"Uh, KP?" Ron Stoppable felt the wind on his face. He saw Kim shove Monique Jones and Athena Lipsky-Go into the void that was unknown. "W-what are we going t-to d-do?"
Kim looked at the void that her classmates had been thrown into. This was it, all that she had done to get here ever since the explosion. She turned to Ron and held out her hand. He grabbed it and together they walked into the unknown. She never answered his question.
Athena looked around and immediately her first thought was-she failed. Kim failed to travel to another universe, another alternate dimension and they were all in their home, everything was-
"Athena?" Monique called out. She looked a bit disheveled and Athena's heart sank because Monique was looking around bewildered at their surroundings. She knew that they were not in their Middleton, their home. They were in the other universe.
Oh man... her parents are going to kill her. No, if anything her mom will kill her and make it look like an accident. Spencer was going to be their only child. Yeah, that'll probably happen. She was dead at the hands of her mom and her dad... oh man what was he going to think?! No doubt that vein in his forehead was going to burst when he finds out about this. She is never going to be able to leave her home anymore after this. She was dead once she got home.
What did her mom tell her? Don't go after Kim, I'll go. Athena should have heeded her mom's words but no, she was stubborn and decided to go after her old classmate and try to stop her with Monique. They were concerned for Kim just like Athena's parents were about Kim. Her mom and dad would track them and once figure out what happened to them... Athena was going to be a dead girl.
"Athena," Monique repeated her name louder and she finally got up from the ground. "What did she do?" Athena could only shake her head. She did not know why Kim wanted to go to another universe but whatever the reason for she finally succeeded. But in her mind, in the back of her mind, she knew why. Athena just thought Kim wasn't so reckless to do this in the first place. "What did Kim do?!"
"We can't panic, not now," Athena said to her friend. "W-we have to think. Why go to another similar universe. If this is similar to ours then we track down the other Kim Possible and maybe my parents. Yeah, yeah! My parents might know what to do!"
"Athena what if they aren't your parents?" Monique said gently. "What if they aren't even together?"
Athena scoffed. "Yeah right! If anything my parents are soulmates. Trust me, Mo. They'll be together." She sounded confident and optimistic to Monique but on the inside, Athena was just as uncertain as Monique expressed it plainly on her face. Her parents should be here in this other Middleton, this other universe but would they be together? Some childish part of her said yes, of course! They'd have to be!
But were they?
Tracking Kim Possible was utterly easy and utterly confusing at the same time when Athena and Monique stumbled upon Kim, Ron, and Athena by pure chance when they got to the school. Ron pointed them out and both Monique and Athena were ready to attack until Athena saw herself looking back at, well herself.
The explanation was otherwise... confusing as well. All five teens stared at each other to the point of gawking.
"Who are you guys-"
"Clones! Drakken finally did it! Ruuuu-"
"Ron!"
Athena and Monique just did not relax, no amount of talking could drill it out of them. Still, Monique told the trio about their predicament to which they did not seem to believe it but they were wanting to help even though they were skeptical of both girls' stories.
"So what are me and Ron like in your universe?" Kim asked them as the group walked to Kim's house.
You sent us to this universe... you are a troubled girl.
"The same as you are," Monique said rather quickly exchanging a look to her friend."And same with Ron." That made the blonde boy smile excitedly.
"Are we here with you guys as well?" Kim asked Monique.
"We got separated," Athen said. It was a blatant lie but they did not need to know that, they didn't know their Kim. Nor would they if Athena had anything to do about it. "We need to find them." And stop whatever Kim is going to do.
"I want what she has!" Kim had screamed as the portal opened.
"Nothing is impossible for Team Possible!" Ron said throwing a fist in the air. Kim and Athena nodded in agreement with their friend. The other two girls just gave them a weary smile.
Kim had gone out of her way to introduce the outsiders to her parents. In her universe, Athena never met James and Ann or Kim's twin brothers. That was because they had died years ago when Kim and Athena were thirteen. A freak accident during a ceremony, Kim was at cheer camp and Athena and her parents had been arriving late for the opening ceremonies for the launch.
Her dad blamed the companies, if they hadn't rushed the engineers to develop the robot the explosion or deaths would not have occurred.
Kim... Kim blamed Athena's dad.
"If he hadn't designed the rocket, they would still be here!"
Monique nudged Athena from her thoughts and snapped to attention. Kim's room was that of a normal teenager just like Athena and Monique's rooms back home. The other teens had already begun to ask them questions that Athena had barely paid any attention to.
"So who are your parents?" The other Athena asked curiously.
"Her parents are Drew and Sasha Lipsky."
"Drakken and Shego are your parents?" The other Athena asked with wide eyes at her.
Athena frowned. She recognized her mom's aliased but not Drakken-who the hell was Drakken?! Apparently, Dr. Drakken was once called Drew Lipsky before he went all "Mad Evil Scientist" as Ron put it and teamed up with Shego, another villain. Athena burst out laughing until she realized the trio was serious. Picturing her dad as some mad scientist... she couldn't see it. He was, well, her dad. He wasn't evil to her.
"At least we know that they're together in this universe," Monique said trying to give her friend comfort. "That's a good thing." Athena just nodded her head.
At least that was good. Athena and Monique were to stay with the Possibles while she tried to contact her parents. She charged her phone and looked at her mom's communicator that Athena stole. She had stolen it for good reason as she explained it to Kim and the other Athena. "Rufus accidentaly ate a microship gps and he still has it in there, if I can access my mom's communicator, i can see where Kim and Ron are at."
What she did not tell them was that Rufus did indeed eat a microchip gps but tricked by her mom who put it in a brownie. It was to keep tabs on Ron and Kim. It wasn't harming Rufus which her parents told her, it would stick to his stomach and that's it. Nothing else.
The twins ran around and it made Athena's throat hurt with emotion. The last time she saw Jim and Tim, they were in coffins. Monique took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze.
"Hey," She said.
"Hey," Her voice craked a bit. Monique knew.
They did not say anything. That was until her phone rang. She snatched it from the counter and her stomach dropped-her mom was calling. She excused herself and went straight to the bathroom for privacy. She could picture her mom now, sitting on the couch reading a book, probably one of her many feminism books, it must be the new one she got online a while back while trying to reach Athena. Her dad must be in the backroom or as her younger brother called it the "crazy room" for its explosions and smoke that came out of there almost every day. Besides the smoke and fires, music would play softly with her dad singng along to AC/DC or Janis Joplin or Led Zepplin or The Beatles while he worked.
"Hello?" She said tentively into the phone.
"Athena," Her mom's tone of voice was neutral. Not good. "Where are you?"
"Uh... Canada," She said quickly.
Sasha Go-Lipsky was not fooled. "Try again."
"Monique and I went after Kim," She said. On the other line, her mom cursed loudly making Athena wince. Yep, very angry. "She made some alternate dimesion portal and now we're stuck here."
"I thought I made myself clear Athena, " She said, her tone that of a mother already on the verge of ripping the universe in half and hauling her daughter back home. Knowing her mom, she would do that. "To not go after Kim? Or did you just magically tune it out?"
"Mom, I'm sorry but you weren't doing anything!"
"I wasn't doing anything? Athena, I was going to have your aunt Winona and Uncle Wes go after her. Not you and Monique! Now your father and I are going to have to hotwire some portal that Kimmycup built and get all four of you out of that place."
"I'm sorry," She mumbled into her phone.
Her mom sighed. "We'll talk about your punishment when you get home. For the mean time keep an eye on Kim and Ron, please."
"Okay," Athena said quickly not telling her mom about that fact that she was staying in the alternet Kim's house and possibly meeting her parent's alternate versions tomorrow. That was going to be intersting and chaotic, Athena wondered how Kim and Ron were doing. She mostly wondered where they were.
