Chapter 20 - The Robbery - Part I
(10:02pm)
Kim was already in her room sitting on her bed. She was in her standard pajamas: a purple croptop with a heart on it and purple pajama bottoms.
James came up the stairs and asked, "Are you all ready for the trip tomorrow?"
"Dad, you know that I am totally amped for it!" Kim exclaimed, "Monique was a great assist on the scheduling overalls thing!"
"Remember, Kimmie-cub, be awake by 5:30am!" James ordered her.
Kim grabbed her alarm clock and set it for that 5:30am time.
"I got that sitch taken care of!" she exclaimed.
"Okay..." James smiled before turning out the lights, "Good night, Kimberly. I'll see you fresh in the morning."
"Good night, Dad!" Kim replied as her father went down the stairs.
Kim closed her eyes and went to bed.
"Hopefully...nothing will interrupt my journey to Dreamland tonight!"
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(11:09pm)
The familiar four-beep tone of the Kimmunicator began to ring.
Kim groggily muttered, opening her eyes.
"Ugh...who could it be at this time of night...?"
She turned on the Kimmunicator as Wade came on.
"Uhh...Wade? What's the sitch? It's kinda late here and I have the trip thing to Utah tomorrow."
"Sorry to disturb you at this late hour, Kim, but you got a hit on the site from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico!" Wade said as he pulled up a map of the state.
"New Mexico? That is so secret lab country!" Kim replied. She has had a few missions over there before.
"All it said in the hit is that one of their top-secret projects is the target of being stolen tonight!" Wade exclaimed.
Kim sighed and asked, "Why can't people just hit my site earlier in the day?"
"I guess they didn't get the report until just now." Wade guessed. "I'll beep in Ron and wake him up."
"Please and thank you!" Kim exclaimed.
She got up from her bed and took out her mission uniform from the closet.
(5 minutes later)
Kim, now in the mission uniform, tapped on the door to her parents' bedroom.
"Mom, Dad, I'm going on a mission." she said.
James yawned, still with his eyes closed. "OK, Kimmie-cub...tap on the door once you get back."
"And do be careful out there..." Ann added.
"Gotcha!" Kim understood and then closed the door.
(10 minutes later)
Kim was on her scooter in front of the Stoppable house. She had her helmet on and had a spare one for her boyfriend as well.
"Ron, hurry up! We're pressed for time here!" the redhead insisted.
"I'm coming right down, KP!" Ron exclaimed. He appeared at the front door with his mission cargo pants...and his fire truck pajama shirt.
"Ron..." Kim sighed, "...really? The villains are so going to laugh at that!"
"Aw, come on! These are my Blarely McRed fire truck pajamas that I've had since I was 8!" Ron complained.
Rufus also did a facepaw to his face, expessing his frustration.
"Ron...your usual shirt, please." Kim groaned.
"No prob, KP! I'm on it!" Ron replied as he rushed back into the house. A couple minutes later, he grabbed his usual black mission shirt.
"Alright, I'm ready!" he exclaimed, putting on the extra helmet that was set for him by his girlfriend.
Kim then looked at the time on her Kimmunicator "Our ride should be here right about..."
A Global Justice hoverjet then hovered about 200 feet above them.
"...now!" Kim said.
She took her scooter aboard the hoverjet as Ron followed her behind.
(40 minutes later)
The hoverjet was approaching the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Colonel Jinn, a female pilot, was piloting the craft.
"Thanks for the lift, Col. Jinn!" Kim said, thanking the pilot.
"It's the least I can do, Miss Possible, after you saved two of our top agents from Gemini's trap last year!" Jinn replied on a previous GJ mission teamup with Kim.
"Oh the deathtrap with the laser sharks, piranah, and deadly blades with fire on them was so not the drama!" Kim replied.
Not unlike Will Du, though.
"We are coming up on the lab." Jinn said while she was flipping the controls. "We also have an incoming transmission from the head scientist."
"Can you put her on screen?" Kim asked.
"Sure thing!" Jinn replied while pressing a button.
The lead scientist, Dr. Edith Holman, came on the screen. She was in her mid 40s and had glasses on.
"Ah, Miss Possible." Holman said, "I'm sorry to put a hit on your site at this time of night. We only received the intel about an hour ago."
"Family vacation ish. We're gonna go out of town tomorrow morning." Kim explained.
"I remember when I had my family vacation." Holman recalled, "Went to Cali and everything."
"Did it turn out well?" Kim asked.
"Yeah, we came back with only two flat tires and a missing door!" Holman exclaimed.
She then cleared her throat.
"Onto more pressing matters, Miss Possible. Someone is trying to steal the locator device for Project Phoenix. We'll explain more once the Global Justice hoverjet is given the all-clear to land." Holman said, being more serious about the matter at land.
The hoverjet was then given clearance by the base commander to land at a helipad right near the lab.
(11:44pm)
Back in Middleton, Genna and Richard was near the Possible house. They had parked their car about 1500 feet from the house. Luckily for the two, the sound of the motor did not wake up the Possible parents.
"Richie, are you sure this is the right place?" Genna asked in a whisper.
"Bonnie told me the exact description of the house and I have been here before, Gen, so yes, I do believe this is the correct house." Richard replied with an annoyed look, "And stop calling me Richie. Only my mom can call me that!"
"Whatevs. Let's just put the tracker on their trailer!" Genna insisted.
She spotted the Platypus parked in the driveway with its trailer right in the grass.
"That must be the one!" Richard replied as he and his girlfriend approached the trailer.
"Duh, it's the only one out." Genna whispered. "Now get on the grass and put it on!"
Richard obliged and got his back onto the grass. He put the tracker on the undercarriage of the trailer. It gave a small glowing light to give a signal that it has been activated.
"I got it on!" Richard said in a low voice.
"Good, now let's get out of here before the Possibles wake up!" Genna insisted.
The two graduates of Middleton High left the Possible house in their car, with the tracker in place to follow the Possible family's every move.