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Chapter 14
So not the Drama
Shena looked at herself in the mirror. A long black dress with green sash and a pair of simple black high-heels fit her perfectly. It's good to know that all that time and stamina she spent in the mall actually paid off. After she applied black lipstick, she looked at herself again and her hand twitched a little. She remembered the calm face of her counterpart from the future, drifting inside the portal.
'She can't even go away without messing it up.' Shena felt anger again. 'Whatever, let's forget about her, today i'm going to dance and have fun with my gals. No more thinking…'
A doorbell ring surprised her.
'Strange, i thought we are going to meet at school.' Shena opened front door. "Hey, what are you…."
Creaking sound was the last thing she heard before losing the consciousness and falling on her own porch.
Later, a blond boy was pacing back and forth outside of café. Yesterday Rica sent him a message to meet her here. Ron actually came a bit earlier, as true gentlemen, wearing his baby blue tuxedo. One thing really irritated him at the moment, the meeting spot had a perfect view on the EP monstrosity that occupied Bueno Nacho's space nowadays. Wade actually checked the background of this corporation and said that besides rather quick growing rate there was nothing unusual in any documentation or traces that led to any known villain. Ron didn't want to believe in it.
'Ok, i need to deal with it right now!' he thought and looked at the wristwatch. 'Rica should be here in five minutes. Enough time to look inside this den of evil! If i'll found nothing, that means i was wrong.'
Ron took a deep breath and entered the building. Immediately his heart started to weep from the memories. On the spot where their usual table was once, now stood a dishwasher on sale. He wanted to kick it, but quickly remembered about property damage and changed his mind. With a sigh, he looked around. Nothing was out of place. Just a simple electronics store. With a feeling of defeat he turned to the exit, but quickly was stopped by someone taping his shoulder.
"Ron!" happy, but slightly nervous voice said. "It so good to see you here!"
"Ned?" Ron turned around. "Are you working here?"
"Yeah, i am." ex-manager of Bueno Nacho nodded. "H-hey, i heard you need a new laptop, let me show you the newest model we have."
"Wait, what are you talking abo…"
Without letting Ron finish the sentence Ned grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the stand with laptops.
"This one is the best for both learning and gaming." he quickly opened notepad program and started to type. "-Ron, please pretend choosing the laptop. Head- manager is looking around and there are cameras everywhere. There is something really strange in this place, and i need your help!-"
"I knew it!" Ron exclaimed.
"Yeah, but did you knew that it has brand new video card inside?" Ned started to sweat a bit and continued typing. "-Please be more discreet! I'm going to give you a key to the backdoor. There is small storage area there, check it, and you'll understand what i'm talking about.-"
He put a small key near the laptop and closed the program.
"Sounds great." Ron smiled and put his hand on the key. "The price looks sweet too, gonna talk to my parents about it, thanks Ned!"
"Always ready to help."
Ron went outside, with a key clenched in his fist. His intuition didn't fail, he was right about EP! After carefully sneaking around the building, Ron found the door and slowly opened it. He looked through slightly opened door, and saw several similar to each other silhouettes. They all were wearing full red and black bodysuits that covered their faces. And in a middle of them stood a skinny man with a fake beard and a dark blue vest with EP insignia on it. He was holding tablet in his hands.
"Alright. Now bring those dishwashers and you can go back to Drakken." he said.
"Yes, Frugal." All of them answered robotically in a perfect synch.
'Frugal! And those goo-guys! Working for Drakken! I must warn Kim.' Ron stepped away from the door and looked for something in his pockets. 'Dang it! Forgot the phone… Don't panic, school is near, Kim should be at the dance already!'
Five minutes later, out of breath and sweaty, Ron barged in into the gym, where the dance were held, and started to look for his friends. Thankfully they were already there, sitting at the table in the corner, with bored look on their faces.
"KP! Emergency!" he ran to them. "EP is EVIL!"
"Ron." Kim sighed. "Wade already checked them, EP isn't evil, let it go already."
"And what with the tacky tux?" Monique pointed at him.
"It's a good tux…i mean, EP IS evil! I saw with my own eyes, Frugal was in the back room of the store with those goo-guys we met before! And he also mentioned Drakken!"
"OK, now it raises some suspicion." Kim stood from the table. "Sorry Monique, emergency."
"Yeah yeah. World to save." she sulked. "Bail me once- shame on me, bail me twice- shame on you, bail me thrice- shame on the villain."
"Sorry." Kim apologized again.
Soon, Ron led her to the backdoor of the EP store and opened it slightly to show what's inside. As she peeked through, she saw a bunch of men in full red and black bodysuits standing in a row before a very familiar face with fake beard.
"Is everything ready?" he asked one of them.
"Report." mechanical voice answered. "100% of units are unloaded."
"Good." Frugal said. "You all can go back to the base now."
As red and black wearing men went toward the door, Kim and Ron quickly leaped behind the nearest building, to hide and watch. A big truck drove there a couple seconds later. After every single goo-man went to the cargo container, filled with boxes, the truck drove away. Kim immediately pulled the kimmunicator out of her purse.
"Wade, emergency. Ron was right, something is deeply wrong with EP."
"Really?" Wade blinked in surprise. "Their paperwork and documentation were clear."
"Frugal and Drakken are somehow involved in it. Listen, there was a truck that drove off from the former Bueno Nacho place, can you track it?"
"Of course i can." he quickly pushed several keys on a keyboard. "Done! Found it from the satellite and tracking it."
"Satellite? I hope it's legal."
"It's legal…this time."
"Ok, keep an eye on it." Kim turned off the device. "Let's sneak in and shake Francis for some information."
"Oh yeah." Ron agreed happily.
Quietly, both of them sneaked through the backdoor in the storage area. Frugal was there, alone, slouching over the keyboard and mumbling something under his nose. He didn't even noticed two teens, standing behind him.
"After all i've done! I, Frugal Lucre created the most profitable electric store chain in a Tri-City area for him! And he didn't even thank me! Ungrateful blue nutcake!"
"And why, tell me, Drakken needed an electric store chain?" Kim spun his office chair to see him face to face.
"Ah!" he shouted in sudden fright. "What are you doing here?"
"Answer our question!" Ron made an angry face.
"Yeah right, like i have time to play with you kids…"
He tried to rush toward the exit, but was immediately stopped by Kim's palm, shoving him back to the chair.
"I won't tell you anything!" he shrieked.
"Oh yeah?" Ron forcibly took off the vest from Frugal.
"Hey hey, what the big idea?"
"Oh, wouldn't it be sad if something happens to a company uniform?" Ron said with a slight devious tone and stretched the cloth.
"Pff." Francis wasn't impressed. "Considering my position in company i can wipe my bottom with these things and get the new one every five minutes!"
"Really?" boy looked at the vest once again and smiled. "Ok, but what about this?"
Ron took from the fest a golden-plated name tag with Francis's name and words EP Vice-President on it and started to bend it a little.
"Wait stop!" Frugal started to panic. "Not my name tag! Not my beautiful name tag!"
"Tell us what you know, or Ron will break it in half!" Kim threatened him.
"Alright! You win! Drakken hired me to create this company for his plan, i hacked in all databases and made it as clear as possible, so no one would even doubt this is legitimate organization."
"What is his plan?"
"I have no idea!"
"Ron, break the tag."
"NO! NO! REALLY! I don't know! Drakken didn't tell me! I just followed the order, don't break it! I know that his base is located 20 miles from here to north and that he is going to do something tonight, that's it i swear!" he pleaded.
"And what about Bueno Nacho?" Ron asked. "Why did you close it?"
"It was just a convenient place to open the store, i swear, please don't break my name tag."
Ron lowered his head from disappointment, put the name tag on the nearest desk, making Frugal breathe sigh of relief, and went through the door leading into the store. He was back several seconds later, holding something in hands.
"Extension cords?" Frugal raised a brow. "Why do you need…oh no…"
After tying the guy to the chair, team Possible went out of the store and contacted Wade.
"We tied up Frugal inside, can you call the police to pick him up?"
"Already done." Wade answered.
"Also contact Shena, it looks like Drakken is plotting something tonight, so it's mission time."
"One second…"
Screen on the device divided in two diagonally, leaving Wade in upper left corner and showing a blue face of notorious mad scientist in the lower right.
"Ah! Little miss Possible! And her computer guy." Drakken smiled smugly from the screen. "It's so nice of you to contact me, i was waiting."
"Drakken?" Kim was shocked to see his face.
"Kim, i double-checked it, he is using Shena's communicator."
"What?" Ron stood closer to Kim, to look at the screen. "What did you do with her you sick bastard?"
Kim was a bit surprised with harshness of her best friend's tone, but as a whole wanted to ask the same thing.
"Calm down buffoon, i did nothing. Girl handed the device to me on her own will. After all, she was working for me all this time!"
"Yeah right, and i'm monkey's uncle!" Ron said confidently.
"You won't trick us, Drakken!" Kim added.
"Ah, denial. Truth can be too harsh sometimes" Drakken shook his head side to side, while keeping the smugly smile on his face. "By the way, she also brought somebody to me. She found her near one of my stores and decided to invite her on a cup of tea. Look! "
Drakken moved to the side, showing a petite girl with curly hair gathered in pigtails, sitting tied up on the floor.
"Ron?" she said. "What's going on? I don't understand. Help me please!"
"Rica?" shocked expression appeared on boy's face.
"So you know each other!" Drakken's face filled half of the screen again. "How delightful! Join our tea party today, Possible, or this girl might have a bad time. Mwahaha!"
Drakken disconnected, leaving only Wade's face on the screen.
"This is bad." he said.
"Major bad." Kim added.
"How did Rica got dragged into this?" Ron panicked. "They must've been grabbed her while i was running toward school to tell you about Frugal…I didn't met her…It's all my fault."
"Sulking won't help, Ron." Kim put her hand on his shoulder. "We must save her, and Shena."
"Yeah." he nodded. "There is no way Shena is working for Drakken."
"My thoughts exactly!" Wade added. "I also bet that the truck i'm tracking is going to lead us to Drakken's base."
"Is it going north?" Kim asked.
"Yes it is. Is it important?"
"Frugal told us that the base is 20 miles to the north from here."
"Ok. I'll keep my eyes on the truck, meanwhile you two go home and change into gear. I don't think Dress and tux are made for action."
"Got it." she nodded.
Meanwhile, inside Drakken's base, blue-skinned madman slowly walked towards tied up girl and lose the ropes.
"Was my act good Daddy?" she stood from the floor and stretched up.
"It was perfect Number 901!" he petted her head. "Now wake our guest please, her friends would visit soon, we don't want for her to miss the show."
"Yes Daddy."
There was a metal circle platform with a long metal pole in the center. And to this pole was tied up a brunette girl in a black dress with a green sash. Her palms dressed in some kind of rubber mittens as her wrists were tied to each other by a twine.
Rica approached the captive girl and slapped her cheek with a full force. Feeling a burning sensation on the left side of the face, Shena opened her eyes, which took a bit time to focus, and saw a smirk on someone's face. Second later she realized who was standing before her.
"Rica? What is…" she tried to move, and realized that she was restrained. "What the hell?"
"She's awake Daddy!" Rica called for him.
"Are you comfortable enough?" Drakken held a mug of hot coco moo.
"YOU!" she growled and tried to inflame her hands, unsuccessfully. "What did you do with me?"
"Just a little synthetic mittens that isolating any output of energy, including whatever thingy you have." he took a sip from a mug.
"What do you want with me anyway?" she turned toward Rica. "And what are you doing here?"
"Ah! Let me introduce one of my most successful experiment with synthodrones. Number 901, also known as Rica. Isn't she wonderful? Too bad you betrayed you friends and kidnapped poor Rica for me." Drakken pouted fakely.
"Kidnapped?" Shena was confused.
"Let me explain." Rica said in a cutesy way. "You see, Daddy contacted that Kim girl a minute ago and told her that you were working for him ALL this time, and that also you kidnapped me. Poor Ronnie must be blaming himself. He supposed to meet me at the cafe, not that i was going to go there anyway. He is such a dummy."
"You BITCH!" Shena was furious and tried with all her might to break free from the ropes, again unsuccessfully.
"Kids these days. Such vulgar vocabulary." Drakken commented.
Kim entered her house, as Ron went toward his. She was going to go straight to her room for a mission gear, but one thought came to her head. There was an item in her house that was somehow connected to Drakken's plan. Kim entered a kitchen, and went straightly to the EP toaster.
"Sweety?" her mother was already there, preparing dinner. "Is everything ok? I thought prom will last at least for two more hours."
"Prom will wait, i have people and probably world to save." she unplugged toaster from the wall.
"And you need toaster for it?" her mother raised a brow.
"Yes."
Kim went upstairs and entered Tim's and Jim's room.
"Can you disassemble this in five minutes?" she asked them immediately.
They looked at each other with a shocked faces, which second later changed into confident smiles.
"Give us 3." they both said.
She left her brothers with it and went to her room to change into her gear. Couple minutes later she was ready. As Kim packed herself with laser lipstick and grappling hook, a loud noise went from the nearby room, boys' room. When she entered it again, she saw green goo splattered everywhere, including boys' faces and clothes. Something that looked like a battered jetpack smoked on the floor.
"What happened?" she asked.
"We found a strange green chip inside." Tim started to explain. "We took it out and suddenly it transformed into a big dude with a jetpack!"
"We blew him up with a rocket we made yesterday and he exploded." Jim continued.
"What in tarnation is going on here?" Ann Possible entered the room.
"Uh-Oh!" boys said in unison.
"Mom, don't punish them, it was my fault." Kim reacted quickly. "In fact, raise their allowance, they earned it. Gotta run!"
She went downstairs, leaving several of her family members in shock.
"This is the strangest evening…" Tim said.
"So far." Jim added.
"Shower. Both. Now." Ann sighed.
As Kim exited the house she saw Ron, who was already in mission gear. She took out Kimmunicator , dialed Wade again and told him about twins' discovery.
"Of course! Doctor Wasnik's self-upgrading technology! Drakken stole his work, and implemented it into the electronics! After Goo-man consumed enough energy from the device to start self-upgrading it could activated! If there is a chip in every EP product that means…" Wade checked something on his computer. "There are more than thousand sleeping goo-henchman in Middleton alone. In a whole tri-city area in would be around four thousand."
"You mean, Drakken is creating an army?" Kim asked.
"Basically yes. He is probably has giant transmitter. He needs one to activate them in a wide radius and to give them a mass command. I can create a device that will mess with the whole system, but i need time to make one."
"While you are working on a device, we're going to infiltrate his base and look for Shena and Rica. Did you found it?"
"Yes. Also your ride should be near you right now."
A familiar bus suddenly stopped nearby, leaving a smoke trail above the road.
"Carl!" Kim smiled happily.
"Always glad to help miss Possible." old man nodded.
"Are you ready, buddy?" Ron asked Rufus, who was sitting on his shoulder.
Naked Mole Rat nodded, and Ron entered the bus. Kim followed and sat near him.
Vehicle arrived to the destination point in a moment. Needless to say it was stomach-twisting experience but Kim, Ron and Rufus wasn't affected by it at all. They were too focused on the upcoming mission. Despite Shena's rather short time in the team, comparing to others, she became an essential part of it and a close friend. Each of them had something good to remember from the time she spent with their little clique. And no matter what, they're going to find her and help her. The biggest problem right now was the other person they need to rescue. Unlike Shena, who was a trained martial artist and an experienced villain-fighter, Rica in their eyes was a simple civilian who was caught up in situation. That made the mission much, much harder to pull off, considering that there was also a world to save.
Kim looked at the map of this tall building. Wade downloaded it to the kimmunicator couple minutes ago. They needed to infiltrate the place, but going for a main entrance is too dangerous. They would be detected in a second. Thankfully there was the other way, balcony on the fourth floor. Team used their grappling hooks and carefully cut the lock of the door, leading inside.
There were total 9 floors in this building, and, according to the map, first five were mostly offices and cubicles. However the interesting part was on the floors above. Information on floors 6 to 9 just didn't exist. That was a clear clue where the bad guys were.
Team Possible, quietly, found its way to the stairs, which ended on the sixth floor.
"There must be another staircase somewhere on this floor to go higher." Kim pointed out. "Also, it looks map is useless now."
They walked through the corridors of sixth floor, checking every room.
"This place is really creepy." Ron gulped. "The lights are on, but no soul around."
"I think we should be grateful for not meeting any of the Drakken's…" she noticed a shadow on the wall, coming from somebody around the corner and stopped.
There was nowhere to hide at the moment, they must fight through whoever is coming. However they didn't expect to see a teenage girl, with a curly hair gathered in pigtails, coming around that corner.
"Ronnie!" Smile and tears appeared on her face as she noticed them.
Rica ran to him and hugged.
"You came for me!" she sniffed. "I was so scared!"
"Rica? How did you manage to get here?" Kim asked distressed-looking girl.
"They…they didn't tied me up strong enough. I manage to squeeze myself through ropes and sneak out while nobody looked towards me."
"Have you seen Shena?" Ron asked her, with worry.
"Yes!" Rica answered immediately. "She is working with a blue-skinned man."
"Are you sure?" Kim asked her. "There is no way Shena would work for him by her own will."
"I'm not lying! Why you don't believe me?" Rica felt angry, but kept her distressed mask.
"Because we know her." Ron said.
"Either she was replace by one of the goo-people and held somewhere here, or she was brainwashed." Kim concluded. "There is no other explanation."
"I'm sick of it." Rica suddenly said.
"Wha…ARGH!" Ron felt a shock, going through his body, and fell on the floor, unconscious.
Rica, with a grin on her face, leap toward confused heroine and touched her shoulder. Kim felt the same shock Ron had a second ago and pass out. When she regained her consciousness, she found herself tied up to the pole.
"Kim!" person, tied up to the same pole said. "Hey Kim!"
"Wh-what?" Kim shook her head to get her thoughts together and noticed a familiar face near her. "Shena! Are you ok?"
"Could be better." Shena snickered. "And you?"
"Same." she tried to reach laser lipstick, but ropes were too tight to allow such move. "I don't see Ron, was i the only one the brought here?"
"Yeah." Shena said. "By the way. Don't believe a word that curly bitch said, i'm not working for Drakken."
"We know." Kim reassured her. "We called bullshit on that the second Drakken told us."
"Thanks." she felt a gust of happiness and relief.
"Aw, how touching!" Drakken entered the room with Rica by his side. "Too bad my little plan for moral diversion didn't work. Well, you lose some, you win some."
"What were you trying to achieve by this Drakken?" Kim asked angrily.
"Number 901, explain your part of the plan to our guest, while i'm preparing everything."
"Yes Daddy." she nodded. "You see, just ruling the world is not enough for him. It's like a dessert without cherry on top. And your downfall is that cherry! But you are proven to be a tough case you know. To bring you down it was necessary to bring your team down, and Ronnie with this new girl were perfect for it. All i had to do is seduce this gullible dufus, get kidnapped and blame it on the newbie."
Both Shena and Kim felt how their blood boiled with rage.
"However." Rica sighed. "Plan wasn't successful at all. After all my attempts he simply refused to fall for my charm. I had to trick him into asking me for a prom dance! Urgh it makes me so irritated, you have no idea! Almost as much as your faith in this girl. Seriously, Ronnie was more worried about her than me! But in the end you both are here, trapped and waiting to see Daddy's triumph. So it wasn't all in vain."
'What is she talking about?' Kim thought. 'Isn't she the one he likes? This makes no sence…'
"Speaking about Ron…" Shena was ready to bite Rica's head off. "What have you done to him? Where is he?"
"Oh, he was invited for a private talk with Uncle Monty." She answered with fake smile.
Ron woke up in a dojo-like room, with tatamis on the floor and no furniture whatsoever. Rufus gained back his consciousness too. Stoppable, still a bit wobbly from the shock, stood from the floor.
"Awake, i see." said the english-man, while sitting in the lotus position at one of the walls.
"Monkey Fist!" Ron recognized the man. "Where am i? Where is Kim?"
"Drakken took her." Monty answered calmly. "But it should be the least of your worries right now."
"Ow yeah? And what is?"
"Me!" Monty stood from the floor. "Today, i will finally get my revenge and turn shame into pride!"
Ron quickly scanned the room with his eyes and noticed an opened vent near the ceiling.
"Rufus." He pointed towards the hole. "Go to Kim and help her, Ok?"
Naked mole rat looked worriedly at him, but still decided to listen and climbed into the vent.
"Such noble decision. And at the same time foolish." British man commented. "Sparing your rat from seeing your humiliation."
"Yeah right!" Ron stood in his awkward monkey fighting pose. "I beat you before, and i can do it one more time if you want so."
"Foolish, so foolish."
Monkey Fist leaped towards the teen and hit him with a back of his hand. Boy was thrown to the side by the sheer strength behind this attack, but still stood on his feet. Ron felt the metallic taste of blood in his mouth. He spitted some on tatami and rushed to his enemy. Monty dodged, and immediately kicked teen's side, sending him to the wall.
"Pathetic, so pathetic."
Ron tried to throw several punches, but they were easily blocked. Monkey Fist hit Ron's chest with a palm, forcing him to fall on his shoulder blades. However boy just smirked, and used his hands and lower body to kick up, hitting Monty's face with feet in the process.
"Still full of surprises." Monty petted his hurting chin.
"There is more from where that came from!" Ron responded.
"Don't get so confident, you runt. I have a surprise for you too."
A familiar for Ron scream of monkeys filled the room, as blue light appeared around Monkey Fist. The whole place trembled slightly.
"Surprise!" man grinned.
At the same time Rufus ran through the ventilation system, trying to find Kim. He had a hint, a faint smell of hair spray that she used today. Thankfully this rat had a keen sense of smell. When he felt trembling, coming presumably from the room he left his human friend, he wanted to go back, but Kim was much closer at that moment, so he decided to believe in Ron and kept going.
"Almost ready!" somebody said gleefully.
Rufus heard it and checked the neared vent hole. There they were, Kim, Shena and Rica, however there was something strange in the last one. Rufus noticed that unlike first two, the last one wasn't tied up.
"Yes! Yes!" Drakken took remote control and stood on the circle metal panel with a pole, and Rica stood beside him. "It's time!"
He pushed the button on the remote. Ceiling above them opened a hatch and the panel, with all four of them on board, went up, fitting right into the hatch. Kim looked up and saw cloudy dark sky. No doubt about it, they were on the roof now.
"I am ready to execute the final step of my plan!" Drakken raised his hand to the air, dramatically. "There is one thing left to do!"
"Explain your plan to us?" Kim rolled her eyes.
"Yes! It is a tradition." Drakken shrugged his shoulders. "So, are you ready to admire my genius?"
"Do we have a choice?" Shena growled again.
"No. Shut up and listen." Drakken made a little a little gesture, telling Rica to come closer. "Let me introduce you to my synthodrones. More loyal, obedient and useful than any henchman. A synthetic life made of very special goo, which is really hard to reproduce. I experimented for a year, trying to mold this formless mass into a life, and after 831 failed attempts i finally did it! Number 832 sadly didn't live long, a bee stung him and he, well, melted. But i didn't stop there! I kept improving my synthodrones one after another. And Number 901 here is one of my best works so far."
"Thank you Daddy!" she smiled sweetly.
Rufus found his way to the roof and quietly sneaked to girls, hiding behind them. Little guy started to chew thick ropes immediately.
"However, as i stated earlier the material needed for their creation is really hard to reproduce, and the amount needed for making a single sythodrone is insane! And i found a solution! By using the concepts introduced in Doctor Wasnik's work i created a perfect way of creating sythodrones cheap, effective and in large quantity! That is where my Evil Plan comes in, my EP!"
"Lame." Kim commented and noticed that one of the ropes that were holding her became a bit loose.
"Seriously, couldn't you just thing better about plan name? This one totally sucks!" Shena added.
"Hey! Sometimes simple is good!" Drakken raised his fist in the air from slight aggravation. "Anyway. Based on Wasnik's concept of self-upgrading technology i created a chip that contained a small amount of new and improved goo. All it needs is energy, electricity. It sits in technology, waiting for its hour, consuming power. And by my command, it will use this energy to multiply basic materials inside with a high rate, molding a perfect synthodrone within seconds! Every product of EP has this chip installed inside. And as soon as i push the button on my remote control my army will rise!"
"Ha!" Kim scoffed. "What good is your army if they can be beaten by a needle?"
"Don't be so sure Kim Possible!" he came closer to her, smiling smugly. "Those one are better, stronger, tougher than any synthodrone i made before. No needle or even bullet would stop it. The hole will patch itself in a moment."
"How about a small rocket?"
"Well, rocket may blow them, didn't have much time to test it." he petted his chin. "Never mind, even if one will be blown there a thousand to stand on its place. They all are expandable."
"That's disgusting!" Shena commented.
"You won't get away with this Drakken!" Kim felt that her restrains were really loose now, and she can break out of them any second, however she kept her position, fooling the villain. "After you activate your synthodrones people will see it and stop buying EP stuff."
"And what, tell me, will prevent me from creating a new company under another name, hm? With amount of money i gained from this little venture and manpower i'll obtain, nothing would be able to stop me!" Drakken brought the device right in front of Kim's face. "And now watch helplessly as i'm creating my army. Three…Two…"
Kim, in a flash, broke from the ropes and kicked the remote from Drakken's hand. It flew in a little arch and fell over the edge of the roof into the bushes that surrounded the building.
"NO!" Drakken ran towards the edge, looking down.
Kim used laser lipstick on Shena's ropes and Rufus bit of twine on her wrists.
"How many times i must beat you before you understand that gloating never works for you?" Kim said with confidence.
"Prepare to go ouch!" Shena took of rubber mittens and lit her palms into burning green glow with black dots in it.
"It's not over yet!" villain shouted.
Drakken whistled loudly and couple dozens of synthodrones appeared in the air, floating in the air on their jetpacks.
"Rica!" he commanded. "Find the remote and bring it to me!"
"Yes Daddy!"
One of synthodrones picked her up and flew from a roof down.
"The rest of you attack Kim possible and the other girl!"
Ron felt like a ragdoll, tossed from one wall to another. Every painful grunt brought a smile on Monkey Fist's face.
"Such power!" he tossed Ron to another wall. "It's like time itself in your possession. I can see your every movement, i can hear the beating of your frightened heart."
"It's…impossible…" Ron coughed blood and tried to get up from the floor. "Why do you have it?"
"I had it since the day i got Jade Monkey idol! The same day YOU received it too!" he kicked Ron in the stomach, not giving him to get up. "But thanks to Drakken, i finally able to use it. I meditated and studied this power. I can access them any moment, unlike you, runt."
Monty grabbed collar of boy's mock-turtleneck shirt and raised him up, so the feet didn't reach the floor. Ron couldn't do anything but wiggle, like a worm on a hook. Blue shine still covered british-man's body.
"You are pathetic!" Monkey Fist scowled. "You don't deserve this power! You don't deserve to even know about this power! And you certainly don't deserve to possess the great Monkey Mystic Weapon! In fact, right after i deal with you, i'm going to retrieve it for myself."
"DON'T DARE TO EVEN TOUCH HER!"
A choir of monkey screams intensified. Blue shine filled the whole room. Mystical Monkey Power flew through Ron's veins. Boy delivered knee hit right in Monty's face, making him to release the collar. Monkey Fist almost immediately threw a punch, but missed Ron's face by a hair. He continued with attacks, trying all technics he knew one after another, connecting them into one deadly combo. However boy was too fast for him. Ron could read opponent's every move, like he knew in advance what will happen. Monkey Fist tried harder and harder, but each time his hits became slower and slower. Ron was in a strange state. Both burning rage and utter calmness resides in his every movement. As those feeling started to blend into a harmony, he started to see the answer he needed to finish the fight. After Monty's another unsuccessful attack, Ron stepped forward and hit the metal plate on his chest with both palms.
"What?" Monkey Fist croaked as his body started to petrify in a rapid rate. "NO! NO! THE POWER WAS MINE! I'LL HAVE MY REVENGE! I'LL HAV…."
Ron's shine disappeared too, as he, while heavily panting, looked at the statue of the monkey man.
"Never threaten Ron-man's sister!" he said and kicked it. "And stay stone this time!""
He took couple moments to take a breath and exited the room. He needed to find his teammates as soon as possible. After roaming around empty hallways for a minute, he saw several of synthodrones, running in the other end of the corridor. Ron hid around the corner and eavesdropped their robotic speech.
"Master instructions: stop Kim Possible and the other girl, location: Roof. Master instructions: stop Kim Possible and the other girl, location: Roof." they repeated over and over.
As Ron heard it, he followed after the crowd of synthetic people, on safe distance.
Kim found out one very useful thing: her laser lipstick was super effective against synthodrones, ripping through their skin like through paper. However those goons were really fast, and for trick to work she needed to lay a shot at them first. Both she and Shena managed to pop several synthodrones, but on their place already came other ones.
"Dang it!" Kim slipped on the goo, spilled on the roof from one of defeated synthodrones. "This goo is more slippery than grease!"
"Don't complain!" Shena wasted another goon. "At least you aren't wearing dress! I can't fight properly in this!"
She took of the high heels as soon as this fight started. Her dress now had syntho-goo on it and was torn in several places.
"Will these bastards ever end?" Shena evaded one of them, who tried to ram her in the flight.
"Hope so!" Kim popped another one with laser.
"I have found it Daddy!" synthodrone brought Rica to the roof again.
"Good girl! Now bring it to me!" said Drakken, surrounded by several synthodrones for protection.
Rica barely notices a pink blur that appeared on her arm.
"Yoink!" Rufus clenched the remote between his teeth and jumped away, getting further from a synthetic girl.
"Argh!" she shouted in anger. "Get this rat!"
"Hey bitch!" Shena appeared before her. "It's Naked Mole Rat!"
Shena launched herself towards her, trying her best to sink deadly nails in this girl's face. It wasn't easy. Rica dodged all attacks. One of the synthodrones tried to help her, but Shena's claw swiftly cut his throat. Rica, surprisingly, slipped on the spilled on the roof fresh goo and dropped on her butt. Shena was ready to lay a finishing blow on her, but was tackled by another synthodrone. She flew over the edge, clinging desperately on it with one hand. However, edge crumbled several seconds later, leaving her to fall. In one moment her head became absolutely empty leaving only raw, binding fear inside. But it wasn't for long. A hand grabbed her still inflamed palm, and pulled her back to the roof.
"Ouch Ouch Ouch!" her savior shouted, while taking off burned-through glove from his hand. "Are you ok?"
"Y-yeah." she looked at his smiling through tears of pain face.
"Good!" Ron almost whimpered, his palm hurt badly, plus some not so old wounds reminded of themselves.
"Get them, while i'm catching that rat!" Rica commanded and ran after the rodent.
"Oh, by the way." Shena stood in the fighting position. "Rica is one of the goo-people working for Drakken. Sorry."
"Well, that's explaining the shocking hug." Ron prepared for a fight too.
More syntho-goons appeared and two of them tried to ram Ron from the opposite sides. He, in the last second, leaped forward and rolled on, making both of them blow up from the impact.
"Booyah!" he smiled. "At least they are dumb!"
Laser ray flew above Ron and right into the other sythodrone behind him.
"Nice save, Kim!" he showed thumbs up to his best friend.
"Nice saving Shena there!" she smiled and kicked synthodrone's face. "What about Monkey Fist? They took you to him, right?"
"Yeah…AHH!" Ron barely dodged another flying synthetic goon but got closer to Kim. "I beat him!"
"Really?" Shena got closer to them too. "Cool!"
A squeal came from nearby, as Rufus were kicked in the air, and dropped near Tear possible.
"Rufus!" Ron picked little guy up.
Rodent shook his head and immediately started to chipper something unappropriated. Rica at the same time was handing the remote back to Drakken.
"Honestly, Kim Possible." his smug came back. "You really though you could win this time? You beat only half synthodrones i currently have in my disposal. Oh, wait, i almost forgot. I have MORE!"
With a giant victorious grin, he pushed the button on the remote control. The signal went from the pole girls were tied to not so long ago.
"Is it bad?" Ron asked.
"Major bad." Kim answered.
At first it would seem that nothing happens, but soon swarms of red figures appeared in the sky around them, and it came closer and closer with every second.
"Behold!" Drakken shouted in glee. "THIS IS MY ARMY!"
Kim never felt such dread. Despair started to crawl it was in her heart. However it stopped as she notices a small object, flying towards them faster than this swarm of synthodrones. It was Wade's flying delivery microwave. It flew right to Kim's feet and opened its door. Possible took what was inside. The thing looked like a toy-gun, with a message scratched on the side: -Point and Shoot to the transmitter-.
"What is that?" Drakken raised one brow.
"Oh, nothing really." Kim faked it. "Just a toy. Say, is that pole your transmitter?"
"Well yeah…wait a minute…" a horrible realization came into madman's brain. "Quick! Stop her!"
But they were late. Kim aimed to the pole and pulled the trigger. It shot a dart-like object, which connected with pole and stuck on it. Couple seconds later all synthodrones in the sky started to blow up, leaving a rain of goo behind. Synthodrones on the roof started to pop one after another too.
"What..no..N…" Rica blew up the last.
"No! NO! My army! My sweet synthodrones! It's ruined!" Drakken was ready to cry.
"Hey you!" Shena approached him.
"What?"
The second he foolishly turned his head towards her a green flaming fist connected with his cheek, knocking him up and leaving a burning fist mark.
"That's better." Shena breathed out. "But still, what the hell happened?"
"Let me answer that." 3D image of Wade appeared from the microwave. "Kim used Electro-Magnetic Amplifier. When it was connected i gained control over system and amplified signal, giving the order to self-distract for any synthetic life made of goo."
"Wade…" Kim said quietly. "Rica was a synthodrone."
"What?" Wade felt guilt rising inside. "Ron…i'm…i'm so sorry, i didn't know…"
"It's ok Wade." Ron tried to reassure him. "In the end she was a fake. It's not Rica i knew. Give me three days and i'll be totally fine."
"If you say so…I called GJ to pick up Drakken, they accepted to give you a ride as a gratitude for today."
"There is also a monkey statue on eighth floor." Blond boy pointed up.
Later, Ron left from the Possible' house with his palm, and some other wounds treated. Needless to say Mrs. Possible was shocked to see all this. There were scratches and bruises on girls, but Ron was in much worse condition he let them know, though she as doctor quickly pointed on them. Thankfully there weren't any really serious injury, but you won't call what he had light either. Girls thankfully understood that the fight with Monkey Fist was something that can't go without couple scars, figuratively. He also was glad that they were too tired to ask any additional questions, especially Shena, since he couldn't tell her about Mystical Monkey Power. He really needed some rest.
As Shena came home she didn't have any power left in body to go upstairs to the bedroom. She crashed on the couch, still in her dress. Her head hurt a little ever since the fight on the roof, but she really could care less right now.
Kim was sitting on her bed. Thoughts, different thoughts circled in her head. She remembered the moment Ron rejected her, she remembered his actions around Rica, she remembered Rica's words when she was captive, she remembered Ron's reactions on Rica's death. One question, one important question appeared.
"Did Ron lied to me?"