The next day the girls were soon at the mall in the dressing rooms.
"You saved your dad and sister?" Monique asked about last night, completely mind blown.
"So not the drama, Monique." Kim smirked to her best girl friend.
Mo kept her cool even if her full name was the same name as Kim's best friend.
"You know what this means, girl?" Monique asked her best friend.
"She's got it going on." Cherry agreed.
"I do?" Kim asked them.
"Yeah, you can never be grounded, girl, and as for you, I don't know about you and your sister that well, but it's gotta be good," Monique said to Kim and Cherry. "So, why'd the evil dude pull the nappin' on Dad and Sis?"
"I think Attics told me it had something to do with Cybertronic technology." Mo said.
"You think I can pull this off?" Kim came out in a dress with a black top and a fluffy pink skirt.
"Pull it off and throw it away, ugh!" Monique shuddered.
"That's worse than Thumbelina's dress when she was about to marry the Mole!" Cherry also cringed.
"Next dress, please because that dress is a total disaster!" Mo told Kim.
"Maybe I should just raid my closet." Kim shrugged before trying on an icy blue gown that almost looked like the one Zelda wore for the Netherworld Spell-Ing Bee.
"Not for the prom," Monique smiled. "You're gonna be Kimderella."
"And that dress is exactly what you should wear because you look fabulous in it." Mo smiled.
Kim smiled back as she was on her way out only to run into Erik as Cherry came out in a black dress with silver stars on it similar to her funeral dress and she then ran into Brad. Erik and Brad smiled and waved to the girls.
"Kim/Cherry, hey." Erik and Brad smiled.
"Um, hey..." Cherry seemed to blush.
"You girls should buy those." Erik suggested.
"W-We should...?" Kim smiled sheepishly.
"Most definitely." Brad nodded.
"You know, I know we've only been in town for like five minutes, but, this prom-" Erik started.
"Have you met Ron Stoppable?" Bonnie smirked as she came over in a rather hideous blue and green dress with Cassandra. "Kim and Ron are, like, inseparable!"
"It's sad, really," Cassandra added in agreement. "Almost as sad as Cherry and Atticus being best friends."
"Isn't that Brick hitting on that girl in Earring World?" Mo asked Bonnie and Cassandra.
"No way!" Cassandra cried out.
"He's distracted by her big hoops!" Bonnie added as she took Cassandra's hand and ran with her out the shop which made the security alarm go off.
"And security will arrest them for trying to steal those dresses they were wearing." Mo smirked.
"Nice move." Monique smirked back.
"What's the sitch?" Ron came out in his underwear by accident.
The others winced and cringed.
"What?" Ron asked.
"Dude..." Erik covered his eyes with Brad.
Ron looked down to see he was in his underwear. "XYZ?"
Rufus came out with Ron's shorts.
Ron grabbed them and ran back behind the dressing chamber in embarrassment. Erik smiled to Kim while Brad smiled to Cherry.
Meanwhile with Shego...
"What is he up to?" Shego muttered about Drakken's crazy demands lately. "A toy design, top-secret cybertronic technology, personality Syntho Drone upgrades, and teen scene junk? What's he going to do, throw the weirdest pajama party?"
"You really haven't figured it out, have you?" Drakken smirked.
"There is no plan here!" Shego glared. "No way!"
"Oh, but there is~" Drakken teased.
"Spill!" Shego demanded as she grabbed him.
"No." Drakken smirked.
"Why not?!" Shego glared as her hands became green flames.
Drakken visibly flinched at that, but soon calmed himself down. "Kim Possible and her friends are not smarter than you."
Shego then let her flames die out as she folded her arms. "True..." she then smirked slightly.
"If you can't figure it out, she can't figure it out, and that means..." Drakken smirked.
Shego's eyes widened. "You might just win..."
"Oh, I'm quite confident," Drakken smirked before leaving. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm on my way to a Board of Directors meeting."
"You?" Shego asked. "At what company?"
"Oh, the one that I required a hostile take over." Drakken smirked evilly.
Soon enough, around the world, Mr. Nakasumi's little devil characters were being sold in fast food places all around the world starting with native Japan, Australia, and even Alaska. Kids around the world were hooked on them and even Darla and her friends seemed to be under the spell and where Ron was looking like he was losing it.
Emily came home with groceries only for Darla to run to her feet. "Hi, sweetie, wanna help me unload the groceries?" she then smiled.
"Actually, can we go to Bueno Nacho for dinner?" Darla asked. "Please?"
"Um, sure, but first, mind helping me with the groceries?" Emily asked.
"Take us to Bueno Nacho." Darla replied.
"Darlene, that is not how you ask." Emily scolded slightly.
"Sorry, can you please take us to Bueno Nacho?" Darla smiled.
"That's better..." Emily replied.
They then put away the groceries and went out for dinner.
Cherry was playing with her tablet until she saw breaking news at the Mexican restaurant about the toys known as Little Diablos and Ron was having a mental breakdown. "Wow..." She said.
Suddenly, Cherry's internet admirer came online.
"'I haven't seen you in a while'..." Cherry read aloud before typing back to him. "I have a social life now, I'm getting out of the house and getting ready for my prom."
She soon got a response back.
"'Whom do you plan on going with?'," Cherry read before typing back. "This boy Brad, even though Atticus doesn't trust him."
"What if I went with you?" The reply asked.
"Yeah, right, we haven't even met, you just leave me presents, how do you even know where I live?" Cherry scoffed.
"I have my ways of knowing." The reply said.
Cherry rolled her eyes. "Who are you, really?"
"Trust me, Cerise, I know much more about you than Brad could ever know about you." The Reply said.
"If you say so..." Cherry rolled her eyes. She soon backtracked and reread what that text said. "Cerise...?" she then asked herself before thinking back, only one person called her that.
"I suppose I should get going..." The internet admirer said. "Goodbye."
Cherry was now in an awkward situation since she had known Forte far longer than she had known Brad.
"Who is this?" Cherry demanded.
"My, my, aren't we as curious as Alice in Wonderland?" The reply seemed to chuckle at her. "You haven't figured it out now, maybe you never will."
"This isn't funny, you creep!" Cherry sounded impatient now and it even showed in her typing as she typed quickly and in rage.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you." The reply said.
"Yes?!" Cherry demanded to know.
Suddenly, the internet cut out.
"HEY!" Cherry hissed, she then left her bed and the house.
Cherry went to the formerly abandoned church across the yard from her house where Forte now lived and the circuit box was for the neighborhood. Forte didn't seem to be answering her and he was nowhere to be seen right now. She called out for him, but no response, she took out her cell phone to use the light as she looked around for the box and found poems on the floor and picked them up to see that they were like the ones emailed to her.
"He is the one that I've been chatting with online." Cherry said.
Forte soon opened the door and saw her there. Cherry turned and flashed her light in his eyes.
"AUGH!" Forte groaned and covered his eyes. "You children and your blasted devices..."
"Forte, where were you?" Cherry asked.
Forte sighed as he took her phone and shined the light on himself.
"Wow, that's not creepy at all..." Cherry deadpanned. "Wait... You're my internet admirer?!"
"Yes." Forte sighed.
"Creepy..." Cherry replied.
"That is exactly why I didn't want to tell you!" Forte replied. "I knew you would be disgusted, you're always disgusted with me. I want the past to be put behind us when I nearly killed you and the others all those years ago. Why do you always pick on me?"
"I don't know..." Cherry slightly moaned as she felt guilty now.
"I just want the past to be put behind us." Forte frowned.
"I know..." Cherry replied.
"Why do you always have to be so dark and snarky to everyone?" Forte asked.
"Because you taught me to be like that..." Cherry reminded him. "I was scared, I was away from my family and it was winter, I may be dark and depressing, but winter is too much even for me... You scared me to death and I thought that was the only way to get around in life, I don't know why I'm so mean to you, I guess I just wanna prove that I'm not afraid of you anymore."
"Ohh." Forte said, now understanding.
"I don't know why I'm like this," Cherry replied. "I just can't stay happy very long... I have great friends and family, but I'm still empty inside."
"You must be wanting your own true love." Forte said.
"Romance is entirely overrated." Cherry quoted him from her childhood.
"I know how you feel..." Forte replied to her. "We share a lot of common things..."
"Yeah, but, don't you think I'm too young for you?" Cherry asked.
"I thought you liked older men." Forte smirked.
Cherry groaned as he was right.
"What's the matter, your tongue becoming dull?" Forte then mocked as she was usually sharp-tongued.
"Touche." Cherry gave in as she couldn't think of a snappy comeback for a change. She soon saw Kim going to a treehouse.
Forte looked with Cherry. "I'll leave you with your thoughts."
"Thank you, Maestro." Cherry replied, calling him by his title for a change and not his last name. She soon left to find out what was going on.
"Kim?" Cherry called out.
Kim and Ron both poked their heads out to see the perky goth.
"What's going on?" Cherry asked.
"Oh, just catching up on old times..." Kim replied.
"Yeah," Ron added as he held a slingshot. "Like that time with Ernie Custer."
"Who?" Cherry asked.
"A boy we once knew..." Kim replied, referring to herself and Ron.
"I just wanted to stop him from hurting Kim." Ron smiled back bashfully.
"I pulled him off you because you hit him with the slingshot." Kim told Ron.
"Something seems to be on your mind other than Bueno Nacho, Ron." Cherry commented.
"Talking about Erik?!" Ron began to bluff like he did at the Poker game with Atticus at the Bermuda Triangle. "No... I'm down with Erik! Why would I have a problem with Erik?" he then breathed shallowly and wheezily which meant he was obviously lying.
"You're lying." Cherry said.
"Nuh-uh!" Ron looked away from her.
"Trust me, I know a liar when I see one..." Cherry looked dead into his copper eyes.
"Fine, maybe I do have a problem with him." Ron admitted.
"Ron, Erik's not going to change the way we're all about," Kim soothed her best friend. "We'll always be tight."
"Yeah..." Ron sighed. "Pretty words, Kim."
"We're not in Pre-K anymore," Kim reminded him. "Time to grow up."
"Yeah, well, maybe I don't wanna grow-" Ron started.
"Kim?" A voice asked.
Kim and Ron looked down to see Erik.
"He can't come up here." Ron narrowed his eyes.
"Ron..." Kim narrowed her eyes back.
"No, I mean like really, he can't come up here," Ron explained. "This treehouse has a weight limit and while I'm holding this slingshot, we're already pushing it."
"Oh, brother." Cherry groaned.
Rufus was about to eat another nacho, but he then decided to toss it aside as he was quite full.
"We'll talk tomorrow." Kim told Ron before leaving.
Cherry decided to also get going, leaving Ron alone with Rufus.
