"We need to go rescue David," Ashley insisted, not very long after the attack from the teen ninjas.

"We also need to repair our treehouse," Numbuh 2 stated. "And come up with a plan. We can't just go barging into…wherever they took him, which is another point: we don't even know where they took him!"

"Then we need to find him, or something!" the blonde said, looking determined. "We can't just leave him with them! Who knows what they could do to him," she huffed. "Or who they could turn him over to…" she added more quietly, worried about her friend and teammate.

"Well, let's help repair the treehouse first," Constance suggested. "It'll go faster if we all help out, and then we can all start trying to find out where David is." Ashley simply nodded in agreement after a minute or two, everyone starting to help repair the damaged treehouse.

Chad Dickson hadn't intended to kidnap any of the Kids Next Door operatives. At least, he hadn't at the beginning of the mission. The tall brunette boy that he couldn't remember seeing before had gotten on his nerves by mouthing off. He'd dived at the short girl just to shut him up, but the kid had played the hero and got himself caught. He'd carried through with kidnapping him so the other teenagers wouldn't get any suspicions about him. Besides, maybe he could ask the kid some questions later. He did somehow look familiar…

They'd dropped the kid in one of their teen bases, tying his arms behind his back despite his struggling, before gagging him and tying his ankles together. David just squirmed uncomfortably, irritated with the care the teenagers took in binding him, and with the knots they'd tied.

"So, what are we going to do with this dumb kid?" Chad asked, smirking a little.

"I'm not sure yet," Cree shrugged, not overly caring about their prisoner. "Just go throw him in a holding cell or something for now, we can figure out what to do with him later." Chad just nodded, grabbing David by his ankles before dragging the brunette behind him as he headed down a hallway. David just grumbled muffedly behind his gag, trying to wriggle out of the blonde teen's grasp.

"You'd better knock that off, twerp," Chad growled at him, tightening his grip on the kid's ankles. David grumbled at him again, glaring at his back. Chad opened a metal door before long, looking up and down the empty hallway before pulling David inside, shutting the door behind them. "Listen kid," the blonde started. "I want to ask you a few things. Things'll go better for you if you behave and just tell me what I want to know, got it?" he asked, loosening and removing David's gag.

"Why exactly do you think I should tell you anything?" David spat, glaring at him. "Things can't get much worse, so I'm not going to tell you anything."

"Things can always get worse, you dumb brat," Chad shook his head, scowling. "Who are you, anyway? I've never seen you in that dumb treehouse before. Where did you even come from?"

"Like I said, I'm not going to tell you anything," David retorted. "Why would I? So you can go hurt my friends? I don't think so."

"You're such a stubborn brat," the blonde let out a frustrated sigh. "I want to help you, but if this is how you're going to act…"

"It's almost like I was brought here against my will, tied up, and unwillingly dragged down a hallway," David answered sarcastically. "Why would you of all people want to help me? You took me here in the first place. I'm not going to betray my friends."

"Ugh, I want to hit you so much right now," Chad grumbled, pinching the bridge of his nose in aggravation. "Look, I'll loosen the rope if you promise not to be an idiot about this. You can't break out of here by yourself, so if you slip the rope now you're only dooming yourself, but you could wait for a better chance," he said. David just raised his eyebrow at the blonde, but watched as Chad loosened the rope around his ankles just enough so it'd only hold if he didn't struggle much. Chad did the same to the rope keeping David's hands behind him, and then sat back.

"…Thank you?" David said, confused at why the teenager was now helping him.

"Now, who are you?" Chad asked. "I think I've just demonstrated that I want to help," he added, going to the door to carefully check for any other teenagers; the hallway was still clear.

"The name's David," David answered him simply. "I was part of Sector Z."

"Sector Z? Sector Z was lost…" Chad hissed quietly, shocked at the news. "Where were you and the other operatives?"

"Shouldn't you have been decommissioned?" the brunette asked, raising his eyebrow at him again.

"I got out of the moonbase before that happened," Chad told him quickly. "But back to my question. Where were you?"

"I don't want to talk about it right now," David muttered, frowning deeply. "I just…Still don't trust you enough to tell you that."

"Alright, alright," Chad sighed. "I suppose that's fair enough," he muttered, though blinked when he heard footsteps coming down the hallway. "Time for the gag to go back," he said quietly, David barely protesting when the teenager tied the gag back into his mouth. He still wasn't entirely sure why, but the blonde was apparently trying to help him, and he was in no position to refuse his help at the moment.

Chad just kicked him in the stomach, not overly hard, as the other teenagers opened the door. They snickered a little, smirking. "C'mon Chad, Cree wants to talk to ya," one guy told him, Chad following them out of the room and down the hallway after shutting the door, leaving David in the holding cell for the time being.

"I've been thinking about the prisoner," Cree said after a few hours. "We have no use for him ourselves. There's almost no point in keeping him here," she shrugged.

"We aren't just going to let him go, are we?" Justin asked, looking confused. Cree just snorted in response.

"Of course we're not just going to let him go! I was thinking more along the lines of handing him over to someone who has more use of a brat like him," she snickered, an evil smirk spreading across her face. "What I think we should do with the dumb kid…is hand him off to Father."

Sorry for the short-ish chapter xD But here's chapter 9 at last! Enjoy!