Surprises (An Impossible Quartet 10)
DJ Dubois
May 2008
Notes: Kim Possible and her cohorts belong to Disney. All other characters are mine. .
Chapter 1 Middleton HS—Two days following the events in "Iguana Issues"
Ron wheeled Kim down the halls of their high school fresh off of another check on her broken right leg. While he was psyched about Sensei's satisfaction over how the iguana situation ended and their new friends in western Kansas, he knew that Kim sulked over the injury. Even if he was with Yori now, she was still his BF.
…And then there was his sitch with Yori too. Over the past two years, he'd drifted closer and closer to the beautiful Japanese ninja. They'd shared dinners in their rooms and worked out together. They'd reveled in sharing of their hearts. Since she rescued him from a lonely night on the previous year, he'd known his heart's choice.
Aw man! Why does it have to be so freakin' complicated? He sulked, knowing that he'd have to tell Kim at some point of his intentions with Yori. Then again, his redheaded BF had a boyfriend of her own.
Kim, for her part, frowned over her injury. In trying to save her classmates from the enhanced iguana ninjas, she fell wrong on her right leg, breaking it and her chances to go out on top in the Regional Cheer Competition. Besides she was concerned about Ron's moodiness since their return as well. Can things get any worse? And for this to happen two weeks before graduation!
"Hey, KP, it's gonna be all good! Just wait!" he cheered, trying to make everything seem rosy.
She giggled, recognizing the old Ron from before the junior-senior Prom. "Oh really? Do tell!"
"Graduation's in two weeks! Hey, we'll be done with this place! No more Barkin or Bonnie!" he bragged.
"YEAH!" Rufus cheered.
However, his statement only deepened her misery. For it brought back up the other hidden sitch. Before the museum standoff, the two couples had gone over their college plans, realizing that the split between them would be longer than they had hoped. GJ would send Kim and Rick to their International Center for Preparedness outside of Amsterdam for two years. Meantime, Ron and Yori would finish their own studies at Yamanuchi.
He rubbed her shoulder. "We'll always be BFs, KP."
She looked back into the soft brown eyes; those that were watering like her emerald ones. "Thanks, Ron."
"Hey, no big, right?" he supposed even as he felt more anxious than ever. "Can I…umm…get some advice later on like…girl stuff?"
"Girl stuff?" she asked.
"Yeah." He rubbed the back of his neck.
Now what? She looked at him again. He's really sweating over this! I need a 411 on this pronto! "Sure."
He wheeled her into the video classroom and to the place cleared for her. As they went, he could see the eyes turning to look at them. "Hey, hey! We're back! We made it!"
Rick smiled at his partner's effort before turning to her. "You okay?"
"I am now," she admitted, wiping a happy tear from her eye. "Thanks, guys."
"Do not worry, Kim. It will be all right," Yori assured her from two seats over.
Kim nodded while getting her notebook out of her bag.
"Hey, too bad about the leg, K. Guess I'm going to have to run the routine now, huh?" Bonnie supposed from the side of the room.
"Yeah too bad that you were hiding with the rest of us while my girl and the others were duking it out with the bad boys, huh?" Monique groused. "Stick it, Bonnie."
"Whatever!" Bonnie scoffed.
Rick normally would've kept quiet except that he'd had enough over the past week's near misses. "No. Not whatever. We all could've died in there, Bonnie. Those creeps had us dead to rights. I'm glad that we had the back up that we had. For us to get out with Kim's leg and my arm was a miracle."
Barkin marched into the room at that moment seeming more perturbed than ever (if that was possible). "All right, People! Enough with the arguing! We do have a class to get on with here!"
He squinted about the room, taking in Team Possible. "Glad to see the four of you made it back here in one piece. Care to explain what happened back there?"
"You've had the briefing from Agents Petersen and Singleton, sir," Rick indicated.
Barkin slammed his fist on the desk. "I've had my fill of those two! Now I'm asking you, Trouseau!"
Rick eyed his three teammates before assuming his 'government agent' role. "Just as they told you, we ran into a situation that has since been resolved. The group's been taken into custody. The leader trailed us to Kansas and was taken care of there. That's it. Sir."
Even as trained and steeled as they were, Kim and Yori shuddered at the steel cold in Rick's voice.
For a minute, Barkin locked glares with Rick before the former finally realized he wasn't going to get anywhere. "And what about you, Stoppable?"
"Me? What about me?" Ron gulped, feeling the principal's shark eyes focusing on him next.
"The cheesy light show and you fighting those lizard guys. Do share," Barkin demanded. "And don't hold back."
Ron winced, knowing he was really under the gun. "Yeah…that." He grinned nervously, covering for his feelings.
In an effort to save her boyfriend and preserve Yamanuchi's secret, Yori jumped in, "You all saw how the meteor made him sick? It affected Ron San. Should we question that it helped him to fight?"
"Can't believe Stoppable can fight," one of the kids scoffed.
Yori glared at the critic indignantly. "Ron San would fight for and die for any one of us. You dismiss his heart." She squeezed his hand in hers protectively. "I do not. In Japan, we know that the Kiroshi Iguana empowers the good in a person as well as the evil. It tapped into his potential. Would you not say so, Kim?"
"Definitely," Kim concurred. "Ron's always had our backs."
"As Mr. Sensei would say, a rose which blossoms in the fiercest of storms will stand strong," Yori continued. "That, Barkin Sama, is how Ron San is. And it is why I care for him."
Not caring about the brewing PDA moment, Ron let his eyes linger into his GF's.
But Barkin did care. "All right, you two, break it up or you're in detention! Fine but I'll be watching you both!"
"Please feel free, Barkin Sama," Yori affirmed calmly yet respectfully.
"Well done, Yori. Well done indeed," Sensei praised telepathically.
"Domo. It was my honor, Master Sensei," she replied as she saw him and her classmates on the TV screen.
Yet another crisis had been weathered, it seemed.