I do not own any Disney characters named herein and am only borrowing them to tell a nonprofit tale meant for entertainment purposes only.
Kim Possible: Vamped
By LJ58
31
"Anything from Wade," Kim asked as she landed the Roth on the narrow strip of rocky beach on the island that was mostly volcanic cone jutting up out of the dark water of the ocean.
"Nothing as yet, Kimberly," the AI replied. "He has not attempted to call back since your last conference."
"Right. Of course. All right, Annie, I want you to withdraw, go stealth, and stay hidden until I call for you. I'd rather not have this loon try to destroy you if he or his lackeys find you."
"I'll comply, but I suggest you use your own stealth."
"Oh, I will," Kimberly said, and her human façade faded completely as she became the pale, red-eyed vampire she had become from the start even as the Roth shimmered out of view even as Kim heard its tires rolling toward the ocean.
Hiding in the water was smart. Annie could also scan below the surface since a flyby had not shown them anything but the smoldering cone of the volcano. No obvious buildings, or headquarters. Just a volcanic cone and a narrow strip of land yet to reveal more than rock.
"A cavern," she decided as she headed toward the nearby ridges that gave way to the steep cone of the volcano itself. "Has to be a cavern," she decided as she heightened her senses beyond normal, and began to hunt.
Even as she reached the ridge, and began to slowly pace the foot of the steep ridges, she detected a presence that indicated life to the predator within.
"So, the bad guy wants to play bogeyman," she grumbled and raced soundlessly over the rocky ground until she stooped, and looked unerringly up at the steep slope before her. Several hundred feet up her eyes could just make out the dark cavern high overhead. One that looked big enough to land a small jet inside.
Likely, you could.
Or, she considered, launch a rocket with a PDVI portal generator built into it.
Whoever this guy was, or thought he was, Kim was going to ensure that he suffered before he paid. He was going to suffer a great deal.
Monique deserved vengeance.
And no one. No one crossed Kimbera Possible.
She had spent years teaching the usual loons you didn't hit her at home. You didn't touch her hometown. Just when she thought the idiots had gotten the message, this madman had to come along and ruin a lot of lives for whatever reason he thought he had in his tiny little mind.
She considered her best approach and then smiled as she grew her claws out and began to climb. Let's see if he really expected her, or even knew what he had roused. After all, even cats liked to play with the mice they chased.
~KP~
Dana sat in her room, sniffing, even as the phone rang on her nightstand.
She eyed the phone, but it rang on, which meant Shego either wasn't answering or had yet to come inside. The last she had seen of her, the woman was standing out in the back yard just staring at the sky. What thoughts were in her head were beyond the blonde just then. She only knew that Kim had really been happy of late, and now her happiness had been torn away.
When the phone didn't stop since Kim didn't have an answering machine, she realized someone must really be trying to reach someone. She reached out, and lifted the receiver, asking, "Hello? Possible residence."
"Dana," a very soft voice spoke.
"Amy," she almost cried. "Are you all right? Nothing's wrong?"
"I should be asking you," her longtime friend and now girlfriend replied with an emotional retort. "I saw you guys on television when I came in from classes. I've been trying to call you all night."
"We….just got in. Well, me and Shego. Mom… Well, Kim is….out on a mission."
"Do I have to guess?"
"She's tracking whoever it was that attacked us," Dana said.
"I get that. Sure. Dana….."
"What is it, Amy?"
"I…. I can't talk about this over the phone. Will you be in this weekend? If I come down?"
"I'll be here. You're really coming down," Dana smiled now.
"I think I'd better. We have things to….talk about."
"What do you mean…?"
"Bye, Dee," she called her. "Talk later."
Dana hung up the phone and frowned.
Then she realized what Dana had likely seen.
Was she worried? About her? Or was she thinking Harry Headbed was right, and she and Kim were the real monsters in Middleton?
She sagged in her desk chair and just sighed.
"Things used to be so much easier when only mom hated me," she said, and then gave a helpless giggle at her own words. Then the giggling faded, and she began to cry again. She cried for a long time.
~KP~
Definitely a launch bay Kim noted as she reached the ledge, and climbed up to stand in the mouth of the cavern. Several small aircraft were parked to the sides of the immense cavern, and to one side was an empty trolley that likely could have held a small missile. One that could launch a cylinder-sized PDVI.
She walked into the hangar and saw the tunnels that looked more melted than cut into the rock, and saw them go right and left respectively.
Of course. The volcano was still active, so they would drill the caverns around the perimeter, and high enough that they wouldn't trigger another flow.
She stood in the tunnel and sniffed.
The reek of inhuman flesh was evident. There was only one human scent, though. One that seemed oddly familiar. She turned to the right and began to head down that corridor even as she noted there were occasional electric lamps spread out just enough to allow someone to see where they were headed.
She paused at a huge chamber to her right and glanced in to see a makeshift lab. In row after row of incubation tubes like those Drakken had used, there were more ghouls. A lot of them. All of them nearly grown. To the back, she saw three larger than usual tubes and walked over to study them. One was empty.
The other two had immature copies of her with stunted wings, and hideous not quite human faces.
She glared at the daring of this true monster, and turned and eyed the main console.
She put a fist through it, sending up sparks and smoke, and the tubes began to flicker all around her as they slowly went dark, and the bubbling fluids inside still as the chirping of monitors that indicated life also began to still.
She walked out after dropping a single, small metal ball behind her.
It rolled over to one side and lodged just under the larger of the computer consoles. If you didn't pay attention, you'd never see it, or the tiny blinking light on one side of the sphere.
Walking on, she reached another chamber with a barred door on the front. She looked inside and saw another large chamber packed with the same cloned ghouls she had arrived in time to see Shego destroy.
Grimacing at the hideous mockeries of life, she dropped another ball in between the bars of the door's observation port and went on. She found three more labs, one devoted to electronics, and another that seemed a huge library and computer center of sorts. Then she found a kitchen. It was smaller but well furnished, and then she reached a smaller door.
She drew a deep breath and knew the human was inside. The man that dared invade her home. Her territory. The man that killed her heart.
Kicking the door in, he jumped up from a chair where he was reading and glared at her as he stood looking at her.
He was clad in a black jumpsuit. Black boots. Black gloves in spite of sitting in his lair and reading. He had a long dark coat nearby, and she noted he would match the description of the nameless man Camille had shown her in her thoughts.
"So. You," she said.
"Augustus Hardbed at your service, Miss Possible," he smiled, and actually bowed to her. "I knew you'd find me after I sent my invitation. It's what you do."
"Invitation," she growled. "Just what are you and your brother up to here," she demanded.
"Harold? That simple-minded imbecile doesn't believe in half his own stories. Still, when he exposed you, I knew you were more than what they said. More than what you said. See, I know the preternatural is real. And I know you could finally help me find and fulfill my destiny."
"You want….my help. After you attacked my town," she hissed.
"Come now. We both know you are an eternal power now. You'll outlive all those plebian gnats left behind. You are destined to rise, and I, Miss Possible, am destined to rise with you," he said with a manic gleam in his eyes.
"You're just as insane as Harry," she spat now, walking toward him in slow, measured steps. "Do you know what you've done?"
"Shown the world the preternatural exists," he grinned. "Shown them the power of the shadows. Shadows I…. We will guide as we remake the world in our image. Don't you see? It's fate! I can guide you, and together we will create an empire unlike any that has ever…."
Augustus trailed off with a choked cry of alarm as her right hand was suddenly wrapped around his throat, her claws digging into the soft skin under his collar.
"You attacked my home. You killed people I knew. People I cared for, and then…. Then you murdered the one woman I loved more than anyone else in the world. Can you see how that was a mistake, you pathetic little pretender?"
"Pretender," he choked, trying in vain to pull free. "I'm am…"
"A pretender. I've seen your labs. Your cloning tubes. You clever tricks I've seen a hundred times before in the hands of those smarter than you. Bad enough that you hurt innocent people, and risked thousands of lives. Bad enough you murdered the one woman that I cared for more than any other alive. All of that is bad enough…."
He continued to struggle and choke as Kim's eyes glowed all the brighter, and then suddenly she was a giant bigger than his own clone with great bat-like wings as crimson as her hair.
"Far worse, though, was trifling with me, little man," she snarled as she lifted him bodily in that one hand, sneering in his suddenly pale face as he whined in fear and something wet dripped from his leg. "I am Lady Kimbera, Elder and spirit of the night. And you trespassed against me and mine," she spat. "Rise? Do you want to rise? And so you shall," she said, and almost instantly they were outside in the night sky, hovering over the molten mouth of the volcano as she glared into his wide, bulging eyes as she kept choking him.
"Before you face your fate, just know I will wipe out your entire bloodline. For your daring, your brother, his family, your parents. Even your pets. All of them are going to die. All because you dared to stretch out your hands against me."
"Nuh," he tried to cry.
Kim smiled.
"Begging me for mercy? A little late, vermin."
"Le' goooo," he choked, still trying to breathe.
Kim smiled on as she said, "As you wish, baron," she sneered, and opened her hand.
The man had a voice now, and he screamed all the way down as Kim hovered in the air, watching him fall.
A part of her was protesting, but it was a very small part of late. That innocence had died long ago, and she barely heard it any longer. It was stirred, and almost restored when Monique stood before her, arms open and smiling, and Kim had felt more alive than ever when her longtime friend turned lover accepted her.
Only now she was dead, and she realized the world was never truly going to accept her. Her or Dana. She was going to have to consider that one. She was going to have to consider it a great deal. Even as she flew down, summoning the Roth back to her, she climbed in and flew away even as she pressed the blinking button on a small remote.
Behind her, the volcano seemed to explode, its central cone erupting in a lateral eruption as it spat smoke and fire into the night. Kim didn't look back. She knew nothing would be left by the time the volcano spent its fury again.
Her fury.
For she still felt not unlike that volcano. Waiting. Patient. Only ever ready to erupt.
Then she considered Harry.
Harry knew of his brother's genuine insanity. He knew the man had delusions, and the slant they took him. So he obviously aimed his too smart for his own good sibling at Kim to stir her up, and try to get the final proof of her apparent unnatural blood.
Of course, Harry had never felt she was natural. The old fool was a genuine misogynist. Only this time he was going to regret crossing her. He was going to regret crossing her a lot.
After all, she had promised Augustus to destroy their family.
The thought brought another thin smile to her somber gaze as she flew back toward the mainland.
To Be Continued….