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NINE
Middleton Hospital 5:33 PM
Kim was seating beside Ron's bed that, was still unconscious from the accident earlier this morning. She knew that Ron was going to be alright and could be out of the hospital and less than a week, but she was still feeling guilty even if she knew that it was Ron's choice to come with her on the mission on the first place.
Hearing the door opening, pulled her out of her thoughts and turned around thinking that it was a nurse, but it turn out that it was her silver-haired counterpart. Kim didn't know why but part of her blamed the girl that just entered the room for the disaster that had happened in the city today but her rational mind told her that she was being immature.
"Hey," K said, nodding toward her.
"What happened?" Kim asked her, getting up from her chair, "Wade told me that you were being chased by the police."
K nodded, looking out of the window of the room, "Yeah, turn out I'm a wanted criminal for something I haven't done yet."
"I've heard about that too," Kim said, looking back down at Ron.
K noticed her gaze toward the unconscious boy and walked beside the redhead. They were roughly the same height, even if K was a little taller than Kim. It was as if they were twin sisters.
"Who is he?" she asked.
Kim looked at her counterpart in confusion, "It's Ron Stoppable, best friend since Pre-K…wait you didn't have Ron as a friend in Pre-K?"
"Pre-school isn't such a good memory of mine," K said, looking at the boy her eyes narrowing, "Even thought, he look familiar thought."
"I can't believe you grew up without Ron," Kim said, a slight smile on her face.
But K didn't smile thought as her silver eyes met her greens ones.
"I didn't exactly grew up with my family either," she answered darkly.
Kim's smile disappeared as soon as she heard that. She just realized that she didn't know anything about her counterpart at all. Ever since that first meeting back at the Museum nearly a week ago, the silver-haired girl had stayed on the back of her mind most of the time and she was starting to wonder what kind of life she had lead.
"I'm…sorry," she said, softly.
"It's not your fault," K answered her now taking a stance by the wall and leaning against it, "just be grateful that you grew up with what you have. You might never know when life will grasp it away."
Silence fell after that declaration and Kim turned her attention toward the sleeping boy on the hospital bed.
"I know that feeling all too well," she said, "I felt horrible thinking about how I could have lost Ron today."
K didn't answer but was content to listen to her spoken out.
"I didn't know what to think, nor say. It was almost like everyone you've seeing with a small on their faces and you're wondering how can they be so happy when you're in pain?"
Kim turned toward her, a glimmer of determination on her face.
"What was your life like?"
K looked at her with almost a glare making her eyes seeming to glow a little. She was watching Kim with such intensity that makes the teen hero advert her gaze from her. Feeling as if she had being a little too cruel to the redhead, K sighed softly wondering if she would feel better talking to her other self about what she had endured.
"What do you want to know?"
Kim looked up again and K could see a myriad of questions swirling in the two emerald green eyes, but her mouth only said, "How did you get your power?"
K stayed silent thinking back to the day of the Comet, and after a while she started.
"I was nearly seven," she started, "It was just an ordinary day in Middleton. Sun is shining and everything was as it should be in the life of a family, then everything turned to chaos when NASA discovered something in the sky, speeding toward the planet with a strange white or silvery substance around it. They called it the Silver Trigger."
"Silver Trigger?" Kim said, thinking about the name and the name that her counterpart was called, "but that's…"
"The name I called myself, I know," K said darkly, "I don't know who came up with the name so don't ask. My father James Possible and a group of scientists examined the Comet and they discovered that the Comet had an unusual energy coming from it."
"Unusual…"
"Yeah, and the Government decided to destroy the thing while it's still in the space with some new nuclear device, forgot what its called," K said, frowning slightly at her hazy memories, "Then on the day of when the Comet was coming close to the atmosphere they fired two nuclear missiles at it, exploding the thing into millions of pieces…"
K stopped slightly at that, closing her eyes and shuddering, trying not to let any tears falls out.
"K…," Kim asked, seeing the reaction.
"They thought they destroyed it, but a piece of the Comet had broken off from the destroyed part and the course had changed and was now speeding straight for Middleton."
Flashback
Cheers and applauses were heard in the large Command Center of NASA, as they watched the destruction of the large Comet in the skies into thousands of colors. James Possible and his teammates from the Rocket Division were the only one who weren't celebrating.
"I still say that it was a bad idea to attack the Silver Trigger Comet while in the atmosphere, we could have caused something more terrible."
"I can agree to that," Drew Lipsky said narrowing his eyes, "they are many variables of what could happen afterwards. The chards of the Comet could still hurtle toward Earth…"
He barely finished his sentence when a beeping noise quieted down the room and the Head of NASA, Martin Rocket turned toward it and said, "What is happening?"
"The computer had detected an energy pattern," one of the technicians at the computer yelled, "It's from the Silver Trigger Comet."
"What?" General Smith said.
"We have a visual of the chard of Silver Trigger," another technician yelled and one the screen a piece of the comet surrounded by what look like…a shield of some kind…was still hurtling past the atmosphere.
"What is the calculated route?" Will Du, Head of GJ yelled.
The tech made a quick typing on his computer and a red line appeared on the graph starting from the CGI Comet, and rolled down toward a familiar city…
"No…," James said, his eyes wide.
The Comet shard was heading straight for Middleton.
The entire room was silent as they watched in horror of what they had just done. James himself could only see his pregnant wife and six, almost seven year old daughter and he feel his hands feel sweaty and shaking. Swallowing heavily, he darted out of the room running like hell.
"James, where you…?" Lipsky started.
"My wife and children live in Middleton Drew," James said, his voice almost panicking, "I need to get them out."
Drew Lipsky almost swore at this. Off course, James and Anne moved to Middleton last summer, and he had almost forgotten about it until the man had told him.
"Fly James then, fly."
James only nodded and ran.
End of flashback
K simply looked down on the floor, "I remember when he came running in the house yelling at all of us to get out of the house, and all around the neighborhood people were running or in their cars. It was mass panic and hysteria all around. Dad couldn't drive and since mom was almost at the end of her pregnancy…it was as if everything was happening at the wrong time."
Kim was silent, now having silent tears running down her face. Hearing that made her think of her own parents and everything…
"We were running," K continued her eyes now had a faraway look on it, "everyone was running, and then I saw the Comet."
Flashback
Kim didn't understand what was going and why everyone were acting so crazy. She was just starting her lunch when Dad busted in the house yelling about abandoning the house and leave quickly. She only had chance to grab her Pandaroo toy before they were out on the streets which had cars and other people running and some cars were crashing into others and people were abandoning their cars, screaming in terror.
Holding on her father's leg, Kim was looking around in confusion until she saw a light in the sky. She was so shocked that she let go of her Dad's pants, to stare at what seemed to be a star falling from the sky.
But didn't they told her that stars never get too close to Earth and that it was traditional to wish upon a star when it got close.
"KIM," her father yelled.
Kim turned her attention toward the voice of her Dad then…
White and pain was the only thing that her mind remembered next.
End of flashback
"My body feels like it was being rip apart atoms from atoms," K said, "like every internal organs of your body is on fire. I never wanted to experience something like that again. I couldn't think, couldn't breathe, I couldn't even scream but I could hear everything all around me. Screams, crashing and explosions or at least I thought it was and they were a number of things popping like balloons...then I don't remember anything else except fading into the dark as everything turned quiet."
Kim was listening with horror on her features and her eyes were glistering meaning she was near tears now, and K was slightly shaking, keeping the emotional turmoil within her and could feel the lump growing on her throat, a sign meaning that she was going to cry…
Don't cry please, don't cry, she pleaded to herself.
Stealing herself, K approached the redhead teen and seated beside her and put an arm around her and then she continued her story.
"I think I did die at one point," she said softly, "but I was revived somehow, and by all right I should have died that day. Every scientific theory they come up with was a 95 percent chance that I should have died like everyone did at Middleton but I survived. The next memory I have been waking up in the Go City Hospital after seven months in a coma."
Flashback
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The sound was what Kim first heard as she came to her senses. Her body felt stiff as if she had moved in days and she was incredibly weak. She was also hungry making her stomach feel like someone had constricted it. Kim didn't know what was wrong and why she was so…weak and wondered where Mom and Dad were.
She tried to remember what had happened but what came up were white flash and screams, and a lot of fuzzy images. Tasting her dry lips, Kim opened her mouth and let out a dry gasp and swallowed to take away the large thirst that she was feeling right now.
Before she could think about anything else, Kim Possible fall into a dreamless sleep…
Two weeks later
Kim had woken up again, and this time a nurse was in the room taking notes on her clipboard and a Doctor was with her. She watched them and they were talking about something called Silver Trigger and also she heard the word 'disaster' and 'thousand dead' many times.
"No changes in our patient?"
"Her brain waves were in RMI sleep for the past week, and from what I've gathered from before she seemed to have woken up for a few seconds…"
"I still can't believe she is still alive after all," the doctor said, shaking his head.
Kim let out a small gasp of breath and the two turned toward her and she could see that their eyes widened in shock, but she was too confused to care.
"Oh my god…" the man said, crossing over toward her and leaned, "Kim can you hear me?"
Kim tried to answer but her voice was still too weak only letting out gasp of exhaustion. The nurse was already writing on her clipboard in rapid strokes as the Doctor whom Kim read as N. Thompson on his I.D. in his coat, continued to examine her.
End of flashback
K sighed, still seating with her counterpart, "Next thing I knew, the entire world knew about the girl that survived the Middleton Catalyst. I've gotten 'get well' cards from practically everyone. Movie stars whom donated money for my welfare, and even the President himself showed up to met me. It was nice from all of them to do this but, none of them could have filled the gaping hole my parents used to fill."
Without she even know it, tears were falling from K's eyes, "I was so devastated and I felt like the weight of the world where my shoulders. I felt so much pain and lost that I was numb to everything. I shut out the world, and tried to kill myself…"
Kim looked at her, shock and horror on her face.
"I just couldn't take it anymore," K said, her entire body shaking, "I just couldn't live without them and I couldn't go on. So I tried jumping off a building, and Shego saved my life."
"She…Shego?"
"Yeah," K said, "she had saved a bank from getting robbed and was simply going back to Go City when she saw me on the edge of the building and jumping down. She caught me and we both landed a pillow truck."
She let out a hollow laugh at that.
"She knew who I was off course," K continued, "but she didn't do anything except treat me like an ordinary teen and she talked some sense in my head, in her own sarcastic way off course."
Kim couldn't imagine the Shego she known doing something like this but she remembered that Shego used to be a hero, but it was still hard.
"With her visiting when she can, I started to get out of the shell that I had grew around me, and little by little, she liberated me from the devastation that I had felt and the days started to blind in together and months and next things, years…
Then, on my thirteenth birthday, this happened."
While saying the emphasized word, her hand was enveloped in plasma.
"The plasma…?" Kim asked.
"Remember about the unusual energy that the Silver Trigger Comet had?" K asked, "Well, it seems that the energy had somehow merged with my DNA during the Catalyst. I didn't know that off course, and that was when Shego decided to train me into controlling it and we've discovered something about my power, the one I have gotten from the Comet."
Kim looked at the girl.
"What is that?"
K looked at the plasma enhanced hand, "It seems that my power somehow can absorb the powers of others."
Kim looked at her, "Huh?"
So now you know where the name come from. but don't worry, the rest is in the next chapter which i'll udpate in a few days. oh, well now review people since its a great thing for a writer to see that his work his appreciated.
Jacques0 out.
R&R.