KP in Scary Halloween Tactics

AN: Scary Tactics is desperate for ratings during Halloween. Just how far will they go for the ratings?

(On TV)

A man walks into a room when sudden red lights and an alarm go off! He starts to panic as he tries to remember that he didn't have anything to worry about as long as the safeguards were in place where he was.

Suddenly a door on the far side of the room directly across from him, a door that was not supposed to open during the alarm, opens and out stumbles a half-charred man. It was the very same man that he seen being given explicit instructions on not to go back there for a smoke! Half sticking out of the uncharred side of the man's pocket was a packet of cig's!

(At the TV review station in Hollywood)

James Colubrine, the man in charge of what went on the air for the show mutes the TV and turns to the others in the room and says "Yeah, this is fine…" before suddenly exploding in a shout, "If I wasn't about to lose my show to a dwindling audience right before Halloween!"

Jane Hoffman, a blonde woman dressed in a sharp navy blue suit says, "Our studies show that people are getting bored with the same faceless, unknown people. They want to see someone they know, a celebrity or someone that they can all identify with on the show."

James looks at her for a moment, "Finally! Now who here can tell me what celebrity will come on our show?"

Awkward silence ensues for a few moments until Lori Simpleton, a long raven haired woman in a dark blue suit says, "We have already tried a number of celebrities and none of them want to come on the show."

James growls and says, "Then we'll get someone without their knowledge!"

Jane pushes the glasses up her nose as she says, "Sir, that is incredibly risky. You know the whole thing about our show has at least the support of a friend who is willing to help us with the planning. Otherwise the show could be sued."

James slams his fist onto the TV, changing the channel to the news as he says, "There must be someone who'd be willing to help us!"

All eyes seem to be staring past him for a bit before Syd Mead, a bald man in a black suit says, "What about them? They are famous and I think everyone would love to see if they can be scared after all they have been through."

James turns around and sees a sees a silent report about the Kim Possible team saving the world yet again from Drakken and Shego. He grabs the nearby remote and presses 'Pause' which stops the screen image at just the right time for him to see the glare coming from Shego to Kim. A dark grin starts to grow on his face as he stares at the frozen image and whispers, "Perfect…" before spinning to the others in the room and shouts, "Perfect! Make it happen! It'll be the greatest challenge that this show has ever had! Scaring someone who is known for being practically fearless!" Leaning forward towards the people with a bit of a wild look in his eyes as he drops to a near whisper, "We'll be famous! Our ratings will go through the roof! And if nothing else… we'll get a lot of practice for our next season of better scares!"

All three of them look at each other with some trepidation before Syd slowly smiles and says, "Well it would be the challenge of a lifetime! I'm up for it!"

Lori and Jane both take longer to come around but eventually they nod as well.

James quickly claps his hands together, "Great! Let's get started on this immediately! I want to be ready to go with some scary stuff by the time we air on Halloween! LIVE if possible!"

Lori whispers, "Oh boy… I can't wait" to herself.

Jane looks away towards the door as if wanting to make a break from the room.

(Middleton)

Kim sneezes and rubs her nose as Ron says, "Kim, you ok?" She nods as she adds some more pepper onto the food in front of her as she says, "Yes Ron, so not the drama." She then smiles at him and says, "Thanks for doing this Ron. I know how much you'd rather be watching the wrestling thing with Monique over Steel foot and that other Pain guy."

Ron smiles back at Kim and says, "Aw KP, you know that you mean more to me than any totally awesome wrestling show." He then whispers to Rufus, "Besides Monique promised to record it for me to watch later."

Kim had heard the whisper but still smiles at him, as she loved him very much and despite what Ron had said, she knew just how much of a sacrifice it was for him to bravely help her cook. It was true that she had learned much in the Home EC class but she was still nowhere near Ron's level. There were times that she wondered if there were any four-star chefs that were.

Kim continues to cook the food needed for the fundraising that was going to help them raise money for orphans so that they could have food, clothing, and toys. She knew that Ron was really behind the cause and was just doing the old distraction bit but what she didn't think he knew was that his usual distractions ceased to work on her long ago. She had a whole new kind of distraction when it came to Ron and they mostly involved her thoughts and feelings with the future involving them together.

Ron moves over to the oven as if on some silent cue and his hand is on the door just as the oven timer went off. He opens it with a practiced ease before sliding his hands into the oven mitts that were laying down on opposite sides of the oven. He grabs the hot dish within the oven and places them with gracefulness that was uncommon to him on top of it before turning to the food he'd been working on to slip it into the oven and close it up quickly. All of that had taken under 8 seconds to do and that included the time it took for him to remove the oven mitts, placing them back exactly where they'd been before.

Kim shakes her head, as she knew that to do the same thing, it would have taken her twenty seconds or more and she would have more than likely made a mess of one or both meals. The way Ron's food looked, they were something practically right out of a food magazine. She looks down at her own creations and while they were not super like Ron's, they did look normal enough that the average person wouldn't shy away from the food for fear of food poisoning as had one classmate from class had done with her cooking in Home EC when she was still just learning. She smiles a little at the memory of how Ron had bravely proven that the food was safe by eating it in front of the whole class and earned a little piece of her heart that day for it.

(Drakken's Lair)

Drakken was yelling at a henchman in the lair for yet another one of 'brilliant' schemes for failing with Shego lounging about in a chair at the main communications terminal. It was the most sound proof room in the lair and the best place for avoiding having to listen to one of Drakken's rants.

Shego smirks as she reads a news article in the Villain Times paper that was about her brothers in Go City as they try to bungle their way back into the superhero spotlight but as usual, without her around to keep them focused. All they were good for was sidekick duty to someone like Ron Stoppable.

At the thought of Ron's name, her mind wanders to his red headed partner and best friend. She remembers the good times she had with Kim, being the sister that she had always wished that she had after living in a family surrounded by nothing but idiot brothers. A part of her wished that she could have another bonding experience like that again, only this time. She wanted to stay the way she was without being zapped into being good.

Shego turns the page to see what else in the paper when suddenly an incoming call started buzzing on the large screen. She growls as she hated interruptions and gets to her feet before pressing a button to allow the call to come in.

The image that appears is that of Lori Simpleton and Shego gasps in surprise because to her eyes, she could practically be Shego's twin except in a very tasteful business suit of a color she would not choose. She represses the urge to shudder as a thought about herself actually being in said business suit and so she instead chooses to growl, "Who are you? What do you want?"

On the flip side of the screen, Lori was not surprised by Shego's looks as she had long ago known that she looked like Shego (except that she had normal skin) and while she did everything she could to change her look except cut her hair, (that was the one thing she didn't budge on) she did feel a great amount of anger towards Shego for making her life both more difficult and easier in the TV business. She was not above using her looks to make new people 'think' she was Shego with a little makeup to get what she wanted and if they were fooled until it was too late, she didn't care.

Lori clears her throat and says, "I am Lori Simpleton and I wish to speak to your boss about something that will make him, and I guess you…(she puts a but of ice in that last word) a lot of money.

Shego already didn't like how some woman without green skin looked almost exactly liked her and now she was trying to intimidate her? Boss her around? If it weren't for the fact that Drakken would yell at her for destroying the last big screen in the lair, she would have blasted Lori's image right that moment.

Instead of smashing the connection, she jabs her finger at an intercom button as she shouts, "Yo! Doctor D! You have a call! You better get up here quickly!" She closes the connection by removing her finger from the button even before Drakken's reply can be heard and sends the woman an angry glare before she grabs her paper and buries her face in it quickly so as to ignore the large image woman on the screen.

Drakken comes through the doors muttering and complaining about various stuff before spotting Shego and totally missing the woman on the screen. He shouts, "Well I am here Shego! What do you want?"

Shego lets go of the corner to point at the screen, "SHE wants to talk to you."

Drakken looks up at the screen and blinks, "Shego! What is this? Some kind of prank? That is you up there!"

Shego's free hand ignites in flames and in stereo, both Shego and Lori say, "I am nothing like her!"

Drakken was still confused so he shouts at the screen, "Well then who are you? What do you want?"

Lori's face does something Shego's never did. It pleasantly smiled at Drakken. She says, "I have a proposition for you. I represent people who want to put the scare into Kim Possible and we want to do it on national TV."

Shego's flaming hand goes out and she lowers the paper, now genuinely curious this offer.

Drakken growls, "What kind of joke is this? I am trying to take over the world here! I have better things to do with my time than to try and scare some high school cheerleader!"

Shego holds up her hand, "Hold up Doctor D! I want to hear more."

Lori ignores Shego and says, "We could make it very much your while. We can offer you a substantial sum of money which should help you fund any of you take over the world plans." She notices that Drakken falls silent in thought so to push him into agreement she says, "Just think of it, if you can find out what scares Kim Possible. The next time she shows up to spoil one of your plans, you can scare her away enough to keep her from stopping you."

Drakken apparently likes the idea and turns to Shego as he says loudly, "Yes! If I can find a way to scare Kim Possible, then I… Dr. Drakken… Will finally rule the world! Bwhahahahaha!"

Shego had seen Drakken try to take the credit for another's idea as his own, usually with his alias name as a spin on it. She looks at Lori and says, "What do you get out of this? Why should we help you?"

Lori icily glares at Shego as she says, "As with everything in TV, this is all about ratings and we here at 'Scare Tactics' want to try scaring someone who has been through it all, someone who isn't so easily scared and see what their reaction will be for all to see. I believe I already mentioned to your boss that it'll help him in his next take over the world plan."

Shego was about to say something back when Drakken suddenly shouts, "You have a deal!" Lori smirks at Shego as if she'd just won something and the connection closes.

Drakken suddenly shouts, "Shego! New plan! We will begin operation, Scary and find out what scares her!"

Shego nods slowly as she can't help but feel that they just made a big mistake in agreeing to work for Lori. She says, "Yeah, yeah… find a way to scare princess. I got it already."

(Meanwhile at some office in Hollywood)

Lori turns away from the screen in her chair back to her desk and suddenly smashes her fists down on top of the hardwood desk in front of her as she yells, "AAAAAAARGGGGGGH!" Fortunately she was alone in her office with the door shut so no one heard or saw her temper before she says, "I can't believe it! Why did it have to me who loses at the drawing of the straws when we were trying to see who contacts them. I know I look so much like Shego that we could practically be twins and I most definitely did not like what Mr. Colubrine meant when he said I'd be seeing a lot more of Shego in the near future after I lost."

She could remember that smirk on his face, the devious, but evil little twinkle in his eye that she usually only saw when he had something really nasty cooking in that mind of his for scaring people. She wonders if it had anything to do with his order to Jane to contact someone from the Possible Team and how that went.

AN: I was trying to come up with a new idea for Halloween so I will be writing a new story rather than continue with the older one. I will probably return to it next Halloween though if all of you would like that or if you'd prefer that I still write more to the series just let me know. So what did you think of the idea of using Scare Tactics as the show to try and scare people with? Good or bad idea people? What did you think of the people I created for this story? Were any of you surprised of the Shego look-a-like? How do you think Jane's little call to Team Possible will go?

As usual all reviews, votes, ideas, suggestions, scare ideas (if I use it, you'll get credit in the story) and more are always welcome.