Shocked

Disclaimer: Much as I would like to I own nothing of any value in this story.

Chapter Two: Partners

Ron's POV

Ron quietly opened the door to his house hoping to not wake his parents. Succeeding in silently getting in, he then crept as quietly as he could to his room. Wincing as he climbed the stairs he knew he'd be carrying a few more bruises for the next couple of days, it was far tougher than he had thought it would be to both fight off the henchmen and destroy the lair.

Finally making it to his bed, Ron didn't even bother to change out of his mission clothes, just dropped his backpack on the floor and collapsed on top of his sheets into a deep, dreamless sleep.

He was rudely returned to the waking world the next morning by his mother's shouts that if he didn't get going in the next 5 minutes he'd be late for school. Ron drug himself out of bed over his body's protests of not nearly enough sleep and how sore it was. Throwing on new clothes and an overabundance of deodorant to cover up his not showering Ron was out the door in a mere 4 minutes hoping on his scooter with some toast in his mouth and a wave from Rufus in his window he was off to school.

Parking his scooter between two cars, Ron jumped off and fishing around in his backpack pulled out his history essay and thanked every god he could think of that he'd done it on the plane ride to the Senior's island. Rushing to homeroom he slid into his desk just as the late bell rang and Mr. Barkin stepped into the room.

"Well class," Barkin began, "It seems like I'll be your teacher today… again. Your latest teacher apparently had a run in with a rabid wombat, I'd rather not think about that, but anyways hand in your history essays!"

The class groaned as they all reached into their backpacks and got out their essays, with the notable exceptions of Kim Possible and Monkey.

"Possible, Mankey!" Barkin shouted out, "Where in the name of all that is holy are your essays?"

Ron turned around to look at the desk behind him and saw Kim and Monkey staring at each other with sickening looks on their faces, totally oblivious to the real world.

"Ha," he heard Bonnie laugh, "little Ms. Perfect didn't do her essay, oh this is just too good!"

Ron was sorely tempted to defend his best friend with a snappy comeback, if he could come up with one, but the short of it was that Kim skipping homework to make out with Monkey was nothing new, and really Bonnie had done the essay and Kim hadn't, there wasn't much for Ron to work with when he was faced with this sort of reality.

Ron bit his tongue and sat through the rest of his classes watching Mr. Barkin become more and more amazed that a star pupil like Kim Possible hadn't done any of her homework at least till Chem. when a familiar tone sounded from his backpack.

"Wade," Ron whispered as he hit the button to answer, "This is not a good time I'm in the middle of class."

"This is the big one," Wade interrupted, "Shego and Drakken have broken out of jail and stolen something called an atmospheric manipulator, I've tracked them to a lair in the Canadian Rockies."

Ron felt himself blanch as what Wade said settled in, he looked over his shoulder to see if the mention of their arch-nemesis had shocked Kim out of her Monkey induced stupor, but she was staring at him just as dreamily as ever.

"Okay," Ron said steeling himself, "So what's my ride and when's it coming?"

"I've hooked you up with GJ again," Wade replied, "they're the fastest way to get there on short notice, oh and it'll be outside the school in about 10 minutes."

"Alright I'll be there," Ron said as he got up and quietly excused himself from class to go get ready for a mission he was very unsure of his ability to handle. So focused was he on worrying if he could foil Drakken's latest plan without Kim there to handle Shego that he failed to notice a certain brunette cheerleader quietly slip out after him.

Bonnie's POV

Bonnie made sure to be very inconspicuous listening in on Ron talk to that Wade kid she had talked to once before on that little blue thing he and Kim always used, and from his reaction to whoever these 'Drakken and Shego' people were she gathered that they were not good news.

She had seen almost as grim as cast to Kim's face when Wade had mentioned a Dr. Dementor, and given how bad that experience had been she was expecting even worse since there were apparently two people involved this time.

When Ron asked the teacher to be excused for a mission, a routine question from him or Ms. Perfect, Bonnie took the opportunity to slip out after him guessing, successfully, that the teacher would pay her as little attention as Ron. Teen heroes must be getting mundane if the teachers didn't so much as bat an eyelash at them missing class to save the world Bonnie briefly thought.

Once out in the hall, Bonnie made for the bathroom already grabbing the set of 'Kim' clothes she had had in her closet since they went out of style, one never could be sure when something could come back into style and Bonnie knew it paid to be prepared for unforeseen fashion shifts.

Hurriedly throwing on the new set of clothes, Bonnie jogged out to the front of the school to wait for Ron, she had about 7 minutes to convince him to take her along on this mission, a fact that would probably be more difficult given that these were apparently big name villains instead of some smaller fish she would have had an easier time coming along to combat.

Not even a minute later the front doors opened and Bonnie watched as Ron walked out still cramming his normal clothes into his backpack.

She watched in mild amusement as he turned to walk to right where Bonnie was standing to wait for his ride and he finally noticed her and the fact that she was dressed much the same he was except she had the midriff barring shirt.

"Bonnie!" He said in disbelief, "What are you doing here, and why are you dressed in mission clothes?"

Sighing at how dense men could be, Bonnie finally looked Ron right in the eye and said in a voice that to her at least would tolerate no argument, "Well what do you think Stoppable, I'm standing here dressed in mission clothes, waiting for a ride that's going to a mission, I wonder what I'm doing here..."

Demonstrating that he had a brain, for understanding her, and that he didn't, for arguing with her, Ron said, "Bonnie you are not going to come with me and fight Shego and Drakken, it's way too dangerous for someone experienced like me, let alone you.

"Well then why are you going?" Bonnie snapped back.

"Because someone has to." Ron said his voice finally heating with anger.

"Yeah," Bonnie replied, "And someone has to go along with you, I've seen those bruises you've been getting while little Ms. Perfect is making out with what do you call him, Monkey, and it's about time someone did your job while you're doing hers, I've been on one of these things and it's just not something that you should be doing alone."

Bonnie could see in his face that Ron knew she was right but that he wasn't done arguing yet. "You still shouldn't come on this Bonnie," he said, "if you really want to help with this then that's great because you are right that it's a lot tougher alone, but start with someone easier, like Motor Ed, or Frugal Lucre, Drakken and Shego are about as dangerous as it gets and I'm not going to let you get hurt like that."

"Is that right?" Bonnie growled as she stepped right up to Ron, her glare making up for the two inches he had over her, "Well I could say the same to you, I know you're still too beat up to do everything on your own, so you need me."

His return glare said volumes that Ron was thinking about her not being hurt over himself, something that Bonnie found sweet, none of the guys at the top of the food chain would do the same. But at the moment that sweetness was terribly misguided and was giving Bonnie a far tougher task than she needed right at the moment.

"Look," she said, "You and Kim are a team right." He nodded, "And now Kim is throwing that aside for a pretty face yes." Ron added a scowl to his nod, "So now you're missing a team member." "For the moment." Ron finally spoke up. "Well," Bonnie cut him off, "I'm saying that I'm going to fill that gap, and don't say I don't know what I'm getting into, I helped fight that Dementor guy and I know darn well he's on your A-list of villains."

Ron looked like he was about to keep arguing, but before he could start up again the grass started to blow as the GJ transport came over the school to settle down on the grass in front of the two. Ron looked at Bonnie as the ramp lowered and before turning to walk into the plane took a breath and said, "Alright, but I don't want you doing any fighting, just find the big self-destruct button and push it, then we run like mad."

Bonnie smiled to herself as she walked behind Ron, not only was she proving how much better than Kim Possible she was, but she might be able to split up Kim and Ron as a team and pull Stoppable into following her everywhere, oh yes this was going to be good.

AN: Wow, who knew if I set a thousand Monkeys to a thousand typewriters for a thousand years they'd not only produce the complete works of Shakespeare, but something people would read as well. I'm already euphoric at how well this has been recieved and I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter as much as the last one. Ch3 should be out Monday, something to start the work week.