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
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Kim jumped up, somersaulting through the air, and landed atop the pyramid made of nine other doppelgangers as she smiled down at the coach.
"What do you think," Kim beamed at the woman as she demonstrated some of her suggestions for the squad.
Most of the squad were gaping, and some were applauding.
Bonnie just glowered at her, sitting on the bleachers, and looking murderous.
"Well, we can definitely use some of those routines to add to the squad, Kimberly," Coach Henshaw smiled. "But I don't think even my girls could pull off your inverted pyramid without a lot of practice, and a lot of injuries."
"Oh," Kim said and dropped down to land in a crouch as her doppelgangers began to just vanish from the top down in dramatic fashion.
"Still, I'm genuinely impressed at how fast, and how easily you came up with those new routines.
"I just put together a few ideas after watching those films you gave me," Kim smiled.
"Well, you have obviously worked hard to be able to do what you showed us today. So, how about teaching the squad a few of your simpler moves, and see if they can get those down before the next game," Coach Myers asked.
"Sure," the smiling redhead nodded eagerly. "If you think they won't mind," she asked, glancing toward Bonnie who was still benched.
"We'd love to try some of those moves," Tara assured her, having rejoined the squad of late.
"I'm on board," Jessica grinned. "And maybe we could all get together and study with you afterward. I'm betting you are going to have all the answers we need, Kimberly," she added knowingly.
"I don't mind helping anyone," Kim smiled at the girl from her previous class. "I think…. I think that is what I want to do. Help people that need it. Anywhere, anytime," she said with a firm nod.
"That's a very good way to think. Okay, girls," the coach shouted, clapping her hands. "I hope you were paying attention, because Kimberly is going to show you how to add a few of her routines into our own program."
Bonnie sputtered, and jumped up as she all but shrieked, "What? I'm the captain," she protested. "I'm the one that decides…."
"Sit down, Bonnie. You're still benched. Still, you might pay attention, because you could stand to learn a few things yourself," the coach declared firmly.
Bonnie sputtered all the more and started to complain when she saw a familiar face just outside the gym peering in at them.
The scary woman leaned against the doorjamb eyeing them, but with a careless smirk that suggested she would be happy to join them; just as soon as she finished hurting someone. Bonnie sat down and muttered bitterly as Shego just leaned on the door, eyeing Kim as she now took the lead in showing the squad some of her moves she had come up with practicing in Global Justice's gym.
Shego just shook her head, a faint knowing grin on her face as she only focused on Kim who seemed back to having more energy than she knew what to do with.
~KP~
"It is time, Stoppable-San," the white-haired master with a long, carefully groomed beard told him as Ron looked up from the mud where he had just gotten tossed again.
"Uh, time for what," Ron asked uneasily. Because every time he heard those words, it seemed that he ended up in over his head. Again.
"Tomorrow you will go with one of our top students," he told him, stroking that long white beard as he only stared placidly at Ron. "There," he pointed, and Ron followed that finger.
"We are going on a hike?"
"You will climb to the top of Mount Yamanouchi. There, you will face your destiny. If you are the fated monkey master, you will learn the truth atop the mountain in our most sacred temple."
"And, ah, if I'm not," Ron asked. "I just….go home?"
"Home? Perhaps. Sometimes failures end in death, young Stoppable-San. I suggest you rest this evening, and meditate upon your life and its ultimate purpose. You leave at dawn," he nodded, and turned to walk away without looking back.
"It seems, Stoppable-San," Hirotaka smiled as he offered him a hand now. "You will miss tomorrow's lesson. I suggest practicing all the same."
"Yeah, yeah," Ron groaned as the lean young man in ninja gear that was actually the same age as he just smiled the same placid expression as he helped Ron to his feet. "So, did I miss the class or is being all inscrutable and stuff another level?"
Hirotaka's expression didn't change in the slightest as he only said, "As Master-Sensei would tell you that it is something you learn for yourself. If you can."
"Jeez, you guys really talk like Yoda, or something, don't you?"
"As I do not know this Yoda, I cannot respond. Still, the master is correct. You should go and rest, and spend the rest of your evening in careful meditation."
"So, ah, do you know what's up there," Ron asked.
"I have never been so honored with such a quest. That I know of, you are only the third to be chosen in all this time."
"Only the third, huh. And the first two," Ron asked him as he looked toward that high peak that still towered over the small, but hidden school for ninja.
"One died. The other went mad, and even now plots the end of our legacy and the world. I believe you have already met him," Hirotaka told him.
"Oh, man, did he get turned into that weird monkey-guy up there," Ron asked in horror.
"No, Stoppable-San," Hirotaka replied, looking grim now. "Lord Fiske came to us flawed, and his true character came out when he failed the quest. Knowing his failure, and all it cost him, he yet survived, but surrendered to his madness."
"So, don't lose, right? Because the consolation prizes aren't all that great," he grimaced.
"I know this, Stoppable-San," Hirotaka told him. "You are the first to have unlocked true mystical monkey power of Tai Shing Pek Qwar in many generations. Many have tried, and they all failed. It may be that you were chosen to balance the madman's own quest for power. If so, you will learn atop Mount Yamanouchi, and if you are he we have waited, you will soon face your rival again for absolute control of the world."
"The whole world," Ron grimaced now.
"The whole world," Hirotaka said as he turned and walked away after bowing to his most inept student.
Or so Ron felt himself.
He looked up at the peak again, considered all he had been told, and muttered, "Well, crap."
Returning to his room to clean up, and try to meditate, he gaped as he realized Rufus was glowing blue, and hovering a few feet off his tatami as he seemed to be doing just what Ron should be able to do according to those teaching him.
"Rufus?"
The little mole rat opened his dark eyes and smiled that same, inscrutable smile everyone else had, and Ron groaned.
"Even you," Ron complained as he pulled off his muddy clothes.
The small pet Ron had acquired after his father revealed his many allergies only smiled as his master pulled on fresh clothing, and sat down cross-legged. After some effort getting comfortable, he sighed, and said, "I have to get this, Rufus. Seems this is more than a summer camp. Or a school. It sounds like I have to get this down, or the whole world goes down."
The little mole rat chittered, and Ron only nodded sagely.
"Yeah, the whole world."
Rufus chittered again.
"Watch you? Okay, buddy, show me the ropes," Ron nodded and watched Rufus once more take a similar posture.
~KP~
Kim yawned and rolled over to smile at Shego lying next to her in her bed. The woman was still sleeping, but then Kim still didn't as much sleep as anyone else since that weird change she experienced.
She started to get up, and realized someone was in the door, and looking right at them.
"Uhm, morning, mom," she smiled.
"So, does she sleepwalk," Ann Possible asked her daughter.
Kim blushed bright red as Shego slept on, not even stirring. Of course, Kim had not had much need to rest, and she had kept Shego up late again talking about plans. Plans even Shego admitted might not be very welcome in a certain one-eyed woman's eyes.
"It's my fault, mom," Kim told her through her blush. "We were up late talking, and she just fell asleep, and….."
Ann nodded, and told her, "Just get up and get ready, Kim. You still have school today, remember?"
"I know," she sighed. "We'll be down in a few minutes," she said as Shego only then began to stir.
Ann nodded again and closed the door behind her.
"Well," Shego grumbled and looked up at her from the pillow they had shared. "That wasn't embarrassing at all."
"It's not like we….did anything," Kim told her. "I'm sure mom understands, and….."
"Oh, she probably understands more than you think she does, Princess," Shego said before yawning, "And I have got to stop staying up so late," she grimaced.
"I would lend you some my energy if I could," Kim smiled. "I just haven't figured out how I could do that yet," she added as she jumped up, and headed for the shower.
"You mean you haven't guessed if you have any more new powers," Shego asked blandly as she climbed out of the bed, to eye the redhead who still looked like she had spent the past month on a beach rather than running around as usual.
"Well, not really," she sighed. "Honestly, I didn't even guess I could do that super-twin thing anyway until….. Well, I just did it."
"Bets give you much grief over it?"
"I think you know. After all, I did claim it was involuntary, and I haven't been able to will it to happen since," she declared.
"Right," Shego murmured as two copies suddenly came out of the bathroom, starting getting Kim's backpack ready while the other finished off her math homework before handing the book to the other who put it in the pack before both just vanished.
"Well, I didn't want to let her know too much. She's okay, but I don't think I want any more moles leaking what they know about me to the loons out there," Kim complained from the shower.
"I get that. But if you pull that one out in public again, she's going to be wondering all the same," Shego reminded her as she pulled a robe on to head toward the door.
"Well, for now, that will stay in the secret column as long as possible," Kim told her, stepping out of the shower, and then smoldering as steam just seemed to rise off her wet body as she padded into the bedroom before Shego left, already dry.
"How did you…."
"Oh, uh, I figured out how to dry myself off using a little plasma energy to…."
"You know what, never mind," Shego scowled. "Just try to keep things low-key, or Bets may not be the only one to figure out you're farther ahead of the curve than they realized."
"I'm not an idiot," Kim huffed, pulling out fresh clothes for the day.
"I know that," Shego said after a moment in which she grinned back at her, one hand on the door. "Just remember, you still have a lot of people watching you, so no more flaking out on us. Okay?"
"I know. I do," she huffed as Shego only smirked. "Mom really let me have it for taking off like that."
"Well, leaving school….."
"Not that," she said. "She was mad I took a chance on using the Roth to go suborbital," she sighed.
"I can believe that."
"But the boys did a great job," Kim protested as she dressed. "I didn't have any issues at all using the….."
"Nope, don't care. Not going to listen. Consider that something else you should never ever admit in public. Or do you want someone coming after your wonder-car next?"
"Or yours," Kim realized as she grabbed her backpack after dressing. "It does have the same upgrades."
"Not the….."
Kim kept nodding as she followed Shego out of her room.
The older woman headed for her room to get her things for a shower, and just shook her head. "You know what, let's pretend all our cars do is drive. On the ground. Normally," she huffed, and Kim only laughed as she went downstairs.
She had barely stepped off the last stair when Ann turned from the front door, pale as Kim used to be, and said, "Kimberly, it's for you."
Kim frowned, and walked over to the front door, and gaped as she looked out and saw a small army outside surrounding their house. Gaping, she looked at the older man in uniform on the front step glaring at her as he met her expression with a grim visage.
"You've had enough time, girl. You're coming with us. Now," General Roger Hastings declared curtly.
To Be Continued…