Kim arose the next morning, the Morning news shows were all a twitter over the fact that Kim Possible chipped a boyfriend. The shows had experts on from the National Organization of Women and the ACLU. The NOW group was calling Kim a hero and the ACLU wanted Kim brought up on federal charges for human rights violations. Global Justice was also taking fire; Doctor Director was holding a press conference distancing her organization from Team Possible. Kim had seen enough and turned the TV off.
She stared at the blank screen devoid of emotion and then the familiar tones rang out, it was the Kimmunicator. Kim answered it, "Wade…I am in so much trouble."
Wade looked sick, "No Kim,WE are in so much trouble. How did Ron find out about the chip?"
Kim shrugged, "I told him…He pretty much figured it out already." She told him.
Wade nodded, "I knew something like this would happen, I guess Ron wants to kill me?"
Kim shrugged, "Probably only after he finishes with me." Kim smiled a tired, sad smile.
Wade smiled the same smile back at here, "Kim did you ever think that maybe we lost our focus? I mean…I don't know." Wade ended the question.
Kim nodded, "I didn't before, now I'm not sure anymore." She told her friend.
Wade glanced away absentmindedly at something, "Well hang in there KP, it's got to get better." Kim nodded and thanked Wade and then the screen was dark.
Kim heard a commotion outside, there were news trucks all out on the lawn, and everyone wanted to talk to the girl who put a microchip in her boyfriend. Kim cringed, "I'm in so much trouble." She said under her breath.
Kim's mom stayed home from work that day and called the police so the news teams would have to stay in the streets. What Kim didn't know was that this was only half the news crews the other half were looking for Ron Stoppable, Kim Possible's former partner and ex-boyfriend.
Ron was at Bueno Nacho turning in his two week notice, he knew school was going to start soon and he had to do more intensive road work in order to feel comfortable about making the cross country team, and he was wanting to spend more time with Lacey before the school year started.
He saw the news crews head into the Bueno Nacho parking lot as he was getting onto his bike. A well dressed lady reporter asked Ron if he knew who Ron Stoppable the chipped boyfriend was.
Ron said he never heard of the guy and rode off on his motorcycle, "I think I'll stay low profile today." Ron thought to himself.
Ron arrived at Lacey's house, she was still not feeling well and that had Ron worried. "You sure you're ok?" he asked his girlfriend.
Lacey gave him a smile and told him she was fine. Ron knew she was hiding something but he didn't press the issue. He told her about putting in the two week notice at Bueno Nacho and she told him that he was famous and on TV.
Ron closed his eyes, "Oh, no, I didn't want to hear that." He told her.
They went into the living room and Lacey turned the television to one of the twenty-four hour all news station and Ron watched the whole spectacle unfold. They had pictures of him and Kim in mission gear together but the pictures with Ron weren't very good ones, that made Ron feel better. "Kim always got the good press." He thought to himself.
Then they showed the hottest download off the internet, the picture of Ron and Kim kissing at the prom. Ron looked at Lacey and shrugged, "It is a good picture, the only one I have has red magic marker lettering that says "Loser" with an arrow pointing at me." He told her.
Lacey giggled, "You're not a loser."
Ron nodded, "I was at the time…I was pretty pathetic." He said sadly.
Then they showed the siege outside the Possible house, Ron shook his head, "Poor Kim's is getting pounded…too bad." He thought with a wry smile.
Ron looked at Lacey with a smile, "Well at least there's nobody outside my house or around here." He told her.
Lacey nodded, "Yea"
Ron told her to turn it off, he had seen enough, "Well if you don't mind I think I'll just hide here all day?"
Lacey smiled, "Good plan" then they left the room to go find something to do, that didn't involve microchips or television.
It was late in the afternoon when the news trucks left, it had become obvious that Kim wasn't going to talk to them and other more news was breaking so the news day moved on and Kim and her chip started to move to the back burner.
Once Kim's dad arrived home, Kim was called downstairs for a parental conference.
Doctors Possible were waiting for Kim, "We heard from Mrs. Stoppable today about that chip you placed in Ron." Her father began.
Kim swallowed hard and looked at her mom but realized that no help was coming from her direction; she was glaring at Kim and drumming her fingers on the table. "The Stoppable's are talking about suing your mother and me as well as you. Did you ever stop and think about what you were doing or do you just believe all the "she can do anything" nonsense?"
Kim shrugged and looked down at the table, "I thought it was the right thing to do?" she said weekly.
Kim's dad nodded, "So when is it the right thing to do something to someone without their knowledge? I thought we taught you better than that? I thought you would know better than that. Well you won't have to worry about this happening again; you're out of the adventure business as of now. NO MORE MISSIONS!" Kim's dad emphasized the point with by pounding the table with his fist and walking out of the room.
Kim turned her head to her mom and was trying to say something, but words would not come. Then finally a weak plea, "m…mom" Kim said shaking her head.
Kim's mother quit drumming the table, "SO YOU ARE THE EXPERT ON ALL THINGS RON?" she yelled at her daughter.
Kim moved her hands and was shaking her head, she felt bad already but this was an overload of emotion for her.
Kim's mom narrowed her green eyes, "SO YOU THINK YOU ARE THE EXPERT ON ALL THINGS RON?"
Kim was stammering, I…I…used to think…I …was." Kim said with eyes full of hurt and shame.
Kim's mom just nodded her head, "YOU DODN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT RON!" she informed her in a loud voice.
Kim's mom shifted positions in her chair, "To you Ron is just "Ron" an object, not a real human with feelings, THAT BOY LOVED YOU, and to you he was not boyfriend material…beneath you, not high enough up on that food chain of yours…To you he might as well of just been a dog. You are so totally wrapped up in what you want and being "all that", that you lost all respect for Ron as a human being."
Kim was shaking her head, "No…I…" She broke off the thought when her mother raised a hand.
Kim's mom rolled her eyes, and slapped the table three times, "Well, little Miss EXPERT IN ALL THINGS RON, it's time for a refresher course."
Kim's mom said shifting her weight on the chair again. "Do you know why Ron was around all the time when you were little?"
Kim shook her head that she didn't know. "When we first moved into this subdivision we placed you in Pre-K, you met Ron and we found out he lived just up the street. This is great, Kim has a little friend in the neighborhood we thought. We come to find out later that the Stoppable's are young and fight like cats and dogs…I used to come home from the hospital late in the evening sometimes and I would look up the street and there Ron would be out on the front porch sitting, while his parents fought inside."
Kim's mom took a breath and shook her head, "So when I would arrive home early and see him out there I used to walk up the street and invite him down here for dinner with us. As far as you knew your little friend Ron was over to visit and play but you never knew why. After a few visits I started coming home and Ron would be sitting on the steps waiting for me to come home."
Kim's mom reached up and wiped a tear from her eye, "He would wait for me because, when your father was younger he was kind of gruff with him and he frightened Ron. You father the rocket scientist finally figured out what was going on up there in the winter when he seen Ron sitting outside in a pair of shorts and a jacket in ten degree weather. After that he didn't bark at him after anymore." She said with her voice cracking.
Kim was crying, she had no idea all of this was going on in Ron's life, she knew he didn't talk about this parents much and she knew that when he had problems he would go and find Rabbi Katz for help.
Kim's mother gathered her composure and continued the lesson on Ron, "Then when Ron was about seven, his parents separated and he was packed off to camp wannaweep while they tried to work things out. Ron came back from camp different; he'd wet the bed and have nightmares. You used to take his nightmares seriously back then; no you just refer to him as being into the drama or a drama queen."
Kim remembered trying to get Ron to think happy thoughts before bedtime so it would help keep the monsters away, "Ron…I had no idea…I'm sorry, I'm soooo sorry." She thought to herself.
Kim's mom was shaking her head, "I just wish I could pin point when you started to become so callus towards Ron so I could have stomped out that arrogant attitude of yours." She said bitterly.
Kim had sank low in the chair, she was feeling sick to her stomach but her mother continued on, "After he came back from camp he was here almost all the time, we just made room for him. He used to get in trouble in school for signing his papers Ron Possible." She wiped a tear and gave a bitter chuckle. "The Stoppable's stayed together, but Ron was pushed to the side and had to fend for himself. It was so sad, three people in that house, three total strangers and one of the three was a seven year old boy."
Kim's mom swallowed hard, the emotions in the room were heavy and it was wearing both her and Kim down, but this needed to be done. "Ron always used to come on vacations with us, you guys would play word games in the backseat and play with the twins. Your father enjoyed it because you wouldn't keep asking "Are we there yet?" when Ron was with us." Kim's mom smiled. "Do you know where his "Booyah" came from?"
Kim shook her head, she thought she did but she couldn't be sure.
"Well we were headed to Florida to visit Nana Possible and you were playing your word games in the backseat, there was this bridge on highway 10 that had boats going under and one sounded it's horn, Ron heard it and went Booyahhh and you laughed, and he's said it ever since." Her mom reminded her.
Kim was shaking she had forgotten that, something so important and she had forgotten.
Kim's mom was starting to get worked up again, "Then when you two got older and you started getting these damn missions, Ron would go with you, he didn't want to go but he went, because he was your friend."
Kim's mom pushed her chair back from the table and got up. "Then you became soooooo important, you became all that and AN EXPERT IN ALL THINGS RON. Then that Eric thing came around and you dropped Ron like a bad habit. Then you waved your hand in the air and said, "He'll be ok." Then after you two beat Drakken and expose Eric you take Ron to the prom as your date and TWO days later drop him like a bad habit again. Then you tell me, "He'll be ok." Of all the presumptuous arrogance, AN EXPERT IN ALL THINGS RON, well Ron threw you a curve didn't he? You rejected him and he went away, gone from the only home he's ever really had. You see little miss EXPERT IN ALL THINGS RON; he's as much my son as he is the Stoppable's and you know what? He is OK; it's you that I'm not so sure about anymore. Kim you are going to have to get a grip and realize that sometimes you are not all that."
Kim sat there stunned; her mother had never laid it all out there on the line like that before.
Kim got up and climbed up the stairs, closed the door to her room. She put her back to the door and sank to the floor. "I have become arrogant, I have become full of myself, and it has cost me everything."
Kim was crying when she heard the familiar tone of the Kimmunicator. She picked it up and opened the channel, "Hello" she said trying to gather her emotions.
Wade was on the other end, "Hey Kim…we gotta talk. Mom's pulling the plug on me so I don't think I'll be able to send you anymore missions or anything."
Kim nodded, "I've been banned from going on missions, too."
Wade was trying to think of more to say but there really wasn't anything to talk about so the two friends just sat and stared at one another over the Kimmunicator. Wade shook his head, "I never would have believed it would unravel so fast without Ron around."
Kim nodded and laughed, "Yea…I…I wish I would have stuck to babysitting." She told Wade.
Wade chuckled, "Yea…well, I'll see ya around KP." Kim nodded, "Bye Wade." Then she closed the connection and closed the book on Team Possible.
Drakken and Shego had been busy, they didn't have a large budget and they had serious time constraint issues but the two had once again managed to gather enough synthodrones, a very functional doomsday death ray and they found a way to make it portable for one more crack at taking over the world.
Drakken was reveling in all the bad press about Kim Possible, "Then she puts this microchip inside that poor hapless buffoon sidekick of hers."
Drakken laughed while relaying the story to Shego. "Now we see you're not all that, ahhhhhhhhhh the color is off the bloom, Shego." He said happily.
Shego grinned happily, "It get's better Doc, just hopped off the internet, the Kim Possible website is offline. Seems Kimmies little foray into the world of darkness is over. It was kind of fun hearing her name and genocide being mentioned in the same sentence." Shego was laughing and spinning in her chair at the security control panel.
Drakken smiled, "Ahhhhhhhh a world with no Kim Possible, let's waste no time and take it over." He said jumping up and down and clapping his hands.
Shego nodded, "I agree, where do we strike first?"
Drakken's eyes narrowed, "Why where else would we strike but where all great take over the world plans start…Middleton of course!"