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And now for our next exciting episode of Kim Possible.
Ron and the teen ninjas left Kim's house. Ron wanted to check on her and reassure her that everything was going to be okay. It took a bit to get through the numbed teen hero, but he was able to get her to respond. Bonnie was still there following his instructions. This might take some getting used to, but he had always liked Bonnie. The fact that she didn't like him, or didn't care to have him around was irrelevant.
"Okay, we know how we are going to play this right?"
"Yes, Stoppable-San. When we get the hostage we get him to safety then signal you."
"Right, don't come back. Unlike Kim I can't fight to my fullest when those I car about are in danger. Yori, if something happens make sure Kim is okay. That is your duty. Promise me you won't let anything happen to her."
"I swear Ron-San."
"Good, thank you. Okay let's go."
Bonnie watched the three turn down the road and disappear. Turning she looked at her main rival, at least in her mind, sitting on the bed clutching a pillow. This was so unbelievable. Kim was despondent and ineffectual and Ron was out to save the day. RON, the klutz, spaz, and perpetual toy of the bullies. Bonnie had risen to the position she was in in the school by being able to look at someone and instantly figure out if they were a threat, useful or useless. Ron had been the third in junior high, Kim the first.
This afternoon in Bueno Nacho she looked again at Ron. He HAD changed. She didn't know when but now she kicks herself for not reevaluating people on a regular basis. How much further could I have gone she kept wondering. Ron had a sense about him. A presence that not even the top jocks had. The only one near to him like that was now sitting in front of her on the verge of emotional collapse. She sat down next to Kim.
"He'll be okay. Don't ask me how, but Ron will come back."
Kim looked up to Bonnie. "Why? Why are you doing this Bonnie? Why is this happening?"
"I am doing this for the same reason that I do pretty much everything. To get ahead. Have you LOOKED at Ron lately? I haven't, but today I DID. Whatever Ron has I want on my side. I know I can't be close to him like you. But when he hits school like that I can ride in the draft."
Kim looked at the other girl. "You mean that you are doing this for your own twisted reasons? When Josh or Ron could be killed."
Bonnie shook her head. "Josh won't die because Ron won't let that happen. He made you the promise that you would have Josh back. As to Ron dying. Won't happen. Not with what I saw?"
"What do you mean, 'What you saw.'"
"Kim this goes no further than us and if you tell anyone I will make sure they know you are crazy." Bonnie took a deep breath and looked away. "I get glimpses of things. From the past and future. Ever notice how I am wearing something the day before it becomes trendy. People around here say I set trends. I don't. I follow them from the front. I can get glimpses of people also. Today I did that to Ron. His was different than it was in junior high. Something happened to him that changed everything. Before he was just a manager at some fast food place. Now. I don't know what I saw. But it wasn't his death. It's confusing, you know, every so often I can't control it and I see another image of someone laid on top of them. Like transparent paper dolls. Sometime it is the future, sometimes the past."
Bonnie paused and looked at Kim. "Yeah I know I call you a freak. But from what you do and what I do, I am the freak. And I can't let anyone KNOW!"
Bonnie sat down tears welling up in her eyes. Kim put her arm around her. "Sometimes you never know what someone else is going through." The girls look at each other without saying anything then look away.
"Any idea how this will end?"
"Sorry Kim. Somethings when I think about them go blank."
"SIGH. Thanks anyway."
"So have you thought about what happens next?"
"Yes, Ron gets Josh from Fiske, then I hunt him down like the animal he is."
"Admiral idea. I meant the big picture. After we graduate. Where are you going to college? Are you going to keep doing the save the world thing? What about Ron?"
"Well I have a couple of offers for college. I have it narrowed to two. Ron hasn't gotten any offers. I guess I can call in some favours to get him in where I go. I am sure we will have time to handle a mission now and then."
Kim stopped while Bonnie shook her head. "Kim, With your grades and parents you can get in anywhere. Add in the fame part and some of these schools will pay you. Ron on the other hand is just getting by. His parents, while I am sure are nice enough, are not high level people in their fields. Do you know what his college fund looks like? Kim, the real world takes money. I can help, but I want in on this."
"What are you saying Bonnie?"
Bonnie jotted down some numbers and handed the slip of paper to Kim. "Those are the numbers to the next Lotto. It is going to be one hundred twenty-five million dollars. You can bank roll all of these operations in style for that. I want a position on the team. I don't want to go out and fight them. Been there with you. Not interested. I can help you trying to figure out where they will hit next though. Proactive, preemptive saving as it were. With that type of money the only place you could go for college that wouldn't let Ron in would be Vassar."
Kim looked dumbfounded at Bonnie. "Why are you doing this? I thought you hated me."
"Not hate Kim. I saw you as competition. Pure and simple. The time is coming soon when we will both be small fish in a very large sea of popularity. You are famous. That helps. If I am associated with that it spills over to me. I am not as altruistic as you are. My abilities falter when I try to use them for direct financial gain. I can give the knowledge to someone else and benefit through them and things work okay. So what about it Kim? Want to crank this up to the big leagues?"
Ron was wearing a silk gi supplied by Hirotaka. Yori and Hirotaka were flanking him in theirs. They were walking in the warehouse district heading to the meeting location. Turning the corner they saw Monkey Fist and Josh. This is it, thought Ron, no turning back.
"Okay Monkey Fist, let him walk this way and I will start."
"Ah, Stoppable. Come to save your friends lover. How progressive of you."
"No, I came to take an innocent away from the little war that we have going on. After that I am going to make sure that there is one less person with the mystical monkey power. So let's get this started."
Monkey Fist pushed the trembling boy forward. "If you run you will die."
Josh stumble walked making sure he did not move quickly. He saw the figure of Ron approaching. Well it looked like him. He didn't move like Stoppable. It was smooth as if he wasn't moving just everything around him was.
When they got closer he heard him. "When we pass each other my friends will take you to safety. I will handle everything else. And what I do here will not compare to what I will do to you if you EVER do Kim wrong."
Ron moved about fifteen more feet forward and stopped. Josh kept going and when he got within twenty feet of the teen ninjas they moved. Well that is the closest thing that Josh could compare it to. All of the sudden they were beside him and the next the surrounding landscape was blurred.
"Okay Monty, we wait for my signal then I will kick your ass."
"And what, pray tell, would you do if I start before your signal."
"Kick your ass and make sure that EVERYONE knows about your lack of honour in a personal fight with and honorable foe."
Monkey Fist humphed sulkily and started to wait.
Kim and Bonnie were ironing out details of their deal as there came a rapping at her bedroom window. Outside on the edge were Hirotaka and Yori with Josh.
"Just as Stoppable-San promised. Yori will stay here while I let Stoppable-San know."
Hirotaka seemed to take a step back and then he was gone. Yori helped Josh in from the outside while Kim helped him from inside. Yori slipped in after him. She looked around the room.
"We now wait for Ron-San."
She took a position at the window. Kim didn't see her eyes, but she knew Yori was scanning the environment for any sign of threats, or Ron.
Kim looked at Josh and hugged him. "Josh I was so worried. Are you okay?"
"Uh, yeah, could you tell me what is going on?" Josh looked around the room, from Kim to Bonnie, to the mysterious girl that helped carry him back here at a blur.
"You were kidnapped by one of my enemies. Well, he is more of Ron's arch nemesis. He wanted to trade you for Ron. I am sorry Josh. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to lose you, but I couldn't have sent Ron to him. Ron chose to go on his own. And now you are here safe, thanks to Ron."
Josh just slumped to the ground. Kim sat next to him and hugged him. He felt Bonnie put her hand on his shoulder. And he thought he heard the mystery girl say something in Japanese.
Ron was still standing in front of Monkey Fist, all of a sudden something flew next to his head impaling itself in the ground in front of him. He glanced down and smiled.
"Okay Monty, it is time to end this."
Monkey Fist was startled at the appearance of the object, "What is that?"
"That is a kunai, and also my sign."
"Then it is your end Stoppable."
"I don't think so Monty.'"
Ron pulls off his gi top and reveals the Lotus Blade formed into armour around him.
"It ends for someone tonight. But it will NOT be ME," the Lotus Blade surged and formed a mask of a Japanese monkey demon.
Up next: THE FIGHT!!
