A/N: Everyone gasp, I actually updated this!
Tempus Simia
Chapter Three: Mysterious
Call
"It's
RON! Ron Stoppable, not buffoon!"
"So,
wha…"
Some
type of weird ancient Tibetan music filled the air. It didn't take
long for Ron (or anyone else, for that matter) to realise that it was
a ringtone.
Monkey
Fist snatched a cellphone from his waist-belt.
"'Scuse
me, I've got to take this one…"
Ron
strained his ears to hear what was being said.
"Mimble-wimble-wimble…"
"I
see… uhuh… ok."
He
put the phone back in his belt.
"Fare-thee-well,
Kim Possible, until we meet again. I have some… important business
to attend to…"
With
that, he jumped out the shattered window, his monkey minions by his
side.
"OK,
that was a 3.7 on the weirdness scale…"
"I
know!" Ron dusted himself off. "He didn't even do anything,
except shatter the window… though he did mention a prophecy… AND
he got my name wrong, for, like, the first time!"
"Well…
I've got loads of Latin homework to do, so… catch you later?"
"K…"
Ron
watched his best friend jog off.
32)
Translate the following words into English: caveat, emporium,
maximus, veni, tempus, vici, simia?
Kim
flipped through her Latin-English Dictionary.
Why,
oh why did I take Latin again?
Because
Ron did.
Beep
beep beep-beep.
She
turned to page 394.
Tempus…
Tempus:
Time she scrawled into her notebook.
"You
may unravel the very fabric of time!"
That
voice… it echoed through her head, reverberating off the walls of
her skull… it seemed so real… like a distant memory…
But
Kim knew she had never heard anyone say that.
Beep
beep beep-beep.
She
flipped back to page 373.
Simia…
Simia:
Monkey, she messily wrote.
"Time
Monkey!"
This
time, the voice sounded more familiar, like she had said it, or maybe
Ron… but it had sounded feminine… perhaps Monique? But Kim knew
neither her or Monique had ever uttered such words… or had they…
Beep
beep beep-beep.
"Oh!"
She
hadn't noticed the Kimmunicator beeping. She flipped the cover off
and pressed a button.
"What's
the sitch, Wade?"
Wade,
a ten-year old African-American kid, appeared on the screen.
"You've
got a hit on the site."
Wade
was the kid who ran Kim's website. He also informed Kim of what she
needed to know about her 'missions'.
"Now?
Can't it wait 'till after I've finished my Latin
homework?"
"It's
quite urgent."
"Oh
well, I'm on the last question anyway. What's the message?"
"'Meet
me at Middleton Airport.'"
"That's
all?"
"'Fraid
so, Kim. They didn't list their name or any contact details…"
"I
dunno… I'll bring my grappler, just in case…
"They
have a Bueno Nacho at the airport? Ron would love this…"
Kim
stood at the 'Bueno Nacho Middleton Express', waiting for her
order.
"OK…
one large chimerito to go, Miss Possible?"
"Yes…
er… me amigo."
"Here
you are… and have a muy bueno day!"
Having
finished her chimerito, Kim got up to search for the person.
Suddenly,
someone grabbed her hand.
"I
trust you got my message?"
"Yeah…"
Kim
stared at her.
She
wore a completely black outfit with extreme similarity to her own
mission outfit. Maybe someone who never got out of "Kim Style"?
But the most striking similarity was her eyes… They looked just
like hers…
"Hi,
I'm Kim Po…"
"I
know who you are. Now, come, here and now is not a safe place or time
to talk."
"Wha…?"
"The
walls have eyes…"
