Chapter 6
The Missing
The next morning, Ron woke up early, something was bothering him, so he contacted Wade before he had even changed into his clothes,
"'Sup, Ron?" Wade asked as soon as his face appeared on the screen,
"I got a feeling that something's wrong, did Bonnie report in last night?" Ron asked,
"No, and the weird part of it is, she didn't return home last night either." Wade said,
"Well, call Kim over the ring, she knows where to go." Ron said, now heading for his wardrobe, and changing into a blue suit, with a similar colored fedora.
At the Possible home:
Kim was sitting down for breakfast with her family, when her ring began to glow,
'Oh, great, what does Ron want?' Kim thought, looking at her ring, at that time, something in the back of her mind told her that trouble was brewing,
"I gotta go." Kim said, standing up from the table, and leaving the kitchen, her father followed her out to the living room,
"What's going on, Kimmie?" he asked, looking at Kim's ring,
"I'm needed." Kim said, looking at her dad,
"Okay, but be careful." Mr. Dr. Possible said, kissing his daughter on the forehead, and watching her walk out the door.
Later, at The Sanctum:
Kim walked into the large room that was The Sanctum, seeing Ron sitting on a kind of couch, she walked over to him, and sat down,
"'Sup, Ron?" she asked,
"Bonnie's gone missing." Ron said, his gaze never leaving the ceiling,
"Are you sure?" Kim asked,
"Use the powers God gave you, KP, think." Ron replied, now looking at Kim,
"You're right, she's in danger." Kim said, her eyes changing color,
"Anything else?" Ron asked, looking at Kim, who was breaking into wherever Bonnie was,
"I can't tell, too much activity in the area." Kim said,
"What kind of activity?" Ron asked,
"The mental kind, I'm being blocked off." Kim said, her eyes going back to their normal green,
"Did you at least get a fix on her location?" Ron asked,
"I saw the space center from a window behind Bonnie's head, but nothing else." Kim said,
"How far away did it look?" Ron asked,
"I'd say about a quarter mile from the front gate." Kim said, smiling slightly,
"That's just an empty lot," Ron said, then, a light came on in his head, "do me a favor, Kim, find out if there has ever been anything there, and meet me at my house with it."
"Got it." Kim said, heading for the stairs,
"Oh, and KP, be careful, and keep everything in the back of your mind." Ron said, reminding Kim to keep people from invading her mind,
"No big, Ron, I'll see you in a few." Kim said, walking up the spiral staircase, and out of the door.
Later that evening:
"I got something on that old lot, Ron." Kim said, holding onto a huge manila folder,
"Let's see it." Ron said, holding out his hand, Kim handed him the folder,
"Hmm, it looks like the plans to a huge manor house." Ron said, looking at the blueprints,
"Ron, that lot's been vacant for at least five years." Kim said, looking at the plans in front of them,
"Is it?" Ron asked, making Kim doubtful,
"I'm not sure, you've taught me that anything can be possible for someone who can cloud a person's mind." Kim replied,
"You got it, you know, Lamont had that same problem many years back, someone had hypnotized the entire population of New York, making them not see a twenty story hotel at the corner of Second and Houston." Ron said,
"Wow, to hypnotize five million people, that's a feat, even for someone as mentally endowed as you." Kim said,
"Not really, Kim." Ron said, smiling,
"What do you mean by that?" Kim asked,
"I got the whole city believing that The Shadow doesn't exist, that he's some kind of urban legend, remember." Ron said, touching his finger to his temple,
"True, now, how are we going to get Bonnie out?" Kim asked,
"Did you see who was guarding her?" Ron asked,
"A bunch of monkeys." Kim replied,
"Monkey Fist," Ron said, the frown on his face becoming more pronounced, "and you said you were having trouble locking onto the exact place?"
"Yeah, why?" Kim asked,
"Oh my God, Monkey Fist has the same power I got." Ron said, his face going white,
"Oh, no, we're in trouble, Ron." Kim said, her face falling,
"Not really, it's all a question of mind over matter, I don't mind, 'cause he doesn't matter." Ron replied, smiling,
"So, you're going to bust Bonnie out of 'Fort Ghost,' right?" Kim said, looking at Ron hard,
"That's the general idea." Ron said,
"I'm going with you, Ron, and don't try to stop me." Kim said, now disappearing behind a changing screen, and into a set of mission clothes that Ron kept there,
"Wouldn't have it any other way." Ron said, smiling.
Later that evening, in the hidden manor near the Middleton Space Center:
Monkey Fist had been pacing the room for over four hours, he was worried that Lamont Cranston had broken into his defenses, and found out where he is,
"If Yenko has found me out, then we must take the appropriate measures." he said to his monkey ninjas, who all began to shriek with happiness,
"To your stations, and let no one into this house." Monkey Fist said, making his minions disperse, but there was already someone in the house, Kim Possible had snuck in through a kitchen window, while Ron had slid in under a gap in the door,
"I hate it when you do that, Ron." Kim said in a low voice, so that only she, and Ron could hear,
"Sorry, Kim, I can squeeze through where you can't, if you only had the power to cloud a person's mind, it could be so much easier for you." Ron's voice said from beside her,
"But I don't, you even said so, remember." Kim said, reminding him of a training session a few weeks back, when Ron had told her that she was unable to cloud a person's mind, due to the power she already possessed,
"But our two powers combined will be more than a match for monkey boy." Ron said, chuckling,
"True, don't you think it's time to make your presence known?" Kim asked,
"Yeah, it sure is." Ron said, filling the entire house with a bone chilling laugh.
Up in a second floor room, Monkey Fist stopped, and turned his attention to his captor,
"Looks like The Shadow has taken my invitation, he'll soon regret it." the monkey master replied, pulling out a sword with a glowing blue blade, Bonnie's eyes got as wide as silver dollars upon laying eyes on the Lotus Blade,
"The Lotus Blade." she whispered,
"Oh, you know of this." Monkey Fist replied, smiling,
"I've heard Ron talk about it before." Bonnie said, a grimace of rage on her face,
"I'm sure you have, my dear, he and I are the only two living beings on earth who can manipulate it, since that rodent of his has already met its maker." Monkey Fist cackled, it wasn't too long ago, that Rufus had died of natural causes, he had been found by Ron, shortly before he had left for New York, he had died in the night,
"Are you talking about Rufus, he died ten years ago." Bonnie said, her voice showing more anger than her face,
"It will soon be your problem no more, Miss Rockwaller." Monkey Fist said, smiling at a corner of the room, where a man walked out of it, he looked familiar to Bonnie, then she saw his face,
"Josh Mankey, since when did you hang around losers like this." Bonnie replied upon noticing who she was looking at,
"Since Kim Possible decided that she was too good for me, and began dating that stumblebum, Stoppable." Josh replied,
"That was ten years ago too, you've held that grudge since then, what's wrong with your head?" Bonnie said, unbelieving that Josh Mankey was harboring a grudge on Ron,
"Absolutely nothing." Josh replied, looking at Monkey Fist, and smiling,
"Find The Shadow, and bring him here, he'll die at my hands." Monkey Fist said, looking at Josh, who nodded, and left the room.
Near the second floor landing:
Kim had ran up the steps, stopping every so often to spring over a few of them, making her trip to the second floor a quicker one, it was at that time, that she ran into Josh Mankey,
"What are you doing here, Josh?" Kim asked, looking at her former boyfriend,
"Oh, I'm working." Josh replied,
"We gotta get out of here." Kim said, turning around, it was at that moment, she went rigid, and closed her eyes, when she opened them again, they were a bright silver,
"You didn't!" Kim screamed, turning to look at Josh, who backed away,
"Didn't what?" Josh asked,
"You sided with Monkey Fist." Kim said, her eyes maintaining that eerie silver color.It was making Josh unnerved to see Kim like this,
"What are you talking about, Kim?" Josh asked,
"You know damned well what I'm talking about." Kim said, it was at that time, a vase on a three-legged table next to Kim exploded into dust,
"Start talking, and I might let you live." Kim said, her anger was beginning to take over her willpower, making her stronger,
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Josh said, reaching behind his back for a concealed knife,
"LIKE HELL!" Kim shouted, grabbing Josh by his shirt, and picking him off the ground with one arm,
"Put me down, Kim, I don't know what you mean." Josh said,
"DON'T LIE TO ME!" Kim screamed, throwing Josh through a wall.
Josh got shakily to his feet, all the time, maintaining eye contact with Kim, who was walking slowly into the room, her hair seemed to be blowing, as though caught up in a wind, but there was no wind in the house,
"You'd better start talking Joshua Wendell Mankey, or you're going to regret every minute of your silence." Kim said, her voice seemed to echo throughout the small room,
"Oh, go jump in a lake." Josh said, throwing the knife in Kim's direction, she caught it by the handle, a mere fraction from her forehead,
"I gave you your chance, now, it's my turn." Kim said, her movements were so fast, Josh didn't have time to react. Kim had jumped into the air, only a few inches from her target, and planted a well timed jumping side kick into Josh's chest, crushing his ribs, and collapsing both lungs, he was dead before his body hit the floor,
"I guess I still got a crush on you." Kim said, looking at the body of her one-time crush, and smirking.
Meanwhile, in a room on the second floor:
Monkey Fist waited for Lamont, whom he was sure to make an appearance, he knew of the exploits of The Shadow, they were legend, that's when the door, opened, and a howl of wind ran through the room,
"Monty Fiske, we meet at last." The Shadow said, materializing in front of Monkey Fist,
"You're shorter than I expected, but no matter, in a few minutes, you'll be dead, Yenko." the monkey master said,
"You think I'm Lamont Cranston, hate to break it to you, but Cranston died two years ago." The Shadow said,
"You're lying." Monkey Fist said,
"Use your head, Lamont Cranston was in his 70s, there was no way he'd live past that, I'm his successor." The Shadow said,
"Maybe your right, then I'll kill you, and leave you to the mercy of the public." Monkey Fist said, throwing a knife at his opponent, who knocked it away as though swatting a fly,
"You'll have to do better than that." The Shadow said, that's when he noticed the Lotus Blade,
"Where did you get that?" he asked, looking at the familiar kitana,
"How do you know of The Lotus Blade?" Monkey Fist asked,
"I'm friends with its rightful master." The Shadow said, but he could feel Monkey Fist breaking into his mind, Monkey Fist seemed to be a bit more powerful than he had first imagined,
"The buffoon, it can't be." Monkey Fist said, now looking at Ron, who was standing in front of him, wearing the costume of The Shadow,
"Yeah, and you're about to find out that I'm not the same person you knew ten years ago." Ron replied, reaching his hand for The Lotus Blade, it immediately jumped into his hand, and glowed an even brighter blue,
"Pick your poison, Fiske, walk away now, with your health in tact, or die tonight." Ron said,
"You don't have that kind of power." Monkey Fist said,
"How do you think I found you tonight." Ron said, he had kept the secret of Kim's power,
"You just can't possess the power to sense danger, it's just not possible." Monkey Fist said,
"Interesting choice of words." came a voice from behind him, he whirled around, and saw Kim Possible, her hair blowing like it was in a wild wind, her eyes glowing an eerie bright silver,
"KIM POSSIBLE, NO WAY!" the monkey master said, now looking at Kim, and then, to Ron, but when he looked back at Kim, she had a surprise waiting for him, with one punch, she had knocked him across the room, but right at Ron, who tried to duck, but was too late, Monkey Fist hit him squarely in the chest, sending both crashing into the wall,
"We will meet again, until that time, look over your shoulder, someday, I'll be there." Monkey Fist said, disappearing into the darkness. Ron got slowly to his feet, and looked over at Kim,
"Where'd he go?" Ron asked,
"I don't know, he just disappeared." Kim replied,
"Oh, great, he got away, at least I still got this." Ron said, holding onto The Lotus Blade,
"Beautiful kitana, Ron." Kim said, looking at the sword,
"I thought the same thing when I first saw it." Ron said,
"How long ago was that?" Kim asked,
"About twelve years ago, during my time in Japan." Ron replied,
"The one week exchange program." Kim said,
"Yep, that's the one." Ron said, now placing the sword back into the box, and walking down to the door,
"What are you going to do with it now?" Kim asked,
"I'm gonna take it back where it belongs." Ron said,
"In the morning, right now, let's get out of here before the police show up, I really don't want to explain how Josh Mankey wound up dead." Kim said,
"Josh Mankey, what was he doing here?" Ron asked,
"He was working with monkey boy." Kim replied,
"How did he die?" Ron asked, raising an eyebrow at Kim, who wore a nervous smile,
"I kinda got carried away." Kim replied, sheepishly,
"You let your emotions control you, didn't you?" Ron said, looking at Kim,
"Yeah, it got a little out of hand." Kim replied,
"Anything else happen during the fight that I might want to know about?" Ron asked,
"I caused a vase to explode, how did I pull that off?" Kim asked,
"It seems that you also have an ability to manipulate objects around you, use them to your advantage, I want you to work on mastering that in your spare time, KP, it might come in handy." Ron said, smiling at Kim,
"You're not going to help me with this." Kim responded,
"No, I don't feel like being the main course at the Kim Possible Hibachi Diner, if you get my drift." Ron said,
"You think I'd shish-ka-bob you, huh?" Kim asked,
"You probably would, Kim, if you can't control it right, it can get out of hand, your emotions will control it, rather than you, and whatever you're mad at, will end up getting hurt, and I do mean hurt." Ron said,
"Like what happened with Josh?" Kim asked,
"Like what happened with Josh." Ron replied,
"Let's get out of here, please? I don't feel like explaining this one to the police." Kim said,
"You go on ahead, I'll take care of the police." Ron replied, smiling at Kim, who left the room, and the house.
Woah, it's getting real interesting, Kim had killed Josh Mankey just by kicking him once in the chest, what's in store for our favorite redhead next, stay tuned, and find out.
