Alright... let's see if we can string together a few consecutive weeks and get this close to being finished, if not finished outright.
(Just for those curious of the two dates listed after the chapter titles since last chapter, the first date listed was the original date this was supposed to be released, the second is the date it actually was. There's a comparison of how far exactly I'm behind.)
Disclaimer: None of the characters from either "Kim Possible" or "The Powerpuff Girls" belong to me.
Chapter 9 - So, We Meet Again - Part 2 (06.16.04 / 02.07.05)
Ron nearly jumped halfway out of his seat as Princess entered the room, thunder and lightning accompanying her.
"What's with all the cute, freaky girls in this town?" Ron shouted.
"Stoppable!" Barkin cut in. "You're in an educational facility... act like it!"
Ms. Keane coughed as she introduced Princess to Mr. Barkin. "This is Princess Morebucks. She is... a member of this class."
"What's going on around here?" Princess asked. "And what's with all these grown-up kids in here?"
Some of the high schoolers looked as if they were going to make an emotional retort, but one glare from Barkin quickly dashed any thoughts of doing so.
"Don't you remember, Princess?" Ms. Keane continued. "This weekend is our little 'big brother, big sister' project. You know... the one we talked about earlier this week?"
"That was today?" Princess sighed. "Fine... which one of these big kids do I have to drag along with me this weekend?"
Barkin and Keane stepped aside to give Princess a clear view at Bonnie, who was still toiling away at her frazzled hairdo.
"That lowly peasant is my 'big?'" she yelled.
"Oh boy, she's asking for it!" Monique whispered to Kim and the others.
But Bonnie seemed too distracted to get into an argument with the little redhead, so she sufficed with a simple...
"Whatever."
"Fine," Princess huffed, turning around and heading back out. "Come along, my new maid."
Bonnie followed Princess out, the 'maid' part having gotten her attention. "What do you mean by... m-m-m-m-m-maid?
Upon stepping outside, Bonnie got a glimpse of Princess' limosuine. Her extremely long-enough-to-wrap-around-the-school-thrice length limosuine.
"Now that's what I'm talking about!" Bonnie cheered happily. Turning to her classmates, she then added, "See you when this is all over, peasants!"
With that, Princess slammed the door in Barkin and Keane's faces.
"Oh no she didn't!" Barkin grumbled. "Someone needs detention, and plenty of it!"
"Um..." Keane stepped in front of the buff enforcer, "I wouldn't do that if I were you.
Princess is... special."
"Special? Special, huh?"
Barkin sighed and, surprisingly, calmed down. "Fine. I'll decease from telling you how to run your class. Considering what's already happened today... I'm not willing to fall victim to another highly uncharacteristic giant robot attack."
Ms. Keane then turned to address the class. "Okay everyone, we'll start with some 'show and tell' time!"
"Yeah!" all the kindergardners cheered.
"Whoop-de-doo," Kim added unenthusiastically.
Meanwhile, at Townsville Technical Institute, Drakken was glee with delight as Professor Utonium had shown him a laboratory perfect for the next phase of his plan.
"Excellent work, professor!" Drakken told Utonium. "This will do nicely."
"Very well," Utonium smiled. "I'm going to go fill out some paperwork. Just how long will you be needing this..."
"Three days!" answered the demented scientist. "Full access, no interruptions!"
"Hmmm... that might be a bit much... but, I'll see what I can do!"
As Utonium left to head to the chemistry department's main office, Drakken rubbed his hands together anxiously.
"Soon and very soon... Doctor Drakken is coming to take over the world!"
"Blossom... what would you like to tell us about your 'big sister?'"
Blossom and Kim were standing in front of the class, for it was their turn to 'show and tell'... about each other.
"This is Kim," the Powerpuff leader stated, pointing at Kim. "She saves the world, just like me and my sisters. She's a superhero!"
At this, all of the little tykes gasp and gawk in amazement.
"Can you fly?" a little girl asked.
"No," Kim replied.
"Can you bust through walls?" the boy next to her asked.
"No."
"Do you have ice breath, or lasers that come out of your eyes, or bionic limbs?" asked Mitch Mitchelson, the resident school bully.
"No, no, and definitely, NO!"
"Then it doesn't make you much of a superhero, does it?"
All of the kindergardners and even most of Kim's classmates broke out in laughter. Kim muttered something under her breath as she stomped back to her seat.
"It looks like they've given you the okay, Doc...tor... Drakken?"
Utonium reentered the lab to see it had already been remodeled into an evil lair.
Well, as close as possible to one considering the small amount of time and the fact that he used a few free lab assistants in the building to help out.
"You know, I don't think the contract includes remodeling..."
"Don't worry, my dear professor!" Drakken said. "I'll pay for any damages that my new lair... uh, laboratory, may cause to the old infrastructure."
"Well... okay. So I guess you won't be coming back to the house tonight?"
"Nope!"
"Well... if you need me, you know where to reach me!"
Utonium left, leaving Drakken to gaze at his latest triumph... the instant laboratory!
"Now... all I have to do is get my henchmen here and work on Phase Two can begin!"
"This is Ron!" Bubbles introduced her 'big' cheerfully. "He's a big fraidy-cat! He's afraid of everything!"
"I am not!" defended Ron.
"EEEEKKK! THERE'S A SPIDER ON YOUR SHOULDER!"
"WHAT? WHERE... AHHHHH, get it off me, get it off!"
Bubbles and the rest of the class giggled as Ron started rolling around on the floor,
trying to get this 'spider' off. Barkin just shook his head in disbelief.
Meanwhile, Buttercup was doing everything in her power to get Ms. Keane's attention so that she could go next. Kim glanced over as Monique tried to hide behind her.
"For the love of God, girlfriend, if you've got something in there to put me out of my misery, you'd better hand it over!"
"Look, practically everyone in our class has been made fun of. It's not that big a deal!"
"You're a cheerleader who fights crime!" Monique said mockingly. "How you gonna stop me from robbing this bank," she continued, pointing to a makeshift 'bank,' a nearby table, "suffocate me to death with your pom-poms?"
"Okay, fine!" relinquished Kim, reaching into her backpack.
"We're here," Princess told Bonnie as the limo driver opened the door for them.
Bonnie nearly collapsed when she got her first view of the Morebucks' estate.
"You live here? This place is, like, a palace!"
"Well, why wouldn't it be when you're the daughter of the richest man in Townsville! My daddy always thinks big!"
Princess just stared at Bonnie as the young teenager admired everything around her. The young Morebucks smirked as she pulled out a wad of cash from her pocket... which instantly caught Bonnie's attention.
"What if I told you daddy and I will let you do your little 'class project' with us, provided we paid you to stay in one of our guest rooms. Of course, you'll have to do some work for us too while you're here, but I'm sure you already guessed that,
right?"
Bonnie nodded, entranced by the bills in Princess' hands. "Is all that money for me?"
Princess laughed. "Of course not, silly! This is my weekly allowance! Heh... you're getting twice that amount!"
"Really? When do I start?"
"Just follow me... what was your name... oh, forget it. We'll just call you 'maid.'"
"I am SO glad that's over!" Kim exclaimed, breathing a sigh of relief.
"Forget about Camp Wannaweep... this was ten times worse than that!" Ron added.
In order to allow more time for personal interaction, Ms. Keane let the class out prior to lunchtime so that they could go out and start the weekend off early. Kim and company were glad for it just so they wouldn't have to sit cramped in those little chairs anymore.
"My back's gonna be hurtin' for weeks," babbled Monique. "You'd think they'd spring for comfy chairs for us big kids, but no, we had to sit in those tiny, little, toddler-sized ones. I'm a growing woman... I outgrew that stage of my life years ago..."
"Is she always this chatty?" Blossom asked as Monique continued to speak in the background.
"I know she wasn't earlier!" Bubbles commented, covering her ears and staring at Kim.
"Oh, so it's my fault she reached for my pep pills instead of my sleep pills, is that it?"
"You so disappoint me, Kim... my Kim takes drugs!" Ron shouted.
"I don't take drugs, Ron."
"Every time you tell us to split up, that's when you pop one! It starts with one, then two, then suddenly you're this adrenaline-crazed addict that thinks of nothing but popping! When will the madness end, Kim? Where?"
"RON!"
Ron shut up. "What?"
"Look, I only take them in emergencies. You try fighting supervillains when you haven't slept a wink in days. It's not easy, you know."
"Drugs are drugs, Kim! You want to be socially scarred for life?"
Kim growled angrily. "Aargh! Enough with the drugs already!" She reached into her pack and threw all of her energy pills into a nearby trash can. "There! Just don't blame me if we get killed 'cause I fell asleep right on an exploding golf ball or something."
"Don't worry," Ron said, patting his best friend on the back. "Admitting is the first step to recovery!"
"How 'bout helping me recover first?" Monique cut in, grabbing Kim's left arm. "You let me eat those pep pills and now I can't stop talking! I gotta keep talking because I'm full of energy, energy that I got off of those circular tablets you let me consume! And I ended up embarrassing myself a whole lot more thanks to you! You're really something, Kim, letting your best girlfriend here suffer while you're trying to get over some silly drug addiction! Well, where's my help? I can't stay like this forever! I'm gonna run out of things to say! Or maybe my brain'll explode before that... I don't know, they're your da..."
Buttercup put Monique in her place... by giving her a hard punch to the head, knocking her to the ground.
"Buttercup!" Blossom exclaimed.
"What? She was annoying the heck out of me!"
"Aaahhh!" Ron screamed. "See what kind of cruel world drugs has brought upon us?"
"Will you give it a rest?" Kim glared.
"Is she gonna be okay?" Bubbles asked with concern.
Kim quickly checked Monique's head, then her vital signs. "Yeah... I think she just got knocked out. Whew... I think the pills wear off faster if you manage to knock yourself out anyway."
"Just how many pills did you give her?"
"Just one! What do you think I am, Ron, nuts?"
"One? How come you've never freaked out like that?"
Kim shrugged. "Must not affect me as much."
"Or maybe you're already used to them!" Ron deduced. "It's worse than we thought... Rufus!"
Rufus popped out of Ron's pocket, decked in medical scrubs.
"We're going to have to go B.F.A.D.P.!"
"Don't you know drugs are bad for you?" Blossom asked, getting into it.
"Tsk, tsk," Bubbles tsked. "And you call yourself a superhero!"
"Will you just drop it already, all of you? I feel bad enough as it is... and besides, I've only had them for a few weeks. Since I broke my leg! And you saw me throw them all away, okay? I really didn't feel comfortable having them anyway!"
"There, there," Ron came up and started patting Kim on the back again... which she responded to be grabbing his arms with hers and squeezing his wrists real tight. "Okay, I get it, never any danger of an addiction."
"Good. Can we drop the subject, get to the Powerpuff Girls' home, and figure out a way how to revive Monique?"
Ron nodded, still cringing in pain... until Kim realized she was still squeezing Ron's wrists hard.
"Oops... sorry," Kim apologized, quickly letting go.
"We might as well go home," Blossom said. "At least there, we can straighten this big mess... and try and figure out what Mojo Jojo was exactly up to."
"Okay... but I ain't carryin' her," Buttercup told her sisters as she pointed to Monique. But after getting a menacing glare from them both, she decides otherwise.
Blossom picked up Kim off the ground and started heading for the Utonium house. Bubbles followed with the boisterous Ron, screaming his head for his fear of heights (or of being dropped from the sky), and Buttercup, pulling the unconscious Monique into the air.
Author's Note: The drug idea probably came from the fact that I'm taking all sorts of medicine to try and get over this fever I've had all week. It wasn't originally part of the storyline... this chapter kinda ran away from me. Oh, and I in no way condone using drugs to do daily tasks (such as save the world), nor do I suggest that Kim does so. She's a Disney character, for crying out loud!
Ahem... to the preview!
Coming in Chapter 10: "The Birthplace and the Resting Place"
- How will Professor Utonium react when the group brings in an unconscious Monique?
- Just what will Monique do when she comes to?
- And will Kim get over the drug problem she doesn't have? Enough already, she says!