Burned
just a fic about getting burned... ;P
No, I do not own the totally awesome characters of Kim Possible. That's Disney's place...
It was feared by all.
All who weren't strong enough, that is.
It towered over everyone at a stunning height of 40 feet.
The monstrosity was known as...
"Ding-a-ling-a-ling!," a light, airy sounding bell rang out.
...the rope... IN GYM CLASS...!
"KP? I... I don't think I can do this..."
"Yes, you can."
"Well... I-I..."
"Baby boy, you better G.I.T.!"
"What?," Kim and Ron asked simultaneously.
"Get It Together...?," Monique explained. It was obvious!
"Ahhh!"
"Ohhh!"
Well, obvious to her, anyways...
"STOPPABLE!," Barkin... well... barked.
Ron gulped. "Y-yes?," he asked, trembling in his arms that were now wrapped tightly around his body.
"ROPE! NOW!"
"Y-yes... Mr. Barkin, sir." He got up, turned to Kim and Monique, and said, "Wish me luck, girls." He tapped his chest twice with his fist, kissed the tips of his now outstretched index and middle fingers, and put the peace sign up in the air. Ron then turned around, walked up to the rope, and slowly lifted his trembling head to see the top of the rope, where the 'Acheivement Bell' hung. He then looked down at the bottom of the rope, where underneath was a small pit filled with large, blue, foam cubes, called the 'Pit of Losers'. Looking forward, Ron then closed his eyes, took a deep breath, jumped up, and flailed his arms around for the nearest object.
He felt his hands grip onto something. Opening his eyes, he found himself three feet off the ground, hanging onto the rope. He wiped the sweat off his brow with one of his hands --the other keeping a tight grip-- as he got a relaxed look on his face and breathed, "Phew..."
"You can do it, Ron!"
He turned his head to the source of the encouragement. Who else would it be but Kim Possible, his best friend?
This exclamation gave him newfound strength. He looked up at the bell and got a determined look on his face. Smiling, he quickly and carefully climbed the rope with the swiftness and agility of a monkey.
Right hand. Left foot.
Right foot. Left hand.
Right hand. Left foot.
Right foot. Left hand.
Right hand. Left foot.
Right foot. Left hand.
Right hand. Left foot.
The pattern kept repeating itself until Ron had gotten to the halfway point. 20 feet up.
Ron smiled to himself. Then he made the biggest mistake of his life.
He looked down.
Seeing how far off the ground he was made him look slightly greener than usual. His eyes couldn't focus and his brain was sent into a tizzy. Shaking violently, he began slowly sliding down.
Kim, thinking his descent was voluntary, shouted, "Don't give up now, Ron! You're so close! C'mon! You can do it! Don't give up, Ron!"
Ron was swimming between consciousness and unconsciousness, but one phrase seemed to reach him. 'Don't give up, Ron!,' he heard.
This made him become fully conscious. By this time, he was at a height of 10 feet, having slid down a quarter of the rope.
"C'mon, Ron! I know you can do it!"
"Yeah, Ron! Keep it up, boy!" Monique had joined her BGFF --Kim-- in rooting for Ron.
Ron smiled, looked up, and got his smile practically slapped off his face by a realization. He grimaced. It was a long way to the top from where he was. He dropped his head in defeat.
"He doesn't think he can do it," Monique whispered to Kim.
Kim frowned at this and furrowed her brow. Then her eyes lit up and the corners of her lips curled up in a grin. She turned to Monique and urgently said, "I have an i-dea."
Monique looked at her friend with a questioning gaze. She glanced up and down at the redhead that sat beside her. She shrugged her shoulders, saying, "Fine. Shoot."
"Okay. So here's the plan..."
While Monique and Kim were discussing Kim's plan, Ron was holding onto the rope as tightly as he could. Sweat began to form on his palms, making them slippery. He began sliding down the rope again. "Great. Well. Looks like this is it. The Ronman's goin' down," he muttered to himself. He then looked below him as the blue cubes grew closer and closer. "Literally..."
"Ron! Watch out for those cobras!"
"Yeah, Ron! What Kim said! You don' wanna get bitten by king cobras!"
Ron looked down again at the pit of snakes, the last of the blue cubes stretching, lenghthening, and turning a gray-brown color.
"AAAH!," he yelled, jumping up three feet.
"Good. He's going up higher," Kim said quietly.
"Phase 2?"
"Phase 2. Ron! Watch out! Pit of hot lava!"
"Wha?!" Ron looked down. Sure enough, the snakes had begun to melt. Soon, the gray-brown cobras had become red-orange, bubbling lava. He could feel the heat reaching up to him, making him sweat even more. He went higher to avoid it. Finally out of the lava's fiery grasp, he was at the 15 foot point.
"Phase 3?"
"Yup. Would you like to do the honors, Monique?"
"I'd be glad to. Hey, Ron!," Monique shouted. "Three grande sized nacos if you get to the top!"
Ron gasped, pulling himself a little bit higher. "I can't... do it...," he mumbled to himself.
"He's only at the 20 point, Kim. What now?"
"Uh..." Kim scanned the room frantically. "Um..." She began wringing her hands until spotting a kid boredly watching Ron on the rope as he ate a banana. "A-ha... Ron! Pit of monkeys!"
"Huh?" Ron looked down. The lava began to separate into lumps. The lumps became brown and furry. Tails, arms, legs, feet, and hands all sprouted out from them. Then came the heads. They popped up quickly out of the tops of the appendaged lumps complete with eyes, ears mouths, and noses (AN: HEEEEAAADDD, SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES! knees and toes...).
"AAAIIIEEEEYYYAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," Ron screamed, scampering up the last 20 feet of the rope. Looking down at the pit of monkeys, he pushed himself up a little higher, bumping his head on something hard, causing a ringing noise in his head.
"You did it, Ron! You did it!," Kim shouted.
Monique and Kim hugged each other and jumped up and down, screaming "He did it! He did it!" over and over.
Bonnie, on the other hand -- and the other side of the gym, crossed her arms, huffed, and looked away.
"C'mon, Bonnie. It's not that bad..."
"How did he do that?! I only got to 15 feet! It should be against some kind of rule or something for people to give verbal encouragement like that!"
"But--"
"But nothing, Tara!"
Tara sighed and let the brunette fume.
Meanwhile, Ron --still up on the rope, mind you-- was still mulling the revelation over. "I... I did it...? I. I did it...! I did it!" He finally came to a conclusion, deciding to sum it all up in one word. "A-BOOYAH!," he shouted, pumping both fists into the air. "Oh, wait a second. AAHHH!!" He began to fall, only his legs wrapped around the rope. Quickly uprighting himself, he grabbed onto the rope --with his hands-- for dear life. Ron squashed the side of his face against the rope, scared to fall off and tumble to the certain doom and horrible fate of dying from evil monkeys that only he saw.
He slowed down until his feet were right above the pit. "Oooh. Cool." He jumped off the rope to the edge of the pit, balancing himself out. "Yes! The Ronman does it again!," he said in triumph, lifting his head up high, right...
...as his pants fell off.
The entire gym class bursted out in laughter. Well, that is, except for...
-Ron (who hadn't yet noticed),
-Kim (who was grimacing and had smacked the heel of her palm to her forehead),
-Monique (who had done the exact same thing as Kim at the exact same time),
-Tara (who was freaked out since the only boy's underwear she had seen were her little brother's underwear), and
-Mr. Barkin (who... never laughed anyway. unless... Stoppable was hurt or about to be in some way...).
"Does anyone feel a draft?" Ron looked down to see his pants around his ankles, revealing the pink, red-and white-hearted boxers his mother had gotten him for his birthday the year before. He grimaced, quickly pulled up his pants, and ran up the bleachers to hide behind Kim and Monique.
Bonnie's voice rang out over the roaring laughter. "Well, looks like the loser did lose something today. His pants!"
This remark caused a rise in volume...
"Alright. Quiet down, people," Mr. Barkin said.
But the next one caused an abrupt decrease...
"CEASE!" The sound reverberated off the walls as it was instantly quiet.
After Mr. Barkin yelled, the gym was silent.
No one dared say a word.
Bing! Biiiiiiing!! Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!
The bell for next class rang.
"Can I hide behind you guys?"
"Boy, you do know you gotta go into a different locker room, right?"
"Can't I just, you know, pretend to be a girl?" He raised his voice to a falsetto. "Please?"
"Ron, I--," Kim started. "Oh no. No, Ron!"
"Pweeeeeaaaase...?" Ron had pulled the Puppy Dog Pout.
"Fine," Kim grumbled. "But no peeking!"
"Cross my heart," he said, doing the motion of crossing his heart with an index finger.
"Good."
"Now, come on," Monique said.
The two girls grabbed him by the arms and fought through the constant stream of girls to sneak Ron into the girls' locker room.
A few moments after they snuck him in...
"AAAHHHH!!!!!!!!"
"BOY!"
"THAT'S NO BOY, THAT'S RON!"
"Hey! I feel mildly offended by that..."
"GET OUT!!!!!"
"OKAY! Okay..." He ran out of the locker room and sighed. "Looks it's time to go home and change..." Ron began walking down the hallway. Right before he got to the door, a PE-clothes-clad Kim ran up to him.
"Sorry 'bout what happened back there, Ron."
"Meh. S'okay."
"But nice job going that high on the rope!"
"I know, right?!"
"Now hurry back for lunch next period, 'kay?"
"'Kay."
"Alright." Kim turned to leave, quickly pivoted and pecked her friend on the cheek, then ran back down the hall and into the girls' locker room.
Ron touched his face where her lips had touched it and smiled. "Heh. Cool. I need to conquer that rope more often..." He opened the double doors of the school and ran to his house.
"Ronnie! What happened to you?!"
"Nothing, Mom..."
"It doesn't look like 'nothing'!"
Ron sighed. "If you must know, I got burned." Seeing the surprised look on his mother's face, he quickly added, "Emotionally, of course!"
"Then what are those marks on your hands, legs, and cheek?"
Ron looked at the afore mentioned body parts (well, obviously excluding the cheek, since he had no convenient mirror to look in...) and groaned. "Awww man...! Rope burn..."
Alright. This was based on my experience in gymnastics when I was 8. ... Long time ago... ... The story is now over... ... ... ... ... Now what...? Uh... Review! ... Smile! ... Uh... ...
-I feel like I should be a part of this, too...!
Ron! What a pleasant surprise!
-Yeah...
So, what season are you?
-I am... Uh... LINE!
(i mumble to him: three)
-I am third season Ron.
Coolio!
-Yup!
So...
-What?
(i smack my forehead) What did you find out today, Ron...?
-What are you talkin' abo-- OH! I found out why KP kissed me...
Yeah... You thought she might've actually liked you in that way...! (i smirk and giggle with my StD knowledge that he doesn't have. it's so fun having clueless cute guys aroun-- did i just call him 'cute'? gosh, i really am obsessed...)
-(is downhearted) Yup... (clueless as to what i was thinking. tee-hee...) But at least I got Rufus!
...
-What?
... Just say your line...
-Okay, okay, Miss Snappy-pants... babbitrulez, out!
Thank you...