World's Best Assassin

VI – Rogue Status

By Pat Squared


Dr. Betty Director was mortally tired.

On her desk was a five inch thick report written by her executive assistant William Stu. It covered everything and illuminated nothing.

Everything was going down the drain. For decades she dreamt of forming the world best crime-fighting organization. Global Justice performed where Interpol and the local law fail.

Now she was threaten with the loss of her two best agents.

Kimberly Ann P. Stoppable was the best director of operations and training that anyone could ever ask for. The quality of Global Justice agents' sky rocketed once she was in charge and the number of botched operations dramatically fell. Even eight months pregnant, Kim would work tirelessly to ensure that Global Justice agents returned back to their families unharmed.

Ron – Ron was unique. Ron seemed to know were the action was. It was instinctive, some inborn talent that years of experience only sharpened. He would often nip the problem in the bud before a GJ Special Tasks Team who be needed. No criminal mastermind could sneak up on Global Justice. Ron owned the shadows.

Ron was Global Justice's roving eye and fixer. He was out in the field, semi-independent from everyone else, a sentinel, protecting the world and the ranks of Global Justice agents.

Dr. Director wanted to disbelieve the report on her desk. She wanted to believe that Ron staged to so that he could claw his way deeper into the criminal underbelly. However, she could not deny what happen.

Ronald Dean Possible went rogue.

Firstm Ronald Dean Possible destroyed Kim's psyche. Ronald Dean Possible assassinated the son of the Chinese Ambassador to London. Then Ronald Dean Possible killed four London constables when they arrive in on a shots fired call..

Dr. Teller spent weeks debriefing Kim Possible. The tales of the monster seem so unreal. Ron was synominous with the term gentle. He was a dedicated family man. He was the type of man you wanted to cover your back.

Beneath the dog like loyalty was a volcano of hurt and the volcano erupted. Dr. Director personally managed this investigation herself. The stakes were way too high.

After a lengthy debriefing, Ron's Moscow handler confessed that the myths of Vasilii Alexovich Boiarskii's brutal history were true. That he would resort to brutality -Friends, family, associates of anyone who cross Boiarskii was marked for death. Even the family pet would die.

Worse were all the operations that Ron did off the books.

Eastern and Central Europe was quiet. Quiet because Ron acted as judge, jury, and executioner. Ron did things that would make any Gestapo interrogator queasy. To him the ends justified any means.

The Ron Stoppable that she knew was gone, replaced by something as evil as any criminal that Global Justice ever faced.

Worse,Dr. Directorwould have to break the news to Kim. She would have to shatter the faith Kim had in her ability to save Ron. She would have to declare Ron Stoppable a rogue. She would have to hunt down and maybe kill someone she once considered a close friend.

"Stu, this file is classified Director's Eyes Only. Not even Kim is allowed to see this."

"But...but."

"Stu, I will talk to Kim.

"I will deal personally with the Ron situation. Prepare an order for all Global Justice agents to drop what they are doing and apprehend Vasilii Alexovich Boiarskii. Bring him in - Preferably alive, but if necessary in a body bag. Ron has cross the line and I want him in our hands before he can do anymore harm."

Stu looked at his mentor. She seemed tired.

"I thought we were talking about Ron Stoppable."

Betty Director shook her head.

"Tell no one that Vasilii is Ron!"

"Why?"

Betty suppressed the urge to smack some sense into Stu's thick skull.

"Ron has become one of the bad guys, Stu. I don't want anyone to know that Ron, that my best agent broke faith. If we tell the agnets tonight, it all will be in the tabloids tomorrow."

"Then what charges?"

"Vasilii will be wanted for the murders in London, the numerous human rights violations he committed, and the violation of trade and arms embargos. The Chinese already put a five million Euro bounty on his head; we have to find Ron before one of their pawns do."

Dr. Betty Director walked to Kim's office. She was in a meeting with her department subheads.

"Kim, I need to talk to you now, alone."

Kim instinctively knew that it was about Ron. The department subhead grabbed their files and ran out of the office.

Dr. Betty Director ensured that the office was locked. She put the DVD into the machine and turned on the flat screen TV. Vladimir's confession was playing.

"Sit down and listen."

Stunned, Kim obeyed.

"It's Ron...He has gone rogue."

Fifteen minutes later, Kim Stoppable had to be taken to the hospital. She fell and her water broke a month early.

Dr. Director cursed fate. She muttered a brief prayer for Kim and the baby, before ordering Global Justice to send a team to collect the Stoppable children and her parents. Kim would need family at this time.

Dr. Director had no choice. She personally signed the execution order on Ron Stoppable.