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Eurotrip – Chapter 10
Kim watched Ron at the back of the plane, quietly stowing his gear away in the backpack that had been provided for them. She had been surprised at just what Global Justice had for them, considering the last minute notice of it all. Wade quickly explained though that, in case of emergency such as this, all GJ operated craft would have a standard compliment of their mission gear, just so there were no situation where they were caught unawares.
She checked through her pack carefully as well now, smiling as she found most of the essentials; laser lipstick, which had already come in handy once tonight, hairdryer grapple gun, high density mirror, everything a crime fighter on the go could need. She closed up her bag, and turned to see Ron still at the back. Rising to her feet, wincing slightly as her back still was a bit sore, she made her way to him.
She could hear him talking to Rufus, but couldn't make out what he was saying. Quickly, she bent down, kissing him on the cheek.
In an instant, he was on his feet, arms flailing as he clutched the bag in his hand and turned. "KP… wha… I mean…"
Kim looked at him with concern. "Are you okay Ron? I didn't mean to scare you like that."
Ron settled down quickly, stuffing whatever he had in his hand back into the bag and sealing it up. "Sorry Kim, it was just… I mean… those spider monkeys, they freaked me out!"
Kim nodded quickly in agreement. "Yeah, those were pretty sick and wrong, weren't they? And you know what that means."
Ron looked slightly puzzled. "Umm… they eat flies and bananas?"
Kim couldn't help herself. No matter how much she tried, she couldn't contain the laughter. "No silly, that Monkey Fist is working with DNAmy."
Ron considered that for a moment. "You mean they might still be together, even after all this time? That would mean that they're a real couple. That would mean they…" Ron's eyes glazed over for a moment, as an image flashed through his mind. His lips slowly curled and twisted into a look of disgust, and she could see him visibly shaking.
Kim grew very worried, laying a hand on his arm as gently as she could. "Ron, are you okay?"
"KP… there is… a VERY… VERY… bad image in my mind." Ron's hands shot to his temple, and he fell to the floor of the airplane. "Please Kim… make the images stop…"
Kim just shook her head, leaning down. "Are you done yet? It's can't be that bad."
Ron looked up, his eyes wide with fright. "Monkey Fist… and DNAmy… having sex!"
Kim looked a little disgusted, but just shook the image away. "Ron, seriously, it's not that bad. Sure, it's gorchy and wrong on so many levels, but…"
"Add a banana to the mix."
Now Kim looked down confused. "Ron, what does a banana have to do with…" Now Kim's lips curled up in disgust, and her hands actually became claws as she shuddered at the image. "That's just… EWWWWW… Ronald Dean Stoppable, that is the… I mean… EWWWW!"
"What did I tell you."
Kim headed back to her seat, pausing to shudder every few moments. "Ron, that is so not the image I needed just a few minutes from drop. And where did you come up with something like…" Kim paused, and whirled in her seat to glare at him. "Have you… I mean…"
Ron rose quickly, waving his hands in front of himself defensively. "Oh God no Kim, I would never… I mean, I just thought… they're both monkeys after all!"
"That better be all it is mister!"
Ron was never so happy to see the cockpit door open. "Two minutes to the jump coordinates your friend Wade gave us Miss Possible."
Kim nodded, and strapped on her pack, pausing to glance once more at Ron. She waited for Ron to struggle into his pack, and make sure that Rufus was secure, before she threw open the cargo bay door.
"Mission time Ron. And Ron… no more mental images… please?"
Ron nodded, pausing to shudder briefly, before following her out the bay door and out into the open air.
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Kim pulled off her helmet, letting her hair blow in the slight breeze. Even here, a full mile away from Victoria Falls, she could feel a touch of the spray, giving this area of the rain forest almost a surreal and peaceful quality, even if it was almost totally dark.
She glanced up when she heard branches crackling, just in time to avoid Ron as he fell almost on top of her, hanging suspended about two feet off the ground. He flailed briefly, before looking sheepishly at Kim. "A little help here?"
Kim smirked, before helping him out of the harness. "I don't know why you always have so much trouble."
Ron just looked up at the canopy, almost completely obscuring the sky. "I don't know why you don't. That's not exactly a lot of room to make a landing in, especially at night."
Kim just shrugged in response, handing Ron his gear, which he threw on quickly. "Wade says he thinks Monkey Fist's lair should be three hundred yards east of here."
"Why would Monkey Fist and DNAmy put their lair so close to the falls? You'd think they'd realize that this place is a tourist trap."
Kim just shook her head. "I don't know, maybe they wanted to be close to the shopping?"
"Actually, it was for the internet access, but that's neither here nor there."
Both teens whirled at the voice above them, staring up at the smiling visage of Monkey Fist, hanging deftly on a large branch fifteen feet above them. Both teens glanced around for his bizarre creations, but none made their presence known.
"Give it up Monkey Fist, we have you trapped!"
Monkey Fist just laughed. "My dear girl, do you really think that I didn't know you were coming? I expected it, after your little visit with me at the museum. I have prepared a little surprise for you… say hello to my OrANTutangs!"
Ron's face scrunched up in confusion. "Orantutangs?"
The ground beneath them heaved, and Ron quickly fell back. Kim managed to keep her balance, leaping clear as the ground beneath her seemed to boil and writhe. With a horrified gasp, Kim watched as the first head protruded from the ground.
The first orantutang broke through the ground in front of her, and it was all Kim could do not to panic at the sight. The body, about five feet long, clearly belonged to an orangutan, with its orange fur. Even the head was largely similar, but that was where the similarities ended. Sharp pincers replaced the mouth, and these gnashed at her, as it's six spindly legs propelled it towards her.
Kim could hear Monkey Fist laughing in the background. "Oh, this was worth the inconvenience of you interfering, seeing the fear in your eyes like this. When I heard of your reaction to that fool Yapsby and his giant insects, I knew I had the perfect way to stop the two of you… combining both your greatest fears into my ultimate minions!"
Kim dove to the side as the orantutang struck, and Kim saw another six rising from the clearing where they had landed. Kim's mind fought feverishly to try and find some way to defeat these monstrosities.
A smaller one dove at her, but she kicked it away, backing up against a nearby tree. Seven of them surrounded her, their mandibles clicking as they advanced on her. She looked about for Ron, but he was no where to be seen. Fear began to overwhelm her, and she huddled against the tree, vainly trying to fend them off.
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Ron hated leaving Kim like that, but he had an idea, and those happened so rarely that he just had to pursue it. Scrambling up the tree, with them all focused on Kim, he found what he was looking for; a vine capable of supporting both their weights. He took a moment to judge the distance, and was surprised how easily it came to him, as if instinct had taken over. With one last deep breath, he plunged off the branch, diving straight for Kim, who was completely surrounded now. He managed to kick one of the ant/ape things on his dive by, before quickly scooping Kim up in his arms and swinging past the danger.
He could hear Monkey Fist bellow in rage as he landed on a nearby branch, still holding tight to Kim. His eyes scanned around him, and he dove, snagging another vine with his one free hand. Quickly, almost automatically, the pair made their way through the jungle, leaving the screaming voice of Monkey Fist behind them.
For five minutes, Ron kept up the swinging with Kim holding tight to him, until finally he could go no more. Probably forty or fifty feet in the air, Ron slumped against the trunk of their final tree, gasping for breath.
Kim could only stare at him in amazement as she too collapsed beside him, the branch surprisingly wide enough for the pair to sit side by side. "Ron, how did you do that?"
Ron gave a half smile as he continued gasping. "Umm… me Tarzan, you Kim?"
Kim smacked him playfully. "Ron, I'm serious."
Ron just shrugged. "Mystical monkey power I guess, it comes and goes. Just, when that ground started moving, I could feel it, that need to get away. Don't even know how I did it really."
Kim smiled, and kissed him lightly on the cheek. "Well, if you can ever do that again, when it's not life and death, let me know. That was fun!"
Ron chuckled softly beside her. "Sure thing KP." Ron took one last, deep breath, before turning back to Kim. "Are you all right though? I mean, you looked pretty freaked about those orant-thingies."
Kim sighed, but smiled when Ron took her hand. "Yeah, I guess I'm not exactly over my bug issues yet. Pretty stupid, huh?"
Ron expression shifted, and Kim knew instantly it was his serious face. "Kim, it's never stupid when you're afraid of something. Everyone's afraid of something. He's just using that to get to you. You just have to face your fears, head-on."
Kim smiled lightly. "Do you think I can?"
"Of course you can, you're Kim Possible, you can do anything! Besides, you have your bon-diggidy boyfriend and best friend here to back you up, just like you always did for me." Ron grew thoughtful for a second. "Of course… there was Wannaweep… you thought that was a bit stupid… and there's the bugs… and monkeys… and…"
"Ron…" Kim almost growled back at him, until she saw the humour glinting in his eyes. She slapped him again, offended. "You're making fun of me, aren't you?"
Ron tried to give her his best innocent look. "What, me? I would never!"
Kim laughed, and he laughed with her, and Kim felt the tension leave her body. She hugged Ron tightly. "What would I ever do without you?"
He kissed her gently. "Ready to go show Monkey Fist a whole new world of hurt?"
"Most definitely!"
The pair started to rise when an ear-piercing shriek sounded right over their heads. They looked up in time to see a spider monkey not more than two feet above them, wailing away.
Kim launched a kick at it, smacking it off the tree, where it plummeted towards the ground. At the last second, it shot a web from its mouth, snagging a nearby branch and saving itself from hitting the ground. The move had come too late though, as the pair could see at least a half dozen more coming through the trees towards them, followed right behind by Monkey Fist.
Kim grabbed onto Ron tightly, looking up into his eyes. "Got any more of the mystical monkey mojo?"
"I sure hope so!"
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Ron's arms were aching as the pair ducked and dodged through the treetops. Pursuit followed them wherever they went, the spider monkeys proved to be surprisingly fast and agile, quickly making up ground on them. But when they did, Kim took them out as quickly as possible, batting them away before they could attack. Kim didn't seem as bothered by the spider monkeys as she was about the orantutangs, and that made Ron happy, because he REALLY didn't want to have to deal with them. Monkeys and apes, blended with insects, was so far beyond wrong in his opinion. And they weren't even close to cute, not like Roachie was.
He dove for another vine, grasping it quickly and swinging away, just in time to avoid another spider monkey that made a frantic dive at the pair. He laughed as he watched it plunge quickly downward and collapse twitching on the ground about ten feet below.
His laughter was short-lived though.
The pair suddenly found themselves in clear sky. Ron's eyes widened as he glanced down, and saw the ground about two hundred feet away, quickly taking in the enormous canyon spread out around them. He grasped tighter to Kim, as their swing reached it's peak, and looked up in time to see the malicious grin on Monkey Fist's face, as he stood in the tree line, holding fast to the vine that they were on.
Just as they started to swing back, Monkey Fist motioned to one of his nearby spider monkeys. With a single slash of it's powerful legs, it cut the vine at the base, and Ron felt the tension of the vine disappear almost instantly. He screamed.
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Kim reacted instantly though. Her hand reached to her side, grabbing her hair dryer quickly, and firing into the tree line, away from Monkey Fist. She felt Ron's grip on her shirt slightly, almost instinctively, to give her the grip she needed to swing them back. The edge of the cliff approached quickly, and Kim feared that they might not clear the edge and slam into the side. Even in the dark, she could see that many of those rocks were quite sharp.
She tucked her legs up, and felt Ron do the same, as they approached the cliff. Thankfully, they cleared it, but not by much, and they hit the ground hard. She lost her grip on Ron, thankful that their momentum was propelling them both forward, and rolled with the landing. She leapt to her feet quickly, looking for any movement, and hoping that Ron would be all right.
To her left came movement, and Kim reacted, leaping high and aiming her kick for the rustling. She felt a satisfying thud when her foot struck, and watched as the spider monkey flew through the air. Anouther rustle to the right, and she lashed out with a backhand that sent another of the monstrosities away from her.
Their small clearing on the edge of the cliff didn't provide too much room, and she knew it wasn't very defensible. They had to get away from there, but based on the rustling through the trees, knew that going through the jungle again would not be the way to go, not without a lot of fighting involved. She glanced at Ron, saw him picking himself up, and almost smiled as she noticed Rufus chittering loudly and brushing himself off.
Kim backed up to Ron, and the pair went almost back-to-back, facing into the jungle. Kim glanced briefly, when she saw a building not too far away along the Cliffside, a couple of lights making it easy to spot along the jagged cliff edge.
A quiet thud drew their attention, and Kim glared angrily as Monkey Fist landed gracefully at the jungle's edge, just out of range. His breath, like theirs, came in rapid gasps, but he still had enough breath to chuckle softly. "So the pretender fancies himself to be a challenge, does he? Too bad, that challenge ends now, I have you trapped."
"We can take out whatever you can throw at us banana breath. We'll stop you again, just like we always do." Kim smiled at the confidence in his voice.
"Foolish child, this ends now!" Monkey Fist's grin widened. "One thing you should remember… ants climb better than monkeys."
Kim was confused for a moment, until what he had said sunk in. Kim's eyes widened, and she turned quickly, just in time for the first orantutang to slam into her, driving her down to the ground.
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Ron barely had time to turn and see Kim go down before the first orantutang pounced his way. He ducked quickly, letting it sail over his head. Rufus was already moving, charging straight at the first spider monkey that popped its head free of the jungle canopy. He turned to Kim, but saw her already getting to her feet, the one that had hit her still struggling to turn itself over after being knocked away.
Monkey Fist was cackling now, as the teens were quickly surrounded. He glanced back at Kim, felt her back press against hers, and felt her hand quickly grasp his in a quick squeeze. That was all the reassurance he needed, as they both leapt away, jumping over the closest opponents to catch the ones to the back by surprise. Ron headed straight for Monkey Fist, his goal clear to him, intent on wiping the smile from his face.
That plan quickly went up in smoke, when a rather large form dropped in front of him, wrapping him tightly in thick, furry arms.
"No one hurts my Monty-kins!"
DNAmy quickly tossed Ron into the air, where he flailed. He tried grabbing for a branch, but they were just out of range, and he started to fall back to the ground. Before he could even scream though, he felt something snag him. Breathing a sigh of relief, he glanced up, expecting to see Kim. Unfortunately, that was definitely not who had him.
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Kim was tired, and more than a little freaked. The orantutangs kept coming and coming. No matter how many she knocked back, they kept coming. Sweat dripped into her eyes, stinging them, as she batted away another one that came too close.
A brief shout, silenced quickly, startled her, and she turned just in time to see Ron wrapped tightly in the webbing of several spider monkeys. She backhanded the nearest opponent, charging forward.
The charge didn't last though, as she was tackled from behind. Kim struggled, hoping to flip it off, but several of them moved in, pinning her tightly to the ground, making it hard for her to breath. Ron was lowered to the ground, and grabbed quickly by Monkey Fist. She watched him tuck something small in with the webbing, heard it chattering loudly, and knew Rufus had been captured as well. She could see Ron struggling mightily, but he couldn't break the mad mutant's grasp.
"I finally have the two of you where I want you. Kim Possible helpless… and now, the pretender and his vermin… gone forever from my life." Monkey Fist walked to the cliff edge, keeping his smile on Kim the whole time. "With you gone, I will be the true Monkey Master!"
Monkey Fist's laugh tore through Kim's heart, as he raised Ron over the edge of the cliff, and casually let him go. Kim felt her blood run cold as she saw the panicked look on Ron's face, disappearing over the cliff.
"ROOOONNNNNN!"
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Author's Notes – Now that's what I call a 'cliffie'! BWAHAHAHAHA!