Sorry for the short update here, but I didn't want y'all to think I had forgotten about this story. Explanation at the end… Thanks for all the reviews…

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Chapter 3

"Mr.'s Dr. P.?" Ron gently held her hand as she lay on the couch. He was lightly rubbing the back of her hand, trying to get her to come around.

Her eyes slowly fluttered open, and she blankly looked at Ron, not quite registering who she was looking at. Suddenly she was well aware. "Ronald!" She almost screamed, as she sat bolt upright, and scooted across the couch away from Ron.

Fear was in her aqua blue eyes as she stared at Ron in utter horror. "Y… you… HIT m… my daughter!"

"Whoa, whoa… calm down Mr.'s P.!" Ron said as he held his hands up in defense. "What you saw me hit was not, I repeat, was NOT Kim!"

"But I SAW you…" Anne Possible started to say.

"What you saw was a robot! A fake! PLEASE! Mr.'s P.! Calm down!"

"Prove it." She said, her voice almost sounding like a threat.

"Come with me and look." Ron held out his hand to help her from the couch.

"I can stand by myself, thank-you." Anne said, as she stood from the couch. She still wasn't trusting Ron.

Walking up the stairs, Ron first, they went over to the form of what looked like Kim lying on the floor. The body was on its back, and the head was twisted all the way around so that only the back of the head could be seen. It actually looked a little grotesque.

"Kimmie…" Anne said as her hand shot to her mouth.

"Check it out your self, Mr.'s P."

"Ronald! Stop calling Kim an 'it'." She knelt at the side of the body, looking it over from head to toe. Her hands went to her face as she started to tremble and cry. "You KILLED her! Ronald, you killed my baby girl!"

As Anne had her face buried in her hands, Ron reached over, and drew back the red hair that was lying over the base of the neck. In doing so, he uncovered ripped metal, plastic, and numerous multicolored wires. The head was still attached to the body by only a few strips of the fake skin.

Ron knelt by Anne's side. "Mr.'s Dr. P. Please, look at it."

"No! I… can't!"

"Mr.'s P., LOOK at it!" Ron said more forcefully. He had to get her past this hysterical fit before he could do anything else.

Anne slowly dropped her hands from her face, and opened her eyes to look at the body of her daughter again.

"What the…" She immediately saw the mess of electronics, metal, and plastic. Gingerly, Anne placed a hand on a bare wire as if touching it made it more real.

Suddenly she reached down, and grabbed the head and pulled it away from the body. Ron noticed that she never looked at the face, but instead turned it end over, so that she could look into the neck.

Convinced that the body lying in front of her was not human, Anne lay the head back down beside the body, careful not look at the face. She kept the hair covering that portion of the head.

"Ronald, I am so sorry!" She quickly pulled Ron into a hug, surprising him.

"Hey, hey… it's OK, Mr.'s Dr. P. You didn't know." Ron cautiously pats her on the back.

"What is going on here, Ron? Why is there a robot duplicate of Kim lying on my daughters bedroom floor?"

"That's what I'm going to find out." Ron pulled the Kimmunicator from his pocket, and keyed Wade.

"What's up Ron? You take out the Kim-bot?"

"Sure did Wade. Had some explaining to do to Kim's Mom also. Can you tell us anything about this thing now?"

"Hold the Kimmunicator over the head Ron." He did so, and a wide yellow beam shot out of the emitter, and quickly moved the entire length of the head and what remained of the neck. "See that bare plug sticking out the base of the neck? It should plug into the Kimmunicator."

Ron did as Wade instructed. He then saw Wade type furiously on his computer. Wade didn't say anything for a while as he worked. His face was almost a scowl.

After a few minutes, Wade looked back at the screen. "I couldn't find much information, Ron, but I did find one important clue."

"What's that Wade?"

"The base of operations for where this thing came from is in South America. I have a ride coming to you in about 10 minutes."

"Is that where Kim is, Wade?" Anne said as she turned the Kimmunicator in Ron's hand towards herself

"We hope so." Said Ron.

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"Communication with the Kim-bot has ceased." Said one of Dual's personalities to the other. "We must assume that it has been identified, and shut down." Said the other.

"Kim-Be has been activated, and is ready for instructions to be downloaded. Make it so."

In a short radio burst from Dual, a simple command was entered into the Kim-Be brain. Three words. Kill Ronald Stoppable.

Sorry this chapter is shorter than the others, kinda having a little brain fart here resulting in a bit of writers block. Please hang on while I decide what should happen next.