"Big Time"
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
A little more action, sort of, with an invasion chapter this time. What are Kim and Ron's roles in this? Read on to discover the answer!
Disclaimer: The characters and places of the TV show 'Kim Possible' do not belong to me. They are property of Disney and the show's creative staff.
Part Nine - Nice Distraction! (04.19.07)
Global Justice Headquarters
21 Hours Until the Senior Class Graduation from Middleton High...
Kim was in the midst of aiming the pistol she was holding towards the target when, all of a sudden, the room began to shake. Not enough to throw the room into disarray, but enough that she and Agent Du could feel it.
After a few seconds, it stopped. Then, an alarm began to blare.
"Condition Red, Code Two!" a robotic voice shouted over the base's PA system. "Condition Red, Code Two!"
"What does that mean?" Kim asked Agent Du.
"It means... someone's attempting an illegal infiltration!"
"Condition Red, Code Two! Condition Red, Code Two!"
In the waiting room, many of the recruits were awaiting the final results when the alarms began to go off. Immediately, the agents in the area sprung into action.
"Get the recruits to the lockdown areas!" one agent ordered. "Take half to Area Three, the other half to Area Five! This area has to be cleared, NOW!"
The other full-time agents started herding the recruits as specified, including Ron and Rufus, who, like many, didn't know what was going on.
"Hey!" he exclaimed as an agent picked him up from his seat. "I'm waiting for someone!"
"We have no time!" the agent yelled back. "We're in Condition Red! We must get all visitors to the safe zone!"
"But I'm not a visitor! I'm a recruit! And what about..."
"No time! Move, move, MOVE!"
The agent picked up Ron, despite his verbal objections, and carried him on his shoulder as he followed a group towards Area Three. Rufus was hanging on for dear life to the cuffs of Ron's pant legs.
"KIIIIIIIIIIM!"
"You have to take me to Ron!" Kim demanded as she followed Agent Du out of C-3. "Then you have to let us help you with whatever's going on!"
"If you insist," Agent Du responded, turning right and following the same path Kim remembered Ron being taken down when he left her.
Back above ground, the smoke around the area where the explosives had been detonated was beginning to clear. Apparently, the place they had tried to blow up was the far end of a parking lot at the yet-to-open Middleton Outlet Mall. It was a business district, and given the noise, a few curious people, most who were doing training at various shops at the mall in preparation for the center's opening, came out to see what was going on.
"I knew we should've done this at night," Agent Charlie sighed, running his hand down his face in disbelief.
"I told you to get the ones with the muffler!" Agent Juliet, yelled, smacking her assistant, Agent Golf, across the face.
"Uh..." Agent Quebec wondered, looking at Agent Oscar. "If G comes before J, then why is Golf the assistant to Juliet? Shouldn't it be the other way around?"
"I don't know," shrugged Agent Oscar.
"People are onto us!" Agent Delta said, pointing out the nosy civilians.
"Quickly, get in the hole!" ordered Agent Charlie.
One by one, the agents hopped into the hole and, hopefully, down into Global Justice Headquarters. But just as Agent Quebec was about to jump in, Agent Charlie stopped him.
"What... what are you doing?" he asked Quebec.
"Uh... getting in the hole?"
Charlie pointed at the curious civilians. Realizing what that signal meant, Quebec sighed as he started walking towards them.
"Why am I always, ALWAYS the distraction?" he muttered.
"And make up a good one this time!" Charlie yelled after them. "No pansy stuff like we're digging for Lettuce Patch Tykes! I mean... what was up with that, lame brain?"
Agent Du and Kim had made their way to a door that was locked by a numeric keypad.
"Where are we going?" Kim asked. "This isn't the waiting room!"
"Of course it's not, Possible!" Agent Du said as he punched in the correct sequence to open the door. "It's a shortcut to the waiting room!"
As soon as the door whooshed open, Kim ran in. After taking a few steps inside, she noticed that she had just ran into a completely furnished, yet empty, office. Which had no other doors out. Other than the one she had just come through, which she heard quickly whoosh shut. Realizing she had been duped, she turned about and glanced at the door to see if there was a keypad on her side.
"You realize that this won't hold me for long!" Kim yelled. "I'm going to help you, and so is Ron... whether you like it or not!"
"Kimberly, you and Stoppable are just recruits," Agent Du told her from the other side. "As talented and experienced as you may be on the outside... in here, people such as myself are the top dogs! So why don't you be good like the rest of the recruits and let the real agents take care of this."
"So that's how it is, huh?"
"I don't like it any more than you do, Possible. It's just... standard procedure."
With that, Agent Du ran off to join his fellow agents in protecting their headquarters. Kim immediately turned towards the keypad, and then glanced down at her red uniform. Her pocketless red uniform.
"No Kimmunicator, no gadgets, no Wade," Kim said, rolling her eyes. "Guess I'll have to do this the old-fashioned way."
Meanwhile, agents were beginning to gather by the east side entrance tubes. Five of them were there, armed with laser rifles and aiming them all at where the elevator-like doors to the tubes opened.
"Are we sure it's this one?" asked one agent.
"Yeah!" nodded a second. "Dr. Director said the east side!"
Suddenly, a scream filled the air from above. Then two. And three. Followed by four, then five, all mixed together in a way as if it sounded like the screamers were trying to outdo each other. Finally, five intruders, four men and one woman, all landed at the bottom of Tube E-1, piled on top of each other in a somewhat comical fashion. After a few seconds, the doors quickly opened, spilling the five of them onto the landing pad floor.
"We're... here..." noted Agent Delta.
"And we've got quite the welcoming committee," Agent Charlie said with a smile as he, on the top of the pile, got up.
"Stay where you are!" yelled one of the GJ agents. "You're trespassing on a government installation!"
"Dude, you can't say that!" said another GJ operative. "We're supposed to be secret! Under the radar like!"
"Why didn't you all stop me before I said it, then?"
"Because, duh, it's supposed to be obvious!"
"Hey!" a third GJ operative said, not being distracted by the debate and still having his rifle trained on the intruders. "You were told to stay where you are!"
The five intruding agents were now all on their feet and staring down the Global Justice operatives and their weapons.
"I don't listen to men I don't trust," Agent Juliet said, reaching into her holster and pulling out what looked like a small pistol.
"She's drawing a weapon!" shouted GJ agent #4. "Fire!"
Juliet's fellow agents quickly drew their arms and started firing just as the GJ operatives reached for the trigger. With one laser shot apiece, the enemy agents hit their marks, stunning GJ's agents and dropping them to the floor.
"Item K-two-nine-seven," Charlie stated, walking over to the immobile agents. "A paralyzing laser pistol. Pretty amazing that such a small beam-powered weapon has a sizable range, eh?"
"Meh," Juliet commented as she holstered her gun. "I prefer anything from the T-series myself."
"Me too," Agent Golf nodded in agreement.
Juliet smacked Golf across the face. "I'm not impressed by copycats!"
"You know," smirked Agent Delta. "They say you always hurt the ones you love the most."
Juliet drew her pistol again and immediately pointed it at Delta's head. But Charlie jumped in before she could pull the trigger.
"Hey, slapping Golf is one thing, but that's a superior agent you're trying to supersede there!"
"Fine, fine," Juliet shook her head nonchalantly as she pulled the gun away... and immediately turned and fired at Agent Oscar's chest, leaving him in the same state as the GJ agents.
"Awww..." complained Delta. "I was about to tell him that he could become the new Agent November after this mission. Now he'll probably get passed over by Agent Papa because of this."
"Look," Charlie cut in. "Let's just do what we came here to do and blow this burg."
Juliet reached for the holster on the other side of her hips and went to draw it, but Golf placed his hand on hers to stop her.
"I don't think he meant literally."
"Darn it," Juliet said, snapping her fingers.
Charlie sighed and then pointed to his right. "You two go down that way. Delta and I will go the other way. Remember, do not kill anyone other than Agent Will Du! Unless... they get in your way."
"Right," nodded Delta, Golf, and Juliet in confirmation.
"I told you to GET IN THERE!"
Ron and Rufus were trying to push their way past the agents guarding the door to Area Three, where they were supposed to be locked up with several of the other recruits for their own safety.
"And I told you that I need to find Kim!" Ron exclaimed.
Ron finally broke free of the agents' grip and ran down the hall, with Rufus still clipped to his pant leg, giving a chasing guard the raspberry.
"Hey, come back here! It's not safe!"
"Hey... you're not gonna leave me here alone, Agent Montgomery!" said the agent still by the gate, worried. "Right?"
Agents Juliet and Golf were running down the corridor towards the lodging facilities when they suddenly found themselves under fire. Ducking behind nearby corners, the two baited their time as Global Justice agents fired their laser rifles at them.
"They're really tempting me, aren't they?" Juliet growled as she began to reach for her 'other' holster.
"Wait!" Golf screamed from the other side. "Not unless they get in our way!"
"What do you call this, then? A friendly warning?"
"Don't you people ever give up!" yelled an unfamiliar voice to them.
Juliet glanced to her left and saw Ron appear from around the corner, running towards her. A Global Justice operative was right behind him, so she immediately turned her attention to him. She fired at the agent, dropping him to the ground immediately.
"Wow," Ron said as he stopped next to Juliet and caught his breath. "Thanks, but I don't think you had to go that far..."
Juliet turned her pistol on Ron, and Rufus instantly freaked, ducking underneath Ron's pant leg.
"My comrades are wearing suits, and the enemy is in blue... so whose side are you on, red shirt?"
"Heh heh..." Ron chuckled nervously. "Is that a trick question?"
"Uh... Agent Juliet?" her partner, Golf, interrupted.
"Quiet!" she shot back without looking at him. "Can't you see I'm interrogating here?"
Out of nowhere, Juliet felt a small amount of voltage run through her body. Not enough to light her up like a Christmas tree, but more than needed to knock her unconscious, causing her to drop her gun in the process.
"Nice distraction!" complimented the agent, who retracted the node from his electricity-stunning watch.
"Thanks!" Ron rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "I think..."
"Come on, you!" said another agent, guiding the already disarmed Golf and leading him down towards the holding cells.
"Do you happen to know where my friend is?" Ron asked the agent who had saved him. "Her name's Kim Possible... she's a recruit just like me?"
The guy shrugged. "Don't know. Probably in one of the safety zones. Which you should be in... what are you doing out here, anyway?"
"Um..." Ron said as he stepped back towards the guy Juliet had knocked out. "He knows... ask him!"
With that, Ron turned around and ran the other way.
"Shouldn't we go after him, sir?" asked one of his subordinates. "Isn't he still a risk to his own safety?"
"Forget him. It's such a big base, the chances of him running into any of the other intruders is pretty slim. Let's just take care of these two for now."
On the other side of headquarters, Agent Du was the lone man out as he was being chased by Agent Charlie and Agent Delta, both with their laser pistols a-blazin'!
"Kill him, kill him!" Charlie ordered Delta between beam bursts.
"But I thought these things only stunned them," Delta replied.
"They kill if you shoot them in the brain!"
Charlie went to do just that, aiming right for the center of Will Du's noggin. Charlie fired, and Du lowered his head, ducking the laser beam... but just barely.
"I need back-up!" Agent Du shouted into his wristwatch. "Sector B-2!"
"Did someone call for... back-up?"
Kimberly swung down from the rafters above, using some rope she had found along the way, and kicked the guns away from the enemy agents, knocking them on their backs in the process. Before they could get up, Agent Du ran up and rendered them unconscious by using his own electricity-stunning watch.
"So..." Kim wondered out loud. "When do I get one of those?"
"I see you escaped the safety zone," Will said to her. "As I assumed you would..."
"We're in the middle of an invasion crisis, and you're still testing me?"
Agent Du spoke into his watch again, this time with a different transmission.
"This is Agent Du. Two enemy agents captured in B-2. Any more?"
"That's all of them," Dr. Director's voice rang out. "Your back-up should be there shortly. Once all of the agents are in holding, I'll rescind the Condition Red alarm."
"We have another... problem..."
"Problem?" Kim questioned, upset at being called a 'problem.'
"Hmmm... I see. Hand off the enemy agents, then bring Miss Possible to my office on the double."
"Understood. Over and out."
Agent Du closed his transmission channel and turned to Kim.
"You're in trouble now, Kimberly. As a recruit, you're supposed to follow my orders since I'm a full-time agent. You may have just jeopardized your chance of getting into Global Justice!"
Kim gasped in shock. Had she... had she really blown it?
To be continued in Part 10 - Coming in two weeks!