This fanfic takes place between season 3 and 4 of the show, after So the Drama, though it is more in connection with the AU-version of Middleton.
Disclaimers: I, myself, once again do not own Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable, Drakken, Shego or
any other character mentioned within the KP show. The rights, as always, go to Disney and to the creators of the show as well.
However, with any character that I create myself within this story, all the rights that go with these original characters belong to the Sharper.
This fanfic is rated PG-13 for violence and brief language.
Chapter 1 - Dark Heritage
It was a quiet but humid and hot summer Saturday at the Possible household. The birds were fluttering around in the nests on top of the trees surrounding the house.
Also, a familiar sight indicated the peacefulness and tranquility of the household: charcoal from the Possible family grill.
James Possible, the patriarch of the household, was flipping out hamburgers for his family, smiling with each flip with his state-of-the-art spatula, beeping along to even the meat out. He was sweating due to the 100 degree heat and from all the hard work that he had performed at the Middleton Space Center over the last couple of months, but, to him, it was worth the effort.
"Burgers are going to be out in a minute!!!" James called out from the backyard when he saw that the burgers were almost well done. He then turned to his lovely red-haired wife, Ann Possible, whom was reading a magazine while sipping on a glass of sweet tea.
Ann put down the magazine and flipped up her shades and smiled. "Oh James, isn't it glad that we're all celebrating Mom's birthday today?"
"Yep," James agreed, continuing to flip the burgers, "Ronald and Rufus are coming on over!"
"I can't wait!" Ann smiled as her reply, taking another sip of the tea, "Kimberly is going to be so happy to have him and Mom over, especially with her lemon squares!!!"
"And especially when our Kimmie-cub plays the harmonica for Mom's birthday song. She has grown up with that instrument so much, whenever she's up or down since she bought it three years ago!" James grinned
Meanwhile, his sons, Jim and Tim Possible, were playing with the football outside and were in shorts as the two tossed the football to and fro from each other.
James turned his head around and spotted his two sons and blurted out, "Jim, Tim, burgers are done!!!!!!!!!! Come and get them while they are still hot!!!!!!!!!"
"Going deep......" Jim yells as he threw the football to his other twin brother.
".....and....." Tim yells back as he caught the ball right near the fence, "Touchdown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Let's do a hicka-bicka-boom......" Jim excitedly began.
Tim finished it up, "......followed with a hoo-sha!!!!!" The twin brothers then heard their father call out both their names and began to smell the freshly cooked burgers with both their lips smacking when they noticed another familiar scene inside the house .... their sister, Kimberly Ann Possible, in the living room, practicing on her harmonica in anticipation for their grandmother's arrival to the house.
And now that Nana is celebrating her 75th birthday (upbeat slide of harmonica)
I now know what to say
(happy slide of her harmonica)
Happy birthday to Nana!!! (harmonica)
Ohhh...happy,happy,happy birthday to Nana!!!!!
Sooo can't wait for her lemon squares and her excitng CIA stories too (harmonica)
Ohhhh...happy, happy, happy birthday to you (happy wail of the harmonica)
Kim finished off the practice run of Nana's birthday song from her harmonica, the same one that she had bought around three years earlier. She sometimes plays a tune when she was in a happy mood, or when bad times happened, such as a death in the family, her harmonica was always there to cheer her up.
She then spoke, "I so can't wait until Nana gets here with her lemon squares and especially Ron as well." The crime-fighting cheerleader, now transitioning into her junior year of high school and now 17 and a half in years of age, rested her long red hair, tied up in a ponytail, onto the pillows on the couch. She was free from Middleton High for a month now, and she hasn't been called upon for a mission from Wade Load within the last three weeks.
Wearing her usual attire of a green tank-top and her favorite capris from Club Banana, she slid her harmonica into her capri pants pocket and stared out the window. The lemon-meringue cake that Ann baked earlier in the day rested on the coffee table, for she had been picked for the job to surprise Nana for her 75th birthday. There were also seven candles on top of the meringue cake with ten lines on each candle.
Kim was more than confident enough, for she was quite a master of surprises despite her young age. She also could not wait for her new BF boyfriend since that prom night, Ron Stoppable, to join in on the festivities.
But she was going to get an early surprise herself.
Tim and Jim, or the Tweebs as Kim normally called them, were about 40 feet away from the house. They, as always, wanted to stir up trouble against their big sister.
With the football being tossed around in one hand, Tim fired a deep ball to Jim and exclaimed loudly "Going deep!!!!" and then released , a move that attracted the attention of their father, whom was putting the meat on the hamburger buns. Ann turned her head around to the attention of the Tweebs.
"Boys, what are you......" James asked sternly before noticing the ball up in the air. The football was heading towards the open den, for the sliding door was open ....and its intended target was the lemon meringue cake that Kim was sitting right next to.
"NOOOO!!!!! My cake!!!!!" Ann shrieked loudly! She spent around four hours making that cake for her mother-in-law
"I'll save it!!!!" James exclaimed as he attempted to dive for the ball. He reached out his hands as long as he could but the football was too high for him. "Drats!!!!!!!!"
Kim turned her head and dropped her jaw over seeing the Tweebs launching the football at the cake. She held on to the cake, bracing for impact.
(!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The football landed right into the cake and it made a huge splatter all over the den! The frosting and cake batter mix was all over the coffee table and the expensive oriental carpeting that Ann just installed a week ago. There were also remants here or there.
But the majority of the ruined cake was splattered all over Kim. The frosting ruined her tied-up red hair and the lemon cake batter got all over her clothes with a couple of candles on her capris.
"AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! TWEEEBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kim screamed in a fury of rage. her face covered in lemon frosting and turning her angry head toward the Tweebs. "Congrats, You TWEEBS!!!!! You ruined Nana's CAKE that Mom MADE and she is coming over in five minutes along with RON!!!!!! You are SO dead THIS TIME!!!!!"
Tim and Jim nervously whistled along, Tim sarcastically saying "We didn't do anything....."
".....and we're perfect angels!!!" Jim finished up his sentence before noticing the tapping footsteps of both their father and their mother.
"James Possible Jr. and Timothy Possible!!!!!!!" Ann sternly browbeated an exclamation. Her expression was so frightening that it could scare a pit bull and a timberwolf at the same time. Both Jim and Tim cowered in fear.
Ann decided to lay down the punishment against her two sons, "You are going to be grounded for the next two weeks in your room!!!!!! And that's just the first round!!!"
"Awwwww man, do we have .... what, wait????? What other punishment?!?!?!?!" Tim stuttered in disbelief.
James finished their punishment up, "You are also going to clean the mess you two made......"
Jim snickered in the midst of their sitch, "We've got plenty of cleaning inventions in our room! I believe we can do it faster than any stupid dust rag or cleaner!!!"
"Not like what happened last time you used those tools around the house!" Ann exclaimed as she walked into the kitchen and brought out both the cleaning spray and the dust rag and handed it to the Tweebs, effectively shoving the Tweebs words. "You are also forbidden to use any of your inventions in your room
"What?!?!?!?!" Tim complained "We CAN'T use our inventions???" Jim also stood there with his jaw being unhinged, an appropriate reaction.
James and Ann both nodded their heads as they both walked to a control panel for such situations as these. It was labeled "TIM AND JIM'S INVENTIONS WITHIN ROOM" with a red button on it. An unbreakable glass with a security code protected it. James took out his master key, the one that could unlock all the doors in the house, turned off the alarm, and pressed the red button.
"This is for your own good!!" he exclaimed and a "powering down all Tweeb inventions" computerized voice sounded throughout the house. He then activated the security code again.
Both Jim and Tim tried to utilize Kim's own trademarked puppy-dog pout to give them a more lenient sentence, but it was of no use as James gave them a stern finger, pointing to their room.
With their heads hanging low, the Tweebs went into their room and locked the door to begin their punishment, without a sound.
Kim went into the kitchen to try and clear off the remnants of the lemon cake filling and frosting from her face, still having the stern look across her face.
Why do I have to even put up with those Tweebs? Ughhh, even though they are useful on missions, they are sooo annoying!!!!! Kim said to herself, still wiping up as best as she could.
She gave a brief glance back at the ruined cake splattered all over the living room and growled deeply, knowing that the Tweebs were in so much trouble, but she did not have time to dwell upon these matters for Ron was coming.
The doorbell to the front door suddenly rang. She took a few deep breaths before rushing up to the front door.
"Can you get that for us, Kimmie-cub?" James called out from from the den.
"I got it!" Kim replied and opened up the door.
It was Ron Stoppable and his pet, Rufus. The both of them were holding Nacoes as their lunch for Nana's birthday. Rufus squirted another pack of cheese sauce into the nacoes.
"Hey, KP!!!" Ron happily replied with a smile across his face, slowly opening the door "ready for a bon-diggiest time of Nana's......." before revealing Kim's true mood. She still had remnants of frosting on her capris and some on her tanktop as well.
"Uhhh....not a good time to speak, KP?" Ron confusingly asked with a concern whenever Kim is in this mood.
Kim just gave a disappointing sigh, "It's the tweebs again!!!"
"What happened?" Ron asked again, taking a bite of the Naco. Rufus turned Ron's head and performed a wave of his eyes to see the obvious damage of the frosting on her clothes followed by the mess made by the Tweebs when they threw the football at the cake. "Ohhhhh, so the DrsP grounded them?"
Kim nodded her head, "For two weeks, and they are going to clean up every single bit of this mess!"
"Ohhhh!!!" Ron acknowledged with another bite of the gooey naco with Diablo sauce, "But that wouldn't stop the Ron-man from having his fun, huh?"
"Uhhhh....." Kim rolled her eyes and then darted, "yeahhhh, fun!!!" She knew that Ron was still interested in having birthday parties suitable for 10-year olds and enjoying hayrides that often embarassed her a lot. She also remembers Ron still sleeping with a nightlight since the age of four and that bothered her every now and then. Still, she stuck by him as Team Possible's sidekick and has remained very close friends with him to the point of that first kiss on the dance floor.
And as a reminder of their love for each other, both of them kissed each other on their lips. It was the greatest feeling for both of them since the time they were on the Gulf Coast Beach as their first date as a BF/GF couple.
Rufus merely shrugged his shoulders and took another bite of the Naco as the two entered the house.
A minute later, a taxi-cab appeared from behind Ron and Rufus. Kim ran between them, and squealed with excitement.
It was that of her grandma and longtime ex-CIA special agent, Natalie "Nana" Possible!!
"Nana!!!!!!!" Kim cried with joy as she embraced her grandmother. James and Ann both came out of the door to hug Nana in a huge Possible family hug, sans the Tweebs.
Kim continued "Happy birthday, Nana!!!!!"
Nana replied back "Thanks for the birthday wishes, dear and ..... isn't that lemon meringue filling all over your clothes?"
"Ummm..... Mom was trying to bake you a lemon meringue cake, but the Tweebs ruined it with their stupid football for the second year in a row!!" Kim sheepishly exclaimed. She wanted to forget what had happened last year when the Tweebs used one of their inventions to inflate a basketball twice its size and threw it at the same type of cake, which made the splatter so large that it went into the kitchen.
"I hope those two got grounded!" Nana demanded, folding her hands on her hips with authority. "They won't get any lemon squares tonight!"
"I did ground those two, Mom!" James explained. "And also grounded their inventions as well until this mess is cleaned up!"
Nana then took out a blue sweater, two sizes too big for Kim, and put it on her, "Now you'll need this, dear, it'll cover your ridiculious clothes!"
James and Ann giggled with laughter at this antic by their elder.
"Ummm..." Kim confusingly said, scratching her head, "isn't it a little bit too hot to wear a sweater? It's right in the middle of June!"
"Don't worry, dear!" Nana smiled, "I'm just having a little fun with you!" She then took the sweater off of Kim. All three adults then noticed Ron and Rufus.
"Well, hello Ronald!" James waved to Ron and Ann did likewise.
Both him and Rufus waved back "Same here, MrDrP and MrsDrP!!!!" He then walked up to Kim and grudginly elbowed on Kim's side and whispered in her ear.
"Uhhh......KP??? Her birthday song?" Ron whispered, knowing of Kim's talents on the harmonica.
Kim replied quietly, but stern. "I was just about to get to that, Ron!" Then turning to her parents and Nana, she cleared her throat and pronounced, "How 'bout if we go inside? I can play Nana's birthday song on my harmonica!" She pulled out her harmonica.
"Sounds fine to me!!" Nana smiled. Ron nodded his head and liked the sound of his best friend's harmonica, though it made him and Rufus cry on occassions.
They all went inside the house. Outside, though, storm clouds began to gather.
They all walked into the kitchen because the den was still ruined from the cake disaster. James took in the hamburgers into the kitchen because of the upcoming storm.
After all the Possible family finished up their burgers, it was time for Kim to play on her harmonica.
(Kim puts the harmonica next to her mouth and gives a test blow and works perfectly)
(And a one, and a two, and a one, two, three, four)
She was born today (Kim slides her harmonica)
I really have to say
That she is a totally awesome grandma!!!!!!
Her lemon squares taste so great
Wish if I can have eight (laughs, harmonica)
She was born today
(harmonica)
And now that Nana is celebrating her 75th birthday (upbeat slide of harmonica)
I now know what to say
(happy slide of her harmonica)
Happy birthday to Nana!!! (harmonica)
Ohhh...happy,happy,happy birthday to Nana!!!!!
Sooo can't wait for her lemon squares and her excitng CIA stories too (harmonica)
Ohhhh...happy, happy, happy birthday to you (happy blowing in of the harmonica and finishes up the song)
When she had finished up the song, everyone in the room clapped their hands in unaminous applause. Rufus whistled in as well.
"That was a very good song, Kimmie-cub!" James exclaimed, still clapping his hands. "You're getting better day after day!!!"
Ron sniffled with a tear in his eye, "That was so beautiful, KP!! So beautiful from my BFGF!!" The both of them held hands with each other as they stared into each others' eyes and a warm hug in the midst of summer.
By this time, Ron and Rufus had consumed both their 12-pack travel Nacoes they brought here.
"It's no big, Dad! Perhaps I can do anything, even playing a harmonica!" Kim said before sliding the harmonica back in her capri pants pocket.
Ann then slapped her face as if she forgot something important, "James, the photo albums!!!"
Nana gasped as well, for it was an important Possible family tradition to look at Nana's old photo album and hear her old CIA stories. She hoped that the albums were not ruined by the cake disaster.
"The photos!!!" Kim exclaimed, She thought to herself, Oh please, please, please, don't be ruined!!!! I so want to learn more about my family's past and I can't allow the Tweebs to ruin it!!!
Ron and Rufus, without saying a word, followed behind Kim, James, Ann, and Nana to the cake-splattered den. Pulling out one of the albums with only a couple of drop residue on the cover of it, the album read "Possible years, 1940 to 1950", one of the few albums that the Possible family had yet to touch when Nana came on over to their house for her birthday.
Kim breathed a sigh of relief that the photos were not harmed. Walking back to the table, the whole family opened up the album and smiled at one photo after another: Nana graduating from the Middleton High Class of 1947, her entering into the newly-formed CIA at the age of 18, and becoming one of the top and one of the most honest female sheriffs, and one of the few, in the entire state at the time.
Kim and Ron held each other's hands as they smiled with each turn of the page.
Then, they turned to one section of the album that they haven't discovered. It was a black cover with old pirate skull and crossbone stickers, labeled as such: DO NOT TOUCH!!!!!! EXTREMELY PRIVATE AND DAMAGING POSSIBLE FAMILY INFORMATION!!!!!! SCATHING PHOTOS CONTAINED INSIDE!!!!!!
Kim, Ron and Rufus felt a sudden change across the kitchen table. Nana's eyes widened and her hands began to shake and tremble and so did James and Ann when they pulled out a certain photo without opening the cover . Both Kim and Ron's eyes turned away from each other to concentrate on the Possible parents' concerned looks.
"Uhhh....." Kim said with a confused look, "Mom, Dad, Nana? Why the trembling ish? And why does this section have that warning?"
"Yeah, uhhhh…… what KP said?" Ron added in. Rufus too was scratching his head.
"Ummmm….." James explained in a confused look. "I don't wanna reveal these photos to you, Kimmie-cub!!""Um, yeah, these are, heh, indecent photos, and possibly could split this family apart!" Ann agreed with her husband nervously darting her eyes back and forth.
"May I see that photo?" Kim still persisted in asking. "Even though you say these photos are (in air quotes) indecent, I would like to learn more about my family's past!"
James, Ann, and Nana looked at each other nervously with each other, still with scared looks. They huddled up together on the seats and whispered.
"Should we allow our Kimberly to see this filth? It could fill her with bad thoughts!!" Nana whispered in a panic.
"She's 17, Mom!" James whispered back, "I think she is old enough to see that photo, likewise with Ronald!""Plus she has proven to be mature enough with a boyfriend." Ann supported her husband's argument silently through Nana's ear.
Nana simply sighed, and gave Kim and Ron the photo as grey-black clouds suddenly blanketed the sunny skies with thunder rumbling overhead the Middleton area.
_____________________________________________________________________________On the photo, which was taken in the late 1940s, was two people who looked almost like Kim and Ron taking one knee down, but much in their mid-to-late 20s.
But what caught both Kim and Ron's eye was that these Possible and Stoppable relatives were brandishing Thompson drum submachine guns, a couple of bags of real stolen gold bars from Fort Knox, and four henchman right behind them, armed with shotguns, stolen Winchester rifles, around 2 Molotov cocktails in their hands. Their jaws dropped at the sight of criminality that was completely absent from the other Possible blood-lines.
Then, still gasping in horror, Kim took the album and slid it over to her side. With a large thunderclap raging outside, she gasped in horror at all the sacks of money these Possibles stole from the local and big banks throughout the South and all the gold they had collected from Fort Knox. She especially was caught by surprise at the amazing display of Colt pistols, around 20 Molotov cocktails in a row as if they were ready to light up the banks, and two BAR rifles.
"Okay, this….this part of family must not have existed." Kim sheepishly replied, "This mut be a…a huge misunderstanding!"
"No, Kimberly" Ann answered back "these two DID exist in our family bloodlines, although not on a happy one.""Who…who were they and why would they commit robbery crimes?" the red-haired cheerleader stammered, trying to find an answer in this sitch.
"They are…….. Emelyna "Emelin" Possible and Tom "Tommy Gun" Stoppable!!!" Nana gave her frightening response as a lightning bolt danced across the black skies with a loud crack of thunder. "The best bank-robbing gang the South had ever seen since Bonnie and Clyde, maybe even over them!!!" Another loud bang of thunder echoed across the sky, making even more drama of the situation.
Ron shaked his head, trying to think things out. "Okay, okay, let me get this straight! This so cannot be my great-uncle. Painting a Stoppable as a criminal is so wrongsick and is not true! Also, painting a Possible as a criminal is so wrong that it would equal to the closing down of Bueno Nacho, which I don't want to see!" Rufus nodded his head in agreement
Nana then pointed to a newspaper clipping that reads the following headline from the Middleton Examiner, 1948 that contradicted all of Ron's beliefs: "EMELIN POSSIBLE AND TOMMY GUN STOPPABLE GET AWAY WITH 20% OF FT. KNOX GOLD, WHEREABOUTS OF THE GOLD ARE UNKNOWN""
Oh my…….oh.........oh.....oh.... no!!!" Ron speechlessly stammered, "A Possible and Stoppable……"
A loud peal of thunder echoed in the skies.
"……as low-life hardcore criminals! This is so going to be the drama!!!" Kim finished warily with another loud clap of thunder that made Rufus too scared to chatter his teeth.
Team Possible was going to have to clear the Possible and Stoppable family name twice to get them exonerated for good.