Authors Notes:

Last chapter was a joke! I swear upon all that is holy that it is not the real ending. This is the real next chapter… Unless you liked the last chapter better.

There were many way's I could have gone with this chapter. I could have introduced Dr.D to the storyline with some sort of mind control or cloning. I could have made it some sort of elaborate ruse. But I did it this way and you finally learn a little more about Ron.

One more chapter to go after this one.

"This will put us in the perfect position to stop him once and for all." Ron said. Fiske nodded in agreement.

"Hopefully this will teach him a lesson he will not forget, if he survives it." Fiske sighed.

"Eek!" Ron and Fiske turned towards the tree where Kim was hiding as the monkey who had cried the alarm grabbed her wrists.

"You shouldn't be in these woods alone P-chan." Ron told her as a group of monkey ninjas led her forward towards him and Fiske.

Yori wandered the camp. She was worried about Kim's safety. She had snuck off while Yori was helping to prepare for the upcoming battle. Yori knew where Kim had gone, she had made it quite clear that she was worried about her husband. Yori wondered whether she should go after her, after all, she was supposed to protect Kim with her life, but she was also supposed to follow her orders. The fact that Kim had snuck away without her knowledge implied that she did not want Yori to come.

"They shall pay for what they did to me family." He thought as he peered through the bushes. "I 'ave the power t' destroy 'alf o' his wee army in the palm of me 'and." He grinned evilly as he sent the fist sized object sailing through the air, then dashed into the trees.

He turned his head to watch the blast, jogging sideways and chuckling to himself.

"Oof!" He smacked into the armour plates of a Saruwaruguntai sentry and fell to the ground.

"By the order of Lord Stoppable, master of Yamanuchi, and Possible territories, you are to be detained for execution." The soldier calmly said levelling his sword at the man's throat. "By the way, you dropped something." Another Saru appeared out of the foliage carrying a familiar spherical object. Duff Killigan's protests were silenced when the ball was forced into his mouth and secured with a gag.

"Are the preparation's complete?" The monkey-like man asked, receiving a series of chitters and screams as a response from his simian cohort. "Excellent. Tonight, both the Load empire and the Saruwaruguntai shall be annihilated. I shall finally be known throughout the world as the ultimate monkey master and there will be no one left to stand in my way." He took a sip of herbal tea using his back paw. "Sound the advance. Push the battle towards the Saru encampment."

"O-o-EEE-EAAA-A" The monkey replied scampering off into the darkness.

"Not only do I have the mystical monkey power, but also the magical amulet of Shing Pei! Ron Stoppable shall die this night."

Yori was overwhelmed with the preparations that Ron stoppable had ordered. Had she deemed it her duty to find Kim Possible, she would not have had time to do so. The prisoner had taken time out of her day that she did not have and preparations had to be completed if they were to have an chance of succeeding. She glared at Killigan who hung from a post wearing nothing but the gag that held the large explosive in his mouth.

"Move; make more trenches on the left. Barb the trees." On the ground, they had the advantage. In the trees, the monkeys under Fiske's command would massacre them with aerial attacks. The caltrops imbedded in the trees would prevent the simians from safely being able to move in the trees, making them easy targets of shurikan or gusari. Load would probably be upset at the deception. He would lose many men in this fight, but not as many as Fiske.

Kim did not resist. The monkeys dragged her onwards towards Ron and Fiske. "Fiske…" She said, sounding confused.

"You can let her go." Ron said, beckoning her to come forth on her own. The monkeys obeyed his command and scampered back into the trees. "Kim, meet the former lord of this castle, my sensei Monty Fiske, the first." She gave him a half-hearted bow and waited for Ron's explanation. She knew he had one, he was too calm not to. If there wasn't… she folded her arms and fondled the weapons hidden in her sleeves. "His son, Monkey-domo, wrested power from him while I was still training here…"

"Thank you sensei." The young Ron said, "Your lesson has been most helpful." A week ago, he had discovered a hidden chamber in the castle that contained many monkey-related artefacts. He had a suspicion that they were all magical in some way, but was only sure of a few which he had been able to activate during subsequent visits. On his first visit, he had learned that a least some of the items were magical when he had turned a jade monkey idol and been zapped with mystical energy. Since then, his lessons had progressed quickly. While he was still a clumsy oaf most of the time, when he was in a battle or serious training session, his skills became as good as those of Lord Fiske's own son's. He trained on his own until his sensei left. He made his way to the hidden room and opened the secret door. He stopped after a crack. Monty Fiske junior occupied the room. He was standing by a golden banana statue that was eerily glowing. Its golden peel spread and a glowing figure appeared above it. Someone was coming. Ron silently closed the door and leaned against the wall, pretending to rest on his way back from a particularly brutal training session. Two guards passed, ignoring him. He opened the door a crack.

"… then the ultimate monkey master will be Ron Stoppable." Fiske Junior cursed and smashed the banana on the floor.

"He cannot be the ultimate monkey master. I am the only one with mystical monkey power! I have trained for this my entire life. I will get rid of that bumbling fool and then no one will stand in the way of Monkey Fist!"

The next day, he asked his father to stop training Ron. His father refused citing the fact that Yamanuchi was an important ally of the monkey lands. When his request was denied, he asked to be made general of the armies. His father acquiesced to this demand. A year later, Monkey Fist had reorganized the army so that it would be loyal to him alone. He forced his father to retire at blade-point and took the Monkey throne for himself.

"He challenged me to personal combat. He lost because I was able to draw upon the mystical monkey power, but his attempts to use it were feeble at best. At the time I was surrounded by his loyal men and could not deliver a killing blow without receiving one myself. He cursed me saying I would never take his rightful place and ordered me to lead a group of ronin. The leaders of these were highly trained and completely loyal to the newly crowned Monkey-domo. They were ordered to kill me if I should ever fail to be at the front lines of one of out battles or fail to follow Fiske's commands." Ron sighed and slouched against the wall, "I was given suicidal mission after suicidal mission, but somehow I managed to survive. I never failed to complete any mission. By luck or skill or maybe even magic, I always came back victorious.

"I became a legend. The bandit leader who fought like a monkey, and whose crazy antics were unpredictable and undefeatable. They began to call us the Saruwaruguntai, the army of the laughing monkey. Then, he sent me to you." A tear began to roll down his cheek, "I joined your fathers guard, pretending to be a mercenary who was down on his luck. My skills soon had me promoted until I was the captain of your father's personal guard. Then he asked me to train you. I could not refuse. I had come to know you during my years at the castle and had fallen in love with you. Your father thought I was a commoner, so I couldn't court you on my own. This was my chance to spend time with you. It went well until your father saw my little accident and forbid me from being in your presence.

"Almost half the senior guard had been replaced by this time with men from the Saru. one day, the order came for us to attack. I did not want to. I did not want to do anything that would hurt you. I would have refused and used your walls for shelter from Monkey-domo, had the message not been delivered by a guard whom I had not know was one of the Saru… I made sure Monique was awake when I ordered the attack to begin and made sure all my forces attacked at the main gate, which was furthest from your room."

"I forgive you." Kim said as she wrapped her arms around him. She tried to kiss him but he turned away.

"I don't deserve your forgiveness." He said, "I don't want your forgiveness. I begged you for forgiveness and blamed the attack on others, but I could have stopped it. I could have said no and had your father call your army to defend the palace. I could have ordered the attack then not opened the gate. I could have killed those loyal to Fiske. I could have if I wasn't such a coward."

"You couldn't do anything. It wasn't your fault. If it wasn't you, one of the other men would have taken your place. You did everything you could to get me out alive and it worked. Of course, I am angry that my family died and you were involved in the attack, but you had no choice in the matter. If it hadn't been you, no one would have gotten out of there alive."

"Please, don't." Ron begged. He felt like confetti inside. He had betrayed everything he had cared about. He knew it was his fault.

"Ron-kun, you can't change the past. My family is gone. But now I have you, and you love me, enough that you would risk your life for me. You loved me enough to execute a plan to save me even though it would have cost you life if anyone had learned of it. You were willing to kill for me, to protect me and to help me fulfill my duty to my family." She turned his head to face her. "You loved me enough to make me love you." Kim kissed him. This time he did not turn away, but held her tight. His kiss this time was not the tender loving kiss she had felt before, but a stronger, more desperate kiss of one who could not stand to part with her.

"Ah-hem…" Kim and Ron broke contact as they remembered the presence of Ron's sensei. "My son will attack tonight. If you are going to join the battle, I suggest you return to your camp and prepare." Noticing the orange glow of the sun as it sank below the trees, Kim and Ron hastily agreed with him. "Ron, take this." Sensei Fiske placed a jade ring on his finger. "This is the Ring of Shing, when combined with the amulet of Shing, it will allow you to unleash the true strength of the mystical monkey power.