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 17: Perchance to Dream...

(Drakken's Lair)

Drakken says to Shego, "Remember, when they arrive we are not to fight them. We are under a flag of truce until tomorrow as agreed."

Shego looks at Drakken and says, "Yeah, yeah, I know Dr. D. You don't have to remind me."

The sound of a doorbell goes off, finishing whatever else the two might have to say and Drakken walks up to the door where he presses a big button that opens the door to reveal Cindy and Mindy with Kim and Ron behind them as well as her Parents and two little kids that Drakken and Shego had never seen before.

Drakken says, "Welcome Kim Possible and everyone, I know that we are under a flag of truce but I didn't expect such a large party to come walking through my doors."

Cindy and Mindy see Shego and they give her a hard glare to which Shego shrugs off and she says, "Don't worry kiddies, I won't try anything. I already promised Dr. D. like a dozen times not to start any fights." This didn't seem to relax the two teens any until Jesse puts his hands on their shoulders since he was directly behind them and when they look back he gives them a soft nod. They both seem to relax some but not completely as they walk through Drakken's door.

Mr. Possible says, "I know Drew but with the health and future of our daughter at stake, we decided that we should all come."

Drakken looks confused, "What do you mean by the future? It looks like she is going to have a good one to me."

Mr. Possible says, "You mean you're doing all this without knowing?"

Drakken says as he gets irritated, "What are you talking about? The adult Kim and adult sidekick are even more of a headache than the teenage version. I just want to restore things back to the way they were!"

Mr. Possible and Mrs. Possible give each other a questioning look, wondering if they should tell Drakken or not.

Connie looks around the lair and she runs up to Drakken after a few moments with Ronnie following after her. She stops at his feet and says, "You're as blue as when they use monkey power... but where's your glow?"

Drakken looks down at the little red haired girl and points, "Who's this? What's she babbling about?"

Ronnie tries to drag her away but she seems rooted to the spot, waiting for her answer until Jesse walks up and says, "This is Connie and the little boy is Ronnie, the youngest born children of Mrs. Stoppable. What she is talking about is the power that Monkey Fist in your time has."

Drakken seems to gain an understanding before he says in surprise, "Kim Possible has MORE children!" He then looks at the pregnant Kim and says to her, "You and the buffoon sure are busy in the future!" This makes Kim and Ron blush bright red on the spot while Mindy starts to growl before Shego says, "Dr. D. for your health, I wouldn't go calling him any names if I were you." as she remembers how good of a fighter the two girls were when they'd gone up against her.

Drakken turns to look at Shego and follows her eyes to Mindy who looks absolutely furious at his calling her father a buffoon. He remembered how their fight went on the screen until whatever it was that happened to destroy his view.

Drakken says to Mindy, "My apologies, it was just out of habit since I can usually never remember his name." This seems to have an effect as she calms down a bit but not completely. He makes a mental note to watch what he says around her as she seemed to have the same kind of temper that Shego had and he didn't want to be on the receiving end of another punch like when they'd escaped through his escape pod last time.

Connie tugs at Drakken's outfit and says, "Mister, why don't you have a glow?" with her voice so full of childhood innocence.

Drakken looks down at her and says, "Because my blue is really my skin and not any kind of power."

Connie continues to look up at him and says, "Why?" in the same tone. Drakken says, "Because! Now please leave me alone!"

Connie stays where she is while Ronnie tugs at her arm again and says, "Come on sis, lets leave the villain alone before he gets angry."

Jesse scoops up Connie and Ronnie into his arms and says, "Listen to your brother Connie." He starts to walk way as he says to Drakken, "Sorry about this, she's always been a curious one."

Drakken says in a frustrated tone, "Whatever, just please keep her away from me..." He hears Shego say in a teasing voice, "I don't know Dr. D., she's pretty cute. Are you sure you don't want her hanging around?"

Drakken turns to face Shego and gives her such an annoyed look, which makes her only give him a triumphant look in return which, told him that annoying him was her goal.

Drakken growls, "Everyone follow me!" and turns on his heel to lead them down the corridor. They all follow him, half-expecting him to lead them all into a trap where an army of henchmen or synthos would pop out and capture them but nothing of the sort happened.

Drakken leads them into a work room where on a worktable, was a copy of the same kind of device that had transformed Kim and Ron in the first place.

They all look at Drakken as he walks up to the table and says, "Here it is! I have recreated the device so that Kim Possible and..." He stops as he almost calls Ron a buffoon again and looks at the twins to see them watching him. After a few seconds of thinking, he says, "Her partner will return back to normal!"

Connie says from Jesse's arms, "This will stop Momma and Daddy from having that bad future?"

Drakken says, "What? What bad future is she talking about?"

Connie says, "Uncle Wade told Momma that unless she went back to the way she..." before Cindy was able to move over and clamp a hand over her younger sister's mouth. But it was too late, Drakken was curious and wanted to know more now.

Drakken says, "Will someone tell me what that little child is talking about? I want to know before I continue!"

Since the cat was out of the bag to speak, Cindy removed her hand from Connie's mouth where Connie says, "If Momma doesn't change back, we won't be born and Momma won't be around anymore!" She looks sad as she says that last part.

Drakken looks at Kim and Ron as if that part was too confusing as he hopes for a better explanation.

Mrs. Possible steps up and puts a hand on her daughter's shoulder before she looks at Drakken and after a moment she says, "What I am about to tell you should not change what you're going to do." She pauses again before she says, "Wade used his computer to determine that should the babies in her stomach be born... she will die within two years and Ron will be left to raise them until he too goes before their senior year at High School."

Mr. Possible says, "So unless you want a five murders on your conscience Drew, I suggest that you help us undo what you did."

Drakken sputters, at a lost for words for a few moments before says, "How will it be FIVE?"

Mr. Possible says in a firm, almost cold voice before he says, "Kim and the four children that you see before you will be no more all because you wanted to make Kim and Ron out of your hair. Not to mention the fact that you'll destroy the lives of Ron and the two babies in her belly."

Drakken seemed to take on a more pale blue if it was possible at the thought of being responsible for so much! Sure, he was a villain, but he had actually never killed anyone and here he was being told that he'd be responsible destroying his arch-nemesis and her children!

Shego did NOT like what she had heard and grabs him by the collar with her hands flaming, "Dr. D! What are you going to do!" She hand raises one hand in a threatening gesture before Drakken says, "This changes nothing! I am still going to change Kim Possible and that sidekick of hers back to normal!"

Mindy says in a bit of an angry tone, "Daddy is much more than a sidekick!"

Kim says, "Not now Mindy... we've got bigger things to worry about right now."

Mindy's shoulders go down just a little but she looks at Drakken as if she was throwing daggers out of them at him.

Jesse knew that Mindy idolized her father and hated it if anyone spoke the least kind word about him. He remembers having to pull Mindy off more than a few kids and people because of something they said that ticked her off. He just wished that she would learn to control her temper better.

Kim says to Drakken, "Are you sure this will work? No harm will come to the babies right?"

Drakken shrugs himself free of Shego and says, "I assure you Kim Possible, I have done everything possible to make sure that there is minimal chance of any harm to your babies." He pauses and looks at Shego who still looked more than a bit upset with her flaming hands before he says, "Shego made sure that I took every precaution available or she was going to blast me into next Tuesday with her plasma powers."

Kim was shocked to hear that it was Shego who had made sure that her babies were safe! She looks at Shego with the silent question on her lips. She was wondering why Shego would even do that after the way her teenage girls had fought her to a draw?

Shego notices the look and can guess the question that must be burning through her. She says, "Hey, I may be a villain Miss Princess, but even I draw the line at harming unborn babies." She shrugs in a casual way as if to say, "It isn't a big deal."

But to Kim, it was a big deal and she hoped that when she was transformed back, if she remembered any of this... She wanted to remember what Shego had done to ensure the safety of her children. She knew she owed Shego big time if everything came out ok.

Just then a white portal appears with Kim and her parents recognizing it the same kind that had brought the kids to them in the first place. Kim's children remembered it as well and just as Drakken says, "What is this?" An adult version of Wade steps through it and in his hand he was holding some kind of strange device!

Connie hops out of Jesse's arm and says, "Uncle Wade!" as she runs towards him and grabs onto his pant leg until he kneels down to pet her head softly while smiling at her. She is still looking up at him as he says, "Hey Connie... I see you're causing trouble as usual."

Connie pouts a little even as the adult Wade chuckles and then he frowns as he turns to Jesse and says, "You and I are going to have a little talk when we get back about lab safety young man." This makes Jesse gulp softly.

Both Kim and Ron could not believe their eyes! Even though Kim had seen Wade before in a picture, seeing him in person was quite a different story! Ron says in disbelief, "Wade! You're... so big!"

Wade chuckles before he says, "Same ol' Ron..." He then says, "Come on kids, it is time for everyone to return home." He indicates the white portal behind him and starts to turn before Connie lets go of him and yells, "No! Momma is in danger! I don't want to go!"

Wade stops where he is and turns back to face everyone. He looks at everyone before he says, "Drakken's device is going to work flawlessly, now come on everyone. We have to return to the future or we risk altering your future."

Kim says, "Wade, what do you mean by that?"

Wade sees that no on is moving yet and that even Drakken is looking for answers. He says, "Ok... Drakken's device is going to use the temporal signature for the area as a key to restore Kim and Ron back to their correct temporal bodies but if there are other temporal signatures from other times, then it runs the risk of affecting the device and the bad future could still come to pass."

The kids look sad and with longing at their parents, especially the younger ones that they have to leave before they can ever get to see their parents when they were teens. Connie says, "Uncle Wade, will past Momma forget us?"

The silence hangs in the air for a few moments before Wade slowly smiles and says, "No, she doesn't forget any of you." Everyone smiles for a few moments and then Cindy says with a smile, "Well, I guess we've done enough damage here. Let's go troopers!" She then turns and starts to head towards the portal where she walks right up to it and stops to wave for the others to join her.

Connie runs up to Kim and gives her a big hug, "Thank you for keeping your promise Mommy, I love you!" She smiles as Kim rubs a hand through the red hair and says, "I love you too Connie." She then runs off to run up to the portal and waves one last time before she runs through it.

Ronnie gives his mother and his father big hugs before he says, "I love you Momma and Daddy, I'll see you both soon!" This makes Kim and Ron smile and say in stereo, "We love you too Ronnie!" He then runs through the same portal in which his younger twin had gone through.

Mindy runs up to hug her mother first and then her father, lingering as she whispers something to him which seems to surprise him if the look of his face was any indication. She waves as she runs up to join her sister, "Bye Mother and Father! I love you both!"

Jesse walks up to Kim and Ron where he says, "Mr. and Mrs. Stoppable, it has been a honor to go on an adventure with the two of you and when we return to the future, I hope that you will remember me as well."

Kim and Ron smile at Jesse as he salutes them and Kim says, "Don't worry Jesse, I'm sure we'll remember you too. You've been a big help on this mission." He smiles at them and walks off to where Cindy and Mindy are waiting. All three of them join arms and step through the portal together much in a way that reminded Ron of how Dorothy and the others walked on the yellow brick road.

With the last of the children gone Wade walks up and says, "Kim... Ron... You two have such an amazing future ahead of you. I only wish I could tell you more." He pulls them into a group hug for a few moments before he says, "Take care of each other and remember this, no matter what happens to you both, as long as you're there for each other... Anything is possible."

Wade then turns and walks over to where Drakken and Shego are. He smiles at them and says, "Both of you take care too. The future just wouldn't be the same without you two." He starts to walk back to the portal when Drakken shouts, "Wait!" causing Wade to pause.

Drakken says, "Do I ever get to rule the world?"

Wade chuckles and says, "I can't tell you that, you should know that. But I'll say this to you both, the future is a bit better because of you two as well." He sees the confusion on their faces as he walks off. He stops at the entrance and says, "Now finish what you set out to do and you'll do what you've always wanted to do. Make some changes in the world and become remembered forever."

Wade then steps through the portal before Drakken can ask anything further and a moment later, the portal closes up nice and quietly. Leaving everyone wondering just how Drakken will be remembered just for changing Kim and Ron back to normal?

AN: Well everyone, I hope you like this chapter because there's only ONE left to go! So I'd like to take this moment to thank all my readers for sticking with this story thus far. I know it has been quite the rollercoaster ride for Kim, Ron and everyone else. Next chapter I'll let you know if I've decided on whether to do a sequel or not. Now on to the story, did you all like how Connie bugged Drakken about why he was blue? I thought it was a nice touch. Even after finding out the other stuff, Drakken still didn't seem to plan any kind of double-cross, cool huh? What did you all think of when Wade showed up? Did any of you see it coming? Surely no one thought I was going to leave the kids stranded in the past when Kim and Ron were changed back to their teenage selves... did they? Well, to find out what happens to Kim and Ron you'll just have to ask in reviews or wait until the next chapter:)