Chapter 10: Jail break and Dragon Skin

Unaware of Cleburne's condition, Kim and Ron moved stealthy and silently up the corridor they went down. They followed their compasses East, through the varies turns and twists, until they made it to a set of stairs leading up to the next floor, which they took. When they got up to the next floor, they saw no one around and headed through the offices on this floor. When they were nearing the next set of stairs, while in one of the offices, they heard two men speaking to one another in German.

Kim and Ron halted in the office and Kim peeked through the glass divider toward the sound of the men. She saw that they were just like the ones Cleburne dealt with on the floor below. The problem was they were guarding the stairs Kim and Ron needed to take. Kim thought of a plan while she stared at the men.

"Ron, run across the aisle there and let them see you do it. I take care of the rest," Kim whispered while she still was watching the men.

"Are you crazy, KP!? Cleburne warned me not to be just a distraction," Ron whispered back while he leaned his head over a desk and looked at the men.

Kim snapped her look to Ron and she whispered "Look, Ron. Cleburne isn't here to deal with them. We have to make do with what we got. If you got a better plan that didn't involve us coming out with guns blazing, I'm all ears."

"Alright KP. Wish me luck," Ron said in defeat while he began to slip to the edge of the aisle. He stayed in the shadow of the cabinet that he was propped up against.

Ron took a deep breathe and ran out into the aisle and started waving his arms while he screamed out, "Hey, big German dudes over here!"

"Hey, you, stop right there," said one of the men with a thick German accent while he took his gun off his shoulder.

"No can do, see you later," Ron replied while he turned and bolted across the aisle into the next office.

The two men, with their guns now in their hands, took off running to where they last saw Ron. When they got to where they saw him last, they pointed their guns into the office Ron ran into.

The same one that spoke before said, "Alright, kid, come out of there or we'll shoot the whole room up."

But before they could, Kim came out of the office behind them. While they turned to point their guns at her, she roundhouse kicked the first one's gun to the side that turned on her and punched him right between the eyes. While he collapsed to the ground, the second man was about to raise his gun at Kim. Before he could, Ron leapt out of the office he was in and wrapped his arm around the man's neck. Ron held onto the man for a second before he used his weight to bring the man down to the floor. After a few seconds, the man went limp from Ron choking him out.

After the man was still, Ron pushed the man off of him, got up, and dusted himself off before he said, "Hey, KP. That worked!"

"Yes, Ron, just hope they stay out of it until we get the scientists out of here. Let's get going," Kim said while she took off running to the stairs.

They made their way up to the next floor, which looked like it was the medical part of the center because the halls resembled a hospital. They moved up the halls, heading East without seeing anyone. When they came to the most Eastern side of the floor, they came up to a door that read "Candidates Rooms" and while reading this, Kim raised one of her eyebrows.

"Hey, Ron. You wondering what I'm wondering," Kim said while she nodded at the sign.

Ron scratched his head for a second before he questioned, "That I should have brought some nacos with us?"

"No, Ron. If Cleburne's room is behind this door. Course, we have to go in here anyways since the scientists are being held past this door. Wouldn't hurt if we look around in the rooms if we have time," Kim said while she started turning the door knob.

"I don't know, KP. Cleburne will be very tweaked if he found out we were in his room snooping around," Ron said while he waved his arms in front of him.

"Yeah, I guess your right. But it help to clear up some of the mystery about him," Kim said while she eased the door open, but she stopped opening it when she saw the shadow of a soldier around the corner.

"Ron! There is a soldier in here," Kim said only loud enough for Ron to here her.

"Really!? KP, What we going to do," Ron said, whispering back.

"Relax, Ron! Stay here and wait until I tell you to come on in and watch these halls for more," whispered Kim while she eased the door open more and slipped into the room.

Kim moved gently over to the wall close to her, that was on the same side as the corner, and watched the shadow of the soldier to see if he heard her. The shadow stayed right where she first saw it. Kim let out a soft sigh and realized she had her hand on the pistol at her side. She yanked her hand away from the gun and shook her arm.

Get a grip Kim. Just relax, Kim thought.

Before another mental remark hit her, I don't know how far this man is from the corner. If he's close then I can deal with him with a well placed kick, but if he's farther down then I have to do something to deal with him without using this gun, while an idea came to her.

She reached into her backpack and pulled out her grappling hook hair dryer while she thought, As long as I don't hit somewhere soft on him, I won't kill him.

Kim, with hair dryer in hand, side stepped up to the corner. When she neared the corner, she thought, Now or nothing, and swung around the corner looking down the hall with her hair dryer pointed out in front of her.

The soldier, more than 20 feet from the corner, didn't notice Kim at first, but a glimpse of red in the corner of his eye made him turn all the way around and saw Kim looking back at him. Before the man could bring the gun down off his shoulder, Kim aimed the hair dryer, pressed the trigger, and she watched the grappling hook flew toward the man, who went wide eye seeing the claw and cable coming at him. Before the man could react to this, the grappling hook struck him in the helmet causing him to reel backwards, collapsing on his back. Kim, dropping the hair dryer, ran up to the man only to see him out cold.

Kim let out a sigh of relief before she said, whispering into her mic, "Ron its safe to come in now."

When Ron got to Kim, he picking up the hair dryer said, "Wow, KP. Didn't know you could do that with this."

"No big. But now that I know, I'll might use it that way more often," Kim said after she took the hair dryer back from Ron and retracted the grappling hook.

"Umm, KP. We have a problem," Ron said after he walked over and looked at the doors to the rooms.

"What's that Ron," Kim asked while she turned to see Ron pushing buttons on a console by the door.

"We're gonna need a keycard to get these people out of here," Ron said right before he pounded a fist against the console

"Well, maybe this guard has one on him," Kim said while she began to search the man. Sure enough the guard had a key card.

Kim smiled at the coincidence and took the card before she gave it to Ron saying as she did, "Here try it out while I get in touch with Cleburne to see how we're going to get all of the scientists out of here."

While Ron slide the card into the slot, Kim switched her headset to channel two and clicked twice then back to four. She waited a moment for Cleburne to answer, but she didn't get a response out of him.

After a few seconds of waiting for Cleburne to answer, Kim heard Ron say behind her, "Umm, KP. You might want to deal with this."

Hearing how surprised Ron sounded, Kim turned around to see Ron looking at two men she knew and learned to hate meeting. One was a blue skinned, black, wiry, hair man, clad in his usual lab coat and the other was wearing a metal dome on his head. Both were rubbing their eyes as if its been the first time they saw any kind of light for hours and when their vision cleared both in unison said, "Kim Possible!"

"Well, isn't it Dr. Drakken and Professor Dementor. They actually had you two in the same room? Surprised you two didn't destroy the place to try and to get away from one another," Kim said with a smile on her face and her arms folded across her chest.

"What are you doing here, Possible," Drakken demanded while he turned and saw Ron standing beside him looking up at him with a smile on his face, "and the buffoon?"

"Hey, you said my name once. Why can't you remember to say it again," Ron snappedwith an angry look.

"Enough, Ron. Drakken, we are here to get you and all the other scientists out of here,"Kim explained while she neared them.

"That job I usually let Shego take care of," Drakken said while he started back into the room that held him.

"Well, Shego is business doing something else right now. But if you like, I can lock you back up in there and let her come for you later. If she has time that is," Kim said with a smile.

Drakken slummed his shoulders and stated, "Fine. Possible, I let you rescue me for now, but don't think I owe you anything."

"Fine by me and if you promise to help us get the rest out, I won't take you in after this is over, but I will come after you later," Kim said while she went up to the next door to open it.

"I don't have much of a choice do I," Drakken questioned while he lowered his shoulders.

"Not really," Kim said while she slide the card through the next door's slot.

"Zo vhat you vant uz to do," Demenator questioned while he begin to move toward where Kim was.

"Just count the scientist as they come out. Then we will have to figure out how to get down two floors without being noticed," Kim explained while the door slid open

Shego, during the time Kim and Ron took on the two guards at the stairs, had managed to slip by three different patrols and was now on the third floor. When she came through the door on to the floor, she walked onto a walkway above a very open, very large room. Across the room, she saw that the WMD was a ICBM sitting on a silo launch pad ready to launch. After she walked up to the guardrail on the walkway, she heard men talking below her.

Shego looked down and saw three men were seated around a table, joking about something. Shego looked around the room for a second, seeing no one else in the room. Shego flashed an evil smile before she backed up from the rail and took off running at it. The second she got to the rail, she put a foot on the rail and jumped up over the rail, sailing above the men, coming right down on the table with her feet and hands. When Shego landed on the table, the legs for the table broke and Shego rode it down. The men were frozen in motion by this display. One was even holding a drink near his mouth and was wide-eyed.

Before the men could even react, Shego gave them an evil smirk while she stood up and said, "Hello boys,"

Wasting no time, Shego pulled up her flaming talons and blasted two of the men across the room. The third man tried to get a pistol out of his holster, but before he could Shego put two fingers of her flaming hand to the man's forehead and said, "Don't" before she blasted him over his chair.

Shego looked around the room for a second before she yanked her night vision goggles off and she threw the rifle, she had, down while she took off toward the missile. When Shego got near the missile, she could tell the missile was a two stage missile. The first stage was to get the missile into space, then the other part was to break up into smaller missiles and hit several targets.

Shego thought while she pulled out a C-4 block, Well, this is a waste of good technology. Course, I never would have thought to use something like this nor would I want to.

While Shego placed the explosive on the missile, she heard a clanking sound as if a gun was being picked up behind her. Shego whipped around to see one of the men she blasted had came to and was coming toward her with an AK-74 pointed at her. Shego raised her hands as if she was giving up and when the man got near her, she gave him another evil smile.

The man shook his head at Shego's look and he said in his thick german accent, "Oh no you don't."

He knelt down in a hurry and fired three shots at Shego. The man's aim was true because all three bullets struck Shego in the chest, causing her to fall backwards.

Shego laid there gasping for air while thinking she was shot and she looked at where the bullets hit her. She smiled at the sight because even though the bullets hit her, they didn't penetrate the dragon skin armor.

Then a quick mental comment came to her, Thanks, Cleburne, for thinking ahead and I think I'll keep this.

Shego laid there pretending she was hurt until the man got to her. When he got to her, she rolled over while lighting her hands up saying, "Fooled ya," while she shot the man with both blasts

The blasts sent him flying into the air and he fell back down with a thud.

Shego got up looking at the man and said, "Ooo, that sure look like it hurt," before she went back to placing explosives on the missile. While she placed the C-4's, she laughed at the man sprawled out on the floor behind her.