Currently the team was riding to their next mission location in Ron's car. They had little choice as Kim's was totaled during the last car and it hadn't gotten fixed yet. She did have a bit of faith in her brothers to fix it though since they got this funny look in their eye and just said leave it to them. Honestly she wouldn't be surprised if the tweebs upgraded themselves someday without their parents knowing.
Surprisingly the car held a sense of excitement. They were finally going on the offensive instead of just sitting back and letting things happen to them. Day in and day out they just sat there waiting with targets on their back, no more. They even felt as if they had an edge since they had no way of knowing how powerful Kim and Josh had become, even if they weren't on Ron's level they doubted they could be handled by the agents regardless of how prepared they were, and this time they had the jump.
"Ron why did I ever get to see how ridiculous this car is? Also the ride is super smooth and quiet. Is this a custom?"
"Yes Josh, yes it is. Thanks for noticing." Ron grew a large smirk and Bonnie rolled her eyes at him. "Speedy gave me a free custom sixty seven Impala for that time Kim and I stopped Motor Ed for destroying his lot. I got an erection the first time I looked at it."
"Sadly, he's not lying." Bonnie said while shaking her head.
"Why would he lie about that? The same thing happened to me when I looked at this thing. It's beautiful."
Kim and Bonnie both groaned. "So you can't feel empathy but you can feel sexually attracted to a car?"
"No man is immune to it's charms Kim." Ron said with a smirk. Once again causing the ladies to roll their eyes while Josh laughed.
"How much longer do we have to suffer through this car talk?"
"If you mean how much longer the ride is to our target location I'd say less than five minutes. Lets just admire the wondrous views of Go city."
Bonnie gave him a deadpan expression and he stopped smirking. "You know, I said I signed on for the weird stuff, but that doesn't mean I want to feel paranoid every single time I walk outside. I'll be more happy when this is done."
"….I know BonBon, I just like to try to keep your mind off of it. I don't want you to be scared. You being scared almost physically hurts me."
Bonnie rested her hand on his thigh. "I said I'm paranoid, not scared. I know no matter what happens you'll always come to rescue me."
Josh leaned between the seats and pointed forward. "You two can be all lovey dovey chokey later. We're here."
Bonnie smiled and shoved his head back but her heart rate accelerated when she turned and saw the building where there would be hunters lie. Is this how Ron and Kim use to feel on missions? Did they still feel that way? Questions for another time.
Team Possible parked behind the building to try to get the drop on their foes. Josh said their best bet was surprisingly going through their front door with Bonnie at the rear and Ron taking point. To Bonnie's ire Josh had shot Ron in the leg a couple of days ago while they prepared for the mission. While he wasn't looking. It left a bruise but healed very quickly. Josh half expected Ron to knock him out, which he'd have been fine with, but he just laughed and called him a dick. He understood it was Josh's way of seeing how impervious Ron was. In his own twisted, fucked up way he was showing he cared about Ron's safety. This did not stop Kim from smacking the back of his head a couple of times however.
They were on the third floor, everyone's heart rate increased as they walked down the hall. They looked all around to see if anything. Was out of place, but it was simply a standard apartment building. The hall didn't even have security cameras from what they could tell. Staying at a barebones place made a lot of sense if they didn't want to be found.
Once they were at the door Ron turned to look at the team and his face was stoic. They looked nervous but after they nodded to signify they were ready he twisted the doorknob just hard enough to break it. The door was easily opened, but when he opened the door most of the way they heard a click. They practically had no time to react as a wall of fire engulfed them.
Bonnie, Josh, and Kim all flinched and covered their eyes, as if he minor amount of shielding from their arms would save them from the explosion. They slowly opened their eyes when they heard the explosion fizzling out, yet they were still standing there just fine. They looked forward and saw Ron was holding a sword in the ground and a barrier he seemed to have generated was dissipating. He was on one knee breathing heavily.
They started asking if he was ok and he waved them off. He looked like he just ran a marathon. "You guys okay?"
"Are we okay!? Ron you just tanked an explosion!" Kim said
"Yeah...Yup. I knew I could survive that but you all couldn't. I'm feeling kinda..." Ron collapsed and the sword came along with him, clattering on the ground.
"Impressive."
The trio jumped and looked a few doors down. They would recognize that voice anywhere. Beta."
"We didn't think it would kill Mr. Anger Management over there since Epsilon could have survived that, but to think he could create a barrier to protect his little friends. How sweet."
"Yea, very sweet, now you all get to die together." They turned in the other direction and saw chi sharpening his blades with each other.
"We should move." Josh said while nodding his head towards what remained of the room. Josh dragged in Ron by an arm and Bonnie picked up his sword and hugged it to her body. She had no idea where it came from but while she was holding it she felt safe. As if everything would be alright. After a few seconds the agent trio came into the room smirking.
"Why would you rig your own room to explode?" Kim asked.
"We got pinged as soon as you accessed our location. I don't know how you did it, but you should really think further ahead. Did you really think we wouldn't know you'd come running after that? We even cleared out the building so we'd have no interruptions"
"We saw your little friend pass out last time and timed how long he was out, judging by his condition and your faces I'm going to assume there's no more surprise backup coming. This time you're not getting away." Chi said.
Josh and Kim got into fighting positions, but Bonnie could only kneel in front of Ron, holding his sword. They looked worried but hoped she could distract epsilon long enough for them to help. Beta was armed with tonfa, chi seemed to have a lot more knives to spare this time. They seemed intent on killing them by hand. The duos began their bout. Epsilon walked up to Bonnie besides Ron's collapsed form.
"I'll be nice since you clearly aren't a fighter. I'll let you run away while I dispose of him. It would be a pain if he came after us when we were done with his little friends over there."
"I'm not leaving his side." Bonnie said while looking at the ground, a tear running down her cheek. "You're not going to lay a hand on him."
Epsilon shook his head. "Look little girl, there's nothing you can do to even make me move. Let alone hurt me. I'm not going to fall for your little cat and mouse game this time. You can either be gone by the time I'm done with him or you can be next. Up to you." Satisfied that he was being fair, he began pulling back his fist to pound in Ron's skull.
Bonnie's tears grew into a stream. She felt pathetic. Ron had protected her several times. He would die for her. On several occasions he nearly had. She couldn't even protect him for a couple of minutes. He was going to die and she was powerless to stop it.
When she saw his fist begin to come forward something came over her. Her eyes changed. She let out a wail and surprisingly he flew into the wall. The sword left her hands and sat in a sheathe on her back. She didn't bother questioning it. Now was not the time. Now she had to protect Ron. She ran forward and grabbed Epsilon's shirt, she then flung him out of the giant hole in the room onto the street below. She then hit him with a combination of lefts and rights.
Josh and Beta looked on. "Alright, makes sense." Beta said, clearly not understanding what just happened.
Kim was shocked as well. She watched as Bonnie jumped three stories and land perfectly fine, as if it was an everyday occurrence. She momentarily forgot her opponent even existed. That moment ended with a knife in her chest. Right into her heart. Kim sunk to the ground on her knees. Chi began to gloat, leaning for to whisper into her ear as blood dripped from her lips.
"This blade has serrated edges. The pain you're experiencing now is nothing compared to what you'll be feeling in just a few seconds as soon as I pull it out of your chest, the world will be down one annoying little superhero. Don't worry though. Your little boyfriend will be following you next."
Chi had heard many things during a person's final moments. Pleading, begging, cursing his name, requests, all of it. Or so he thought. He did not expect to hear her laugh. Her laugh was quite disturbing. It continued on for a few seconds, he cringed. A thought soon entered his mind that he may actually be doing the world a favor by killing her. Laughing with a knife in her heart, this chick was more twisted than he was.
He felt himself get shoved across the room into the wall. He couldn't believe his eyes as she got up and pulled the knife from her own chest. She should have been bleeding out, what he saw was her flesh repair nigh instantly. He blinked a few times so make sure he saw things correctly.
"Unlike you, I'm not a murderer. I am petty though. You wanted to make my last moments painful. Lets see how painful I can make your next few minutes."
Ron's Mind
"Chosen one."
Ron heard the voice and began to stir and push himself up with a groan. When he opened his eyes he could see his hands and body, but beyond that it was simply a black void. He stood up and looked around and the void continued in all directions. It was similar to his meditation place but not quite the same. Something unnerved him.
"Chosen one." The voice echoed throughout the void. It was deep and exceedingly intimidating.
He heard the voice once again and jumped, raising his fists instinctively. "Who are you?"
"I will allow you to feel my presence. You know who I am."
Ron began searching for ki and instantly knew who it was. He scowled and spat out one word. "Yono."
"Now now chosen one. Is that any way to speak to me?" He said humorously.
"Considering you're probably about to try to kill me again, yes. It is the perfect way to talk to you. Your ki is vile."
"Let's get one thing straight. I don't try to kill anything. If I wanted you dead you would be dead."
"You tried to suffocate me!"
"So it's my fault now that you were too weak to endure my presence? I was simply trying to understand what you were."
"Well you know what I am. Why are you not killing me? I'm the Chosen one."
Yono chuckled at the words. "I have bore witness to a few chosen ones in my time, although you seem to have the most potential. It matters not to me however."
"It...doesn't? Are we going to fight soon?"
"Yes, very soon."
"Why wouldn't you try to end me now? It doesn't make sense."
"We will fight when we are destined chosen one. It does not matter if you defeat me in that instance or not. I am eternal. I am the darkness. I am Yono."
"Ugh dude you sound like such a cliché bad guy."
"Or maybe the bad guys were copying me?"
Ron scratched his head. "Actually if you're as old as sensei says you are you're probably right. None of that matters though. If you aren't here to kill me then why are you here?"
"Amusement."
"Are you going to do one of those sensei answers that aren't really answers?"
"No, become I am not an old fool." Yono scoffed
"Then give me a straight answer, why are you here?"
"To help you."
"Why in the hell would I need your help?"
A shadow humanoid form appeared before Ron and outstretched it's hand. It then seemed to materialize a crystal ball from nothing. "This is why."
Something began to play within the ball and Ron stepped closer. It was BonBon. She was fighting that giant dude he took out last time. She wasn't just dodging! She was on the offensive. She knocked him into a car then performed a running knee into his sternum and followed up with an elbow to his chin. He was curious as to how she was doing all of this and then saw that her eyes were blue, he couldn't help but be proud of her.
"BonBon is kicking ass, why do I need you?" Ron said with a cocky grin.
"Look closer."
Ron looked again and tried to discern his meaning. After a few seconds of analysis he caught it. For all the hits she was landing, at best she was just annoying him. Maybe leaving some bruises. It took all of his strength to lay him out and even in her current state Bonnie was nowhere close. If anything she was on a similar level to Kim and Josh. She was completely inexperienced with her powers which meant…
"Her strength is going to run out. She's going to become too weak to even dodge for a decent period of time, then he's going to kill her." Ron growled out.
The shadow being leaned in and whispered to him. "Yes, but you can save her."
"How can I save her? I'm stuck here because I used up all of my energy protecting them from the explosion. Even if I woke up now I wouldn't be strong enough."
"I can help with that."
Ron frowned. This guy was basically ancient Japanese Satan. There had to be a catch. "What do you want?"
"I just want to enjoy the show. We can save your little girlfriend. Allow me to awaken something latent within you. All you have to do is say yes."
Ron still didn't trust him as far as he could throw his incorporeal body, but he had no choice if he wanted to save Bonnie.
"Yes."
Bonnie performed a step up enziguri which seemed to daze epsilon, then ran with every muscle fiber she could and performed a double leg dropkick. He crashed into a building and a pile of debris from the wall fell onto him. The area had long since cleared of civilians so she was not concerned about hurting anyone.
Bonnie began walking towards the rubble to see if she had finally taken him down. She put every ounce of strength she could into that kick. She finally understood somewhat what Ron felt like whenever he went all out like this. When she had only walked halfway she knew she was done. She was almost completely out of gas. She got down to one knee. Fortunately she was still conscious unlike Ron though.
"Hope it was enough." She said to herself. She saw the rubble begin to move then a hand pop out. The guy began clawing himself out of the pile. From what she could see through the dust he had a few scratches but that was it. He was almost completely unharmed. He walked up to her while dusting himself off. His expression was blank as he stood above her. She couldn't move.
"I don't really need to know how your powers work to know you'd tire yourself out eventually. That's why going full offense off the bat isn't recommended. Ah, why am I telling you this. You're about to die anyway."
Bonnie chuckled as he prepared an axe handle blow. She didn't care if she died now. She protected her everything. It was worth it. She saw the hands coming down towards her and steadied herself for instant death. She then felt a wind and saw the guy flying a few feet backwards. When she looked around she saw Ron's pants and smiled. He brushed his hand into her hair and she nuzzled into it without a care in the world. She looked up to see her hero then shirked away. His eyes weren't blue like normal. They were glowing blood red.
"Ron, are you alright?"
His smile was off. "I feel just fine. I'll be back in a bit. I just need to take out the trash."
Ron began walking towards epsilon who had already picked himself up. He hadn't hit him very hard. Soon he would know why. "Quite bold of you to try to destroy what's mine."
"It's just the job." He said while cracking his joints.
Ron laughed, it sounded evil. It wasn't corny Zorpox evil though. It was a confident one. "I'll tell you what, today I'm feeling generous. You were only doing it as part of the job after all, so I'll give you a handicap." Ron waved his hands then put them in his pockets. "I'll only use my legs to beat you. You should be able to keep up with that."
"You sure are arrogant for a guy who has only managed to put me down for a couple of seconds."
Ron smiled and his eyes widened. "Don't blink."
Bonnie looked on as they began. Ron seemed to lift one leg to take a step, then he was already in front of the guy. She never saw him move. He then kicked Epsilon so hard he made a sound she thought no human could make as he flew almost thirty feet down the street. One second Ron was almost in front of her, the next he was behind epsilon again. She was not insane. Previously even if she couldn't see it fully she could tell he was moving. Now she couldn't tell if he was just that fast or if he was teleporting.
"You're trash." Ron said before kicking Epsilon back towards Bonnie. She shrieked as the large man kept flying towards her, but when he was a few feet away appeared in front of her and kicked him over fifty feet into the air.
Bonnie thought he would just let him fall, but he once again practically teleported as soon as he kicked him. Ron was…..floating there, waiting. When he was close Ron lifted a foot and kicked his skull back downward. He kicked him so hard that Epsilon left a small crater. He seemed to be passing out with blood dripping down, but suddenly Ron had plunged a foot into his stomach, causing him to cough up more blood. The red flecks littered the street as the crater grew larger. She looked at Ron and he had a disgusting sadistic smirk on his face. She shivered. That could not Ron.
Ron walked slowly over to Epsilon and wrapped his tail around his neck and lifted him to eye level. He looked as if he at the very least had a concussion. Probably more. "What's wrong? We're just getting started." His smirk grew as he tightened his tail around Epsi's neck. He reached for the tail to attempt to loosen it but it would not budge.
"First you try to kill my girlfriend then you touch me? Know your place filth." Ron lifted one had from his pocket and held it in a thumping shape. He waited just long enough for epsi to realize what he was doing before he broke one rib. Then another. Then another. The sound of the bones snapping was like music to his ears as they echoed throughout the neighborhood.
"I-I'm" Epsilon tried to speak, but soon what felt like a sledgehammer slammed into his stomach causing him to cough up more blood, some getting onto Ron's face.
He licked the blood near his lips. "I'm sorry? I can't hear you."
"I'm sorry for attacking her."
Once again Ron slammed a fist into his stomach. This time even harder. The coughing causing Ron to laugh. Ron raised his fist again but before he could land another striker Bonnie stood between him and his prey. "Stand aside weakling. I'm handling this."
"Ron….he's done."
"He's done when I say he's done."
Bonnie gulped before speaking. This was not her Ron. "Ron….you're going to have to hurt me if you want to keep hurting him."
"Are you stupid!? He just tried to kill you."
"All you have to do is shove me out the way and you can keep hurting him. That's it." She looked him right in the eye. "You said you'd never hurt me. Is hurting him worth harming me?"
Ron unclenched his fist which caused her to flinch slightly, but she did not move. He placed his hand around her neck and his hand began to shake. His mind was telling him to toss her aside but his body would no longer move. She closed her eyes as if she accepted whatever he was going to do next. He released Epsilon with a fling and he laid on the ground a few feet behind her. His tail was working fine but his hand would simply not obey.
Bonnie wrapped her hands around his wrist and opened her eyes again. "I'm your BonBon, your little treat. Do you want to hurt me?"
Ron pulled her a little closer and she squeaked. His little treat. His BonBon. The person he made the deal to protect. He didn't want to hurt her, even a little bit. He never would. He closed the distance and kissed her lips for a few seconds before pulling back and allowing her to see his eyes. They slowly returned to their regular color and she rushed into him for a fierce hug.
"No Bonnie. I don't want to hurt you. I would never hurt you." He kissed the top of her head. "I'm sorry."
Basically unbeknownst to them, their entire altercation had been watched by the alternate duos. Well, Chi could only half watch as Kim had spent the past several minutes sitting on his stomach while punching him in the face. It was never hard enough to knock him out, it was just hard enough to make him regret stabbing her while he tasted his own blood in his mouth. Finally after they saw Ron and Bonnie hugging she just punched him hard and caused him head to bounce off the floor as he fell unconscious.
Beta dropped his weapons and raised his hands. "I don't want any of what you did to Chi. I definitely don't want any part of Crazy McSadist out there. Just take me in."
Kim looked at Josh and saw Beta was likely on the up and up. She grabbed the handcuffs from one of her cargo pockets and slapped them on him. "Why aren't you trying to run? Why agree to this?"
Beta smirked and said just enough to cause Kim to shiver. "Global Justice can't hold us."
So originally this chapter was going to be about double the length so I decided to split it in two. It would probably be a massive annoying jump if I just made the chapter 3 or 4k longer than anything else I've written for this story for no reason. I hope you all enjoy the story to come. I've been thinking about this chapter and the next arc for months. I'm so excited you have no idea. Although this arc does have a few more twists...so stay on your toes.
