Partners in Crime
By Weirdbard
Chapter 10
Warning the chapter starts to grow a little dark towards the end.
Kim was tired and more than a little cranky. After getting the call from Wade, she spent almost the entire night prowling the area that Harley Quinn had been sighted in, in the hope she would run across her and possibly Ron's trail but no luck was to be had.
Finally, at 3 am she called off her search, went home and crashed, only to be awakened at 8 am by Global Justice calling. She knew Wade wouldn't be able to keep the video footage to himself forever and sure enough when the owners of the electronic shop got in that morning and saw what their surveillance camera had picked up; they had called the local police which had contacted Global Justice. To keep Wade from getting into trouble for withholding information Kim had to act as if this was the first she had heard of it and rushed to the scene along with Will Du to 'look for clues'.
"I would have assumed you would be more enthusiastic about looking for signs of your sidekick." Du commented as Kim leaned against the wall of the store and yawned.
"Well it's not likely they would still be around considering the tape showed it was about 7 last night when they were through here." Kim pointed out, rather than reveal she had already gone over this area with a fine tooth comb last night and found nothing.
"Perhaps, but this does prove they are still in the Middletown area as you would realize if you were not such an amateur." Du said almost condescendingly as he studied the sidewalk in front of the store looking for possible shoe tracks that could be traced.
"That reminds me. How goes the search for the real doctor Mozenberg?" Kim asked hiding a grin behind her hand as she pretended to yawn again.
Will Du scowled but made sure to keep Kim from seeing it. He still burned with shame remembering getting back to the mad clone doctor's lab to find the hulking machine inside was gone and having to go back to report that to Dr. Director. They had charged down to the holding cells only to find the cell he had been in contained nothing but genetic goo and one lonely looking goldfish in a bowl. Du's failure had been tempered slightly by the fact that even Kim and the Director had been fooled by the clone but Du still had been chastised by the Director for failing to not have immediately assigned a guard on Doctor Mozenberg's place and letting the man get away.
Kim wished she had been there to see the look on Du's face when they found the empty cell but at that time she had been having dinner with her family so missed it. The thought of the family dinner caused Kim's own grin to fade. "What happened to the goldfish by the way?" She asked.
Du frowned and once again wondered at Kim's thought processes. Dangerous criminals were running all over the place and all she could think to ponder was the welfare of a single fish? "Dr. Director claimed the fish as a pet and I believe she has it on her desk in her office." Was all he said in reply.
"At least someone is getting a home out of all this." Kim muttered to herself and tried to look interested in what Du was doing as he scrapped dried chewing gum off the cement and placed it in a plastic bag. What he thought he could find out from that Kim had no idea.
Not far away, Shego, Ron, Ivy and Harley Quinn
Shego was feeling a little over exposed. She was used to being a wanted criminal but all the other times she had been on the run, she had kept a low presence. This time at Harley and surprisingly Ron's urging they were walking around in bright sunlight. Sure, they still had on their trench coats and Shego was grateful that the weather had remained slightly cool and overcast so they didn't look strange in the garments but still. Criminals didn't walk around in the daylight when the authorities had every available television set in the state showing their pictures on it.
She had been shocked beyond belief when Ron had lead them last night to a fairly swanky restaurant for dinner but Ron explained that he knew from experience that the best way to be unnoticed was to be right out in the open. That if you lurk in shadows someone will see you and find that suspicious but if you are right out in the open, everyone will convince himself or herself that you can't possibly be the ones that are being searched for because those type of people hide amongst the shadows, right? Shego had been unsure of his logic but Ron had been proven correct as everyone ignored them and they were able to eat a meal in public in peace.
She had been shocked even more after the meal when she realized that no one had any money to pay for the meal and it had been Ron himself that casually asked who was planning on paying anyway? Shego couldn't help but notice the almost naughty grin on Ron's face as he and the rest of them had gotten up from the table and just walked out without paying and no one had tried to stop them. Once again Ron pointed out that people who ate in such snobby restaurants would never just walk out without paying, lowlifes like that ate at dives, not at elite eateries so everyone assumed they had paid until they were gone.
Shego quickly realized two things from that experience. One she had underestimated Ron again and two was that Ron had an innate ability when it came to psychology and figuring out how people ticked. Sure, he still claimed he was a little clueless sometimes around women although he didn't seem to have any problems earlier that day about figuring out what Ivy, Harley and her had wanted or needed.
But at last they were about to enter a situation where Shego had the experience and knowledge and Ron would have to rely on her instincts, that situation being walking into a bank and robbing it, not that Shego up to this point had pulled any bank robberies in her career. She had always considered that stuff a little beneath her. She preferred the stealthy cat burglaries or government lab thefts to the noise and tension of a crude bank heist.
As they entered the Middletown Main Bank, she glanced over to see Ron nodding his head at Rufus who was peeking out of his coat pocket. Shego watched as the small rodent leapt to the ground and ran around behind the teller windows. She wasn't sure what Ron had worked out with Rufus beforehand but she knew from past experience from her time being Drakken's henchwoman that Ron and Rufus was a devastating team.
Ron then pulled out of his pocket a small paper sign that Shego could see had the words 'Closed temporarily' in bold letting on it and stuck it to the front door, he then nodded his head towards her and casually walked over to lean on the wall a few feet away from a bank guard who looked like he was doing his best to not to fall asleep standing on his feet and was failing at that task.
Shego wanted to pull this crime off as quietly and as subtlety as she could. However, that plan went out the window as Ivy and Harley Quinn shedded their coats upon reaching the line to the tellers revealing their outlandish costumes underneath.
"Hey all." Harley called out cheerfully as she pulled the hood of her costume up and with a practiced ease tucked her blond pigtails up inside it. Shego found herself once again stunned on how well Ron managed sewing scraps of material from Drakken's lair to reproduce Harley and Ivy's original costumes. "This is a robbery. Please remain calm and no one will be hurt."
The people in line and the tellers glanced over at her, seeing the bright colorful costumes she and Ivy were wearing, and Harley's bright smile and painted white face promptly ignored her figuring it had to be some kind of joke. Harley frowned and looked over at Shego. "Shego." She called out stamping her foot as if she was a little girl pouting.
Shego sighed and pulling her own coat off she raised her hands and flared them using her plasma powers. The people in line might not have known Harley or Ivy's reputations but they did know of Shego's and they promptly screamed and dropped to the floor.
A fat and balding man that was probably the bank manager ran/waddled over to the open vault and quickly pulled it closed and spun the lock on it. "Ha. This vault is plasma proof. You will not be getting anything here today!"
The shouting and excitement woke up the dozing bank guard who immediately reached down to pull his gun.
"Sorry, I can't let you do that." He heard an apologetic voice say next to him and glanced over to see a fedora wearing young man in a trench coat standing next to him. Before he could react, Ron reached over and almost gently tapped several nerve ending points on his back and neck causing the guard to
slump to the ground instantly unconscious. Ron caught the gun the guard had partially managed to pull out of his holster before it could fall and held it in his hands.
The people in line who were now prone on the floor looked over in fear to see another apparent bank robber standing next to a downed guard that they didn't know if was dead or alive holding a gun in his hands but Ron merely glanced at the gun, flipped open the revolver and dumped the bullets into his hand. Pocketing the bullets Ron stared briefly at the gun in his hand before his eyes shown a sudden beautiful blue and he snapped the weapon into two pieces and casually tossed the pieces in different directions. "I hate guns." Was all he said in reply to Shego's raised eyebrow.
Harley and Ivy ignored the teller windows knowing the big money were not to be had there and walked over to the now closed and locked vault. Shego with a shrug moved to join them while Ron continued to hang out near the entrance to the bank.
The fat balding man was sweating but still he tried to project a sense of bravado. "I told you this vault can stand up to whatever you can throw at it." He barked at Shego ignoring the other two women.
"But can it stand up to what we can throw at it?" Harley asked and then to everyone's surprise she walked over and started dragging over a large plotted plant that had been sitting between a couple of chairs in the lobby.
"Good thing this bank uses live plants instead of plastic." She huffed to Ivy as she managed to drag the plant next to the vault door. Shego watched curiously as Ivy pulled off one of her green gloves exposing her hand and then with a slight grimace she pulled out a small knife she had obtained from the kitchen of the ruined lair and made a shallow slash across her bare hand allowing her blood to pool in her palm for a moment before turning her hand to let the blood to drip down into the soil of the plant. After a few moments, Ivy turned her hand up stopping the blood flow and Harley immediately reached out, and taking her hand, she ran her tongue across Ivy's palm cleaning it.
Ivy couldn't resist the smirk that crossed her face and said. "Now Harl, those types of games are not for public display, work now, fun time later" Ivy then pulled her hand away from her lover and pulled the glove back over her bare hand.
The bald man looked at the two women as if they were insane. "I don't know what kind of sick games you two are playing or just what do you think you are doing…" The man stopped as Ivy held up a hand to shush him and then glanced down at the plant. "Grow for momma." Ivy cooed at the plant.
The plant shuddered once and then exploded into instant and insane growth. Branches rocketed skyward as roots of the plant exploded from the pot to crawl along the edges of the vault, finding microscopic cracks and holes that human eyes wouldn't have been able to see, the plant grew into them. A loud groaning noise began almost sounding as if a submarine was under deep pressure and were about to be crushed. Everyone could tell that the noises were coming from the vault.
Harley and Ivy glanced over at the bald man and Shego. "We should move." Harley stated calmly as her and Ivy casually walked a few feet away from in front of the vault.
Shego needed no further prompting and grabbing a fistful of the bald man's shirt she pulled him to the side just as the vault with one last mighty groan popped open like a cork out of a champagne bottle.
Harley giggled and looking at the tellers and the people lying on the floor she proclaimed. "Isn't flower power a wonderful thing? You should always remember to treat Mother Nature with care, cause she can be a bitch when she is mad."
Ivy for her part ignored Harley's antics and grasping a low hanging vine of the plant that was now drapped down from the open vault doorway she kissed it gently. "Thank you baby." She cooed again at the plant. The plant shuddered in joy for being praised by its mistress.
A tall brunette teller standing at her window shook herself from her shock and reaching down she made to jab the emergency button under her desk. The button when pressed would cause heavy security shutters to slam down sealing off the teller area from the lobby and also cause a claxon to sound and shutters to seal the entrances to the bank. The teller had always thought it was kind of silly and dangerous to seal criminals inside the bank with customers but no one asked her opinion on the security measures. Taking a deep breath and hoping that no one would get hurt, she pressed the button and… Nothing happened. No alarms. No security shutters. Nothing.
Bending over the woman glanced under her counter to make sure she had hit the button and to her surprise found a small pink creature standing on a shelf below the desk looking up at her.
"Hi, hi." Rufus greeted the woman with a wave. Looking past the freaky pink thing the teller could see the wires to the alarm button had been chewed far enough back that there was no hope of even trying to manually twisting the wires together to get the alarms to work.
In irritation, the woman left her window and walking down the line she pushed other tellers out of the way and looked under their counters and in every case she saw all the wires had been severed. Finally giving up the woman moved towards the back of the bank and lifting a phone receiver off its cradle she put it to her ear. Dead silence was all that she could hear. Pulling the phone cable the woman wasn't really surprised at this point when the severed wire came into view. Obviously, the rodent had found its way here as well.
Thinking quickly the woman had one last idea and going back to her window, she reached under the counter and after looking to make sure the small pink creature was gone, she pulled out her purse. Reaching into it, she found her cell phone and quickly brought it out. She barely had time to flip it open and start to raise it to her ear when the phone suddenly exploded in a green fire ball that somehow managed to keep from singeing her fingers. The woman looked over in shock to see Shego standing at the end of the teller windows with a hand raised. Shego merely extended her forefinger and waggled it back and forth in a chastising way. "Your minutes have expired." Shego said with a smirk, she then looked at all the other tellers. "And don't force me to cancel your contracts too. I don't want to see anyone with a cell phone up going, 'can you hear me now?' Got it?"
The tellers raised their hands into the air and nervously nodded their heads.
Bonnie was terribly frustrated. There was no other way to describe it. After hearing last night that Ron was a wanted and dangerous criminal she had spent the entire night fantasying about him but it was only this morning that she realized she had no way of locating Ron to attempt to make her fantasies come true. He was on the run! He was probably miles from Middletown by now.
Finally as Bonnie was want to do, she decided a good shopping spree would help to ease her frustration and today she decided she wanted to wave real money under the noses of the clerks in the snobby stores instead of the plastic credit cards she usually used. Nothing could quite beat the intimidation factor of cold hard cash over simple plastic.
So a stop at the bank was in order. Sure she could have used the teller machine outside the bank to withdraw some money from her account but she liked being able to act superior to the tellers inside and make them practically grovel at her feet. It was one of the few places left Bonnie could get someone to treat her as she thought she should be treated, like a queen bee.
In her haste, Bonnie didn't even notice the note on the door that said, 'Temporarily Closed.' but just jerked the door open and regally marched in. Bonnie was so lost in herself didn't even notice the people lying on the floor till she had gotten almost half way across the bank's shiny marble floor. Finally, what should have been so blatantly obvious sunk past her self-absorption and made it to her brain.
"Oh shit. The bank is being robbed." Bonnie muttered to herself and turning on one heel, she made to run to the door and get out hopefully before she could be noticed. Unfortunately, as she turned she found a man in a trench coat was now standing directly behind her blocking her path and with a start she leapt back.
"I have friends in high places and if you so much as touch me I'll have you in prison for the rest of your life!" She quickly told the intimidating hulk in the trench coat with the hat pulled down low over his eyes.
"I didn't think you had any friends in any places left Bon Bon." The man replied.
Bonnie frowning tried to peer up under the hat the man was wearing to see his face. "Ron? Is that you?" She asked in confusion. Was Ron always so bulked up or had he worked out since Bonnie had last seen him?
Ron tilted his head up allowing Bonnie a good look at his face.
"It is you! I heard that you had gone over to the dark side but I couldn't believe it." She practically squealed. Reaching out a hand, she felt his arm through the coat he was wearing. "When did you get so muscular and big?
Shego hearing Ron using the word 'Bonnie' moved from her spot next to the teller windows and reached Ron moments later. Seeing the woman almost devouring Ron with her eyes she took one of his arms
possessively and pulled Ron from Bonnie's grasp, she then glared at the ex-cheerleader who in the past had been using her man as a boy toy whenever she felt randy.
A giggling and overly happy Harley came out of the vault dancing/pushing a cart loaded down heavily with bags of money. She was in her element. A nice big bank and no Batman to show up to ruin the party! Nothing could go wrong. Seeing Ron and Shego standing near the entrance with another woman piqued Harley's curiosity so abandoning the cart she strolled over.
Ivy came out of the vault a moment later pushing another cart loaded down in the same way. Ivy glared at Harley's back for a moment before shrugging and continued pushing and pulling both her and Harley's carts towards the front of the bank.
"So you are Bonnie." Shego growled at the woman.
"Yeah, so?" Bonnie glared right back. "And you are?"
Harley came up beside the group. "This is Bonnie?" Harley asked, as she looked the woman over. The woman had straight brown hair and was wearing a short white blouse tied back to expose her stomach and a good amount of her cleavage to show. Harley not generally a fan of the 'Daisy May' kind of look decided the woman did have nice perky breasts that allowed her to pull the look off. A short blue skirt and high heels that no woman outside of an expensive night club should be wearing finished off the woman's apparel. All in all, Harley decided while the woman was a little cute she wasn't overly impressed even if the woman did possess a nice rack.
"Why is everyone asking if I'm Bonnie?" Bonnie asked in annoyance
"Ahem." Ivy said loudly as she neared the group with the heavy carts filled with money. "Bank robbery in process, remember? We need to get out of here before someone does manage to call the cops."
Ron who had been staring at Bonnie nodded his head. "Hey I'm new to this. You three are the experts. What usually comes next?"
"We take hostages in case the police get here and we have to use them to negotiate our way out." Harley said instantly with a smirk that sent sudden shivers up and down Ron and Shego's back. It was the same kind of look she got when they had first met and she had convinced Ivy that she needed new pets.
Shego followed Harley's eyes and saw the woman was staring directly at Bonnie.
"Oh Hell no." Shego growled. "We are not taking the skank with us as a hostage. Look there are no police around. No one even knows we are here yet. We can just walk out!"
"I don't think so." A new voice called out from the entrance to the bank, a voice that unfortunately Ron and Shego knew all too well.
"Hey it's screeching Red." Harley called out happily looking past Ron. "She's joined the party as well."
Ron turned slowly and looked even though every fiber in his being knew who was behind him. "Hello Kim." He finally said.
Earlier….
Kim watched Agent Du as he continued to peer and ponder over the small square of walkway directly in front of the window Harley had stood at hours and hours ago. Kim was certain that there was nothing that disgusting piece of cement could reveal to them but she had to admit Du's persistence would be almost commendable if it wasn't so moronic.
Suddenly Du reached into his pocket for another plastic bag.
"What did you find another wad of used chewing gum?" Kim asked snidely.
"No, I believe it is the waste product of a canine." Du replied.
Kim blinked. "You are going to take in for a sample some dog shit you have found? That is the most stupid thing I've ever heard! Shego, Ivy and Harley don't even have a dog with them! How can this be used as a means to finding out where they have gone?!"
Du just sighed. "Untrained amateurs are hardly the perfect judges of what clues might lead to. What method would you use? Wander around the streets for all hours hoping you might stumble across them?"
Kim angrily folded her arms across her chest. "Beats cleaning up doggy crap." She muttered to herself.
Du stood up after getting his sample. "Look if you think you are capable of doing better than me with your unfocused wandering, why don't you? Go look around and see if you can find anything and after you have to admit that wandering aimlessly is not working, come back to me and we'll continue with a professional search."
Kim snorted and walked away without comment. After a short time of doing just what Du had claimed she was going to do, that being wandering aimlessly, Kim spotted someone she knew. Someone she knew and didn't like that much. Bonnie Rockwaller. Following her for a while, Kim saw Bonnie walk into a bank. Thinking nothing of it, Kim almost walked past the bank entrance when she noticed the sign on the door proclaiming it was temporarily closed. Wondering how Bonnie got into a bank that was closed she followed her inside a few moments later.
And that was how she found herself facing her childhood friend and until recently partner, Ron Stoppable
"Ron what the hell do you think you are doing?" Kim asked as soon as she could form coherent words again.
Ron looked slowly around the bank. People were still lying on the floor in the lobby. A vault door was leaning drunkenly to its side while a mutant plant continued to grow and press against the ceiling of the bank. Almost at his hand were two heavily loaded carts of money and Shego was standing at his side, while Harley and Ivy were only feet away.
"Robbing a bank?" Ron finally asked.
Harley giggled.
Kim raised her hands and started talking slowly to him as if he was a child. "Ron, you are being controlled by these women. This is not you."
Ron slowly shook his head at Kim's actions before replying. "No Kim, I'm sorry but I'm not being controlled. This really is me."
Kim shook her head in denial. "No. They are using that mind control lipstick on you, if not that then Shego must have stolen an Attitudinator and used it on you or something."
Ron frowned in annoyance. "No Kim. No Attitudinator was used and no compliance chips, no mind control lipstick, no gas or rays were used on me. This is just me deciding for myself which path my life will go on from now on."
"But…But… You've always been such a law abiding decent person." Kim said in confusion. "This is not like you to suddenly decide to break the law."
"Frankly I think this is an improvement over the loser he was. He's now a man who lives by his own rules and does what he wants to do, a man unfettered by what society thinks, a wild untamed..." Bonnie spoke up.
"Shut up Bonnie." Kim growled at her. Turning her attention back to Ron, she started in his direction. "I don't know what they have done to you, whether they stroked your ego and made it so big that you are not thinking clearly or just plain brainwashed you but once I take you in I'm sure Global Justice and I will be able to make you think and act the way you once did."
Ron really didn't want to have to fight his childhood and one time girlfriend but he wasn't going to allow Kim to take control of his life again. He had more than his fill of people doing that to him. Fortunately, he didn't have to fight Kim because as soon as she was within grabbing distance of him Harley Quinn stepped around him to block her.
"Go away Possible. Ron belongs to us now." Harley said for once without a trace of a smile on her face and placing her hands on her hips and leaning towards Kim.
"What do you mean he 'belongs' to you? What have you done to my guy?" Kim asked.
"Guy?" Harley laughed. "Trust me Ron is more than just some guy, he's all man." Harley smiled and glanced back at Shego and Ivy. "Trust us; we have had more than enough proof of that and we didn't
have to stroke anything to make it bigger. It was already huge and it sure ain't his ego I'm talking about."
Kim's eyes widened and she looked past Harley at Ron. "Ron? What does she mean by that? You didn't… With her?!"
Ron blushed slightly but then shrugged his shoulders. "What can I say? They had a mad desire for the Ron man, who was I to refuse them?"
Bonnie blinked and looked at Ron and then Shego, Ivy and Harley. "What? All of them?"
Ivy smirked at her. "What can we say? It was a very creative evening." Ivy reached down and rubbed her butt. "A little painful but creative."
Bonnie's wide eyes blinked again. "You mean… All of you, at the same time?" She nearly whispered.
Ivy didn't verbally reply but her smirk spoke volumes.
"Wow. He really has become a bad boy." Bonnie said with almost reverence.
"That's it!" Kim shouted. "I'm not going to stand here and listen you all lie about Ron. He is a good obedient clean sidekick and not some kind of low sex fiend that gets hot and sweaty with tramps!" Kim then threw a punch at Harley.
Harley didn't attempt to duck or block the punch but at the last moment, she grabbed Kim by the wrist and leaning backwards she used Kim's own momentum against her and pulled Kim close to her holding her arm out while her other hand came to rest on Kim's waist.
"What the…?" Kim shouted and tried to pull away. Instead of Harley letting go she swayed her body with Kim's pull and spun the two of them. To the people laying on the floor of the bank it looked like the two women were doing some strange form of the Tango. Kim's face turned bright red, not just from anger but embarrassment as Harley's other hand resting on her hip briefly stroked it as Kim tried to back slowly away from the woman.
Finding she couldn't back away, Kim decided to leap away from the shorter woman. Harley much to Kim's frustration met Kim step for step.
Kim Possible, the woman who knew 17 forms of kung fu, who knew for a fact she was perfect, couldn't shake the criminal glued to her. Kim would step back, Harley would drift with her, Kim would try to hook Harley's foot with her own and toss the woman over her shoulder, and Harley would spin on the other foot and pull Kim with her. Kim would twist to try and throw a punch and Harley would lean back as if Kim was dipping her.
Harley giggled. "You dance pretty good Red, you know that? Pity you never got around to dancing the horizontal mambo with our man Ron. It would have done wonders for you. If nothing else it might have shifted that stick you have shoved up your ass."
Kim upon finding yet another person who knew of her love life, or should that be non love life? Went into a rage and leaping upwards she planned on flipping over the woman's head and getting behind her. Unfortunately, Harley still refused to let go of Kim's wrist and instead of being caught by surprise by the maneuver Harley only stepped back quickly and Kim ended up suspended briefly in mid air as if she was a ballerina on a stage with Harley holding her up. Before Kim's face could even register the shock she was feeling, Harley spun on one heel whirling Kim around and around and then let go of Kim's wrist. A now free Kim spun in mid air and crashed down to the bank's floor to slide a few feet on her backside and end up smacking hard against a cracked potted plant.
"Baby?" Ivy called out and several loops of plant tendrils dropped down from above, looped around Kim's hands, and pulled her upwards to dangle from the tangle of limbs and vines coming off the crazy mutant plant. Once again, Kim found herself a prisoner of a shrubbery gone wild.
Ron fought the urge in him to rush to Kim's rescue and with only a light bit of effort on his part remained standing with Ivy and Shego. Finally, he sighed. "I'm sorry it had to end this way Kim." He stated solemnly and turning he grasped one of the money carts and started pulling it towards the doors to the bank. Rufus ran across the bank's floor to Ron and scurried up on his master's shoulders and looking over at the tangled Kim he blew a raspberry at her.
Bonnie suddenly finding herself standing alone as the group followed Ron ran to keep up with them.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Shego growled as she rushed ahead to open the doors for Ron and Ivy to exit only to have the annoying ex cheerleader get there first and stand there blocking the exit.
"I'm your hostage. Remember? I'm rich and my family is well known. I'm perfect as a hostage."
"We don't need a hostage!" Shego shouted.
"You might as well take me along. I will just follow you if you don't." Bonnie replied smugly.
Before Shego could say, 'you can't follow us if I break your legs.' Harley ran up, scooped the annoying ex-cheerleader off her feet, and in a bridal carry boldly carried her out the bank. Shego shot an annoyed look at Ivy as she came up pushing her cart but Ivy just shrugged as if to say you can't stop Harley when she has a joke in mind.
Harley running out of the bank with Bonnie was the first to leave the bank and was just in time for an armored car to pull to the curb to make its normal deliveries. As the passenger side of the armored car opened and the guard came out with his hand on his gun, Harley yelled at him that a terrible disaster had befallen the bank and she needed help. Without thinking, the armored car's driver leapt out of his side of the car leaving his door open and ran over to his partner standing next to Harley. The moment he arrived Harley dropped a surprised Bonnie to land cursing on her butt on the sidewalk.
"What disaster?" Both guards asked.
"This town hires idiots for guards?" Harley replied and hoping up into the air, she grabbed both guards by their heads and slammed them sharply together, knocking out both of them instantly.
As Ron, Shego and Ivy came out of the bank, Shego yelled out demanding to know what Harley thought she was doing.
"I got us a ride!" Harley proudly proclaimed as she pulled the ring of keys off the armored car driver's belt and held them up.
"And she nearly broke my tailbone!" Bonnie still sitting on the sidewalk cursed.
"Good." Shego growled at the spoiled woman as she passed by to take the keys from Harley and quickly open the back of the truck so Ron and Ivy could throw the money bags they had taken from the bank inside.
"Hey I'm your hostage! You have to take me with you!" Bonnie shouted as she scrambled to get up before they could leave her.
"We don't need a hostage!" Shego yelled at her yet again causing people on the street to stare at them. Not as if they weren't before, even the dimmest person on the street could tell the bank was being robbed at this point.
Before Shego could react, Harley was in front of her. Even through the thick white face paint and the face mask that Harley had insisted she put on this morning Shego could see the almost evil twinkle in her eyes. "We have to take her with us if the Master wishes us to."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Shego asked her in confusion.
Harley without turning her head to look at Ron tilted her head in his direction and gave Shego a look that seemed to say play along. Shego shot Ivy a glare as she pushed her cart up as if to say can't you control her?
Ivy with a bored look on her face only shrugged.
Bonnie having finally managing to get up off the sidewalk without slipping on her high heels, stomped her way over and stood behind Harley. "What do you mean by Master?" She demanded.
Shego was briefly amazed by just how much Harley could convey with just her eyes, as the smaller woman seemed to communicate to her that if Shego would just play along with her plans she was going to play the biggest joke on Bonnie and get revenge for Ron.
Ivy sidled up to where Ron was tossing bags into the armored car and leaning over she whispered into his ears. "Whatever Harley or Shego says next, just reply yes to it no matter what it is they say."
Ron looked confused but nodded his head anyway.
Harley turned to look at Bonnie and then past her at Ron. "Master should we take this woman with us?" She asked in his direction.
Bonnie spun on one heel to look to see whom Harley was asking and was shocked to see only Ron and Ivy standing behind her at the armored car's doors.
Ivy nudged Ron and the poor confused man simply repeated what Ivy had instructed him to say. "Yes."
Harley sneaking up on the confused Bonnie, who was wondering why the women seemed to be calling the ex-loser Ron Master and quickly dumping the contents of a money bag on the ground, Harley slammed the bag over Bonnie's head and with a practiced ease that was slightly worrying, tied Bonnie's hands behind her. "I'm sorry but I have to obey the Master. You only knew the public Ron, in private he's become a cruel sadistic monster." She whispered into Bonnie's covered ear, and then grabbing Bonnie by an arm and her butt threw her into the open back of the armored car to land on the pile of money inside.
Before Ron could demand to know what was going on, Ivy grabbed him and threw him into the back of the truck as well, and leaping in after him pulled the doors shut.
Shego shot Harley a glare as if to say, 'you better know what the hell it is you are playing at.' And then ran around to the driver's side of the armored car.
Harley was left standing on the sidewalk next to the loose pile of money she had dumped out of the money bag and frowning she kicked the pile sending currency in all directions. "I wanted to drive." She pouted before diving for the passenger door of the armored car and barely managing to get in as Shego gunned the engine and pulled away.
Mere moments later Agent Du walked around the corner of the building wondering where Kim Possible had gotten to and what all the people were milling about in the street for. Suddenly a dollar bill blown by the wind plastered itself across his eyes. Pulling the currency away, Du stared at the bill for a moment and then looked towards the bank's entrance. "I think something must have happened at the bank." He concluded out loud, as he was nearly swept off his feet by people chasing the blowing money.
It was dangerous after such an audacious crime to remain in town but Shego after listening to Harley plead that they had to go back to Drakken's destroyed lair to take care of one last thing for the millionth time finally headed in that direction. Fortunately, the cool windy weather had blown in a storm front so she hoped the thick cloud cover would obscure any satellite tracking that might be done and being a criminal that took pride in her work, Shego knew about the tracking devices installed in armored cars and with a touch of her searing plasma powers destroyed them. A fact she did while driving at high speed which caused Harley to squeal a bit in fear.
Finally arriving at the collapsed hill outside of town that marked the location of Drakken's old destroyed lair, Shego drove towards a large depression in the ground in back. The loading docks of the destroyed
lair also served a dual purpose of emergency exits for the old lair and had been spared explosives. After all the last thing you want to do when fleeing a lair is to have your escape route blow up in your face so Shego was fairly certain the secret entrance was still in working order. During their earlier stay, none of them had checked on it deciding to wiggle out of the wreckage of the front entrance but she was fairly certain the secret doors would still work. Heading down into the depression Shego could see Harley bracing herself for what looked like immediate impact with the side of the hole, only to have at the last moment a panel slide back and the truck pull into a underground garage.
"Neat." Harley finally managed to say as she finally relaxed from the 'crash position' she had placed herself in.
Shego snickered. "I used to love doing that to Dr. D. Even though the idiot himself created that entrance and knew about it, he would still tense up and freak out every time I would dive at it like that."
"Yeah. Good joke." Harley a little weakly agreed.
"So…" Shego asked turning to look at Harley fully once she had parked the truck. "What is it we just had to return here for and why in heaven's name did you bring that Bonnie skank with us for?"
"Did ya notice the way that woman's eyes lit up back at the bank when she thought Ron was a 'bad boy'?" Harley asked making air quotes around the bad boy term.
"Yeah, and please don't do that again. Dr. D. was always doing the air quote thing too. Drove me crazy. What about her reactions?"
"What we have here is the beginning of a villain groupie fixation. Bonnie has decided she has to have Ron cause he's a 'bad boy'…." Once again, Harley did the air quote thing but quickly dropped her hands when she noticed the glare Shego gave her. "Um, in any case, if our Ron gives Bonnie even the simplest encouragement, as so much as a smile or a nod, we'll never be able to get rid of her. You heard her. She'll follow us. She'll keep getting more and more fixated on Ron until there are no limits to the incredible lengths she'll go to get Ron to notice her and accept her as a sidekick or partner."
Shego frowned. "Are you sure about that? And what can we do to stop her? Short of her killing her of course, Ron wouldn't stand for that."
Harley's eyes slid away from Shego's and she gave a nervous laugh. "Um, yeah I'm pretty much an expert on the villain groupie thingy and becoming fixated on a hot villain. Just take my word on it." Looking back into Shego's eyes Harley started to get hyper as she explained her theory. "I figure what will do is if Bonnie thinks Ron has become a bad boy…" This time Harley didn't do the air quotes but only because as she started to raise her hands Shego frowned at her so she dropped them into her lap again. "We'll give Bonnie a bad boy she is not expecting. You saw how impressed she was when I let it slip that we all were had by Ron? Well what if we make her think Ron has become some kind of sadist, whip toting Master that took us by force and that he made us his slaves? We'll scare that ex cheerleader back home and have her hiding under her bed in fear that Ron will come after her."
Shego looked at Harley as if she was insane, which to be honest, Harley gets that a lot and then burst out laughing.
"Ron? Our Ron? Some kind of sadistic monster?" Shego could barely get out between peals of laughter.
"Yeah, yeah I know. He has that hick town good boy look going for him with that mop of blond hair and freckles but haven't you ever been, just for the tiniest amount of time, a little fearful of him?"
Shego started to roll her eyes and reply of course not but unbidden a memory surfaced in her mind. A memory of Ron with blue skin laughing maniacally while threatening to drop her into a vat of hungry sharks and Shego involuntarily shuddered. "Maybe just once." She replied, her mirth gone. "But this will never work. Bonnie knows Ron and Ron will never be able to convince her he's changed that drastically."
"Sure he can. I've known some scary guys in my life. A few pointers from me and Ron will have Bonnie quaking in her expensive stilettos just begging for freedom just by his walking into a room she is in. Trust me." Harley replied as she opened her door and leapt out.
Shego looked at her reflection in the rearview mirror. "I have a bad feeling this is not going to end well." She said to herself.
Harley jerked the doors to the armored car open to find Bonnie still with her face covered, cursing up a storm. Sitting across from her Ron and Ivy watched. Harley raised an eyebrow in Ivy's direction and subtly tilted her head in Ron's direction.
Ivy shook her head to show she had managed by gestures to keep Ron from saying anything during the trip to the lair.
Harley's almost permanent grin grew downright evil looking and she suddenly said. "I hope the ease of the robbery pleased you Master and that you won't whip me or Ivy again."
Ron with a blank look on his face opened his mouth to ask what was Harley on but was stopped as Ivy reached over and covered his lips with her finger and shook her head no. She then pointed to where Bonnie was now sitting quietly and very still.
"Ron?" Bonnie asked from inside the bank bag. "You wouldn't whip anyone would you? I mean you couldn't whip anyone. Could you?"
Shego whom had walked back couldn't decide if it was fear or desire that could be heard in Bonnie's voice. The feelings of misgivings inside Shego growing stronger every moment.
Ivy leaned over and whispered into Ron's ear. Ron turned and looked at her and shook his head violently no. Ivy frowned and was joined by Harley whom climbing into the truck leaned over Ron and whispered something to him as well.
As Harley leaned back, Shego could get a clear look at Ron's face and could see the unease on his face but he opened his mouth and said to Bonnie. "What makes you think you know the real me Bon Bon?
Harley frowned and made motions of with her hands as if trying to coach something more out of him.
"You think sneaking into my room and taking advantage of me gives you the right to think you know me?" Ron said more forcefully. Once again Harley made the 'more' gestures. "That just because I let you use me to satisfy your lusts when Kim and I were on the outs gives you some kind of insight into who the real me is?" Ron asked Bonnie with a hint of real anger coming through his voice. Without Harley's urgings, Ron got up and leaning over Bonnie's form he grasped her by the arms and pulled her to her feet. "Do you think you know the real 'loser' that is me, my little Bon Bon?" Ron asked in a voice that was barely recognizable as his own.
Bonnie started shaking slightly and her nervous voice called out from inside the bank bag that was covering her face. "Now Ron you know I've always liked you and that the term loser was more a term of affection that anything else, right?"
Harley quickly whispered into Ron's ear and Ron a moment later said. "Well Bon Bon, let me show you my kind of affection."
Harley then took Bonnie from his grasp and hauled her out of the back of the armored car into the lair.
"Wait! Who has me now? Where are we going? What are you going to do to me?" Bonnie cried out as Harley dragged her away. "Ronnie?!" Bonnie cried one last time as Harley dragged her through a door and it closed behind them.
Ron turned to look at Ivy. "I don't like this." He said.
Ivy just shrugged. "It is just one of Harley's little jokes. No one will really hurt the stuck up bitch." Ivy then left the truck and followed the path her lover had gone, just to keep an eye on her to make sure she didn't get carried away, leaving Ron alone with Shego and Rufus.
"This is a really bad idea." Ron stated after several long moments of standing in silence with Shego.
"You know…" Shego said looking thoughtful. "We could just leave. We have the armored car, the money, we could just get back in and drive away leaving those three here."
Ron seemed to actually consider it for a long moment before sighing. "I can't. There is no telling what those two could do to Bonnie if left to themselves." Ron started walking towards the door leading into the lair and glanced back to see if Shego was following him. "And whether it is right or wrong, I feel responsible now for Ivy and Harley so we can't just leave them in a world that is strange to them and hope no one gets hurt."
Shego frown but finally with a nod of her own head she followed Ron back into Drakken's ruined lair.
Searching corridors Ron and Shego finally found Ivy standing outside of what used to be a storage room near one of the main destroyed labs of the lair. She was standing at the closed door peering into the room through a small inset window in the door and Shego suddenly remembered that the room had been set up as a dual purpose room. A storage room almost all of the time but it could be used as a jail cell in case Drakken had captured Kim Possible. This particular lair had never seen that momentous occasion but the room had been set up just in case.
"Where's Harley and Bonnie?" Ron asked as they walked up to her.
Ivy nodded at the window but kept watching.
Leaning over Ron glanced in and was shocked to see what Harley had done and was doing to Bonnie. This close to the main labs the storage room was more of a wreck than some of the other areas of the lair and a nearly destroyed light hanging from the ceiling by one cable lit the room. The light humming flickered on and off causing a disturbing strobe effect in the room and a few old electronic control panels and cans stacked along the room's walls helped to create an overall effect that reminded Ron of some of the locations in the zombie video games he used to play.
In the center of the room, a carpenter's wooden saw horse had been placed. That is, four short pieces of wood nailed together with one long horizontal piece of wood forming a work surface that carpenters used in pairs to hold up pieces of wood to be cut. In this case, there was only a single 'horse' in the room and on that Harley had placed Bonnie. She was tied towards the back of the saw horse with her butt slightly raised in the air with her feet, still clad in high heel stilettos tied to the supporting cross members of the horse. A rope leading back from her tied hands kept Bonnie from leaning forward to take pressure off of her legs. All in all, it looked like a very uncomfortable position for poor Bonnie to be in. Bonnie in addition to ropes holding her on to the horse now had a black eye mask covering her eyes so she couldn't see and a ball gag in her mouth keeping her from no doubt screaming insults and curses.
With one last check to make sure Bonnie couldn't somehow shake herself free from the awkward surface, Harley quickly walked out of the room and shut the door behind her.
"Okay Ronnie. Here's the gag…" Harley started but was stopped by Shego. "Where did you get the eye mask and the ball gag from?" She asked.
"Um, the eye mask came from the room me and Ivy were sleeping in. I saw it this morning and remembered it and the ball gag came from a box in the closet of that room as well."
"Eye mask?" Shego pondered. "You two must have picked Drakken's old room. That is the stupid sleeping mask he used to wear all the time." Shego then blinked. "He had a ball gag in that room too?" Shego gave a shudder of repulsion. "I don't even want to know why."
Harley gave a shrug. "In any case Ron this is what you are going to do. I want you to go in there and give that Bonnie woman the scare of a life time. Make her think you are going to torture the living daylights out of her and then kill her. Really sell it so when we let Bonnie 'escape' she doesn't stop running from you for the next week or so."
Ron was already shaking his head no. "It won't work. I can't do it."
"Sure you can." Harley replied cheerfully. "It's easy. Just imagine that you are in an audience watching someone on stage acting. The person on stage is you but don't think of it like that. Just think you are watching someone else perform. Once you can disassociate yourself from what you are doing, you can get through anything. Trust me. I know."
Ron looking a little panicked now shook his head again. "No you don't understand, this is really a bad…"
"Do you want Bonnie to follow us no matter where we go? She said her family is rich, which means she probably has the means to do it. Do you want to go to Vegas and find that Bonnie is right there? And that she might be the one to lead Possible to us? Do you want to risk Bonnie trying to impress you and get your attention and end up doing something that ends up with her hurt, or maybe dead?" Harley asked rapidly.
Ron with a sigh shook his head no.
"Then get in there and scare her straight." Harley paused and looked surprised. "Never thought I would be the one to utter a line like that."
Ron sighed again and started to put his hand on the doorknob of the room but was stopped by Harley pulling him back. She looked him over critically. Reaching up, she with a little effort removed his hat and tossed it to the side and mussed his hair. She then pulled off the trench coat he was still wearing, dislodging Rufus who ran over to Shego and climbed on her shoulder, and glared at Harley. Of the entire group Ron was the only one who still had his trench coat after the bank job. Harley then stepped back and looked Ron over once again.
"Still look as intimidating as a flea." She muttered to herself. She motioned for Ron to lean over as if to tell him something. As soon as Ron leaned forward Harley grabbed his black shirt by the bottom and with one quick pull pulled it over his head and off.
"I know what he needs." Ivy snapped her fingers and turning quickly walked off down the corridor. Harley hardly acknowledged her leaving but just looked Ron over once again. Making motions for Ron and Shego not to say anything, Harley opened the storage room Bonnie was in and went back inside. Tip toeing around Harley picked up several cans sitting on the floor and glanced at them but didn't find what she was looking for. Finally spying what she was searching for she almost let out a squeal but at the last moment clamped her hands over her own mouth.
Bonnie sitting on the saw horse with the blindfold on quickly turned her head a few times as if sensing she wasn't alone but not hearing anyone she finally settled back down and continued to try to gnaw her way out of the gag in her mouth.
Sneaking back out of the room Harley closed the door and then squirt something from the can she had found into her hands and both Ron and Shego could smell the scent of machine oil fill the air. Stepping forward Harley began to rub the machine oil onto Ron's naked chest. "A good Master should look all
hot and sweaty as if he has just finished doing something, we'll leave it to Bonnie's mind to imagine just what."
Harley rubbed the oil for a few seconds and her hands grew slower and slower. "Maybe we should just get you all hot and sweaty the old fashion way?" She suggested her voice getting husky.
Shego frowned and taking the oil from Harley squirted some into her own hands and quickly rubbed down Ron's back so that his upper back torso gleamed in the lights of the corridor as well. Shego had to admit that with the oil highlighting the play of muscles on Ron's stomach and back, he did look kind of intimidating, in a mouth watering kind of way. Shego couldn't help it as her hands started to move slower as well as she traced a few scars the young man had on his back. Shego figured he had gotten them during missions with Kim but instead of detracting from Ron's beauty to her, it only made Shego more attracted to him. Ron could still sometimes look like a confused school boy at times but seeing him like this now only reinforced to her that he was a grown man and in his years had seen more life than most men twice or three times his age had.
Reluctantly both Shego and Harley finished rubbing down Ron with oil as Ivy came walking back; in her hand a coiled whip was seen.
"Where the hell did you find that?" Shego asked.
"The room we were staying at." Ivy confirmed once again.
"Wait. Drakken had a ball gag and a black whip in his room?" Shego asked shocked.
Ivy grinned evilly. "He also had in his closet the cutest little French maid outfit in black and green. Just your size too." Ivy looked Shego up and down. "You sure there wasn't anything going on between you and him?"
Shego's eyes grew wide. "Most definitely there was nothing going on between Dr. D. and myself and the next time I see him I'm going to kill him for just having this stuff."
Ivy laughed and handed Ron the whip, which he with the greatest of reluctance accepted.
Harley giving him one last critical going over frowned. "Ron you look like you are going to a funeral. You have to get into this role. Think of all the times she called you a loser. Think of how she liked to humiliate you. Look scary for God's sake will ya?"
Ron nodded his head and with an effort made his face grow hard and still. Straightening the slump of his shoulders, he looked down on the slightly shorter woman. "How's this?" He asked his voice slightly deeper.
Harley frowned. "Well you aren't scaring me, you just make me want to jump you but then again you aren't supposed to be angry at me. If you really play up the role of an angry Master you should have Bonnie quivering in no time."
"Go get her tiger!" Harley said and then opening the door to the room, she practically pushed Ron into it and shut the door. She then stood on her tip toes trying to peer into the room through the window in the door. Ivy and Shego crowding her so they could see in as well.
Hearing the door open and close Bonnie held her head in that direction and strained to make out any sounds at all. It had only been less than 30 minutes of her being in there but with her eyes covered and in an uncomfortable position, Bonnie thought she had been in there closer to hours.
Ron watched Bonnie as he neared her. What he was about to do was so not him but at the same time a dark side of Ron purred in pleasure at the thought of making Bonnie who had made his life such a living hell suffer.
Careful to not make a sound Ron made his way till he was standing right next to Bonnie. Leaning over he suddenly whispered into her ear. "Hello my little Bon Bon. Sorry to keep you waiting but the other women needed seeing to." Ron put emphasis on the last part of his speech and noticed Bonnie tensing up.
"Nothing to say?" Ron asked casually. "Oh that's right. You can't speak and you look so uncomfortable. Here let me help you with that." Ron stepped behind Bonnie and quickly untied the rope that was holding her sitting so uncomfortably straight on the saw horse. As soon as he did, Bonnie leaned forward and tried to take the pressure off of her legs that were screaming in torment. Ron then reached down and untied the gag and pulled it almost gently from Bonnie's mouth.
"Ron? Why are my eyes covered? Let me see please." Bonnie wanted to curse him for leaving her hands tied so she couldn't remove the blindfold herself but almost as if something inside was holding her back she found herself quietly and politely asking Ron rather than demanding.
"Of course Bon Bon." Ron replied good naturedly and pulled the eye mask down to dangle around her neck.
The first thing Bonnie saw as her eyes adjusted to the dim flickering light was Ron's gleaming chest a few inches from her face. Craning her neck painfully she looked up at Ron's face to see him looking at her sternly.
Suddenly her mouth so dry Bonnie could hardly speak she asked. "What did you do to the other women?"
"Nothing they didn't beg me for." Ron found himself saying to his surprise. Harley was right, if you imagined yourself in the audience watching someone else perform on stage it was easy to get into a character.
Finding it difficult to hold her neck so far back, Bonnie dropped her head down and found herself staring at a black whip being held in Ron's hands. "Ron? Is that a whip?"
"Or am I just glad to see you?" Ron added with a laugh that surprised them both with how dark it sounded. "Yes Bon Bon it is a whip." Ron's voice caused a mental image to form in Bonnie's mind of black velvet slowly sliding off an ebony coffin. An image that didn't help Bonnie's already growing state of nervousness.
"What are you going to do with that whip Ron?" She managed to ask after a moment.
"What does one generally do with a whip and a slave?" Ron asked as he allowed one hand to touch Bonnie's bare back where her shirt ended and before her skirt began.
"I'm no one's slave." Bonnie replied but the quavering in her voice kind of ruined the outrage effect she had been going for. "Why would you want to whip me anyway? I came here willingly."
Ron lowered his head till he was next to Bonnie's ear again. "Oh I don't know. Maybe all those years of you calling me a loser? Of plotting to make me look an idiot? Of you telling Kim she could and should do so much better than me? Oh, I know, how about the time you snuck into my room and tied me up while I was asleep and took from me what I was saving to give to Kim? Namely my virginity. Don't you think any of those reason would be good ones to whip you Bon Bon?"
"But those other times I came to you when you were broke up with Kim. You didn't seem to mind sleeping with me then?" Bonnie whispered. She couldn't deny it she was scared. The new Ron in front of her was acting in ways the old Ron would never have done and Bonnie could no longer be sure she could control him or what he might do.
"Ah yes." Ron continued to whisper into Bonnie's ear as his hand continued to rub her lower back. "Those gracious times you permitted yourself to lay with a loser. Always of course making sure no one saw you enter or leave my house and threatening to destroy me if I were to ever mention to anyone that you had been there. Such a kindness you did for a poor loser."
Ron paused and Bonnie from her position could see the hand holding the whip tighten and relax and tighen again. "You know Bon Bon I have decided something."
"What?" Bonnie asked almost in a croak.
"That you really don't want to see what is coming." Ron replied and lifting the eye mask that was hanging around Bonnie's neck pulled it back into place over her eyes.
"Ron?!" Bonnie screamed in sudden fright of being plunged back into darkness.
"You should call me Master." Ron whispered into her ear and then remembering a line from a horror movie he had once seen Ron licked the edge of Bonnie's ear and said. "Be my victim little Bon Bon."
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Author's notes
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Yep, I am ending it there for now, I know. Pure evil. LOL.
We'll get back to Bon Bon and Master Ron soon but the chapter was getting a bit long and I thought what a perfect place to pause.