CC:I just really like that sword. This, and two chapters remain...
Jezrianna:1) Thank you, it's an odd feeling having some one else in your mind. 2) Actually, bringing the gun was intended for the door, but it didn't work out when I wrote it. Hmmm, I noticed that myself. If I rewrite this, that'll change, good point though. 3) You forgot relative mass and speed calculations, as well as air resistance. The rock is smaller, and was travelling comparitively faster when it hit, naturally, it's going to rocket away. Kim is larger, wasn't traveling as fast, and only touched it. I do admit the rest of the points. I tend to get too technical, it satisfies my own need to know. And usually forestalls arguments...
Redescribed the super bus, need to rewrite part of the last chapter before posting now. sigh
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"What a day." Ron sighed. He was in his own room, having gotten back just after midnight. He was not expecting a response.
"You're telling me." Adam muttered, leaning against the wall, rubbing his neck. Ron sat bolt up right, staring at him.
"Adam, when did you get back?" He asked, instantly regretting the motion. He felt sick for a second then blinked, to clear his vision.
"About a half an hour ago. I'm waiting for the shower. I smell." Ron nodded, rubbing his nose. "Sorry, they were really, really lost." Adam shrugged.
"Who?" Ron asked.
"The guys delivering my RV." Adam laughed. "Guess I'll have to go apologize to Kim. Though from the sound of it, she didn't miss me that much." He smiled wide. Ron felt his face redden. He laughed nervously.
"Heh, heh, heh, what makes you think that?" He asked. Adam laughed this time, a hearty one.
"You talk in your sleep. The words: Good God, do it again KP. Were really big clues." Adam winked at him. Ron stared in horror. "Put some clothes on, I'm going to get a shower. Once I get the apologizing over with, I'll show the three of you a very, very useful spell."
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"I suppose that still didn't convince you to give him up?" Kim asked Shego. Shego was panting. She twisted her head to face Kim, slowly.
"Even... if...it...did...I...don't have...the energy to." She breathed. Kim sighed. "I'm surprised." Shego muttered.
"Why so?" Kim asked.
"That you still had the energy for that, after Ron." Shego grinned. Kim snorted.
"Ron's got stamina, but not endurance. Me, I can go the distance." Kim laughed. Shego snorted this time.
"But you don't got stamina." She grinned. "Go take a shower, I need to regain my composure, before standing up. I think I drank too much last night."
"Drank?" Kim asked.
"Your father offered me some. Now I remember why I stay clear of Vodka." She smiled slightly. "It makes me loose too much control." She grinned at Kim.
"Did he explain why he was drinking?" Kim asked, hunting for her robe.
"Something about a bet with your mother." Shego replied, and sat up. She crossed her legs, and steepled her fingers. Kim smiled, at the pattern of deep breathing, and rhythm. She slung Shego's robe over her shoulders, and donned her own, walking down the stairs. She hummed as she went.
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It was just over hour later, that Adam and Ron showed up, each dressed casually. Ron had a bouquet of flowers, and Adam held three boxes of chocolate. When Kim's mother opened the door, he presented her one. She stared at him suspiciously, but said nothing, beyond thanking him.
"Kim! Shego! Ron and Adam are here." She called, before heading into the kitchen. Kim and Shego descended the stairs, side-by-side, a perfect mirror image of each other. Down to the gloves. Only the faces, and hair enabled one to tell them apart. Ron choked.
"Am I seeing double?" Adam asked him.
"Only if we both got a knock on the head." Ron answered. The girls laughed.
"It took you long enough." Shego grunted to Adam. Adam shrugged.
"Kim, Shego, I apologize." He handed them each one of the remaining boxes of chocolate.
"I know what you're apologizing to me for, but what about Shego?" Kim asked, curiously.
"She knows." He responded mysteriously. Shego's look to Kim, plainly said she'd explain later.
"Here Kim." He handed her the flowers. She smiled warmly at him, and kissed him.
"Thank you Ron." She smiled. She glanced at Adam. "Where were you?" She asked, stepping around to stand beside Ron.
"Come out, and see." He smiled, and led Shego, who took his arm, out the door. Ron offered his arm to Kim, and they stepped out. Genny floated beside them, the engines whirring slightly, the holographic avatar standing on the sidewalk, barefoot as usual, though now she was wearing a dark green business suit, with her hair wrapped into a long black tail.
"Introducing, the UCS roving command base vehicle, short name, Behemoth, civilian model. Less suited to military operations, it is still formidable, as well as capable of keeping a commander in touch with home base. Weighing in at just under two hundred and twenty tons, it is the single largest ground vehicle we produce." She turned and walked inside. Shego and Adam followed. Kim stared at Ron, but he didn't seem to notice, unable to take his eyes off Genny's ass. Kim's stare flattened, and she leaned close in, to speak in her ear.
"Ron." She whispered. "She's a hologram." He shook his head, and looked up at her.
"Right, sorry." He smiled dreamily. She favored him an exasperated sigh, and stalked off, to look at the 'RV'. Split into two sections, it was almost eighty feet long, with two jointed sections, probably for increased agility. As wide as a Humvee, it was almost sixteen feet tall, with windows on two levels on all three halves. It was low to the ground, and a horrendous grey. She snorted. :What a show off.: The twelve axles, four under each section, had dual tires on each side, each as tall as her waist. She mounted the stairs to the interior, and looked to her right, into the cockpit. Two chairs, and a steering wheel, no larger than that of her car, which she was willing to bet would fit inside this bus, sat before the driver's seat. A throttle on the left side, had two triggers, and rocked back and forth. Listed along the side, along with detents, marked at five mile increments. One trigger on the thumb, unlocked from the detents when depressed, while the other, she could only guess to it's function. Several rows of switches were marked with various functions, including, 'Deploy Siege cannon', 'Charge Rail Gun', and 'Tuna Fish Sandwhich, crust/no crust'. She really didn't want to know why that last one was there. The pedals on the floor, were mounted on slides, and it was hard to tell why. She turned towards the rest of the bus.
Along the side of a short hall, a full kitchen, if a touch cramped was there. A fridge on one side sat underneath a microwave. Between it and the stove sat a short counter, just large enough to set something between them. The counter and cabinets on the other side were shorter than usual, but it was to be expected. A sink took up the end opposing the stove. The entire kitchen was no more than twelve feet wide. Further on, was a bathroom, with a shower and sink. Kim assumed there was another one further on, with a toliet, but knowing Adam, it was possible that there wasn't. The ceiling was seven feet from the floor, making her bet there was another floor above. She was partially right. A ladder facing the connection tube, lead to a locked door, marked reactor, and computer core. She shrugged and crossed the threshold into the next area. With a higher ceiling, she didn't think there could be anything above the room. On the last wall, a massive wide screen television sat, almost eighty inches, at a thirty five degree angle to the rest of the room. Game consoles sat below it, with a VCR, DVD, and satellite controller sitting above it. Genny stood beside Adam and Shego, with her usual appearance restored, with a few changes. The camo of her shirt, was now blue, with the same shading variances, as were her shorts. Her hair was now the same dark green as her suit had been. Her eyes were now pink, with her complexion darkened. She grinned, winking at Kim. Ron blinked as he walked up.
"Wow." He muttered, looking around.
"There's a second floor, though it only actually works when we're sitting still." Genny informed them. Adam sighed.
"We are sitting still, remember?" Adam muttered.
"Oh." She smiled. "Then allow me." There was a whirring noise, and the shadows on the ground outside lengthened. Adam led them to the back, up another ladder, and onto the second deck. Genny was waiting there. "This is the upper command deck, uncluding the main command systems, such as the radar, both ground, and long air, both folded over the forward carriage, as well as weapon controls, for the defensive miniguns, all twelve of them, suspended eight feet from the ground, enclosed in armored doors, with blow deploy capabilities. A C02 charge detaches the outer door, giving the guns full freedom of movement. Fourty-five degree firing angles, with seven hundred round per minute firing rates, firing standard 7.62mm ammunition. Also capable of AP rounds. Other weapons include a long tom siege gun, mounted on the roof of the rear carriage, as well as an electro-magnetic mass driver in the forward carriage. Direct sattelite uplinks, to two powerful satellite based computers, using nine band signal communications, ensure full contact, no matter what the conditions may be." Genny said all this without drawing breath, making it a tad hard to assimilate.
"Some extra equipment has been brought on board, including exo armor, individually engraved and coded for each of you, four AK-47's, two twin tube rocket launchers, a variety of small arms, including several calibers and makes of handguns, and several archery bows. Ammo has been stored in the rear carriage. Melee weapons are stored in the ceiling of the lower compartment." Genny finished.
Adam grinned, and led them down the ladder, and to the rear carriage. There was a split in the path. One shorter, about five feet tall, short enough for them all to need to duck. "That leads to a garage, and the ammo storage, as well as the laundry. The secondary water tank is there, but there's only enough to run the toliet. The washing machine requires we be hooked to outside utilities, but..." He shrugged. "Up here..."
"Garage?" Shego asked. "How can you fit a car in there?" She asked.
"Your's will, as will Kim's, and Ron's motorcycle. Mine is too tall. The rear of the bus drops into a ramp." Adam replied. He led them up the stairs. "Three bedrooms up here, and a full size bathroom. No tub, but even I can't have everything." He grinned.
"Further on, there are three bedrooms, two lesser, and one Master. The master is interesting, because the bed is as wide as the entire back wall." Shego grinned. "Separated by a head board, to avoid damaging the wall, during..." She grinned at the blushes. "Each one has a full closet, though it's not really walk in. Also overhead storage nets."
"Though, against the back wall, in the garage, is the rear cockpit, allowing one to back this monstrosity up." Genny chuckled. "A dual reactor provides power, allowing the Behemoth to move up to seventy miles an hour, when not using magnetic air rams. With them, it can reach one hundred twenty miles an hour. Each axle is driven with hydraulics, since individual engines would be impractical. All axles steer as one unit, changing direction to acheive a very tight turning radius. Hydraulics also balance us from tipping over, controlled by the driver, using two foot pedals." She commented. "An on-board computer allows for automation of certain functions, as well as co-ordinating defense in case of an emergency. Also accepts voice commands. You four have all been added to it, and I've added Ron to my programming. The forward carriage is smaller than it looks, because it has four vertical launch missile systems for air defense, or less military uses, such as long range surveillance drone deployment."
"Anything else?" Kim asked. Adam shook his head, and so did Shego. Genny spoke up.
"We are well protected in here, from small arms fire, we are nearly invulnerable. Heavier weapons, such as rockets, and RPG's will punch through, but we can stand long enough to return fire with the defensive weapons. EMP shielded, we can withstand a nuclear detonation, though unlike our military counterpart, a direct impact will put us down. Also in the garage, is a special strike vehicle. The spider. Eight legs, it only holds a driver, laying down, but there's very few places it can't reach. The only other thing, is that we float."
"You mean, like a boat?" Kim asked. Genny nodded.
"Yeah. It's not terribly stable, but that's solved with pontoons. We haven't got any, but they have electrically driven turbines, to draw us through the water. Other wise we're a floating target."
"Any reason for that feature?" Ron asked. Genny grinned, and animation replaced her, of an anime Genny, sweat dropping.
"We're, ummm.... Kind of too heavy to transport on most ships, and ferries. I can carry it, but only one piece at a time, and I don't enjoy doing it." She shrugged. "Also, when sitting still, we can deploy legs, similar to those found on heavy construction equipment, to prevent tipping."
"What, is an electro-magnetic mass driver?" She asked. She was fairly sure she knew what it was, but wanted confirmation.
"Rail-gun." He replied simply. Ron caught her as she fainted. Shego elbowed Adam.
"What?" He shrugged.
