Mole Rat Day

Prologue

"Now, Fraulein Possible!" Professor Dementor shouted, pointing a finger at Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable as he stood atop a raised dais in his newest lair. "Now you vill be regretting ze interfering of my plans vor ze last time!"

"I don't recall regretting it the first time." Kim retorted with a smirk. For now, she was manacled back to back with Ron, with forcefields that held their feet and hands in place, leaving them both spread eagle and hovering in a slow spin. She glared sideways at the stocky supervillain. "Ron!" she whispered over her shoulder. "Wake up!"

Ron moaned. "Uh? Touchdown?" he asked, slurring his words. "Did we win?"

"Not yet." Kim replied, trying to keep her eye on Dementor and his team of henchmen. "Can you break these manacles?"

Ron looked up at both of his hands, noticing the forcefields they were encased in, and the energized tether that ran to the metal ring that surrounded them. "I'll try..." he said. He began pulling on the manacles, gently at first, and Kim cringed as her arm was pulled with each of Ron's tugs.

"Wait, Ron..." she said through gritted teeth.

"Ha Ha!" Dementor laughed. "I see you are liking my Dual Captivity Device?"

"Not particularly." Kim said under her breath.

Dementor steepled his fingers as he rounded the large tripod mounted beam weapon that was pointed directly at Kim and Ron. "You vill be enjoying to know that this weapon is powered by..."

"The Pandimensional Vortex Inducer?" Kim and Ron asked in unison. Dementor's smile faded for a moment. "I am so giving Kate a thrashing for letting that thing slip out of that lab in the Rockies again."

Dementor stood in front of Kim as she slowly spun to face him again. He looked up at her with a smug, self satisfied look on his face. "Ah!" he exclaimed, his arrogant smile returning. "But did you notize the diamond at the point of ze focusing? Quite ingenious, no?"

"It's a diamond." Ron said flatly.

"At the end of your gun thingy. So?" Kim stated.

"It iz the PANDIMENSIONAL VORTEX INDUCER!" he shouted, squeezing his eyes shut. "It will create a contained disruption in the..."

"Fabric of reality." Kim said, unimpressed. "We know."

"The diamond. What's the diamond do?" Ron asked, sounding far more interested than Kim.

Dementor grunted, becoming irritated by the constant interuptions. "Ze Cupid Diamond is flawlezz!"

Ron shrugged as the DCD caused him to spin slowly by Dementor. "Know that too."

"QuiET!" Dementor shouted. He snapped his fingers and smiled. "Myron! Power ze Pandimensional Vortex Inducer!"

"But I haven't found the vole cat yet, Bill!" the thin blond man with a tuft of hair sprouting off of his chin replied from the crowd of similarly dressed, huge brutish thugs that Dementor usually employed.

Dementor shook his head and smacked his face with an open palm. "It iz a mole rat, Myron, and I AM ORDERING YOU TO POWER ZE PANDIMENSIONAL VORTEX INDUCER!" As Myron approached the beam weapon's controls, Dementor turned back to Kim as she began spinning around again. "As you will soon discover, ze Cupid Diamond will fracture ze beam, splitting your atoms amongst zouzands of diverent dimensions."

"Is that gonna hurt?" Ron asked nervously.

Dementor laughed, his voice echoing through the lair. "I vould ask when you return, but that will not be possible since returning is not what you will be doing. Ha!"

"Don't worry, Kim!" Ron said. "My monkey powers will..."

"Ron, I'll be drawn and quartered before you get free." she whispered back. "We need something to dislodge that diamond, and then reflect the focused beam away."

"Great plan, KP!" Ron grinned. "How are we gonna do that?"

"I... I don't know." she frowned, looking around the lair. "You see Rufus anywhere?"

Ron gave a desperate look around the lair as well until a familiar, rhythmic beeping began to emanate from Dementor's beam weapon. "Uh oh..."

"The Pandimensional Vortex Inducer's been activated!" Kim announced as Dementor stepped away from the couple. He climbed the short set of steps up to the weapons controls, pushing Myron out of the way as he situated himself over the fire button.

"There is no battle suit, no... Cousin Larry... to save you this time, Fraulein Possible!" Dementor laughed. "You are vinished!"

"Kim, there's something I've gotta ask. Before..." Ron began.

"Not now, Ron! Let me think!" she replied in annoyance, still surveying the area.

"Whether we die here or not, it's been a heck of a Mole Rat Day, huh?" Ron said as he stared into the blue glowing diamond. "But I really need to ask if you'll..."

The Pandimensional Vortex Inducer whined, a loud scream that began vibrating windows and caused Dementor's henchmen to cover their ears. The yellow laser struck the diamond, splitting into a cone of a thousand green beams of light that engulfed Kim and Ron. Ron ground his teeth, calling upon his mystical aura that blazed into life around them both. The light enveloped the Dual Captive Device, and both Kim and Ron shouted in agony as both individuals were disintegrated into millions of particles.

Rufus watched the resulting death of his two best friends for what seemed like the millionth time with a sigh. He was in the rafters above Professor Dementor where he had hoped he would have gotten wrist Kimmunicator to her in time, but unfortunately he was once again too late. Dementor threw up his arms in victory and on cue, his Henchmen cheered as well.

The mole rat sat down on one of the steel girders and waited. He was tired, and knew that rest wouldn't be waiting for him, at least not for the next day. He cradled his head on his forepaw and continued watching as Dementor's cheers faded when his beam weapon continued to buzz, then shake. The resulting explosion washed over the rodent before disintegrating the villains below, and he contemplated what to try next as he found himself once again in his bed in Kim and Ron's apartment. The smell of eggs and bacon filled the air, and Rufus wondered if he'd ever be able to stomach either of them again.

"KP!" Ron called. "Come on, it's Mole Rat Day!"

"I thought we were going to call it Mission Day." Kim said, coming out of the bedroom, still dressed in her blue cotton pajamas. She gave Ron a peck on the lips, sliding her arms around his neck.

Rufus frowned. Usually, Mole Rat Day was a time that Kim and Ron celebrated, marking both their very first mission, as well as when Ron bought him from Smarty Mart. This day had become quite different though, and Rufus prepared himself to live it all over again...