A Completely New Man
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We all wear masks, whether we know it or not. But sooner or later, one way or another the mask shatters and that's when we find out what kind of man you are.
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It all happened so fast, one moment Kim was spending time with Ron and the next he was on the ground after collapsing, it was the first time they had been able to spend time together in months. After high school ended they found each other drifting away from each other, they both had there separate lives now.
After Kim left school she went on to work for Global Justice and after a couple of years she had already climbed the ranks and when Betty Director has retired Kim had taken over as the new director of Global Justice. The job slowed down a bit after most of the old villains started retiring, Drakken, Dementor and even Shego. Although not by choice, in their last fight Kim had managed to hit her with an attitude polarizer and turn her good again, Shego was now in upperton training to be a doctor.
Ron however had carried on to Middleton University without Kim, unfortunately only Kim was able to join GJ, they had no room in their organization for a buffoon. At first Kim refused to work for GJ without Ron, but thanks to some convincing from Ron she took the job.
After becoming director of GJ, Kim was able to receive access to more detailed information including the existence of extra terrestrial beings… this was old news, Kim had already had a couple of encounters with aliens, the first was with a little girl named Lilo and her pet 'Dog' Stitch and then there was the matter in her senior year with Warmonger.
She also found out that GJ was founded by another corporation, a top secret organization originally from England that dealt with problem not of this world, but had branches all over the world, an organization called Torchwood.
Anyway, this was the first time she had seen Ron in nearly a year, but just as they were walking towards their old favorite restaurant Bueno Nacho Ron suddenly fell unconscious, Kim quickly leaned down and checked on him, his breathing was shallow.
She looked around and noticed something strange, a bunch of people around her were all walking around with dazed look on their faces, they were walking like zombies without a purpose, there were other people trying to reason with them and ask them where they were going but they were all ignored as at least two dozen people just walked around like zombies.
"What the hell is going on?" Kim asked nobody in particular.
Kim reached to her right wrist and activated a communicator built into her watch, an a few seconds wade answered.
"Kim… I was just about to call you… we have a serious problem…"
Kim looked around for a moment before answering,
"Does it have anything to do with people walking around like zombies?"
Wade nodded his head in reply,
"So you noticed… Kim its happening all over the world… approximately one third of the worlds population just started to get up and wonder off, they're completely unresponsive… it looks like they're all heading for high places… bridges, Roofs even diving boards to empty swimming pools."
Kim glanced at Ron for a moment,
"Wade there's something wrong with Ron, he just collapsed all of a sudden… and it happened about the same time everyone started acting weird… send a GJ hover jet to pick us up and let my mom know we're bringing in a patient… DON'T tell her it's Ron, otherwise she'll freak out.
Kim hung up the connection and hoisted Ron up and supported his weight on her right shoulder, it would only take a few minutes for the jet to get there, hiring Wade was the best decision she had since taking over GJ, Wade now worked in his own private office in the main base as well as Kims mother who had been hired as the base doctor.
A few moments later she noticed a platinum blond heading towards him, she recognized her immediately as her old cheer partner Tara.
"Hey Kim, do you know what's going on?… oh my god is that Ron? What happened to him?"
Tara was going a mile a minuet and was obviously freaked out by what was happening but she still had time to ask how Ron was, Kim remembered the crush Tara had developed on Ron at one point. Kim didn't have time to answer her questions, a moment later there was a roar in the air and a GJ jet hovered over head for a moment before landing in the Bueno Nacho car park.
Kim jumped into the jet carrying Ron and set him down in a nearby seat, she turned to close the door when she noticed Tara looking up into the jet at her with a pleading look,
"Gah, fine… you can come along"
With a yip of joy Tara climbed into the jet and took a seat by Ron.
As the jet sped towards GJ headquarters Kim looked out the window and noticed hundreds of people walking along the streets like zombies, people trailing behind them trying to get them to stop.
A few minutes later the jet landed on the roof of the GJ building, the actual base itself was buried deep under the building, as they landed Kim noticed a group of people standing on the very edge of the roof as if ready to jump, Kim recognized them as GJ employees.
"What the hell is going on?"
Ignoring the suicidal employees, Kim walked across the roof and to an elevator concealed on the roof and a few seconds later Kim, Ron and Tara walked back out of the elevator and into the interior of the Global Justice base of operations.
A couple of agent walked over to Kim and took Ron off her hands and carried him towards the infirmary, Kim proceeded towards the front of the intelligence section,
"Well, what's the situation?" Kim asked in a commanding voice, she had long since stopped using her 'what's the sitch?' catchphrase and started using the proper terms, she found it more professional.
Wade walked up to her,
"All we have figured out is that 15 minutes ago a signal hit the earth, and then one third of the worlds population started acting strange, they all walk around like zombies trying to get to high places, rooftops etcetera… now they all seem to be waiting for something… and then just five minutes ago another signal was sent to us, this time it was a broadcast, a message to us. The signal came from a ship… an alien ship… they sent us a message in an alien language, my translation software solved it."
Wade held up a small handheld computer and passed it to Kim to read.
People/Cattle,
you belong to us,
to the Sycorax,
we own you,
we now possess your land,
your minerals,
your precious stones,
your women.
You will surrender or they will die.
Sycorax strong,
Sycorax mighty,
Sycorax rock!
"They Rock? What the hell does that mean?" Kim asked
Wade turned to her and looked embarrassed,
"As far as I can tell it means the modern sense that they rock."
Kim sweat dropped,
'Great, aliens with an ego'
"…It says they will die… I assume its referring to everyone on the rooftops… so this is some kind of mind control?"
Wade nodded in response,
"Yeah it looks like it… but the signal seems to be targeting specific people… and I think that's what happened to Ron…"
Kim looked up at the mention of Ron,
"What do you mean? do you know what happened to Ron?"
Wade looked down in sadness,
"Yeah… its my fault… when the signal hit the earth, if it had tried to take control of Ron then it would have had to go through the defenses I put up?"
Kim eyed him questioningly,
"What defenses? What are you talking about?"
Wade sat down and began to explain,
"Remember a few years ago when Drakken created those mind control chips and took control of you? Well I tried to make sure it would not happen again, so I created two microchips that were designed to scramble the control signal of any form of mind control and then I planted them both on you and Ron… now this signal that hit the earth was thousands of times stronger than anything those chips were supposed to be able to handle… the signal still had to go through the chip to hit Ron but when it went through the chip the signal was damaged and then the damaged signal went into Ron…"
Kim couldn't believe what she was hearing, Wade had built these chips and planted them on her and Ron without letting them know and now it seemed that something had gone wrong with Rons chip,
"…Well… WHAT HAPPENED TO RON?!?!" Kim shouted loud enough for everyone to hear,
Wade was silently looking at her before looking behind her, Kim followed his eyes and turned around to see her own mother with silent tears falling from her eyes,
"Mom? What's wrong?…. What's happened to Ron?"
Anne Possible stuttered as she started to speak,
"H-He's conscious… but his brain activity is dropping rapidly… I-in about ten minutes he'll b-be completely brain dead… and there's nothing I can do about it…."
Anne fell to her knees and started silently crying to herself, she had know Ron for most of his life, he was like a son to her,
Kim wanted to comfort her mother, but as she took a step towards her mother she found herself walking past her and started running full speed towards the infirmary.
After Kim left the room an alarm sounded from the main screen, Wade turned around,
"What's going on?" Wade asked no one in particular .
Another tech-head turned around and spoke to wade,
"Sir, it's the alien ship, it just passed the moon and is heading our way"
Meanwhile one of the scientists from the genetic lab had overheard the conversation between Kim, Wade and eventually Kim's mother and he smiled evilly, he could use this situation to finally use his invention, he proceeded towards his private lab and after punching in a 6 digit code he was able to open his medical fridge, he reached inside and pulled out a small silver suitcase with the letters TLX-01 printed in bold white letters on the side and he headed towards the infirmary.
Kim was sitting next to Rons bed, his mouth and nose were both covered by an oxygen tank and he had several IV's in his arm. Tara was there as well and was also in tears, she had been here when Anne found out there was nothing she could do, so effectively Tara was the first to know about the situation besides Anne.
Kim's attention was cut from Ron when she noticed a scientist with sort brown hair in a white lab coat walk into the room holding a silver case,
"Hello miss director, I'm Dr Saxon… I have a proposition for you…"
What the scientist said had angered her, Kim stood up quickly and started speaking with and angry tone,
"How dare you!!! You choose a situation like this to come to me with personal requests?!?! GET OUT!!!"
The scientist nodded,
"Very well, I just thought you might jump at the opportunity to save your friend…"
He was about to walk out of the room when Kim stopped him,
"Wait!!!… y-you can save him?… how"
Saxon smiled before turning around,
"I have a way, in this case is a retro-virus I created, it will rewrite his DNA, it will basically turn him into another species…"
Kim looked at him as if he was crazy,
"How exactly would that help him?"
Dr Saxon sat down to explain,
"We don't have long before you're friend becomes little more than a vegetable so I'll make this short, the virus is designed on the DNA of an alien so basically he will be changed into a a member of the aliens species and it is not the virus that will save him but the aliens own natural ability, you see the alien he will change into has an ability called regenerating, a way of cheating death so to speak."
Kim thought for a moment before asking,
"What's the catch?"
Saxon looked back at her and shook his head,
"Nothing… the species he will change into looks identical to a human so he'll be able to fit in… his regeneration may change a few things about him, you see when a member of this alien species regenerates then their whole appearance changes, their height, hair color even their face but the changes shouldn't be that dramatic with him, the most you can expect is maybe his hair and eyes changing color. But he will retain all memories of his former self… but the biggest change will be with his mind… he will become basically a genius."
Kim was gob smacked, she could actually save Ron, but if she did then Ron could change almost completely, she could lose her best friend.
"Hold on…I need to ask him"
Kim turned from Mr Saxon and made her way to a barely conscious Ron, she leant down to him and started to speak,
"Ron… Ron can you hear me?"
Ron slowly cracked his eyes open and nodded at Kim who was at the moment trying to hold back her tears,
"..Ron, we have a way to save you… but it involves some things, you would change… your body and mind may change…. I-I won't do it if you don't want it Ron, its up to you.."
Ron reached out and softly squeezed Kim's hand,
"…Do it.."
After saying those two simple words Ron fell asleep again.
Kim turned to Dr Saxon and nodded.
Saxon turned around and placed the case on the corner table, he unclipped the case and looked at the contence, an injection gun and a single vial of glowing blue liquid also labeled TLX-01, he quickly loaded the vial into the gun and turned to face Ron.
As he got ready to inject Ron, Kim looked up at Saxon,
"Hey… what's the name of the species he'll become?…"
Saxon pressed the gun into Rons neck before speaking again,
"…a Time Lord…" with that said he pulled the trigger of the gun and the three of them watched as the blue liquid was injected into Ron.
Saxon put away the gun and proceeded to walk out of the room, he stopped as he reached the door,
"The change should take about 20 minuets… after that's over… I suggest you stand back"
Kim left the room with Tara, they left Kim's mom in the room after informing her what had happened, Kim dried her tears and made hr way back to the control center.
Just as she reached the room she was about to ask for a progress report when suddenly the entire building was shook with what seemed like an earthquake. all across the city building shook and nearly every plain of glass shattered.
Back in the base Kim picked herself back up,
"Will somebody please tell me what the hell that was?!?!" Kim all but yell at the staff, Wade quickly tapped a few keys on a nearby computer and found the answer,
"Kim, it was a sonic wave, it's the ship!!! It hit the atmosphere!!! My god its right above us!!!"
Kim hadn't wasted even a second, he immediately turned around and headed through the doors to the staircase, she bounded up the stairs five at a time, she eventually reached the top and opened the doors to the roof, the first thing she saw were nearly a third of the GJ staff ready to jump, then she looked up and her face dropped, high in the air above the clouds hung a huge ship, the very size of the ship covered half of the city.
Kim barely noticed Wade come up behind her, he too was speechless at the sight, after a few minuets Kim finally found her voice,
"…Wade… get me the president…"
Meanwhile in the infirmary Anne was busy watching over Ron, his brain activity had started to spike as beads of sweat formed on his brow Anne placed a wet cloth across his forehead as she checked her watch,
'15 minutes to go..'
Kim made her way back down to the control center and accidentally ran into one of her agents, Will Du, Kim and Will had been bumping heads ever since she ha joined GJ, and because Will had been refused the position of Director over an 'Amateur', but never the less, he had continued to serve his duty.
"Will, glad you could join us, we have a serious problem unless you hadn't noticed…"
Will followed Kim further into the command center until Wade approached Kim,
"Wade, did you get hold of the president?"
Wade smiled at her nervously,
"I'm afraid I couldn't reach him, he's occupied at the moment…"
Kim looked at him ludicrously,
"What could he possibly be doing that is more important than this?" Kim asked.
Wade looked back at her and spoke,
"He's on his roof ready to jump…"
Kim slapped her own forehead, and thought for a moment,
"Wade… what about Torchwood?"
Wade looked at her with a surprised look on his face, he tried to find some sort of words but Kim spoke again before he could say anything,
"I know I'm not supposed to know about them but I do.. Now can they help us?"
Wade hesitated for a moment before sighing and answering,
"..I'll contact them…"
In the infirmary Anne continued to watch over Ron carefully, his brain activity was still erratic, she lightly dabbed his forehead as she watched his heart rate speed up. She glanced at her watch,
'10 minutes left'
As Kim was trying to come up with some sort of plan the alert signal sounded from the main screen, she looked at Wade for an explanation,
"..It's the ship, they're sending us a signal, I'm putting it on the main view-screen…. Now"
Everyone took in a deep breath as an image appeared on the main screen overlooking the room, on the screen was the image of a hideous creature, it looked like some sort of deformed lizard, Kim stood with Wade and Will on her left and right and Tara slightly behind her, she stood ready to speak with the aliens but before she could speak the alien creature beat her to it,
"I DEMAND THE LEADER OF THIS WORLD STEP FORWARD!!!" the creature spoke with a raspy voice.
Kim thought for a moment, with the president out of action the responsibility fell on her, Kim stepped forward and stood up straight,
"I am Kim Possible, I am proud to represent this planet."
Everyone eagerly waited for a reply,
"…YOU WILL COME ABOARD!!!"
Kim was confused,
"…How?" she asked.
Everyone watched as the alien raised his hand on the monitor and then leaped back in fear as they saw a blue glow start to cover Kim, but not only Kim, it also covered Wade, Will and Tara,
"W-what the hell?" Will asked, Kim turned to him,
"I would guess its called a teleport" with that said the four of them disappeared in a flash of light.
Back in the infirmary Anne was really getting worried, Rons heart rate had quadrupled in less than three minutes, his eyes started moving rapidly under his eyelids, his breathing was extremely heavy and he was continuously sweating, it seemed he was getting worse and worse, she took and quick glance at her watch as she placed an air mask over Rons face.
The blue light subsided and Kim looked around in shock,
They had been transported into a huge chamber, much like a coliseum and all the walls were filled with the same alien species she had seen on the main monitor of GJ headquarters.
There were hundreds of them, all looking down at them, one of them stepped forward to address Kim, but before doing so he raised both his hands and grasped his own head and the four humans were shocked to see the head slowly start to slide off, Will was the first to speak,
"..it's a helmet!!! They might be like us…" Will stopped speaking as the alien finished taking off his helmet to reveal another face, it looked slightly more human, complete with a mouth and two eyes but that is where the similarity ended, over the rest of his head and face was a layer of bone and the little skin that was visible looked like exposed muscle.
"…or perhaps not…" Will finished
The alien whom had removed his helmet stood with a staff in his left hand and his right hand hovered over a control console, or to be more specific one big button, Kim felt a sense of dejavu, many villain lairs had buttons like that, usually for the self destruct mechanism,
The alien started to speak with his raspy voice,
"YOU WILL SURRENDER, OR I WILL RELEASE THE FINAL CURSE, AND YOUR PEOPLE WILL JUMP!!!"
Kim faltered, she now knew what the big button was for, the alien presses it and everyone who had been taken over will jump, Kim tried to say something, anything, but she couldn't, for the first time in her life, Kim didn't know what to do… the last time she felt like this was back during the little Diablo incident when she found out her so called 'boyfriend' had been an enemy agent, back then its was Ron who had helped her… but this time he wasn't here.
Will saw the distress and hesitation on Kim's face, he had to do something, he had to take charge of the situation, Will stepped forward to address the aliens in charge,
"With respect sir… the human race is taking its first steps towards the stars but… we are like children compared to you… children who need help, children who need compassion… I beg of you now, show that compassion…" Will pleaded with the alien.
The leader of the aliens dropped his hand away from the button and seemed to consider Wills request for a moment, but they were soon proved wrong. The alien rose his right hand and then whipped it back down and in a flash of light a green line shots from his sleeve like a whip, the line wrapped around Wills neck and seemed to force destructive energy into his body,
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Wills scream echoed around the huge chamber for only a second before his body seemed to disintegrate one the spot, the green whip like device retracted into the aliens sleeve as all that was left of Will fell to the ground, a pile of smoking bones.
Kim and Wade were both shocked and Tara was silently crying at the sight, the alien rose his hand and placed it over the button again,
"SURRENDER OR THEY WILL DIE!!!"
Although she will was still shocked Kim had to step forward, she couldn't believe what she was considering,
"If… if I do surrender, how would that be better?" Kim asked to the shock of Wade, she couldn't possibly be considering surrendering,
"ONE HALF OF YOUR PEOPLE WILL BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY, OR ONE THIRD DIES, YOUR CHOICE!!!"
Kim was stuck, what could she possibly do?
Back down on the surface of the planet in the infirmary of GJ headquarters something was happening, Rons body was shaking violently, his eyes rolling up into his head, Anne was busy trying to keep him alive, she was alone in the infirmary looking after him, most of her staff had either fled the base or were on the roof.
Anne looked at his heart rate in horror, he was dangerously close to a cardiac arrest.
She continued to pump air into his lungs when suddenly the air was filled with a long drawn out tone and Anne blanched, she was a good enough doctor that she didn't hear that sound often, but when she did it was never a good sound, she looked up at his heart monitor and saw a flat line.
"NO!!!"
Anne pulled off the mask and started CPR, she pressed her hands across his heart and started pushing down,
"One, Two, Three, Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten…"
She got off his chest and started the kiss of life, breathing two times before starting on his heart again,
"One, Two, Three, Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten…"
She let go and breathing into him again,
"One, Two, Three, Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten…"
Anne got up and looked at his heart monitor again, no change, she looked back at him and cried silently,
"…He's gone…"
Just as Anne went to turn off the monitor she noised a slow beeping sound, with a glimmer of hope she looked at the monitor, but it was still flat lined, the beeping was coming from her watch, she looked at it and said,
"…Times up!!!"
Almost immediately after she said it, Rons heart monitor suddenly jumped to life, his heart was beating twice as fast, his brain activity spiked and with one movement, Rons eyes snapped open and took one sharp intake of breath, and then he seemed to explode, Anne fell back in shock of what she saw, energy was pouring out of Ron through every gap in his clothing, his turtle neck, his sleeves and the bottoms of his cargo trousers, it was terrifying and somehow beautiful, golden energy that looked oddly like flames, shooting out of his body and pouring over the edge of the bed.
Back on the alien spacecraft, the aliens were in upheaval, they started shouting in their own native tongue, Kim looked at Wade questioningly, he quickly took out his pocket computer and activated his translation software
"…they've detected something, huge energy readings coming from our base… they're accusing us of conspiring and deceiving them… they're bringing it on board.."
Ron sat up, he found himself overwhelmed with knowledge that was not his own, he turned and saw Anne huddled in the corner of the room looking scared,
"Anne, are you ok… ohh" Ron stopped speaking and started flexing his mouth and running his tongue over his teeth,
"..Hmm, new teeth… that's weird, have to get used to that…"
Anne continued to look at him, could it truly be Ron? His face looked basically the same but there were features that had changed, his blond cowlick was now a darker shade of blond and was naturally sticking up, the freckles that had been on his cheeks were now gone and his chocolate brown eyes were gone and replaced with stone blue eyes.
"Ron, is that you?"
Ron smiled with his old sheepish grin,
"Yep, good as new…. And I mean that literally, but I'm a little cold mind if I borrow your dressing gown, thanks" Ron said in quick succession, he leaned over the right and took a dressing gown off a rack across the room and put it on. Anne was confused, it was Ron but there was something different tin his attitude as well, but for now she was just happy he was alive and well, she found herself standing up and running towards Ron.
Ron was smiling until he noticed a blue light engulf him, his eyes widened and he raised his hand to stop Anne,
"No Anne wait!!!"
Too late, she latched onto him and hugged him just as Ron was teleported away dragging Anne along for the ride.
Back on the ship Kim, Wade and Tara al turned around as they noticed a flash of blue light behind them, they saw someone wearing a dark dressing gown and apparently being hugged by someone Kim recognized as her mother,
"Damn, did you have to hug me right then Anne, you got teleported as well"
Anne let go of him and looked around, the first thing that passed her mind was the movie gladiator mixed with a sci-fi movie.
The man turned around and faced Kim,
"Hello, did you miss me?" he asked.
Kim looked at him and asked the only thing she could,
"Oh my god, is that you?" Kim asked
Ron walked over to them and smiled,
"Yep, in the brand new flash and blood…" Ron said while looking around, he saw an alien approaching him screaming something in his own language, he rose an arm and whipped it down revealing the strange green whip that had killed Will, it whipped down at Ron and Kim rose her hand to her mouth,
Ron raised his own arm quickly and the whip wrapped around his right forearm but it didn't hurt him, Ron pulled his arm back and the whip was pulled from the aliens grip, Ron then tossed the whip across the floor,
"Don't do that…" Ron said,
The alien seemed outraged that his weapon had no effect on Ron,
"HOW DARE YOU?!?!" the alien screamed as he rose his staff high into the air and proceeded to try and smash it down on Ron.
Acting quickly Ron raised his hand and caught the staff in his left hand and then yanked it out of the aliens grip much to its surprise. Ron then griped it with both his hands and snapped it over his knee. He dropped the pieces and spoke again to the alien,
"You just can't get the 'staff' can ya? Now you just wait, I'M BUSY!!!" Ron said while pointing at the alien, Ron turned around and walked back to Kim leaving a gob smacked alien in his wake.
Ron approached Kim and spotted a couple of familiar faces,
"WADE, hello… and Tara as well, my god its like a blast from the past… how've you been?"
Wade and Tara looked too and from each other with confused looks,
Ron turned back to Kim,
"Now… first things first… be honest… how do I look?"
Kim looked him over and noticed some differences, his hair was darker, he was a little taller and his freckles were gone and to top it off his brown eyes were replaced with blue eyes.
"…Different…" Kim answered and Ron cringed,
"Good different or bad different?" Ron asked
Kim thought for a moment, she had no way or really describing it,
"… I don't know… just different…"
Ron suddenly got a serious look on his face,
"…Kim…am I…. Ginger?" Ron asked.
Kim looked at his hair and spoke again,
"No you're just kind of… dark blond.."
Ron face faltered,
"Aww, I wanted to be ginger… see what its like… AND YOU ANNE POSSIBLE!!!"
Anne was shocked when Ron suddenly shouted at her,
".. SHAME ON YOU, YOU GAVE UP ON ME RIGHT THERE AT THE END..ooh" Ron stopped shouting when he ooh'd just like he did when he noticed he had new teeth,
"…that was rude… it that the sort of man I am now? Rude?… hmm, rude and not ginger."
Wade had enough of this mans randomness and stepped forward,
"Excuse me but who the hell are you?" Wade asked.
Ron turned to Wade,
"I'm Ron…" Ron stopped and waited for his reaction,
"…no your not, what happened to our Ron?"
Ron stepped forward,
"I'm him, I'm literally him, same man new face, well new everything to be precise"
Wade was a little confused but Kim and Tara seemed to know what was going on, could this man really be Ron?
Finally losing his patients the alien leader stepped forward,
"IF I MIGHT INTERRUPT!!! WHO EXACTLY ARE YOU?"
Ron turned around and smiled at the alien,
"Well that's the question isn't it?…"
The alien started to get angry, he suddenly screamed at Ron,
"I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!"
As the alien stopped talking, Ron opened his mouth and mimicked the aliens tone of voice in a mocking way,
"I DON'T KNOW!!!" Ron yelled causing the alien to step back
"You see that's the thing, I'm Ron but beyond that I just don't know… since I changed I literally do not know who I am, its all untested… am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Am I sexy?"
When he said this he turned and winked at Tara causing her to blush furiously.
Ron continued to speak as he walked past the alien leader,
"Am I good? Evil? Right handed? Left handed? A gambler? A Fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean judging by the evidence I've certainly got mouth that can go on and on for a while… and … why is there an apple in my dressing gown?" Ron broke from his rant as he suddenly pulled an apple out of the dressing gown pocket.
Anne stepped forward,
"Sorry, that's mine… I get hungry sometimes working late at night"
Ron nodded and tossed the apple over to Anne.
"…And how am I going to react when I see this?" Ron said as he pointer at the big button that controlled weather or not a third of earth population will jump to their deaths.
"A great big threatening button… A great big threatening button that must not be pressed under any circumstances, am I right? Let me guess, its some sort of control matrix… hold on, what's feeding it?" Ron quickly bent down and opened a panel under the controls and say lines running into a vial of red liquid, Ron dipped his finger into the liquid and then put it in his mouth,
"Blood?… yep, human blood, A-positive.. Well that's means… ahh, blood control, that's how your doing it…"
Kim turned to Wade,
"Wade, I got out of that was the word Matrix and I found those movies very confusing, what's going on?"
Wade had a smile on his face as he heard Rons obvious intelligence pouring out of his mouth,
"Blood control Kim, somehow they got a hold of some human blood and their technology linked to it and took control of their blood type, that's why it didn't effect you, everyone who was taken over had A+ blood"
Kim was shocked, how is Ron this smart, then she remembered Dr Saxon's words, he would become a genius.
Ron continued to speak,
"So you're controlling everyone with A+ blood, that explains what happened to me.. I have A+.. well I had A+, not anymore though… anyway this leaves us with a great big stinking problem, because I really don't know who I am… I don't know when to stop…so when I see a great big threatening button that should never ever ever EVER be pressed… then I just have an instinct to do THIS!!!" Ron yelled his last word as he slammed his palm down on top of the button.
"NO!!!" Kim, Wade and Tara all yelled at the same time.
Down on earth, close to 20 billion people all over the world were standing at high places, and suddenly they moved to take one step, that last step that would send them toppling over the edge, but then they stopped, it was as if something had been lifted on them and they suddenly stepped back away from the edge of the ledges they were standing at, all wondering what was going on.
Back on the ship everyone was shocked at what Ron had done, Wade was the first to speak,
"Y-you killed them…"
Ron was still smiling as he turned to the alien leader,
"How about it big fella, hmm? Are they dead?"
The alien looked thoroughly pissed off,
"WE HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO LIVE!!!"
"Allow?" Ron asked with a ludicrous look on his face,
"You Don't have a choice… you see that's all mind control is, a cheap bit of voodoo, it scares the crap outa ya but that's as far as if goes… its kinda like hypnosis, you can hypnotize someone to act like a chicken or sing like Elvis but you can't hypnotize them to death… as soon as their life is threatened they snap out of it, human beings survival instinct is way too strong for any form for mind control to handle"
Kim and company let out a breath of relief, everyone was safe, with a simple gesture he had saved a third of the worlds population… even though they were in no danger to begin with, Ron just kinda called their bluff.
The alien leader stepped forward again,
"BLOOD CONTROL WAS ONLY ONE FORM OF CONQUEST!!! I COULD SUMMON THE ARMADA AND TAKE THIS PLANET BY FORCE!!!"
Ron actually nodded in agreement,
"Well yeah you could, yeah you could do that, of coarse you could .. But why? Look at these people, these human beings, consider their potential…" Ron said while pointing at Kim and the others, Kim was shocked and Wade was a little confused, he was calling them humans as if they were separate from him, like he wasn't human anymore, but what Kim and Tara knew, he wasn't.
Ron continued and Kim somehow recognized the words from somewhere she couldn't quite place.
"…From the day they arrived on the planet and blinking, step into the sun… there is more to see that can ever be seen, more to do that can….. No hold on…" Ron thought for a moment at what he was saying,
".. I'm sorry that the opening song to the lion king… but he point still stands, leave them alone!!!" Ron finished,
"OR WHAT?!?!" the alien asked mockingly.
Ron thought for a moment before coming to a decision,
"…Or.." Ron stepped towards another alien and grabbed a sword the was holstered at its hip, Ron then jumped back down to where Kim was and turned to face the alien, he rose the sword high into the air and spoke,
"…I challenge you!!!" as Ron finished saying this every alien in the gigantic hall started roaring in excitement,
"Well well, that struck a chord… am I right that the sanctified rules of combat still apply?"
The alien leader drew his own sword and pointed it at Ron,
"YOU STAND AS THIS WORLDS CHAMPION?"
"Thank you…" Ron said as he took off his dressing gown and tossed it to Kim.
"…I had no idea who I am but you just summed me up… so do you accept my challenge? Or are you just a Pel Galla Gree Kellac?"
The alien roared as Ron said something that seemed to be in the aliens native language.
Kim turned to Wade for more answers,
"What did Ron just say?"
Wade stared at his translator with wide eyes before he turned back to Kim,
"..I'll tell you when you turn 21..."
Ron and the alien bowed to each other and crossed swords,
"FOR THE PLANET?" the alien asked,
"For the planet" Ron agreed
With that said the Sycorax leader jump at Ron and slammed the sword down, Ron jumped back a swung his own blade to knock the leaders away.
For a few moments Ron and the Sycorax leader swung the blades like clubs, eventually the Sycorax was able to knock Ron down flat on his back and went in for the final blow,
"RON LOOK OUT!!!" Kim screamed as Ron quickly split his leg and watched the sword hit the ground between them,
"Right yeah that helps, I wouldn't have thought of that otherwise thanks" Ron said sarcastically to Kim as he dodged another blow, Ron quickly got up and ran towards a door at the side of the room,
"How about a bit of fresh air?" Ron said as he hit a button causing the doors to slid open with a stereotypical whooshing sound, Ron ran out the door and found himself on the surface of the ship, overlooking all of Middleton.
He was followed shortly but the Sycorax leader and Kim along with a few other Sycorax warriors,
Ron and the leader continued to fight when suddenly the Sycorax reared back and punched Ron right in the face, Ron fell backwards holding his face, Ron saw Kim about to move and check on him,
"NO KIM!!! Don't help me, you'll invalidate the challenge and he wins the planet"
Kim stood back as ordered.
Ron continued to parry each blow that came towards him and that when he saw an opening, the Sycorax shot forward and tried to plunge his blade into Ron's gut, Ron dodged to the side and the blade went past him, Ron had just enough time to spin the enemy's blade around and stick it in his gut, the Sycorax let out a gurgled cry as he fell backwards and laid with his head just hanging slightly over the edge of the ship, Ron took his own sword and pointed it at his throat,
"I win" Ron proclaimed,
"T-THEN KILL ME!!!"
Ron looked at him pitifully,
"I'll spare your life if you take my command… leave this planet and never return… well?" Ron asked,
The alien spoke without hesitation,
"YES"
Ron pressed his blade a little harder against the Sycorax's throat,
"SWEAR IT ON THE BLOOD OF YOUR SPECIES!!!"
The alien stopped and pondered for a moment before speaking again,
"…I… SWEAR!!!"
Rons angry face was lost as he suddenly had a huge grin,
"There we are then, thanks for that big fella…" With a smile Ron turned around and stabbed his sword into metal surface of the ship as he walked towards Kim.
Kim walked towards Ron and helped him put the dressing gown back on,
"Well done Ron, thank you"
Ron smiled,
"Ahh its ok Kim.. Hang on, what's this…" Ron reached into the dressing gown when he felt something in the pocket, he pulled out an orange sphere.
"A Satsuma? Ahh that mother of yours, she does like her fruit don't she?"
As Ron and Kim continued to talk and walk back towards the interior of the ship Kim failed to notice the Sycorax leader get back up and against his word grabbed Rons discarded sword and charged towards Ron.
Without looking back Ron heard the war cry of the Sycorax behind him, with a quick movement he tossed the Satsuma in his hand at a control panel in front of him, Kim turned around just in time to see a section of the ship open up under the Sycorax leader and watched him fall through the section and off the ship to the world below, and then she looked back at Ron who had a sour look on his face as he walked towards the ship,
"No second chances… that's the kind of man I am…"
After getting back inside the ship where he battle had begun Ron looked up at all the stands and addressed the rest of the aliens,
"By the ancient writes of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time, and when you go back to the stars and tell others about this planet, when you tell them of its riches, its people, its potential… when you talk of the earth, then make sure that you tell them this…"
Kim, Wade, Tara, Anne and every member of the Sycorax looked at Ron ready for what he had to say,
"…IT … IS… DEFENDED!!!!" Ron literally shouted his words.
After a few seconds of silence, all four of the humans on board were covered by a familiar blue light and a second later they were transported back down to the surface of the planet, with a quick look around Kim noticed they were in the Beuno Nacho car park.
Everyone looked up and watched as the Sycorax ship started its ascension back into the darkness of space.
Kim walked up to Ron and looked up with him,
"Tell me Ron, are there many more out there?"
Ron took a quick intake of breath at Kim's question,
"Ohh, not just Sycorax… there's hundreds of species… thousands of them… and the human race is drawing attention to itself… everyday you're sending out probes and signals and messages, this planets so damn noisy… you're getting noticed, more and more… you better get used to it"
With a smile Ron walked over to Tara and Anne just as Wade's phone rang,
He answered the phone and spoke for a few moments before walking over and whispering to Kim,
"Kim, its Torchwood, they say they're ready…"
Kim had a slightly upset look on her face as she turned and looked at Ron for a moment as he was sharing hugs with Anne and Tara and she turned back to wade with a sad look on her face,
"..Tell them to fire…"
Wade nodded and went back to his phone.
Just as Ron let go off Anne the floor rumbled slightly and the air was filed with the sound of electricity, Ron looked up afraid that the Sycorax may have come back, but he noticed something else, a gigantic green energy beam erupting out of the ground somewhere in the city and heading up into the air, there were four more blasts just like it all leading up to the same point, eventually the five beam all hit each other and created one single gargantuan beam which proceeded to shoot high up into the air.
The beam shout up through the atmosphere and smashed into the underbelly of the retreating Sycorax ship, the beam tore through the ship as if it was wet paper.
Back on the ground the beams stopped firing and everyone watched as there was a huge explosion in the sky. Everyone was looking up but not Ron, he was looking at Kim with an angry and disbelief on his face, Kim looked back down and met his glair, Ron was the first to speak,
"That was murder!!!" Ron said,
"That was defense…" Kim corrected
"..Its adapted from alien technology… a ship that fell to earth ten years ago"
Ron cut off her explanation as he continued,
"But they were leaving!!!"
Kim had an angry look of her own now,
"You said it yourself Ron, they'd go back to the stars and tell others about the earth… Will Du was murdered right in front of me Ron, while you were sleeping.. We need to defend ourselves"
Ron stepped a little closer and looked Kim dead in the eyes with a saddened look,
"I gave them the wrong warning… I should have told the to run as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming… the human race"
Kim interrupted Ron,
"Those are the people I represent Ron, I did it on their behalf…"
Ron looked her dead in the eyes again,
"..And I should have stopped you Kim"
Kim looked back at him with a curious look,
"And what does that make you Ron? Another alien threat?" Kim asked
Ron suddenly stepped forward right into Kim's face and started shouting,
"DON'T CHALLENGE ME KIMBERLY ANNE POSSIBLE, COS I'M A COMPLETELY NEW MAN… I could bring down your command with a single word"
Kim looked at him with shock and disbelief,
"Ron… you are the most remarkable man I have ever met… but I doubt even you're quite capable of that"
Ron nodded in response,
"You're right, not one word… just six"
"I don't think so.." Kim said while getting a bit nervous
"Six words" Ron said again
"Stop it" said Kim
"Six" Ron finished with confidence.
Ron walked past Kim and over to Wade, he quickly leaned in and whispered something that only Wade could hear,
"…Don't you think she looks tired?"
With that said Ron turned back around and started walking away, Wade looked at Kim and noticed a few things, bags around her eyes, her hair a complete mess, running mascara where she had been crying during the last few hours. Then he remembered small things that had happened like her hesitation to make decisions under pressure.
Ron walked away shortly being followed by Tara, Anne gave Kim a disappointed look and turned to walk home and Kim was suddenly scared, she ran over to Wade,
"What did he say!!!" Kim asked,
Wade started spluttering out answers,
"Umm, I eh don't .. nothing really he just…"
Not getting an answer from Wade she quickly turned back to Ron,
"Ron… Ron what did you say… RON!!!"
Ron ignored Kim and continued walking away, Kim slowly looked down at her feet and whispered,
"I… I'm sorry"
As they were walking away Tara latched onto Ron's arm,
"So… how about I cook dinner for the man who saved the world?" Tara asked with a bright smile.
Ron looked back at her and gave her a smile of his own,
"Now that's the best thing I've heard all day" with that said Ron and Tara walked towards Tara's apartment just as the sin began to set.
An hour later Ron was decked out in new clothes he had picked up on the way over, he felt he need a new look, he now wore a suit, a pair of navy blue chinos along with a white button up shirt with a black tie covered by a navy blue blazer.
Ron and Tara sat in the small apartment eating a delicious dinner that Tara and Ron cooked together.
A moment later Tara's phone rang, after a quick conversation Tara hung up the phone,
"Ron, that was Bonnie, she says go outside"
Tara got up and walked outside followed by Ron and Tara couldn't believe her eyes, it was snowing… it hadn't snowed in years and now the street were full of people building snowmen and having snowball fights, she looked high up into the sky and saw small streaks of light shooting across the sky.
"Oh my god, they're beautiful… what are they, shooting stars?" Tara asked Ron, she knew he would know,
"It's the ship… breaking up in the atmosphere… this isn't snow, its ash"
Tara's face faltered a bit,
"Ok, not so beautiful then"
Ron smiled and continued,
"I'm not the only one who's changed… this is a whole new planet earth, there's no denying the existence of aliens now, everyone saw it… things are gonna get interesting"
Tara looked back down at Ron,
"And what about you? What are you gonna do now?"
Ron turned and smiled,
"Well I'm not going back to college, just from my change I know more than that place could have ever taught me, I want to find out more about myself… what am I, are there more of me, am I the first of my species or am I the last… I need to know, plus there's this urge inside me telling me to go out and explore, to see what I can see… I'll find answers eventually. Thank you for dinner Tara, but I better be going, I have a whole world to explore"
With one final hug Ron turned and walk off into the 'snow' covered street, his long navy blue coat drifting in the breeze.
As Ron made it down the street he came to a TV store and noticed a news report.
Kim Possible has been relieved of her command after a vote of no confidence from her piers.
Ron sighed as he continued down the street, he had no choice, she had abused her power and that was one thing he could not allow.
As Ron continued down the street he was looking up into the sky and found himself instinct fly knowing the names of the different stars. He would find out who he was fully, it was only a matter of time.
End OF Book 1.
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Ladies and gentlemen I give to you, the very first EVER, Kim Possible/Doctor Who crossover.
I just want to clear up a few things, first of all, this story is actually the first of a series I am planning.
Secondly, Ron had NOT become the doctor, he has become a time lord based on a retro virus that was made from the DNA of the doctor. So yes the doctor will eventually make an appearance.
And third and final, if you have seen the newer season of doctor who then you will know the true identity of 'Dr Saxon'. otherwise known as Harold Saxon otherwise knows as 'The Master'.
Wel, please give plenty of reviews, I will be awaiting you thoughts on this story and any ideas for future episodes you may think of.
tell me what you liked about the story.
Chao.
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Kim Possible Or Doctor Who.