Kim Possible::Butterfly's Wings
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Chapter 1: End
Location: Mad Zaps Electronics Warehouse, Lowerton
Time: July 17th, 2005. 2 Months After Lorwardian Invasion (High School Graduation)
The massive air vent system was silent save for the soft footfalls of the stealthy intruders slowly making their way through the labyrinth of metallic tunnels. A shadow dances through the hollow tubes, expertly twisting and bending its way to insure a minimal amount of time touching the cold metal that would echo and shake with the slightest heavy impact. Behind the graceful shadow a ways is another, taking a somewhat variant approach to the art of sneaking. The second shadow was lying flat on its belly, slowly sliding itself across the metal. Moving less like a snake and more like a worm trapped on the hard sidewalk, it was moving albeit not to the speed of its partner.
"Hurry up, Ron!" The graceful shadow muttered quietly, "We need to see what they're talking about. How often do villains get together like this?"
"Once a month for their villains anonymous? I saw a flier about VA meetings on the bulletin board at the library and-"
"That's veteran affairs, Ron. Not villains anonymous. Now hurry up, I want to get out of here in time to make our dinner date reservations."
The mention of the word 'date' increased the worming shadows momentum. It quickly squirmed up to its partner just before a grate leading down into a large room below.
Sitting around a massive conference table were the assembled might of the greatest forces of villainy to ever assault the city of Middleton: The mad golfer - Duff Kiligan, the half simian martial artist - Lord Montgomery 'Monkey Fist' Fisk, the wealthy and bored Seniors - Senior and Junior, the want to be dictator, Professor Dementor, the comet powered combat queen - Shego, and the mad scientist and recently developed floramancer - Dr. Drakken.
"Ya must be daft, blue boy!" angrily shouted the golfing Scotsman.
"Indeed. We all signed the contract." Fisk grunted at the grinning blue scientist and his partner.
Senor Senior Sr. developed a ponderous look on his face, "What is this contract business you speak of?"
Dementor fielded the question, "The World-wide Evil Empire and Global Justice established a CONTRACTUAL code of conduct regarding freelance villainy. Part of zat vas that ve are only able to enforce ZE NON-LETHAL counter offensives against-"
"AGAINST MINORS, Professor." Drakken announced, "I just clarified the whole thing with Gemini. Now that the brat is eighteen, she indeed may think she's all that. But no longer."
The mad scientist's grin slowly spread across the room.
"Does she know?" asked Junior.
"We don't think so. GJ's been tied up with that whole robot army insurrection thing in Russia for weeks." Shego said with her voice tittering on the edge of laughter, "She has no idea. Oh and you got to see what the Doc cooked up to tell her!"
Drakken took the opportunity to pull back a large curtain to reveal a massive robot styled to look like a toy devil but with a cybernetic make over. Massive hoses and tubes wrapping around the thing and centering on a massive cannon in the chest.
"Did you not already try this scheme, Drakken?" Queried Senior.
"And did it not fail spectacularly?" Fisk said with a sly grin.
Drakken sneered at the half-monkey, half-aristocrat, "It did. However this model is improved! Using this cannon which is reinforced with a high density alloy at all critical joints, it can fire anywhere from a precision beam that can write a name to a massive blast that can level city blocks! Any person in the blast would be incinerated in seconds. While not enough to conquer the world, it is sufficient enough to put all of Middleton under my heel."
Meanwhile, back up in the ductwork, the shadows look on at the machine. "That's not good." the graceful shadow said, forgetting to quiet her voice in a moment of sheer surprise.
"None of this is good, Kim. Did you hear them? Do you know what the opposite of Non-Lethal is? Let me do my math. Carry the five, drop the one…" the wormy shadow began moving his fingers to match his 'arithmetic', "Oh wait. IT'S LETHAL." He stressed in a whispered shout.
"Oh come on, Ron. It's Drakken. For him that's like going from a nerf bat to a whiffle ball bat."
"Whiffle ball bats HURT, KP. Let's just get out here? Go get some Bueno Nacho and watch a movie? We can report this to Global Justice. They can handle doomsday robots pretty well, right?"
"Have you not been paying to attention to what's going in Russia? Look Ron, if you're worried, you can stay up here. But I'm going down there." The graceful shadow opened the vent and leapt down with her wormy companion reaching out to stop her only seconds too slow.
The villains had all gathered around to admire the massive doombot. They walked around it and checked out every inch. Murmurs of Ooo's and Aaah's filled the air and caused Drakken to puff out his chest in pride. Shego on the other hand was eyeing the oglers. Particular the younger Senior, who was taking an uncharacteristic interest in the robot's specs, "Something on your mind, Junior?"
The macho pretty boy turned quickly toward the green skinned woman, "Ah, yes. I was just wondering how you got such an impressively shiny cannon. I might be interested in getting one. Uh… For my papa!"
The elder senior beamed at his son. Shego opened her mouth to speak but quickly closed it with a roll of her eyes as she saw Drakken quickly shifted from absorbing pride to his used car salesman mode, "Ah yes. The cannon. Unfortunately, boy, you won't be able to find one anywhere. You see, I acquired this impressive piece of tech during the Lorwardian invasion. Ripped it right off Warhok's ship myself and stashed it until I was released from prison. It's truly a one of a kind weapon of mass destruction."
Junior nodded with an impressed look and then spoke with a complete different voice, "Just what I was hoping you say."
The villains froze in place. Senor Senior Sr stepped over to Junior, "My son, what happened to your-"
"I'm not your son. He's in custody. Just as you all are about to be." Junior sunk his fingers into his neck and pulled back revealing his face to be a simple mask for - "Will Du. Global Justice. And your all-"
"About to be in a world of hurt!" shouted a red headed teenage girl and she fell through the air, did a series of midair rolls and landed perfectly on the conference table.
Behind her falling from a ceiling with a massive thud is a blonde haired boy of the same age. He landed face first and lied there with his rear sticking up and his pants sliding half off, "I'm… okay."
"Well, well, well… Kim Possible! And the buffoon. And Agent Dewey." Drakken said proudly as he produced a control pad.
"It's Du. Will Du." said the secret agent.
"Whatever! You'll be atoms in mere moments. Behold!" Drakken pressed a large red button on the pad and the machine behind him whirred to life. Sparks began flying as the alien device in its chest began charging. "Ultimate Diablo! DESTROY THEM!"
The machine launched into action, dropping its massive foot onto the conference table and shattering it into splinters. Kim had only barely dodged out the way by somersaulting back over to Ron. There she knelt down quickly and helped her friend to his feet, "Think you can nab that controller?"
Ron brushed himself off and gave quick grin and a nod before Kim leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. Kim then jumped up and off the wall to latch on to the various cords and tubes dangling from the ceiling, leaping back and forth to dodge the swings of the robot's claws.
Agent Will Du had taken it upon himself to occupy the villains. Nimbly dodging and blocking every swing that came his way thanks to the patent techniques of the Global Justice Mixed Martial Arts Training he received as an agent. He was quickly able to disable Killigan, Senor Senior Sr., and Dementor.
Ron rushed past Du and did a jump off Professor Dementor's helmeted head towards Drakken who was shaking the control pad and grumbling, "Hurry… HURRY!" However, his advance was stopped abruptly by both Shego and Monkey Fist. They grabbed his legs and threw him to the ground.
Kim aerial acrobatics were succeeding in keeping the robot at bay for the moment, but it was no long term solution. She looked around to scan the situation she noticed that the cords that were getting shredded were draping around the robots legs. She smiled and started jumping to do circles around the robot which caused its large legs to start getting tangled in the mess.
Ron pulled himself up in front of Shego and Monkey Fist. Shego ignited her hands and Monkey Fist did a quick series of punches to warm up. Ron, however, just grinned. Ron's body began to glow with a bright blue energy.
Shego's eyes grew wide. She knew that glow. She used the charge of her fists to burn a hole in the wall behind them and immediately ran out through it. Leaving Monkey Fist confused as he watched her run away, "The devil? Are you spineless? It's just the…," Lord Monty Fisk turned his head back toward Ron to see the Mystical Monkey awakened, "...buffoon. Oh dear."
Ron unleashed his full power on Monkey Fist, landing punch after punch on the simian aristocrat. After a few hundred blows and mere seconds, Monkey Fist fell to the ground. His body smoking from where the kinetic heat of Ron's punches singed his fur, "Can… I go back… to being in stone… now? Please?"
Kim's plan was going perfectly. The robot was starting to trip up on its own feet amid all the hanging and scrapped cords on the ground. It was only a matter of time before- and faster than Kim could finish her thought the machine collapsed on the ground. "Time for the finishing blow!" Kim shouted as she leapt from on high and starting coming down her legs toward the robot's chest. Then out of nowhere came the strangest sound. A gentle ding. Like when the timer goes off on a toaster oven. Just… Ding.
"Ding?" Kim said perplexed as she dove.
"Ding?" said Ron as he was winding up to punch Drakken.
"Ha ha ha! DING!" cackled the blue scientist as he hit the button on the control pad.
That's when the robot stopped whirring and sparking. That's when the cannon in its chest lit up like a giant firefly and shot a beam about the width of a trashcan out. Ron's eyes went wide as he watched his best friend and girlfriend twist in mid-air as the beam connected to her right side.
Kim collapsed. She was flung back against the wall? Maybe? It all happened so quickly. Her eyes wide in a state of shock. Tears ran down her cheeks. She reached out to touch them, but nothing. Her head slowly turned to look. Her head already knew but her heart cannot fathom it. Blood. Burning. Nothing else. No arm. Part of her torso is scorched and seared off. Maybe part of her foot. Kim Possible did the only thing she could. She screamed.
Ron dashed over towards Kim. Panicked as he heard her voice, her beautiful voice, bellowing out heart wrenching screams of pain and horror. But as he was nearing her, he heard the lurching metal noise of the robot rising once again. He turned to see that horrid bright glow in the center of the thing's chest followed by the noise: Ding! Another blast. This one wider. It seared a small gorge of molten metal that used to be floor between Ron and Kim. Ron gritted his teeth, his eyes aflame with blue mystical power, "WILL! GET KIM OUT OF HERE!"
The Global Justice agent looked up from cuffing the various villains, "I'm a bit busy with my duties at the mome-."
"WILL! DO IT! OR SO HELP I AM COMING FOR YOU NEXT."
Will looked over at the glowing powerhouse that is Ron Stoppable. With a quick gulp at the display, he nodded quickly and dashed off behind Ron, flipping over the gorge and landing next to Kim, "It appears we must make an exit, Miss Possible."
"Ron… Where's Ron? RON?!" Kim screamed. She couldn't tell left from right at the moment. All she cared about was making sure that her boyfriend was safe.
"He's occupied, Miss Possible. I'm sure he'll be along shortly." Will lifted her up by her one arm and help her hobble her way out.
As they headed toward the exit, all Ron could hear was Kim's mournful crying screams of his name. It fueled him with a righteous anger, spurred on even further by the laughing blueberry in a lab coat standing by the robot, "Ha ha ha! Like she'll make it out of here alive. Ultimate Diablo! Annihilation mode!"
The robot charged up what appeared to be a massive beam. Ron could only think this was the 'leveling a city block' bit from earlier, "Heh. All I wanted to do was watch a movie with my girlfriend and eat junk food."
He couldn't let this happen. He concentrated every ounce of his mystic monkey power. He was less Ron and more bright blue orb at this point, "But you had to go and ruin it!"
Ron launched himself at the Ultimate Diablo, and just before he connected he could hear that damned noise once again - Ding!
"That's right, asshole. DING!"
Will had gotten Kim outside of the building where the police and firefighters had already started to assemble in response to the commotion. Then it happened. The rumbling, the noise, and the heat. Maybe it was just the adrenaline in his system, but Will barely reacted. He just focused on getting Kim Possible to safety. From the screams in his ear though, it seems she understandably noticed. Most of the city did he imagined. It's hard to ignore a huge building like that exploding.
By the time the ambulance drivers got to Kim, she had screamed herself hoarse. It didn't stop her from trying though. She was covered in blood, her face had received second degree burns from being in just proximity to the beam, and as she was rolled on a stretcher in the back of an ambulance all she could do was watch the building where Ronald Stoppable died burn to the ground.
Next Chapter: Rise