Kim Potential…
Summary: A desperate Dr. Drakken has sensibly reviewed his Files of Past Plots to find the most effective weapon yet used on KP and improve it with unexpected results. Ron and company find they have a new partner.
Disclaimer: No infringement intended.
Part XVI…
Hmmn…Kim frowned at her jammed Kimmunicator as she stood by an unlocked side door at the warehouse. Either Drakken's blocking everything or he's found Wade's new frequency.
"Ron!...Hey, Ron?!" she called, looking up toward the front of the large building.
Hmmn…He must be on the other side…Or he's found his own way in.
Well, may as well…She opened the door, peering. Ah, light switch…Nah…She flicked back and forth…No go.
But at least no Shego either waiting in behind the door. She went in, cautiously.
"Hello?! Anyone here?! Sorry to come in like this, I don't mean to trepass."
Always a polite kid…Henchthug Barclay noted to himself in his hidden corner. And even if our Kimmy is pure Evil, she's acquired a bit of that.
"Hello?!"
Ok, no one here…Just a quick look see…She made her way in, entering the main warehouse. All dark.
Hmmn. Not that I'm afraid of the dark or anything…Just…
Hmmn…
Ah…She caught sight of a light down by the far wall of the warehouse.
"Hey! Hello?! Ron?! Is that…?" she moved toward the light.
"Hey!" she cried as the office door behind her shut tight without any sign of manipulation.
Metal shutters slamming down over the already locked main door, the closed and shuttered few windows, and apparently several other possible escape routes.
"All right, Drakken!" she cried… "Come on out, I know you're in here!"
The light at the far end turned a bloody red. A tall, black shadow of a figure showed behind on the wall…
"Kim…Possible…" a deep voice… "At last you have come…"
"James Earl Jones?" she stared.
"No…But thank you. Kim…Possible. At last you meet your destiny."
"Drakken? Are you using a voice modifier?"
"No…But again, thank you for the complement. It is now time for you to face your final battle."
"Are you something Dr. Drakken just whipped up…?"
"Interesting, but no. Come forward and all will be revealed."
"I don't think so, Dr. D…" she shook head. "You know as well as I do how these things play out. Why don't you and Shego come out and maybe, if no monsters been released this time you might be able to return the stuff and get a reduced sentence."
"All will be revealed…All…Will…Be…Revealed…"
"Is that a tape recorder or DVD player?" she stepped cautiously forward, eyeing the huge shadow.
"No."
"You know I have to get back to class soon. Couldn't you do your usual thing and give me the plot in a quick rant?"
"All will be revealed. Come." The shadow raised a beckoning arm…
"Sorry if I'm spoiling a big buildup but I got get moving…" she charged suddenly for the figure.
Hmmn…Looks like it's not much of a Darth Vader, she eyed the little figure…A light specially trained on it creating the huge shadow.
"I don't wanna hurt you!" she called. "Just tell me…"
The figure disappeared into the wall somehow…
She came up short, staring.
Ok…Either this thing can walk through walls or…
Yep…She eyed the projector and speaker now before her. A little messin' with the Possible. Nice.
"Ok…I get it…Where are you?"
"Hey, Kimmy!" Shego happily called from an open door in the wall…Hidden except when light from the opposite room shone out. "Nice to see ya!"
God…She almost sounds sincere…
"Shego?! Where's Drakken?" But Shego had vanished as had the open door.
"All will be…" the James Earl Jones' voice (of henchthug Walter) resumed…
"Yeah, yeah…I get that. So this way to the latest trap?" she asked the air. "You could at least light the way, Dr. Drakken. I could fall over something in here."
A small but strong light…Over the door…
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it." Walter's James Earl Jones'…
"If that's you, Dr. D…Very nice James Earl Jones…" Kim noted.
"Ok, go through the door or not, Alice?" she asked herself.
"Do you think our Kimmy would go on through?" Shego asked Walter as they watched. "I bet she would...Though I hope she'd spend a little more time checking things out. Excuse me."
She stepped forward to a post near the open door…On which a spotlight shone…
"Kim Possible…You are alone…There is no escape for you now." Walter's deep intoning as Kim emerged from the door into the spotlight and the door slammed shut behind her.
"Ok, Darth Drakken…" she sighed. "Very funny but can we cut to the rant about the plot? I told you I should be getting back. I have history class."
"Your history…Is at an end. You must now join the Dark, Blue Side or be destroyed."
"That really is good but what? You're asking me to join you?" Kim stared.
"You will join…There is no alternative." Walter intoned.
"That's for the video…" Drakken noted to Barclay. "It should help to convince folks that we got her on the path to Evil when our Kimmy starts taking her rep down."
Barclay nodding…
Impressive…
"Come on, doc." Kim shook her head. "This is all very cool and I'm impressed by the new image you're trying to project but you know how this has to go."
"I dunno, Kim…" Shego stepped to the edge of the light. "I'd at least consider Drew's offer."
"Finally…We get down to it." Kim sighed. "Shego, what is Dr. Drakken up to?"
And when did you get on a first name basis with him?
"That would be telling…" grin…
"Ok…Well, lets do it the hard way…" She charged at Shego who dropped back.
What is going on? No rant, no speech outlying the Big Plan, and Shego not even coming at me?
"Shego?" she called…Stopping as the spotlight went out, plunging the room into total darkness.
Hmmn…Need a light.
Not that I'm afraid of the dark or…Ah, the Kimmunicator…
"You know I never knew you were afraid of the dark, Kimberly." Shego's voice, softly.
Ah, there…Kim shined the weak light of the Kimmunicator's still staticy screen out…Moving carefully.
"Now you will embrace the Dark, Blue Side…" the James Earl Jones voice picked up again.
"Ok, getting to be a bore…Dr. Drakken, can't you just give me the plot and lets do the duke it out with Shego?"
"Right over here, Kim." pleasant coo…
She moved toward the voice, trying to peer ahead.
A trap, of course…But…
If only I had Ron here…To poke about for me.
"We've eliminated the Ron Factor from this equation, Kim." Shego, echoing her thoughts. "I think you're gonna find things a little together this time, honey."
"I can handle…" Kim began…
Whoa…She staggered, blinded by the sudden glare of harsh floodlighting. Shego before her, in sunglasses and battle suit.
"Let there be light, Kimmy." Grin.
Kim charging her way. Shego falling back deftly.
She was now in the center of the second half of the warehouse. Peering and blinking, she saw Shego and a few henchthugs at one end and raced for them…To find the floor beneath her opening up.
"Wellcome to your destiny, Kimberly Ann Possible. All that is good in you now perishes and the Evil remains."
Kim struggling to keep her footing, clambering up, seeing at the bottom of the now inclining floor …A bubbling circle.
"Oh…"
She raced up desperately, trying to grab at the top of the floor now forming a steep cliff. Just part of the remaining floor beyond still flat.
"Kimberly." Drakken, now beside Shego. "I hope you appreciate the effort I went to on this one."
"What did you do with that equipment?" she cried, hanging on to the top of the floor. "What's this one all about, Drakken?"
"Actually…It's all about you, sweetheart." Shego noted.
"Have a look, Kimberly." Drakken offered…As above them a drone projected an image on the wall.
Arghh…Kim struggled to climb onto the flat floor. Staring in horror.
"Ron? Ron?!" she cried, seeing Ron…With…
"What? Not another synthoclone…" she frowned.
"Wait…"
"Yes…Put it together, girl." Drakken nodded. "Sequencer, bioreactor…And a few other things including that old attitudinator technology. I went back over the old files and realized, the best way to beat you, dear…Is to have you join me of your own more or less free will. Well, the free will of your darkest side."
"Ron?!" she cried at the image on the wall. "That's not me…!"
"Oh, but it is you…Kim…Possible." Walter cut in again. "Your…Potential…Self."
"All the darkest parts…With some of your teen perkiness, etc." Drakken nodded. "I finally have a daughter after my own heart."
"What?"
"Fraid so, Kimmy." Shego beamed. "But I really think we make surprisingly excellent parents."
Grrr…Kim braced for a charge…But Shego, Drakken, the henchthugs…Vanished…
What the…?
"Holograms, sweetie." Shego's projected voice. "A shame your little friend wasn't around…He probably would have caught the twinkling you were too busy to see."
Lights went out again…As did the image above her. Total darkness.
Gotta get out, gotta get out…Careful, careful…
The rest of the floor in the second section gave way forming a giant funnel…She plunged into the darkness, landing on the inclined slope further down, just above the bubbling circle at bottom…
Gotta get out, up…Whoa! She felt some kind of icy fluid running under her feet from somewhere above.
Cold, cold…Can't…She tried to keep her footing, too slippery…
"NO!"
"Farewell, Kim Possible…Long live Kimberly Potential Drakken!" Walter's voice. "Ah, ha, ha…"
"Walter…Please." Shego urged… "We've won, the kid's scared enough." She eyed Drakken as they and the henchthugs in the first section of the warehouse watched Kim struggle, falling into the huge tank on drone camera. "What if it were our Kimmy?" He stared, nodded. Yes.
"Enough, Walt. Fine job."
"We got her, boss." Barclay noted, checking instruments. "She's in the tank and life signs are showin' status: Frozen."
"We won?" Drakken blinked. "We actually won?"
"I guess." Shego nodded, a bit subdued. Henchthugs likewise…
"Somehow I always thought I'd find this a bit more pleasant." Drakken sighed. "But all I could think of, seeing her staring at me, just then, was…My poor brave little frightened…"
Yeah…Shego sighed, patting him.
"Still, there can only be one, right?" he eyed her.