KP - All Grown Up?
AN: I got this idea after hearing Drakken say "My Teenage Foe" once too many times on the music CD. I wondered what he would say if they weren't teens? This is that story, with a twist.
Chapter 12: Team Stoppable and Mom
(Drakken's Lair)
Kim watched as they snuck through the lair and she thought something was wrong. They should have encountered some kind of security by now unless Drakken was getting really sloppy and even if he was, Shego wouldn't be so sloppy. She knew that it could only mean that they were walking into a trap. She softly says to Jesse as he was the most close one to her, "Jesse, we should have encountered resistance long before now. This has got to be a trap."
Jesse looks at Kim and says, "I was thinking the same thing. Any ideas what kind of trap Drakken and Shego would set in this time era?"
Kim thinks about what she knows about them before she says, "No clue, they are usually pretty clever with their traps."
Just then a voice says, "Why thank you, I'll have to remember that right before I toss you in the same jail cell as your sidekick..." The voice belonged to none other than Shego as she steps out of a shadow.
The three teens immediately shift form towards the threat of Shego. Every one there was fully aware that Shego was the most toughest and dangerous fighter in Drakken's employ.
Shego grins in a sly way, "Don't worry, I may be evil but even I wouldn't pick a fight with a heavily pregnant woman. Just come along kids and I promise not to hurt you too much when I chain you to the wall beside Kimmie's sidekick."
Shego didn't really want to fight them as she took the least sinister pose that she could make while still looking tough, she did have a reputation to maintain after all.
CS says, "Where is our father? Where have you taken him?" with the twin in the back joining in as she says, "You better not have hurt him!" The hard stare coming from her made Shego have no doubt as to the kind of payback she would exact if her father was hurt.
Shego says, "He's ok, he was sleeping on the wall the last time I saw him. Now you can come with me with or without a fight, either way is fine." She sneers, as a part of her really did want to fight now after the way the twins challenged her and she loved challenges.
Kim frowns as she wondered why Shego wasn't attacking, this was actually kind of... nice for Shego. She notices that Jesse was standing very close to her, with his guard up. She realizes that she was also in a guarded pose as well which she had slipped into without even realizing it.
Shego says, "Now who are you kids and are you really the buffoon's kids?"
The girl in the back with short hair says, "That's our father that you're calling a buffoon!" She starts to take a few steps forward when she stops as soon as CS says, "Mindy! Stop! You're going right into walk right into what she wants! She is going to make us break formation and pick us off one by one! Do you want to really do that?" To emphasize her words, she directs her twin's eyes to Kim.
Mindy sighs and steps back into position before she says, "You're just lucky Shego or I'd kick your ass all the way to our father's cell!"
Shego grins, as she sees that Mindy is a bit of a hot head and those are always a weak link in any team. She just had to provide the right kind of bait to make her leave her position.
Shego says, "Of course, the reason your "father" was it? He is sleeping because we had a little fight when we was...hmm... uncooperative. But after a short fight and a few good blows, he was out like a light."
The twins both start to make a low, building in volume growling kind of sound while Jesse frowns and looks darkly at Shego. Even Kim looked angrily at her arch-foe Shego who merely looked back at the four of them with a confident, yet evil smile.
Mindy is the first to move, running forward quickly and when she catches up to her twin's position, CS moves just as quickly and in sync with her sister. Jesse stays behind and watches, not surprised at the way they moved as if they were one. Having sparred against the two of them often enough Jesse knew what they were fully capable of.
Shego was not surprised to see Mindy move first but what did surprise her was how in sync, and without any prior prompting the two teens were.
Jesse softly whispers, "While they fight, lets go find your husband Mrs. Stoppable..." Knowing that Kim would hear since he was the one with the Kimmunicator.
Kim whispers back, "Ok... but are you sure they'll be ok? They're fighting Shego."
Jesse whispers back, "Yeah, they'll be ok... when they fight in sync like that, they're tough and when they're angry, they're even tougher to beat." He then sneaks quietly as Shego finds her hands full trying to fight CS and Mindy Stoppable with their weird style of fighting and what made it worse for her was that they were using some of the moves Kim and Ron had used all the time.
Kim looked at the way her two daughters were moving so smoothly against Shego, with one taking the high and the other taking the low without even seemingly taking a cue from the other to do it. She was a bit impressed that they had such skill as she watched but she also knew she couldn't stay around for long, she had to go find Ron before Drakken sent any guards down to help Shego.
Shego was enjoying herself, she thought she wasn't going to find a challenge after seeing Kim Possible as pregnant as she was. She was glad to find that she was wrong because these twins of hers were moving as if they were one person with four arms and legs.
Shego was aware of Kim and the guy sneaking off to probably go find Ron. She also knew that Drakken wouldn't even be sending any guards to stop them because he would be too busy watching her fight with the twins. She was going to enjoy the fight and give Drakken something to really watch!
Shego blocked Mindy's high kick while blocking the others punch to her stomach with her other hand before she dived down and did a low foot sweep. She was pleased to see them not only jump, but flip backwards in an obvious cheerleader move to jump out of any further moves that Shego could have made before they did a handspring off their hands.
Shego had not even once lit up her hands in all the fighting and it wasn't because they had both attacked her so quickly because she could turn on and off her powers in a moment's notice. Still, with the way they were attacking, she knew that she couldn't afford to keep fighting fair or Drakken would notice that something is up.
Shego grins and says, "You two are really good, I can see that you've been trained by your mother." She then ignites her plasma powers and says, "Where did you learn some of your other moves? From a dumb monkey?" She hoped that would make them get angry and slip up.
Mindy growls, "Our father taught us those moves!" She looked so angrily at Shego that anyone would have thought she would be firing lasers from her eyes.
Mindy starts to glow a little and CS says, "Mindy! No! You remember what he said!"
Shego wondered what was going on as she watches the girl's short hair start to stand up and wave in spot as if she was standing under a big fan. Even her clothes started to flap a little as she starts to glow all over her body in a blue light.
Mindy says, "I don't care Cindy! I'm going to make her eat those words!" She continues to glow more brightly with even the color of her skin turning to a shade just shy of Drakken's.
Shego was no fool, she knew that Mindy was powering up for some sort of powerful attack and so she raises her hands to aim at Mindy when Cindy suddenly attacks, causing her to leap back to avoid a kick to the head.
Cindy continued to press her attack while Mindy continued to glow but on her face was a sign of frustration. She knew that her sister wouldn't use the monkey power that was the same as their father's as long as she was in the way and hoped that she would power down instead of waiting for an opening.
Shego saw that the attacks were strong but she wasn't pressing to get through, only doing just enough to keep the fight a tie. She guessed that Cindy was trying to keep her sister from using whatever that blue power was against her. So she kept up what Cindy was doing, not pressing for any advantage either and watched Mindy out of the corner of her eye.
Mindy's frustration won out and she charges forward to join her sister in the attack, still charged up so she remained glowing and blue, and as such, her attack style was geared more towards the monkey kung fu since it felt so natural for her to use the style.
Shego's hands were still lit up as Miss Blue as she jokingly thought of her as, joined in on the fight. At that point, Shego decided to press her advantage. She does a short hop back to give her a little space to work with. She sends a blast from her hands right at the twins...
(Elsewhere)
Jesse and the holographic Kim made their way quietly through the corridors and even as far as they had gotten, they could hear the sounds of battle still. Kim softly says, "Are you sure they'll be ok?" with Jesse nodding even though he didn't want to admit it, he was very worried for them as well.
He had been a partner with the twins for as long as they'd been adventuring around the world. However, even the three of them knew about Shego's fighting skills and he had to hope that Kim and Ron had trained them well enough to be able to deal with her.
They come across a door that had a green plasma claw-like scratch on the outside, which clearly meant that Shego had done it as no one else in Drakken's employ had green plasma powers. The two of them look curiously at each other before they approached it.
The door is discovered as locked but when Kim says loudly, "Ron? Are you in there?" A muffled voice responds, "KP? Is that you?" The voice could have only come from Ron and the two smile, as they'd found Ron!
The biggest obstacle was that there was no way to get in as the green slash had destroyed the controls, which they could have used to get in. Kim sadly says, "No... We've come so far, I can't believe a stupid door is the only thing standing in our way!"
Jesse stares at the door, hard in thought for a few moments before he starts to check the destroyed panel for a way to jury-rig an override.
Kim says, "I wish I could get through the door and see him..." which makes Jesse stop and say, "You can, you're a hologram remember? You should be able to go through the wall just like a ghost. You just won't be able to interact with anything any further than 3 feet through the wall though."
Kim smiles and says, "Thanks Jesse!" before she slowly steps through the door and sees Ron on the far side of the wall all latched up to it.
Ron and Kim cry out at nearly the same time, "Ron! Kim!" with Ron struggling but having no more luck than before in escaping while Kim runs up to him until she stops in front of him.
Kim says, "Ron, are you ok? Are you hurt?"
Ron looks at Kim and says, "I'm ok Kim, but what are you doing here? You're pregnant! You shouldn't be taking this kind of risk with the baby, not for me!"
Kim shakes her head and says, "Ron you silly, you're my best friend, partner and..." She holds up her hand to show him the wedding ring with her other hand upon her belly before she finishes by saying, "Husband and father to our children." Her eyes show such happiness and pride at her words to him.
Ron didn't know what to say at first even as her words brought him a lot of joy, after a few moments he says, "But Kim... if something had happened to you... and our baby... I wouldn't have been able to forgive myself."
Kim smiles softly as she says, "Ron... that's so sweet of you to say, but I'm a big girl. I can take care of myself. Besides there was no way I was going to leave you in the clutches of Drakken and Shego."
A knock on the door says, "Mrs. Stoppable, how does he look? Is he ok?" Ron looks puzzled, as he doesn't recognize the voice.
Kim turns and shouts, "He's fine, but he's chained to the wall! Can you get through yet?"
Jesse shouts through the door, "No, the circuits are too badly damaged for me to do anything with them! I just had an idea! Can you come back to the door?"
Kim says to Ron, "I'll be right back honey, I promise." With Ron nodding and softly saying as she walks back towards the door, "I am not going anywhere."
Kim walks up to the outside of the door and says, "What is it Jesse? What do you need?"
Jesse says, "Is the control panel on your side still ok?"
Kim looks and sees that it is just fine. She then says, "Yes, it is ok."
Jesse says, "Good, then do you think you could unlock the door from your side?"
Kim looks puzzled and says, "But I'm a hologram! How can I do anything?"
Jesse says, "As long as you're about 3 feet from me, you should still be able to press buttons and stuff just as well as if you were really here."
Kim moves her hand to the control and sees that the code is still in it so all she has to do is press the largest button which was the unlock/open button. She pushes at the button with her holographic thumb, which in the real world, she could feel as well, but it felt weird to her. The button makes a beep before it changes from a red light to a green light.
The door opens with a low "Swish" sound and reveals a smiling Jesse standing on the other side. He says, "Now that's one way to get through a locked door, get a hologram to do it for you!" before he laughs.
The two of them run to the wall where Ron was still chained up and upon seeing Jesse, he says, "Kim? Who's he?"
Kim says, "This is Jesse, he is our teenage daughter's crime fighting partner." As if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Ron's eyes bulge out and he says, "Our daughter's partner?" He then looks carefully at the young teen as Kim hits the control to free him.
Jesse smiles and says, "It is good to see you, Sir. Your two daughters and I were afraid that you'd been hurt by Drakken or Shego. He then turns to Kim and says, "Let's go, we've got to go get the girls before we can escape this place."
Ron was rubbing his wrists for a few moments before he looks at Kim, hoping for some kind of explanation. She looks back at Ron and says, "I'll explain everything later Ron, we've got to go now."
The three of head out of the room and they head towards the room where the girls had last been. The sounds of fighting were absent and both Kim and Jesse were wondering if the battle was over and most importantly, who won?
Ron was still wondering what was going on how he now had some teenage daughters who traveled with a teenage boy? He wasn't sure what to do as he looked at Jesse but his instincts told him that he was a good guy. Plus Kim seemed to know the situation a lot better than he did and she wasn't bothered at all.
He thought, "Well, I guess if our parents didn't have a problem with Kim and I fighting all over the world, why should we?" Still, the shock of it all still made him a bit over protective of his girls in a fatherly way and he wondered if he was really of any help.
Ron says, "Hey... um, Jesse? Where are the girls? Why aren't they with you two?"
Kim and Jesse give each other a look and Ron knew by the look it was news he probably wasn't going to like when it dawned on him. "Shego! You left them to fight Shego!"
Before Kim and Jesse could say anything in response, Ron takes off running towards the way they'd been going.
Jesse takes off with Kim right beside him until they reach the end of the corridor that lead into the room where Kim and Jesse had left the three of them before they come to a stop. They couldn't believe their eyes at what they saw!
AN: Well everyone, I'm sure you're all just super-curious as to what happened! LOL! Oh, and next chapter will be labeled 14 as I dislike that number between 12 and 14, so sue me.What did you all think of the way I used Kim's holo-form to rescue Ron? Ron was fooled by the early holo technology in a episode, so it stands to reason he'd be fooled by the latest stuff. Any ideas what you think they saw when they got there? I'm leaving that as a surprise until NEXT chapter but I can bet a few of you already have ideas on what to expect. I will tell you this though, for the next 3 chapters I have planned some good, tender moments and some disturbing, bad news as well for Kim and Ron. Just curious though... Do you all like Kim's children and her future marriage to Ron? The answer to this question just might impact on future chapters and if there's a sequel.
To one of my reviewers, as you can see Shego didn't try to start a fight right away but the teens made it so easy for her. For those of you who have never been around twins, they can sometimes be in 'sync' in a weird kind of way so it is possible to even enter a fight in sync. Mindy is a bit of a hot head, action first and then thinking while her twin, Cindy is the reverse. In case none of you remember, Mindy's powering up look was shown when Ron tapped into the monkey power in an episode and again in the GBA's KP 3 game. The warning that CS mentioned was from their father Ron and as to the nature of the warning... well, that's for another time. I'm sure you're all wondering if CS or any of the other kids also gained monkey powers. EVIL GRIN! You'll have to find that out another time... I'm sure as rain not going to reveal that at this point!