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Kim Possible & Gundam Wing:

Silent Wars

Chapter 4: Kim and Ron, Gundam Pilots

000

Kim and Ron stood within the enormous mobile suit bay. The gray walls, the giant mobile suits, the stench of motor oil, fresh paint and metal filled their noses. They walked along with their Gundam pilot teachers looking up at the Gundanium giants around them. Looking at each mobile suit they felt dwarfed by them as if they had stepped into some fairy tale with these metal giants as their villains. They passed the flighty Wing Gundam, the frightening DeathScythe, the fully armed Heavyarms, the armored Sandrock, and the Shenlong.

At the end of this line up were two suits that Kim and Ron wanted to see for a very long time, they were like kids waiting for a new bike and then finally seeing it. They were filled with such elation that they sped ahead of the other Gundams to catch a glimpse of them. Towering over the miniature Ron and Kim were the red Mercurius and the blue Vayeate. Looking at these two suits, it was clear that the right choice was made.

"How do you like them?" Quatre asked.

"I like" Ron smiled gawking at his prize after so much hard training that he had to go through, "man, KP! We are going to kick Shego's butt!"

"Kick butt." Rufus cheered

"Would you two like to take your suits for a test run?" Quatre asked

"Sure." Kim answered, "How do we get in?"

"Just say open."

"Open?" Kim and Ron asked together

The cockpit doors to the Mercurius and the Vayeate came wide open. With the door came a singular cable that was stretching down to the ground. As if someone within the cockpit was lowering the rope down to the Gundam pilots and was waiting for them to come back up. Ron and Kim looked at each other stunned wondering how this was accomplished.

"Just one more thing." Quatre held up one finger as if he was going to tell the single most important thing, "There are space suits in the cockpit. Put them on before you go out into space."

"Got it." Kim smiled as she went to the blue Vayeate and Ron went to the red Mercurius. Kim saw two straps on the cable that looked like shoe stirrups from a horse saddle. She took hold of the one near her head and placed her foot in the one closest to the ground. She wanted to ask Quatre what to do now but before she could even ask she felt the rope start to pull upward to the cockpit.

"Ah!" A scream came from Kim's left, and she knew who it had to be. She turned her head and her hunch had hit the bulls-eye. Ron was dangling by the foot stirrup of the cable as it was pulling up to the cockpit. She looked down to the Gundam pilots and most of them had their hands on their faces in embarrassment. All of them had a look that said he really is an idiot. Then again, Kim couldn't blame them, Ron was known to do stupid things but somehow they always worked out in the end. She looked and found Ron straightening himself out as he got to the cockpit.

She climbed into the cockpit seeing how fresh and new everything was. Every panel, every button and every screen was glistening with its newness. She took in a deep whiff and it all smelled like new pants or the interior of a brand new car. There on the seat was a space suit and with the training she got she was able to put the suit on within a few minutes. With her helmet on and the space visor up she looked out to the Mercurius and she saw that Ron was already suited up along with his "naked mole rat" Rufus in his own space suit. Both were giving their thumbs up to Kim that said, "we're ready to go Kim."

"We're ready to go!" Kim called down to the Gundam pilots. They heard Kim's message and the Gundam left the mobile suit bay. From Kim's training she knew that if the Gundam pilots stayed in the mobile suit bay and the door were to be opened, they would be sucked or more accurately blown out into space. Kim closed her space visor and she called to Ron and Rufus to do the same thing.

The two sat back in their cockpits, seat belting into the cockpit chairs and attaching the oxygen and nitrogen hoses to the space suits. They heard the flow of the gases as they passed into their suits. They breathed in the artificial air that made Kim think of going to the dentist and being gassed with Nitrous Oxide. Next they turned on the suits, they watched as the new lights began to burn within the controls and hearing the computers start to whir.

"Way cool." Kim smiled like a kid in a candy store when the screens began to display the outside, "Ron, come in Ron. Can you hear me?"

A window popped up to Kim's left and there she saw the face of Ron behind his space helmet, "I'm here KP. This thing is cool, it's like one big video game!"

"Totally." Kim agreed, "now we just wait for the door to open."

Kim looked out to her right screen where the door to space lay. Slowly she watched it open to the blackness of space, the specks of stars and the glow of the Earth in the distance. She never truly stopped to admire the beauty of the Earth, especially from this distance. IT was incredible with the white sheen of the Earth's atmosphere, the deep blue oceans, and the brown-green tones of the great continents. The view was broken when a small window came up with Quatre's face in it.

"Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable." He said, "this will be your test run of the Mercurius and the Vayeate. Are you ready?"

"Born and ready to go." Kim smiled

"I'm ready to bust some moves." Ron confirmed.

"Gundams Mercurius and Vayeate, Launch!" Quatre commanded.

With the vast amounts of training Kim and Ron have gone through the Mercurius and the Vayeate launched as if they were professional Gundams.

"Yea-ha!" Ron screamed with glee, "man, this is cool!"

Kim couldn't agree more, the actual feeling of piloting her own mobile suit made her feel special. Kim never drove a car on her own but flying this mobile suit gave her a very good idea of what it must feel like. Except a car can't be driven in space. Bringing the view around she saw the space station in view of her forward screen.

"Deploying targets." Quatre's voice stated.

From the space station came a small swarm of lights. To Ron in the Mercurius and Rufus at his side he had a small flashback to his childhood. It was of Camp Wannaweep; one of the worst summers that he'd ever experienced. During that time, Ron had mistaken a beehive for a pinecone. He had grabbed it and watched the bees swarm out and they stung him like mad. He knew then what a pincushion felt like. Watching the targets come out of that station made him think about it and cringe in fear. Then he felt the controls of the Mercurius at his fingertips and his confidence swelled like a balloon with water. He was armed and ready. He would no longer be afraid.

"Begin!" Quatre commanded.

Kim started it all, using the enormous beam cannon of the Vayeate. She felt the whir of the generator within the suit. Even with the cannon charging like a camera flash she moved the target sights. She wanted to make sure that when the cannon was ready to fire that she would hit the targets and not empty space, the station, or even worse Ron in the Mercurius. Moving the target sights around to match the oncoming objects she kept seeing the same message in her screen.

"Charging"

She breathed heavily in annoyance waiting for the sign to go away. She wanted to see the kind of power that this suit could demonstrate. With the cannon charging and the targets moving closer, another obstruction came in her way, the red Mercurius. It dashed into the field of targets like a soldier into enemy territory. She watched as it took one of its disk shields out from its armament. It was the one shaped like the cup and handle of a fencing foil. From it came a long green beam of light like a lightsaber. This was the beam sword for the Mercurius. The suit landed itself inside the field of targets, it hacked, it slashed and diced the targets like fruit in a blender.

The fighting that the Mercurius did was so fast and incredible that Kim completely forgot that it was Ron Stoppable that was in there. The same boy who would act goofy like the kid he was. She remembered back to how the other cheerleaders would laugh and run when Ron wanted to date them. She smirked in the thought of telling all of them how Ron piloted a big robot called a Gundam like a pro. She brought herself back to reality when she looked to find the "charging" sign was gone. She took aim but wanted to make sure she wouldn't hit the Mercurius. Each time she moved her sights the red suit was in the way. Her heart jumped at the thought of pulling the trigger and injuring her best friend and partner.

"Move Ron." She muttered out of frustration.

"I'm a little busy here, KP." Ron replied

Kim remembered the internal COM system between each mobile suit. She felt like slapping her forehead for not remembering that fact. No sense in worrying about it now, she thought. She turned her attention back to the targets and found a clean shot. She pulled the trigger and felt the whole suit shake as a beam shot out to the targets. After the exploded like fireworks Kim found out she took out half of them.

"Wow," she thought, "this thing really does pack a punch."

Next she controlled the Vayeate to pull out its beam saber. It extended in a glowing green beam with a great intense hue that light up the cockpit from the screens. She ignited the thrusters and flew to the target field. With the beam saber in hand and the Mercurius with her she sliced, diced, hacked and lopped the targets. They were doing it so prolifically that when the last target was shot down it had felt like only a few minutes had passed. Had they been there on that battlefield for such a short time?

"You passed with flying colors." Quatre congratulated

"Booya!" Ron shouted with his school boy giddiness.

Do-do-do-do-do.

Kim's Kimmunicator beeped, she took it out and pressed the receive button like a cell phone. She only knew to say one thing when she answered it.

"What's the stitch?" She asked

She saw the familiar face of Wade, the very person who could hold the answers to her questions. Wade took a sip of his fountain soda, licked his lips for the sweetness, and gave his report.

"I found her." He said with a sheepish smile.

"'Bout time." Kim moaned.

"Give me a break, Kim. Shego did an extremely excellent job of covering her tracks. Even better than Dr. Drakken."

Kim shrugged, "So, where is she?"

"The Antarctic."

"Burr!" Kim shuttered, "No wonder we had such a hard time trying to find her."

"I've sent the message to Preventer as well, Good luck."

"Thanks Wade."

000

Back on the station all of the Preventer Gundams were briefed on the location of Shego within the Antarctic. Though for Ron and Kim they had other things on their minds. It was a feeling that the two of them have had since the first week they arrived on this station, homesickness. The two of them missed their homes, the great pleasures of it; they even missed the annoyances. Ron missed having the girls laugh at him with his attempts of asking them on dates. Yet that didn't give him the bigger effect of homesickness, there was something else that he missed terribly. It was Beuno Nacho, the local Mexican fast food restaurant; Ron missed that more than anything else in all of Middleton. All of it, their burritos, the nachos, tacos, and even his own creation, the naco, it all made him homesick. Kim herself missed the annoyances of Bonnie on the cheerleading squad, the pressures that she had to face from day to day and even her little brothers, Jim and Tim. She was just as homesick as Ron.

The only comfort that Kim and Ron had were the video emails that Ron and Kim's family would send them. Ron remembered how his mom would always be worried about him being up in space and all. Though his father was impressed that his boy was finally going somewhere and it wasn't to the Beuno Nacho. Still they said how much they missed him and Kim's family also expressed how much they missed her too. Even the twins, Tim and Jim were missing here at the dinner table. How it was so empty without her and her mom said the same along with her dad. Though the most surprising was the video mail from Kim's cheerleading squad, all of them missed her terribly. Thankfully Bonnie was keeping the squad together, much to the dismay of Kim. Still she and Ron felt incredibly homesick and it wouldn't be for the last time or maybe it would since the defeat of Shego would be close. The two of them imagined how good it would feel to be back home. Still, they had to focus on the mission at hand, who knows what kind of evils Shego could be planning.

To be continued…