Chapter 8- The Third Part to Rejecting is Running like Hell Pt. 1
"Well…this sucks," Ron's words echoed throughout the room as everyone sat in front of the blank T.V.
"Yeah, that pretty much sums it up," echoed Kim. Senseless destruction, and Tara…oh God no Tara, she thought as she continued to try to figure out what the hell was going on.
"Wait a sec… call Wade up, he had a lock on our chips the entire night," explained Ron.
"Already tried that," answered Tim, "It seems that your chips were reactivated at 8:12 P.M near Smarty Mart. At 8:17 P.M. an explosion leveled Smarty Mart and most of the buildings in the surrounding area. At 8:22, there was a break-in at the Middleton Jewelry Emporium. Four minutes later, a bomb went off, throwing the jewels, mostly diamonds, into the passing crowd. 36 dead, 272 wounded. At 8:27, the Middleton Space Center launched a rocket at Beijing, China-," Tim read off a sheet, his voice getting darker with each announcement.
"Wait, a rocket went off in downtown Beijing?" asked Ron, thoroughly scared at the implications.
"No," started Jim, "The US Military was able to destroy the rocket, but now there is talk of a retaliatory attack."
Tim massaged his temples then continued, "20 minutes later, the…" he paused and set the sheet down on the table, "The point is, over 3,000 people across the globe died tonight and God knows how many were wounded, millions, if not billions of dollars in property damage. After all the damage that was inflicted, they had to close down the schools, airports, train depots, I mean, everything is shut down worldwide. I'm amazed that you guys didn't see anything out of the ordinary as you drove home. Oh and one more thing, where ever there was a crime, your tracking signals showed up. It got so bad that Wade had to release the knockout drug he keeps in the chips into your blood stream. Only it didn't slow you down, if anything, you did more damage." Tim finished with disgust in his voice.
That's why we both fell asleep during the make-out session, Kim thought with a shock as her mind still tried to wrap around the fact that she and Ron were now accused of killing over 3,000 people.
"Mom, Dad you have to believe us when we say that we didn't do this. I know how this looks, but we didn't have any reason to do any of it," Kim pleaded.
"Oh, one more thing," said Jim as he pulled out a Jimmunicator and hit a button, "Wade found these and hid them to buy you more time."
On the screen was a grainy picture from a security camera at the Middleton Space Center. It showed Kim and Ron making out inside the Center with both their fingers on the launch button for one of the many rockets.
"Hey, that's you and…" Ron trailed off as he realized that what was happening on the screen, "Oh, this is bad isn't it?"
"You think?!" yelled Wade as he patched through on Kim's Kimmunicator, "What the hell happened tonight guys?!" Everyone started at the Kimmunicator in shock, Wade rarely swore, and when he did, you knew it was time to pay attention, "You know there are hits the site right now calling for the arrest and execution of both of you right now?"
"Wade have you started to tell them about what we've been doing these last three years?" questioned Kim with a scared tone in her voice as she thought of being executed for something she didn't do, "I mean three years without any deaths and in one night without any provocation, we just flip? Have you mentioned that fact to them?" her voice was nearly a scream now. A touch from Ron calmed her down as Wade continued, unfazed.
"Yeah, but 3,000 deaths in one night, that kinda stands out in people's minds than three years. Oh and why didn't the knockout drugs work on you two?" asked an irate Wade.
"They did, KP and I were almost late home because you activated them," spoke Ron. Everyone in the room looked skeptically at Ron and Kim as Wade did a check on his screens, "The drug was released, but…Tim, I need you to hold the Kimmunicator over Ron's forearm." Tim did that while Wade typed furiously on his keyboard, "And Kim's." More typing.
After several seconds, Wade announced, "The chips were activated and did release the drug into your bloodstreams…." He trailed off as everyone realized what the implications were.
"Wait, so if you two were knocked out, but the chips were somewhere else…" started Tim.
"…That means you two have synthetic polymer doppelgangers out there," finished Jim.
"And those would be?" asked Ron, "I mean, Kim might not have understood it."
Rolling her eyes, Kim answered, "Clones, Ron."
He looked at Jim and Tim, "Oh, well let's not jump to conclusions guys," started Ron and he rose to his feet. When everyone stared at him for a better explanation, he sat down and said, "Oh what the hell, we'll take what we can get. It's clones."
"Wade can you broadcast this, tell the world that we didn't do this?" Kim asked.
"No, all the evidence suggesting clones did it and not you is circumstantial, it's your word versus eyewitness accounts."
"And the scans?"
"Taken now by a known ally of Team Possible and they only show that I released the knock out drug into your system. Which is exactly what I told GJ when they called 20 minutes ago," Wade explained.
"Wait, so you told GJ that you released the drug into our system?" asked Kim, angry at what seemed like her tech support selling her out.
"Yes, I had to tell them otherwise they'd have taken everything," Wade defended.
She closed her eyes and massaged her temples, "Fine, so we know its clones, which brings us to square two: what now?" asked Kim, trying to find some glimmer of hope.
"Well, you two have an outstanding warrant right now, so I suggest that you lay low. I mean even Drakken and Shego have been bumped aside for this," advised Wade.
"Will do, Wade, anything else?"
"No Kim, I'm sorry about what's going on right now. I'll do what I can on my end, but I don't know how much longer I'll be able to help you guys. I'm going to shut down your chips permanently, just in case GJ comes here in person looking for you instead of just calling, to try to find you," he hit a button on his keyboard and both teens felt a slight pinch in their arms, "All right, done. You two should get some sleep, though. Don't worry about the authorities showing up until tomorrow, their hands are pretty busy at the moment, and I sent them on a false trail that supposedly leads to you. But right now, they're more focused on their detention facility here in Middleton."
"Why, or is it something that I really don't want to know?" asked Ron.
"Seems you two targeted one of GJ's holding facilities for the criminally insane-" he started.
Kim hung her head in her hands, "-And all the inmates escaped?" she finished.
"All but one, a certain Jack Thompson," he looked up at the two of them, "Small world, huh? Seems that the clones purposely left him in his cell while letting all the others go."
He was about to sign off but Kim stopped him, "Wade, what should we do tomorrow? GJ will probably be here when we wake up."
"Jack mentioned that something bad would be happening right? You should probably ask him to tell you what he knows, seeing as he was left there in Global Justice confinement. But you're still wanted for what happened tonight aren't you…hmmm. You'll have to find someone who'll ask him for you," he signed off.
The room was silent as everyone was left to their thoughts. Ron was the first to break the silence with, "Well Possibles, I better be getting home. I don't want to cause you guy's unnecessary damage that comes with a police incursion."
He got up to leave but was stopped by Anne Possible, "Nonsense Ron, you'll stay in the guest room tonight," she clapped her hands together, wiped her eyes and took a breath, "It's been a busy night, lets all go to bed."
Everyone got up, but sat back down as she spoke again, "Kim, Ron…we…I wanted to apologize for my behavior tonight. You both are family and families aren't supposed to do jump to conclusions like this. We're supposed to trust each other…I'm sorry for the way I acted without asking you to explain yourselves. I apologize."
"Yes, same here. Ronald, you've been good to Kimmie-Cub and I trust you both to make the right decisions. I'm sorry for my actions," apologized James Possible. The tweebs nodded in agreement.
"No big, it's a lot to take in at the moment. I think we all need to get to bed," said Kim.
Rufus scrambled out of Ron's pocket and started chittering like mad, pointing at them and at the door. Ron nodded in agreement with Rufus and asked, "Hey, why are we staying here for tonight? I mean, shouldn't we escape while they aren't looking for us?"
"And go where Ron? Who will take us in now, apart from our parents? The world hates us and if we leave now, people will find us and I'm pretty sure that they won't be happy when they find us," Kim asked.
"Oh," he turned to Rufus, "That's why buddy."
Everyone departed to their rooms and struggled to find sleep as it eluded them, leaving them with the memories of the day on their mind.
Around midnight, Kim got up and headed for the bathroom, sleep had been denied her from the moment she lay in her bed, and now she just needed a class of water.
Opening the door, she saw Ron was already in there, hunched over the toilet with his hands on his knees. Hearing the door open, he turned and saw Kim leaning against the doorframe.
"You all right Ron?" she asked in the scared voice she only used as a child when there had been thunderstorms outside.
"Yeah KP, just had to get a drink of…oh god-" he hunched over the toilet and vomited.
She was at his side in an instant. Looking into his eyes, she saw something she had never before seen, not even when facing Monkey Fist and his monkey horde: fear.
"What are we going to do KP? I mean what the hell are we going to do? The world hates us, and to be honest, I don't blame them. 3,000 dead in one night? Hell, not even Drakken did something that big and he had three years to get a body count started," he turned back to the toilet and spit out some bile that was left in his mouth.
"Ron…I don't know, I'm just as scared as you are now, if not more. I just don't understand it," she leaned back against the wall and slid down as Ron wiped his mouth and spit a final time into the toilet bowl before flushing it. He walked over to the sink washed out his mouth, brushed his teeth and sat down next to her. Sighing, he draped an arm around her to give her comfort. She continued, "I mean, we've served the world, done nothing but good for the last three years and they think that in one night… that we're going to change our policy?"
"KP, people change their minds all the time if they're given the proper motivation. While I have yet to understand why, I know that if they can change their mind one way, they can change it back just as quickly," he looked down at the green eyed beauty leaning against him and smiled his classic Ron smile before kissing her.
She returned the kiss and for several minutes the only sound in the bathroom was the sound of them kissing.
He pulled back and simply said, "We should get to bed."
She nodded and they both stood up. Instead of going back to her room, Kim followed Ron into the guest room and laid down beside to him. He wrapped an arm around her and pulled her close as he felt her crying into his shoulder.
He clutched her that much tighter and slowly rocked her back and forth, softly singing to her. Within minutes, they were both asleep.
James Possible had heard a noise downstairs and he got up quietly to investigate. He looked got to the hallway just in time to see Kim walk into the bathroom. Getting close to the door, he heard Ron and Kim talking. A few minutes later of listening to their conversation, he heard them both get to their feet and he beat a hasty retreat away from the bathroom door and into an unused linen closet. Looking through the propped open closet door, he saw both Kim and Ron enter the guest bedroom. I don't care what I said earlier, I'm going to kill that boy, he thought as he exited the closet. Pausing at the door, he heard whispering and a rhythmic rocking sound coming from inside the room. He pushed the guestroom door open a bit and was shocked to see Kim and Ron not having sex, but instead seeing Ron hold Kim as she cried. He also noticed that Ron was rocking her to sleep and singing to her at the same time. Wiping his eyes, James realized that he used to sing that exact song to Kim when she was young. Now Ron was singing it to her, in the same way.
No more black hole threats for that boy. I don't care if I come home and find them naked on the couch, Ron's shown himself to be a man worthy of Kim, he thought as he turned around to find the rest of his family gathered behind him. He made a motion to tell everyone to go back to bed as he and Anne did a final peek into the guest room to see that both Ron and Kim had fallen asleep in each other's arms.
"Anne, I think we may be looking at our future Son-in-Law," announced James.
"I don't think Kim could choose anyone better," Anne replied as they both went back to bed.
"GO! GO! GET UP! GET UP!" yelled Jim and Tim as they burst into the guest bedroom.
Ron and Kim both sat up quickly, scrambling to get out of each other's arms.
Seeing their discomfort at being caught Jim yelled, "Forget that! Global Justice is on the doorstep right now talking to Dad. They're going to take you away to who knows where…You've got to get up. We'll buy you time. GO!"
Both Kim and Ron put on their mission clothes, Kim in her room and Ron had a change in the guest room.
Jim and Tim watched the Ron enter Kim's loft to figure out how to escape. The tweebs then ran into their room and started rummaging throughout their gadgets struggling to formulate a plan themselves.
"Memory scrambler?" volunteered Tim holding up a tuning fork with a miniature satellite dish and a car battery attached to it.
"No, we can't risk hitting Mom and Dad. Grappler Beam?" replied Jim.
"On Kim's car. How about the Electro Retractor?" countered Tim with an eyebrow raised as he held up a stick with a disco ball fixed to the top and a wide base on the bottom.
Thinking for a moment, "You do know we could get 25 to life if we screw it up?" asked Jim.
"So, it'll be worth it to see the looks on their faces," Tim argued.
"Hoosha," his counterpart agreed.
In Kim's room, both teens were trying to figure out what to do, "Back door?" volunteered Ron.
"They'll have that watched. Front door?" asked Kim as she started throwing mission items into a bag. She reached for the Kimmunicator, but stopped as she remembered that if GJ got a hold of Wade, they could track them.
"Uh, Hello? Guys with guns at door. The garage?"
"They'd shoot us on sight if we tried to make a break for it. If only we could find a place that they didn't know about…" she trailed off as Ron's face lit up as he said a single word.
"Yori."
"I don't see any reason for you gentlemen to be here-" started Mr. Possible as he was interrupted by the Global Justice officers. Both were attired in full body armor and wearing helmets that made it was impossible to determine who they were, but their body language suggested that these men knew what they could do and were not afraid to do it.
"Sir, your daughter and that outsider are the chief suspects in last night's murder and destruction. We need to bring them back to headquarters for a few questions," answered the one to the left in an angry tone. He felt a bit of pressure on his elbow and looked at his partner who was standing next to him.
"You'll have to forgive my partner, he's a little…eager. This…" the man on the right pulled a blue slip of paper out of his pocket, and quietly continued, "…is a warrant that grants us the ability to arrest Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable. We received a tip early this morning telling us that we could find them here. Now, if you do not move out of the way and let us in, you all will be guilty of aiding and abetting fugitives of the law and we wouldn't want that." The man to the right finished in a quiet and gentle voice.
Dr. Possible turned to look back at his wife and sons, seeing what Jim and Tim had in their hands, he smiled quickly and addressed the officers, "Of course officers, please come-"
Both the officers cocked their heads for an instant as they got orders and then pushed past Dr. Possible into the house.
CRASH! Behind them, Ron flew through Kim's upstairs window, landed on the driveway and lay still. Kim followed moments later and pulled Ron to his feet while he nurtured his shoulder that looked like it had been popped out of it's socket. Kim gave it a quick push and it popped back in. They looked to see if they had been spotted and seeing the GJ officers in the house ran towards the GTO still parked out front. The Global Justice Agents turned as one and fired but their guns missed as they were pulled out of their grasp as Jim and Tim activated their Electro Retractor, the bar with the disco ballon top that could pull anything metallic towards it. Using that distraction, Kim and Ron got into the car, peeled out and drove away from the Possible residence. While the GJ officers stared at the Tweebs in shock, James took the moment to yank off their helmets to reveal-
"Hirotaka?" he yanked off the second one's helmet, "and Fukushima? I thought you both worked for the Yamanuchi School," said Dr. Possible. Kim and Ron had told the Possible clan about the some of the missions that took place while at the Yamanuchi School (the one's that Sensei had allowed them to speak of) and had instantly recognized them from their pictures that Wade had provided.
Not answering their question, Hirotaka pushed a button on his wrist and within 30 seconds, Global Justice officers swarmed the area. "Dr. James, Dr. Anne, Timothy and James Possible. I hereby place you all under arrest for aiding and abetting two known felons. Take them away."
The agents cuffed the Possibles and hauled them out the door as Hirotaka called over the radio, "I'm going to need an APB on a black, 1966 Pontiac GTO. Hatchback, new Rims, license plate number: F-C-K-U-H-I-R-O."
He paused as the operator on the other line started to snicker and soon the entire radio resounded with people laughing. Hirotaka paused as he recalled the license plate number again and instantly knew whose car it really was.
"Damn you, Jack Thompson."
Disclaimer I don't own Kim Possible, Disney does, I just write about it.
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