Did you manage to catch all the references in the last chapter? Some were more obvious then others... I'm not going to point them out, but I am curious to see if anyone did get them all. Just a little fun to pep you up in this semi-filler as we move on to the second half of the second day of the weekend!
Disclaimer: None of the characters from either "Kim Possible" or "The Powerpuff Girls" belong to me.
Chapter 13 - The City of Townsville - Part 2 (07.14.04 / 03.07.05)
"I'm regretting agreeing to this," remarked Kim, walking with her friends Ron and Monique by her side.
"C'mon!" Monique exclaimed. "You wanted to prove you can kick villain butt too, and this is your chance! This is what you wanted!"
"Yeah... but I thought I was past the whole 'prove myself' stage of my career!"
"Did Superman ever have to prove himself more than once?" Ron asked. "Did Batman? Spider-Man?"
"Ron... you do know you're referring to comic book characters, right?"
"Comic book 'superhero' characters, Kim! There's a big difference!"
From the food court above, the Powerpuff Girls glanced over the railing to see if Kim could pass their test.
"Why are we doing this?" Bubbles asked. "I like them!"
"I do too," answered Blossom, "but we need to teach Kim a lesson. Fighting crime is dangerous, and as talented as she claims to be, we can't let an innocent bystander endanger her own life!"
"Why don't we just disguise ourselves as bad guys and send her packing ourselves?" asked Buttercup, rubbing her hands in anxiousness as if Blossom had already approved her idea.
"That would be too easy! Besides, we want to teach her a lesson... not hurt her."
"What do you mean you don't have this in my size?" yelled Princess at the top of her lungs, holding a yellow T-shirt in her left hand.
"Like I said..." stated a very shaky female associate, "we don't carry that dress in your size."
"I'm the richest girl in Townsville! I always get what I want! And if I don't, you better be prepared to get another job, because my father can close this dump of a shop down just like... that," Princess snapped her fingers to accent her point.
"I'm sorry, but..."
"Sorry doesn't cut it! That's it... you're going to pay for not giving me what I want!"
Princess ripped off her clothes to reveal the gold-plated armor outfit she always wore underneath should the occasion so ever arise. And this was one of those occasions, as a small gray cylinder rose out of her forearm... and fired a laser beam at a nearby clothesrack, which disintegrated instantly.
Customers and employees alike bolted from Club Banana and out into the hallway. This, in turn, incited panic among those in the immediate vicinity, especially when laser beams started shooting out into the hall.
"Something's going on..." Bubbles said to her sisters, pointing downwards.
"Let's get 'em..." Buttercup smirked as she prepared to leap into action. But...
"Hold on, girls," Blossom shouted, grabbing her sisters' arms before they could fly down there. "We're letting Kim handle this, remember?"
Speaking of which...
"They're tearin' up my store?" Monique yelled in outrage. "That's it... I'm going in!"
Kim stopped her before she could take a step forward. "Let me handle this. You and Ron get these people to safety!" With that, Kim immediately ran towards the store entrance.
"Hey!" Ron called out. "Whatever happened to relying on me to be a distraction?"
Kim rolled under one errant laser beam and cartwheeled her way past two more. Finishing off her routine with a somersault over a fourth beam heading right for her head, she stuck a perfect landing just a mere few feet in front of Princess.
"A kid?" Kim gasped in surprise over how much firepower Princess had.
"Powerpuff..." Princess started yelling, until she realized she wasn't facing her usual opposition. "Who are you?"
"One of the girls' regular villains, I take it... wait a minute! Aren't you that rich girl that showed up at Pokey Oaks late this morning?"
"The name's Princess!"
Kim rolled her eyes. "You sure don't act like one."
Angered by that comment, Princess fired off a blast at Kim... which she easily dodged.
"Say, isn't Bonnie supposed to be with you?"
Princess raised an eyebrow, confused. "Who? Wait... oh, you mean that girl that's staying at my mansion for the weekend..."
Thirty minutes ago, at the Morebucks mansion, Princess was ready to walk out the front door when she's confronted by Bonnie, dressed in a maid costume.
"Are you sure you don't want me to accompany you?" Bonnie asked sweetly.
"I'm fine," Princess replied, blowing her off. "But tell ya what... if you clean this whole mansion from top to bottom before I get back, I promise to buy you anything you want!"
"Anything?" Bonnie's eyes lit up with dollar signs.
"Anything," Princess smirked.
"You can count on me!" Bonnie saluted, producing a duster out of nowhere.
Princess laughed out loud. "She's such a golddigger!"
"I'm surprised you know what that means." Kim then let out a soft chuckle of her own. "But that's so Bonnie..."
"Enough talk! I didn't get what I wanted, so now I'm gonna wreck the whole store! And you'd better not get in my way!"
"Sorry, but I have to. Part of the whole 'save the world' gig."
"In that case..."
Princess resumed firing at Kim, this time with a multitude of shots far and wide. Kim put her cheerleading skills to the test as she used every trick she knew to avoid from beind hit.
"I see you're not going to make this easy!" Princess exclaimed. "Fine then!"
After dodging another round of blasts, Kim began to fight back. Grabbing hold of a nearby clothesrack, she pushed it towards Princess. The precocious little villainess responded by blowing it to bits. But the distraction had given Kim enough time to formulate a plan.
"Where did you go now, you goody-two shoes?"
"Is that everyone?" asked Ron as he saw Monique guiding a few stragglers to the exit.
"I think so," she confirmed.
"I'm going back to help KP!" Ron shouted, running off.
Not everyone had cleared the scene, though. The Powerpuff Girls were still watching from their perch above. They had just noticed Kim run out and use her grappling hook to hide on the sign above the doorway.
"What's she doing?" wondered Buttercup. "She should be kicking bad guy booty!"
Suddenly, the girls gasped when the bad guy Kim was facing stepped out into the hall.
"Hey! I'm not done being angry yet!" the annoyed little villainess screamed.
"It's Princess!" recognized Buttercup.
"We have to stop her!" Bubbles added.
The two sisters were about to leap down to take the spoiled brat out, but Blossom reached out to stop them again.
"Blossom!"
"Buttercup... we need to show restraint! Kim wanted a chance to prove herself, and we're giving her it. Just give her some time..."
The girls sat back down as they watched Princess continue to yell in frustration, while Kim prepared to set her plan in motion, her grappling gun by her side.
"C'mon... just take a few steps forward..."
When Princess did just that seconds later, Kim quickly turned her attention to the second floor railing on the opposite side of the hall. She fired a straight shot, succeeding in getting her hook to wrap around it. And just like that, Kim jumped from her perch and swung straight down at Princess.
"What?" Princess cried, but not quick enough to dodge.
Kim reached in, grabbed Princess' arm, and flipped her right into a nearby bench.
In the process, Kim had managed to rip the beam gun from Princess' forearm, which she noticed upon getting back to her feet.
"Hey! You're not supposed to do that!"
"I guess I just did. So... I guess you'll be giving up now..."
Princess smirked as her hands began to glow a bright red. "Not exactly..."
The curly redhead charged forward and locked hands with Kim. The two were now locked in a full-on grapple, and Princess was quickly getting the advantage, much to Kim's chagrin... and the Powerpuff's dismay.
"What about now?" Bubbles and Buttercup asked their sister simultaneously.
Blossom shook her head. "Nope."
Meanwhile, Ron made it back onto the scene, and, instantly noticing the trouble Kim was in, rushed to the rescue.
"Hang on, Kim! I'm coming!"
Princess turned to see where the noise had come from, "What the..."
That turned out to be a mistake. Quickly freeing one of her hands from Princess' near-death grip, she reached up and knocked the crown from Princess' head. Instantly, the glow from her hands disappeared.
"My crown!"
"Ron!"
Ron reached into his pocket and pulled Rufus out, immediately flinging him in the direction of the crown. Kim tried to keep Princess from retrieving it, but at the very last moment, Princess broke free and ran to regain her control device...
Only to have Rufus make a last-second save, sticking his paw out while in mid-air and flying down the hall.
"What about now?" the girls repeated again.
But this time, Blossom nodded. "Let's wrap this up, girls!"
It took less than a second for Princess to realize the Powerpuff Girls were here, and that they were flying right at her, looking to take her out.
"Aw, mannnn..." she whined.
Several minutes later, the six heroes stood in the parking lot as Princess was tossed in the paddy wagon and shipped off to prison yet again. But gone was the apprehension Blossom and her sisters had of Kim's abilities beforehand. Now, it seemed they were glad to have her around.
"That was great!" Bubbles giggled. "You showed Princess what for!"
"I guess maybe you are a hero after all," Buttercup added with reluctance.
Blossom quickly chimed in. "Uh... what Buttercup meant to say was... glad to know there's another great heroine in this world fighting crime along with us!"
Kim reached out to shake hands with Blossom. "That's a relief! Finally... one less thing I have to worry about here in Townsville."
"So..." Ron stepped forward to face the girls, "what about me? Do I make the grade as the sidekick?"
Blossom laughed nervously. "Well, to put it mildly... a bumbling sidekick, maybe."
"A bumbling sidekick? I don't go around tripping over my own two feet to make a distraction!"
"What are you talkin' about?" asked Monique, putting a hand on Ron's shoulder. "I saw you miss that step and almost fall on your face when you went back to help Kim!"
"I never do that on purpose! It just happens... alright?"
The five girls laughed out loud, much to Ron's displeasure.
And so, the day is saved! Thanks to... The Powerpuff Girls! Oh, and that teen hero Kim Possible, too. Why do I have to mention her... I don't narrate her show!
At the chemistry labs of Townsville Technical Insitute, Drakken and his henchmen were working diligently to set their plan in motion before Kim left for home in less than 18 hours.
Unfortunately, they were about to get an unexpected work stoppage...
"Doctor Drakken!" an angry voice yelled as the entrance doors flew open.
"What did I say, you stupid interns!" Drakken said, stomping towards the intruder.
"I said I do not wish to be disturbed!"
Drakken then stopped dead in his tracks and gasped as an all-too familiar silhouette approached him.
"It is time for me, the one you left to take the fall, to re-enter the story and re-ignite my plans to destroy those enemies I so hate, the Powerpuff Girls, using the very plan that you, the Doctor Drakken, are using to destroy your own arch-foe, that being the girl with the gadgets, that being Kim Possible! For I am the true evil genius of this story, and I will prove it by commandeering your secret project to achieve my goal of world domination! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha! For I am..."
"Sheesh, everyone knows who you are by now!" interrupted Drakken. "You'd think someone told you we had all day for you to yap your mouth off..."
You've reached the end of Chapter 13 and are probably expecting a hint of what's to come in Chapter 14, right? Guess what... I'm not giving it to you. No use of spoiling the big battle to come that'll find put this fanfic in the books.
Usual drill... Chapter 14 arrives next Monday, the 14th of March! 'Til then...