Jason Brent looked deep into the night sky. In his mind he played back the events of the evening. He wasn't sure what to make of it. He knew Kim and Ron did those things on a regular basis, but he wasn't them, and for him this had been perhaps the most wild ride of his life. Jason lay on his bed, and rotated his head so that he was now looking at the ceiling. He thought about how that never would have happened had he not moved to Middleton, how Shego would maybe have kicked his butt had he not been in prison. So many things raced across his mind he couldn't sleep.
Time went on, and the weekend passed. Jason was a little excited to see Ron and Kim that day at school. Ron had already left with Kim and he would have to catch up with them.
Jason opened the door to the school and walked inside. Bonnie waved to him and ran over, "I heard you did one of those missions with Kim and her loser friend Ron." Jason raised an eyebrow at Bonnie and said, "Loser..?" Bonnie said, "Yeah, Stoppable, messy hair, has a rat in his pocket...Loooser." Jason tilted his head and cracked a smile and said, "Bonnie, first, Rufus is a Naked Mole Rat, and Ron isn't a Loser." "They've gotten to you..." she said. "I can undo that." she smirked and grabbed his arm. Jason politely took her hands off his arm and said, "No thanks Bonnie. I let them get to me, there isn't anything to be undone." She looked at him and sighed, "Sad..." She threw her hair back and said, "See ya Jason," as she walked off.
"Heh..." Jason mumbled to himself as he walked over to his classroom. Ah Math, what a way to start the day. He slept through it of course. After a few hours Jason found Kim and Ron at lunch, or rather, they found him. Jason was sitting there eating a cheeseburger as a lunch tray plopped down on both sides of him. Ron and Kim sat down. "Jason, dude, how's it going!" asked Ron as Rufus ran up to Jason and climbed up onto his head. "Little dude likes you man." said Ron as Rufus made himself at home. "So I noticed..." grinned Jason. "We heard what you did in Antarctica, that's amazing!" said Kim. "We were still dealing with Drakken when you got done with Shego." she said. "Really? I thought you would have wrapped that up pretty fast." Jason said smiling. "It was the cold weather," snickered Ron.
Jason ate some of his burger and asked, "So you think I can go with you guys next time?" "Don't see why not Jasemeister!" said Ron as he smacked Jason's shoulder. "Yeah, I don't see why not," Kim threw in. "After the way you've shown you can handle yourself we might as well just make you part of the team," she continued. Ron and Rufus looked at KP, eyes wide. "Something wrong Ron?" she asked them. "KP, THIS is a moment for celebration." Ron climbed up onto the table, and said, "ATTENTION! I SAID ATTENTION! E'LLOOOO!" Everyone turned around to look at him, and Kim lowered her head in embarrassment. "As of now, Team Possible now has a new member! Jason Brent!" Ron shouted. Though rather than cheering, there was laughter and finger pointing. Jason rolled his eyes, and looked at Kim who was beet red. "Thanks Ron..." he said, "But you've made Kim feel a bit...awkward." Ron said, "Noted my good man."
Ron jumped off the table and sat next to Kim. "KP, Kim, you look radiant today, you know that?" Her face changed color, from beet red to a lighter red, from embarrassed red to all lovey dovey red. "Good job Ron." said Jason, along with Rufus who thew in an "Ho Ho...love." Just then the Kimmunicator beeped. "What's the sitch?" said Ron as he took the Kimmunicator out of Kim's pocket. "Eh...Hi Ron, where's Kim?" asked Wade. "I know I know..." said Ron. Ron put his hand over the Kimmunicator to whisper, "she's a little red and out of it," Ron said. "RON!" she said grabbing the Kimmunicator. "What's up Wade?" she asked. "Heard you got a new member," said Wade. "Hey Wade," called Jason from a chair away. "Hey Jason! Glad to hear your part of the team." said Wade.
"You only call to congratulate him Wade?" asked Kim. "Anything wrong with that?" asked Wade. "Just double checking," responded Kim. "Hold on, my cop channel Radio just went off...," began Wade, "Oh no, Jason get home NOW!..."
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Jason Brent arrived home, cops were everywhere, and an ambulance was on the scene as well. Ron and Kim had come with him. Ron's parents were being attended to by EMT's as well as Kim's mother who had been home that day. Jason walked and looked around. His appartment was a complete mess. Though the Stoppable home was virtually fine. It clicked, though he had been worried. His mother...
"Officer! My Mom?" he asked Officer Hobble. "Calm down son, we'll find her..." he said. "Jason!" called Kim, "It's Wade!" Jason took the Kimmunicator. "Jason, I've scanned all police radio channels, they can't find here. Just stay calm for now," was what Wade had to say. All the lights in Jason's appartment were broken. He walked inside and stood in the living room. The moonlight poored into the living room and dark shadows filled the corners. A small animal dashed across the room and ran up the wall, and stood in the Window. His small shadow became gigantic with the help of the night's own light. The shadow fell on Jason, and he saw the animal he had seen in his dream. "A ferret..." said Jason.Ron and Kim saw the ferret as it scattered off. "Cool, a Ferret!" said Ron as he and Kim walked over to Jason. "Reminds me of when I was the Fearless Ferret...," said Ron. "Say what?" said Jason as he turned his head to his friend. "Yeah, was earlier this year."
Jason listened as Ron told his tale of his short week or so as the Fearless Terror that skulked the night. Jason soaked it in too. Kim thought it was good that Jason was keeping his mind of the things going on around him. But he was doing more than that. "So where does this Timothy North live?" asked Jason. "Ah he lives..." said Ron as he gave Jason the address. Ron looked down to think for a moment. "But I doubt he's...home..." said Ron, his sentence broken. Jason, who had been there only a second ago was gone, and all Ron had done was lower his eyes, and his gaze. But if had been enough.
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Jason ran down the long road to the mansion of Timothy North. It didn't take him too long to get there. But much to his dismay, the fence was chained. Not only that, the grass was very long, the yard was unkempt. Timothy North had moved. Jason sighed, but as he was fixing to leave something caught his attention. The moonlight shone over the top of the mansion, and in the direct line of the moon he could have sword he saw the shape of a ferret. He decided to check the place out.
It took little effort to get over the fence, and even less effort to pick the lock. Jason walked into the large room that served as the entrance to the mansion. It was completely dark inside, except where the moonlight shone in threw the windows. Jason heard a TACK TACK...on the window, which quickly became a TACK TACK TACK TACK TACK as rain began to poor hard. Thunder and lighting pierced the night sky, momentarily lighting up the mansion at various instances. Jason walked the hallways, the only sounds coming from outside. Jason made his way to the large library where Ron and Rufus had first discovered the entrance to the Ferret Hole. The trigger button was right where they had found it. Jason smacked back the statue head, and pushed the button. He heard a Srshhhh sound as the wall slid out of place to reveal the slide poles.
Jason stood there at the entrance to the Ferret Hole, and raising his hand gripped the left most pole. He took a breath and slid down into the darkness. He couldn't see the ground so he slid down in a manner in which he wouldn't hurt himself. The power in the rest of the manor had been cut, and he figured it would be the same here. Much to his surprise though there was a small generator which he turned out. It didn't take much effort because it was right at the bottom of the poles, and when the lightning flashed enough light came down the hole briefly to see it. He made his way to a light switch and flicked it on. Lights connected to a cable turned on all the way down the Hole. "No..." said Jason quietly to himself. The Hole was empty, nothing there except for the lights on the ceiling. "I guess the cops confiscated everything..." said Jason. He was about the climb the pole, but something urged him to say, something called to him. Jason let go of the pole and began to walk the empty Ferret hole.
Not far down the Hole he just stood there. He wasn't sure what he was doing, or even where it was he was going. In the corner of his eye he detected movement. Jason whipped his head around ready to strike at whatever was there. All he saw was a small animal run down a small cavric opening in the wall. The Hole was bigger than he thought. Jason made his way to the opening and stepped though it. As he went further in, all light diminished, and he was once again in the thick of darkness. He walked for what seemed to take forever, but it was only a few minutes. Jason took his foot to step forward, but lost his balance when the ground he was expecting suddenly vanished. He fell and to his surprise hit a metal railing along a suspended walkway about a foot lower than he had been walking. He had narrowly missed the step down.
But something had changed, he could see the railing. Apparently this part of the hold had been set for the lights to turn on when motion was detected. The walkway had cave walls maybe two feet to each side of it, and it went down far enough to turn into dankness. Jason was grateful for the walkway when he noticed that. The cave walls were lined, just about the hight of where he was from the railing up, with metal plates, each of which had a single light on in the middle. Ahead of him was a small right turn. As he turned the corner, all he saw was the light of the walkway pouring into a very dark room. And right there was a Ferret, that looked like it was dieing. Jason walked as if to pick it up, but as he drew closer, it's like it's skin turned to dust and just blew away into the wind. But there was no breeze. As he walked up to where the Ferret had been, all he saw was a small skeleton of a rodent. He knew what it was.
Jason felt forward for a railing. The bar was cold like ice, as he touched it a chill ran through his entire body. Jason's eyes closed briefly from the chill. As he opened them he was looking down, and noticed something had changed. He could see the bottom. Jason looked to his right to notice he could see the rail leading to some stairs and down into the center of the cave. The lights were on.
Before Jason was a scene he had only dreamed of, something before now you'd only ever see in a comic book. The stairs led down maybe 40 feet or so into a giant opening. Metal railing was along every wall. A giant computer system was along the back wall which was in the process of booting. Left of the computer maybe 20 feet up on another platform were various vehicles, all fixed up and modified insanely. Like some kind of semi-futuristic sports military weaponry vehicles. There were about 4 motorcycles, a plane, a car, a tricycle, and a boat. Right of the computer there was a small opening in the wall, and right of the opening was what looked like a science lab. About 14 feet about that on another platform was a training center, built for all kinds of training from martial arts to acrobatic to you name it. These platforms were GIGANTIC in size to say the least. Jason looked around it awe. As he looked at his surroundings, his eyes were drawn to the doorway just right of the computer. As he walked into it, the lights came on and led down a long corridor. On his right and left were lights like in the first walkway.
The corridor led to another room, and there before his on a circular clothes rail was what he had come looking for. The uniform of the Fearless Ferret. Uniform after uniform after uniform. To his left there was another platform with what appeared to be a female version of the costume, and to his right there was a very small sized costume, Wonder Weasel most likely. Jason put his hand on one of the Fearless Ferret uniforms. It was cold to the touch, as he expected. The entire cave was rather chilly. Jason to the hanger and the uniform off the railing. Behind him was a small changing area, although since he was alone he just changed where he was. The Ferret costume was a near perfect fit. Slightly big, but after a survey of the suit he discovered a small switch that adjusted the suit to fit the wearer. Now it was a perfect fit.
Jason looked around him, still not wearing the mask. He looked at himself, then back at his clothes on the ground. He had been wearing a gray hooded t-shirt. Jason tore the sleeves off the shirt, and slipped it over his costume. "That's better..." he said looking at himself again. The suit was somewhat lacking in style, though he figured this would do.
Jason lifted his head to look at on of the masks on one of the costumes still hanging up. It was like IT had brought him here. Jason reached behind his head and grabbed the mask that hung behind the costume he was wearing. He pulled it up, slipping it over his head. It was so cold, yet it felt right, and something inside him lit like a fire. The mask had called him here, it needed him, he needed it, and tonight, the world would see something far beyond it's worst nightmares...in the form of a hero.
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Okay Ferret Fan's he found the costume. I know I could have had him go fight someone in this chapter, but I wanted to paint a picture of the new Ferret Hole/Cave into your minds. I wanted to try and make you all feel that this is Jason's role, the hero.
-Gen