Shocked

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Chapter Three: Who exactly are you?

Bonnie's POV

Bonnie sat, and sat, and sat, this plane ride to northern Canada was taking way too long, and in her joy at figuring out this brilliant plan, and then getting Stoppable to let her come, she'd never quite gotten around to figuring out just how she was going to lure little Ms. Perfect's best friend away from her.

At last she decided that she needed to know something about these Drakken and Shego people, otherwise there might not be any more missions for her to go on and the plan would be done with right then and there.

"Hey Stoppable," she said, she wouldn't call him 'loser' anymore it would be counter-productive, but she was nowhere near addressing him as 'Ron', "You mind telling me something about these guys we're gonna go fight, I'd like to avoid getting killed or seriously maimed."

Her blonde 'partner' scratched the back of his head as he grinned sheepishly and replied, "Oh yeah, I kinda forgot about that. Well Drakken is the brains behind the whole outfit, he's always inventing or stealing some sort of death ray or hatching some completely messed up scheme, so he's not that dangerous on his own. It's Shego that you've got to watch out for, she's every bit as good a fighter as Kim so I think you know how good that makes her, but add that to her freaky glowing hands and the fact that she's a villain and you've got some bad news on your hands."

"And the henchmen?" Bonnie asked wondering how Stoppable could have left out the third part of that organization.

"You know," he said, "They've got a really bad turnover rate I think it's something with their union keeping them from working for one employer for too long."

Bonnie just stared at him, she had gotten the impression from that Dr. Dementor that some of the villains in this business were less than all there, but henchmen unions, what was she going to find next villain magazines or conventions?

Shaking her head at the sheer absurdity of what she was getting into Bonnie turned back to Stoppable and said, "So just what do you do on these flights of yours, I don't think you and Ms. Perfect just sit and enjoy the scenery of a military transport.

Again her 'partner' scratched the back of his had as he grinned sheepishly, Bonnie figured that if he had 'forgotten' as much as she thought he had that she was going to be seeing that a lot.

However eventually Stoppable managed to reply, "Well usually Kim and I just talk, you know the latest deal at Bueno Nacho, Kim moaning about something at Club Banana she can't afford, just stuff."

Even before he was done, the wheels were already turning in Bonnie's head as she realized this was the perfect opportunity to draw Stoppable away from Ms. Perfect and towards her. Not to mention that learning a bit about him might help them work together, which would probably help keep her alive, and Bonnie placed that fairly high on her list of priorities.

"Okay," she said carefully choosing her words, "I guess we could talk about Bueno Nacho and Club Banana, but I think if we're going to be working together that we should start by learning about each other, so talk."

"Huh," he managed to get out as a look of total blankness sprouted on his face.

Somehow Bonnie managed to resist the temptation to hit him upside the head as she glared at him, finally realizing that Stoppable really didn't know what she was getting at she decided that she'd have to start.

"Stuff like this," she ground out, "I did ballet for 12 years, I like chocolate ice cream, I hate the O'Boyz, I have 2 older sisters, I'm thinking about being a doctor when I get out of high school, I think clowns are the source of all evil in this world, that kind of stuff."

"Oh," Stoppable said, "Oh oh oh, see I thought you meant like looking at each others homework. Well I guess if you wanna know about the Ronster I can tell you a few things…"

Bonnie managed to restrain a smile as Stoppable started telling her about himself, this was going to work great for her plan, and she'd have so much time to do this over and over, and if it meant having to open up to Stoppable, well he was going to be in her camp before long so it wouldn't matter.

Ron's POV

Ron peeked around the corner before dashing across the hallway and motioning for Bonnie to follow him. He knew Bonnie was up to something with her whole 'learning about each other' suggestion, but Ron couldn't delude even himself that he was smart enough to figure that particular scheme out.

Creeping through more hallways Ron really regretted having to leave Rufus behind, but the little guy was down with whatever passed for the flu among Naked Mole Rats. And the vet had said no strenuous activity for the foreseeable future. Finally he stepped out a door onto a large catwalk about 10 feet over what looked to be the main room of Drakken's lair, stepping back into the hallway he motioned to Bonnie to catch up with him.

As she stepped up beside him Ron turned to whisper to the brunette, "Ok, let's keep this simple, I'll deal with Shego and the henchmen, you just get in there, hit the self-destruct button and we get out of there."

Bonnie nodded and the look on her face said that whatever her opinion of him, she recognized just how serious this was and she was going to if not willingly, at least reliably defer to his experience on missions.

Sneaking back out on to the catwalk, Ron and Bonnie stuck to the shadows as they made their way around the periphery of the lair until Ron stopped and tapping Bonnie's shoulder, pointed to the main control panel which contained the near obligatory large red self-destruct button.

Just then, Drakken and Shego walked into the lair with Drakken already well into his villainous monologue, "…and so Shego, with the atmospheric manipulator in my grasp I shall have the power to create tornadoes of unlimited power anywhere I want. And faced with that threat, the governments of the world will have no choice but to submit to my will. And this time no pesky cheerleaders are going to stop me."

Almost as though she was born for the role, Ron watched as Bonnie bristled at Drakken's remark and stepped out of the shadows loudly declaring, "Well I don't know about pesky cheerleaders, but you'll darn well have a cheerleader stopping you."

"Kim Poss…" Drakken shouted as he turned around and trailed off as it became quite apparent that the cheerleader addressing him was not his arch-rival. "Um…" the blue skinned mad scientist mumbled, "who exactly are you?"

Ron decided that this was when he should make his entrance and spare Drakken the verbal lashing he was about to receive from Bonnie, there were some things even a supervillain didn't deserve. Stepping out of the shadows Drakken and Shego immediately switched their focus to him as a figure they could recognize.

"Hey it's Kimmies sidekick," Shego said, "now who the heck is this and where's the princess?" Before Bonnie could let loose with verbal fury on the evil duo Ron decided to provide an answer, "Kim's on vacation," he said, "so until further notice, meet Bonnie Rockwaller, the new resident cheerleader of your nightmares."

Shego glared up at him, a glare he didn't particularly relish being on the receiving end of and her retort proved just as barbed as her glare, "So what, did the sidekick switch from following one cheerleader to another? How pathetic can you be, I mean you can't even save the world without some pom-pom toting airhead around to show you the way."

Ron felt his own desire to let out some verbal smack down and felt no reason whatsoever to restrain himself, "Well I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but this is one sidekick who's stepping up into the big leagues, and if you're feeling a little left behind, you'll get your chance, but don't mess with my mad fu powers."

Shego fixed him with a very appraising look, but Drakken wasn't quite as reserved in his response, clutching his stomach in hearty laughter and guffawing out, "Oh that is too rich, the buffoon expecting to take Shego down, ha! That is just too good, now since the annoying cheerleader isn't here why don't you do something about these annoyances Shego so I can get this world taking over show on the road."

But Shego didn't leap to obey her employers command, instead the villainess just stood there, still sizing Ron up. Figuring that when she did attack she would do so without playing holding much of anything back Ron started praying that his Mystical Monkey Power would pick today to show up.

Figuring that she was quite unnoticed, Ron noticed Bonnie starting to slide around his back to where she could hopefully jump down and hit the big red button without anyone ever having to throw a punch.

Unfortunately for him, Shego was just as observant of Bonnie sneaking around and she leapt up to the catwalk with her hands flaring up. "I don't think so cheerleader." Shego smirked. Before Shego could take a lunge at Bonnie, Ron pushed his partner back and stood between the two ladies ready to go one on one with Kim's most dangerous foe.

"Aww… how sweet," Shego said with an evil smile on her face, "The buffoon is keeping his girlfriend safe."

Ron knew he was about to have to back up his words with his fighting skills, but he couldn't resist the chance for one last barb, "What jealous that Bonnie's got friends? I wouldn't think a big mean woman like you would need to stand behind anyone."

Shego growled, and with her hands flaring even brighter she dove at Ron who at the last minute jumped over the attack while at the same time Bonnie jumped off the catwalk and landed right in front of Drakken who shied back with a yelp.

Ron quickly turned his attention back to his own fight as Shego twisted to try and trip him up, springing up onto the catwalks handrail, Ron jumped back down and as Shego leapt back up to her feet he lunged forward with a jab. Shego blocked his jab and spun into a roundhouse kick that Ron was forced to dodge by jumping backwards.

"Well," Shego said, "You're not half bad Stoppable. I might have to stop Drakken from calling you buffoon."

"Thanks," Ron said, "I can really see why Kim's so sore after she goes a few rounds with you."

Shego smirked and lit her hands up again, but as she started to spring forward with an attack, the normal lights of the lair went red and a loud klaxon started wailing, Bonnie had obviously made it to the self-destruct button.

Ron looked down to see several henchmen tangled up where they had tried to catch Bonnie and instead caught their counterpart. He saw out of the corner of his eye Shego sighing as she saw the same thing he had.

"Well it's been fun," the villainess said, "we should try it again some time, maybe your little girlfriend won't interrupt us."

Before Ron could say anything back, Shego flipped over the railing and darted out after Drakken.

Hopping down, Ron caught up to Bonnie running out a different hallway and after a run through the halls of Drakken's latest lair, they heard the rumblings of the self-destruct going off as they made it outside into the cool nighttime air.

Ron pulled the Kimmunicator out of his pocket as he and Bonnie sat down on a rock, he called up Wade and told him the short of what had happened on the mission, after calling for a GJ transport to pick them up Wade congratulated them and signed off.

Ron turned to see Bonnie with what looked like a real smile on her face, a smile he had to admit didn't look at all bad on her, seeing him look at her Bonnie smiled wider and said, "I told you, we don't make a bad team at all."

AN: Is 'bowled over' hyphenated? Because that's what I am by the response to this story, so many readers and so many reviewers I'm still waiting to wake up and find out I fell asleep on my keyboard before posting the first chapter. As a bit of an aside, I do read other people's stories, but I have some pathological fear of leaving a review, that somehow it's going to be terrible and make the author feel bad, but I do read the stories, lots of them, and I love them so to everyone who writes who has read this story, bravo to you!