Ever wonder where Kim and Ron would be if Ron had been born a GIRL and still knew each other from since Pre-K? And then one day while visiting a top-secret lab to stop Drakken, she becomes the male Ron we all know and love? What would happen? What would any natural-born girl, stuck forever as a guy do? Read on to find out!
AN: Don't forget! 2 hours worth of KP Season 4 episodes on Feb 10th! Be sure to set your VCR's!
Chapter 29: OMG!Kim was trying to wake Ron while Yori checked his stats (being a ninja meant knowing how the body worked) when Yori hears a car pull up into the driveway.
Yori says, "Miss Possible, someone has arrived. It could be his mother."
Kim's eyes go wide as she thinks, "Oh no! If she sees Ron unconscious she'll blame me and I'll never see him again!" She says, "Yori! Quick, grab his feet!"
Yori is puzzled but doesn't question it as she guessed that seeing one's son passed out and unresponsive would not be a good way to explain things. She grabs Ron's feet as Kim grabs Ron under the arms and together they move quickly up the stairs since they didn't know if the new parent was going to come through the kitchen or the front door.
The two of them just barely manage to get Ron upstairs to his room when the person who had arrived walks in through the living room door.
Kim looks down at Ron, still unconscious but at least now on his bed. She looks at Yori with some worry before Yori shakes her head, telling her that Ron wouldn't be waking up soon.
Kim looks around the room, as it had been the first time she had been in the room since her friend's change. To her, a lot of it had memories for both Ronnie and herself but a lot of it had been transformed or thrown out to make way for boy stuff.
Kim noticed that the walls had been repainted from the pink to a now blue color, along with a few other big changes.
The curtains had been replaced with wrestling drapes. The posters that used to show favorite boy bands now showed micro-bikini models (Kim didn't even want to think about what Ron's mother was thinking when she put those up) and even the bed sheets had been changed into sheets showing the local football team on them.
Kim noted that the computer desk still showed signs of past stickers, fingernail polish and glitter but only in shadow form as she could tell someone had gone over it trying to remove all traces of it but as Kim knew, there were just some things that couldn't be easily removed from the fake wood that made up the desk.
Kim smiles a little as she sees that at least one thing hadn't changed. There were pictures of Kim and Ronnie in little picture frames around the room, with the very same picture that she kept by her bed sitting next to Ron's.
Kim sighs softly as she looks back to Ron, wondering if she did the right thing to ask her friend. She was very afraid of losing her best friend but just as she thinks about that, the dream comes back to her where she is with Ron at some future dance. The dream causes Kim to wonder if it was a premonition or something else?
Kim shakes her head and says softly, "Ron… please wake up" while Yori watches and can see that Kim cares very much for her friend. She felt that even a blind person would have been able to tell that Kim loved Ron.
Yori thinks, "Stoppable-san deserves Kim, she has stayed by her friend's side where most others would have been too uncomfortable or disgusted to stay by their friend after such a drastic change." She looks down at her own hands as she thinks, "I shall always care for St… Ron-san, but I doubt it could ever equal to the love Kim has to offer. I shall do my best to support them as they deserve this chance."
The unknown person seemed to have turned on the TV downstairs as the sound of it suddenly could be heard.
Kim says softly, "Why won't you wake up Ron?"
(Within the mind of Ron/Ronnie)
It was pitch black with the only thing that could be seen was Ron at first until he says, "Hello? KP? Where am I?" Then the blackness seems to do a horizontal twist and get sucked quickly inwards at the center as if going into a blackhole causing a new scene to be revealed.
The new scene became the Pre-K in which Kim and Ronnie had met at all those years. Everything and everyone was there with Ron on the other side of the fence, looking in as if he were a person just passing by on the sidewalk.
Ron cries out, "My old Pre-K!" turning to slide his fingers through the fence as he sees all the kids running around.
Ron sees Kim playing with a ball and knows what's going to happen next, the bully that would snatch the ball from her was about to show up with his two friends. He leans against the fence, wanting to help but a part of him knew that everything would be ok.
Just then a voice says, "This isn't your Pre-K you know… this is mine." He turns his head to see Ronnie, the way she looked before her change! His eyes grow wide as he says, "H-Ho-How? Who are you?"
Ronnie walks up to him with anger on her face, yet with sadness in her eyes. She says, "Have you really forgotten? I'm you. That is me out there by the tree, I'm the one who stood up for Kim out there, not you… me!"
Ron looks back to see Kim stand up and start attacking the bullies, starting the very beginning of their lifelong friendship.
Ron looks away and thinks, "Is she right? Am I just a fake?"
As if reading Ron's thoughts, Ronnie says, "You're not a fake. You and I… we are the same person, yet different."
Ron looks up and say, "Were you just reading my mind?"
Ronnie shakes her head, "No, I don't have to. Don't you get it? This…(moves her hands around to encompass everything) is all within our head. We are in a dream, I think while we try to sort this out."
Ron says, "If this is all a dream, then there's something I've always wanted to do." He climbs over the fence and runs over to the fleeing bully to grab him and lift him off the ground.
He looks down at the bully who had taken the ball, pushed Kim down and been the one to threaten her life. The sight of the crying bully begging to be let go suddenly changed what he had originally wanted to do and surprises the bully by giving him a big hug!
The bully stops crying and looks over Ron's shoulder in surprise before Ron pulls back with a smile and says, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for bringing Kim and I together!" He then lowers the bully to the ground who is very confused and takes the chance to bolt quickly from the weirdo.
Ron turns as he hears Ronnie say, "That felt good didn't it? If he hadn't picked on Kim all those years ago, the two of us might never have become best friends for life."
Ron nods with tears swelling in his eyes, seeing those same tears in Ronnie's eyes as he says, "Yes… I'm eternally grateful to that bully for that. Without Kim I don't think I'd be the person I am, or been able to have the strength alone to deal with my family."
Ronnie nods with a sagely look in her eyes, knowing that it was reflected in Ron's before she says, "I know Ron… We… I owe Kim our lives." She then turns to the side a little as she says, "Even after this change from girl to boy… losing all the things that we liked about being a girl… she still stuck with us. She never once made us feel bad about it or teased us or got angry at us for it."
Ronnie turns back to Ron as she says, "She stuck by our side, like only a true best friend would." She wraps her arms around herself as much as her physical body would allow before she says, "She… saved our lives back then too. I don't want to think… or know… about what might have happened if she…"
Ron says softly, "I know… if she hadn't been our rock of strength, our pillar to help us stand until we could stand on our own two feet."
Ronnie nods silently before she turns to have her back to Ron as she says, "Yes… and I've been holding on. Trying to be there for her, like a best friend could be… to give her in even some small measure the very same thing she gave me… I mean us."
Ron walks up to her and places a hand on her shoulder before he says, "I know, and I'm sure you remember this… but the phone conversation that we had after the change… that was you way more than it was me.
Ronnie turns around, tears in her eyes as she says, "Yes… I know and I can't thank you enough for allowing me that… that… special time with Kim."
Ron and Ronnie hug each other softly like a brother and sister would before they part.
Ronnie says, "Thank you again Ron. I really appreciate the time you have given me with Kim."
Ron smiles a little as he says, "Hey, you'd do the same for me if the reverse happened."
Ronnie smiles in return as she says, "You're right. We could have fought over time for her but something about Kim… just makes fighting worthless. We both love her and it would have been pointless to fight over time with her when we were both getting to share it equally."
Ron nods slowly for a minute before he says, "Still, there were a couple rough patches here and there. Times when… you know…"
Ronnie nods in return before she says, "You're right. Times when we didn't know who to be in charge for that given moment."
Ronnie turns and starts to walk, with Ron walking alongside her as the surrounding changed again to the scene where Bonnie had showed up to take Ron away from Kim. She says, "This… was the hardest moment I think in our joined lives."
Ron sighs and says, "You're right. I wanted to stay with her at that moment more than anything but I knew I had to sacrifice what I wanted so that we could have a future together."
Ronnie nods knowingly before she says, "I wanted to slap Bonnie and even fight with her physically so she'd know just how much Kim meant to you… me… us." She turns to face Ron, seeing that he turned with her before she says, "Ron, you did the right thing while if you had followed my choice, things would have certainly become worse for sure." She looks down, "You are the better one of us for Kim's future happiness."
Ron reaches out to lift Ronnie's chin up so that he could see her eyes directly and says, "No… without your life and your feelings, I wouldn't have been able to become who I am. Know what to do or how to handle things."
Ronnie takes Ron's hand from her chin and squeezes it tightly as she says, "But it wa" She turns to face Ron, seeing that he turned with her before she says, "Ron, you did the right thing while if you had followed my choice, things would have certainly become worse for sure." She looks down, "You are the better one of us for Kim's future happiness."
Ron reaches out to lift Ronnie's chin up so that he could see her eyes directly and says, "No… without your life and your feelings, I wouldn't have been able to become who I am. Know what to do or how to handle things."
Ronnie takes Ron's hand from her chin and squeezes it tightly as she says, "But it was you that stood up to your… my… our mother enough to tell her that it had to be Kim or you wouldn't go along with Bonnie being our (gag) girlfriend. I didn't have the guts, I never have had them to stand up to her. Don't you see? You again made things better where I would have probably lost her, possibly forever too."
Ron brings his other hand up to cover her other hand, bringing both hands up so that he can bring her hands together before her. He says, "Kim needed both of us. She needed her childhood best friend and she needed her Ron who could be strong enough to be there for her whenever possible. You have the child-like quality that I think I lack, the innocence and appreciation for all that I have… we have… with Kim."
Ronnie looks down at her hands for a moment before she says, "You're right… and yet remember Kim's question? Am I keeping you from becoming the Ron that she needs now and not the Ronnie that she needed as we were growing up?"
Ron nods as he says, "Yeah, but she needed both of us in her life. We gave it to her in our separate parts and it worked."
Ronnie reaches out to put her hands on his shoulders as she says, "Yes, but that's no longer what she needs or wants I think, in her heart and if there's one thing I think we both can agree on is that we'd give our all to bring her happiness and safety."
Ron tilts his head forward as he nods, "Yeah… but what can we do now? It isn't like we can just suddenly stop being two people. We've both got our lives, our experiences and love for Kim."
Ronnie starts to press her fingers into Ron's shoulders, sliding them into his body painlessly as she says softly, "Yes there is Ron. I just want you to promise me first though… will you always take care of her?"
Ron looks at Ronnie with confusion as he says, "You know that answer already, you're me."
Ronnie's fingers continue to slide deeper into Ron as she says, "Please… just humor me and tell me?"
Ron's eyes become softer as he says with all his heart, "Yes, I promise that I will always do my very best to take care of Kim with all my heart, body and soul."
Ronnie's eyes become very tearful as she says, "Thank you Ron for giving me that. Now it is time to give the two of us and Kim… both what we truly want."
Ron starts to say, "What do you… you don't mean…" as it dawns on him before he looks down and sees Ronnie's hands up along with her arm up to elbows have sunk into his body!
Ron says, "No! Ronnie! We don't have to do this! You don't have to do this! Not for anyone's sake!" He tries to grab her and push her away but his hands just sink into her where he had tried to push her but he finds that he can't pull them out of her.
Ronnie's eyes are full of tears as she moves forward and says in a weird kind of echoing way, "No… I do need to. You are what she needs Ron and this way, I shall forever be part of you. Always there whenever either of you need me and I can be with her without the weird feelings of girls being with a girl."
Ron sadly says, "No… we could have…" before Ronnie shakes her head, as her chest touches his, slowly melting into him. She says, "No… you're kidding yourself. I would have held you back… you couldn't have kissed her… or done any of the boyfriend/girlfriend stuff without me causing icky feelings. At least this way, the love… the friendship… all of it will be there for her most when she needs it without me getting in the way and I can still be with my very best friend."
Ron's nose is touching Ronnie's as he says with a shaky voice, "I know you're right… and I kept hoping there'd be another way… I never wanted this day to come… I fought to keep it for so long."
Ronnie smiles softly as she feels her tears flowing down her cheeks before she says, "I know… I fought just as hard as you… but now it is time to stop fighting and embrace what should have been and will be."
Ron and Ronnie close their eyes as the scenery changes one last time to that of when Ron had first laid his new male eyes upon Kim and together they say, "I love you Kim…" Before they glow brightly enough to encompass everything like a great big flare and then just as suddenly it all winks out into total darkness… leaving only a single figure within, glowing blue.
(Outside of Ron's mind)
Kim and Yori notice something strange going on with Ron. It appears that Ron is inflating somehow and it only lasts for a few moments but it makes both girls worry a lot.
Kim says, "Ron? Ronnie? Please, wake up!" She closes her eyes as she thinks, "Oh Ron… I'm sorry. I never wanted to lose you."
Kim suddenly hears at the same time as she feels a hand touch hers, "Sure thing KP… I could never say no to you."
Kim's eyes open quickly and she sees that Ron is awake again, but something was different now in those eyes. She couldn't put her finger on it but she was so happy that Ron was awake that she gives him a big hug!
Kim says, "Oh Ron! I'm glad that you're awake! You had me so worried! Even Yori was worried!" She quickly adds the last part while fighting unsuccessfully a blush.
Ron smiles at her and says, "Don't worry Kim, I'll never leave you. We… I, that is… had to sort some things out.
Kim looks at her friend with confusion just before a loud sound, much like the sound of a jet landing outside the house could be heard!
AN: Well everyone, I hope that you really enjoyed this chapter. I think it was one of my better ones for this story. Did you like the way I had Kim worry about Ron? Did you like Yori? Did you like the way I had Ron/Ronnie talk and explore within his/her mind? Did you like the mutual decision? What do you think all this will mean in the end for Kim or Ron? Who do you think just arrived at the house? I hope you'll like the next chapter when I get it written! As usual, all thoughts, ideas, suggestions, reviews, voice impersonations of Kim or any other person on the show, are always welcome!
