Dark Hero

Chapter 3

Ron walked home through the darkness that was night; his fingers raw and bleeding from giving his deceased pet a proper burial, and his red and puffy from hours of weeping. Arriving at his house, he gently turned the doorknob and let himself in. Noticing the house to be completely dark and empty, he switched on the kitchen light and found a note.

'Dear Ron, your mother and I are attending a gallery opening with some friends. I guessed you had a mission to do since you weren't here. I'm sure dinner would be no trouble since you're a better cook than you're mother. And now I have to run before she reads this note or else I'm in big trouble, we love you – Your father'

Ron smiled at the warm humor of his father, looking around the kitchen; he saw pot and pans ready to be used. Feeling nauseous from the very idea of food, Ron retreated into the bathroom for a long and relaxing shower.

As the blond teen stepped out, he wiped the fog off the mirror and looked at himself. His eyes were still red and sunken a bit, and even though the shower helped, his body was still aching all over.

Walking to his room, Ron practically collapsed on his bed. Just lying for what seemed like hours, the teen found it impossible to get to sleep. Images of his broken friend, waking up in the middle of three mutilated animals and with a killer headache, he just couldn't shut his brain off. Luckily for him, the phone rang, allowing him to forget his troubles for about a second.

"Hello" Ron said automatically as he picked the phone up.

"Ron, thank goodness" He heard his best friend on the other side say.

"Kim, somethi-" Ron began, before being interrupted by the redhead.

"I'm so glad you're alright, after you stormed off I got worried so I went to your place but you weren't there so I-" It was now Ron's turn to cut her off.

"Rufus is dead Kim" Ron stated sadly.

"What?" Kim gasped, "What happened?"

"A man killed him," Ron answered, tears once again making their way out of the young man's eyes "I watched him die"

"Ron I-" The redhead was at a loss for words.

"After that, I blacked out, and when I came to, their were bodies, bodies and blood everywhere" Ron broke down as he held the phone in his grip, the plastic cracking slightly under the pressure it was being held with.

"Ron, I'm coming over," Kim said firmly.

"K" Was all wrong could muster, and he hung up the phone.

Ron lay there on his bed, curled up and sobbing for a few minutes. As he heard the sound of the front door opening, he sat himself up and wiped away his tears.

"Ron?" He heard the soft and gentle voice of his best friend entered his ears.

"Kim" Ron whimpered, drawing in a shuddered breath.

"Oh Ron" Kim ran to his side and hugged him "I'm so sorry about Rufus"

Ron could only sniffle as he buried his head into her comforting shoulder.

And there they sat, Ron slowly crying as he rested his head on Kim Possible's shoulder. Being close to the naked mole rat as well, Kim herself found it hard to keep her emotions in check and silently cried along with her best friend. It was a few minutes later the two heard the familiar beeping of the Kimmunicator.

"Go Wade" Kim said quietly.

"Any luck finding Ron?" Wade, the pudgy African-American asked.

"Yeah, he's alright" Kim responded, "Rufus was killed, so he's a little shaken up"

"Rufus is gone?" Wade gasped, "Who did this"

"Dunno" Kim said, "Ron blacked out and can't remember a thing, I guess the shock must have wiped his mind of it"

"Wade" Ron said slowly, his mind was blurry on the subject, it knew something was important "Wade I need to speak to you"

"What is it Ron" Wade asked as Kim handed the Kimmunicator to the male teen.

"A man gave me something, said it was important, only now I think it's inside me" Ron said.

"What?" Both Kim and Wade said at the same time.

"I can't remember" Ron said, gripping his head "I remember touching the thing, then pain, then nothing"

"Let me do a quick bio-scan" Wade said, punching in a few keys on his computer.

Kim grabbed the communication device and held it in front of Ron, a green light shot out and traced it's way down the brown-eyed boy.

"This is strange" Wade said, rubbing his chin "I'm detecting a strange growth on your back, Ron, if you'll take off your shirt I can analyse it closer".

Doing as the brilliant child ordered, Ron proceeded to take off his shirt. From the corner of his eye Ron saw his best friend blush and turn away.

"Kim, hold the scanner near Ron's back" Wade said, furiously typing away.

"Right" The redhead said as she turned to look at he best friends back.

She nearly dropped the Kimmunicator as she gasped. Upon Ron's back were to dark marks, one on each shoulder blade. Holding the analysing device as per Wade's orders, Kim watched as once again the green light shot out and scanned Ron.

"This is…weird" Wade said, looking at several monitors.

"Not very comforting" Ron said, trying to touch the markings that were out of reach.

"I'm sorry, but I can't explain this" Wade apologised "It's in no medical text I can find, it's almost as if it's the first time this has ever been seen"

"I take back what I said, 'that's' not comforting at all" Ron responded.

"Is it harmful?" Kim asked in hope.

"No" Wade said, peering hard at a screen "From what I can tell, it does nothing, the only thing weird about it is that it connects to the base of Ron's brain"

"So removing it is a no no?" Ron asked.

"Fraid so" Wade answered.

"Well damn" Ron sighed.

"Hey Ron" A voice from the door said "You're dad and I ar- oh my!"

Looking behind them, Kim and Ron were met by the shocked face of Ron's mother. With Ron sitting on his bed with his shirt off and Kim behind him, the seen looked pretty self-explanatory to Ron's mother.

"It's not what it looks like" The two said in panicked unison.

All Mrs. Stoppable could do was laugh.

"Of course it isn't" She said through giggles "Well, we're back now, so don't be too loud"

"MOM!" Ron yelled as he watched his mother close the door, the sound of his father laughing could be heard a few moments later.

The sound of Wade clearing his throat snapped the two teens back into reality.

"So what now?" Ron asked.

A loud sound filled the room as left wall of Ron's room was destroyed.

"I may have an idea" A sinister feminine voice said.

As the two teen looked to the source of the voice, the cloud of dust and debris slowly faded away, revealing a shocking figure.

Covered in several green and black colored sections of organic like armor, the figure walked slowly forward. Ron looked at the head and found it surprisingly familiar, the same features but this one had more spikes adorning it's head, aswell as that weird blade on top.

"I'm here to take you out" The armored figure stated.

"Ron" Kim said, lowering herself into a defensive position "I'll take this thing on, you go save your parents"

"Wouldn't bother" The figure scoffed "I've already dealt with them"

"Y-you killed…my parents" Ron stuttered.

"Sure did" The green and black figure laughed "Didn't even put up a fight"

"They're gone" Ron looked at the ground, tears gently falling to the floor. Suddenly, the teen's head snapped to face the taunting figure with a face full of hate and malice "I'LL KILL YOU!"

"Pathetic boy" The figure sighed, sidestepping the boy's lunge and kicking him into the adjoining wall several feet away.

Ron hit the wall with a thump, still conscious, he was helpless as he watched the armored warrior descend upon his friend.

"Say good night Kimmie" The figure laughed as blade extended from her left forearm and passed over her fist "I'm going to enjoy this".

"Shego?" Kim stuttered, paralyzed with fear.

"Bingo" Shego said lightly, before beginning the death arch that would end her nemeses's life.

It would have, if not for a black and grey blur tackling her out of the second story room and into the grassy area surrounding the house.

"What in the seven hells?" She said as she looked around, her gaze resting on a dark figure standing over her.

"You've destroyed my house, killed my family and threatened to kill my friend" The grey and black variation of the armor Shego wore began "You will do no more"

"Just try and stop me" The transformed Shego growled, picking herself up and throwing a punch at her enemy.

Taking the full blow of the strike, the person who could only be Ron Stoppable flew a few feet before hitting the ground hard.

"Wade" Kim said as she watched the fight from Ron's room "What's going on"

"I honestly have no clue" Wade answered, sweat dripping down his forehead as he typed rapidly at his keyboard "I'm picking up massive power fluctuations from both of them…they just went off the charts"

"In english Wade!" The teen hero screamed into the hand-held device.

"It means that they are both equal in power" Wade said "It's all a matter of skill now"

"Then Ron is done for" Kim said, knowing how well trained Shego was.

Below Kim, the fight raged on.

"What's the matter Ronnie boy?" Shego taunted "This too much for you"

"Shut up you bitch" Ron countered.

Shego growled as she extended both blades simultaneously "I'm too good for you"

"I'll find a way" Ron said, ducking and diving to avoid the blades.

Kicking the transformed boy in the chest, Shego forced Ron up against a wall. Holding him there, Shego raised her unoccupied hand and held the blade up to his neck.

"You lose" Shego said, a smile forming under her helmet.

With a flash of grey, a third blade entered the fight.

"What the hell?" Shego gasped as her blade was pushed away by one belonging to her foe.

"Don't underestimate me Shego" Ron growled as he pushed the better fighter of himself "I'm not just the sidekick anymore.

Jumping back, Shego prepared herself for another assault on the boy. Quickly escaping from the conered position, Ron caught the transformed evil doer off guard, forcing her to become defensive as his one blade, that extended the opposite way Shego's did, slashed at her again and again.

"Ron's winning?" Kim gasped as she watched the tables turn on the fight.

"Ah, what's wrong with me?" Shego said to herself.

Suddenly, Shego stopped in the middle of the fight to grab at her head.

"What's going on" She screamed as the metal orb above her eyes flickered with light and sparks crackled across it.

"Kim, tell Ron to destroy that metal ball" Wade said "My scanner's show it's the main source of power.

"RON!" Kim yelled "RIP THE METAL FROM HER FOREHEAD"

"Gotcha" Ron answered, powerfully shoving his hand into the screaming woman's head and forcibly removing the damaged metal.

As the last cords that attached the metal snapped off, the pain Shego felt was gone. Not a second later did a new wave of pain hit her, a wave many times as strong as what she was feeling before.

Ron watched as she grabbed her head even harder, kicking and screaming in agony. A few seconds later, the suit of armor she was wearing started to smoke, the suit was melting. The sickening sight continued as the suit began dissolving, but it didn't stop at just the suit.

"It's…eating her" Ron stated as he watched Shego's body desolve as the suit slowly ate it's way through the raw and bloody figure that was now Shego.

Ron was about to turn away when he felt a strange warmth in his chest. Looking down, he saw light glowing between the gaps in his breast plates. As if on divine will, Ron grabbed at the two plates and slowly pulled them apart. More and more light collected into Ron's chest cavity, until he felt a giant pull on his body.

From the distance, Kim and Wade watched as a massive beam of light exploded from Ron's body, smothering the decaying Shego and coninuing on into the horizon. As the light faded, a large streak of destroyed earth could be seem, molten rocks glowing red from the intense heat. From the distance, the green eyed teen watched as Ron fell to his knees, the armor on him breaking off and shooting into his neck.

"Ron" Kim screamed as she leapt out of the half destroyed house and ran towards the collapsed teen.

But it was too late, Ron didn't hear a thing as he passed out.

And another chapter down in record time. I guess it's been so long since I've done anything guyver related that I just can't stop myself. I just love writing fight scenes like these so there will be plenty more, oh and next chapter will be very surprising) Till next time (And remember to keep reviewing) – Wolvie.