Dark Hero Rising
Chapter 2
"What are you trying to say KP?" Ron yelled as he and his best friend Kim Possible stood outside their favourite restarant Beauno Nacho.
They arrived there after touching down from their ride home from a mission, a failed mission.
"You let them escape again Ron" His red-headed partner argued "I'm sick of letting Drakken get away with these things".
"I tried my best" Ron argued "I'm sorry we're not all born with ability to outrun a hover pod"
"You could have at least tried" Kim countered "You knew I was busy with Shego"
"You were losing" The blond teen pointed out "I had to save you"
"Save me?" The famous teen hero said in with a ludicrous tone "I don't need saving, especially from the likes of Shego, I was doing just fine until you stumbled into the fight"
"You really believe that?" Ron asked, his anger morphing from rage to a stoic expression.
"You know it's true" Kim said, turning her back to her life-long friend.
"I see" Was all the boy had to say.
"At least you're starting to admit your mista- Ron?" Kim said as she turned around to find her friend gone, the sight of his blue scooter quickly disappearing behind a building.
"What a baby" She huffed before entering the fast food building.
"Little brat" Ron said as he and his little companion, Rufus the naked mole rat, drove down an empty highway near a small lake.
"Problems?" The hairless rodent squeaked.
"You got that right little buddy" Ron said "Little miss stuck-up thinks I'm a inconvieniance".
"Doesn't mean it" Rufus answered.
"Yeah" Ron sighed "You're probably right, we always bounce back from things like this".
The two rode for a few more minutes before dark clouds gathered over the hills, and in a few seconds it started raining.
"Just great" Ron said as he slowed down a bit.
As they drove along, the headlights over some type of vehicle could be seen through the haze of the rain. As the two companions looked on, they watched as the lights swerved from left to right numerous times, before drifting off the road and spinning as the vehicle they were attached two rolled down the bank of the road. Driving as fast as he could to the accident, Ron stopped a few feet away, inspecting the crashed truck. As they checked for survivors, both human and rodent heard the groaning of a man. Pulling the driver's side door open, they found a middle aged man groaning in pain and sweating madly.
"Hey mister, you okay?" Ron asked as he helped the man out.
"No, stay away" The man said hysterically, clutching the breif case he held tighter.
"What's wrong" Ron asked, looking the man over "You're legs, their bleeding"
"Doesn't matter" The man said, looking around desperately "Have to find it, must have fallen out when I crashed, have to keep it safe".
"Keep what safe?" Ron asked, backing away from the thrashing man "You need a doctor fast"
"NO" The man yelled "Find it, find it and run away, I'll keep them at bay, you find it and hide it"
"Find what?" Ron asked, his adrenaline pumping.
"Find device, should be near…there" The man said, pointing at a strange object poking out of some bushes "Grab it, run, I'll stop them"
"But, you're hurt" Ron tried desperately to get the man up, but he wouldn't budge.
"GRAB IT AND RUN" The man yelled, causing Ron to back away in panic.
His thoughts focused on the man's wishes, Ron moved away from the man, picked up the strange device, and ran.
"It's gone" The man said calmly
Behind him, three figures cloaked in the haze of the storm moved closer.
"That was a very stupid thing you've done professor" The voice of one of the three said.
"Heh, you've failed your master" The crippled professor laughed, from his position all he could see where the black boots and the blue pants legs of the men "Their gone, and only this one remains, and I doubt it will be of much use anyway"
"Maybe not, but your head will do as a fine trophy" The leader said.
As the professor looked on, he watched as a helmet fell to the grassy earth. With a very grunts of strain from the leader, his boots and pants started to bulge and rip, a clawed foot attached to a purple haired leg broke through.
"You won't have them" The professor yelled, his voice twisting and grow darker as he to began some sort of sick transformation.
The brown suit and doctor smock he wore started to tear apart at the seams as something resembling rhinoceros armor grew from the man's pink flesh. The glasses the man wore broke and twisted as his face began to reconstruct itself. Standing up, the now fully transformed professor launched himself at the monster before him. The creature he was attacking merely laughed as he grabbed the injured creature, and with his comrade transformed into the same type of monster their leader was, began to beat and tear the life out of the professor.
"I wonder what this thing is?" Ron asked his companion as they stopped for a rest beside the lake "Creepy looking thing"
What Ron held in his hand looked like a oddly shaped disc, a very thick disc. Between the three man plates of metal, Ron could see strange cords lying coiled up. In the center of this strange object a small metal ball sat. A groove ran around the metal ball near the edge. Looking closer at the ball, Ron pulled his head back as he saw the cords under the plates twitch.
"Must have been my imagination" Ron said, finding the cords completely still "Still, it would probably be a good idea to get this to Wade".
As Ron was about to put the strange object into his backpack, the groove in the metal ball lit up.
"What in the world?" Ron said as he ever-so-gently touched the metal ball.
Upon Ron's touch, the metal plates around the disc moved. Pulling his hand back, Ron through the device to the ground and stepped back. With lightning speed, the cords began unraveling themselves from the device and lashed out, grabbing the unsuspecting teen in several places.
"Ah, get of me" Ron yelled in panic as he grabbed at the cords.
It was too late, by time Ron could even try to pry the horrifying tentacles of his body, more and more coiled around him. Rufus looked at his master with horror, he could here his horrible screams as his entire body was covered with the strange cords. The device that lay on the ground was all but gone, only the metal ball remained. Ron watched with blood glazed eyes as the final cord that was attached to the metal ball lashed about, before tensing and winding towards his head. As he felt the final impact of the ball being painfully implanted into his head, Ron blacked out.
Ron awoke several hours later, the storm had passed and the naked mole rat he called his buddy was desperately prodding his body in an attempt to awaken him.
"Hey little buddy" Ron said as he sat up, feeling an intense pain in his head "Oh man, what a headache".
"Alright" The naked animal sighed, resting his tired body against his master.
"Of course I am" Ron said, looking around at the bright grass and shimmering lake "What happened?"
"Scary stuff" The naked rat squeaked.
"Well whatever happened, we gotta get home and show Wade that… hey, where'd it go?" Ron asked as he searched around the area.
Leaning over the edge, Ron expected to see his reflection as he tried to see if the device fell into the lake. What he met instead was the face of a strange alien, with glowing eyes, an armored head and a strange blade on the top of it's head. Ron backed away with lightning fast reflexes. Summoning the courage to peer over again, Ron was met with his normal reflection.
"Hey kid" A voice behind him said.
Turning around, Ron saw a man dressed in a strange blue uniform with a helmet that covered his eyes with a visor.
"Yeah?" Ron asked warily.
"Did you meet a man a few hours ago?" The man asked gruffly.
"Yeah, so what?" Ron answered, just then, he remembered what the man said to him.
Before he knew it, two other men circled Ron, cutting off any escape routes.
"Did he give anything to you? A device maybe?" The man asked.
"Nope, not a thing" Ron answered casually.
"You're lying" The man sneered
"Honest to god" Ron said, looking for a way to escape.
"Maybe some initiative will jog your memory" The man smiled as he made a grab for Rufus.
The naked mole rat barely dodged the grabbing hand, before another grabbed the soil around him, bringing him and a handful of dirt with him.
"Answer us truthfully or the rat dies" The man threatened before squeezing the rodent slightly.
"Let him go" Ron said angrily "The creatures in the pond, I saw him"
"You're lying again" The man said applying more pressure.
"Stop it now" Ron yelled, hearing his little friend cry in pain "I swear it's the truth"
"You swear?" The man said, keeping his grip tight, but stopped applying more pressure.
"Yes, it's in the pond" Ron said, glaring at the man.
"Good" The man said darkly, before closing his fist as hard as he could.
Ron screamed as he watched his friend explode in a burst of blood, bones and organs.
"Ew, what a mess" The man laughed cruelly.
"You, MONSTER" Ron yelled as he felt something deep in his mind awaken.
"What the hell's that kid doing?" One of the other's asked, watching as the boy glowed slightly.
"I don't know, but it can't be good" The other man said.
"GUYVER" Ron yelled as adrenaline coursed through his body.
The three men watched in terrible awe as a ball of pressure surrounded the furious teen. Everything in the ball was torn apart and crushed into nothing. Once everything was gone except Ron, a few dozen red cords burst out of his neck, and attached to the cords were small pieces of armor. Tensing up, the cords snapped back onto Ron, the pieces of armor grafting themselves together as they landed on the boy.
"It's active" The leader yelled "Change now"
The three men began grunting and groaning as their bodies bulged and grew into the same monsters the professor faced before.
"Get him" The transformed leader yelled as he launched himself at the transformed teen.
Lashing a raised claw at the teen, he found an armored hand grab his wrist.
"What the?" The beast said as he felt his arm being crushed under the boy's strength.
Falling to his knees, the furry monster tried to pull the fist off. His efforts were in vain though as the armored child tore the uninjured arm right from the elbow. Screaming in pain, the monstrous leader made an attempt to bite his opponent's head, instead he found the boy's fist enter his massive mouth, enter and pass right through.
Pulling the dead monster off his arm, the armored humanoid looked around the immediate area. Seeing two other threats, the altered teen launched himself at the closest, palm striking it's head hard enough to leave only a bloody imprint on the collapsed head. The remaining beast tried run, but only managed a few steps before being stopped by the very thing it was running from. Entering from the massive ears, the hands of the armored warrior grabbed the inner walls of the creatures head before pulling back, ripping the skull and all that surrounded it messily in two.
It's enemies destroyed, the dark figure looked around once more. Finding that no other threats were around, the armor burst off the young boy's body and entered back inside him via the neck. Now Ron stood, the blood and body parts of several creatures littered the area. Walking a short distance, Ron knelt down before his fallen friend, tears from the boy fell onto what remained of his friend. Letting out a feral cry, Ron broke down into a fit of sobs.
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"Well Dr. D, looks like you're little tests failed" Shego smirked as she and her employer, Doctor Drakken walked down a narrow passageway.
"Don't remind me" The blue doctor growled "I lost two of probably the most valuable devices on the face of the earth"
"And what of the one your little experiments retrieved?" The green toned woman asked.
"Come with me" Drakken ordered "And as for my 'experiments', the zoanoid prototypes I built from that stolen information were merely cheap constructs, I will build more powerful ones"
"Whatever" The dark-haired villaness sighed.
The two walked to a small room near the rear of the complex. Inside the room lay the retrieved device on a small pedestal, it's shape exactly the same as the one Ron had, except this one was a green and black color rather than the grey and black one Ron had collected.
"Enter the room Shego" Drakken ordered "I grant you the gift of ultimate power"
"What's this thing going to do to me?" Shego asked
"It's merely a power ampilfier, you will remain the same, but your power will increase ten-fold, giving you the strength to defeat Kim Possible once and for all" Drakken answered.
"Hey, I can defeat the princess anytime I want" Shego growled defensively.
" Just enter the room" Drakken ordered.
"Fine" Shego said as she opened the door to the room, behind her Drakken was watching through a glass veiwing window.
"Hey doc, your toy's busted" Shego said as she looked at the slightly cracked metal ball in the center of the device.
"It will work anyway" Drakken assured her, smiling wickedly "Now touch it, and you will receive power with absolutely no side effects"
"Whatever" Shego said, touching the cracked ball.
"Oops, I guess I lied" Drakken laughed as he watched the cords painfully entangled his assistant.
Well, looks like I updated faster than I thought. Some of you might think Drakken's a little more evil than in the cartoons, I did him this way because I wanted a competant villian. Anyway, much more on the way to come so stay tuned. And always, don't forget to review – Wolvie.