Chapter 14

Back in the Possible family car, Kim groaned as she sat uncomfortably in the back seat of the vehicle.

Ann, still wearing the street clothes for her rapper skit, adjusted her rearview mirror to a uncomfortable grimacing Kim. "What's wrong, Kimberly?"

"Mmm…I feel like that I keep on forgetting something, Mom, but I don't know what…" Kim said as she looked at all the houses within her neighborhood.

And then, they came to a stop at a traffic light. Kim turned around to her left and gasped. It was none other than her and Ron's most favorite restaurant: Bueno Nacho!

Then, it hit her like a lightning bolt, she forgot all about Ron from the promise he made last night!

She slapped herself on the forehead and began to cry out, "Mom! Mom! We so need to pick up Ron right now at his house! I promised him that we'd pick him up this morning!"

Ann asked, raising one of her eyebrows, "Then why didn't you tell me, Kim, before we left?"

Kim replied, taking a deep breath "I was so concentrated on other things that I completely forgot!"

The brain surgeon sighed and gave in, "Okay, we'll pick Ronald up, but the cost of the gas is going to come from your allowance…"

"Fine, Mom…" Kim scoffed.

"Aww..cheer up, Kimberly! It's the middle of summer and the Middleton Fourth of July Parade is coming up in two days! You should be happy! Put a smile on that face!" Ann insisted in bringing a lighter mood to Kim.

Kim gave a weak smile and said, "Is this better?"

Ann replied with a satisfactory smile, "Much better, dear!"

She then parked the car into the Bueno Nacho lot and got her cell phone out.

"James, dear, I'm making a little detour to Ronald's house on the way to Danville!" Ann spoke through the receiver.

"Okay, dear, I'm going to pick up breakfast for the boys because they haven't eaten yet…" James replied on the other end. He was with Jim and Tim at Breakfast World, a 24-hour breakfast fast-food joint.

He then asked, "Since I am going up the drive-through, where are we going to meet up en route to Danville?"

"How about the city limits that lead to it?" Ann suggested.

"Good idea, dear, I'll just use my Possible instinct to follow the signs!" James chuckled, "Anyways, I'll see you, honey, in about 30 minutes!"

"Okay, dear!" Ann said, nodding her head before putting the phone away and yelled with excitement. "We're off to Ronald's house!"

The car headed from the Bueno Nacho lot all the way to the Stoppable house.

When they finally reached Ron's house, Kim unbuckled her seatbelt to reach her mom.

She warned, tapping on her shoulder, "Mom, please, whatever you do, do NOT humiliate yourself in front of Ron, okay?"

"Okay, sweetie, I won't!" Ann said with a reassuring smile.

"Okay, Mom!" Kim smiled as her mom got out of the car. Then she took a closer look at her clothing, with her overalls still unbuckled and the straps swaying back and forth with the bib flapping. She then gasped as a part of her gym shorts were showing as the overalls became baggier.

"Ummm…Mom?" Kim asked with a nervous blush.

"Yes, dear?" Ann replied with a smile.

"Your overalls, Mom?" Kim explained, pointing to the clothing problem her mom was facing. "Can you please hook them up before you get ticketed for indecent exposure?"

"Oh yeah…" Monique added in, "you are looking at a level 10 fashion disaster right there!"

"Level 10, Moni?" Kim asked with a tingle of confusion .

"Clothing problem levels, Kim!" Monique explained, "Level 1 is, ehhh…..it's nothing. Level 5, it's like you show a little bagginess in the clothes. Level 10 is so 'Oh my gosh, the pants are so sagging that they'll fall off that you take the next step!'"

Kim said to her Mom, giggling nervously before turning serious"I'd think you take Monique's fashion advice very well…."

Ann blushed when she heard Monique's words, "Ohh…right, sorry!" She then took the back part of her overalls and hooked up the left strap properly. She then did the same for the right strap and hooked it too.

"Is that better, Kimmie?" Ann asked, pulling on the straps on her now- buckled overalls.

Kim said with a big smile, "Yes, Mom! You're totally spankin'!"

"Anytime, Kimberly!" the doctor smiled before knocking on the door. After a few moments , Mrs. Stoppable appeared at the front door.

"Hey, Ann, what's…..up…..and what's with the clothes?" Ron's mom asked before stopping to look at Ann's hip-hop clothing!

Ann looked down and laughed, "Oh, that's for our rap skit on how bad drinking and driving can be!"

Mrs. Stoppable giggled, "Ohh….gotcha. John's planning to go to the same skit, only that it's about texting while driving!"

Ann smiled and replied, "Well, more than likely, I'll see you there! And how is Ronald doing?"

"Oh, he's doing mighty fine!" Mrs. Stoppable said grinning and then asked, "Is here going anywhere with you girls and guys?"

"Of course! Kim asked last night for Ron to help out on a babysitting job!" Ann said, putting her hands deep into her overalls pockets.

"Hmm….he has handled your twin boys….aww, why not!" Ron's mom replied with a smile and then yelled upstairs, "Ronald! Your friends are downstairs!"

Ron shouted from downstairs, "I'll be right with you, Mom! Just putting my clothes on!"

"Well can you hurry up!" Mrs. Stoppable hollered back, "I think your friends are in a rush or something…"

Kim then got out of the car and headed to the front door and replied, "Hey, Mrs. Stoppable! Yeah, we're pretty much on a rush here to Danville, so I was wondering if Ron's ready?"

Meanwhile, Ron was upstairs , amid a few discarded churro wrappers on his bedroom floor, trying to get on his khakis.

He began to complain as he struggled trying to get his clothes on. "Why, Rufus? Why did I have to oversleep?"

Rufus looked at Ron's battery-operated alarm clock, which wasn't working, and popped open the battery and squeaked, "Dead!" And he tossed the old battery away and crawled back to his master's shoulder.

Ron groaned as he buttoned up his pants and headed towards his closet. "Ughh…where's my shirt…I knew I had It around…. "

Rufus then cleared his throat and pointed with his paw to the familiar red shirt.

"Oh, thanks, buddy!" Ron complimented, putting on the shirt.

Once he came down the stairs, he saw Kim at the front door and giggled nervously.

"Um….hey, Kim…"

Kim groaned, "Ron, why were you 15 minutes late to get all dressed?"

"Because, KP, the battery on the alarm clock died on me last night…" Ron said, hoping his explanation would get across his best friend.

"Ugh..fine, Ron, you get a pass on this one!" Kim muttered, "But the next time your parents take you to Smarty-mart, make sure you get an alarm clock with a cord to power it!"

"No problem, Kim! I'll make sure that it'll be right there, as long as it doesn't blink 12:00 over and over again!" Ron said with some complaint.

"Ummm…why?" Kim asked, raising her right eyebrow.

"It's Wannaweep!" Ron screamed, panicking with alarm. "I remember it so well many years ago!"

(cuts to Camp Wannaweep several years ago)

Ron was panicking in Cabin 13 as he stared at the alarm clock repeatedly blinking at 12:00am while the naked-light bulbs dangling in the bunk area flickered on and off repeatedly. He looked outside the window and the wind was howling outside while flashes of lightning illuminated the trees.

He was curled up in a fetal position saying to himself, "Please, I wanna go home…Please I wanna go home….."

(cuts to the present day)

Ron was living his flashback curling up in a ball, closing his eyes shut and whimpering.

"Ron, please get up!" Kim demanded and Ron finally stood upright. "We have to go now to Danville!"

"Do they have Bueno Nacho over there?" Ron asked, wondering if his favorite restaurant is there.

"Yes, they do…" Kim sighed.

Ann interrupted them, yelling "Kimmie, I have to get to the Middleton Car Show with a few of the other parents for our skit!"

"I'm coming, Mom!" Kim said as loud as she could before turning back to Ron, whom wasn't paying attention to Kim at all. He was paying attention instead to Ann's clothes.

He then began to chant "Yo, yo, yo! Mrs. Dr. P! What's with those threads, yo?"

Kim gasped at what Ron said and slapped her hand on her face and muttered, "Please, Ron, I've had enough gangster talk stuck in my head for one morning….."

"Ummm….Ronald, are you okay?" Ann asked, remembering Kim's promise not to reply in street talk.

"Nah, nah, the Ron-man's totally chillin' like a villain', Mrs. Dr. P!" Ron smoothly replied in the street talk before closing his eyes and dancing right behind the plants. As he was dancing, one of the belt loops of his khakis and a loose loop of thread on his shirt caught ahold on the sharp thorns one of Mrs. Stoppable's briar patches. He moved even further before hearing a familiar, and very loud, ripping sound.

Ann, Kim, and Mrs. Stoppable dropped their jaws in horror as they saw Ron dancing….only in his heart-shaped boxers!

"I'm the Ron-man and I'm here to say, I'd be chillin' every day…." he sang to himself, still his eyes closed. Then he yelled out loud, "Breakdown!" and began to dance.

"Ron, can you just please open your eyes?" Kim groaned.

Ron then opened his eyes, stopped dancing, and looked down.

"Eeeekk!" He shrieked in horror, as he tried to cover up his body. Then he exclaimed, grabbed the shredded shirt and khakis, while giving a confident smile "I'm gonna…um…go back up and change into some new clothes! And, KP, I promise that I won't take up any more time!"

"Okay, Ron!" Kim grinned, "but please don't take too long, okay?"

(30 minutes and seven shredded pairs of khakis later)

The group finally picked up Ron and Rufus, got into the car, and headed nonstop to Danville.

But Kim was not happy at all that they were going to run late. "Ughh….what is it with you and pants sometimes, Ron?"

"It may be I'm unlucky with them, I guess, KP…" he nervously replied, scratching his back. Rufus climbed out of his master's pouch to admire the scenery of well-built upper-middle class houses of Middleton before they crossed the city limits into Danville. "And to my credit, two of those seven pants destroyed were by that mean dog right next door to my house!"

"Whatever, Ron!" Kim retorted before hearing the beeps of the Kimmunicator and Wade's face appeared once more.

"What's the sitch, Wade?" Kim insisted, implying a mission ahead of her.

"I've just received a report that Drakken and Shego may be heading to Danville!" Wade exclaimed, pointing to his computer screen.

Kim was now even more perplexed. "Danville? Why would he go there?"

"I don't know…" Wade said with a shake of his head, "but whatever he and Shego are doing, that means that it could only mean one thing…"

"An evil plan!" Kim deducted, knowing Drakken like the back of her hand. But then she tapped her finger against her chin, "Only problem is that we need to figure it out!"

Then she added, "Wade, can you hack into their system and find out the location of where they're going within the Danville limits?"

"No problem," Wade smirked, "but it's going to take an hour or two!"

"I know you can do it!" Kim said with confidence.

"Gotta go now!" Wade exclaimed, waving his hand, "I'll report to you on their location when I have an update!"

"Please and thank you!" Kim said as she put away her Kimmunicator before Ron intervened.

"Sooo, let me get this straight, KP. We're going to babysit some brothers, help a girl become a Mad Dog cheerleader, AND take down Drakken's plans, whatever they are?" Ron asked, trying to make sense of the entire gameplan.

Kim nodded her head, "Yep, Ron! We'll do all of it in one day…well, except the cheerleading part…"

"Gotcha, KP!" Ron said with a smile as he laid back lazily on the seat.

A few miles later, the Possibles were within the city limits of Danville for the first time.