Thought I might put a little action in here too, along with a little suspense. (You'll see what I mean at the end of this chapter) Besides, y'all don't want to over-dose on the fluff stuff, do you? (OK, bad question) This chapter felt a little forced as I wrote it. Hope it comes across OK…
Disclaimer: Don't own any characters portrayed within…
Chapter 3
PANG! "Wha…?" PANG! Nervously looking around, Drakken couldn't figure out where that was coming from. Suddenly, WHACK! A rock hit him in the head!
Rubbing his temple and leaning further over, he saw a dark-haired girl rearing back again with another rock. This time she caught him right between the eyes! SMACK!
"What are you doing?" He screamed at her.
"You just destroyed my mothers car, you blue skinned freak!" Bonnie was glad she had spent the last couple of summers playing softball. She had actually been a pretty good pitcher. The skill was certainly helping her now. "So now you're going to pay!"
As Drakken began to point the ray gun at his new target, he didn't notice the grappling hook that had shot into the cockpit, and was now hooked on the side of the car.
"C'mon, Ron, pull!" Both teens quickly yanked on the cable, tipping the hover car at a 45-degree angle, dumping its occupant out. Drakken fell only about 10 feet, so he wasn't seriously hurt, just dazed. It didn't look like that was going to be the case for Ron, though.
"Ron, let go!" Kim yelled at him, as she had already let go of the grappling gun. After Drakken had fallen out of the hover car, its stabilizers went out of control, and took off flying erratically around the parking lot, with Ron still holding on to the cable!
It swooped, and ducked around the building, trailing a screaming Ron behind. Finally it crashed into the large taco sign, wedging itself inside with the huge fake tomato slice, causing sparks to fly at the base with the impact. Ron was still hanging onto the grappling gun, screaming for his dear life.
"Kiiiiimmmmmm!"
"Ron…" Kim said, taping him on the back of the leg. "I think you can let go now." He stopped screaming, and opened his eyes. He was dangling in the air only a couple feet off the ground.
"Oh, cool." He let go, and dropped beside Kim, looking at her like nothing had happened.
The two walked over to Drakken who was sitting on the ground shaking his head, trying to clear his thoughts. "Who WAS that brown-haired menace?" He said to no one.
"Bonnie." Kim and Ron answered together as they walked up to Drakken's side.
"New member of the team?" He asked, shakily standing to his feet.
"I don't think so!" Bonnie said, hands on her hips, fuming. "Who is going to pay for the replacement of my Moms Mercedes? Kim?"
"Calm down, Bon-Bon. I'm sure your 'rents have insurance." The look she gave Ron should have burned holes right through him.
With her hands clenched at her sides, Bonnie spoke between her teeth. "C'mon, Brick. We're walking to your house." As the two walked off, Bonnie never looked back, but Brick would glance over his shoulder every once in a while.
"OK Drakken, spill!" Kim said as she grabbed his collar and yanked him towards her. "What are you up to, and where's Shego?"
Looking defeated, again, Drakken spoke. "Well, I WAS trying to hit you with my Imploding Ray, but THAT didn't work. As for Shego, she's on vacation. I thought I could take you out myself."
"Ha! You can't even do that WITH her!" Ron said. Drakken mumbled, and then heard the police cars arriving.
As Drakken stood there between Kim and Ron, neither of the teens noticed he had quickly pulled something out of his pocket. Holding something in each hand, he quickly grabbed each of their hands, and let go almost as fast.
The two immediately backed away from Drakken, and dropped into a fighting stance. "What did you do, Drakken?" They said in perfect unison.
"Oh, nothing. Just gave you a little 'going away present'. Ta Ta!" Drakken said his good-byes while he was being led away by officer Hobble.
"What did he put on us?" Ron said, looking at the back of his hand.
"I don't know, Ron." Kim said as she looked at the device stuck to her in the same place.
"Kim! Ron!" It was officer Hobble calling them as he was walking back to the two teens. "That Drakken fellow told me to give you this." He handed them a folded piece of paper. "He said something about reading the manual if you want to figure it out."
Kim took the piece of paper and opened it as Officer Hobble walked back to his cruiser. The only thing written on the piece of paper was a web address to a site titled "Drakkens Devices", and mentioned which link to click on. "Device #243"
"That's new." Kim said.
"Kim, can we get something to eat now, I'm starving!"
"Well, I suppose. I want to figure out what these are, though." She pushed the thought to the back of her mind, as she thought if something was going to happen, it would have already.
The two went into Bueno Nacho, ordered, and sat down in their usual booth. Kim had ordered a taco salad, and Ron had ordered, what else? A Naco Supreme, with a grande sized soda.
As Ron was licking the cheese off of his fingers, Kim spoke. "Ron?" She spoke with a slightly demur voice. "Guess what? slight pause My parents and the Tweebs are out of town for the weekend." She raised an eyebrow.
Ron's eyebrow shot up, giving a mirror image to Kim's expression. "Ya know Kim… my parents are gone for the weekend too."
"Whatever shall we do?" Kim rested her face in her hands looking deep into Ron's eyes
"I've got an idea!" Ron said suddenly as inspiration struck. "You're parents hot tub is fixed now, right?"
"Yeah, it is." Kim was starting to like where he was going with this. "But you know Ron, it took a repair team a week to clean the cheese out of the pump system."
"Hey, how was I to know you couldn't fill a hot tub with cheese? Anyway, I'll go home, get some stuff together, and meet you at your place this evening, say around 7?"
"That works for me." Kim's mind was already kicking into gear as she began to think of a nice evening with her boyfriend in a hot tub, alone, no parents, no tweebs…
"Uh, Kim?" Ron waved his hand in front of her face to get her attention. "You OK?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine." She said, blinking. "Just zoned out for a little bit is all."
"I'll drop you off at your house, go over to my place and get things together, and then be back at your place at 7. Is that a plan?"
"That's a plan Ron. In the mean time, I'll check out this web site of Drakkens and see what's up."
Ron dropped Kim off at her house, and went back to his place. Really all he wanted to do was get his swim trunks, and fix some snacks for them as they relaxed in the hot tub.
I totally can't believe Kim is up for the hot tub thing! This may be kinda fun. Hot tub, cute girlfriend, no parents, no…"
"Hiya!"
"Rufus! Buddy… I'm sorry, I forgot all about you. Hey Rufus, you don't mind staying here by your self for a while, do you? Kim and I kinda want to be together. Besides, I need to make up for what I did earlier today on the couch. Guess I was getting a little nervous, and when I get nervous I get hungry. Arrrgghhh! That was so lame of me! Kim is such a good kisser, and all I could think about was getting something to eat! I can be such a dork sometimes. Maybe Bonnie is right that I'm a loser. Maybe…"
Suddenly Ron felt a small slap on the side of his face. Rufus was standing on his shoulder trying to break him out of his rant.
"Thanks, buddy. I needed that." Ron bounded down the stairs to get some things together for the evening.
Meanwhile at Kim's house, she had logged on and had typed in the web address. All it had was a single page describing what the devices were that were attached to their hands. I wish we had our mission gloves on at the time Kim thought absently.
Her jaw dropped as she read the description:
Device name: Pain and Separation Chips
The chip with the white dot monitors the subjects' heart rate, and distance to the other wearing the chip with a blue dot. It monitors the subjects' heart rate, and figures the baseline, or resting heart rate. When the persons' heart rate that is wearing the white chip goes 10 higher than the resting heart rate, a signal will be sent to the other chip, which sends a shock of pain directly into the nervous system of the other subject. The pain increases in direct relation to the rise in heart rate.
If the two subjects are further than 10 feet apart, the blue chip will also deliver pain. There is also a direct relationship to the distance apart, and the amount of pain given. When the red indicator light turns on which is located on the white chip, the devices are activated and operational. Results are instantaneous.
Any attempt to pry either device off will send a lethal charge into the one wearing the blue dot chip.
Kim's eyes shot to the back of her hand with the chip stuck to it. It had a white dot. Suddenly the red indicator light turned on…
Ooooo… another cliffie! Sorry… Don't worry, the smuff and fluff will be right back. After all, they WILL be in a hot tub… (minus the cheese) Guess I just can't get away from the action…