Chosen Destiny 2
The Guardian.
Chapter Three

Kim laughed before opening her locker. From a pile stashed on the shelf under the computer she sorted out her books for first lesson. Mon smiled a her own joke before the computer flickered to life. 'Urm Hi Kim.' It was Wade.

'Hi Wade. What's up?' He looked kind of freaked. Maybe his mom wanted him to take out the trash again.

'N..nothing Kim. I'm 'kay. Err I kinda need to talk to you... and Ron. Can you meet me here.' A picture came up of Middleton, the school was in the bottom corner and a suburban house near the middle began flashing.

Kim frowned that couldn't be his house. Could it? 'Sure thing, after school we'll head over there.'

Th... thank you. Kim. I... I've... I've got to go now, bye.' The computer was off almost before he had finished.

'What was that about?' Mon asked

Wade had never acted that weird before so Kim answered honestly. 'Not a clue.' Rolling her shoulders a sort of tension she hadn't noticed fell away.

Mon shrugged and changed the subject. 'Heard something was happening in Lowerton?'

The young Vampire Slayer looked to her friend. For a second she was tempted to tell her everything. The nightmares, vampires, her destiny, all of it. There were things she couldn't tell Ron that Mon would understand... 'I swung by but everyone had it under control before we got there. No big.' Kim closed her locker.

Monique couldn't handle it. She wondered if anyone could, then she knew who could. 'Faith.' Kim whispered to herself.

'What was that Kim?'

'I said have faith. I'm not stupid enough to get round housing with a bunch of psychos looking for a way to kill time. I let the professionals handle it.'

'I wouldn't say that Kim. You're pretty stupid to me.' Bonnie stood right in their way, a smug smile on her face.

'Ooh good insult. In about five years you might be at a pre K level. What do you want Bonnie?' Kim sighed, as if life wasn't complicated enough.

'Thought I'd let you know:- Someone told the football team the only reason your Ron's the mascot is so he can be a pervert and spy on us when we're getting changed.'

'WHAT?'

'And wouldn't you know Brick would do anything for me!'

'You... you...' Kim felt her arm twitching, she was going to slap Bonnie one of these days. With full Slayer strength, but that would probably kill the girl. Kim ran to her best friend's locker hoping he was still there.

She found him surrounded by the biggest members of the football team 'Oh NO!'

'Look guy's what's this about?' Ron backed up slowly

'You and the girls. Think we don't know?' One of them pushed him back into the lockers.

'Hey why don't you thugs use more than you muscles and get away from him!' She shouted

'NO Kim! Don't...' Brick smashed Ron across the face. Like lightning her watcher spun with the blow. His elbow catching Brick on the jaw, throwing his shoulders back around the other hand becoming a knife blow to the footballers neck. A final swing from Ron's left and Brick was out like a light.

Kim knew why Ron shouted. If she had got in the middle of that Brick wouldn't be sleeping right now. He'd be picking up his teeth if he was lucky, broken neck dead if not.

Ron shook some feeling back into his hand. 'Head like a brick. Right guy's I don't know what you're on about but my hand hurts and my face ain't much better. Can't we call it a day?' The four others jumped him. 'Guess not! whoa!'

'Kim help him!' Mon appeared next to her as Rufus crawled up her leg.

'He doesn't need it.' Kim pointed as Ron rolled out from between the man mountain. The players scrambled to their feet and tried to jump him again. Ron didn't stop. Kicking one between the legs like a soccer player taking a free kick he sent a right cross into another and kicked the first in the same place again. This time lifting him off the floor.

He had gathered quite an audience. Everyone, boy and girl, winced as her Watcher kicked the same boy in the same place a third time before upper cutting his friend with the bust lip. The last two began to back off when a bear of a man grabbed Ron from behind.

'Stow it Stoppable!' Vice Principle Barken had him in a half nelson. It wouldn't be enough.

'Did you see that Kim?' Mon gasped, stunned at what she had just seen.

'He's not finished.' she winced, knowing exactly what was going to happen next. Swinging his head back Ron stunned Barken before kicking the kid with a busted lip and then kicking off him with both feet. Flipping around Barken like he was a statue Ron broke the body lock and spun. Throwing Barken like a sack of flour at the last two, who were still backing off. All three out for the count.

'Wow, that was fun. I hope Mr Barken won't get me for it.'

'Good hope.' Kim muttered with a strait face. Rufus slapped a clawed paw to his head with a 'Doh' noise.

'I think that last guy was a little big. Taking the wrong kind of vitamins you know what you mean.'

Kim glanced around. Most of the school were still gawking at him. 'Ron have a look.'

Ron turned around to the recovering Vice Principle. 'Awe man'

'STOPPABLE!'


Shego had some idea what torture was like. She'd never had the chance to practice or had been captured back in her hero days but she had a fairly good idea. Most of that had come from what she just had to sit through for three hours.

Dr D and Monkey Fist's unstoppable plan. Well no that was actually a pretty good plan, that would take five minutes to talk about. "Hey let's, like, build big bags of goo called Synthodrones and, like, program them with all the martial arts knowledge of two ninjas. Shego and Fist. Then let's, you know like, attack Kim Possible and her sidekick with, like, a hundred or more of them. When, like, they least expect it." So simple even a Californian blond could make it sound competent.

It could work, with one draw back. Shego wondered if when Kimmie least expected it was after she died of old age. For the first hour the two wacko's argued about who set up the slide show. It got worse from then on.

After that and other petty arguments had taken up the three hours they had FINALY got around to telling her the damn plan. Between griping at each other and at the end they had gone back to arguing. Shego gave up a that point and went back to her magazine, idly wondering why Monkey Fist was so hung up on the Stoppable kid and just how long it would take them to build these goo bags Dr D had come up with.


Faith was watching the group of tourists. It was typical, four months of nothing but alligator wrestling and batting off Australian drunkards, then a dozen demons breeze into town the day before she was back from England.

Making their entrance real low key, they had killed four people and left their bodies scattered across town. Considering they had just halved the local population overnight it wasn't that subtle. Then again it was good not to be the centre of attention, being the only girl other than Betty in town had been a bit of a problem. Betty being a lesbian was just the icing on the cake.

Faith had jumped out of her truck with the bag of new weapons when the other woman had told her what had happened. This was her town now and the once rouge Slayer wasn't hiding that fact from the demonic underworld. She blew a sharp whistle from the other end of the street and for once got the attention she wanted.

Twelve of the ugliest things this side of a hellmouth growled back. All seven foot tall with curving horns and razor sharp claws. 'Hey guy's I'm Faith! You see I'm a Slayer and you're toast!' Drawing back her new longbow, a long arrow pulled from the attached quiver settled into place. The demons half running / half scrambling closed the gap between them with frightening speed. She aimed...

It was at that point her mobile rang.

Letting lose one arrow so close that it had the demon doing back flips she answered the phone. 'Faith?' a young voice asked on the other end. Ducking a clumsy blow she jump kicked another back and pulled her short sword.

'Oh. Hi Kim. Flight left so early I didn't get a chance to tell you good job. That brat needed a good kicking.' Cutting a clawed hand off at the wrist Faith dropped the bow and punched the same demons teeth out.

'That I could see. Don't know what Willow sees in her.' Kim said, Faith let the next one run into her sword before kicking it off and throwing the metal edge into the back of the one demon with the brains to try and run

'You switching sides sister?' Cradling the phone tight against her shoulder Faith dropped into a classic stance.

She laughed; 'Sorry Faith you're still the only one of the two of us in the closet'

Faith let that one side, but she'd get her own back one of these days. 'So what's the call about?' One of her playmates got lucky with a gut blow

'You busy?'

She had to have heard that one. Faith had ripped the "lucky" demon's head from its shoulders. 'A little, yeah.' A backwards roll and she was able to reach her boot knife. 'Nothing I can't handle.' the survivors backed off.

'I'll get to the point then. I think this whole Slayer thing is taking me over.'

A double kick to one and a knife in another's eye. It was then she knew what Kim was talking about. 'Kid. The Slayers a weapon, if we let it control us we ain't anything more. That's why we need a Watcher, we need friends.' Feeling the Slayer rising within her Faith yanked the knife out of the eye socket. 'Kim it is taking you over, the old watchers wanted it to. Those shadow men made it to. You got your friends and family, let them be your rock and don't let it control you.' With the same action of pulling the knife she opened a ninth demon up at the waist.

'That's not what I expected you to say.' Kim's sober voice was almost cracking.

Faith thrust the knife deep into the tenth's chest where it stuck fast. Twisting it's arm half off she gutted the eleventh with their sharp claws. 'Me neither. But you're a smart one Kim, trust your instincts. They could be our Slayer ancestors lending a hand,' Faith kicked her longbow back in to her hand. 'Then again maybe not, never did believe that mystical stuff.' The quiver was attached to the side of the bow. At point blank range she released arrow after arrow. Each missile ripping through the last demon standing. Or should that be last demon flying backwards, looking like a porcupine.

'Thanks Faith, I've got to go now. Ron just got out of detention and we have an errand to run.'

Spinning Faith put an arrow into each of the disabled demons 'Don't mention it, sorry to late you already did. Bye Kiddo'

'Bye Faith.' Kim hung up and Faith looked at the slaughter she had made.

'Awe come on! I was just getting started!'


Kim pocketed her phone. She knew Ron and the other Watcher's were doing their best but she didn't know what she would have done without Faith, or another Slayer to talk to. A quiet fear told her Faith's brush with darkness wouldn't have been unique. That sent a shiver up her spine, could she become that. Shego had been a hero once...

Ron's carefree smile banished her fears 'Hey K.P.'

'Hey yourself. So how bad is it?' Kim was fairly sure Ron's grand-kids would be picking him up from school.

'Think I lucked out Kim. Barken heard I got jumped for no reason and decided only to give me a week. If I do him a favour.'

Rufus crawled out of her pocket and up to Ron's shoulder. Barken hated Rufus in detention, as long as he wasn't seen in class he was okay. It was after that freaky cross between the two of them by DNAmy. Not that Kim could blame him but growing up with Ron as a best friend then saving the world from mad scientists and later vampires and demons put a hairless mole-rat into perspective. 'What's the favour?'

Ron shrugged. 'It's his mother's birthday and he wants me to make a cake. Or should that be he want's me to help him make the cake.'

They walked down the street. She had told Ron about the message from Wade at lunch time and they decided to get down there as soon as Ron's detention was over. 'Awe that's so sweet! Who'd have thought that from him?'

'I wouldn't say that.' Ron winced. 'Barkens' as bad a cook as, well...'

'No way your hurting my feelings. Last time I tried to cook an egg...'

'It blew up.'

'Well yeah, it kinda did but I know what I did wrong.'

'Yes. You put it in the microwave without cracking it first. What did my mother say after that?'

' "Kimberly; don't EVER touch a microwave again"?'

'I think that was it. He's that bad, and if his mom doesn't like the cake then its detention 'till doomsday.'

'I'm sure someone we know gotta be working on that.'

'What detention or doomsday?'

'Both.'

'So how was cheer practice.'

Kim smiled grimly. 'You know it was Bonnie that set you up right?'

Ron frowned at her 'No, why?'

'Oh I think she's getting tired of my non reaction to her insults. So she's going after you, she told the boy's you were only the mascot 'cause you were perving on all of us. Well I had us perfecting the pyramid, Bonnie on the bottom and I let everyone know why.'

Ron suck his head. 'Just there to watch the girls wave their butts? I always find girls with brains more interesting, Cheerleaders ain't got a brain between them.'

Rufus was a little quicker than her and pinched Ron's ear.

'Ow.' Kim poked him in the arm. 'Ow, again. What was that for.'

She gave him a black look straight from the big book of "when you want them to know they made a mistake."

'Oh, you know I didn't mean you. You're smart, intelligent and...' he trailed off as the look continued.

'Nice save, pity it was a little late.' Dropping the look she had to agree, privately. Most of the girls couldn't add two and two together if you gave them a calculator. They would probably think it was a mirror. 'Come on let's get there. We might actually get to meet Wade this time.'

'Time to book that ice skating trip to hell then.'


For probably the first time in his life Draken had embraced efficiency with both his tiny hands Monty thought with some venom. Starting the synthodrone process a few days ago instead of last minute was an act of genius. It meant that very soon they would be ready for programming and the plan was moving quickly. It also meant that Monty couldn't steal the plans to make more on his own and that Draken might have even built them to obey only his commands. Reducing the Master of Monkey Kung-Fu to nothing more than a hired hand.

Then again, as long as Kim Possible and her far too lucky to be true sidekick were dead by the end of it he could play the patsy in this plan. Monty allowed a smile to slip through his mask of meditation.

Stoppable. He stumbled into skills that Monty has spent years training for. A fool who's abilities far out stripped his age. They had fought three times, each time Monty had been defeated. A quirk of luck, random chance, was the only thing to tilt the balance but last time had been different.

The boy hadn't relied on luck, or his hairless pet. Both of which he had removed from the equation. Same for the red head who had fallen laughably easily into a trap. Without back up or a plan the blond idiot actually went for him. Fate pilled up against him and still he fought. The metal pole he used instead of a sword broke apart in his hand. His trousers falling without a blow making contact. Even an errant shoe lace tripping him up Stoppable still fought on against Monty

A master martial artist against a child with the very weight of fate against him and still it was a stand off. Until the red headed brat escaped her dungeon and came to her friends rescue.

'You know you're supposed to stay calm when meditating, Lord Monty.'

He snapped his eyes open. Shego was leaning in the door frame to his room with a sassy smile and mischievous eyes. 'Miss Go, I didn't hear you come in.' Standing he felt his muscles protest, by getting aggravated he had tensed up. A stupid mistake a beginner would make. With a gesture he invited her in.

The smile twitched, like a suppressed laugh. 'Well I haven't yet. Still smarting off a defeat Team Possible handed you?' Deliberately staying in the door frame she stayed out. A fascinating women Monty decided.

'Don't you mean Kim Possible?'

'Nope the team. I think you've seen what I have. Stoppable is just as important as the princess. That's why you want him, he's the weak link. Crush him, dismember him and she will fall.'

Not for the first time Monty thought to grow a beard. This would be the perfect time to stroke it, no he had promised himself not until he was truly the Monkey Master. 'Perhaps we should talk.' With the smile still in place she came in.


Wade's house looked just like any other on the street. which looked like any other suburban street in the state. Ron was a little disappointed before he reminded himself that it might not even be his house, they might only be meeting a hologram again. Kim looked uncomfortable just standing there, someone who didn't know her that well might have thought she was impatient but there was something about her shoulders and that faintly sick look in her eyes. 'Something wrong?'

'No. And yes. It's a big moment, meeting Wade face to face for the first time. He's one of my best friends. We've both known him for years but what do we know about him?'

'That he's afraid to go outside. One of the most intelligent people on the planet. His dads socks can knock out a charging elephant. He's younger than us. Has some of the best computer equipment on the planet 'cause he invented it. Good gamer.' Ron counted off his fingers.

'Well now you put it like that.' She reached for the door knocker when a woman opened it.

'Hello, you're Kimberly and you must be Ron. I'm Wade's mother.'

'Oh hello Mrs Load' Kim smiled confidently, all traces of nervousness vanishing. 'Wade told us to meet him here?'

'Yes he said he had but he's still in his room. I tell you I have to refuse to bring food up there otherwise we'd never see him. Come in.' She pointed them into the living room before shouting up the stairs; 'They're here. Now come on down!'

Kim sat down before jumping up again and developing a twitch in her neck. Even Ron could feel the tension in the air. 'Kim what's wrong?'

'I don't know. There's like a demon round here, but... not. No. It's here, just not a demon. But it is.' she folded her arms around her stomach. Ron got the feeling it was a trap, his eyes darting for a weapon while his mind raced.

A voice came from around the door 'Urm hi guys.'

'Wade?' Kim asked, her face wincing.

'It's me. I need to tell you something.' Just from the look on her face Ron could tell Kim already knew what was coming. He grabbed her arm and she shot him a thankful glance. 'I'm... I'm part...'

'Demon.' She finished for him. 'I can feel it.' She didn't sound betrayed. More like she was struggling against something, or to do something. Switching that thought around Ron made a wild guess

'Your not a battle demon are you Wade? Your people are neutral, probably a Bracken demon.' he guessed

Wade made a surprised sound stepped out into view. His normal features were there but there was more, his dark face was now a deep but almost sickly shade of blue, short green spikes that somehow blended in with the blue poked out like his face was pincushion. The computer genius was shaking with fear, his face sucking the spikes in and out and splotches of his normal colouring faded in and out like shadows. he was terrified and looking with huge eyes at Kim.

The young Slayer suddenly breathed freely, Ron could feel all the struggle vanish with the gasping breaths. 'Wade don't do that to me, please. Every part of me was screaming... What's wrong?'

'You're going to kill me? I could see it just then.'

'Don't be silly. You're my friend. Who would I get to run the website or organise the rides if your dead' She laughed, disarming Wade who's face shifted back to its usual human in a blink. 'Because I couldn't tell what you were I was freaking. But now I see you it's different, like I know your fine.' Another laugh 'Wow this Slayer sitch is going to give me a heart attack.'

End Chapter 3