After having been on several missions over the years, Ron was quite proficient at the protocol by now, but he still had his moments. A ninja, he was not.
"Ron Stoppable, how nice of you to drop by," Gemini quipped.
"Ow!" Ron shouted when Drakken landed on his back.
"Oh, this should be good," Gemini laughed mockingly. "The 'reformed' villain, Drew Lipsky; what a disappointment you are. Not once did you ever convince me you were a true professional criminal. Though the Diablo plan was…sinister."
"Do not remind me," Ron spoke up.
"That's what made me so good at it. Besides, I don't recall asking for your opinion," Drakken snidely remarked. Shego's attitude seemed to have rubbed off on him.
"Where's Kim?" Ron asked once he and Drakken stood up, getting down to business.
"Like I'm going to tell you," Gemini replied. "It's not as if you can get past my henchmen."
"Maybe not…" Ron began.
"…but she can," Drakken finished.
The green glow was what tipped Gemini off. The henchmen began circling around Ron and Drakken.
"Okay, there are five scary men about to kill us, how many can either of you take?" Ron asked.
"It's more like seven," Drakken remarked.
"Sorry I wasn't specific!" Ron shouted.
"Put me down for…none," Drakken added.
"Oh good," Ron groaned. "Shego, are you helping or what?"
"Oh, please, like I'd help you save Kimmy," she sneered.
"You two really don't have a clue, do you?" Gemini smirked. "Shego recently jumped on board with my plans. Did you really think she turned good?"
"Well, uh, yeah," Ron admitted.
Drakken kept his mouth shut. Though he was surprised at this turn of events, he knew for a fact that Shego was on their side. Her plan was to apparently play the double agent. Spotting the doomsday machine Gemini had running, Drakken slipped past the scuffle between Ron and the henchmen to try and shut it down.
"Oh, I do not have time for this!" Ron shouted.
Drakken watched in confusion as Ron became enveloped in a blue glow. The hurricane-like wind had him holding onto the machine, breaking off the lever. That alone had broken it. Drakken shielded his eyes from the debris, only opening them again when all the henchmen were down for the count.
Afterwards, Ron noticed his own kimmunicator—or ron-unicator as Kim had once dubbed it—was missing, a familiar laugh sounded.
"Looking for zis!?" Dementor laughed maniacally, his own henchmen approaching.
"Aw, man," Ron complained.
"What's the plan?" Drakken asked.
"Run!" he shouted.
The two took off down the corridor, making a right turn. They found a flight of stairs heading downward.
"Why down?" Drakken asked in a panic.
"Do we have a choice?" Ron asked rhetorically.
"Erg, suppose not," Drakken replied.
"We can't let them find Miss Possible!" Gemini shouted. "After them!"
A loud crash sounded as a portion of the ceiling caved in.
"Not so fast, astrology boy," Hego announced his presence.
"About time," Shego told her brothers.
"Chillax, sis, we made it, didn't we?" Mego replied with a hint of snark.
"What is going on here!?" Gemini demanded.
"I thought she was part of ze plan!" Dementor shouted at Gemini.
"Ya thought wrong," she smirked, blasting him with her powers.
As Shego and her brothers fought off the henchmen, as well as the masterminds themselves, Rufus had successfully taken back the kimmunicator, running in the same direction that his owner went.
Head pounding, throat dry as cotton, Kim was quickly losing hope. She had tried a number of times to slip her hands out of the shackles, but it left her with nothing but chafe marks. The sound of footsteps alerted her, causing her to at least stand up and get herself in the mindset to fight.
"KP!" Ron shouted, relieved that he found her.
"Oh thank God," she sighed with relief.
"What did he do to you?" Ron asked when he noticed how red her wrists were from the shackles.
"Enough, that he's going to pay for what he did," Kim muttered. "You should call GJ. Let Dr. Director know what's happened."
"Uh, here, you call," Ron handed the kimmunicator over to…
"Drakken!?" Kim's jaw dropped.
"Long story," he assured her before doing as Ron told him.
"Where's the key?" Ron asked. She pointed towards the wall behind him. The keys were hanging on a hook. Ron found the one that fit the lock, assuming the other was to unlock the shackles on her wrists.
Suddenly, the building shook as if something had put it off kilter.
"The doomsday machine!" Drakken and Ron realized in unison.
"Are you okay to run?" he asked Kim.
"Should be fine," she assured him. "Let's get out of here."
When they met back up with Shego, they noticed the newcomers who hadn't been there before.
"Since when were they involved?" Ron asked.
"I planned for them to come all along. Thought if I made Gemini believe I was in on his plan, I could use the element of surprise," Shego explained. "He's dumber than a bag of rocks."
"Oh, and I disassembled the doomsday machine," Hego announced proudly. "Which is why—"
"This place is gonna blow!" Kim told them.
Shego looked to Drakken, and asked, "What's our exit strategy?"
"Our what?" he asked in return, having not planned that far ahead.
"Oh my God, we're all going to die," Shego pinched the bridge of her nose.
"We came here in the jet, no worries, sis!" the Go twins spoke simultaneously.
"Alright, let's go!" Kim shouted.
They all made it onto the jet and got up in the air just before the lair exploded.
"Where did Gemini and Dementor go anyways?" Ron asked.
"Oh, you're computer dweeb told me they were walking right into Global Justice's trap," Drakken informed them.
"Spankin'!" Kim exclaimed. Then quietly to Ron, "I'm sorry about yesterday. I never meant for us to argue."
"We can talk about this later, okay? We obviously have some communication issues we can work out down the road," he told her. "Right now, I'm just happy you're safe."
They were taken to Go Tower, in which from there, they took a cab back to the university. Both being extremely exhausted, it wasn't long before they conked out on the small sofa in her dorm.
Author's Note: ughhhh I've spent foreverrrrr on this chapter...so, yeah, I hope it was worth it lol! P.S. I suck at action scenes.