Chapter 6
The Elusive Josh Mankey
Ron sat in the driver's seat of his car, his eyes still glued to the road, a road that Josh Mankey had disappeared down a few seconds earlier,
"Why?" Ron said, asking the question to no one, "Why would he do something like that? I just don't believe it."
"Who knows what's going on in his head at the moment." Shego said, laying a hand on Ron's shoulder, finally bringing the teenager back to reality.
Ron pulled the Kimmunicator out of his pocket, and pushed the call button, Wade's face appeared on the small screen,
"What up, Ron, catch a break yet?" Wade asked,
"Oh yeah," Ron said, "a big one."
"How big?" Wade asked, noticing the hatred filling Ron's face,
"Josh Mankey big." Ron replied, spitting the words out of his mouth as though they were poison,
"WHAT!" Wade yelled, looking just as surprised as Ron had been earlier,
"That's what I thought," Ron said, then, being struck by an inspiration, he added, "do me a favor, Wade, I need you to hack into Kim's diary, and look up her last few entries, maybe the answers have been there all along."
"On it, I'll have the info for you in the morning." Wade said, signing off.
The following morning, at Middleton High School:
Ron had been planning how to get into Josh Mankey's locker without him noticing, he had grabbed his lockpick set from his mission belt, and smuggled it into school in his backpack, as soon as the coast was clear, he went to work on Josh's locker, with Rufus keeping watch.
As soon as the locker was open, several drawings fell out of the top of his disorganized locker,
'His locker is messier than mine.' Ron thought as he set the drawings back where they belonged, that's when one in particular caught his eye, he pulled it out, and began looking at it, on the back was a message, written in Josh's own handwriting:
1 April 2005
It ends tonight. Tonight, I do the unthinkable, I will kill Kim Possible, I've already got it set up, I stole the rifle from the armory a week ago, and left behind evidence from Kim's last mission against Dr. Drakken, including a piece of hair from the good doctor himself.
I found out yesterday that Kim was going to dump me in favor of that oaf she hangs out with, I had hacked into her diary last night, and found her entry for the 31st, I didn't like what I saw. So the April Fool is going to be on her, as she rots in her grave.
As for Stoppable, I'm not going to worry about him, with Kim out of the picture, he'll just shrivel up, and die, but Drakken is a different story, that sidekick of his, Shego, if she gets involved, I'll have the same fate waiting for her that I have planned for Kim. And Drakken himself, think JFK, 1st rule of assassination, kill the patsy, so he won't blab, then, I'm home free.
If I can't have Kim, then nobody can.
Joshua Wendell Mankey
Ron read this through a few more times, and each time he did, his anger became more, and more definite, that's when he turned the drawing over, and looked at it.
It was a very disturbing drawing of Kim, laying face down in an alley, in a pool of her own blood, the caption below it read:
Kim Possible; Dead woman
"That sawed-off son-of-a-bitch," Ron seethed through clenched teeth, "he'd better hope the police get their hands on him before I do."
Suddenly, a loud whistle penetrated Ron's anger, he looked down the hall, to where Rufus was waving like a wild man, someone was heading in their direction.
Ron quickly pocketed the drawing, closed the locker door, and took off around the corner, and out of sight, where he watched Josh Mankey walk up to his locker, and open it. At that time, Josh looked down the hall with a scowl on his face, he had realized, he had been found out.
Ron quickly bolted down the hallway, and out of the school doors, into the bright spring sunshine.
Later that evening, at Wade's:
Ron, and Wade were sitting in Wade's room, pooling all of the evidence, with them, were Drakken, and Shego,
"So, Mankey was jealous?" Shego asked,
"Looks that way." Wade said, his voice barely containing his anger,
"And he set me up as the scapegoat." Drakken said,
"Of course," Ron replied, looking at Drakken, "Who better to set up for something like this, than Kim's arch-foe, and then go bang on him to shut him up."
"Classic JFK scenario, kill the patsy." Wade supplied,
"With the fall guy dead, no one will ever figure it out." Shego said, realizing where this conversation was going,
"Yeah, but he forgot something." Drakken said,
"What?" Wade asked,
"Stoppable." Drakken, and Shego said together,
"Not Ron, but his temper," Wade said, "he didn't expect Ron to wig out like he did, that threw a monkey wrench into the works."
"So you're saying, that because I went ballistic, Mankey's gonna bolt?" Ron asked,
"More than likely." Wade replied,
"We need to get him." Drakken said,
"Without him, alive, or dead, we don't have a leg to stand on." Shego replied,
"Wrong answer." Ron said, pulling the drawing out of his pants,
"Where did you find this?" Wade asked, looking at the paper as though it were something priceless,
"On the floor near Mankey's locker, I figured it fell out." Ron lied, he wasn't about to tell anyone that he had gotten the drawing illegally,
"Slammin'." Wade said, smiling at Ron,
"I do try my best." Ron said,
"Well, we're gonna head back home, we got the hovercraft." Shego said, pulling Drakken from Wade's room, and out the door,
"Good, now that they're gone, I need to ask another favor from you, Wade." Ron said, his face serious.This made Wade stand up, and take notice,
"'Sup, Ron?" Wade asked,
"Are these all weapons?" Ron asked, looking at a table along the far wall of the room,
"Yep, everyone of them." Wade said,
"Good," Ron replied, "I want you to stuff all of this into my car, everything, but the kitchen sink."
"Why?" Wade asked,
"I'm not meeting Josh Mankey unarmed. And call Yamanouchi, tell them to send, 'The Package.'" Ron said,
"No, Ron, no! Don't do this." Wade said,
"Do it, Wade, or I will." Ron said,
"Alright, I'll do it, but you owe me big for this one." Wade said,
"Thanks, I'll never doubt you again." Ron said, walking out of the room, before he closed the door, he threw Wade his car keys.
Uh-oh, Ron's looking to do some serious head crunching. Look out Josh Mankey, Ron Stoppable is gunning for you.
I hope that might clear up any questions that anyone might have about why Josh would do something like that, he just didn't count on The Ron Factor coming into play.
The rest of this is going to be action upon action, ending in a colossal fight at the Middleton Space Center.
Who's gonna win the fight, you'll have to wait a few chapters for that.
As always, keep the reviews coming.
Talk to y'all later,
Doug