A pair of eyes opened onto the unfamiliar ceiling. "Oh my head."
A red head shot up on the other side of the room. "Ron?"
He turned his head to the side. "KP? What happened. where are we?"
Kim ignored the question and pulled him into an embrace. "Oh God, I thought I'd lost you. Don't do that again."
Ron could hear the pain and worry in her voice. He could think of nothing to do but comfort her. He swung his right arm around her and pulled her closer. "Don't worry Kim, it's going to take a lot more than that to make me leave you. There's nowhere on Earth I'd rather be, ever." He lifted her off of him for just a moment. He gently raised himself to meet her in the middle of a sweet and thrilling kiss.
Ron felt a familiar sensation as his tail started to move outside his control. He ignored the sensation until it brushed Kim's leg.
She shrieked in surprise of the sudden movement. It was only here that Ron realized he was wearing nothing but a hospital gown. "Oh god, I'm sorry Kim, I can explain." Ron started to sweat. "You remember me telling you that I've been keeping a secret from you? Well, this is it. I've had a tail my entire life. I keep it wrapped around my leg where nobody can see it. I mean, I know that I'm not exactly normal, but I don't really want to be labeled a freak."
Kim listened to the ranting young man. A hand reached out and slapped him in the face. "Calm down Ron. It's no big, it's not like this is going to change your whole life. It's weird, but it's been known to happen." Kim looked down at the small furry appendage. She placed her hand around it lightly and held it in her hand. "I've heard of vistigial tails before, but I've never heard of someone being born with a fully formed tail. Why didn't you ever tell me?"
Ron looked at her sheepishly. "Well, I guess that way back when it was because I didn't want to lose my friend, then we were older and I hadn't told you and I was afraid that the lie was going to mess up the friendship and now we're together and I-I couldn't keep hiding it forever so I started to tell you and then well," Ron shrugged his shoulders as he finally took a breath.
"So basically you thought I'd freak because you had a tail, and then because you hadn't told me, right?"
"Yeah, you've been my one constant friend. I didn't want to lose that."
"We've fought mad scientists, evil mutations, and super powered criminals. There was no way, I was going to lose it over a tail."
"Maybe not, but we didn't do that stuff back in elementary school, and I thought it could have put the kibosh on our friendship considering how long we'd known each other without me telling."
Kim glared at him. "Do you really think so little of me that I couldn't deal with the fact my friend had a secret! Do you really think I'm that messed up that I wouldn't be able to accept that my friend made a mistake." Kim's hand tightened around the tail.
Ron's eyes widened in pain. He collapsed onto his bed.
"Ron! Ron are you okay?" She moved to take his head in her hands.
"Don't do that." Ron gasped.
"Huh?"
"Don't grab the tail. It's extremely sensitive to pain."
"Sorry, I didn't know. How bad was it?"
"Like a thousand needles stabbing into every nerve of my body."
"Oh God Ron, I'm so sorry. Please don't be mad."
"It's no big KP, you didn't know. Just promise not to do that again."
"No worries there. I wouldn't ever want to hurt you." It was here that Kim felt the limb brush up against her leg again. "Eeek." Kim glared at him. "Then again."
"Heheh, sorry, couldn't resist. By the way, you never told me what happened."
Kim's eyes misted over as she recounted the story. "I saw you there on the ground. You were so still, you never moved. All I could do was watch. Your friend Yori was the only one who thought to check your pulse. I was so worried. I didn't know what to do. Your pulse was steady but weak. We managed to carry you to the school. It took a couple of days but you started to recover. As soon as we could, we got you to a hospital. Then we got you transferred back here to Middleton. You've been sleeping for almost ten days."
"Well that clears up a few things." Ron suddenly remembered something. "Shego! Where is she?"
"In jail, I don't understand how she got there. She must have been working with Fiske."
"No, I got her to train me. I needed the best fighter I could get. She was the only one who could help me. I just don't understand how you managed to catch her. You weren't in any shape to fight."
"I didn't have to, she turned herself in. I thought she was just accepting that I could beat her. I didn't understand it."
"I think that maybe I do, if I'm right, we shouldn't have any more trouble from her." Ron started to think back to what she'd told him. "She couldn't handle it when the man she loved was killed. I hope that she's finally gotten past that."
Kim went and sat in the chair placed next to his bed. "I guess that's something I can understand. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you. For a minute, I thought I had."
"Don't worry about it Kim. Where else are we going to find a guy who can fight like that? Listen, I don't know how long they'll want to keep me here. I feel fine, but I know how hospitals work. Could you try and smuggle in some Nacos for me?"
"Sure Ron, no problem."
"Hahahahahahahahahaha. Finally, I'm finished. The DNA of the greatest fighters on the planet. Monty Fiske, Shego, Kim Possible, and numerous others all rolled into one body. My vengeance will be complete. They thought they'd stopped me, but no. I will make them pay."
A tiny black gloved hand reached up and pulled down the lever. Electricity started to crackle through the green substance. The charge rewrote the microscopic subroutines into genetic matches of the greatest fighters on the planet. The heavily modified synthogoo slid into the panel that would provide it's form.
Green light exploded from the mold that held the goo while it's outer shell hardened. The slab started to fall apart as miniature cracks started to form. The mold had soon fallen away into dust. The form within opened it's eyes.
Drakken walked into the light. "Welcome back Eric."