This Is Our Year: College I-I
Chapter 15: Getting Riddle Them
Disclaimer: All the Kim Possible Characters belong to Disney. The OC, Marty McDonald, belongs to Beatlestributeman. The other original characters are of my own creation.
It's been an hour since the game ended as Ron was lying down in a bed in a room at the Hudson River University Infirmary with a cast on his right leg.
Just then, Ron noticed Kim, Anna, Ellie, Glenn, and Jenn (with Hana in her arms) walk into the room.
"Are you okay, Dad?" Anna asked.
"Aside from a busted leg and now out for the season, I'm alright," Ron replied in a neutral tone. He then sighed heavily. "What will the team do without me now?"
"Mr. Stoppable?" Came the voice of Coach Davis.
The Stoppables and Ellie soon noticed Coach Davis walk into the room.
"Coach?" Ron asked.
"I heard what you said," Davis said. "And I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry too," Ron said. He then huffed. "I should've seen that player coming. But I got injured and ended up out for the season instead."
"Mr. Stoppable," Davis spoke. "Even though you are out for the season, I can assure you that Hudson River will make it through the remainder of the season. You inspired us to do better and we will continue to do so."
Ron smiled a little, "Tell the team that I wish them luck."
Davis nodded, "I will."
He then walked out of the room.
Beep Beep Beep Beep
"What's the sitch, Wade?" Kim answered her Kimmunicator.
"Kim, I just received this message from an unknown source," Wade announced. "It reads, 'Kim Stoppable, I have kidnapped the mother of Anna's best friend, Ellie Kelly, and hid her. Where is she? I won't tell you. You'll have to solve a series of riddles if you are to find Ellie's mother. The first one is: go to the mailbox in front of the theater on the street made for dancing.'"
"I can't believe it!" Ellie gasped as she started tearing up. "My Mom's been kidnapped!"
Anna pulled Ellie in for a hug, "It's okay, Ellie, we'll find her."
Kim turned to Ron, "Ronnie, will you be okay with me and Anna going on a mission without you?"
Ron raised his hand, "KP, it's okay. Besides, this is an opportunity for you two to spend some good quality mother-daughter time."
"You kids, be careful," Jenn spoke to Kim and Anna.
"As always," Kim answered. She then looked at Anna. "So we have to look for a mailbox in front of a theater on the street made for dancing."
Anna soon thought of something, smiled, and spoke, "I know what street it is!"
Unbeknownst to the group, a doctor was eavesdropping on the conversation. He then walked away and into a nearby bathroom that was vacant.
He then pulled out a communicator from his pocket and activated it.
"Yes, Spy Doctor Howard, what is it?" Hench said as he appeared on the screen.
"Team Possible has taken the bait," Howard announced. "What's more is the sidekick is injured and won't be able to help."
"Excellent!" Hench said triumphantly. "The Queen will be quite pleased."
Later, Kim and Anna were in their mission clothes and looking down the sidewalk of a street in New York City.
"Anna, how did you know 42nd Street was the street made for dancing?" Kim asked.
"You know the musical 42nd Street?" Anna asked. "There's tap dancing in it and named after a real street in New York. I tap danced to the title song of the musical for a school talent show and got 1st place."
"That's nice," Kim commented. Her face then turned serious. "Now, we have to look for a mailbox."
"They're lots of theaters, Mom," Anna pointed out. "But the good thing is we don't have to check every mailbox since the mailbox we're looking for is in front of a theater, and not many theaters each have a mailbox in front of them. On our way here, I looked at street views of theaters on this street and found one with a mailbox in front of it."
"Which one is it?" Kim asked.
"The Empire State Theater," Anna replied. "Which, oddly enough, the musical 42nd Street will be playing there from November to year's end."
"Do you wanna go see it?" Kim asked.
"I do," Anna replied.
"Do you promise to be a good girl?" Kim asked.
"I promise," Anna replied. "You know I hate it when I disappoint you and Dad."
Kim smiled, "After your father is out of his cast, which should be in a couple of weeks, we'll go see it."
"Booyah!" Anna cheered. Her face then turned serious. "Now, let's go find that mailbox."
Kim soon noticed a theater with the name, Empire State Theater.
"There's the theater," Kim announced, pointing toward the theater.
Anna looked to where Kim was looking and then saw a mailbox in front of it, "There's the mailbox."
Kim and Anna then ran up to the mailbox.
"Now, how do we get it open?" Kim asked.
Anna got down on the ground and noticed an envelope with the Team Possible logo on it taped to the bottom of the mailbox.
"We don't," Anna replied. "It's under the mailbox."
She reached underneath the mailbox and retrieved the envelope.
"It has our team logo on it," Kim said as she got a good look at the envelope.
Anna opened the envelope and read the letter that was in it, "Go to the Pointe with a Du and a Hoc."
"Pointe with a Du and a Hoc?" Kim asked, confused. "This riddle looks tricky, not to mention has a series of typos."
Anna soon thought of something and said, "These aren't typos."
"How do you know?" Kim asked, confused.
"This riddle is referring to Pointe Du Hoc," Anna replied. "It's located on a cliff between Omaha and Utah beaches in Normandy, France. During World War Two, June 6th, 1944, U.S. Army Rangers landed there, scaled the cliffs, captured the Pointe, and destroyed big guns that threatened American troops getting ready to storm the nearby beaches. I'll tell you the full story another day."
"You sure know your World War Two history," Kim commented. "Now, let's go."
With that, Kim and Anna ran back to the Sloth, climbed in, and took off for Normandy, France.
Bonnie was overlooking the construction of her robot army as Jack Hench walked up.
"Status?" Bonnie asked.
"Kim Possible and Anna have taken the bait," Hench announced. "What's more is the sidekick has been injured and won't be able to help."
Bonnie soon thought of something and asked, "Is that transporter belt ready for use?"
"My men have just finished building two of them," Hench replied. "What do you intend to do?"
Bonnie smirked, "I think we should have a couple of your men, 'pay a visit' to K's loser husband."
Later, Kim and Anna were at Pointe Du Hoc and looking at their surroundings.
"This must be what the end of the world looks like," Kim commented, noticing the countless bomb craters, along with the destroyed remains of pillboxes and bunkers.
"This area took serious Allied air and naval bombardment," Anna added.
"So, where in Pointe Du Hoc do we look?" Kim asked.
Anna then noticed the American Battle Monument at the end of the cliff.
"Let's check over at that monument," Anna said, pointing to the monument. "There's a bunker underneath it, and there could be an envelope there."
Kim and Anna walked up to the monument and entered the bunker underneath it and looked around inside.
"I wonder where it could be," Kim said.
Anna soon looked up and noticed an envelope sticking out from a crack. She then pulled it out and saw the Team Possible logo on it.
"Here it is," Anna announced. She then opened the envelope and read the letter just as Kim walked up to join her. "Go to the homestead on 'Tatooine'. But beware, you'll face enemies from a galaxy far far away..."
"Homestead on Tatooine?" Kim asked, confused. "I don't get it. There's no such thing as the planet, Tatooine."
Anna soon thought of something and spoke, "The planet may not exist, but the film location does."
"What do you mean?" Kim asked, confused.
"There are air quotes around the name, Tatooine," Anna pointed out. "I have a feeling it's referring to a film location on Earth."
"Where is this film location?" Kim asked.
"The scenes in Star Wars with the homestead were filmed in Tunisia," Anna replied. "The homestead itself is still there."
"How do you know?" Kim asked.
"I really loved Star Wars enough to want to learn where they filmed the movies," Anna replied. "Now, let's go!"
After that was said, Kim and Anna ran out of the bunker and back to the Sloth.
Meanwhile, Ron was in his room at the HRU Infirmary room by himself.
"I gotta go help KP and AC," Ron thought. "They need me. But, how am I going to help them while I'm still in this cast?"
Suddenly, two men in purple jumpsuits materialized on the left and right sides of the bed.
Before Ron could react, the henchman on his right side fired a tranquilizer into him, causing him to lose consciousness.
The henchman on Ron's left pulled out a walkie-talkie and said, "We have the package."
"Good work!" Hench, on the other end, spoke. "Return to base."
The two men grabbed Ron by both arms before they each pressed a button on their belts.
The three soon vanished into a ball of light before doctors entered the room.
"Inform Team Possible," One of the doctors said.
Later, Kim and Anna landed in Tunisia and near the homestead used in Star Wars.
"There it is," Anna said as she and Kim climbed out of the Sloth.
"It looks like it's good as new," Kim commented.
"It was restored to be used in the last two Star Wars prequels," Anna pointed out.
Just then, two figures with black eyes, triangular mouths, and wearing tan robes and each holding a staff with a spike at the end of it came running out of the homestead.
"Tusken Raiders!" Anna gasped. "From Star Wars! That explains why the riddle warned us about enemies from a galaxy far far away!"
The two Tusken Raiders then raised their staffs and called out in a strange chant before they pointed their staffs at Kim and Anna and charged at them.
Kim and Anna got into a fighting stance before they got down, and each did a leg sweep, causing the Tusken Raiders to fall forward into the sand.
Seizing the opportunity, Kim and Anna turned to the Tusken Raiders and grabbed their staffs.
"Not so tough now, are you?" Anna said.
"Drop your weapons!" Came a voice from behind.
Kim and Anna turned around and gasped to see two figures in white armor with black backpacks and blasters.
"Stormtroopers?" Anna gasped in disbelief.
"I said, drop your weapons!" One of the two stormtroopers yelled.
Kim and Anna quickly got down right when the stormtroopers fired their blasters and accidentally hit the Tusken Raiders that were trying to get back up onto their feet.
Anna threw her staff aside before shooting her wrist grappler and grabbing a blaster from one of the stormtroopers.
Once the blaster was in her hands, she quickly blasted both Stormtroopers.
Kim and Anna got back up just as they heard the sound of a lightsaber.
They both looked at the homestead to see a dark-clad figure with a red lightsaber.
"Darth Vader!" Anna exclaimed, recognizing the figure.
Vader then held out his left hand towards Kim, a hole in the glove opened up, and blasted a stream of air.
Kim suddenly felt herself being pushed back and into the Sloth, knocking her out.
"Mom!" Anna exclaimed as she turned to her mother. She soon thought of something and turned to Vader. "How were you able to blow air?"
"The force is with you, young Stoppable," Vader said, ignoring Anna's question. "But you are not a Jedi yet."
"If only I had a lightsaber," Anna thought.
"Summon the Lotus blade, Anna-san!" Came the voice of a familiar Japanese man in Anna's mind.
"Sensei?" Anna thought, surprised.
"Remember when you defeated Monkey Fist?" Sensei asked. "The bond you share with your spiritual parents enabled you to use the Lotus Blade's abilities."
Anna thought, "Alright."
She threw the blaster she was holding aside before putting her right hand behind her back and closing her eyes.
Suddenly, the Lotus blade appeared in her hand before she opened her eyes again.
"Join me, Anna Stoppable!" Darth Vader said. "Together, we can rule the Galaxy!"
Anna transformed the Lotus Blade into Luke Skywalker's second lightsaber and activated it, revealing a green blade.
"I don't think so," Anna said as she removed the lightsaber from behind her back.
She then tried to hit Vader from the top, only for the attack to be blocked. Vader tried to pull off the same attack, only for it to get blocked.
The two would go on to pull off a series of lightsaber attacks on each other, only for all of them to get blocked or avoided.
Then, at one point, Anna managed to behead the Sith Lord.
Anna soon noticed Vader's helmet fall into the sand, face up. The front of Vader's helmet exploded, revealing an envelope with the Team Possible logo on it.
"Anna?" Came Kim's voice.
Anna turned to her mother to find her, conscious.
"Are you okay, Mom?" Anna asked as she deactivated the lightsaber and transformed it back into the Lotus Blade.
"I'm alright," Kim replied as she walked up to her daughter.
Anna then pointed to Vader's helmet, "Look what I found."
Kim looked to where Anna was pointing and noticed the envelope with the Team Possible logo on it.
"Our next clue was inside the helmet of Darth Vader?" Kim asked.
Anna shook her head, "That's not Darth Vader. It was an android resembling Vader. No wonder he was capable of blowing air." She then noticed electric sparks coming from the Tusken Raiders and Stormtroopers. "These are all androids!"
Kim noticed the sparks and said, "I'll have Wade contact GJ and have them analyze the androids. In the meantime, let's find out where to go next."
Anna picked up the envelope, opened it, pulled out the letter inside, and started reading it, "Go to the downed helicopter in a clearing in the jungles northwest of Saigon where you'll find Michelle. But be careful the area is filled with traps over three decades old."
"Downed helicopter, Saigon, and three-decade-old traps?" Kim asked, confused. She then remembered something and gasped. "It's telling us to go to Vietnam."
"It is," Anna agreed. "There are still traps that were laid out by the Vietcong during the Vietnam War that have yet to have been tripped. I remember you telling me that Dad tripped one of those old traps after a mission to try and stop Fukushima."
"Don't remind me," Kim groaned. "He should've been more careful. But it was really brave of him to contain that grenade explosion with the Mystical Monkey Power and his body." Just then, a thought popped into Kim's head before she asked. "We now know Michelle is in Vietnam, but where in said country is Saigon?"
"It's Ho Chi Minh City," Anna pointed out. "It was renamed after South Vietnam fell to the North at the end of the Vietnam War. Even though the city was renamed, some people still call it, Saigon."
"How do you know this?" Kim asked.
"I saw a documentary of the Vietnam War on the Archive Channel," Anna replied.
Beep Beep Beep Beep
"What's the sitch, Wade?" Kim answered her Kimmunicator.
"Kim, I just got word from the Hudson River infirmary," Wade announced. "Ron's been kidnapped!"
Kim and Anna gasped, "Kidnapped?!"
"I'm afraid so," Wade said in an apologetic tone.
"By who?" Kim asked.
"Possibly the same villain that kidnapped Ellie's mother," Wade replied in speculation. "You may wanna put a rush on solving these riddles you've been getting."
Kim's face turned serious, "We're on the last riddle."
Anna then spoke, "Wade, we've encountered androids resembling Star Wars characters here at the Star Wars Lars homestead in Tunisia. We need you to have GJ come over here and analyze them."
Wade nodded, "I'll get to it."
"Now, we're off to Vietnam," Kim spoke up. "Also, try and see if you can locate Ron's tracking chip."
"I will," Wade said with a nod. "Wade out."
After the screen went black, Kim and Anna ran off to the Sloth, climbed in, and took flight, unaware there was a man in a purple jumpsuit hiding inside the homestead who got onto his walkie-talkie.
"Hench, Miss Possible, and that tap-dancing daughter of hers are en-route to Vietnam," The henchman announced.
Bonnie was sitting in her throne room at the Moon base just as Hench walked in.
"Yes?" Bonnie asked.
"The sidekick has been captured," Hench announced. "He has been transported to our holding cell for injured heroes here at the base."
"Excellent," Bonnie said triumphantly. She then asked. "How's the army coming along?"
"So far, everything's going well," Hench announced. He then frowned. "Except that one of my spies reported that Miss Possible and that tap-dancing daughter of hers defeated the androids my people made to resemble Darth Vader, Stormtroopers, and Tusken Raiders."
"Great!" Bonnie groaned. "They're now at the last riddle!"
"What should we do?" Hench asked.
Bonnie soon thought for a moment before asking, "How much of an army do we have to invade Earth?"
"Enough to invade three cities," Hench replied. "Why?"
"We will have to begin our invasion early," Bonnie said. "After we conquer three cities, we will build factories in those cities and continue with mass production of Bonnie bots, among other weapons you can offer. Once we do, we will further our advances across the world."
"What about freeing the Seniors and Alex Walker?" Hench asked.
"Leave that to me," Bonnie replied.
"Which cities shall we target?" Hench asked.
Bonnie smirked, "Target Middleton and Broy. As for a third city, just pick a random one. I don't care which one, just pick something."
Hench nodded, "Of course."
Later, back on Earth, Kim and Anna were flying over the jungles of Vietnam northwest of Ho Chi Minh City (a.k.a. Saigon).
"Thank goodness Wade had this radar installed on the Sloth to detect traps," Anna said as she looked at a radar screen in the Sloth. "And there's a ton of them."
Kim noticed a clearing up ahead and in the middle of it, was a downed Bell UH-1 Huey.
"I see the helicopter," She announced.
Soon, a woman came out of the helicopter waving her hands.
"It's Michelle!" Kim said, recognizing the woman.
"But there's no place to land nearby; too many mines," Anna pointed out, noticing a lot of red dots around the downed helicopter on the radar screen. "We're gonna have to toss her a rope with harness."
Kim soon maneuvered the Sloth until it was over the downed helicopter before setting it to hover mode. She then pressed a button on the dashboard and, from beneath the Sloth, a rope with harness on the end was lowered until it was down to Michelle's level.
"Put on the harness!" Anna shouted. "No time to explain!"
Michelle nodded before strapping on the harness.
"I'm ready!" She announced.
Kim then pulled the Sloth up and Michelle was screaming as she was lifted over the minefield and set down in a nearby clearing free of mines.
"We're landing!" Anna announced.
Michelle removed the harness before the Sloth landed next to her.
"Are you okay?" Anna asked with concern.
Michelle nodded, "I am now."
Kim and Anna climbed out of the Sloth and walked up to Michelle.
"Thanks for saving me," Michelle said.
"Who kidnapped you?" Kim asked.
Michelle shook her head, "I don't know; it all happened so fast. I was in my hotel room in Buffalo when suddenly, everything went black. The next thing I knew, I woke up inside that destroyed helicopter right when you two showed up."
"It's a good thing you didn't run far from the helicopter," Anna said, confusing Michelle. "The surrounding area is filled with mines from the Vietnam War.
Suddenly, a distant explosion was heard, causing the trio to gasp.
"What was that?" Michelle asked.
"Must have been a mine," Anna replied. "Old explosives sometimes tend to explode prematurely."
Beep Beep Beep Beep
"Wade, we found Michelle," Kim announced as she answered her Kimmunicator.
"Kim, something's happening!" Wade shouted as he appeared on the screen.
At the Possible house, Ann and James were sitting in the living room. A few minutes earlier, Wade contacted the two and told them what's been happening regarding Michelle's kidnapping and the search for her, along with Ron's kidnapping.
"James, I can't believe what just happened," Ann said in disbelief.
"I can't believe it either," James said in disbelief. "First, Ronald gets injured, now he, along with the mother of Annie-bell's honorary sister gets kidnapped."
"Can this get any worse?" Ann asked.
She and James then noticed a story on the news before James hit the unmute button.
"We interrupt this program to bring you a special news report," The newswoman announced. "Meteors are heading towards Earth and will land in Lake Middleton; the Hudson River near Broy, New York; and in Mobile Bay in Alabama. What's more, is that these meteors appeared out of the bloom…"
Suddenly, the screen turned to static.
The two parents heard whooshing sounds overhead. They then ran out of the house to see what appear to be a swarm of meteors flying through the sky and splashing into Lake Middleton in the distance.
"Jim and Tim are down at the beach with their girlfriends!" Ann shouted.
Jim and Tim, along with their girlfriends, Chelsea and Kelsi were walking on the beach at Lake Middleton.
"Nothing like going for a walk on the beach," Jim said.
Tim sighed, "I feel really bad for, Ron."
"Me too, Tim," Jim said with a sigh. "Me too."
Suddenly, the two sets of twins, along with everyone else on the beach, noticed a swarm of meteors falling from the sky and splashing into Lake Middleton.
"What's happening?" Jim asked.
"A swarm of meteors! Tim gasped. "Let's get out of here!"
Jim and Tim tried to run, only to discover that their girlfriends were now staring off towards the water in a zombie-like state.
"Come on, let's go!" Jim shouted.
"It has already begun," Chelsea spoke.
"What are you talking about?" Tim demanded.
Chelsea and Kelsi then turned their heads towards Jim and Tim.
"The Queen has launched her invasion to claim the Earth's throne," Kelsi spoke.
"Who's the Queen?" Jim demanded
"The Queen is our creator and she built us androids to distract you two from her evil plan," Chelsea answered.
Suddenly, Jim and Tim each felt an electric shock go into them before they lost consciousness.
Just then, a group of robots that all look like Bonnie emerged from the water and walked up the beach.
"All hail Queen Bonnie!" Chelsea and Kelsi chanted.
"All hail Queen Bonnie!" The Bonnie bots chanted as they continued their way up the beach while people were running away and screaming.
To Be Continued…
A/N: And so begins Bonnie's plan for world conquest.
The Archive Channel is an allusion to the History Channel.
The way in which Bonnie launches her attack was inspired by the movie, Battle: Los Angeles.