Stepping up
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The Possible family were busy picking up what was left of their living room when a beat up 1985 Camero, which was so rusted it looked like it could fall appart at any moment. This was proven to be a fact when the dirver attempted to open the door and it fell off. "Maybe pushing this thing to a hundred and forty wasn't such a good Idea," Ron said as he got out.
Ron took not more than two steps before he was tackled buy the two boys, both speaking at once, just saying diffrent things. While Jim was worried over him Tim was questioning how he took out the robots.
Finally the Possibles gathered their children when Ann asked, "What happened Ron?" She had noticed it the second she had seen him, something in Ron had changed. He stood up straight showing his full height being just a bit taller that her and his eyes shown with an intelligence that while she had never seen inhim before, seemed to fit him like a long lost glove.
"Long story short Draken had his caller beacon at Bueno Nacho," Ron said as he moved towards the house, "Do you mind if I use your phone?"
"Why would he do that?" Tim asked as Jim ran to the house and grabbed the cordless for Ron.
"I'm guessing he was on a major budget." Ron said as he took the phone and dailed up Wade. "He probably bought Bueno Nacho in some sort of legal way so that we wouldn't catch on until it was too late. That being said if some random tower appeared in town it would be easy to guess where to strike during the invasion, plus it would cost way too much to buy another property near every store all across the world would easily bankrupt him before the scheme could even get off the ground."
Wade had never been more greatful that he always bought reinforced everything, otherwise he would be replacing alot more equipment. Most of his tech had been demolished during the attack and pretty much everything that was left was still in the experimental phase. He was about to have a small tantrum when he heard the phone ringing. "Hello?" he asked.
"Hey Wade," Ron said from the other line, "glad to see you made it, not suprised mind you but glad all the same."
"Rom?" Wade asked. Like Ann Wade could tell something had changed in the blonde young man, he just didn't have the time or energy to deal with it at the moment. "How did you take out the beacon? How did you even find the beacon?" Ron gave an abridged explanation of how he figured it out.
"How much of you equipment is still running?" Ron asked.
Wade sighed as he ran his hand threw his hair, "Not a lot. Most of the ready stuff was destroyed in the attack. To make matters worse, I haven't been able to get a hold of Kim. I've even tried landlines to the kimmunicator with not luck. Someone's jamming all the frequencies."
'I must have scared Draken enough for him to lock down Kim.' Ron thought. "Alrigt don't worry about Kim for now." he said, getting an earful of worry and frantic arguments from the young genius. "Freak out all you want Wade but we don't have time for this. I'm heading to my house to get changed for the mission."
"No Ron, we're making time for this," Wade said in an annoyed tone, "Can you give me one reason why we shouldn't get Kim?!"
"Three come to mind," Ron said just as annoyed, "One, Draken cut off transmissions to Kim but you and I are talking just fine so that means if we get to close to the school I won't be able to show her the evidence. Two, he knows Kim is still at the dance which means he has someone watching her, even if I could get her away it would leave the whole class at the mercy of one of Dr. Dope's lackeys. And Three, the most important in my eyes, This is Kim's night. This is the one night she has to be a real teenager, I've never cared about being normal but Kim just needs this. So please Wade, I need you to let me go alone and if possible, set me up a ride."
Wade was quiet for a while when Ron hung up, thinking what he had just heard threw. Sighing Wade called Ron's landline a short while after he walked threw his door. "I can't set you up a ride Ron."
"Why not?" Ron asked in a calm tone, wanting to give his friend the benifit of the doubt.
"A good amount of my communication tech was taken out... as soon as you're dressed see if you can get to my house and I'll have something waiting for you."
Wade wasn't sure he wanted to hear Ron's response but smiled none the less when he heard it, "You rock harder that a boulder Wade." When Ron hung up Wade got to work, experimental or not Ron was going to need all the help he could get.
Ron ran up to his room and grabbed his mission clothes, only to stop when he passed his mirror. He knew that he was going to need the big guns in this fight, not only was he up agaist an army of killler robots and more than likely sinthodrones, but regular grunts and Shego herself. Not an easy task for anyone and he would be by himself, loosing his pants this time wouldn't be funny; it would be deadly.
"Guess we're bringing out the class A's huh buddy?" Ron asked Rufus, who smirked in response, rubbing his little claws together in a mischievious way while giggling to himself. Ron shared that sentiment as he pulled out a foot locker hidden in the depths of his closet.
From the moment Eric planted himself in the life of his best friend Ron had known one of two things would happen, the first being that Kim would replace him in the missions and the second that he would become a third wheel when he and Kim had one. Ron really didn't like the thought of the first one but the more he thought of the second the more he knew he would need to prepare for the very real possiblity that he would be worse than Ron himself.
With that thought in mind Ron took the liberty of altering some of his mission clothes so that he could pick up more of the slack if he needed toThe first thing to be changed was his pants, the very essence of his mission ineptitude. Taking the sleek black pants from his "Cool Haircut" phase Ron altered them by loosening them slightly for better movement and adding multiple pockets, especially one for Rufus and one for his graple gun.
Ron's shirt was black and made with leftover material from one of Wade's side projects, a battle suit for Kim. It didn't have all the bells and whistles Kim's suit was going to have but it was bullet and plasma proof. Ron made it sleeveless so he could freely move his arms and shoulders should he have to use his Monkey kung fu.
Another addition to all this was a harness that he had made for his pants, based loosely on something he saw in a tomb raider game. It locked around his waist and just over his knees, and was covered in pouches in the front for his tech and any gadgits he would have to collect on missions and a holster in the back. Attatched to his right calf was a gift from his master at yamanouchi, a kunai and shuriken pack full to the brim. The last addition were a pair of black vans and brown gloves with slightly darker brown tips.
Ron looked himself over inthe mirror again, and was impressed with himself. Sense returning from Japan Ron had promised to keep up with his training, a promise he had kept, and the end result was a body that would draw the attention of any woman and even a few men. While not overly bulky like Brick Flagg, the Middleton quarterback, Ron was toned and sleek, the body of an olympic runner.
Nodding to himself Ron ran up to the attic where he kept his little secret. Kim had been opposed to the idea of weapons from the instant they had started their escapades all thoughs years ago but during his time at the ninja school Ron had not only learn how to handle many, many, diffrent weapons he had even masters a few of them.
Ron opened a hidden wall and pulled out more gifts from his master as well as from Yori. The first thing he pulled out was a harness for his back that clipped into this waist, which had two holsters on it. Ron pulled out a collapsible bo staff, his best and favorite weapon, and after giving it a few test swings placed it in it's holdster on his back. The next thing was a pair of tonfa and like the staff tested them for a moment before setting them in their palce on his waist.
He was about to walk off when he gave a second look to the last object in his hidden compartment, a katana. While his bo staff was by far his best weapon kenjustu had been a very close second, Master Sensei had even told him he had a natural gift for it, but the thought of cutting down another living being left a bad taste in his mouth.
'This is the real deal,' Ron thought to himself as he grabbed his sword and put it in it's place, 'Draken won't be pulling any punches and I'll need something to take out thoughs damn drone.' Feeling like he was ready Ron grabbed Rufus and ran out the door, making as good a time as he could to the hidden home of the reclusive Wade Load.
Ron made it in record time. Much like Kim, Ron had been to Wade's house on more than one occasion, he just wasn't a babysitter. Ron tested most of Wade's gadgets for Kim, mostly so she didn't have to worry about one of them blowing up in her face. Unlike all thoughs other times Wade was actually out of his room.
"Hey Ron, you got here fast!" Wade said as he looked over his friend. Just like he had thought something had changed in Ron, and it wasn't his cool new threads. He noticed the little diffrences in the young man before him, the first being his posture and the other that he was actually looking him in the eye instead of his usual off to the side.
"Took a short cut," Ron said with a confidence, "just jumped over the houses. so what do you have for me?"
"Not as much as I'd like but hopefully enough," Wade said with an annoyed sigh as he pulled something out of a box, it looked like a weird half circle with slight curves at the end and ear buds sticking out the side. "This is something that I've been working of fro the last year, cutting edge on communications for team Possible. It goes around your neck with the ends over your ears."
Ron put it on like Wade had said. Finding a button on the side Ron pressed it and instantly the thing reformed into tented sunglasses. "Woah!" Ron said as the lenses began feeding him infromation on Wade on the left side and a map of his house on the right.
Wade smiled in pride as he said, "Thoughs don't have an official name yet but they have multipule features. Thermo, night and X-ray visions, direct line to me that can't be hacked and when paired with this," Wade pulled out a glove from the box, "can hack into anything given enough time."
The glove was think and grey with a stainless steel clasp over the end to hold it on Ron's hand, to his suprise it was slightly heavier than it looked. "That glove has controlable wires in it that'll let me link into just about any computer."
"Are they combat safe?" Ron asked as he looked them over, "I don't want them to break when I have to break someone's nose and it would take too much time to take it on and off every time I need it."
"Heavily protected, no worries." Wade said as he pulled out a strage looking toy gun with a glowing red tip. "This is what you need the absolute more Ron." Wade said as he handed it to Ron, "This is the Electo magnetic scrambler. It'll fry not only the main system but spread a virse to every Diablo world wide, the dart tip just has to hit the main tower."
Ron smiled and pocketed the gun in his grapple holster. "Now all I need is a ride. The tweebs offered me their rockets but I didn't want to waste the time trying to find my old hunk of junk." Ron said with his usual playful grin.
Wade grinned back as he said, "Well that's good to hear, other wise I would have wasted my time getting your birthday present ready early." Wade pulled out a tiny chip and, having Ron lean down, put it into his glasses. "Press the red button on you glove."
Finding the button in question Ron pressed it and was rewarded by the rev. A bright cobalt blue kawasaki ninja motorcicle rolled up. Ron was conpletely speechless as Wade explained. "Top speed 350 MPH, front mounted mini shock pellet turret, rear oil slick and best of all an on board link to you and I. I still haven't quite got the flight mode set yet but..."
Everthing Wade was about to say next was cut off by Ron scooping him up, "Wade for your next birthday you want it you got it. This is awesome!" Setting down the now dizzy boy Ron retracted his glasses and slipped on the royal blue helmit. "Wish me luck Dude."
Ron drove off to fast to hear Wade say, "Good luck Ron." and run back into his make shift comand center.
Ron had never moved this fast in his life, thankfully the highway was empty. Ron was on his way to BN HQ and at the rate he was going he would be there in a mater of minutes. "Can you hear me Wade?" Ron asked as he avoided another car.
"loud and clear Ron, what do you need?" Wade said in his ear.
"Can you tell me what I'm walking into?"
Wade hessitatied for a moment before saying, "Honestly? A deathtrap. Fifty live goons, two hundred and fifty senthodrones and of course, most dangerious of all, Shego."
"Oh she's not that bad," Ron said, smirking slightly, "She's kinda hot in the right light, and I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about it before."
"Never took you for a masocist." Wade said with a smirk.
Ron shrugged it off as he got back to buissness, "Anyway, so how easily do you think we can sneak in?"
"Not at all." Wade said in a serious tone, "Like I said, Draken is serious this time, even the air vents are being heavily monitored. I could try to take them out as you go but that would just draw more attention."
"So what you're saying is that stealth is completely out then?" Ron asked as the wheels in his head began to turn quickly.
"I'm afraid so," Wade said as he wracked his brain trying to figure out a way to handle this. That is until Ron spoke.
"Wade, I have an idea."