Disclaimer: I don't own any of the character, situations or locations from the television series Kim Possible. I reap no monetary gains from the use of those things. I write for the sheer enjoyment of the process and to entertain the one or two people who read the pabulum I put out. You know who you are.

Author's Note: This story stems solely from the following quote: "Tell me, O Muse, of the ingenious hero who traveled far and wide..." Homer - The Odyssey. This is the story of the journey Kim and Ron take immediately after the Season 4 graduation beach party at the end of the series.

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Travel

Chapter 1

The Bavarian Alps

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"Come on, Ron. We need to keep moving!" Kim Possible loudly yelled to be heard over the freak summer snowstorm howling down around them. They were almost to their destination, a remote castle in the Bavarian Alps, and she was not happy at all with the whole sitch.

She and her boyfriend, Ron Stoppable, had just left their post high school graduation beach party when they were beeped by Wade Load, their web-master and technical guru, on the Roth SL Coupe's Kimmunicator screen. It seems that in all of the confusion caused during the Lowardian invasion, Professor Dementor had somehow stolen the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer yet again.

Without a word of protest and a heavy sigh, Ron had crawled into the back seats of the Sloth to change into his mission gear while Kim got directions as to where Dementor was hiding out. When Ron climbed back into his seat, Kim put the flying car on autopilot and moved to the back to change into her battle suit. After a quick flight path over the North Pole, the fastest route from Middleton Colorado to the German region of Bavaria, they were near enough to Dementor's castle to land and head out on foot to retrieve the PDVI, blizzard be damned.

"I'm coming, KP," Ron hollered back as he stopped for a second to make sure Rufus was doing okay in his front cargo pants pocket. The naked mole rat was shivering to beat the band even though he was totally wrapped up in Ron's scarf. "Just hold on, Rufus," Ron reassured his little buddy. "We'll be inside the castle soon and then you can get warmed up."

"Ho-Ho-Ho-Kay," a near frozen Rufus, with tiny icicles hanging from the ends of his whiskers, chattered with a shaky thumbs-up gesture before he ducked back inside the pocket and secured the flap to get out of the biting wind. Ron scrambled up beside his girlfriend who had taken refuge out of the gale force winds behind a giant boulder to scope out the castle's exterior defenses.

"What's the plan," Ron whispered as he crouched down beside his girlfriend.

"I don't see anybody outside so it appears as if Professor Dementor is relying on the blizzard for his outer defenses," Kim observed. "That means all of his henchmen are inside getting ready for our attack."

"Do you really think they're expecting us?" Ron queried as he rubbed and blew into his cupped, gloved hands to try and keep them from stiffening up in the bitter cold.

"Wouldn't you?" Kim incredulously asked with a raised eyebrow. "He just stole the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer again and we always show up right after that happens. Drakken is the only one who seems to be surprised whenever we arrive."

"You got a good point there, KP," Ron nodded in agreement. "So they're expecting us. Does that mean we'll not try taking them by surprise by not crawling in through the air vents?"

Kim had to think about that somewhat convoluted question for a moment before she understood what her boyfriend was getting at and formed a brilliant plan. "No, actually. I think one of us should go in through the vents."

"That would be you, of course," Ron nodded in understanding before his face soured into that of a contemplative nature. "So where does that leave me? Distraction time?"

"Ron," Kim chided with a wicked grin, "I don't consider you as just the distraction anymore. You're my partner; especially when you can bring your Mystical Monkey Powers out like you did against the Lowardians yesterday. Are they still working?"

Ron held his left hand up between them and slowly, gradually, it began to glow a beautiful, robin's egg blue. The aura became brighter and brighter and Ron mirrored Kim's sinister smile. "Oh yeah," Ron snickered. "The Ron Man is ready for some big time fun and games!"

"Great," Kim enthused. "Now, here's what we'll do."

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"Boy, that is some pairof knockers!" Ron marveled as he peered in wonder at the large, three foot diameter, brass door knockers prominently set in the two wooden front doors of the castle. He took one in hand, pulled it back on its upper pivot point and then let it fall to bang against the heavy wooden door. It bounced a few time against the metal strike plate sending a couple of hollow, yet very satisfying, booming thuds into the castle. As he waited for the knock to be answered, Ron chuckled to himself, "I so do love the sneaky, full-frontal assault approach."

One of the huge doors creaked open and a very large, muscular, gray clad henchman glared down at him. The man growled, "What-do-you-want?"

"Must be a new guy," Ron thought to himself. "I don't recognize him and he obviously doesn't recognize me. It's sometimes good that nobody ever pay attention to me." The blond amiably smiled and said in his most pleasant voice, "Good evening kind sir. I just stopped by to see if I could borrow a cup of Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer. I'm all out and I need it to spice up the PDVI Chicken recipe I'm making for dinner."

"Huh?" the goon begged in surprise, taken aback by the odd request.

"Never mind," Ron charmingly said as he swiftly ducked around the huge henchman and started toward the main lab which, he knew from previous missions inside the castle, was down the hallway to the right, "I know where the Prof keeps it. I'll just get it myself."

"Hey, get back here," the hired muscle yelled and chased after the intruder who was swiftly walking up the hall. "You're not suppose ta be in here!" When he caught up to the smaller blond individual, he reached out and laid his big mitt on Ron's shoulder to stop the unwanted guest. "You'll have ta leave immediately."

"That's not very neighborly of you," Ron said as he swatted the hand away while swiftly pivoting on his right foot to deliver a perfect, MMP enhanced, crescent kick to the henchman's jaw, knocking the oversized goon out. Ron chuckled at the henchman as he secured the man's hands and feet with a couple of zip ties, "The least you coulda done is invite me in outta the snowstorm to warm up for a minute or two."

Ron raced down the hall feeling his Mystical Monkey Powers surge throughout his body like a huge adrenaline rush. He silently ducked into a room that he knew to be the henchman's barracks and swiftly K.O.'ed and tied up the three minions in there. Then he quickly moved on.

Another henchman stepped out of another room just behind Ron as the blond approached the main lab. The goon saw Ron and yelled, "Hey, stop right there!"

The blond boy stopped in his tracks, slowly turned around and smiled at the henchman. "Hi. Is the lady of the house at home? I'm selling magazines subscriptions to pay my way through college and I was told by your boyfriend at the front door that she holds the purse strings in the family. He also called you a big wuss."

"I am not!" the guard vehemently denied before he got a good look at Ron. "Hey," sudden recognition registered on his face as he swiftly walked up to Ron and pointed an accusatory finger at him, "I remember you! You're that sidekick to Kim Possible!"

"Actually, I'm her boyfriend and partner now," Ron said as he slyly shifted his right foot back a few inches like he was trying to back away. Instead, he swiftly brought it forward in a devastating back flip kick, knocking the goon out. "Keep up with the times." He secured the henchman with a few more zip ties, turned and quickly moved to the main lab.

As he paused in the doorway to the lab, Ron saw Professor Dementor standing on a raised platform in the middle of the room with the PDVI canister held high (relatively speaking considering the Prof was considerably less than five foot tall to begin with) in his hand. "Und now zat I have the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer once again," the miniature megalomaniac roared as his voice rose in volume and pitch at the end of each sentence until he was screaming at the end, "I shall take over za WORLD!"

"Not on my watch, you're not," Kim challenged as she burst out of the air vent in the ceiling and landed next to Dementor. She snatched the cylinder away from the puny Professor and back flipped off the dais, landing in a defensive pose with a beaming but smug smile. "You wouldn't know what to do with it even if you did take over the world."

"I vood ZO!" Dementor raged with both fists held high in anger. "First I would get rid of everyone above za height of five foot, und zen I vood require all Men'z Stores, to zell only SHORT PEOPLE'Z CLOTHES!"

"Somebody's got some major issues with his height," Ron laughingly observed as he stepped fully into the room and over beside his girlfriend.

"I zink not!" Dementor bellowed before he pointed at the teens and screamed to his henchmen, "GET ZEM!"

"Rufus, hold on to this," Kim said as she flipped the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer over to the small rodent who leaped out of his pocket abode and caught the canister in mid air. The mighty mole rat quickly scampered off to an out of the way corner to watch the battle and keep the PDVI safe.

"Hey! That's impolite, sneaking up on a lady like that," Ron yelled as he tackled one of the henchmen who was creeping up behind Kim while the redhead was otherwise occupied knocking the stuffing out of three of the gigantic, buff minions who had the misfortune to face off against her. Ron karate-chopped the guy's neck with a blue-hued hand, taking him out of the fight.

Just then, a Global Justice agent popped his head in the doorway and casually said, "Excuse me, Miss Possible. We're here to round up the bad guys whenever you're done."

"Be with you in a minute," Kim nonchalantly called out as she delivered a devastating upper-cut to a fourth henchman.

"Did you already get the five guys in the other room and the hallway?" a blue glowing Ron asked as he leg-swept another henchman who coincidentally, or maybe not so coincidentally knowing Ron's dumb skill, got knocked silly when his head smashed against one of the lab table counters.

"Hmmm?" The agent pulled out a clipboard and ran a pen down the first page. After verifying what was written there, he looked back at Ron. "Yes we did. The first five out of Dementor's usual twelve henchmen are in custody and already on the transport."

"Was ist Los!" Dementor howled in disbelief. "You have already taken care of mein other five henchmen?"

Kim knocked out the last goon, flipped up onto the platform in front of the puny Professor and smiled. "What can I say? Ron and I are the perfect team. I grab the device while Ron takes care of your back-up squad."

"Clean up in aisle five!" Ron flippantly hollered as he secured the last henchman's feet with a zip tie, brushed off his hands and scooped up Rufus and the PDVI. At Ron's bellow, a squad of GJ agents rushed in and rounded up the goons scattered on the floor around the lab while two of the agents came over to Kim and escorted Professor Dementor away in handcuffs.

"You guys got here fast," Kim observed as she and Ron joined the first GJ agent at the door. He was busy ticking off the number of goons on his clipboard as they were hauled away.

"Hey, that's right," Ron realized as he took a peek over the agent's shoulder to see what he was doing. "GJ usually doesn't get here until after we're done and on our way back home."

"What can I say," the GJ agent nonchalantly shrugged as he tallied up the check marks. Satisfied with the count, he clicked his pen closed with a flair and turned to the two teens. "We barely missed Dementor at the government lab when he was stealing the item in question." He pointed to the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer in Ron's hand. "We would've gotten here sooner but my team had to wait for orders to assault the castle."

"You had to wait for orders?" Kim begged in indignation. "What about probable cause? You said you just missed Dementor when he stole the PDVI. That gave you enough evidence to enter and arrest him."

"I was only following orders," the agent huffed and snatched the canister out of Ron's hand, turned on his heels and marched out the door. "If you want to find out what's going on, take it up with the Director." With that, the Global Justice agent walked out of sight.