Chapter 2

Faded Memories

The next morning found Ron a few blocks away from Kim's, he yawned, stretched, and scratched his head,

'How did I end up here?' he thought to himself, then, slowly, the events of last night began to come back to him. The fiery inferno he had found himself in, his body being invaded by a demonic specter that had taken out both Drakken and Shego in seconds, and the name that stuck in his head, Ghost Rider.

'Better make it a point to ask Kim about that.' he thought as he started up his motorcycle, and turned it toward Kim's, since it was the weekend, there would be plenty of opportunity to take Kim somewhere, and have some fun, in an attempt to salvage the remaining days of the week.

Upon arrival at the Possible home, he found Kim in the yard, her hair pulled back into a ponytail, and wearing an old shirt, tied into a knot at her breast line, a pair of old jeans, and an old pair of black canvas sneakers,

"Hey, KP, doing some yard work?" Ron asked as he got off his bike,

"Yeah, it needs it, how are you feeling this morning?" Kim asked

"About that, there's something I need to ask you, Kim, well, not so much ask, as confirm." Ron said, looking at Kim, who stopped what she was doing, and looked at Ron with concerned eyes,

"Okay, shoot." Kim responded,

"Did, something happen to me last night, like, a change of some kind?" Ron asked,

"Don't you remember it?" Kim asked,

"Yeah, I just wanted confirmation on it." Ron replied,

"Oh, yeah, something happened all right." Kim replied, her face showing a very serious expression,

"Then it wasn't a dream." Ron said, his face lighting up with an unreadable expression,

"I wish it was, I didn't tell Mom and Dad about it, but the Tweebs were watching out of their bedroom window, and wanted to know who that was." Kim said,

"What did you tell them?" Ron asked,

"The truth." Kim replied,

"As long as they keep quiet about it, there'll be no problems." Ron replied,

"Who's gonna believe them?" Kim asked,

"True. Hey, KP, wanna go for a ride?" Ron said, smiling,

"I thought you'd never ask." Kim said, taking her hair out of its ponytail, and grabbing a pair of white tennis shoes near the front door of the house, she quickly went inside, and came back out a few minutes later, wearing her black long sleeve shirt, and red miniskirt,

"Me like." Ron murmured, as Kim got onto the back of the beautiful motorcycle, placed her helmet on her head, wrapped her arms around Ron's waist, and leaned her head against his back, as he started it up.

the teenage lovers arrived at Bueno Nacho late in the afternoon, after taking in a movie, and a shopping excursion at the mall, they were having a load of fun, until Bonnie Rockwaller walked into the place,

"Outta my way, losers." Kim said, pushing roughly past Kim and Ron, who were at the register, and preparing to order, Kim grabbed Bonnie by the shoulder, and said,

"Park it in the back, Bonnie."

"I'm in a hurry." Bonnie replied, in her trademark smug voice,

"I don't care. Whatever date you have with Brick tonight can wait until Ron and I have ordered." Kim said, now pushing Bonnie away from the counter, and to a point directly behind Ron,

"Hey, Stoppable, Brick needs help with his bike, think you can help him out?" Bonnie asked,

"If he asks me, not you." Ron replied, making the tanned cheerleaders face turn an ugly red color. Ever since prom night, Ron seemed to take great pride in ribbing Bonnie hard, he still had not gotten over the sting of her malicious behavior that night.

Later that evening:

Bonnie Rockwaller was walking down a darkened street alone, she had been crying for what seemed like forever. She had went out on a date with Brick, only to find out that he had dumped her in favor of Monique, it was too much for the bronzed beauty to take,

"The man doesn't have an ounce of sense in him." she violently said to no one. As she turned, she noticed that she had turned up a dead end alley, as she turned around to go back, she saw something that made her blood run cold. Five men were standing at the end of the alley, all of them were leering at her, clearly, these men had nothing but bad intentions on their minds,

"Hey, baby, wanna have some fun?" one of the men said, his voice laced with sarcasm,

"Not with you I don't." Bonnie said connecting with a punch to the solar plexus, and starting to run, but four pairs of strong hands pushed her back into the alley, and onto the ground,

"You're gonna pay for that one, you little . . ." the man, who appeared to be the leader of the group said, but he didn't get any further, when suddenly, he was taken off his feet by a ball of fire that shot from somewhere near the end of the alley,

"NOT a good idea!" came a menacing voice from the same direction. Bonnie watched in horror, as the four remaining men parted, and her eyes made contact with something she had never seen in her life, and she hoped, she'd never see again.

Sitting on a custom chopper, with flames coming from it, stood what appeared to be a living skeleton, encased in fire, dressed in a black leather biker jacket, black leather pants, and black biker boost, his hands were covered by black leather gloves, and stainless steel chains were wrapped across his chest, Bonnie watched, as one of the men came to this apparition, and attempted to try stabbing it, but before the man could get the knife out of his pocket, he met the barrel of what appeared to be an old lever action shotgun,

"The rest of you have three seconds to clear out, or I'm gonna open up a can of whoop ass you've never seen." she horrid demon said, by looking at this creature, Bonnie was sure that hell itself had been unleashed on Earth.

Bonnie watched, as the four remaining gang members scattered like cockroaches from a flashlight,

"You're safe now, let me give you a lift home." the thing said, extending his hand out to the tanned beauty, who smiled, and said,

"Thanks."

A few minutes later, at the Rockwaller home:

Ghost Rider dropped Bonnie off at the front door of her house and was preparing to leave,

"Who are you, really?" Bonnie asked,

"A friend." Ghost Rider replied, starting up his bike, and preparing to leave,

"I guess everyone has their secrets." Bonnie said,

"Sure do, see ya later, Bon-Bon." Ghost Rider said, speeding off before Bonnie had a chance to let sink in what the specter had said,

"STOPPABLE!" she shouted, now turning to where she could see Ghost Rider's reflection in the distance.

OOPS! Big mistake on Ghost Rider's part, he had just let slip who he is. Now Ron's not going to get a minutes peace from Bonnie, until she uncovers the truth about her ghostly saviour.

So keep reading it's going to get interesting from here on out.

As always, keep the reviews coming.

Doug