The following takes place between 10:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M.
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Kim looked at Jack Bauer as he sat in the driver's seat of his Ford pick up. The expression on his face was one of seriousness as Jack was in no mood for small talk.
"Do you know what you are doing?" Jack asked Kim. "Do you know what risk you were putting your friends and this city with your pursuit?"
"What do you expect me to do?" Kim asked. "Sit back and watch my friends be taken away?"
"I expected you to leave this to the professionals." Jack said. "And the professionals were handling it!"
"Oh yeah." Kim said. "To the point where a roadblock was blown apart by rockets. A teacher was shot. Your own surveillance equipment was knocked out. Good job there Agent Bauer." Kim held her gaze with Jack refusing to allow herself to be intimidated.
"This goes beyond the lives of those kids that were kidnapped." Jack mentioned. "The cannister that the is in the hands of the person who kidnapped your friends is a deadly plague toxin. So deadly that it could kill millions if it's released into the air. Killing millions of Americans if its released."
"And that's why you need me." Kim said. Jack looked at Kim and asked "Oh? How so?"
"Because one of my foes is involved in this. Her name is Shego. And you've never faced Shego. I have." Kim kept her expression even, but Jack was still not convinced Kim should be involved. "You're still underage. This is not a matter where kids should be involved ."
"You're right it's not." Kim said. "But kids are involved anyway. A whole group of kids were taken as hostages. Many of them my friends. I am no stranger to facing down bad guys. And frankly I think you could use my help, especially if one of the bad guys I faced is involved. Then you're going to need my help to take her down, and any others she may be involved with."
"What do you mean 'any others'?" Jack asked.
"Right now I'm not sure." Kim said. "But if Shego is involved that usually means Dr. Drakken is involved somehow."
"Dr. Drakken?" Jack asked.
"Mad scientist. Take over the world. Blue skin." Jack still seemed like he was drawing a blank. "His real name is Drew Lipsky."
"Haven't heard of him." Jack said. "He's never crossed any CTU watchlists."
"Just because he's not on your watchlists doesn't mean he's not dangerous. Now are we going to sit here wasting time talking or are we going to find my friends and your toxin?" Jack paused for a moment and decided that Kim could be useful to her after all. At least for now he thought. "All right get in." Kim took Jack's order and got in on the passenger's side. Once inside Jack turned the truck around.
"Where are we going?" Kim asked.
"There was a car downed back there." Jack said. "Were you responsible for that?"
"Yeah." Kim answered. "They were one of the escort drivers for the truck that my friends were placed into."
"Which means we have suspects to interrogate." Jack said. "We have to get back to them before they get too far."
"But the tracking chip...:" Kim brought out her Kimmunicator showing the signal from Ron's tracking chip was still transmitting.
"It might be compromised right now." Jack answered. "If it's still transmitting after we have secured the suspects we'll follow it and count ourselves lucky. If nothing else we have sattelite back and can track them from there too. But captured suspects is something we can't pass up. They may have information which may be useful." Kim nodded and agreed that Jack may have been right about the need for securing suspects. She sat back and rode to where she sent the first vehicle crashing hoping someone was there to question.
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Back at the site of the crash the two drivers were out of the car and trying to climb the hill to safety. They were bruised and had cuts, but they hoped they could get clear before someone came back to find them. As they reached the top of the hill they saw the Ford Jack drove come their way. Once it had stopped they noticed the driver and Kim come out of the truck. Upon seeing Kim, the terrorists started to run faster.
"FEDERAL AGENT!" Jack shouted. "STOP WHERE YOU ARE AND DON'T MOVE!" The terrorists responded by bringing out their guns and opening fire. Jack and Kim found cover behind a rock face as the bullets missed their targets. Soon both Jack and Kim were trying to figure out their next move. "Any ideas?" Kim asked.
"Other than shooting back? No." Jack said. "And right now I'd prefer them taken alive." Kim thought for a moment and then called Wade on the Kimmunicator. "Wade, did you hook me up with any trapping equipment?"
"You have your trapping lipstick in the third pouch on your belt." Wade said. Kim dug into her military belt and pulled out her trapping lipstick. "You rock Wade." she said with a smile.
"Thanks I try." Wade replied. Jack looked at the lipstick Kim had and wondered what that would do. "It's a gumming lipstick." Kim explained. "It's designed to keep people in place and disable them non lethally."
"Well that's all well and good, but how are we going to make use of it?" Jack asked. Kim tried to think of a plan as did Jack. Jack then asked "What is the range on that?" as he pointed towards the lipstick.
"Not sure." Kim answered. "I've only used it at close range, but I think it can go a good five or ten feet."
"Try to make it ten." Jack answered. "I'll try to distract them." Jack then motioned for Kim to follow down a path that seemed to be more obscured, but led up the hill nonetheless. The terrorists did not see Kim duck down the path as they resumed their march up the hill and towards suposed safety. That was when Jack made his move.
Jack fired his weapon in the air to get the terrorists' attention. Then he charged them. The terrorists then opened fire, which Jack dodged. Kim raced up as fast as she could trying to get as close as she could. Soon when she was close enough she fired her gumming lipstick at the two terrorists and they were rooted to the spot.
"Can't move." one of the terrorists said as he and his compatriot tried to free themselves from the sticky gum.
"No." Kim said coming out of her hiding place. "Now are you going to drop your weapons like good little boys?" Jack raced up the hill himself, and as soon as he got close one of the terrorists started foaming at the mouth and convulsing. His gun falling to the side.
"Oh no!" Jack said as he went to the side of the terrorist who was not convulsing. Immediately he tried to pry open the mouth and wedging his hand in trying to keep the terrorist from biting down on something. "Mr. Bauer what are you doing?"
"Trying to keep him from biting down on cyanide." Jack answered. Kim noticed the terrorist move his weapon to shoot Jack in the chest only for Kim to grab it and throw it out of the terrorist's reach. Jack reached in and was able to extract the cyanide capsule the terrorist had in his mouth. After throwing it away Jack glared at the terrorist.
"Now we're going to talk."
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The truck carrying Ron and the cheerleaders was still going down the highway to a destination no one in the back knew about. Ron figured he'd ask Shego, but he didn't think Shego would give any answers. She was too busy looking out the window at everything that was going by scowling the whole time. Nonetheless he decided to try anyway.
"Uhhhh Where are we going?" Ron asked. Shego just turned and said "You'll find out when you get there." then resumed her looking out at the passing landscape. Soon they came to an underpass where another car was waiting. By it's side was a woman with short cropped dark hair, and two muscular men with guns. The truck and the remaining escorts stopped under the underpass just before the car, and Shego and the courier got out of the truck making their way to the back.
Once there the courier opened the door and said "Okay, everybody out!" Shego emphasized a "NOW!" as she fired a bolt of green flame inside the truck. The cheerleaders and Ron wasted no time getting out of the truck and onto the pavement. One however thought it was an opportunity to make a break for it and kept running.
"KARA!" Bonnie called out to the blonde haired girl who was running as fast as she could. But the dark haired woman was quick to stop her.
"Hold it right there!" the dark haired woman named Nina Myers said. Her gun drawn on the cheerleader named Kara. Kara stopped and turned back around to see the gun facing her, and other guns directed at her friends and Ron. Nina motioned with her gun for Kara to get back with the rest of them, and she reluctantly obeyed. Once she was with the rest of them. "Thanks a lot Bonnie." Kara said under her breath. Bonnie seemed to be trying to shy away from the unified glare the other Middleton High cheerleaders were giving her.
Nina walked over to the hostages and studied them as she said her peace. "All right now. There is a possibility that someone has a way for them to be tracked. Now I know it's not one of the crew, so I'm guessing it has to be one of you." Nina glared at the cheerleaders as if trying to find out with her own eyes who had the tracking chip. Ron looked sheepishly as he said "What? One of us having a tracking device? Ha ha! You're paranoid lady."
"Paranoia pays in my line of work." Nina said glaring directly at Ron. Nina then turned to one of her escorts and ordered "Examine their contents. If necessary, do a strip search." The escort nodded as he and the rest of the terrorists smiled as they advanced on the cheerleaders. All of them shaking their heads no as to what was going to happen. All of them afraid as to what MIGHT happen.
Shego turned away droping her head down in shame. She didn't want to be a part of this, but she felt like she had no choice. When Nina stood next to her Shego flashed a glare of hate towards Nina. "You're enjoying this aren't you?" Shego asked.
"Nope." Nina said. "But it has to be done."
"Does it?" Shego asked. "They're just kids. They don't need to be part of this madness."
"Our employers disagree." Nina responded back. Shego shot back with "Your employers, not mine. You're the one getting paid for this."
"Would it help if you were paid as well?" Nina answered. "I could arrange that."
"Pass!" Shego shot back just as the screams of the cheerleaders and Ron shot out from the crowd. Shego closed her eyes as a tear fell down her face as she realized the 'strip search' was beginning. "How did it all come to this?" she asked herself outloud.
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Kim saw her lipgloss container laying on the ground and immediately picked it up. It was still emmiting a faint amount of the stink formula odor, but it needed time to build up again. Finding the cap Kim twisted it back on and went over to see what Jack was doing.
Jack had the terrorist handcuffed to the door of his Ford. Kim looked on wondering what was going to happen as Jack picked up his cell phone and called CTU. "Tony it's Jack. We have a suspect in custody. Can you bring a unit down to pick him up?"
"Yeah Jack. There's a unit on their way in 20 minutes. They should pick up the suspect then." Jack then asked Tony "Have you also brought in the man that was shot?"
"Yeah, he's in the clinic now." Tony said. "He's being operated on as we speak. It's...too early to tell if he's going to make it." Jack sighed as he understood. He then made one more request and said "Listen, I have Kim Possible with me. She mentioned that one of her foes was with the terrorists when she tried to rescue her friends."
"Is Kim Possible in custody?" Tony asked. Jack said "No, but she's with me now. She mentioned fighting off a person named Shego. I've never heard of her appear on any watchlists. Have you?"
"No." Tony said. "Nothing on F.B.I. or C.I.A. watchlists. What was she supposed to have done?" Jack then thought it might be a good idea for Kim to take this end of the call and called Kim over. "Tony needs a description on Shego and Dr. Drakken. Can you give it to him?"
"No big." Kim said as Jack went over to the terrorist they had cuffed to his Ford. Kim spoke to Tony not sure she wanted to know what Jack was going to do next. "Yeah? Who is this?" Kim asked.
"Miss Possible? My name is Tony Almeida, director of CTU Los Angeles." Tony explained. "We're a little curious about this Shego you said was part of the kidnapping. Can you give us a physical description and clarify all that she has done?"
Kim immediately went into a run down of Shego's physical characteristics which caused Tony to bat an eye at the description. Mostly because he never heard of a woman who was more green than anything. Kim then went into a description of Shego's crimes, at least those she knew of. Mostly they consisted of theft, vandalism, kidnapping, but nothing that consisted that she was involved in terrorism. As far as CTU was concerned she was just a petty criminal who stole top secret, but unusual, items. "Why would she be involved with terrorists?" Tony asked.
"I don't know." Kim said. "But it probably has to do with Dr. Drakken." Kim also gave Tony the run down on Drakken, and again he didn't seem like anyone that CTU would bother with. "Doesn't sound like someone associated with terrorists either. Sounds more like one of those cartoon quacks with wacky gadgets hoping to take over the world." Kim considered Tony's words and figured she wasn't too far off with Tony's interpretation. But all the same Tony told Kim that Drakken and Shego never crossed CTU's watchlists. Apparently CTU did not consider them a threat.
"Well I've found them to be threatening." Kim said. "Isn't there anyone else you can check with? Police, G.J.?"
"G.J.?" Tony asked.
"Global Justice." Kim said. "Kind of a world police force. If there's anything on Drakken and Shego, they should have it." Tony then asked if there was any way they could contact Global Justice and she then told him to contact Wade. "He should be able to get in contact with Dr. Director."
"Dr. Director?" Tony asked wondering if he wasn't stepping into an area where a psyche exam was needed. Kim seemed to share his feelings, not forgetting the experience with 'the Ron factor'. "Yes Mr. Almeida, it does seem a little...awkward doesn't it?"
"Well I'll see what I can do about contacting this 'Global Justice' and getting what information I can about Drakken and Shego." Tony said. Kim responded with "Please and thank you." before hanging up. She then went back to Jack who was doing his interrogation of the prisoner. An interrogation Kim was finding unsettling.
"Where is your destination!" Jack asked as he ripped the terrorist's arm back as if trying to pry the arm out of it's socket. The terrorist screamed in pain, but he was not giving any answers. Jack pushed harder as he asked again "WHERE IS YOUR DESTINATION!"
Kim looked on in horror as to what she saw. Never before had she ever seen someone treated like Jack was treating this terrorist, and she wondered if someone really deserved to be treated as such. She thought about saying something but thought it would be lost in the interrogation Jack was commencing. Jack put pressure on the arm ready to wretch it out of the terrorist's socket unless he gave an answer. Again Jack asked "WHERE IS YOUR DESTINATION!"
"Please answer him!" Kim shouted not sure she wanted to see any more of what was happening. Through the screams the terrorist gave his answer. "We were heading for an abandoned water treatment plant. We were to drop off the harbingers and toxin there."
"Harbingers?" Jack asked. "Harbingers of what? What are they going to use the toxin for?"
"I don't know." the terrorist answered. Jack wretched back on the arm again as the terrorist screamed "I SWEAR I DON'T KNOW! ALL I KNOW IS THAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE HOSTAGES AFTER SECURING THE TOXIN! THE HARBINGERS CAME AND WE TOOK ADVANTAGE!" Jack then released the arm and then said "This will help you with the pain." as he delivered a punch to the back of the terrorist's neck. Once he had falled unconscious Jack dragged him over to a tree and cuffed his hands behind it so the terrorist could not escape.
Jack then made his way to his Ford ready to head to the water treatment plant. Kim got into Jack's face giving a look that no teen usually gave, a stern condescending look. "Was that really necessary?" Kim asked.
Jack kept his gaze on Kim as he justified himself as best he could. "Listen Miss Possible. These terrorists you see here aren't your usual thugs with wacky gadgets an an attitude of a high school bully wanting to run the playground. These are fanatics who won't stop their atrocities until millions and millions of Americans are dead. Their ideology is reflected in the body counts they run up."
"But what you did... No person should have to go through that." Jack nodded at Kim in agreement. "You're right, no one should. But sometimes you have to do things you don't like to get the job done. More times than not the lives of American citizens take precidence over constitutional rights."
"Still doesn't mean I like it." Kim replied. Jack looked at Kim and said "I don't like it either, but sometimes it has to be done. If you can't see that, maybe you shouldn't be in this line of work."
Kim then stood absorbing Jack's words as Jack reached his Ford and told Kim "A CTU unit should be here soon. They will accompany you back to CTU where you can be with your teacher."
"I'm not going back." Kim said. "I'm going with you."
"Miss Possible. Where I'm going is no place for a minor. Just stay here and wait for the unit." Jack got back into the truck but Kim raced for the passenger side and got in quickly. Jack glared at Kim as he said "Miss Possible, get out of the truck now!"
"No. I'm going with you." Kim said defiantly. Jack had no time for verbal foreplay with Kim so he made ready to pull his gun out on Kim hoping to convince her to get out, but Kim was prepared for that as she brought out her Kissy girl lip gloss and opened the contents. I hope it's built up enough Kim thought as the faint, but powerful odor went Jack's way.
"What's that smell?" Jack asked as he caught wiff of the smell and started to get dizzy. "Ugggh that stinks." he said as he fell unconscious. His head hitting the steering wheel.
"Just enough to knock him out." Kim said as she closed the container. The gloss hadn't had enough time to build its stink back up since being used on the escort, and Kim wasn't sure it would be potent enough after so soon a use. Fortunately she had enough to knock Jack out and take his truck. Getting out she walked around opening the driver's side door pulling Jack out of the front seat, and sticking him in the back. She felt how heavy Jack was and wondered if she shouldn't have left him behind, but then decided that Jack might be needed again.
Kim then got back into the front seat of the truck and drove to where the terrorist said their drop off point was.
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Ron and the cheerleaders felt scared and embarassed as they stood before their captors. Their clothes all in a heap before them, including their underwear, as the terrorists looked on with letcherous looks. The girls all looked to be hiding behind Ron for cover who just stood there staring at the terrorists hiding his own privates from view.
The terrorists seemed to laugh at the sight before them. Not because of Ron's efforts to be modest, but because of the girls' attempt to hide themselves from their prying eyes. No matter where they went, the cheerleaders could not escape the terrorists' lecherous looks.
Shego however couldn't stand to see such degredation and turned her head away in disgust. Nina however didn't seem bothered as she went over the clothes with a tracking scanner hoping to find a tracking device of some kind. So far she hadn't detected anything, but still Nina wasn't convinced. Kim Possible's appearance was too much a coincidence. There had to be a tracker somewhere.
"Who are you?" Bonnie asked trying her best to cover herself with her arms, yet not hiding her fear. Nina looked up and smiled. "If you must know, my name is Nina Myers. I'm a traitor to this country, and if you don't shut up I'll see to it that the toxin is used on you first." Bonnie then shut up as Nina went about her search. Shego then came up with what seemed to be like white robes that would be used for monestaries. "Put these on." Shego said softly.
Each of the cheerleaders looked at the robes and moved to put them on. Bonnie felt the urge to mention the robe not being cashmere, but she wanted to feel some sort of modesty and cover herself up quickly. Even newspaper seemed good right now. Quickly Bonnie put the robe on as did Ron and the rest of the cheerleaders.
Nina resumed her scans and saw some movement in the mound of clothes. Quickly she drew her gun and pointed it at the mound ready to fire. Ron shouted "NOOOOOOOO!" Nina then drew up the gun and pointed it at Ron. "What do you think you are doing?"
The pink head of Rufus soon erupted from the clothes. Nina looked at him in confusion and then at Ron. "A naked mole rat?"
"Hey! He's family." Ron said as Rufus made his way towards his buddy, but a gunshot separated the two before they could get close. Nina pointed her weapon at Rufus and said "That thing has five seconds to run before I do some target practice. One...two...three...four..."
Rufus made to run to where he could find some cover but Nina kept the gun trained on him. When she said "five!" Nina fired apparently sending Rufus staggaring and falling back behind the cars where he seemed to lay dead. "RUFUS!" Ron shouted as it seemed like he had lost his best friend. "NOOOOOOOO!" Ron shouted with tears in his eyes trying to run to Rufus's side. Only to be held back by terrorist hands and a strike to Ron's chest with the butt of a gun.
It didn't seem to bother Nina though as she turned back and made her way towards where Shego was standing. "So did you enjoy yourself?" Shego said with a hint of anger in her voice. Nina didn't seem bothered by it. In fact, she seemed amused by it.
"That's an odd question, coming from you." Nina said. "I thought you were the big bad evil girl."
"I am." Shego said. "But this...this is beyond evil. This is...INSANE!"
"Watch your mouth." Nina said. "You don't want anything to happen to your beloved Dr. Drakken don't you?" Nina held her gaze at Shego as Shego fired off with a hard gaze of her own. Shego then backed up her gaze with her next few words.
"That's the difference between you and me Myers. I may not be a saint, but at least I still have my sense of loyalty. I'm loyal to Dr. D, which is why I stayed by his side for so long. I'm loyal to my brothers, which is why I didn't kill them first chance I got when I took their powers. But you...you're loyal to no one. You sell yourself to the highest bidder, no matter what sins they ask you to commit." Shego paused for a moment and then looked Nina dead in the eye as she said her next words which she hoped would rock Nina to the core "Like when you murdered Jack's wife."
Nina flinched a bit and Shego smiled. "You think I wouldn't have found out? I do hear things from time to time. After all I served with him once before he went on the Drazen mission."
"How did you know about the Drazen mission?" Nina asked. "No one but Jack, Palmer and Ellis knew about that."
"Jack and I got our missions from Ellis back when I did government work." Shego said. "He also wanted me to tell Teri what happened if he never made it back from that mission. He trusted me just as he trusted you. The only difference is I never betrayed him when I went bad."
"No." Nina said. "You only betrayed yourself." She then went back to looking at her tracker then back at the cheerleaders and Ron. She hadn't found a tracker on the clothes and ordered them immediately burnt. But still something troubled Nina. There has to be a chip on them, but where would it be? she thought. Then she had her answer.
Under the skin
Nina made her way to the cheerleaders and pulled each one out one by one and scanned them with the tracker. Tara, Bonnie, Kara, all of them were dragged out so Nina could run the scanner on them. Finally she came to Ron and ran the tracker on him. She hit pay dirt when her tracker detected something on the back of his neck.
"We've got it!" Nina shouted. "Hold him down!" Suddenly the terrorists grabbed Ron by the arms and held him down face first. Ron protested as he shouted "Hey! What are you doing?" Nina walked over to Ron and drew a knife which she used to touch Ron's skin. "I'd love to say this wouldn't hurt, but then I'd be lying."
Nina then drove the tip of the knife in the back of Ron's neck causing him to scream out in pain. The cheerleaders looked horrified as they saw Ron getting cut open. Even Bonnie held her hand to her mouth as she saw the torture Ron was going through. Nina cut the knife along where the tracking chip was located in Ron's neck and as soon as she was done extracted the device out of Ron's neck holding it up for everyone to see, including Ron.
"How...how'd that get in there?" Ron asked weakily as he lay on the ground bleeding. Shego made ready to bring a med kit to Ron but Nina held her back. "Let him bleed. Our boss has no use for him."
"What?" Shego said shocked. "You'd leave him to die?"
"All they want are the girls." Nina said. She then turned to the terrorists and ordered them to load up the girls which she did. Nina then went to where the clothes lay that the cheerleaders had previously worn and dumped a gallon of gasoline that a terrorist had placed nearby. Bringing out her lighter Nina lit the wet clothes and they all erupted in a burst of flame.
Ron looked on at the burning clothes continuing to lose blood. Nina then walked over to Ron and placed the chip he had inside him on the ground. She then proceeded to crush it with the tip of her boot almost as if she was crushing any hope the cheerleaders had for rescue by Kim Possible or anyone else. When Nina lifted up her boot, all that remained was a series of crushed parts which to Ron and the cheerleaders might as well have been crushed hope.
Nina then knelt down to look at Ron whose eyes looked totally glazed over. Nina however shook him to awareness as she said "If you run into a woman named Teri Bauer, tell her Nina Myers is taking good care of her husband." Then she let Ron's head fall to the ground leaving him to die a slow death as she turned and walked away.
Rufus then poked his little head out from where he was supposed to have fallen and died and immediately went to his master's side to comfort him. "Hey little buddy." Ron said as he saw Rufus in front of him. "I knew they couldn't keep you down."
"Ron." Rufus said with tears in his eyes. The starting of the engines got Ron's and Rufus's attention as the terrorists made ready to leave.
"Go." he whispered. "Follow them." Rufus shook his head no as if saying that his place was by Ron's side.
"Someone has to follow them. Someone has to tell KP where they are going." Rufus listened to Ron's words and decided that he was right. Rufus gathered the remains of the crushed chip and made his way to the van where he stowed away in the undercarriage. After finding a safe place to sit Rufus looked over the ruins of the destroyed chip wondering how he could make a tracking beacon out of it.
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At CTU Michelle was briefing the new arrivals from Division about the situation. With the threat as it was she thought it be best that tech support had all the help it could get.
"Here's what we have so far." Michelle said. "We have someone linking into CTU through an outside system. We are trying to find out who it is and shut them down. In the meantime we are also looking for leads onto where the toxin could have been taken. We need to check all data pathways, and run through the leads we have, to see who and where the toxin was sent to. Now let's get to work." The technicians nodded and took their stations on the CTU floor as Michelle went and talked to Tony.
"Any word from Jack?" Michelle asked.
"None." Tony said. "A team found the suspect Jack questioned handcuffed to a tree, but Jack's truck was gone and so was Miss Possible."
"You think Jack and Kim Possible are still working together?" Michelle asked. Tony shook his head not sure what to think.
"Jack didn't want a minor put in danger, but from what I hear Miss Possible can be as headstrong as Jack is. It's possible that she and Jack may be tracing a lead together." Michelle then asked if Tony wanted to give Jack a call, and Tony said yes. Wasting no time Tony picked up a phone and called Jack's cell phone number.
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Kim was driving the Ford with an unconscious Jack in the back seat. Kim had been following the tracking signal from Ron's chip, but noticed it stopped short and cut out a few minutes ago. "They must have found it." Kim said as she realized she now had no signal to follow. All she had to hope for was that the terrorist's information was accurate. Kim hoped that would be enough.
Soon Jack's cell phone rang and Kim looked at it wondering if she should answer the call. After a few seconds Kim decided it was best to answer. Flipping it open she said "Hello?"
"Miss Possible?" Tony asked. Kim nodded saying that it was in fact her. "Yes Mr...Almeida is it?"
"Yeah, look where's agent Bauer?" Kim answered with "He's...taking a little nap in the back seat. I'm driving up to where the guy agent Bauer tortured said my friends were going."
Tony wasn't sure he believed what he was hearing. "Wait. You mean you knocked out Jack? And you're driving his truck?"
"Yeah." Kim answered. "He wasn't going to let me find my friends, and I wasn't going to take no for an answer." Tony cursed under his breath, and for a moment Kim thought she heard Tony say "She's just like him."
"Agent Almeida?" Kim asked. "Are you there?" Quickly Tony got back on the phone. "Yeah I'm here. Where are you heading?"
"An abandoned water treatment plant." Kim said. "That's where he said they were going."
"I know the place I'll get a team ready.' Tony said. Kim however was hesitant to do that. "Mr. Almeida, no. We don't know if the information was accurate. I think it best if I check the place out myself."
"Miss Possible this is no place for a civilian." Tony replied. Kim answered back with "I'm no ordinary civilian. In case you've forgotten the motto on my website, I can do anything."
"Yeah, including get yourself killed." Tony answered. "Look please check in when you arrive there. And if you see any trouble please contact us."
"Fair enough. Either I or Wade will be in touch." Kim then decided to ask "Any word on Shego and Drakken from GJ?"
"Strangely enough no." Tony answered. "We're going through the channels, but so far nothing. We're still trying though."
"Get in touch with them quick. The sooner you know about Drakken and Shego, the better." Kim was about to hang up when Tony then asked "What did you do to Jack?"
"Oh, agent Bauer?" Kim gave a lopsided smile as she said "I gave him a wiff of some knock out gas." Tony seemed confused. "Knock out gas? Isn't that against the Geneva accords?"
"Not if it comes from super stinky sweat socks." Kim replied as she hung up and resumed driving. Jack was about to stir as Kim rounded the corner. What she saw next she couldn't believe.
Ron was laying on the ground. A pile of burning clothes next to him. Kim stopped the truck and quickly got out racing to Ron's side. "RON!" she cried as she ran. Once she was by his side she saw the look in Ron's eyes, and the blood coming out of his neck. The chip was found, but that didn't matter. Ron was hurt, and she didn't know how bad.
"Ron? RON!" Kim shouted trying to bring Ron to a sense of awareness. Inside the truck Jack was awake and saw Kim kneeling by Ron's side. Immediately Jack shook loose the dizzying effects of the stink formula and raced over to Kim's side hoping to see what he could do.
"Agent Bauer?" Kim asked surprised Jack was awake.
"We'll discuss knocking me out later. Right now let's help your friend." Kim agreed with Jack as they both tried to see what they could do for Ron. Looking in Ron's eyes Jack could tell he was in shock. Turning around he saw the open wound in Ron's neck where the chip was.
"Wound looks superficial, but if we don't close it quickly he could bleed to death." Jack said. He then brought out a cloth that he placed on the back of Ron's neck hoping that would stop the bleeding. Kim then looked up and asked if Jack had any ideas.
"One." Jack answered. "But I need you to bring him to a state of awareness. I'm not going to do what I have to do while he's in shock. I might make things worse." Kim was confused as Jack got up and made his way to the clothes pyre. "Make things worse? What are you talking about?"
"Just bring him around!" Jack said as he stood over the fire pulling something out of his back and placing it over the flames. Kim however struggled to bring Ron back to reality. "Ron? Ron it's me. KP. You okay?"
Ron kept his vacant stare as Kim still tried to break through. "Come on Ron. We still have to go to the L.A. Bueno Nacho. There's a lot of things we have to do together. You can't go on me now!" Ron still seemed unresponsive.
"Ron, please come back to me." Kim said as she sobbed. Her tears falling down from her eyes down her face. The first ones touching Ron's forehead, and then, as if by a miracle Ron's eyelids batted. "K...KP?"
"Ron? RON!" Kim said as she smiled glad he was alive. Then Jack came back with the item he left over the fire. It was a knife with the blade red hot. Kim asked what Jack was going to do with it.
"I'm going to stauch the blood flow and cauterize the wound." Jack said. "It's the only way to help him right now." Kim backed away letting Jack do his work. As soon as he knelt down Jack brought the blade to Ron's wound and touched it to Ron's skin.
Ron let out a scream he never let out before. Even Kim never thought Ron could scream the way he screamed right then.
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Underneath the bus Rufus was fiddling with the pieces of the destroyed chip trying to get it to emit some kind of signal. He was able to determine which components emmited the homig signal and pieced together enough to get some sort of a tracking beacon together, but he had no power source available. Rufus looked around and thought he had an idea as he raced towards the electric wires to see if he could impliment it.
Rufus studied the wiring and tried to determine which wiring systems he could use without arousing suspicion. He looked at the heating and cooling wires and thought they might be a good ways to go. Trying to see which wires went to the heater and which to the air conditioner Rufus disconnected the heater wires and hooked them up to his makeshift tracking beacon. When he saw it emiting a signal again Rufus sat back and hoped that Kim and Ron would come to the rescue.
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Kim was knelt beside Ron trying to see if he was all right. While his clothes had stains of blood on them Ron nodded, but said that the knife hurt. "Reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyy hurt KP!"
"I'm just glad you're all right." Kim said as she hugged her boyfriend. She cast her eyes in the back of Ron's neck and noticed the scar where the microchip tracker used to be. She was relieved to see the wound healed somewhat, but the scar horrified her as well. It reminded her of how much she almost lost Ron who had only a few minutes ago lied bleeding to death.
"So you going to tell me about that microchip I had in the back of my neck?" Ron asked. Kim looked at Ron and said "It was Wade's idea. He had you microchipped for some reason. I found out a few years ago when Drakken held you with my dad and his college buddies."
"And why didn't you tell me?" Ron asked. Kim wasn't sure she could come up with a good answer to spare Ron's feelings. "I don't know. I guess...it was a good idea to keep the chip. Besides, I didn't ask about it again. It was Wade's to put in, he should have taken it out."
"How'd he put it in anyway?" Ron asked. Kim thought it was a good question herself and brought up the Kimmunicator to contact Wade. When Wade appeared on the screen Kim asked her question. "Wade, how did you implant Ron with his chip?" Wade was quick to answer.
"I talked to Professor Okari about making use of a small robot insect that inserted tracking chips." Wade explained. Ron knew him as 'the bug guy' who developed a nano tick that Drakken had stolen once that landed on Kim's nose. "And I thought it would be a good idea to know where you were in case you got into...trouble."
"Trouble? Ron Stoppable never gets into...trouble." Kim looked at Ron and said "This from someone who was almost turned into a life sized cuddle buddy by a mad geneticist? Or when he was held hostage by Drakken with my dad's college buddies? And what about the time..."
"Okay I get it! I'm a trouble magnet." Ron said. "I guess the chip was a good idea after all." Kim placed a hand on Ron's shoulder and tried to reassure him that it was only because she cared. "I love you Ron. If anything happened to you, I don't know what I'd do." Ron smiled and took Kim into his embrace. Just then Jack up behind them and was all buisness.
"Mr. Stoppable? My name is Jack Bauer I'm with the Counter..."
"Jack...Bauer?" Ron asked as he went wide eyed with recognition. Almost as if he knew the name from somewhere. "JackBauer? THE Jack Bauer?"
"Ron you know him?" Kim asked. Ron's eyes went wide with wonder and joy as he said "Oh man this is so baddical! I mean the to meet THE Jack Bauer!"
"Uhhh. It's nice to meet you to." Jack said as Ron grabbed his hand and shook it hard. Ron looked at Jack as if he met his all time favorite sports hero. "Oh man it's a pleasure to meet you. I mean to come face to face with..."
"The man who saved President Palmer's life, and stopped an attack fabricated by oi barons." Ron looked at Jack confused as if he didn't know what he was talking about. "Oh I'm sure those were great and all, but I'm talking about your GREATEST achievement."
"What's that Ron?" Kim asked. Ron stood up as if proud to be in Jack's company.
"Kim you are looking at..." Ron paused before he said his next line. "...the man who beat the evil of Camp Wannaweep!"
Kim looked at Jack in a weird way. "You went to Camp Wannaweep?" For the first time in a long time Jack blushed with embarrasment as if he tried to forget that childhood memory. "It was one summer, it was a long time ago."
"Oh man the things this man did!" Ron said as he got ready to list Jack's wannaweep acomplishments. "Mutant squirrels? He blasted them with a slingshot! The toxic lake? He set it on fire before going in! The monkey mascot? I heard he twisted its arm. I mean everything Camp Wannaweep threw at him! He threw it right back! I mean the camp was scared of this guy!" Ron looked at Jack in awe and Kim couldn't help rolling her eyes at the sight.
Jack definitely couldn't wait to get back to buisness so he immediately began questioning Ron. "Mr. Stoppable. We need to know what's going on with these terrorists." Jack said. "Why did they take you?"
Ron shook out of his awe of Jack and tried to remember his captivity. He felt his emotions deflate as he tried to remember the time when he was taken hostage to where he was left in the road to bleed. "Well the guy that pulled the gun said he wanted us as harbingers. What's a harbinger?"
"In some cases a harbinger is seen as an angel. A deliverer of sorts." Jack explained. "It kind of fits why he'd want to take the girls. If they want to look at angel references they'd want people that would look beautiful, but what does this have to do with the toxin?"
"Toxin?" Ron asked. "Is that the green goo that guy had?"
"Yeah. It's called the Venom Plague toxin." Jack said. "It's designed to attack the body from the inside out and affect others in an airborne attack. If this toxin gets out millions could die. How many terrorists did you see?"
"Uhhhh, Six not counting the courier and Shego. Five guys and one woman." Kim looked confused. "A woman?"
"Yeah. She looked pretty. Her hair was somewhat short. I did get a name though. Nina something." Jack's eyes went wide with recognition wondering how his conclusion could be true. "You mean Nina Myers?"
"Yeah that's it! Nina Myers!" Ron said. Jack immediately raced to the truck and got in. Kim and Ron also got up and got in the truck as well. "Agent Bauer!" Kim called out. "What are you doing?"
"We've got to get there fast!" Jack said. It was as if the name Nina Myers turned on a whole different side of him. A side driven to capturing Nina. So much so that he forgot to ask Kim and Ron to stay behind and wait for a CTU unit to pick them up. He didn't want to get into another argument while Nina was out there, and involved in this matter.
He owed it to his wife Teri to stop Nina once and for all. Jack saw the PDA on his dash activate and saw a signal come from the treatment plant. "All right Rufus! He got a signal out!" Ron shouted excitedly.
"Rufus got the chip to work?" Kim asked. Ron looked at the screen with a sense of pride.
"And the signal is coming from the pumping station. Which means that they're there now." Jack said as he stepped on the gas, not caring who Rufus was at the moment. He figured that he'd ask later. Kim, Ron and Jack raced to get to the pumping station in time when Tony called. "Bauer." Jack said picking up the cell phone.
"Jack! You're awake?" Tony asked. Jack said he was. "Miss Possible's stuff only knocked me out for a few minutes. But it was potent stuff regardless. What do you need?"
"Jack we finished trying to get in contact with the Global Justice organization. We tried every channel and communication line to get in touch with them. We even went through other agencies to find them." Jack listened and then asked "Have you been able to get in contact with them about Drakken and Shego?"
Tony sighed as he answered. "That's the thing Jack. We've tried the comm lines and phone numbers, they're all disconnected. No other agency has even heard of them. It's like they never existed."
Kim, Ron and Jack looked at each other in surprise not sure what to make of the news.
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The truck and its escorts stopped. The courier, Shego and Nina got out of their vehicles and made their way to the back as Nina opened the door. Immediately she motioned for the cheerleaders to get out. "Move!" she said holding a gun to them and waving it towards the direction of the treatment plant. The girls wasted no time getting out and moving towards the plant. Not one of them giving any lip.
Nina turned to the men who were escorting her and ordered "Take the truck, and the other cars and dispose of them. Then meet us back here as soon as you can." The terrorists obeyed as they got into the vehicles and drove away. Rufus, knowing what was happening, disconnected the tracking beacon and followed the cheerleaders as they were being escorted into the treatment plant building. Once inside Nina activated a panel and soon an elevator door appeared.
"Get in." Nina ordered as the cheerleaders, Shego, Nina and the courier all got into the lift car. Rufus rounded a corner and barely made it through before the doors closed. He counted himself lucky that no one noticed him yet.
Soon the car hit the level Nina wanted to be at. The cheerleaders were then escorted out of the car and down a hallway past a symbol on a wall no one could make out. No one but Rufus who had seen the symbol before.
It was the symbol of Global Justice.
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