Kim Possible: The Sociopath Episode

Everyone except Valia Ryan and Nev Killbourne were made by Bob and Mark.

Chapter 20: Mission Final
Rufus has saved Kim and Ron from their mind control. Beaten and battered, they have little choice but to take out Valia once and for all.

Valia continued to charge, animating all of his claws like an insect towards them, with Kim and Ron charging at him. Kim tried to jump over him, despite that he was a good 15 feet high, and Ron went in under him. This wasn't the first time Valia got in this form, so he used one of his left claws to swat Kim, knocking her down, and backhanded Ron with the same claw, spinning in a full circle.

As they both tried to get up, Valia quickly picked them up and pinned both to the wall next to each other, pressing against them with the blunt edge of the claws.

"My, how amusing," he sighed, "You two were short of killing each other and think you somehow have the energy to take me on?"

Kim grunted, trying to break free, "It's not over yet..."

Valia laughed, "Au contraire!"

That instant, he pulled the claws that were pinning Kim and Ron away and thrusted them where their heads were at, but they managed to pull themselves under, running under Val. He easily moved some of his leg claws into them, pushing them into opposite ends of the room. He did nothing more than kick himself against the wall to return himself back to the center of the room.

Kim had to think of a strategy. Clearly she couldn't just run up to Val and kick him. With the length of his claws, he could merely move to the side and leave her flying past him with all ends open, and take the opportunity to attack. With how long and sharp the claws were, it wouldn't be a good risk to take.

Ron was trying to develop his own strategy. A distraction wouldn't work because Val kept his focus on both of them, while every other villain would focus on Kim alone. He didn't want Rufus to get involved and risk his life, since he would risk being stepped on, and in this case, it would prove to be easily fatal. On the other hand, Ron was equipped with a weapon that could have come in handy, but the time to use it had to be perfect. He would have to surprise Valia with it and put it to quick use.

Valia was clearly enjoying himself, awaiting the next move his opponents would place on him. However, he got impatient as both stood there trying to develop a strategy and decided to take action. In the center of the room, he turned his mech-arm claws and formed them into two drills, launching one at each end of the room, inches away from Kim and Ron's skulls. With the distance Val was at, it wasn't a move that was impossible to avoid. Val then noticed that Ron was running under one arm, giving Val a hard time where to strike. Kim on the other hand was running on top of the opposite arm straight at him. The claws on his regular hands wouldn't reach her until it was too late. He had his tongfers equipped, but waited for a better time to use them.

With his mech-claws still puncturing the walls, Val flipped himself upside down, twisting his arms in a 180 motion, throwing Kim off one arm. Val retracted his claws back to his body, making sure the claws on Ron's end would grab his head and slam his head into the floor on the way back. As he went to see if he succeeded in attacking Ron, Kim was approaching from behind. When she got close enough, the claws on that side merely swooped and knocked her aside into the wall, not moving any of his human limbs.

Kim was in a bind. Valia was extremely dangerous at close range. He wasn't as dangerous when he attacked from a far distance, but these extended claws changed that. The suit had to have a weakness. If Nev were as smart as he said he was, he would have put some kind of mechanism on the suit that would disable it if it were stolen.

Kim then noticed where Val had placed the Crimson Shenitz jewel.

The back.

That's where the suit's weak spot must've been.

Now she needed a distraction, but Ron had something else in mind.

Looking at him, her eyes became huge. 'What the hell is Ron doing? And when did he ever have a sword? No, that can't be. Is that...'

"The fabled Lotus Blade?" Valia scoffed, "Hah, I should've known there was more to you than meets the eye, Stoppable! So that's why you were in Japan. And here I was thinking that you went to Japan to train yourself so you could save your little girlfriend. Bring it on!"

It was enough to keep Valia distracted, but she needed something else. She checked her weapons belt on her suit, hoping that Valia didn't remove the contents of it when he sparred with her. Extra grappling hooks, batteries for the Kimmunicator, grenades, smoke bombs, rations, ammunition even though she didn't carry a gun, laser lipstick... There had to be something. Then Kim found something she didn't recognize, small discs with red linings on the edges. They didn't appear to do anything, but they looked somewhat familiar.

Prom night. An electromagnetic scrambler?

Only one way to find out.

Valia found himself distracted by the Lotus Blade as Kim took advantage of the situation. But he had heard her footsteps and swung his claws behind him in an attempt to smack her. She surprised him, grabbing onto one of the claws and jumped from claw to claw. He tried to do everything he could to shake her off, but she was too fast, leaving him with a disadvantage. Either she was too far to reach, or another claw was in the way. Not for long. Kim tried to get behind him, and just when she placed herself on his back, he quickly fell back onto her, knocking her onto the floor and trying to crush her using all of the claws to press his body against hers. Where was Ron? Above Val, coming down on him with the tip of the sword focused on Valia's nose. Since Val was facing up towards the ceiling, easily watching Ron fly in the air, it didn't catch him by surprise.

'Keep coming,' he planned.

When Ron's sword was inches away from cutting Val's nose in half, he quickly got off of Kim and moved aside as Ron's momentum still sent him down at Kim. Noticing this, Ron quickly put away the sword and spread his legs out so that when he landed he wouldn't stomp on Kim's abdomen. She still was under him, and he grabbed her hand and quickly fell back, launching Kim at Valia, allowing her to kick him straight in the head and knocking him off his feet.

Val felt a slight jolt as his back hit the floor, feeling something... wet. Water? Getting up, he noticed that a lot of water was leaking throughout the chamber through the various holes in the walls, floor and ceiling. He must have gotten careless with striking Kim and Ron with his claws, puncturing the several water tanks that would normally light the room.

He wasn't the only one to notice this, as Ron and Kim became aware of the water that was slowly rising. This wasn't good. When Valia slammed Kim into the ground, she dropped the electromagnetic scrambler disc, which went dead when it fell into the water. She checked her belt.

One more. Better leave it there for now.

Valia started climbing to the very top of the room, stabbing the walls harder than before, creating small waterfalls everywhere. When he reached the top, he thrusted himself downward, focusing all of his claws into six drills (the claws on each human hand 2, the claws on each mech-arm 2, and the two leg claws 2) and thrusting them as hard as he could into the floor below.

Unexpectedly, the impact was much more powerful than all three of them dared to anticipate, trembling the entire room, knocking Kim and Ron off their feet, and bringing several more gallons of water rushing in, in addition to debris from the ceiling. Some of the lights began to dimmer wildly.

Valia was pleased with the results of the destruction he had caused, and one more assault like that was probably enough to drown all of them. He began climbing to the top, but Kim and Ron grabbed onto whatever claws they could thanks to their grappling hooks, and wrapped themselves on the claws as Valia ascended, then leapt for Val when he was stationary. He didn't perceive either of them was up there with him, and all of his claws were already extended, puncturing the walls and ceiling. It had created a huge mechanical web of ten claws spreading throughout the area, and they were big and long enough for Kim and Ron to run on, but barely wide enough. Each claw was about two inches wide, and any misstep would send them falling below. That, and Val was at the center. He could easily throw them off. Not that they couldn't use their grappling hooks, but Valia could strike the floor with his attack and cause the entire place to collapse. They couldn't afford being careless.

Finally, Kim and Ron were able to fight in hand-to-hand combat with Valia. It was time to take out the tongfers.

Valia tried to decide how to attack with his glowing weapons. Blue would simply act like metal pipes if he hit either of them with it, Red would rip them in half, purple or yellow would paralyze their nerves, and he found out what green did, so he didn't use that one (healing). There were four tongfers total, but since his mech-arms transformed into long claws, they were in use. He just tossed two of them below, having not needing them, and they created a nasty electrical shock as they splashed into the water below. The electrical field they created would take a minute or two to die down.

He placed the tonfa-like weapons on his wrists and the blue beams went past his shoulders. This would knock them into the field below.

Kim approached quickly as he swung both his tongfers at her wildly. While his arms were stationary, they started spinning wildly from the wrist like a spinning staff, blocking Kim from making any moves. Realizing she wasn't going to attack, he stopped, gesturing her to 'bring it' with his hand. Kim tossed a quick right at his face, which he caught in his hand, twisting it.

She screamed in pain and he wouldn't let go. "You disappoint me." He mocked.

With that, he lifted her up and tossed her away as far as he could. She barely grabbed onto one of the stationary claws with her left hand and struggled to get up, noticing the huge electrical field below. Ron had pulled out his sword and went at Valia with it, clashing the sword with Val's tongfers, which he turned yellow. If Ron was hit by any of these, it would numb that area of his body, so he kept his distance. Luckily, Val couldn't extend those, and tried to attack Ron with the claws on his hand, but Ron was too far. Ron then got an idea, but it would only work if Val attacked in a specific way.

He leapt onto another claw, one that was more narrow, and charged.

'Thrust. Thrust.' were the thoughts that ran through Ron's head. He wasn't concerned with losing his balance.

He got within distance as Val attacked with the tongfers again, which kept clashing with Ron's sword. Most of the attacks with the tongfers were horizontal, from side to side. Ron was waiting for a specific attack, using the sword to guard himself. Perhaps a strategy he learned when playing games with Felix would help.

"Kill me already, why don't you?" Ron taunted.

"I thought you'd never ask," Val retorted.

Valia then put his tongfers together and thrusted them forward at Ron. Instantly, Ron dove under them, swinging his sword twice as he twisted himself through the air.

To Val's surprise, the tongfers quickly fell right off his wrists and into the water below, causing the electrical field to become more powerful, shaking the place.

"Brilliant, disarming me while bringing no harm to my body." Valia cackled.

Ron was hanging by his foot on a claw aside from Valia while Kim kept her grip on the claw she was on. All three stood their position until the earthquake stopped, but Ron wasn't done.

Able to wrap his other leg around the claw, Ron was able to hurl himself upward. Val still had the claws on his hands and was ready to use them, initiating the first move. To Ron's dismay, even after an attempt to block, Val merely moved the sword away with one hand and swiped at Ron's face with another.

One claw had a trace of blood on it, and Ron didn't even acknowledge that he had a small cut on his left cheek. As Val went for another swipe with each hand, Ron attacked the claws directly with the sword, sending numerous metal blades to the water below. More so impressed with Ron's sword work, Val simply tossed whatever remained of those claws into the water below, looking at Ron's eyes with the sword in his hand.

"You know you want to." taunted Valia. He knew it wasn't Kim or Ron's style to kill their enemy. Well, he was certain of Ron, anyway.

Ron was going to give him the satisfaction he wanted, but he already had other plans.

He rushed straight into Val and swung the sword at him wildly in several directions. Val just swiftly moved from side to side, despite being in a stationary position, able to avoid every swift strike of the sword. Finally, Ron lunged for one more strike, which missed, and since he was left wide open, Val kicked him off, but he was able to grab another claw as he watched the Lotus Blade fall into the water below. By now, the electrical field had died down, but not completely.

Valia looked disappointed. "No carnage? No slicing me into pieces? I was looking forward to that."

Kim noticed the look in Ron's half-closed eyes. 'He didn't….'

Ron was sneering at Val, "Who ever said I was aiming for you, kemo sabe?"

Val's eye twitched. "Huh?"

He wasn't aware of Ron's real plan. Suddenly, all the mechanical claws started to fall apart, sending all three and several pounds of debris falling 40 feet below.

"Booyah!" Ron hollered.

"Hah! Well played! But we're far from over!" Valia shouted in the air.

As all of them tumbled to the floor deep below, Kim released her grappling hook from her suit into the ceiling, swinging herself towards Ron and taking him into her arms, but neither of them counted Valia as a factor. He pulled out his own grappling cord, swung and wrapped it around Kim's grappling cord, and sent himself in their direction. All three collided into each other into the wall before crashing onto the floor.

Valia was definitely surprised that Ron had managed to cleanly cut off all of his mechanical limbs. Whatever was left of them was completely useless. Also, the tongfers still caused the water to create a huge but weak electrical field, but all of their battle suits seem to have absorbed it, for now.

Oddly, the field gave the room an eerie orange color to it.

The water hadn't even reached the shin, so they all were able to put up a fight without being slowed down too much.

Kim and Ron decided to take Valia on at once, but he was completely ready for them. Ron threw the first punch, which Valia caught in his hand, and swung Ron back at Kim, but Kim caught him before she made her attack. She tried to trap Val with a series of punches before suddenly striking low, at least that's what her plan was, but he wasn't making it easy. He just moved his head around, dodging every lunging fist that came at him. He chose to use her own technique against her, as it left her lower area vulnerable again. He was impressed that she was able to deliver at least 20 punches in four seconds that would have been well-placed on a common enemy, but she couldn't defend herself when she was on the offensive.

Kim came to realize that none of her fists were actually touching him, so she went straight for the uppercut she planned to take him out with when he was distracted enough. Her face went pale as Valia easily evaded it by backing himself past an arm's length. She was left wide open and she knew it. Before she could defend herself, Valia popped all the bones in his arms and thrusted two fists straight into Kim's abdomen, the impact of the blow forming waves in the water. Kim's body froze before she slowly descended onto her knees. Even with the battle suit protecting her, the blow knocked all the breath out of her.

As Val struck with his fists, he also kicked backwards at Ron, who was going to attack from behind when Val attacked Kim. He didn't anticipate for Val to attack two people at once. Since Val's attack was more focused on Kim, his kick didn't knock Ron back far or do him much damage, so he went straight for Val again. He went for a swift hand slice across the back Val's neck. If properly executed it would knock him out or paralyze him, but Val went low, grabbed his leg and slammed Ron back and forth onto the watery floor, before tossing him at Kim again.

Two strikes. Ron caught himself and hand sprang off of Kim's shoulders to avoid colliding with her. If there was something good about Kim not eating a lot of food for the last two weeks and being fed on only water, it was that they were fighting in water and not in a puddle of her own vomit. She was still on her knees and hyperventilating in an attempt for air. Ron knew the condition she was in, and there wasn't anything he could do but buy her time.

Instead of attacking Val directly, Ron tried to think of anything else he could do to buy time and do to harm to his opponent. Kim already stole his strategy and was completely immobilized by it. Val knew how to counter every punch and kick thrown at him, and his offense was just as deadly as his defense. Despite that Ron trained at Yamanouchi, little did he know that Valia attended the same school when he was seven.

He then noticed the Lotus Blade behind Valia. That was the one thing Ron had that Valia didn't, other than blonde hair and the Ronnitude that was Ron; Mystical Monkey Power, one that would summon the sword to him when he desired. But instead of just having the sword come back to him, Ron decided to set the sword on a crash course.

Hiding his fear, Ron sneered at Val as he put his hand forward. "Get a load of this."

In a split second, a loud slice surrounded the room as Ron caught the sword, a chrome left hand landing in front of him.

Valia realized that Ron sliced off his left biomechanical hand, awkwardly surprised that Ron still had a trick or two up his sleeve.

"Impressive," Val laughed with poise.

Ron had noticed that Val was still ready to put up a fight even with a hand missing.

"Uh, you do know that you're missing a hand to slap us around with?" Ron asked with confusion in his eyes.

"I don't need two hands to send your ass to the hospital, Stoppable." Val smirked.

Ron blinked a few times before reaching a conclusion. "Dude, you made a rhyme."

Valia himself blinked. "…hospital, Stoppable… No, I didn't!"

Ron just shrugged his shoulders. "Eh, close enough."

Neither took into consideration that Val wasn't screaming in pain as the circuitry disconnected itself from his nervous system. Either he didn't feel anything or hid his pain really well. The hand lay in the water as the two engaged in battle.

Val was right. Ron tried to throw all the punches he could at Val, and every one of them was tossed aside with just Val's right hand. Before long, Val caught one of those punches and used Ron's momentum to flip him onto his back.

Ron refused to give up, getting up and trying to attack with five kicks in midair. Val was almost taken off guard, since most martial artists can perform at least three kicks in midair in one jump. Still, that didn't stop Ron from getting his leg caught and being used like a pendulum, slammed repeatedly against the floor before being tossed aside.

He still got up, trying a mix of all the moves he knew in a desperate attempt to at least hit Val. Before long, Val caught him off guard and slapped his face around repeatedly with his only hand, and after slapping him at least twenty times in five seconds, he knocked his face into the floor and tried to hold his neck below the water. Ron had an opening available and he took it, sweeping his feet across Val's, knocking him into the water. While it didn't hurt Val in any way, Ron was able to escape. That is, at least, until Val grabbed his leg. Again, Ron found his face underwater. Just as Val got up, something charged into straight into his abdomen, forcing him away from Ron. The same being helped Ron onto his feet. Next to him stood Kim, ready for action.

Kim actually returned the favor to Val, charging her head straight into his abdomen. It didn't take as much air out as his own attack did, but it was enough to knock him off his feet. She was actually surprised that it worked, since the footsteps in the water should have been a dead giveaway of her position.

Val pushed himself upward, facing the two combatants. Little did he know that they already cooked up a plan without having to say a word to each other.

He noticed Kim on one side, appearing as ready as ever, but as he looked to his other side, Ron was already charging at him with a left hook. Val stepped aside, tripping Ron, using his own momentum to send him flying past him, but as Ron flew upside down, he forced both of his legs upward, kicking Val straight in the chin. Immediately, Kim followed with a hard right hook. Just as he staggered, unable to see, Ron followed with a battle cry and a spinning mid-air kick with enough juice to make Val spin a few times after the foot crossed his face.

Val may have been able to attack both with Kim and Ron in opposite directions, but he couldn't protect himself against both in front of him, and his opponents allowed no room for him to recover from a hit. It was a surprise strategy he didn't see coming.

Finally, his back was facing Kim. She pulled out the last electromagnetic disc as fast as she could and slammed it right into the hole where the Crimson Shenitz jewel had once been sitting.

"KP! Wait!" Ron screamed.

Too late. Kim didn't foresee a chain reaction. The disc was indeed an electromagnetic scrambler, and it acted as she thought it would, charging Valia's suit almost out of control. However, since Kim's hand was still on it, and still in contact with the water, she found herself and Ron caught in the electric charge. Because all of their suits could generate electrical energy, and the tongfers were creating an electrical field, it heavily amplified the effect, draining Kim and Ron's suits of their energy. It wouldn't protect them for long, if at all. The combined power of Kim's suit, Valia's suit, Ron's suit, the water, the electromagnetic disc, and the electrical field caused a massive electrical overload in the three.

Lucky for Rufus, Ron's pocket was completely made from rubber.

A huge explosion went off, sending Kim straight into the wall. Ron had been sent flying a far distance but landed on the floor. Valia on the other hand, his suit had been completely destroyed, and he was leaning on his knees. His entire body was scratched, bruised, burned, bleeding from several areas of his body, and barely conscious.

He had finally been defeated.

Ron had been unconscious for three minutes, noticing that his suit had completely powered down. Then he remembered the other person who might be wearing a suit, Kim. He looked from side to side to see where she could have been, but she wasn't anywhere to be seen. He then noticed a huge hole in the wall, and assumed the worst. He used whatever strength he had in him to run towards it, and tried to look inside for her, the only thing visible were several leaking water pipes.

"Kim! Kim!"

He looked into the empty pit below, fearing the worst. Just then, something white and blue grabbed his hand. Kim must have fallen into the deep hole and climbed up while he was unconscious.

"Should've listened to you, Ron..." she spoke weakly, smiling.

He helped her out of the hole, only to find that she was in a worse condition than he was. Her leg was bleeding and it was sprained. Since her suit was also powered down, the suits regenerating capabilities weren't working. Ron would have to help her walk.

They both turned their attention to Valia, still in the center of the room on his knees, breathing heavily with his eyes closed.

"How's that for ya?" Ron asked with a smug smile on his face.

Valia sighed, gaining his breath, "Exquisite. Nothing short of exceptional. But... I'm afraid it's not over just yet."

Kim had a surprised look on her face, "What are you talking about?"

Valia pulled something from the remains of a torn pocket. A remote with a big red button on it.

"I don't mean... to honor some sort of... villain cliché, but it's time we depart."

Pressing the button, the room started to flash red as the lights began to strobe, more water gushing into the room. It was clearly a self-destruct countdown.

"Leave... get out the door... take a left... climb the latter... don't stop," Val weakly spoke.

Kim spoke with a puzzled expression on her face, "Why are you telling us how to escape?"

Valia leaned backwards with a weak smile on his face. "I now know what I needed to know... why you two are friends... why you got together... why you are good for each other... why those villains couldn't defeat you or drive you apart... it's so obvious now..."

Both Kim and Ron had shocked expressions on their faces.

"Some friendships were not meant to be... Some relationships aren't meant to be... Some people seek that perfect person for them... Not everyone can be friends... or lovers... but there are exceptions to all the rules... You're better than all of them... Some people just don't look in the right places... I should've known..."

He coughed some blood, turning the water near him red.

"Just go. Time's running out." Val finished.

Ron was still puzzled, "What? And leave you here to drown?"

"I've always dreamed of dying like a warrior; in battle. This was nothing short of the best fight that I have ever had... For that, I thank both of you for not going easy on me. Go... live long and prosper..."

Kim and Ron were somewhat hesitant. Val appeared to have gained some of his senses back, although wanting to die shouldn't have been one of them.

"Go!" Valia yelled, forming whatever was left of the energy in his suit and firing it at both through his right hand. It didn't hurt them, but it was enough to knock them out of the room. The door slammed and locked, trapping Valia inside.

Kim and Ron looked at each other, knowing Valia wouldn't allow anyone but himself to be the master of his own fate.

They saw the latter. There was a problem, though. Kim had hurt her leg, making her unable to climb. Also, Ron couldn't climb and carry her at the same time. They weren't sure what to do.

"Ron...?"

"Don't even think about telling me to leave you, Kim. If you stay, I stay. If you die, I die. We're going to get out of this together or die together."

Kim said no more.

Then, he wondered how long the grappling hook could reach. Without much thought, he shot the hook from his wrist straight upward, neither of them knowing it could reach the top, which they couldn't see from here. For all they knew, it could've been a few hundred feet above.

And it was. Ron felt a slight jolt. Booyah.

"KP! Grab on!" he shouted as Kim tightened her grasp on him. He gently nudged his hand, and the hook started to pull them up, slowly. Usually grappling hooks are designed to convey one person, not two.

They weren't out of danger, but they decided to finally speak.

"Ron?"

"What's up, KP?"

"How did you find me? You said Wade and Nev couldn't track me. Spill."

Ron sighed, "I had a dream when I was in Japan. I just went on my instinct, that's all."

Kim looked down as the place was crumbling apart. "You went to Japan for me..."

Ron had a sheepish look on his face. "No big. I needed to train myself so I could have a chance to save you. I mean, Val's tough and so are you, especially under mind control."

"So, I was gone for two weeks?"

Ron sweat dropped, "Three."

Kim lost eye contact. "Oh."

Abruptly, everything began to violently vibrate. They both looked below in dismay as water was rising extremely fast. Ron pulled Kim in for one last kiss before the water completely engulfed them.

It may have been their last.