Author: Okay I took one look at my original posting of Ch. 6 and went "What was I thinking!?" it felt wrong, and out-of-place and just overall looked like a mess. Soo I decided to take the carving knife to it and cut it into several different chapters. Which I felt would allow me to tell the story the way I want to and do it better than I did with the...wall of text that was the original Ch 6. It also gives me a chance to flush out somethings a little more and I hope a little better with some of the other characters. Hope you like the new version of Ch 6.
Chapter 6: Searching for History
=+ Kim Possible, the worlds best freelance special agent sat next to her boyfriend Derrick Hauldron inside a lavished mansion that sat atop a cliff overlooking the pacific ocean. Around them paintings, tapestries, furniture and all kinds of other items of extreme value stood as testament to the power the man who stood before them wielded.
"Kim Possible, the best freelancer in the world today. with an absolute zero failure margin at last count. Your skills, your talents, everything that makes you and your Team Possible the very best...I am in need of your aid." The old bald Japanese man said as he bowed humbly to her and Derrick.
"Okay Mr. Shiragami (1), what can we help you with?" Kim asked with her trade mark smile and relaxed demeanor.
"I am wealthy, I am powerful, as the head of the Biomajor (2); the worlds second largest chemical and material compound research and development company, I rarely found myself in a situation where I am not able to get what I need." He said, before sighing in frustration running a gloved hand over his bald scalp.
"I am also a great supporter of the study of our history that we have lost to time. Recently one of my research teams working with the museum of natural science out of Texas found something not seen before. A record of history no recorded else where." He pointed to the folder on the table. Kim looked at him curiously before picking the folder up and opening to find it was full of large well done high-definition colored prints.
"Those cave paintings, and the writing around them are similar to others found in other parts of the world. Yet they are different. One of my researchers believes they are the root of all the language and writing for most of the early civilizations in the world." Derrick looked at the photos with a raised brow, he turned to the old man questionably.
"Whats with the pictures of butterflies and those strange statues?" He asked, the older man sighing as he sat down.
"We don't know, the team was unable to do more than sneak inside the temple complex where they took these pictures. Taking a few pictures and then ran before the natives turned aggressive."Kim looked up to him, he face growing serious.
"How aggressive?" she asked the old man sighing.
"They wiped the team out. We recovered these from the remains we found on their boat as it was drifting in the sea. We need your help Kim Possible; please I beg you go to this island, and bring back what ever you can pictures, samples, if you could even bring back one of those statutes we would be in your debt." He said and she looked back to the pictures, slowly she looked to Derrick and he nodded with a grin. The two stood up as one. "
Mr. Shiragami, we'll take the assignment." She smiled as the old man all but cried for joy as he shook her hand gratefully. He offered them any support or item that they would need. She nodded accepting his offer, making not to Derrick not to tell Wade. It would send the other teen boy into orbit if he found out Kim was accepting tech from someone other than him. +=
That had been four days ago, the trip the island had been calm and uneventful. Their ride a demilitarized russian submarine had borne them to the island quickly; its crew being accommodating and supportive in their efforts. Once they got to the island Kim had expected hostility instead they had initially been welcomed with warmth and genuine kindness. The natives even were willing to tell them the story of their home, their temple, and of what lay inside. Kim had taken recordings of these talks, pictures, the works. It was not until they had finally gotten permission to go inside the temple did things start taking a bad turn. First while inside and taking pictures Kim had admitted she did not feel anything special about the area, saying
"Its just so much rock and dirt." The second thing was when Derrick accidentally touched one of the stone statues while he was checking out the finely done writing etched into its surface and around the precious stone resting with in the statues grasp. After they left the temple after these events the villagers had refused to co-operate any further; much to Kim and Derricks frustration. Still Kim knew not to push their luck and instead had chosen a different route to go about their work.
Which was why they now sat atop a small hill overlooking the village of wood, thatch, and palm roofed houses. The villagers had not kicked them out, but Kim and Derrick did not want to risk starting a fire that could burn them and the men and women of the ship that was still anchored in the bay. Kim watched as the villagers had their communion dinner for the evening and began to tell the stories that both she and Derrick had been given when they had first arrived. Derrick scooted back form the edge and stood up stretching with a yawn.
"Well Kay-P whats our plan now then? We could force our way in if we use the gum launcher we were given." Kim thought to herself for a moment before shaking her head.
"No, don't need to ruin our reputation saying we attacked a village of native people. Wouldn't fly well with people. No if we are going to do what I think we should do we are gonna need to do this quietly." Her boyfriend smiled as he crawled on top of her and rested his head on her shoulder.
"Well we have all night to wait." He said kissing her check, earning a small purr from her acceptances of his attention.
"Down boy, there will be time for that back on the ship." Derrick grew a frown and sad face sighing in defeat, he rolled from on top over her to lay on his back on the soft grasses.
"So, what will we do to 'get the job done?" he asked. She looked to him with a small smile.
"Mr. Shiragami said we needed to bring back as much information as we could. Those statues with the writing on them, it is the same that was on the wall. I bet if we can bring those back to him it would be far better than just the pictures we took." Derrick chuckled nodding in agreement.
"Plus I'm sure we would get a far larger reward than for any of our other missions in the past few weeks." He said and she nodded with a small grin. Derrick loved her so much, especially once she had realized how much making money was almost as good as just simply helping people. She was still the hero loved the world over, but with Derrick's help she had also become one of the best paid heroes thanks to their acts to help certain people and groups find things or get the things that they on their own would be unable to. All the while still showing the world she was the best, the nicest, and in his words 'The worlds best girl.'
Suddenly they noticed something there were two pillars of light slowly rising in brightness coming from the two shrines in front of the temple.
"What on earth?" Kim asked as she watched as the village became alive, people of all ages ran to the shrines and after a few moments two priestesses walked to stand in front of the people and raised their hands for silence from the mass of humanity. Kim, quickly turned on the audio pick-up mic on her dual-band binoculars.
"Brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters! This is a sign from Gaia, our world is in great danger! We must prepare now for the times of great change! For gaia has shown us her true love by giving us this warning! Join us let us send for the great sister for guidance!" They said as one, it was almost the same as how her two brothers talked it was creepy as hell to her. Derrick pointed to them in surprise.
"Look there behind them!" He said and Kim turned to watch as the mass of people began to dance, sing, and it seemed to pray all at the same time as a slowly glowing form began to appear behind the priestess almost as if by magic.
Mosura ya Mosura
Dongan kasakuyan
Indo muu
Rusuto uiraadoa
Hanba hanbamuyan
Randa banunradan
Tounjukanraa
Kasaku yaanmu
As the people finished the song, they as one went to their hands and knees bowing their heads as the aura of light erupted in intensity to blinding levels only to vanish, standing there to Kim and Derrick's surprise as they rubbed their eyes was a young women dressed in a kimono with swirling stripes of red, black, and gold about her arms, along the robe's back and down its sides to wrap around near the front. He hair was almost silver in color, with two strands sticking up like a cow had licked her forehead. Her eyes from what Kim saw with the binoculars were stunning, they were almost silver blue. Quietly the two agents watched the gathering closely.
"Yes my friends, for what reason to you call for my aid?" The women asked, like a worried mother seeking to calm and comfort her frighten children. The two priestesses stood up and began to speak.
"Oh great one, we have been given a warning by Gaia, the shrines they sing, they radiate a beacon to the Left and Right hands of the King!" They proclaimed, and slowly the women turned to look at the two shrines their pillars of light streaming to the heavens above with the power of almost a solid form of light. She nodded looking to them.
"Then we must prepare, for the prophecies speak that the first to learn the truth will be the king's right hand!" She said and the people as one began to sing, and dance once more. This time the sound and song was different, the words not really words but notes. Suddenly Kim watched as the women walked into a shrine, letting a ray of light silhouette her in its rays. Suddenly the light vanished, and the women emerged cradling a small glowing object. Kim focused in on the object curiously.
"What is that?" Derrick asked as he looked through his own binoculars.
"Don't know..." Kim gasped as she watched the small object, pulse before lifting out of the women's hand. She heard the women giggle as the object flew up.
"Go little one, bring the King's Right hand so that he may embrace his destiny!" She said, Kim and Derrick watched; as the little glowing object flew up into the sky growing fainter and fainter to the point it looked like just one of the many stars that were starting to come out as the moon rose into the sky.
"I wonder what that was." Derrick muttered before turning to Kim.
"So what now?" He asked and she took another look down at the village.
"I...I think I have an idea." She said and pulled out her old communicator. She hoped Wade would pick up.
"Wade? Wade you there?" She asked, and after a few moments a stout, curly-haired ebony skinned boy answer sipping on a soda.
"Oh hey Kim, been a bit of a while. What's up?" He asked pulling up a bag of potato chips. She smiled warmly to her friend.
"Hey Wade, are you busy?" she asked and the other boy looked at her funny before shaking his head. "Nope, been pretty quiet around here as of late. What'cha upto?" He asked.
Inwardly Kim smiled, his curiosity was something she liked about him; made it easy to not only appease him when she felt he was upset. It also made it easy to convince him to help her with things sometimes.
"Listen, me and Derrick took this odd job from this guy to pretty much just take pictures and notes. Also to maybe check on some historical archeological artifacts on this island in the pacific." She calmly stated not giving to much info on their client.
She watched as the boy nodded turned to one of his many computers and began typing. She could already see the gears in the boys supercharged head began to come to life. He nodded to her as he typed,
"Okay I see ya, your on the Island of Argon. Not a major tourist stop. What sorta artifacts are you guys trying to study for this guy?" He asked, she inwardly cheered. She had him on her side again.
"Well we aren't to sure. The guy things they are the route of a lot of our languages and perhaps has records of lost human history. However, the people here while overall nice and welcoming they don't seem the kind willing to share stuff that scientist would want to dust, poke, and prod all day." The black teen nodded in understanding.
"Okay, so whatcha need?" He asked, munching on some chips.
"Well, I need someone to come and give us a hand. I want you to call Ron for me. Tell him I need his help." She said with a smile, but blinked when she noticed Wade seemed to glare at her for a moment, but before she could ask he closed his eyes and took a sip of his soda.
"Ron? Don't you have his number Kim? Your his best friend." He said it in a way that made Kim seem, uneasy, yet she wasn't sure why. She just shrugged it off and smiled.
"Yeah...I did but I lost it when I replaced my cell. Could you please call him?" She asked pleadingly.
Derrick sat up as he listened to the conversation, a frown growing on his face.
'That loser? what could he do to help except get in our way?' He thought as he opened a mug of water and took a drink for himself.
"Well, honestly Kim. None of his old contact information seems work anymore, I've actually tried calling him and emailing him only to learn that the information was wrong our out of service." Kim looked at the boy in surprise.
"Really? Huh that's strange, not like Ron to not have a way for us to contact him. I wonder if something is wrong." She said, but she shrugged and smiled.
"You can find him though I know it Wade. You're the best hacker on the planet." Inwardly she hoped the ego stroking would help convince Wade to look for a way to contact Ron. It did work; the other boy sighing as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Yeah...I am aren't I? Okay give me a few minutes to see what I can find. It's like he drooped off the face of the earth. I'll get back in touch when I find him." She nodded and blew a kiss to the boy.
"Thanks Wade you're the greatest." When the line cut she felt Derrick wrap his arms around her. "Hope he isn't too great." He said with a small pout. She giggled turning to kiss his cheek.
"No way, he is just a good friend. You're the greatest to me love." She said as he hugged her close nuzzling her neck. "I'm glad he said." She smiled placing a hand on top of his. Back in the US, after finishing his talk with Kim; Wade sat back and almost glared eye holes into his computer screen where he had talked to Kimberly Possible.
"Does she really not know Ron moved away?" He asked, as he took a sip of his soda. He sighed and quickly checked his connection to the possible house hold smiling when he saw the twins were both online.
"Wonder what those two are doing now? Heh, I hope they will be willing to work with me on this." He said as he opened a privet video connection to their terminals. He smiled warmly as two same faces with slightly different colored cloths and near identical haircuts greeted him.
"Hey Tim, Jim. How are you two tonight?" he asked the two of them as one smiling and wave at him
"Hey Wade, were doing fine." Tim said to which Jim added "Whatcha need Wade?" The ebony boy sighed as he sat back in his chair and scratched his head.
"Well, not so good now. Kim called me, as expected it was just for me to do something for her." The two twins frowned at this sticking their tongues out.
"What does- -She want?" they asked. Wade took a deep breath before he said anything else, trying to calm himself and put down his anger.
"She wants me to find Ron to ask him to help her." The two twins hissed at this and he could imagine if he was there they would have maybe thrown something at him. Instead he watched as they raced over and using some rather scary looking gun like weapons vaporized a small filing cabinet in their anger. Huffing they came back to the computer, shaking a little.
"Ron!? She- -Hurt him, abandoned him!" they said and Wade nodded in agreement. He remembered the talk he had with Ron near the start of school. The other boy had told him he was now living in New York and admitted to having a great time and start-up there. It was some news that Wade had always found made him smile and congratulate his blond-haired friend. He always wanted his friends to be happy, it was part of why he helped them without question until recently.
"I know guys, trust me I know. We have all talked to Ron and know the story. I really don't think she has yet realized he is not in town anymore." The two twins scowled even further at hearing this.
"So what- -Do you want- -To do?" they asked. Wade took a moment to think before he sighed once more. "Well, as much as I think this is not a great idea. I think we need to at least deliver the message of her wanting his help to him. Ron deserves to at least know she asked for him finally. Rather he accepts it, is his choice alone." The two twins turned and after a few hushed whispers they nodded.
"We- -agree." The said with a sigh each before they looked up to Wade.
"Should we start the plan like we talked about?" Jim asked Tim looking to Wade pleadingly. The ebony boy rubbed the back of his head. The plan was to have the three of them start supporting Ron in continuing his work as a special agent; but since they had talked to him last time he seemed uninterested in that line of work. Still the three of them hoped that he would get the drive and be a hero again. He was actually quite good at it, at least the three of them thought so.
"We will wait and see. If he goes then I say yes we can start working on stuff just for him. especially since I think Kim is getting her supply now from someone else." wade said with a frown as he looked at his satellite images showing Kim and Derrick on the island and surrounded with gear not of his making. The ship in the bay was also not tied to him or his contacts in any way. It was a major insult to him.
1- Dr. Shiragami, the creator of Biollante from the movie "Godzilla Vs. Biollante"
2 - Fictional Company from Godzilla vs Biollante
