The following takes place between 9:00 A.M and 10:00 A.M.
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The bus raced down the street picking up speed. Everyone was stuck in their seat petrified with fear of the man with the gun. All the cheerleaders looked to Ron hoping that he could find a way out of the predicament they were in. "Uhhhhwhy's everyone looking at me?" Ron asked.
The courier looked at Ron and glared. "Don't try to be the hero Mister Stoppable. I know all about your exploits with Kim Possible. It is unfortunate that she was left behind. She would have made a more valuble hostage to the people I work with."
"Who are you mister?" Barkin asked as he drove. "You one of those Al Qaida terrorists?" The courier just smiled. "You think Al Qaida is the only group that hates you? America has made plenty of enemies. We however will be the ones that will cripple your country, weaken your imperialist resolve, and finally bring death to you."
"That's what you think buddy boy." Ron said. "Kim will be on your tail faster than you can blink. And you'll be running home to mommy."
"Somehow I don't think so." the courier said as he pulled out a cell phone. "It's me. I need alternate transportation. Something to carry me, and the harbingers."
This scared all the cheerleaders. Harbingers? Harbingers of what? And what was that green goo he were carrying?
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Kim raced to find a vehicle to pursue the bus. She saw a racing bike and asked the rider if she could borrow it. Unfortunately the rider was someone who didn't offer her a favor, so she had to figure out a way to reward the rider. "I can get you a date with a hot cheerleader." Kim said.
"Deal!" the rider said as he got off the motorcycle, and gave his helmet to Kim. Don't think I don't do anything for you Bonnie. Kim thought as she got on the bike and raced down the street looking to follow the bus as it sped away. Kim also brought forth the Kimmunicator and placed it on the center of the dash, and got through to Wade. "Wade is the tracking chip on Ron still in place?"
"Yeah Kim. I'm getting a signal from it." Wade brought the signal grid on the Kimmunicator and Kim followed the signal. She was almost at the bus when three patrol cars pulled out in front of her giving their own pursuit of the bus.
Kim hoped that they would be able to catch the bus before someone else was hurt. But somehow she had the feeling that wasn't going to be so easy.
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A ways away Jack Bauer was tracking the bus his own way. Making use of sattelite imagery relayed to him from CTU. "Tony have you got a fix on the bus?" Jack asked.
"Yeah Jack. We're relaying the feed to you now." Soon Jack's palm display unit, located on his dashboard, gave the image of the bus's location as well as three L.A.P.D. vehicles giving pursuit. "Tony does L.A.P.D. have any roadblocks set up?"
"They are trying to get one set up at the next intersection." Tony said relaying the information. Jack then asked "What about the hostages? Can you give me any information on them?"
"According to intel, they are just a bunch of cheerleaders from Colorado." Tony relayed. "A town called Middleton."
"Middleton?" Jack asked having heard the name before. Then he placed it. Something his own daughter had mentioned, about a teen hero named Kim Possible and her partner Ron Stoppable and their naked mole rat Rufus who took on threats of a different venue than what was covered in CTU's mandate. "Tony was Kim Possible one of the hostages taken?"
"No." Tony said. "Miss Possible was detained by press after helping to stop a road rage reckless driver. The courier of the toxin got on the bus before Miss Possible did. But her partner Ron Stoppable might be one of the hostages." Jack sighed as he thought of the impact Kim Possible might have on this, and he didn't like the answers.
"Tony. Miss Possible might do something rash that might put her in danger and that of the hostages. Is there anyway to contact her?" Tony asked someone from tech to call up information on Kim Possible, and they found out the website she keeps, and the manager of it. "Got it Jack. Making contact now."
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Kim kept on racing after the bus staying behind the L.A.P.D. cars keeping her eyes on the tracking sensor that Ron emitted. The Kimmunicator beeped on again and Wade appeared. "Hey Wade what's the sitch?"
"Kim, I got a hit on the site. It's someone very important." Kim sighed and said "I'm in the middle of something Wade."
"It's about the guy you're pursuing. I think you'd better take this call." Kim sighed and told Wade to put it through. Soon a vocal image appeared on the Kimmunicator indicating that they were speaking on a cell phone. "Cell phone? Uggh! That's so last century."
"Miss Possible?" the voice on the other end said. Kim answered back. "Yeah?"
"Miss Possible! My name is Jack Bauer in a Federal Agent working with the Counter Terrorist Unit." Kim nodded and asked "Yeah so?"
"Miss Possible I know your friends are hostages, and you are concerned about them, but if you continue to pursue them you could only be endangering them. I have to ask you to back off and leave this to the professionals." Jack said. Kim listened and said "Sorry Agent Bauer. I can't do that."
"Miss Possible you have no idea how dangerous this threat is." Jack said. "The person you are chasing is in possession of a deadly toxin that will kill everyone on the bus. If you make one mistake, you could be endangering more lives than you'll be saving. I'm asking you again to pull out of this and let the professionals handle this." Kim considered the words and still kept her resolve. "Sorry Agent Bauer. But when my friends are in danger I can't turn a blind eye."
"Miss Possible I respect your loyalty and your dedication to your friends. But you are in a position where you can get yourself and your friends killed. I'm asking you to step away from this and let us handle it. If not I will have L.A.P.D. regard you as a hostile and they will treat you accordingly." Kim heard the tone in Jack's voice, and she knew he was not bluffing. But then neither was she.
"Do what you have to do Agent Bauer." Kim said. "I'll do what I have to do." And with that Kim signed off on the Kimmunicator. Immediately Kim gunned the cycle and raced past the pursuing patrol units. She figured that it would be best to get ahead of them before the call of her as a hostile went out. Also she wanted to get as close to the bus as she could so she could try to mount her rescue.
Kim was almost in range when something caught her vision. Three cars were coming down the roadway speeding past the patrol cars. Kim looked over her shoulder briefly to see what was happening when she noticed something strange. They had brought out automatic rifles and took out the tires on the patrol cars. The cars skidded off the road leaving Kim alone with her mystery drivers. One tried to run her off the road, but Kim maneuvered the cycle away from the car so the swerve did not connect.
On the bus Ron and the cheerleaders noticed Kim coming their way. Ron was cheering "Go KP!" as Kim got closer. Even the cheerleaders felt their hearts rise up a bit as Kim seemed to be coming to their rescue. Barkin looked at the courier and sneered. "Looks like your hostage crisis is coming to an end." he said.
"That's what you think." the courier said as he signalled the two main cars to proceed on ahead. Suddenly the vehicles stopped as an L.A.P.D. roadblock was coming into vision. There seemed to be nowhere to go. Or so everyone on the bus thought.
Kim got a signal from Wade saying that the L.A.P.D. had set up a roadblock. "So they should be stopping soon right?"
"Wrong!" Wade said. "The bus is heading right for it." Kim couldn't believe what she was hearing. "What? What are they doing?"
The answer came in the drivers of the first two vehicles getting out of their cars. Each armed with what seemed to be bazookas aimed at the roadblock. The drivers of the vehicles opened fire and the patrol cars erupted into the air in a mess of twisted metal and fire allowing the bus to charge through. On board the bus there was a mix of shock and fear among the cheerleaders. Shock that the roadblock erupted, and fear that they seemed to be driving through a burning pile of metal.
"Oh my god we're going to die!" Bonnie shrieked as she covered her eyes. It was for nothing though as the bus charged through the roadblock and made it safely through to the other side. Bonnie seemed relieved to have made it through, but then she realized that she was still a hostage. Then her heart sank.
Kim couldn't believe what she saw. Where did they get those weapons? she mentally asked herself. So much that she almost missed being run off the road again. The third car rejoined his compatriots and charged through the roadblock themselves. But they left a surprise for Kim she almost missed. A hand grenade rolled out the window heading her way.
Kim barely was able to maneuver the bike out of the grenade's path, but she found herself facing a car that acted like a makeshift motorcycle ramp. Kim found herself going over the ramp and jumping the cycle over the remains of the roadblock and landing safely on the other side. When Kim regained her bearings she tried to scan for where the bus and its mystery escorts went. Only they were nowhere to be seen.
Kim sighed and went back to trying to track Ron's chip signal.
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Jack couldn't believe his ears when he heard what had happened. "Where did they get such heavy weaponry?" he asked Tony on his cell phone.
"I don't know Jack." Tony replied. "But it looks like whoever has the toxin now seems to have some heavy duty backing. Enough to finance them heavy weaponry to plow through a roadblock like that." Jack sighed and realized that the terrorists might have more backing than they let on. "What about the bus? Is it still on sattelite?"
"Yeah we've got it." Tony said. "But they're going to have to ditch it soon. That bus is just too hot a property."
"Don't worry Tony. As long as they remain on sattelite. We can track them." Jack paused as he then asked. "Any word on Kim Possible?"
"None. She seems to have dropped totally off the radar." Tony said. Jack doubted that. "Somehow I think Kim Possible is still in play here. Just because she's not seen, doesn't mean she's not here."
"At any rate we'll maintain sattelite surveillance." Tony said as he monitored the bus and its escorts' journey. Unaware that someone was monitoring CTU's progress.
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In a specialized bunker monitors were set up. They were monitoring the bus's journey and the escorts that were following. The person behind the monitors noticed a presence behind him and nodded acknowledging it.
"They will need a new vehicle soon. But they cannot change as long as CTU is tracking them with sattelite surveilance. We have paid you for your CTU knowledge. Do you know the codes on disabling the sattelite network?" the man behind the terminals asked.
"Here is a code that will activate the sattelite diagnostics program for the sattelites tracking your bus." the figure said. "Sattelites cannot track as long as a diagnostic is running. You will have 5 minutes to get a new vehicle and to get clear."
"Very well." the figure said as he inputed a series of commands allowing him access to the CTU web site. Once he got in he inputed more commands and activated the diagnostic function.
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At CTU every sattelite screen monitoring the bus chase went down. All went into diagnostic mode preventing CTU from resuming its surveillance.
"Alicia what's happening?" Tony asked senior tech supervisor Alicia Baker. Alicia went punching in keys trying to get the problem back under control, but couldn't. "Something has triggered the diagnostic subroutine. I've lost satellite visual."
"How long will it take to get it back on line?" Tony asked. Alicia answered "Five minutes." Tony then got back on the phone with Jack.
"Jack we lost the satellite imagery." Tony said. Jack immediately asked "What happened?"
"Something triggered the diagnostic protocol. We may have an outside link into the CTU mainframe."
"Or we may have a mole. Order a lockdown until we get everything situated." Tony did so and locked down the CTU office. They were down.
In his truck Jack tried to figure out the next move. The terrorists could use the down time to transfer to new vehicles, as well as their hostages. Five minutes to clear the diagnostic, and an unspecified amount of time to determine what the problem was. Right now he was deaf, dumb, and blind. Or was he?
Jack hightailed it to a library where he figured that there was one person that was still in the game, and might still be able to track the terrorists.
Kim Possible.
9:20:05
At the headquarters of the terrorists the figure looked up at his helper and smiled. "Good work." he said.
"Get them to change the vehicles fast that won't last forever." the person who gave the codes said. The figure nodded fully aware of what to do. He then picked up a cell phone and called his courier.
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On the bus the courier heard his cell phone ring. He took the call and listened as he was told the situation.
"CTU surveillance is down. You only have a few minutes to transfer your vehicles and disappear." The courier nodded. "We are two minutes out from the switch site."
"Switch quickly. You need to disappear before CTU finds you again." The courier nodded and hung up. He then ordered Barkin to turn right. "Where are we going?" Barkin asked.
"Just turn." The courier ordered. Barkin did so and soon they came up to an underpass where there was a moving van and two other cars waiting. The courier then ordered the bus to stop.
"Everybody out." The courier ordered. Ron and the cheerleaders did what they were ordered, and the escorts got out of their own vehicles holding their own weapons at the cheerleaders motioning them towards the van. Off to the side though Kim Possible was watching.
She saw the transfer of vehicles, and her friends, into another vehicle. Bringing out her Kimmunicator she called Wade and got him to take readings and video samples of the vehicles they were being moved into. She got license numbers, make and model of the vehicles, as well as any distinguishing marks on the vehicles themselves.
The cheerleaders and Ron were moved onto the truck, and placed in the back. But when they got to Barkin they held him back. "You are not going." the courier said.
"And why not?" Barkin glared. He didn't notice the gun in his chest aimed at close range, or the single shot that fired from it, until it was too late. Steve Barkin fell to the ground in a heap. Kim looked on from her hiding place in horror, and immediately contacted Wade telling him to get an ambulance down to their location. "Paramedics are on the way." Wade said. "I've also contacted L.A.P.D. They should be receiving the vehicle descriptions soon.
"Please hurry." Kim pleaded as the terrorists loaded up in their new vehicles and drove away with their hostages. Steve Barkin was left lying on the ground wounded and dying. Kim wondered if she shouldn't continue the pursuit of the terrorists, but the injured Barkin took priority.
"Just take it easy Mr. Barkin." Kim said holding his head. "Take it easy." Kim looked at the wound and tried to stauch the blood coming out the wound. All the while hoping the paramedics would get their fast.
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Jack made his way to the library where he went to get onto an internet terminal. He typed up and got in contact with Wade. "Wade Load are you in contact?" Jack asked.
Wade's image appeared on the screen. "Yes Agent Bauer. I'm here. What do you want?"
Jack explained the situation to Wade. "CTU's computers went down. We lost sattelite imagery for a few minutes. I'm wondering, does Miss Possible have a way to track the bus with those hostages?"
"As a matter of fact, she does." Wade explained. "Ron has a locator chip implanted on him, even though he doesn't know about it. Long story."
"Do you have the chip's frequency?" Jack asked. Wade thought about it for a moment, and then decided Jack was a man he could trust. Besides, Kim was with Mr. Barkin waiting for paramedics to arrive. She couldn't leave his side now. Wade gave Jack the frequency and information about the vehicle switch.
"Do you have information on what vehicles the terrorists got into?" Jack asked. Wade then gave a description and said that they were sent to L.A.P.D. as well.
"All right thanks Wade." Jack said. "Has Kim Possible dropped her pursuit?"
"Temporarily." Wade said. "Right now Kim is staying by one hostage's side. They shot Steve Barkin and left him for dead. Kim's trying to tend to his wounds now waiting for the paramedics to arrive."
Jack sighed as he heard Wade's news. Then he signed off. He called Tony and mentioned what happened. "We can get a chopper out there in a couple of minutes. We can treat him here."
"Good Tony." Jack said. "Also there's a girl by his side. I want her brought into CTU as well."
"A girl?" Tony asked. "Who?"
"Her name is Kim Possible." Jack said. "She was pursuing the hostages for her own reasons. But she doesn't need to get herself killed. Take her into custody but only for her own protection. We'll deal with the pursuit ourselves."
"Jack. Is there anything else?" Tony asked.
"Yeah. The terrorists pulled a switch. They have new vehicles now." After Jack gave the descriptions he told Tony to keep an eye out for them when sattelite was up and running. It was then that Tony had an idea. "Jack. Has L.A.P.D. been informed of the vehicle switch?"
"Yeah. They got the information a few minutes ago. An APB has been put out." Jack explained.
"Jack I think we should cancel that." Tony said. Jack wondered what Tony had in mind and Tony explained. "Right now they think they have safely switched their vehicles, and they seem to be going somewhere. They don't know we have sattelite back, and their descriptions. We can track them back to their home base and arrest them there."
"All right. That makes sense." Jack said. "In the meantime I have an alternate way to track the vehicles. I'm going to see how far it goes." Jack then asked Tony if they found out what triggered the diagnostic. Tony said no. "Although I do believe that the signal was from outside CTU. Something transmitted from another system."
"No one from the inside?" Jack asked. Tony said "No, phone records are clean, and tech support detected no outgoing phone calls from the building with a cell phone. The hacking was definitely from the outside."
"Find out what you can. I'll contact you later." Jack then hung up his cell phone and got into his Ford following the signal Wade left.
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Kim stayed by Mr. Barkin hoping the paramedics would arrive in time. All the while saying "Hang in there Mr. Barkin. Hang on!"
"P...P...Possible." Steve Barkin said weakily. He opened his eyes and looked at Kim as he said "Help them. Don't let those bastards hurt those girls...or Stoppable."
"I won't Mr. B." Kim said with determination. Just then the chopper from CTU descended down from the sky and the medivac team went to attend to Mr. Barkin, who was in critical condition, and far from stable. Paramedics worked to keep Mr. Barkin alive as he looked at Kim. He then said "With your shield or on it." before passing out into unconsciousness.
Quickly the medics loaded Mr. Barkin onto the helicopter. Kim watched them load her teacher when she felt a hand on her shoulder. "Miss Possible. I have to ask you to come with us."
Kim turned around and looked at the men in black uniforms and S.W.A.T. vests. "Who are you guys?"
"We're with CTU." one agent said. "Agent Bauer said you should be brought in and placed under protective custody while the investigation is taking place."
"Protective custody?" Kim asked. "But those terrorists have my friends. I have to get to them. I have to help them."
"Miss Possible." the agent said. "We share your concern about your friends. But right now you are interfering with an ongoing federal investigation. Either you can come with us peacibly, or we can arrest you for obstructing a federal investigation."
"How about none of the above?" Kim said as she leapt off the ground using the agent's shoulders for leverage, and doing a mid air flip over him as she made way to her cycle. Once she got on she gunned the engine and raced down the street away from the agents. "Should we pursue?" another agent asked.
"Negative." the lead agent said. "We've got someone we have to get back to CTU now. We can catch Kim Possible later." Soon the agents got back into the chopper and made their way back to the CTU building.
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On board the truck the courier was driving, but he left a slot opened in the driver's cab so he could look in on the cheerleaders and Ron. Their eyes were wide in fear and horror at what they saw. Their teacher, Steve Barkin, was shot and left for dead. Never before had they seen a sight so hideous as that.
"Do not worry my young angels. Your end will be much more glorious." the courier said as he then chuckled at his last comment. Tara let her curiosity get the better of her as she asked "What are you talking about?"
"Have you ever thought of angels awaiting you when you die?" the courier asked. "Or how an angel comes when it is time to die?" The girls looked at each other confused. Then the courier smiled as he said. "You have the faces of angels. You shall make great harbingers."
"Harbingers?" Ron asked. "Harbingers of what?"
"You will know when it's time." the courier said. "However your time may come at an end that much sooner my young friend." Ron gulped wondering what the courier meant.
"The women have a destiny they will fulfill. You however my young friend are only good to us as a hostage. And a hostage can outlive his usefulness quickly, and not as gloriously as the end you ladies will face." Soon everyone looked at Ron as his eyes went wide with fear. What fate did they have in mind for him?
What fate did they have for everyone?
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Kim raced her cycle down the roadway as her tracking chip detected Ron's location in the back of the vehicle he was in. Kim gained speed and sought to catch it quickly. Wade however wondered if Kim was absolutely sure she knew what she was doing. "Kim what are you going to do once you catch them?" he asked.
"Make them give up my friends." Kim said with determination. "And Ron." Kim then gunned the engine hoping to catch them. Wade looked on worried about Kim's safety. She had no plan, no way to get to the truck without placing Ron and the others in danger, or if she did she wasn't sharing it. And another question he had to ask was what was that toxin the courier had? And what did it do?
Wade decided there was only one man to call-Jack Bauer.
9:45:16
Back on the road Jack was following the locator signal from Ron's chip when his cell phone rang. Jack picked it up and answered it. "Bauer."
"Agent Bauer?" Wade asked. "Are you still tracking the signal from the chip?" Jack nodded and said he was. Wade then said "Well I have to tell you Kim is looking to effect her own rescue right about now. She's almost up at the convoy's position."
Jack sighed. He realized that the agents that picked up Barkin did not take Kim into custody. "How did she get away from those agents?" he asked himself. Wade couldn't help but answer. "She jumped up over one's shoulders and flipped over. Then she made her way to her bike and rode off."
Jack sighed and couldn't believe what he had heard. "She's good I'll give her that. But doesn't she realize she'll get herself killed, and maybe the hostages?"
"Well with Kim it's a little more personal." Wade explained. "Her boyfriend is also one of the hostages, and she really cares about him."
"Let me guess. Her partner Stoppable?" Jack asked. Wade said yes. "Was it that obvious?" Wade then asked.
"I just guessed." Jack said. "Does she really love the guy? It's not a teen romance is it?" Wade said it was the real thing, and suddenly Jack knew what was driving Kim Possible. It was the same feeling that drove him on several occasions. Concern for the people he loved and the wish to protect them. And when they were in danger Jack often threw the rule book out in order to keep them safe.
It was the same thing Kim Possible was doing now. Jack wondered if he and the teen hero weren't cut from the same cloth.
"All right I'll try to get there as fast as I can." Jack said. "Keep an eye on Miss Possible and make sure she's all right." Wade nodded and said he would, and Jack gunned the engine to follow where the tracking signal was.
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On the truck Tara looked around in fear. She was afraid of what was going to happen next. Was she going to die? Were one of her friends going to die? Tara went to Ron's side hoping she could summon up some courage by talking to him.
"Ron? Are we going to be okay?" Tara asked. "I mean, is Kim going to save us?"
"She will." Ron said. "If anything, I know KP will go through fire to make us all safe."
"How can you be so sure?" Tara asked sheepishly. "I'm so scared. And usually in situations like this you're more scared than me."
Ron looked at Tara and smiled reassuringly. "You know you're right. I probably should be more scared. I should be wigging out and running like a scared little baby wanting his mommy. I mean that's what I usually do if I was face to face with a herd of monkeys, or tree spiders, or killer mutant squirrles. But this, this fear is nothing like that. This fear seems totally different."
"How?" Tara asked.
"There's no place to run away from the terror." Ron said. "It's everywhere this time. There's no place to scream. No place to hide. The fear is everywhere. But there's one thing I do have. And that's hope."
"That Kim will come?" Tara asked optimistically. Ron smiled and nodded. "Kim's not going to let anyone of us get hurt. And if someone does hurt us, she will make sure they are sorry they ever did."
"Like with Mr. Barkin?" Bonnie asked off to the side. The image of Steve Barkin getting shot was still fresh in everyone's mind. It seemed like with the absense of the cool, calm and collected Steve Barkin there was a lot more to be afraid of. Ron glared at Bonnie and stomped his way towards her. He gave a 'serious' expression that seemed to be more serious than any 'serious' expression he ever gave as he looked Bonnie dead in the eye.
"Kim will come to help us." Ron said deadpan. "She will avenge Mr. Barkin and get us out of this. And she will make those bad guys pay."
"How can you be sure?" Tara asked coming to Ron's side again. Ron smiled as he spoke his next few words. "Because Kim can do anything. I have faith in her, and she's never let me down when I was down and out. And I've never let her down when she needed me...when it really mattered."
"Like when Kim was taking a syntho pile of goo to the prom?" Bonnie sneered. Ron scowled as he looked at Bonnie. "At least she left with somebody special, unlike you whose boyfriend left with another girl."
"Why you!" Bonnie shrieked as she lunged at Ron. The slit then opened up and the driver shouted "SILENCE! No one will come for you. You are beyond saving!" The slit closed back up leaving the cheerleaders and Ron alone. Fear crept in the silence again, but not with Ron. Again Tara went to Ron for reassurance. "Kim will come won't she?"
"She'll be here." Ron said with certainty in his voice. "Kim's a special girl. There are very few like her."
"What? There are more like her out there?" Bonnie scoffed. Ron then thought of something he hadn't thought of in years. A story, about a certain someone. A name whispered among the campers of Camp Wannaweep long before Ron was sent there. Of someone who seemed to stand up to the evil that was Wannaweep and send it running away in the fear it sought to spread. As Ron thought of this camper it amazed him how much the story of this camper seemed to remind him of Kim. Ron tried to remember this camper's name, but couldn't place it now.
"You know Bonnie, there might be more out there like Kim. And if there is that's a good thing." Ron said. Bonnie was ready to roll her eyes at this when suddenly the van started to swerve. "What was that?" Bonnie asked.
Ron's eyes went wide as he knew the swerve could only mean one thing. Kim Possible was here and coming to the rescue.
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In one of the escort cars the man riding shotgun looked outside his right side mirror and saw a motorcycle racing towards them. On it was a red haired girl with a look of determination in her eyes. A look that said nothing was going to stand in her way.
The terrorist riding shotgun was pulling out his gun shooting at Kim. Kim dodged the bullets and roared up to where she was parallel to the first car. She dug into her belt and pulled out her Kissy girl lip gloss and opened it. Then she threw the gloss in the car letting it do its work.
Only it wasn't lip gloss Kim threw into the first terrorists' car. It was a sample of Wade's top secret stink formula he got from his father's socks. The terrorists caught wiff of the nefarious odor and were knocked into unconsciousness by the stink. The car then swerved off the road and fell into a ditch. Kim knocked one down, and only one more was to go.
The second escort called his boss and told him of the escort that had fallen. The boss then said that help was on the way. She would be there soon.
Meanwhile, after grabbing her Kimmunicator, Kim made her way to the truck and jumped onto the driver's side door. The motorcycle then skidded on the ground without a rider and Kim held her laser lipstick in the driver's face. "Pull over right now." Kim ordered. "Or you won't like what happens next."
"All right KP!" Ron cheered as the slot was opened. Even some of the cheerleaders looked on with hope in their eyes as Kim seemed to have control of the situation just as the truck and second escort had gone through a ravine. Once they were on the other side a thump was heard from the top of the truck and the rider then turned to Kim smiling. "No little girl, you won't like what happens next."
Kim had no time to wonder what the terrorist meant when she felt an arm lift her up from the driver's door. Soon she was on the roof of the truck facing someone she never thought she would expect. "Shego?"
"Yeah Kimmie." Shego said as her hands glowed with her green flame. "And it's time for me to beat you like the little princess you are." she said with a smile on her face as if she was glad to be fighting 'the princess' but there seemed to be something missing from her stance. As if some of her eagerness for the fight to come was not there. Nevertheless Shego launched the first shot against Kim, which Kim dodged, and Kim retaliated. Once again it seemed to be a back and forth battle, but Kim noticed something in Shego's fighting. Almost as if she wasn't giving her all. That she was actually holding back. Then Shego struck.
"I almost regret what I'm about to do Kimmie." Shego said as she delivered a leg sweep that sent Kim down to the roof of the truck. As Kim struggled to get back up Shego delivered a side kick that sent Kim off the truck hitting the ground on the side. Shego then climbed into the truck through the passenger window and sat in the passenger seat looking back at the hostages
"Kimmie ain't coming girls." Shego said. "She got off at the last stop." The cheerleaders sighed, but Ron charged the slot and asked "What are you doing with these guys Shego?" he asked
"My job." Shego said as she turned back towards the road in thought. The driver was about to say something when Shego interrupted and said "I just did a job. Don't expect me to like it." An angry glare in her eyes. Ron noticed the glare too, and thought he saw something else there. Something he thought he'd never see in Shego's eyes.
Sorrow.
Was Shego sorry she beat Kim that time. And if she was...why?
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Off the side of the road, Kim Possible lay on the ground. Her face covered in sand she tried to stand up and brush off.
Parts of her were sore, but nothing seemed broken. She was able to cushion her landing thanks to her cheer training, but now she was left wondering what to do next. She had her Kimmunicator, but the motorcycle she had was miles away, and probably a wreck by now. She had no way to catch up to the vehicles that had her friends, and the roadway didn't show signs of someone coming down the road anytime soon. That was until she saw a truck coming down her way. She flagged the driver and the driver pulled over. Kim went to the driver's side and made ready to ask the driver for a favor.
"Thanks for stopping." Kim said. "I really could use your help. There is this van that has my friends, and I need to catch up to it."
"Miss Possible I am aware of your situation." the driver said turning to look at her. Kim looked at the guy and wondered how he could have found out so fast. Then he gave his name.
"My name is Jack Bauer. I'm with CTU. We need to talk."
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The van with the hostages continued to drive down the road. Shego looked out the window thinking about all she was doing when the cell phone rang. The courier picked it up. "Hello?"
"Have you lost your pursuers?" the voice on the other line said.
"Yes." the driver said. "The girl following us has been dealt with."
"Good." the voice on the other end of the line said. "We may have to arrange another transfer point though. I do not like how that teenager was able to find you so quickly."
"But CTU's surveillance was disabled wasn't it?" the driver said.
"CTU's yes. But that girl may have another way to track you. We need to pull off and make sure you are 100 clean. That there are no tracking devices of any kind." The courier considered the words and agreed. "Where shall we meet?"
After the location was given the associate on the other line said she would be there to supervise the transfer and search. "I shall see you then Yelena."
And on the other end of the line the woman named Nina Myers made ready to meet the van full of hostages.
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