Chapter 4 is here and so is the start of Melissa's mission to ask out her best friend! However, a certain someone is about to get in her way. Or should I say a certain duo? Find out who...RIGHT NOW!
Chapter 4 - Mission: Milo
Melissa woke up the next day, fresh off her and Milo completing their first-ever mission (inadvertently) tagging along with legendary teen hero Kim Possible, her best friend/sidekick Ron Stoppable and Ron's pet naked mole rat Rufus. The 14 year old straight A student had just climbed into the shower with one thought on her mind - how to ask out her best friend, class jinx Milo Murphy.
"What if what Kim told me is right? What if I wait too long and Amanda snatches him up? Then what?" Melissa asked as she shaved her legs. "No...I can't think of that now. I just gotta go for it!" She hyped herself up as she cleared the peach and orange blossom-scented body wash from her naked body and stepped out of the shower, wrapping a towel around her body and another around her hair. She decided not to do her hair in its signature curls. Instead, she decided to emulate Kim's signature hairstyle, doing her wavy red hair in the shape of a heart. After putting on a strapless red tube top, black miniskirt and red flats, she raced downstairs, ate her pancakes and bacon and ran to the bus to join Milo...only to find the the jinxed boy was not next to her. Instead, Milo was next to convicted perfectionist Amanda Lopez. Seeing this made Melissa boil over almost to the point of burning her makeup clean off.
"Amanda..." Melissa growled.
"Melissa? You okay?" Kim asked.
"Not really...Amanda Lopez is swiping my Milo right out from under me!"
This is when another girl, around Kim's age, came up to the duo. She was wearing a red top, tan jeans and black shoes. "Sounds like someone's jellin'!"
"Melissa, this is my best girl friend Monique," Kim introduced. "Monique, this is Melissa."
"Welcome to Middleton High, Melissa!" Monique greeted. "I hear you and that Murphy boy are pretty tight."
"Best friends since Pre-K."
"Hooked up?"
"Not yet. I was planning on asking him out today, but that Amanda Lopez got in my way!"
"Latina, wears a lot of magenta, probably OCD?"
"That's the one!"
"Kim, Melissa...we've got a lot to discuss!" Monique called out as the bus reached Middleton High. The marquee read 'Home of Double-Cheese Pizza'.
Come lunch period, Ron, Zack and Milo were pigging out on pepperoni pizza.
"You're not grossed out by this at all, Melissa?" Kim asked.
"No. I'm used to it. I just let Milo do whatever he wants," Melissa confirmed.
Mrs. Howard, the head of the cafeteria, cut Ron off of the pizza and afterwards, a monkey-like spirit wrote out 'Ron Stoppable' in meat drippings.
"This is way too freaky!" Milo assessed.
"I better get Wade on this one..." Zack told the group, taking out his Zack-link and patching Wade through...as Diogee licked the wall clean.
"DIOGEE, GO HOME!" Milo, Melissa, Kim and Monique called out, sending Diogee home.
"Silly dog! He's not supposed to be at the Middleton High cafeteria!"
Little did Ron know, he was in for the ride of his life as Yori had warned him that Monkey Fist was on the attack. The next day at Middleton High, Milo was once again seen with Amanda as Yori whisked Ron away.
"Weird..." Kim deadpanned.
"You think maybe Ron has a secret girlfriend?" Melissa asked.
"No. He'd tell me! Why wouldn't he?"
"'Cause you'd go all 'jel!" Monique answered her friend.
"'Jel?"
"Green-eyed...like what Melissa's doin' right now with Milo and Amanda..."
"Kim's always had green eyes, so what?" Melissa retorted.
"JEALOUS!" Monique fired back. "You're both 'jellin'!"
"WE'RE SO NOT 'JELLIN'!" Melissa and Kim called out.
"It's just that our 'weird-ar' is going off," Melissa added.
"And...you're both 'jellin'."
"SO NOT!"
Melissa then tapped on her locket, producing holograms of Zack and Wade.
"Zack, Kim and I want you and Wade to run a check on this Yori girl. Something seems off about her."
"We're on it!" Wade confirmed as the hologram went off.
"Seriously, Melissa! It's like you're another me!" Kim raved. Later that night, while Melissa was staying over Kim's place...
Beep-beep-be-beep!
"Go Wade..." Kim said into her Kimmunicator.
"I did a check like you and Melissa asked...on Ron's GIRLFRIEND," Wade said.
"FRIEND!" Kim and Melissa retorted.
"Who's also a girl."
"Whatever. What's the sitch?" Melissa asked.
"No luck. No stats what so ever!" Zack told the girls.
"What about school records?" Melissa asked.
"That might be a good call, Melissa. Give us a half hour," Wade said as the Kimmunicator went black.
The next day in Barkin's Health class...
...Melissa's locket Kimmunicator went off!
"Zack, Wade, what's the sitch?" Melissa asked.
"Wade and I checked all public and private records - no luck," Zack stated.
"Sounds mad fishy if you ask me."
"And get this! Recent flight records show that Ron and Yori went to South America!"
"I knew it! Something WAS up with that Yori girl! I'll round up Milo!" Melissa called out, turning off the locket Kimmunicator and grabbing Milo. "Milo, let's go! Trouble in South America! Kim's waiting for us!"
"South America? During school?" Milo asked.
"Evil never rests, Milo! Get your mind off Little Miss Perfect and come on! Our friend Ron needs help!"
Milo smiled. "I'd go anywhere with you, Melissa," he said, hooking arms with his ginger best friend as they joined Kim aboard chicken farmer Ricardo's plane. Wade explained to the group that Yori went to Yamanouchi - a super secret school founded by a warrior who carved a monestary out of a mountain using only a sword that used Mystical Monkey Powers, which Ron has and which Monkey Fist has tried to take from him. Naturally, Kim thought Yori was in a league with Monkey Fist...but that was jealousy talking.
By the time they reached South America, no sign of Ron or Yori. They had headed off to the American Southwest.
"Is this Yori chick dragging Ron around the world?" Milo asked.
"Sounds familiar, doesn't it?" Melissa retorted.
Kim scoffed, asking Wade to keep tracking Ron and Yori. The group soon found them in the monkey house of the San Antonio Zoo. Kim had pinned Ron down and called Yori out for working with Monkey Fist. Yori quelled the fire by explaining that during Ron's visit to Yamanouchi last year, he protected the Lotus Blade and defeated Monkey Fist to save Yamanouchi. Now he was being called upon again to save Sensei.
"Uh, Kim...I don't think Yori was who we were really after..." Melissa said as Rufus and Diogee stepped on one of the tiles, revealing Lord Montgomery 'Monty' Fiske - also known as Monkey Fist.
"YOU FOOLS! YOU LED THEM RIGHT TO ME!"
And by 'them', Monkey Fist was referring to...the Gorilla Shogun. They were immediately thrown into the Shogun dungeon. The Shogun leader took Monkey Fist with them and dumped the rest through a trapdoor leading to a waterfall. However, Milo came prepared.
"Grab on, everyone!" the jinx called out as he produced a parachute from his backpack and deployed it, saving everyone.
"Nice use of backpack, Milo!" Kim cheered.
"I like to be prepared for any eventuality. Now come on, we have a bad guy to save!" he called out as the group raced to save Monkey Fist, who was under attack by the Shogun Leader.
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, GORILLA SHOGUN!" Melissa called out.
"We're putting you on the endangered species list!" Milo added.
"Now LET. HIM. GO!" Kim finished as Ron embarrassingly tried some karate yells and poses.
"Ron, quit it...you're embarrassing yourself," Melissa deadpanned.
"GET THEM!" the Shogun Leader called out, sending in the giant gorilla soldiers. Milo attempted to tap into Ron's Mystical Monkey Powers to try and summon the Lotus Blade.
"Lotus Blade...appear before me..." the jinx said in a deep voice...and sure enough, the Lotus Blade flew into his hands. "Sweet! Alright, you big apes! Time for your daily dose of Murphy's law!" Milo said as he charged into battle, swinging the Lotus Blade at the gorilla soldiers.
"NO WAY! My best friend has Mystical Monkey Powers?!" Melissa said, surprised.
"This is news to me too, Melissa..." Kim answered as she, Yori and Melissa tied up a gorilla soldier in a tapestry. Another soldier was caught in a chandelier dropped on him by Ron using Rufus as a throwing star. The other soldiers...well, Milo took care of them with the Lotus Blade. He then charged at the Shogun Leader and sliced the mask in two to reveal...
"DNAmy?" Kim flinched.
"This goes beyond sick and wrong! IT'S WRONGSICK!" Ron called out.
"My thoughts exactly, Ron!" Milo added.
"Wrongsick on all levels!" Melissa finished.
After freeing Monkey Fist from DNAmy's clutches, Sensei and Yori were to head back to Yamanouchi in Japan...but not before Yori pecked Ron on the cheek!
"You really don't understand girls, do you?" Kim asked.
"No I don't! Why can't they make it more obvious? She was being all ninja about it! How am I supposed to know what's going on?" Ron flipped out.
"Well...you got me," Kim said reassuringly as they walked back to the front gate, Milo and Melissa following.
"So what's the deal with you and Amanda, Milo?"
"Huh? Oh...I kinda crushed on her back in 6th grade, finally got up the courage to ask her out the next year and we actually decided to call it off. I saw you getting all despondent and fumed...and I don't like it when you get that way. I was so ashamed when I saw you like that and I guess Amanda saw it too. That's when we decided to call it off, put your feelings ahead of our own."
Melissa smiled, pecking Milo on the cheek as they reached the front gate of the zoo and jumped back aboard the plane, bound for Middleton.
"You...like me-like me?" Milo asked. The response...a little giggle from Melissa. "Now I get how Ron feels..." the jinx snarked as they flew off.
Just a little re-write of 'Gorilla Fist' here with a little something for the Milo/Amanda shippers that may be reading this. Chapter 5 is coming so STAY TUNED! Remember...It's Milo's World And We're All Living In It!