds. He only surrenders once Patton, who reveals himself to be his once and former drill instructor, orders him to surrender. While Josh is sentenced to life in the Arctic Prison, the KND as a whole feels worse off after the whole affair and Mary-Lou sets up shop back home in Texas, turning her back on the KND once and for all.

In July 2008, Kayla finds herself working with her new friends with the decommissioning squad and is finally at peace with her life having already found closure on her past experiences. However, Reese Martin has finally escaped Rainbow Monkey Island. Gathering forces including Kayla’s former adversaries Ghost, Castoff and The Pioneer, they form the Confederacy to finally eliminate her. After an attempt on her life, Kayla steps away from her job and goes to ground in order to protect them. Luring Reese and her forces away to a secluded area, Kayla buries the last remnants of her old life by destroying them. One by one the Confederacy falls until only Reese and Kayla remain. Their fight is brutal and pushes Kayla to her limits. Though Kayla has prided herself for her ability to move on from her past experiences, Reese instead claims that all she’s done is distance herself from her past crimes, to further emphasize his point he reveals his knowledge of her past treatment of her supposed friends on The Prospectors, how she’d gladly turned on Nolan and abandoned Violet to pursue her parents murderer alone. Kayla kills Reese and departs. She later resigns from her position on the decommissioning squad, admitting that Reese had been right, that she had been running away and then leaves to face her friends.

Since Numbuh 2030 quit The Prospectors, the Rhode Island Teen Cell had been running unopposed by the KND. Returning to the fold from his interment in Brookfield, Nolan uses the time he has left as a KND operative to fight Dr. Dream and his forces. Such exploits would consist of besting onetime rival Evan March for school yard supremacy, saving his half sister Cecily from a former peer, destabilizing the flow of money in the Teen Ninjas wallets, saving citizens from Teen Tornado’s rampage besting the villain in the process and even fighting a teen assassin who’d adopted the Hellbat moniker, berating him and how he besmirches what the name meant. Nolan is later met by Kayla, the latter questioning if they’d ever truly been friends and if they could bury the hatchet. Nolan resolves that they’d always been friends and sees fit to leave as does Kayla. Lastly, Nolan is approached by the once and former Numbuh 274, Chad Dickson, who informs him of the impending threat of the Galactic Kids Next Door.

Carol finds herself promoted by Rachel to head of the Spy Sector, a job she seems almost reluctant to take. Carol reflects on how before she would have jumped at the chance to be leader, but after her experiences with The Prospectors she’s since learned the trials and sacrifices of leadership. On the job, Carol is sent a notice by Numbuh Triple Zero of possible inhumane experiments being conducted within the KND. Carol investigates, discovering operatives Felix Frost and Amber Blake had created a monster called Mortis based off their experiences with the Project Baphomet incident, this time however, the monster is built to aid in protecting teenagers, since their thirteenth birthdays are approaching they’d decided to skip decommissioning. Carol and Triple Zero engage the enemy and destroy Mortis while Felix and Amber are arrested. Carol later declines Rachel’s offer, surmising that she’d never be able to handle working behind a desk, preferring to be a field operative.

Violet, now working with Eternal, covers the history of The Kid Next Door, as during her time traveling adventure, she’d encountered the KND founder during a confrontation with Malladus. Discerning that the Sword of Ecclesiastes, forged from the Kid’s own innocence, is capable of harming Malladus, Violet returns to Rhode Island to retrieve the weapon from Nolan. Listening to Violet’s theory, Nolan not only hands over the sword given to him in John’s dying moments, but also the armor of The Kid, which he had recovered without Infinity’s knowledge during his expedition the previous year. Leaving with the tools to defend herself from Malladus as well as possibly kill him, Violet sets off to confront the demon lord. Along the way, Violet reaches out to Danika Anderson, recruiting not only her but her cousin Scarlet. The two cousins share words about their lives, how truly their suffering could be traced back to Malladus. Together with Eternal, they enter hell through the portal in Mt. Malladus. Descending through and fighting their way through hordes of demons, the group reaches Malladus’ throne room and does battle. Ultimately Mallaldus proves to be powerful, killing all members of Eternal and wounding Danika. Channeling the blade of the Kid, Violet is able to pierce Malladus’ demonic armor and land a killing blow. However, before the dust can clear, Nirgal arrives to take the throne. Gleeful to now have control of hell, Nirgal reveals that though Malladus had killed Violet’s parents, but the reason for doing so had been because not only were they direct descendants of the Kid, the only mortal to harm the demon lord, but also Nirgal himself, making Violet a product of thousands of attempts to create a being capable of usurping the throne of hell for him. Fed up with the back and forth, Violet and Scarlet together kill Nirgal, avenging their family. As the survivor prepare to leave, Scarlet decides to remain in hell to fill the void left by Malladus’ death and rule it. The cousins say their farewells and Violet returns to the land of the living. A funeral is held for the members of Eternal with Frankenstein’s Monster presiding with most of the KND in attendance. Violet capstone’s her journey by talking with Danika about the hardships she must be facing but how they can overcome them. Before they can bid their goodbyes, Chad approaches the duo asking them for help.

Following a scavenger hunt facilitated by Infinity, Nigel Uno is recruited into the Galactic Kids Next Door under the pretense of stopping galactic adult tyranny. In truth, however, alien forces beyond the Milky Way have banded together and discovered the cause of the temporal anomalies that have destroyed billions of alternate universe and now threatens to eat away the universe it originates from. To remedy this, the ‘GKND’, studies Nigel, learning of his inherent power from his blood relationship to his Grandfather. Hypothesizing that such destruction is being caused by an Uno from the future, the ‘GKND’ decides in order to save all existence that they must destroy Earth. Directly opposing the GKND, Chad emerges with his band of rag tag defenders of earth including: Violet, Danika, Frankenstein’s Monster, Wintergreen, a reformed Malphus the Lesser, Nolan and Lasso Lass. Recruiting Sector V to aid them as well, they take the fight to the GKND in order to save the Earth. The combined forces manage to destroy the alien opposition and rescue Nigel, who becomes concerned with whether or not he will be responsible for reality’s destruction. Chad dissuades that type of thinking assuring Nigel that he’s a good person who’d never do such a thing. With the threat over, the operatives and associates depart. Infinity, however, departs, taking the handgun that Nigel had made as a CND initiate to the old folks home that the decommissioned Grandfather resides and attempts to assassinate him.

In the days leading up to August 2008 and his 13^th birthday, Nolan returns to Rhode Island to find his treehouse under assault by Windsor and his Ties. Nolan fends off the attack but is unable to save his tree house. Before he could even return home, Teen Tornado attacks a nearby school forcing Nolan to act. Before he can catch his breath, Mara Cade, a former member of the original Sector Q and associate calls for help as a monster known as Monger assaults her place of residence. Through the span of three days Nolan is forced into a position where he cannot stop to rest. Recognizing that this is Dr. Dream’s attempt to weaken him, Nolan cannot help but play into his hand. However, Nolan is able to catch an hour’s rest after the intervention of Carol arriving to speak with him. The pair team up to stop the villain known as Holiday. Sharing a moment, Carol, conscious of his impending birthday and eventual decommissioning, reveals she’s finally come to terms with her feelings for Nolan, the boy she’d known ever since CND training. Nolan is both confused and conflicted by this revelation due to his not viewing her the same way. Carol departs, but not after promising to get into contact with the rest of the former members of the decommissioning squad and asking for Nolan to try and remember her should he be decommissioned. As Nolan attempts to once more stop a rampaging Monger, he is subdued by Dr. Dream through the use of a mental suggestion that had been implanted during his time in Brookfield. Carol eventually passes word to the decommissioning squad, leading to Douglass, Gwen and Garret to set off to aid their old teammate. As the assembled cabal of Teen Cell members and Dream talk up how they plan to harm Nolan once more, Prom Queen recognizes the futility of their actions, having spent over four years fighting him, she concedes Nolan to be a superior opponent and leaves, just as Nolan frees himself from his restraints and the former members of Sector Q arrive. An all out brawl consumes the Brookfield Institute, forcing Dream to flee onto a helicopter, only for Nolan to give chase. Dream delivers one final ultimatum, for Nolan to surrender and become his soldier or he and all those he loves will suffer the consequences. Rejecting Dream for the final time and accepting his inevitable death, Nolan would leap onto the helicopter and damage the controls, causing them to crash into the city streets with Dream and Windsor dying in the explosion. Nolan would supposedly be lost in the explosion.

In August of 2008, the cult leader Legion has recommissioned Grandfather, leading to the murder of Infinity and leaving his body for the KND to find. Grandfather, fed up with the children and adults of the world resisting his will, designs to consume all life through time and space. To protect his body while he works, his consciousness manifests as a permeating darkness that begins to sicken and corrupt the world, brainwashing many and converting hapless civilians into his army of foot soldiers to spread calamity and chaos, throwing Evil Adult Industries, the Teen Ninjas and the KND into disarray or taking collective masses and using them as materials to create Mindbeasts capable of waging war. Nolan, having survived his encounter with Dream, sets off to investigate Infinity’s death, only to be captured by Grandfather’s forces for his intimate knowledge of the inner workings of KND security. Knowing Nolan would not willingly divulge sensitive information, Professor Bob and Chester enlist Nalon, who’d survived the destruction of Negaverse to steal the information with the Happy Headband. As the world falls into chaos, all KND treehouses are assaulted with extreme prejudice with the Moon Base launched into the sun with few operatives escaping. Nigel is approached by The Shimmer, who’d finally reached this point in time to help save the all known universes. In order to facilitate this, Nigel and The Shimmer leave reality to gather an army of Nigel Unos across the remaining universes. The Arctic Base fairs better, even managing to repeal its invaders after the invaders accidently release Josh for his cell and hand him a weapon. Realizing that the forces in the Arctic Base are all that remains to mount an offensive, led by Patton the KND launches one final assault on Grandfather’s forces. Violet descends  back into hell and enlists Scarlet’s demon army to aid the KND and Father rallies what few remaining adult villains to the cause. The assembled army clashes with Grandfather’s forces, but it doesn’t seem enough as time appears to be running out. Within Grandfather’s fortress, due to his familiarity with mental intrusions, Nolan manages to overcome Nalon and force his will upon him, forcing his double to free him and chase off Chester and Professor Bob. Having sustain life threatening injuries during the scuffle, Nolan finds himself at a crossroads, to turn his back on everything he believed to run away and get help to save his own life, or to head down the hall to where Grandfather is currently unprotected to buy his friends the time they need but later die from his wounds. To Nolan the answer is easy and he walks down the hall to challenge Grandfather with the gun made from Nigel Uno’s innocence which he’d taken from Infinity’s body prior. Along the way, he encounters a time displaced Kayla from their previous time travelling adventure and bids her farewell. Mortally wounding Grandfather and breaking his concentration, the fortress explodes right as Nigel returns from his journey with the shimmer and gathering his army. Grandfather fights his grandson and the opposing forces through a climactic earth-shattering battle with many operatives such as William and demons dying in battle. To aid himself, Grandfather bolsters his ranks with undead revenants of The Prospectors, leading for the still living Prospectors to fight their undead friends. Legion attempts to destroy Rachel and the rest of KND High Command, only to be shot and killed by Josh, who’d slaughtered his undead former teammates. Drawing Grandfather out into the open, the combined might of the army of Nigel Unos, the remnant of the KND, the Teen Ninjas as well as the forces of Hell make one final push, seemingly vanquishing Grandfather for good. In the aftermath of the climactic battle, the KND is severely reduced, while their adversaries the Teen Ninjas had only gained from the ordeal. The dust settled, the Multiverse Nigel Unos are returned to their home universes by The Shimmer while Scarlet and her forces return to Hell. The surviving KND operatives decide that anonymity is their best course of action to continue their fight for kid kind and officially dissolve the organization. The remaining operatives join the covert Teens Next Door ushering a new age of espionage and covert action.

Teens Next Door

By 2011, the former members of Sector V, as well as those of High Command including Rachel, Fanny and Patton, have made their home in Virginia, operating with the TND from the shadows. Olivia Price, the head of the Teen Cell in Virginia, makes life miserable for those who oppose her and the Teen Ninjas. With aspirations to move up in the ranks of the Teen Ninjas, Olivia begins manufacturing a drug called Kicks that heightens individuals awareness and concentration, the prefect answer to late night studying. The side effects however prove worrisome when students begin crashing in the middle of their day to day activities. The TND led by Rachel begin to take a more proactive approach towards curbing Olivia’s schemes, no longer content to simply sit in the shadows and allow their fellow teenagers and friends fall prey to the drug. The sudden emergence of TND activity gains the attention of Teen Ninja leader Hellbat, who organizes a meeting with Olivia, demanding that cease all production of Kicks as given recent events in Rhode Island, he cannot afford to deal with the TND on two fronts, let alone a TND unit led by Rachel but also composed of some of the best operatives to grace the KND. Seeking glory and riches, Olivia doesn’t heed Hellbat’s commands and continues, designing to spread her influence to one day take leadership of the Teen Ninjas organization for herself. The TND eventually locates Olivia’s production house and lead an assault, destroying the warehouse with much collateral damage in the process. Now with TND out in the public, Rachel and her team begin planning for an eventual KND resurgence.

In the days leading to 2012, the local TND based in the Rhode Island area, headed by Douglass and composed by Gwen, Garret, Kayla, Violet, Vana and Thomas, have remained on the sidelines of a massive war between the Teen Ninjas, led by Hellbat, whom the TND has come to believe to be Abraham Drake a former KND operative, and a group calling themselves the United Vigilantes, who’d formed in response to the dissolution of the KND. The Rhode Island Conflict has spanned nearly four years and now seems to be in its final days as the combatants on either side have thinned out considerably. The TND operatives receive word from the Virginia branch and begin taking steps to finish the conflict on their terms with the removal of both parties. Suspecting further bloodshed, Douglass attempts to enlist Josh to fight by their side, however, Josh has since retired from his earlier days of vigilantism, and cites being unable to pull the trigger should he face Hellbat. Word of the TND’s plan reaches the ears of Wiccan in her civilian identity as Crystal Wick a fellow student of theirs at Providence High. Wiccan then confronts the Douglass in his home and brokers an alliance, claiming that once the Teen Ninjas and Hellbat have been defeated, then she’ll gladly retire. Agreeing to the terms, the TND set out to assassinate Hellbat upon learning from their intelligence network that he’s been sighted at a graveyard paying respects deceased subordinates lost during the Rhode Island Conflict. Kayla is tasked with assassinating Hellbat, but is prevented from taking the kill shot by Hellbat’s personal squad, who’d been lying in wait for the TND. Douglass engages Hellbat in combat and attempts to appeal to his and Abraham’s former working relationship. Hellbat then coldly denies that he is Abraham, citing that he’d died years ago at the beginning of the Rhode Island Conflict, even going as far as to toss Douglass through his grave. Hellbat then laments that perhaps his death would have been avoided like so many others had Douglass gotten involved sooner, instead of slinking off into the shadows with the other KND. Surprised by Hellbat’s intimate knowledge of his personal life, Douglass demands to know who he really is, only for Hellbat and his people to flee once Wiccan arrives. Shaken by the encounter, Douglass begins to pour all his time and effort into discerning Hellbat’s true identity. At first he assumes Hellbat to in fact be Cassandra, the former Sector Q operative who’d gone bad. However, Douglass finds Cassandra to have retired entirely from the KND-Teen Ninja conflict. The pair trade barbs, with Douglass still blaming Cassandra for their leader and mentor Dylan’s death, and Cassandra blaming Douglass with getting too caught up in his own drama to actually make a difference. Convinced Cassandra to not be Hellbat, Douglass resolves to answer a question festering in his head and takes Thomas and Vana to dig up Nolan’s grave. Finding a decomposing body, they exhume the corpse for testing and conclude it to be a genetic match. With the only other members of the original Sector Q accounted for, Douglass is left with the harsh reality that Hellbat may in fact be either his now girlfriend Gwen or best friend Garret. Keeping his suspicions to himself, Douglass begins investigating those closest to him and finds both associating with known Teen Ninja operatives.

Crystal takes time off from her Wiccan persona to get a sense of her life, and contemplates how her life had changed the day she found a magic book in the aftermath of the KND’s final battle with Grandfather. Imbued with magical abilities bestowed upon her by the book, which has since acted as a guide whispering into her head, she’s fought for the rights of not only kids but teens and adults subjugated by the Teen Ninjas in the Rhode Island Conflict. But she’d lost friends since then, many of whom had been felled by Hellbat. She confides in a friend named Koda Shrieves, who is unfamiliar with her alter ego of Wiccan, of her feelings and resentment to the order of things, and wishes to lash out at the world. Koda shares the sentiment, feeling caged by the ongoing conflict and wishing the KND had done their job and continued the fight instead of hiding in the shadows, allowing the world to get worse. Crystal reflects on how Koda had been there since the beginning for her, since her move to Rhode Island, since all the conflict mess had started and is thankful for his presence in her life.

Back in Virginia, Rachel, Carol and the rest of their TND begin applying pressure to the rest of the Teen Ninja operations, impacting those on west coast as well. This earns the attention of Teen Ninja High Command, Cree and McGillicuddy, including their overall leader The Steve. The Teen Ninja leaders then commit their attention to stamping out the resistance posed by Rachel’s TND, forcing them onto the defensive. The Steve, who has since grown weaker in terms of influence on the Teen Ninjas since the beginning of the Rhode Island Conflict, begins to butt heads with his two subordinate leaders. Seeking a regime change, Cree goes behind Steve’s back, showcasing her handling of the TND situation and Steve’s failures as evidence for Father’s consideration in appointing a new leader for the Teen Ninjas, however so does McGillicuddy. Father, however, is unable to make a proper decision, as he is dealing with an attempted hostile takeover of his company Evil Adult Industries from an apparently revived Icarus Crop. With no final say, so begins the Teen Ninja Civil War as both parties begin to war over who will control the organization. Crystal and her cohorts Agatha Pine and April Moon arrive in Virginia to reach out to the TND in hopes of creating a coalition to strike back at their enemies. At first, Rachel declines Wiccan’s offer, not wanting anything to do with the Vigilantes. However, Carol discovers the ongoing civil war and brings it to their attention, leading to Rachel and Wiccan formally aligning the TND and the Vigilantes to stoke to flames of the Teen Ninjas internal struggle. Rachel contacts all other TND cells and begins their greatest subversion attack. Civil war grips the Teen Ninjas all over, save for the East Coast as it becomes evident that the civil war has now fallen into three camps, with those supporting Cree or McGillicuddy, and those supporting The Steve. The Rhode Island TND attempt to assassinate Hellbat once again during a meeting with both Cree and McGillicuddy who both seek to break their stalemate by enlisting Hellbat’s support. The assassination is once again foiled by Hellbat’s team, only for Wiccan to arrive once again and claim the life of Hellbat’s subordinate Nacelle. Seeking a way to break the stalemate and take control, Cree reaches out to her sister Abby and the TND, making promises to exist in peace with them should they turn their subversion efforts in her favor. Rachel and the other TND leaders hold a meeting to discuss the possibility of peace. Wiccan, however, does not wish for peace and demands to see the Teen Ninjas destroyed. Wiccan storms off, swearing that should the TND act to aid the Teen Ninjas she would hold them responsible for their crimes. After further deliberation, the TND take the gamble and decide to aid Cree.

Returning to Rhode Island, Crystal speaks with her inner circle, April and Agatha claim to follow Crystal’s lead, but Crystal knows they do so not because they see value in her, but for her relationship with the book which gives her power. Crystal speaks in private to the book, and it sentience is revealed as it implores Crystal to think less of her cohorts and think of what she could truly do with its power, that the destruction of the Teen Ninjas is still within reach and to think of those who are no longer with her from the United Vigilantes. Setting out for the day to get a feeling from the populace, Crystal runs into Koda as he walks his sister to school. They touch base, with Koda going as far as to ask her out. Crystal accepts

Continuing his investigation into his inner circle, Douglass takes the time to follow up on their extended families, wondering if they might have anything to do with Hellbat’s identity. Cassandra’s cousin, the second Hellbat proves to be a likely candidate until discovering that him to be serving time for crimes against the state. Nolan’s mother and step father have since perished during the Rhode Island Conflict, leaving his sister orphaned and in the care of a guardian. He remembers that Gwen and Garret were both only children, leaving him stumped yet again. Receiving orders from Rachel to wipe Hellbat from the equation once more, Douglas begins organizing an anti-Teen Ninja rally at a local high school in order to draw Hellbat out. The turn out for the rally is surprising filled with kids, teens and adults alike who’ve since grown weary of all the fighting from the past few years. However, among the teens are Teen Ninja operatives at the ready should anything occur. Among them is Hellbat’s right hand man, Danton Ruberg, who approaches Douglass and informs him that Hellbat is waiting for him at the roof of the auditorium. Douglass leaves to confront Hellbat, along the way he reviews his findings about his team and concludes that neither Gwen nor Garret are the leader of the East Coast Teens. In reality Gwen has been consulting with peers and counselors about her college aspects, while Garret is in fact in the closet, only dating Kayla as a cover while stepping out and seeing teen ninja Connor Dax on the side. At the very same time, while seeing to Nolan’s remains, Vana discovers through the right side of his body being slightly more developed than his left, as Nolan was notoriously lefthanded, Vana concludes that the body belongs not to her former teammate but instead his negative double Nalon. Confronting Hellbat atop the school, Douglass demands Nolan face him. Unmasking, Nolan admonishes Douglass for his ineptitude and inability to realize the larger. Douglass defends himself, calling Nolan a traitor to the ideals of not only the KND but of their former mentor Dylan. Nolan in turn berates Douglass for only now involving himself after the KND had fallen, cutting into Douglass’ character as a supposed hero but never once lifting a finger once it mattered. Douglass counters, claiming Dylan would be ashamed of what Nolan became. Nolan agrees, saying he’d have been ashamed of them both. Reaching an impasse, Douglass fights Nolan. However, Douglass proves to be no match for the battle tested Teen Leader.

Wiccan arrives and recognizes Nolan under his alias of Koda Shrieves. Feeling betrayed by the revelation that the young man she knew was also her mortal enemy, lunges into a frenzy, heading the book’s whispering words and aims to destroy him with a massive blast of energy engulfing both former KND operatives. The roof caves in and endangers the students within. Realizing her error, Wiccan attempts to stop the falling debris, but fails to catch it all. The Teen Ninjas and TND below leap into action, saving everyone from the collapsing roof. Emerging from the rubble badly wounded, Douglass admonishes Wiccan for interfering in a personal matter. Wiccan screams at Douglass about how it was personal to her more so than he, citing the past few years that she’d spent fighting Hellbat while Douglass hid in the shadows waiting for everyone to drop dead at his feet. She then proceeds to scour the rubble in search of Hellbat’s body to no avail as he has once more escaped death. That night, unable to reconcile that the boy she liked is also her nemesis, Crystal stands up ‘Koda’, unsure how to proceed forward.

The revelation of Hellbat and Nolan being one and the same radiates throughout the TND, shocking those who’d personally known him. Carol voices her opinion to withhold further attacks against Hellbat, only to be overridden by Rachel and the rest of TND high command, who desire to reach peace with Cree and viewing Hellbat to be one of their final obstacles in doing so. The first shots in the Teen Ninja Civil War are also the very last as Cree acts on TND supplied information and eliminates McGillicuddy. Engulfing his territory and forces, Cree makes her play against The Steve and Hellbat by arranging a meeting with her supposed leader and her peer. However, just as Cree signals for her forces to gun them down at dinner, The Steve reveals to have been informed of her underhanded dealings with Father by Hellbat, and saw fit to seed her troops with those of Hellbat’s, whom he has come to believe to be loyal to his rule. Hellbat then calls upon his soldiers to gun Steve down regardless, shocking Cree. He reveals to Cree that he’d been working over the months since his ascension to his current station to place agents loyal to him within Cree and McGillicuddy’s inner circles to instill the idea of taking control of the Teen Ninjas into their heads, thus sending them on the path that had led to the present. Defeated, Cree goes on the run to inform the TND of recent events, while Hellbat summons Father, revealing himself to be behind Icarus Corp’s hostile takeover of Evil Adult Industries. Father attempts to fight Hellbat, only for him to instead be demoted as he now technically works for Hellbat since the company takeover. Sending Father on his way as Mr. Boss’ subordinate, a change which Mr. Boss finds no complaint in, Hellbat takes a moment to admire his work as he finds himself not only the undisputed leader of the Teen Ninjas, but also the corporate head of the Adult Villains. The moment passes and Nolan begins making plans for war.

News of the power shift within the Teen Ninjas finally reaches the TND’s ears, putting them on high alert. Wiccan arrives and berates them for allowing the teen she knew as both Koda and Hellbat to gather such power. Discovering that Wiccan knows Hellbat in his new civilian life, the assembled TND operatives resolve to strike him where he least expects it in his home. The former Prospector operatives, however, refuse to take part in further attempted assassinations of their once and former friend. Instead, they seek to simply speak with him. But their desires fall on deaf ears as the United Vigilantes and TND operatives move in to attack Nolan at his Koda Shrieves residence. They attack at the den of night, catching Hellbat unaware. However, Hellbat possesses the home field advantage, manages to hold them off long enough to send his sister Cecily away and assume his power armor. Summoning his Teen Ninjas, the TND find themselves cornered, as do the United Vigilantes. Hellbat prepares to kill them, only to be stunned by Wiccan unmasking herself, revealing her identity of as Crystal. Unsure how to proceed, Wiccan capitalizes on the moment, giving into the book’s demands to have its full power unleashed. Wiccan and the book combine, giving birth to a fusion of Crystal with Grandfather’s consciousness. The Crystal-Grandfather fusion attacks, causing Hellbat to call a retreat. The TND operatives are also forced to flee as the Crystal-Grandfather fusion begins trying to restart its attempts at funneling all of existence into itself.

Surprised by the revelation that Grandfather’s soul still persists, the TND begins planning to destroy Grandfather once and for all. However, using his newfound resources, Hellbat mounts an assault on Grandfather’s half finished fortress made of Rhode Island. Seeing the opportunity to strike both adversaries in one fell swoop, Rachel and the TND send the former Prospectors aboard Hellbat’s cruiser, seeing as he’d less likely perceive them as a threat, to kill him.

As the Teen Ninjas deal with the power corrupted April and Agatha, Carol, Violet, Kayla, Vana, Josh, Darius, Josie and Thomas sneak aboard the flagship,where they find the Crystal-Grandfather fusion engageing Hellbat in combat, with both sides of the entity’s mental space agreeing that they both hate him, on Crystal’s part for feeling betrayed by his identity, and on Grandfather’s side for being shot by Nolan years ago and prevented from engulfing existence. The Prospectors intervene, siding with Nolan, they join forces and disorient the fusion and manage to swipe the book from Crystal, saving her. Nolan comforts Crystal, having never wanted to fight her, revealing that he’d joined the Teen Ninjas six months after his supposed death because the KND was doing nothing and wished to change the organization from within, but circumstances had forced his hand as he needed to take control to stop an incoming threat.

The Prospectors question Nolan of the threat he speaks of, only for Infinity’s Onyx Team to appear before them and swipe the book, heavily damaging the Teen Ninja cruiser in the process and crashing it into Rhode Island. The Prospectors and Nolan’s Teens barely escape with their lives as the long believed dead Numbuh Infinity reveals himself to the world.

Carol then gathers the TND and Crystal under the Teen Ninjas roof, where Nolan then reveals that after confronting the elderly Grandfather at his old folks home, Infinity was met by Legion who informed him of Grandfather’s ambitions of restarting reality instead of destroying it. Deciding to co opt the plan down the line, he enabled Legion by giving him the means to reproduce the recommissioning module and faked his death, putting into motion a plan to see Nolan killed facing Grandfather, who would of course be defeated by the KND. With his nemesis gone he would have claimed the last aspects of Grandfather unopposed and set to work consuming reality to birth his own perfect universe. However, the essence of Grandfather had been lost in the struggle, only to be found by Crystal, and Nolan had survived, deciding to try his hand at changing the world through the Teen Ninjas. Infinity, deeming the Teen Ninjas to be his primary threat, began the United Vigilantes as a means to combat them through a proxy named Sandman. It was over the years and from the reports of his proxy that he began to suspect Crystal possessed the essence of Grandfather and began to prepare, laying in wait, mustering his forces from the remnants of the ‘GKND’ and his own followers on Earth, waiting for the perfect moment to take back the book. Hellbat had discovered Infinity’s involvement after killing Sandman, deciding to not only rise up and become leader of the Teen Ninjas, but also leader of the Adult Villains in order to combat the threat Infinity poses.

Now armed with Grandfather’s essence, Infinity begins to destroy reality. Armed with the Adult Villains of the world and the Teen Ninjas, the TND launches an all-out assault upon Infinity and his ‘GKND’ forces. Villains fall in battle, used as body shields for the main force of TND agents to close in on Infinity’s main cruiser. The forces of the GKND, however, persist, forcing them to fight tooth and nail to reach Infinity. In the end, only Carol, Josh, Kayla, Nolan and Violet reach the Infinity’s cruiser while the others are delayed fighting the ‘GKND’ outside. The assembled group are then met by Onyx Team, who are engaged by Josh, who’s returned to using lethal force, Violet and Kayla, while Nolan and Carol continue on to face Infinity. They find Infinity, who has already siphoned Grandfather’s power from his soul, causing the old despot’s soul to dissipate finally giving in to death, and is now poised to end reality to rebirth a new universe that he can then mold. Understanding the stakes, Carol and Nolan fight their longtime manipulator and adversary in a fight that brings the cruiser crashing down. Josh, Violet and Kayla escape while the surviving members of Onyx Team perish. The fight with Infinity drags out into the streets of Virginia, with Infinity summoning the past versions of Carol and Nolan to fight their present selves. Recalling these events from their original time travel adventure, Carol and Nolan beat their former selves, and cast them back into the past, moving forward with their fight with Infinity and wrestle control of the book containing Grandfather’s power, revealing it to be the Book of KND, with Carol declaring him to be unworthy of it. Ripping the power from Infinity, the already consumed realities within him flash into another big bang, destroying Infinity and releasing new universes beyond their own. With Infinity defeated and his GKND forces sundered and in full retreat, there remains only Carol and Nolan. Carol inquires what Nolan will do now. Nolan declares that he shall do what he intended to do since he joined the Teen Ninjas, control the production of crime. Carol points out that he’d still be enabling crime to be committed under his watch, and Nolan interjects that everyone who’d sat on the sidelines that past few years had done just that. Regardless, Carol cannot allow Nolan to do so. They fight a bitter battle across the warzone, with both combatants pulling out all the stops, using everything technique and piece of tech to their advantage. Ultimately, their bout is left undecided as both fighters collapse. The TND arrives and collects Carol for medivac, while arriving to place Nolan in chains for imprisonment.

By 2014, the final battle has been coined the TND’s Finest Hour as they’d finally pulled themselves together and become a legitimate organization, no longer bound to hit and runs and shadowy operations. The Teen Ninjas, which had been ruined by civil war and held together by Hellbat, have since fallen to shambles, while Evil Adult Industries continues to thrive under the leadership of Griffith, who has since turned the company’s aspirations elsewhere towards videogame production. With the fighting over, the members of the TND are mostly poised to graduate from their respective high schools and preparing themselves to take their first steps into adulthood. Carol, Violet, Josh, Thomas, Vana and Kayla all visit Nolan in his single occupant cell at the Arctic Prison, all of whom who regret seeing their former teammate and friend to have fallen so low. Confused as to the purpose of their visiting him, they answer by unlocking his cell and removing his chains, telling him that he’s free to go. After questioning why, the group answers that it was finally time that they stood by Nolan, having grown discontent with how they’d left him ever sin years ago when The Prospectors broke up. Nolan accepts their continued offer of friendship, but declines working with them, saying that it was time for him to give it up, that the world had a measure of peace and it was best that he not be apart of it. The others agree at the sentiment, realizing that their days fighting the good fight were already long past, and that it was time for them to start living their lives for themselves.

In the 2038, Rachel and Nigel are happily married, having a family with three children. Josh has reconciled his need for vengeance and his need for inner peace, finding it in himself to start a family with his once and former decommissioned teammate Connie Ingram. Fanny has married Patton, with Patton getting a job at Icarus Corp under Fanny’s father Mr. Boss, where he is forced to share an office with Father. Violet has settled down with Bruce Uno and routinely visits her cousin in hell to Scarlet meet her niece and nephew. Douglass marries Gwen and have one kid. Garret settles down with former Teen Ninja Connor. Vana has become a world class surgeon and married Staticky Stacey. Thomas has become a scientist working for NASA, honoring his late brother with a recent probe launch. Kayla joined the military after graduation and now held the rank of Captain. Carol became a United States Senator. After his sister Cecily’s graduation from university, Nolan and Crystal Wick-York sold their ownership stake in Icarus Corp and left for parts unknown. 

Stories

• Legends Universe: Prologue: 0000
• Phase 1: Brave New World
  • Numbuh 2030 (Story): 2004
  • Numbuh 362 (Story): 2005
  • Kids Next Door: Agenda: 2005
  • Numbuh 832 (Story): 2005
  • Numbuh 9-Lives (Story): 2005
  • Numbuh C4: In Service of the KND: 2005
  • Numbuh 322 (Story): 2005
  • The Prospectors (Story): 2005
• Phase 2: Revelations
  • Numbuh 2030: Legion: 2005
  • Numbuh 832: Screams in Space: 2005
  • Numbuh C4: Leviathan: 2005
  • Numbuh 9-Lives: Shadow Traveler: 2005
  • Numbuh 322: The Night: 2005
  • Sector V (story): 2005
  • The Prospectors: Visible in Darkness: 2005
  • Kids Next Door: Revelations: 2006
• Phase 3: Shipping War
  • Numbuh 2030: Destination Detention: 2006
  • Sector V: Father: 2006
  • Numbuh C4: Fight the Machine: 2006
  • Numbuh 832: Warzone: 2006
  • Numbuh 2030: Watching Storms: 2006
  • Numbuh 9-Lives: Family Affair: 2006
  • Numbuh 322: Bad Blood: 2006
  • The Prospectors: Day Off: 2006
  • Numbuh 362: Leader Supreme: 2006
  • The Prospectors: Halloween Special: 2006
  • Sector V: Kids At Play: 2006
  • Kids Next Door: Shipping War: 2006
  • The Prospectors: Christmas Special: 2006
• Phase 4: The Fall
  • The Prospectors: Excellent Adventure: 2007
  • Sector V: Battle Stations: 2007
  • Numbuh 832: Stone Cold Dark: 2007
  • Numbuh 9-Lives: Bellicosity: 2007
  • Numbuh 322: The Magic Bullet: 2007
  • Numbuh C4: Outbreak: 2007
  • Numbuh 2030: Cataclysm: 2007
  • Kids Next Door: Dark Universe: 2007
• Phase 5: Dark Epoch
  • Numbuh 2030: The Winter Crusade: 2007
  • Kids Next Door: Zero: 2007
  • Numbuh 832: Killing Fields: 2007
  • The Prospectors: The Long Haul: 2007
  • The Prospectors: Rogue: 2007
  • The Prospectors: Maximum: 2008
  • Numbuh 2030: Asylum: 2008
  • Numbuh 832: Valley Forge: 2008
  • Numbuh 322: Confederacy of Dunces: 2008
  • Numbuh 2030: The Escapist: 2008
  • Numbuh C4: The Widening Gyre: 2008
  • Numbuh 9-Lives: One Life Remaining: 2008
  • Sector V: Galactic: 2008
  • Numbuh 2030: Dead: 2008
  • Kids Next Door: Darkest Hour: 2008
• Phase 6: Teens Next Door
  • Teens Next Door: Hellbat Origin: 2008 - 2011
  • Teens Next Door: 2011
  • Teens Next Door: Providence High: 2012
  • Teens Next Door: Hallway Blues: 2012
  • Teens Next Door: Social Disorder: 2013
  • Teens Next Door: War of Kings: 2013
  • Teens Next Door: Amusement Mile: 2013-2014
  • Teens Next Door: Finest Hour: 2014
• Legends Universe: Epilogue: 2038

Characters of Importance

• Rachel T. McKenzie/Numbuh 362
• Nigel Uno/Numbuh 1
• Violet McClearly/Numbuh 9-Lives
• Chad Dickson/Numbuh 274
• Fanny Fulbright/Numbuh 86
• Patton Drilovsky/Numbuh 60
• Jerome/Numbuh Infinity
• Carol Pariuhs/Numbuh C4
• Joshua Paddock/Numbuh 832
• Nolan York/Numbuh 2030
• Benedict Uno/Father
• Monty Uno/Numbuh Zero
• Benedict Wigglestein Uno Sr./Grandfather
• Cassandra Abrams/Numbuh 12
• The Shimmer

Themes

The Legends Universe series was given more thought than previous stories by Depthcharge2030.

Of the many themes that run through the series, the idea of good people and their deeds going unrewarded is the most prominent. Examples include character who would other wise be considered 'good' losing their lives or finding nothing given to them despite their best efforts.

One of the many themes that also runs through the series is the very real idea that the Kids Next Door is just a bunch of child soldiers running through the world. The KND, more specifically, The Prospectors, act as a counter intelligence unit, with some, most notably, Joshua Paddock (Legends), displaying sociopathic tendencies.

Politics plays a role as the series is very much placed in a world that's still reeling from the events of 9/11. The Kids Next Door is a melting pot of people of various backgrounds and nationalities all unified under the idea of protecting the rights of children everywhere.

Trivia

• During one of many leave of absences, Depthcharge2030 noticed the anniversary of his time writing KND Fanfiction and thought of how convoluted some of his story ideas have been. Missing his anniversary, Depthcharge2030 sat down and thought of doing a reboot of the story Crutch. This in turn led to him coming up with the Legends Universe, a new sandbox of ideas to write.
• The use of the word 'Legends', comes from the recent announcement from Disney to declare all material outside of Star Wars movies and the tv shows to be considered no-canon. The words use is meant to celebrate the idea of non-canon story telling.
• Overall, The Legends Universe is meant to be The Prospectors' story, explaining the number of stories that focus on the individual members that make up the core team.
• The Galactic Kids Next Door was meant to be excluded. A version less vast and all powerful as presented in other mediums will be included however.
• The Legends Universe was first mentioned in 2012, during the Shadow Play excursion in KND: Galactic Endgame. It was referenced as "the universe where Nolan became The Figure".

Cut Content

• The Legends Universe series was meant to include a whole slew of 'Sector V' stories.
• In pre-production of the Legends Universe, there were a number of other story titles:
  • 'Pre-Teenz', a series of stories following child villains as they combat the Kids Next Door.
  • 'Numbuh UH-60', a series of stories following Numbuh UH-60 as he dealt with his own personal problems. Cut due to being too vague a premise.
  • 'Legends', a series of stories focusing on operatives of the past. Ultimately cut and repurposed for Kids Next Door: Revelations.
  • 'Numbuh 3:16', a series of stories focusing on the occult side of the Legends Universe. Cut and premise repurposed for the 'Numbuh 9-Lives' series.
  • 'Eternal', a mini-series focusing on the subgroup of the same name. Would have focused more on the magical side of KND lore, such as origins of the Black Licorice.