Where is Kim Possible?

Chapter 11: Planning?

AN: During a mission the heroine disappears and no one, not even the villains seem to know what happened to her. Where has she gone?

(Alamogordo)

Ron looks around as he rides on top of a large military vehicle next to Kim, waving his hand around in the air while trying to look as if he knew what was going on when he really did not. The noise of the cheering crowd was loud, "Hey, um… KP? Is this a common thing for you?"

Kim looks at Ron as she says with a sour note in her voice, "No, I usually fly off before the impromptu ticker tape parade can happen Ron."

Ron flashes a smile at the crowd as some woman screams, "I love you Ron!" before his smile disappears and looks back at Kim, "Look Kim… this is really uncomfortable. This… it isn't me. I am used to you being the star. With me looking up at you."

Kim suddenly understands why Ron's protests were always so weak, she knew Ron wasn't in the hero business for fame but at least he wanted people to remember that he played a part. She wraps an arm around him, pulling him closer to her so she can whisper into his ear without the chance of others hearing what she had to say, "Ron you may not think you're a star back home but to me, you were always the brightest star." She pulls back enough for him to see her smiling at him and lovingly says, "And now you're finally getting the same kind of recognition and fame that you've always had in my eyes and heart."

Ron looks at Kim in surprise with his jaw hanging a bit before Kim closes his mouth with a gentle touch to his chin before she then turns his head to the crowd, "Look Ron. See how I see you in my eyes. You have more than deserved people who know you, cheer for you, and…" Someone screams Ron's name at that moment, "And knows your name without getting it wrong or having to guess."

Ron starts to look at the crowd, really look at them for the first time, taking in the sight of all the people cheering, jumping, waving their arms in the air, waving quickly made posters of him and/or Kim. He could feel the energy, the powerful love in the air from everyone. These weren't people who had just learned his name and were cheering empty because of something he had just done. These were people who knew him like a friend, and some from the sound of things even loved him probably as much as he loved Kim. All of the feelings that were just overflowing from everyone struck him in his heart and for once, at that moment he took in what it really felt like to be popular, to be loved, to be famous, and the one thing he had always shied away from, recognition as his own person.

Kim looks at Ron with concern as tears start to flow down his cheeks, "Are you ok Ron? Ron?"

"I get it… I finally get it Kim." Ron turns towards Kim and looks directly into her eyes with tears dripping off his chin. "I… never knew. I mean I had tried to the popularity thing in your body but… I never felt it like this because it wasn't for me, and now…" He turns to Kim, just staring into her eyes like he has never before and it starts to weird Kim out.

Kim didn't know what to do as she wanted to be supportive in this moment for Ron but the strange look that he was giving her. His eyes were so hypnotic at that moment that she couldn't have pulled away if she wanted to. She didn't think she was even blinking unless he did. The noise of all the cheering seemed to dim much like the way it did sometimes for her when she cheered for Ron extra hard to the point her heart beat was almost all that she heard. She wanted to understand why but she couldn't figure it out because something about Ron held her captive more than any supervillain's trap.

Ron continues to gaze at Kim with tears still flowing down his cheeks before he takes both her hands into his without even looking to know where they were. He just knew her that well. A reporter comes up to investigate what reason was for their captive staring and brings up the microphone in her hand just as Ron gulps, "Kim, you are the absolute greatest! You are my best friend and have been since the day we met." The reporter's question fell silent on her lips as she and everyone else heard their conversation, yet apparently unaware that it was happening.

"Oh Ron…" says Kim as she looks at him, knowing somehow that he wasn't done.

Ron's eyes never leave hers, "I know we haven't talked about it really yet but when you disappeared. I was a walking wreck! I mean, I even broke my way into Drakken's lair just to find out if they'd captured you or something!" He squeezes Kim's hands tightly while a majority of the people went "Awwwww!" He lifts her hands up about chin level for him, "I kid you not Kim, I doubt you would have recognized me because even Shego didn't but I made a vow to find you no matter what and…" He pauses at that point, leaving everyone soul listening leaning in for the next words he would say.

Ron feels dry mouthed, moving his lips to try and find liquid that wasn't there but what he had to say needed to be said no matter what, "Kim… I told my parents something that I probably should have told you first but it was looking like I was never going to find you again. I hope you can forgive me."

Kim leans closer with her head tilted a little to her right, "I forgive you. Now tell me what you said."

Ron takes a deep breath at that moment before he lets go of her hands, making everyone wonder if that was it but Ron surprises everyone by reaching into a pocket on his mission outfit and pulls out a small box.

Kim gasps with her eyes going wide for a moment and she is afraid. For the first time since Pre-K, she is truly afraid. "Is that… Ron?" Is all she can manage to get out as Ron slips off his seat and kneels before her.

"Kim, I told my parents that I wanted to marry you and I really meant it with all my heart. So that's when I decided that if I ever found you. I would… you know, propose. So Kimberly Anne Possible… KP… Kim…" Ron's eyes gaze fiercely with all his hopes, his dreams for a future possible with her, his heart, and all his soul all combining to hold that box. He opens it slowly to reveal a large diamond ring with a plain but shiny gold band on it. "Will you please, please, please, PLEASE do me a huge favor and I'll forget about all the sodas we owe each other… and marry me?"

The reporter's eyes turn to Kim with her microphone turning with the eyes unconsciously towards Kim. The entire crowd was in hushed silence as they waited for her answer.

Kim's heart felt like it was going to leap out of her chest the way it was beating. Her eyes had seen the ring and seen it before as part of his 'bling bling' period but he had never worn it after buying it. Now she understood why. He had saved it for when he would propose someday and that day had finally arrived and he had chosen HER! She raises her hands, shaky for the first time in her life to her lips.

"Knee giving out here… pain…" Ron weakly says to her, making the decision final for her.

Kim grabs him and pulls him up off his feet, kissing him with all her heart and soul. She then lets him go and Ron falls back, almost falling off the ride before she catches him by his outstretched arm that still held the wedding ring in his hand. "Yes Ron, I will marry you" She can't help but see Ron snap out of it and smile at her.

"Really really Kim?" Ron asks just to be sure.

"Really really Ron" Kim answers back with a smile and to prove it she takes the ring out of the box and slips it on her finger. A perfect fit. She wasn't surprised, as Ron always did seem to know just what would fit her perfectly.

It was then the reporter woman brings the mic up to her mouth and louder than she had intended cries out, "It is official! Kim and Ron Stoppable are ENAGED!" The cheering that erupted after that was louder than anything the crowd had done before. It was so deafening that Kim and Ron had to put their hands over their ears even as the glasses on the reporter broke!

After the cheering fades to acceptable levels Kim blushes, "I think the secret's out Ron…" she playfully says to him.

"Actually…" He grins big at her, "Saves me the trouble of shouting it at the top of my lungs for the whole world to hear."

Kim smiles at Ron and gives him a tight hug even as Phoenix watches all this and wonders if she will ever see her boyfriend again after all this.

(Back in Kim and Ron's home dimension)

"And I am telling you, that won't work! The inherent instability will destroy your stabilizer probe before it can reach the destination!" Drakken shouts at Wade.

"Yeah? Well Ron made it all the way! My instruments confirmed that!" Wade shouts back at him.

"Oh please, like we all don't know already that he's too stubborn to be destroyed until he finds her." Shego says as she rolls her eyes.

"All of you just please stop!!" Mrs. Possible's shout catches them all off guard and it silences them all. "None of this arguing is helping!" She turns to Wade, "Wade, is there a chance he could be right?"

"Yes but the probe should be fast enough to make it through all the way to the exit." Wade says.

"Yeah! If you want it there in so many worthless pieces!" Drakken growls at Wade as he can see the boy genius about to argue with him.

"Unfortunately we think Drakken is right! The armor for the thing just won't be tough enough!" Jim says as Tim sits at a table doing some calculating.

"Hmph! There! See! I told you I was right!" Drakken says as happy and smug about being right as he can be.

"Can't we just reinforce the armor then?" Mrs. Possible asks Wade.

"I don't see how, we're already using the best armor we can get our hands on." Wade says before he sighs, "Too bad we don't have another way to navigate through such a storm but nothing could survive it without a really tough person at the controls and we don't know anyone who owes a favor that is that tough."

"Excuse me? I am the toughest woman on the planet!" Shego loudly says.

Tim mutters at the table, "Next to our sister…"

Shego hears that and her hands ignite in flames as she growls, "What was that??"

"Nothing! I didn't say anything!" Tim says to her. He knew better than to incur her wrath from both personal experience and stories from his sister, Kim.

Shego puts out her hands, "If monkey boy can make it through, then I can! I will take the rocket and make sure it gets there."

"Shego! NO! Helping them is one thing but to risk yourself…" Drakken trails off as he notices the angry stares of the entire Possible clan.

"Actually, that might not be a bad idea. Shego is probably the only one of us who could take care of any debris as well as have the necessary skills to pilot it better than any automated system that I could whip up." Wade says as he thinks about how to redesign of the rocket.

Jim and Tim run off as they shout in stereo, "We'll get started on it right away!"

"Hey wait for me!" Wade shouts as he runs off after Jim and Tim.

"Well I better go and make sure the boys don't get into too much trouble." Mr. Possible says as he gets up from his chair and goes to follow the three of them.

Mrs. Possible walks up to Shego, grabbing her arm with a gentle but firm grip causing Shego to stop and look at her. "Shego, I'd like to ask a favor if I may."

Shego had a feeling that she knew what the woman was going to ask but she nods and turns to face the woman. "What is it?"

"I want you to promise me that you'll do your best to return with Kim and Ron. Will you do that for me?" Mrs. Possible cups her hands together before her as she looks directly at Shego's eyes. Her eyes were of a mother wanting desperately to see her child back.

Shego had parents, even some annoying brothers and so she opens her mouth to say something in a smart-mouthed way when Mrs. Possible suddenly cuts her off by saying, "I know about history between you two, including the time you were good. That is why, I think that somewhere inside you. You want to rescue her as much as I do." She takes a quick breath, "So as a mother, I am asking you to promise to make sure that she comes back or if…she is happy there with Ron, to at least tell them that I…" She trails off as she wipes at some tears with her hands, "I love them and wish nothing but the wish for them and their happiness."

Shego opens her mouth but something about the look of Mrs. Possible's face reminded her of her own mother's face at an important moment in her own life and so she sighs with her shoulders going down, "Fine! I will tell them. I promise you."

Mrs. Possible puts on a warm smile that starts to bug Shego, "Thank you, I know you'll keep your promise. Now I can rest easier about Kim and Ron."

Shego nods to her and as she walks away to join the others she mutters below her breath, "How do I get myself into these situations?"

AN: Well everyone, I hope you're enjoying this story so far. What did you think of the adulation for Team Possible? Or Ron for that matter? I wonder what you all thought of the way Ron proposed? It is one thing to propose in a small setting but in their case, the whole city and the world for that matter was listening in! Did you like the way Ron tried to sweeten the proposal deal by offering to forget all the sodas owed? What did you think of Phoenix's concerns? If you were body-sharing with KP would you have interrupted or something if Ron proposed? Well, in the end I certainly hope that I did a good job of writing realistic Kim and Ron's. As for the people back home, what did you think of everyone working together? Did you like how Shego volunteered to go and get Kim and Ron? What did you think of the moment between Shego and Kim's mother? What do you think of the favor that Mrs. Possible asked Shego?

As usual all reviews, votes, ideas, suggestions, Ghostbuster videogame hints, and more are always welcome.