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CHP 10: Over the edge

*At Tara's house*

"Ring Ring" Tara wakes up and quickly turns her alarm off for this Monday will be a big day for Ron and Tara. Today Tara will see how the school reacts to her new boyfriend regardless if they already heard about it or not. If she was honest, there is a small part of her that is nervous about how today will go but not cause of people reactions.

"What am I going to do when I see Bonnie? More than likely she probably tried to get the squad to take her side, and it's not like I can avoid her."

Tara begins to allow negative thoughts of what Bonnie could do to her but shakes them off and attempts to think positive.

"Stop it Tara, the old shy you is now in the past. You have to show everyone how strong you are, especially for Ron since you are supposed to prove to him that he's not in this alone in this."

Taking a deep breath, Tara quietly says his name, "Ron." causing her mind to drift to their time together where he confesses his inner battle and power to her, trusting her to help carry the pain he's been dealing with, and reminding Tara of her deep feelings for him. After a quick meditating session, Tara's confidence is renewed and is ready to face the new challenges that come their way.

"It's going take a lot more than Bonnie, and the so call food chain's disapproval to keep me from my happiness," Tara said proudly until the sound of the doorbell gains her attention. "Ding Dong."

"Tara I believe that is Ron at the door!" Mrs. King announces from the living room.

"Let him in; I will be down in a bit!" Tara shouts before heading into her closet to pick out an outfit and to get ready. True enough, Ron Stoppable arrive at Tara's early in the hope that seeing her will help calm his nerves concerning today.

"Hink remember to breathe." Rufus teases his male companion.

"Oh hush Rufus," Ron mutters playfully.

Opening the door, Mrs. King warmly greets Ron. "Good morning Ron, come on inside. Tara is still getting ready, but it shouldn't be much longer since you are here now."

She allows Ron inside the house and leads him to the living room. "Thank you, Mrs. King. How is your morning so far?" He politely asks as he takes a seat on the couch.

"Not bad, how about you?" Mrs. King responds in a curious tone.

Ron rubs the back of his neck and answers her saying, "I'm okay for the most part."

Hearing the uncertainty in his voice, as well as remembering the conversation she had with her daughter, Mrs. King takes this time to comfort Ron in her way. "Listen, Ron, whatever you are going through you don't have to deal with it alone. If you ever want a place to escape the reality of your problems or to vent, you are welcome to come over."

When Mrs. King found out how inactive Ron's parents are in his life, it took all that that in her to not show her real anger in front of Tara nor Ron. A young boy like Ron dealing with depression and his parents are part of the problem from not being in his life makes her not respect them one bit.

Mrs. King offer stuns Ron at first because he wasn't expecting her to say that. "I appreciate that a lot Mrs. King. Thank you." He manages to say, earning a warm smile from Tara's mom.

"You're very welcome, for I trust that you won't do anything to hurt my daughter on purpose." She said in a slightly serious tone.

"No ma'am no plans for that." Ron shakes his head quickly at her statement.

"Glad to hear."

At that moment Tara comes rushing from her room saying, "Sorry about the wait Ron for I wasn't expecting you to arrive so soon not that I'm complaining. You ready to go?"

Ron couldn't help but stare at the blonde beauty, who is wearing a black top with dark blue jeans revealing her curves nicely, causing Tara to blush until Mrs. King makes a cough sound to wake Ron out of his trance. "Um yes, the Ron-man is prepared to walk his bon diggity girlfriend to school."

Tara giggled at his comment and walked over to him with Mrs. King taking in the sight of seeing her daughter happy with the young man she has crushed on for a long time. "In that case, you two love birds run along so you can get there on time."

The couple said their goodbyes and started to head over to the school. Last night, Kim sent a message to Ron stating that Josh would walk her to school. Therefore, she will meet them up there, allowing Ron and Tara to have some quality time together.

As the two walk hand to hand, Ron apologizes saying, "Sorry about earlier, I didn't mean to stare at you in front of your mom; I just got lost from how great you look," Ron admits shyly hoping that he didn't embarrass her because of his action.

Tara only smiles and squeeze his hand softly to let him know that wasn't the case. "No, you didn't embarrass me for if anything I'm flattered that I can still have that effect on you, Mad dog." Tara teases him before switching the tone of the conversation by asking him, "So how are you feeling, and no mask be honest with me."

Ron sighs before answering. "Truthfully I am anxious about what evil scheme Bonnie has in store for us. Knowing her, she won't let that incident on the bus slide."

Tara stops both of them and pulls Ron close to her by wrapping her arms around his neck. "I can understand that. Since I was Bonnie's friend for a long time, I too have a strong feeling that she will try to cause drama for us but Ron I don't want you to let the guilt get to you. While the idea of having to deal with Bonnie doesn't excite me, she won't come between us for I want this to work."

Ron responds by wrapping his arms around her waist. "I believe you Tara, for I want this to work as well. Plus, we have Kp and Monique's support, so that helps assures me; however, I could use a little more before we enter school."

Tara smirks understanding what their banter is leading. "Oh really now? Maybe I could do something to help with that." She then proceeds to press her lips on his and gives him a very passionate kiss that Ron happily return.

Once they pull away, Ron leans on her forehead in pleasure. "I miss doing that and you in general."

"Ditto." Tara softly agrees, enjoying the moment. Unfortunately, their moment would have to end due to not wanting to be late for school.

Once they finally enter the building there was no sign of awkwardness from the students that saw them but more of thumbs up or signs of approval between nerds or those that weren't on the food chain trend. Not wanting to wait and see if the reactions will change, Ron walks Tara to her locker to get her stuff, and afterward, they head to his locker and sees Kim and Monique with smirks on their faces.

"I bet you two were expecting a bunch of negativity from everyone once you stepped through the doors, didn't you?" Kim is the first to speak about the situation.

"Um somewhat." Ron wasn't sure how to respond since he had no idea how today would go.

Tara secretly assumed that people would make fun of her, not that she would have cared. "I may not be as popular as Bonnie despite being on the cheer squad, but I thought that people would have said mean stuff to us yet everyone seems fine with us."

"You can thank yours truly for that." Monique checks her nails feeling proud of work, leaving Ron and Tara even more confusing.

"What do you mean Monique?" Ron questions curiously.

"Well Naco boy you should know when it comes to rumors or gossip I am the first to know and have the ability to damage control if need be. In this case, I went ahead and spread the word on how Ron saved the squad once again and won the beautiful cheerleader's heart as well as how the same cheerleader stood up for herself thus earning respect from the people." Monique explains to the couple.

Ron and Tara gasp in shock that Monique somehow managed to pretty much make school easy for them. However, Tara still didn't understand how Monique took care of the plan so quickly. "Not that we don't appreciate you helping us, how did you manage..."

"The whole plan occurred over the weekend, me and Monique had Wade's contribute to getting the word out." Kim finishes explaining, allowing both Ron and Tara to sigh in relief.

"Wow you guys, I don't know what to say." Ron starts to say, not sure of how he could thank his female friends for helping him.

Kim stops him and says, "It's no big Ron, what are best friends for anyway and you always had my back, so in a way, this is my way of saying thank you. Tara, we told you that we would have your back and I'm sure this proves our statement."

Tara, fighting off tears, jumps and gives them both a hug, whispering, "Thank you, both so much."

Ron and Rufus's grin overseeing three girls he cares about getting along just fine. Kim and Monique return the hug, and while Kim was okay with it, Monique didn't want the emotional moment to stay too long. "Okay enough mushy time, let us all get to class before we all detention. Catch you guys later."

Before heading to their classes, Tara gives Ron a quick kiss on the cheek. Neither of them notices that the root of their problem lurks from a distance preparing to launch a revenge attack on Ron Stoppable.

*Lunchtime*

Lunchtime finally came as Ron and Tara walk together towards the cafeteria. After they gather their food, the two find a table and waits for Kim and Monique to join them. Instead, uninvited guests of Bonnie and Brick with a few of his boys surround the table making Ron nervous, and Tara's blood boil.

"Look here Tara; I have given you the whole weekend to come to your senses about choosing that loser over me. After everything, we been through I would have thought that you would remember how much my friendship meant to you but..."

Tara cuts her off not accepting Bonnie's crap like before. "Are you freaking kidding me right now? You call your actions towards me in recent years' friendship by always agreeing with you and not consider how I feel or what would make me happy?!"

"Quit being a crybaby we both know you were nothing without me. Now I'm not going to ask you again, drop the loser, or else he will pay for it." Bonnie nods at Brick and his gang to surround Ron and begin crunching their knuckles.

Ron gulps as he already knows what coming, and without Kim around, he feels helpless a feeling that is common for him. "Now fellas if you all wanted a taste of the Ron-man's cooking all you had to was just ask." He quips to cover his fear which didn't amuse Brick at all.

"Bonnie stop, this is a whole new low even for you! If you ever care about me or our friendship, you won't hurt him." Tara pleads not wanting to see Ron get hurt because of her.

Bonnie pretends to consider her request until she shrugged and said darkly, "Funny I was thinking the same about you but now that I know where you stand..."

Brick receives the signal and gives a warning to Ron as his boy's grab and hold Ron in place. "Sorry Stoppable nothing personal, got to keep the girl happy."

"Then why am I taking this personal?" Ron grumbles before receiving a punch to the gut. Due to his experience with handling bodyguards, Ron could take a beating and has proof on his body yet that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.

No longer seeing herself as the helpless blonde of watching her boyfriend take a beating, Tara attempts to stop Brick from doing any damage. "Enough! I won't just sit by and let you hurt him!"

"Back off Blondie!" Brick orders accidentally push Tara off of her causing to fall to the ground surprising everyone, even Bonnie, who's around watching the altercation. Kim and Monique finally arrive in time to witness Tara getting hurt and rushes to her. What no one notices other than Tara herself is the change in her boyfriend's expression.

Ron's eyes went wide as Tara fell due to Brick's actions. "He hurt Tara..." Ron mutters as painful memories of his life begin to flash in his mind. The pain of not having his parents around like others, not being able to do more on missions to help Kim, being bullied physically as well as emotionally, and now seeing the one person who accepted him his flaws and all hurt because of her association with him.

Angrily, Ron growls feeling familiar primal sensation grow within him. "How... dare... you... that's my TARA!"

*It was at this moment; Brick will realize that he messed up*

Ron's eyes lit blue yelling in rage, not realizing that his mystical money powers were activated, and jumps kicks one of the bullies at his jaw and elbowing the other one's face.

"What the hell!?" Brick couldn't quickly process what happen for Ron to focus his attention towards him and charges towards Brick, yelling, "YOU WILL PAY!" On reflex Brick throws a punch at Ron's cheek thinking it would knock him out, however, the attack seems to unfazed Ron as he proceeds to give Brick an uppercut throwing the football star off balance.

MMP Stage 1 Ron get into his Tai Shing Pek Kwar stance and signals Brick to bring it. Angrily Brick tries to attack him, but Ron dodges them easily like he usually does during missions, and eventually, sides step him causing Brick to fall face first. During this time, Tara had recovered and watches Ron fights Brick in a very aggressive matter.

"Could this be the mystical money power that he warned me about?" Tara wonders remembering the conversation about how his depression has been effect his secret ability as Ron stomps on Brick's leg to keep him from going anywhere.

"Stoppable stop I give up!" He pleads in pain.

"Begging me to stop now? Like how people would stop calling me a loser, pick on me, and bully me? No, you need to feel the pain that I have to deal with on a consist basis." Ron growls glancing towards his leg. "All it will take is one good snap, and he can say goodbye to his football career."

Ron lifts his foot, preparing to finish his attack until someone runs up behind him and holds him by his waist. "Ron, you don't have to do what I think you about to do."

"He hurt you, Tara. It's one thing if it's me, with you that's unacceptable!" Ron responds angrily with his sight still focus on wanting to hurt Brick even more.

A part of Tara was afraid of meeting this aggressive side of her boyfriend; however, at this moment, she couldn't afford to let her fear get the best of her. "I appreciate that you are defending my honor Mad Dog, but I believe Brick has learned his lesson now." Tara expresses calmly despite Ron not focus on her.

"Maybe I can do something that will take his mind off his negative thoughts, and I think I know just the thing." Tara gently takes Ron's face to turn his attention towards her, gazing into his bright blue eyes, and whispers, "Kiss me."

Tara's request through Ron for a loop as he already was trying to fight off the darkness in him until Tara with a little more demand tells him, "Kiss me." Ron slowly leans in with Tara meeting him halfway to kiss him with much passion and comfort. The mystical monkey powers start to die down the more as the couple kisses each other while everyone watches in amazement, including Bonnie.

Once the kiss ends, Tara smiles and asks, "Better now?" as she rubs the side of his face. Ron only nods with a small smile on his face confirming he's back to normal. Out of the nowhere, the cafeteria doors, that were locked thanks to Brick and his gang, finally slam open with someone yelling, "What in the hell is going here!?"

TBC

A/N: Due to the lack of reviews from the last chapter, I wasn't as motivated to update this story, but I finally got around to do so. Honestly, I have been waiting a long time to write a scene where Ron snaps and goes MMP on someone who hurt or bullied him and now I'm satisfied. I thought about having Tara beat up Bonnie here, but with Ron going crazy I went with the support character for now since she isn't a fighter.

Thank you to the new followers, favorite, and reviewers and updates will be slow for me being back in school and working two jobs, but reviews can help with the process.

Trivia: Who can guess what scene from another show inspired the That's my Tara!" moment in this chapter.