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Hi everybody, well now I know it's been a while but I have my reasons, which as usual are expressed on my main page (just click my name if you're interested). Well chapter 6 is finally ready for all you eager KP/GL fans. I want to give a big thanks to all my reviewers and to the people who have put me into your C2s, I find that to be very encouraging of my work. Well with out further ado I'll let you all get on with reading, and if you're interested check out my other stories too (yes shameless plugging but I like my other stories too.)
Now disclaimination: Kim Possible is owned by Disney. Green Lantern is owned by DC comics.
Chapter 6
"Ok first I'm going to get a Naco then head home then see KP." Green Lantern Ron Stoppable checked off a list he had made while traveling in Transluminal space, he had been at it for hours making changes in the priority of what he wanted to do first upon returning home. As the trip lagged his stomach's need began to exhort a top placing on his list, but he would quickly make a change back and forth so that the list kept changing. Still the fact was that Ron was finally going home and he could not feel happier if he could do everything on his list at the same time. "Wait I can do that." Ron yelled as the idea hit him, all he had to do was simply make a few calls before he got back to Earth and he could meet everyone at Bueno Nacho. "Stoppable not only are you the universe's hero you're also a genius."
A quick mental command and Ron's ring was already transmitting back to Earth to establish a call he hoped would not be murder on his parents phone bill. The ringing coming from his ring sounded once then twice before a recorded voice came back saying that the number could not be reached at this time. Not discouraged Ron tried the next best number he knew to get a hold of everyone he knew. The next transmission went out and came back with the same result, this time however Ron was definitely worried. Out of all the time that Ron had known Wade not once had the child genius been unreachable unless it was do to outside forces.
"I know the problem isn't on my end," Ron said looking to his fully charged ring, "so something major has to be going on back home." The need to go faster flowed to Ron's ring accelerating him forward. "I guess the homecoming party will have to be later."
The drop out of transluminal space brought Earth into view and Ron streaked toward the surface of his long missed home. Passing through the atmosphere the first sight Green Lantern was treated to was weapons fire. "Whoa!" Green Lantern yelled in surprise as a laser beam glanced off his shield. Soon the sky was filled with deadly flashes of light coming from the surface. Green Lantern pumped more power into his shield and began to weave through the air aiming for his attackers.
Dodging the laser fire Green Lantern managed to get close enough to see the towering robotic enemies that were firing at him. The disk shaped top and long spider-like legs told him that the tech was definitely alien, but the syncher was the emblem marking the walking tanks.
If these things are here then I know why my communications were jammed. Green Lantern thought as he shot an energy beam from his ring straight through one of the robots. I better clean up here then head for home to make sure everyone's okay.
The clean up took only a few minutes thanks to Green Lantern's superior speed flying through the air compared to the spindle legged tanks crawling on the ground. Green Lantern took off toward Middleton, stopping along the way to take down any of the walking tanks he came across. He was surprised after flying into the Tri-city area that there seemed to be a more alien presence here than in any of the other places that he had crossed yet. Despite the grim situation he smirked thinking that only Kim could draw such a large crowd of bad guys to her hometown.
Green Lantern scanned the town with his ring finding that mostly everyone in town had congregated in one place, Middleton High. "Why would people think that high school is the safest place to hide? Don't they know the horrors that place have roaming its halls?" Ron said to himself flying toward the high school. When the high school came into sight Ron let out a small breath in relief, there were no walking tanks in the area although the school had seen better days. Middleton High was riddled with holes and parts of it had crumbled into rubble, still the foreboding building still stood despite all of the damage.
A laser bolt broke through the air narrowly missing Green Lantern and on now well trained instinct Green Lantern returned fire with an energy beam of his own. The beam struck his attackers point of origin and the yell that accompanied it told that this attack was not one of the invading aliens. Ring up and ready Green Lantern descended toward the spot he had fired on.
"Alright whoever's in there come out hands in the air." Green Lantern lit up his ring, "I'm only giving you the one chance to come out on your own."
"Okay, okay don't shot we're coming out." Two voices spoke at the same time, two voices that Ron knew very well. Tim and Jim Possible clambered out of the hole that had been made between the laser exchanges. Green Lantern lowered his ring and landed on the ground. He walked over to the two who still had their hands in the air and were looking at Green Lantern not sure whether to be relieved or terrified. The young twin geniuses flinched when Green Lantern put his hands on top of their heads but relaxed when he ruffled their hair and laughed.
"Hey guys you should really look at who you're shooting at before you fire. Don't want to hit the cavalry do you?" Green Lantern said then asked the Possible twins to take him to where everyone else was hiding.
"What makes you think there are others here?" Jim asked.
Green Lantern held up his ring, "This does more than just fire lasers." To drive the point across Green Lantern made his ring confirm the other life signs in the building.
The twins looked at the ring with the same greedy eyes they had for any type of equipment their dad brought home from work. "Hooo-Sha" the twins said in unison.
"Glad it meets your approval but how about we check on the others," Green Lantern interrupted, "I'd like to get the low down on what's going on." The trio walked down the ruined halls Green Lantern looking them over. "So how did you two manage to get a hold of that laser array?"
"We salvaged it from one of those walking tanks that our sister managed to take down." Jim replied.
"Leave it to Kim Possible to take down a Lorwardian battle walker. So I'm guessing that she's waiting on your dad to analyze the walker then take out the big bad invading aliens on her own right?"
Tim and Jim stopped walking and looked down to the ground avoiding Lantern's curious gaze. He wondered why would the mention of their sister cause the usually upbeat and energetic twins to become so down hearted, unless. "Did something happen to Kim?"
"She was captured buying the rest of us time to get to safety." Another voice Green Lantern knew came from the other end of the hall. Footsteps echoed in the vacant hall and out of the dark stepped Dr. James Possible looking haggard. "Kim managed to bring one of those bastards down when they launched their surprise attack, but still she couldn't last against their superior technology."
"What's happened to Kim?" Green Lantern asked, his power ring burning on his hand reflecting his rage.
"Calm down son," this time the new voice from the end of the hall brought a smile to Green Lantern's face, "Kimberly's only been captured, we have no proof to suggest otherwise." Mr. Stoppable put a hand on Mr. Possible's shoulder, "Besides the odds on getting her back are much better now that Green Lantern has arrived." Mr. Stoppable winked at his son conspiratorially.
"So Ms. Possible has landed herself in jail on an alien ship," Green Lantern said, "and said ship is exactly where I should be heading." He nodded toward Dr. Possible, "Don't worry sir I'll have your daughter back to you in no time." Green Lantern turned to walk away, again ruffling the twins' hair as he passed and took off into the air.
"Ring locate the Lorwardian vessel and point me in the right direction." Green Lantern's ring followed his instructions and quickly had him soaring into space right at the invading Lorwardian ship.
The Lorwardian race were a warring people, they relished in the hunt and conquer of what they thought were lesser beings. Ron had learned about them just like much of the other races that inhabited his sector, but unlike most of the other races the Lorwardians were a constant source of conflict. They constantly invaded other planets, hunted endangered species and raised all kinds of trouble when on their way to engage in more of the previously stated activities. Apparently Lanterns assigned to 2814 had to deal with the Lowardians a fair amount, but with the intervention of the Corps the Lowardians had learned to quell their activities to only minor outburst every so often.
Green Lantern arrived in front of the ship with no resistance. Not wasting time he created probes with his ring to find Kim, three spheres shot out from the ring and vanished into the ship. A minute later one of the probes relayed a confirmation to Green Lantern's ring and he shot through the ship's hull with a concentrated blast from his power ring.
Alarms blared as Green Lantern flew through the halls of the ship. Recorded voices reported a hull breach, while others warned of an intruder. Green Lantern ignored them following the beacon his probe was transmitting. Please be okay Kim. Ron thought as he broke through the final barrier between himself and where his probe said Kim was located.
The room Green Lantern entered was filled with beams of energy and they were all aimed right at the hero. Acting on now honed instinct Green Lantern put up a barrier of green energy blocking the deadly beams from harming him. A quick look around Green Lantern found the laser turrets mounted on the walls, all of which were pointing at him. Pushing his focus further Green Lantern had an energy beam shoot out from his ring, circling the room destroying the turrets while keeping his barrier up.
With the last turret destroyed he canceled his construct, breathing a sigh of relief, and finally took the chance to examine the room. Domed in shape the room held nothing to suggest that it was used for anything more than holding things, with the security turrets the only thing Green Lantern could think of being held here were prisoners. In the center of the room was a gravity fluctuater, a device that could either lighten or intensify the gravity of whatever was in its field. Floating above the fluctuater, bound hand and foot, was Kim.
"Kim!" Ron yelled. He flew over to here, blasting the gravity fluctuater and catching her in his arms before she could fall to the ground. "Kim." Ron said again after getting no response from her. "Ring give me a scan."
Subject unconscious due to blunt force trauma to the cranium. No immediate threat to life detected.
Ron felt relieved with his ring's report, at least Kim wasn't seriously hurt. However in their current situation he couldn't afford to have her unconscious. A quick mental image and Ron's power ring produce a bottle of smelling salts. Ron waved the bottle under Kim's nose which wrinkled in protest as she began to regain consciousness.
Slightly disoriented she struggled in Green Lantern's grasp. "Calm down Kim it's alright." He said calmly, "I'm going to get you out of here."
"Who…" Kim mumbled as the world started to come back into focus. She feablily reached up toward Green Lantern's face, "Ron?" she asked still confused.
Green Lantern moved slightly away from her groping hand, shaking his head, "Sorry Kim you'll have to settle for Green Lantern right now." He said softly as Kim brought her hand back down. She moved slowly out of Green Lantern's grasp getting back onto her own feet. The haze finally clearing from her head Kim noticed her savior.
"Green Lantern."
"At your service Ms. Possible, it's been a while."
Kim planted a hand on her hip and looked slightly annoyed, which confused Green Lantern. "If you're expecting a thanks I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you."
"I'm a little confused by the attitude here Kim," Green Lantern stepped up coming face to face with Kim, "usually a rescue is a good thing. Not something someone should be mad about."
"Well I didn't need rescuing for your information." Kim said.
"Of course you didn't," Green Lantern replied, "not like Kim Possible needs help every once in a while."
"For your information Lantern I'm working right now and you're messing everything up." Kim shot back while jabbing her finger into Green Lantern's chest.
Kim's words took a minute to sink in for Green Lantern, she was working, what kind of work involves being unconscious on an alien space ship. "You're acting as a plant for someone aren't you?"
"You're pretty quick on the uptake Lantern." Kim said, finally seeming like her old self. "I have previous experience with one of the aliens on board. So when Global Justice long range satellites picked up this ship coming toward Earth I was assigned to infiltrate it."
"Wait a minute long range satellites, since when does Global Justice have something like that?" Green Lantern asked.
"Hey alien life has already made things pretty hard on Earth so we have to be prepared for whatever is coming next." Kim said as she inspected the hall through the door.
"What's that supposed to mean…" Green Lantern began to ask but was cut off laser fire erupted through the door.
"Answers after the job's done. Follow me." Kim yelled and dove into the hall, leaving Green Lantern behind.
"Typical Kim" Ron muttered, "just jumping right into the action."
Green Lantern flew after Kim, who had already destroyed an armed sentry drone, and fired at the closest enemy. His beam tore a hole in the mechanical servant dropping it to the ground sputtering laser fire before shutting down. Kim had taken the laser canon and began blasting away at the converging drones, gracefully leaping and twirling through the laser fire as if she were practicing for her next cheerleading competition. Green Lantern was a little worried that she had taken to firing a weapon with such ease.
"Never knew you could shoot Kim." Green Lantern said while driving giant green stakes through two security drones.
Kim landed from a very complex aerial maneuver and patted the canon, "No big with my training really." Kim said. She rapid fired the canon taking out another three drones. Lifting the barrel up to her lips Kim blew over the barrel making a show that she was finding this easy.
Green Lantern was more concerned with the changes that Kim was showing rather than the security drones, of course his focus was not so shaken that it stopped him from slicing the last four in the hall into perfect halves with a blade construct. Just what has Kim been doing since I left for Oa.
"Alright the guards are taken care of now to just find the engine room." Kim dropped her weapon and began rummaging through the damaged drones.
"What are you looking for?" Green Lantern asked while watching Kim.
"Isn't it obvious" Kim said while looking at a fried circuit board, "I'm trying to find something that will tell me how to get to the engine room."
"If that's what you wanted to know then it's that way." A large green arrow pointed down the hall. Green Lantern smiled, a little too smugly, when Kim looked up at him from her rummaging.
"How exactly do you know that?"
"Scanned the ship looking for you before I invited myself on board. Plus I have access to the design of this class of ship." Green Lantern created a model image of the ship, "My drill instructor really beat it into my head that knowledge is a weapon."
"Sounds like he did a good job of it." Kim said, feeling a little impressed with the masked man. "Now how about we go shut this thing down."
Green Lantern took off into the air, "It might be faster if we travel my way." Green energy left Green Lantern's ring and surrounded Kim. Surprised for a second Kim was lifted off the ground and found her self trailing along behind Green Lantern in the air. The two heroes met with no resistance following Green Lantern's ring to their target. Another smoldering holed door later they found themselves standing a room with all sorts of equipment humming, buzzing and pulsing.
The machinery powering the ship was nothing like Kim had every seen before, she could best relate some things to similar objects on Earth but doubted that their uses were similar. "Ok so does that ring of yours tell you how to shut this thing down?" Kim asked as Green Lantern put her back on the ground.
"Actually that's a really easy…" Green Lantern swung around putting up a barrier. Laser fire collided with the green wall and the shooter stepped out of the shadows glaring at Green Lantern.
"So Oan dog you have come to try and stop the mighty Warhok from winning his latest conquest." The being calling himself Warhok was at least 7ft. tall and put to shame any body builder on Earth. Red markings accentuated his green skin in patterns that matched the insignia on most of the equipment on the ship. Beside him stood an equally tall woman with the same skin color, who Kim seemed to know as she shifted slightly ready to attack.
"Warmonga nice to see you again," Kim addressed the Amazon-like alien, "come back for another butt kicking?"
"A child such as you is no challenge for Warmonga." Warmonga said and launched herself at Kim. The two engaged in battle while Green Lantern and Warhok continued to stare at each other.
"So you're the head honcho around here huh?" Green Lantern asked. "Why don't you just surrender now and I'll have you in a nice Oan Sciencell where you can relax for say a couple of years."
"Warhok does not know defeat or surrender Lantern." Warhok drew his weapon, a staff looking weapon that seemed alight with energy at each end. "Let us settle this intrusion with battle."
"Yeah that could work for you since you have the home field advantage here but" Green Lantern fired a beam from his ring. The beam curved around the machinery of the engine room, stopping at one switch in particular. "or I could bring this ship down, kill the command signal to your invading forces and fight you on Earth where there won't be any nasty surprises ready to jump up and ambush me." The end of the energy sprouted into a hand and grasped the switch. "How does that sound to you?"
Warhok leaped at Green Lantern yelling in rage as the green hand slammed the switch down. The sounds of the engine room sputtered and died followed by the ship beginning to list. Green Lantern ducked under Warhok's attack taking off into the air again. The ship falling into Earth's atmosphere was not something Green Lantern wanted to hang around to experience, so he grabbed Kim with his ring. The both of them safely secure behind his energy shield Green Lantern blasted a way out of the plummeting ship.
"How did you do that?" Kim asked, again impressed with ring slinging hero.
Green Lantern chuckled a little, "For all the hype about how seriously bad the Lorwardians are their tech for some reason all have off switches." The chuckle turned into full blown laughter and Kim stared in disbelief that such a technologically advanced race has something so simple to turn there tech off.
The falling ship began to turn red as it breached Earth's atmosphere, small explosions from the ruptured hull flared out of the ship as the intense heat penetrated the usually shielded interior. "Ridiculous circumstances aside it's time we made our own way back down to good old terra firma." Green Lantern said making the two of them descend, "Besides I kind of have to stop the ship from doing any real damage when it crashes."
The two shot down with such speed that pretty soon they were in front of the crashing space ship. Putting Kim a safe distance behind him Green Lantern summoned up his willpower and began to surround the Lorwardian ship in an energy field. Sweat blotted his brow as the strain on slowing the ship began to hit Green Lantern. The flaring heat of the atmosphere soon gave way to the chilling stratosphere and Green Lantern devoted every ounce of his concentration he could to his task. Slowly their descent began to slow and the ground seemed all too eager to greet them. Green Lantern chanced a quick look down because despite his efforts the ship was still going to hit the ground hard.
I just need some place safe to drop this sucker.
As if reading his mind Kim yelled up to him while pointing, "GL throw it that way, the ocean."
Green Lantern looked over and the solution to his problem was a relief. If the ship was going in the water then he didn't need to slow it down any more. Switching tactics Green Lantern forced his willpower through his ring and pushed the ship in a new direction. Kim watched all of it in awe as the huge space ship sailed through the air until it splashed spectacularly into the waiting waters below.
Green Lantern and Kim landed on top of the now half submerged ship, Green Lantern resting his hands on his knees panting from exhaustion. "Never let it be said that I don't know how to make a splash." Green Lantern joked as he caught his breath.
An explosion rocked the ship making the two heroes stumble. Shooting into the air Warmonga and Warhok glared down at them. "Oan dog you will rue the day that you chose to face Warhok in combat!" Warhok hollered as he went into a dive.
"I didn't chose anything you freaky giant, except to keep my sector bright." Green Lantern said. Badge shining bright over his chest Green Lantern shot into the air toward Warhok.
Warhok fired at his coming prey, but only to have the shots deflected by a green shield. The two combatants passed each other and turned. Green Lantern fired off an energy bolt that caught Warhok's jet pack. The pack exploded leaving Warhok to fall to the waves below. Before he could hit the water Green Lantern already had an energy sphere made just above the water. Warhok landed with a thud as Green Lantern sealed the sphere, trapping Warhok inside. "Warhok of the planet Lorwardia you are under arrest." Green Lantern said as he floated the sphere up in front of him. Warhok pounded on his prison to no avail, but a shrill cry from above drew Green Lantern's attention. Warmonga was coming at him fast on her rocket scooter. Just as Green Lantern had managed to raise his ring something struck the scooter causing it to explode, flinging Warmonga into the air. Another green sphere caught here just as she began to fall, Green Lantern looked down at Kim and saw her holding a compact gun. Both aliens in tow Green Lantern floated down in front of Kim, arms crossed and obviously not happy with Kim's new hardware.
"I see things have changed a little since I was last around Ms. Possible." Green Lantern said.
Kim slipped the gun back into her waistband, "Well firearms are part of the standard Global Justice field equipment."
"So finally joining the big leagues are you?" Green Lantern asked, his voice slightly saddened.
"I did what I had to do after that alien ship crashed seven months ago. You don't know what it's done with all that alien tech out in the world. I did what I had to do considering I was on my own." Kim turned away, hiding the small tears gathering at the corner of her eyes. "Not that you would know what it's like to be abandoned."
"Are you talking about your absent side-kick?"
Kim didn't answer, she just shrugged her shoulders. Green Lantern landed behind her, "If it makes you feel any better I actually came across said side-kick on my way to Middleton."
Kim turned around and was right in front of Green Lantern so quickly that he almost fell over from surprise. "You saw Ron? Did you talk to him? Was he alright? Is he coming back home?"
Green Lantern held up his hands making, "Slow down Kim to simply answer all your questions at once you can ask Ron when he gets home. I came across him fighting off some of the walkers." Which was technically true Ron thought to himself, "He told me that he had finished doing what he had set out to do and was coming home."
"He's coming home." Kim said to herself, not hiding the small blush that crept across her cheeks.
"Well I guess you have things under control here now that the main culprits are in my custody." Green Lantern hooked his thumb back at his two captives. "Do you need a lift home Kim?"
Kim shook her head, "No thanks I signaled GJ, their sending a team to pick me up."
"Well then I guess I'll be sending these two on their way myself." Green Lantern lifted off from the ground. "I'll be seeing you around Kim."
Green Lantern flew off towing Warhok and Warmonga behind him. Far enough away he programmed the spheres to fly off to Oa and transmitted detainment orders through his ring so that Salaak would know exactly why two Lorwardians were on their way to the Sciencells, Oa's intergalactic jail house. Business finished he flew back to Middleton, landing a block away from the high school. Ron powered down and found himself wearing his red jersey and tanned pants for the first time in months, he noticed that they seemed a little looser than he remembered. Looks like Kilowog really whipped me into shape. Ron thought as he ran the block to the high school.
Approaching the building Ron heard his name being called and saw Jim and Tim leap out from the crumbling wall, closely followed by Mr. Possible and his own dad. Ron slapped high fives with the twins, "Hey guys been keeping out of trouble?"
"Oh you know" Jim started
"The usual." And Tim finished.
"Ronald where have you been for so long?" Mr. Possible asked.
"Now James I'm sure my son has a very thrilling tale to tell but right now," Mr. Stoppable wrapped his arms around his only son and hugged.
Ron returned the hug, "I'm home."