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Mayan Calendar

Chapter 3

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Kim Stoppable was dressed in the same space suit she'd worn eight years prior when she'd followed her then best friend into space to rescue him from Monkey Fist. (Who was still a stone statue and resting comfortably in the bedroom of DNAmy.) As a matter of fact, Kim was piloting a descendent of that same exact ship. The first Kepplar rocket had been ruined when Motor Ed converted it into a dragster to drive cross country in and the second Kepplar was destroyed when the Lowardian ship exploded. She was now piloting the Kepplar Mark III which had been built a year after the invasion.

But this time she wasn't rescuing her best friend from a mad monkey man and his minions on a space station. No, her best friend, Ron Stoppable, was now her husband and he was sitting in the co-pilots seat, ready to accompany her into space; And they were heading to the stars and not the space station.

Well actually, they were heading to rendezvous with a ship from a planet that right now would appear to be a star to the naked eye.

Anyway, the launch went off without a hitch and they were on their way.

Beep Beep Beep-Beep

Kim glanced around the cockpit of the ship. She knew she had left her Kimmunicator watch back on Earth since its range was limited, so she didn't know where the familiar four tones were coming from.

Suddenly Rufus, who was clad in his own specially tailored space suit and had been sitting on the console in front of her, pushed off and drifted over to the communications panel. He flipped a switch and Wade's smiling face appeared on one of the monitors.

"Hey Kim, hey Ron," the tech guru said as he rapidly typed on his computer keyboard. "It looks like you're on a perfect trajectory for the rendezvous which should happen in about five weeks."

"Rockets are go," Ron hollered at the news.

"No Ron," Kim harshed to her husband. "Rockets are not go. No Space Passage quote will be spoken on this ship. If you do, then I'll find the closest black hole and drop you off at the event horizon."

"Sorry KP," a chagrined Ron muttered. He knew she still didn't like the old science/fantasy show at all but he continued to hope that she would eventually warm up to it.

"That's okay, Ron," Kim said after letting out a heavy sigh, quickly losing her pique. "I know you love that old show. It's just that it reminds me of when daddy secretly loaded that video disc with it after I'd lost my memory from the MRM explosion, and he complete left you off the disc. I get so angry when I'm reminded of the sitch." She blew him an air kiss to show there were no hard feelings.

Ron returned the gesture and then asked Wade, "So what are we supposed to do for the next coupla months, besides picking up a ton or six of gold pyramid power?"

"That's entirely up to you, Ron," the eighteen year old computer wiz answered. "There are stasis chambers if you want to sleep the whole time but there's also a complete gym on board to exercise."

"Sleep or exercise?" Ron spat with a disgusted face. "That doesn't sound like a lotta fun."

"Well, I did install a video system with all of your favorite games on it."

"That's all Ron does with his down time at home right now," Kim complained, "when he's not in the kitchen cooking up a storm."

"Do not," Ron protested with a sly grin and waggled eyebrow. "Half the time you want me in the bedroom so you can..." He was soundly cut off by his wife pinching his lips shut.

"You don't need to say it! I'm sure Wade doesn't want to hear all the little details about our love life."

"No, thank you," Wade said with a blush. "I may be eighteen now but I definitely don't need to hear about someone else's activities in the bedroom."

"Who says it only happens in the bedroom?" Ron pushed the jocularity after swiftly grabbing Kim's hand and removing it from his face. "KP also jumps my bones in the kitchen while I'm cooking, and in our yard by the pool and..."

"Rooon!" Kim cried in anger before she got herself under control again and a coy smile graced her face. "Wade said he doesn't want to hear about it, just like he doesn't want us to hear about how things are going between him and his girlfriend."

"Wade's got a girlfriend?" Ron begged in astonishment. His wicked smile amped up a few notches as he asked, "Since when buddy? I need some spillage."

"I-she-we..." the tech guru sputtered. When words wouldn't come out in any sensible form of a sentence, he started rapidly typing on his computer out of embarrassment.

Kim answered for him, "It seems Monique has been spending a fair amount of time over at his place after she'd graduated from the clothing design school Coco Banana sent her to. She told me that she and Wade spend all of their time lying out on the beach he created in the Holo-suite."

Wade stopped his work on the keyboard and looked back into the pickup camera as he sheepishly said, "Ahhh, yeah. Monique told me that she can concentrate better on her designs when she's laying out in the Sun. So far, Mr. Banana has been very pleased with the stuff she's come up with so I let her come over whenever she wants and I ... kinda, um... keep her company."

"And she told me that it's your company that lends to her creativity," Kim slyly shot back.

"All right, Wade," Ron cheered and then started to sing-song, "Monique and Wade, sitting on a fake beach, K-I-S-S-I-N-G." He suddenly stopped and had a strange look on his face as he begged, "I guess that doesn't rhyme, does it? It's no wonder why people always sing about 'sitting in a tree'. That rhymes. But what would work that means the same thing as beach, that also rhymes with the letter 'G'? Let's see... Wade and Monique, sittin' by a fake sea..."

"Off topic," Kim cut in on her husbands random line of thought, even though she was partially responsible for it by bring up the relationship between their two friends. She turned back to the screen on the command module's console and said, "Anyway Wade, congratulations to you and Monique. I think you'll make a great couple."

"Well, we aren't there just yet," Wade sheepishly said, rubbing the back of his neck. "I think she's been flirting with me but I'm not sure. You know just how inept I am when it comes to interacting with other people... especially women."

"She has been flirting with you, Wade," Kim informed her long time friend. "She's just waiting for you to make a move and flirt back. She told me all about it the last time we went shopping and she getting a little frustrated since you haven't gotten the hints and made a move on her."

"What?!"

"I tried to explain to her just how deeply your agoraphobia used to affect you," Kim continued the explanation, "and that you've improved some over the years, so she understands."

Kim had tried not to play matchmaker with her two friends, but she now knew that she had to in order get her best girl friend and her longtime computer friend together. If this mission failed for any reason, Wade and Monique would at least have a few months together as a couple before Nemesis destroyed the planet.

Kim checked the gauges in front of her and realized that she didn't have much time before the ship would be too far away from the Earth, and moving way too fast, to allow for any conversation, real-time or otherwise. "Here's what you should do, Wade..."

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Kim and Ron Stoppable had spent the next week making sure that the rocket was heading on the correct trajectory and functioning properly. When they weren't busy with the controls, they'd spent a small portion of their free time talking about their future, and what each of them wanted in said future, when the threat from Nemesis was behind them. Kim told her husband about her rekindled desire to start a family since the planet was obviously going to be save with this mission. Ron wholeheartedly agreed.

And so they spent a majority of their time working toward that end.

The only problem with that was a lack of gravity. Simple bedtime activities back on Earth proved to be not so simple when weightless. One little thrust of the hips would push the other person away if they didn't tangle their arms and legs in a certain way. But persistence and practice soon won out and a satisfying rhythm was established

After one week, when they were sure the ship was on course and functioning properly, they went into stasis for the next two weeks. They wanted to wake up a few days before their rendezvous so they'd be able to make any final little adjustments to their route, if needed.

It actually was good that they came out of stasis early since they were moving faster and slightly off course due to Jupiter's gravity, and met up with the ship coming from Sedna a few days early.

Those few days quickly vanished when Kim, Ron and Rufus met the four... person, crew from Sedna. There was only one translator mustache between them and they each had long winded speeches in greeting. There was also the 'Feast of Greeting' which lasted for three whole Earth days. Ron thoroughly enjoyed the seventy-two hour long meal, sampling every and all dishes multiple times. The beings from Sedna were amazed that he and the naked mole rat could put away so much food and were stunned beyond words when Ron quickly picked up their language. He told them it was a talent he had since he was able to talk to just about any person, animal or insect, Roachie being a prime example, but Kim knew it was mostly due to his Mystical Monkey Powers.

The Sednanians were also rather taken with Rufus and refused to hand over the capstone until they could examine him. Ron made sure that all of the tests were noninvasive in nature, but the examination took over two days to complete.

Confusion was also a minor problem during the meeting between worlds since all four of the Sednanians, the plural form when talking about more than one being from Sedna, had the same name.

You guessed it. They were all named Afmed.

Our intrepid trio soon discovered that everyone from the planet had the same name and that the Sednanians intuitively knew who they were referring to when talking about another person from the planet.

Finally after seven days, (one for the greeting speeches, three for the meal, two for the examination and another whole day recovering from the meal and examination,) the transfer of the capstone began.

Ron helped a lot during the transfer, being able to talk to their hosts, but Kim found herself running around the two ships, carrying the translator mustache with her, while coordinating the move. She always seemed to met up with the wrong Sednanian. Kim finally gave up and allowed Ron to be in charge of the transfer while she remained in the Kepplar's cargo bay to supervise the placement and securing of the capstone.

And so, with their cargo in place and another long trip in front of them, Kim, Ron and Rufus endured another day of departing speeches before they were able to head back to Earth. (Kim begged off on the 'Feast of Departure', much to Ron and Rufus' disappointment, saying that they really really needed to get back home.) The Sednanians said they would meet them on Earth on December 21st, the day they were going to arrive in the first place. (But a little too late to take care of the meteor before it crashed into the Earth.)

Rufus immediately went to the gaming console to play while husband and wife got the ship underway, then headed directly to their room.

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Kim Stoppable slowly awoke from three weeks in the hibernation/stasis chamber and immediately felt ill. Her stomach was queasy, so as soon as the chamber door was open she dashed to the ship's bathroom for a bout of dry heaves. While sleeping during the return trip she hadn't eaten anything but was supplied nutrients intravenously, so she wasn't sure just why she should be nauseous.

Then it occurred to her. She could be suffering from a bout of morning sickness.

Kim smiled at that revelation. There really wasn't much to do during the long voyage so she and Ron had spent a lot of time in their bedroom after figuring out just how to make love in zero gravity.

"Imagine," Kim thought to herself. "Our first born child was conceived in Zero G's. It may even be the first child conceived in space. I'm sure dad will be thrilled that his grandchild was conceived in his rocket and mom will want to write a medical paper about the whole sitch."

Kim rinsed out her mouth and was just checking her hair when Ron came floating back to the bathroom shouting, "Hey KP! You gotta phone call!"

"Who is it?" Kim queried as she followed her husband forward to the command deck.

"It's your mom, Mrs. Dr. P.," Ron said as he sat down in the co-pilot's chair and turned the video monitor back on.

"Hi mom," Kim greeted as she sat down in her seat with a smile on her face. "It's good to see you but, why the call?"

"I'm sorry Kimmie," Dr. Possible said with a wan smile. "I know you just came out of stasis and call it woman's intuition but... I've had the strangest feeling for the last few weeks that something was up with you. Are you okay?"

Before she answered her mother, Kim turned to Ron and said, "Could you go and make sure Rufus is alright, honey?"

Ron looked queerly at Kim for a second or two. They hardly ever called each other cutesy names before so that was strange, throwing him off a bit. Ron put it off as his wife still maybe feeling the effects of the hibernation chamber so he got up and said, "Aaaaah, okay KP. Be right back." Then Ron made his way aft to check on his little buddy.

Kim turned her attention back to the call and said, "I think you're right, mom. I didn't want to tell Ron yet but... I think I'm pregnant."

"That's wonderful Kimmie," Anne enthused before concern took over. "But why do you think you're pregnant?"

"Well, I won't know for sure until we return to Earth and I get tested but I just had a case of morning sickness."

"Are you sure it wasn't caused by all the space traveling you've done over the last month?" Anne asked in doctor mode.

"I'm pretty sure," Kim answered with a smile that just wouldn't leave her face. "You know this is the third or fourth time Ron and I have gone into space and I haven't gotten sick before."

"That's true dear," Anne replied. "But all of the other trips were only for a day at most. This is the first time you've been away for a lot longer, and it's also the first time you went into hibernation mode. Those could be contributing factors. And didn't you take your birth control pills along with you?"

"I brought them with," Kim slyly smiled, "but Ron and I had a long talk just after we took off from Earth and we decided to start a family as soon as possible, so I stopped taking them. And I know that those factors you mentioned could've caused the morning sickness. That's why I sent Ron back to check on Rufus. I think we should be together at the doctor's office when we find out for sure."

"Rufus is A-Okay,"Ron loudly announced as he floated back onto the command deck with one of his arms full of small packages. "He was extremely hungry after waking up so I got some cheese out for him and a few ration packs out for us. Are you hungry?"

"I am a little, but give me a minute to finish this call to mom, please and thank you," Kim said to her husband before turning back to the monitor. "So, will you tell the doctors at the space center about our conversation and have them set up a test?"

"Yes, dear," Anne Possible said with a sly smile, getting the hint that Kim wanted to keep the possible pregnancy secret on the down low. "The... extra test will be ready for your post flight checkup when you land and I'll see you then."

"Thanks mom. I'll see you."

"Are you feeling okay, KP?" Ron begged in concern as he opened up one of the meal packs and dug in. "Why the extra test?" he asked with his mouth full. Ron may have been concerned with her health but he was also hungry after being in hibernation mode for so long.

"It's nothing to be concerned about, Ron," Kim waived off as she grabbed one of the meal packs and, after looking at it, set it aside. She still felt a bit queasy so she took one of the energy drink packs and started on it. She said between sips, "I told mom about the 'Feast of Greeting' and she wants to make sure that the Sednanian food didn't affect us in any way."

Kim knew it was a little white lie but she was sure that the food issue would come up anyway so they'd be tested for that too.

"Oh, okay," Ron simply excepted the explanation and dug in to his third meal pack.