Disclaimer: I do not own Kim Possible or Doctor Who. Disney owns Kim Possible, and Doctor Who is owned by the BBC.
I've finally done the ninth chapter! This is another big one, hence why it took a while for it to be uploaded. As an update with regards to the uploading-chapters 'schedule' (not that's there one really, but lol, oh well), I'll probably only be able to upload two chapters within the next two weeks, because of going on music courses, which will obviously take up most of my time. But I promise, definitely two chapters within the next couple of weeks, minimum (and maybe more if I'm able to!).
Time Sitch
A Kim Possible/Doctor Who crossover
Chapter 9
"Pythagoras's theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the square of the hypotenuse, which is the side opposite the right angle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides."
It was post-lunch break at Middleton High, and Kim, Ron, and Monique were now in their Maths class. Not surprisingly, Mr Barkin had taken over the class for the afternoon, due to their Maths teacher reporting in sick. Unlike the Doctor's history lessons, any class taught by Mr Barkin could be written off as a borefest.
After Mr Barkin had just introduced the subject for the maths lesson, he then asked, "Now, who can tell me what the 'Pythagorean equation' is?"
Silence lingered in the room. Kim and Monique were trying their best to give their full attention, while Ron had given up already and had his head on the table.
"I need answers, people", Mr Barkin demanded. "Every single thing you learn at school will be vital to your success in the real world."
Before Ron could ask if they would need to seriously use Pythagoras' theorem in their daily lives, there was knocking from the classroom door.
"If this is one of the late students, you will see me after school at Room 12 for fifteen-minutes of detention", Mr Barkin said without hesitation.
The door slowly swung open, to reveal a man in a familiar-looking tanned overcoat.
"Oh, my bad, Doctor", said Mr Barkin in a slightly surprised tone.
"Not to worry", said the Doctor. He took a quick glance at the blackboard and saw a diagram on the board. "Hey, isn't that to do with Pythagoras' theorem?"
"It is", Mr Barkin simply answered.
"Ah, what a fun subject", the Doctor said. "It states that the square of the hypotenuse, which is the side opposite the right angle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. There is an equation to it, which is a2 + b2 = c2. C represents the length of the hypotenuse, and a and b are the lengths of the triangle's other two sides."
"Well, thank you for that bit of information, but I was wanting to get the students to tell me that", Mr Barkin stated. He took a look at the class, and suddenly realised they were all awake and concentrating. On the Doctor.
"Anyway, I didn't come to show off my mathematical knowledge", said the Doctor. "I wanted to ask if I could have a word for a moment with Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable."
"I don't think this is a good time to ask for them. As you can see, there is a lesson still currently ongoing…"
"It's important", was all the Doctor said. His tone was very much serious, with a grim, stern look on his face. Mr Barkin had a feeling that it would be unwise to argue against the Doctor.
"Very well", Mr Barkin replied. He turned to directly look at Kim and Ron. "Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable. If you may", he said, indicating the exit to the classroom.
There were mixed feelings of fear and curiosity coming from the two crime-fighting teenagers. Kim turned to Monique with a quizzing look on her face, but the only response from her friend was a shrug.
Slowly, Kim and Ron got up from their chairs, and began to walk towards the door. As they passed Mr Barkin, he said to them almost ominously, "May God have mercy on your souls". He obviously thought that Kim and Ron had got into trouble with the history teacher. Why else would the Doctor be wanting to speak to them in the middle of another lesson period?
Kim and Ron's eyes had widened slightly at Mr Barkin's last sentence, but quickly held back any extra fear they felt inside themselves. The Doctor led the way out of the classroom, as Ron shut the door behind the three of them.
The Doctor walked a few paces down the hallway until they were out of earshot of the room they had just left. He then turned to the two teens. Before he could say anything, Ron quickly spoke up.
"Hey, if this is to do with me touching on a sensitive subject for you on the plane yesterday, I'm very sorry."
The Doctor had a look of surprise appear on his face. "No, it's got nothing to do with that! Did you guys think I was going to tell you off or give a punishment for some sort of unknown crime you've done to me? Unless you've got a confession to make, like spitting chewing gum onto the corridor floors?"
"Well as far as we know we've done nothing wrong", Ron said. "But you did get us worried with that grumpy face of yours."
"Ooooh; that was only to get Mr Barkin to think twice about refusing my request", the Doctor explained. "I'd like to think of myself as a pretty good actor. Was in a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet once."
"You really are a 'jack-of-all-trades', ain't ya?"
"Guess I am", said the Doctor.
"There must be a reason why you wanted to speak to us", Kim interjected. "As much as Mr Barkin is a boring old fart, I would like to pass my maths exams."
"Well, I was going to ask if you wanted to go on a trip with me?" the Doctor inquired.
Both Kim and Ron had raised an eyebrow each in-sync. "Right now?" Kim asked. "You do realise…" she started to add.
"Obviously not now. School work before other activities and all of that. But say right after your last lesson?"
Kim thought for a moment. "What is this trip? Where are you planning to go?" she asked.
"Well, I went to the scene of the crime at the Middleton Institute of Science and Technologies, where you guys were last midnight", the Doctor started saying. "Ignoring the suspicions I have of Doctor Magister from the scientific research centre, I had the thought that maybe Dr Drakken's break-in from last night was connected to his burglary of the black cube. So I found a computer, and let's just say I did a bit of investigating…"
Kim's rose her right eyebrow even more. "What did you exactly do?" she questioned the Doctor.
"I, ah, kind of got a peak at some top secret government documents, CIA and FBI data, you know, that sort of thing…" he replied with a small shrug.
Kim's jaw dropped, with her eyes wide in shock. "You hacked into the most secure government organisation servers and databases in the world?!"
"Now come on, that's a little presumptuous… but yes, I did. You know, 'No big'", the Doctor said teasingly.
"Hey, that's my line", Kim exclaimed. "And I think that's pretty big to me! Even Wade has had a hard time hacking into those sort of servers."
Ron came closer to the Doctor; close enough to stare at him right in his face. "What are you?" Ron asked in a hushed voice and in a rhetorical manner. If anyone else had been around at that moment, Ron's serious face would have just seemed comical to most people.
"Ok, Ron, give the Doctor personal space", Kim said, pulling Ron back lightly by a couple of steps. "Although, I would be asking you the same thing", she said to the Doctor, "if we hadn't tried to go down that path already. Now, was there anything you specifically found?"
The Doctor paused for a second, as if thinking carefully what to say next. He then answered, "I can't be too sure. However, I think I might have found a device which is connected and works with what the black cube contains."
"Still sounds a little vague", Kim stated.
"It would be better if I explained it all in more detail to you on the way to where this device is", the Doctor said. "And when you've finished your lessons for the day, of course."
"True", Kim acknowledged. "Speaking of this device, where is it located?"
"Area 51", the Doctor said with a beaming smile. "The most secretive military base in the world. Home to UFO conspiracies, weapons testing, and a whole lot of rumours…"
"Yeah, we know, we've been there, done that", said Ron casually.
It was now the Doctor that raised his eyebrows in astonishment. "Really?" he said.
"Yep. Flying saucers, alien technology, yada, yada. All the rumours are true."
"Wow, I thought 'Area 51' was meant to be more secretive than that", the Doctor said.
"Oh, and let's not forget about giant poodles and naked mole rats", Ron added.
At the mention of 'naked mole rats', Rufus appeared out of Ron's shirt, and started making punching actions in mid-air. On that day when Kim and Ron had gone to stop Drakken and Shego from causing trouble at that military base, Rufus had grown to an enormous size because of using Drakken's 'Shrink Velociter'. Drakken's pet dog, Commodore Puddles, had also gone through the shrinking device. Rufus defeated Commodore Puddles, therefore helping Kim and Ron succeed in that mission.
The Doctor stared at Rufus with surprise, and then with curiosity on his face. After leaning in to look at Ron's pet closely, he asked, "Is that a naked mole rat?"
"Yes it is", Ron said proudly.
"Rufus", said the cheerful naked mole rat, as he waved to the Doctor.
"Nice to meet you, Rufus! I always wanted to meet someone called Rufus", the Doctor said. "How have I only just met you?!"
"He was busy when you went with us to the scientific research centre. Had an appointment at the barbers", Ron said.
"Why would you need to go to the barber shop, Rufus?" Kim asked.
"Because he cares about his image, KP", Ron replied for him. "If only you took as much care of yourself as Rufus does."
Rufus moved his hand along his head, as if pulling back hair (which didn't exist on the rodent, besides his whiskers). Kim just rolled her eyes, while the Doctor had his right eyebrow raised before continuing to talk.
"So, do you two accept my invitation?" the Doctor asked.
Kim pondered for a moment. She then answered, "I guess why not. Anything that might have something to do with Drakken and Shego involves us. Besides, we have the contacts for transport, whereas I don't think you have anything that could get you into that military base."
"That is very true", the Doctor admitted. "Anyway, see you both after classes."
And with that, the Doctor walked away, while Kim and Ron went back to their maths lesson.
8:30pm, Tuesday 23 September 2003, somewhere over Lincoln County, Nevada
An all-black covert helicopter flew across the desert plains, on its way to the military base known to most people as 'Area 51'. The surface of the aircraft acted as a camouflage against the night skies, with inbuilt anti-infrared and anti-sound contraptions to combat any sensors the military might have had online.
This helicopter was owned by the Global Justice Network, a top secret espionage organisation that Kim had had dealings with in the past. Wade had decided to call them up to ask for a small favour. After all, Kim had now helped them a couple of times; just asking for a lift to her destination wasn't too much to ask.
Kim, Ron, and the Doctor were currently in the helicopter, finishing their preparations for jumping out of the aircraft. All three of them had jet packs on their backs, but also gliders and parachutes if they wanted to make a quieter landing. Wade was also on hand from his computer at home, if they needed his assistance.
Kim and Ron, as usual, were in their mission clothes, but the Doctor had decided to keep his suit on that he had worn for the day at school. Minus the Duster-type coat. He'd decided that it would be too much in the way of any flying.
Kim turned towards the cockpit, and shouted to the pilot, "Thanks for the help, Agent Du. Tell Dr Director I'm very grateful for the lift."
"I will pass the message on", said Agent Du. "We probably wouldn't have accepted your request if it wasn't clear that Dr Drakken and Shego had been partaking in strange felonies recently."
"When will we know when to jump off?" the Doctor asked.
"I'll give a signal when your arriving above your destination", Agent Du answered. "Do you need your gear checked through one more time?"
"No, I should be good, thanks", the Doctor replied. "Not the first time I've jumped out of an aircraft."
"What about you, Ron?" Kim asked her best friend.
"It's not the getting-ready bit I'm worried about, KP", Ron said. "It's actually the 'jumping-out-of-the-helicopter' part I don't like. Can't we just land like, taxi-to-a-gate or something?"
"Ron, we're about to enter a heavily guarded military base", Kim said. "I don't think getting in on the ground is an option."
"You alright there, Rufus?" Ron then asked, looking towards one of his pants pockets.
Rufus's head peaked out from the leg pocket. "Yep", he replied, giving a thumbs up.
"While we have the chance, would you be able to elaborate to us on how this device you found out about could be connected to the black cube?" Kim asked the Doctor.
"Well, to put it simply, this device could potentially be able to open the cube and set off the atoms and neutrons inside it to start the creation of a black hole", the Doctor replied.
"Whoa", Kim said. "But how do you know about this?"
"I told you earlier, I hacked into the files of all governmental servers."
"Ok, but if no one other than Doctor Magister had an idea what this black cube could contain, how would anyone know the connection between that and the other device…?"
"Apologies for cutting into the conversation", Agent Du said, "but we've now arrived into Area 51 airspace. You need to go now."
"Right, let's go", Kim said.
The doors to the helicopter opened, with Kim being the first to exit the aircraft.
The Doctor yelled out, "Allons-y!" before following Kim close behind.
"Was that Spanish?" Ron asked himself. "I should have paid more attention in my foreign language lessons." He then took a deep breath. "Well, here goes nothing", he said.
But even as he went to jump from the helicopter, Ron managed to 'fall-off' more than jump. He began to plummet to the ground quicker than Kim and the Doctor were, screaming as he went past them.
"Don't forget that you have your jet-pack!" Kim called out to Ron.
"Oh yeah", Ron said. He then pressed a button on one of his shoulder straps, and instantly metallic wings appeared from the contraption on his back, with rocket engines also attached to the bottom of it.
"See, that's why I don't like jumping from aircrafts", Ron declared.
"Quieten down, Ron", Kim told him. "We're in mission mode now. The last thing we need is security noticing us before we even land."
Both Kim and the Doctor then activated their own jet packs. Along with Ron, they then slowly descended closer to the base. As soon as they were over the spot they wanted to land on, they turned off their jet packs and opened their parachutes.
They landed on top of a flat roof of a fairly average looking single-floored building. Of course, Kim and Ron knew that deep underground, there was a maze of corridors, rooms and research laboratories keeping hold of the government's most closely-kept secrets. It was a surprise they hadn't decide to apprehend the two teenagers from the previous time they had visited the base.
Kim located an air vent on the roof. Ron then took out his naked mole rat friend out of his pocket, and said to him, "This is where you come in, buddy."
Rufus gave Ron a salute, before scampering away into the air vent. The plan was for Rufus to locate the power source that would disable at least some of the security without it. In the meantime, Wade would hack the Area 51 database and upload the base layout to the Kimmunicator, so that Team Possible knew where they were.
They all knew Rufus wouldn't have long, as people in the base were tight with security. Even a small animal wouldn't be spared, in case it was being used by the enemy to spy on any technology and research.
Rufus also knew that fact himself, so he didn't waste time as he twisted and turned down the tunnels of the vents. Although the guards must have noticed him already through heat signatures, as something was set off far behind Rufus.
Gas. Not too much that it would seep through the openings of the air vents, but enough for animals to be knocked out cold.
Panic was set on Rufus's face, but he was determined to find an exit. He kept running as more gas was set off behind him, through small holes in the sides of the vent tunnels.
Slowly, the gas was catching up with Rufus, as if he was being chased. Eventually, he found another air vent cover, and he looked through it. For Rufus, it looked like a long drop to the floor. But it was either body ache from a belly flop onto the floor, or a gassy end for the rodent. It wasn't a hard choice.
Quickly, Rufus slipped through the air vent cover, and dropped to the floor just in time, before the gas had caught up with him.
Nothing came out from the vents now above Rufus, and no other security was set off, so surveillance must have thought they had gotten rid of their 'problem'. Rufus moaned in pain for a moment, before standing up and dusting himself off.
He took a look at his surroundings. Based on the last time he had visited this place, it looked like he was already quite a few floors down from ground level. Which meant he might find something useful.
As it happened, Rufus saw signs indicating directions to different rooms. One of them was clearly labelled 'Security', which was very convenient for the little rodent. He went off to find the room, and surprisingly found it fairly swiftly. Clearly secrecy was somehow not as much of a big deal once you went down a few levels.
Rufus crept into the room, so as not to catch the attention of the guards sitting at their desks. There were tens - possibly hundreds - of monitors turned on, looking at every inch of the floors above them.
Despite all this high-tech equipment primed to track any suspicious movement, there was one flaw with the system. It was all powered by a plug placed into a power socket in the wall. Which added to the ridiculousness of how relatively easy it had been for Rufus to break into their base of operations.
He crawled under the tables, to the wall where the plug was placed in the socket. He grabbed hold of it, and pulled as hard as he could. He eventually unplugged the power, which turned all the monitor screens off.
"Hey, the screens have just gone off, Bob!" one of the guards called out.
"I noticed!" said another. "But how?"
"Let's check the fuse boxes. We can't keep the power offline for too long", said a third guard.
With that, all three of them exited the room, and ran off to find the source of their problem. Unknown to them, it had been closer than they had realised.
Rufus knew that all he had to do was wait until Wade gave his colleagues the signal to enter the facility.
Back on the roof, Wade connected to Kim, Ron, and the Doctor through the Kimmunicator.
"Right, all security devices have been turned off. Rufus appears to be on the eighth floor, as that was where the power to the security cameras was cut out."
"Great", Kim said. "Keep working on locating where this device is."
"Will do", Wade simply responded. And then communication was turned off again.
Kim, Ron, and the Doctor found a glass panel on the roof, which Kim cut open cleanly with her lipstick laser. As soon as that was done, she jumped in first through the hole, followed by the other two.
They found a lift, which they easily entered into. What wasn't so easy was choosing the floor they wanted to get to. Or at least it would be a problem for Kim and Ron, if they didn't have the Doctor with them. He took out the same electronic stick they had seen him use on the food yesterday lunchtime, but this time pointed it against the buttons panel. Which he somehow got the lift to go down to the eighth floor.
"What is that thing?" Kim asked. "We saw you use it on the cafeteria food yesterday."
"Oh, a sonic screwdriver", the Doctor said casually.
"A sonic what-now?" Ron exclaimed.
"A sonic screwdriver. Great for analysing things, and almost perfect against any sort of material or electronic system. Except wood. It doesn't like wood."
Kim folded her arms. "Are you sure you don't also work as a government agent?" she asked.
"Kim, I might seem to be a man full of mystery, but I'm not that mysterious", said the Doctor. "Or am I?" he then added teasingly to the red-haired teenager.
"Don't make us keep asking that", Kim said.
They arrived at the eighth floor, and stepped out from the lift. Within the next second, a familiar looking rodent ran round the corridor corner, and sprinted towards the three of them.
"Rufus!" Ron called out to him. He laid down his hand, and Rufus ran onto it, being picked up by the blond-haired boy.
"Good job, pal" Ron said.
"Hehe, too easy", said Rufus proudly.
"Too easy?" Kim said. "You would have thought that they would tighten on the security since the incident with Drakken and Shego here."
"We've still got to be wary", the Doctor said. "They might be a little lacklustre, but if we're not careful, we could still be caught easily."
Wade patched through again to the Kimmunicator. "I found it, Kim", he said.
"Great!" Kim said. "Could you upload the coordinates to the base layout you gave us earlier?"
"With pleasure", Wade answered. The maps of each floor of the building then appeared on screen, and within a few seconds a bright red dot appeared on the room where they had to go.
"The twenty-second floor", Kim stated.
"We better get going then", said the Doctor.
With Rufus now back in Ron's pants pocket, they all got back into the lift, with the Doctor using his 'sonic screwdriver' on the lift panel again to take them further down underground.
They eventually arrived at the twenty-second floor. Although there were going to be some guards around, they would be expecting the security above them to do most of the work. What they hadn't counted on was Team Possible and the Doctor sneaking around.
Thankfully, the room which the device was kept in wasn't too far away anyway. All they had to do was turn left and walk down the corridor.
They crept along, keeping an eye out and listening carefully for any soldiers that might pass by. They passed without a hitch, and they arrived at the room they had been aiming for.
Once more, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver. This time on the code panel on the wall next to the entrance. As soon as he had overridden the system, the doors swished open, and they all walked into the room.
The room itself wasn't as large as some of the laboratories they had visited over the last few days. But it was big enough to store plenty of alien-looking technology.
Ron started walking around the room, almost like a little kid as he stared at each and every single device on display. Kim herself was taking in everything she saw, with clear fascination being shown.
But there was only one thing the Doctor was looking at.
A bronze-coloured, metal box.
"This is it", he said.
Kim and Ron turned their attentions to the case the Doctor was slowly walking towards to. They also noticed the sudden seriousness on his face.
"Is everything alright?" Kim asked, without really knowing what other questions to inquire the Doctor.
"I'm not sure", the Doctor simply replied. He continued to gradually move towards the box. He then began to crouch, and took out his sonic screwdriver from a pocket in his suit. He scanned the box, moving the handheld device slowly all over.
Once he had completed that, he just stared at his sonic screwdriver. Kim and Ron still didn't understand how the Doctor could 'read' anything from just a blue light, or whatever he was seeing.
The Doctor put the sonic device away again. He then slowly stretched out a hand towards the surface of the metal crate. There was silence in the room, and tension had begun to rise.
Before the Doctor could touch the metallic box, a sudden flash of light came from the other side of the room. The Doctor, Kim, and Ron all looked up to see two surprising extra guests. And they weren't Area 51 soldiers.
"Aha, we have arrived, Shego. Just as our friend promised", said an all-too familiar blue-skinned villain known to Kim and Ron. It was Doctor Drakken himself, with Shego standing alongside him. And she had her hand gripped onto a contraption strapped to his wrist.
"Drakken and Shego", Kim proclaimed.
The two villains turned their heads in the direction of Kim's voice, and suddenly realised they weren't the only people in the room.
"Did she also promise we wouldn't get caught?" Shego asked.
"She might have done", Drakken answered.
"Because there's a chance she might have failed on that one", Shego said.
"Don't tell me; you've come to steal one of these toys around us", Ron said.
"Well aren't you clever", Drakken said sarcastically. "We've specifically come to take the device inside the metal case which is in front of you."
"Not if we have a say in it", Kim declared.
"Please, enough with the 'not-this-time' cliques", Shego said.
The Doctor had said nothing up to this point. He had been constantly staring at the contraption on Drakken's left-hand wrist.
The Doctor stood up, and pointed straight at the wrist device. "Where did you get that vortex manipulator from?" he demanded.
Drakken was taken back with complete surprise. As was everyone else in the room. "Whaa…?" was the only sound Drakken made.
"Is that a vortex manipulator?" the Doctor demanded even more.
"If you must know, yes", said Drakken.
"So where did you get it?" the Doctor questioned him, in a growled tone.
"It's none of your bees wax", Drakken replied.
"Oh, I think it very much is", said the Doctor, bordering on threatening.
Drakken took a step backwards, and nervously said, "Haha, erm, well, if we could just, you know, take the contents from the metal box, and we'll be on our way…"
The Doctor didn't give him a chance to say anything more. He vaulted over the case, and charged towards Drakken, intending to take the wrist device away from him.
"SHEGO!" Drakken practically screamed. In an instant, Shego went into action, and gave a high kick to the Doctor's chin, which dropped him heavily to the ground.
"Honestly, some people are just helpless", she said, aiming her comment towards Drakken.
"Doctor!" Ron yelled. He would have ran over to make sure he was alright, if it weren't for the fact that a super-powered villainess was standing over him at that moment.
"I don't understand how the Doctor knows what that contraption is on your wrist, Drakken", Kim said. "But the one thing we would both agree on is that you're up to no good."
"Kimmie, as if he's ever done a good deed", Shego said, as she powered up her hands with her green plasma powers.
And then, like so many times in the past, Kim Possible and Shego clashed with each other. Kim took the first attack, running onto the metal box and then jumping off it to attempt a spinning kick at Shego's face. Shego managed to just duck her foot, before swinging her own punches at Kim as the teen hero landed onto the floor.
Now that Shego was out of the way, Ron ran over to where the Doctor was still lying.
"Doc, are you ok?" he asked urgently.
The Doctor gave a couple of coughs, before he replied, "Don't worry, I should be good. Where's Dr Drakken?"
"He's still standing over there", Ron said, pointing to where Drakken was. Indeed, he hadn't moved since Kim and Shego started fighting. "He probably can't get round the two ladies fighting, and doesn't want to get caught in the crossfire", Ron added.
Drakken was shifting left and right, trying to time when to make a break for the metal box. The Doctor got himself up as quickly as possible, and then called over to Drakken, "We're still not done yet, you weird blue-skinned mad man".
As Drakken started to run off, the Doctor began chasing him. Not that there were many options to run to in the current available space. All Drakken could do was sprint in circles around the battle taking place in the middle of the room.
Ron just watched on from the sidelines the scene before him. In all honesty, it seemed quite goofy to him. Which was saying a lot from a boy whose day job was to act comically, even if not deliberately.
"I guess we just wait until either Kim or the Doctor needs us", Ron said to his rodent friend.
Rufus nodded in agreement. He then took out a bag of candy from within the pocket he was residing in on Ron's pants. "Jelly baby?" he asked.
"Jelly babies?" Ron said, slightly baffled. "I knew Smarty Mart sold a lot of things, but selling British candy is new news to me. And how did you manage to fit that bag into my pocket?"
Rufus took a look into Ron's pants pocket, and then turned back to Ron. His only response was a shrug. Ron had kept many things in there in the past; why question how Rufus could fit a bag of candy into it?
Kim and Shego were still brawling with each other, while the Doctor continued to chase Drakken around the room. Shego was getting more irritated by the minute. She had been expecting a quick, easy mission. All they had to do was take the device they needed, and then exit as swiftly as they arrived. But of course, 'Kimmie' and her buffoonish sidekick had to intervene in every robbery they made.
And she didn't know who this man wearing a brown suit with spiky hair was. But if he knew what a vortex manipulator was, it didn't mean good news to her and Drakken. All the more reason to quickly sort the situation out.
Shego started to act more defensively, so she could strike Kim with a counter-attack. Kim piled on the punches, each one coming faster and harder; but Shego managed to hold her own ground. As Shego knocked back Kim's arm after one of her jabs, she saw an opening and quickly fired her plasma energy at Kim's chest.
Because of the force of the energy blast, Kim flew across the room. Shego had timed her counter-attack very well, as Kim crashed into the Doctor while he was still running after Drakken. They were both flown over to the nearby wall, and landed against it with a hard thud. They both then crumpled onto the floor.
Drakken stopped running, and turned around to see the result of Shego's attack. He hurriedly walked over to the metal box, and said, "Shego, we need to place the vortex transporter onto the crate."
"But weren't we going to open the box first and just take the device itself?" Shego asked.
"No time for that now. We need to get away before Kim Possible or anyone else gets up again."
He hadn't realised Ron was still standing, having not taken part in the fight or the chase that just happened. "Stop right there, Drakken!" he shouted, as he started to run towards the blue-skinned scientist and his sidekick.
Unfortunately, Ron was too easy to take out for Shego. She fired another plasma shot, this time at the blond-haired teenager. He flew back to his own side of the room as the energy blast hit him.
"Quick! We mustn't delay any further!" Drakken said with urgency in his voice.
Shego placed the vortex transporter onto the top of the crate, and then typed in what were presumably the coordinates of where they needed to escape to.
The Doctor had managed to pick himself up, and noticed Drakken and Shego were about to make their escape. The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver, and pointed it at the metal box as he started running towards the villainous duo.
"Dr D, now would be a good time to get going!" Shego yelled.
Buzzing came from the sonic screwdriver, and then it made a sound that seemed to indicate it had found something. Before the Doctor could reach the two burglars, Drakken set the vortex manipulator device into action. Shego grabbed onto it, before they - along with the metal case - disappeared.
The Doctor halted in his tracks. He was now staring at an empty floor. Although there was no indication in his face or body language to say he was completely disappointed by the villains' escape.
Kim - having picked herself up - ran over to Ron, and helped him stand up. "You ok, Ron?" she asked concernedly.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, KP", said Ron. "Nothing like a good bruise and a dent to your dignity", he joked light-heartedly.
Kim just smiled back, while Ron dusted himself down. They both looked to where the Doctor was still standing. Even if he didn't look visibly disappointed, there was still an air of seriousness with him.
Kim decided to start asking him questions there and then. "What was that device they were using? And what was in that crate?"
The Doctor breathed in deeply for a moment, and then replied, "I think it's time you two got home."
"Nuh-uh. You need to answer me now", Kim demanded.
"No can do tonight, Kim", said the Doctor.
"Oh come on, Doctor. You knew what teleportation device they were using when you said 'vortex manipulator'. If you don't tell us everything we need to know, we're not going to be able to stop Drakken…"
"Not tonight", said the Doctor, now in a slightly more raised, angered tone. It caused Kim to stop talking, and leaving her waiting for what the Doctor was going to say next.
"We need to make our exit from the base before the guards notice the commotion and mess we've made", said the Doctor. "I'm sure you wouldn't want to catch their attention by arguing with me."
Kim decided to say no more, and to take the Doctor's advice. Even though she was angry the Doctor wouldn't even give a reason for why he held back certain information, she could also guess there would be wounds reopened if the Doctor started explaining things to her.
The Doctor was the first one to walk over to the room's doors, with Kim and Ron following on after a moment's pause from the teens. They all exited the room, and then the doors closed behind them.