Chapter 25 - Mission: Social Media

(9:35pm)

"That was a good game, Mad Dogs!" Barkin said in the huddle with the team, "Celebrate this win tonight! We have no practice tomorrow, but we will on Monday!"

Once the team did a team prayer and broke the huddle, Ron went back to Kim. He then kissed her on the lips.

"Hey, KP!" Ron said with a smile at his girlfriend.

"Ron, that was an excellent game you played tonight!" Kim complimented.

"And you were totally awesome at cheering, as always!" Ron laughed. Rufus, from his duffel bag, pulled out a "Mad Dogs are No. 1" pennant.

"Coming from the former Mad Dog himself!" Kim snickered.

"So...what's next?" Ron asked.

"Tara's offering to help me out to join AddressBook tonight. That is if the weather ish doesn't knock out power to her house." Kim replied while grabbing her pom-poms, "And don't forget that we have our date tomorrow night as well!"

"Awesomesauce!" Ron exclaimed, "But I don't go for social media on some compute-thing to talk with my peeps."

"It's going to help us in the long run to fighting crime...and to get discounts on the latest fashions from Club Banana." Kim said, describing the benefits of Addressbook to her boyfriend.

The couple then looked up at the sky. Storm clouds were approaching with a few rumbles of thunder.

"Wow, KP. The clouds look pretty ominous." Ron said. "As if it's saying bad things are going to happen."

"Ron, don't fret. We've been through some bad storms before." Kim said, the wind beginning to blow against her hair.

"That's not what the folks at the National Weather Service said." Ron replied, pulling out a handheld radio from his duffel bag.

He turned it on for the following announcement:

The National Weather Service has put Middleton County and the rest of the counties in the eastern portion of this state under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until . Expecting from this storm are wind gusts up to 75 miles an hour, hail up to the size of golf balls, cloud-to-ground lightning, and around 2 to 4 inches of rain.

"It's a good thing that the Tweebs installed a hail shield on the Sloth. It can protect the vehicle from hail up to tennis ball size. They're still working on improvements to it...as long as the garage isn't full." Kim replied.

"The windshield wiper glass people are going to have a field day." Ron said as if he were predicting the future.

Tara and Monique then came to the couple.

"Those were some pretty slick cheer moves back there, girl!" Monique exclaimed.

"Sadly, no pyramid this time because of the solid track!" Kim said, pointing to the ground.

"Tara just told me you were takin' the social media highway!" Monique shouted for joy.

"It's going to be spankin', Monique!" Kim grinned, picking up her cheer bag.

"My boyfriend's going to pick me up in a few." Tara said while holding her own cheer bag. "He's going to drop me off at the high school so we can get a ride home together."

She then asked, "Wanna come to my house? We need to hurry before the storms get here."

"I'll check by the 'rents to see if I come there." Kim said, taking out her cell phone and called up the home phone number.

(4 minutes later)

Kim came back from a call with the parents.

"Anything?" Tara asked.

"It's a green light from the DrsP squared!" Kim said in triumph, "We're good to go!"

"Excellent! I'll get my boyfriend and we'll meet at Middleton High in an hour!" Tara insisted, grabbing her phone and sending her boyfriend a text.

"Okay, Tara..." Kim added before the four-beep tune of the Kimmunicator interrupted the conversation.

"Hold that thought!" Kim exclaimed, trying to find where she had put the wrist Kimmunicator. She turned to Rufus in Ron's duffel bag and said, "Rufus, can you take out my wrist Kimmunicator?"

Rufus chittered, "Okay." and went to Kim's duffel bag. He took out the still-beeping Kimmunicator with his teeth and tossed it to Kim.

Kim then put on the Kimmunicator watch.

"Thanks, Rufus!"

"Welcome!" he chittered, giving a thumbs up.

"Hey, Wade! What's the sitch?" Kim asked her most famous catchphrase.

Wade came onscreen and said, "I've finally tracked the whereabout of Drakken and Shego on their latest scheme. They're at the Go City Astronomy Research Lab!"

"Taking over the world evil stuff, no doubt." Kim replied.

"And no good can come from that! Your Sloth should be on the way to Upperton High in five minutes!" Wade replied.

"Wait...Wade, are you driving my car?" Kim asked with a bit of surprise.

Wade smiled and said, pulling out a remote control, "It's remote controlled by me when no one occupies the vehicle! Built in GPS!"

"You rock, Wade!" Kim grinned.

"And also, your battlesuit is being upgraded just in case the villains are tougher!" Wade said, giving the update on Kim's supersuit.

"That'll help me counter the big boys!" Kim replied before Wade went off-screen.

"Awesome, my boyfriend's car has GPS!" Tara exclaimed.

"So your intro to social media will be delayed?" the blonde asked.

Kim admitted with the mission taking top priority, "Unfortunately, yeah, Tara. You know, duty calls!"

"Well, there goes that plan for you two." Ron sighed.

"Fortunately, Monique's also a member on AddressBook." Tara said, coming up with a solution. "She can help you set up once you're back from your mission!"

"Yeah..." Kim said, thinking on it, "...we can go with that instead!"

Jason Morgan's car pulled up into the parking lot. He, of course, was Tara's boyfriend ever since the Mankey Fiasco in her junior year.

"Well, there's my ride!" Tara said while getting in the car, "Good luck on your mission!"

And, as if on cue, the Sloth pulled into the parking lot as well.

"No big, Tara!" Kim replied, "I can handle it!"

(10:45pm, Go City Astronomy Research Lab)

The Sloth rumbled through the main gate of the facility while storm clouds continued to gather the area. As of now, the lightning flashing in the sky was intracloud, with thunder rumbling in the distance. The first thing that Kim saw was the guards sleeping. She stopped the Sloth momentarily.

"Ron, put on your gas mask. You too, Rufus." Kim instructed, putting on her own gas mask.

Ron and Rufus also put on their gas masks too. It supplied its own independent oxygen system to the three wearers for up to an hour.

Kim took out her wrist Kimmunicator and Wade came on.

"Wade, we need a sampling of this gas. I think Drakken may have used it to knock the guards out!" she insisted.

"Sure can do, Kim!" Wade replied. "The Kimmunicator's smelling sensors can tell which type of gas he used."

After a few seconds, Wade replied, "Knockout gas, extra-strength. Standard-issue HenchCo made. It has a 12-hour effect and it tends to stay in the area for two hours after its use."

"Then it was a good thing we wore the masks!" Kim replied.

"Not like that time I had that 'accident' at Bueno Nacho a few weeks ago in the bathroom..." Ron said

"Ron! Don't give out the P.U. Gorchy details on me!" Kim complained, not wanting to talk about certain functions of the body. "We have to find where Drakken is in the facility!"
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Once they took the gas masks off, Kim and Ron, from the Sloth, looked around in the facility for any suspicious vehicles.

"Look, Ron!" Kim exclaimed, pointing to Drakken and Shego's hovercraft, as well as three 18-wheelers that housed the henchmen. "That must be where Drakken and company are planning their escape."

She stopped the Sloth momentarily.

Kim pressed the button to activate the on-board Kimmunicator.

"Wade, what time did the break-in occur?" she asked.

"At exactly 10pm sharp."

"Can you give me a digital layout of the entire facility and see where those two made their entrance?" Kim questioned.

"Sure can do!" Wade replied, typing away to get a digital map of the facility.

A layout of the facility appeared on screen.

"Right here on the northwestern corner of the facility, not far from your location!" Wade said.

"Then we'll go there!" Kim insisted, slamming on the brakes, "Hold on, Ron!"

"I'll try to..." Ron whimpered as he was screaming. Kim made a sudden U-turn as the Sloth rumbled to the northwest corner of the facility.

Unknown, Drakken, from the top floor, had seen the Sloth come into view. He was tenting his fingers in malevolent glee.

"That's it, my teenaged archfoe! Fall right into my trap!"