A.N. Just to let you in though, this is the first time I'm ever writing a mystery story. I'm really enjoying this! I hope you do too!
Enter Kim Possible…
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The helicopter's rotors blew the snow in all directions as it landed.
The doors slid open as Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable stepped out in their winter mission clothes. Kim was the first to stretch her arm out to greet Dr. Venture who was covering his face from the gust.
"Hello Dr. Venture!" she shouted over the noise, "I'm Kim!"
"Hello, Ms. Possible!" he replied, "Welcome, welcome!"
The helicopter now took off and the noise sank.
"You might remember me a couple of years back, you saved my lab" Dr. Venture stated.
"Yes I do," She said with a smile, "I read your message. How are you now?" She asked with a little embarrassment, "You know, about the whole wife…thing"
"Oh! Don't worry about it," Said Dr. Venture throwing his arm out, "I've recovered now just fine and I've also developed this new hobby!"
"That's great news!" Kim said.
"Please meet my new partner, Dr. Quarrel," he stepped aside and allowed Quarrel to step forward stretching his arm out for a handshake.
"Greetings, Ms. Possible!" he said.
"Hi!" she shook his hand then stepped aside, "This is my friend Ron Stoppable," Ron stepped up and shook Quarrels hand and then Ventures, "We've heard of the assignment you wanted to give us and figured it sounds important." Kim added.
"Oh yes, Ms. Possible, It is!" He put his hand on her shoulder, "Please, follow me inside for the briefing."
The group began walking towards the compound.
Ron walked beside Dr. Quarrel, "That's a cozy little place you have going here!" he said.
"We use it to sleep, eat and store any data we've gathered for analysis" Quarrel replied.
"Uh-huh, and its cozy!" Ron said cheerfully when a little mole rat jumped out of his pocket wearing a small snow-hat on its head and little snow gloves, "yeah! Cozy!" it said.
Inside one of the huts Team Possible sat on one side of a table while both doctors sat on the other. In the middle, a map was stretched out pin pointing the location of the cave and the compound. Annotations around the cave area suggested that they had no idea what's inside.
"Okay Doctors, What's the sitch?" Started Kim, earning a raised eyebrow from Dr. Quarrel who looked over to Dr. Venture. Venture didn't respond to Quarrel's reaction.
"Before we tell you exactly what's going to happen I need to make it clear to you just how vital this situation is." Venture explained.
Ron was leaning on the table playing around with a pencil, "Yeah ,yeah we've heard it all before" he lifted the pencil up in the air and proceeded to swing it around, " 'the fate of the world lies in your hands!' bla, bla bla, bla bla!".
Dr. Quarrel's face turned a rosy red when he heard Ron's comments and gave out a big sigh. Kim noticed his reaction and nudged Ron to get him to sit up.
"Ron, I think this may mean a little more to Dr. Quarrel and Dr. Venture than you may think," She turned back around, "I'm sorry doctor, you may continue," she smiled.
"We might have uncovered a cave that leads to an underground city. This city does not necessarily belong to any civilization we know of." His voice began to quiver with excitement, "What I'm about to tell you may be a little frightening to hear," he warned.
Venture raised a finger, "The Antarctic is not an environment in which humans in the past could've bared to survive in and build up a culture." He placed his finger on the map. "Yet what we have found here is an ancient city, where once lived a peoples with a fully developed culture and technology." Noticing Ron reaction he paused for an explanation.
"It's not what he said…"Ron said shaking in his seat and holding his pet mole-rat in both hands, "But the way he said it." Kim rolled her eyes and put her hand on his shoulder then looked at Venture. "Could you explain it in basic terms for my friend here?"
"Alright," he looked down at the table then raised his head to speak, "What if I told you that cavemen tried to live in this environment."
"Ha!" Ron laughed and finally sat up, "They'd freeze before they'd catch their first fish!"
"Okay. Now jump hundreds of thousands of years," he put both elbows on the table and placed his chin on his hands, "You come to the Antarctic and you find that people decided to settle here and built immense statues, massive palaces and managed to invent swords and developed their own culture,"
"Oh," Ron's eyes widened, "How could they do that?"
"That's what we're trying to find out," He sat back in his chair.
Quarrel began to speak, "Throughout our studies of ancient history we've discovered that mankind will always travel to find the best environment to settle in," he continued, "it doesn't make sense for them to stay in this arctic land!"
"Unless," Kim spoke, "they didn't 'decide' to stay here."
Venture leaned forward onto the table, "What are you suggesting Ms. Possible?"
"I mean what if they were forced to build this city?" Kim asked.
"Who is there to force them?" Asked Quarrel.
Everyone went quiet for a moment.
"Look," Venture broke the silence, "we cannot speculate until we've actually gone in. Here's what we want from you Ms. Possible," Venture took a deep breath, "We have reason to believe that word has got out about the discovery and we can't leave the entrance to the cave un-guarded tonight. We want you, Team Possible to guard the entrance to the cave until we go in." He pointed on the map in front of the cave, "Here's the entrance to the cave right in front of our camp, we can offer you a couple of armed guards under your command." He pointed his finger at Kim, "Just make sure no one goes in that cave!"
"You can count on us, doctor!" Kim proudly stated and got out of her seat, "So when do we get started?" Everyone else stood as well.
"As soon as you're ready," said Dr. Venture, "We'll provide you with a transport to get to the camp"
Later, Dr. Quarrel approached Kim while she was instructing Ron on their guarding techniques. A man was loading their luggage on to the motor sled.
"Team Possible," Dr. Quarrel said, "You don't mind me asking some questions about your history with Dr. Venture, do you?"
"History?" asked Ron, "Dr. Venture doesn't teach us history, man!"
"Ron!" retorted Kim, "I think what Dr. Venture is trying to ask is what happened between us and Venture years ago!"
"Oh, right sorry!" Ron sheepishly responded.
"No, Doctor, we don't mind" Kim said turning away from Ron, "go ahead and ask."
"Well, I heard you saved him from an attack once, on his lab, could you tell me what happened exactly?"
"His lab was under siege by a group of terrorists who wanted to get their hands on some of his explosive chemicals. We received a message from him asking for help. We set off immediately to the lab. We snuck in through the ventilation shafts and made it inside." Ron interrupted, "They never seem to expect us to go in that way!"
"Anyway," Kim said eyeing Ron, " we got spotted and after a big fight which left much of the lab destroyed we succeeded in apprehending the villain and he was taken away to prison," Kim gave out a big sigh, "I just wish we could've saved his wife on time…"
"How did Venture's wife die?" Asked Quarrel.
"During the fight the chemicals got mixed and fires erupted," Kim shook her head, "She tried to escape but couldn't do so in time before the explosion." Kim looked over to Ron who seemed a little on edge and then she looked back at Quarrel, " We went back and pulled her out, Venture followed us there when we did. She was dead by then."
Quarrel restrained his emotions from getting out.
"Thank you, Ms. Possible!" he said with a smile, "I appreciate your help, good luck with your assignment!
"No big!" she said and turned back around to Ron.
Quarrel walked away from the group with his head storming with questions, he entered one of the cabins and watched out the window and blew out a breath as Team Possible sledded off to their destination.
Who was lying? And why? There is no doubt, something else was going on that night and he was determined to find out.
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A.N. I hope this cleared a lot of questions for you about the cave. But I probably planted a lot more on that mysterious night! Don't worry all questions will be answered in time!
A hint: Try to look out for the characters reactions sometimes…it gives them away!
Chapter four will arrive shortly…its going to be kind of spooky though!