Chapter Three: Return To The Lazy C Ranch

Author's Note:

Here's Chapter Three: Return To The Lazy C Ranch! I was hoping to put it up yesterday, but I couldn't use the computer. We went over to someone elses house yesterday for dinner, and came back past 12:30am. I was so tired, I didn't even shower! Now, here's Chapter Three: Return To The Lazy C Ranch. Until Chapter Four: Following Trails (Featuring Myra's "Miracles Happen"), see ya! ;-)

-CelestialTime93

"Here we are." Kim said, as she parked the car just outside the Lazy C Ranch. Another caravan drove up next to them.

As Team Possible got out, so did the other drivers.

"Tweebs?" Kim wondered out loud.

"Hey, sis!" 31 year old Jim Possible greeted.

"Thought you might need a hand." Jim's twin, Tim Possible added.

"Well, you are older now..." Kim muttered, "Fine. C'mon, Uncle Slim's waiting for us."

"Where of all places could she be?" Uncle Slim wondered out loud, as he lead the group to Joss's room, "No windows broken, no note left behind, and nothing to run away from."

"You said the robotic horses disappeared the day after Joss did?" Kim questioned.

"Correct." Uncle Slim nodded.

"Sounds like Joss is somehow connected with the robotic horses." Dawn said, "Who knows who'll end up missing next? And where would it lead?"

"We only have two horses left." Uncle Slim explained, "And that's Lightning and a new one, Thunder."

"Great, now what?" Adam wondered out loud.

"Only one thing." Kim replied.

"Wait until the kidnapper strikes?" Dawn asked.

"Nope." Kim said, pointing out the window, "Westop her."

"Hold it right there, DNAmy." Kim cried, forcing DNAmy and Lightning to hault.

"I thought you were in the retirement home..." DNAmy wondered out loud.

"Was." Kim replied, "The effects of the Aging Ray were reversed last night. As for now. Where's Joss?"

"I don't know who you're talking about." DNAmy replied.

"Spill!" Shelia demanded, her pale hands firing up threatiningly with green lights.

"Fine!" DNAmy replied, "I was trying to steal the robotic horses..."

(Flashback)

DNAmy snuck into the barnhouse, to see the robotic horses resting.

She was about to turn one on, until...

"And just what do ya think you're doin'?" Joss demanded. She was dressed in a brown t-shirt, a denim jacket, a pair of jeans, and a pair of brown boots. Her expression was angry. She seemed to be in her late 20's or her early 30's.

"What do you want?" Joss demanded.

"The robotic horses." DNAmy replied, "I need them for a project."

"Don't even think about it." Joss frowned.

DNAmy didn't listen, and turned one on. She demanded it to go after Joss.

Joss just stood still. Until the right time, she lept on the horse's back and turned it around.

DNAmy just whistled, and a half cat and half snake shot into the room, and wrapped around Joss tightly, causing her to scream in pain and agony.

(End of Flashback)

"...Then I took her back with me." DNAmy finished, "But, I'm not telling you where she is!"

DNAmy dropped a gas bomb, and escaped as it exploded.

The team coughed, until the smoke cleared. DNAmy and Lightning was out of sight.

"She escaped!" Ron cried.

"Bummer!" the twins groaned.

"We have to follow her!" Dawn cried, as she was about to chase after DNAmy in the distance. She was stopped by her father's firm grip.

"We'll never catch up with her in time." Kim frowned, "The only remaining horses are Thunder and the real ones. The real ones aren't as powerful and fast as the robotic ones. We'll have to plan our assult, and how we're going to save Joss and the horses."

"How?" Shelia asked, "It's hopeless now."

"It's never hopeless." Kim reassured, "All we have to do, is pinpoint the location of DNAmy's hideout. Joss might have something on her that can help us."

"There is." Uncle Slim said, walking outside.

"What's that, Uncle Slim?" Tim asked.

"She wore a necklace." Uncle Slim explained, "It was made of one of Montana's highest ranked treasure..."

"Gold!" Dawn and Adam exclaimed.

"The state of Montana is well known for the gold mining!" Dawn exclaimed.

"That makes sense," Ron said, "But it won't help us much."

"The necklace..." Kim asked, "What else was it made of."

"Genuine pearl." Uncle Slim explained, "She got it on her 32nd birthday. And that was the day she disappeared."

"But that was 3 days ago!" Kim exclaimed, "She was gone for that long? Uncle Slim, why didn't you contact us?"

"You were at the retirement center, and I didn't know you had a daughter with you!" Uncle Slim replied.

"Dawn and Adam could've taken it." Kim said, "They've been on missions for a whole year now. Ever since the Aging Ray incident."

"Enough of that!" Jim cried.

"What about pinpointing where Joss is?" Tim added.

"There was something else on the necklace!" Uncle Slim exclaimed suddenly, "A microchip! It was attached to her for emergancy uses! If she can activate it, we might be able to find her. The problem is, I don't have the right program to track her down."

"But I do!" Dawn smiled, taking out her laptop. She sat down on a stump and started typing. She activated her tracking device program, typed in the code of Joss's necklace, and pressed enter. A map showed up with a blinking sign on it.

"The program shows that she just activated it 3 seconds ago." Dawn replied, "She must've noticed the microchip just now."

"How far is she?" Shelia asked.

"I don't know." Dawn frowned, "I'll have to contact Wade and connect the laptop to the Kimmunicator."

"Here." Kim said, handing the Kimmunicator to Dawn.

Dawn nodded, took out her connection cable, and connected the two gadgets together.

"Wade, can you pinpoint the exact location of Aunt Joss?" Dawn asked.

"I'll try." Wade replied, and started typing on his keyboard, "Got it! About 3 hours by horse on the horse trail."

"That's not too far from here." Uncle Slim said, "The horse trail is through the forest. There's an old shack there. Nobody ever goes there."

"Until now." Kim frowned, "What are we gonna do? It's probably guarded by real life Cuddle Buddies."

"And how far in the shack is she?" Adam asked.

Suddenly, something striked Dawn and Kim.

"The numbers!" the two exclaimed. There was no time for jinxing.

"Numbers?" the others questioned.

"Each number that we discovered in our clues is or contains..." Dawn began.

"The number 3." Kim finished, "Which means, somewhere in the shack, there has to be some place a measurement of 3 to 30, in which where Joss is hidden."

"It can't be over 30, because the shack is too small." Dawn explained, as she zoomed in on the location, and studied each location. There were several beeping dots on the map of the inside of the shack.

"Apparently, DNAmy's trying to trick us." Wade explained, "She placed identical microchips in each of the blinking areas. Only one of them is Joss. Unfourtunatly, I can't tell you where she is exactly. My computer can't tell me."

"Don't worry, Wade." Kim said, "We'll take it from here."

Wade smiled, and disappeared from the screen.

"Okay, so, let's see what the measurements of the shacks are." Dawn said, typing in a code. Soon, numbers appeared on each of the locations.

"There's only one place where Joss could be." Shelia said, pointing at a blinking circle, "And that's the basement. It's three meters from the front door."

"Okay, we pinpointed her." Ron said.

"Not quite." Jim said, "Dawn, zoom into the basement."

Dawn typed in a code, to reveal floors and floors of the shack. Each floor had a blinking dot.

"Not again." Dawn groaned.

"Only one of those dots are Joss." Tim explained, "If we can check the measurements for each floor, we'll be able to pinpoint where Joss is exactly."

"Great, none of these dots move." Shelia frowned.

Dawn typed in a code, and another window opened, showing a single floor with a digital ruler measuring the height of the single floor.

"Each floor is approximatly 30 meters high." Dawn explained, "For one thing, Joss can't be in the first floor, the heat sensors aren't picking up anything."

"Okay, let's try the third floor." Jim said.

"90 meters down from surface." Adam said.

Dawn typed in the demand, as the measurement window closed, and a new window opened, showing the third floor. A heat sensor figure of a girl appeared. She was sitting down, with a tray of uneaten food infront of her.

"That's her!" Dawn exclaimed, "Aunt Joss is on the third floor of the basement!"

"Now we got her pinpointed!" Tim said.

"She's exactly 3 meters to the left from the stairs." Dawn explained. She minimized her window, and closed the laptop. She put it back in her bag, "Now let's find Aunt Joss and the robot horses!"