Evolution: Middleton Monster
The Game
By Noveler00
Disclaimer: I don't own any rights to the characters of Kim Possible or X-Men Evolution, so don't sue you won't get much. I write fanfics for the pure enjoyment for all, without any profit. Enjoy.
AN: Okay I admit not much happened in the last chapter, but it needed to happen to push the story along. I could just leave an open gap between Ron's night attack to him showing up at the football field.
It has come to my attention that my readers are confused about Kim's power, rightfully so. I was being subtle about, also quite honestly she is using her powers more often than you are probably reading. If you find out that I and over describing some of her action or adding more than there should be, it's probably because her powers are in use. The reason for the subtlety is because it is hard to see her powers in action. I won't go into detail right now about her powers, but know that I will eventually describe them later down the road.
"Cool," said Jim and Tim in unison as they watched someone pull up to their home on a roaring motorcycle from their upstairs window. They watched as the biker stepped off and remove his helmet. They were intrigued further by his unique hair style, even more when he just seemed to stand there looking at the sky.
"Mom," they cried out in unison as they ran downstairs
"What is it boys?" replied Mrs. Possible with a smile.
"There's a weird man in front of the house," said Jim.
"He rode up and a motorcycle," added Tim
"His hair is weird."
"Like a wolf."
"He's just standing out there."
"He's probably just lost," replied their mother. She heard the motorcycle too, but went to a window to confirm their story. Her chopper smile quickly faded when she saw the biker outside her house. "Boy's go to your room."
"Ah, but…" they whined together.
"No buts. I told you two to clean your room and it's still a mess."
"Okay." Both boys hung theirs shoulders as they walk but up to their room.
Mrs. Possible waited until they were out of sight before looking out the window again. She felt her heart rate pick with anxiety. The biker was still outside but he slowly began to move toward the house. She walked out the door and met him with a cold stare.
"It's been a while," she said to him. "How long has it been Logan, three, four years?"
"Anne," replied Logan as he stared at her.
"I see you remember my name. How's Charles?"
"I don't have time for chit-chat," he retorted in his gruff voice. "I'm looking for Kim Possible."
"My daughter?"
"Your…" He stopped mid sentence and glanced at the house behind her. It became bluntly obvious about her relation to Kim. He shook his head and walked away.
"What does my daughter have to with you?"
He ignored her following a scent he picked when she came out. It was one of the three scents he picked up on the cargo pants that that old homeless man gave him. Logan can only assume that all three scents came from the same person do the similarities of their odors, again this was something he never encountered before. He couldn't be absolutely sure.
"I'm talking to you!"
Logan continue to ignore her as he followed the scent over to the fence, thou his patience was wearing. He looked at the fence for a moment then quickly climbed over it.
Mrs. Possible huffed when he disappeared over the fence. She stormed her way around her home to a gate leading into the backyard. She founded him sniffing around the wooden grid mounted against the wall of the house.
"I don't need a morality lecture on violence," voiced Logan as she was about to speak.
"Are you here because of the monster? Is it one of you?"
"What do you think?" said Logan looking up at here with a harden gaze.
"Who is it, maybe I can help?"
"Can't tell yuh."
"You didn't mind telling me about Debra's daughter."
"Who?"
"Debra Rockwaller's little girl, you called her Pom-Pom."
Logan's eyes opened up for a moment as he remembered her. It was almost four years ago when he and Xavier came to help her with her dilemma. It was also his first encounter with Anne Possible, needless to say she left an impression he couldn't forget.
"First of all, she wasn't dangerous," replied Logan. "Second, I didn't tell you."
"I don't want you to destroy this kid's fragile mind like you did hers. That child is still innocent."
"And I suppose pulling some jock out of his truck and beating him to within an inch of his life still makes him innocent."
Mrs. Possible was left speechless as he gave her a hardened stare. Since she met him she never liked him. He was a violent man, who would shot first and never ask questions. He shouldn't be allowed near children who were that young and easily impressionable. Somehow Charles Xavier keeps him around and she can only wonder why. Now he was chasing after a child who put a student in the hospital with serious injuries. Could she still protect that child's innocence from him or is it already too late.
"He's already attack once," continued Logan. "I going to make sure he doesn't do it again. Now where is Kim?" She didn't respond as she was still trying to pull her thoughts together. "Look he was here. He's going after your daughter for some reason. Where is she?"
"She's," hesitated Mrs. Possible, "she's at the high school, Middleton High. There's a game."
"Storm," called Logan placing two fingers to her ear, "I need some directions."
Anne's eye's opened as she came to a realization, "There were two attacks."
"What?"
"Two attacks. You said it attacked once," she covered her mouth with her hands finally making the connection. "Oh my god, Ron!" She shook her head not wanting to believe. "He's a nice boy he wouldn't do anything like that."
"You know as well as I do," he said looking her square in the eye unmoved by the revelation, "for everything that kid is, he can't control what's happening to him. Not now."
"He wouldn't hurt anybody."
"He already has, he might be aware that he is even doing it."
"He wouldn't hurt Kim."
"I'm not ready to bet her life on that." He quickly diverted his attention to his radio, "Storm… Got it."
Logan looked at Anne one more time; she was staring out into space trying to cope with the truth. He turned away and head out, but Anne looked at him as he moved.
"Don't hurt him," she pleaded.
The cheer squad managed to cheer their team to as they finally made it on to the scoreboard. Now that both teams have put numbers on the scoreboard, Bonnie decided to give the squad a break.
Kim seemed to be holding her own as usual, but when she sat down on the bench she couldn't help but notice that she looked exhausted. Then she saw her reaching into her backpack.
"What's with the backpack, Possible?" asked Bonnie, almost demanding it.
"I'm not the only one that brought their backpack," retorted Kim.
"But you're the only one I know that brings gadgets and gizmos instead of make-up and magazines."
"I have make-up." Kim pulled showing a pink compact.
"One little compact, you're so high fashion."
"Bonnie I don't want to hear your badgering right now. I got other things on my mind."
There was a moment of silence between the two before Bonnie spoke up again, "You're going after it, aren't you?" No response from Kim. "Well you're crazy if you do."
"Why do you even care?" snapped Kim turning her head to Bonnie. "Why do you care about the things I do?"
"Let the police handle it, the FBI, someone else."
"If I do they'll kill it."
"What's wrong with that? It's a mindless creature that doesn't care. Why not kill it? It certainly deserves it. It took Ron, nearly killed Jeff. Who knows how many others it get too before they finally kill it."
"That's why I'm going after it. To make sure it doesn't hurt anyone else."
"What are you going to do when you finally catch it? Arrest it, put it in jail? That thing isn't human. It doesn't belong in a cage. Ron is not worth this kind of effort."
"Shut up Bonnie, just shut up." Bonnie was taken back by Kim. She looked at seeing a harsh face beaming at her, but the swelling of tears put a depth to Kim she has not seen before. "You don't know how I feel right now and in all honesty I hope you never have to find out. No one deserves to feel this kind of pain. I don't expect you to understand my feelings for Ron. We have been through a lot together. From the good times to the bad, we were always there for each other. Picking each other up when either of us were down. I left him yesterday, abandoned him. Now, I can't say I'm sorry, I can't even say good-bye to him."
A humbled looked came upon Bonnie's face, she began to feel sorry for what happened. Not that she wasn't before, but even more so now. She turned away from Kim trying to hold back her emotions. She hated both Kim and Ron, but she was still human. She couldn't help but feel something after what Kim said.
When Bonnie finally looked up she saw that some of the squad was listening to their conversation, each one of them looked sad. Bonnie picked herself up, and with a stern look on her face she called out to them, "Okay, I think we've rested long enough. Everyone let's get up and cheer on our team." Without turning to Kim, "You can sit this one out. You seem a little emotional right now."
Bonnie walked over and took her position in front of the squad. She was about to start when she noticed Kim next to her.
"Nothing will stop me from doing what I have to do," said Kim as she smiled at the crowd.
"You don't have to do this," replied Bonnie.
"Yes I do."
"Fine, then do it behind me. Remember I'm in charge."
Kim kept smiling as she stepped back letting Bonnie start the cheer.
The overcast was thick, completely blocking out the sun and darkening everything. You could feel the humidity as it thickened the air.
Ron ran for all that he could as he took the quickest route he knew to Middleton High. It was something he was good at, running. Running for his life, from bullies, deadly machines, madmen, crazy women, actually Shego, but he could run. Thou, he wasn't the fastest at school; he never really tried to be.
Anguish, confusion and fear drove him. He didn't like those feelings, he wanted them gone. The school had what he needed. It held Kim, the only person he trusted to help him.
Ron also fought rippling sensation that coursed throughout his body. They were a precursor to when he would change. It was an odd feeling before the racking pain came. He fought against it suppressing the urge to change. Those battles slowed him but he pressed on.
Ron was relieved when he finally saw the school. The parking lot was jam-packed with cars from spectators. Only a handful of people were out in the lot, nearly everyone else's attention was at the game or nearby. For a moment Ron forgot his problem and scuttled his way thru the maze of cars. He moved his way around the outside of the main building until he came around the back. He finally found the playing field, the collection of people was proof enough but he knew where it was.
He slowly mixed in with the crowd weaving his way through them making sure to keep his head down. He was nervous that someone would spot him; he could feel his heart rate climbing as he made his way deeper into the crowd. The urges to change became a constant battle for him. They came for frequently and more intense, but he fought them off.
He managed his way to the lower stands that over looked the sidelines. It didn't take him long to find the cheer squad sitting on the benches waiting for their time to stand, but the mascot was up and about. Whoever was in the costume was prancing around and waving its hands at the crowd.
Ron couldn't help but feel upset by it. 'What does he think he's doing,' thought Ron. His brow lowered in anger as he watched the silly act, 'That's not how the mad dog acts. He's rough and tough not a silly dancer. And where's the foam? No foam, no growl, not even a howl. Just some stupid dance.'
Suddenly, Ron felt the sensation to change hit him hard. He grabbed his chest while bracing himself up on the stand railing. He tried fighting it back, but it was stronger than before. He managed to look up seeing that no one has taken notice of him.
Ron clenched his face as he pulled himself back up. He held onto his chest as he slowly made his way off the stands. There were too many people here that could see him, or that he can hurt.
He ventured his way from the stands stumbling and barging thru the crowd. He somehow found himself in an area away from the people. He looked around again and discovered a restroom. He could sought refuge in their away from and wandering eyes. He was in a losing battle; the urge grew stronger and stronger. He could already feel his body increasing in size.
He just stepped thru the door when he could no longer hold it back. He collapsed to the floor.
"No," he uttered trying to force it back. He could feel his body becoming bigger, ripping apart his hooded shirt at the seams. Ron managed to let out a yell before he was finally taken over.
Meanwhile Kim stopped as she got up to start a routine looking out into the distance, swearing she heard something out there.
"What are you doing Kim?" growled Bonnie directing her voice at Kim but keeping it low so that the crowd couldn't hear. "Get with the program."
"Sorry," was all she could say before jumping over into position for the routine.
They just began the routine when they heard a commotion. Most of them tried to continue but when they heard screaming they all stopped to look. They saw people running in a panic, and then the cause of their distress flew over the fence and onto the field.
It was a brown furred creature with dark striped running across its back. Its shape gave off an appearance of an ape with its large broad shoulders and long arms, but its legs were double jointed like a cat. The head of the creature further added to the bizarreness as he had the head of a tiger.
The creature quickly looked at them and charged. It moved on all fours, but not on its knuckles like the ape frame would suggest, it ran on it clawed hands. Nearly every girl on the squad screamed or fled in terror.
A fierce determined look came to Kim's face as she stared down the creature. Kim was scared, no doubt, but she was angry as well. She was angry that it took her friend away from her, angry that it had the nerve to show itself in front of a crowd of spectators, angry that it would hurt again. She wouldn't let it happen again.
Kim stood her ground, taking a stance ready to strike at it, but it changed course and avoided her completely. She quickly turned to follow it. It was heading for Josh avoiding anyone else in the way. Kim quickly leapt into action, performing flips and somersaults allowing to her to somehow catching up to the beast. She managed to land on its back before kicking herself off sending it diving into the ground.
The monster stumbled forward falling on Josh as it did. The mascot headpiece flew off as he landed on the ground. The creature was up first and hesitated when it looked down as its intended victim.
"Mon-key," it uttered by syllable before raising an arm to strike. Before it could bring its arm down an uncanny force erupted sudden on it as Kim came with a flying kick sending it flying over Josh further down the sideline.
"Josh, are you ok?" asked Kim as she helped him to his feet.
"Nothing's broken," he replied just before Kim shoved him away as the creature came back swinging at her.
Kim dodged and weaved using her athletic talent to avoid any strike the creature was delivering. An opportunity opened up as the creature made itself wide open for a strike. A brimming force enveloped her foot just before she back flipped, kicking the creature in the jaw. The force dissipated on impact, sending the creature up and away a few feet.
She continued to flip backward getting some distance away from the monster. When she looked back at it, it was slowly getting back up. She looked around for something that could help her. She found her backpack not more than a jump away as she sat on a bench.
The creature was up and all its focus was on Kim. For Kim this was a good and bad thing; good that it won't be able to hurt anyone else, bad because it wanted to hurt her. There was not time for Kim to elaborate her thought any further as the monster charged her.
Kim leapt away just as the creature pounced at her. The creature's claws swirled carving into the ground as changing its direction to follow Kim. Kim managed to springboard herself by her hands off the bench and over to the high up stand railings. She was about to maneuver her body to when she landed on the rails she was facing the field, from there she launched herself back toward the benches. The creature managed to reach the railings just she leapt back. Kim made sure to grab her backpack as she launched herself again from the benches to the field.
Kim began to quickly rummage through her backpack looking for Wade's new device. She had some time as the creature had to clear the distance she made in a few leaps, more than halfway past the width of the field. She found it but the creature was already on top on her. Kim leaped straight up into the air just as the creature lunged at her. She managed to clear it a few feet allowing to her to somersault before kicking off of its back again sending it into the ground.
Kim pulled the metal orb from her bag and turned to see the creature. She readied herself for when the creature was up and still focused on her. It slowly got up and turned to her, when it did Kim threw the device. It did nothing more than bounce of the creatures head sending it into a roar and landing uselessly on the ground. The ball made a few odd sounds before erupting into to a mass of metal coils.
"Great perfect time for one of your gadgets to fail, Wade," cursed Kim as she took another battle stance.
The creature gazed at Kim attempting to stare her down. Kim returned the gaze unwilling to back down. Suddenly, both of their attentions were taken away as they both heard a mass cry. Both turn to see that most of the football players were rushing the creature. Within moments two teams of two hundred plus pounds of players had piled on the beast.
Meanwhile at the sidelines, Bonnie struggled forcing herself to move away from the chaos. When the creature first came she became terrified. She bolted into whenever direction her body happened to be facing, unfortunately it put her right into the stands that rested about four feet above the field. She was too terrified to attempt to climb. She cowered into a ball trying to shut out the madness. The moment she put her hands up to her head to sever he senses to the world she felt something different. She instantly knew what it was as she looked at her hand and arm.
"No," her voice shuttered after seeing her arm. The skin on had grown thinker and darker. The increased thickness made it larger than normal, and it was hard, like a shell. Bonnie could feel the growth moving up her arm, but what frightened her even more was that she felt it starting in her other arm.
Frightened for her life, frighten from exposure, Bonnie desperately sought out something, anything that help. She managed to spot a jacket, team jacket from one of the players. She didn't hesitate for it but she was still in shock from the creature. When she grabbed it she fussed around trying to put it on.
Bonnie managed enough courage to look around. Kim managed to lure the beast out to the field. The stands were empty, but there were some still trying to escape, while some stayed to watch. But everyone's attention was focused on the creature in the middle of the field. At this point Bonnie decided that it was time to get away and hope no one saw her.
The mound of football players suddenly flew every which direction as the creature burst out from under them. A few managed to stay on the beast, but it quickly dispatched them. Just as it has removed the last player Kim shown up right in front of it and unleashed a spray to its face. It reared back letting out a feral roar while clutching its face.
"Get out of her now," shouted Kim as she turned to the other players. Most of them didn't hesitate to leave, but some paused no sure of what to do.
"Watch out," shouted one of the players.
The warning came too late as the creature's arm swung striking Kim in the face with the back of its hand. Kim was laid out on the grass stunned and dazed. The creature itself had little vision after what Kim had done to it but it could still see things. Its sense of smell was completely gone, but its hearing was still good and it followed the sound of her voice. With it limited vision it followed the purple and red blur.
Kim slowly managed to sit her self up, but before she knew it a large had wrapped itself around the circumference on her neck and tightened enough to hold a grip. Kim thought if it gripped any tighter her head would pop off. Her hands instantly grabbed its hand in an attempt to releases its grip, but to no avail.
The creature lifted Kim off her feet and pulled her close its face. It was wary; its major senses were incapacitated. Its opponent very strong, it could feel it. The anger and the hate it could feel from the person in its grasp, but most of all it could feel a sense of fear as she struggled. It began to tighten its grip but a something within the recesses of it mind bore out.
"Let me go," grunted Kim just before thrusting both legs into the creature. A powerful force was unleashed at impact, throwing the beast away. Unfortunately its grip was still tight on Kim and she went flying with it. The beast hit the ground first causing it to release its grip allowing Kim to fall away from it.
Kim was in a dazed when she regained consciousness. Her head throbbed from within causing her to moan. Just then Kim heard a gruff sound, and then remembered what was happening. When she looked she saw the creature looming over her staring.
Then just as its hand lifted off the ground a roar was heard. Neither one had time to look just before a man bear tackled the beast. They rolled on the ground for a few moments before the man was kicked off. Both quickly took up position, the beast lurched over it hands, while the man took a low stance with his arms fanned out from his body. For a moment Kim could see that the man was holding metal weapons in his hands.
The creature looked at the man, its vision still blurry from the spray, but it could tell someone was there. He could also sense him, a controlled rage and no fear. This new opponent was strong and it was weakened by the spray. It would be a fight it couldn't win. So it turned and ran.
The man quickly followed, his weapons mysteriously disappearing. He was no match for the beast speed, but he still followed.
Kim also followed, moving as fast she could. As she closed in on it she pulled out Wade's pen from her uniform skirt. She was only about to put it there when the football players dog piled the creature. She stopped and took aim. She hopped and prayed that she could tag the beast before it got away. From what she could tell after firing the tracking device she made her mark.
Kim dropped the pen device from her hand just before she collapsed to her knees. Her head was spinning and ached with soreness. She hadn't felt like this in a long time. No cold or flu had ever made her feel this way before. It never made her feel so drained.
It suddenly began to rain. It first came down light, but quickly picked and became a downpour. Kim felt too weak to get out of the weather, so she sat there with her eyes closed and thought about the situation. Ron, Jeff, and Josh, why them? What connection did they have? They all attend Middleton High. That doesn't help; the next victim could be anyone in the school. The creature itself looked like a genetically engineered thing, but DNAmy didn't create it. Just then Kim opened her eyes; someone else has encountered the creature before, someone who could shed some light on the creature.
Her brow lowered as she fought the throbbing ache in her head and the dizziness she felt. She stumbled a few time before reaching her backpack, and pulling out the Kimmunicator.
"Wade…"
Elsewhere Destiny and Whisper stood just outside the playing field. Most of the patrons have long since evacuated when the creature attack. Under the cover of an umbrella the watched as Logan chased after the feral form of Ron.
"You know we look a little silly under this um…" whisper was cut short as he heard the patter of rain drops hitting the umbrella. He turned and gave her a gaze of slight disgust. "You know, some people might think you are showing off."
Destiny only smiled at his remark. "Follow the boy."
"I can't move that well in the rain."
"The weather man said it would be on and off rain for the rest of the day."
"The weather man is hardly ever right about the weather."
"Years ago yes, during our time, but technology has advanced enough to where they are quite accurate."
"What about the bloodhound?"
"Do not worry about him. The rain will hinder him as much as it will hinder you, but you have the advantage when it stops."
Whisper sighed as he looked out into the rain.
"Is there something the matter?" she asked
"Me and the rain don't go well together."
"I could provide you with some clean closes later."
"I'm not a charity case."
"Call it a payment of services."
Whisper chuckled for a moment. It had been years when he first met Destiny and she told him about pair of young kids who would do great things. As hard to believe as it sounded he gave her the benefit of the doubt. He would peek on them once in a while, through the years and many grades of school. He always watched and never interacted them, until now.
"I'd never expected a couple of preschoolers to have such an impact on the world." With that Whisper barreled out into the rain.
"They will have a bigger impact than you can imagine Will," said Destiny long after he was out earshot. "More than you can imagine."
AN: Ok you're all probably wondering about Bonnie right now. I have left some subtle hints in previous chapters that is is a mutant. You're also thinking, she knows about her powers, you said they wouldn't be aware of them. Yes, I did say that in the first chapter, but i decided to twist things up a bit.
originally I wasn't going to make Bonnie a mutant just keep Kim and Ron, but Doug4422 and his/her fic "Mutants Among Us" made me change that. I decide that she would be aware of her powers, but my challenge was to give something she wouldn't want to use openly, or able to use under the cloak of deception. This openly eliminated any metal abilities (telepathy and telekinesis), elemental powers(mastery of fire, ice, electricity, etc), enhance attributes(super strength, speed, etc), or others. One would could imagine what she would be capable of she did have powers like those.
It was a tough one to come up with, but it came down to her powers physically changing her appearance. Originally I was going to make her turn into some form of ambient energy, but it would be too complicated in describing her over all abilities in that state. The only other thing that came to mind was armor, something like Colossus. So she had the ability to grow a hard shell carapace. Further details on her powers will be described later.