Kim Dropped off Ron to ready his mission gear. She was still furious with him about the incident at Bueno Nacho. Ron naturally was bothered to no end. She usually yells at him and eventually calms down. But this time, it felt different... Scary somewhat. She didn't even want to talk. He didn't know what she was about to say that was so important… and he really wanted to. But there would be plenty of time to figure that out while they were out on the mission… or so he hoped.

Moments later they were on their way to Dementor's lair. While flying en route, Ron took the time to try to talk to Kim, who for reasons obvious, wasn't sitting near him…

"Uhh…Kim?" He said sheepishly, "What were you going to-"

"Not now Ron!" she responded angrily, fidgeting with her gear,

"But"-

"I SAID NOT NOW!" glaring into his eyes,

Rufus hid himself in Ron's pocket and pretty much stayed there. Before he did though, he watched Ron angrily and pointed his finger at him in a disciplinary way. He knew that Ron had hurt her.

Ron never really saw Kim this mad before. It reminded him of the time she had the Moodulator on her neck and she went berserk on him. He wondered if she would ever calm down to talk to him… or if she would talk to him ever at all. When they were at their destined location she firmly said…

"Let's go!"

Usually Kim would tell whoever was helping them on a ride thanks and they'd respond with some comment about her saving their things, but she just up and left… Ron wasn't the only one surprised. The pilot turned to him and said…

"Man, you're in the doghouse now…"

Ron just looked down dejectedly… he sprung out of the aircraft floating towards Dementor's Lair.

Moments later, Kim was already on the ground and was talking to Wade on the kimmunicator…

-"Ok Wade, status..." she said quietly

"Where's Ron?" he enquired, concerned…

THUD!

"There. You happy now?" she said sarcastically, pointing to the crumpled heap that was Ron in his landing…

Ron got up with stars circling around him…So was Rufus for that matter...

"Did anyone get the license number of the ground that just hit me?" he said dazed…Rufus got up… "uhuh uhuh"

"Come on.. 'Superhero'…" Kim said helping him up "Quit whining and let's go. We have a mission to accomplish."

"Thanks Kim, you know I really"- His voice stopped on the pierce of her green eyes…

"Don't you dare think for one second that I'm not mad at you!"

He responded, "I didn-"

- "In the moment. Less talking and more low pro"... she said sternly, sneaking off…

Ron, looking at her as though he'd done the worst, said to himself…

("I was going to say that I'm really glad you have my back...") He picked up Rufus, put him back in his pocket and followed on.

Inside the Lair, Kim continued to talk to Wade about the diamond. It seemed as though it had some sort of power in which it can be used to create some deadly world-conquering weapon. The exact properties were unknown and also in how to activate it, but Wade did say there was an ancient script which portrayed the diamond, with a ring below it…. The ring of course, was not a part of the display in the Museum… actually it was never found. There was also some writing, which had to be translated. And that would take some time.

Kim and Ron continued to a platform area where they heard Dementor in his evil rant (and accent to boot)

"Yesss! Soon I will find the secrets to the Diamond and I shall conquer this world with" –

His sentence was cut mid speech by an airborne Kim, vaulting her way towards the upper platform where Dementor was standing.

-"With what? An Iron Fist? No chance Dementor!" she stated as she put herself into a fighting stance..

"Actually, he responded, "More like my pinky finger!" laughing in his evil rant.

"Uhh, did you get engaged or something?" came Ron, vaulting to the position but not quite landing as proper…

He was pointing to the ring Dementor had on his little finger. with a small, diamond in the center...

Dementor looked at Ron and ranted, "Of course not you buffoon…I bought it at a Pawn shop…"

"You bought it in a Pawn shop?" Ron asked inquisitively, "Man the things you get there these days…"

"Of course you fool …" Dementor stated matter of factly…It WAS a Pawn shop…"

"RON!"… He heard it enough times to know that it was time to back off…

"Sorry." Was all he could say before suddenly, they were being surrounded by Dementor's henchmen. Not that it was any problem to handle for Kim, but Ron felt that this was a way to show her once again, that he wasn't a looser. He'd use his mystical monkey powers to save the day and prove he can handle anything. And maybe even save him a verbal tongue lashing from Kim.

With a warrior like scream, Ron threw his hands in the air and motioned himself to fight. This startled everyone… including Kim. Ron leapt towards a few of the enemies and started the fight. Kim, who usually called the shots, followed suit. She instead thought that Ron should be able to handle himself, seeing that since the few missions they've had since the graduation battle, he has been better at handling the bad guys. She went straight for Dementor, while vaulting and dealing with any henchman that came between her and him.

Ron held his own for most of the fight, but his problem was that he was Ron… who often failed to concentrate on the matter at hand ….

"BOOYAH I AM THE MONKEY MASTER!!" He yelled proudly, "COME GET YER WHIPPIN!...OH YEA!"

Of course, he was doing himself a victory dance. And all too soon he came to realise…

Before he could finish, three men were on him. He wasn't able to block them because he didn't see it coming. If he was focusing on the matter at hand, he'd have seen it a mile away. Ron was getting a beat down and he was trying all his best to summon his Mystical Monkey Power… to no avail.

(Why can't I summon it as I did that night with Warhok?) he wondered… Eventually panic came to Ron as it always has. He was somehow able to escape, using his evasive skills to flee from the men as he ran towards Kim and Dementor.

Kim, on the other hand was handling herself as well as she always has… swift and gracefully. She was kicking Dementor's butt and quite well. She just got him on the ground and reached for the diamond, when she heard the familiar scream of Ron.

He ran towards her with the henchmen giving chase. Then in a fit of trying to impress, he began to somersault into a fighting stance, yelling all through the air. Unfortunately, he didn't realise just how close He was to Kim and hit her... knocking her off her feet and sending the Diamond out of her hand and to the platform below. Rufus had tried to catch it, but was too heavy for him. The diamond fell off the top platform. Kim gasped as it shattered into a million pieces on the level below.

She got up, in shock of what happened. The priceless artefact… destroyed. She didn't even look up to see Dementor and his men escaping… he said with a frown…

"Idiot…. You IDIOT!!!!! You destroyed the diamond…. Oh well…. Better the Buffoon than ME, I suppose… no lover's tiffs now…Ta…Ta!..." His voice trailing off…

"Ohhhhhh man I'll be working the rest of my life to pay for this…" Ron said, quite worried"

He looked to Kim, who's back was turned to him….

"Kim, I'm sorr"-

"Oh yeah, you're sorry… Oh I'll BET! YOU ARE!!! YOU'RE ALWAYS SORRY!!!" Kim was furious and for the most part, that seemed to be the last straw.

"Get your stuff! We're leaving!" Kim stormed off...

For the first time since they embarked on the trip, Ron actually didn't want to travel back with her. He was afraid. He messed up trying to be cool and impress her. He destroyed the diamond... though something about it bothered him, he was too caught up in worrying about what Kim's attitude was to him at this time...

"What a way to 'save' the day, Ronnie boy" he mumbled to himself,

"RON, NOW!" Kim yelled as she was telling Wade what happened.