-TV ON-

Channel 6:

A crowd, mostly teenagers, marches in downtown Middleton. They chant and carry signs that say Bring Back K & R or Middleton Civics Class: Save the World and Get Expelled or Middleton High Stands Behind Its Heroes!

A reporter – a young man in a blue suit – stands in the foreground.

"You can see behind me the students of Middleton High School, many of whom are members of the sports teams who have quit in protest of Kim Possible's expulsion. That's right: no football team, no soccer team, no – "

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Channel 9:

Josh Mankey appears on screen, speaking into a microphone. A female voice, presumably a reporter, asks him questions from off-camera.

"Now, you were actually injured in last spring's attack…in fact, the word is that you were hurt more severely than anyone but Kim Possible herself."

"That's true. My jaw and the orbital bone around my left eye both needed surgical repair."

"And yet you want to bring Kim back?"

"And Ron. Absolutely. They've done too much, and sacri –

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Channel 3:

A middle-aged male reporter in the "distinguished gentleman" mold holds up a microphone to a man who was clearly chosen for his somewhat scruffy, beer-bellied appearance.

"I think these kids got a lotta nerve, protesting a decision from the superintendent. I mean, what're they gonna do next? Hold a love-in when this Rockwaller b(beep)'s boyfriend gets detention? Talk about putting the inmates in charge of the asylum! We need to –

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Channel 5:

Kathy Rockwaller speaks into another microphone.

"Yes, I was one of the parents who demanded that Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable be removed from Middleton High School. But I was wrong about that, and I now hope that I can help to undo the damage I've done."

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Channel 7:

" – the third mutilated pet found in the Wannaweep area in the last two weeks, raising fears that – "

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Channel 6:

Felix's wheelchair flies overhead, pulling a banner that reads: GIVE THEM BACK THEIR SENIOR YEAR!

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Channel 7:

" – camp's caretaker is being sought for questioning, but can't be located at this time – "

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Channel 13:

A crowd of adults, much smaller than the crowd of teenagers, marches and chants, waving signs that say: Keep Our Children Safe – Keep Kim Possible Out or Terrorist Attacks Shouldn't Be On the Lunch Menu. One shows Kim in her battle suit, holding her EMP gun. It reads: No Weapons In Our School! Some have brought small children with them, and one little girl is holding a sign nearly her own size that reads Please Keep Me Safe

Felix flies above them, still pulling his banner. Some shout or even halfheartedly swing their signs at him, but he is out of reach.

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Channel 5:

Ron and Kim's Parents stand in front of a bristling forest of microphones. Surprisingly, it is Mr. Stoppable who speaks.

"Of course we intend to pursue legal action. The school district skipped over whole volumes of due process in their eagerness to expel our kids. If nothing else, a pair of minors were released from the school in the middle of the day without us even being notified."

"Mr. Possible! Where are Kim and…uh, Ron…now?"

Mr. Dr. Possible leans toward the microphone that the questioner is holding toward him.

"They're at a private school right now, which has requested that we don't give their name out. They don't want their classes disrupted by a lot of media attention."

"Is it true that many prestigious schools and academies have offered to take Kim in?"

Now it's Mrs. Dr. P who leans in.

"That's true. But both Kim and Ron would prefer to finish their senior year at home, with their friends."

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CNN:

The very image of the stereotype associated with the word "General" – a dignified, middle-aged man with short-cropped silver hair in a dress uniform bedecked with medals and rank insignia – steps up to a bank of microphones.

The United States Army would like to join the other branches of the Service in condemning this betrayal of two genuine American heroes. We have offered both Kimberly Ann Possible and her partner the opportunity to take high school completion courses at West Point, but – "

(Phone Rings)

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"Hello?"

A female voice speaks: "Superintendent Burlson?"

"This is he. How may I help you?"

"I'm a friend of Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable – "

"Now look here, I don't – "

Overriding him: "And believe it or not, I'm your friend, too."

Suspiciously: "What do you mean?"

"I'm going to give you some friendly advice."

"Oh, really. What's that?"

"Let them come back, or your state and federal funding will be cut to a sliver of their current size."

"Even if I believed you, I don't respond well to threats."

"This isn't a threat, Stuey. It's a warning. If someone has to come to you about this officially, it will cost you. You do still want to build that new sports complex, don't you? If you get stubborn on this, you won't have enough money to replace that broken bench in the front row of the visitors' bleachers."

"What? How do you – "

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Superintendent Stuart Burlson hung up the phone, turned off the television, and carefully set down the remote control before clenching his fists and growling in impotent rage.

So this was what happened when a man tried to enforce some discipline in his own school in this day and age. Try to hold a spoiled, reckless media star and her thug boyfriend accountable for their actions, and they all turned on you. You'd think that at least the military would be able to see past the covers of all the teen magazines and understand what he was trying to do. But no!

Fine. He would save the students of Middleton High even from themselves if he had to. Maybe it wasn't a fight he could win, but if they were determined to make an example of him, then by God, he would be an example! But not the kind they were trying to make.

He'd show them the real way to run a school before he was through!