Solar Save Sitch

By Archaon

Welcome, welcome. I decided that instead of writing nothing while thinking about my other stories, I could branch into a new category instead. That's right people, my first KP entry and hopefully not the last.

Disclaimer: I do not own any non-original characters, places, items or situations that might appear in this chapter or any subsequent ones. Now stop reading meaningless disclaimers and start reading the actual story.

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Chapter 1: Mightily Muddy Mission

"Spectrometer glasses, check. Two grappler hooks, check. Extending wire compact mirror, check. Knockout gas, check. Laser lipstick, rubber lipstick, cutting lipstick... normal lipstick? What's that doing here?"

"Rufus could use it to distract the henchpeople, KP. Draw silly faces on them and such."

"Eww. Just don't expect me to use it afterwards, Ron. Kimmunicator watch, laser ring, decoder comb, portable silicon phase disrupter, diablo sauce-extra spicy, sonic mines, holographic decoys, collapsible boomerang, EMS gun, magnetic hair pins..."

"Don't forget Rufus!"

"Hey!"

"Rufus is not a gadget, Ron..."

Sitting in the rusty haul of an airborne old cargo plane, Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable were busy taking inventory.

Which involved Ron clumsily upending their backpacks and Kim trying to keep everything straight and organized.

"... jetpacks, helmets and battlesuit, which I'm already wearing, check. No stealth mode this time, though", commented the redhead crimefighter.

"Sorry about that, Kim. I'm having so much trouble with the stealth projector, I'm thinking of making a new suit from scratch," came the voice from her fair-sized watch.

Kim dismissed his worries. "No big, Wade. It's not like we are going to face Lorwarians again", she responded cheerfully. A week had passed since team Possible's graduation and the accompanying alien invasion and the couple had been able to kick back and enjoy some much needed quality time.

The thirteen-year-old genius seemed uncomfortable. "We don't know what exactly we are dealing with here, Kim. Global Justice has gone all secretive on me. We only know that a military plane carrying yet another secret project was shot down in the Amazon jungle. According to my satellite readings, there are at least twenty warring teams around the aircraft's general position without counting GJ agents."

Ron beamed at that. "So that's why you want us to have our entire arsenal with us. Any more and we'd have to use a gadget trailer. Amazon mud would clog its wheels in minutes. I know, I work at SmartyMart. The anaconda cages vex me so... " he mumbled.

Wade sighed. "It's just that I hate sending you in blind. This muddy water sitch makes me nervous."

Kim smiled confidently. "Amp down, Wade. We'll make do. Although if you could dig up some more about what we are looking for, it'd be swell."

The computer expert smiled for the first time since the current mission's start. "I'll call you back later."

"Please and thank you" replied Kim, cutting the line and regarding the battlesuit she was wearing. Its reactive material made it a perfect fit and also quite flattering, if she could judge from the appreciating glances Ron would throw when he thought she wasn't paying attention. Another thought crossed her mind and she looked at her best friend-boyfriend worried.

"If it's that bad down there, I should have asked Wade to make you a battlesuit too. Or at least the forcefield."

Ron quirked a brow. "Yo, mystic monkey master, remember?" he gloated, pointing a finger at his chest.

Kim glared at him, although he could tell she was concerned rather than tweaked. "Nice try, mystic boy. You already told me it still comes and goes. I don't want your safety to hang on such a variable, however awesome it might be."

Said blonde smiled. "No worries, Kimbo. I might not be able to lift alien robots with my mind all the time, but the Ron has everything under control" he replied, indicating a second belt he wore over the special titanium-laced reinforced belt she had given him for their first half-year anniversary as an official couple. Orange with a red clasp and a purple button in the middle, it seriously clashed with his normal mission clothes.

"Now, where have I seen this before?" she wondered, raising a brow when Ron smiled nervously.

"Not important. It might come useful in a pinch."

"Right... We better get ready. We only have two minutes left" she responded, making sure no gadgets were left behind. "Remember, we'll have to open our chutes later than usual to avoid being detected. We can fire the jetpacks if we end up too low. Just don't pull the cord until my Kimmunicator's altitude alarm beeps."

Ron seemed less than confident. "I hope you are right, KP. Good luck kiss?" he asked expectantly.

Kim sighed. "But we are on a mission, Ron. I don't know..." she replied, apparently torn, while tying her hair in a convenient ponytail.

"Technically, the mission won't start until we touch the ground" he noted sagely.

Her eyes lit up a second later. "I have a better idea, Ronnie. Just wait for it" she purred, clasping his hand and almost dragging him to the cockpit. "Thanks for the ride, Arnold. You really saved us some time," she said to the pilot while her partner smiled accordingly.

"Don't mention it, Kim" replied the pilot. "It's the least I can do after you three helped me stop those smuggling highjackers."

"So not the drama. Anyone could build a dozen stun traps with old car carcasses and chopsticks."

"No big!" chirped the naked mole rat in accordance.

Ron nodded. "I knew learning how to keep a spoon stuck on my nose would be useful one day."

Opening the cockpit door, they both looked down to the green carpet of forests below with respective visages of expectation and apprehension. "So, KP, what exactly was your idea?" he asked smiling nervously.

"This!" She exclaimed, pulling him along as she jumped. She took a second to admire the rushing air against her face then turned to her stunned boyfriend and smiled. She brought him closer and after their lips locked, she proceeded to give him one of her most passionate kisses yet. He responded eagerly, completely forgetting his fear and reveling in the experience as all of his senses entered overload zone.

Kim retained just enough presence of mind to hear her Kimmunicator beep and she was ready, pushing Ron away from her body while pulling both their parachute cords. She ignored the fact they were falling a bit too fast when she spied a team of henchmen dressed in familiar red jumpsuits directly underneath them. She waited a few more seconds, then released her chute straps, falling like a rock and using the first of the henchmen as a landing pad. Without touching the ground, she fired her jetpack, rushing horizontally and shoulder-tackling two more grunts, finishing her move by killing her thrust and coiling her body in the air to deliver a final spinning eagle kick to a fourth, particularly bulky lackey.

Landing smoothly and into a battle stance she surveyed her surroundings critically, only to gawk as Ron passed right next to her, his jetpack barely under control. After performing a dozen airborne loop-de-loops at crazy angles, he stopped by headbutting a wall of four fleeing henchmen, exchanging his flight with their consciousness and throwing all of them into a thick bed of ferns.

"Are you ok, guys?" asked Kim in trepidation, cringing as she beheld the mess of tangled bodies and limbs.

"Yuck!" responded Rufus that had fallen out of his human's pocket, spiting out a handful of leaves.

"Just peachy, KP" groaned Ron in a decidedly un-peachy voice, rising to his feet and taking a couple dizzy steps before straightening up. "Parachute strap on jetpack controls; Bad idea. Helms do save lives after all" he noted, wincing as he fingered his mutilated protective gear.

Kim rolled her eyes. "Not the most graceful landing, but I can't argue with results" she sighed eyeing the totaled band of supporting villainous sidekicks.

"You know, we still have enough time to return to the plane with our jetpacks and try again" he offered, his eyes almost glazed, a silly smile on his face.

The redhead hero smirked. "Bad boy, keep your head in the game. That's neither the first nor the last time we freefall."

Ron beamed at that. "We could make it a tradition, like a good luck ritual. After the theme song we totally need a badical good luck ritual."

Before Kim could respond, a communicator left behind by the incapacitated felons came to life. "Mother duck to team Bravo. Over... Is this thing even working? Mother duck to team Bravo. Pick it up you idiots!"

"Drakken!" she tried to exclaim, but Ron's finger on her lips made it come out as a whisper.

Picking the communicator, he took a deep breath. "Team Bravo to Mother duck" he responded, his voice as deep as any garden-variety grunt's. "Over."

"About time. Did you find anything yet?"

"I... think we are close, Dr. Drakken," he responded. "What are we looking for again?" he asked, trying to sound dumbfounded.

The blue mad scientist sounded positively exasperated, probably hearing the same question for the tenth time. "Incompetents! I shouldn't have let Shego infiltrate the plane by herself. How she crashed it is beyond me. Listen here you blunderheads. We are looking for the crashed aircraft, Shego and the device I showed you in the briefing. If you meet Global justice idiots or Dementor's goons, contact me immediately and try to stall them. Over and out."

"Boo-yah!" exclaimed Ron in his normal voice, apparently happy with himself, while discarding the device.

Kim smiled in response. "So Shego was after the device but something went wrong. And Dementor's involved somehow. Probably trying to race Drakken to the prize. I was hopping Drakken would mellow out after receiving that UN medal, but some people never change." Her smile went wider. "Competent show of incompetence, Ron. I'm impressed."

Ron smirked. "I'm always ready to perform, Kimila" he boasted.

Her smile turned seductive. "Keep doing so nice, Rondo, and we might find out sooner than you think" she purred, causing Ron's jaw to falter.

"Wha? Aug... Ohm..!" he responded intelligently, face matching his girlfriend's hair. They had come very close to what she was insinuating, especially after the graduation party, but for her to act so brazen during a mission...

She smirked almost evilly as she dragged him along. "Mission. Head. Game" she ordered as they vanished into the thick vegetation.

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Shego was not having a good day. Having to infiltrate the military airplane as a stewardess and serve coffee to the guards had been bad enough. Beating the lot of them up and kicking them out along with their parachutes had served to somewhat restore her good mood, but the violent crash that soon followed was another story altogether.

Sighing, she looked around her once more, frowning at the total wreckage encircling her and deciding that she was truly very lucky to get away with a few bumps. Now if she could find a way to exit the means of her survival, she would soon be able to kick back and enjoy life, at least for a while.

Concentrating briefly, she called her meteor power, hands glowing with their unearthly green Go glow. She kept building up energy, her eyes closed, her face strained, and soon her whole body was engulfed in an emerald corona of power. Snapping her eyes open, she slashed with both hands at the whitish barrier before her, channeling as much energy as she could muster.

Said barrier remained unimpressed by the display.

Frowning again and sitting down, she assumed a meditative position and picked up what seemed like a three-dimensional metallic star, glaring at its silver surface that was veined with crimson power lines. Currently deactivated, the item failed to be intimidated.

Shego raised a brow when she heard faint voices among the jungle's many sounds.

"I'm telling you, KP, these mosquitoes are out to get me. Perhaps Nacos turn the blood sweeter."

"Hush, Ron, I can see the plane. It's a mess. Do you see anything on you screens, Wade?... No big, we are going in."

"I bet these bloodsuckers are waiting for their chance even now..."

"Ron, let's just..." Kim stopped talking and stood still, Ron at her side. They both needed a couple seconds to take in the scene. In the epicenter of the crash and levitating just above the scorched ground stood a semi-transparent sphere three meters in diameter, white pulses of energy dancing along its flawless surface. A stoic Shego was seated inside, ankles crossed and hands supporting the back of her head.

"Just my luck" she stated, almost bored. "Of all the people you and your beau had to be the first to arrive, Kimmie."

"Whoa, see that Rufus? A giant bubble. This is so cool!" chirped Ron, visibly exited.

Shego and Kim rolled their eyes at the same time. "He must be so good with children" mocked the green-clad woman, a smirk touching her lips.

Kim scowled. "You would know, miss child development diploma. What are you doing here, Shego?" she demanded, assuming a battle stance.

Her arch foe smiled condescendingly. "Oh, you know me. Nothing better to do than standing suspended in the air above a sea of junk in the middle of the Amazon forest in the freaking midday sun. It would be fun, too, if the junk had NOT been the plane I was riding on" she added sarcastically.

Ron raised a brow. "You know, there are better things to do with your time. Why, Kim's cousin, Larry could help you with that."

Kim shook her head. "Why don't you come out of that thing or at least tell us why you trashed the plane?" she offered diplomatically.

"Whoa, whoa, are you even listening to what you're saying? Why would I crash a craft I was riding on? I just tried to steal it. Do you have any idea how demanding these army guys are when it comes to coffee? I almost blew my cover before time" she vented.

"She actually managed to infiltrate a GJ mission, KP. What kind of sick and wrong technique did she use to pass as a stewardess?" pondered the blonde, hand rubbing his jaw.

Kim frowned. "Probably some kind of biodegrading mask copied from the face of a real GJ employee" she offered, deciding to humor her partner.

Ron beamed at that. "Or maybe some bioengineering tech, like Camille's. No, I know! She used a holographic projector."

Shego groaned, rubbing her temples. "There is also this newfangled, unheard of technique called 'make-up'. You should try it Princess. You need all the help you can get."

Kim ignored the crack and prepared for an attack that was already long due. Ron took a step back and assumed something loosely resembling a battle stance. Rufus peeked out of his pocket and dived back in scared. Crickets chirped in the background. Shego just sighed.

Seconds later, Ron scratched his head. "You know, KP, I think something's not right here. By now you two should have been at the third round already. Shego wouldn't just sit in this bubble unless..." he commented, actually approaching and knocking at the inert forcefield.

"Unless she can't come out," added Kim, eyes questioning. She and the green-clad villain glared at each other in an unblinking contest that would have made Big Daddy proud.

At length, Shego sighed again resigned. "I might as well tell you. I'm sick of waiting for Dr. D. and almost bored to tears. Just as I had sent everybody else on board for a chute fall and was merrily flying this thing away from its route, some kind of funky death ray came from the ground and totaled the thing."

"Probably Dementor's involvement" chirped Ron. "Ol' metalhead would do that."

"Green guy!" added Rufus, nodding empathetically.

Shego looked as if she was boiling inside. "The next time I see that pitiful gnome..." she started, stopping when Ron shuddered at her last word. "Gnome phobia?" she asked nonchalantly.

"Mild case" replied Kim casually. "Do keep talking," she added more critically.

"Not much to tell. Plane went crazy, no chute close. I used the device and it saved me, only I now have no idea how to get out" she explained, indicating the silver star in her hands.

Ron quirked his head to the side. "Let's pretend the mosquitoes that are trying to ambush me don't know what the device is..."

Shego blinked. "Why, the Anti-Entropic Gravity Isometric Stimulator, of course. You wouldn't believe how Dr. D's been whining about this thing. 'Oh Shego, with project AEGIS we will be invincible. If only we could get our hands on it. Blah, blah, blah.' You know how he gets...," she added. Kim noted with amusement that there was a note of admiration beneath her usual sarcastic tone.

"Right, project AEGIS. We knew that" followed Ron, gaining a withering glare from the green-clad villain. "Why don't you remove the batteries or something?" he asked.

Kim looked skeptical. "I don't think a highly sophisticated experimental project would use normal batteries, Ron."

Shego had to suppress a snort of laughter. "Actually pumpkin, I already tried that", she explained, juggling two ordinary batteries around her left hand's fingers. "This shield is self-sustaining."

"Are you getting this, Wade?" inquired Kim, holding her Kimmunicator in place and scanning the energy construct. "It doesn't seem too different from one of the tweeb's containment fields."

"Sorry Kim", he replied. "This thing is far more complex than it looks. I will need time to analyze all the data."

Shego rolled her eyes. "Doy! Super secret project, what did you expect?"

If looks could kill, Kim's glare would have reduced Shego to her component particles. "You" she started, her finger accusing "had better prepare for a long prison stay. You might have helped saving the world once, but that doesn't mean hijacking this plane will be tolerated."

Shego just sighed theatrically. "Really, Kimmie, you should relax and remove that hard pole you have stuck up your..."

"Shego!!" interrupted Kim exasperated.

The former team Go member glanced at Ron questioningly. "I thought that by now you would be helping your girlfriend with her stress issues, Stoppable" she noted.

"I don't have stress issues" grumbled Kim, trying her laser lipstick on the shield with no effect. "You are just annoying."

Ron blinked obliviously. "Help her how?" he asked as the silicon phase disrupter he tried proved equally ineffective.

Shego rolled her eyes. "Do I need to start from the 'birds and bees' talk or can you actually spell sex?" she exclaimed, causing both of them to blush.

"Of course I can!" blurted Ron, almost dropping the diablo sauce pack he was applying on the shield.

"Don't listen to her, Ron. She is just trying to get to us" managed the redhead as she tossed the ineffectual EMS gun back in her backpack.

Shego just smiled condescendingly. "You two are such prudes. Kids your age have needs. Have you even reached second base after more than a year dating?"

"What we do in our bedrooms is none of your business!" snapped Kim, sighing as her sonic mines failed to impress the AEGIS bubble.

The former superhero snickered. "So you DO do things in your bedroom. Third base then? Just barely I guess."

Kim removed her hand from the sphere's surface after her battlesuit failed to manipulate its energy and used it to cover Ron's mouth just before he could mumble an incriminating response. "Not a word, she is playing us both" she ordered, sighing in relief when he nodded. "Wade, we have nothing. Did you find anything that can help?"

The prodigious team spotter was busy typing at blurring speed, although his visage seemed frustrated. "Sorry Kim, I'm stumped. By the way, two of the many teams roaming around the forest are closing in from opposite directions.

While Kim was busy talking to Wade, Shego regarded Ron intently. "Hey, can't you use your mystic monkey mojo like last week?"

Ron seemed uncomfortable pretending to search his backpack for any forgotten gadgets he could use. "It still comes and goes, you know. I can't really control it most of the time..." he replied uneasily.

Shego raised a brow, then her eyes lit in recognition. She promptly slapped a hand on her face. "Just great. Another one with the SB-syndrome" she spat.

"SB-syndrome?" repeated Ron, actually dreading the answer.

"As in, 'superpower block syndrome'. You are afraid or unconfident of your powers and so your own mind blocks them."

Ron blinked at that. "You also had that problem?" he inquired and Shego had to sigh. She decided he could be very perceptive at times. Or asymmetrically lucky.

"Yes, sport, when I was eleven and got hit by the comet" her face changed to a wicked smile. "Kimmie can help you with that just as you help her deal with stress."

Any flabbergasted response from Ron's side was interrupted when a very familiar voice echoed through the forest.

"Kim Possible! What are you doing here?" demanded Andrew Theodore Lipsky, also know as Dr. Drakken as he and a band of twenty henchmen broke into the burnt clearing around the crashed plane.

"Why surprised?" chirped Rufus from Ron's pocket and Shego had to roll her eyes.

"That's what I've been trying to figure out for a long time", she mumbled.

Drakken ignored the exchange. "No matter" he exclaimed pompously. "This time I am the one finding you, so there!" he added, apparently pleased with himself. "Use your new repulsion rifles and attack" he ordered and all henchmen readied identical futuristic weapons.

"At last vie have reached ze plane. I told you zat pizza stop would make us late. Am I ze only one zat thinks zese things? Look, look. Kim Possible and even Drakken beat us to it."

Said blue-skinned mad scientist frowned. "What is Dementor doing here? How did he pinpoint project AEGIS that fast?" he asked no one in particular.

Shego sighed at the drama unfolding outside her bubble. "Maybe he has something to do with my plane being hit with a death ray" she replied testily.

Drakken blanched at that. "Are you alright Shego?" he asked, very concerned, before coughing fakely. "I mean, of course you are alright."

Dementor seemed uncomfortable as he and his team of grunts came in sight. "You were in ze process of stealing zat plane, Fräulein Shego? My apologies, I didn't know I was blasting you mit my sonic pulse cannon."

"Just wait until I get out of this thing and I'll give you a reason to be sorry about" she mumbled menacingly.

"That's not fair," exclaimed Drakken, who had apparently recovered his wits or rather lack thereof. "I went after project AEGIS first. I call dibs!"

Kim just shook her head and spied around for cover. She was pretty sure where this talk was leading. "It's going to be one of these sitches" she complained as she discretely dragged Ron so that both of them were behind Shego's bubble and fairly protected from both mad scientist parties.

Dementor's eye twitched in irritation. "While your dibs skills are formidable indeed, I think zat ze matter will have to be resolved with ze sonic pulse rifles my men are carrying" he exclaimed, prompting his henchmen to raise their weaponry. The two teams of mad scientist lackeys remained very still, both locked in a Western standstill right out of TrashHeap TV.

Shego sighed at the absurdity of it all while both Drakken and Dementor proved to have enough sense to slowly back away and get behind cover. Ron actually seemed ecstatic and Kim was starting to wonder whether both teams would collapse under the harsh Brazilian sun before the show could start, when her Kimmunicator beep dispelled the silence. A second later, both teams decided that the dreaded, for them, signal was as good a sigh as any.

Drakken's henchmen started using their rifles to lift large pieces of rock and shredded plane that were promptly repulsed towards their opponents. Dementor's men answered by using their pulse rifles to dissolve said projectiles into harmless pieces, shattering them in the air. A direct repulsion hit would force Dementor's henchmen into an impromptu flight, followed by an inevitably rough landing, while a direct pulse hit would drop Drakken's sidekicks to their knees for a while, sonic waves wrecking havoc on their eardrums.

"Go Wade" responded Kim after a while, wincing as large boulder smashed against Shego's bubble and pelted her and Ron with dust.

"Did GJ order an air strike?" he asked worried as the mayhem around team Possible only escalated.

Kim winced as a sonic beam hit the AEGIS bubble, causing her world to resonate. "Drakken and Dementor are apparently ducking it out. No big" she responded, her eyes going wide as a large piece of the plane's wing arced above their shield and threatened to crush her. Before she could even think to launch her body in a dodge she knew she couldn't manage, Ron slapped it away with a hand engulfed in blue flames. "Ok, it is big but nothing we can't survive" she amended, blowing a grateful kiss towards her partner. He responded with a thumbs-up, then turned his attention to the carnage at the other side of the bubble.

Wade shrugged, not really able to appreciate the situation from afar. "Anyway, I do have some news. The AEGIS technology seems to be out of this world. A rough estimate shows that a combined sonic and gravity blast might destabilize it, but the risk is too high to try something like that. The results could be... ferociously explosive and/or unpredictable."

Shego that had been paying rapt attention to the conversation decided to intervene. "Whoa there nerdlinger. Tell me an attraction-repulsion beam is NOT based on gravity manipulation."

Kim raised a brow at that while Wade blinked. "Why, of course it is. Why?"

Shego frowned as more shots collided with her shield. "Because this battlefield is filled with both sonic and repulsion rifles and the shield is in the middle!" she exclaimed. "Seriously, am I the only one who pays attention here?"

The thirteen-year-old genius paled visibly. "That's bad, that's very bad. Tell them to stop!" he shouted.

Shego Kim and Ron regarded each other incredulously. "How exactly are we going to do that?" asked the blonde.

Nobody had a chance to conjure a retort as two different beams collided with the shield at the exact same time and all hell broke loose. Shego yelped as her bubble lost its solid state and she hit the ground beneath it. Everybody else winced as a horrible sound filled the jungle for a second, a wail straight out of the darkest nightmares. The AEGIS bubble started pulsing crazily, light and heat leaking out of its surface as water through a sieve.

"Kim! Forcefield!" ordered Wade frantically and the redhead knew not to question his urgency. With a fluid motion, she grabbed both Ron and Shego, pulling them close in a feat of strength that surprised even her. At the same time, she gave the mental command to her battlesuit and the blue globe of force surrounded all three of them. A blink later, the AEGIS bubble caused the world around them to be filled with blinding light.

"Nice save KP!" exclaimed Ron while Shego shook her head to regain her wits.

"Saved by the hero", she sneered, regarding the developing inferno outside. "This field does look better from the inside though", she mused.

Kim's triumphant smirk slowly degraded into a frown as warnings started to flash in her wrist-mounted Kimmunicator. "Bad news, guys. My shield won't last much longer. The reaction outside is getting more and more powerful" she provided and both Ron and Sego gasped. The temperature inside the bubble kept rising and to their disbelief, they watched as the blue sphere started to flicker and sputter.

The green villain turned to regard Ron. "If you have any more monkey magic in you, Stoppable, now it's a good time to use it", she declared, causing the blonde to frown.

"I have the next best thing. Hope it'll be enough" he responded. Wrapping one arm around Shego's waist tightly, he stepped backwards, pressing his back on Kim. Before either of the girls could respond, his other hand pressed the button in the middle of his belt. Just as Kim's shield flickered one last time and dissolved, an orange tube of light expanded around the three of them, pressing them even closer and protecting them from the external onslaught that was still in its crescendo.

"I can't believe you kept your Zorpox belt" commented Shego, wiggling and trying to fit better inside the new forcefield.

"I knew I had seen that belt before!" added Kim, her voice half-glad, half-accusing.

Ron, currently sandwiched between the two females, sighed. "Be glad that I did."

Shego squirmed some more, all in vain. "A bit of a tight fit though" she commented.

The blonde was being forced to move just as she did. "It's not exactly a three people device" he groaned as he too tried to find a more comfortable position.

Kim let a gasp of air right next to his ear. "Can you two stop wriggling like that?" she requested. "It's a bit uncomfortable."

Shego's face formed a smirk, which none of the other two could see and she squirmed more. Ron blinked a bit. "Kim, is there a gadget caught between us?" he asked obliviously. "There are two sharp points digging in my back," he added and Shego couldn't help but snicker, which caused all three of them to wiggle more.

"These are so not gadgets" groaned Kim exasperated and Ron could almost hear her blush.

"Getting exited Kimmie?" snickered Shego and Ron's eyes went wide as he finally realized what the two women were referring to. Seconds later, Shego's eyes went wide too. "Oh, your boyfriend got it, Princess. Either you are a very lucky girl or his rat is pressing on my backside."

"Ron!" exclaimed the redhead sounding extremely tweaked.

Said mystic monkey master wished for some aurora orchid pollen from the surrounding forest. That was a bit too embarrassing even for him. "It's not like I have a say in the matter" he retaliated, squeaking at the end of his sentence as Kim moved again. "It might go away if both of you stay really still."

"I bet Kimmie is just miffed she can't change places with me" she replied, her voice wicked.

"Shut up!" snapped the redhead crimefighter, unwittingly proving her claim valid.

"Trapped in a tight spot with two horny kids. Oh woe is me."

At that point, the energy outside their cylinder reached its peak, resulting into an enormous pillar of light ascending into the sky and causing the air to rumble. As soon as Ron made sure the environment outside was safe, he pressed his belt button again, with some help from Rufus, and all three sighed in relief as they managed to disentangle from each other. There was enough dust in the air to shovel the stuff, but they soon realized they where standing close to the center of a deep blackened crater that had completely concealed the crashed plane. The ground under their feet was still radiating heat and the soil had fused together to form glass.

"Can you hear me, Shego?" came the plea as Drakken plus entourage hesitantly stepped inside the crater.

Shego sighed, making sure only a ghost of a smile would reach her lips. "I'll live" she respond and her partner knew not to press for more.

"Vat about project AEGIS?" asked Dementor, picking himself from the ground.

The green-skinned thief's eyebrow twitched in rage. "Reduced to particles" she clarified, her hands lighting up. "When I finish with you, your particles might get the chance to socialize."

The helmeted Professor paled at that. "Now, Fräulein Shego. I'm sure ve can resolve zis mit maturity and conversation" he responded, moving his hands before him frantically.

Drakken remained still, a satisfied smirk on his face as Shego's Go glow lighted up his rival's day. "Isn't she wonderful?" he muttered, mostly to himself, coughing when he realized Kim and Ron where watching with rapt interest.

Ron actually smiled. "So I guess you two are still going strong..."

Purple looked decidedly funny on Drakken's face. "We don't discuss that during working hours" he answered almost lamely.

Kim tried to add something or perhaps moved to apprehend the scientist, but had to leap back to avoid a green blast. "Later kiddos", exclaimed Shego as she used the distraction to drag Drakken on the hovercraft she was riding.

"We might have lost project AEGIS, but today is Friday! If we make haste we will be just in time for caraoke night and an all-you-can-eat buffet. I have reservations", chirped the blue villain and Shego's groan sounded decidedly fake.

"That was weird", commented Kim. "Cute but weird."

"At 1500 hours, we reached the crash site. Unfortunately, team Possible's amateurish ways made sure both Dr. Drakken and Professor Dementor escaped unhindered."

Both Kim and Ron turned as one to gawk at agent Will Du that broke into the clearing leading an outfit of GJ troops. He ignored them as he kept talking into his personal recorder. "Project AEGIS is still missing, but my team and I will search for it promptly."

Kim's eye twitched once, but Ron beat her to it, probably saving GJ's top agent some pain. "The thing vaporized, dude. Even the two crazies that were after it gave up without a second thought."

Agent Du sneered. "Such a claim should only be made by true professionals" he droned.

The redhead's eye twitched a second time and she decided she had had enough. "You have a lot of nerve coming in post-drama and making tall claims! Why does GJ always hides until the coast is clear? You were absent during the Diablo sitch, you were absent during last week's alien invasion, you give us sketchy info for this mission and we still try our best!"

Du regarded her with contempt. "We came here as fast as we could, of course. My flawless intuition led us straight to the crash site."

Ron snickered at that. "I guess the giant shaft of energy reaching for the sky only confirmed you intuition."

The GJ agent ignored him "After through search we concluded the AEGIS project was destroyed during team Possible's operations. We decided to withdraw immediately and return to Colorado base for debriefing" he recorded, motioning his men to follow as he made an about face and marched away.

The blond shook his head. "That guy is getting friendlier by the day, KP" he sighed, noting with interest the large gloomy clouds that had somehow amassed above the jungle in record time.

"That, that, that...", she responded coherently, sighing as he squeezed her hand. After she calmed down a bit, they walked out of the crater and Kim couldn't help but look back. "Something doesn't feel right about this sitch" she muttered.

Ron nodded. "I know, Kim. My bad road meter is going crazy."

His girlfriend decided to lighten the mood. "How many miles did you count?" she inquired smiling.

He sighed. "For some reason, I'm using light years today..."

Kim shook her head. "Whatever it is, we'll tackle it as we always do" she riposted, reaching for her Kimmunicator. "Can you set us up for a ride back home, Wade?"

Said techno-wiz pondered at that, checking his screens. "I actually counted on you leaving with GJ jets" he confessed, wincing at the redhead's apparent scowl of indignation.

"I refuse to give that idiot the satisfaction, Wade" she hissed, oblivious to Ron's gestures towards the sky. "We'll take anything else."

Wade sighed but had to admit Kim's pride was hardly inexcusable. "The closest landing stripe is six hours away."

Kim's eyes went wide and she turned around. "Perhaps we can catch up with GJ after all. We'll just stay away from Will's ride and everything will be spanking", she chirped.

As on cue, six Global Justice hovercrafts left the ground a mere kilometer from their position and vanished in seconds. Ron knew very well his girlfriend would rarely swear and would frown at anyone else who did. However, he could hardly disagree with her outburst.

"What the HELL? They were practically next to the whole sitch! When we get back home, Betty so has some 'splaining to do about Du!" She continued with far more intense language, taking great satisfaction in speculating about agent Du's ancestry, sexual persuasion and physical configuration. Ron had to guiltily admit he was enjoying the show. He made sure to hide his grin when the downpour he had been trying to indicate started, drenching both youths and the mole rat in seconds.

"Not. One. Word", she commanded and Ron made a great show of pulling a zip over his mouth.

Wade, safe and dry back to his room, was also surprised by Kim's colorful imagination, even learning a couple new words, a real feat considering his internet expertise. He decided to avoid mentioning the hurricane their plane would have to endure on its way back home. Wading through Amazon mud would be bad enough...

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I hope you like, people. I always try to keep the characters as much in character as the circumstances allow and I find this quite challenging in this story. Needless to say, your input is not only welcome but will persuade me I'm not wasting anybody's time.