Chapter I: The Beginning
The PresentKim Possible sighed as she looked up into the starlit sky from her bedroom window. Her red hair flowed with the night breeze and her emerald orbs gazed at the stars. It was a calm an peaceful night and she rarely had those. Usually her Kimmunicator would beep in a night like that and she would be off saving the world.
It was nice to relax once in a while.
Teenage superhero, some had branded her but in fact, she was just an average girl willing to help others. But sometimes, it's ruining her life. Being called on the worst times, although sometimes at an advantageous time, she rushed to help.
But today, it seemed peaceful.
Suddenly, the house shook as an explosion rocked it. To others, it would seem that the house was under attack but to the Possibles, it was a usual occurrence. Especially if you had tweebs for brothers.
So much for having a peaceful night.
Sighing, Kim walked towards her door and opened it.
"Keep it down, will you?" she said loudly as she exited her room. Jim and Tim Possible exited their rooms looking rather disheveled. Another of their wild experiments went wild.
Sighing, Kim shook her head and made her way towards the kitchen. And when she reached it, she was happily surprised to see Ronald Stoppable there. Her best friend was looking at what her father was working on with unusual interest. Mr. Possible was a rocket scientist. Kim was used to seeing blueprints of his projects on the table and sometimes scattered around.
She wondered what her father was working on now.
"That is sick and wrong, Mr. Dr. Possible," Ron said as he cringed.
"It's not, Ronald. The Odin project will be a great help to the world," her father countered. "This computer will be twice as smart as Wade and could think for itself."
"Don't blame me Doc if one of these days it takes over the world," Ron said with a frown. "And it makes us its slaves."
"So not the drama, Ron," Kim said with a sigh. "I think you've been watching too much science fiction with Cousin Larry again." Cousin Larry was Kim's cousin who was into Sci-fi and fantasy conventions. Ron and Larry meet at least once a month to talk about almost everything from games to movies.
"It could happen," Ron smirked as he crossed his arms. "Something smarter than Wade should not be made. Hey! That rhymed." Kim smiled at him and looked at her father's plans.
"Ron, think of all the good it could do," she argued.
"Think of all the evil," Ron mumbled as he sat down. "At least create a failsafe."
"A failsafe, Ronald?" Mr. Possible was intrigued at the suggestion.
"Yeah. Something to counter this computer of yours when it goes berserk," he said.
"You mean if it went berserk," Mr. Possible said although thinking of the possibilities of Ron's suggestion.
"Trust me, Doc. It will go berserk," Ron said with certainty.
"How would you know?" Kim asked and he merely shrugged.
"Just a feeling, I guess."
"Here's an idea, Ronald," Mr. Possible smiled as he rolled up his blueprints. "Create a "What if" scenario and I'll read it."
"Dad, you're not serious about Ron's suggestion," Kim looked at her father curiously.
"He is right, after all. Every plan needs a back up," Mr. Possible looked at his watch and kissed his daughter. "I'm going to bed, Kimmy cub. I have and early start tomorrow." With a wave, he was out the kitchen. Ron shook his head as he stood.
"Machines thinking like humans? Major Catastrophe there KP," he said as he shivered. "Next thing we know, they'd be plotting global domination and exterminating human life."
"Get real, Ron. When was the last time a machine tried to hurt you?" she asked.
"Last week when Dr. Drakken sent his robots to attack us," Ron said as he crossed his arms. Kim couldn't ague logic like that. With Drakken, every machine was deadly.
"Anyway, the Odin Project will be beneficial to mankind," Kim said with a sigh. "We can't keep the technology from evolving."
"Then what if Drakken got his hands on it? Everything started to be good. It's only humans who made it worse," he said. Kim raised an eyebrow. Words of wisdom from Ron? Who was this person and what did he do with her best friend.
"Ron, even your suggestion to Dad has a drawback," she smirked. "What if someone uses that failsafe to control Odin?" Ron frowned in thought at her friend's words in consideration. "You see. You didn't even think it through. And as you said, even the best intentions may be used in evil."
"You're right, KP," he sighed. "I might have been blowing this out of proportion." Kim smiled at her friend's antics as he poured Kim a glass of juice. "But if I'm right…"
"Roooonnnn…." Kim grumbled wishing she had come down a little later.
… …
The next day, Mr. Dr. Possible went to see the head of the Odin project. He was reluctant to open up the possibility that the supercomputer would go rogue someday. Especially when the head was as arrogant as Dr. Conway D. Sending.
And when Dr. Possible made the suggestion, Dr. Sending went ballistic. He even went towards threatening to re move Mr. Possible from his involvement from the project had he mentioned the word failure in his presence.
Dr. Sending even gloated that his computer was perfect and dismissed Mr. Possible as if he was a stray dog.
Dr. Sending's arrogance made Mr. Dr. Possible think. Was it possible that Ron was right? That the computer may go berserk on them? He needed to something to fight Odin if that time comes. He was not a fool to just let a machine run the world without precautions.
Mr. Dr. Possible decided he would make the failsafe on his own.
And it was up to Ron to think of that failsafe.
Mr. Possible winced at that thought. Perhaps he should ask Wade.
… …
"After considerable research and asking the right persons, mainly Wade, Cousin Larry, Felix, Zeta and Rufus, I Ron Stoppable had devised the perfect countermeasure against the Odin Project."
"Ron, I've been briefed by the lab about the project and their project head even dared me to hack into it. The system overloaded my computers and fried my hard drives. It's a good thing I have a backup computer," Wade Load said from the Kimmunicator as it was faced towards Ron.
Ron was standing in front of the large TV in the Possible's living room. He had, for the past four days, researched heavily on the subject. Translation: he watched every Sci-fi movie about robots that was ever made.
And he had Cousin Larry to thank for that.
His audience consisted of the Possibles, Wade, Rufus, Monique and Felix. The latter two Ron invited because they were already there.
"Mr. Dr. P. told me all about it," Ron said as he played with a remote control. "And I have a solution, Rufus?" At the cue, the naked mole rat closed the blinds and turned off the lights. Ron, using the remote, operated the slide projector. And the first image seen behind him was a picture of a godlike being in old Norse armor.
"To those who are nor acquainted with the project, Odin is the supercomputer being designed at Mr. Dr. Possible's lab at the computer engineering department. So far, this is the most sophisticated computer in the world. And it will be as time progresses."
"Question?" Monique raised her hand. "Why?"
"It's a learning computer," Felix explained. "Mom's working on the units so that Odin could have direct control over them." Felix Renton was the son of Mr. Possible's colleague and worked with robots and machines.
"In theory, the computer would learn how to upgrade itself and fight viruses and hackers," Tim, one of the twins, said as he looked at her.
"In short, it would be able to think for itself," Jim, his twin, continued.
"Which is sick and wrong," Ron frowned as he turned the slide and a picture of an android skeleton. It's shiny exterior held a menacing presence as the grinning skull looked menacingly at them.
"The Terminator. Model T-101. Sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor, mother of the resistance leader John Connor. It failed but the destruction it made for only one unit was horrifying."
"Ron," Kim frowned. His presentation was going nowhere. "That's just a movie."
"Just a movie?" he raised an eyebrow awaiting a challenge. "There are a lot of things that we use today that came from movies. Like the cell phone, the idea was taken from Star Trek, the original series' communicator."
"Continue, Ronald," Mr. Possible really wanted to know what the teen had in mind.
"Anyway, to battle a supercomputer why not make another one?" Ron smiled as he saw everyone's reaction.
"What?" Wade said incredulously. "How is that going to help?"
"Well, this supercomputer will be designed to only, and only, fight Odin when it became berserk. There's a saying that to kill a demon, you send a demon. This computer will counter every move Odin makes. And if Odin send someone into the past to eliminate a threat, the other computer will protect that individual."
"I think Ron's going loco here," Tim cringed at Ron's suggestion.
"It will be perfect and if you need to fight a god, you send a god.
"It will be called, the Ragnarok Project."
/end of 1/
A/n: This is harder that I first thought. Comments, please. And thanks to those who reviewed.
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Chapter II: Ragnarok