A/N: I have good news and bad news. Bad news, I don't seem to be getting a lot of reviews, but given all the follows and favorites, I'm okay with that. The good news is the number of follows and favorites. Initially, I wanted to continue on the regular episodes, but I have decided to change things a little. Following canon is fine, but in this instance, the readers know this and that's likely not creative enough for some writers. I need to branch off canon. That is, keep the episodes, but branch off from canon so that there are surprises in store. I will try my hand at that, but there are no guarantees of how well it will work. I'm on a rather strict self-deadline, so let's head into the second part of Attack of the Killer Bebes where, hopefully, there are some exciting changes. Before we begin, I'd like to answer a guest review.
Guest: It's not Drakken, thankfully. It's some unnamed OC, whose role I haven't given much thought to.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kim Possible. I only own the Plot and the OCs, one of which made her only appearance in the prologue.
Note: All parts like [Censored] have been replaced with [Giant monkey!] for the Ron effect.
Kim Possible entered Middleton High that morning with the discernment that Ron would not like the news she was about to share. He looked as if he really enjoyed it out there and Kim could only imagine events not going well once Ron learned the natural unanimity the cheer squad felt about his extra-curricular activity. Ron was at his locker, as was Andrew.
"So what's the verdict?" Ron inquired as he opened his locker to reveal his 'collectibles'.
Kim took a deep breath. In situations where you could hurt someone's feelings, it was best to rip off the band-aid. "It's a no."
"Well, that's one person's opinion!" Ron snapped as he slammed his locker shut.
"One entire cheer squad's opinion," Kim countered. "Ron is the Middleton Mad Dog mascot and he has a routine," she clarified at Andrew's curious look.
"Ron? Cheerleading? I don't see it," Andrew confessed.
"Well, you and your squad don't get it," Ron argued as he pulled the Mad Dog face mask off the ground and thrust it towards Kim.
Kim shoved the mask back, stating that Ron was the one who didn't get it. In reply, Ron knelt down and donned on a Kim Possible face mask, stating that Kim Possible could do anything, except believe in his best friend. Rufus popped out from Ron's pants pocket and blew a raspberry.
Relief flooded Kim's face as the Kimmunicator released its familiar tone and she grabbed it, thankful for the distraction. As per usual, Wade sat at his cubicle drinking what was most likely soda. She wished the guy would leave his room. It was unhealthy for his age. "Go, Wade."
"We've got a weird one," he began.
Kim glanced at her best friend and couldn't help but respond, "Tell me about it."
It was unclear if he heard the sarcasm in her voice or not, but Wade continued, "Professor Ramesh from the Mount Middleton Observatory wants your help."
"Ramesh…Ramesh…" Kim snapped her fingers as she remembered her conversation with Dad last night and how he, Ramesh, and Chen laughed in this Drew guy's face. She also recalled a period a week or so ago where her Dad mentioned Ramesh dying their hair. "He's one of my dad's friends."
"Ramesh's partner, Professor Chen, is missing."
A rescue mission. Should be easy enough. "Okay, Wade. Set up a ride; I'll bring the Man of a Thousand Faces." Kim looked to Ron as she said this.
"No thanks. I'll fly solo," Ron declared with narrowed eyes. "I'll be late, mind you, but I'll be there." He knelt down and grabbed his backpack with one hand while he flung the Kim Possible face mask to Kim. Ron then left. Andrew, however, stayed behind.
"Well, that wasn't creepy at all," Kim mumbled, opening her locker and stuffing the mask in there and slamming it shut. "Dinner is going to be the day after tomorrow at eight-thirty, if that's okay with you."
"Oh. That seems a bit late. Can we do six or six-thirty?" Andrew inquired. "Sleep is important."
Kim glanced at Andrew in surprise. What kind of person wanted to eat dinner at six or six-thirty instead of around eight? The teenage heroine informed Andrew that her cheer practice ended around 7:00 and that she would see Andrew in class. As Andrew turned to leave, he suddenly turned to Kim and asked if the school had a tennis club.
"No, but I can fill you in on the extra-curriculars at dinner. That is, unless you want to talk to any of the jocks," Kim offered. Andrew thanked her and headed to class. In the meantime, Kim wearily closed her eyes and banged her head against the locker as she thought over her situation with Ron and his dream. It would seem as if Ron was still stuck up on Kim not supporting his mascot antics and was now doing his best to make her life difficult. "Nice going, Possible."
Right after school, Kim postponed her cheer practice until seven that night, changed back into her mission clothes, and headed outside afterward where the news reporter, Dallas, greeted her in the helicopter. The flight over to Mount Middleton Observatory took about thirty minutes, most of which was due to the fact of Dallas reporting the weather, not that Kim minded that much. She thanked Dallas as she exited the helicopter and then brought out her Kimmunicator on a whim to check on Ron.
To her frustration, Kim didn't receive any sort of reply from Ron. She knew that her best friend was flying solo and had hoped that Ron would be there when Kim arrived at the observatory. However, it seemed as if this fight with Ron might have cost Kim her sidekick.
Footsteps approached her and Kim whirled around in a fighting stance in case there was an attacker. To her confusion, it was Andrew, and Kim succinctly remembered not inviting him. "Andrew, what are you – ?"
An explosion from inside the observation room cut off any reply. With Ron MIA and imminent danger inside, Kim harrumphed and started the dash into the Middleton Observatory. She turned her head and saw that Andrew already running to the scene alongside her. Kim wasn't pleased that someone she barely knew was on a mission but knew that some backup was better than no backup, even if Kim thought she could handle the situation herself.
The sight that greeted her was one of the weirder ones that Kim had been witness to. She could only imagine that for Andrew who was seeing this for the first time that he had no clue what was going on. Heck, Kim went on missions like these all the time and she didn't know what was going on.
Professor Ramesh stood near the back of a room next to a gigantic telescope. Three female robots were encircling the frightened scientist with the intent on capturing him. As Kim knew Professor Ramesh was a scientist, she suspected that someone needed to 'borrow' Ramesh for science purposes.
"I am Bebe," one of the robots spoke. Two other robots echoed the first one.
"Is that an echo I hear?" Kim asked with her arms crossed on her hips in a displeasing manner.
All three of the robots looked to the newcomers and appeared to zoom in on them. The robots were dressed up for a reason that Kim could not understand. All three robots shared some sort of black headband helped to cover part of their hair. Apart from the robotic part, they would likely pass for human. The lipstick on the robots was a bit much.
"Analysis Subject: Kim Possible. Threat: minimal. Analysis Subject: Unknown. Threat Level: Unquantifiable. Begin fighter analysis to determine the user's threat level."
"Oh [Giant Monkey]," Andrew stated as one of the robots vibrated forward and shot towards him like a cannon. Somehow, he rolled out of the way.
While Andrew did his best to handle the Bebe, Kim charged forward. She hated the idea of leaving someone she didn't know forced to fight on one of her missions, but Kim had no choice, not while there were two more attackers to deal with. Kim backflipped through the air a couple of times, jumped up onto the platform and prepared to deliver a kick right to the Bebe's face.
The Bebe didn't show much of a reaction as she/it caught Kim's foot in midair and threw her in the direction of the telescope. With precision that resulted from years of flexibility, Kim rotated her body in midair, managed to grab the focus knob, and jumped back to the ground in a fighting stance. "Not bad," she praised.
The remaining two Bebes – the third off facing Andrew – raised their arms and in unison said, "Bebe is perfect." Their robotic hands extended towards Kim but Kim expertly avoided the lethal...weapons. Instead, the robot hands smashed into the control panel, which sent sparks flying around in a daze. Kim grabbed a nearby chair and wheeled over to Ramesh right as one of the Bebe's robotic hands impacted the spot Kim had been seconds ago. She managed to get Ramesh to safety.
The two Bebes vibrated their bodies and sped forward. Kim managed to grab Ramesh's hand and started her way towards the door. She had barely made it forward when the two robots passed them both, one jumping on the wall and the other crawling like a robot. The Bebes, as the robots called themselves, were enemies that Kim had never faced before. Everything about the situation screamed weird. Obviously, they were advanced robots, but…
"What are they?" Kim found herself asking. Also, where was Ron? Ron had informed Kim that he would be late, but not to show up at all for the fight did not make sense to Kim. Where was Ron?
Ron arrived just then on his bike, out of breath, and evidently out of shape. Kim knew that her best friend was totally unprepared for the fight. Ron was the distraction, not the fighter, even if he did manage to stop Senior Senior Junior. As it was, as soon as one of the Bebes approached him, Ron fainted. Concerned, Kim stepped forward and called out his name. No sooner did Kim take that first step did the Bebes grab Professor Ramesh and speed off.
Kim stepped forward and glared at her best friend as Ron shook himself awake. Andrew approached Kim and Ron, looking a little worse for wear with a few bruises on his face and arms and a bloody lip that was already starting to heal. "You don't look that bad, Andrew," Kim noted. "Thanks a lot, Ron. They got away!"
To Kim's surprise, Ron laughed at her retort and stepped forward, accidentally breaking something in the process. "From the looks of things, you didn't even have the situation under control. You were totally scared out of your mind!"
"If you had been here on time, then maybe things would be different," Kim retorted.
Andrew admitted to Kim that that situation was unlikely, as the Bebes had super speed. Kim growled but did not argue against the logical point. Turning to her best friend, Kim confessed that they now had two missing scientists and three Killer Bebes to deal with. Turning to Andrew, Kim told him to help search the building for clues. She did not see Ron creep out of the observatory with a shattered picture frame in his hands.
Much to Kim's frustration, the search turned up empty. There was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Turning to Ron's friend that had assisted on the mission, Kim informed Andrew she needed to get to cheer practice and that she would give him a lift home.
Andrew waved the offer off as he walked with Kim to the front exit. "Just drop me off at the high school. Chances are that my folks aren't home anyway."
"Okay then. Late jobs?" Kim inquired as she pulled out her Kimmunicator to ask for a ride back.
"Truthfully, they don't tell me about it."
With that answer, Kim got a good idea as to what Andrew's parent's professions consisted of. After talking to Wade, the tech guru told Kim her ride would be there within five to ten minutes. Dallas ended up being their ride back to the high school.
The two of them ended up at the Middleton gym a few minutes before seven. Kim changed into her uniform and headed out to meet the team while Andrew went to his locker, pulled out a beefy textbook, and headed into the gym to study during practice. And maybe to watch some of the practice.
About an hour and fifteen minutes into the practice, right after Kim threw her pom poms up in the air and caught them while doing a splits, the door to the gym burst open and Mr. Dr. Possible announced, "Kimberly Ann Possible!"
"Dad? Here?" Kim stood up and raised her pom poms to her neck unconsciously.
Kim ignored Bonnie's barb as she tossed her pom poms in the air and crossed the distance to her dad. "Daddy, hi! What are you doing here?"
Kim's dad evidently ignored the greeting and went straight into the reason for his visit. "Where's Ronald?" he demanded.
"Not here," Kim stated as she gestured to the cheer squad off in the distance, Bonnie tapping her foot in annoyance.
"Well," Mr. Dr. Possible rubbed the back of his neck briefly before he continued, "That hole in the roof of my car really grinds my beans."
"Well, I'll be sure he gets the message." Kim paused as her dad's words registered. "Wait a second. Ron put a hole in your car roof?"
"He came over to my house, said something about a mission," Kim's dad explained.
Kim knitted her eyebrows as she tried to recall there being a mission of some sort. She came up empty. On the other hand, Andrew seemed to know about this so-called mission. He surmised that Ron must have found a clue at the observatory and not told them. Why, he didn't know. Kim sighed, not liking the direction this was going. It seemed as if Kim now had to deal with two missing scientists, a missing best friend, and three Killer Bebes. Great. Just great.
"Well, I guess we have to go get him," Kim mused. The red-haired cheerleader turned to her cheer squad and told them that practice was over for the night.
"I'm going with," Andrew informed Kim and Mr. Dr. Possible. Kim opened her mouth to argue, but Andrew cut her off. "I can spend the night with Ron."
Kim decided against arguing with Andrew, as each moment Ron was missing was another moment that Andrew no longer had a home to get to. The teenage cheerleader growled before relenting and telling Andrew to follow her and Dad.
Ron Stoppable glanced around in his prison alongside Professor Chen and Professor Ramesh. Getting captured by Drakken was not that bothersome to him anymore, even if the mad scientist could never remember his name. Besides, Ron had to maintain the timeline, even if Andrew Lipsky decided to go in and wreck things. Oh well. What's done was done, even if Ron didn't mean for it to happen.
Part of Ron knew that Andrew viewed Kim Possible as a role model and someone Drakken evidently admired before Kim's insanity unfolded. It was no surprise, really, seeing as how the entire school viewed Kim as a role model as well. The reason Ron went on the mission was to force Kim and Andrew to spend time together. He reasoned that if Kim knew the best parts about herself, she would be less likely to let her jealousy consume her. Plus, Andrew and Kim wouldn't look like that bad of a couple, even if it would scare the living [Giant Monkey!] out of Drakken and Shego. I mean, red hair and blue hair? It mixed.
Professor Ramesh was inquiring who might be behind this. Professor Chen thought it was obvious. Someone needed their help to take over the world.
Drakken chose at that moment to step out of the shadows. "Gentlemen, don't flatter yourself. There's only one genius in this room. And it is I, Dr. Drakken!" the mad genius boasted.
Ramesh and Chen stared at the mad scientist in disbelief as they called him 'Drew Lipsky'. Ron realized this would be a good time to interrupt and tore off his disguise, shocking the two scientists and the mad scientist. "No, he is Dr. Drakken and he is in for a world of hurt!" Ron threw the disguise at Drakken's face as watched as the scientist's face fell.
"So Kim Possible is here," he mused.
"Oh, yes!" Ron exclaimed, earning a grin from the two scientists trapped inside with him. "Actually, no, not yet." The smiles on the two captured scientists fell, which in turn, caused Drakken to smile.
"Well then, no matters. Once she gets here, she'll be no match for my Bebes!" Drakken gloated. He then realized the disguise in his hand and his smile fell from his face. The scientist stormed up to the Bebes and, as he paced back and forth, he began, "You know, I purposefully programmed you with a pinch of human emotions just so you could be ashamed of failures like this one." The blue-skinned scientist held up the mask for the Bebes to examine. "It's slipshot is what it is."
"Slipshot?" Naturally, the robots didn't understand.
"That's right missy, and I deserve better. Especially from my robotic lackeys!" Drakken exploded.
The Bebes knew what that term meant as they all turned Drakken with raised arms ready to pummel him. Drakken realized that was the wrong thing to say, so he instructed the Bebes to hunt down the real Dr. Possible. Once the robots left, Ron decided to throw Drakken a bone and asked why he was after Kim's dad anyways.
"Wait, you mean Dr. Possible and Kim Possible are related?" Drakken questioned as he held up the mask.
"You really are dense," Ron commented as the two professors beside him shook their head in stunned disbelief.
"Zip it," Drakken ordered. "Possible is a very common last name."
"So is Lipsky," Ron countered.
Drakken grumbled before he stormed out of the room to look for the phonebook, too stubborn to admit he was wrong. Ron stayed put, as he knew that Kim was about a minute away from arriving. Once Drakken came back, he would undoubtedly notice the teenager with blue hair next to the Possible family. Having run through different scenarios in his mind, Ron had calculated there being a below-average chance that Andrew would reveal one of his powers. However, he could always hope.
Professor Ramesh and Chen turned to the doors as they opened and the lights flicked on. Ron Stoppable hardly held in the grin that threatened to break loose as he saw that things were unfolding similar to the way they were in the old timeline. Ron knew that the Bebes would return soon as well, and when they did, the game was on.
A/N: Next chapter, Andrew meets his dad for the first time in a long time, Kim takes on the Killer Bebe robots and Ron and Andrew talk about their past. I may as well tell you where I am going after the next chapter because it's going to take a while to write; I deal with three different points of view, each with a prolix amount of detail. First time I've ever used the word prolix. My self-deadline for the last chapter of Killer Bebes is June 16. Although, if I finish it before that date, I'm updating it early. After that, I will likely be on a hiatus as I write the massive chapter.
Until next time, readers.
