KP in Scary Halloween Tactics
AN: Scary Tactics is desperate for ratings during Halloween. Just how far will they go for the ratings?
Chapter 4: Show Time! Take Two!
(Middleton, in a mobile studio)
James Colubrine waits for the technician and the others to finish and he knew they were triple checking everything, as he didn't want any screw-ups this time!
Finally the technician says to him, "We have the green light sir. Operation "Scare Her" is ready to go."
James Colubrine grins wickedly as he says, "Excellent! Begin it right away!"
(Meanwhile in Middleton)
Shego makes her way through Middleton with every intention of finding the one thing that Kim Possible was scared the most of. Now she knew that like herself, she was a very brave one and she had personally witnessed Kim face many things that would scare any normal person into well… the way her sidekick acted usually. It had taken some time and it was against her better judgment but Dr. D was her boss so for the time being she was willing to try what the TV show people had in mind.
Shego slips into some shadows with a grin even darker than those of the shadows as she spots Kim and Ron. She pulls out a communicator and softly says into it, "I have found them. Let's get this plan started." She was glad to have the volume turned down as Drakken's voice shouts, "Found who?" Followed by a moment of silence before he realizes and says at softer voice, "Oh… right. Ok! Let's start operation 'Scare Her' now!"
Shego just rolls her eyes as she makes a disgusted noise and continues to follow Kim and Ron from Bueno Nacho. She follows them as the two of them casually make their way to Kim's home. She listens in with the portable spying equipment on their conversation and almost gags a couple of times at how they acted around each other. Still, she supposed it was better than if they were actually a couple. Now that would truly not make sense.
Kim walks up to her front door with Ron in tow as she says, "Come on Ron, I know you need some help with your math homework. The sooner you get it done, the less stress later."
Ron lets out a heavy sigh, rolling his head a little as he says, "Aw but Kim! You know the teacher's had it out for me ever since I made her look foolish with Rufus. She keeps assigning me extra work."
Kim says, "A little paranoid Ron?" as she opens the door.
Ron says, "So you think it is just a coincidence that after every lesson plan she writes on the board. She will take the time to walk over and hand me a note with extra homework even when I haven't done anything?"
Kim is silent at that as she had to admit that her friend had a valid point, he did seem to be burdened with extra work since then and that the embarrassment had been major when it was revealed that Ron had been using Rufus to cheat on his homework.
Ron follows Kim in the house as he complains some more about his head going to explode if it was crammed with any more math just as Shego slips in through a back entrance to the house and there is a flash of light that goes unnoticed in the daytime.
(Middleton, in a mobile studio)
James Colubrine stares at a monitor with the light from it illuminating his cold eyes and the hint of a dark smile at the corners of his mouth.
The technician adjusts the equipment, trying to zero in on Kim and Ron's conversation and hopefully get a clear recording of any screams.
(Kim Possible's Home)
Suddenly Ron cries out, "Kim! Look out!" and pushes her out of the way as there is an explosion from the kitchen, barely avoiding something that comes flying from it.
Kim and Ron get up from the floor and there is so much smoke coming from it when the something that went flying from the kitchen door rolls to bump Ron on the foot. The smoke flows through the door, becoming like gray fog through the room.
Ron picks it up as he says, "What do you suppose this is Kim? Pot roast from the oven?" He turns it over and screams, "OH MY…! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! KP! AAAAAAA! HELP! AAAAHH! KP! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" He tries to juggle it around as he couldn't decide whether to drop it or to decide which hand to let touch it the longest.
Kim didn't know why Ron was screaming over some dinner from the oven so she grabs it from his hands and saw that it was extremely badly burnt. She turns it over as Ron blubbers for her not to and her eyes just about jump out of their sockets! In her hands was the charred but yet impossible to miss face of her mother! So as Ron screams loudly and tries to crawl up the wall, away from the sight the eyes open suddenly!
Shego watches carefully as she had to admit that the prop guys in Hollywood really knew how to make realistic body parts as it looked so real that if she didn't know that this was all for TV, she would have been fooled too even though she had to admit the opening of the eyes bit as a 'last gasp moment' was a little bit overdoing it. She had to give them props though for the heavily charred look, the wisps of red hair here and there, and the blood sure looked real.
Kim cries out, "MOM!? What happened??" Her eyes tearing up as she puts her hand over the eyes and closes them. She closes her own eyes as she falls to her knees, clutching at the head to her chest.
Ron quickly senses that Kim needed him and overcomes his own terror to do the right thing. He slowly but surely makes his way over to his best friend as she begins to cry ever so softly at first before erupting into a full-blown wail as she collapses into chest and wraps his arms around her. He didn't know what to say, what could he say? His thoughts were on what to say to the rest of the family. All he knew for sure was that Kim needed him and he was going to be her support as long as she needed him.
Suddenly Drakken's voice shouts over the radio, that she had forgotten that she turned up back to normal, "Shego! Did the plan work?"
The sudden sound of Drakken mentioning a plan caught in Kim's mind and she opens her eyes. Kim pulls back from Ron as she growls, "Plan? PLAN? Was it your plan to…?" She is cut off as Ron stands up and puts his hand on her shoulder while he says, "Shego? You did this to Mrs. Dr. P?"
Shego smirks as she says, "I wish I could take all the credit but we had some help in this one."
(Middleton, in a mobile studio)
James Colubrine presses a button and says, "Your sidekick is saying too much! Can't you tell her to shut up!"
Drakken's voice comes back over the speaker, "I have been trying to do that for years! Shego is has always been very lippy with me."
James Colubrine grumbles for a moment, tilting his head forward to completely hide his face in shadows with only the light from the monitor showing the back of his head and shoulders. He then turns to the technician and shouts, "Begin 'Greenie Screamie' now!"
The technician gulps and nods, beginning right away.
(Kim Possible's Home)
Shego dodges a couple of powerful blows from Ron, and is impressed for once with him. One punch had blown a hole through the wall and a kick had split the couch in half as she had avoided some sort of blue light. She notes that Kim watched in shock as well while still clutching onto that thing in her arms. She could tell that somewhere in there, Kim's brain was thinking about the verbal clue that she'd given earlier.
She found it increasingly difficult to avoid Ron's furious attacks. He was so focused, so driven, nothing like the usual goofy, clumsy way he usually was. His moves were usually an unfocused mess that reminded her more of how a small kid might imitate cartoon super kung-fu and why she always preferred Kim. At least she was always willing to give it her all with serious focus that a true battle should have. Now having to face Ron with the way he was, she was quickly finding herself almost at a disadvantage!
Ron's hands flew smoothly without any hint of the awkward hesitation or clumsiness that usually ruined his moves. His feet would leap from the ground with a boundless spring of energy, and he barely noticed that Shego was being forced back away from him and Kim. This was fine for him, as he just wanted to get her away from his best friend. A part of him worried that if he didn't drive Shego away, Kim would snap out of it and attack Shego. That was something he couldn't allow to happen because he had heard the edge in Kim's voice, the quietly building rage that was like a volcano ready to explode. So he wanted to be her volcano and plus… Mrs. Dr. P had been like a second mother to him, and he hoped that she would understand from heaven what he was doing.
Shego fires a couple of quick, green plasma blasts right at Ron but he avoids them with a quick series of flipping moves as if they were slow balls of Kleenex coming at him. She growls and gets the room she needs to build up a powerful charge in her hands to attack him with and blow a hole for her escape.
Kim shouts, "Shego! Who else besides Drakken is involved? Who!?"
Shego changes her charging up to a couple of streams of blasts at Ron but he moves like a ballerina on a stage, totally missing her target as she says, "I'd tell you Princess but then that would spoil the surprise and I don't think the Mistress of the Darkness would be too pleased."
Kim looks at Shego with utter confusion as Shego is forced to dodge into the corner of the room. She pulls out her Kimmunicator and as soon as Wade pops up on the screen she says, "Wade, I need you to do a search for me."
Wade nods as he wonders why Kim looks so upset and says, "Sure thing, what do you need a search on?"
Shego pulls back to a corner of the room where she charges up a huge ball of power in her hand, watching as Ron pull back to watch her and possibly plan on how to attack her the moment she lets it fly.
There is flash and the wall cracks on the wall behind Ron even as Kim says to Wade, "I need you to a quick search for anyone called the Mistress of Darkness."
Wade looks at her at her with a baffled expression as he says to her, "You're kidding right?"
Kim shakes her head as she glances down at the head in her lap, "Being serious here Wade."
Wade says, "Kim the only Mistress of the Darkness I know of is Elv-" the rest of his words are cut off as Shego yells loudly, firing her massive blast that Ron dodges. The wall explodes a moment before with Drakken as he says, "I'm here Shego!"
Shego shouts, "Dr. D! Look out!" even as it is too late for her powerful blast strikes Drakken!
Drakken screams in agony as he is destroyed, leaving nothing more than his smoking black boots behind!
Shego screams, "NO! Dr. D! NO!"
There is complete silence in the room for a few moments before Ron hangs his head and says, "Man… what a way to go."
Wade says through the Kimmunicator, "Kim? What is going on? Why did you want to know about Elvira?"
Kim looks at Shego as she says to Wade, "Wade… I don't think… we have to be worrying about Drakken anymore."
Wade says, "Why? What just happened? Kim will you please tell me what is going on?" When he didn't get an answer from her right away, he starts to scan Kim's house after determining that was where she was and a light starts to flash at him.
Shego turns to Ron, hands flaming more threateningly than usual as she growls, "You… This is all your fault! I have lost Dr. D!"
Ron falls back into his normal habits and raises his hands up fearfully as he says, "Uh… wait a minute Shego. I didn't know he was there and it wasn't my fault that your blast uh… oh boy." He realizes that he'd said a bit too much too late as a trembling Shego starts to blast at him and they weren't your typical 'knock you down' type of blasts too!
(Middleton, in a mobile studio)
James Colubrine laughs loudly before he says, "Excellent! Excellent! Now this is real Television! Our ratings will soar through the roof!"
A phone rings and the technician answers, "Hello? Yes he is here." A pause before he says, "What?" A pause as he looks at James Colubrine celebrating the chaos on the screen before he says, "I am not sure if this is the best time to interrupt him. Maybe later? But… I…" He takes a deep breath and sighs before he says, "Mr. Colubrine? You have a call and it is important."
James Colubrine doesn't look away from the screen as says in an annoyed voice, "Whoever it is, they can talk to me later."
The technician says, "There is a problem about the show sir."
James Colubrine did not like hearing that and turns away from the screen to grab the phone from him and shouts, "This is James Colubrine! What is it?!"
James Colubrine's face goes through the look of surprise and anger as he squeezes the phone so tightly in his hand, one could almost hear it cracking under the strain before he shouts again, "You are kidding me? You're telling me this NOW? I don't care about the damn consequences that you're so worried about! This is pure ratings gold!" He then turns and slams the phone so hard into the receiver that handset breaks in half! Growling in frustration he shouts at the technician, "You! You better be recording all of this! I don't want any slip ups like last time!"
The technician quickly goes over the board and nods, "Everything is recording fine and audio is good."
James Colubrine looks at the monitor and says, "Good… I can just smell it now. The nominations and the awards for this episode will be mine!"
AN: Well people, I hope you have enjoyed this chapter. One thing is for certain, James Colubrine is digging a very, very, very deep hole for himself wouldn't you agree? Any thoughts on how he pulled THIS one off? What do you think of what happened to Mrs. Dr. P? Do you think that would be scary enough for someone like Kim? What do you think of Ron's reaction? Was it the right thing to do? Do you think Ron could really have done that well by himself against Shego given a clear, driving reason? I am sorta curious what you all think of Drakken's end. Oh, and what do you think of Wade's role in this particular chapter? Do you think Wade will be able to help? Any thoughts on the mysterious caller?
As usual all reviews, votes, thoughts, ideas, feelings, and more are always welcome.
