An Unlikely Team by Emachinescat

An American Dragon: Jake Long and Kim Possible Crossover Fan-Fiction

SUMMARY: Monkey Fist and Huntsman have teamed up in order to defeat their respective foes. With Monkey Ninjas, goblins, dragons, nacos, spy gear, magic potion, secrets, regrets, and tears, no one is going to escape from this situation without changing somehow.

Disclaimer: I don't own American Dragon or Kim Possible. This is just for fun, and no copyright infringement is intended.

An Unlikely Team

Chapter Fifteen: We Need to Talk

"I still don't think I can trust you," Mrs. Long stated. Rose hung her head.

"I know a way that we can tell if Rose really has turned from evil to good," said Lao Shi suddenly. "Take off your glove." He directed this order to Rose.

"What? My glove? Why?"

"Please, just do it." The girl pulled off her left glove and shrugged.

"So?" she said.

"No, no, no, no, no!" said the old man. "The other one."

"What? You mean the one with the mark? But - but I...it makes me think of the Huntsclan, and how Jake almost... well..."

"I know what I am talking about," said the man shortly.

"Ok…ay," the girl agreed reluctantly. She took off her right glove and gasped at what she saw. Or rather, at what she didn't see. "The mark of the Huntsclan! It's gone!" Tears of joy shone in her eyes.

"Very good," said Lao Shi. "You have truly turned to good from evil." He turned to his daughter. "See, darling?"

The woman smiled slightly. "Well, I-" She was cut short as the doorbell rang.

"Oh, no!" said Ron. "I hope it's not the dad! I mean, we haven't thought of a cover-up yet!" He paused, and then said, "Is it him?"

"No, he would have just come barging in, probably singing some goofy song," Mrs. Long said with a slight smile. Then she answered the door.

There stood two kids: one was a tom-boy looking girl with milky-chocolate skin. Her purple highlighted hair was pulled into two frizzy pigtails, and her black eyes had a sort of "I-don't-care" attitude about them. The other was a boy, who was a little taller than his companion, with brown hair highlighted blonde and gelled into spikes on top of his head. He was playing with a yo-yo. It was Jake's best buds in the whole world, Trixie and Spud.

"Hey, Jake's mom," said the boy, Spud, a stupid grin on his freckled face. "We just like, totally came to see Jake. He like hasn't been here, ya know, 'cuz we totally hit the skate park and we were there, but Jake, like, wasn't..."

"What Spud's tryna say," Trixie interjected, "is that Jake hasn't been 'round much lately. I mean, Mr. Rotwood's like totally been trippin' in class 'cuz Jake hasn't been there. Ya feel me?"

Ron, curious, came to the door. "Who's that?" he asked.

"Ahhh!" screamed Spud, looking a Rufus, who was perched on Ron's shoulder. "What is that?"

"Dude," said Ron, "can you not tell a naked mole rat when you see one?"

"Oh, dude, I didn't know that was it. I just thought that it was a mole rat that was naked. Awkward..."

"So where's Jake?" Trixie cut in.

"He's... well, he's... why don't you come inside, and we'll talk, okay?" Mrs. Long said to Trixie and Spud.

The friends glanced at each other uncertainly, but said nothing. "The thing is," said Mrs. Long, "that something happened... to... him," she said, then turned to Lao Shi. "I don't think I can bear to tell this. Or hear it again, for that matter. I'll go upstairs with Kim until you're done." And she walked out of the room, saying, "Oh, by the way, Haley knows now. She's up with Kim."

"Who's Kim?" asked Spud.

"No one," said Rose, rolling her blue eyes.

"Rose!" said Trixie. "What're you doin' here, girl? An'... why are ya dressed up...like that?"

"It's a long story," said Rose, and with the help of Lao Shi, Ron, and occasionally Rufus, Trixie and Spud learned what had happened.

"Oh no!" said Spud. "Poor Jake! And poor Rose! Well, it could have been worse. I mean, you could have almost killed Jake... wait, oh..."

"So...is Jakie gonna be a'ight?" Trixie asked uncertainly.

"Yes," said Kim, who had just appeared at the top of the stairs.

"AHHHHH!" squealed Spud. "IT'S KIM POSSIBLE, TRIX! LIKE, THE KIM POSSIBLE! I AM SO PSYCHED!" Then he smiled and said, "Hi, Kim, I'm Spud."

"Right," said Kim. "Well, it seems like the potion is working. It's just slow acting. He woke up, and his mom said that you guys will be able to come and see him in a few moments."

Nobody had noticed that Mr. Long and slipped in during the last part of Kim's speech. "See who?" he asked, and everyone jumped. "Holy cow!" he exclaimed, seeing that the speaker was Kim. "It's Kim Possible. Nice to meet you. Now what were you saying about seeing someone? Who?"

At that moment, Haley came skipping down the stairs, closely followed by Mrs. Long. "Hi, Daddy!" she said. "Jake's hurt really bad upstairs, and he almost died, and it's all because he was stupid and got himself kid-" Mrs. Long quickly shushed her daughter and smiled innocently at her husband.

"What's all this about?" Mr. Long asked. "Jake almost died? What?" He had a confused look on his face.

"Um, Haley is exaggerating, honey," Mrs. Long said, giving her daughter a sharp look. "He... er... had a little ...um," she paused, and her eyes fell on Jake's skateboard which he had left in the middle of the floor, "...accident," she said. "Yes, he fell off his skateboard and we took him to the doctor, and he got a mild... um... concussion, and he's awake now, though, and feeling better."

"Holy cow!" said Mr. Long. "Why didn't you call me? If I had known that Jake was hurt, I would have come straight home. Is he in bed? Let me go see him!" And with that, he hurried up the stairs, the others close behind him.

"Jake?" said Mr. Long.

Jake, who was still extremely weak, struggled to sit up, but Mr. Long gently pushed him back down. "How are you feeling after the skateboarding accident, son?" he asked compassionately.

"Skateboarding?" muttered Jake, confused. "But I didn't-"

"Oh, yes you did!" said everyone else, and Jake blinked in surprise.

"Oh, right," he said, finally realizing that he needed to play along. Then he saw Rose.

"Rose, what're you-?"

The girl glanced at Jake's dad and said quietly, "I'll tell you later."

"Okay, everyone," said Mrs. Long after a few moments of congratulating Jake on his recovery, "why don't we let Jake and Rose have a few moments alone?" She cast a warning glance at Rose, however, and the girl turned red in the face. Lao Shi put a hand on his daughter's arm, and led her silently out of the room. Everyone else followed, talking among themselves.

Rose sat down in Jake's computer chair and faced him. "Jake," she said seriously, "we need to talk. There is something I need to tell you..."

~Emachinescat ^..^