First off, I don't own KP, or any other licensed characters that are used in this story. Thank you all for taking the time to read this fic, I hope everyone enjoys it, or at least doesn't get violently ill from reading it. I will continue to write as long as I have the time, (which ends on 8/22 cause that's when classes start again) So I'm desperately hoping to finish before then. Anyway, enjoy it, and please review if you so desire
"Ahhhh! Yeah!" Motor Ed played his air guitar in celebration, thinking that he managed to get away with his new Turbo rocket boosters. "Way to go boys, with these boosters, we will totally be able to set a new land speed record. We'll head around the world, seriously smashing everything along the way. Seriously we will."
What Ed didn't notice was the familiar form of a redheaded teenager, garbed in a simple black midriff shirt and olive green cargo pants, quickly approaching on a blue motorcycle she had borrowed to pursue the crook. Coming up right behind her was a blonde haired boy riding a blue scooter with rockets crudely welded to the back. He wore similar clothes, though, unlike his female companion, his stomach was not exposed. Slowly but surely the two heroes approached the semi Moter Ed had stolen which housed two 20-foot long rockets, which stretched out the back of the truck.
The desert night was pretty much pitch black except for the headlights of the 3 vehicles, which didn't keep Kim and Ron very well hidden. But Ed eventually had the good sense to check the side view mirror and he saw Kim and Ron right on his tail, his men were already trying to beat them off by throwing some of the various junk they had with them towards the teens. They both evaded perfectly until Kim got close enough to flip off her bike and onto on of Ed's goons, knocking him out, and proceeded to fight her way up to the drivers seat and capture Ed.
"Aw! No way Red! Dude's, turn on the rockets we'll shake 'em off!" At his order one of his men hit the red start button which started the up the rockets.
With a deafening explosion sound the semi zoomed off down the road, Kim had managed to quickly grab hold of some of the straps that were hold the rockets down. The truck was going so fast she was lifted up into the air, her feet dangling nearly getting singed at the flames coming from the rockets. With horror she looked down, Ron had been right in the path of the flames, but she couldn't see him anymore. "Ron!" she cries out his name, but obviously no answer. Kim pushes those horrible thoughts to the side, hoping against hope that her partner was safe, with new found determination she struggles to her feet and tries to shut the rockets down and stop Motor Ed.
Ron luckily was just fine, he had been trying to get along the side of the truck to stop Motor Ed directly, but when Ed hit the rockets the truck moved too fast for him to catch. He could still see them in the distance and he could only think of one way to help out Kim. "Hit it Rufus!"
Ron was busy driving so he couldn't hit the turbo on his scooter himself, so his naked mole rat buddy scurried down him leg, and turned it on for him. With the rockets invented by Jim and Tim, along with Mr. Dr Possible's J200 rocket fuel, Ron could practically outrun anything on the road, and before he knew it he was traveling right next to Motor Ed.
Ed was very busy on his driving, the speedometer had broken off, no way to tell how fast they were going, and one false move could send him, his men, and his rockets all hurtling in a huge fireball. But movement had caught his eye on his left side, and to his shock it was Red's skinny dude. "Nu-uh, seriously, you cannot be goin' as fast as me!" Ed had both hands clenched to the steering wheel, so he couldn't do anything to fight him off.
Ron though was a bit more optimistic about his chances to control the speed and fight at the same time. "Believe it dude! You are so goin' down!" With a grunt, Ron leapt from his scooter, letting it crash to the ground. He managed to get a grip on the door handle with his right hand; his feet found them selves planted precariously on the doors lower lip, and with a growl of effort he managed to land a devastating left hook on Motor Ed's chin.
This caused Ed to loose his grip on the wheel, sending the truck spinning out of control. Ron in a panic managed to fling himself through the open window and into the drivers seat, landing on top of Ed. The spinning truck didn't allow either to get any kind of grip on their situation or put up a decent fight.
Kim who still had a good grip on the rocket had eventually fought her way through the men and managed the switch off the rockets, and just as she had done so the truck began to shake, spin, and lean a bit too far in one direction.
Screams came from everyone who was unfortunate enough to be trapped in to truck when it fell. No one exactly sure what was going on, but after what seemed like an eternity of spinning and painful confusion everything fell silent. Kim was lucky enough to fall in the corner, most of the useless junk and henchmen were thrown out earlier, and the rockets were strapped in so well it didn't even look like they had moved or been damaged.
Kim slowly managed to get to her feet, the impact giving her much pain to her back, and her knees were shaky from the shock, but she was no worse for wear. Most of the men had been knocked unconscious or were at least in too much pain to get up. Kim used the opportunity to see if she could capture Ed, and see what they heck happened.
Kim ran out the open back door of the truck, and found Motor Ed, she was quite shocked and a little scared by what she found. Ed had been imbedded in the front window, there were a few cuts, and he was bleeding a bit, but nothing looked too deep, or that serious. Crumpled on top of Ed's bulk was Ron, conscious but looking a bit sick. And out of Ron's pocket was Rufus really looking like he was about to throw up. She ran up to Ron, picking him up off the floor, breathing a sigh of relief when he smiled that goofy smile of his.
"Oh Ron, thank goodness you're ok. I thought the worst when those rockets fired and you weren't there behind me." Kim smiled happily and gave him a quick peck on the lips before she sat him down to lean against the truck on the hard pavement, allowing him to rest and relax.
"Hey, you know I'm always right behind ya KP"
Kim giggled a little at his comforting words, and then turned her attention to the Kimmunicator, hitting a button and pulling up Wade's image. "Hey Wade, we got Ed."
Wade smiled at the good news, typing a bit into his computer before responding. "Good job Kim, I've got you on GPS lock, and alerted local law enforcement to you're position. Should I alert medics to come pick you up while I'm at it?"
Kim looked at herself giving it again a once over to make sure she was indeed ok. "Nah, I think we're fine." Turning to Ron she looked him over to be sure there were no visible signs of serious damage. "Ron how you doing?"
Ron, hearing the whole conversation, responded by giving her a smile and a thumbs up. At which Kim turned to Wade again. "Yeah, we're all good here"
"Good." Wade responded by typing a few more keys and taking a sip of his soda. "Authorities should be there in 10 minutes, and a ride to take you home will be there shortly after that."
"Thanks Wade, you rock." Kim turned off the Kimmunicator and slipped it into her pocket. Turning back around she sat down next to Ron, laying her head on his shoulder as they waited. Ron smiled, wrapping his arms around her waist and snuggling close to his girlfriend.
After a moment of just relaxing there in contented bliss, Ron suddenly spoke up. "Hey… I'm sorry KP"
Kim looked up at him, his eyes were shut, but his did have a slightly sorrowful expression on his face. "Sorry for what Ron?"
He sighed against her neck, his hot breath sending a shiver down her spine, she liked the way that felt, but she kept herself concentrated on his words. "First off, for worrying you, if I hadn't decided to go and get Ed on my own without telling you, you might not have been so worried. And for rashly knocking trying to take him down, I mean, if you didn't stop the rockets we might have still been going down the road now, until we hit something, and then the rockets could've exploded or who knows what else. I can't help but think you'd do better without me in the way."
Ron stopped for a second, but looked like he wanted to continue, before he could though Kim put a finger to his lips, effectively cutting him off. "Now Ron, you can't think like that. You stopped Ed, and we're for the most part unharmed. Heck, all I managed to do tonight was slow him down. And you know I couldn't save the world, or even stop some lowlife thieves without you. You're the hero tonight, and you'll always be my hero." She smiled at her corny proclamation of her need for Ron, and looked up at his chocolate brown eyes, which were slightly getting brighter and happier.
"Seriously?" Ron's lips turned into a slight joking smirk, implying that he was making fun of their captive, though still very happy over the attention and love his girlfriend was giving.
"Seriously." Kim said, a bit lustfully. She placed both her hands on the side of his face, pulled him down and kissed him deeply and passionately. Kim broke the kiss and looked up at her boyfriend very seriously. "But if you ever grow a mullet I'm dumping you right then. And that's a promise."
Ron smirked and then started laughing loudly, followed by Kim who nearly fell over at the thought of Ron with a mullet. Even Rufus thought the idea was hilarious and jumped out of Ron's pocket to play the air guitar, mocking the mediocre villain they just took down. Though their howls of laughter were quickly drowned out by the approaching sirens of police vehicles that speedily surrounded the downed semi.
Kim and Ron rose to greet the officers and the scientists from the center where the experimental rockets were stolen. It only took them a few minutes to round up all of Motor Ed's gang, and Ed himself who was just regaining consciousness when he was being drug to the officer's car. "Aw, you are so gonna pay for this skinny dude! You too Red! I am like seriously gonna have my revenge on you."
Kim glared at him as the door shut on the captured man with a mullet. "The name isn't Red, and it's definitely not skinny dude! It's Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable!" Kim turned to Ron with a frown crossing her face. "I mean what is with these Lipsky's that they can't get the names right?"
Ron shrugs looking down at Rufus who is chattering angrily. Ron tries to calm him down by patting him on the head. "Yeah, he didn't even mention Rufus. It's ok buddy, we still love ya."
Kim went to make one final check from the officers, making sure they had everything under control. The Science center had been called by Wade to make sure Kim and Ron had a ride home, they of course couldn't be happier to comply since they got their rockets back in almost perfect condition. The center provided a VTOL that would get them to Middleton in just under an hour. Kim and Ron said their goodbyes and boarded the plane, their fingers intertwined, smiling broadly at another mission well done. Perhaps if they weren't so tired, or so eager to get home, or even so distracted by each other someone might have notice a ghostly green figure flying high above the scene watching and taking everything in with great interest.
The VTOL pilot hand landed just outside of Kim's house, though he was a bit wary of it, he didn't want to wake up the neighborhood. But Kim had told him it was no big, and that most of the city was used to it. The pilot had waved and said his final thanks to the kids on behalf of the science center. The pilot smiled as he took off and left to go home himself, sighing a bit, maybe a little jealous he admitted to himself. He had never seen anyone in love as much as those two were, the entire flight they had just sat in the back, hugging, cuddling, smoothing and just talking about nothing. It didn't even seem to offend him as these public displays of affection usually do, the spark and love between those two just seemed so right. He gave a wistful sigh and wondered if he'd ever find a girl like that, looking down to admire the couple from his sky high view he saw them walk into the house. Just as they entered though a shadowy figure leapt from the bushes and ran down the street, the pilot thought it was odd, but he just assumed it was nosey neighbors or something. He shook his thoughts aside, and finally left for home.
As they entered Kim put a finger to her own lips and emitted a soft "shhhh" to Ron. The clock on the wall said 12:54 everyone should be asleep neither wanted to wake anyone up. Kim had convinced Ron to come inside and grab a snack, they were forced from their date to go on that mission just as they were walking into the movie theater, and long before dinner, which was nearly 6 hours ago. Taking all that into account it had been nearly 14 hours since either of them had eaten and needless to say both were famished.
They snuck their way into the kitchen, Ron made his way to the fridge and found some of the nights leftovers, consisting of cold spaghetti and meatballs, along with some breadsticks, just enough for the both of them. Ron made two plates of spaghetti, one just with the tomato sauce for himself, as the meatballs weren't kosher, and another plate with all the meatballs that were left for Kim. He placed them in the microwave; slightly afraid the beeping of him pressing the buttons would wake someone up, but he just too hungry to care. As their food warmed he sat at the table with Kim who had made them both two glasses of lemonade.
"Thanks" Ron whispered, as he took a sip. Kim smiled and nodded in response taking a sip herself and waited for their food to get ready. Ron set his elbow on the table and stared thoughtfully at Kim, she smiled back but gave him a confused look, not exactly sure why he was staring. "I'm sorry we missed the movie." Ron said quietly.
"No big." Kim responded shrugging her shoulders "I had much more fun with you doing this than I would any dumb movie. I'm just sorry you're bike got wreaked." She placed a comforting hand on Ron's shoulder, giving it a light squeeze. "I'm sure Wade could fix you up with a new one"
Their conversation was interrupted when a loud beeping came from the microwave; Ron rushed over and opened it so as to quickly stop the offensive noise. He removed both plates and slid over to Kim so they could both eat their pasta.
They both ate in relative silence and Rufus was dead asleep, he didn't even bother to come out of Ron's pocket to steal some of their food. Kim was finished quickly with most of her food, and picking at the end of her portion, when from out of nowhere, came the loudest spaghetti slurp she'd ever heard from Ron. Kim bolted upright, looking at her boyish companion partially in shock, partially in horror, but mostly with amusement. She playfully pushed Ron, but could barely contain her giggle fit, Ron just grinned playfully.
Unfortunately that sound is what caused Kim's mom to come and investigate. She poked her head around the corner, watching her daughter and her boyfriend laugh and joke as they ate. She hated to break it up, but everyone in the house needed sleep "Kimmy?"
Kim looked at her mother, her hand shooting to cover her mouth. "Oh mom. I'm so sorry. Did we wake you?"
"Yes, but that's ok. I understand how it's like sometimes." She winked at her daughter who blushed from embarrassment, while Ron simply looked confused. "After all it's summertime, no school, so it's really not a big deal. But you really do need to get to sleep. You too Ron, I don't want you're parents worrying about you after all."
"No prob Mrs. Dr P. I'll be outta here in just a sec. Let me just clean up my mess." With that Ron picked up their plates and took them to the sink.
Mrs. Possible took that as her cue to leave, so Kim could 'properly' say goodnight to Ron. "Goodnight kids, we'll see you tomorrow." And she left to go back upstairs leaving Kim and Ron behind.
When Kim and Ron finished washing the dishes, Kim walked Ron to the front door. "So, you'll call me tomorrow right?"
Ron smiled back at her, "Don't I call you every day?"
"Yeah, just wanna make sure you don't forget." She turned to face him, she wraps her arms around his neck, pulls him into a deep and passionate kiss, pressing her entire body into him so they both get the full force of the kiss.
After several blissful moments Kim broke it, smiling up at her boyfriend who stammered backwards from the forceful kiss. "D-don't for-g-get to call. Right."
Kim giggled and sighed contentedly, her hand draping over her fast beating heart as she shut the door behind Ron. She walked as silent as she could up to her room, closing the trap door behind her. She was dead tired, her eyes drooping from exhaustion; she simply changed into her nightshirt, one of Ron's red jerseys that he had let her borrow during a mission, but he had mysteriously never gotten back. She slid into bed, cuddling up next to Pandaroo, she closed her eyes and expected a swift rush to dreamland, but it didn't come as easily as she had hoped.
Kim sat wide-awake in her bed for a while, her mind suddenly racing about thoughts of that day's mission. Like what if Ron really had been hurt while fighting Motor Ed, what would she have done? And what was with Ron after it was all over? It seemed like every other mission they'd been on since they'd been dating he had suddenly gone all negative on her, questioning his own abilities and such. But the odd thing was, that since they'd been dating he had gotten better, much better. He was actually in there fighting some of the henchmen, not as good as her obviously, but he was fighting. Getting hurt a lot more too though, and that worried her. Heck tonight he had taken down Motor Ed, certainly not a small man like his relative Drew, but still. Granted it was more likely that the truck crash had more to do with Ed's unconscious state than Ron directly, but she couldn't deny that Ron had his hand in it. Either way, Kim was glad to have this reliable Ron along side her during missions, not like he wasn't reliable before… Kim cut her thoughts off there, deciding she way too tired to think about it now, Ron was great, they loved each other, and some how they'd get through anything together. With a sigh into her pillow she closed her eyes, hoping that Ron was having an easier time sleeping than she was. Unfortunately this was not the case for Ron Stoppable.
A/N – Ok, first chapter of my first "real" fic. Next chapter we find why Ron doesn't sleep well that night, and who those ghostly figures are following Kim and Ron. Though I hope these answers won't be too hard to figureout (espessially since I kinda gave it away in the summery ; ). I hope everyone who reads this fic will review and come back looking forward to another chapter. Thanks everyone
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