Ron's Mystical Monkey Power kicked in, and Jinx's gymnastics skills prevented them from being seriously hurt, but they were cut and bruised when they tumbled to a stop.
"Ouch," said Ron, sitting up.
"Understatement of the year," replied Jinx, groaning. She stood up and dropped the jetpack.
"Where's Kim and Rufus?" asked Ron, standing upbeside her.
"They're together. She was on the other side of the robot from you," she replied.
"You in the robot!" boomed a mechanically enhanced voice, "Shut it down, and come out with your hands up! You have two minutes before we open fire!" Ron and Jinx looked, and off to their right was a line of cars, with police pointing weapons of every variety at the robot.
"Fools!" muttered Drakken. He turned the robot towards the line of security and police cars. Kim was still attached to the robot, and fully visible.
"Stand down! Stand down!" shouted the voice, "They have a hostage!"
Drakken grinned widely. "You bet we do. Shego, continue the warm-up. I'm going to take care of those pests before they do something stupid."
He hit some buttons, and the sonic weapon raised and powered up.
Jinx gasped. "He'll kill those cops with that thing!" She threw up her hands, and pink bolts of hex energy flew from them. With her usual accuracy, the bolts struck the emitters, and with a loud SQUAWK! they shut down, smoke trailing through the tubes.
Drakken hit buttons frantically, to no avail.
"What happened?" asked Shego, looking over from the rocket controls.
"Not sure. Some kind of overload," Drakken replied, "We'll fix it later, when we're out of here."
"Three minutes," replied Shego.
"We've got to stop that thing and rescue Kim!" said Ron, "But how can we?"
Jinx tapped her lower lip. "I heard them say they were leaving in five minutes, so we still have a couple left. Wade can't hack the system, so it's up to us."
"Can't you hex the thing?" asked Ron.
"I could, but Kim, Drakken, and Shego could be killed when it fell apart," she replied. "But.
how about just one part, to keep them from leaving?"
Ron grinned. "Happy to be the distraction."
"Okay, you hold their attention, while I try something," she grinned back.
Ron ran toward the front of the robot, while Jinx snuck to the side.
"Kim!" Ron shouted, "I'll rescue you!"
"What?" asked Shego, "The sidekick got loose?"
"Doesn't matter, we have the important part of the team," he replied. "But just to be sure,
I'll swat that fly."
"Ron!" shouted Kim, "Get away! You can't do anything for me!"
A robotic hand came down, and Ron jumped out of the way just in time.
"RON!" screamed Kim, then exhaled when she saw he was all right.
Jinx slipped up to the left leg of the robot, where she found a maintenence panel. She hexed it, and it fell off. Inside, amid a tangle of hydralics, was a red tube marked "Fuel Line", with a connecting joint right in front of her. She hexed it, and it came loose, spraying rocket fuel all over.
"Dr. D, problem," said Shego, "A fuel line in the left leg has lost pressure."
"We can fly on one engine," he replied, taking another swat at Ron.
"And now the line in the right leg is down. We can't launch," she said. "It can't be a coincidence."
"All right, go take care of it," he growled, and Shego nodded, shutting down the rockets.
Shego opened the hatch and started to climb out, when she was met with a hard fist in her face, and a very angry Kim Possible behind it. At Kim's direction, Rufus had gotten her laser lipstick and burned through the chains. The manacles were still on her wrists and ankles, though.
"I'm stopping you, right here, right now," said Kim, climbing inside the control cabin, where Shego was standing up with her hand on her nose.
Shego's hands ignited, and she took several hard swipes at Kim, who ducked and hit back.
"Take it outside," Drakken bellowed, only to have Kim's hard fist slam him in the nose. He fell back against the bulkhead.
"Fine by me," said Shego, and jumped to grab an overhead pipe. She kicked Kim at just the right moment, and Kim flew out of the hatch. She tumbled off the "shoulder", and just managed to grab a rung of the ladder.
Shego stepped out, and seeing the predicament Kim was in, grinned. "Bye, Princess!" she said, and threw a burst of green plasma at her.
Kim had no choice but to let go and fall. On the way down, she had the bad luck to whack her head against the hull, and lost consiousness.
"KIM!" shouted Ron, and ran under her just in time. Kim landed on him, and they were both down.
Jinx ran towards them as Shego climbed back into the control cabin.
"Now to do something I should have done a LONG time ago," said Drakken with a wide grin.
As Jinx got to where Kim and Ron lay, the robot picked up a foot and moved it over them.
Jinx, standing over the bodies of her teammates and friends, had little choice. She let fly with all the hex energy she could muster right at the robot above.
It stopped in mid-step, and began to fall apart. Bolts, nuts, and welds let go. Pieces flew everywhere, along with oil, rocket fuel, and unknown liquids. The chest plate, a piece of steel ten feet square and quite heavy, dropped and fell right towards them. Jinx lay down and covered Kim and Ron's bodies with her own. She had just time to think, "If we die, I'll go first." And the chest plate landed on top of them with an unbelievably loud noise.
Drakken hit an emergency button. In theory, the robot's head was a getaway craft just in case. But a female voice came over the speakers. "Warning: release bolts jammed. Launch not possible."
"Oh, snap," said Drakken, and he and Shego were suddenly jolted, losing their footing as the robot started to fall. With a resounding BOOM! the robot landed hard, Drakken and Shego both hitting their heads and losing consiousness.
Police, fire, and rescue teams cautiously made their way to the remains of the robot. They found the villians just waking up little worse for wear, thanks to the interior padding of the control cabin. They were quickly examined, and taken off to jail.
"Hey, Al, over here, quick!" said one of the rescue workers. Al quickly joined him. The man was stooped in front of a large piece of steel, looking underneath with a flashlight. A pair of eyes reflected pink back at them, and a female voice said, "Help!"
"Well, Pete, you heard the lady!" said Al.
"Is anyone else under there?" asked Pete.
"Yeah, Kim Possible, and Ron Stoppable. They're both out, but I don't think too badly hurt," Jinx replied.
"What's your condition?" asked Al.
"Cuts, bruises, and very sore, but intact," she answered.
Pete climbed under, and Jinx helped him get hold of Ron and pull him out. They went back in and got Kim. Stretchers were brought, and they were taken to an ambulance, Jinx following rubbing a sore arm. A blanket was put around her shoulders.
After the three heroes were pulled out from under the chest plate, Pete and Al looked at it. It had landed on top of piles of rubble, and the three survivors had been between them, at the lowest point. If they hadn't been, they'd be human pancakes.
"They were incredibly lucky," said Pete, and Al agreed.
Jinx's appearence gave the EMTs pause, but she hastily assured them it was normal for her,
and to take care of Ron and Kim. They examined her, and found that, beyond cuts and bruises,
she was okay. They dressed her cuts, and left her to watch as they worked on the other two.
An officer was trying to remove the manacles still on Kim, but couldn't find a key that worked. Jinx moved him out of the way, and hexed them. They promptly fell off.
"Whoa!" said the officer, "Did you do that to the robot?"
"Yeah, I didn't have any choice. He was gonna step on them," she said.
"That's pretty impressive," he answered, "Glad you're on our side."
Jinx smiled, a little embarrassed, but made no reply.