Kim Possible in "Wedding Bells"
By Star-Eva01
Part 1 – Media in Middleton: Monday to Saturday Morning
Monday:
The world news media had been taking over Middleton slowly for a month. And starting today, they had invaded in force. If a country broadcast news, a team was in Middleton, and in some cases more then one. Japan had three teams; England had two, France four, and Canada believe it or not had five just of name a few.
Every motel, hotel, in Middleton, Upperton, and Lowerton, and anything else that would normally have a room was packed. Middleton Ski Loge had every room and cabin booked. Some rooms had been booked for over a year. And there not any rooms anywhere for almost 50 miles.
The print media had reporters from all over the US and the world also in Middleton too including reporters from the LA Times, USA Today, New York Times and the London Times, again just to name a few. The paparazzi where there too and could be seen all over the Tri-Cities area. The rumor was that a London tabloid was offering a "finders fee" of a million dollars for pictures of a certain dress that could be printed before Saturday, and two million for pictures of the dress with a certain red-head in it.
It did not matter were the media was from, how many there were, or what language they spoke, they wanted the same thing, Team Possible.
Tuesday:
Team Possible held a press conference. During that conference, the entire team answered questions from reporters for over two hours. Also during that press conference some ground rules were set about the event scheduled for the following Saturday.
Everyone paid attention because they did not want to end up like a three person team of paparazzi that disappeared trying to get inside the homes of Team Possible and found themselves hanging from the center of the Food Court at the Middleton Mall, upside down and in their underwear. Global Justice's Dr. Betty Director, when asked about the indecent, replied "no comment" between fits of laughter.
Also during the conference, the order of appearances that Team Possible would make on the Morning News Shows the following Friday was set by the luck of the draw. The Team would spend the same amount of time with each network.
One of the biggest topics on the Middleton news that night was the corporate jet of Nakasumi Toys Inc. landing at the Middleton Airport. Nakasumi-san, speaking through his always present translator Miss Kyoko told Summer Gale that he was there at the invention of Team Possible. Also traveling with Nakasumi-san was an elderly person with a long white beard and a young Asian woman. The elderly man and young woman, once Ms. Gale turned to ask Nakasumi-san another question disappeared. Ms. Gale's camera man followed Nakasumi and his translator to a new 10 story building on the outskirts of town that had just completed construction.
Wednesday:
After the press conference Tuesday, no one saw Team Possible nor their families. Rumors started flying all over the world has to the reason for this but nothing could be proven. Agent Will Du, the Global Justice agent in charge of PR for the event, said that while he was not impressed with Team Possible actions during their missions being that they are amateurs, Global Justice had no know age of the whereabouts of Team Possible and their families at this time. But Global Justice agents could be found stationed around the homes of Team Possible during the week.
One of the Entertainment news shows broadcast interviews they made with some of Team Possible's high school classmates. The show, lasting for an hour, talked to Tara King, Josh Mankey, and Bonnie Rockwaller.
In her interview, Tara King talked about being on the Cheerleader Squad with Team Possible, and what kind of leader that Kim was. Tara talked about one trip to cheer camp and about her crush on Ron for a time.
In Josh's interview, they waited to know what it was like dating Kim. Josh talked about going out on one date that had to be the weirdest date ever that included home movies of Kim has a young child. And that Kim disappeared at times during that date.
In Bonnie's interview, they talked about some of the problems that Bonnie was reported to have with Team Possible in high school. Bonnie was polite but did tell the interviewer that she felt that Kim stole one or two of her Cheer Moves from her. And referred to Ron has that "High School Looser" more than once. When asked to explain in more detail, Bonnie informed the interviewer that she and all members of Team Possible had long ago came to an understanding and would not go any farther with that topic.
Thursday:
A Spanish tabloid had printed an article that had the field agents of the team eloping and married all ready. They said that they had pictures of Team Possible on a beach off the coast of Greece taken earlier that week, but could not print them. They said that somehow the pictures had been removed from their computer systems and no backup could be found.
A news show in Spain aired an interview given by Team Possible over a year earlier after they had become engaged. During the interview, Team Possible held hands entire time while they answered questions. A doctor commented on the interview and the body language of both Kim and Ron during that interview and the body language of Team Possible in the Press conference held on Tuesday. His analyst of both interviews was that they had indeed married already and supported the report of the tabloid.
The Spanish news show held fast to the story even with no proof to support it. Middleton's channel 11 aired the story that night on the local 10 o'clock news. Summer Gale and Tricia Lebowski both interviewed Felix Renton and Monique Jenkins. When Summer asked Felix if he thought that Team Possible might elope,
Felix paused for a full minute before replying "Well Ms. Summer, Kim and Ron have made the fact that they would like a wedding with just the families and very close friends. I have known them both now for a number of years, and I do not think that they would do anything like that."
When Tricia asked the same question to Monique, she did not stop to think about her reply. "Ms. Lebowski, I know Kim, and I know Ron. Both of them have known for some time that when they married, it would be an event that would draw the attention of the World to Middleton. GF, this wedding is bigger than that of Diana back in the 80's. I know that Kim's wedding dress was hand made by a designer from California. Three designers asked to let them make her dress, and I have seen all three dresses. Whichever dress she picks will knock Ron's socks off."
Friday:
Most of the US morning talk shows were doing their Friday show from Middleton too. NBC's Today show was broadcasting from Middleton High, CBS's Early Show was at the Middleton Mall, and ABC's Good Morning America was at the Middleton Bueno Nacho.
All the US morning talk shows picked up Monique's Lady Diana comment and ran with it. Diana Sayer and Robin Robertson both got on the comparison and asked Kim what her take was. Kim blushed when asked about it, and just said that with the whole world watching, she just hoped that everything went ok. Ron's only comment on that was the he and the Prince both had big ears.
During the Nightly News shows later in the day, Charlie Gib who was at the Royal wedding, said that due to the size of Team Possible's the comparisons was well placed
Middleton's own channel 11 news reporters Summer Gale, and Tricia Lebowski had the team on for "Wake up, Middleton". On that show, Kim said that she still had not picked which dress that she would ware for the wedding. All three dresses were done in similar style, and that would not affect the dresses worn by the wedding party. When asked of Ron had a favorite, Kim spoke up and informed them that it was bad luck to have the groom see the bride in her dress before the wedding. But her cousin Joss did have a fav.
News Channels like CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, give a major part of the nightly programming to specials on Team Possible and their history. "Larry Prince Live" had Steve Barkin on that night disusing what it was like having both Kim and Ron has students in school.
Barkin was pleasant with Larry Prince, but informed him that Possible was a model student that had always maintained "A+" grades in school. And was sorry to hear that her college grade point was dropping, when asked his thoughts on what might have caused the drop, Barkin said that he thought it might be due the load of missions that Team Possible was taking and the some of the recovery time need heal from wounds.
When asked about Ron's problems with college, again Barkin was pleasant when he informed Mr. Prince that Stoppable's grades had picked up from the "D to C" range into the "High B to Low A" range. Barkin's thoughts on the grade increase for Stoppable was his desire to the best boyfriend for Possible that he could. And that meant getting better grades. But he did say that while Ron's improvement was a good thing, it did not come without help.
Saturday Morning
All of the networks started their coverage of the wedding early. And almost every one of them had used the comparison to the Royal wedding of the 80's.
The Possible and Stoppable families were on the Middleton Saturday Morning show of Channel 11.
The normal anchors for the show were replaced with Summer Gale and Tricia Lebowski. And the questions asked of the parents were of the soft ball kind. Dr. Anne Possible had the biggest news of the morning when she reported that Kim had picked her dress late last night. When asked for the details, all Anne Possible would say that it was by someone called Giorgio Armani.
Dr. James Possible just sat for the most part of the show's interview. When asked his thoughts on giving away his daughter, he blushed and mumbled something that sounded like "will always be Kimmie-Cub to me."
The Stoppable's answered questions when asked them. Tricia asked if they thought the focus was centered on Kim's family more then Ron's.
Mr. Gene Stoppable sat there for a minute before answering. "Well, every wedding is about the bride more then the bridegroom. We have known Kim for so many years and are ready to welcome her into our family in a way that every one will except, for she has been apart of this family for all these years."
Mrs. Jan Stoppable nodded at her husband's response to the question. Adding "We love her like was our own."
Summer and Tricia talked with the parents some more before they left to get ready for the big event. At the end of the show, Tricia reminded everyone, "the event will be aired live right here on Channel 11. The Team Possible web master and tech guru Wade Load has arranged with all news outlets that want it a live feed from the Team Web site which will carry the events live on the internet."
"That's right Tricia," said Summer. "During the press conference last Tuesday, Team Possible explained that no cameras would be aloud in the church. Anyone that wanted a video feed of the ceremony would be granted access to the live feed setup by Team Possible. The church asked for this and it was agreed to by everyone."
"That's it for this special Saturday edition of "Wake up, Middleton". I'm Summer Gale speaking for Tricia Lebowski, wishing everyone a good day. And remember to tune in this afternoon at 5:00pm for our local coverage of the Team Possible wedding right here on Channel 11."
Author's notes:
First, I want to thank: Whitem, BeefTony, and Cpneb, for their help with the names of the Newspersons used on Kim Possible.
I was told that I should do another story like the one's that turned into the "Chances" stories, and this is it.
We already know that Kim, Ron, both set of parents, Sensei, Dr. Director, Felix, Bonnie, Wade, Joss, Monique, and a host of others will be there for the wedding. That makes a lot of points of view to do this time.
I'm not sure how many different points of view this will be, but each one will be it's own chapter.
And just to make sure that everything is cool with legal stuff out there:
Kim Possible, and it's characters, are copyright by Disney Inc.
All real news shows, networks, and morning shows listed belong to their own parent networks and companies. Also, all newspapers listed belong to their own parent companies and publishing companies.