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Kim Possible: Dark Moon Rising
By LJ58
21
"Any word," Ron asked Wade, who was making a rare appearance of late on his Communicator.
"Nothing from Kim, or her family. And nothing on the freak that attacked them," Wade told him. "I did find some suspicious connections to someone named Hans Heinrich, but I'm still not sure what they lead to, though. If you hear from Kim first, tell her I'll keep checking him out. But Dobbins? He was definitely dirty from the start. He grew up in gangs, and graduated to assassin even before he joined Kim's….new club."
"She guessed something like that," Ron frowned. "Which means someone definitely wanted someone with a not so nice set of skills."
"Sounds like it," Wade agreed. "Here's something else, weird, though. I've been getting reports of giant bats over Middleton. I thought you might want to check that out. Just in case."
"Bats. Great," Ron sighed. "Next, the Egyptian exhibits at the museum will come to life."
"Ron, mummies aren't real."
Ron gave him a very cynical look that even Wade understood.
"I'm still convinced there is a logical explanation for everything we're seeing. So far, I've not had any cause to doubt….."
"Wade, let's just take care of KP, and then we can have this argument," Ron told him.
"Right. Right. I may be busy with…..stuff for GJ, but I'm still here, Ron," he told him. "I'm not out of it yet."
"Good to know, buddy. Just….watch your back. If they went after KP's mom, who knows what they might try next?"
"Your family?"
"With Hanna watching," Ron asked wryly.
"Oh. Right. Still, be careful. Someone is obviously playing for keeps out there."
"They usually do, Wade," Ron said quietly as he switched off the device. "They usually do."
KP
Kim walked through the forest with Adam, and sensed Shego still back behind him.
No one else was around.
Her parents were back at the cabin, absorbing their initial lessons at Adam's hands. The boys were out cold, for once, after a very long, and trying day that sapped even their vitality.
"Kimmie?"
"Hmmmm?"
"What are you thinking about?"
"Darke. This freak, whoever he is, is going to be trouble. And considering the stakes here, I don't feel like waiting on him to make a move."
"You really think someone in the….pack….is behind all this trouble?"
"Yes."
"Then why didn't they already know about you? Or the fact you weren't a freakin' witch, or whatever?"
"Maybe they were being clever. Maybe they didn't know the truth about the Druid thing? Maybe they didn't care, and have their own game in play? All I know for certain is someone pointed this freak at us, at me, and someone obviously let Drakken find a guy that should have been an otherwise pretty competent assassin."
"There is that," Shego added.
"Convenient, too, that someone inside already knew enough to get rid of Drakken's hands before they could heal enough to let him write? Someone knew all along, Shego. Someone….is playing us."
"Feels about right," Shego murmured. "Got any clues?"
"Not one. Yet. But I have a gut feeling. Want to take a trip?"
"What about your folks," Shego asked, sounding genuinely concerned.
Kim stopped, but didn't look back.
Shego walked up to stand beside her, and Kim sighed, looking up at her.
"We should be back in time. Still, I think Adam can manage now. They're not stupid, you know. They're learning as fast as I did, and they have each other to lean on. That helps. They won't be taken….by surprise. Not now. I just have a feeling….."
"You do have a clue," Shego accused.
"A feeling. Only it's going to take some seriously cleverness, and a master thief," Kim said as she eyed her.
Shego smiled.
"Okay, Princess. What's the game?"
"First, we make it look like we're somewhere else."
"Like here," Shego asked knowingly.
Kim smiled.
"Then, we go kidnap someone without anyone knowing."
"Do I have to guess?"
"Who wanted you put down? Who wanted us tossed into an orgy? Who wanted Spence Dobbins protected from the start despite all the lives he cost?"
"Got it. The jerk."
"The jerk. I have the feeling he's going to have a lot of our answers. Only we can't let anyone know we're coming, or that we got him. If I'm right, or even close, they'll not only be expecting us, but may have some….countermeasures."
"And your Arbiter lessons," Shego asked now as Kim looked up into the dark.
"I've been getting them…..after hours. It's something that Adam can't share with others. It's….private."
Shego scowled.
"Should I be jealous," she grumbled.
"No. Let me just say that I already know enough that I wish this goddess had picked someone else."
"I thought it was supposed to be some big deal. A great honor, or something. I figured you would like that."
"Shego, I'm expected to kill. The Arbiter isn't just what it first sounds like. I'm the enforcer for the other side. When someone steps out of line, the big picture line, I'm expected to get rid of them."
"Damn," Shego murmured now, looking back at her more intently. "And your buddy used to be the last big shot?"
"When it was necessary. The post comes and goes. Apparently, as it's needed."
"Then why wasn't he called back instead of you," Shego frowned.
"Who knows. He didn't. I sure don't. I just know we have to stop whoever is out there. Because one thing I do know, and that's they won't stop. Imagine Drew on steroids, looking to crack the globe, instead of conquering it. That's what I have to help stop, Shego. So, you still in?"
"Kimmie," Shego smiled, and wound an arm around her. "Try to stop me."
Kim smiled, and leaned into her.
"We leave at midnight. I have to brief the boys."
"On…..what, exactly?"
"Something still feels off. I need them to amp security around here so they have an edge in case of trouble. Don't you feel it?"
"I've been edgy," Shego agreed. "But then, I've felt that way since I almost fell into that pit that night."
Kim sighed, and leaned on her, too.
"I'm glad you didn't. I'm glad you got away."
"Like you say, Princess. Let's focus forward here. Not back. Ready to get our own back?"
Kim's eyes glittered in the night.
"Oh, yeah."
KP
His servants found the bitches after four long days of hunting.
The house had been emptied, and the family had just vanished after that ridiculous pronouncement. Not a wolf, indeed. Still, they had disappeared soon after, and no one could find them.
Until his roving eyes finally spotted them.
With the Old Wolf.
Damn. If he was involved, things were going to be more complicated than he had thought. His agent in the regional packs assured him he was deflecting any undue attention. He just had yet to find him anything truly helpful beyond setting up targets for the assassin Ian Darke had arranged to create for him.
After all, who was best at unnatural accidents, than a rogue wolf that no one could find.
Until someone abruptly killed their assassin.
The green woman.
Even he was stunned to find she had been a wolf, too.
Possible had been shock enough, but the green bitch was already a known threat to anyone that crossed her.
And that bitch had abruptly, and illogically allied herself with the redheaded nuisance.
Not an ideal scenario, given her penchant for destruction.
He would have to stop them, or everything he was working for would yet be in danger. He had to ensure none of them interfered. Only just now he couldn't do too much. Wolf's blood aside, it was too late to strike at them. Their time was now, as the moon was fullest in the sky. He would have to be patient. Wait for their cycle to ebb, and then seek them out.
He hated the idea of delaying his ultimate plans. Still, there was no way around it. At least now he knew where to find them. He was just astonished the willful bitch had dared change her entire family. Even he knew wolves were notoriously secretive, and highly reluctant to bring in outsiders of late. Which only worked to his advantage.
Still, if she were openly changing family, what else?
What manner of Druid was this redheaded bitch?
What, he asked not for the first time, was her true power, and shape?
He had to know. Because he still intended to have it for himself. He was, after all, a seeker of power above all else. He did not truly envision serving anyone in the end. No, he envisioned a world where he was the ultimate power. And he would accomplish it any way he could.
He just wished he didn't have to wait.
Damn wolves.
KP
"Mom, dad!"
James frowned as they looked away from Adam who was telling them something about wolf hierarchies now, and glanced at the door where the twins had suddenly tore open the cabin door where the three were sitting around a small table, talking over fresh coffee.
"You guys better come see this one," Jim told them as the morning light filled the cabin. "Even we have never seen anything like this."
"Adam," Ann asked. "I thought you said we were alone here?"
"We are," he said. "No one should know of this retreat," he told her.
"Someone does now," Jim and Tim both said as they led the adults outside, around the cabin, and toward the parked cars just away from the house.
"I knew I saw a giant bat," James exclaimed. "Although, it looks a lot uglier up close," the rocket scientist grimaced as he stared at the winged creature easily the size of a small pony compressed into the small energy sphere that glowed around it's folded up body.
Dark eyes glared at them with livid rage, and Adam stared grimly.
"Has Kimberly already left," Adam turned to ask the boys as he simply stared at the creature, and then dismissed it.
"Just after midnight," Adam was told by Jim.
"Didn't you hear them go?"
"I was distracted myself," Adam told them, not admitting he had been enjoying the night himself without paying much attention after he had left the Possibles to their meditations.
"Do you know what this is," Ann asked, her tail twitching in reflection of her uneasiness.
James only stared, overtly curious, yet oddly indifferent.
"Unfortunately, I do," he said. "How long will your prison hold, boys," he asked the pair.
"As long as you need it. We set up a ring around the cabin last night after Kim warned us….."
"She warned you," Adam asked.
"She said she had a feeling. So we set up a security grid around the place. We just came out to check the grid this morning when we found this one."
"So you haven't checked the rest of the perimeter?"
"Not yet," Jim admitted, as Tim only shook his head.
"Do it. And I need to call Kimberly."
"Hoo-Sha," Jim told him, tossing his own Kimmunicator to him. "Just press the green button. It'll connect directly to her."
"Thanks," he said. "And, be careful. We may have more danger coming if this thing is here."
"What is it," Ann asked bluntly now.
"Let me speak to Kimberly first. Then we will talk. There is more to our world than you yet know, lady," he told Ann. "There are dangers, too. Obviously, some are more….potent than others."
"This doesn't look dangerous. Just ugly," James commented. "I'm not even sure how it flies. It doesn't strike me as very aerodynamic, and…."
"Let me call Kimberly," Adam said as the twins walked away to finish checking their grid.
KP
"Now, what," Shego asked as they drove away from the manor house on the far side of Lowerton with an unconscious body in the back seat.
"Now, we question him," Kim told her. "And convince him talking is for his own good."
"You do know he's going to be as strong as us with the moon coming," Shego huffed.
"We're all wolves," Kim snorted. "But even before this, we were both still pretty tough."
"Just remembering if you remembered," Shego smirked.
"Sometimes…."
Shego only smirked on.
"So, you're actually going to play hardball this time, Kimmie?"
"I have to, don't I? This is about more than stealing tech, or trying to upset politicians, or something now. It's about the real, and very end of the whole world if what I'm hearing is right. And that is not going to happen on my watch."
"Admit it," Shego sniffed. "You just want to save the world again."
Kim shot her a faint smile.
"It's what I do," she told her even as her Kimmunicator on her wrist chirped.
Stabbing the auto-drive, she lifted her wrist, and asked, "What is it, Tweebs…..? Adam?"
"We had a visitor," Adam said grimly as his somber expression filled the screen instead of her brothers. "Someone knows where we are."
"Is everyone all right," Kim asked quickly.
"We're all fine. But this retreat is compromised. Someone sent a Talyc here. I suspect you may have some trailing you, too, by now."
She had a mental image fill her mind at the unfamiliar word, and she shivered.
"Okay, weird, but I just realized what you said, and it's not good."
"No, it's not. Guard your back, Arbiter," he called her. "Amethyst is obviously preparing to move."
"What about you guys? If that place is compromised…..?"
"I'm taking them back to Upperton pack after this morning's last lesson. I believe they are ready enough, and the pack will give us more protection than being alone. Just in case."
"All right. We'll rendezvous with you once we're…..finished here," Kim told him. "Just be careful."
"And you. Just…what are you doing….?"
"You don't want to know," she said as Hans groaned restlessly in the back seat.
"Kimberly, I do not joke. If they are moving, you must be very careful. You may have the goddess' favor now, but the Amethyst won't hesitate to try to destroy you once they realize just what you are."
"I'm pretty sure they'll have to get in line," Kim muttered. "Don't worry. We'll keep our eyes open."
"Yeah, we're big girls, and everything," Shego quipped before Kim switched off the device to take the wheel again.
"You just have to get in the last word on everything, don't you?"
"Well, maybe. Meanwhile, I think you should look back. I think we have company, and something feels…..off about them," Shego said, eyeing her mirror on her side she had moved to better watch the traffic behind them.
"Three black SUVs. Heavily armored. And….. Uh-oh."
"They feel like bad news to you, too?"
"More than that. Look at the license plate on that first car."
Shego frowned, and focused.
"Uh-oh," she said, seeing the purple flower on the plate. "Something tells me they're not friendly," she declared, just before a man in a gray suit leaned out the passenger window of the first vehicle, and aimed a very large weapon at them even as the other two vehicles moved to spread out to try to intercept them.
"Amethyst," both women shouted even as the high-powered rounds slammed into the back of the Roth.
To Be Continued…