Forget me not!
AN: Kim and Ron go on a mission, only one of them ends up with amnesia! What will the other do? What CAN the other do?
Chapter 12: Collision!
(On the streets of Middleton)
(In Kim's Car)
Kim was in her Sloth car and for the first time since starting this mission, she felt that was thinking more clearly. She thinks, "That confrontation with Bonnie and Tara was just what I needed to clear my head."
Kim takes a slow breath to help calm and focus her mind before she thinks, "Now I just need to think. If my Ron is trying to remember who he is and somehow guiding the other Ron to places that will help him remember… then all I need to do is figure out where he is heading next, but the question is where will he go next?"
(In Tara's Car)
Bonnie says, "Thank you Tara, I owe you one for that."
Tara glances at Bonnie to see relief on her face before she says, "Huh? What do you mean Bonnie?"
Bonnie says, "You have no idea what it was like riding in the car with Kim Psycho. She was so tense that I actually felt like my only chance to get out of the car was to jump from it while moving."
Tara says, "Come on Bonnie. I mean, I know that Kim can come on a little strong but aren't you exaggerating a bit?"
Bonnie shakes her head and says, "No, I wish I was. She was so tense that I feared to even say a word unless it had something to do with my car."
Tara slows down to a stop sign and says, "How does that involve me?"
Bonnie says, "I had forgotten that you drive a car like mine but not as fancy. So when I saw your white car, I spoke aloud and she… She just went nuts on me! She acted like it was her last chance to ever see Ron."
Tara remains silent for a few moments before she says, "Maybe…" before Bonnie sharply says, "Maybe Possible has become as loony as all those freaks that she fights. It was bound to happen. Spend too much time around a freak and you become one yourself."
Tara steps on the brakes hard, causing the tires to screech loudly and throw Bonnie back and forth between her seatbelt and seat.
Bonnie cries out, "Tara! What do you think…" She is cut off as Tara looks at Bonnie and shouts, "Stop it Bonnie! Stop it! Stop it!"
Bonnie is stunned by the treatment she is getting from Tara, her best friend and says, "What?"
Tara says, "Try to put yourself in her shoes! How would you feel if you lost your best friend! How would you feel if you lost me and had no one else in the world to lean on, to count on for help? Even your parents couldn't help you and you felt that it was all your fault!"
Tara looks at Bonnie with tears in her eyes, "Don't deny it Bonnie! You saw the pain, the anguish, and the guilt in Kim. You know how badly she is hurting and all you can complain about is your car! There are some things that are worth more than a car and best friends is one of them!"
A car horn from behind makes Tara turn away from Bonnie and step on the gas again even as she says, "Oh, what am I telling you for. You're never going to understand."
Bonnie crosses her arms and looks away from Tara as she says, "Whatever!" before she starts to think, "Still… If anything ever happened to Tara and was all my fault because I couldn't protect her in some way… "
She starts to gnaw at her lower lip as a feeling starts small, but grows from her heart until she finally thinks, "If anything happened to you Tara because of me, the loss would be just too big for me to bear. I guess… I guess I'd be going just as nuts as Kim would be about now."
Bonnie turns to look at Tara as the blond girl drives and wipes a tear from her eyes and thinks, "I guess I've got to apologize…" She says, "Tara…?" waiting until she gets Tara's attention before she says, "I am sorry. You're right."
Tara couldn't believe what she was hearing! Her grip on the steering wheel trembles a little in her joy as she hears Bonnie say next, "You're my best friend and if anything big happened to you because of me and I lost you… the feeling… the whole in my life would be so much bigger than I can put into words."
Tara squeaks for a moment before her voice recovers and she is able to say, "You… You really mean that Bonnie? All of it?"
Bonnie nods and places her hand on Tara's on the steering wheel, making Tara glance at Bonnie for just a moment which was enough for her to see that Bonnie had dropped the Queenie mask and letting her see that she was being honest with her. She says, "Yeah Tara, I really do. Forgive me?"
Tara nods enthusiastically as she says, "Yes! I do! Thank you Bonnie for understanding!" She then pulls up to a stoplight and turns to give Bonnie a big hug. When she pulls back, she says, "Does this mean that you will apologize to Kim?"
Bonnie's face scrunches up unhappily as she says, "Do I have to? I mean she's the girl who does the impossible. That's so not my bag."
Tara sharply says, "Bonnie!"
Bonnie somehow manages to look both teasing and unhappy at the same time as she says, "Yeah, I was just kidding Tara. I'll apologize the next time I see her. Now, let's see if we can find a lost boy before Possible."
Tara smiles at Bonnie and says, "Yeah! Let's find Ron and help Kim!"
Bonnie adds in her thoughts, "I still want my car back in one piece though… he better not damage it because I really don't want to be in debt to those little brothers of hers again. They are evil little munchkins."
(In Bonnie's Car)
Ron grumbles as he looks around to see which direction to go. He was at a stop sign and wasn't sure which way would take him out of the accursed town of his arch nemesis. He gets a feeling that turning left would be a good direction to go and since he didn't really have any better directions, he goes to the left.
Ron drives down the road, obeying the speed limit for the time being since he figured that the cops would probably be alerted to him having stolen the car by now. Especially if that bitchy girl was like how he thought she would be. Still, he had to admit that she did look and kind of hot not unlike his girlfriend Shego, only a lot more annoying.
Ron wonders where he'd end up this time. After ending up in that junky tree house and being discovered at the low-class school by some girl, he really couldn't wait for his luck to change so he could get back to his girlfriend.
He spots some kind of restaurant up ahead and remembers that he hadn't eaten anything since being captured and taken to the hospital that he escaped from.
He frowns at the blue and grey building and thinks that it looked far too fancy and expensive for a broke guy like him. He also knew that a place like that would have tough security, which even though he was certain that he could handle, it would cause enough of a ruckus to bring that goody two shoes arch-rival his way.
He continues to drive aimlessly even as Inner Ron sees the restaurant and can remember coloring a red otter within it on some kind of… child-like menu but that didn't make any sense! Why would he clearly be using a child menu in that kind of place?
Inner Ron puts the recovered pieces up with the other broken pieces of memory that he'd been able to recover but there were still too many unknowns for him. Such as what was he doing in such a place? Had he been there with his parents? Perhaps on a date with some girl? He couldn't remember!
Inner Ron was also frustrated at how had this hidden drive to help the nemesis of his Outer Ron, and couldn't remember why it so important to do so!
Ron drives for a few more minutes before he catches site of a fast food place and his stomach growls once more, louder this time as it told him to get some food!
Ron figures this place would be easier to intimidate so he pulls up past the big nacho food sign and pulls up to the drive through menu.
(Kim's Car)
Kim's stomach growls at her and she says, "I better make a quick stop. It would be so embarrassing to go into battle and have my stomach growl loud enough for everyone to hear."
Kim remembers how on a mission with Ron, she had forgone food after seeing the way Ron's eating cafeteria pizza made her lose her appetite. So when she had gone up against Drakken and Shego later on that day, she had become so hungry that her stomach had growled during the fight against Shego.
Kim winces as she remembers how the fight had stopped and the way Shego had said, "A little hungry there Princess?" The answer to which came in the form of another stomach growl.
The distraction had been enough for Drakken to succeed in grabbing what he wanted. Along with a few insulting words to Kim from the both of them, especially Shego… they managed to escape. After that, Kim vowed to never go that hungry before going on a mission again.
She turns to head towards their favorite spot, Bueno Nacho and heads to the parking lot, missing Ron in Bonnie's car because he was already at the back of Bueno Nacho in the curve that led to the pickup window.
Kim walks inside and sighs sadly as she looks at the menu, to which Ned picks up on and says, "Hey Kim. Why the long face?"
Kim says, "I'm looking for Ron and I really miss him, Ned."
Ned shakes his head and says, "Sorry, I haven't seen him all day but I'll let you know if I do."
Kim nods weakly and says, "Thanks Ned." She makes a choice and says, "I'll have a Naco, Grande size, a salad, and a cola to go."
Ned says, "Gotcha, that will be 8.34 please."
Kim pulls out a ten and hands to Ned who then gives her the change back.
Kim stays put while Ned walks off to check on her order and watches him as he walks over to the pickup window.
Ned says in surprise, "Ron? What are you doing in Bonnie's car? Are you aware that Kim's looking for you?"
Kim's eyes nearly leaped out of her head as she sees a tired looking Ron grab Ned by the shirt and says, "Just give me my food and if you tell my nemesis I was here, I will take that wagging tongue of yours, rip it out and force feed it to you! Got that!"
Ned could not believe that it was Ron talking to him like that, it seemed so… evil! He wanted to just flee in terror but since the food was already in his hands he nods quickly and hands it to Ron.
Kim leaps over the counter easily and runs up to the window, pulling Ned away from Ron who had let go to take the food and yells, "Ron!"
Ron had just managed to take a sip of his soda when he sees Kim at the window! He shouts, "Oh Sh!!" and slams the pedal to the floor, sending the car rocketing forward.
Kim leaps out of the window and starts to run after him, determined to get Ron! She gasps in surprise as she sees that Ron's sudden acceleration had caused him to run into another car!
Ron groans for a second and then gets out of the car and starts to run with the bag of food and drink in his hands. He may have been fleeing but he was still hungry!
Kim runs up to the hit car and says, "Are you ok? I am so… blink Tara? Bonnie?"
Tara moans for a second with a little cut on her cheek from debris hitting her but otherwise the advanced airbags and seatbelts system had saved both her and Bonnie from too much injury. She looks at Kim and says, "Go get Ron! We cut him off so he couldn't escape, hurry Kim!"
Kim says quickly, "Thanks Tara!" and shouts as she dashes off, "I owe the both of you! And don't worry! I'll have the tweebs fix up the cars!"
Kim chases after Ron but she doesn't get very far before she hears a loud shriek from Bonnie and a loud yell, "MY CAR! MY BEAUTIFUL CAR! STOPPABLE, YOU ARE SO DEAD WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!!!"
Kim hopes that Bonnie will calm down after the tweebs get done with the two cars, but for now, she couldn't focus on that and finds it hard to catch up to him. She thinks, "When did Ron get so fast?"
Kim digs deep to push herself harder, faster so she can catch up to him and just as she is about to catch grab him, Ron suddenly stops which causes her to slam into his back.
A small group of ninjas in black stand in front of Ron, blocking the way and Kim thinks, "Where'd they come from?" a moment before her question is answered by the breeze of a black helicopter dropping in low.
Ron turns to look at Kim and says, "So you brought help, I knew you couldn't take me down by yourself."
Kim says, "What? They're not with me! I don't know where they came from, Ron!"
Ron turns and charges the ninjas as he says, "Well then I guess they're here for you! Thanks for the assist!"
Just as Ron starts to run past the first one, the ninja sticks his arm out and Ron essentially clotheslines himself, sending him down to the ground hard.
Kim cries out, "Ron!" She then dashes forward as she says, "You guys just made a big mistake hurting him!"
The ninjas quickly grab Ron and leap up into the helicopter without saying a word, and Kim tries to leap up after them. She barely manages to catch a hold of the rail that was the landing gear before one of the ninjas kicks hard at her hand and sends her falling!
Kim pulls out her grappling gun and manages to snag the rail again, immediately setting into motion a swing that would bring her around to the other side of the helicopter.
One of the ninjas tosses a throwing star and cuts her line, sending her to fall right into the Bueno Nacho sign!
With that, the ninjas and the helicopter are gone even before the sign stops spinning from the impact of her crashing halfway through the sign.
Kim sadly says, "Ron… No… Not again…"
AN: Well everyone, I am sorry for making you wait this long. I've been busy and plus Team Possible Turns Evil's next chapter is proving to be... well, you'll know when you read it. So, what do you think of this chapter? What did you think of Tara and Bonnie in the car? Interesting friendship that those two have or what? Did any of you see where Ron was going to end up? I figured that after so long, everyone would be getting a bit hungry so I threw in that little bit. To say Bonnie was upset about her car would be somewhat an understatement, wouldn't you agree? What did you think of Kim battling the ninjas? Who were those ninjas? Where did they come from? Why were they there? Where are they headed? Any thoughts?
As usual, all thoughts, ideas, hints, suggestions, stories in progress you'd like to see written next, wraith capturing devices, inca-based space ships and more are always welcome!
