The ride was there in three, leaving a pair of ticked off teens.
Climbing in the back of the empty bus, Ron turned to Kim. "Shame the Sloth's in for repairs" he said referring to the mission against Drakken the previous week, and nodding toward the various 1st and 2nd graders climbing up the walls of the bus.
Kim nodded, agreeing, then rolled her eyes as a swarm of 1st graders swarmed over them to see Woody. Fearing that Ron would not have enough time to come back for the doll after the mission, Kim had insisted he take it with him. Stepping carefully past the children, Kim approached the driver.
"Thanks for the ride Otto."
"Like, no problem babe! I never would have gotten the kiddies to school on time if you hadn't fixed my tires!" The dark haired bus driver replied.
"It was no big." Kim insisted. "Anyone could have patched that tire with nothing but paper, glue, a funnel, and a fire extinguisher."
Kim and Ron got off of the bus and looked around. According to the info Wade had given them, Monkey Fist was shored up inside of an abandoned warehouse by the docks, probably waiting for a transport the next day. Glancing up at the building, Kim considered her surroundings. She recognized the building immediately, it was one of those warehouses that every villain and their mother had rented out at some point or another (Mama Lipsky had, in fact rented it out to throw a birthday party for her son, having invited his entire list of contacts that she had found in his lair). Kim supposed they thought it was a good lair, but how good could it be if the good guys knew where it was?
To be safe, she had Wade pull up the blueprints of the building. She had forgotten a few things, but for the most part her memory was correct. She showed the plans to Ron, and then the two of them grappled to the roof and entered the ducts.
They found Monkey Fist standing among his monkey ninjas around a large table. Dropping quietly down out of sight (well, Kim was silent. Ron was lucky that this used to be a pillow factory, and that a number of discarded pillows happened to be directly below where he had fallen.) The two of them made their way over to just out of the sight of Fist and the Ninja's and listened.
Monkey Fist laughed. And turned to his monkey ninjas. "Everything is going according to plan. While I will admit that my attempt to use the three sacred crystals to find the Han was a failure, I will not be denied it's power!" Here the monkey's cheered. A door opened near by, and a monkey wearing a green dress came in carrying a bag and a large cup. The bag read BEUNO NACHO on the side.
"Ah Chimpy, you have returned. I was getting hungry." He took the food and drink from Chimpy and took a sip. He spit it out.
" I asked for diet!" He yelled at Chimpy dumping the drink on his head. "That's what I get for sending the monkey to get the food. Never mind, I will eat later. Now I shall realize my destiny!" He started screeching in his loud simian laugh, followed by his followers. All except Chimpy, who only slinked off into the back room to dry off.
"That jerk!" Ron whispered to Kim. Kim nodded and singled that it was time to strike.
"And now I shall use the prophetic nature of the Eye to locate the Han, and take my place as the Monkey King!"
"So not gonna happen Fisk." Kim shouted as she and Ron stepped out from the shadows.
"Oh look, the cheerleader and her boyfriend." Fist sneered, clenching the stone in his hand in anger. "And look!" he said, nodding toward Woody, who was currently strapped onto Ron's back. "The dummy brought a dummy!"
"Hey! My BF is SO not a dummy."
"How rude of me. Here, let me make you feel welcome. Monkey Ninjas, attack!
"Kim! I'll take Fist, you and Rufus get the ninjas!" Ron yelled running at Fist. Kim nodded. While she might be the better fighter in general, she knew that Ron was the one who had the most experience against Monkey Fist. Reaching the first wave of Monkey ninjas at the same time as Ron, she and Rufus started batting them aside while Ron jumped right over their heads to tackle Fist.
The primary problem with fighting monkeys is their height. Being so short most moves against them flew right over their heads, unless they were jumping. It was then that they could be hit the easiest. As one monkey flew at her head, she leaned over backwards, pivoting on her left leg and bringing her right foot up planting it firmly in the monkeys chest, flinging it away and into the monkey behind it. She then dropped that foot and brought the other foot up to the side, hitting the monkey to her left, then snapped it in the other direction into the head of the monkey to her right. The next one got past her defenses and knocked out her standing leg from under her; she grunted in surprise but recovered quickly and brought her hands up as she fell. She flip off over and back on to her feet, but was quickly over come as they piled onto her back.
Rufus was jumping back and forth between a pair of monkeys, causing them to punch and hit each other, when he saw his friend get overcome. He quickly finished off the pair and another one that had attacked, and slammed himself into one of the monkeys holding Kim. This provided enough of a distraction for Kim to break free of the rest.
Meanwhile, Ron was fighting Monkey Fist as best as he could, but it was apparent that even with all of the training he had been taking lately Fist was still a better fighter. The weight from Woody hanging on his back wasn't helping. As he ducked and weaved trying to both avoid Fist's blows and get the Eye from Fist, the added weight caused him to swing around backwards dizzyingly. Luckily, this was just as Fist swung his fist forward in a finishing blow. The blow hit just as Ron was facing the other way.
Woody wasn't.
Fist's hand went into Woody's mouth, and the dummy's head rolled forward, causing for the dummy's jaw to clamp shut on Monty's hand. Screaming in pain, he tried to wench his hand free of the contraption. Instead Woody was pulled free of Ron's pack and swung up in an arc, at that moment it came free of Fist's hand. Ron yelled in horror, as seemingly in slow motion Woody flew up and then down, slamming into the ground. Upon hitting there was a loud crack heard throughout the room as his head was split in two, the jaw separating from the rest as of the head.
"NO!" Ron yelled dropping to his knees and holding to remains of his project in his arms. Scowling in pain from his swollen hand, Fist called for the ninjas (the conscious ones) to withdraw, and within seconds Kim, Ron, and Rufus were alone in the building, save half a dozen unconscious chimps. Kim put in a call to Animal Control to come pick them up, and then placed her hand on her BF's shoulder.
"Come on Ron, we need to go." she said as gently as she could. Ron was…was he crying? Yes, he was crying. "Ron, it's just a dummy."
"He was so young!" Ron wailed, tilting Woody's face up so he could look in it's eyes. "And I needed him for school…I'm gonna get an F for sure…" Just then he spotted something shiny in the dummy's mouth. Reaching in, he pulled out a small blue stone, perfectly round. "Kim look, the Eye! It must have been dropped in Woody's mouth when Fist punched him."
"Awesome!" Kim exclaimed patting Ron on the back. "Looks like Woody saved the day"
"He died a hero"
"Come on. We need to drop this off before class."