Once again, big thanks to Bitter Sweet Teller for helping me out.
The next day...
Tony was pounding on a piece of iron. It was the final piece for his suit to complete his, Kim, and Yinsen's escape plan. After about three months in captivity, it was time to put their ultimate escape plan into action. Yinsen was working late at night on putting finishing touches on the wires and circuity while Kim was asleep in her bed.
Meanwhile, Tony was sweaty from the fire over the iron. It was keeping him hot. He put it in the smelting pot for a few good seconds after he finished pounding the iron. He then took it out and revealed it to Yinsen. It was a mask, thus completing the entire suit. They were now ready to escape.
Tony then approached Kim's bed and gently awaken her.
"Hey there, sleeping beauty. Rise and shine." Tony said with a smirk. Kim smiled with her eyes closed. As she opened her eyes, she giggled. She held up her face some while still lying on her side on the bed. "Come on Kim. It's time to escape. You ready?"
"You know it!" Kim said cheerfully. Then, she remembered that she still had on the same yellow shirt with blue star and blue pants when she gotten captured. She was a little teary eyed. But, she held back some sobs threatening to push their way out of her throat. She smelled her armpits. She almost gagged with disgust at the sheer stench. She hasn't had a shower in three months. "Ugh! I'm gross! That is the first thing I wanna do when we get out of here? Take a nice hot shower in my house again."
Tony faintly chuckled at that. He held up his nose and smirked. Kim playfully punched him. Tony just faintly chuckled again.
"Really? Because that's pretty much the last thing I'm gonna do." Tony said. Then, he put his finger out in the air. "Oh. That reminds me. I made you something. It should complete our phase 3." He then tossed what appeared to be the Kimmunicator to her. "Merry Late Christmas Out of Hell."
Kim faintly laughed at that. She managed to just as quickly catch the Kimmunicator like device in the air. Then, Kim brought it a little closer to look at it. She smiled at what Tony made her. It did have some elements of the Kimmunicator, thanks to a few intact pieces. The rest very likely came from pieces of Tony's broken cell phone. But Kim liked the thought that Tony put into it anyway.
"I salvaged all that I could. A little ingenious improvisation. Luckily, there was one piece inside that thing still intact. The microchip that allows you to communicate with people and knows your location. Once we get out of here, just press the home button and we should get rescued." Tony figured.
Kim was almost to tears at Tony's kindness. After three months living in a captivity nightmare, she was going home to see her friends and family. Then, tears fell for a whole other reason.
"Actually...there's something you should know." Kim whispered. She sniffled hard. She gulped very nervously.
"What's wrong, Kim?" Tony whispered.
"Those...those are separate microchips. I...I don't even want to know what the terrorists did to the one inside me. But...Wade microchipped me and Ron in case something like this happened." Kim nervously recalled. She shivered quite a bit at the very thought of it. The last broken glass piece of her living nightmares...and blacking out over it. A hot tong over where the microchip in Kim would be. Some things were best left not remembered.
Tony sighed heavily into his hand.
"That's cold even for me. You really got to work on team building seminars." Tony muttered under his breath.
"Thanks Tony. Big help." Kim sarcastically said.
"I am, you know." Tony commented.
He faintly smirked.
"Kind of hate to admit it right now. But... You're right. Thank you for mostly being helpful tonight." Kim admitted.
They briefly smiled to each other.
"You're welcome." Tony sincerely added.
Then, Kim was putting on a determined face. She knew full well it was time for the plan.
"Alright. Let's go." Kim said.
Tony began by wrapping his hands in white tape. Yinsen set up the harness for Tony's polished gray metallic armored suit. Kim gathered some of the weapons they made themselves. Two of the weapons were a pair of crude metallic grappling hooks made from scrapped parts and cable wire. But, Kim was deeply hoping she wouldn't have to use the jagged ends to hurt someone.
Tony had Yinsen help him put on the inner suit. Then gloves. And then finally, the head scarf like insulation. The insulation was to make sure Tony was kept moderately warm inside the armored suit. Yinsen and Kim then helped Tony into the armor.
"Okay? Can you move?" Yinsen asked.
Tony responded by kind of quickly moving his gloved hands.
"Okay. Both of you say it again." Tony said.
"41 steps straight ahead. Then 16 steps..." Yinsen and Kim started to quietly recite the planned steps to escape out of the cave.
"...that's from the door, fork right, 33 steps, turn right." Tony, Yinsen, and Kim finished reciting the steps.
It was almost in unison.
All the while, Yinsen began to put the weapons into the armor. Kim kept her eyes and ears out to make sure that the terrorists or Shego didn't catch wind of their escape.
Meanwhile...
Shego came into the monitor room to check on the progress. After greeting the other terrorists, she saw that neither Kim nor Tony were on the monitors.
"Where is Mister Stark and Kim Possible?!" Shego tensely asked in Arabic. Her hand was already glowing.
One of the terrorists hurried over to take a look at the monitors.
"They...they were here a moment ago!" The terrorist said in who knows what language. He sounded shook when he didn't see Tony or Kim.
"I don't care what they're doing! Shoot them on sight. But, bring them alive. Now! Or, else." Shego threatened in Arabic. She gave a menacing glare.
With that, four terrorists ran to the workstation/cell with guns in tow.
The fifth one around was about to come too. But, Shego grabbed him by the neck.
"You! Stay here." Shego told the terrorist. He didn't argue. He just hurried over to the monitors.
Shego stormed out, with both her hands glowing by her side. Just then, Raza came into the monitor room.
"Hey boss...apparently not only did we get screwed over. But...but, I think that Kim Possible and Stark are escaping." The terrorist shakily informed him.
Raza then looked at the monitors to find Yinsen assembling something. And...it clearly was not the Jericho missile. Raza cries out inaudibly in rage.
The four terrorists then approached the door. They opened the peephole.
"Yinsen! Possible! Stark!" One of the terrorists yelled in English. Then, he began to shout in Hungarian. It was unfortunately a language that Yinsen did not know well enough. Tony, Kim, and Yinsen heard them and froze with terror, knowing they were about to get caught.
"Quick! Say something. Say something back to him." Tony whispered.
Suddenly, full realization was hitting Kim. She gulped very nervously. Being out of action for so long, and it was already biting back at her.
"Tony...!" Kim whispered loudly.
"What?!" Tony whispered loudly.
"He's speaking Hungarian. I don't...!" Yinsen was trying to say.
"Then speak Hungari..." Tony was cutting him off with words.
"You don't understand." Kim said. She deeply sighed. "I know Shego. She...is smarter than most villains in the world. She already knows."
"Well, shit!" Tony muttered under his breath. He clenched his fists.
"Okay. But...I'll try anyway. Might buy some time." Yinsen said. He smirked a little.
Tony and Kim faintly shrug in a why not kind of way. Yinsen shouted a word in Hungarian. But, that didn't stop the terrorists from yelling. The terrorists were continuing to try to take down the door without pause.
Shego finally was coming toward Tony, Kim, and Yinsen from a back tunnel. She laughed hard some to herself while Yinsen was trying to stop the terrorists. Shego would have come out sooner if it wasn't for her own demented self amusement.
What the terrorists didn't know was on the door there was a black device hooked up to a jar that blended well in the shadows. The terrorists began to force open the door when it exploded! The device was then fully revealed to be a magnetic door bomb. Kim and Tony had designed that in case they caught up to their plans.
"It worked. But now we're gonna have more...company." Kim nervously said.
"Hey Kimmie. That suit is cute. But, I still want you to go down princess!" Shego called out.
At the same time, she blasted right at Kim. Kim used both of her crude grappling hooks to fire up into the cave ceiling. At the same time, she jump side flipped out of the way.
In the monitor room, Raza and the rest of the terrorists witnessed the explosion. One of the monitors went black.
"We lost visual!" One of the terrorist yelled in who knows what language.
Raza began to shout vile language in Arabic. He waved his arms out by his side some with clenched fists.
Back in the workshop/cell...
"Keep working on the suit! I'm taking the fight to Shego on my own." Kim called out.
Shego laughed hard some, clutching her side.
"You? Kim Possible, you don't stand a chance against...!" Shego called out. Just then, Kim was swinging hard as she could from both cables from the grappling hooks...right into Shego. "Ahh!"
Both cables from the crude grappling hooks snapped off from the ceiling. Kim went flying and tumbling across a back tunnel from the sudden drop in momentum. Shego went flying even harder into a cave wall. Dust and a bunch of rocks caved in over her.
Meanwhile, Yinsen quickly finished assembling the suit. But, Raza and more of the terrorists began to run towards Tony, Kim, and Yinsen's cell with the intent to kill them.
Kim groaned hard. Her body was violently shaking some. There were plenty of new little scrapes and cuts over her arms from rocky cave ground.
"You need some help?" Yinsen and Tony almost called back in unison.
"No. I'll...I'm okay enough to keep going." Kim determinedly insisted. She somewhat shakily walked back to Tony, Yinsen, and the suit. But, she was still standing.
Tony smirked wide. He was clearly impressed.
"Great work, kid. But...how'd that work?" Tony somewhat nervously asked. He was pointing over some to the wreckage of the door.
"Oh, my...goodness." Kim very nervously said. She was sick to the stomach at seeing the bodies of the four dead terrorists. She looked like she was about to throw up.
"It worked all right." Yinsen simply said.
"That's what we do. Do what we have to." Tony uncomfortably said. He turned to Kim on the last part.
Tears were falling from her face. She was sobbing. But, before Tony could say something... Kim very faintly nodded without looking up.
"I...I know." Kim murmured under her breath.
Tony put his hands up in front of himself for a bit. He let out a very mixed sigh of relief.
"You...you know how to work a computer? Right?" Tony suggested. Kim kind of quickly nodded. She was kind of quickly looking up too. "Good. Initialize the power sequence. I'll talk you through it."
Kim shakily walked over to the computer while Yinsen screwed the final bolts on Tony's armor. Kim was shaky inside and out as she leaned against the computer monitor's edges. She let out some violent groans and sobs. She let more tears fall from her face. "You okay, kid?" His voice was even cracking.
"I will be! Just...just hurry." Kim insisted.
"Okay, okay! For starters... Press F11." Tony very nervously said. Kim did just that. "Tell me when you see a progress bar."
Kim saw the program beginning to boot up...and the progress bar that followed.
"Yes! I see it!" Kim practically yelled. She so much wanted to just escape from the dead bodies, the stench in her armpits, the guns of the terrorists, everything that'll be left behind in the cave.
"Press Control, I, and Enter!" Tony ordered. Kim did just that. She paused a little in between with violent groans. She wanted make sure her shaky hands didn't press the wrong keyboard buttons or that she didn't press the wrong key from her arm hitting it while clutching a stinging part of her body. Kim nearly hit a few wrong keys. But, she still muddled through. "Okay! Come over and button me up."
With that, Kim made her way back to Tony and Yinsen to finish the suit. All the terrorists were now running to the cell. Even Kim, Tony and Yinsen could hear it. Raza held off on coming just yet until he realized he couldn't see Shego on any monitor. He's now fully realized just Shego's planning isn't going to be enough.
"Get every other hex bolt. Nothing pretty...just get it done." Tony told Yinsen.
"But..." Yinsen started to argue. He sounded somewhat shaky.
"We already have more time than I thought. Just hurry!" Kim warned. She sniffled hard. She and Yinsen finished buttoning up the suit.
"Okay. Once it's done loading, I think we'll be ready." Yinsen relented. He looked at the screen. He saw it was moving a little slow.
It was only at 30 percent. And all the while, the terrorists moved closer.
"We could use my..." Kim started to offer. She was holding the cobbled together Kimmunicator out with a light hand.
"No! We need it at full power to get rescued." Tony pointed out.
"Sorry." Kim very nervously murmured. She was looking down as she did.
"Look. Try to cheer up. We're getting out of here." Tony reminded her.
"I am trying. It's hard. But...I am." Kim said. She was now faintly smirking past her teary eyed.
"Good. Make sure all the checkpoints are clear well enough before you both follow me out." Tony instructed.
"We need more time." Yinsen realized. He knew that if Kim and Tony were going to escape, he needed to do something drastic in order to draw the terrorists away from the cell. He gulped very nervously. He had hoped it wasn't so. But, in the back of his mind, he knew it was. It's why he almost argued about finishing the suit. Yinsen then turned to both Kim and Tony. "I'm gonna go buy you two some time."
Kim gasped as she knew what Yinsen was planning to do.
"Wait! Please! You can't!" Kim pleaded.
"That's right! We gotta stick to the plan!" Tony yelled. But, Yinsen was already picking up one of the weapons from the corpse of one of the dead terrorists. He began to fire it at the door wreckage as he ran out of the cell.
"Stick to the plan! Yinsen!" Kim and Tony pleaded. But, Yinsen was soon gone. Tony almost broke down sobbing. But, Kim put a comforting hand on his.
"I...I know. You don't think I do too? But...but, we can't. Or, all of this... It will be for nothing." Kim grimly pointed out. There was a chilling silence. Some more tears and hard sniffles followed.
A whole half minute passed. Then, Tony and Kim focused on the progress bar. It was moving faster, with the progress now at 50 percent. Soon, escape will be possible.
But, around the time of the current progress, there was a bright green glow that blasted through the last big rocks of a pile up of rocks. It came from a all too certain back tunnel. And, there was a loud argh.
More terrorists were charging towards Kim and Tony's location, only to be chased back by the gun wielding Yinsen, who was now shooting and shouting like crazy. He got as far as the entrance, only to stop at the sound of guns being loaded. He was surrounded by more terrorists, including Raza.
Back in their cell, the progress bar amazingly sped up for the final stretch. It finally reached 100 percent.
"Yes! It's ready!" Kim shouted triumphantly.
With that note, all the lights in the cave suddenly went dark. Kim got herself a pair of night vision goggles. She also got a flamer thrower for later.
Very soon after, more terrorists entered the cell and saw the dead terrorists' bodies. They were slowly and cautiously making their way around. They couldn't find Kim or Tony anywhere.
Then, one of the terrorist turned his head, only to be knocked away by Tony's suit. As soon as the terrorists saw that, they then started shooting to hit anything within their path.
After a few good seconds, they ran out of ammo. One of the terrorists spoke something in Arabic, only to be knocked away by Tony.
Kim then judo flipped another terrorist into a third one. All three terrorists groaned hard. Two of them were cursing in French and Latin.
Kim was in the middle of running charge for more of the terrorists. But, that's when she was tackled by Shego. They tumbled violently some against the cave floor. They exchanged fists as they tumbled.
But, Shego soon was pinning Kim down. Kim groaned violently against the cave floor. She tried hard to put the pain in the back of her mind. But, a tear fell from the sheer pain in her backside.
"You know, after all the times you've gotten on my nerves, I'm just going to kill you. But, I just have to know, any last words, Princess?" Shego asked.
She was evilly smirking. Shego had her hands glowing.
Just then, the sound of metal crunching and heavy footsteps echoed throughout the cave. Kim smirked to herself.
"Well, if I were you, Shego, I would focus on what's going to get you beat now," Kim shot back.
"Wha...?!" Shego started to ask.
She was quickly turning her head, only to be knocked away from Kim and knocked out cold.
"Nice timing, Tony," Kim added.
Kim got up.
"Thanks, Kim. But, this is how you relax?!" Tony called out.
Kim chuckled some. Kim was wearing a bulletproof vest.
She and Tony put together a bulletproof helmet out of some of the discarded iron for the battlesuit. It was wedged under a big rock for this day and kind of easily blended in with the cave side. Kim then grabbed her flamethrower.
"Ohh... Sometimes. It's good to be back to being myself again," Kim kind of all too casually said.
Tony kept moving, who had clearly been controlling the suit of iron this whole time. Tony chuckled hard a little at Kim's comment.
The last of the three terrorists started shooting, only to be knocked away by Tony and Kim. More terrorists saw Tony's suit and Kim. They began to shoot.
But, the shots just harmlessly ricocheted off. Tony's suit was bulletproof. So was Kim's vest. The effort of the terrorists was worthless. Tony and Kim kept charging.
They kind of easily knocked two terrorists out before they could try to fire. Kim then kicked a terrorist in the gut. That practically earned a thumbs up from Tony. Kim smirked back.
The Ten Rings members then began to run away. This was with one of their comrades still shooting. They then shut the door, hoping to trap them. They trapped their comrade as well. He screamed for help as Tony and Kim menacingly approached him in the dark.
Suddenly, his screaming stopped. The other terrorists looked shook. But they tried to remain calm.
But, Tony began to knock the metal door down. All the terrorists' calm went out the cave door. They got scared enough to just run away and not look back.
Tony finally knocked down the door, knocking out two of the running away terrorists in the process. Kim then saw some terrorists trying to sneak attack Tony from behind. Kim ran around some winding back passages of the cave. She used her kung fu and stealth skills to knock the sneaking terrorists out from behind.
Two hard groans were soon heard, followed by two more. Then another two more.
Meanwhile, Tony got one of his arms stuck in the cave's wall. He struggled to get his battlesuit's arm free. As he was trying to get free, another terrorist approached him. He tried to shoot him in the head, only to be killed by the ricocheting bullet. Tony then got his arm free.
By then, Kim had run back over to Tony. She was just somewhat out of breath.
"Nice. It's a lot of practical!" Tony proclaims kind of cheerfully.
Kim smiled toward Tony.
"Good. Now, let's find Yinsen!" Kim figured.
"Right. Good plan, Kim," Tony said.
"Thanks," Kim added.
They both knew it was their shared plan. But, it still felt good to Kim to say it anyway. With that, they both rushed to find their friend and mentor. They had hoped to also soon get free from the cave.
Raza loaded a RPG launcher. He wanted to make sure Kim and Tony don't leave the cave alive. He stood by Yinsen, who was badly wounded. Kim then finally saw him.
"I found him! He's right here!" Kim shouted to Tony.
Tony was walking up alongside Kim soon enough.
"Yinsen!" Tony shouted.
He saw him too.
"Watch out!" Yinsen weakly shouted.
He was warning his two friends of Raza. The Ten Rings leader then shot an RPG at them.
But, he missed.
"You think that's funny?!" Kim yelled.
Tony leaned back just in time to avoid the RPG.
Kim jump kicked off of Tony's suit to back kick Raza down in the air. Raza gasped some in shock. He was quickly starting to get up. He held back some violent groaning under his breath.
Then, Kim and Raza were wrestling over the RPG launcher. Kim kicked him violently some in the side. Raza groaned violently. He doubled over some. He reactively lost some of his grip on the RPG launcher. Kim yanked it out of his hands. But, he didn't get the chance to say much else.
Kim was pointing it right at him.
"Kim?! What are you...?!" Tony started to say.
"Umm... This is really awkward now. You sure a cut of the billions wouldn't...?" Raza wondered. He had his hands up.
"Oh, I'm not going to kill you. Also, as for your offer? I say hard pass," Kim pointed out.
Tony chuckled some.
Raza gulped nervously. He muttered something under his breath in who knows what language.
"Besides, I got something else for you!" Kim declared.
She turned the RPG launcher to face up. She launched it at the roofing in seconds.
Kim purposely was shocking Raza long enough to not have him suddenly start to run out of the way.
A big pile of rocks crumbled onto a surprised Raza, knocking him out cold. Unbeknownst to Kim and Tony, it also ended up disfiguring Raza's face.
"Real nice," Tony congratulated Kim.
"Thanks," Kim said.
Kim and Tony then faced Yinsen. And Yinsen's breathing was getting shallow. Kim's smile quickly faded at that.
"Stark...Possible..." Yinsen barely breathed out.
"No. No. No! Please get up!" Kim pleaded with teary eyes.
"Come on! Get up." Tony ordered.
They both had teary eyes. Tony had his suit's mask plate swung up.
"We gotta go. Move for us!" Tony insisted.
"Yeah. Come on. We got a plan! We've gotta stick to it. Please..." Kim said.
She did so with one of her best smiles. But her tears were still pouring out.
"This...this was always the plan, Possible. Please. Go," Yinsen revealed.
Tony looked down hard in his suit. Some loud sniffles could be heard from behind Tony's headpiece.
"No! Don't talk like that!" Kim cried.
Her tears were coming down all the more. She was leaning over the mattress where Yinsen was lying down. She was struggling within to stay mostly standing.
"She's...she's right. Come on! You're gonna go see your family. Get up!" Tony ordered.
He couldn't stand hearing Kim crying. He couldn't stand what he was hearing from Yinsen either. He was about to force him up. But Yinsen said something first.
"My family is dead. I'm...I'm going to see them now, Stark," Yinsen revealed.
That made Kim gasp and Tony's mouth drop.
"Please! We...we can't go without you..." Kim whispered.
She began to sob more. Yinsen then put a kind of comforting hand on her head. He looked into her eyes.
"It's okay, Kim...Stark..." Yinsen grimly smiled. "I want this. I want this."
A whole second went by. Kim then faintly smiled along with Tony.
"Thank...thank you for saving us," Tony said.
"We... We'll never forget you, no matter what," Kim whispered.
They both sounded pained. But, they tried to not seem it in their faces in front of Yinsen.
"Don't waste it. Don't waste your life. Both of...y...ou..." Yinsen was saying. And, with one final breath, Yinsen died.
Kim was sobbing kind of loudly, trying to get all her tears out.
After who knows how long, Tony slightly nodded towards her.
"You ready?" Tony asked.
Kim finally collected herself. She stood up with fire in her eyes. She threw the RPG launcher back down a cave passage. She just as quickly used her flamethrower to light it up, exploding it to smithereens.
Tony didn't say anything. He just very solemnly smiled over it.
"Let's go," Kim hissed.
A whole part of the cave was collapsing in where the RPG launcher was. Tony swung back down his suit's mask plating.
Outside the cave, the Ten Rings stood by with weapons, ready to take one final shot at Kim and Tony. Footsteps and quite a bit of falling debris echoed from within the cave.
As Tony's suit approached the exit, the terrorists began to shoot all their ammo.
But, it was no use.
After they ran out of ammo, Kim appeared with her flamethower and a smirk.
She could have just gone out there. But, she really wanted to be sure they weren't being sneak attacked by any terrorists left inside the cave. That was a big if of course. But, it didn't hurt to be sure.
"All out of ammo?" Kim confidently asked.
"Our turn," Tony very coldly declared.
And with that, both of them used their flamethrowers to lay waste to the stockpile of Stark weapons, the prototype production line of Kimmunicators, and the entire camp. The terrorists ran for their lives. They were clearly outpowered.
After making sure every weapon was destroyed, Kim hopped onto Tony's back.
"Hold on, Kim!" Tony yelled kind of loudly.
He started the rocket boosters. They took off away from the cave. They were finally free!
Kim let out a "Whoo!"
Tony chuckled some at that.
But, the flight didn't last long. They started to crash in the desert.
"Ahh!" Kim and Tony screamed.
That was just before hitting the sand mounds below.
Soon, Tony and Kim emerged. Kim was sporting a broken arm.
"You okay, kid?" Tony asked.
"Well...other than a broken arm and overall shakiness today? I'm good." Kim faintly smiled.
"Not bad, kid. Not...bad," Tony smirked.
They solemnly looked toward each other for a bit.
They knew Yinsen was dead. They knew they'd never forget him. But, at the moment? Kim and Tony were free. That was all that mattered at the moment.
