Ron was admittedly skeptical about Gemini's offer, but he seemed to be keeping his word. Josh even took the risk and went out alone and there didn't even seem to be anyone tracking him. Still, as a precaution he practically forced Bonnie to stay with him for the time being. Josh and Kim were able tto protect themselves from almost any threats that came at them, Bonnie not so much. The burst of monkey power seemed to come out of desperation and she needed more training to use it consistently. Mrs. Rockwaller didn't seem to mind her staying over. Although when they were picking up some clothes he noticed her motioning at her ring towards Bonnie and all she did was smirk as a reply. Surprisingly the thought didn't scare him at all. It just seemed like a logical extension since he couldn't picture his life without his BonBon in it.

For once he felt like things were going reasonably well. No kidnappings, no attempted murders, no constantly looking over his shoulder and monitoring Bonnie's Ki to see if he needs to rush to her aid. They could go back to regularly attending school without maybe possibly putting their classmates in danger. Things were just normal.

Really there was only one thing that had been weighing on his mind in the past few days. Yono. He had let him in but he honestly wasn't sure if he could have just forced himself in anyway and he was just being "nice." He probably would have found it equally amusing to just watch Bonnie gas out and die while he laid on the ground pathetically while he taunted him. He probably had a couple of hours to kill while Bonnie got ready for their night so he decided to contact sensei again.

"Hello Stoppable-san."

"Hey sensei." He gave him a weary smile.

Sensei floated to eye level and placed a hand on his shoulder. "What is troubling you?"

"Did you feel something….bad a couple of weeks ago?" Ron couldn't even maintain eye contact with his Sensei, he felt almost disgusted with himself.

"Well, there was an energy surge a couple of weeks ago that piqued my interest, but we are not the only beings with ki on the planet Stoppable-san. You just happen to be one of the strongest. Although it felt darker and unlike yours." Sensei noticed that the casual matter of fact statement caused his pupil to flinch. "Were you fighting something?"

"In a manner of speaking."

"Forgive me Stoppable-san, I do not understand."

"That spike in ki that you felt was actually me. Yono helped me and I'm not sure what it was exactly. Not sure if he possessed me or just awakened a dark part of me, but it felt like me and not me at the same time. I said yes to him to save Bonnie."

"Stoppable." Sensei said while shaking his head.

Ron dropped to his knees and bowed. "Sensei, forgive me. I had no other choice. If I didn't help her Bonnie would have died. I wasn't even conscious to say the words to remove the bracelets. I don't think I can live without her."

"You are mistaken my pupil. I am the one who should be asking for forgiveness."

Ron shot up and looked at Sensei with a contorted expression. "Nani!?"

"I have slacked off on your training, believing that you would figure things out on your own. My foolishness and arrogance almost resulted in the death of a loved one, and you feeling what I can only assume is an extreme violation from Yono. Forgive me." Sensei fell to the ground and bowed lower than Ron.

"Sensei! No! No bowing! Please rise! I forgive you!"

"You are very kind Stoppable san." He said while rising but remaining seated on his knees.

"Please never do that again, I almost had a heart attack." Ron said while goofily rubbing his chest.

"A master is not above his students, he is simply further along in the path. Respect must be mutual."

"Uh, ok. Please only do it if you really feel you have to though. What did you mean by you've been slacking on my training. I train for hours every day."

"Stoppable, why were you unconscious? I find it unlikely you were harmed. I sense your strength"

"I had to create a barrier to protect the group from a bomb. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have done much to me, but they might have died. After it hit the the barrier I felt like all my energy was gone and I passed out. I'm sorry to let you down sensei, but I swear I've been training every day!"

Sensei shook his head. "Have no fear Stoppable-san, you could not have known how to train your ki."

"Isn't that what the weights are for!?"

Sensei chuckled. "Steel yourself. They are for your ki, but they are for building your power. You are having an issue with endurance."

"Uh..."

"I will spare you just this once and be blunt. Your training has increased how much energy you can expend at one time, but you lack the ability to maintain it for an extended time period. You are already straining yourself by maintaining a maximum ki level indefinitely, the sudden loss of energy with no tolerance built up causes you to faint."

"If that's the problem then couldn't I just take off the…." Ron stopped mid sentence when he saw sensei's deadpan expression. That was a no. "How do I even train a resistance for that? It doesn't sound fixable."

"You must gather a larger pool of energy while also raising the endurance of your body. Strength and technique are no longer enough. You could likely cut back on the time you spend on technique exercises to fit this in. You are beyond an intermediate so it is not as needed."

"I know you're not being nice, so how do I train my energy endurance?"

"You have mastered holding a large constant amount of energy within yourself, now try to maintain it in an outward fashion, at least during training."

"That sounds….kind of dangerous."

"Do you consider my flight dangerous Stoppable-san?"

"Only if you landed on my head." Ron joked

"Your ki is simply an extension of you. With training and perseverance unless you will it you will not harm anyone."

"How will I know when I've gained enough control from training to not pass out or harm anyone unintentionally?"

"It will be your great honor to figure that out Stoppable-san."

Ron let out his loudest groan possible as that was one of the few sentences sensei could say that would irritate him, but he knew what he had to do now. Sensei gave him a few ideas on things he could attempt to do to begin training his ki. After a few minutes he pulled himself out as he sensed Bonnie coming. He smiled when he saw her in her Spaghetti strap red dress. She looked beautiful every day, but especially tonight. Hopefully he could make it special for her.

"Why in the hell am I doing this?" Shego muttered to herself before turning on her laptop, wine glass in hand. She sat down on her couch in her silk green robe. She waited for her computer to finish booting up and clicked on something she had previously set up. Her expression dulled slightly when she saw him.

There he was with his little girlfriend. His tux was fairly standard fare, her dress on the other hand looked fairly nice. From what she dug up about her she was upper middle class, so she didn't really expect any less. It didn't help her mood that she filled out the dress more than most models would. She had no idea why this bothered her but it did. It had ever since their first fight, even if she didn't know it yet. At the time she just thought she was itching for a rematch. What fighter wouldn't want a rematch after that stunt? He casually bitch slapped her across the floor, although given what she did to his little girlfriend she probably deserved that one.

After that day she wasn't really feeling the super villainy so she asked Dr. D to not come up with any crazy plans for the next few months, or if he did to not involve her or they would have a rousing round of Drakken go ouch. She was set on money for the foreseeable future so she didn't really need the job. It was just something to do. She couldn't really focus anyway, every time she tried the usual reading a magazine all she could think about was fighting him again and settling that she was his better when she went all out.

For just a few seconds she looked back at the security cameras, there he was, dancing, having the time of his life, and whispering sweet nothings in Rottweiler's ear. She growled and clutched her laptop. Why did she care? Why was this setting her off? Admittedly when she looked for a few more moments she felt a warmth in her chest. That was mainly due to the fact that them dancing made her think of her and Ron's "dance." That fight in the warehouse was the first time anyone ever kept up with her when she fought for real. Most people feared her so it didn't come up, but she doesn't kill people. Which meant she constantly had to pull her punches. Her brother Hego was stronger than her physically by a bit but he couldn't keep up in speed. Kimmie could keep up in speed but she was kind of like a gnat, there wasn't much she could actually do to hurt her. The other part of that being that unless she wanted to literally punch her spleen and rib cage through her spine she had to pull her punches with her significantly.

Down the villain pipeline she heard Kimmie got some upgrades. Her dad was some kind of mechanical nerd so she figured it had to be nanobots, Kim sure wasn't a robot but she wasn't exactly normal either. Still, even with her upgrades she wouldn't be able to keep up. Ron and her were on an entirely different level. She got lucky once and saw Them try to fight Ron. The operative word being try. It was almost comedic , and the few times she peeked in on him training lead her to believe the gap had gotten even bigger.

Her heart raced at the thought of their next fight. She hadn't trained much since she first got her powers outside of learning new forms of martial arts for entertainments sake, she had no reason to. Now she felt as if she was getting stronger every day and she was excited to learn what her limits were. Would it be enough? Or would he wrap his hands around her wrists, pinning her to the...Her thought was interrupted when she saw him kiss Bonnie. Her thumb casually broke off part of her coffee table and she sighed, forgetting her own strength. She was so concerned with the thought of replacing the table that she didn't think about why she had broken it to begin with, or rather she was occupying her mind to keep a thought from seeping in.

Maybe the fight wasn't what caused her heart to race.

I'll likely sit down and try to come up with an outline for the next lilypad chapter soon. HA seems to just be flowing in my head so I've been trying to thinking about how to connect to later chapters from where I am. So It came to my attention that the site has been glitchy and deleting chapters or just not uploading them. If it keeps up I might have to either split it up or put more effort into AO3