NEW STRUGGLES

Second Part

(Kim si still climbing the sustaining ropes of the not-working elevator of the hotel. Around her, only a few metallic doors which should open when the elevator reachs a floor (of course closed). But when she reaches about the sixth floor, a metallic door opens and Dementor's face appears)

Dementor: "Hi, lady!"

Kim: "Here you are!"

(Quickly Dementor shoots with a strange gun. A green beam hits Kim, and then the shadows swallow her. She wakes up, lying on the ground of the first floor. She's sorrounded by some men and Ron. She has open her eyes, but she doesn't move)

Kim: "Ron… What happened?"

Ron: "Oh, you're right, KP? I was so worried!"

Man: "This guy found you unconscious on the upper floor, and rescued you, although he was hardly injured."

(Kim focuses on Ron, and finds out the man who had just talked was right. Ron was standing up, but was full of bruises, and his lips were bleeding.)

Kim (worried, and standing up): "Ron!"

Ron: "Don't worry, KP, I'm fine. Well, maybe it will hurt tomorrow morning, but at least, we defeated Dementor."

Kim (puzzled): "Defeated? I can't remember…"

Man: "He ran away without stealing the money. I think that's because you managed to scare him.. Nice job, Miss Possible."

(Kim realizes that the man talking is the owner of the hotel, Mr Gordon. He looks like the classical business man: waistcoat, glasses and a few hairs on his head.)

Kim: "Really? He left without stealing anything?"

Gordon: "Nothing's missing. My attendants checked all the hotel. I really tahnk you for all you have done, but now I suggest you have to take care of your friend's health"

Kim (Back to earth): "Oh Sure! Ron, come with me.. can you walk?"

Ron: "More or less."

(Kim takes Ron's arm and put it around her shoulder, sustaining him as they walk out of the hotel)

Gordon: "My limousine is waiting for you outside. Bye, and thank you again."

Kim: "Ron, how did you get this wounds!"

Ron: "I was kicked by a strange girl who looked almost exactly like you. But she was blonde, and her eyes were white and… cold. And then I fell from the fourth floor to the first one. Rufus managed to jump out of my pocket just in time, and then he helped me to recover."

Kim: "Well done, Rufus!"

Rufus: "Thankx!"

Ron: "… and then we found you, lying on the ground, unconscious. I quickly called for help.."

Kim: "I.. I don't remember why I was there…!"

Ron: "Forget it. We're safe, and we saved the day. Even if I wanted to demolish that stupid hotel..."

Kim: "Actually, a common bathroom in a five stars hotel is really weird…!"

Ron: "Yeah, and you know what? Inside there was a Tv. And no toilets."

(That night, at Ron's place. Ron is lying on a bed, and Kimand Monique are around him. Rufus is standing on the bedside table.)

Monique: "How are you?"

Ron: "Still depressed for that Pizza you stole me"

Monique: "Oh come on!"

Kim (smiling): "I think he's doing fine, now"

Ron: "Thank you for worring, ladies, but the Ron-Man is fine. I'm afraid I won't come at school for the very next days, though."

Kim: "Don't pretend to be sad about it"

Ron: "Actually I am, 'cause I didn't want to miss the beauty contest"

Kim: "But I'm not going to join it, remember?"

(Ron and Monique divert their look, and whistle.)

Kim (suspicious): "There's something I should be aware of?"

Ron: "Well, herr… I don't how to tell you, but…"

Kim: "What?"

Monique: "Remember that famous list of the people participating to the beauty contest, exposed on a wall in the cafeteria…?"

Kim: "… yeah…?"

Ron: "There's your name on it"

Kim (totally red): "WHAAAAAAT?"

Ron (scared): "I'm injured! Don't do anything you could regret!"

Monique (scared): "It was Ron's idea!"

Ron: "But Rufus wrote your name!"

Rufus: "Sorry"

(Kim is so red, that she seems to be going to explode. Ron hides under his bed's sheet, and Rufus quickly reaches him. Monique tries to calm Kim down)

Monique: "Come on, it's not the end of the world, right?"

Kim (calms down): "Ok. You wanted it."

Ron and Monique (puzzled): "What?"

Kim: "I'm going right now to school, to add your names to that list, too."

Monique: "No, wait, you can't do it. It's night: The school is closed"

Kim: "I'll sneak in."

Ron (offended): "And I'm not a girl!"

Kim: "Don't worry about it, Ron, I'll add you to the boys's list"

Ron: "Is there a boys's list?"

Kim: "There will be"

(Rufus laughs)

Kim: "And I'm thinking at a naked mole rat's list, too."

(Rufus gulps)

(Next day. Monique and Kim are going to school. Kim looks almost exhausted, and Moniques notes it.)

Monique: "Kim, are you fine? You really look tired!"

Kim: "I… I didn't sleep well, tonigt."

Monique (suspicious): "So you really went to school, last night?"

Kim: "No, of course not. I was only joking! But I couldn't sleep.. don't know really why. Maybe because I'm still a bit puzzled about Dementor's last strike…"

Monique: "Don't think about it. It all went right, so why keep on bothering yourself?"

Kim: "Dunno. Maybe you're right."

(The two girls arrive at school… and they see it. Middleton High School… demolished. A lot fo students are around it, looking at it with amazed, feared or just puzzled look.)

Monique: "What the…?"

Brick Flagg (coming): "Oh, Monique! Kim! Here you are! Have you seen the school?"

Monique: "Hey sweetie.."

Kim: "What happened?"

Brick: "Don't know, but IT ROCKS!"

Kim: "Don't you know..?"

Brick: "No, 'cause when I arrived here, it already was like that!"

Bonnie (just arrived): "Is that an invention of yours in order not to be humiliated in the beauty contest, Kimmie?"

Kim: "Oh, just shut…"

Voice: "POSSIBLE!"

(Kim suddenly recognizes Mr Barkin's voice, and turns her head. He was standing at a few meters from her. He told her to come closer)

Kim: "Good morning, Mr Barkin.."

Barkin: "As you can see, someone came here, tonight, and demolished almost half of the school with a few explosives. Police arrived just in time to see who did that. And it was a girl."

Kim: "A girl..?"

Barkin: "I know you are often involved in things like this. Now, I formally ask your help to find the guilty. And when you'll find her, bring her to me. I'll give her a punishment much worse than a stay in any juvanile prison. Now, excuse me."

(Barkin moves from Kim to the entrance of the school semi-destroyed)

Barkin (screaming): "There's nothing else to see! Come in and let's start the lesson!"

(A crowd of disappointed students entered the school, moaning and complaining. Kim quickly reaches her locker, who by luck was safe. She opens it, and the worried face of a 10 years old genius appears.)

Wade: "You don't have to tell me. I know."

Kim: "So, can you figure out who was that girl?"

Wade: "I did more. I recorded the entire scene. Here it comes"

(Wade disappears from the screen, and a new scene appears: a girl with blonde long hair and a dark suit is placing some explosives into a corridor of the school. She's giving her back, and Kim can't see her face. But then the girl tusn her head for a moment. Wade blocks the film, and zooms up to her face.)

Kim (shocked): "But… Wade… That's me!"

Wade: "Or at least, she's very similar to you."

Kim: "But she has blonde hair.. wait, Ron told me about her! She was in that hotel, yesterday, and she attacked Ron!"

Wade: "That's quite strange. My monitor didn't observe her presence in the hotel…"

Kim: "Her eyes are so… white… and cold"

Wade: "Scary, uh?"

Kim: "But for the rest, she's identical to me!"

Wade: "Maybe a clone, or a synthodrone. But I thought only Drakken had the technology to do that…"

Kim: "So? Any idea?"

Wade: "I'm working on it. I'll beep you as soon as I find out something new!"

Kim: "Please and Thank you"

(Kim closes her locker and goes to her lesson. Later that day, she goes to Ron's place, to see how he is. She sits on his bed, close to him.)

Ron: "The school destroyed? And I missed that!"

Kim: "Yeah, and now Wade is looking for the guilty…"

Ron: "If I'll find him, I want to shake his hand."

Kim: "That's so NOT why we are looking for him. And actually, the guilty is a girl"

Ron: "A girl?"

Kim: "Just like me, but with blonde hair and white cold eyes"

Ron: "THAT girl?"

Kim: "Yeah. We think she must be connected with Dementor…"

Ron: "Ok, ok, enough with this. Now, you said the school was only semi-destroyed, right?"

Kim (puzzled): "Yeah….?"

Ron: "So the beauty contest is not suspended!"

Kim (resigning herself): "no."

Ron: "So I want to know everything!"

Kim: "We'll know the result of the voting only tomorrow morning, so I have nothing to tell you… yet. But Bonnie stared at me all the day… she looked very angry"

Ron: "Yeah, yeah, very interesting… what about ME?"

Kim (perplexed): "You..?"

Ron: "Yeah! I reflected about the boys's list.. and I thought… That I would have been the only participant! That means I might win!"

Kim: "Oh, Ron! I didn't really go to school to add your name to the boys's list! Actually, there is no boys's list! I was kidding! Moreover, if even I had gone, I would have meet the girl who destroyed the school, right?"

Ron (disappointed): "I knew it. For once that I was gonna win a beauty contest…"

(The Kimunicator beeps)

Kim (answering to it): "Go Wade!"

Wade: "I did a research, but I couldn't find Dementor's lair. Anyway, I know where he's going to strike next time. If we can stop him, maybe we'll be able to find her, too."

Ron: "And what is he going to strike this time? A super market with no escalators?"

(Night. Ron and Kim are in a supermarket. With no escalator.)

Ron: "You know, sometimes I'm afraid of myself!"

Kim: "Ron, you shoud have not come with me, this time. You're still weak"

Ron: "And losing all the fun? No way"

Rufus: "No way!"

Kim: "This time, the building has ten floors. And no escalators. I think it could be stressful to you."

Ron: "I've already said I won't leave you alone in this. So, let's never talk about it."

Kim: "Sometimes I wonder what would I do, without you being by my side."

Ron: "Rufus will always be by your side"

(Rufus sighs.)

Kim: "I was talking about YOU, Ron!"

Ron (smiling): "I know, I know. Just kidding"

(Rufus relaxes, and hug Ron's face. Kim kisses him. The supermarket is dark. No lights, and only a few guards with flashlights are walking in the huge corridors. The captain of the guards, Mr Walkins, reachs Kim and Ron, and coughs when he sees them kissing. Kim and Ron quickly stop, and look at him, blushing)

Walkins: "Am I disturbing you? I just wanted to say everything in the building is normal.."

Ron: "Same here!"

Kim (smiling): "Very well, Mr Walkins."

(Walkins leaves again, and gives some instructions to a guard in another corridor. Everything is quite, in the silent market. Then suddenly the kimmunicator beeps. And that sound scares Ron)

Ron (panting): "I almost had an heartbreak!"

Kim: "Go Wade!"

Wade: "I observed some movements on the fifth floor."

Ron: "Did you observe any escalator?"

Wade: "Ron, there's no escalator. We already told you."

Ron (moaning): "Can't blame me for trying!"

(The two boys start running to the fifth floor, and when they reach it, they slow down and hide behind a pillar. It's all dark, and they can't see anything. Ron is panting. It is evident that with all that injuries it is hard for him to stay after Kim.)

Kim: "Ron, please don't overdo it…"

Ron (panting): "I'm fine… is just… that… Rufus got heavier…"

Rufus: "Eh?"

Ron (whispering to Rufus): "I couldn't find any other excuse. Sorry Buddy"

Kim (puts a finger on her lips): "Shhhh. Look!"

(Ron and Kim finally see them: Dementor and his thugs. Twelve in total. They're walking silently.)

Kim: "But where did they enter from?"

Ron: "But WHY did they enter? What does he want to do in a super market? And in the dolls department!"

Kim: "Actually Ron, this escapes me right now, too. But he must be up to something really terrible."

Ron: "What if he's just going shopping?"

Kim: "At Night?"

Ron: "I mean the villain's style of going shopping…"

Kim: "Don't be fool, it can't be…"

Dementor (speaking loud to one of his thugs): "I want this one, the beardy-horsegirl doll!"

Kim: "… so silly"

Ron: "Shall we get them?"

Kim: "Let's get them"

(Kim and Ron step in front of the villains. Dementor is firstly surprised, but then he smiles)

Dementor: "Kim Possible, we meet again!"

Kim: "Stop it right now, Dementor!"

Dementor: "I expected you would have come."

Ron: "I just don't get it. You villains always expect the good one will come, and you always lose anyway. It doesn't sound smart."

Dementor: "But tonight, I'm not gonna lose!"

Ron: "Yeah, as if.."

Kim: "Put that doll in the place you found it!"

Dementor: "Don't think so. I need this doll!"

Ron (rolling his eyes): "Man, I really think you can conquer the world without it!"

Dementor: "Instead, I really need it."

Ron: "Ok, just don't leave us in the suspence. That should be the time in which the villain explains his evil plan to the good ones!"

Dementor: "Ah, but it's not that time, yet. Anyway, I'd need more than this only doll."

(Dementor tells his thugs to take more dolls, and they go, leaving Dementor alone facing Kim and Ron)

Ron: "You.. You sent away your men? Now, how do you think you could escape from Kim Possible?"

Dementor (smiling): "But I still have a secret weapon to use. And now I think it's time to use it…"

(Dementor grabs his gun, the same gun he used to shoot at Kim at the hotel. But instead of using it for shooting, he simply presses a button on it. And nothing happens)

Ron: "What did I have to expect from a supermarket robber?"

(Suddenly an explosion. A very white light invests everything, and then Ron is sent away from the explosion. He knocks down in the detersive department, a floor lower. The hit is very hard. Ron can barely move. But, anyway, he stands up. And as soon as he's recovered, he looks around for Kim and Rufus.)

Ron: "KP! Rufus!"

Rufus (poppoing out of his pocket): "Here!"

Ron: "Oh Buddy, I'm glad you're fine. But where's Kim?"

(Rufus shrugs)

Ron (worried): "I must find her! Maybe she didn't fall from the fifht floor, and she's still up there!"

(Ron runs as fast as he can to reach the upper floor. He finally arrives, and see Dementor sat on the ground (maybe he was smashed by the explosion, too) and in front of him… the blonde, cold girl. She turns her head and looks at Ron, then she walks straight to him. He's petrified. Her eyes are the coldest thing he has ever seen.)

Ron: "St-Stop right there! Don't move!"

(The girl doesn't listen to him. She keeps on walking)

Rufus (scared): "Brrrr!"

Ron: "Maybe we should run away, shouldn't we?"

(Rufus nods and gulps.)

Ron: "But we can't leave without Kim!"

(The girl is getting closer and closer. But she's walking slowly. Ron looks all around to find Kim, but she seems disappeared. Maybe the explosion sent her away. But where?)

Dementor (standing up): "Come on, Dark Lady, crush him!"

Ron: "Dark Lady? I thought you had a better name…"

Girl (keeps on walking): "Indeed, that's not my name."

(The girl reaches Ron, but she doesn't move anymore. Ron is in front of her, scared and sweating)

Ron (with a forced smile): "I… I'm Ron Stoppable…"

Girl: "I know."

Dementor (screaming): "Kill him!"

End of Part Two

Third and last chapter (of this episode) will be up in a few days. Get ready for a "coup de théatre" (but I think you have already understood what I'm referring to. Ah, and thank you for reading.