Chapter 25

Wade was confused when a message from the federal government came onto his computer.

He then closed his eyes and clicked the message, "Please…I don't wanna be convicted of any wrongdoing!"

Two men with dark sunglasses and black suits and ties appeared on the computer screen and one of them was smoking a cigarette. "Hello, Wade! We are from the United States government! I am Agent Mack and this is Agent Macke! And do not worry, you are not being arrested for anything! In fact, we here up in Washington appreciate what you are doing!"

The other agent extinguished his cigarette to the ground and stomped on it.

Upon hearing this, Wade breathed in a sigh of relief and grinned, "Why thanks! We couldn't have done it without Team Possible, though!"

"Well, anyways," Agent Mack replied, "we're from the Department of Education and we've kept a very close eye on one Veruca Salt and her father, Henry, is that correct?" "Yep!" Wade's smile immediately disappeared, "the both of them have been very huge pains in Middleton for long enough!"

"We've received reports from our two underground operatives from the Mississippi Board of Education on the MHS school board that Veruca has something planned against Miss Possible! Something about a desensitizing music video of Miss Salt saying some awful things about Miss Possible with awful Auto-Tuned pop music?" Agent Macke asked Wade about the plan Veruca had in store against Kim.

"Oh yeah…." Wade solemnly nodded his head, "and it is THE worst type of sound I've ever heard in my life…period!"

"Not only that, but we also have some good news to give to you and to Kim!" Agent Mack grinned his pearly whites.

"Show me…" Wade grinned. Agent Mack sent several papers through the e-mail system. Wade got the e-mail from his inbox and took one glance at the papers and smiled. "I gotta show this to Kim!"

"Wait, Wade! You can't show them to Kim….yet!" Agent Mack exclaimed.

"Why not?" Wade inquired why.

"Well, it's a way of taking down Veruca, but it's a secret between you and me. Giving out the secret right now to Kim could compromise the entire plan! Reveal them to Kim when the time is right!" Macke instructed.

Wade nodded his head, knowing that anything to bring Veruca down is good, be it secret or not. "Don't worry! Your secret's safe with me!"

"Oh and this computer conversation between us is virus-proof, which means that only you and us have record of what happened here!" Mack said, "This plan is the only way Veruca can be taken down!"

After the screen turned off, Wade resumed guiding the Kimmunicator to its rightful owner.

Veruca was sitting impatiently in her chair in the main room with her two layers in the main room while Kim was struggling to come up with any evidence. She applied makeup and lipstick to her face to make herself look beautiful.

"Come on, Kim!" the deb exclaimed as she interrupted the redhead's concentration, putting the makeup kit away, "I don't have all day! I need to be with Camille so that we can shop at County CB!"

"Oh shut up, Veruca!" Kim snapped at the heiress, "No one even cares where you shop!"

"Oh yeah?" Veruca smirked as she snapped her fingers. In a rush, ten news reporters crowded around the heiress.

Kim glared and scoffed at this spectacle of the deb's fame, "Showoff!"

The reporters gathered around Veruca like a swarm of flies being attracted to a rotting piece of meat.

One of the reporters asked Veruca, "Why do you like to shop at Country CB?"

"Well," Veruca replied with an innocent-looking smile, batting her eyelashes. "I like the atmosphere of the place, the bright golden-diamond chandeliers that hang over the ceilings and, oh yes, the golden bar dispensing machines!"

The reporters took their notes and left immediately from the school administration building. Veruca herself was swooning over this massive amount of attention that was given to her.

Kim sneered at the sight of her school enemy swooning over TV reporters, "You won't have this much attention for long, you mean princess!"

"Hello? Kimberly Ann? I'm gonna have this amount of attention forever and ever and there's nothing you can do about it!" Veruca shot back at Kim.

Mr. Salt, in the meantime, repeatedly banged on his gavel. "Umm….can we get back to the matters at hand?"

The reporters left as quickly as they came.

"What?" Veruca asked in a confused state of mind before realizing the reason why she was here the first place. "Oh yeah! Well….sorry, Daddy!"

Turning back to Kim, she asked, "Well, can you bring up any evidence against me, the Great Veruca, for any wrongdoing against me?"

Kim looked around the empty desk. She growled at Veruca and proceeded to sit down.

Veruca gave an evil smile and replied, "Just what I thought! Nothing at all!"

_The Kimmunicator, which was still crawling around the air ducts on its legs, finally reached the air grate that faced the desk where Kim was sitting in. It slightly tilted so that Wade could get a better view.

"Now….let's see if the teleporting ability still works." Wade said as he pressed a button right next to the joystick controlling the Kimmunicator. The Kimmunicator's metallic legs disappeared first and then the whole device eventually disappeared from the air ducts.

In the crowd, Ron felt something on his lap. Rufus got out of his owner's pocket to see what was going on.

"Huh?" Rufus said scratching his head.

The Kimmunicator appeared before him with Wade on-screen.

Wade's eyes stared at Ron's in disbelief and whispered. "Sorry, Ron, wrong place!"

Ron hardly said a word when the Kimmunicator disappeared from his lap.

Kim, whom was glaring at Veruca for the duration of the trial, then heard the four familiar beeps on her Kimmunicator.

"Hmm?" she then peered down on her lap and realized that her Kimmunicator was there.

Mr. Salt banged on his gavel and exclaimed, "Miss Possible, you know that we cannot allow any of those type of mobile devices within the walls of this building! Cell phones yes, but the device you're holding? It's against policy conduct!"

Kim got up from her seat and prepared to exit the building, "Whatever, Mr. Salt! I'm going outside to take this call from Wade!"

Veruca mocked Kim, "Hmph, I bet it's one of your ridiculous and stupid missions or whatever!"

"Hey!" Kim glared at Veruca, "someone HAS to save the world from Drakken, and it's gonna be me, Ron, and Rufus! You just don't appreciate all that I do for others! And if it weren't for me, you'd be working as one of Drakken's mind-controlled servants!"

Veruca then stuck her tongue out at Kim and gave a speech in her own haughty voice. "I don't care about your damn missions! It's only a mere distraction from the real star around here….me! I will be in the tabloids with all my latest exploits on my shopping at Country CB! And besides, in a few minutes, I will be free of this…hmm…how do you put it….misunderstanding!"

Kim growled at Veruca and rushed out of the administration building, along with her Kimmunicator.