Yada yada Copyright and stuff. Disney.
This is some more Emotional stuff to mix it up with last chapters Ron adventure.
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"So"...Kim let the question linger in the air. It was there just as a placeholder for no particular reason whatsoever.
They where walking up the third flight of stairs as Ron's apartment didn't have an elevator.
Rim Glanced at the other Rufus as she liked to call him. Was there really hundreds of them? And what happened to the original Rufus?...But then the question kind of answered itself. No need to talk it over with Ron.
Two Hundred and fifty four was giving her odd looks. As if he thought Kim was a convict or something.
"Well, here's the door" said Ron panting. It was just 6 flights, but in Ron's condition, saying anything about his Legs would be thoughtless and cruel.
"Guys I'm home!". Ron pressed the doorbell button.
Somebody from the inside unlocked the door, and opened it outward.
It was a pyramid of Naked mole rats. All stacked on top of each other to reach the Doorknob.
Kim walked inside. They where everywhere. There was one Doing the dishes, there where 15 watching TV, there was 4 yapping at the 15 for watching TV, others watching the oven, one was practicing on a mini Skateboard some where playing videogames but most where climbing through the Tubes.
The Apartment was filled with tubes from top to bottom. The tubes where transparent, and tinted orange. Sometimes they expanded into little housing sections, each filled with their own little house on the inside.
They where EVERYWHERE.
"Hey Rufus 142, how's the Family?" He shook the Hand of one of the Rufuses.
The Rufus squeaked something out. To Kims shame she could no longer understand Rufus talk.
They All swarmed around him, happy to see their caretaker back home. A few of them brought him a glass of water, others brought him his slippers.
"Guys, I have braces that allow me to walk, is just...All too much"
Ron said with a smile.
"This is my old friend Kim!"
The Mole rats attentions turned to Kim. What followed was she was sure was the mole rat equivalent of a snake hiss. They all proceeded to swarm up her legs, eyes mad with fury
"Guys STOP IT! GUYS!" Ron Yelled. "Its OK Its not Kathy!"
The Mole Rats stopped biting, and scratching her. They still held on with unrealistic might. Whatever happened next determined if Kim lived or died. She shuddered.
One Mole rat brought a picture with it, and held it up to Kims face.
A bunch of other mole rats compared it to her. Then after a couple of seconds their grip loosened and Kim was released.
"So...Many...So...Naked" Kim said with Wide-eyed confusion and horror.
"Sorry KP their just a bit aggressive to any redheads after the Kathy incident"
"Kathy?"
Ron swiped the picture from the mole rat.
"Oh yeah. Ex-Girlfriend."
Kim gagged for a second
"You had a girlfriend? What happened?"
"Oh it was going great until I saw her with this other guy, and then it turns out she had my bank account number, and then she technically owned my car...And my apartment...And my Ex-Restaurant. Technically she owned everything I owned expect for my left kidney. But it was...OK...Until I found out that I no longer had any ownership of any of those things"
Kim felt herself tearing up a bit.
"Ron" she said as she gave him a hug and asked "Are you...OK?" not finding anything better to say.
"Im fine." Ron said with a tone that indicated that he was anything BUT fine. A Tone one uses after seeing a warzone.
Kim released her embrace.
"Well at least you've earned everything back now. Right?"
"Yeah! Ive even gotten a Prosthetic Kidney!"
"Another Prosthetic?"
"Well they offered a real one, but the Cybertronic version was just so much cooler!"
Kim had managed to catch a glimpse of the person in the picture. It was a young woman, a bit older then herself, with thick fiery red hair and green eyes. And a very similar nose. She realized that her brain was thinking about pursuing this matter further, but she decided to sabotage and destroy that train of thought before it took her anywhere unpleasant.
"So Ron...Sorry for asking but the question is killing me. I need to know why you disappeared."
Ron took in a deep breath and gestured her to take a seat.
"Well...Me, Hana and my parents where placed under a government protection thing"
Kim wanted to say something but decided to keep her mouth shut.
"It turns out...I was being spied on. And very closely. Something that was only possible by somebody very close to me."
"After my dad found out, he totally freaked. I told him that you would deal with it, but Dad insisted. And...he had a point. One time Middleton was targeted by a missile because of me. What else could have I caused... And I didn't want Hana to get hurt"
"That's a thought" thought Kim. Hana getting hurt. The Ninja baby. But...Maybe.
"It was only supposed to be for a couple of weeks, but then we found out that some hacker was getting into systems looking for me, and after that the government wen't strictly paper trail only."
Kim was Mortified.
"I...Tried to leave a not for you to find, in the old tree house. But I guess I hid it too well."
Kim remembered. She never gathered the enthusiasm to visit the Tree house after Ron disappeared.
"Then we had these Ninjas trying to find us, and after that we had too completely go underground. It was especially scary as ll the villains where locked up at the time. Thanks to you of course. But it meant that it was somebody targeting me in specific! So weeks turned to months. Months turned to years. I kinda got used to my cover name and stuff."
Kim Sat with her mouth almost open. Her knuckles itched, the same way they itched when Ron first vanished. She just wanted somebody to PAY for what had happened. She began sipping the cup of water in an attempt to cool her nerves.
"Well...What was the spying technique used on you."
"You won't believe it KP! One day, when I was getting a Doctor to check up on me, he found a small bump at the back of my neck. After getting it scanned it turned out it was a tracking chip! Somebody got close enough to me to implant me with a tracking chip! And I didn't even notice"
Kim sat blank eyed for a second. As if remembering something. Something long ago. It wasn't registering yet. It would soon.
"But I don't usually like telling that story. How about I tell you this one time when I was abducted by these 9 foot tall green aliens!"
"Yeah..." Kim halfmindedly said.
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Next Chapter is another adventure followed by more emotional stuff.