Due to upcoming exams and uni applications, this story will be on hiatus until early July. Sorry! Rest assured I'll get back on it as soon as exams are over. As for the other story (Operation O.N.E.), it's still too short to warrant a hiatus and on the off-chance I find time to write it'll probably be on my other story. For now, enjoy a sneak peek on another short upcoming KND story!

"It...it works."

"Wait, what? Are you serious?"

"Yes I am. This is it. This is the cure!"

"Contact Global Command. They'll need to hear about this right away. We gotta get this rolling as soon as possible!"

"Right."

I remember how I felt when we found the cure to adulthood; the aging process. I was there at that moment with them. It was another uneventful day at the lab and the three of us on shift, Numbuh 7.50, 6.23 and myself, Numbuh 2.11, weren't expecting to make any breakthroughs. After all, most of our funding had shifted to the military side. Huh? My name? I don't remember. It's been too long. Honestly it has! You can just call me two-eleven if you want. James? Hell, whatever. If you wanna call me that then go ahead.

When did our battles start to earn causalities you ask? I can't really remember myself. I don't even remember the reason why we decided to attack the adult military forces. Was it out of some misplaced sense of justice? Or maybe out of some childish naivety? Or frustration that we had made such little progress in our quest for equal rights for children and adults. Who knows. All I remember was at that time, seeing a body of a dead kid became natural. Or adult.

Anyway, I'm getting off track here. I was talking about the cure. I felt...ecstatic. Yeah. That was it. After generations of previous operatives being unable to find a cure for this disease called adulthood, we had discovered the key to eternal childhood.

It was all a blur after that. Everything moved so fast. The Supreme Leader, after a short trial period using it on captured adult soldiers, started mass producing them. The soldiers turned to kids, but had every recollection of their adult lives. They eagerly told us everything about their army base. Defensive installments. Various protocols and procedures. The specific models of tanks and planes they were using. Just spurting the info out like seeing a couple of small fry kids trying to impress the big boys on the playground. That's where we struck first. The entire installation was under KND Command in less than thirty minutes.

After a month, it was all major cities. After six we reached the more rural areas. After a year we reverted more than three-quarters of the entire planet. Then two months after that, all adults have been wiped off the face of the Earth.

When did everything begin to fall apart? Some dated records say as long as several decades after complete Wonderization. Others as short as a month. Nothing was ever really recorded properly. Kids always did suck at keeping track of things, huh?

Why? That's a question I can answer. And the answer is much more simple than you think. We were bored. Simply put. There was nothing for us to do. We spent our entire childhood fighting adults and now that that's done, we had nothing to live for. We were aimless beings. Sure, you could say there were territorial disputes, arguments against an ever-defining class system, stealing from other zones, dwindling supplies, stuff like that. But we just wanted to find an excuse to tear the ever loving crap out of each other.

What? No! That's not the end of it. That was just the beginning. This was our first 'war', if you could call it that. The initial violence was magnificent. You know how kids can get rowdy, right? How they always get into fights? That's just made even worse with hormones and stuff. Multiply all that by a hundred and you had a massive shit storm. Kids were literally playing with fire. Guns, bombs, tanks, RPGs, the whole lot. It wasn't a nice sight to say the least. But as quickly as it started, it stopped just as quickly. Ha ha...Everyone died. That was it. Where was it? Hmm...I can't recall for sure, but possibly what was Eastern Europe? There was a lot of firepower. Just think of any place that focused on military a lot. Like that Korea place. Could've been there. Huh? Well it's not my fault your Old World history sucks!

A small group of kids argued a system should be put into place to avoid such an event from happening again. Some complained, saying it would be too much like the world before. Others sternly agreed that rules should be implemented for everyone's safety. Then you got all those in between. In the end, we got rules and things were better for a while. Better than before that exchange of fire but it was still very tense. What did they call themselves again? Youth Republic.

A separate bunch of kids decided to break off and form their own territory. They didn't like a small group of kids telling them what to do. Now, YR wasn't happy about this, but to avoid another massacre they let them ago. They were still in the middle of organizing their government system or whatever and had other things to worry about.

However, this act caused a lot more people to want to break off and form their own groups. It reached a point where YR had enough and just blew the crap out of everyone who tried to leave.

Where did they get the weapons? What kind of question is that? Well, which country in the Old World spent more on the military than any other? Ha, at least you know that much. The stockpiles of military equipment they found was immense so it really wasn't surprising how they managed to keep such a large territory.

Yeah, fast forward a few years and you got a massive superpower controlling more than half the world's landmass and a bunch of smaller insignificant territories. Heh...History finds twisted ways of repeating itself.

What do you want to know anyway? These questions don't seem to be pointing in any particular direction.

The Kids Next Door? Alright. This'll take some time...