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Chapter 9: Friend or Foe

Aurora stood ready. She needed to time this right. Luckily for her, Go City was riddled with crime. This allowed her to tip-off Team Go on crimes across the city. This not only brought thieves to justice, but it also let her take from Hench Co. without being hindered. At least it did until now. Now she'd have to deal with Team Possible, and that was something she dreaded. Ron and Kim were her friends, and she didn't want to fight them. But they didn't know why she was doing this, and she didn't have time to explain it.

—Elsewhere—

"So?" Kim asked.

It was the most uncomfortable thing any girl had ever asked Ron. Not even the few guy friends he had asked him anything so personal.

"What do I think about making for second base?" Ron repeated her question.

"And?" Kim interrupted the silence.

Ron swallowed hard and said, "Well, I…um…it's just that…Why do you want to know?"

"It's just that," Kim said, "most guys would make a move for second by now."

Ron's eyes widened. He'd only been dating Kim for about a month. She'd been dating Josh for even longer. Did that mean…?

"Did Josh ever…you know," he said, motioning a hand towards her chest.

"Yes," Ron's heart fell, "Once, then I nearly broke his hand. That's what I meant by 'we grew apart'. He said that, if I didn't have sex with him, I didn't really love him. He'd been 'putting the moves' on me for weeks, but that was the last straw."

"Wow," Ron replied, feeling relieved, "And that was after three months. So why do you want to go so much faster with me? Not that I'm complaining."

"Because your hands are so much more gentle and caring than Josh's," she answered.

"Ah," Ron said knowingly, "My pride owes you one. However, if you don't mind, I'd like to take things slow. I mean, what if we go to fast and hurt our friendship? I don't want that."

"I wouldn't want that either, but—there's our thief."

Ron shifted into "mission mode" and pulled out his grappling hook gun. He fired it, and for once didn't lose his pants in the process. Kim did the same. She was wearing a slight frown. Was she upset that she wasn't going to see Ron in his boxers? He hoped so.

"Ready?" she asked turning serious herself.

Ron answered by swinging off the building that they were on. Kim did the same. They landed on the roof of the Hench Co. factory. Well, in Ron's case, it was more like a crash.

"You're not getting away this time," Kim said to the thief, "Aurora?"

"Kim Possible, stay out of my way," Aurora said and pointed at the red plastic box she was carrying, "I can't let this stuff stay on the market."

"I know Jack runs a shady business, but you have no right to steal from him," Ron said.

"Ron, he's not selling this stuff," Aurora said, "He's making it for a private client. I can't let him have it."

"Then I'll take it," said a familiar voice.

Shego kicked Aurora down and grabbed the box.

"Thank you," she said.

Then Mego jumped in. He kicked the box out of Shego's hands.

"That's not nice, sis," he said.

Shego charged up her plasma and attacked. Mego was dodging her strikes, but not incredibly well. Kim walked forward to join the fray when she feel forward.

"I'll find this mutagenic formula to be useful," Gill said while standing on top of Kim.

"Get off her," Ron shouted, giving Gill a strong punch.

"You're going to regret that, Ronnie," Gill said, "Lynn, do it!"

Ron felt someone kick him in the side. He fell off the side of the building.

"Freaky," Adrena Lynn said, "Bu-bye, Ron Stoppable."

He heard someone shout his name. He didn't know who it was, though. Seconds after falling, he felt an arm wrap around his waist. Then, like that, he stopped falling. Aurora was holding him, and she had rocket-shoes. She jetted up the building until they were at the top. By that time, Gill was soaking himself in the formula.

"NO!" Aurora shouted.

"Yes," Gill said, and then he shot muck at Shego and Mego.

They were trapped. The two super-powered siblings started to scream. Ron noticed that Gill was growing. He was now seven feet tall. He was laughing maniacally. Ron tried to jump kick Gill in the chest, but the mutant grabbed him and threw him down.

What happened to Kim? Why was she just standing there in fear? Ron realized that Kim was still scared by her traumatic experience two weeks ago. She couldn't fight Gill.

"We have to regroup," Ron told Aurora.

Aurora grabbed Ron and Kim, and she rocketed out of there.

"Go on and run, squeeb," Gill shouted, "this city is mine now. You won't be able to hide."

Ron heard Gill and Lynn laughing at him, and at Kim.

This was not good.

Far from it.

To be continued…

I'll probably have two or three more chapters of this fanfic. This will be part of a trilogy. The next chapter, Gill Returns, Again, will be up by March 31st.