Matrix: Resurrections Chapter 8: The End of the Beginning final, a kim possible fanfic

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Kim twisted a washrag over the bucket of water sitting beside Ron's jack chair before gently stroking his forehead and face with the cool, moist cloth. "Hang in there, Ron," She whispered, watching the unstable vital signs on the machine beside the chair.

"Have we located her yet?" Kim heard Morpheus ask Link and Ghost, who were both hard at work running search programs through the Matrix.

"Not yet, Sir," Link spoke up, typing on his keyboard.

"Her who?" Kim asked from her place at Ron's side.

"We are trying to locate the Oracle. She is the one most likely to know how to locate Ronald," Morpheus stated, the worry only barely showing in his voice. "The problem is … the Oracle can only be found when she wants to be found."

"I see …" Kim said. Ron groaned and she whipped her head around to face him. He began twitching and jerking in the chair, face contorted in pain. "Ron?" Kim asked with worry while stroking his face with the rag again, "What's happening to him?"

"It looks like they're drugging him to keep him from using his abilities," Morpheus said, looking at Ron's monitor, "He's going to be ok, Kimberly." He said, placing a hand on the girl's shoulder, "Have faith in him, he is the One after all."

"I do have faith in him," Kim whispered, "but not because he's the One."

"Of course," Morpheus smiled knowingly. But then his and every other eye in the room looked to the equally surprised Link when the communications headset started ringing. "We don't have anyone in besides Ronald, who could be calling?" Morpheus questioned walking toward Link, leaving Kim beside Ron.

"Well, one way to find out, huh?" Link said, picking up the headset and pressing the connect button on his keyboard, "Operator?" Link listened for a minute before pulling off the headset and looking toward Kim. "It's for you, some guy named Wade."

Kim literally dove for the headset before pulling it on, "Um … What's the … err … sitch?"

"Hey, Kim, look can't talk but a second, they don't like us search engines making long distance calls to the outside, but Ron's in trouble." Kim heard Wade say on the other line.

"Really?" Kim asked, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Mom knows where Shego and Drakken took him and why. She wants to talk to you, but you have to come alone, she only wants to talk to you," Wade said, "I'll tell your Operator where to drop you and we'll have someone there to bring you here. Hurry Ron doesn't have much time."

"Alright, I'll give it back to Link now. See you in a sec, Wade," Kim said softly before handing the headset back to the Operator.

Link listened to the headset for a moment. "Got ya kid, we'll have her there in a second," he said before he cut off the transmission.

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Kim blinked and looked around to find herself standing before a large dojo, "Must be the place," she mumbled before walking into the doorway.

"Welcome, Ms. Possible," a Chinese man in a martial arts uniform and sunglasses said from the table at the far end. He was sitting cross-legged on the tabletop and sipping on tea. "I am known as Seraph. I have been expecting you." He then stood up quickly, "Come quickly. There isn't much time."

The man jumped off of the table, and moved toward the door Kim had just walked through and pulled it closed. He then placed a key in the lock and opened it again to a massive white hallway, "Come along."

Seraph led Kim down the large white hallway with doors lining both sides as far as she could see. He finally stopped before one and placed the key into the lock, "This way please, Ms. Possible," Seraph said leading her into the Oracle's apartment.

"Good, good, you came quickly," Oracle said, waving for Kim to follow her into the kitchen.

"Do you know where they've taken Ron?" Kim asked up front.

"I wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I couldn't keep up with a mad scientist, his smarter sidekick and a teenaged boy who holds the fate of every man woman and child in the palms of his hands if I didn't would I?" Oracle asked, lighting up a cigarette.

"So …" Kim said, eyeing the older woman expectantly.

"You want me to tell you where he is?" Oracle asked, blinking as if it wasn't obvious.

"Well … yes!" Kim exclaimed emotionally.

"How much does Ron mean to you, Kimmie?" Oracle asked, taking a drag on the cigarette.

"What?" Kim blanched.

"Kim, if you knew that rescuing him meant you would die in the process," Oracle began eyeing the girl carefully, "would you save him?"

"Yes," Kim stated without hesitation, "He's my best friend, and if I lost him I wouldn't want to go on living anyway. We've been through way too much together, he's gone through too much for me, risked his life to help me … is it not right I do the same for him?"

"I was afraid you'd say that, sweetheart," Oracle sighed, "He's at a warehouse in South Manhattan, Seraph will take you as close as he can. Then it's up to you."

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Seraph opened the door for Kim and she slowly walked out onto an alleyway in Manhattan. "Handy little trick," she said as Seraph nodded and closed the door. Kim looked around for a moment before she grabbed the door and swung it open, "It was two blocks south … right?" She started, but sighed when instead of seeing the long hallway, she only saw the inside of an old warehouse, "Guess so …"

Kim made her way to the warehouse in question. It was an older building, but still kept in decent shape. She quickly climbed the fire escape to peek into the skylight. "Ron …" Kim gasped when she spotted him strapped to a large machine that ran to a large, human-sized, metal tube. "Hang on, I'm coming," She said softly before diving through the glass and landing on her feet in the center of the warehouse.

Drakken, who was standing at the far end of the warehouse, turned and gasped. "Kim Possible?"

"Oh come off it, Doc," Shego rolled her eyes, "You kidnapped her dopey sidekick/all mighty hero and you expect her not to hunt us down, really?"

"Let him go," Kim snarled, pulling off her sunglasses and stuffing them into her trench coat pocket.

"Or what? You gonna do one of those fancy freed human super moves?" Shego laughed, her gloves beginning to glow, "It's a wonder you can even move in that skin tight leather. Bet Ronnie here liked it didn't he?"

"I can move just fine, Shego," Kim smirked as the girls circled each other. "And at least I still look good in tights, I mean seriously, what happened to your hips?"

"Why you little …" Shego hissed, diving at the teen, who jumped away, but not before Shego grabbed the tail of her coat, slicing a large chunk of it off.

"Shego … you … you … THIS WAS THE COAT RON GAVE ME!" Kim all but screamed as she jerked off the remains of the trench coat. "You're going down!"

The two women dove at one another. Kim caught Shego's swipe in her hand and, despite the painful burning of her palm, brought her leg straight up and kicked Shego in the jaw. Kim then flipped away, kicking the green-skinned villainess in the chest as she did so.

Shego responded with a tackle that brought both women to the floor with a thud. Kim rolled away from her, and then the two sets of emerald eyes locked in a stare off.

Shego broke the silence first and ran towards her younger opponent, and brought her fist hard across Kim's unsuspecting jaw. Kim shook the cobwebs out quickly and bent forward giving Shego a scorpion kick, dazing her. Kim wasted no time before leaping into the air, where she held herself off the ground for a moment before kicking Shego in the upperchest, knocking her backwards into the machine Ron was attached to.

"Copy sequence engaged," a mechanical voice stated as the machine started to hum to life.

"Yes! An army of Anomalies, all for my own personal brainwashing!" Drakken cheered from his monitoring corner.

"What?" Kim asked, looking toward the machine. A screen beside Ron's unconscious body read "Copy Status: 00%" As she watched, the percentage began to rise."

"To bad having his code copied will kill him, but oh well …" Shego shrugged.

"I thought you didn't like cloning, Shego?" Kim asked as she tried desperately to see a route past her olive-skinned foe.

"I really only don't like having myself cloned, that's all," Shego shrugged, throwing another punch at the teen hero. "And an army of brainwashed soldiers who can control the Matrix around them is actually a plan that might even work."

"Well then you're just going to have to wait for the next One, because I'm not letting you hurt my Ron!" Kim exclaimed, slugging Shego in the face sending her tumbling backwards.

"MY Ron? So possessive …" Shego chuckled pulling herself to her feet, ignoring Drakken's annoying little chant of 'Shego, Shego, you're our girl …'.

"Hold her off for thirty more seconds and that should be enough for both parts of the code!" Drakken barked, watching a monitor beside a groaning and thrashing Ron.

Kim turned to dash toward Drakken and the machine, but was tackled from the side by Shego. Kim quickly kicked Shego off of her and turned to face her. 'I gotta take her down, and fast,' Kim thought as she shot towards her arch-foe and performed a flying crane kick to Shego's jaw, sending Shego flying into the wall where she hit, hard.

Kim then ran toward the machine and Drakken began screaming like a child. "Not in the face! Not in the face!" he whimpered as he ran out of Kim's way.

"Good, only fifty five percent done. Now how do you turn it off?" She asked out loud, her eyes scanning wildly over the multitude of buttons and switches.

She finally just gave in and smashed the control panel and it hummed to a stop. She then dashed over to Ron and jerked the wires and restraints off him, letting him fall into her waiting arms. "KP?" Ron asked weakly, looking up from her shoulder.

"Yes, it's me, you're safe now," Kim whispered softly. "What do you say we get out of here? Can you walk?"

"Yea I think so, just a little dizzy …" Ron said, getting to his feet. He was wobbly at first, but quickly recovered as the two of them made it out of the warehouse.

Ron reached down and grabbed Kim's cell phone off her belt while she held on to his arm to make sure he stayed steady.

"Link, can we get an exit somewhere close?" Ron asked when Link answered.

"Glad to hear your voice again, Kid," Link replied over the line, "There's an exit three blocks down in a subway station. I'll start it ringing when you get there."

"Thanks, Link," Ron smiled, and handed Kim back her phone. "Lets go home."

Tracking System: online

Anomaly Located

Probable exit located

Agents online

Mission: Eliminate Anomaly and those aiding him

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Kim and Ron walked down the steps to an old subway station that was very much worse for wear. In fact it looked like a war had taken place in it a few years earlier and was never cleaned up. "I think I've been here before …" Ron mused, before a ringing payphone grabbed his and Kim's attention.

"You first," Kim said, helping Ron into the booth. "Ron?" she whispered nervously, "Do you remember you said there was something you wanted to talk to me about?"

"Ye-yeah, KP, but …"

"I want to talk to you about something too, but it will only take a minute to get to the other side so we'll talk then, ok?" She smiled before leaning in to kiss his cheek.

"Ok..." Ron blushed and touched his cheek tenderly, then grabbed the phone. "See you on the other side," he said as he brought the phone up to the side of his face. Looking up, he saw three Agents walking down the stairs behind Kim. "KIM! LOOK OUT!" he cried, trying desperately to pull away from the phone. It was too late, however, and he found himself back on the Neb II.

"We lost the exit, what happen-" Link started, but Ron cut him off.

"Agents! Get me the hell back in there! NOW!" Ron barked, desperation shimmering in his brown eyes.

"Damn, the whole Manhattan Network's been blocked, the closest I can get you is New Jersey," Link said as Ron fumbled with his connection cable, trying to get himself plugged back in.

"I don't care where you get me, just get me as close as you can!" Ron yelled as Morpheus helped him push the connector in.

"Remember, focus and you can do anything in the Matrix, remember that," Ron heard Morpheus say as he felt a pull from the back of his head, and a blinding flash of white light before his eyes.

He looked around to find himself in a back alley in New Jersey. He closed his eyes and could see Kim in the code, miles away, fighting against the three Agents. She had practiced in the construct, and it showed, but Ron could tell that she was slowly losing the fight. "Hang on, KP, I'm coming," Ron said, giving in to instinct and pushing his fist towards the ground. The concrete bubbled and rippled around his as if it were jello. With a tremendous leap he launched himself high into the air. He flew between buildings and skyscrapers at nearly the speed of sound, the shockwave from his passage shattering windows, and throwing people, litter, and cars into the air in his wake.

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Kim jumped toward one of the three men, throwing out her fist in an attempted punch. The attack hit nothing but air, but Agent Jackson's elbows made a direct hit to small of Kim's back, sending her stumbling forward into the knee of Agent Thompson.

The knee hit hard to Kim's sternum and she felt her ribs crack and break, giving way to the impact. She coughed uncontrollably and suddenly felt a warm fluid with a coppery taste fill her mouth. She stumbled backwards, her pride and inner strength not letting herself fall yet. She stared at the three men through one eye, her right eye dark and swollen shut.

She tried to take another fighting stance, but Thompson quickly moved forward and grabbed her by her hair and slammed her face into his knee. "What is the saying?" Thompson asked as the three Agents turned to face Kim, who was standing - barely, and with incredible effort - between then and the stairs leading out of the station. "Kim Possible can do anything? I wonder … can you die?"

Kim's good eye widened in terror as the three pulled pistols and fired on her. "KIMBERLY!" she heard Ron scream from behind her just as she felt five powerful blows burrow into her chest, spreading fiery pain through her torso before ripping out of her back.

The impact from the bullets knocked her backwards and her weary legs gave way. She expected to meet hard ground, but instead gave out a small, surprised gasp when she felt herself hit a warm, yielding surface. Her head rolled forward and she saw two arms wrap around her waist, holding her as she was slowly lowered to the ground.

(Cannot touch

Cannot hold

Cannot be together)

"R-Ron?" Kim coughed, looking up as Ron tore his sunglasses off to reveal two terrified brown orbs.

"No, no, no," Ron muttered uncontrollably as tears formed in the corners of his eyes, "Please, please don't die, please," he begged as he held her in his lap.

Kim tried to speak, but her strength was fading fast. 'Now or never, Kimmie,' she thought to herself, reaching for Ron's hand and gripping it with a strength that surprised her. "Ron... I... love you..." she breathed, feeling a tremendous weight lift from her heart. She then let out one last sigh and went limp in his arms.

(Cannot love

Cannot kiss

Cannot have each other)

"Kim?" Ron asked, shaking her lightly, "Wake up, c'mon KP, wake up!" he continued shaking her harder.

He gently pulled her into a hug and buried his face into her hair. "Not like this, Kim, no, not like this," He begged as his shoulders trembled uncontrollably, giving the Agents an entertaining show.

(Must be strong

And we must let go

Cannot say what our hearts must know

How can I not love you?)

Outside, a misty eyed Link walked over and reached for the plug in the back of the lifeless Kim's head, when Morpheus grabbed his arm. Link looked over at his captain, surprised at the amount of sadness, grief, anger, and hope that were in his dark eyes. "Not yet, give him a chance."

(What do I tell my heart?

When do I not want you here in my arms?

How does one waltz away from all of the memories?

How do I not miss you when you are gone?)

"I should of brought popcorn," Agent Thompson smiled as he watched Ron desperately cling to Kim's body.

The other two Agents watched him warily as he stepped toward the One confidently. "You have no right to the title of the Anomaly, Mr. Stoppable. Crying over a pathetic human female's passing? You are greater then this, Stoppable. She gave up her purpose when she left the Matrix with Morpheus, but you, you still have your purpose. You are greater then this … Cattle."

"Shut up," Ron snarled, holding Kim tighter, "Just Shut UP! You … think she was just cattle? I loved her and you call her cattle? You're nothing but heartless machines … you don't even deserve to be in the presence of her body …"

Ron then gently laid Kim's body down and rose to his feet. He slowly pulled out his sunglasses and put them on before turning to face the three Agents. His face lacked any trace of emotion as his hands curled into fists so tightly that the sinews could be heard creaking. Around him the very fabric of the Matrix itself seemed to shimmer and wave.

The two other Agents looked at each other worriedly, "This course of action is ill-advised."

"I concur."

"Perhaps a retreat is in order …" Thompson said as they all turned to make an escape through the other exit, only see Ron standing there with the same emotionless glare.

"This is for KP," Ron said, his voice void of emotion. A blink of the eye later, Ron was on top of Agent Thompson and punched him so hard that it caused a glitch in the Matrix, causing Thompson to pixellate for several moments.

(Cannot dream

Cannot share

Sweet and tender moments)

"I've never seen anything like this …" Link said as the group on the Neb II watched the 'fight'.

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that say on him was Death, and Hell followed with him," Morpheus quoted, looking at the strange coding that was coming from Ron.

"What?" Niobi asked, looking over to her husband.

"I have very little regard for Agents of the System," Morpheus stated, closing his eyes in thought. "But in this situation I could almost find myself pitying them."

Inside the Matrix, Ron glared at the now fearful Agents. "Your purpose was to police the Matrix, but you are obsolete now, thus you lost your purpose," Ron stated coldly, "You have only one purpose left: Deletion."

(Cannot feel how we feel

Must pretend it's over

Must be brave and we must go on

Must not say what we've known all along)

Ron held out his palm to the three Agents, who looked at him questioningly. The Matrix again seemed to ripple and distort, this time around the Agents themselves. The three Agents twitched, then collapsed to the ground, each screaming in pain. Ron's teeth clenched, his brow furrowed as he held out both hands toward the three Agents, who were slowly turning a glowing shade of green.

Then there was another ripple in the Matrix, and with a flash all three were gone, their base code deleted, completely and utterly erased from any for of existence, leaving Ron and Kim alone.

"Funny … that didn't really make me feel any better," Ron sighed as he walked back over to Kim's body.

He dropped to his knees beside her and stroked some of her hair from her bruised face with the back of his fingers. "I let you down …" He whispered sadly as the tears once again came.

As he sat there with his best friend a thought, a memory came back to him. "Trinity died, she WAS dead. Her heart was stopped, and damaged beyond repair from the artificial negative stimulation, brainwave activity stopped, and her signal from the Matrix was gone. But then Neo did something weird. The code around them, just them, went funny, and for a moment Neo merged with Trin level beyond my understanding. It was like he reached into her heart, into her very soul and brought her back."

"How?" Ron asked as the faint glimmer of hope returned to his heart, "How did he do it? I've figured everything else out …"

He pulled her up onto his lap. "Come on, Kim," he whispered, placing his hand on her chest, over her heart, "I need you here, I'm not going to let you leave me. Not like this." He then relaxed and could feel his hand sinking into Kim's body, her code, touching her motionless heart. "I'm not letting you leave me ever, Kimberly, I love you too much," he said. Then, acting solely on impulse and instinct, he leaned down and pressed his lips to hers.

(How can I not love you?

What do I tell my heart?

When do I not want you here in my arms?

How does one waltz away from all of the memories?

How do I not miss you when you're gone?

How can I not love you?

Must be brave and we must be strong

Cannot say what we've known all along)

A moment later Ron felt the heart under his hand jump to a start, and a warm breath wash over his lips. Ron leaned back and his eyes widened upon seeing a pair of questioning yet very much alive green eyes staring back at him.

"Ron?" Kim asked weakly, before giving him a blush and a soft playful smile. "Never knew you were into necrophilia."

(How can I not love you?

What do I tell my heart?

When do I not want you here in my arms?

I can't just waltz away from all of the memories?

How do I not miss you when you are gone?)

"You're really alive?" Ron blinked, still staring into her eyes.

"I guess …" Kim blushed slightly at the intensity of Ron's stare.

"Kim … About what you said before you … you know …" Ron started, his face turning crimson, "I … I feel the same way … I mean … I love you too."

Kim's eyes went wide only to shut slowly as Ron graced her lips with another kiss.

"Never do that to me again," Ron whispered against her lips.

"I don't know …" Kim smiled, sliding her arms around his neck, "Getting a reception like this kind of made it worth it."

"Oh yeah?" Ron said pulling back, standing and scooping Kim up into his arms. "You still owe me you know? I was conscious for your first confession. And you weren't when I told you."

"Told me what?" Kim smiled, surprised at how comfortable being in Ron's arms were.

"That I love you and I never, ever, ever want you to leave me like that again," Ron smiled before leaning in to kiss her again, "Comprende?"

"Comprende," Kim winked, and snuggled against him, "And love you too."

"Lets go home," Ron said before Kim let out a squeal when he took to the air again.

(How can I not love you...)

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"So he got away?" Merovingian walked up to Drakken, who was standing over the dazed Shego.

"Curse that Kim Possible and her bumbling sidekick!" Drakken growled.

"How much of the code did you copy?" Merovingian asked, rubbing his chin.

"Around fifty five percent," Drakken sighed, "Blasted … hero … I hate heroes!"

"That was more then enough, did you activate the control system?" Merovingian smiled, pleased.

"Why bother, there's not enough there for a full copy," Drakken shrugged, blinking at the half fearful half furious look the Merovingian gave him.

"YOU FOOL!" Merovingian gasped, running toward the output tube, "Maybe it isn't … too late …"

Just as the words left the program's mouth, a hand reached up from the edge of the tube and a man pulled himself out of the steam-filled tube. "Feels good to be back," He said before adjusting his tie. He then reached into the breast pocket of his black suit coat and pulled out a pair of black Agent sunglasses.

"Y-You … it can't be! You're dead!" Shego whimpered, crawling backwards along the floor.

"Ah, dear sister, I see you remember me!" the man smiled demonically, walking toward the two men and the terrified girl.

"Who the hell are you?" Drakken narrowed his eyes at the man.

"Dr. Drakken I presume. Yes, I remember you!" he said, reaching out his hand. Drakken carefully took it in a handshake. "Allow me to introduce myself."

The man smirked. "The name's... Smith."

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C. Cowboy: Thanks to everyone who's read and reviewed this first part of my three part story, I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. The song I used in this chapter was called 'How Can I Not Love You?' By Joy Enriquez from the movie the Anna and The King. I'd like to especially thank Mondomage for helping me by beta reading this story for me. Now expect a new chapter of Shadow Snake very soon, and the first chapter of Matrix Upgraded around Monday. Thanks everybody! And don't forget to review!