Chapter 5: Between Heroes

Kim looked through the dossier containing the files of one named Electronique. Weapons specialist operating in Go City, intelligent but short-tempered. She's attacking a weapons compound, at least that was the primary thought.

What if she wasn't attacking the compound, she was trying to rob it, if someone specializes in creating weapons wouldn't they want to… experiment? Of course Electronique is committing a crime, but instead of attacking the compound she's robbing it, or better yet, taking it over as her own. That's something to think about.

Kim skydives down to her destination, the wind violently pressing itself onto her body as she descends further down. She then deploys her parachute, where she landed on the roof of the building. She could see the dancing of lights below her. Crackling bolts of electricity flying across the area followed with the screams of the unfortunate victims. She could even see a guy flying out of the area and tumbling onto the ground. Ready to attack, she does a front tuck uses her rappel to swing herself inside the complex and successfully kicks her in the back, leaving the villain on the ground.

"Kim Possible." Electronique said in disdain. She shot a jolt of electricity at the redhead, but she dodged and flipped away. She then ran closer to her, heading for an attack. She does a left hook, a right jab, left elbow, but they were all blocked. With Kim kicking her right leg. She did back handspring, using one of her legs to kick Electronique's arm, which was stretched out indicating that she was going to blast her, although the blast didn't hit her, it went up to higher ground. But the distance, had left Kim in blasting range and the woman wasn't going to let her get any closer.

A light chuckle filled someone's lungs as he looked at the fight from afar. In his own accord, he decided to go where the action was. Down on one knee, his arm resting on the other, he observes the battle below.

'If there's something down there for me to help me get around the city better, that's means I need it. Who is the Ron-man to ignore this?' He thought. But that wasn't the only reason why he's decided to follow Kim.

Kim Possible is his opponent, not necessarily an enemy, but she will prove to be an obstacle, knowing her fighting styles will gain him knowledge, which will place him in an advantage. When the blonde boy saw her barge into the area, he was slightly impressed. As the fight progressed, several styles were shown.

'By the way she's punching and keeping her hands up, that's Boxing, her kicks are based on Tae-Kwon-Do, that elbow, is Muay Thai. So far that's three… wait a minute…' he then sees her perform a back handspring and kicking her opponent right on the forearm. 'That is definitely Savate, so she's got a little theatrical side to her. Kim's a cheerleader, so gymnastics would be incorporated for movement.' He looks on the fight to see if there were more styles to incorporate.

Kim, still dodging her attacks took cover behind several crates. Keeping herself behind things that help break the villain's line of sight.

"Hiding, are we?" Electronique says. She shot at the crates, if she saw a glimpse of the redhead, she would take the shot. But from the corner of her eye, she could barely see someone enter the vicinity and went deeper into the compounds, believing that it was Kim, she shot at it, only to see that there was no one there and the shot was for nothing. Kim wasn't there, for she was still on the ground as she tackled her her legs wrapped vertically around her waist as they both went to the ground, Kim uses her hand to rip off the generator from her leg, which grants Electronique her abilities, rendering her another commonplace enemy. Kim rolled out of the way, with Electronique focusing on repairing her generator, Kim kicked her in the face knocking her out. She pulls out her Kimmunicator and contacts Wade.

"Wade, it's done. Could you send someone to take care of Electronique?" She asked. As Wade typed on his computer, he was also doing some surveillance in the area as well. Some camera's were online, but there were some that weren't functioning. Being able to playback recent video footage, he determined that most of them were destroyed by the electrical villain.

Then two camera's went offline, and it was after Kim beat Electronique.

"Sure, but I need you to check out the facility more… I don't think you're alone."

"Alone? What's going on?" She asked.

"Someone must've snuck in when you two were fighting, two cameras went offline during your fight." Wade looked at the screen again. "Better make that three."

"I'm on it." She was able to restrain the villainess during her conversation. While she did it, it got her thinking. 'Another person here, was that who Electronique was blasting at? He was right under my nose, at least for awhile. Probably just a henchmen.'

She opens up a door to see someone, with a mask, a sword on his back, a couple pouches on his waist.

And he was looking right at her.

"Sorry to tell you this, but if you're looking for trouble, you're in the wrong place." She took up a fighting stance, smiling with confidence. "Word to the wise, bring more people if you want this to be a challenge."

Ron only stood still and shot daggers at the redhead. 'A lot of confidence on her, maybe I can bring it down a notch.' He thought.

The redhead walked up to him, signaling him to walk forward as well. He sprung himself up to a table his hand helping him stand and kicks her in the face. Standing up, he lifts his left leg to perform a roundhouse kick, but he faked it and quickly converted it into a side kick, which lands right on her ribs. He spins and does a hook kick, hoping it landed.

Kim was able to evade it and nail a right elbow on the side of his face. She then punches him in the gut, the redhead tried to land a hook, which Ron ducked. Kim needed to get another strike to stagger him, because he was gaining some ground. A backhanded punch would do the trick, if only Ron didn't block it.

Ron punched her after the blocked attack, with her arm still stretched out, he grabbed that arm and did a side elbow to the chest, he ran towards her, to use himself as a springboard and send her crashing to the glass but it didn't work out in his favor as the redhead threw him to the glass, shattering it in the process.

Kim sees him get up, but she uses a push kick to place him to the wall. Her left hand was ready to punch him, but he pushed it away, he made a quick wall run to mount the redhead and crash the both of them to the ground. Kim rolled once she was launched. Both turned to face each other, but not before Ron threw several shuriken at the redhead, for she twisted her body and landed behind a desk, taking cover.

'This guy, he is so not a henchman.' She thought with widened eyes. She couldn't fight this feeling that coursed through her body. This was exhilarating, a thrill unlike any other. This one was… completely different.

"Why did you come here?" Kim asked the ninja.

"Got bored, wanted to fight." Ron answers. Obviously he didn't want her to be on his tail so early, so a lie… well a half truth should be told for this reason. "So you're the girl who can do anything, except beat me in a fight. Oh yeah, work on your Wing Chun, it's kinda shitty."

"Trust me, I know sixteen styles of martial arts… you'll go down soon." Kim said.

"Really? I mean, I'm only seeing six. Trust me when I say, I've learned more than six styles, actually I know more than sixteen styles." Ron interjected. Kim used her rappel to launch herself up, with a flip, she landed on another desk. Believing that he was taking cover as well, she turns to meet his face, only to find no one there. But down the halls the redhead heard something.

"Hahaha." He laughed. He was making his escape, while she stood about. Obviously she refused to let this guy get off on this. She went down the hall, chasing him down, she sees a shadow at the end of the hall, then vanish before her eyes. She turns left to actually see the ninja run on some thick pipes, he jumps from pipe to pipe, closer to heading outside.

He turns around to look at Kim in the eyes. With a hidden smile, he addressed her. "We'll see each other soon, Kim." He does a front flip and throws kunai knives. He was hitting the pipes for it to rupture and cloud him in smoke, it temporarily blinded Kim, to which she covered her eyes and looked away. The performance was done successfully, masking himself into the dense clouds, he left her with several words. "This was way too much fun." He vanished quickly, leaving the redhead by her lonesome.

She then got her Kimmunicator to contact Wade. "Wade, I found our little intruder."

He took a look at the footage showing the fight between the two. "I'm guessing it didn't go well." He concluded.

"He got away, but what was he doing here in the first place?"

"I'm not sure, I didn't see him take anything."

"Well we've got Electronique in custody, that's still a…" she looked down at her waist to see that her rappel is missing. She gasps at this realization, when did he get the chance to take it from her?

Kim sighs "The last freaking second. Dammit." She mutters to herself. "Wade, there's a guy in a helicopter who dropped me off here, any chance you can contact him and get me home?"

"No problem, we're also replacing the rappel and giving you a new one for your inventory."

"Thanks Wade." She said with an uplifted smile. As she waited for the chopper, an exhale escaped her lips. She thought of that guy, the fight she had. Would she place him in Shego's caliber? He has bravado, he can fight similar to her, he's an escape artist. She could in a mannerism, but there was something about him that kept gnawing at her: how they placed each other in this thrilling battle.

'He said that it was fun? I want to say that it's so wrong but… no, get it out of your head. We were fighting, that's it. But the one thing he's right about… we'll be seeing each other soon. I'll be ready for him next time and this time, he won't run.' She was pulled from her thoughts as Wade contacted her once more.

"What's up Wade?"

"It's Hoodie, she's regained consciousness, still in the hospital and she's frantically asking for you. Authorities are trying to calm her down… but she's really calling for you. Says she'll cooperate if she's promised protection." Kim had a questionable look on her face, a villain coming to her for help, out of desperation too?

Once the chopper came, she sat as the passenger. Her next stop: Middleton Hospital.

Back into his street outfit, Ron leaned against a tree. 'Kim, she's strong…' he smiled weakly. 'Now that I know some of her movements, and what type of threat she poses…' he got up to walking back to Middleton. 'It'd be a good idea to keep my eye on her.' Keep your friends close and enemies closer. In Ron's case, Kim would be considered both.

With a stretch of his neck, he heads towards Middleton, with a new rappel 'gifted' to him. He uses his new gadget for his trip back home. Even if the fight in general wasn't tipped in either one's favor, he got something out of it. Speaking of fights…

'Aw man, if I miss this, I won't hear the end of it.' He thought. Even if he is a vigilante, he didn't want to isolate himself from his life outside of it.

Even so, as he quickly walked onto a residence. He patiently waited for Monique as he rang the doorbell. He took a quick breath and exhaled with a huff. 'Is it too late to back out now?' He thought randomly. As he did, Ron sees Monique open the door for him.

"For a minute, I thought you weren't showing up." She said smiling at him.

"Yeah something came up, are they still doing the under cards?"

"That finished several minutes ago, they're on commercial break and the main cards are about to start up. Come on in." Ron accepts Monique's invitation. "My older brother's in his room, don't worry, he doesn't bite. My room is right over there." She points to the door half open. She moved to the kitchen to get something from the fridge. "You want something to drink, a soda?"

"Uhh sure, thanks." He goes into the room to see a bowl of popcorn laid out on a carpeted floor. He looks at the tv to see the last of the commercials transitioning into G.W.A. "Hey it's back on." She rushed in holding two bottles of soda. Monique hands one to the blonde boy.

Ron sits next to the popcorn, with Monique lying down on her belly on the other side. They mindlessly take the popcorn from the bowl and consume some.

"This is gonna be awesome." Monique mumbles. "Steel Toe, he's gonna win this big time.

"Whaddya talking about? Pain King is gonna put Steel Toe down. He lost that title! He's gonna whip him bad!" Ron said. This got him excited and riled up for the match.

"Oh is that what you think?" Monique asked, how can Ron think Pain King was winning the match? She has plentiful of knowledge about G.W.A and maybe Ron does… but it'll be tipped in her favor.

"Trust me, I know what I'm saying."

Kim arrives at the hospital seeing several personnel guarding a specific room. Her mind was swathed in questions and concerns. Why would Hoodie reach out for her like this? Who was the new guy? That kind of stuff.

She sees someone walk out of the room and sees agent Will Du walk out of the room with a disapproving look on his face.

"Surprisingly, the director called for you in a situation like this." Will said. Arrogance did not seep through his voice so much as indifference did.

Kim folded her arms. "Surprisingly, even as 'top agent' you couldn't get things under control yourself." She scolded.

"Believe me agent Possible, I have bigger fish to fry. Protecting a known criminal has already placed the actions of Global Justice into question." He looked away at her and look through the window where Hoodie was lying down mumbling, shaking.

"I hope you're not trying to track the people who killed her friends." She said.

"I will allow the director to explain the situation. Even if I wanted to hunt this killer, it wouldn't be a problem for me as it would be for you." He left her with those words as he walked away. Kim could only shake her head in annoyance as she entered the room.

"Excuse me, Hoodie?" The redhead asked. As she peeked into the room, she sees both her and the director inside. She took a glance at the redhead, her look sporting grievance. Kim enters the room and shuts the door. "They said you called for me… why?" She asked softly.

The redhead saw her, broken trembling, her bleeding lip quivering her leg broken, left in a cast. A cut on her cheek and stitches on her shoulder. It was just mortifying to see something like this.

"They're gone, they're both gone." She murmurs. Her hands folded, with her body shaking.

The director looked at Kim. "Last night, someone murdered Chino and Espadrille, but left Hoodie as the sole survivor. We couldn't get anything out of her, now that you're here maybe that'll change." She says.

"Hoodie, how did this happen?" The redhead asked. She sat on the edge of her hospital bed, she wanted to place a hand on her lap but avoided the gesture.

Hoodie huddled her knees and looked away shaking her head. "It's too much." She choked.

"Then, can you at least tell me that when you were attacked by some killers, how many were there?"

"Had a mask, a sword… killed them both." Her face could only have the expression of shock all over her. The intense shivering coursing all over her body. She couldn't use her words correctly, the terror she had to live over and over was slowly consuming her psyche, driving her grief into fear.

"A mask…" Kim mumbled she remembered something. The guy she fought not too long ago, he had a mask, he had a sword, but he didn't use it… but he did have throwing knives… or something like that. He did look new to this whole crime-fighting thing, and he… had a lot of training in martial arts.

Kim looked to the director, her eyes bulged in realization. "It isn't a group of killers."

"If it isn't a group, then that means…" Dr. Director placed her index finger and her thumb onto her own chin. To top it all off, Hoodie held her index finger upwards… and only that.

"One… it's only one."