Kim wasn't sure if she was dreaming or not when she woke up. Her eyes were seeing a level of detail she didn't believe was possible. It was her mom's operating room at the hospital that she had been in several times but it was so different. The colors were more vivid, her nose twitched at how strong the smell was despite the fact that when she came in it smelled the same. She was currently feeling things that were hard to describe. Her eyes were darting around the room until she noticed josh sitting up as well, he seemed to be experiencing something similar. She jumped a little when she heard a voice behind her.
"How do you feel?"
The question seemed to be directed at both of them, but as Josh was currently staring at his hands and flexing them like a stoner she decided to reply. "I feel like me but not me. Things are….different."
Ann kissed the top of her head. "You'll adjust Kimmie cub. If you ever want to reverse it we can try to find a solution. Although the nanites are bonded to you on a cellular level so that would present an interesting challenge."
"How are you feeling Josh?" Kim turned to look at her father. It was odd hearing him say that as it was the first time he showed any concern for his wellbeing.
Josh kept staring at his hand but made a fist before looking at Mr Possible. "It's feels like the first time I was upgraded, although I do like how this time there is no pain so intense that I want to cut open my own chest and pull out my organs. Thank you."
Ann cringed. "No problem Josh."
James slapped his back. "Anything major you two have questions about?"
"Sir, I think the main question on both of our minds is what changed exactly."
The two doctor's looked at each other then began speaking with thinking faces. Ann spoke first.
"Well, we set the vision to 20/8 since that's the best vision on record, we didn't want to give you headaches. You'd have to adjust it yourself if you can figure out how."
"Obviously you're stronger and faster now. We also had our nanobots eat Josh's old ones. That was interesting to watch on the monitors. We didn't want any compatibility issues. Despite the upgrades Josh is still human so if they were incompatible it would have at the very least been painful."
Ann raised a finger and smiled. "Oh, since Kimmie said she wasn't concerned about appearing normal we turned the healing factor to the max. You can't regenerate from being a puddle or anything but My daughter and future son in law should be a lot harder to kill, now I don't need to worry!" She said with a smile.
"Mom!" Kim said while pounding her fist on the operating table. She was surprised when the headrest flew off it's hinges, especially since she felt no resistance.
Her father scolded her playfully. "Now Kimmie cub you don't know how strong you are yet so you should watch your temper."
While the possible family argued Josh saw they left most things out. On a try he saw a scalpel and picked it up, then admired it. What Dr. Possible said almost sounded too good to be true.
Kim cocked her head "Josh what are you…." She gasped as he stabbed himself on his exposed obliques then cut all the way down. Her parents didn't seem nearly concerned enough. "Stop him!" They just shrugged and took the scalpel from him. Josh still looked at his midsection and admired how quickly the deep cut healed.
"That's all I needed to know."
Ron's Place
Bonnie was a little concerned about Ron but it was fairly understandable. It had only been a couple of days since the attack. She didn't get angry that he was treating her like a glass doll, or kissing her several times when he thought she was sleeping and just watching her. She kept trying to let him know she wasn't going anywhere but he paid her no mind. The best she could get out of him was an "I understand.", just before he went right back to what he was doing.
The most disturbing part to her was that he wasn't being as rough during training, which ruined the entire point of it. Didn't he get that all the times he laid her out actually saved her life that day? Any drive he had for training her went straight to his own training. He was like a man possessed. He even started bringing medium sized trees into the yard to wail on. Bonnie sighed and shook her head, hopefully this threat would pass soon and he would snap back to normal. She loved when he doted on her, but not for this reason. Not because he feels guilty despite doing everything in his power to keep them safe.
Bonnie jumped when she heard a knock at the door. Possible and Mankey said they'd be taking a few days off from training and as Ron quickly pointed out when they first got together, no one else shows up here. She opened the door and there they were, all smiles. Did they really finish up whatever they were doing in only a day?
"Hey Bonnie, you feeling better?"Kim said
Bonnie rubbed her shoulder. "Yea, it actually healed up on the first day. Why are you really here though? We aren't exactly besties and neither of you seemed too keen on rushing back to training."
Kim and Josh looked at each other as if they were trying to find the correct phrasing. Then Kim spoke. "We came to ask Ron for a favor."
Bonnie cringed. "Now probably isn't a great time. I can have him call you later if you want to tell him something but it's not pressing."
Josh butted in. "It's something that needs to be spoken about in person."
Bonnie saw there was no arguing with them and invited them in then closed the door. She then put on a chesire grin. "I'll take you right to him. If you still want to talk to him once you see him then go right ahead." Bonnie then began walking towards the back door.
Kim and Josh shrugged and quickly followed. Once they were outside they instantly knew why it was a bad time. Ron was currently trying his best to turn what looked like a former tree into woodchips with his hands. It didn't seem like he was using actual technique either, he was just punching away while grunting, as if the answer to all of his issues could be found once he reached the bottom.
Josh leaned over to Bonnie and whispered "Uh, how did the tree trunk get in the yard in the first place? I don't see any deforesting equipment."
"Oh, he said something about grabbing a tree from the woods and dragging it back here."
The duo looked at each other and swallowed, they hoped they made the right choice by coming here. Josh nudged Bonnie. "Can you get his attention, it's like he has a sixth sense about you so he won't hurt you by accident."
Bonnie rolled her eyes and walked behind him. She really didn't get what they were so afraid of. He was a sapient blonde teddy bear. She smirked and slowly ran her hands up and down his back in a light massage. He froze nearly instantly and sighed in relief from her touch.
"You have company master." Ron only quirked an eyebrow then looked at Bonnie since she hadn't called him that before, even though it admittedly got him a little excited. Once he saw where her gaze was he instantly knew why she did it. It almost looked like Kim wanted to puke.
Ron brushed the dust off his hands and began talking once Kim calmed down. "Heylo. I wasn't expecting you all back for a couple of days. Sorry you had to see….that. I try to be more normal when you're around."
Kim and Josh deadpanned while looking at the tree trunk. They both had similar thoughts. He might be a little angrier than normal but the fact that he said things similar to this were common was a bit frightening.
Kim began to pout a little and Bonnie rolled her eyes. "Ron, Josh and I have a big favor to ask."
"You're my best friend. Anything."
Kim switched over to the puppy dog pout since she knew their request was one of the few things he would normally not do under any circumstances. "We want you to fight us, for real. We know for sure one of us couldn't handle you but we might be able to put up a fight together."
"You're kidding right?" Ron accentuated his point by looking over at the former tree trunk. He did NOT want to do that to his best friend or her boyfriend.
"We're serious."
"I don't hurt my friends for fun."
Josh saw the pout wouldn't break him. Maybe logic would. "We're not asking you to try and kill us. Just incapacitate us or make us give up. You don't have to go all out for that. We just want you to take us slightly seriously this once. You already know we aren't normal so if you get a little out of control our chances of a serious injury are very low. You've seen what I recovered from already."
Ron let his guard down and gave it some thought. Josh was right. Even if he knocked them out they would probably recover in a few minutes without a concussion. They are cyborgs after all. Plus he did see Josh not only survive being riddled with bullet holes and stab wounds, but he also then made it to Kim's house and was able to eat breakfast the next day.
"Alright. Stand over there. I'll position myself about twenty five feet away."
As Ron began walking away Bonnie quickly waved them over then whispered "Don't get Ron riled up in a fight."
"Uh, why? That's kinda specific Bonnie." Kim said
"Ron gets all weird when he's enjoying a fight. I don't know if you all have something planned but I'm just warning you."
"O…..K" Josh said. Bonnie walked away and sat in one of the padded chairs near the back of the house to watch things play out. She may have warned them but she hadn't seem him in a real fight since Shego. She mainly hoped that they weren't stupid enough to challenge him with no plan, since none of them were even remotely close a few days ago.
"You can start now." Bonnie smiled and waved.
Ron sighed and shook his head, Josh was scared of him, not on a conscious level, but there was only so much that could be snuffed out through training and torture. All he had to do was knock Kim out then Josh wouldn't want to fight and he'd tend to her. He didn't want to do this but they were so adamant about it. Now he knew how Kim felt when he kept telling her to punch Bonnie.
Ron leaned forward in preparation for his attack. He let them get into stance even though he knew it wouldn't matter. They were practically like snails to him. After they had their guards up he sighed then took Kim's back in a flash. He limited himself heavily during training but sometimes they complained about the "superhero unfairness.". so he knew this was about the speed he needed to make himself appear as a blur to them at best. He decided to just chop the back of her head with a decent amount of strength, it felt bad but he knew if he did it too softly the chop would just cause her an immense amount of pain, which was worse. Ron took a swing at the back of her head but something stopped him. He hadn't been paying much attention so he was all kinds of surprised when he saw Josh had blocked him. Bonnie's jaw dropped. Ron leapt back.
'Alright that was weird but I didn't put much strength behind that, just enough. He could have also guessed where I was going to go even if he couldn't see me. New plan.' Ron decided to just knock them both out. Even if they planned things out well it really didn't matter if he gave them no opportunity to react. 'If I knock them out now I won't have to hurt them again in the future.' This time he decided to not be lazy about it and just appeared in front of Josh. One thump would probably put him down so he extended his hand in front of Josh's forehead and flicked, yet he only felt air.
Ron looked confused. "Explain."
"We got some improvements and wanted to test them out."
Josh put his hand on the back of Kim's head and slid his thumb lightly stroking her hair. "I can't depend on anyone but myself to protect Kim. No matter how powerful you are you're not omnipotent Ron. I'm not sure what I'd do if…." Josh's face contorted in pain. An odd sight. "I need to know my limits to better protect her."
Kim softly kissed his cheek. "Same. Josh is kinda suicidal on the whole protect me thing. I'd prefer that he never had to go that far for me, so I have to protect myself."
"Fine." Ron gave it a quick thought. "Half."
"What?" Kim said confusedly.
"I'll fight you at half strength."
"Ron, we'd appreciate if you took us seriously. We're a lot stronger than before. The WEE agents couldn't touch us now." Josh said
"I am being serious. Fifty percent of my strength should more than suffice. Even when I hit the big guy I didn't go all out since I didn't want to scar Bonnie. Trust me."
Kim rolled her eyes. "alright lets go then." As soon as the words left her mouth she was swept off her feet. From what she could see Josh tried to launch an attack but was bitch slapped onto the patio by Ron's tail. She was starting to think they shouldn't have poked the bear.
"Want me to stop KP?"
"No, our enemies won't stop. For all we know they could have had the same idea and gotten upgrades themselves."
Kim did a Kip-up and got back into her fighting stance which made Ron smile, until he felt something kick him in the back of his knee. Josh put a hell of a lot of force and effort behind his kick and Kim punched Ron in the face. Kim shook her hand when she pulled it away. It was like punching stone.
Bonnie just shrugged and enjoyed the show. She doubted that any upgrade they could have reasonably gotten would have allowed them to hurt Ron in any serious capacity. If she could heal from a stab wound in under two days his healing and durability had to be ridiculous. Her interest was piqued by this sparring match though. She hadn't been paying too much attention after he finished training her every day. She zoned out at times when he spoke about his training. When she wrapped up her train of thought she slightly winced. That creepy smile he had with Shego was coming back. 'Their fault, tried to warn them.'
Josh tried to stomp on Ron's chest while he was on the ground but he simply stopped him with one hand then threw him a couple of feet in the air. Of course he just flipped a couple of times then landed next to Kim as if it was nothing. 'I'm honestly impressed.' Ron thought with a smile. They don't even know all they can do yet, he may actually have some decent sparring partners. The mere idea cause a grin to cross his face.
Kim noticed she never saw Ron smirk like that before. Especially during fights. "Josh watch out, this might be what Bonnie was talking about earlier when Ron enjoys a fight." Josh nodded while Ron began chuckling. Soon he cut himself off and began to talk. This vibe was bad.
"You guys have no idea how happy I am. Now I don't have to hold back nearly as much since there's no fear of me seriously hurting you."
Josh leaned over and whispered to Kim. "Maybe we should call it, he's wigging me."
"You both have improved a lot, now I can show you something special I've been practicing. Only BonBon has seen it so far but I don't think she cared much." Ron said, his tone like a giddy child. Kim and Josh looked at Bonnie and saw her holding in a laugh. This could not be good. It could not be good at all.
Ron extended his hands palm up and two cerulean blue balls of energy about the size of a basketball formed. They looked beautiful. Ron level of joy seemed to increase immensely. He then tossed them into the air roughly thirty feet and jumped after them, twirling his entire body. They were slightly confused as to what he was doing until he kicked them one after the other with both legs. They knew they couldn't dodge and it was too fast to block. Just as it was hitting them in the stomach Ron did a superhero landing. He directed the balls upward which carried Josh and Kim into the air then he snapped his fingers on both hands causing a mild explosion.
"Bonnie did you see? Tell me that wasn't cool!"
Bonnie walked over and decided to pacify him. She patted his chest and smiled. "Yes Ronnie, that was very cool."
Ron finally looked back at his friends and cringed. They had landed unceremoniously onto the ground with Josh on his back and Kim on her stomach laying across his. They were both groaning in discomfort."Uh, you guys good?"
Kim and Josh both shakily gave a thumbs up then Josh replied in a hoarse voice."Yup, We're good. Just need a minute. Or five. Or an hour. I think I prefer you choking me."
"Same." Bonnie said. Kim didn't have the energy to be grossed out so she just groaned louder.
"Are you all sure you're okay? I've only hit trees with that before. I didn't want to injure you."
Josh rubbed his midsection. "We're fine. Nothing like a ball of energy causing a localized concussive explosion to get the blood flowing."
"Well, at least we know our limits now. Kind of. We also know Ron gets more ridiculous than we've already seen so that's an ace in the hole."
"Actually, I'm glad you all decided to do this. It helps with my plan."
Bonnie frowned at Ron. "Plan? What plan? You didn't tell me anything about that."
"Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone except Wade. I wanted him to help me track down at least some major WEE bases, cause a bit of a ruckus. Then hopefully draw out some big guys so I could make a deal for your lives. I don't want you all to get attacked again. I love you." Ron smiled since he felt a warmth in his chest. It was quickly put out when Bonnie smacked him in the back of the head, she continued doing so a couple of times.
"Are you stupid?" Smack. "Do you know how dangerous that is?" Smack. "You don't even know what kind of weapons they have. Can you survive an explosion?" She smacked him three more times then had to rub her hands. "Asshole." She knew he barely felt it, but the fact that he wanted to go on a suicide run still heavily pissed her off.
"I just wanted to keep you safe!"
Bonnie grit her teeth. "If you're keeping everyone else safe who is keeping you safe? How do you think I would feel if you died? Fucking cheery!?"
Ron smiled awkwardly and said "Hehe, anyway now I don't have to go it alone because of them. In fact we can all go together. I don't trust leaving you alone during a mission like this honestly bonbon. The safest place for you would be by my side."
Bonnie grumbled unconvincingly as Ron pulled her by her waist closer to him. 'Stupid sweet protective boyfriend.'
"Do you know where the mission is yet?" Josh said.
"That's actually been holding me up. According to Wade they constantly change their GPS location and he's only one guy. So it's almost impossible to get through their VPN."
"So basically we have to wait a few weeks for him and see if he can figure it out. In which time they will likely be gearing up to attack us again, this time with heavier weaponry because of Ron. Fantastic." The morale for team Possible was rather low due to Josh's statement.
"I'm going to call Wade. Maybe he has some connections at GJ that we don't and they could help him. We didn't exactly tell him the extent of how serious this was so he may not have called in all of his favors." Kim reached for her communicator and as soon as she touched it she felt funny. 'Weird.' "She decided to not use the Kimmunicator for now. Her nanites might be reacting funnily with it. "Ron can I use your laptop? Pretty sure I saw it had a webcam. I think Wade needs to repair my Kimmunicator."
"Sure KP, no prob." Ron grabbed the laptop and came back a few seconds later. He opened it for her since she seemed to be acting a little funny.
As soon as she touched the keyboard she let out a guttural moan. For the first time Bonnie and Ron saw Josh blush. Both of these events were equally disconcerting though.
"Mmmmmmm" Kim's face had a smile a mile wide. After about twenty seconds she finally closed the laptop and groggily looked at her friends.
"Possible, what the hell was that?"
"Oh." Kim blushed. "It seems like whenever I touch an electronic I get a high. Or something. It almost feels like lovers time between me and Josh."
Josh slapped his leg. "Kimberly Possible that is personal!"
Bonnie rolled her eyes. "Both of you are prudes. Get over it. You barely even said anything."
"I'm not a prude! Some of us just like something slow and more passionate. I don't have to be lead around on a leash and pounded into the ground just to get off."
Ron elbowed Josh. "Slow and passionate huh? Guess you're more emotional when it's just the two of you."
"Sooooo Kim, did anything else happened when you were connected with the laptop?" Josh ignored that Ron and Bonnie were both laughing raucously at how he dodged the question.
"Actually, I did. At first I didn't understand but after a few seconds it felt like a part of me. I saw everything."
"You mean…."
"Well, to an extent. It would probably take me a while to figure anything deeply embedded into WEE secrets out. I'm not even sure if I can do it. I do think I found something that could be helpful to us though. I know where the guys who attacked us are located."
I wanted to apologize for the amount of time between uploads. I spilled tea on my keyboard and had to get a new one. I simply can't type large amounts of words on a normal keyboard anymore since it cramps up my massive hands. (MS 4000 ergonomic keyboard ftw). Also I've been working and trying to get a couple of certifications so that is also time consuming. Thus is life. I hope this was worth the wait.
Oh, in future chapters of my current stories and future stories in general I was thinking about including smut. Would that be something you would be interested in? Let me know in your review or in a PM. The next things I will be updating are regaining my princess and the lilypad. The next chapter of Edd, Rebirth is also pretty fleshed out inside of my head.
Second note: So recently have had a few people contacting me about shego. She is not forgotten, trust me. I had an idea set in stone but a few people have been suggesting they want to see her with Ron. If you want ron shego and Bonnie to have a thing let me know in a message or in the comments. I can't read minds. I'm not going to kill you if you message me so don't be shy.
