Chapter 21

The 12-year old girl couldn't believe her eyes. TV news vans were there along with the city's paper, the Middleton Gazette!

Bonnie rubbed her eyes. At first, she thought all those camera crews were for her. She fluffed up her ponytail and said. "Come on, people! Feast your eyes on the true perfection!"

The local news crews, however, began to surround Kim and asked her questions like:

"How did you feel when you rescued Benjamin Paisley from his own laser grid?"

"What do you think about cheerleading to save a billionaire's life?

and

"Do you think cheerleading should be a sport?"

Kim replied through their microphones, "Well, it's no big. My experience in cheer moves helped, really, to save the day.

Mr. Paisley then arrived at the school in the limousine with Mr. McHenry.

"Thanks for all your help, Miss Possible!" Paisley said, "If it weren't for you, me and Mr. McHenry would've been done for in that laser grid and who knows where my Cuddlebuddy collection would've gone to! If there is anything we can ever do to repay you, monetary-wise or not, just say the word!"

Kim thought about it for a brief moment and replied, "It's so not the drama! Well, I do need rides to and from places. Maybe from some future contacts! Oh and gadgets! That will really help too!"

Paisley replied, "We'll make those arrangements for you, Miss Possible! We are forever in your debt!"

Kim beamed when she heard those words from the eccentric billionaire and then went to the news people and replied, "Yes, I think cheerleading should be a sport! In fact, I think it could even save the world!"

"I think it should NOT!" Bonnie shouted, interrupting the interview "Face it, Kim! You must be dreaming! I think all cheerleaders should be snobby, skinny, beautiful, and have brains the size of a peanut!"

"So not, Bonnie! Some cheerleaders come in all shapes and sizes and a good majority of them are not snobby! And many cheerleaders have gone on to graduate from high school and college! I would like to see you try all those stereotypes, for you'll never graduate high school with them!" Kim countered back while a lightning bolt streaked across the sky.

"That's from your twisted point of view, Tin Teeth! It's all a popularity contest!" Bonnie shouted, repeating from what she had seen about cheerleaders in movies and on TV, "Cheerleaders should only date jocks on sports teams! I will be perfect and graduate while having the perfect boyfriend! You, on the other hand, will have severe boy issues! Not to mention hanging around with Stoppable! That will so put you down on the Food Chain while I soar to the top of it like an eagle, or some other related bird!"

But Kim stood her ground, "Bonnie, you will NEVER extend those twisted ideas of yours into these other cheerleaders. They have their own idenities! They will NEVER be clones of you!" A loud roar of thunder was heard.

"No! You got it all wrong!" Bonnie shouted while a large imposing shadow appeared behind her "They should all be prancing dim airheads under my control! And they will do whatever I say for I am Bonnie Rockwaller, the most supreme cheerleading captain of all time! Oh and since you talked back to your captain like that, I hereby order you to scrub all the toilets of the football locker room with a toothbrush!"

Kim only began to smile, slasher-style as another bolt of lightning flashed across the sky for the shining metal on her braces to be see.

"What are you smiling at, K? Didn't my pep talk get through that thick skull of yours?" Bonnie snarled.

"I think you should turn around...B?" Kim grinned.

Bonnie turned around and gasped in shock. Barkin was right behind her, as he, and the TV crews caught every word that she said about degrading cheerleaders to certain stereotypes.

"Rockwaller, you know this is going on your permanent record, right?" Barkin smiled, trapping his unwanted prey like a spider to a fly in its web.

"But...but...but..Mr. Barkin! I can explain everything!" Bonnie stammered.

"You can explain everything, Rockwaller...in DETENTION!" Barkin shouted.

"What?! But...I didn't do anything wrong and it's not even during the school day!" Bonnie whined. "And I don't wanna go to H-Hall! It's all...jailey in there!" H-Hall was normally the detention wing of Middleton High. Sometimes, students from the junior high were placed there when the detention room at MJHS got overcrowded. It felt more like a jail cell than anything in that place.

"Rockwaller, the mean things that you said about cheerleaders, i.e. your own fellow students earned you a one-way trip there! And furthermore, I am stripping you of your captain of the cheer squad and transferring it to Possible!"

"Yay!" Kim exclaimed while doing a backflip.

Bonnie was enraged by this surprising maneuver by Barkin and began to protest.

"This is so UNFAIR! I earned that captainship fair and square! This has to be a mistake!"

"No mistake, Rockwaller! You made those comments about your own classmates, you pay the price for it!" Barkin countered.

"But...I...I..." Bonnie continued stuttering.

Kim came up to Barkin and said with a small smirk, "Mr. Barkin, I think I have something even better for Bonnie!"

"Oh, do tell, Possible!" Barkin grinned, as he took a knee to get to Kim's level. Kim then began to whisper something in Barkin's ear. Bonnie, meanwhile, was snarling at what Kim was doing to her kingdom at Middleton Jr. High.

Once Kim got done whispering to Barkin, he then announced, "It has been brought to my attention from our new cheer squad captain that, in lieu of detention, Rockwaller, she has decided to issue an equal punishment."

He then took out Bonnie's toothbrush from his pants pocket.

"It seems that the toilets in the boys football locker room need a good scrubbing...that is, after you mop the gym floor!"

Bonnie gasped, "You got to be kidding me! POSSIBLEEEEEEEE!" She screamed as loud as she could.

Her own queen-dom of MJHS collapsed like a Ponzi scheme as a flash of lightning illuminated the sky and a boom of thunder followed.

Rain began to fall on the poor girl.