Okay,looks like I'm able to balance things out between college and fan fiction...for now.Anyways…
Zaratan – It's going to be a very interesting triangle if…nonono…when Tara sees Ron and Yori together.
DarkJackel – As much as I'm intrigued by the idea of having the girls duke it out WWE…nah, Rumble Roses style (Those who played the game know what I'm talking about.), temptation might change the way the story goes in terms of who gets paired with Ron. As for Felix going to Wade for help? Well…
eckles – I'm already feeling bad for Tara for what I'm about to do. Also, Tara'll have to take a long look at herself.
campy – For the Ned/Hope date thing. You should know where they standby the end ofthis chapter.
Emerald Dark Knight – The Chaos begins in this chapter, as Ron encounters not only Fukushima, but two old friends…
Charles Gray – Kim isn't going to be forced out of Middleton. More than likely, it's gong to be out of her own accord.
Texan Ranger – On the Ron killing Fukushima idea? I already have one in mind.
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Chapter 16: Showdown At The Pier
Ron dropped down from the steel boxes as he looked around his surroundings. Dressed in black ninja garb, he scanned the entire area for a hint of Fukushima's presence. The area appeared to be deserted and secluded. Probably Fukushima's ideal place, where there wouldn't be any witnesses to see. Then he could do his deed of attempting to kill him. Leaving no one else to even suspect a thing.
To be honest, he couldn't help but feel a hint of nervousness in him. The situation itself aside, this would be where everything Ron has learned over the past few weeks, as well as his first visit, would be tested. His fighting skills, his weapon mastery, everything… Even now he wasn't sure what he was going to do when he saw the traitor. He's already done a lot of things, unforgivable things. Such as turning over the Lotus Blade to Monkey Fist, betraying the school's secrets. And his latest action, forcibly deflowering Yori, was the lowest thing he's ever done. And if Ron had his way, Fukushima would be paying for a long time…
Ever since that day, Ron's views have changed. Before then… hell, before he left Middleton, Ron always thought that he was trying his hardest to keep the truth about Yamanouchi a secret, by not fighting, by not showing his true skills. But lately he had come to terms: He was a pacifist. He didn't like to fight at all, and desperately looked for any possible away to avoid coming down to it. Perhaps that would explain why Ron didn't fight back against the bullies and jocks that made him a personal punching bag. Maybe that's why he accepted his role as the distraction all of these years! But what would explain why he liked the GWA? Honestly? He didn't know why? Maybe it was a sign of his pacifist views slowly fading away. After what Kim did to him, they faded even more. And after Yori was raped by Fukushima, even a hairline of it was barely there.
As he clutched onto his staff, his thoughts then went back to Yori. Should he have let her come along? After all, she had as much of a grudge against him as he did. But despite the way she may appear, Yori wasn't the same. Not after that night. It was already bad enough that he'd have to probably use everything he could to hold back from killing him, without worrying about Fukushima getting the better of Yori's emotions, whether they be of fear of a repeat of the events that transpired, or would they be of rage where Yori would do the unthinkable and kill Fukushima. If the latter would to happen, Yori wouldn't be able to live with herself by taking another person's life, even if they did take away her innocence. And the worst thing about it, after knowing what Hitomi had told him, Ron felt that he was responsible…well…more responsible than he previously thought. If he hadn't even showed up the first time, he probably wouldn't have made an enemy of Fukushima, let alone resulting the trauma his friend experienced just to send him a message.
"Where the hell are you…" Ron muttered, continuing his advances as he looked around, still staying on his guard. Knowing Fukushima's underhanded style, he was looking for an ambush. Ron would be unprepared and unprotected. However, Fukushima would be in for a great surprise. "I know you're around here! If you keep hiding you're just going to make it worse for yourself!"
"I'm here, Outsider!" A voice hissed as Fukushima dropped down from the tall structure he was standing on. "So you decided to show up. Admirable, but foolish!"
"The only fool here is the one I'm looking at." Ron said coldly. "You've made a big mistake. Actually, you've already begun to make mistakes when you sold out the school and gave the Lotus Blade to Monkey Fist, Traitor! Not to mention what you've-"
"Silence!" The disgraced ninja hissed. "The Lotus Blade is gone now, and you are nothing without it!"
"Funny, the last time you said it you've got beat, badly." Ron sighed, "So let's get this over with! I came to fight you so you'll go away for good and get out of my life!"
"Very well, Outsider. Very well!"
"Then why are we talking?" Ron got into a fighting pose. "Why don't we just start?"
"But first…" Fukushima's grin grew wide. "I have a few friends of mine I'd like you to meet."
'A trap…' Ron sighed. Why was he not surprised? Trickery and deceit were basically the trademarks of Fukushima, after all. "Who are they, some other ninja dropouts like you? Or are they just common street thugs who decided to leech off of you?"
No Outsider, not these friends. I believe that you know them quite well!"
Ron sighed, "Oh great… Monkey Fist and his band of Monkey Ninjas." He said sarcastically. "I'm jumping for joy…"
"Not exactly, Stoppable!" A familiar voice said as its owner stepped out from the shadows into full view next to Fukushima. Much to Ron's shock…or was it disbelief?
"You got to be kidding me…" He exclaimed. "Out of all people, you joined up with him? Him?"
Middleton, Colorado. 11:37 PM"So did you find anything?" Tara asked behind Felix, who was browsing through the web for the soonest, let alone affordable flight.
"Nah…" He shook his head. He had already tried to call Ron's cell phone, but no answer. Either he was at a place where there was no phone service, he turned it off, it got destroyed, or, in worst case scenario, Monkey Fist had not only got to Ron, but he was… Felix shook his head. No way. He may've only seen him on a mission once, but there was no way he could've went down that easy. He may've been a bit of a klutz, but he wasn't stupid enough to get killed. Nevertheless, he had a bad feeling, and the sooner he got to Ron, the better. After all, Monkey Fist was ready to have one of his simian ninjas do physical harm to Tara, and that was just to find out where he was. If he was ready and willing to do that to a defenseless, a bit timid, teenage girl, he didn't even want to think about what he'd do to Ron. And the worst thing is: They knew that Ron was in Japan, let alone at the Yamanouchi school. However, they didn't have any idea where the school was. The only one who might possibly know where it was, because of her relationship with Hirotaka, was Bonnie. However, not even she knew exactly where it was.
Speaking of Bonnie, she was lying on the soft couch. Watching the TV as she had a smile on her face. As her bare feet rubbed upon the soft fabric of the couch, she let out a sigh. Her life, as of right now, could be better, but it was still nice either way. She had at least two friends, not friends as in people who wanted to be with the popular girl, but true friends. Friends who'd stand by her through thick and thin, no matter how bad things were. It was nice to have a boyfriend who didn't think about sex every ten minutes, grabbed you, and basically treat you like a trophy, a conquest. Felix may've been confined to a wheelchair, but that didn't mean everything didn't work, as she found out at the hospital. Much to his embarrassment of course!
Bonnie let out a sigh. Soon, Felix would be somewhere with her where there won't be anyone to disturb them, alone. And when that time came, there was nothing he could do to stop it from happening. Felix Renton was truly going to be hers and she his, whether he liked it or not. Even though there wasn't any reason why he shouldn't like it at all. Even if he was super green at this, it only made it even more fun.
"The earliest time the next flight from Japan leaves would be around 5:00 in the morning." Felix explained.
"But what if Monkey Fist gets to him?" Tara asked. Concern was evident in her voice. "What if we're too late?"
"There's no way Monkey Fist could possibly get there that fast. It would have to be a 16-hour flight to get to Japan all the way from Middleton. And that's if it goes non-stop." Felix clicked on a few links as when the screen had finished loading up, he sighed out of disappointment. "No dice. This flight doesn't leave until Tuesday, not to mention that it costs around $500."
"I'll use my savings it if means that Ron'll be okay!" Tara declared.
"But still, it doesn't help us if we leave several days later as Monkey Fist is probably already in Japan by now." Felix reminded as he checked the prices and availability of the tickets for another flight. "Well, we can scratch Delta Airlines out, their prices are outrageous."
"We could always take a boat." Tara reminded.
"Boats take forever. A plane is our fastest and best bet." Felix sighed. "There's a strong force that's really working against us. Looks like we have no alternative if we want to get to Japan…"
Bonnie managed to hear this as she pulled herself up to look behind at the chestnut-haired boy. "Oh no! We are not, and I repeat, not asking for Kim's help!" She outright stated. The last thing she wanted was help from the person who's caused her nothing but frustration since day one, let alone the reason why she was kicked off the squad, suspended, and had to go to Summer School!"
Tara looked back, "Do you have a better way to get us there, then Bonnie?" She asked, eyes slightly narrowing, as her brunette-haired friend was silent. "I didn't think so!"
"What's your problem, Tara?" Bonnie asked. Perhaps the reason why she was so silent was because she was in shock of Tara's tone of voice.
She sighed, "Nothing, it's just that. Well… I'm just worried, that's all." Tara shook her head as she left Felix's side and headed for the bathroom. "I'll be right back…"
Bonnie watched the platinum-blonde leave as a devilish grin formed on her face. "Alone at last…"
"So not the time, Bon." Felix said as he desperately searched on a web for cheap tickets for an immediate flight to Japan. However, the lowest price he managed to get was 300 dollars, but according to the website, they were a day late to order the tickets. "Looks like we have no other choice."
"Forget it Felix!" Bonnie crossed her arms. "There's like, no way I'm going over and ask Kim for help!"
"Not my intention." Felix opened a new window. "That's why I'm calling Wade."
"Are you even sure that he'll help us! We all know that he's Kim's personal hacker." Bonnie scoffed, "Can't see why he's still even with her."
"Trust me, Wade may work for Kim, but even he knows when to draw the line with her." Felix assured as he opened up an IM box…
Zombi3MashrKing439: hey wade
Trekkiefan392: felix? hi how r u
Zombi3MashrKing439: no complaints u
Trekkiefan392: it's been better
Zombi3MashrKing439: wade we need to ask u a favor.
Trekkiefan382: sure, what is it
Zombi3MashrKing439: u have to promise me that u won't tell anyone, specially kim
Trekkiefan392: does this have something to do with ron
Zombi3MashrKing439: it has EVERYTHING to do with him. monkey fist is looking for him. thats why we need a ride to japan.
Trekkiefan392: felix, you know that i cant just use a favor without kim knowing
Zombi3MashrKing439: c'mon wade just this once
Trekkiefan392: u know kim's been looking for him, right? I tried tracing his tracking chip, but it ended up well
Zombi3MashrKing439: well what
"So what's happening?" Bonnie asked, now leaning onto Felix's right shoulder as the boy sighed.
"Not exactly the best. Apparently he doesn't want to risk Kim finding out that he helped us find Ron without telling her. She's been having Wade tracking him down."
"Well she's going to be in for a surprise." Bonnie smirked. "Didn't he get rid of the chip before he left?"
"Unless Wade gave him two chips, she doesn't know where he is." Felix gave his two cents as Bonnie read the chat transcript, including the new one from Wade.
Trekkiefan392: let's just say that she saw ssj in a position she never want to see ever again.
Zombi3MashrKing439: oh man lol
"SSJ?" Bonnie asked, confused.
"Senor Senior Junior." Felix informed. "Son of Senor Senior Sr."
"Oh." Bonnie nodded as Felix continued the cyber chat…
Zombi3MashrKing439: so wade, think that u can help us
Bonnie noticed the lack of activity coming from Wade's side. "So…is he going to help us or tell Kim where he is?" She scoffed, "Probably telling Kim about this right now."
"I don't think that Wade's one to just snitch." Felix assured, waiting for Wade's response.
Trekkiefan392: for this trip is it just u or r u with someone else
Felix was about to type before a doorbell began to ring, interrupting him. His mom had to go to a special retirement party at the space center with Kim's dad, leaving Felix alone. She was reluctant to have Bonnie stay over with Felix without any adult supervision, but with Tara being there, she felt more secure that there wouldn't be any hanky-panky going on. He decided to answer the door. "I'll be right back."
"No, I'll get the door. You keep trying to get our ride." Bonnie said as she walked towards the brown door before turning the knob. As the door opened, she smiled at the person on the other side. "So, how was your night?" She asked slyly.
Hope sighed as she walked in. "It was very tiring. I like him and I think he's cute and all, but Ned is so damn boring!" She explained as she literally collapsed on the couch. "We had dinner, and he paid for the whole thing."
"Well, that was sweet of him." Bonnie admitted.
"It was…at least would've been if it wasn't at the freaking Mucho Grande Bueno Nacho in Go City!" Hope exclaimed. "And I thought Ron Stoppable was obsessed with the damn restaurant. Then we went to see a movie. It was sweet of him to pick a chick flick." She groaned in frustration. "Too bad it turned out to be so boring that even I fell asleep."
"So are you going to dump him?" Bonnie asked, but was rewarded with a death glare from the ebony-haired cheerleader.
"No!" Hope adamantly stated, "But next time, I'm calling the shots. I decide where we going, and I'm deciding when to take it to the next-"
"Hope, I don't think he even knows how to take it to the next level! It's not like he actually had a girlfriend before, right?"
"Hey Bon!" Felix called out. "It's just you me and Tara going on this trip right?"
The brunette nodded. "Right." She turned back to Hope. "Felix is trying to get Kim's hacker to get us a ride to Japan."
"I told Wade that we needed a ride for three people." Felix explained.
"Three people?" Hope raised an eyebrow.
"Is something wrong?" Bonnie asked as she soon, from Hope's annoyed expression, decided that it was obvious enough. Of course she wanted to go, too. Like her and Tara, Hope also, for some reason, had some amends to make with Ron. She turned to her boyfriend. "You better make that four, Babe!"
Zombi3MashrKing439: make that me bonnie tara and hope
TrekkieFan392: i will see what i can do
"What did he say?" Bonnie asked.
"He said that he's going to see what he can do! Hopefully, we can leave quickly." Felix looked towards the direction Tara left the room. "She's sure spending a long time in the bathroom."
"Well we do have to make sure our makeup is on right." Bonnie told him.
Hope asked, "You're really new with this girlfriend thing, aren't you?"
"I'm a greenhorn." Felix admitted.
Inside the BathroomTara sighed as she washed her hands in the white marble sink. It was only half correct when she had to use the restroom. The half being that she had to fix her makeup a bit. The other half was that she just needed to be alone.
Her thoughts went to the eventual trip to Japan, to warn Ron about Monkey Fist. While she was ready to go on the next flight to Tokyo, a part of her was nervous. What would happen when she see him? What would happen when she saw his new life? Or worse case scenario: Ron could've already moved on with his life and found someone new. Ron might have not had any luck with women, let alone good, but then again he did have a much better time there than he ever did in Middleton. This girl may've been the nicest girl on the planet on the first day he met her, while Tara was the opposite. At least she wasn't as mean to him as Bonnie was. But still, if he could remember being locked in a closet during the Spirit Dance last year then he could remember Tara being cruel to him. For all he knew, she could've moved on. But if he only knew, if he only knew that she did not indeed move on.
But that still didn't change the possible fact that Ron has indeed moved on. He probably had the affections of some Japanese schoolgirl who wouldn't want to leave his side for even a second. She probably was everything a guy could ever want: Beautiful, smart, kind, sweet, understanding, supportive. Not that Tara lacked any of the above qualities. But Ron's possible new girlfriend was probably brave as well. A quality, Tara admitted, she was somewhat lacking in. After all, she did hide in a locker of all places during Kim and Bonnie's confrontation. She was surprised that she didn't have the reputation of the most timid girl in Middleton High, hell even all of Middleton! Also, she bet that she could defend herself while Tara…well…let's just say that the encounter of Monkey Fist showed exactly of her capabilities of defending herself.
Tara looked at herself in the mirror above the sink. She had a lovely pair of blue eyes, as well as wavy platinum-blonde hair that went down to her waist. As for her body in particular, her legs weren't exactly short, but they weren't too long either. Her hips were wide, but a bit higher then the rest of the cheerleaders as her breasts weren't too small, but not too big either. They were bigger than Hope's and Marcella's, but Bonnie was the one who was the most well endowed with Kim and Liz tying for 2nd place, as she found out one day while changing out of their cheer uniforms. But out of the members of the cheer squad, before and after Bonnie and Kim were kicked off, Tara was the most conservatively dressed. Her basic outfit is lime-green sleeveless top and a black/blue plaid-style skirt. And the only time she wore something that exposed her mid-section was when she was in her cheer uniform or in a bathing suit. To some jocks, she was too conservatively dressed compared to the other cheerleaders. Even Kim usually wore a midriff. Personally, she never was concerned with the way she was dressed, except for when Bonnie gave some suggestions to help her win Josh Mankey over. But now with the fear that she was going to lose any chance to have a relationship with Ron, she was going to have to compete with whoever the girl who was interested in Ron, and she didn't even know what the girl looked like.
Tara sighed as she looked at herself in the mirror for the last time. She might've looked fine to Ron, but with the possible new standard set by Ron's would-be girlfriend, whoever she was? She knew that deep down, it was time for a change…
Back at the PierRon was in shock.
As he stood there, staff in his hand, he just looked at the two people who were in front of him. One of them, of course was Fukushima. The one who he came after! The one who he wanted to make pay! It was supposed to be him and Fukushima in a duel, quite possibly, to the death. Win, lose, or even death, Ron wanted to make him pay. Pay for his betrayalagainst the school (Even after he defeated him on the mountain, he still felt that he got off easy.). And to pay for what he did to Yori. Now, it appears, that the duel wouldn't have happened, because he had to show up. He just had to be here, let alone when he had nothing, and he meant, nothing to do with this whole thing.
Seriously, just what in the name of all that is holy was Drakken doing here?
"What's the matter Stoppable? Surprised to see me here?" The blue-skinned scientist asked in a taunt. "Wished you were there back in Denver."
"So don't care." Ron dryly said.
Drakken crossed his arms as he fumed. 'You teenagers and your sass!" He then calmed down a bit, "Your old friend Kim messed up big time. You should've seen it. She managed to fire her harpoon at the Eye of Ra and caused it to explode! Almost managed to kill Global Justice and herself. She could've used the shoulder to cry on."
"Not my problem Drakken! This is an A-B confrontation, so why don't you do us all a favor and C your way out of it!"
"I D-cide which confrontation I want to get involved with. Like it or not, we still have an account to settle with you!"
'We?' Ron was only for a second taken back, but then remembered the logical thing, if there was any, about Drakken. Wherever he was, Shego wasn't too far behind. And in this case, she was even closer. As in close enough for a sneak attack… such at this time. Drakken always pimped her out to being some ninja, and that may've been true. She probably was a ninja. But then again, so was he. He was a ninja… at least he was enough of one to see a green-blazed hand headed towards his head.
Drakken began to laugh, knowing that Stoppable wouldn't have seen this coming in time as by then he would've been obliterated. Wiping out the last of the former Team Possible team. However, his laugh vanished as shock replaced the joy of triumph on his face as he saw the man who, until recently, was a total buffoon sidestep and use his sidekick's own momentum against her as she was thrown right towards the mad scientist, knocking them down like pins.
Ron at this point could've sworn that today was officially 'Run down the Ron' day in the villains' community. But then again, Gill, Killigan, and perhaps Frugal Lucre would've been here as well. The two fallen villains, however, quickly recovered as Shego flipped to her feet as Drakken rose to his feet.
"Face it Stoppable, we have you outnumbered. It's 15 against 1!" Drakken gloated with a smile.
"Either you're an even bigger idiot than I thought, or you're really delusional. There's only three of you here!" Ron exclaimed. Was Drakken for real? Maybe the fact that he actually beaten Kim went to his head so he decided to see if he could eliminate him. However, from Drakken's smile, he began to have reservations. Those reservations would prove to be true, however, as Ron saw about 12 more figures drop down, surrounding him and the three who were now smirking at him.
"Meet my new and improved Synthodrones!" Drakken gloated. "Kim Possible has faced the earlier versions, but this time they're even more deadlier as their attack styles were based on your friend here." He explained. Making note that the drones were based majority on Fukushima. "From what our new friend has told us, you were basically looking for revenge, all over some girl… BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT! This is twice the amount Kim Possible had to face. This was all done to finalize the demise of you, Ron Stoppable!"
"Sorry Outsider." The Yamanouchi traitor smirked at the blonde, who looked at the drones that now surrounded him. "You shouldn't have come alone! Now you'll die!"
Ron sighed as he closed his eyes, "Maybe your right. Maybe it was a dumb move of me to come alone. I guess I should've came with friends." He admitted. It was 15 against one. He had to deal with a ninja, a mad scientist and his sidekick with Pyrokinesis, not to mention about 12 Synthodrones. Vegas odds were definitely in Drakken, Shego, and Fukushima's favor. Basically, Ron Stoppable was screwed…or was he?
From behind him, two more figures, dressed in black ninja garb, jump down, followed by two more, and three more, and five more. The other Yamanouchi students, including Yori, Hirotaka, and Hitomi had arrived as backup as Ron let out a smirk. "Oh wait…I did!" Ron knew that Fukushima would've at least bought a few buddies to get the job done, so he decided to let Yori come along just to be safe. Sensei at the end approved of this decision, but on one condition: Hirotaka and Hitomi had to come as well. But then, they also decided to bring along more students, just incase it turned out to be an ambush, like this one. The odds were still 15 against 13. But since allDrakken did was just ran his mouth and was hardly a threat, it was basically 14 against 13. The odds were still against him, but not as bad as it was before.
At sight of her, Fukushima went white as a sheet as he caught her glare… "Y-yori?"
Her eyes narrowed. "Fukushima…" She said coldly, a bit of rage present as she took out her maiougi. "Fukushima no hentai…"
While Fukushima was a bit startled by the girl, to the point where he left and ran, Shego was growing restless. Why did he decide to go chicken at the sight of the girl? Did he piss her off at something? She shrugged it off. It didn't matter why these other people showed up, all that mattered was that they take out Stoppable, and then no one would be able to get in their way of world conquest. Well…there was her family, Team Go, but they never go anywhere outside of Go City anyway so yeah, there wouldn't be anyone.
Drakken just lost it. "GET THEM!" He shouted as the Synthodrones and Shego began the fight with Ron and the young ninjas.
Fukushima, as expected, was nowhere in sight as the students and the drones were paired off. Ron was about to go pursue the traitorous rapist, but was cut off with a green pyro blast.
"You didn't think that I was going to let you forget about me, would you?" Shego asked with a kick as Ron dodged it and threw one of his own. This time, Shego did the dodging.
"This doesn't concern you!" Ron said coldly, "This is just between Fukushima and me!"
"Well he's not around so you're stuck with me!" Shego threw a blazed punch at him, which Ron dodged as well, managing to take her off guard with a leg sweep. However she recover quickly as she fired a few blasts at Ron, who dodged them all. Now putting him on the defensive. The raven-haired villainess smirked. "Looks like the buffoon's graduated from Sidekick School!"
"Funny, you still seem to be in class!" Ron verbally shot back as hard as his next kick. However, it was once again blocked as the two proceeded in a series of punches and kicks that were blocked and taken by the other.
"Where is he…" Yori looked around for Fukushima, the man who had raped her, but he was nowhere to be seen. Ron-San was fighting against the woman with the glowing green hands. Leaving her and the others to fight those machines of this "Drakken." Synthodrones, were they called? They appeared to be made of metal, yet they had a rubbed-like feel to them. She looked around, seeing the other students fairing well. However, Drakken continued to rant.
"No matter how hard you hit them, my Synthodrones will keep coming back for more!" He shouted. "You can't keep this up forever. Soon, you'll be too tired to fight and then my boys will destroy you all! And then, the world will belong to the genius of Dr. Drakken! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
Hitomi dodged a strike as she pushed one drone into another. "Drakken-San is a dork, yes?" She asked no one in particular.
"HEY!" The blue-skinned doctor took offense of that observation. "I happen to be a very cool person, thank you very much! I am so off the heezy!"
Hitomi stopped as she raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
"Off the hook?" Drakken asked, not believing how dense this girl could be. Has she ever heard of teen slang? Speaking of the girl, she just gave the same confused look. "Tricked out?" No dice, as the brown-haired girl still had the "deer in the headlights" look on her face. This was what made him snap. "I'M REALLY REALLY COOL, ALRIGHT?"
"O… kay…?" Hitomi wasn't sure what was with Drakken. This would prove to leave her vulnerable as another Synthodrone went to strike her from behind. Fortunately for her, it was knocked down.
"Stay focused!" Hirotaka scolded the girl, who lowered her head in shame.
"S-sorry…" Hitomi apologized before resuming battle against the Synthodrones…that is until she saw Drakken walking away. "Oh no you don't…" She evaded the Synthodrones as she was closer and closer to the mad scientist. Eventually, the young ninja and the middle-aged villain were face-to-face. "Leaving so soon, Drakken-San?"
Drakken waved her off. "Leave me alone, little girl. Go back to your dollies."
The brown-haired girl sighed, "You underestimate me, do you?" She said as she slowly walked towards her.
"Hmph, you can't even touch me…" He crossed his arms.
"We will see…" Hitomi had her Tonfas out. Ready to strike as his grin just became wider.
"Go ahead! Give my your best shot! I dare ya!" Drakken taunted. "Unless you're too scared!"
Hitomi remained motionless. "The honor is all yours, Drakken-San." She informed, but this statement only resulted in clucking sounds from the Doctor. "Your childish actions won't cloud my judgment."
"Well…how about this?" Drakken went to shove Hitomi, but the girl evaded the attempt, leaving the poor doctor to fall flat on his face. Humiliated and angered by this action, Drakken got back up to his feet as he proceeded to strike again, but the result was the same. Having had enough humiliation, Drakken stressfully broke into a flurry of punches as Hitomi managed to avoid all of them. At the end, Drakken was already exhausted, leaving Hitomi, looking to mercifully end this obviously one-sided battle, went to go for a kick at the fatigued villain. However, instead of feeling the fabric of his blue coat, she felt a hard wall of energy as her boot-covered foot hit a gold-colored barrier that had just instantly appeared around Drakken, who was now smirking.
"You like? It was in my old stuff. I almost forgot I even had this!" Drakken bragged behind the force field. "Like I said, you can't even touch me so nyah!" Drakken stuck out his tongue at the girl, who was now pondering about this new barrier as it then went down. Hitomi went for another kick, but again the barrier regenerated, as Drakken just laughed at the poor girl's futile attempts.
"As much as I like this little dance we're having, I'm gonna have to sit this one out!" Ron said as he dodged another burst of flame-like plasma. He needed to find Fukushima before he got away, but Shego wouldn't let him go. If he didn't know any better, he'd say that she had a crush on him for not wanting him to leave. But then again, that claim would just piss her off even more.
"Too bad!" She sneered as she then managed to break his staff in two. Ron cursed the now two pieces and discarded them. What could he do to get the crazy woman to just leave him alone? She didn't even have any more business being here as Drakken did. Just when he thought that he escaped it, his past came running back to him. Alas, Ron would have to deal as he managed to floor her with the same windmill-style kick he used against Yori during his duel.
"I have more important business to attend to…" He said, now back on his feet as he went to look for the traitor.
"You're not going anywhere!" Shego yelled in fury as she jumped him from behind. She didn't know what happened to him in the last few weeks and she didn't care. She didn't know how he became so good all of a sudden, but he was still Ron Stoppable: Kim Possible's…well…former dopey sidekick. He was still easy picking…just not as easy as before. "I don't care what issues you have to deal with, you will not ignore me!"
Ron dodged what appeared to be a pattern of punches, kicks, and blasts as he answered with a few kicks of his own. "As much as I'd really like to play with you, I don't have much time to waste!"
"Like you're going to have any more time when I'm done with you!" Shego lunged after him as she fired a blast right at him but he dodged it. However, the blast didn't go without hitting a target. A target in which was selected after missing a Synthodrone in its path. A target that turned out to be Yori…
As the green plasma-like blast hit her back, the girl let out a loud scream as she collapsed, gaining the attention of the other students, who watched in horror.
"Yori!" Ron's eyes were wide as he saw that the back of her Gi was burned off and her skin was reddened. However, Shego just laughed.
"What's wrong? You're little girlfriend hurt?" She taunted. "Don't worry, you're NEXT!" She decided to go full power as both hands were engulfed. As the former superhero fired what appeared to be the biggest blast ever. Ron turned around, but it was too late as the blast reached its destination…
Damn, I'm so evil! Ron's just about to get blasted and I'm going to end it here. To find out what happens, you're gonna have to wait for the next chapter.
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Oh alright, since I'm in a good mood…
The blast emitted a green explosion as the Students stopped and looked towards its direction. From Shego's laughter, they have assumed the worse. Ron Stoppable has fallen in battle. Also, the Synthodrones haven't shown the slightest amount of relenting as in fact their attacks became even stronger and stronger! Much to Drakken's delight, who was currently keeping one of them from attacking him with his new barrier! Yes, today was very good for Dr. Drakken indeed: The sidekick was destroyed, the Synthodrones had his friends on the ropes, and soon, the world would be his.
"I believe that this would be where the sidekick would say, what was it? 'Booya?" Shego's laughter of triumph continued, that is, until the explosion vanished. Much to her shock, Ron was still alive and still standing. And in his hand was what appeared to be a golden shield that was large enough to cover half of his body! Murmuring began to come from the students as Hitomi, Hirotaka, and a recovering Yori saw that his destiny has been realized. Ron Stoppable was now carrying the Lotus Blade.
'What's that in the buffoon's hands?' Drakken pondered as the shield transformed back into its sword state. Ron's eyes narrowed as he stared at Shego, who couldn't help but feel a bit cautious. After all, since when did a sword appear out of nowhere, and into Stoppable's hands of all people?
"BOOYA THIS!" He shouted as he swung the sword directly at Shego, who managed to dodge all of his swipes. Since when did the dopey sidekick knew how to use a sword? Nevertheless, he was obviously mediocre at best. In fact, he didn't even land a scratch at all! On second thought, however, she noticed that her jumpsuit began to fall apart. Nothing major, really. Just the sleeves, the thighs and the abdomen part were revealed to be cut off as the rags dropped down. Also, her hair length has been cut short. Before it went past her hips, now it was just between her shoulder blades.But she really began to reconsider her assessment of Stoppable's skills, or lack thereof, when she saw a small scratch that let out a small amount of blood on her right cheek. Maybe he wasn't so dopey after all…
"I warned you not to get involved." The blonde said coldly. "I warned you that this matter didn't concerned you, that this wasn't your fight! But you and Drakken just had to get involved! Why? Just because of my connection to ties that I have long since severed? And now, you attack one of my friends? Let alone someone who I really care about?"
Shego stepped back a bit. This Ron was much different from the Ron from a few months ago. The old Ron wouldn't have even thought about attacking her. Now he was looking for a fight, looking for retribution. She had to admit, if this was indication of what he wanted to do to him, Fukushima ran from the wrong person. "E-easy Stoppable! Heheh…you don't know what you're thinking!" She said nervously, trying to calm him down a bit.
"When I'm done with you, you'll be wishing you never left Team Go…" Ron raised the sword once again. "And this time, Hego isn't here to save you."
Not wanting to humiliate herself by showing fear to anyone, let alone Stoppable, Shego decided to blast him, but the former sidekick deflected them all with the sword.
"Before you go taking out your frustrations on me, don't you think you'd want to go help your pals over there?" Shego asked, managing to regain some amount of attitude as Ron glanced. Apparently Yori being attacked had taken the students off their game a bit as they were now being overwhelmed by the Synthodrones. And Hitomi? Even with the other students' help, she was not fast enough to get through Drakken's barrier. Leaving the mad doctor invincible.
"You can try all you want, but there's no way you can touch me! No one can penetrate my barrier! No one!" Drakken once again broke off into his laughter. However, that laughter soon turned to screams of pain as he felt that same arm being twisted onto his back and nearly at the state of being broken once more. The barrier was activated by thought, not automatically. And since Drakken didn't foresee this coming, his attacker had broken through.
"Remember me?" A cold voice hissed into Drakken's ear as the doctor winced in pain.
"Err…em…eh…" Flustered in fear, Drakken didn't know what he could say as Ron's grip became tighter and more force was applied.
"I like to go to jail now please!" Drakken quickly said in a meek voice. "Remember that money I stole from you that one time?Well…umm…it's inside the warehouse! Yeah inside the warehouse!"
"HIYA!"
Drakken felt a sharp pain in his head as he started to lose consciousness. As Ron let go, he let Drakken drop to the ground. Leaving Hitomi to smile at him. "Thank you Stoppable-San!" She chirped.
Ron just nodded as he turned his attention back to Shego, who now took the opportunity to take on the other students, who were fairing well against her. That was, until she resorted using her pyrokinesis.
"You've already pissed me off the last time you resorted to that and YOU ACTUALLY HAVE THE AUDACITY TOTRY THAT AGAIN?" Ron roared at the raven-haired woman, as he held up the sword, ready to finish what he had started.
This was the first time Shego got a good look in his eyes. Eyes that sent fear into her eyes! The last time she felt this kind of fear, let alone from him, was when Stoppable had Drakken's evil inside of him, calling himself "Zorpox the Conqueror." When he almost fed her to the sharks.
"You could've done whatever the hell you wanted to me, but at that moment you targeted my friends?" Ron stated as a Synthodrone went to attack him from behind. With one backwards swipe from the blade the head of the drone was cleanly cut off as brownish-green goo began to sprout out from the neck. It's knees buckled as the now-deactivated drone collapsed to the ground. "This is your last chance Shego! Leave now! I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to!"
She scoffed, "Like I'm afraid of you?" There was obviously bravado in her voice. As much as she would like believe that it was just Stoppable, she was concerned about the sword that was in his hand. After all, it did morph into a shield and then back. What else could the sword possibly do? If she would've known that he'd become this dangerous, she wouldn't have deliberately broken up Team Possible. She began to wonder which was possibly worse: Being beaten by Kimmie, or Stoppable possibly turning her into a human shish kabob.
She looked for the Synthodrones to help, but their numbers appeared to be depleting as the ninjas, after finding out how to defeat them, went after what was now known as the Synthodrones' weak point: The head. And with Drakken being down for the count, not like he would've been much help anyway, Shego was alone. As the odds slowly turning to the ninjas' favor, some of them went to surround her as more and more joined as more Synthodrones were destroyed.
"Her plasma from her hands is the only real threat from her. Otherwise, she's not too difficult." Ron spoke as he proceeded to walk away…
"But Stoppable-San. Where are you going?" Hirotaka asked. Ron was the one who knew of these villains the best, the only at all he should say.
"To hunt down a traitor…" Ron said coldly. "He couldn't have gone too far…"
Hirotaka nodded. "It will be our honor to make sure she does not escape."
"I'm coming with you!" Yori went to follow, but Ron held up his hand.
"No Yori. I need you to stay with the others. Shego's can be very difficult and we're going to need as many of us watching her as possible."
Shego scoffed. "Please, like your little ninja friends can take me!" Her hands ignited once more. However, the students didn't show the slightest amount of intimidation. To them, this would be just another challenge for them to overcome.
"But Ron-S-"
"I know how much you want justice for what Fukushima has done to you. But I don't want him to use you just like he did last time just to get to me. And besides that, you have more than just a small sunburn on your back." Ron said, noting the burned off clothing on her back.
"I'll be fine." She assured, but Ron wouldn't change his mind.
He sighed, "Besides, I don't want you to see what I might be forced to do." A silence followed as the two looked at each other, before a pair of lips met a slightly-pale cheek.
"For luck…" She said. "And remember, the line between light and darkness is a thin one."
Ron nodded. "Thank you Yori…" He said before he ran off. In pursuit of the traitor who has caused this conflict as Yori watched. She wondered if she should go with him anyway. After all, Fukushima already had a trap laid out for him earlier. Who's to say that he doesn't have another one waiting for him?
Next chapter it's Ron vs. Fukushima. I mean it this time! Also, I apologize if I didn't use the correct chatroom lingo. Anyways, R&R please.
