SuperRonII
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Chapter One: Return
-Two Years Later-
It was a sunny but windy late spring afternoon as the two figures leapt hurriedly from rooftop to rooftop. Both figures were female, young, and dressed in skintight black suits with colored bands down the sides. Though in parts there were spatters of red that wouldn't be there under normal circumstances.
"I cannot believe we got beaten that easily," Bonnie huffed to Yori as they ran, "did those two years of training do anything?"
"We fought intelligently and honorably," Yori huffed back, "however our defeat did come disturbingly easy."
"Not just disturbingly easy," Bonnie grumbled, "it was humiliating. Were our battlesuits broken or something, the shields didn't stop anything it seemed like."
"Our battlesuits were fully functional," Yori spared a glance to her companion, "however we were still very much outclassed in that battle."
"Here's hoping we can even manage to get away," Bonnie looked over her shoulder, "where the heck is Ron when we need him?"
"Ron-san must complete his training with Sensei if he is not to end up in the same situation as us," Yori pointed out, "still his assistance would be most welcome at the moment."
"Not just welcome," Bonnie said as they stopped on top of an abandoned warehouse to catch their breath, "if we're being chased we'll need Ron's help just to stay alive."
"I fear you are correct," Yori looked around warily, "as much as we have trained over the last two years it appears to have fallen short of our needs."
"And when were we supposed to have trained more without ditching class?" Bonnie turned to Yori, "I just don't know how she did it, I know Kim was stronger than us before she left with the curse seal and all but all of a sudden she comes back and she's in like a whole different league."
"Thanks for noticing, it's not going to stop me from killing you two though."
Bonnie and Yori turned with looks of shock on their faces to see Kim standing at the other end of the warehouse. Two years training with Monkey Fist had made few changes to Kim on the surface, her hair might have been a bit longer but that could just be Bonnie and Yori imagining things. Her lifestyle of saving the world had already led her to have a very athletic body that training had just made more apparent. Her hair was still red, her eyes still green, and if Kim had grown in the last two years it couldn't have been more than half an inch. But none of those were the changes that really mattered, while Kim's eyes were still green a look into them would reveal that the bright glow which had once marked a world famous hero had changed into a darkness that seemed to draw hope from any who looked into their depths. Her once eternal smile was now replaced with an evil scowl, and the voice that had brought hope to so many was now rougher and far more villainous.
"You didn't actually think you'd get away did you?" Kim stepped closer, "It's just the three of us and I'm not going to miss this chance to kill you two and get Ron back."
"No one's dying today Kim," Bonnie straightened up, "our battlesuits weren't working before but now they are so its going to be you who gets beat and then we'll get you back."
Kim's neutral look turned into a half smirk half scowl and she calmly raised her arm with two fingers pointing towards Bonnie and a dart of blue flame shot from her fingers towards the brunette.
Bonnie hurriedly activated the shield on her battlesuit and prayed that Kim's attack would break upon her shield unlike the attacks earlier that day. However Bonnie's shield seemed as useless as it had been before and Kim's dart of fire punched through the shield, smashed into Bonnie's arms, and threw her onto her back several feet from where she had been.
As Bonnie staggered to her feet Yori had already leapt into the air hoping to come down on Kim from above while she was distracted with Bonnie. Kim however had anticipated Yori trying such a stunt and as she came down Kim simply stepped back to avoid the attack. That however was not all she did, Kim grabbed Yori's leg as it passed through where she had been and started swinging around in an ever faster circle. Just as Yori began to fear she might have to taste her lunch coming up Kim let go of her leg and the next thing Yori knew she was flying through the air and right into Bonnie who had just gotten back to her feet.
The two young women tumbled back several more feet from the impact before finally stopping in a tangle of limbs. They disentangled themselves and got back on their feet as fast as they could but Kim was nowhere to be found. Bonnie and Yori started worriedly looking around and it was only their ninja assisted reflexes in tandem with their battlesuits that let them jump out of the way of Kim's attack from above into the empty industrial yard below them.
Kim landed across the yard from the two and casually flipped her hair over her shoulder before she started walking towards Bonnie and Yori as if she hadn't a care in the world. Being back on the ground Bonnie figured this was where she would be able to do her best and she wasted no time putting that thought to the test. Her foot slammed into the ground and a ring of stone spikes shot up around and towards Kim. The redhead however never even paused as she created a bubble of fire around her and simply vaporized the stone spikes as they hit it. Even as the fire was dissipating though Bonnie had already launched her next attack, she hurled a razor sharp wedge of stone at Kim who didn't have time to re-erect a fire based defense and was forced to dodge the attack. She did this with such grace however that when she finished her spin and let loose a large blue fireball it was Bonnie who ended up the surprised one as she was thrown back into a wall and slumped to the ground on the verge of unconsciousness.
Yori had precious little time to spare any concern for her fallen comrade as Kim wasted no time with her attack. Unable to match Kim's fire jutsus with her air ones Yori found herself having to frantically dodge the fire Kim was sending at her in many forms, all designed to do very unpleasant things to her. Yori's luck held out for a surprisingly long time, almost two minutes, before she finally was unable to dodge an attack and went sprawling back into a wall before sliding down to the ground.
Having taken a less direct hit than Bonnie, Yori was more conscious against the wall as Kim started walking towards them with what Yori recognized as the desire to kill bright in her eyes. In a last desperate attempt Yori reached into her hip pouch and threw several kunai at Kim. Unfortunately the one time hero was well prepared for such an attack and with a simple lean to the side she let the kunai streak past her before reaching out and grabbing one by its handle.
"Nice try," Kim sneered at her fallen opponents, "but as always you're just a couple of failures, no match for someone like me. And just to pour salt on the numerous wounds I intend to cause you two before I finally let you die I'm going to kill you with your own weapon. I think I'll start with the arm you threw this with, teach you the lesson not to try and put off the inevitable."
Yori gasped and her eyes snapped shut as Kim hurled the kunai back at her. But instead of the piercing pain of the blade slicing through her shoulder Yori felt a great gust of wind and then a very distinct lack of piercing pain.
Hearing the clink of metal hitting the ground Yori pried her eyes open and let out another gasp at the sight. His back was turned to her but there was no mistaking that blonde hair, Ron Stoppable had returned just in time to save the day.
"Kim," he said simply, "It's been awhile."
"Ron," Kim breathed, "is that really you?"
"Yeah," Ron brought his hand back down to his side, "I'd ask the same but we both know you haven't been yourself for awhile now."
Kim shot a hateful glare at Bonnie and Yori, "Don't worry Ron, I know these two have been controlling you since senior year but it's all going to be over soon. Just let me kill them, I'll even do it quickly, and then we can be together like we both know we're meant to be. No more villains, no more having to save the world every day, it can be just us with nothing to worry about."
"No Kim," Ron had a sad look on his face, "that wouldn't help anything and I'm not letting anyone get killed today. If you really want to make things right then please let us help you, don't you understand that Luthor and Monkey Fist are evil?"
"But they're not," Kim pleaded, "it's Yamanouchi and the Kryptonians who are evil. But I know you aren't evil Ron because you've been my best friend for so long and I know there's no way you could be evil."
"Neither of us is evil," Ron implored her, "but between that curse seal and whatever Monkey Fist and Luthor have done two you in the last two years you've forgotten what's evil and what's good. But you still want to be good and that's how I know you can be saved."
"I don't need saving though," Kim said as a ball of blue flame appeared over her hand, "I just need to use this to kill those two and then all our problems will be solved. I'm begging you, trust me this once that I know what I'm doing."
"I'm sorry Kim," Ron slowly shook his head, "I need you to trust me, not kill anyone, and come get the help you need."
Kim had a frown on her face as she slid into a fighting stance, one far more serious than her cocky style for fighting Bonnie and Yori. Ron just stood there with a sad look on his face waiting for Kim to make the first move.
Kim took precious little time obliging Ron, she reached into her own hip pouch and a hail of sharp throwing knives streaked out towards Bonnie. Ron vanished from where he was standing and reappeared in front of Bonnie, instead of letting them all hit him Ron used his heat vision to melt the knives as they passed through it.
Even before the knives were finished impacting Ron's heat vision Kim was already moving towards Yori a dagger of flame forming in her hand as she went. Ron disappeared even faster than the last time, if that was possible, and reappeared just in front of Yori in time for Kim's attack to stop dead against his chest leaving a large hole in his shirt as she jumped back.
Kim's next move was to put both her hands out with three fingers clenched in and let loose a hail of fire darts towards Yori. Ron calmly stood in front of her and without any apparent effort blocked all of Kim's shots. A look of concentration grew on Kim's face and her shots grew even faster, Ron though simply moved his hands ever faster and Yori watched in amazement from behind him.
Her look of concentration turning into a scowl Kim jumped back several feet, "well I can obviously see you've gotten a lot better over the last two years."
"Everyone has," Ron returned to simply standing there, "now are you going to come with us or do I have to make my move?"
"You're a lot stronger than I thought you'd be," Kim said, "I hoped I could save you here but that's not going to happen. I need some time to think how I'm going to kill those two so I'll be going now. See you around Ron."
Before even Ron could do anything flames spiraled around Kim and when they cleared the redhead was nowhere to be seen. Ron moved his head around applying his super hearing to trying to find Kim but he came up empty handed. As unpleasant as that was to Ron it was nothing new, he'd realized after Kim had fled senior year that she'd somehow found a way to hide from all his enhanced senses and unable to figure out just how she did it Ron couldn't think of a good way to counter it.
He turned around to see Bonnie and Yori picking themselves off the ground, both of them looked a bit the worse for wear but there didn't seem to be anything too terribly wrong with them, a few days of relaxation combined with their ninja healing should have them doing just fine again.
"Ron," Yori was in the better condition and therefore the first to speak, "not to sound ungrateful but what… how…?"
"Not much to it," Ron walked over to the two girls, "I woke up this morning and my Mystical Monkey Power was doing its alarm thing and then a few hours later Sensei calls me in for a talk. He said how I'd done a great job over the last two years but that I'd learned everything he could teach me. Then he told me a few other things before he said that the bad feeling I'd been having all day wasn't just that but you two were in danger. Sensei said he'd have all my things sent over by ninja mail and I took off for Metropolis, I had to slow down coming over the Rockies though there was a lot of snow and hypersonic speeds tend to set off avalanches. After that, got here, fought Kim, and yeah…"
"So what are you doing now?" Bonnie still sounded a bit woozy from the fight, "Stay here, back to Japan for more training, go try to hunt down Kim?"
"I'm back here for the long haul," Ron said, "I've done the paperwork to transfer back to Met U and Sensei said he'd have someone call Felix and see if he's still good with us rooming together. But let me get you two home right now, I'll get to all your questions but I'd rather do it from a couch instead of an industrial yard."
Bonnie and Yori agreed to that readily, Ron carefully picked them up and took to the skies before he started flying in what he knew to be the general direction of their house. With some more precise directions as they got closer it wasn't long until Ron set down in front of a typical college student house. Small, reasonably well kept, and with Bonnie's small white car parked outside it was almost exactly what one would expect college students to rent for a few years.
Once on the ground again Yori rather unsteadily walked to the street and to the mailbox while Bonnie fumbled with the key to open the door. Ron felt somewhat useless but he also felt that especially after losing their fight Bonnie and Yori would be the type to take his attempt to help in entirely the wrong way. Still even as beat up as they were Bonnie and Yori managed to get their mail and into their house.
"Ron," Bonnie pried herself from where she had collapsed on the couch, "someone up there loved Yori and I enough to get us a house with two bathrooms. We're going to go take the longest showers of our lives and I would love you forever if you'd have some food waiting for us when we came down."
Ron smiled and waved Bonnie and Yori upstairs, he was glad that however complicated he had left things two years ago with his declaration of returning both girl's feelings for him they were all still friends at the very least. He walked into the kitchen and began rummaging through the cabinets, Bonnie and Yori were better than Kim in the kitchen but that was about the same as being better than France at warfare. Still though they didn't burn water when they cooked so Ron was able to start pulling things together without the risk of his now evil best friend coming to destroy by her mere presence whatever he'd made.
Bonnie obviously hadn't been kidding when she said she and Yori were going to take the longest showers of their lives, Ron was at a loss for how there was any hot water left in the house some fifteen minutes before the showers finally went off. When the two came down it was in clothes much more comfortable than battlesuits period, much less battlesuits that had been torn up, bloodied, and generally put through everything two ninjas could manage.
"Tell me Ron," Yori sat down at the table, "what do you intend to do now that you are back in America?"
"It's a pretty simple plan," Ron handed the girls their plates, "pulling it off is going to be a bit tough. Only steps are go to school, save Kim, hopefully before I graduate, and then you know CEO by day superhero by night."
"And where would that leave us?" Bonnie said after swallowing a mouthful of food, "I mean once you've saved Kim are Yori and I going to be notches on the belt in the life of Ron Stoppable?"
"No," Ron sighed, "I'll admit that at the end of junior year I was probably starting to crush on Kim but by the time everything in senior year had happened Kim wasn't Kim anymore and I wasn't crushing on her. And then those two years in Japan were great, Yamanouchi is beautiful once you get used to the unholy hours and the lack of Bueno Nacho. But it wasn't home, and I didn't want to just get back here to save Kim, I wanted to get back here to see you two just as much. When this is all over and Kim's good again I want to be her best friend, but it's you two I want to be with, however that works out."
"I trust you have a plan for defeating Monkey Fist and saving Kim," Yori blushed as she changed the subject, "or else Sensei would not have sent you back to stay."
"I do have a plan," Ron answered, "only problem is there's a but. Sensei found something in one of those really old and secret scrolls that he thinks says destroying the Omega Simia will return Kim to normal. But it'll only do that if she hasn't killed anyone yet, and I think she's willing to kill whoever it takes to put you two six feet under so we have to be careful to make sure Kim doesn't actually kill anyone, otherwise she'll be tied to the Omega Simia and our choices would go from bad to worse."
"I don't see why we can't pull that off," Bonnie paused her glass on the way to her mouth, "there are three of us and only one of her, with your strength all we'll need is one good swing at that thing and problem solved."
"I don't think it's going to be that easy," Ron collected the dishes and with a quick burst of speed they were all washed and dried, "I'm stronger than her but Kim is still no pushover and she didn't open the curse seal today, plus Monkey Fist wasn't with her and there's no telling how much stronger he's gotten. But we can figure it out later, Kim's not going to show herself for awhile after today and I've got to be going now."
"Where are you going?" Yori looked concerned, "you just got here and there is much Bonnie and I would still like to talk to you about."
"I need to go see my parents," Ron started walking towards the door, "and I should've said this earlier but your English has gotten a lot better Yori."
Yori blushed too much to form a response and this prompted Bonnie to start laughing so much she couldn't reply either. Waving to the two Ron walked out the doors and after a quick check to make sure no one could see him he launched himself into the sky and with practiced ease turned himself towards Middleton and set off. At the speeds he flew it didn't take him long at all to cross the Great Plains and soon the Rocky Mountains began to grow on the horizon. Slowing himself considerably Ron scanned the area around his house for anyone outside, not seeing anyone he set himself down on the front porch and let himself in.
The first thing he heard walking into the house where he had grown up were voices chatting away from the family room. Listening in he quickly placed the voices as his parents and the Dr's. P.
"Hey everyone," Ron walked into the room, "how's it going?"
"Ronald!" His mom gasped, jumped to her feet, and quickly wrapped him in a hug that had even him gasping for breath, "It's so good to have you back but did something happen, your last letter didn't say anything about coming back."
"Nothing too bad," Ron sent his parents a look begging for no questions, "I finished up what I'd been in Japan for a bit faster than I thought and there were plenty of reasons I wanted to come back to America."
"Just as long as your back safe and sound," his dad got up from his seat, "you've got your living arrangements made?"
"Yep," Ron let out an internal sigh of relief, "I got a hold of Felix earlier and it's all taken care of."
"You're a sight for sore eyes Ron," Ron looked over to see the Dr's. P. stand up, "things have felt so empty here with Kim gone and you off in Japan."
"Yeah about that," Ron said, "mom, dad, can I have a moment?"
Once his parents had left the room, knowing what he was going to say, he sat down across from Kim's parents, "Listen I saw Kim today and I think it's time I told you a few things."
-That Night-
Ron floated high up above the Earth's atmosphere relishing in the quiet of space. Kim's parents had taken his revelations about himself and the missing details of senior year quite well in his opinion. Both of them agreed with his hindsight that telling Kim right after he found out would have been the best idea but by the same token they could find no fault with the choices he'd made once they understood the circumstances and what he knew at the time. Having renewed his pledge to bring Kim back to her good self and telling the Dr's. P. how he planned to pull that off Ron had set off to go see what heroics he could pull that night.
Several fires put out, a crashing plane safely landed, and a landslide diverted later Ron's old mission clothes were pretty beat up, not to mention they weren't taking too well to several hundred degrees below in the vacuum of space. But before he could reflect on that more though his musings were interrupted by the beeping of the Kimmunicator.
"Hey Wade," Ron pulled the device out of his pocket, "what's going on?"
"I've got a call from Oliver Queen," Wade leaned back in his seat, "he wants you to drop by Queen Industries, apparently he has a welcome home gift for you."
"Thanks Wade I'm on my way," Ron cut the connection.
Ron made decent enough time but he had to slow down quite a bit going through the upper atmosphere as he noted his clothes beginning to disintegrate from the heat of re-entry, still he arrived outside Oliver's window in a presentable condition if not so polished as he'd hoped.
"Welcome back to America," Oliver turned around in his chair as Ron landed in the room, "I hear you had a busy first day."
"I guess you could say that," Ron sat down in the chair across the desk.
"You don't look it but your clothes certainly look like they took a beating," Oliver gestured to the soot, holes, and fray marks all over Ron's outfit.
"Club Banana cut it for the teen hero world saving," Ron picked at a loose thread and unraveled another inch of his sleeve, "but apparently not the superhero world saving."
"Then it's a good thing I'm a step ahead of the curve," Oliver pushed a button on his desk, "I thought of that before you left for Japan and I've had people working on a suit for you for the last two years, I think you're actually familiar with the staff."
Ron looked over with surprise on his face as the doors to the office opened and none other than Dr. Drakken and Shego walked in holding a large bag that Ron guessed held the suit Oliver had been developing.
"Well this is certainly an ironic twist," Dr. Drakken stopped in front of Ron, "I've built a suit to help the buffoon beat Kim Possible of all people."
"I didn't tell them anything," Oliver answered Ron's unasked question, "but they did have to know what to build your suit to take and they managed to put two and two together."
"Alright then," Ron took the bag from Dr. Drakken, "just what can this thing do?"
"It's a lot like the battlesuits your ninja girlfriends are wearing," Shego said in her normal bored voice, "except Dr. D. here didn't build in the strength and reflex enhancers and all that other fancy offensive stuff. There's nothing more that we can do to make you hit any harder or go any faster with all your powers. Instead of having to balance offense and defense this thing is designed to take anything a superhero gets thrown at them, unlike what you're wearing."
"Hey these things were more than enough for Kim and me to foil your plans for years," Ron jumped to defend his mission clothes.
"I'm afraid you're in a different league now Stoppable," Dr. Drakken picked up, "it certainly cost Mr. Queen here a bit of money but this suit is to tank armor what tank armor is to normal skin. It can take anything from extreme heat to cold, the vacuum of space to the bottom of the ocean, shrapnel, bullets, larger objects such as cars trains and planes, and with you in mind there are several layers of lead in this suit."
"How'd you pull that off," Ron had pulled the suit out of the bag and it did indeed bear a resemblance to Bonnie and Yori's battlesuits, certainly it wasn't thick enough to have that sort of protection.
Dr. Drakken had a look of no small pride on his face, "it was a very long, hard, and expensive procedure to make every atom in that suit line up exactly where it needs to be while still being flexible enough to be practical."
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth," Shego poked him in the chest, "you didn't have to test drive all the models that came before that thing, some of those were complete disasters, fashion and function. The bottom line though is that even though you shouldn't walk into a room full of kryptonite, with everything but your head shielded the amount of kryptonite you can be exposed to before it starts taking effect has gone way up."
"Wow," Ron looked down at the suit, "never thought I'd say this to you two but thanks."
Shego looked as though she couldn't quite believe he was saying it either, "You can thank me by using that suit I had to test long and hard to beat Kimmie for me."
Ron looked at her sadly, "I think you're going to get your wish because I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to go through Kim to save Kim."
AN: Welcome one and all to the first of five installments of this little tale. Now that everything and everyone is caught up this should be a fast paced story with plenty of twists and turns each chapter. Just to clear this point up front Wade was let in on Ron's powers in the space between the two stories. I for one am pumped up to be working on this sequel at last and rest assured I will write with the speed of a thousand canoes and the fury of a million white hot burning suns. And in the next chapter: It turns out someone else can do what Bonnie and Yori can do, and a bit more besides.
