Chapter 4 - Time Continuum
When Kim and Ron made their dramatic entrances into Drakken's lair, the crimefighting cheerleader smirked.
"Drakken, you and your plans will always so be foiled with me around!" Kim smirkly stated, knowing her reputation against Drakken.
Drakken growled at this, "Kim Possible, your skills will not affect me today because, unlike other plans, this one robbing Fort Knox will succeed! HA-HA-HA-HAAAA!"
Kim barked back, "Not today, Drakken! I so know every single trick you have in your book!" Whatever you're planning to steal from Fort Knox, it won't work!"
Drakken snickered, "Ahh....you cannot counter the ingeniousness of my master plan, Kim Possible!" Then gazing his eyes upon the Emelin Possible journal, he even gave a bigger grin, "Did you know, Kim Possible, that your family also had a criminalistic side onto itself and same with the buffoon's as well?"
Kim admittedly sighed, "Yes, Drakken, I know that my family has a dark criminal past. But it's no big anyways. All I have to do is beat you and your robots, send you and Shego to jail, go back in time, and prevent the murders from happening, so there goes your *air quotes* perfect plan *air quote* out the window."
His snicker immediately disappeared and then threatingly turned to his gold-digging robots, whom he spent quite a majority of his lab budget upon, but Shego's glare interferred.
"Dr. D," Shego exclaimed as she held her hands on the doctor's labcoat, "you are so not going to use those robots against Princess! I kind of like this plan in trying to steal the gold from Fort Knox in the past Dr.D, but of course, moi, should take care of Princess, not your bots!"
Drakken nodded his head and pointed his finger towards Kim, "Shego, you know what to do!" Before she took any action, he also whispered in his ear, "Besides, I have some surprises in store for those two!" Shego grinned.
"Got it, Dr. D! " Shego exclaimed as she lit her green plasma fires and charged towards Kim with newfound motivation.
"Ron, Rufus," Kim ordered, utilizing the full potential of both her BFBF and the mole rat. "find the control and shut down those robots!" Both of them nodded their heads and spead out. Kim immediately dodge two of Shego's fiery green punches and unleashed her martial arts skills at the green villainess. Neither seemed to top each other as Kim went for the right hook and left whilst dodging Shego's punches.
Rufus, from Ron's pants pocket whom he pulled up his trousers, nodded his head. He took a few tools and the Kimmunicator and fled to where the robots were.
Meanwhile, Ron was chasing Drakken though the lair. Drakken was clenching the remote control tight with both hands. Ron hid behind a nearby wooden crate.
"Oh no you don't, Drakken!" Ron exclaimed as he extended his leg forward, tripping Drakken in the process.
"Who---whoa----whoa!" Drakken fell to the floor screaming.
The remote control flipped up into the hands of Ron.
"A-booo-yahhh!" Ron exclaimed his favorite catchphrase."Once again, the Ron-man is in da house!"
He then pressed the button, expecting the robots to shut down.
Instead, Ron made a horrible mistake as he began to felt an air suction again.
"WHHOOOOAAAHHHHH!" Ron was being suspended up in the air. Metallic chains came out from the air ducts to restrain the two and they clamped down on both their arms and legs.
Kim, whom was still fighting Shego with all of her might with punch after punch, averting Shego's blasts, then suddenly felt the suction coming from the vents. Shego then began to smile. "Looks like you're gonna get sucked up, Princess!"
"Uhhh-ohhh!" Kim exclaimed, as she was being lifted up into the air. The metallic chains came in and restrained her as well. "Noooo!" she exclaimed as she was joined with Ron on the air duct.
"Well, KP, this could be it" Ron exclaimed hopelessly, seeing himself chained against the bars of the air duct.
Kim just snickered, "Drakken didn't capture ALL the members of Team Possible!" She knew the comfort of having a pet on the team.
Drakken snickered very evily as he and Shego walked up to the trapped heroes. The villainess sidekick also carried in the important tool needed for their Fort Knox plan "Kim Possible, how does it feel to lose for the first time!" The smile of his face again suddenly disappeared when he noticed Kim's grin on her face.
"Drakken, to be honest, I don't think I've ever lost!" Kim smiled as a very recognizable pink figure came up with a key in its pink paw.
Drakken rubbed his eyes, "Oh no.....that better not be that naked mole rat......"
"Rufus!" Ron interrupted as Rufus freed both of the Team Possible members easily from their chains.
"But...but....but, no ..... it....it can't be!" Drakken stammered. Shego slapped her hand on her face, knowing the fallacies of being partnered up with the doctor.
Kim and Ron then landed on their feet to the ground, with remote control to the air duct trap in hand. "Oh, Drakken, and that's not all Rufus did!""What….what did you……" Drakken continued to stutter as Rufus pointed out his pink finger to his gold-stealing robots, clutching Emelin's diary hard.
Suddenly, he saw sparks in them and they started to crash. "No…no…no…no….NOOOOO!" Drakken just merely watched in shock as his "invincible" gold-stealing robots come crashing down in a pile of twisted and scrap metal.
Like many of his other plans, the plan to steal all the depository gold failed for Drakken and Shego. To add insult to injury, Kim smirkly pressed the button on the air duct trap remote. Drakken and Shego were sucked up. The metallic chains activated and restrained both their feet and hands. The force of the air conditioner made Drakken drop the diary as it fell to the floor.
"GRRRR! Kim Possible!" Drakken exclaimed after his plans encountered another epic fail "You think you're all that, but you're not!"
Shego gave a loud groaning over this. "Drakken, next time you plan a scheme, I'm going to do the details!"
But little did Kim know that Drakken had an ace up his sleeve._____________________________________________________________________________
Once the local Middleton Police Department arrived, with their sirens wailing in the background, they took down the villainous duo. Kim was, once again, congratulated by Officer Hobble. They were followed in with 10 police officers. Four of them both apprehended Drakken and Shego and cuffed them behind the back. Shego's cuffs were also made from a metal designed to prevent her plasma powers from flaring up.
"Well, Dr. D!" Shego exclaimed as she was being led away by the police, sighing and exasperating at their latest failure. "Once again, not only have you failed in the plan, but also Princess and her buffoon boyfriend get a free ride in time." But then she noticed that Drakken drew a smirk as he was being arrested.
"Dr. D. what are you….." Shego tried to comment but Drakken gestured, cocking his head, knowing that he had another trick in store. Shego smiled and Team Possible did not even take heed of this because they were concentrated upon Hobble instead.
Through his thick Irish Brogue accent, Hobble shook Kim's hand and replied "Once again, Kim, you saved our nation's gold supply from the likes of Drakken and Shego!""It was no big, Officer, just….heh…well, you know, saving the world……" Kim answered.
Then Ron cut in, "…..with her BFBF!"
"Yeah, Ron!" Kim exclaimed, rushing up to Ron with a light kiss, knowing of the true deep love that they have for each other. Then Kim turned back to Hobble. "Well the sitch is not over yet!""And why not, Kim?" Hobble asked.
"Well, there's some sort of past curse with my family…." Kim began her story, picking up Emelin's journal off the floor.
"….and it involves a 60-year old murder of a police officer!" Ron panicked before Kim hushed him with a clearing of her throat.
"Anyways, Officer, it'll be no big. Once we prevent the murder of the officer in the past, both my family and Ron's will be cleared! Rufus, Wade, take it away!"
"You got it, Kim!" Wade exclaimed from the did a little salute and activated the exact date and coordinates of the time machine: June 19, 1949, Louisiana-Mississippi state line, Louisiana side. The time machine hummed to life before them.
"This is it, Ron, we do this, our families will be fine!" Kim exclaimed with excitement as the two held hands, walking slowly to the machine.
Meanwhile, one of the police officers escorting Drakken slipped in a lockpick from right underneath his sleeve. Drakken overheard their conversation with glee as he picked the cuffs.
Another "officer" also delivered Shego a lockpick and fiddled with it.
The other six police officers were outside the lair with the cop car ready to transport the two back to the Middleton Maximum Security Prison. But little did they know that the four cops escorting them were, in actuality, Drakken's spies within the police force. Once they got to the steps, Drakken and Shego both broke loose from their cuffs and went back into the lair, charging head long into the teen couple.
"What the-----" Kim exclaimed, holding. Hobble was stunned that there were rogues within his own force. Drakken and Shego both made a headlong charge and forced both Kim and Ron into the vortex of the time machine. They were all sucked in time.
The electromagnetic force of the machine sent minor shakes throughout the ground and forced Rufus off the console and, in the process, activated a lever while falling to the floor. This action caused the time portal to shut down and close off the present day.
"Whoa! What's going on?" Wade exclaimed from the Kimmunicator that Rufus still possessed.
Kim, Ron, Drakken, and Shego were moving backwards in time.
All Kim, Ron, Drakken and Shego were experiencing was various looks of time portal then opened around 15 feet in the air and dropped all four into the midst of a nearby cotton field, around 500 feet from a highway.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" all four exclaimed as the dirt soil broke their fall. Drakken and Shego were dizzy
Kim groaned, "Uhhh….Wade where are…." She looked around and searched for her Kimmunicator but it was nowhere to be seen. Ron, who had dirt bits in his ears, scanned his pants pockets, "Uhh….Rufus….where did you go old buddy? KP? Have you seen Rufus!"Kim then gave a snapshot of remembrance. She remembered that as she was preparing to walk with Ron, she saw Rufus with the Kimmunicator! "Unfortunately, Ron, our sitch is this: both Rufus and the Kimmunicator are still in the present day!
Then, looking from a distance, the imagery of cotton fields, the ancient telephone poles with a very recognizable highway shield came to her "..Wait a minute….this sounds recognizable to me…" She rushed up to the highway shield, carrying Emelin's diary, through the cotton field and she read "HIGHWAY 61 SOUTH LOUISIANA!" And then she stared up into the clouds, for storm clouds were gathering in the distance.
Ron rushed up behind her, "KP, where are we and what are….oh no…don't tell me…."
"We are so reliving Nana's worst day, Ron!" Kim explained to her BFBF the sitch unfolding before them. She was using the diary as a guide.
"But KP…" Ron protested, "you don't know if it is really June 19, 1949! " Then she spotted a nearby car in the long distance on 61 South, a Louisiana State Trooper Car.
Kim caught a very familiar sight as the car slowly drove by, Natalie Possible, "Nana!" She stared blankly at the younger self of her own grandmother, in that red-haired bobbed haircut, enjoying and laughing along with another occupant in the vehicle, Sheriff Bourdeaux!
Then, another car came down the northbound stretch of highway and zoomed past the trooper car with dollar bills flying out of the rear doors. The car then picked up speed and made a U-turn, for it was around a mile from the state border.
"Wait a minute, that black car that Nana told me looked familiar! That's……Emelin Possible and Tommy Gun Stoppable!" She gasped, "Ron, we really ARE in 1949 in Louisiana! Come, we so have a murder to prevent!" Kim said this with determination, closed the diary book, and ran as fast as she could to the future scene of the crime. "Right behind ya, KP!" Ron exclaimed as he followed behind.
Shego and Drakken groaned and looked around their surroundings of white cotton field and Highway 61. "Dr.D, wake up!"
Drakken groaned, "Ugghhh…what is it, Shego!" Shego knew about this, for she studied that diary day and night, obsessing over it "I've read this before, Dr. D! In Emelin Possible's diary I remembered reading the following:"
June 21, 1949
Dear DiaryOn June 19, 1949, me, Tommy Gun, and my two guards were chased from behind by the Louisiana State Police and that stupid Youth CIA Agent Natalie Possible for my latest heist of $7,000. I knew that they were out to get me for that Fort Knox Robbery a year ago. But I shot one of their sheriffs dead like a dog, kicked Natalie Possible to the turf, destroyed their cop car, and was home free to the state of Mississippi!Then she spotted both Kim and Ron giving chase to the car chase. "Shego, do you realize what this means?" Drakken snickered with glee, sensing an opportunity to take down his arch nemesis for good.
"Hmm…..even though the robots thing didn't work out so well, Dr. D, you have a backup plan?" Shego guessed.
"Precisely!" Drakken evily laughed with excitement, rubbling his hands, indicating an evil sinister plan that did not need any expensive robots to accomplish. "Shego, I could destroy both Kim Possible and her entire bloodline! Come! We haven't a moment to lose!" Drakken then rushed up to the leg of the highway and gave chase.
"Whatever, Dr. D, yeah!" Shego agreed and followed the Doctor behind.
Forces were colliding together in one tragic event that could either cleanse the Possible and Stoppable family from their blood-stained sin, or prolong their eternal suffering.