Jez: Go ahead and review both chapters at once. I know you probably aren't going to like the rest of the story for various reasons, but I really do appreciate all the reviews you write, even if it doesn't seem like I take the advice I'm given.
Monday morning was not particularly enjoyable, if only because there's no reason to get up. Kim and Ron are long gone, and Shego is as well, so most of the house is all mine. I do enjoy waking in the arms of beautiful women, and, while I'm an early riser, Shego is always up before I am. In any case, rising, I find that she didn't check messages, on either phone, and there are several new ones on both.
'This is a UCS priority message. All command personel are ordered to check in with fleet command, regardless of rank, or affiliation.' I ignored it. I wasn't considered command, but I was on the auto send list. 'Heya Kim, just wanted to check in, see how you're doing, got great news, ciao.' I grinned. I like Monique. She's not as insane as most of Kim's friends. 'Kimmie...' The fast forward button lets me skip the rest of Bonnie's message. 'Kimmie-Cub, just wanted to check in. Call me when you get home.' Her father. He had mellowed out a little when we came back, though he was still scary.
The messages on the office machine were a little less nice. 'No longer free? I'll' It degenerated into a swearing bout, and I fast forwarded past it. 'I'm sorry to hear about you no longer offering your services for free. Guess we'll have to find someone else to handle it.' I knew that voice, and swore. The next one was brighter. 'Well, it's about time you started charging.' It was Dr. Director. 'I need you to handle a minor situation, involving a prisoner transport. It's a small matter, but...' She laughed. 'Of course we'd be willing to pay, just give us a call.' I sighed. That was the last of them. I erased the first two. Hopefully Shego was having better luck.
She was. A plasma blast swept across the bow of the submarine, one carrying drugs. The rounds from the coast guard guns just bounced off the water, her powers? They began to heat the water in front of the ship, increasing it slowly towards boiling. It wasn't a complete interdiction, since the pilot had radioed ahead to a US submarine in range, she only had to slow them down. Hanging out the side of the chopper, she didn't have a problem with that. The sub was forced to surface, as a torpedo detonated in front of it, and a Los Angeles class slid up infront of it. The coast guard cutters swung up beside it, gunfire sounding, and penetrating the hull making a dive escape impossible. The coast guard chopper swung around, and headed back for shore.
"Thanks for the assist, that was a new design, I don't know if we could have caught it with the big one." The gunner from the chopper complimented. "The dispatch office will have your fee by the time we get back." He grinned. So did Shego.
Kim stepped out the last class of the day, breathing a sigh of relief. Ron was waiting for her down the hall, and she'd managed not to...
"Hello Kim." Run into Bonnie. Kim'd been more than a little miffed to run into Bonnie here, but it wasn't worth the effort of changing schools.
"Hello Bonnie." Kim replied, keeping an even tone.
"So, did he ever tell you?" Bonnie asked, with enough sugar in her tone to kill a diabetic.
"Did who ever tell me what Bonnie?" Kim asked, stepping around her to continue walking.
"Adam, about our date." Bonnie clarified. Kim sighed, and shook her head.
"Well..." Bonnie began.
"Shut up Rockwaller." Adam snapped, seeming to appear before them by magic. Kim couldn't tell if it was a hologram. "You signed the agreement, and you will stick to it."
"After what you did?" Bonnie hissed.
"You agreed, and were given more than enough chances to stop, so don't blame me." He retorted calmly. "Now stop it, and go away." She glared at him for a moment, but he narrowed his eyes. She growled, and stomped off. Adam smiled.
"What DID you do to her?" Kim asked.
"I'd rather not..." Adam shook his head. "Nothing you need to worry about." He turned away.
"We'll discuss this later." She warned. He sighed.
"I was afraid you were going to say that." Adam nodded soberly. "Ron's waiting." He cut around to a new subject, with all the subtlety of a rampaging bulldozer. Ron was ahead around the corner.
"Hey Adam. Hey Kim." He greeted her with a kiss. He seemed to be on top of the world. Neither of the other two could decide quite why. "I've got great news."
"What is it?" Kim asked.
"Felix, and his mother, they're in town, and coming for dinner." He grinned. "I'm making lasagna."
"Sounds delicious." The Kimmunicator went off.
"Two priority alerts Kim. Drakken and Darkwolf, and the Seniors." Wade informed them as he appeared on the Kimmunicator. "I can't find Shego, so you'll have to decide the split." Kim sighed in annoyance.
"Ron, can you handle the Seniors?" Kim asked.
"I don't need help to handle Darkwolf and Drakken." Adam sniffed, offended. "An idiot, and a loser, though which is which, I'm not naming names, are not that difficult of a job." He grunted.
"If you're sure." Kim shrugged. "Ron and I'll take the Seniors. Mr. confidence over here wants Drakken and Darkwolf." The information came through, and they split apart. Kim and Ron hitched a ride with the Blue Angels.
"Miss Possible, we'd like to thank you for filling in on such short notice the other day. We didn't have time to fly in a new pilot when our spares got sick with that stomach flu. We told them not to eat that pizza." The pilot of the C-130 laughed.
"No big, just an F-18 a few inches off the wing of another. Anyone would have done the same." The ground crew laughed. The jump light went on, and the rear of the plane opened. "See ya." She and Ron changed to their own frequency, and leapt from the back of the plane. The parachutes opened at roughly the same time, and they drifted soundlessly down to the island. The guards were patrolling in a definite grid, with four guards to a grid. Kim shook her head, after considering the direct approach. Even the cattle prods they were carrying were enough to stop them.
"Vents then KP?" Ron offered. She nodded. The grappling hook ripped the cover off, and they sprinted each leaping, and slipping in, Ron first, Kim carrying the cover. The impact drove it into place, nearly silent, and both reached a cut off and rounded a corner before the outside guard reached the cover. Both breathed a sigh of relief when he passed.
"Ron, we can't go ahead, without being sure the layout is the same." Kim whispered as low as possible. He nodded.
"Rufus, dude, you up to it?" Ron asked, Rufus nodded, and darted away. Kim shivered a bit exaggeratedly.
"Ron, when the next guard comes by, come over here, I'm cold waiting." She smiled at him. He grinned.
"Is that really a good idea?" He asked. She gave him a flat stare. He swallowed and nodded. The guard passed and he slipped across. She smiled, pulling him close.
"Much better." She whispered.
Genny swept low over the lair sight, engines flaring quietly, as she scanned the interior on the thermal, and magnetic spectrums. "Alright, there's only the two, and they're waiting in the main hall." She informed Adam. He sighed.
"Then put me down. I don't like this. Better go find Kim as soon as I'm off." He grunted, strapping a knife to his thigh. The nano armor shimmered and vanished, as he stepped off. It was still active, but invisible. He wasn't in the mood to take a chance after the last time. Darkwolf wasn't completely stupid, no matter what he might seem. The cannon blew the doors in as Genny bucked and broke through all seven Mach numbers leveling a wall of the compound with the sonic boom. Adam ignored it, stepping through the door to the room. Darkwolf was sitting on a silver throne, with Drakken on a chair a level below him.
"Well, well, well. I'm surprised you didn't bring your little hookers." Darkwolf snarled, as he rose. Adam took a firm hold of his temper, as he advanced. He couldn't see Darkwolf's left hand, which was a bit worrying, but not much. The right hand lifted a handgun, one that almost wrapped his entire forearm, pointing at Adam's face. "No matter, I can kill you just fine, then take them for my own in any case.
"I wouldn't count on that." Adam replied, with a soft smile. "Both killing me, and taking them. If I don't get you, those three will. And if they don't, You can be damn sure that Genny will." He laughed. "Now, let's play." He with drew the chrome plated .45 from his jacket. As he reached Darkwolf, the other slammed a button on a remote revealed in his left hand. There was a hum, and both dropped to the ground. Adam felt his head was about to explode. It stopped, and as he looked up, the gun in Darkwolf's hand fired, at point blank range. The armor caught the blast, but the force was too much for even the powerful armor to completely dampen. Adam found himself crashing against the wall behind him. There was a second hum along Darkwolf only this time. He rose to his feet.
"Now Drakken." He snapped. There was a buzz, as Drakken lifted a shoulder mounted rocket launcher, and fired. A silver bolt lashed out towards Adam. The sonic cannon skidded off of it. He attempted to throw a magical shield up, but found himself unable. The bolt latched onto the armor, and a magnetic pulse ripped through the armor. It was magnetically shielded, but at this range, there was nothing he could do. The armor shattered, the nano bots disintegrating, and falling to the floor, where mechanical backups liquefied them. He gripped the knife on his leg, pulling and throwing it. At the same time, Darkwolf hit a button, exploding the two machines that had generated the hum. An instant later, the knife plunged into his neck. There was a flare of blue-white light. Drakken and Darkwolf vanished. Adam was swearing as he hit the ground.
An hour later, Genny swept in low, landing in the courtyard, to find him sitting down, eyes closed. Kim and Ron leapt off, but he didn't respond to any of them for a few moments.
"Well, this is an interesting development." He announced, as he stood. The other three looked at him.
"Why didn't you call?" Kim snapped poking him in the chest.
"Because I couldn't." He replied.
"Why?" Ron asked, cutting around Kim.
"Could have been the magnetic bolt Drakken shot me with. That might be why it all went south. Or maybe it was the beam that Darkwolf shot me with, that seems to blocked my magic. Or it could be the fact, that I almost died." He snapped. Then he smiled. "Ah well, at least I got a hit on Darkwolf." He laughed, and then banged his head against the wall.
"Dude, are you alright?" Ron asked. Adam leveled a stare at him.
"No Ron. I'm not alright, but I'll be better. Let's go home." He pushed to his feet, and ascended the stairs. Genny said nothing. Kim and Ron followed.
"Adam?" Kim spoke up. He turned to her. There was something in his eyes, that she hadn't seen before. It wasn't something identifiable right away, but after a moment, she recognized that it was emotion, something he usually kept out of his eyes. "We'll get them back."
"It's not that." He shook his head, as Genny rose gracefully from the ground. "I lost." He grunted. "I don't like to lose." He grunted again, and Kim's eyes widened. "I only lose, when someone dies, and I lost." She stared. Adam was crying. She could see tears forming. She knew he didn't like to lose, but this wasn't something she'd expected. Even after Darkwolf had nearly killed him last time, he'd only been irritated. No, these weren't sorrowful tears either. They were angry tears. Genny swept around and down landing in the back yard again. She noted that the water truck for the pool was gone, which meant it was finished. Shego was sitting on the back step, counting cash. She looked up, about to give Adam a piece of her mind, and saw him walking by. He didn't say a word as he passed her by, the door almost silent when it closed.
"What happened?" She asked.
"He lost. Something about his magic, and being shot with a magnet." Ron replied, a bit confused. Shego glanced at Kim. She shrugged. They filed into the house, and headed upstairs. Adam was sitting down on the bed, head in his hands.
"Adam?" Shego spoke up. "What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing. I messed up, got caught by my own arrogance. Nothing to worry about." He waved. "I'm fine."
"No you're not." Shego replied, crossing the floor to sit down beside him.
"So I got the crap kicked out of me, so what? It happens." He shrugged. "I lose, and someone dies. So it was me this time, so what." He let go of whatever else he'd been holding, and let the emotions flow. Tears spilled through his hands, soaking the carpet. Shego wrapped an arm around him. Genny appeared in the middle of the floor. Kim glanced up.
"What happened?" She asked.
"Without his powers to suppress the memories, he's lost all control of his emotions. Sorrow has overwhelmed the rest. He's going to be very moody for a while. I'm not sure which is going to come next, but if it's anger, we might have to take measures. Get him into the office, I'll get a hold of Wade." Genny offered advice. Kim and Ron grabbed him, and along with Shego, they carried him into the office. Wade and Genny were there already.
"Kim, set the Kimmunicator in the slot." Wade pointed to one that sat on one of the pillars for the holographic system. "Ron, bring a chair." He wheeled it over and Shego set Adam down in it. The Kimmunicator began a scan. "It might take sometime." He sighed.
"That's just great." Kim sighed.
