------------ch. 7

Inside a Global Justice plane heading back to Middleton 'Rock and her Ron sat in adjoining chairs, while facing them in opposing adjoined seats sat Kim and her Ron.

"I want answers, from both of you" As Kim's gaze shifted from one Ron to another, not sure who to question first, the cat man, or her partner who was carefully holding a sword that by all rights he shouldn't have. The way Ron was holding the sword did seem strange to her, it was like it was some sort of sacred objects to him.

"Since I can smell the fear rising off your body, I guess I'll start, and try and put your mind at rest." Bringing him hand back to his neck as the human image vanished replaced by the feline form, for the first time, Kim could make out the extended claws accessing something on the collar. As he pulled his hand way his collar follow, reaching over from his chair he handed it to Kim. "Just so you can see this is the real me."

Taking the collar, she could she the tell tale signs that this was one of Wades devices. "so how of what you told us was a lie?"

"None of it, I omitted details, but never lied. You have to understand, I've been hiding since this happened" waving his arms up and down his body. "When I first saw you, I considered showing you both everything, but the idea of a Kim, any Kim looking at me with fear, I don't think I could handle that, anger yes, not fear." Looking Kim in the eye's before taking a few deep breaths before beginning his story. "You both know what happened to me at Wanna Weep from our time at lunch, Ron from our tip up here, and for all intents and purposes that was the truth."

"So you did lie to us." as Kim gave him an accusing eye.

"No, GJ did revert me back to my human form, but there were complications. According to the GJ technicians the amount and potency of Gills slime ended us permeating my cellular structure. They said it was dormant, and the chance that it would ever active was very slim, almost microscopic, and including themselves, only 5 labs on the planet could identify the change, to everyone else I would appear completely normal. They promised that they would keep working on a way to remove it when the released me to back to my normal life. On the outside I put on a strong face, but the truth was I was miserable, and Kim knew it, I wasn't sleeping well, and was having nightmares. A few weeks later was the annual ski trip, Kim talked to Barkin, and he in turn smoothed it over with the faculty so I could go, hoping she could get me to relax. In a way it was what I needed, fresh air, nothing to worry about, and I was able to spend time with my best friend. I wasn't really in to the skiing, but Kim was so we agreed she'd do the ski thing, while Rufus and I hung out at the lodge for a few hours. Rufus ended up getting all hot about tracking down Big Foot, and I figured we'd go out and be back in 30 minutes. Didn't work out that way, we met up with Barkin, ended up getting caught by Amy's mutant henchmen, and brought to her lab. Rufus and Mr. Barkin were fused together in to a naked Mole man" at that moment every hair on Ron's body stood up, "which is a mental I didn't need."

"I didn't think it was that bad when I saw it" laughed hi human twin.

"Then your either gay, or yours had on pants"

Ron's face went white as an approximation of what his twin must have seen shot it his mind, "He had pants"

"So you don't call her DNAmy in your reality?" Kim asked

"If she called herself that, she never mentioned it to me. As I was saying, after she made the mole man, she came to me. It turned out she was one of those other 4 people that could detect my differences, as she was ecstatic, she told me such a special person had to join her family of Cuddle Buddies, but as anyone, a special one. You've probably noticed my coloring isn't like any cat on earth."

The 2 nodded not wanting to break his stride.

"That's because I'm not a normal cat, Amy called me a Tima a fusion of a Siberian Tiger and a Puma also known as a mountain lion. It was one of her early works, she didn't go into it much further, but I think it was because merging 2 cats together would be easier than fusing a grasshopper with a deer. When she brought it out I was in bad shape, it was old, probably on its last legs, but I could tell she loved it. She told me she had been waiting a long time to find the perfect way to preserve it, and since she had such success with the mole man, and I was so unique, she fused us together. This may be exclusive to our Amy, but the process imprints her on to them, it makes us follow her, and do her bidding, some how the slime countered that aspect of the transformation on me. When I emerged I was like this but still completely in control of my self, that's also when Kim arrived and attacked. I managed to get Barkin and Rufus back to normal, but something happened during the fight causing the base to self distruct and caused an avalanche. Kim managed to get Barkin, Rufus and Amy out of there and escape down the mountain with her dad, I stayed and was half buried with the base. I managed to dig my self out after only an hour, a few hours after that Kim had GJ up there looking for me and excavated the base. I wasn't really sure what to do but I didn't want anyone to see me like this. But I was careless I watched and ended up leaving a trail up the mountain, Kim found it and followed it, thinking I was one of Amy's experimenters, and that I might know what happened to me-Ron. Apparently Amy had kept her mouth shut about me so Kim had no idea I was a mutant. When she found me she ended up shooting with her lipstick goo gun, as mad as she was I thought she'd kill me then and there since she thought I had killed myself-Ron and taken his-my clothing. She was kinda shocked when I spoke to her, apparently none of Amy cretures they'd found could do that. Even with the full rebuilt," gesturing to his face, "Kim knew it was me, granted the first thing I said was how we met helped, but she still knew. We were air lifted to a GJ lab where they went over me with a fine toothed comb. They tried getting information from Amy but she wouldn't say anything, so the lab techs focused on what they could recover from her lab, for the next 3 days they had zero luck finding a way to reverse the process on me, on everything else she made yes but not me. The slime altered the process, they tried explaining it to me once, but I had no clue what they were talking about, but the gist of it was changing me back was way beyond what they could do with out Amy's help. Help that would never come, apparently Amy knew some people wouldn't take kindly to work, so she took persuasions, in the form of AAME. The Amalgamated Animal Mutation Entity, her trump card, we aren't sure where she kept it, but from what they pieced together it was set on a timer only Amy could reset, if she was captured, AAME would come to her rescue. AAME tore though GJ like it was nothing, at the time, she had a serpentine body, with huge white bird wings, the electrical powers of an electric eel, the skin of a rhino, and the strength of an elephant. She rescued Amy and left, we found out later AAME had a flaw, she was obsessed with finding the perfect mate, and breading a new race of animals. Amy couldn't allow that so when she tried to stop her AAME turned her into a hamster."

"The human was obsessed with mating? and turned her greatest creation in to a hamster?" as the human Ron scratched his head.

"No other way around"

"Then can you do something to help me tell those 2 apart, the names are to similar."

"Fine DNAmy was turned in to a hamster better? Apparently DNAmy had made AAME to well, and she some how ended up knowing almost everything her creator did about manipulation DNA. The kicker is, AAME can still understand DNAmy, something we can't. So I was left out in the cold. Kim stayed with me as much as she could, she even had Wade make that collar your holding. He was tinkering with holograms at the time and made that projector for me, it translates every move I make as a cat in to what it would if I were a human it even has a voice synthesizer so my voice comes out normally."

"Except clothing I take it" as Kim inspected the collar

"Yeah, if I took all my clothing off and turned it on I'd be naked, except I'd be wearing shoes. These feet are not designed for human foot wear, but I can switch the shoes off if I need to. When GJ finally decided I wasn't going to kill anyone they released me in to Kim's care, so the collar came in handy letting me try and resume my life. The school and my parents were told, I'd been buried in the avalanche and had been at a hospital recovering up till then, and Barkin had once more smoothed over the problems with the facility for me. But the change altered more the my outward form, I now had the instincts of a cat, the need to hunt, perceiving some animals as prey. And the biggest thing was the scent I put off, it terrifies more than a few animals including monkeys and mole rats."

"So that's why Rufus won't come out around you"

"And the monkey ninjas acted so weird"

"Yeah, its also why my Rufus is now living with Jim and Tim, I scared him, and at the time I really thought I might end up eating him." Causing the other Ron the laugh that was silenced as his feline twin gave him a look that told him he was very serious. "Over time I managed to get a grip on things to a degree, but I still need to hunt."

"So this is an instinct thing?" as Kim gave him a worried look.

"No, a staying alive thing, I can eat cooked food, but I need fresh meat at least once a week, or my body starts acting strangely, according to the lab techs, my digestive system needs fresh meat at least once a month for specific nutrents to keep my body alive. And despite their best efforts the GJ boys and girls can't find a substitute, out side of bringing me pre killed animals and I won't eat them."

"Why not, it seems easier." as he Ron gave him a weird look.

"Exactly, it's to easy, its cheating. I thought about it for a long time after the change, I know it's thin line, but I can't let an animal just die unceremoniously for me like that. When I hunt, it's as close to fair as I can make it, my speed, strength, and intelligence against their awareness and speed, if they escape or get caught at least to a degree they had a chance."

"Weird philosophy" his twin told him.

"So you going to the park, and watching birds...."Kim couldn't even finish the thought

"Was me waiting for a meal" as he turned away unable to meet her gaze.

"Oh my....."

"I don't eat people, just things cats would eat, well house cats, finding things the cats I'm made of would eat is kind of hard" easing the minds of the 2 opposite him

"Unless you count that time we went to the zoo" as 'Rock grinned at him trying to lighten the mood.

"That was not my fault I wasn't even interested in eating the deer in the petting zoo, they just freaked out."

"Sure they did kitty cat."

"You killed an animal at the zoo?!" freaking the other Ron out

"No, we went for a cheerleading event, I didn't understand all the aspect of my body, of what my scent would do, the whole zoo kind of went crazy, but I never killed anything, I thought about it, but I never acted on those instincs."

Both just kind of looked at him with wide eyes

"Look both of you, I've been with Ron for a year now, I've seen him hunt, I know the images that must be running through your head, I had them my self, when Ron told me this, but he is safe. He wouldn't hurt a fly unless provoked, I know he seems scary but he isn't, he's a sweetheart. The Possibles of our reality even know what he is, and they have no problem letting him hang out with Jim and Tim unsupervised."

"Look me in the eyes Ron, and swear to me you will not hurt us."

"I swear to you Kim, I will not hurt you, if you promise to be quite I'll even let you watch me hunt." grinning

"I'm willing to try and believe you and not a chance on the hunting" Kim didn't even want to think what that would entail.

"Ditto"

"Ok Ron" turning to her partner, "explain the sword."

"yeah well you see KP... the sword, is well."

"Can I ask a question?" the other Ron interjected

"You might get my trust back Ron, I want him to explain the sword."

"But it is important, and it has to do with the sword."

"Fine"

"This is to both of you" looking from one girl to the other, "hypothetically what if you were offered the knowledge to turn lead in to gold, but the price is you could never use the formula for your own personal gain or tell anyone about it, would you want to know?"

"Yeah I guess so" 'Rock shrugged

"Of course, but what does that have to do with anything?"

"You'll see Kim, now suppose someone very close to you contracted some kind of horrible affliction, and the only way to save them was to use the knowledge of making gold to fund research to save them, would you do it? And would it go against your promise not to use it for personal gain?"

"I'm not sure since its not really for personal gain, I'd try and do it" Kim finally told them after thinking for a few minutes

"I'll go with what she said."

"Final question if said friend asked you how you did it, would you tell them?"

"What would happen if I did?"

"That's not the point Rock' just answer the question."

"This is about the sword, isn't it Ron?" Looking at the cat-man

"No this is a hypothetical question, nothing more."

Kim carfully looked over both Ron's, and ran the words over in her mind, "Alright, I won't pry, but promise me, if you need my help with this situation you'll let know," praying her best friend would heed her words.

"Thanks KP, if I could tell you about it I would, with any luck some day I will but right now, I can't" as Ron gave his partner a smile and continued to fawn over the sword.

"So is there anything else I need to know about either of you 2" as Kim looked at the 2 Rons'

"The cat DNAmy fused me with was female, so I'm a hermaphrodite" As the other 2 just stared at him wide eyed jaws open.

"He's joking guys" as Bonnie did her best not to laugh her butt off, "he told me the same thing when I found out about him."

"And your sure about this how." The two just gave his human counterpart a grin.

"That is sick" as Kim did her best not to let the thought form.

"What you think... whoa wait you think, no , long story short, his pants were torn off during a mission, we've never... we're friends."

"What she said, but with out the rambling." wrapping his arm around Bonnies shoulder, as she blushed and elbowed him in the gut.

"Not to say Ron wouldn't be a good catch, once you get past his little eccentricities, and fur, he's more human than most of the guys I've gone out with. And before you go off on the whole different species thing, Ron is still very human, biologically despite how he looks, and there are plenty of people who find fur attractive in a partner."

Kim slowly looked Bonnie over, looking for any suggestion in her face of body language that would tell her she was lying or joking, and finally came to the conclusion that either she wasn't or Bonnie had rehearsed the speech more times than she cared to think about. "Your lucky to have someone so loyal Ron, that more than anything tells me I should give you a second chance." She reached back over and gave him back his collar, Ron slipped it back around his neck but left the hologram off.

"Good, I'd hate to have any Kim as an enemy." Smiling at Kim showing off his teeth, sending chills through the others, as images of him eating flowed through their minds, something Ron could more or less tell by their scents, as he activated the collar, his human face revealing a genuinely hurt look.

Ron figured it out before Kim, at what had just happened with his alter self, "You can turn off the hologram, you don't need it here, its just.... you know the teeth, they're scary. We'll get use to it, we will."

Realization dawned on Kim as Bon spoke, "he really can smell fear it wasn't a joke, and it hurt him as much as insulting him would hurt.... a normal person. So that's why he did it,'

Kim found her self looking at her lap, "I should be old enough to know to look beyond the outside."

"Its the reaction any normal person would have KP," as the cat Ron took her hand, not suprised that she tried very hard not to flinch at the feeling of hologram covered fur. "Some times I forget that despite everything, even realities your still normal." He was a little taken back as brought her other hand to his face, a ran it through his fur.

"I'm sorry, I wish I could say something to make you believe that."

"You don't need to, I can tell, I can smell more than fear" grinning

"Then do me a favor, turn off the hologram, I don't want you to hide around me." Which he did, her hand still on his face.

"I can't talk you in to hunting with me can I?"

"Not a chance in hell" smiling

"Had to try," slowly pulling away, leaning back in to his chair, "but I'm not surprised, took me months to convince Kim and Rock' respectively to come with me too. Really it's sort of a shame, you could step up your stealth skills a notch or 2."

"So that's how you got in my room."

"Bingo KP, and just out of curiosity, am I going to have to find a new place to sleep till we find a way to get us home?"

"You 2 can still stay at my house."

"So tell me," a wicked smile crossing the cat's lips, "do know where Will Duu is right now."

"Why?"

Ron rubbed his hands together, his smile getting wider, "well you see....."

Global Justice private Air strip, in side the plane

Will walked through the entrance to the cabin shared by the 4, Ron's back to him hood up. "All right Miss Possible, I'm here and I must say I agree with you, I should be in charge of those ruffians, after all I do know Duff better than...." Ron's head jerks around, hood pulled back, ears pressed down against his head, claws extended, lips raised showing his teeth locked in a snarl, a feline hiss escaping his lips. Will barley managed a sound as he jumped, spun around charging for the door, hitting face first into the door way, slamming back on to the ground unconscious.

"OK Ron I admit it that was more fun than I thought I'd be." Kim was holding her sides laughing, the human Ron had fallen out of chair he was laughing so hard, while Bonnie was doing her best to start breathing again.

"I never get tired of doing that to people." easily impersonating a Cheshire cat.

"He won't be happy when he wakes up." as Kim checked Will just to be sure he hadn't hurt him self to badly

"The day I care what Will Duu thinks is the day I shave all my fur off. So you wanna grab Ron, I'll get Rock' and lets head home."

All things considered it was late by the time the 3 got back to Kim's place, Ron already peeling off to hit his place, everyone else in the had been asleep for at least an hour. Luckily the dark had made it so Ron didn't need his hologram, the second he walked through the door, he took it off completely giving it to 'Rock, and he say Kim giving him a questioning look.

"Wade designed the collar so that if I'm asleep or get knock out the hologram actives, which we can't have if this is going to work." grinning as put his coat on the couch, and dropped to the floor, falling asleep almost instantly.

"Give him points few people can fall asleep as fast as Ron."

"Definitely faster than any person I've ever seen" Kim agreed as the 2 went up stairs and to bed.

Next morning the tweebs were the first down to the living room, but true to their heritage they didn't freak out,

"Ika bica boo"

"Who shaw" as they gathered around Ron's sleeping form, lightly poking him not sure what to do with him and circling him. They didn't even notice as his ears moved, one on the tweebs the other at the door way, and his nose twitched, waiting for everything to fall in to place. Another minute of poking and the signals were there, as he spun around grabbing both tweebs by the shirts forcing both into the couch and let out a hiss, his head moving from one boy to the other, both their eyes wide and their tongues no longer capable of moving.

"Now what have we learned boys" Ron's head moving from Jim to Tim, "That's right don't approach things you don't understand"

Laugher finally erupted from the hall as Kim fell on the ground and in to the door way with Bonnie following soon after. Ron just grinned as he let go of the boys as the Doctors Possible ran into the hall from the kitchen to see what was so funny, looking from the girls to their son's paralyzed in fear on the couch and a cat man standing in the living room.

"I take it you liked it KP?" as the girl weakly nodded still on the floor, "Try not to wet your self, it's not that funny." As he walked over them, past the Doctors who were in a mild state of shock, and moved up the stairs to the shower.

It took a minute but Kim finally got herself under control and explained everything to her parents and brothers.

"THAT WAS SO COOL" was all the tweebs could say though Kim's explanation

"And you are sure he's safe?" as Mrs. Possible wore a very weary look on her brow.

"I promise you Ron's very safe to be around, we were just having a little fun with your boys." as Bonnie gave the elder woman a grin of assurance.

"And don't worry I'm taking him to school, so you won't have to worry about him staying here."

"And the still human Stoppable is coming over, and we'll be following the classes via comm link."

"All right, but if I find out he's sharpened his claws on the furniture..."

"Won't happen sir, I may look like feral, but I still have some civility in me, your furniture is quite safe." As Ron descended the stairs dipping water from his soggy face but dressed ready for school, his collar around his neck.

"I though cats licked themselves clean?" as Tim eyed him.

Dropping down to look eye to eye with Tim giving him a half threatening half joking tone, "Feline body, human hygiene, unless you want a hair ball in your bed?"

"Ica Bica Boo"

"Who Sha"

"Sweet, do it"

"yeah that would be so cool to study"

Ron could only bring his fingers to the temples of his nose and groan, "I just opened Pandora's box didn't I?"

"Yes you did Ron, luckily we have to go, Ron should he here soon Bonnie."

"I'll take car of him Kim"

"So we're off, your collar will work when it's wet right?"

Ron's human face replaced his feline one after a quick swipe past his neck, "Water proof, give Wade some credit." Simultaneously 3 comms began to go off, "well speak of the devil"

"What's the sitch Wade, and don't you dare tell me Shego and Drakken are gone."

"No their still in their cells KP, guards check on them every hour just to be sure, and yes you 2 they did the full cavity searches this time. I have good news, well depending on your point of view, Shego's awake, the GJ doctors have given her a clean bill of health, the remnants of the collar show it to be a really nasty piece of work, worse than originally thought. All things considered she should dead, but apparently, the other Shegos strike hit in such a way as to take it off with doing a maximum of damage to the wearer, almost like.."

"That sly fox, she planed to have her twin tear it off" Bonnie couldn't help but laugh a bit.

"And if these reports are any indication," Wade continued from the comms., "she is not happy, They even had to post extra guard at both cells, just in case Shego gets loose."

"In case she tries to free Darkken." forcing a snicer from Ron, Bonnie, and Wade at Kim's words, "What did I miss?"

"More like when Shego tries to kill Drakken for enslaving her," as bonnie regained her composer, "I'm glad she's free, she didn't deserve the cards she was delt."

"Sorry to but in Bonnie, but I want done, Monkey Fist, Duff and our Shego have been transferred to the proper authorities, and are awaiting trail. The lab techs at GJ have finally gotten the Trans spectral harmonic generator from Professor Konac, best estimates show we can send our 4 guests in 2 days."

"Home?" Ron's voice coming off a little sad as he looked at the floor

"Lets not jump for joy or anything kitty cat" as Bonnie wrapped her arm around him.

Kim reached out and put her hand under Ron's chin to meet her eyes, "I'm probably still in you reality, I don't doubt you'll find her, just have a little faith." giving him a little smile.

Giving her a smile back, "As I said before, theirs a lot of my sister in you."

"And a lot of you not in school" as the human Ron walked through the door, "go I don't need another late mark on my record."

"Cluck Cluck" as Kim and Ron walked past him

"I am not a mother hen"

"Good, if you were I might have to see if you tasted like raw pigeon" as his feline twin shut the door behind them.