KP All Grown Up 3: Mystical Zodiac War
AN: A story about the mystical animals and the people in the KP universe and the desire to prove who is the TOP mystical animal of the Chinese Zodiac! Starting with King Rat(Rat), Mindy(Monkey), Karen from M.A.S.K.(Snake), and Xi-Wang(Tiger)
Chapter 11: Swimming in Fire
(In China at the Ninja School: Outside in a training field)
Mindy, Cindy, and Jesse all say at the same time, "What? Which one?"
The ninja says, "I don't know but according to report, the person went willingly."
Amber says, "I want the full report. Now!"
The ninja says, "I was just sent to tell you of the discovery. I do not know the full report. I am sorry."
Amber presses her lips together in frustration before she turns to Yori and says, "I must go to read the report. Goodbye." She then dashes off to head inside but Yori, and Tri Stoppable all follow. She knew that it wouldn't matter when they heard the report and plus she was just a bit afraid of Cindy at the moment so she remained silent.
The five of them reach the building where the report was quickly enough and Amber says as she walks into the room, "Give me the report on the mystical person!"
A ninja by the communications device hands it to her quickly in a folder and she quickly opens it. Silently reading it to herself as was habit for a ninja and tries to ignore the others before she looks up and says, "Well, the report isn't very detailed but it seems King Rat used leverage to force the person to go willingly. The reporting ninja didn't even get to find out the animal of the person but he did manage to tag King Rat's ship with a locator."
Yori walks up to Amber's side, and while she was not a tall woman her presence made it seem that she was bigger than Amber in size. She speaks with strength and patience in her voice as she says, "Do you know the location and heading of King Rat?"
The ninja glances at Amber since she was the one in charge of the school and with a minute nod from her the ninja turns to the console, pressing a button to reveal on a big screen that King Rat was heading overseas towards America. The ninja says, "Given his current trajectory we can estimate that he will go here." Another few taps on the console and an Indiana Jones style of lines appears from the front of King Rat's plane icon to finally form a big X in the northern part of United States.
Yori frowns as she knew those coordinates as well as the others in the room. She walks over to the communications section with the quick silence of a woman on a mission and leans over the ninja sitting there. A few quick setting changes and she says, "Come in please, this is Yori." A pause with crackling noise before she says, "Ron-san, please come in !"
The ninja sitting at the console says, "It is being jammed."
Mindy activates her communicator and presses a button that automatically would connect her to home and the same thing happens. There is no immediate connection, just static. She shakes her communicator as if that would dislodge whatever was jamming her and says, "No good, I can't get through to home either."
Cindy activates hers as well and presses a different button, this time there is a picture of the people she was calling on the screen before a grumpy voice says, "Yes… who is this? Do you know what time it is?" There is a female voice in the background that could barely be heard, "Who is it?"
Cindy says, "It is me, Cindy Stoppable and I was hoping you could try calling my house. All communications to there are being jammed and we're worried that King Rat…" As soon as she said that the grumpy guy's voice was heard shouting, "OOF! Hey! Get offa me! Sheila!" with a quick, "Oh shut up, you never complained when I was on you before." A low muttering that obviously wasn't meant to be picked up is heard, "That's because it is usually more pleasurable than having a knee in your stomach."
Sheila's voice was much more awake than her husband's as she says, "Do you think your parents are in trouble Cindy?"
Cindy says, "I don't know. No one can get through, not even our communicators and we have King Rat's plane being shown that it is on route to Middleton. I was hoping that you could get through to her by calling her since you're closer."
Sheila says, "I can do better than that. I'll go over there personally to make sure that everything is ok." A pause before she says, "Is he with you?"
Cindy knew who Sheila meant and that Sheila was trying not to embarrass her son. She smiles a little as she says, "Yes, he is here with me."
Jesse says, "Mother, you don't have to go there. A call would be quicker you know."
Sheila says, "Yes, I know but I doubt I'll have much more luck than you guys who I think it is best that I go over there in person. At the very least I can give her a heads up and be around if he so foolishly decides to show up there." Her voice drops into an icy tone that made the room feel twelve degrees colder as she says, "And besides if he does show up, he and I have a little score to settle."
Jesse sighs and says, "Mother, I know I can't persuade you from doing what I think you're about to do…" Sheila's voice is a bit playful as she says, "You know me so well" He then continues to say, "But please be careful. He is a master of the rat power and the latest info we have suggests that he has at least 1 or 2 more mystical animal powered people working for him. He may even have them with him which is probably why is feels confidant enough to visit Middleton."
Sheila taps a button to show her that she was already dressed in her Shego outfit for battle as she says, "Well then he really underestimates the Stoppable family and me."
An off-screen voice, which was clearly Drew's shouts, "I am coming too! If he is after the babies then I'll keep them safe."
Yori had feared such a thing but didn't want to voice it so as not to upset Cindy and Mindy. She was already communicating with her ninja school quietly at the communications terminal by means of keyboard so the others in the room wouldn't overhear her.
Mindy cries out, "What?? Do you really think that he'll go after them? For what? Kidnapping them and raising them?"
Cindy and Jesse who had far more personal experience with King Rat had a different working theory and it made them both highly anxious.
Sheila growls at Drew, "Way to go honey, you just made them upset."
Drew shouts back, "What? Like they hadn't figured it out he would be going after the mystical monkey power already by themselves."
Sheila shakes her head as she turns back to the camera, "Don't you worry. I… er… WE will do our best to make sure that King Rat doesn't come anywhere near them." Sheila then looks at Jesse who was close enough to be picked up by the communicator and says, "Don't worry Jesse, your mother didn't get this far in life without knowing how to handle a bad guy or two." She flashes her son a confidant smile as she knew her bad guy history wasn't exactly a big secret from him.
Jesse says to his mother, "Ok but if he's going… try to keep him out of the fire will you? He kind of stinks at fighting."
Drew shouts, "I heard that!"
Sheila chuckles and says, "I will do my best. See you all when you get here." She then closes the connection.
Amber says, "The fastest craft we have is all set to go."
Mindy says, "That quickly? Don't you need to fuel it up?"
Amber smirks and says, "This is a ninja school. We don't have time to wait around for a fueling. We have to always be ready to move quickly and at a moment's notice."
Mindy runs over and gives Amber a surprise hug, "Thanks!" She steps back and says, "We'll let you know how things went as soon as we get there."
Amber clears her throat in her way of recovering from the surprising and embarrassing hug before she says, "I am going with you. It is my personal craft so I won't hear any arguments and I assume you're going to be taking the other one with you."
All heads turn to Xi-Wang as he suddenly feels like he was engulfed in a 1000 watt spotlight.
Cindy says, "We don't have to bring you along with us. This isn't your fight and you can stay here safe from King Rat."
Xi-Wang really hoped he wouldn't regret this as he takes a half-step forward and says, "Um, I know it isn't my fight but the way I see it, this Rat guy has got to be stopped and I would rather do it with others like you guys around to watch my back than surrounded by a million non-powered ninjas. No offense."
Amber is silent as she watches Xi-Wang make his speech.
Mindy says, "All right then! With the power of three mystical powered people on our side, there is no way that he can win!"
Amber says, "If we don't leave immediately, then we won't get there in time to be of any assistance to your family."
Cindy squeezes Jesse's hand at the horrific thought and says, "Then I suggest we leave right away."
Amber nods as she starts walking quickly and says loudly enough for them all the hear, "Follow me".
Yori does quick flurry of typing and then with a final keystroke she gets up from the communications terminal and follows Cindy, Mindy, Jesse, Xi-Wang, Amber and takes note that for some reason Pepper was following along as well even though her role was done the Jonesy looking a bit bored as he followed her.
The group arrives at the craft and it looked a bit odd. It was a medium sized one as far as private plane sizes went but it had no wings on it.
Mindy says, "What the… where are the wings?"
Amber just smiles and says, "Let's just say I don't need them. It is also much faster than your typical jet after my grandmother added some Salusian technology to it."
Everyone doesn't quite understand but they are all in a hurry and start to board when Mindy says, "Wait, what are you doing here spice-girl?"
Pepper says, "I am coming along to protect Xi-Wang. My mission was to keep him safe."
Jonesy begins to say something to contradict her when Pepper swiftly kicks him on the side of the leg, silencing him.
Amber rolls her eyes and says, "Fine, there is room on board so you can come along but in addition to Xi-Wang I want you to assist in protecting any innocents."
Pepper cheerfully says, "You've got it!" and almost skips up onto the craft, sticking her tongue out at Mindy as she walks past her.
After everyone was settled into the strange aircraft and all seats were secure, Amber pulls out of the hanger and turns immediately towards the direction they needed to go.
Mindy says, "What are you doing? We should get to the runway."
Amber just grins in a overly proud way before she says, "Runway? Where we are going, we don't need runways." She then pushes a switch so that it starts to power up and presses her right foot down to step on the pedal while Mindy is saying, "What are you talking aaaaaaaabouuuuuuuttttttttt?" Sending Mindy hard into her padded seat as the craft takes off into the sky with it having gone from zero to 240 mph in 1.68 seconds and by the time that Mindy was able to recover from being interrupted like that they were already breaking the sound barrier without anyone feeling any of the pressure associated with the high speed.
Pepper shouts furiously, "What the heck was that all about?"
Amber calmly says as if talking to herself, "The anti-motion device didn't kick in because it was still in hover mode. It took a moment to kick in. Sorry about that, but I didn't think we had time."
Pepper shouts, "Didn't think we had the time…?" She sputters as Jonesy touches her shoulder and says, "Calm down, we've had rough take offs before and we're on our way. That's all that matters."
Mindy heard what Jonesy said and nods, telling herself the same thing but a part of her knew that if Amber wasn't flying it at the moment, she would have hit her for pulling an unnecessary stunt like that.
(Later in Middleton)
Kim says to Sheila, "Are you sure about this? Leaving the children with Drew?"
Sheila looks at Kim and says, "Did you forget? We raised two children of our own and they turned out perfectly fine. One of them is even going out with a daughter of yours."
Kim nods a little and says, "You're right, I guess I was just a little worried because I saw him with all those gadgets."
Sheila sighs and says, "I know, I told him not to bring so much but he insisted by saying 'If I am going to be saving our old arch-nemesis's children from a mystical powered jerk then I am going to do it right!' end quote."
Kim looks puzzled as she says, "So uh… what are the things that he brought with him?"
Sheila shrugs and says, "Beats me, I may have married him but I could never understand his wacked out plans."
Kim says, "We're ready for him at any rate. The house security is on high alert and if they should fail there is always…" "US, the best fighting team in the world." Sheila says with confidence.
Just then there was a high-pitched sound that was rapidly approaching. With years of experience, they both knew that sound and quickly ducked behind something in the room to shield themselves before something crashed through the wall hard!
AN: Well everyone I know it has been a while since I've updated this story I would like to take a moment to say. I've been extremely busy this semester (Yes, I am in college) and would like to take a moment to thank Joliver11 for messaging me so I could do this chapter. Now to the story, did you like how Tri-Stoppable has gone from twin speak to triplet speak in at the start of this chapter? What do you think of the decision to contact Jesse's parents given the time zone changes? Do you think Shego and Drakken have a chance against Rat and anyone else he might be bringing along? What animal do you think the newly person is? Heh, I wonder if anyone can guess the name or gender? Anyway, it looks like they are ready. Do you think Tri-Stoppable will make it home in time to help?
As usual all reviews, votes, ideas, suggestions and commercials for Kim are always welcome.