Like Any Other Day
Three hundred years after the death of Luke Skywalker, the Imperial Remnant established themselves again empirically as the Imperial Sovereignty and amassed a new, massive military. Despite this fact, the Jedi were able to keep the Imperial armada at bay and keep the Sith in hiding.
However, after another 400 years, the Sovereignty, deceptively conceding to the New Republic's rule, did something the Jedi did not expect; they began designing ships for intergalactic travel. Knowing this, the Jedi had to begin to establish the Republic in other galaxies, or watch the Empire become an unstoppable superpower.
Many wars were waged, with the Jedi and the Republic narrowly keeping the peace. However, a new threat has emerged in Darth Reignos, a Sith Master whose power is greater than Luke Skywalker's and whose evil has surpassed even that of Emperor Palpatine. With the Imperial forces at his command, a potentially cataclysmic battle is at hand. Then, hope was found in the most unlikely of places. . .
-Middleton High School-
"No. No way. Not a chance," called a voice from behind 5 short but stocky brutes.
"Come on Stoppable, why don't you just give the 'team' the Bueno Nacho certificates as a 'gift' and you'll get out of here in one piece," Mike Warden said. He and his four football friends Brian, Todd, Jack and Ryan had moved from Southville to Middleton a year ago, and already as sophomores, took up a past time of making sport of Ron, who was, at current, backed into a corner by the 5 jocks.
"Yeah, Ronnie boy, ONE piece. That's a lot less than if ya don't givem to us. Cuz then we'd have to beat ya into. . .uh. . .two pieces, yeah!" Jack said stupidly.
"Shut up, Jack," the short-blonde haired Mike barked. "Just give us the free food and nobody gets hurt."
"Don't think so, Mike," a voice from behind said.
Mike and his posse swung around to see Jared Webber, Josh Mankey, and Rick Strype, this years varsity football team captains.
"Why don't you get out of here, and we'll consider NOT pounding the fire out of you right here, and NOT wearing you out in practice this afternoon," Mankey stated strongly. "Cuz I'm having a really good day right now, and I'd really hate for you to ruin it"
Not thinking before he spoke, Mike retorted sarcastically, "Uh. . . Monkey. Learn to count. There are five of us, and three of you. We could take you in a second, no sweat." He started to grin self-confidently seeing the shocked look on the captains' faces.
Then shock changed to anger. "Care to back that up, Warden," Jared growled, backing the now cowering JV quarterback into the wall.
Seeing the death glare he was getting from all three, especially Jared, who was in his face now, and the scared look on his friends' faces, Mike reconsidered his words. "Gee, Stoppable, w-w-we were j-just kiddin, man. We'll seeya later, man," Mike said as he and company bolted down the hallway in the opposite direction.
Kim, who had rounded the corner just in time see Jared back Mike against the wall, and seeing Ron who was already in the corner behind Mike's bully friends, and then see the five 10th graders run away in terror, rushed towards the four, Jared, Josh, and Rick who was helping Ron out of the corner.
"Why do you take that bullcrap from those losers? All you have to do is stand up like we just did," Rick said, patting Ron in the arm, having helped him up.
"Whoa. Hello." Ron said, shaking his head. "Okay, size check. Rick, do this," Ron said, putting his right arm straight in front of him. Rick followed suit.
"Okay, now this," Ron said, flexing his arm. Rick flexed, his enormous muscle bulging in his t-shirt arm.
Ron patted his own arm, then Rick's. "See that. I've got 15 inches, maybe. Versus, your. . .23 inches. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a BIG difference," he finished, with the three jocks laughing at his display.
Kim came running up, "Ron, are you ok?" she worriedly asked.
"Yah, No prob, KP. I had backup."
"Hey Kim!" Josh chirped seeing Kim.
"Oh, hey Josh," Kim said unemotionally, which left Josh a little stunned, but he shook it off.
"Seriously, Stoppable. You're a senior, man. Can't be letting those wanabe's push you around," Rick said.
"For real, man. They're just a bunch of losers. If anything, just avoid their sorry butts," Josh agreed.
"But just in case" Jared said, "we got your back." patting Ron on the back as the three started walking off.
"See ya guys. Thanks a lot." Ron called as they turned the corner of the hallway.
"Ron, what happened?" Kim asked.
"Nothing too important. Just a little scrap with the guys over my free Grande Size Naco certificates. You know, the usual."
"Ugh, Mike is such a jerk," she angrily sighed.
"Yeah, but as you could see, I had it under control. Besides, KP, it's not like it hasn't happened before. Like you said, Mike's a jerk. Threatening is what guys like him do to guys like me. It's cool. I'm used to it." He said.
"Ron, you can't be like that. You're way cooler than he could ever hope to be. He's just jealous. You can't let him mess with you, and besides that, you know I've always got you covered."
"I know KP, and I'm always grateful." Ron said and smiled.
"Well, we better get moving," Kim said as the warning bell rang for 7th period, "I've got cheer practice in the new gym and you've got PE."
"Don't remind me," Ron groaned as Rufus climbed to his shoulder and consented with a squeaky uh-uh, UH-uh. "See ya after school, KP." Ron said as he headed of to his least favorite class of the day.
Kim hadn't even made it into the new gymnasium yet, when her Kimmunicator went off.
beep beep Beep beep
She pulled it out of her bag and pushed a button. "Hey Wade, what's the sitch?"
"Hey Kim" Wade said. "An anonymous person contacted me; he said it was extremely urgent. A very valuable item was stolen from him last night. He was very vague, but he said he'd make it worth your time."
"Well that's nice, but my services are always free. Anyway, what's the item?"
"That's just what he vas vague about. But he said you'd know it when you saw it. That's all I got."
"Um. .OK. Who stole it?" She asked.
"Drakken." Wade stated.
Kim sighed, "Why doesn't he ever learn that when he steals stuff, I'm always going to get it back. - SIGH - Let me grab Ron, and we'll head out."
"Oh, and this guy is providing transportation. It'll be there in exactly 6 minutes, so hurry." Wade finished.
"I'm on it." Kim said as she turned off her Kimmunicator, put it away, and started jogging towards the old gym to get Ron.
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"Here we are," the pilot shouted toward the back of the plane.
Kim and Ron both jumped out of the plane into an all blue sky over the mountains north of Middleton.
Their parachutes opened and they began to glide down toward Dr.Drakken's hideout, which almost had a fortress feel about it. They made their way through the air towards an outside wall where there was a lone guard posted, who happened to be facing away from the two heroes.
'This is lucky,' Kim thought to herself and, about ten feet above the guard, detached her parachute and, using her momentum, scissored his neck with her legs and swung the unsuspecting guard into the nearby tower wall, knocking him unconscious. Ron landed next to her, and unfastened his parachute.
"OK, Ron. Let's go." she whispered as she threw a rope over into the courtyard of Drakken's lair. She, followed by Ron, descended to the ground and snuck past a few guards into the main part of the castle.
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"Look at it, Shego!" Dr. Drakken exclaimed. "Isn't it marvelous? What a wonderful piece of craftsmanship."
"You don't even know what it does yet." Shego snapped, seemingly annoyed.
"True. But after all we had to go through to get this artifact, it must be VERY important," he laughed.
'You mean what I had to go through,' she spitefully thought to herself.
All of a sudden, from outside there was a loud -THUMP- against the door and a little bit of smoke coming through the edges of the room's main doors.
"Guards!" Drakken shouted. Within seconds there were six muscle-bound guards waiting in front of the door for whatever was on the other side.
The doors busted open and a guard came flying through into two of the six waiting guards as smoke poured into the rooms. Shego's hands lit up green and she charged into the smoke, only to be dropkicked back into the room several feet. And then, through the smoke walked Kim and Ron, Kim in her trademark black top that ever so modestly revealed her tummy, and her green baggy cargo pants; and Ron also in his trademark black shirt and blue-gray cargo pants.
"Kim Possible?!" Dr. Drakken exclaimed, obviously shocked.
Hearing the tone of his voice, Shego turned to him and said, annoyed, "Please. You can't possibly have NOT been expecting her. It's almost a way of life!
"Whatever, just get them!" he all but screamed.
"Ron, I'll take care of Shego and get the item, you take care of the guards" Kim said as she handed him a 'net' gun and leaped to meet Shego, who was already coming at her, in mid air with a kick to the chin which left Shego reeling a bit, but she recovered before she hit the ground and landed with a back handspring.
"No problem, KP" Ron stated as he pointed the gun at the charging guards. He pulled the trigger and almost as if on cue lost his grip on the gun and before he knew it his arms and legs were tied tightly. The guards, who had stopped suddenly to watch this display, grinned and began to walk menacingly towards the now totally helpless Ron. "AAAAGH!" Ron cried as he began hopping away, the guards in close pursuit.
Meanwhile, Kim had her hands full with Shego. Shego sweep kicked while Kim gave a flying roundhouse, both missing each other. However, Kim was first to recover, planting her hands on the ground, she donkey kicked Shego in the chest launching her towards a nearby rock wall. Shego turned and grabbed the wall and back flipped off to just miss a flying kick from Kim. Kim's foot connected with the wall, but she coiled and turning jumped towards Shego, who in turn grabbed Kim's shirt in mid air and monkey-flipped her across the room. Kim rolled into a fighting stance only to be tackled by Shego and catch a right to the jaw.
Ron, still tied, continued his frantic hopping as Rufus gnawed at the ropes.
"C'mon Possible, is that at you got?" Shego said though her heavy breathing. She raised another fist to punch Kim. However, Kim caught this one, and rolled Shego and wrapped her legs around Shego's arm and neck, then using her upper body strength, flip-tossed her opponent towards Dr. Drakken, who up until this point had been laughing at the predicament Ron was in. -WHAM- Shego crashed into Drakken, knocking them both semi-unconscious, and sending the artifact Drakken had been holding towards the now freed, but still running for his life, Ron Stoppable.
Kim leapt into action, frog-jumping over one of the guards and, still in motion, caught his neck with her ankles and sent him spinning into two of the chasing guards. Then from the ground, in one swift move, she pushed off the ground with her hands, and came to her feet, and planted a hard punch to the remaining guards gut. Then she leapt and connected with a spinning kick to the back of his neck, knocking him out cold.
With everyone basically out of commission, Kim turned to look for what Drakken had dropped. When she saw it, however, it was glowing gold. As she walked, obviously speechless, over to pick it up, she could almost feel the 7x1 inch cylinder shaped item where it lie. And as if that wasn't weird enough, when she reached for it, from about 2 inches away, it flew to her hand. Kim was a little taken back, but she had gotten what she and Ron had come for.
"K, Ron. We got it, whatever it is. Let's get out here."
Ron nodded and they both ran back out the way they came, leaving Drakken, Shego and crew still groggy. However, Kim and Ron were able to hear Drakken scream, "Curse you Kim Possible!" as they made their way into the courtyard and to a rope ladder which was dangling from a black helicopter. They climbed in and the helicopter took off back toward Middleton.
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Back at Kim's house, Kim and Ron sat in her room, looking at the strange object they had recovered.
"What do think KP, could it be like some kind of alien power source or something?" Ron asked.
"I honestly don't know Ron. It could be anything. I guess we could ask Wade, maybe he knows more now." She said. She was just as baffled as Ron was.
Kim pulled her Kimmunicator out her backpack, which was leaning against her bed, and pressed a few buttons.
The screen lit up. "Hey Kim, what's up?" Wade automatically asked.
"Me and Ron where just wondering if you had found out more about this thing," she said, holding the device so that he could see it.
"Sorry, nothing at all. In fact, I haven't been in contact with the owner since this morning. I'm not even sure what he wanted you to do with it."
"Dang!" Kim said, "Well, tell ya what. As soon as this anonymous guy contacts you, you let me know immediately, K?"
"No problem, Kim. And I got a picture of the artifact when you showed it to me, so I'll go ahead and see if I can find anything about it on the internet."
"Good idea. In the mean time-. . ." Kim started, but was interrupted by her mother.
"Kimmie, Ron, dinner time." Mrs. Possible called from the base of the stairs.
"We're coming, mom!" Kim called back, and then she turned back to her Kimmunicator smiling, "In the mean time, Mom home-cooked eel and imperial chicken." which earned a "Booyah" from Ron and a few more from Rufus. "So you just do what you do best, Wade. Call me if you find ANYTHING out."
"Will do." Wade said as he ended the transmission.
Kim put her Kimmunicator away, laid the strange object on her bed, and she walked out of her room. Ron was right behind her, but took one last look at the artifact. As he did, he froze when he noticed that the small cylinder was glowing a bright gold, not so bad that he couldn't look at it, but more like an outline. He turned to ask Kim if she saw it, but she had already gone downstairs. When he looked back, however, it wasn't glowing anymore.
"Weird," he said, shaking his head. "Hey buddy, did you see that?" he asked his naked pet.
"Nope, uh-uh." the small rodent squeaked as he began to look around for what Ron was talking about from his shoulder.
Ron rubbed his eyes, 'Wow, I must be seeing things.' he thought to himself.
"C'mon Ron, were waiting for you." Kim called from downstairs.
"Coming!" Ron called, leaving Kim's room and heading down to the table to join her family for dinner.
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Wade was searching all his databases, desperate for any clue as to what Kim and Ron had recovered. Suddenly, all his monitor's went to static and then blacked.
"Mr. Wade." An obviously altered voice said.
"Finally, I was begin you weren't going to get back to me. Kim. . ."
"Retrieved the item, we know." The voice stated.
"Yeah," Wade said, a little puzzled.
"We would like for Ms. Possible AND Mr. Stoppable to deliver the item personally. We will contact you seven days from now with the when and where."
"Not to intrude, but we don't even know who you are. Why should we even trust you?" Wade inquired.
"Mr. Wade. Please relay the message to Mr. Stoppable and Ms. Possible. The outcome is more than likely that they will respond positively. I am not asking you to trust, just to pass on a request. Is that acceptable?"
"Yeah, sure." Wade said uneasily. It's just. . ."
"Previous experience. Yes, we know. Seven days."
And just as quickly as everything fizzed out, everything was working again. Wade pressed a button on his keyboard.
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Kim was walking into her room when she heard her Kimmunicator go off.
Beep beep Beep beep
"Hey Wade, whatcha got?" Kim asked attentively.
"Nothing. . .on the artifact. But they contacted me. They want to know if you two will deliver the item personally."
Kim's curiosity had gotten the best of her awhile ago. "Definitely. When and where?" She said.
"Don't know yet. They said they'd contact me in a week with that info."
"Let me know as soon as they do, K." Kim said.
"All right. I'm still gonna keep searching for anything on that item. See ya, Kim." -Beeoop- . Her Kimmunicator turned off.
Kim picked up the phone and called Ron to let him know what was going on.
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"Most definitely." Ron said. He too was extremely curious about the weird object.
"Cool. And now we'll be able to get the real sitch." Kim said over the phone.
"KP, quick question. Um. . . ever feel like you're being watched?" Ron asked.
"You okay, Ron?" Kim worried.
"It's just a vibe I'm getting I guess. No prob. Anyway, KP, I'm exhausted after all that hopping today, so I'm gonna hit the sack."
" Night Ron" Kim said with a giggle.
Ron replied, "G'night, KP" and hung up the phone.
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Kim put the small item into her dresser. 'At least now, I'll be able to find out what's up with that thing,' Kim said to herself as she lay back on her bed. She pulled the covers up to her shoulder, rolled to her side, 'I hope.' With that, she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Josh Mankey, Bueno Nacho, Naco, Rufus the naked mole rat, Dr. Drakken, Shego or Middleton. They are property of Disney.
-Mad props to ClassicCowboy for beta reading my story for me so far. Thanks for the help with corrections.
-I decided that the language (which really wasn't bad at all) was unnecessary, so I changed the words in the Prologue and this chapter due to the nature of the crossover. I'm thinking about a KP/GTA:VC crossover. Maybe I'll save it for that. As always, please R&R. BTW, the rating will stand PG-13 for semi- graphic descriptions in later chapters.