Chapter Four
The school
Yori and Hirotaka were sparring with one another in one of the advanced student dojos. Each one of them had already won a match and now they circled one another as they moved in graceful silence, testing each other's defenses. She remembered seeing Kim and Ron that day, the glances they gave each other, they way they stood together, moved together and touched each other. She understood now what Sensei had meant by the bond, but the truth did not help her heart. Yori felt herself flying through the air to land hard on the training mat. She lay there a few seconds before slapping at the floor in anger. She had allowed her thoughts to cloud her mind.
"Are you okay Yori?" Hirotaka asked.
"My mind was just on other things." She replied.
"We are all concerned for Stoppable-sama." Hirotaka mentioned.
Yori glanced in surprise at her sparring partner. Were her feelings for Ron-san that obvious?
Yori raised her face to speak to Hirotaka when one of the new students slammed the sliding door open and ran up to the two of them. The young boy's eyes were wide in excitement.
"Forgive the intrusion, honored ones, but Sensei bid me to tell you to join him immediately in the shrine of the Blade. Something has happened. All guards have been put on full alert. All training has been cancelled." The young boy gasped as he bowed to the two of them.
Yori and Hirotaka ran from the room and across the dirt compound to the Shrine of the Lotus Blade. Yori and Hirotaka slowly and quietly entered the Shrine to see Sensei sitting in front of the stand that once held the blade. For the first time they noticed that the pool of water behind the stand where the Lotus Blade normally lay was glowing.
"Sensei, honored one, you bid us to come?" Yori said as she and Hirotaka knelt behind Sensei.
Sensei stood and turned to the two of them.
"Yes, it is good to see you both. I may need the two of you more than ever."
Yori and Hirotaka rose from their kneeling positions to look with concern at Sensei. They were shocked to see tears on his face.
Sensei sighed his head bowed. "It has begun. The evil has been unleashed and Ron Stoppable has drawn the Lotus Blade in battle. I fear for Ron Stoppable and Kim Possible"
Outside of Middleton, Colorado
Kim's head swam in pain. This is so wrong she thought to herself. She remembered Ron holding her as he knocked her out with the stun gun, much as Erik had. The smile on Ron's face had been the same as Erik's that night. Now he was one of them. Again, she had been captured. She had given her heart to one only to have it crushed. She attempted to move when she realized that she was tied up and that she was in the backseat of the family station wagon. She moaned as she tried to move.
"Oh, well, well, well, little Kimmie has woken up. Look Ronnie your pitiful former little girlfriend, has woken up." Bonnie cooed from the front seat.
Kim head snapped to the side to look up toward the front seat. She could see Ron driving, his face covered by the sunglasses. Bonnie was hanging over the front seat gloating over Kim. Kim tried to say a retort and discovered she could not as she had been gagged.
"Oh, little Kimmie wants to say something. Well, Kimmie your time of telling everyone what to do is over. Besides, Ronnie and I preferred to have a little peace and quiet. Yes, Ronnie and I are now the couple. You see I got big points for being the one to turn Ron. Ron gets even bigger points for bringing you in himself. Oh, Gill is so excited. I'm sure he has plans for you Kimmie."
Bonnie reached over and grabbed Kim by her hair.
"You are so gonna pay for all the pain you caused me and for making me look like a complete fool in front of the school at the prom. Ronnie is now mine, and I am gonna make sure you get it see us together all the time."
"Bonnie" Ron snapped. "turn around, sit down and shut up! Gill wants her in good shape. Do you want me to tell him you are disobeying his orders?"
"Hey, you, you don…" Bonnie quieted instantly when he turned to glare at Bonnie.
"okay" Bonnie pouted as she turned and sat down.
The car stopped and Kim turned over and noticed that they had arrived at the gate to the Space Center. The guard stepped up to the window and saw the driver. Ron removed his sunglasses, the guard nodded and opened the gate. Ron pulled the car forward and stopped at the main entrance and he turned to Bonnie.
"This is where you need to leave. I will take care of Kim by myself. You need to report to Gill, and then check on the others for plans to assimilate more teens. Then come to the cellblock later. Maybe you and Kim can have some fun."
"Just wait, K, when you are in your little cell, just remember that I will be with Ron. Then after he and I spend a little quality time together, then the two of us will." Bonnie said smiling. Bonnie turned and laughed as the car pulled off.
Kim had to bury her face into the seat to avoid looking at Bonnie, but that did not keep her from hearing Bonnie laughing as the car pulled off. Soon the car stopped again as Ron put the car in park and turned off the engine. Ron got out of the car and opened her door, as he pulled her from the car and unceremoniously dumping her on the ground. He then cut the ropes binding her feet. Ron grabbed her by her arm and dragged her to her feet.
"Walk" he ordered.
Kim turned to him to look full in his face. Her reflection showed in the mirrored sunglasses covering his expressionless face. She mumbled into the gag.
He reached up and untied the cloth around her head and mouth. She gasped for air for a few moments.
"Ron?" she asked quietly.
Ron turned to her and smiled. "Yes, Kimberly Ann Possible. You are my prisoner again, just like that time Drakken went good. But I have taken all your little toys; remember I know where ALL of them are."
Kim blushed when she thought of where she hid a couple of surprises. If Ron searched her, there… no she did not want to think of it.
"Ron, please this isn't you. Please." Kim begged as he started to grab her arm.
"Shut up Kimberly, what was I to you? I was your partner when it convenient to you. When ever some hottie would come along that would improve or help you maintain your social status you went after him without a second thought. Surely you remember the weekend you left me locked in janitor's closet. And the time Erik came. After all we had gone through, you left me behind so fast. Can you ever imagine how that made me feel?" Ron spoke with ice in his voice.
"But, Ron, I made a mistake, I sorry. I am so so sorry. I was confused; I did not know what to do. You were so distant, so different from everyone, yet what I felt for you was so new. After the mission when we rescued Sensei and Monkeyfist, when Yori kissed you. Something inside me changed, I realized how much you meant to me. Then everything happened so fast, Bonnie, Bueno Nacho, Erik, I was so confused. Please forgive me. Please let me go, .. c.. come back to me." Kim cried.
Ron looked into her eyes full of tears and pain. "No, Kim, it's over, it's always been over. Now, move, we have a nice small cell ready for you. I want to get you in it so I can be with Bonnie, someone who appreciates me."
Kim became quiet as the tears flowed again. She felt she was back in the Bueno Nacho warehouse again tied up, alone and defeated. However, this time Ron was not there to save her. The person she had always counted on, the one person she thought she could always trust, the one person she truly loved was the person who had betrayed her.
Ron took her arm again as he lead her through the halls of the Space Center Security Area. They came to a heavy steel door with barred windows. The door opened with a buzz as they stood in front of it.
Ron pushed her forward through the open door. Kim stumbled and fell to the painted concrete floor.
"KIMMIE!" she heard her mother scream. Kim glanced to the side to see her family and Ron's parents watching the events from two cells.
Ron came into the room and grabbed Kim by her arm and dragged her across the room to an empty cell.
"RON! RONALD!" came a chorus of voices. "WHAT are you doing?"
Ron dragged Kim into the cell and pushed her face first to the bed. He drew the knife again and cut the ropes binding her hands behind her back. He pushed her back down on the bed to the screams of their parents and turned to go.
"Ron?" Kim voice quivered. "Please, Ron, don't do this. I love you. Fight this, please come back to me."
She stood in front of him and for the first time realized that, he was getting taller than she was. She brought up her hands and touched his face, then removed the sunglasses to look into his eyes. The glowing green orbs stared back at her.
"Ron, I know that you are in there. You mean everything to me. Please come back to me." She whimpered.
Ron reached down, took back his sunglasses, and looked Kim straight in the face, her own green eyes full of hope.
"The Ron you knew is no longer here. Anything he felt for you is gone with him." He said.
Her eyes grew wide at the words. The words cut her straight to her soul and crushed what little hope she had.
He pushed her back on the bed in the cell. "Behave properly, misbehave and you will not like the consequences."
He turned and left the cell slamming and locking the door behind him.
He made his way across the room to the main door and waited as it opened.
"RON!" Kim screamed from her cell reaching through the bars of the cell with her arms.
He turned to look at her, then went through the door and it slammed shut behind him.
Kim slid to the floor crying. "Ron, please come back."
"Kim, Kimmie, Sis, Kimberly" All of the others called to her. She just shook her head, walked over to the bed, laid down with her back to her family, curled up and facing the wall.
Kim lay on the bed deep in her own thoughts. "Ron, I just want you to hold my hand again, I want you to understand, in my mind I believe, even if you leave me now, you always be inside of my heart. I need your love; I know that you are the one for me. Can you see I always want there to be there for you. I want to hold your hand in mine. Ron, please come back to me. So please tell me what the deal is. I will risk it all, all for you. I hope you will believe the things I would try to say to you, because all I dream of is you. Why do I love you like I do? No matter what, if you leave me now, your love will always be inside of my heart. My love is true. It's never too late. It's never too late."
Kim clutched at her necklace that Ron had put on her. Her thoughts went back to the dance, his lips touching hers, his arms holding her, as she melting into him. For the first time in many years, Kim cried herself to sleep that night
The next morning
The Possible's and Stoppable watched with concern from their cell opposite the cell that Kim had been placed. They had all heard Kim sobbing softly throughout the night. She never moved from the bed where she lay. They all called to her and tried anything to get a reaction from her. Her brothers even tried several of their little jokes that used to infuriate her and send her laughing and giggling chasing them all over their home.
"Mom, Dad, is Kim going to be alright?" Jim asked with concern.
"and how about Ron, what's with Ron?" asked Tim.
"I would like time to talk to Ronald myself" growled Mr. Possible.
"Honey!" Mrs. Possible whispered, glancing worriedly over to the Stoppables.
"It is okay, Anne." Mrs. Stoppable said. "We wonder what is wrong with Ronald also. We know that Ronald loved Kimberly dearly. For him to treat her like this, he must be under some control somehow."
The door to the cell room opened and a number of synthodrones entered carrying long shock rods. Ron entered the room after them and turned to face the cell with his parents and the Possibles.
"Ronald" his parents called.
At the sound of his name Kim came off the bed and practically leaped to the bars of her cell. One of the synthodrones approached her cell charging it's shock prod. Kim did not say anything yet but watched Ron and the approaching synthodrone closely.
Ron took a couple of steps closer to the cells where his parents and the Possibles were. He raised his hand and pointed it at Dr. Possible.
"You, Mr. Dr. Possible. You are to come with me now."
Dr. Possible stared back at Ron with an anger that burned in his eyes.
"And if I refuse?" he stated.
Two drones approached the cell and another joined the first at Kim's cell and entered it. Kim and the families backed away as the drones approached. The drones in Kim's cell approached her and prepared to give Kim shocks. Mrs Possible panicked "Ron, no, stop them Ron!" The drones at the other cell pushed their way in, approaching the Stoppables and Kim's twin brothers.
"Stop!" Dr. Possible yelled. "I'll go. Call them back. Are you okay, Kimmie cub?"
"I'm okay daddy." She said.
Ron smiled and motioned for Mr. Possible to come out of the cell. The look he gave Ron would have killed a normal person.
"Come" Ron ordered. The drones pulled back from the cells and faced Ron.
"Stay and guard." He ordered them. He then turned to face Kim for a moment. She moved quickly to the bars hopeful of some sign.
"Watch her closely; if she tries to interfere in anyway notify me." Ron said.
Then with that same emotionless smile he turned and directed Mr. Possible out of the door. Outside of the door four more drones came up to flank him as Ron joined them.
"Give me one of the stun guns." Ron asked. One of the drones reached over onto a desk picked one up and gave it to Ron.
"Stay here, make sure the young lady makes no trouble. Also, watch to two young males. Do not approach them without backup."
Ron turned to Mr. Possible. "Dr. Possible, the continued good health of your daughter and the rest of them depends on your cooperation. Shall we head for the elevators now?"
Ron gestured for the hallway. Dr. Possible headed out of the door and down the hall with Ron following.
"Sub basement two command center will be our first stop, Dr. Possible. Several of files are needed and they are to be unlocked by your password. Open the files or drones will enter the cells of the prisoners and follow their orders to punish those who do not cooperate."
The elevator door opened and the two of them entered. The doors closed as Dr. Possible glared at Ron.
Subbasement 2
The workers near the doors of the elevators thought they heard shouts and screams coming from the elevator doors. The doors opened to Dr. Possible lying on the floor and Ron rubbing his hand across his bloodied nose, his eyes glowing green as the pair of sunglasses lay shattered on the floor. Ron bent down and yanked Dr. Possible to his feet. Ron took off the backpack he had been wearing and motioned for Dr. Possible to move out of the elevator. The two of them entered the main computer room of the space center. There was one technician in the room working at the central desk. Ron approached him. The tech's eyes glowed as the raised his head to face Ron.
"May I be of assistance?"
"Yes" Ron answered. "This prisoner has the codes to open several master files. He is here to work for the next hour."
"I understand. I was informed that he might be here. The computers are his, are you sure that he will not damage the systems?" The tech asked.
"We hold his family, and he knows what will happen to them if he does not cooperate." Ron stated. "I shall be watching in any case."
"The room is yours." Said the tech as he got up and left the room. As the tech left, Ron pointed to the chair and ordered.
"Dr. Possible, remember that your cooperation will buy the release of your family. Your non cooperation will cost them dearly."
The tech turned and smiled as he left the room. Dr. Possible sat in the chair, began to type as Ron stepped behind him, and set his backpack down.
Later.
The tech opened the door to see Dr. Possible standing at the door with Ron behind him.
"The good doctor was very cooperative. Inform the staff that all files needed have been opened." Ron stated. "We are heading for the main lab. The good doctor will again assist us with some reworking of our manufacturing processes. We will be able to manufacture the serum that we need along with the rocket fuels."
The tech nodded and returned to his station.
Ron opened the door and motioned for Dr. Possible to proceed him. Outside the room they turned and headed for the main lab.
Soon, they approached the door to the lab. Ron took a pass card from his pocket and used it to enter. Dr. Possible looked around the room in surprise. The entire room had been transformed into a large manufacture of some sort. He shuddered to think of the use that the room would be put to soon.
"Dr. Possible, the work station over there. There are more files to be opened and organized." Dr. Possible again sat at the workstation and started to work. Ron sat his backpack down and walked up behind Dr. Possible as he worked.
The Cell Block
The door to the cellblock opened, it was late afternoon by now. Kim stood and walked up to the front of her cell and held onto the bars as her father and Ron entered the room. Dr. Possible looked tired and haggard, but he smiled as his family.
"Dr. Possible has fully cooperated as he was asked." Ron said. "All of you are to be released to my supervision. You will all be returned to the Possible residence where you will stay."
Ron turned to Kim and stepped up to her cell and spoke. "All of you are expected to cooperate and not resist. You all need to prepare to leave."
There was a buzz at the door as it opened. Bonnie pranced into the room and lavished attention on Ron. She reached up, kissed Ron deeply, and played with his clothes, rubbing herself up to him. Ron stood still not reacting.
"Well, Ronniepoo" Bonnie cooed as she played with his shirt. "Do you mind if I come along. I would just love to help you take care of Kimmie here."
Kim's face burned red as Ron smiled at Bonnie. "Not right now, you will be able to come later. We will set up quarters there and you can join us."
Bonnie turned and stuck her tongue out at Kim then sauntered out of the rooms swinging her hips, giggling.
Ron turned to the occupants of the room. "We will leave now. Each one of you will wear a monitoring anklet. As long as you remain in your homes you will not be bothered. All your food and needs will be brought to you. Dr. Possible will be brought to the Center on occasion for work that will be required of him. Kim will remain under supervision as I will be staying the in home with all of you. Let us proceed."
Ron turned and motioned for the Synthodrones to lead the Possibles group out of the room. He stepped over to Kim's cell and opened the door. He took her by the arm and pulled her from the cell into the room.
"Owww, Ron." Kim said.
Ron shoved her forward .
He laughed as she stumbled and struggled to keep her balance. "Ha ha, Bonnie would have loved to have seen that."
Kim's eyes flashed with anger as she turned and took a step toward Ron clenched her fists. Ron nonchalantly pulled a stun gun from his pocket.
"Care to try that, Princess?" Ron said mockingly like Shego.
Kim face fell and she turned back to her parents. Her eyes clenched shut as the tears fell. Her fists clenched so tightly her knuckles popped.
The Possibles and Stoppables gathered around her and supporting her as they all left the room.
"Boooyahahahaha" laughed Ron as he followed them out the door.
Thanks always to all who are reading this story. Please leave a review and let me know how you liked it. Some of you may have noticed that we have been naming the chapters as we post them. This chapter was named Edelweiss, which is a rare hard to find flower. Kim is facing a very hard time much as a person would have finding the flower. Keep reading and letting us know what you think. Thanks again for your support.