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: Gifted
By LJ58
13
"You're seven minutes late," the stocky, younger boy that appeared on the screen declared as Kim logged in at the library's media center, using the paper she had to enter the data needed to get onto the testing site.
"Oh, uh, sorry. Shego said I should learn to linger, and savor some moments, or…..something like that," Kim blushed.
"Really," the dark-skinned boy eyed her blandly, and far from friendly as he eyed her strange appearance without curiosity.
"Uh, will you tell my tester I'm ready to start? And that I'm sorry for being late," Kim told him.
"I am your tester," the boy told her. "I'm Wade."
"Wade," she echoed and looked at the paper in her hand as she grinned at him. "You know, this computer screen makes you look really young."
Wade gave her a grim scowl, and Shego walked over just then and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Okay, Princess. Calm down, and let's get down to business. Sorry, Nerdlinger," Shego nodded at the scowling boy eyeing her through the monitor. "She still gets really hyper at times, and I'm trying to teach her to control that."
"Is she actually ready for this testing phase," he demanded a bit haughtily as he scowled at her now.
"Hey, I'm right here. And I am so ready. So ready. I've learned a lot, and I really want to get into school to learn more," she told him.
Wade eyed her oddly.
"She wants to go to school?"
"Well, she's kind of weird, but she's a good kid," Shego smirked.
"Hey," Kim sputtered, eyeing her. "I'm not a kid," she protested.
"Okay. Clear the vicinity, get ready to start, and you will have forty-two minutes for each section. If you do finish a section early, you can review the earlier questions, but you cannot go back once you leave a section. Ready?"
"Yep," Kim beamed.
"I assume you know how to use a computer mouse, can reply to multiple choice questions, or type essay responses."
"And I can count on my fingers and toes, too," Kim huffed now, getting a little upset with his attitude.
"Kimmie, calm down," she said and eyed her clenched fists that still tended to glow at times when her temper surged. As just now.
Wade eyed the fluttering haze around her hands without comment, and then only nodded as he stated, "Section one, Miss Possible. Begin."
~KP~
"For a smart guy, he was kind of a jerk, isn't he," Kim complained as they left the city library media center almost four hours later.
"Most of that kind usually are, Kimmie. Brainiacs and Nerdlingers are the sort to talk down, and lord it over you as if you are beneath them."
"Well, that's not nice," the redhead huffed.
"Well, most of them live in their own little worlds, Kimmie. You learn to avoid that kind because they can be….jerks, just as you said."
"Dad's not," she frowned. "He's super smart, but he's funny and nice, and….."
Shego, who had heard all about Dr. Possible's antics that occasionally rivaled his sons' stunts, didn't say a word. Although how even James Possible got away with dumping a chamber of hydraulic fluid on a ranking general's head when he visited the Middleton Science Center was beyond her. Most senior brass she knew had ways of getting payback with interest, but James Possible didn't seem to worry.
He seemed to be the most easygoing and laidback scientist she had ever seen, let alone heard about. Yet he was a real genius and had inventions, patents, and accomplishments that likely made others literally green with envy. Still, Kim had a point. He was not like most geniuses she had run across who were too smart for their own good.
Even Kim's mother was pretty darn smart, being a genuine brain surgeon, and all. Which likely explained the twin terrors. Only that meant Kim had to have a serious brain, too, even if she had never been allowed to use it. She had the feeling that was going to be changing from all she had seen, though. She had gone through that six-hour exam in less than three hours, really surprising that little Nerdlinger who couldn't believe she had not somehow been cheating.
By the time Kim had answered quite a few extra impromptu queries the kid had made and tossed out just to personally test her, even the smug young genius had been forced to accept that the nutty little redhead had a few brains in her head. No surprise with all the online reading, and library visits she had made on top of her usual tutoring, and constant questions to both her parents about their jobs and anything else that popped in her head. She was seriously curious and wanted to learn everything all at once. Even if she was still painfully naïve about the real world around her at times.
~KP~
"It's been almost four months," Edward complained as he walked into one of the few still functioning labs in the underground complex. "Tell me you've figured out something," he demanded as he eyed his cousin who was still laboring over what seemed more like chaos more than anything else.
Drew had stacks of files and papers open on one lab table. Multiple computers and monitors all filled with varying formulae or files on another table. There were even numerous chalkboards around the lab filled with his inane scribbles even Ed couldn't begin to decipher.
Then to one side, moved to the lab for convenience, was a small, but frosted tube the size of a small human that hummed constantly as Drew constantly adjusted settings to it, and the different equipment he would hook, or unhook to that obvious cryo-tube.
"Oh, I'm very close," Drew smiled. "Very close. You see, it now occurs to me that the Rainbow Comet was not a comet, my dear fellow," Drew said in a manic tone. "It's really quite intriguing, but…. I believe the alleged comet was something completely, and utterly new and unexplained."
"Then how do you know what…?"
"Cause and effect," Drew turned from his work to smirk at him. "Think. Think. We have two different specimens present at the impact site. Yes?"
"Obviously," Ed frowned.
"Yes! Now, obviously, Possible somehow received, and incredibly enough survived being evolved somehow to contain the energies infused in her small frame. High-end cosmic energies I now believe," Drew pointed out as he gestured to a chart filled with arcane scribbling on one chalkboard. "Including that very fascinating solar fusion, she somehow contains and controls."
"Okay, and the sitter?"
"Ah, that's the truly fascinating aspect of this dichotomy, Edward," Drew told him with glittering eyes. "I think the girl manifested as an organically-based singularity!"
"What," the researcher spat, gaping at him. "That cannot be humanly possible," he spat at his cousin.
"No? Yet young Possible somehow controls plasma akin to that found in stars? They are a balance, Edward. Two sides of the same coin. Possible radiates cosmic energies and somehow manages to use them to fuel her unique metabolism. The girl here," he gestured at the tube, absorbs energy. Any energy," Drew told him. "Like a living singularity, which was why they contained her." he nodded firmly. "You had the secret to controlling Possible in your hands all along," he laughed.
"But….?"
"Possible radiates," Drew told him pointedly. "The other absorbs. You bring them together, and Possible is rendered harmless, and powerless."
"That doesn't really control her," Ed frowned. "That only shuts her down."
"Ah, but even she has a desire to thrive and survive. She demonstrated that well enough," Drew Lipski smirked. "So, you face her with the threat of being rendered powerless, and she has no choice but to obey, or we can shut her down at any time we wish just by exposing her to the living singularity we possess," the rogue scientist crowed to his cousin.
"That….could work. Yes, it could. Only what if she just runs off?"
"I have been studying the rate of absorption the girl possesses even shut inside the tube and examining her sphere of influence based on various energy levels, types, and strengths. All you have to go is get her within ten feet of the girl, and she won't be able to do a thing. Possible will be tapped out inside of an eye blink," Drew nodded confidently.
"That might just work. Drew, you may have just handed us the proverbial keys to the kingdom," Edward smiled ambitiously.
"Indeed. I just have one question," the blue-skinned man asked his more mercenary cousin.
"Oh?"
"Do you really intend to just hand all this power back over to those witless pretenders that didn't have a clue from the start?"
"Are you kidding? If we can really control that little savage, we have the ultimate power in our hands, Drew. Ultimate power. We can write our own ticket, and no one can stop us. No one," Ed smiled almost as manically as his cousin.
"Just one thing," Drew added as he looked over his newest calculations.
"What?"
"While our singularity makes for a very effective leash on young Possible, we cannot ever let them get within touching range of one another," he warned.
"Why not? Wouldn't that only drain her faster?"
"Actually, my theory is that the two might feed one another creating a cascading energy loop that could open a black hole right here on earth, and destroy us all," Drew told him.
"What," Ed gasped. "Are you sure?"
"I did say I think the comet was not a comet. I think it was a fledgling black hole, locked onto still radiating something so powerful it had not yet fully absorbed. When it impacted Middleton, something in the force of impact somehow fused the twin natures into those two specimens on an impossible cellular level never conceived as possible. Still, I am virtually certain if they were brought together too closely, they would probably complete that loop, and totally destroy the planet," Drew smirked as if the idea appealed to him.
"Good God."
"You still don't get it, do you," Drew scoffed.
"What else is there?"
"Don't you understand? The comet, whatever its nature, would have likely devastated the planet fourteen years ago if it had not struck, and somehow interacted with the two specimens. I think they technically saved the world by absorbing the twin aspects of the alleged comet that would have otherwise shattered the globe had whatever happened...not happened," Drew declared authoritatively.
"Whoa," Ed gaped. "Seriously. Cuz, you have to write all this up, because it is seriously major physics if you're right. You could end up with a Nobel Prize for Physics. Seriously!"
"That would show those annoying professors," Drew sneered. "Now, we just have one more dilemma to solve," he told his cousin.
"Oh?"
"How to lure Possible close enough to the singularity to control her," Drew pointed out.
"Oh. Right," Ed scowled and puzzled over that one himself.
To Be Continued….