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Mayan Calendar

Chapter 4

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There was just a little over a week to go before Nemesis impacted with the Earth so Kim Stoppable made sure the landing was picture perfect at the Middleton Space Center. The return flight took longer because they wanted to make sure the capstone wasn't jostled and damaged during the flight. They'd also taken longer getting up the speed and then slowing down as they arrived at Earth.

Kim, her husband Ron and their little friend Rufus immediately disembarked and were whisked away by a jeep while another crew towed the ship into a nearby hanger to offload the capstone.

Our three intrepid travelers were met at the center's hospital by a group of doctors, which included Dr. Anne Possible, and General Simms.

"Greeting Miss Possible and crew," the no-nonsense military man harshly barked out. "You did an admirable job taking care of the A-1-B scenario so far." Dr. Possible wanted to correct the General in his use of Kim's maiden name but her daughter covertly waved her off.

"Thank you General," Kim said in greetings as she set her helmet and gloves down. "And as soon as we get the medical exam over with, Ron and I can get busy placing the capstone on top of the pyramid to stop the threat from Nemesis."

"I'm afraid that's not possible, Miss Possible," General Simms harshly monotoned.

"But, why?"

"S.O.P., Miss Possible," the General rattled off like it was written in one of his protocol manuals, which it probably was. "Standard operating procedure. All personnel who return from space must be quarantined for a period of six to ten days; longer if any anomalies are discovered. The object you recovered will also need to be quarantined for that period of time."

"What?!" Kim exploded. "But Nemesis will reach Earth in, like, eight days!"

"Seven days, twenty-two hours and thirty three minutes," General Simms corrected the redhead after a brief glance at his watch. "If all goes well we'll beat that rock into submission in the nick of time. Hoo-Rah!"

"Yeah, Hoo-Rah," Ron deadpanned back. "Ah, General. Aren't you cutting things a bit close? I mean, don't we need to get the pyramid thingy in place and test it or something?"

"Nonsense," the General waived off Ron's concerns. (Kim's too, for that matter.) "This'll be just like in a western movie where the Calvary rushes in to the rescue, just in the nick of time."

"Yea for the Calvary," Kim unenthusiastically cheered with a finger slowly twirling in the air.

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"The General doesn't know that you and Ron got married a little over a year ago?" Anne Possible questioned her daughter in slight amusement as she watched Kim get her eyes examined by one of the doctors while she occasionally checked over the readout from the brain scan that was running at the same time.

"I told him during the mission briefing," Kim informed her mother with a heavy sigh, "just before Ron and I left to rendezvous with the Sednanian ship. Mr. Afmed told me that the General doesn't leave the complex at all so I think he stuck in a time loop or something."

"Mr. Afmed?" Anne asked, not recognizing the name or it's origin. "Was that the gentleman you visited in Morocco before seeing the General?"

"No, that was Big Daddy Brotherson," Kim explained to her mother as the other doctor checked her ears next. "Mr. and Mrs. Afmed are the two aliens that live at Area 51." Kim paused for a second before she said, "At least I think they're married. That's what they told me... although the General said they weren't related."

Ron hollered out from behind a nearby privacy screen where he was being examined by another doctor, "I thought Area 51 was supposed to be a big secret?" Ron quickly added in disgust, "Especially since Agent Smith... and Agent Smith, swapped out my movie?"

"Ron," Kim sighed in exasperation, they'd had this conversation once before. "Area 51 is supposed to be secret info but we already told our parents and I'm sure mom won't tell anyone else. As to the aliens there? The Lowardians were aliens, so believing that there are other races in outer space isn't that big a leap of logic."

"Anyway," Dr. Possible said getting back to the mission flight, "how did you occupy your time on the long flight?"

"Well, we both exercised twice a day for about two hours each time," Kim informed her mother before her checks slightly blushed as she whispered, "and we spent a lot of time in the bedroom making... you know what." Kim spoke up again as she finished, "And we stayed in the stasis chambers for two weeks on the way there and three on the way back."

Dr. Anne Possible leaned in to her daughter and asked in a whisper, "When did you stop taking your birth control pills?"

"Shortly after we launched," Kim hushed back to her mother. "Ron and I got a chance to talk shortly after liftoff and there was plenty of time before we went into hibernation for them to lose their effectiveness."

"So you may be as much as two months pregnant," Anne pondered quietly. "But being in stasis may have slowed down the gestation process." She let out an exasperated breath after thinking over the situation for a few seconds and said, "We'll give you the test to see if you are pregnant but you'll have to visit an OB-GYN to calculate how far along you are if it comes up positive."

"I kinda figured that," Kim lightly laughed and then looked over to the doctor who had been examining her. "Are you just about finished?"

"As a matter of fact," the doctor said as he stepped back away from the examining table and snapped off his latex gloves, "I am. You're in perfect health, I might add."

"Thank you doctor," Kim said to him before she turned her attention back to her mother. "Well, let's get the test over with."

"What test?" Ron said in misunderstanding as he came around the screen, walked up to Kim and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "I thought we were all done with tests when we graduated college last year."

"We were," Kim answered as she got off the table and wrapped her arms around her husband. She gave him a brief kiss on the lips and said, "I just have one more test to check my, um... feminine parts."

"Oh," Ron gasped in surprise as he quickly backed away from her. He hitched a thumb over his shoulder and said, "Well, I'll just go check on Rufus. You know how he get when he's examined by a doctor. He doesn't like all the poking and prodding." Ron swiftly left to make sure his little buddy hadn't bitten the doctor or something.

"Very smooth, dear," Anne congratulated her daughter on getting rid of her husband so she could take the pregnancy test in private.

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"Welcome to our little vacation home-away-from-home for the next few days," Ron halfheartedly cheered as he, Kim and Rufus were ushered into an isolation apartment located at the Middleton Space Center, "where we won't be disturbed by anyone."

"What," Kim giggled as she lovingly wrapped her arms around her husband's waist. "Have you gotten sick of me after out little trip into space?"

"Oh, No no-no-no-no, No," Ron quickly backtracked as he returned the embrace. "Being alone with you isn't the problem."

"Hey!" Rufus yelped in indignation from Ron's shoulder perch, believing his big buddy had just dissed him.

"No offense, buddy," Ron tried to placate the naked mole rat before turning back to his wife. "No, what I'm talking about is being stuck back in isolation again. I think I'm coming down with a small case of closet-phobia."

"The word is claustrophobia," Wade's image said from the big screen TV in the main room. "Welcome back."

"Hi Wade," Kim greeted their tech wizard as she and Ron walked over to the monitor. "Where have you been? You didn't contact us on our trip back to Earth."

"Yeah, about that," Wade nervously answered as he anxiously rubbed the back of his neck. "I kinda took your advice and have been on my honeymoon for the last few weeks."

"Wade, sweetie..." the feminine voice came from off screen. Both Kim and Ron immediately recognized it as being their girl friend Monique. "...come back to bed."

"I'll be there in a minute, Mon," Wade said, turning his head to the voice. "I'm talking to Kim and Ron right now."

"You are?" Monique hollered in excitement. She suddenly appeared on screen, her torso wrapped in a sheet with her bare shoulders in plain view. "Hey, Kim-girl. How you all doing?"

"Hey Monique," Kim returned with a laugh, knowing full well from experience and the conversation so far that her girl friend was probably naked under the sheet. "I'm doing well, and I see you're doing pretty good yourself. Congratulations."

"Thanks, I most certainly am doing good," Monique squealed in delight and then gave her new husband a quick peck on the cheek before returning the the conversation. "And thank you for advising Wade-o here on what exactly to do. If I'd-a known how my man woulda turned out, I wouldn't have pushed him away six years ago during the cupid ray deal."

"Yeah, thanks Kim," Wade added with a wane smile. "You're advice helped a lot."

"Well, you've helped Ron and I so much," Kim sincerely said, "that I felt it was time to return the favor."

"That's what we're all about," Ron quickly added from Kim's side. "Returning a favor for a favor."

"So Kim," Monique cut back in. "When are you and Naco Boy gonna be messing with the pyramid and saving the world, as usual? I wanna watch that."

"It'll be a few days," Kim informed her girl friend with an exasperated sigh. "Ron and I are in quarantine for a while, per General Simms' orders."

"Will you be out in time?" Monique queried in deep concern. "I mean the big bad rock is gonna get here in only a week."

"If all goes well we'll be out of here in plenty of time."

"I hope so," Monique anxiously let out. "I'd hate for Wade and I to have gotten married for nothing."

"Don't worry, Monique," Ron said with a dismissive wave of the hand. "The stone thingie is back here on Earth and KP and I'll bust outta this joint if push comes to shove."

Monique turned to her husband and started to pull his shirt off as she said, "Well if that's the case, we'll be busy until you two are ready to save the day. Come on sweetie, it's time to make me happy again. And why did you only put your shirt on?" As she worked on removing Wade's shirt, the sheet slipped off her body.

Ron's eye's went wide in shock when he realized they'd been talking to a half naked Wade and Monique just flashed them. He slapped his hand over his eyes and yelled, "Too much info, too much info!"

Wade slyly smiled after his shirt had been removed and said, "Now you know how I felt, Ron, when you talked to me before you went to see Big Daddy Brotherson a few months ago."

"We'll call when we're ready to move the capstone, Wade," Kim laughed at her husband's distress since she and Monique used to take showers in gym class and already seen her girl friend in the buff. Kim also remembered seeing Wade in just his swim suit once or twice when he was in the Holo-suite.

"Talk to you later," Wade said as he stood up and turned off the connection at the same time. Kim and Ron weren't entirely sure but they both thought they'd gotten a quick glimpse of Wade's naked body below the waist.

"Okaaaay," Ron monotoned, slightly shocked. "That was totally disturbing."

"Ummm, yeah," Kim said, also a little stunned by the image of her two friends together in the all-together.

Luckily, the telephone rang to take their minds off of what they'd just seen. Not knowing who it would be, Kim answered it with a wary "Hello?"

"Hi, Kimmie," Dr. Anne Possible cheerfully said from the other end of the call.

"Oh hi mom," Kim said in relief as she looked over to Ron to make sure he was paying attention. She had a feeling that this was going to be news about the special test. "I hope you have some good news for us."

"Well, it's good news and bad news, dear," Anne told her daughter. "The good news is that you are pregnant."

"That's wonderful news, mom," Kim said and quickly held her hand over the receiver as she said to her husband, "You're going to be a daddy."

"Me? A daddy?" Ron asked in shock, and promptly fainted.

"Ron!" Kim cried out, anxious about her husband.

"What's the matter?" Anne asked over the phone.

"Ron just fainted," Kim informed her mother as she went over to check on Ron. She quickly ascertained that her husband had only lost consciousness and hadn't been injured by the fall. "But he appears to be okay."

"That's fine dear," Anne laughed. "That's the same reaction your father had when we found out that you were on the way."

"I guess Ron and Dad are more alike that I ever thought," Kim laughed at that concept. She knew that they were both lovable goof, but she could count on them whenever she needed them.

"Now for the bad new, Kimmie," Anne said in a more solemn tone. "Since the conception happened in Zero G's, the doctors think it wise if you were kept in isolation during your entire pregnancy."

"What!?"

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I know. It's one of those 'Dun Dun Dun' moments. I just love cliffies.