I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack, hehe, ok, we're back with the new chapter of Rokubi 2 : Family Bonds. I've been away for a while because of some computer problems, but now i'm back with my writing partner 'xthedarkone' and we've got planty of great new ideas, we already have the rest of Rokubi 2 planned out, so stay tuned, get into the story, send planty of reviews and keep an eye on your e-mail for an update post.
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Rokubi : Family Bonds.
Chapter 14 : The Ultimate Power Source
The rest of the day was pretty slow, Shizune insisted that Ron stay put to recover his chakra from the Detox technique. Sheila was still reeling from her afternoon, first she skips actually telling Ron her feelings and went right to the kissing, which he returned much to her delight, and then Yuna makes a revelation of her own, the time traveling Ninja was actually the future daughter of X and Yori. All in all it had been a very trying day, so the team welcomed the silence.
After a few hours everyone was sat in the den eating dinner which consisted of a pot of ramen per person. Ron and Sheila kept looking at each other out of the corner of their eyes and then looked away blushing whenever they looked at the same time and noticed each other. Kim noticed this and smirked slightly.
"Anyway…" Ron said as he swallowed a mouthful of noodles, "… Tenten, is the perimeter set up?"
"Yeah… nothing's getting within ten meters of this house without us knowing about it" Tenten answered.
"Good, Neji?" Ron asked.
"I swept the entire house and the surrounding area, I found seven devices, they have all been disposed of" Neji reported
"Good, ok we need to make plans for tomorrow… tomorrow I'm going to pay this 'Big Daddy Brotherson' a visit, according to the info that Global Justice gave us he regularly occupies a fancy restaurant in Upperton, Kim I need you to show me the way there, I don't know the area very well" Ron said
Kim nodded with a smile
"I'll go too, if you run into any of Drakken's goons you'll need help" X spoke up with a mouth full of noodles.
"Ok, according to the information the restaurant opens for breakfast at 8, so make sure you get some sleep, X and Kim are coming with me, the rest of you stay here and protect the house" Ron ordered.
"Can I ask something?… how do you intend to get Brotherson to tell us where Drakken is?" Kim asked.
"Easy, we'll ask him" Ron said simply
"… and if he doesn't tell you?" Kim asked
"Then we'll ask harder" Ron said with an evil smirk that sent a shiver down Kim's spine.
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That night everyone was getting settled for the night, Mr and Mrs Possible were asleep in their room as were the Tweebs. Neji was on the roof of the house keeping watch. Yuna was asleep in the tree on the front garden. Everyone else however had set up a small sleeping space in the Den, they figured it would be best to stay nearby each other. X & Yori were asleep on the sofa sharing a blanket, Kim and Tenten were asleep top-to-tail on a large bed that was meant for guests. Shizune was snoozing on a chair with her feet up.
Ron was on the floor in his sleeping bag. After a few minutes Ron felt his sleeping bag open and something warm slipped inside.
"W-Wha…" Ron said in startle.
"Shh, it's just me" Ron recognised Sheila's voice as she slipped fully into the sleeping bag and zipped it back up.
"S-Sh-Sheila… what're you d-doing?" Ron asked nervously.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm getting into bed with my boyfriend" Sheila said with a smirk.
"B-B-Boyfriend?" Ron stuttered.
"Yep… you like me, I like you, then we kissed and that makes us boyfriend and girlfriend… besides it's not like this is the first time we slept in the same bed, remember?" Sheila asked.
Ron did remember, thanks to his attack four months ago there was a period of time when Sheila couldn't sleep alone, so she always climbed into bed with him.
"Yeah, I remember" Ron said with a smile. "It's a little different this time isn't it?" Ron asked with a smile as he wrapped his arms around Sheila.
"Yeah… good different or bad different?" Sheila asked mischievously
"Hmm, too early to tell, I'll let you know…" Ron said with a grin.
Sheila smiled as she leaned forward and gave Ron and quick kiss on the lips before snuggling into Ron's chest.
Not far away, Kim listened to Ron and Sheila's exchange and smiled.
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Ron, Kim and X stood in front of a large high-class restaurant in the better half of Upperton.
"Ok, lets do it" Ron said and grasped the door handle.
They walked into the restaurant, sat everywhere were smartly dressed people eating, in the far corner was a stage complete with karaoke machine Ron quickly approached a man standing next to the reservation book.
"Hello, my name is Sam… do you have a reservation?" the man asked as he looked over Ron and X's attire.
"No we don't, we're here to see Mr. Brotherson…" Ron said as he leaned against the desk
Sam's eyes widened and he suddenly started shifting nervously.
"Umm… w-wait here p-please" with that said Sam disappeared into the restaurant, Ron watched as Sam walked to a table where a short overweight man was sat eating, he spoke to the plump man for a moment. The man looked up at the three and then turned back to Sam and said something.
Sam nervously walked back towards them.
"Umm… Mister Brotherson will see you in a moment, if you'll just follow me please" Sam said and then walked further into the restaurant. Ron, X and Kim quickly followed him towards the kitchen.
After reaching the kitchen Sam gave a quick bow.
"He'll be with you in a moment" Sam then walked away out of the kitchen.
They waited there for a moment for Brotherson before Kim broke the silence.
"Hey Ron… what exactly do you plan to do if he doesn't cooperate?" Kim asked worriedly.
Ron was about to answer when the door to the kitchen swung open, but it was not Brotherson who walked in, it was a tall bulky man with his hands behind his back wearing a chefs uniform and hat.
"Monsieur Brotherson has asked me to take care of you…" the chef said as he pulled a pair of carving knifes into view from behind his back "… in a manner of speaking" he said as he started twirling the knifes at high speed around his hands.
Kim looked a little worried but Ron and X just looked annoyed.
"You wanna take care of this or should I?" Ron asked.
"Nah, I'll take this one…" X said as he quickly looked around, he smiled as he spotted a small cup of tea with the spoon still sticking out if it. X quickly picked up the spoon and tossed it at the chef, the spoon shot towards him like a kunai and struck him directly in the middle of the head.
"AH…" the chef grunted in pain as the spoon twanged off his head and he fell to the ground with a thud, unconscious.
Kim's eye were wide, she couldn't believe what she had just seen.
"… A spoon?" Ron asked curiously as he looked as X.
X just shrugged "Whatever's handy"
Ron looked between the unconscious thug, X and the spoon and just shrugged.
"Whatever, come on, let's go and see mister Brotherson personally" Ron said as he cracked his knuckles and walked towards the kitchen doors, followed quickly by X and Kim.
After re-entering the main restaurant they were immediately charged by at least a dozen men in black suits.
"We don't have time for this shit, Senei Jashu!!!" (Hidden Shadow Snake Hands) Ron said as he pointed both of his hands at the oncoming thugs, two long snakes protruded out of each of his sleeves and wrapped around four of the men, the snakes reared back and tossed the men in opposite directions, one man smashed through the kitchen doors, another smashed through the front display window, another smashed into a tank of very angry lobsters and the final man landed right on top of Big Daddy Brotherson's table.
Meanwhile another four thugs were charging at X, he smirked as he drew both of his sword and crossed them in an X shape in front of him.
"X Kirikizu!" (X Cutter) X lashed outwards with both swords and struck all four thugs in the gut, the force of the attack send them all flying backward through the air and smashing through the nearby wall.
X shifted his coat to the side and sheathed his swords.
"I used the backs of my swords, I'd be grateful if I were you…" X said threateningly
The final four men saw what happened to their friends and decided to go after the girl, they all charged at Kim at the same time.
"KP!!!" Ron and X both shouted when he saw them gang up on Kim, they both immediately reached for their weapons.
Kim however didn't look worried at all, in fact she was smirking. A moment later Kim slapped her hands together into the Snake seal and started shifting them.
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"Mizuton : Mizu Suru No Jutsu" (Water Release : Water Manipulation Technique)
With that said Kim planted both of her palms flat on the ground, a moment later the ground started to shake.
Both Ron and X looked at each other nervously.
"Did you teach her this?" both Ron and X asked at the same time.
Suddenly the floor under Kim cracked open and water pipes were revealed, the pipes quickly ruptured and a large stream of water shot up and slammed into the remaining thugs hard. The water carried the thugs towards the window that had been previously been smashed by Ron's attack and dumped the men on the street.
Kim stood back up and brushed herself off, then she noticed the looks she was getting from Ron and X.
"… What?… I've been getting better…" Kim said with a shrug.
Ron and X accepted her answer for now, they turned around and started to walk towards Big Daddy Brotherson who was curiously still drinking his tea.
"Very impressive… just what I would expect from a pair of Shinobi and the world renowned Kim Possible"
"Brotherson, we're here for a reason, we…" Ron started to speak but was quickly and rudely cut off.
"Yes, yes, yes, you want to know where Drakken is… I know why you're here Mr. Mitarashi… or is it, Stoppable?" Brotherson asked with a sly grin.
Ron's demeanor suddenly changed, his eyes darkened and he spoke through his teeth.
"Don't call me that!!!" Ron spat through his teeth.
Brotherson grinned again as he took another sip of his tea.
"Surprised Mr. Stoppable?… Oh yes I know all about you… you see my business is information, and I am very good at what I do… I know that when you were only 4 years old you murdered three children and your own father…"
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Ron snapped, he suddenly grabbed the edge of the table and flipped it out of the way, then he leaned down and grabbed Brotherson by the neck and slammed him up against the nearest wall.
"I SAID DON'T CALL ME THAT!!!…" Ron's voice was almost demonic as he applied more pressure to Brotherson's neck.
"Ron, stop!!!" Kim shouted, she was shaking in fear at what was happening, she had never seen Ron act like this.
"Ron she's right, this isn't what we're here for" X said calmly.
Ron slowly took a few deep breaths and loosened his grip and looked Brotherson dead in the eyes.
"… My name, is Ronald Mitarashi… Jounin of Konohagakure… you know what that means?… Who the hell do you think we are Brotherson? Some new kind of police? You think that we'll just come in here throw around fancy words and then leave without doing anything? We are not police, we are born and bred trained killers Brotherson… now, you have information that we need and I am going to get it out of you one way or another… now what's it going to be?" Ron calmly said as he lowered Brotherson back down to the ground.
Brotherson coughed as he regained his breath, he looked up to see Ron looking down at him expectantly. Brotherson reached into his jacket and pulled out a folder, he passed the folder to Ron.
"Drakken's new base is in an old abandoned hospital in Lowerton, that folder has all the information you need to find it… now get out of my restaurant…" Brotherson said before sitting back down.
"Thank you Brotherson…" Ron said as he flipped through the folder and turned around, "… if the information you gave up is false, I'll be back…" Ron warned as he walked away, quickly followed by Kim and X.
As the trio passed by the reservation desk the phone rang, with nobody there Ron picked it up.
"Hello?… a reservation?… I'm sorry the restaurant is closed for renovations…" Ron spoke on the phone with a smile, "… how long? One moment please…" Ron held the phone away as he looked at the damage they had done to the restaurant. "… I'd say at least 6 months… ok, bye bye" with that said Ron put the phone back down and walked out of the restaurant followed by a smiling X and Kim, both of them giggling.
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Ron, X and Kim got back to the Possible residence about 30 minutes later.
"Ron, how did it go?" Shizune asked as she stood up from the sofa.
"Good, we got the information we needed, Drakken is hold up in an old Hospital in Lowerton, please gather everyone in the Den for a situation update" Ron asked politely.
Shizune nodded and moved to gather everyone. Sheila who had been watching Ron and Shizune walked up to Ron.
Ron noticed her and smiled.
"Hey Sheila hMMMMPPP!" Ron was cut off when Sheila pulled Ron into a deep kiss.
X and Yori's jaws dropped.
After a moment Sheila separated from Ron and smiled at him
"Welcome back…" Sheila said and walked away with a grin.
Ron was left standing there with a stupid grin on his face, he slowly wobbled into the Den
X and Yori turned to Kim.
"When did that happen?" X asked, referring to Ron and Sheila
Ten minutes later, Ron, Sheila, X, Yori, Kim, Shizune, Tenten, Neji and Yuna were sat in the Den.
Ok, we have the information we need, Drakken has set up base in this hospital…" Ron said as he tossed a picture on the table in the middle of the room.
"Ok then, we know where they are, I say we go in kick their asses and be back in time for tea" Tenten said with a smile as she sharpened her Kunai.
"No, it's not that simple… there are two S-Rank missing-nin with them and we still don't know what this 'New power source' is that Drakken talked about… I'm going on a recon mission to the hospital to gather information, X, Neji, you two are coming with me, the rest of you will stay here and guard the family." Ron ordered, without hesitation every ninja from Konoha answered, "Hai"
"We'll be back in a few hours" Ron said as he stood up, X and Neji followed suit.
"Ron wait!…" Shizune called as she stood up and followed him.
"Ron I don't approve of this, you still haven't fully recovered from the Detox technique, now I let you go to Brotherson's because you would just be dealing with normal civilians, but this time you could run into Akatsuki again" Shizune said worriedly.
"Shizune, don't worry, we're just going to watch, not fight" Ron assured her.
"… Ok… promise me this, if you run into Akatsuki, run… don't fight, just run" Shizune asked.
Ron smiled and pulled Shizune into a quick hug.
"I promise" Ron whispered.
With that said Ron, X and Neji left via the front door. After they left Kim immediately made a beeline to the family computer, something that Brotherson had said had caught her attention, some distant sense of Deja-Vu.
Sheila noticed Kim's rush to the computer and walked up behind her.
"What're you doing?" Sheila asked curiously
"I'm Google-ing Ron" Kim answered as she booted up the computer.
"I thought that was my job" said Sheila with a sly smile as she took a seat next to her ex-rival.
"… Something happened today when we went to see Brotherson…" Kim said as she shook off Sheila's joke. "…he said something that really pissed off Ron…"
"Pissed him off? How much?" Sheila asked.
"Enough for Ron to grab him by the throat and slam him up against a wall…"
Sheila was a little shocked, she hadn't really ever seen Ron when he was angry, and she just couldn't imaging Ron doing something like that.
"Jeez, what did he say that pissed him off so much?" Sheila asked
"… He said that Ron murdered three children and his father" Kim said after a moment of hesitation
Sheila's eyes widened in shock.
"… No… no way Ron would do something like that!" Sheila said loudly.
"I know, but there was one other thing that Brotherson said, something that's nagging in the back of my mind…" Kim said as she reached the appropriate website.
"What else did he say?" Sheila asked curiously
Kim didn't answer, instead she typed 'Ron Stoppable' into the search engine.
"Stoppable?… Ron's name is Mitarashi…" Sheila said in confusion
"I know, but this is what Brotherson called him that pissed Ron off so much"
After a few moments the search results appeared on the screen, the top result was an old article from the Middleton Inquisitor, a local newspaper, the article was named 'Four Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances, Child Missing'
Kim immediately clicked on the site and started reading.
'At approximately 12:30 yesterday afternoon, the bodies of three Pre-Kindergarden children were found in the playground of Middleton Early Childhood Centre, the bodies showed burns consistent with the victim of a direct lightning strike. Another body was found late last night with similar injuries…'
The article went on to explain the names and details of the four victims deaths, both Kim and Sheila read it as fast as possible whilst being careful not to overlook anything.
'… in addition it was discovered that the fourth victim's son Ronald Stoppable is missing, after some investigation it was discovered that Ronald is a student at the Early Childhood Centre and was present at the time of the incident with the other three victims…'
Kim's eye shifted to the right of the page showing a picture of a young blond child, with the story and now the picture, something snapped inside of Kim as memories came flooding back to her.
"Hey, is that Ron?" Sheila asked in surprise as she leaned forward to take a closer look at the picture.
Suddenly Kim ignored Sheila's question and stood up so fast that her chair fell backwards, Kim quickly ran from the room and bolted up the stairs, Sheila was only two steps behind her.
"Kim, where're you going?!" Sheila asked as she chased after Kim.
Kim either ignored her or didn't hear her, she ran into her bedroom and swung open her closet, she quickly dug through the junk at the bottom before pulling out an old folder, she opened the folder and stated flicking through the papers until she come to the one she was looking for.
"… I'd forgotten about I until now… I d-didn't even realise" Kim said as she passed the paper to Sheila.
Sheila took it and turned it sideways to look at it properly, it looked like a class photo with over a dozen children all smiling at the camera along with the names of each child printed at the bottom. Sheila quickly noticed a little girl with wearing a pale green dress, she had her red hair in two ponytails, her arm was in the air as she smiled at the camera. Sheila easily recognised her as the same girl sitting across from her.
"What's so surprising about this, it's just a class photo" Sheila said as she passed the photo.
"Look at the far right" Kim said simply.
Sheila held up the photo again and looked to the far right, her eyes widened when she saw who was sitting apart from the rest of the students, he sat to the side and looked at the camera with his hand up slightly to wave.
Sheila immediately looked down at the names at the bottom sure enough she saw the words 'Ronald Stoppable'.
"… You've got to be kidding me… you knew him, long before he ever came here for that mission months ago… what the hell happened to him back then…" Sheila wondered out loud
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Two Hours Later
Right in the middle of the worst part of Lowerton stood Lowerton Sacred Heart Hospital, the thirty floor high condemned building, long ago abandoned by anybody slightly resembling a doctor.
The hospital had closed years ago after dozens of malpractice suits had bankrupted them, but despite that, there were two people visible through the front doors. Both dressed in a red jumpsuit with black eye pieces. The only viable part of their bodies was their mouths.
"Man… why'd we get stuck on guard duty?" the first guard asked
"Probably because you let Kim Possible escape, idiot" the second guard said with a grin.
"Hey, I've told you a hundred times, she caught me by surprise!!!" the first guard said angrily.
"Yeah, so what was the bigger surprise, when she kicked you in the face or when your head hit the wall after the kick?" the second said with a grin.
The first guard was about to say something else when suddenly the door to the hospital opened and a blond boy walked in holding his side with both hands in pain.
"Please, you've got to help me, I've just been electrocuted!" the boy said as he gasped for breath.
"Hey, you need to leave, this hospital's closed!" the first guard said as he approached the boy carefully and the second guard moved around behind him.
"What?… but I need help… I've been electrocuted, do you have any idea how painful that is?!!" the boy asked with pleading eyes.
"No" the guard answered the boys question.
The boy suddenly smiled as he moved his hands away form his side revealing arcs of electricity jumping between his fingers, the boy quickly trusted his lightning covered hand into the guards chest, the guard felt his body seize up for a second that seemed like an eternity as a buzzing pain shot through him, this lasted for only a second before he fell unconscious.
"A little something like that" the boy said with a grin.
Behind him the second guard made a move to attack the boy but wasn't able to take one step before he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck and fell unconscious himself.
Ron turned around and saw Neji standing behind the second unconscious guard.
"Good work, hide the bodies" Ron quickly commanded.
Neji simply nodded, then he threw one body over his shoulder and dragged the second behind him.
"They dead?" X asked as he passed Ron back his Konoha forehead protector.
"No, that attack was a Chidori at one fiftieth it's normal power, he'll wake up in about an hour with a bad headache… do you have any idea how hard it was to weaken my attack that much?" Ron said as he tied the headband tightly to his forehead.
When Neji got back from hiding the bodies he quickly placed his hands together and channelled chakra into his eyes.
"Byakugan" the veins around his eyes bulged as his blood line activated.
Ron and X waited in silence as Neji scanned the building
"… there is a large amount of people on the very top floor of the building" Neji said.
"Ok, the elevators are probably rigged with traps or alarms, which way to the stairs?" Ron asked.
"This way" Neji pointed and started jogging down a corridor with Ron and X right behind him, Neji reached a door and quickly trusted his open palm into the door near the handle, the lock immediately broke and the door swung open. The trio stepped into a large square room with stairs leading upwards for what seemed like forever.
Neji quickly scanned the stairs with his eyes.
"1360 stairs" Neji said simply
Ron slowly craned his neck to look at Neji with an annoyed face.
"Neji, do me a favour and just keep that kind of stuff to yourself" Ron said before bolting up the stairs followed quickly by X and Neji.
After what seemed like an eternity of running up stairs they finally reached the top floor and carefully crept through the door. The corridors of that floor were crawling with guards.
"Ok… Neji, hold this area and keep our way out secure, if the shit hits the fan and we get separated meet back at Kim's house…" Ron said as he reached into his side pouch and pulled out three earpieces and held them out "… here, stay in contact"
With that said X and Neji both took an earpiece and set it in place. Ron slipped the final earpiece into his own ear and tapped it.
"Radio test" Ron spoke into the device.
"Check" Neji confirmed
"Check" X said with a nod
"Ok, let's do it" Ron said.
After leaving Neji at the staircase Ron and X quickly made their way through the floor knocking out guards as they went, eventually they came to the room that Neji had told them held the most life signs, the sign on the door said 'Extraction Room'
Ron leaned down and placed his ear up against the door and listened. He heard several voices speaking inside as well as the sound of some mechanical equipment.
"How do we get in without being seen?" X asked
Ron looked up at X to answer when he saw something and grinned.
"That's how" Ron said as he looked past X
X turned and followed Ron's eye-line to a metal grate on the ceiling. X grinned and flicked one of his Katanas from it's scabbard with his thumb, he gripped the blade with his opposite hand and with a quick movement he unsheathed the sword, slashed upwards and re-sheathed the sword, it all happened so fast that the blade itself was nothing but a blur. A moment later the grate fell away form the ceiling and into X's waiting hand, he carefully put it down so it wouldn't make a noise.
"Ok, let's go" X said with a grin.
Unfortunately a moment later the ceiling around where the grate had been cut away the collapsed and a large section of the ventilation system fell to the ground with a crash.
X looked very sheepish while Ron looked annoyed.
"You just had to show off didn't you!!!" Ron shouted.
Before either of them could move small holes opened up in the ground and thick metal wires shot up out of the ground and wrapped tightly around both of them.
"What the…" X said as he fell to the ground wrapped up in the metal wire.
Ron was in a similar predicament, he struggled hard against the wires trying to slip loose.
At that moment the 'Extraction Room' doors opened revealing a big man with a very bad haircut. Ron recognised him from the Bermuda Triangle meeting, Motor Ed.
Motor Ed looked down at the two tied up teenagers in confusion.
"… Did anybody here order a Pizza?" Ron asked.
Ed turned back around and called into the room.
"Yo dudes, did anybody order Pizza?" Ed called into the room.
Ron and X blinked, they weren't expecting that to actually work.
After a few minutes of confusion, a man dressed in a black cloak and red clouds with a straw hat appeared at the door and grabbed the two by the scruffs of their coats and started dragging the two tied up Shinobi into the extraction room. As they were dragged Ron looked up at his the one doing the dragging and noticed white eyes under the straw hat/
'Hanzo…' Ron realised.
When Hanzo had showed up in his black cloak with red clouds and a straw hat, X had almost panicked, as they were dragged |X looked up and spotted the white eyes, he was suddenly releaved that the eyes weren't red with a black X through the middle.
'It's not Senban… thank god…' X thought to himself in a relieved fashion. When they were in the centre of the room they were lifted up so they could stand, Ron and X looked around to see who else was in the room, Ron recognised Motor Ed, Dr. Domentor, Gemini and Duff Killigan from the Bermuda Triangle club, in addition Kim's old team-mate turned traitor Bonnie was standing to the side dressed in a copy of Sheila's old outfit, with silver where there was once green.
The walls of the room itself was lined with pods covered in condensation, it was impossible to tell what was inside them. As Ron was looking around the room and spotted another person dressed in a black cloak with red clouds approaching them, this one was huge, almost three heads taller than the tallest person in the room.
"Oh boy…" Ron said in worry
"That's Golom right?" X asked, he had memorised the names of the Akatsuki members they were facing.
"Yeah, trust me you do not want to get this guy pissed off" Ron warned
"You… how did you survive my Chakra earth?" Golom asked in surprise as he approached
It took a moment for Ron to realised what Golom was talking about, after their last fight Ron's wound wouldn't heal, it was because of small amounts of earth infused with chakra were in the wound, it kept the wound open and bleeding, Shizune had been able to remove it a while ago.
"… Oh that stuff? It itched for ages, you could really annoy somebody with that stuff" Ron joked.
"Dude, you just told me NOT to piss him off!!!" X whispered loudly through clenched teeth.
Golom quickly pulled back a fist and smashed it into Ron's face, the punch was powerful enough to send Ron off his feet and flat onto his back.
"… I… never was really good… At taking my own advice…" Ron said as he winced at the pain.
Hanzo quickly pulled Ron back to his feet and placed him next to X again.
"It would be wise to remain quiet, Golom has massacred entire villages for less than what you just said…" Hanzo warned.
Golom approached Ron again, probably to attack but stopped when somebody spoke.
"Wait…" Golom back off and looked to the side, Ron and X both looked to who had spoken and spotted Drakken approaching form one of the many machines in the room.
"Well well, if it isn't that pesky ninja who helped Kim Possible, Ron right?" Draken asked as he approached them. Then he turned to X…
"… and… do I know you?" Drakken asked while scratching his head.
"It's me… X… Dude, we met a few months ago… I helped Kim kick you're butt" X explained.
Drakken still had a lost look on his face.
"Oh yes… I remember Kim Possible and another ninja… but the name doesn't sound familiar"
"Oh come on!!! You remembered him!!!" X said loudly while looking at Ron.
"Yes well, whatever…" Drakken said as waved a hand is dismissal leaving X seething.
"I assume you came here to see what we're up to… well I'm not one to turn down a good gloat…" Drakken said with a grin.
"As you probably know I've been talking about a new untapped power source, well let me show you first hand what it is…" with that said Drakken turned around and walked towards one of the fogged up pods on the wall, he placed a hand on it and wiped the condensation away. Ron and X's eyes widened when they saw what was inside, it was a person, stripped down to their underwear and hooked up to dozens of tubes.
"What the hell? How is this a power source?" Ron asked in confusion.
"Haven't you figured it out yet?" Drakken asked with a amused grin, "After all, you're the one who showed me the potential of this power source"
Ron's eyes widened, he had a slight idea of what Drakken might be talking about.
"No… you didn't… DRAKKEN, TELL ME YOU DIDN'T!!!" Ron screamed.
Drakken grinned as he tapped a few keys on a nearby keyboard, one the right side of the room the floor opened up and a machine rose up out of the ground, the machine was a chair was several needles surrounding it and next to the chair was a large tank filled with some kind of blue glowing substance.
Ron looked at the tank in horror.
"… Chakra… the new power source you've been talking about… it's Chakra, you've been draining it out of these people" Ron muttered.
"Exactly… Chakra, the ultimate power source… and I couldn't have done it without you…" Drakken said with a smile.
Ron looked devastated, X understood immediately that Ron was blaming himself for what was happening to these people.
"Now let me give you a demonstration of what my genius has accomplished, Eddie, if you would…" Drakken said as he gestured to the chair next to the Chakra tank.
"You got it cuz, this is gonna rock, seriously!!!" Ed said as he stripped of his shirt and sat down in the chair.
Drakken hit a few keys on the same keyboard that had raised the chair in the first place, the chair shifted for a moment before the needles surrounding it shot down and pierced Ed's arms legs and chest.
Ed winced in pain for a moment, but quickly settled down. Ron watched as the blue Chakra from the tank started flowing into Ed.
"ARRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHH/! Ed screamed in pain as his arms started to bulge and his skin took on a dark grey colour.
Ron and X watched in horror, these people had no idea what they were messing with and they had no respect for what Chakra was supposed to be used for.
After about a minutes, Ed stopped screaming and the needles retracted from him, Ed stood up and looked at his new muscular arms.
"Dude, this rocks, seriously!!!" Ed said in a rougher much deeper voice than before, he pulled back a fist and smashed it into the ground leaving a very big hole.
Drakken left the machine and approached Ron and X again.
"Impressive is it not?… and that's why I'm going to make you an offer…" Drakken said quickly.
Ron and X were a little confused at what Drakken had said.
"You two are extremely powerful… join us… with your strength and my ingenuity with this new power source, we can do anything!!!" Drakken put a lot of emphasis in his last word before pulling up a remote out of nowhere and hitting a button, the wire's wrapped around Ron and X suddenly went limp and fell to the ground with a clatter.
"So, what do you say?" Drakken said with a huge grin, he seemed very confident that he had won two new lackeys over to his side.
Ron looked at X and smiled.
"You know what X, he's right, together we can do anything?" Ron said with a grin.
X smiled when he got what Ron was getting at.
"You now what, you're right, I'll go left…" X said
"… and I'll go right…" Ron said.
Before Drakken could understand what they were talking about, two fists smashed into his face, X's left and Ron's right.
Drakken's body shot backwards and smashed into one of the machines on the wall, the one that controlled the 'Chakra Chair' that Motor Ed had just been transformed in.
Before Ron or X could even move Motor Ed shot forwards with incredible speed, grabbed them by the neck and smashed them up against and nearby wall.
"Argh…" Winced as the wall cracked behind his head
"Ooof…" X grunted as the air was forced out of his lungs
Drakken carefully picked himself out of the wreckage of the machine he had hit, he turned around whilst holding his back in pain.
"… NO!!!" Drakken yelled as he saw the control console.
"What is it" Bonnie asked as she stepped forward.
"The console is completely wrecked, it'll take me days to rebuild it!!!" Drakken said as he smashed his fist into the wreckage in rage.
"Hey cuz…" Motor Ed called back to Drakken. "… what should I do with these two?"
Drakken looked and saw the two Ninja struggling for breath as they clawed at Ed's huge hands.
"… they had their chance, dispose of them" Drakken commanded coldly.
Ed turned back at the ninja and started to tighten his grip, that's when he noticed that they were both smiling.
"… and what do you two find so funny?" Ed asked.
Ron managed to use the last of his air to speak
"We're… expecting company…" Ron said with a smile.
Motor Ed was about to ask what he was talking about when he noticed something else, they each had a small black device in their ears, somebody had been listening in the entire time. Before Ed could warn anybody, the wall between where Ron and X were pinned suddenly shattered, the first thing he saw come from the wall was the palm of a hand, followed by and arm and the face of the new intruder.
"Hakke : Hasangeki!!!" (Eight Divination : Destructive Mountain Fist) the open palm slammed into Motor Ed's chest, the effect was immediate, his grip disappeared and Ron and X dropped to the ground, Ed meanwhile shot across the room and slammed into the wall on the opposite side leaving an indentation in the shape of his body.
"Neji… you're timing rocks" Ron said as he gasped for breath
"That's the understatement of this still very young century" X said as he stood up massaging his throat.
Hanzo seemed to take in interest in the newcomer.
"Well well, a member of my family…" Hanzo said as he approached the trio.
Neji made a move to attack Hanzo but was stopped by Ron placing a hand on Neji's shoulder.
"Not now Neji, this is recon only, we've been compromised and now we have to escape!!!" Ron commanded.
Neji was hesitant but nodded anyway.
Ron, X and Neji quickly back out through the hole that Neji had created by busting in and disappeared quickly.
"After zem!!! They must not be allowed to ESCAPE!!!" Dr. Dimentor yelled.
Drakken smiled.
"Do not fear my height challenged friend, Eddie was not the first one to undergo the chakra enhancement treatment…" Drakken said with a grin.
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Ron, X and Neji bolted down the corridor away from the 'Extraction Room', every time they rounded a corner they spotted a new group of enemies rushing after them, they didn't seem to be much of a threat, but they could hold them up long enough for a real threat to catch up with them.
The trio rounded another corner just to come skidding to a halt when they came face to face with yet another group of enemies, they turned around but the opposite corridor was also filled with the henchmen of Drakken, Dementor and Gemini.
Ron, X and Neji positioned themselves back to back to avoid back attacks and prepared themselves.
"Vait a moment…" a voice called from behind the first group of henchmen, the voice had a Russian accent and obviously belonged to a woman.
From behind the henchmen a very strange looking person made her way forward. Ron, X and Neji took in what she looked like, she wore a black jumpsuit with wires stretching out, her face was a metallic grey colour and her hair looked literally like electrical wires, finally she wore a pair of black goggles around her eyes.
"Vell, vell, vat do ve have here?" she asked in a very thick accent "Dr. Drakken told me that ve have some intruders, but I vas not expecting a bunch of children" the woman said "Allow me to introduce myself, I am Electronique, mistress of electricity" Electronique introduced herself and let an arc of electricity flow between her fingers for emphasis.
"… Ok, we don't have time for this shit…" Ron said in annoyance.
'What is it with these guys and the melodrama?' Ron wondered as he balled his fist and gathered chakra into it.
"If we don't have an exit, I'll make one myself" Ron said as he stepped towards the nearest wall and pulled his fist back.
Electronique shook her in annoyance, there was no way in hell that a child would be able to…
-SMASH!!!-
Ron's fist collided with the wall and caused it to crumble away revealing the world outside, unfortunately they were still 25 stories up in the air.
At some point whilst they had been inside the building, the sun had started to go down and the sky was lit with an orange glow, Ron looked outside and saw another building across the street only one floor lower than the one they were in.
"X, Neji, jump across to the opposite building!!!" Ron shouted, immediately Ron took a step back before shooting forward through the hole and into the air, less than a second later he was joined by both X and Neji.
Electronique ran forward to the new hole in the side of the building and looked out, to her shock she saw the three children soaring through the air towards the building on the opposite side of the street.
"It seems I underestimated them…" Electronique muttered as she gathered a huge amount of electricity in her hand.
"… NEVER AGAIN!!!" Electronique screamed and thrusted her hand forward, suddenly a giant bolt of electricity shot from her hand and headed straight for the closest ninja, X.
All three of the fleeing Shinobi heard a scream behind them, they craned their heads around to see who had said it only to see the bolt of electricity heading straight for them, In particular X.
X's eyes widened, he was still in mid air between the two buildings, he had no way of maneuvering out of the way. Ron saw the electricity heading for X and knew he had no way of stopping it. Only one idea came to Ron's mind, he quickly placed his hands in the Ram seal and concentrated.
"Kawarimi no Jutsu" (Replacement technique)
The replacement technique was well know and one of the most widely known Jutsus in existence, it worked by replacing somebody in danger with another nearby object, usually a wooden log, but seeing as they were 25 floors up in the air Ron could only do one thing.
As the jutsu activated, both Ron and X were surrounded by a poof of smoke, when the smoke cleared Ron was where X had been and X was where Ron had been, leaving Ron now in the path of the electricity.
"RON NO!!!" X yelled at his friend in anger of what he had done.
Ron quickly held out and hand at the electricity as it struck him.
"RON!!!!!!"
To Be Continued…