Joss' ride
(cpneb) This is a Jade tale…but it's not by me. I had an idea for Steve Barkin to ride a bike in my story "Reality Happens", and Star-Eva01 took the idea and helped me develop it to the point that it was published. We discussed an idea for the bike to move forward in the JadeKimVerse, and Star told me that he would write a 4-5 paragraph\page description of the bike for me to use.
Well, it grew…BIG GRIN, and what you will read is from Star's wonderful mind…on sugar cookies.
Oh, and by the way:
I'm cpneb, and I approve this story.
Joss' ride…yee-haw!
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The 'Team Possible' jet came to a stop in front of the main hanger at the Lazy-C Ranch, the snow swirling around the tires as the blizzard roared around the aircraft. The front hatch of the jet opened, and as the stairs lowered, a slender gloved hand reached out of the hatch in the cold. A person's hood covered most of their head followed, but it didn't hide the person's auburn hair…or the smile mixed with a bit of confusion and annoyance.
The person was joined by a group of three more individuals at the top of the stairs, and the foursome managed to make it down the stairs without incident. One person closed the hatch on the way out, and that person followed the other three into the hanger, where a pair of individuals stood, waiting. Both individuals had huge grins on their faces.
"Well," Kim Stoppable said as she removed her hood and shook her hair out from its confines, "what was so important that you had my husband and I fly up here on Christmas Eve, Joss?"
"Well, Cuz, Santa couldn't fit it in the sleigh, so he asked me to have you 'come and git it, please and thank you,'" Joss Possible-Load grinned.
"It's true," Dr. Wade Load was grinning, and not just because he had his hand on his wife's rear end.
"Good afternoon, Rebecca Jane," Joss grinned as one of the other individuals removed her hood. The last individual followed suit, removing her hood.
"Commander Du," Wade grinned, and Commander Lindsey Du smiled.
"Wade," Rebecca Jane smiled.
"Joss, how do you like being an old married lady?" Lindsey laughed.
"You were there, Lindsey, when it happened. Ah love it," Joss smiled and jumped as Wade 'squeezed the Charmin' a bit harder than she anticipated.
"Wade," Ron Stoppable laughed as he removed his hood and shook his blond-crowned head twice. "Can you hold off until we leave?"
"Why?" Wade asked, stealing a kiss from Joss.
"Ah don't mind, Ron," Joss giggled. "He keeps reminding me I'm alive when I'm buried in mah studies. Besides, without mah Aggie, ah wouldn't be heah," she added as she and Wade guided the group to an elevator in the hanger. They stepped in, and they sank towards the Bunker Test Garage.
The door opened, and the four stepped into what felt like a room, albeit dimly-lit with only a small area lit at the elevator door.
"Well?" Kim asked, and Wade touched a control on his PosComm.
The spotlight hit the center of the room, and in the center were two motorcycles…as much like a regular motorcycle as Rufus was like a regular rodent.
Each bike had front and rear tire pairs, separated by a small plate. The bikes themselves were bigger than the original SIS-001, and the engines looked more powerful, as well. There was a control panel on what would have been a car dashboard, and the controls and readouts were all digital displays.
But the bikes themselves were a sight to behold: both bikes were jet-black. Both bikes had the stylized Team Possible logo on them, but one had a stylized KP, while the other had a stylized RS.
Kim and Ron both stared at the bikes, and Lindsey and Rebecca Jane grinned as they watched both Kim and Ron as well as Wade and Joss for their reactions.
They didn't have to wait long….
"Joss, it's…it's beautiful!" Kim gushed and hugged her cousin tightly. "Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!"
"Gee, Ron, you think she likes it?" Wade laughed, but he was assaulted by a tall blond missile.
"Dude, you rock!" Ron said into Wade as he hugged his friend even tighter than Kim had grabbed Joss.
When he pulled back, Ron's tears were covering his face. "How did you know?"
"Well, Mr. Obvious," Wade began, and Joss laughed from her cousin confinement, "You did ride that scooter for three years, and Kim did look good on Motor Ed's bike," Wade grinned, and Ron laughed with him. "Joss and I just put two and two together, added the Tweeb's 'SIS-001' concept, and you have them," Wade pointed at the bikes and grinned.
Joss pulled herself away. "They've been field-tested, street-licensed, and they're ready for you two to have a fun time…on the bikes, that is," she grinned, and Kim laughed.
"You're just jellin', cuz, 'cause I've got my Polish dinner," Kim snarked, flashing her wedding ring.
"Polish, schomish, cuz: I've got my rich dark chocolate éclairs for dessert, every night if I want them" Joss flashed her own wedding ring, and both Joss and Kim blushed as they realized what they were saying out loud.
"You get the impression we're here just for their amusement?" Wade asked as he turned to look at Ron, only he wasn't there.
"Oh, this is wonderful," Ron moaned, and Kim and Joss turned and laughed: Ron had straddled his new bike, and he was drooling more than he ever did, even on fifty-cent Naco night. "I haven't felt anything underneath me this wonderful since…" Ron grinned and turned a bit red as he winked at his wife, Kim blushed a deep red, and Joss and Wade both laughed.
"Please, Ronald: I'm not that kind of bike," A sultry voice came from the bike, and Ron almost hurt himself jumping off before he recognized the voice:
"That wasn't nice, Joss," he chided, but she shook her head 'not me.'
"You don't recognize me voice, Ronald? I'm hurt, mate, deeply hurt," an avatar shimmered into view next to the bike.
"Gillian!" Ron yelled and stepped toward her, when another shimmer appeared, and Woodrow was standing next to her, his arm around her waist.
"Ron, you remember the deal: you get to play with Gillian when I get to play with Kim," Woodrow grinned, and Ron stopped and bowed to the young lady and the gentleman. They returned his bow with a flourish and a giggle each.
"Ah told you that Aggie and I were working on something special for you for Christmas, cousin," Joss grinned as she turned and walked toward the Bunker test garage exit and down the hall to the elevators. The other five followed her, and Ron laughed inside he watched Woodrow watch Joss, Lindsey, and Rebecca Jane with more than a bit of interest, while Wade watch Gillian and Kim walk away
'No matter: they're horn dogs, real and virtual' Ron thought with a chuckle, but he smiled as he watched his wife walk away, remembering a similar scene from Middleton Days. 'Over 10 years older, and the bubbles still haven't gone flat,' he grinned as he caught up with them at the elevator for the ride up.
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The elevator door opened onto the huge fireplace-in-the-round, and both Lindsey and Rebecca Jane had the same question leave their mouths:
"Where did you two come from?" Lindsey asked.
"Well," Will Du replied with a smirk, "when a man and a woman really love each other like my parents did," and he was silenced by a pair of lips smothering his own.
"Merry Christmas, RJ," Arnold smiled and held his arms open, and his wife stepped into them and received her own kiss.
"Awww," Woodrow laughed, and Gillian hit him on the back of his head. "Owww," he grabbed his head and rubbed, and Joss, Wade, Kim, and Ron all laughed.
"When did you get back?"
"We landed an hour ago," Will replied.
"Brisbane was warm, and the bikinis were wonderfully small," Arnold added with a grin, and Rebecca Jane swatted at him.
Ron went to the bar, opened the wine chiller, and grinned as he pulled out 2 bottles each of Chateau TorBunk Nicole Sparkling Red Grape Juice and Little Black Dress Merlot wine. "Something to drink?" he asked, and the crowd lined up for him to open bottles and fill their glasses at the bar. After the first round, he placed four unopened bottles (two each) in wine chillers on a rolling cart and pushed them to the pit area where everyone was gathering.
"Okay, Joss," Ron smiled and held up his glass, "it's spillage time. How and when did you and my 'BIL' do this?"
Wade grinned: he and Ron were finally, officially, related, if only by marriage. 'It makes all of that head-banging Algebra tutoring time worthwhile,' he thought.
"Cuz, you remember when Momma2 called you and told you that she was going to ground me for 170 years awhile back?"
"Do I," Kim laughed. "Betty was laughing so hard, I thought she was either going to wet herself or she'd spent too much time watching 'Fearless Ferret' on TVTrashHeap and was channeling 'the Trickster.' Wait," Kim grinned and took a drink of wine, "did that have something to do with the bikes?"
"Well," Joss smiled and rubbed the back of her neck. Gillian giggled as Woodrow pulled her down into his lap on the virtual couch in the room.
'She was meant for Wade,' Kim thought as she watched her cousin do just what Wade had done, all these years. She looked at Wade, but his eyes were only for Joss.
"Well," Joss repeated, "it wasn't a Tuesday, if'n ah recall correctly," she began, and the group sat back on the couches, watched, and listened to the crackling of the fire and Joss' story….
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To be continued