Shocked

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Chapter Nine: Enter Kim

After that night, Ron and Bonnie were as tight as any pair of friends Middleton had ever seen, their performance on missions was flawless, so much so that Dr. Drakken actually remembered their names and would now shout them in surprise when they arrived to foil his plots.

Life in many ways though continued as normal, Ron spent his Christmas with Kim's family, though he took a break in the middle of the day to provide Bonnie an excuse to get away from hers. And Bonnie spent a night of Hanukah with Ron's family, something Kim had never done. Aside from that though, anyone looking from the outside would have been hard pressed to know that it was Ron and Kim not Ron and Bonnie who had been best friends since they were 4 years old.

However as December rolled into January and then into February, something had to happen to disturb this seemingly idyllic world, and indeed something did happen to force out those last few truths left unsaid and so much more.

Kim's POV

Kim Possible danced down the halls of Middleton High School like she had every day for almost the past 6 months, she felt like she was in one giant dream, finally going out with Josh Mankey, just the thought of the name nearly made Kim shudder with happiness.

And she was already looking forward to what would be the highlight of the year, prom, they were going to be the envy of everyone there being so happy together. First though she had to go find Josh because even though it was a mere formality, he still had to ask her to the spring dance, and then prom, but she wasn't worried about either of those.

Kim barely noticed anything as she danced up to her locker to get her books, was it just her or had her locker seemed to have more space for the last few months? Oh well, she wouldn't worry about such things, they were just cutting into Josh time.

She was rudely interrupted from her musings my a hand tapping her shoulder, turning to glare at whoever was trying to make her take even longer to get back to Josh, she fixed that glare on Tara, who was standing there looking both angry and sad at the same time.

"Kim," Tara said very slowly.

"Yes…" Kim ground out hoping to get across that she didn't want to be here since it was that much longer before she got back to Josh.

"Um I don't really know how to make this sound any better than it is," Tara spoke very hesitantly, "But just a few minutes ago I was leaving the cafeteria when Josh came up to me… and he said… well… he said he was breaking up with you and wanted to ask me to the spring dance."

Kim felt her entire world crash down around her… Josh… breaking up… asking Tara… She slumped back against her locker as thoughts swirled through her mind, she couldn't wrap her head around this, she and Josh had been so happy together, and they'd been going steady for awhile, what could have happened?

Tears started falling down Kim's face as Tara stepped forward to wrap her arms around Kim. Kim started crying and crying into Tara's shoulder as the blonde just stood there in silence. Finally Monique's voice interrupted Kim's bout of crying.

"Kim, Kim!" Monique shouted, "I just heard that Monkey is breaking up with you girl. How're you… oh."

Monique had come upon Kim reacting herself to the news and had gotten a rather blunt answer to her question.

"I don't know why," Kim choked out, "we were so happy together, and there haven't been any distractions I mean no cheer squad, no clubs, I even stopped going on…" Kim's eyes became very wide, "Oh God I haven't been on a mission in forever, and… and… the hospital… Ron's going to kill me!"

The mention of her best friend brought a whole new round of emotional hurt crashing down on Kim, she hadn't talked to Ron since she and Josh started dating, and worse still when he was hurt she had completely blown off seeing him in the hospital to spend time with Josh, was he even still her best friend?

"Kim, about that," Monique started.

"Ron's been handling missions," Tara picked up, "but there's something about that you need to know."

"He's um… well Ron's…" Monique hesitated and Kim wondered what could be so bad, it wasn't like he'd asked Bonnie to help on missions or anything, Ron would never do that to her.

She got the answer to that question as a familiar tone sounded from down the hall and she watched in growing horror as Ron and Bonnie walked down the hall as close as she and Ron had ever been. Ron pulled the Kimmunicator out of his pocket and she listened wide eyed to the exchange.

"What's up Wade?" Ron said.

"Don't tell me it's Duff Killigan again." Bonnie said like she was a veteran of these sorts of things.

"Nah," Wade's voice sounded from the Kimmunicator, "it's Drakken and Shego again, they've been tracked to a lab in northern Oregon, it looks like they're trying to steal some advanced syntho-goo."

"Have you got a ride ready for us?" Bonnie asked as she leaned over Ron's shoulder like some sort of, Kim couldn't think of any words that described Bonnie but if she had any they wouldn't be nice at all.

"Of course," Wade said, "go get changed and the helicopter should be outside the school by the time you're done."

Kim's fists clenched so tight she heard her knuckles crack as Ron and Bonnie walked off down the hall, how dare Bonnie sink her claws into Ron like that, Ron was far too trusting and now Bonnie had taken advantage of that to try and worm her way into Kim's missions with her best friend.

"Yeah…" Monique said, "About that. Well Ron didn't ask Bonnie so much as Bonnie volunteered. And trust me girl, I was plenty mad about it when it started, but Ron needed the help and Bonnie did have the most experience with this sort of thing."

"And it's actually been good for Bonnie," Tara jumped in, "she's stopped biting peoples heads off so much, and she's actually nice to people at times."

"Bonnie…" Kim ground out, "is so not going on my missions with my best friend, using my stuff, and my tech genius."

"Look," Monique said flatly, "you've been in wonderland with Josh for 6 months girl, things have changed back here with the rest of us. Bonnie's still Bonnie, but she's one of the good guys now."

Kim just stared at them wondering how her friends could buy into this, it was so obvious that Bonnie was just trying to take her place as the world famous cheerleader and then lord it over her, well Kim wasn't going to let that happen now that she was back, this was just the sort of thing she needed to get over Josh, a good excuse to get angry at Bonnie.

Kim marched back over to her locker, since Bonnie had convinced Ron to take the Kimmunicator she'd just have to talk to Wade with the computer in her locker, only when she opened it up she found her locker was rather empty of any computers.

"About that," Tara's voice was laced with nervousness, "Ron and Bonnie kind of moved the computer to his locker, they got tired of having to get in to your locker to use it.

Bonnie had convinced Ron to steal her computer too? Clearly that little hussy had her claws in deeper than Kim had thought, oh Bonnie was going to pay for this.

Storming over to Ron's locker, Kim spun the combination and popped it open. She then hit the button on it to call Wade who was too busy doing something to notice who he was talking to when he answered.

"Hey Wade," Kim said.

"Bonnie, what is it now, you and Ron will be there in about an hour." Wade said absentmindedly.

Clearly, Kim thought, Bonnie's claws went very deep indeed, Kim would have her work cut out for her to remove all the influence her rival had gained over Kim's friends and work.

"Ahem, what's the sitch Wade?" Kim said louder.

Wade jerked his head to look and Kim watched with grim satisfaction at the look of disbelief that covered his face.

"Kim!" he said not at all believing what he was seeing.

"Wade," 'Kim cut him off, "I need a ride to wherever Ron is going."

"Um, right." Wade said as he started typing away, "you don't mind GJ do you?"

"Just get me there Wade," Kim's voice started to show her irritation.

She then turned the computer off and spun around to see Tara and Monique staring at her.

"Look, I know what you're thinking," Kim said, "you think I'm still not thinking straight from Josh breaking up with me and the shock of how everything's changed while I was completely oblivious to everything."

Tara looked evasively around, but Monique was more used to Kim's temper and walked right up to her, "That's exactly what I think, you're looking to take your anger at Josh out on someone or something, and you're not thinking straight about Bonnie going on missions, she's just the easiest target to blame and you're blaming her."

"No," Kim replied, "I'm going to take my anger out on Drakken and Shego, and no matter how much things change, this is Bonnie we're talking about, there is no way she doesn't have some sort of plan to use this against me, and I'm not going to give her that chance."

"Kim," Tara said in her normal soft voice, "about that plan…"

"It doesn't matter," Kim interrupted, "you can tell me all about it later but I'm going to make sure Bonnie's plan never happens."

With that Kim left to go throw on some mission clothes that had been sitting in her locker for 6 months to go save Ron from Bonnie.

After a very surprised GJ agent picked her up and took her to the lab Drakken and Shego had broken into, Kim infiltrated the lab just like she'd never taken 6 months off from missions. Along the way she found several knocked out henchmen and disarmed traps, she was incredibly proud of Ron to have done this with Bonnie holding him down.

She crawled into an air duct and started crawling towards the main room of the lab where she could get a drop on Drakken, put Bonnie in her place, and put her relationship with Ron back to where it was before she started dating Josh.

As Kim crawled over the central room she heard voices drifting up that told her Bonnie had let her and Ron get captured.

"So Bonnie Rockwaller and Ron Stoppable," Drakken said, "this time I've captured you and this time you won't escape, welcome to your doom!"

Kim had expected to hear Bonnie crying being unable to handle the stress, so she was understandably surprised to hear Bonnie snark Drakken back.

"You've said that how many times now? I mean really, can't you just let us out and save everyone the time of us breaking out, beating you, foiling whatever stupid plan you've got going, all that stuff."

"What?" Drakken exclaimed, "My plans are not stupid, Shego tell these sassy teenagers that my plans are sheer works of brilliance."

"Mmmmmm… not really," Shego said, "I mean that last one, planning to build your own brand of headphones with mind control chips, didn't that not work with the shampoo?"

"She's got you there," Ron spoke up at last.

"Ohhhh!" Drakken shouted, "You teenagers and your sass, well I'll put an end to that, Shego take care of them would you?"

"With pleasure Dr. D." Kim heard Shego say as a chair creaked, Kim guessed that was Shego getting up.

Kim decided this was her best moment to make an entrance, so kicking out the grate she dropped down into the room between Drakken, Shego and Ron and Bonnie.

The rooms occupants stared at her for several seconds before Ron and Bonnie shouted, "Kim!" at the same time as Drakken shouted "Kim Possible!" He then paused before adding "I haven't said that in awhile, where have you been?"

Kim smirked as she said, "I've been gone for awhile, but don't worry I'm back to stay so however easy you've been having it for the last few months it ends right now."

Shego walked forward lighting up her hands and a nearly identical smirk lit up her face as she said, "Actually princess, Stoppable and his little girlfriend have been doing rather well, even better than you did when he was your sidekick."

Before Kim could respond to Shego's barb the green skinned villainess leapt forward with lit hands, Kim jumped up and kicked Shego in the back causing her to stumble forward with her plasma coated hands into the locks keeping Ron's chains together.

"Thanks KP." He said as he shrugged the chains off and to Kim's surprise turned to work on picking the locks holding Bonnie's chains, Kim brushed it off as Ron just being too nice for his own good in this situation.

"Come Shego!" Kim turned to see Drakken shouting from a hole in the wall and sitting in his hovercraft holding a tube of syntho-goo.

Shego smirked again and with a series of flips got past Kim and landed, shoving Drakken out of the drivers seat of the hovercraft, "Later princess!" She shouted as she turned the craft and sped off.

Just then Kim heard Bonnie's chains fall to the ground and she turned to see Ron stand up next to Bonnie from where he was undoing the chains, the sight of her best friend and her rival standing next to each other made Kim feel sick to her stomach and she started reaching for her pocket before she realized that Ron had the Kimmunicator.

Fortunately for Kim's already simmering temper, Ron reached into his pocket and pulled out the Kimmunicator to call Wade.

"Hey Ron," Wade said, "Everything alright?"

"Yeah," Ron sighed, "Drakken and Shego got away, by the way nice surprise having Kim show up."

"Thanks," Wade said, "but it was her idea. And your ride is on the way just so you know."

Kim started walking over towards Bonnie tuning out Ron and Wade, walking right up to her rival Kim made sure to be very quiet as she hissed, "Alright Bonnie, I don't know what you're planning with this, but whatever it is it stops right now, so just get your hands off Ron and stop holding him back on these things."

Bonnie looked at Kim with a glare and rather than cower like Kim had hoped though doubted, she hissed right back, "Look Kim, I'm on these things because you dropped Ron like a bad habit, and I've been at this for 6 months so don't think you can just brush me aside. And if you dare try and pin this on Ron I swear there is nothing I won't do to bring you down."

Kim was taken aback at the venom in Bonnie's voice as she spoke, but before Kim could bite back she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned to see Ron motioning for her to follow him.

They walked away from Bonnie and Kim took great satisfaction at the look of dissatisfaction on her face.

"Kim," Ron said, "I know you don't like Bonnie at all, but she's really helped on these missions. She was the best choice when I needed someone to help, and she volunteered for it. So can you just… you know, make nice with her, because with Drakken running around with that stolen syntho-goo we're gonna need all 3 of us to stop him."

Kim tried to give Ron a much softer glare then she had reserved for Bonnie, the kind that told him he was letting his desire to see the good in everyone get the better of what little common sense he had. Though she found this tougher than she remembered because Ron had apparently grown while she was off in what Monique had termed Wonderland and he now stood 2 inches taller than her.

"Ron," she said softly, "This is Bonnie we're talking about, no matter how much 'help' Bonnie has been on missions she has some plan behind the whole thing, and if it all blows up during a mission someone is going to get hurt."

"Not really," Ron said far too calmly for Kim's tastes, "I know all about Bonnie's so called plan, she was mad at you for just dropping me to date Josh, by the way we're cool with that, and she wanted to become better friends with me than you were so she could rub it in your face and make you see how big a mistake you'd made."

Kim was left staring in wide eyed disbelief, the plan was pure Bonnie, if with far purer motives than Kim would have ever believed possible for her rival. But how had Ron found out about this plan, and what was to say Bonnie hadn't let this plan leak to cover a more insidious one.

As if reading her thoughts Ron put a hand on her shoulder and said, "Bonnie's different now KP, she's still Bonnie, but she's not going to go off on one of those schemes you two always had to get ahead of each other just for that. And I trust her Kim, you've been out of touch, so please just trust me on this."

Ron then turned and saying he needed to let Bonnie know that she was cool with her being on the team before their ride came to pick them up, started walking over to her, Kim didn't remember agreeing to that but before the thought could go much farther than that she saw Bonnie and Ron standing far too close for comfort and her mind became consumed with the thought that Bonnie was not going to steal her Ron.

AN: A first note, if Kim seems way off then I've done my job. If Bonnie and Ron seem off, remember that this is Kim's perspective and opinions. I suspect that by Ch 11 you'll find out exactly who will end up with who and where I'm going with this story. But I still expect lots of fun to be had by all in getting where we're going. So I hope you enjoy this one and do please enjoy Ch 10 on Friday.