Crossroads Chapter 6:
Kim and Monique are at Club Banana looking at dresses.
"Oh, girl this would look dynamite on you."
Kim took and dress and went into the changing room. She came back out to Monique.
"Think Ron will like it?"
Monique smiled. "You'll have to pry Ron's jaw off the floor."
Kim giggled and went back to change back out of the dress. Kim paid for the dress and the two girls went to the food court for smoothies.
"So when did Ron ask you? Was he a nervous wreck?"
"Well it was yesterday evening after Bueno Nacho. I wanted to talk things over with Ron so we took a stroll through Middleton Park. Ron asked me while we were walking. Actually Monique, Ron held it together pretty good."
Back at Ron's house Ron was nervously pacing back and forth in the living room. He appeared deep in thought. He Mom noticed this. "Honey, is something the matter?"
"Mom, I asked Kim to the Spirit Dance."
Mrs. Stoppable's eyes lit up in anticipation. "And?"
"She said yes."
Mrs. Stoppable ran over and gave Ron a hug. "I'm so happy you and Kim are finally giving each other a chance. So why are you pacing back and forth? I would have thought you'd be excited?"
"I'm nervous Mom. I want everything to be perfect. I don't want to screw this up."
"Oh honey, relax. Everything will be just fine. I'll call tomorrow morning and we'll make an appointment to get your tuxedo fitted."
The next day at school the planning committee for the Spirit Dance met for the last time to finalize everything. Bonnie was being her usual charming self. "Why is Kim in charge of the committee again? Last year she didn't even show up for the dance. I on the other hand got Smash Mouth to perform."
"Bonnie, I was elected chairperson. Who do you have lined up to perform this year?"
Bonnie folded her arms. "Hmmmpf!"
"Besides, this year will be the best spirit dance ever. I will personally see to that."
"Don't tell me you're going stag with your sidekick."
"Bonnie, Ron is not a sidekick. For your information, yes I will be going to the dance with Ron. He is my date." Everyone on the committee other than Bonnie smiled.
"It looks like Kim's willing to settle for the bottom of the barrel. Is this the person we want in charge of our final spirit dance? Somebody willing to settle for the first thing she can get?"
Kim was about to hit the roof but she held it together. "Bonnie, Ron is twice the man of whichever slug you conned into going the dance with you."
"Please Kim, get real." Bonnie turned to the other members of the committee thinking they would be on her side. They were all frowning at her. "Well Kim it looks like you got the committee eating out of your palm like you do that loser. Fine, do whatever I don't care. I quit." Bonnie got up and walked out.
Bonnie left and slammed the gym door on her way out. Everyone else was happy for Kim. They all thought that Kim and Ron were cute together and were happy to see them finally getting together.
The evening before the spirit dance, the kimmunicator went off. "Wade, what's the sitch?"
"Drakken's up to something. Global Justice satellites detected he just launched something into orbit. I am trying to analyze what it does. It may not be till it reaches orbit and starts operating before I can figure out what it does."
"When will it reach geosynchronous orbit?"
"Some time tomorrow afternoon."
"Wade, tomorrow is the Spirit Dance, our first official date."
"Sorry Kim, I will see if I can figure out what it does well before the dance. I will try to disable it using one of Global Justice's satellites. I will check to see if their satellites are in range. I'll keep you posted."
"Thanks, Wade."
The day of the dance, Kim and Ron were decorating the gym for the dance. Kim smiled as she saw all her hard working coming together. The gym is going to look fantastic. She noticed Ron was quiet. "Ron, you're awfully quiet. Are you feeling ok? You're not having second thoughts about going to the dance with me are you?"
"No, KP I've been looking forward to tonight. I'm just nervous that's all. I just want everything to be perfect. I don't want to embarrass you in front of everybody by doing something stupid like tripping."
Kim walked over the Ron and smiled. "Ron, you could never embarrass me. Relax, everything will be fine."
Suddenly the kimmunicator went off. "Wade, please tell me your calling to give Ron and me a hard time about going to the dance."
"Sorry Kim, but I got some bad news. Drakken's satellite appears to carry communications jamming equipment. It will reach geosynchronous orbit in an hour. I got Global Justice scrambling their satellites for intercept but it will take two hours to get in range. If it's capable of powering up and firing in less than an hour, it could disable the Global Justice satellites before they can destroy it."
"Options, Wade."
"I am working on that now."
"Please let it be a dud so Ron and I can go to the dance."
"I'll keep you posted Kim. If I can disable it I will."
"Thanks Wade, you rock!"
Back at Drakken's lair Drakken was preparing to enable the communications jamming equipment. "Excellent, DrakkForce 4 will be operational in less than an hour. Then the world's communications systems will be at my mercy." Drakken brakes into his evil laugh. Shego just rolled her eyes. "If your contraption works."
"What do you mean if? This is my greatest invention yet. I purposely chose a far orbit. The global justice satellites won't get in range in time before I flip the switch."
An hour later the ready indicator on his control panel lit up. An evil grin appeared on Drakken's face. "The time has come Shego. Which region of the world should I disrupt first? I believe Europe should be coming into target now."
Drakken pushed the button to initiate the jamming signal. "Europe will bow to me if they want their communication systems restored. Let me widen the beam, I should be able to get most of Europe." The satellite wasn't responding. Drakken kept hitting the button. "What's happening? DrakkForce 4 isn't responding."
"Dr. D. you did make sure you developed a special frequency the satellite communications operated on so you didn't jam yourself right?"
"Drakken turned bright red. Well Shego, it's been a long day, I think I'm going to call it a night."
"You've lost control of your own satellite?" Shego smacked herself in the head.
Kim walked in the door of her house. Mrs. Possible was waiting. "Let's get you dressed Kimmy."
Just as Kim was following her Mom up the stairs to her room the kimmunicator went off.
"Wade, please tell me you managed to disable it."
"Kim, we got a major problem. Drakken's satellite has gone berserk. The interference beam is constantly moving. It's almost as if Drakken's lost control of it. Currently various parts of Europe and Asia are being affected. Fortunately, its orbit control thrusters appear to be stable. I don't believe Drakken has control over it to move it over North America. However due to its orbit, the beam would interfere with any attempts to get any existing GJ Satellite in range to destroy it. We need to come at it with a space vehicle from a particular angle and destroy it. The only thing we have that is capable of the maneuver we need is your Dad's experimental space jet. Think we can get Fredrick to help us out again? I can download the approach vectors directly to the navigation computer."
"I don't think that will be a problem."
"I'll call your Dad at the Space Center to make arrangements."
"Hurry, I think he's about to leave to make it home in time to see me off to the dance. Uh oh, I need to call Ron and tell him I won't make it to the dance."
Kim hung up with Wade. She beeped Ron. "Hey Kim, you didn't change your mind now did you?"
"Ron, I am so sorry but I'm not going to make the dance. Drakken's launched a communications jamming satellite and its gone berserk. Fredrick and I will take Dad's space jet to intercept and destroy it."
Ron looked sad. "Why did Drakken have to do this tonight? I have our whole night planned out. Things were suppose to be perfect."
"I plan on making Drakken pay for the both of us when we see him next. We'll make this up, I promise. I got to run to the space center. I'll call you from the ship. Bye Ron, we'll do something special when I get back."
"Bye KP, you be careful."
Kim arrived at the Space Center to her awaiting Dad and Fredrick who was already suited up. Suddenly she heard a voice behind her. "Wait for me, I'm coming."
She turned around to see Ron in his mission clothes. "We will dance on the jet if we have to but we are going to have our first official date dance tonight."
"Ron!"
