AN: This takes place some time after the "So the Drama" movie. Slim and Joss are from the episode "Showdown at the Crooked D."
AN2: Rejoice Fans! For now the FIRST FOUR Season 4 episodes will be on Feb 10th, 2007! Set your VCR's! Enjoy the 2 hours worth of cartoons!
Chapter 38: Trouble Brewing(The Middleton Mall)
Ron bends to pick up the Kimmunicator before walking over to where Kim is and says, "Here you go Kim."
Kim takes the Kimmunicator from him and says, "Thank you Ron." She then wraps her arms around him and gives him a very boo-yah worthy kiss for a full minute. As she pulls back she smiles at him with his stunned expression on his face and says, "That's for what you said when you were fighting Erik. Thank you Ron."
Ron dreamily says, "uuuuuuhhhhhh, think… nothing… of it… KP…" before he falls to the floor causing Kim to giggle silently at him.
Kim just stands there waiting for him to snap out of on his own before she gently presses on the tip of Ron's shoe and keeps on going until rigid Ron is back up on his feet once again.
She says, "Ron, get your head in the game now… we still got to figure out what the BeBe and… ugh Erik are up to."
At the mention of Erik's name, Ron's dreamy eyes shift into sharp focus as he thinks, "Erik! I can't believe he's back!"
Kim could see on Ron's face that he wasn't happy and she couldn't blame him. After all, Erik had almost succeeded in breaking them up but in retrospect she knew that in the end, Erik's betrayal also had led her to an even greater happiness than what she had with him.
She had finally come to see Ron, not just as a very old friend who had many child-like qualities to him but, as a boy that she had all the qualities she had found either missing or weak in her past boyfriends.
She found excitement, happiness, loyalty; true understanding without her having to explain herself and he always listened to every word she said. She knew that because even when it seemed like he wasn't listening, he could always recite word for word exactly what she'd just said. True, it was a little annoying but it was also touching and made her feel like she was number one in his world.
Ron would never admit it to Kim, but on a small level he owed Erik a thank you, which he would have to deliver sometime with a punch to the face for hurting Kim. The debt was primarily because it had forced him to grow up enough that Kim actually noticed him as just a young boy but as a teenage boy who wanted to be her boyfriend.
A part of Ron missed being able to be as child-like as before but he felt the sacrifice was worth it because he gained so very, very much more when he gained Kim as his girlfriend. The kisses alone were way better than acting like a child and he knew that the little child inside him would never truly be gone, as that was a part of him that he knew Kim loved and accepted about him.
Ron knew one thing was for certain, and that was that he knew and felt very fibers of his heart and soul that they belonged together. Nothing that Erik could ever say would ever shake that core belief and whenever he looked at Kim, he knew that Kim felt the same way about him.
Kim turns on the Kimmunicator, all thoughts of her date being pushed to the back of her mind for later with the threat of BeBe and Erik out there, she couldn't afford to waste any time as much as she wanted to be with Ron.
Kim waits until the screen pops up with the face of Wade, her friend and technical guru who was also the one person that she hoped would be able to give her some answers. She says, "Hi Wade, guess who survived the lair explosion?"
Wade says, "BeBe? I guess I shouldn't be surprised. They have a habit of popping up somehow."
Kim frowns as she says, "No, not they… just 'her' only this time she has brought a friend with her."
Ron thrusts his face into the Kimmunicator's camera range as he says loudly, "That wasn't a friend KP! That was Erik!"
Wade raises his eyebrows in shock as he says, "Erik? Surely you don't mean…?"
Ron says, "That's right! BeBe has brought back that jerk to life!"
Wade says, "How did she do that?"
Kim says, "A backup. Drakken made a backup of Erik and then BeBe found him before putting him in a super synthos that had survived somehow.
Wade nods as he says, "That makes sense, but why does BeBe need Erik?"
Ron leans in and says, "Because Erik is evil! Evil, I say!"
This makes everyone around give Kim and Ron weird looks which, Kim notices and says, "Sorry everyone, he's just being melodramatic" She pulls Ron to someplace a bit more private before she says, "Ok Wade, I think that we have another problem on our hands besides those two."
Ron says, "All I can say is that Erik better not go after Kim again! She's my girlfriend!"
Kim says, "That's so sweet Ron, you're worried about my safety."
Ron says, "You bet! There's no way I'm going to let Erik hurt you again Kim! No matter the fact that he was the more handsome boyfriend!"
Kim sighs softly and thinks, "That's what he was worried about? Oh Ron… I love you now way more than I ever liked that yuck Erik guy."
Wade is busy typing at his keyboard during all of this until something pops up on his screen. He says, "Hey guys, I noticed something from the security cameras and it appears that there was a moment when Erik's head disappeared in thin air!"
Ron grumbles and says, "Too bad it couldn't have stayed that way."
Kim glances at her boyfriend and says, "Not now Ron… Now that you mention it, I remember that after his head disappeared he came back rather quickly."
Wade says, "I know, but slow motion shows that he was struck because his head was dented in from behind. I'd say that whoever or whatever is on the other side of that spying portal didn't like him sticking his head where it didn't belong."
Wade taps a key or two before he disappears from the screen and in slow motion the head of Erik reappears from the portal with Erik's head considerably dented from behind and with the speed that he was traveling downward at, it was obvious that Erik never even saw who had struck him very hard from behind.
Wade's face appears in a tiny corner of the video as he says, "It is safe to say that Erik and BeBe aren't going to let things go."
Kim nods as she thinks about the video before she looks at Ron, knowing just how much Ron didn't want to have her go face whatever or whoever was on the other side of the portal or to even see Erik again, a thing that she didn't exactly too forward to doing either. She knew that if BeBe and Erik risked revealing themselves to them in the first place to get a look in that spy portal, then they wouldn't stop until they succeeded and got whatever secrets it held.
Kim says, "I guess we're going to have to contact whatever's on the other side of that spy portal somehow and warn them about the danger that BeBe and Erik pose to them."
Ron says, "Are you sure KP? I mean, what if whatever's on the other side already knows the danger? They seem to be pretty good at knowing all about us if they can keep finding us."
Wade says, "Ron's got a point. What's to keep them from continuing to spy on us if they know that BeBe and Erik now know about the portal?"
Kim thinks about it before she says, "I don't believe that those two would give up so easily. We must find a way to deliver a message and protect whatever advanced technology that could make them even more dangerous!"
Wade hmmms for a moment before he says, "You've got a point Kim. If those two got ahold of that cloaking technology which I still haven't managed to crack, then they'll become pretty unstoppable! Plus, who knows what else they'll be able to get their hands on that would make them even more dangerous!"
Kim says, "Then it is settled! We must find a way to warn them or it that they're coming for them."
Ron says, "Um, Kim…?"
Kim turns to Ron and says, "Yes Ron?"
Ron looks a bit nervous as he says, "Can we eat first? I'm hungry." With this, Rufus sticks his head out and says, "Nacos!"
Kim couldn't help but smile a little despite herself, as she knew that Ron wouldn't ever change and that was something she was happy about. She could always count on Ron to defuse a tense situation, to keep her from getting too serious.
Kim remembers back to when she was talking to Joss back at the hospital while Ron was in his coma. She had told Joss that Ron completed her, kept her from being too serious and the last thing she remembered before he woke up was admitting that she loved him. She knew that she wouldn't ever take back that moment or those words for anything in the world because it had given what she wanted, Ron.
Kim shakes herself out of her reflections before she says, "Sure thing Ron, lets go grab something to eat." She smiles at his "Boo-ya!" before slipping her arm into his and pulling him close so that when he looks at her, she can lean to give him a quick and loving kiss right on the lips.
Kim says to Wade, "Let me know if you have any ideas on how to contact our spying friend."
Wade says, "Sure thing Kim!" and closes the connection as Kim puts the Kimmunicator back into her pocket.
Kim thinks, "Someday… I know it in my heart without a doubt that, I'll be Mrs. Kimberly Anne Stoppable. For now though, I will just be happy to have the most sweetest, loving, wonderful guy I know as my boyfriend."
Ron was still on cloud 9 from the kiss and just walks slowly, not in any hurry with Kim cuddled up against his side a little. With Kim so close, he could pick up the soft scent of the shampoo she used to wash her hair with and thinks, "Kim used that strawberry shampoo again… I wonder if she knows that's my favorite shampoo?"
Ron and Kim continue to walk off, oblivious to the fact that BeBe had returned and was watching them very closely until they walk out of the mall. After that BeBe rushes off to where Erik was and copies what Kim had done with Ron by slipping her arm into his.
Erik was taller than BeBe by almost a head so when she tried to kiss him like Kim had, she found that it wasn't as easy for Kim and Ron who were about the same height. The best BeBe could do was kiss Erik's chin while he kissed the forehead unless they moved their heads or she extended her legs to raise herself up which was beyond her current capabilities to do.
Upon this new data, BeBe came to the conclusion that finding couples of various heights would be the best way to go and with the data that Erik had on the people in Possible's life. BeBe knew just where to head next.
AN: Well, here is the next chapter as promised! did all of you like the stuff at the beginning where Kim and Ron thought about Erik's role in their lives? Do you think it is right that Kim focuses on getting a message to the mysterious portal spy? Do you think strawberry is a bad scent for Kim's hair to smell like? What do you all think of Kim and Ron's relationship at this point? What do you all think of BeBe and Erik? What do you think BeBe will do next? or more specifically go to next? As usual all thoughts, ideas, suggestions, Maniac Road vol. 3 mangas, videogame tips for Soul Calibur III or Kingdom of Hearts 1(Yeah, I know...) and more would be greatly appreciated!