Disclaimer. I do not own any characters from the Kim Possible franchise, they remain the sole property of Disney. The OC's Agent Baker and Drake Synthodrone #902 are my own creations, if you want to use them for a story then PM me and I'll get back to ya.
Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait, I was in hospital after suffering from something I'll explain in the follow up. For now, enjoy this new chapter for So Not The Drama. Featuring the return of Drake Synthodrone #902.
-Chapter VI-
Partner's
Global Justice Headquarter's
Dr Director and Ron arrived shortly at GJ HQ, Ron being told to wait inside one of the empty briefing rooms where Dr Possible and his sons were. While Ron waited to meet his new partner, Director went to the laboratories where Dr Bortel was waiting for her. Entering the lab, several technicians kept glancing towards the door to a darkened observation room, mainly due to the occupant inside.
"Dr Bortel, how is she?" Director asked, watching the older scientist glance up from his notes.
"Physically, she's perfectly fine but some of her memory was corrupted through from the regeneration process," Bortel said, the last part with a sympathetic sigh. "She's still struggling to accept what she is and I know you doubt her intentions, but so far she's been very co-operative."
"Probably because she knows that the room is rigged with incendiary units. Is the device ready?"
Bortel nodded and picked up a modified stun-watch, designed for another purpose altogether.
"Range is five feet," Bortel said sadly. "Stoppable must stand close to her, but I'm positive he would never have to use it. We never found anything threatening about her..."
"Because you only did a quick scan, but if a proper scan was carried out then we can be sure," Director said. "But that would take time and time is a luxury we do not have, so the only thing we can do is remain cautious while she helps us."
"I'll go get her," Bortel said, heading over to the observation room and entering quietly. Inside, he saw a lone, long haired woman seated at a table, her face buried in her hands. Hearing the door close behind him, she looked up and saw him smiling warmly at her. She smiled back weakly as he sat down before her, reaching towards her hand and patting it gently. Ever since she woke up and remembered everything since she lost conciousness, she learnt the cruel harsh truth to what she is. A shadow of who she thought she was.
"It's time," He said gently, smiling at her. "How are your systems holding up?"
"Fully functional," She answered, sighing slightly. "It feels strange running all those internal diagnostics though. I'm human...well, I thought I was but I still feel like that but then I have these system reports going through my head and...urgh, it's so hard to explain but I guess you have an idea what I'm talking about, huh?"
"I do and although I can never know how you feel, I understand that this must be confusing for you," Bortel said, getting up from his seat as the young woman stood up. "You ready to meet Stoppable."
"Not really...but I don't really have a choice."
Heading out the room, everyone stared as the young woman in GJ uniform walked out of the lab and down the corridor under heavy guard, Director keeping a close eye on her. The young woman ignored the stares from agents passing by them, only the presence of Dr Bortel made her feel a little comfortable. Out of all the people in this building, he was the only one to be kind and trusting towards her.
Arriving outside the room Ron and the Possible's were in, the young agent psyched herself up and prepared for the worst as Director opened the door and stepped inside the room, followed closely by Bortel and the young agent. As soon as the young woman entered the room, she could tell from the shocked expressions on their faces that they were not expecting to see her, especially Ron.
"Wh-Wha...K-Kim?" Ron gasped, looking at her. "But Drakken has you!"
"My name is Kim," The lookalike said, taking in a deep breath. "But my full name, or designation is Kim Synthodrone #903."
"Stoppable," Director explained, while keeping a close eye on the Synthodrone. "Dr Bortel is the creator of the Syntho-plasma and original designer of the Synthodrone, a technology that Drakken had stolen. We brought him in to use his expertise in reactivating #903 to find out any clues to his whereabouts but had no such luck, however she may be of use as she has all the skills of the real Miss Possible."
"I know this is way off the weirdness scale Ron," Syntho-Kim said. "Even I find this difficult to understand but I will do everything in my power to save me, uh Kim...the real Kim. Urgh, I never thought I'd have this conversation before."
A awkward silence filled the air, Ron still stunned by the turn of events. GJ expected him to work with a Synthodrone, one that he took to the prom and even kissed, in order to find the real Kim.
"Stoppable, you and 903 are the only ones capable of stopping Drakken from accomplishing whatever crackpot plan he has cooked up," Director said. "We're going to be keeping the Possible's here under heavy guard, as I believe Gemini is seeking the Hephaestus project that gave rise to the Diablo's. GJ cannot spare anyone to go looking for Drakken but 903 is the best we got for the job. 903, can you leave us for a moment?"
"Uh, sure," The Syntho-Kim said, smiling weakly at Ron. "I'll wait for you in the cafeteria, okay?"
"Y-Yeah, okay," Ron said, watching the machine leave the room. Once Director was sure the machine was out of earshot, she revealed what she kept from the Synthodrone and for a very good reason.
"Stoppable, for the mission we are giving you this modified standard issue GJ stun-watch," Director said, handing it to him. "It has all the standard functions, including a new additional function. Since we were unable to do a full scan on 903's programming, we may suspect she might still be dangerous, so we placed her kill switch inside that watch."
Those words surprised Stoppable, staring at the small watch in his hands, finding it hard to believe he was given that sort of power.
"Wait...did you say kill switch? As in 'kill' kill?"
"The watch will send out a pulse designed to cancel out her synthetic neural patterns, wiping her mind instantly," Director explained. "Range is five feet so you have to be standing close to her. Use it only if or when she turns hostile, is that clear?"
"Yeah, I understand," Ron said shakily, strapping the watch to his wrist. "This is just too...too weird for me. Working with Kim, whose not really Kim but a Synthodrone of her. I-I-I don't know if I can do this."
"You'll have to if you want to find the real Miss Possible," Director said. "Stoppable, on behalf of all Global Justice, I wish you and your partner luck in your mission. Now you better not keep 903 waiting, you two have a lot of work to do."
Heading out into the corridor's of Global Justice, Ron made his way towards the cafeteria to meet up with the Synthodrone, Rufus perched on his shoulder. The whole sitch seemed to be getting more crazier by the second for Ron and to top it all off, it was going to be very weird working alongside a machine that looked exactly like Kim, a machine that he kissed and then watched melt into a puddle of green goo on what was supposed to have been the happiest night of his life.
"So Rufus...you think we can trust Kim, uh, that Synthodrone Kim?" Ron asked his companion, watching the tiny rodent shrug his shoulders, unsure what to think. "Yeah...me too."
-RS & KP-
Unknown Location
While Ed and his 'guests', as Drakken would put it, were exploring the lair and getting to know the facility, Drakken was taking a nap while the controlled Dr Anne Possible was finishing correcting the defects in Drake #902. Shego was wise to have suggested to have her correct the defects in the Synthodrone, her knowledge on the human brain and her years of experience enabled her to rapidly merge the two personalities together, working faster towards the goal than Drakken expected.
He was continuing to enjoy his nap, dreaming a plesant dream of conquering the world with the army he had planned out. Each soldier nearly impossible to stop and far more powerful than any Diablo machine, especially since each drone wouldn't have the weakness the Diablo's shared which required the machines to have a signal to activate the Hephaestus technology. It was just getting to the part where he was handed control of The White House when he felt someone jostling his shoulder, waking up from his dream and seeing the face of Frugal Lucre very close to his.
"AAARGGGH!" Drakken yelled in surprise, tumbling out of his chair and slamming into the floor. "GAH, DON'T DO THAT!"
"Sorry about that," Lucre said, noticing the bump on Drakken's head. "Ooh, that has gotta hurt."
"Nggh, enough chit-chat! What is it you woke me up for? I was having the most wonderful dream!"
"Uh yeah, about that, um...is she supposed to do that?" Lucre asked, pointing to Dr Anne Possible.
Drakken noticed she was standing in front of the computer console, hands by her sides and smiling straight ahead, not doing anything at all. Confused to why she was doing that and not working, he went over to the computer and glanced at the console, smiling at what he saw on the screen.
Personality Merge Complete
Fatal Error Amended - Synthodrone 100% Fully Functional
"Ooh, Shego would love to see this!" Drakken chuckled, pressing a button and hearing the weary voice of his partner in crime answer the comm system.
"What is it Dr D?" Shego's voice asked wearily. "I'm trying to sleep here!"
"Ah...well, I just wanted to let you know that Drake's personality has corrected. Dr Possible actually fixed the problem faster than I expected. Erm...did I disturb you?"
"Sure did. Alright, I'm getting up but only to see what my sidekick is like, but you so have to give me the day off tomorrow. Deal?"
"Okay, deal!" Drakken said with defeat, although he did silently agree that Shego deserved a break considering what Kim's Syntho-Clone did to her.
It took Shego a few minutes to arrive that the command centre, still wearing the clothes that Drakken picked out for her. Also watching the new addition to the family was Drakken's cousin and his guests, Ed taking notice to what outfit Shego was wearing.
"Woah babe, your style is like slipping Green, seriou..." He never got the chance to finish that sentence, a blast of green energy slamming into him and knocking him to the floor, dazing him slightly. "ARGH, OW! OH MAN, I LOVE THAT GREEN MAGIC! AW YEEEEAAAAAH!"
"Urgh, men," Shego muttered, casually taking a seat closest to the machine, while Motor Ed continued to do 'Air Guitar'.
"ZIP IT EDDIE!" Drakken yelled, heading over to the activation sequence console. "Now then I...er..."
He trailed off when he noticed Dr Possible was just still standing there, smiling obediently without a care in the world. It just didn't feel right having her smiling like that. He wanted to see the fear in her eyes as they activated Shego's sidekick.
"Ed, hold Dr Possible still. I want to see how she reacts to our new arrival!"
As Ed held Anne's arms firmly, Drakken deactivated the mind control chip, the auburn haired doctor's legs giving way from exhaustion. Ever since she completed the merge sequence, Anne continued to stand there on the spot and waited for Drakken to wake up, since she couldn't do anything at all without someone telling her to do something. Too tired to say anything back, she felt herself being held up by Ed and barely managed to raise her head, gasping in terror as Drakken fired up the activation sequence, the whine of the internal machinery powering up Drake.
"Activating Synthodrone #902," A computerised voice spoke. "All systems online."
A hiss of air escaped from the chamber as the doors slid open, everyone watching as the Synthodrone finally began to wake. From the point of view of the machine, the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a smiling Dr Drakken, who had leant in for a closer look of his latest creation.
"Woah, not so close," Drake said, pushing Drakken away from him as he stepped out the chamber. "Can't I have my personal space here?"
Wow, he certainly does take up after Shego, Drakken thought, stepping away from the Synthodrone and watching Drake step out from the chamber, flexing his joints while taking a look at the lair.
"Okay, so where are the henchmen?" Drake asked, noticing that the lair seemed relatively quiet. "You still doing that Diablo plan?"
"Ah...yes, well it didn't turn out quite the way I intended it to go," Drakken said, laughing weakly. "But I got a far new grander scheme in motion."
Punching up the details for his new plan on a computer screen, Drake read the title of his diabolical plan to conquer the world, rolling his eyes at the title.
"Operation: Brillianter Plan?" Drake read, glancing over at Drakken. "I'm pretty sure that 'Brillianter' isn't a word."
"It will be soon," Drakken muttered, crossing his arms. "Once I take over the world, I will make sure 'Brillianter' is used to describe my genius level intellect."
"What, 'Crazy' don't cover it?"
"ZIP IT DRAKE! I DON'T WANT YOU TO GIVE ME ANY..."
A loud blast of energy shut Drakken up, looking at the direction of a very annoyed Shego with her hands glowing with emerald energy.
"Okay, my sidekick is up and running, so I'm off to bed," Shego muttered, extinguishing the energy. "G'night doc, see ya in the morning."
As Shego left the main control room to head back to her quarter's, Ed gestured to the exhausted Dr Possible in his arm.
"Uh, what do you want me to do 'bout Red's mom?" Ed asked, watching Drakken shrug.
"Hand her to Drake," He said, yawning tiredly. "Drake, put her in one of the empty quarters and lock the door."
Handing the barely concious form of Dr Possible to Drake, Ed left the room with Lucre , Fen and Drakken while Drake carried Dr Possible to the closest empty quarter's and placed her on a bed, heading out of the room and locking the door behind him. With little to do, Drake went to the main control room to find something entertaining on TV to pass the time.
-RS & KP-
Global Justice Headquarter's
Sitting down at a free table in the cafeteria, Kim-903 was eating a salad while Ron sat in silence, glancing at the watch on his wrist and ignoring the plate of nachos before him. He hoped he would never have to use it, knowing that without help he would never find the real Kim, but he couldn't help but wonder if the synthodrone was a time bomb waiting to go off. If she was evil like Director suspected, he wondered why she kicked Shego into that tower or was it all an act?
Well if it was an act, Shego must have really been willing to take one for the team, Ron thought, while fiddling with the watch.
"Ron? You okay there?" Kim asked, snapping him out from his thoughts. "You barely touched your nachos. Normally you would be on your third plate by now."
"Uh...yeah, I uh...I'm just finding this so weird you know," Ron said, picking up a nacho and popping it into his mouth.
"I know how you feel," Kim sighed, thinking back to when she was reactivated. She couldn't remember much from the prom, the last thing she could recall was looking into Ron's eyes after they kissed and then felt all her strength leaving her body as darkness swallowed her up. When she woke, she saw Dr Bortel running sensor scans on her while several GJ agents were guarding the room. It was a shock to her to learn she was a synthodrone and not the real Kim Possible, at first refusing to believe it until Director shown her proof, using security footage from the school gym hall of her death and video footage of Bortel repairing her body, bringing her back to life.
"So uh...do I call you 903 or Syntho-Kim?" Ron asked, trying to make conversation. "Uh...I don't mean any disrespect or anything...uh, I'm just gonna stop talking and..."
"Ron, you normally call me...uh, the real me, KP for short. So how about you just call me SK? I think that'll be for the best."
"Okay...SK, so uh...what's the plan then?"
"Head to the hospital where Motor Ed kidnapped mom, uh...I mean Dr Possible, and search for a trail to follow," Syntho-Kim said, finishing off her salad. "Any questions Ron?"
"Uh...well, not exactly part of the case or anything but, why are you eating?" Ron asked, registering the slight annoyance on SK's face. "Uh...sorry, but it's just that, uh...I'm just gonna stop."
"Ron, remember that time when me and mom...urgh, Kim and Dr Possible fought Drakken on Mother's Day and got that Syntho-plasma back from him. It would eat anything to convert it into energy like any other lifeform. I literally need to keep my batteries charged."
"Okaaay," Ron said, finishing off his nachos. "But...why salad? Why not nacos or diablo sauce?"
"Ron, can we please change the subject and focus here?" Syntho-Kim said, not wanting to go into detail about that. "What have you and Director learnt so far on the case?"
"Uh...well, we learnt that Drakken had a duplicate...uh, you at the ready and we found footage of his Syntho-henchmen put you into KP's battlesuit before putting her into a stasis chamber. Then we had to deal with Falestto while Gemini's guys tried to swipe your...uh, KP's dad."
The Syntho-Kim nodded in deep thought, going over the facts they collected, while trying to work out what Drakken intended her for. She was used for an evil plot as a decoy, which she didn't like. Actually, she felt uncomfortable about herself, wondering why she was created. But what terrified her the most was that once she found the real Kim, then what? The life she had ever known didn't belong to her but someone else, that she had to rescue. What was she to do if she found her?
Then there was the involvement of Gemini and his interest in the Diablo's, most likely from the 'demonstration' that Drakken gave to the world of their frightful power. If an organisation like WWEE got that sort of power, they could easily outmatch all of GJ and conquer the world for themselves. She just had to hope Director could stop them before it was too late.
"We better get a move on," Syntho-Kim said, getting up from the table. "We'll take a hover transport to the hospital, talk to any witnesses and search for clues."
"Uh...I don't think GJ has any pilots to spare for the hover transport," Ron said, noticing a smile on SK's face.
"Ron, Bortel installed a few 'additional' upgrades into my memory," Syntho-Kim said. "I been given the skills to operate every type of vehicle."
Woah, okay now that is pretty cool, Ron thought, following the Synthodrone to the hanger bays. A security officer noticed the synthodrone and stepped aside, allowing her into the hanger. Several sleek hover transports lined the walls, the Syntho-Kim heading to the nearest one and pressed a button on the outer hull, a boarding ramp descending while a door opened up at the top of the ramp. Climbing on board, Ron and Rufus followed her into the flight deck and watched her sit down in the pilot seat, flicking a few switches and firing up the engines.
The door closed shut as the ramp retracted, the craft moving forward slowly while Ron watched the Synthodrone steer the transport towards the exit. Firing the main thrusters, the transport blasted out of the hanger and into the sky, on a direct course for the hospital.
-RS & KP-
Middleton General Hospital
It was certainly faster than travelling by car as they arrived in less than two minutes, SK expertly landing the craft in the middle of a empty parking lot. Leaving the transport, they made their way over to the hospital, noticing the smashed window where the staff room was. Heading on over to the main entrance, they saw the look of confusion on the faces of two police officers guarding the main entrance when they saw the synthodrone in GJ uniform.
"Miss...Possible?" One of them said, scratching his head. "But...didn't Drakken capture you?"
"Look, it's a long story and I don't have time to tell it," Syntho-Kim said, sighing. "Look, me and Ron are here to investigate the dissapearance of m...Dr Possible. So, what have you found so far?"
"Uh...not much to go on I'm afraid. We haven't been able to pick up a trail to follow, so we have no idea where Dr Possible is."
"Okay, me and Ron will take it from here," Syntho-Kim said, looking at Ron. "We'll split up. I'll take the staff room, you and Rufus head to the security office and try find anything they captured on the security footage."
"Got it SK," Ron said, heading inside with her. Going their seperate ways, Ron and Rufus went inside the security office while Syntho-Kim took an elevator up to the floor the staff room was on. Shortly arriving at the staff room, she saw a few more police officers putting up plastic tarp over the hole in the wall, while Dr Crichton sat on a couch, deep in thought. Looking up, a expression of complete bewilderment fell across his face.
"Kim? But Anne said you were..."
"I'm...not really Kim," Syntho-Kim said, sitting down next to him. "Long story. I'm here to try find Dr Possible, can you tell me anything at all you can remember?"
"It all happened so fast," He sighed, thinking back. "She was about to get some rest when a large robot smashed a huge hole over there. There were three people inside the cockpit, one of them looked like a 80's rock star throwback or something, with this long..."
"Blond mullet?" Syntho-Kim guessed. "Okay, so Motor Ed is behind this. What else can you tell me?"
"Well, he then ordered the two men he was with to grab her, I heard him say their names...Lucre and Fen. Then Anne went with them peacefully, not wanting them to scare the patients any further. That's all I can remember."
Frugal Lucre and Dr Fen? Syntho-Kim thought, puzzled by this unexpected team up. Since when did they work for Drakken and Ed?
"Thanks, I'll take it from here," She said, getting up and examining the room, utilising the abilites her synthetic body had. Not only did Bortel program her with additional knowledge, his repairs allowed her to access abilities she never knew she had, such as enhanced vision and hearing. Focusing on the room, she examined the entire staff area, finding nothing much else to go on. Sighing, she went over to one of the windows and looked at the footsteps the giant machine made, her brow furrowing as they went in one direction and briefly stopped, before heading in the opposite direction.
What happened there? She thought, leaving the room and heading down to the parking lot, hoping to get a closer look. On her way there, she saw Ron and Rufus waiting for her in the lobby.
"Ron, what did you find?"
"SK, the only useful footage we could find was in the parking lot," Ron said. "It looks like they went to a car and jacked it, before sending the robot off in the other direction. But the footage wasn't really good quality, so I couldn't get a good look at the car."
"Lets head back to the transport, do an aerial sweep of the area," She said. "See if we can find where they went."
As they left the hospital, they were making their way towards the hover transport when something struck Ron hard in the back of the head, knocking him over.
"OW! SK, WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" Ron yelled, rubbing the back of his head. Acting on the natural instinct of another life, Syntho-Kim sprang into a defensive position, sighing with relief when she saw what hit Ron.
"Ron, it's okay," She said, trying hard not to giggle. "Look."
Looking up, he saw one of the spare Kimmunicators hovering in the air, which he immediately took hold of. The small engines shut off and retracted into the small device before a tone of four beeps filled the air. Answering it, the face of Wade appeared on the screen.
"Hey Ron, I sent you a spare Kimmunicator since I couldn't get hold of you with the other one," He said. "What happened to it?"
"Eaten by a bear," Ron said, registering the confusion on Wade's face. "Don't ask."
"Oh yeah, GJ filled me in on the details about your new partner for the mission. So did you two find anything yet?"
"Only that Frugal Lucre and Dr Fen are working with Drakken and Motor Ed," Syntho-Kim said, trying to work out their unexpected team up. "What about you Wade? You find anything of use?"
"Well I did turn up something that may give you a lead," Wade said, punching up a screenshot from a security camera. "This was captured just a few hours ago, take a good look."
On the screen, they saw a figure wearing a trenchcoat and a large fedora hat, but the face was magnified to reveal it to be Frugal Lucre.
"He was last seen heading towards this location," Wade said, punching up the co-ordinates of a large building somewhere in Upperton. "From the looks of it, I say its a lair of Motor Ed's."
"Good job Wade," Syntho-Kim said. "We'll check it out. Let's go Ron."
Switching the Kimmunicator off and putting it into his pants pocket, they boarded the hover craft, Syntho-Kim firing the engines up and blasting off into the sky. Noticing Ron was yawning, she turned to look at him.
"Ron, get some sleep. I'll wake you when we get there."
"Okay KP..I mean SK," Ron said, realising his mistake. Closing his eyes, he fell fast asleep with Rufus nodding off on his shoulder. Looking at the sight, the Syntho-Kim couldn't help but smile. Ron really did look sweet when he was asleep.
Wait! What am I thinking? She thought, shaking her head. He loves me...the real me. Yet...the real me never fell for him, I did. Okay, focus Kim...ugh, 903...we got a rescue mission to do here. Just...just see him as a friend like Kim always did...just don't focus on...on...
She sighed, clasping a hand to her eyes as it got to much for her.
"...how much I love him," She whispered to herself.
-RS & KP-
Unknown Location
Is this really what people really watch on TV? Drake thought, while watching a show he found after hours of channel surfing, only to start watching some generic teen drama show about everyday typical teen issues that had been covered in practically every teen drama ever made. For crying out loud, why am I still watching this?
Switching the TV off, Drake sighed and wandered about the main control room, looking at the still form of Kim Possible in her stasis chamber.
Well, Sleeping Beauty ain't going nowhere, Drake thought, heading over to a computer and going through several files to pass the time. First he went through Drakken's plan, checking the various stages and saw he required not only data on the Hephaestus project but other technology as well for his army, which Drake had to admit was pretty impressive. Going through the other files, he found one label 'Be-Be: Final Design Specs' which he opened up and let out a wolf whistle.
Note to self, see if Dr D can build me one of those.
Opening up a few more files, he found original mission specs for himself in case he was activated during the Diablo plan, to act as Synthodrone #901's brother and befriend Stoppable to keep him distracted. Of course, Drakken didn't have the skills to fix Drake due to his origin and required someone with experience in neural patterns, such as their prisoner, Dr Anne Possible. What interested him was his origin occured after a little known event Drakken called 'The M Incident,' which meant Shego was classified as his sister after being created from copied brain patterns that were saved onto a device called the Moodulator, which was implanted in Drake's brain to give him real emotions.
Wonder what effect the Moodulator had on Shego? Drake wondered.
Going through some security tapes, he found footage of some of Drakken's past world domination attempts, one of which caught his eye. Playing the file labelled 'M-Incident:DO NOT PLAY', Drake watched as Drakken attempted to work on some sort of remote control while Shego was behaving quite oddly. She seemed to show a lot of affection for Drakken, which he found very disturbing.
"Wait a sec, what's Shego doing now?" Drake muttered to himself, noticing that she wrapped her arms around Drakken's neck and brought her face closer to his, giving him a affectionate Eskimo kiss which made Drake shudder. "Okaaaay, well at least she didn't make...out...with...oh, now that's just nasty."
Deciding to not tempt fate any further, Drake stopped the video and looked for more video files, noticing one which read 'FORGOT SHEGO'S BIRTHDAY:REALLY DO NOT PLAY'. Clicking on the file and watching the event play before him, Drake started chuckling, propping his feet up on the desk and leaning back in the chair.
"Now that's entertainment," Drake said, watching as a terrified Drakken ran from a very annoyed Shego, dodging her plasma blasts.
SC90'S Chapter Follow Up
Hi there, this is SC90 with another chapter follow up. I know it's been a while since I last posted but I was busy wrestling with some personal demons that unfortunately got the better of me one night, which resulted in the police having to find me and take me to a hospital for medical care. I guess young readers may not understand what I went through, while more mature readers know what I am talking about. Let's just say I'm lucky to have been found in time, before something terrible happened.
Oh and the votes are in and since I don't want to spoil the story, you'll have to find out what outcome you voted for later on down the line. Until next time then...
