Disclaimer: I don't own any of the character, situations or locations from the television series Kim Possible. I reap no monetary gains from the use of those things. I write for the sheer enjoyment of the process and to keep my fingers busy.

Author's Note: This story stems solely from the following quote: "Tell me, O Muse, of the hero who traveled far and wide..." Homer - The Odyssey.

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Travel

Chapter 2

New Jersey

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Kim and Ron were snuggling together in the passenger seat as the Sloth arced its way over the North Pole on its auto-piloted path back to Middleton. Of course the long flight home was the perfect time to get in a little cuddling time for the two teen heroes. But it also meant that their 'CT,' as Ron loved to call it, would ultimately be interrupted. Any time they started to get comfortable in each other's arms, something always came up.

Beep Beep Be Beep

"Right on schedule," Ron blandly observed.

Kim groaned in frustration as she shifted back over to the driver's seat and turned on the Kimmunicator video monitor set in the dashboard. "What's the sitch, Wade?"

"You'll need to adjust your flight path just a tad," the pudgy tech guru said without preamble. "Motor Ed is causing some problems in Bayonne, New Jersey."

"When isn't Ed causing problems?" Ron grumbled to himself, but loud enough for Kim and Wade to hear. He and Kim didn't get to cuddle 'parent-free' very often so Ron was very protective of their CT; almost as protective as he was of Kim while on missions.

"What kind of problems?" Kim queried, ignoring Ron's displeasure. She was a little displeased herself, but knew they had to stop Motor Ed before things got out of hand or he left the area.

"With all of the damage done by the Lowardians," Wade inform the pair as he looked to the side and checked one of his other monitors, "Motor Ed is taking it a step further. He's trying to turn the state into one huge junkyard by running it down with his fleet of monster trucks."

"Build and destroy," Ron tsked out loud to no one but himself.

"What do you mean, Ron?" Kim queried of her boyfriend.

"Motor Ed's M.O.," Ron shrugged as he sat up in his seat. "He's either building something or destroying something... or building something to destroy something with it."

"Riiiight," Wade said condescendingly from the Kimmunicator screen, halfway expecting that very random thought from Ron. The blond boy always had some flippant comment to throw in and Wade was getting so used to them that he could almost predict what Ron would say. "Anyway, if you change your flight path twenty degrees to the east, you'll be right on target."

"Thanks Wade," Kim said before she turned off the screen, took the car off autopilot and adjusted their course. She noted that they were just entering Canadian airspace so the time to get to New Jersey would be short. There'd be no more time for cuddling until after the mission. It was time for them to get their heads in the game.

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A five square block area looked like the aftermath of a war zone below them as Kim and Ron zoomed over the city. Most of the buildings there had been partially damaged by the many inert Walkers that were now just lying around, but this particular area was completely leveled and it appeared to be abandoned. Motor Ed and his crew were driving around in three monster trucks wrecking whatever was still standing.

"Yep," Ron nodded to himself as he looked down on the mayhem being caused by the mulleted menace and his minions. "You know, for a mechanical genius, he isn't very creative."

"What do you mean?" Kim absently queried as she concentrated on finding a good spot to land and keep her car out of harms way while they stopped the rampage.

"I mean Motor Ed and his crew got a coupla monster trucks so they could turn the world into one humongous scrapyard," Ron said, shaking his head in disbelief. "That's the same thing he did when we first met him. All I'm saying is he's got a one track mind."

"He did steal dad's Kepplar Rocket so he could drive across the country in style with Shego," Kim reminded him as she spotted a sheltered loading dock behind an already destroyed building to land in. "And he stole Felix' wheelchair technology with Drakken to build that Doomvee vehicle."

"Yeah, but he built a car outta the Kepplar's Rocket engine so they could level everything around them with a shock waves when they went hypersonic," Ron countered Kim's argument. "And the Doomvee was made so it could run over anything... build, and destroy."

"Okay, I see your point," Kim sighed as they landed and got out of the Sloth. "Let's just stop them so we can go home. My shift at Club Banana starts in three hours and I want to take a little nap before heading for the mall."

The two teens went to work.

Facing one of the oncoming vehicles, Kim leapt to the side in order to avoid getting run over, ricocheted off a partial wall that was still standing and dove in through the open side window of the truck, just like she'd planned. After a very brief tussle with the two goons in the cab, she was able to knock them out, turn off the ignition and take the keys.

Ron, using virtually the same technique as Kim but with a slight twist, ran from the monster truck that was trying to run him down. He raced directly at and up a wall, pushed off and aimed a straight leg kick at the driver. Ron's Mystical Monkey Powers came into play as his glowing blue leg smashed through the windshield and knocked the driver loopy, bring the second of the three vehicles to a halt.

"That's bogus Red," Motor Ed hollered as he stopped his monster truck beside the vehicle Kim, who was casually tossing the keys in the air, was getting out of. "We were just having a bit of fun! Seriously!"

"You were razing buildings that could've been repaired," Kim argued while pointing at one particular bit of building rubble that had tire tracks running all over it. "And stop calling me Red!"

"Hey," Ed yelped in indignation, pointing to the pile of debris that Kim had just indicated. "That building jumped out in front of me! There was no way I coulda avoided demolishing it. Seriously!"

"You know KP, Motor Ed is right," Ron chuckled as he stepped up beside his girlfriend while a blue glowing sword disappeared from his hand with a 'poof'. "That building probably had a death wish or something, jumping out in front of Ed's truck like it did. I say we let him go today." He waggled his eyebrows and slyly nodded toward the huge knobby tires of the truck that the mulleted maniac was driving.

Kim noticed what Ron had done with the Lotus Blade while she was confronting the Jersey Menace and smiled. "You're right, Ron. I think we should let Motor Ed off with just a warning this time."

"Hey, you're alright Red! Seriously," Motor Ed yelled in appreciation and did a quick little air guitar number before he revved his engine and put the truck in gear. "Later Red!"

The monster truck lurched forward but didn't move very far since it was running on four extremely flat tires; the synthetic rubber wobbling violently as it partially separated from the rims. "Aw Man, that's seriously bogus! Seriously!" Ed screamed in dismay when he leaned out the driver's side window and saw the front tire flopping around. He checked behind him and saw the rear tire doing the same thing just as the police rolled up and took his crew into custody.

"Aw, I guess playtime is over," Kim mock-pouted to the motoring mechanical malcontent. "I suppose it's back to working on the police paddy wagons in jail for you."

"This is totally bogus, Red!" Ed hollered as he was hauled from the vehicle and handcuffed. "You said you were gonna let me off with just a warning! Seriously!"

"I might have," Kim lightly laughed, "but its your equipment that seriously let you down and the police have the last word as to whether we let you go or not. They're the final authority in this matter."

The two teens watch as Ed and his crew were taken away with the disabled monster trucks being hauled away behind three tow trucks. Kim turned to her boyfriend and smiled. "Thank you Ron. I really didn't want to fight Motor Ed today."

"It was my pleasure. And now you can get some sleep on the way back to Middleton," Ron said as the two walked back over to the Roth SL Coupe. "That way you'll be rested for your shift at Club Banana."

"I'm sure I'll get plenty of restful sleep just as long as it's in your arms," Kim demurely said as they took to the skies.

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Ron was just getting ready to wake up his girlfriend as they crossed the Middleton city line when the dashboard Kimmunicator chimed its four notes. The blond boy reached over, turned it on and asked, "Hi Wade, what's the haps?"

"Hi Ron, the Seniors are causing some trouble on the Big Island."

"Awww Maaaan!" Ron whined. "Senior Island is in the opposite direction over near the coast of Spain. We were closer to it when we were in New Jersey."

"Ron, that's not the island I was talking about," Wade sighed, shaking his head at Ron's geographical misunderstanding.

"But at least he got the location of Senior Island correct," Kim said as she stretched in her boyfriend's arms and gave him a peck on the cheek.

"Hey, we've been there enough so I should know where it's at," Ron chuckled.

Kim turned her attention to the computer guru on the screen as she slipped over to the driver's seat and took control from the autopilot. "So, what's the sitch with the Seniors and Hawaii?"

"Senor Senior Senior and Senor Senior Junior have taken over the biggest record company there, Mahe Mahe Records, to get Junior a recording contract. And when I said they took over the company, I mean they broke into the building using two Spinning Tops of Doom to scare all of the employees into leaving."

"We're on our way," Kim said as she zoomed past Ron's house and soared higher into the sky. She glanced down and noticed that her house was already half way back to being rebuilt. She turned her attention back to the Kimmunicator and asked, "Can you let Monique..."

Wade cut Kim off with a growing smile. "I've already informed Monique that you won't be in for your shift today and that you and Ron are headed for Hawaii... althoooough, she thinks you two will stop in Las Vegas along the way and get married before spending your honeymoon on the tropical sandy beaches after the mission."

"Nooooooo!" Kim groaned and paled before she rallied and firmly ordered, "Wade, get Monique on the line. I gotta end any rumors she might start."

"Relax, Kim. I was just kidding," Wade chuckled before taking a quick sip of soda. "Monique wanted me to record your reaction to the idea that you and Ron were going to elope."

"Wade," the redhead said in a harsh, threatening voice, "if we didn't immediately need to take care of the sitch with the Seniors, I'd be stopping by at your house to teach you some manners!"

"Chill-ax, KP," Ron lightly laughed as he laid a calming hand on her shoulder and started to massage her tense neck, shoulder and back muscles. "You're a little on edge because we been on the go ever since getting dressed for the graduation ceremony over two days ago. The only sleep you've had in the last fifty or sixty some odd hours was that nap you just woke up from."

"And during the last two plus days," Wade added, a bit chagrined, "you've handled the Lowardians, graduation, Professor Dementor and Motor Ed. You're probably dead tired and I shouldn't have tried to prank you like that. I'm sorry, I just wasn't thinking."

"That's okay Wade," Kim sighed. She was feeling a whole lot better because of Ron's impromptu massage. "I'll deal with Monique's weird sense of humor when we get back."

Kim put aside all thoughts of the mission as she turned off the Kimmunicator, put the car in autopilot again and slid over onto Ron's lap. She snuggled into his embrace and purred, "Wake me when we get close to the island. I was in the middle of a wonderful dream of you and me, alone on a secluded tropical beach, and I want to get back to it." She closed her eyes and promptly fell back asleep in his loving arms.

Ron pulled the old hand held Kimmunicator from his pocket and set the alarm function to go off five minutes before they would land on the island of Hawaii. He set it to vibrate mode and tucked it back into his pocket before falling asleep himself.