Chapter 3: The Death of Kim Possible
"Ron, I have something I think you might want to know." Kim gestured.
"Oh yea? Shoot."
"Well, For about a week now, I've been having reoccuring nightmares."
"You too, huh? I'm telling you, that Senjia is one creepy indian!"
"I'm not talking about you pop-idol jitters, Ron. My dream... every time it's the same thing."
Ron lifted a brow, "Oh come on, you can't just stop there. Don't leave me hangin' KP!"
She sighed, "Fine; every dream ends with me falling nearly 25 stories. I die, Ron. Everytime."
Ron could sense the concern in his girlfriend. He took her by the hand and smiled, "Just don't go scaling any 25 story buildings and you'll be fine."
Kim chuckled, "That easy, huh?"
She kissed him on the cheek.
Hidden Temple of the Monkey, Africa:
Birds stirred from their roost as the jungle-guarded temple flashed a brilliant green light. Shego entered the ancient sanctuary. Ten large stone monkey statues encircled the shrine as Monkey Fist spoke through a the bright emerald flame, his only communicational link to Earth from his hell-bound prison.
"What of the missing page?" Fist asked
"Well I got some good news and some bad news." Shego replied.
Monkey Fist grew increasingly impatient, "Then by all means."
"The bad news is that I couldn't find Kim Possible anywhere! I checked Middleton High School, Her house… heck, I even stepped foot in Club Banana!"
"Shopping at a time like this?!" Monkey Fist yelled through the green-tinted fire.
Shego sighed irksomely, "Club Banana is where Kim possible works, you knuckle-dragging dolt! I'm telling you both her and her bumbling boyfriend are nowhere to be found! I even searched Jump City for those brats!"
"I'm afraid to ask of the good news…"
"I just saved myself a lot of money by switching to Geiko." Shego snickered.
The green flame began erupt as Monkey Fist's anger grew.
"A monkey with no sense of humor, go fig. I got the missing page. That sap-sucking ginger-kid gave the page of ressurestion to the Tricity Museum, not in the Jump City Museum with the rest of the book."
Monkey Fist calmed himself, "Indeed, I am pleased you have found the missing page, however to think that you let Kim Possible slip through your nicely filed fingers makes me irate beyond all measure!"
"Where else would you have me to look? Under my heels?" Shego said facetiously.
"Try under your nose!" said Kim with an uppercut to Shego's snout.
Kim was wearing her white and blue spandex battle-suit, making for a more intimidating presence.
Shego catered to her bleeding muzzle and smirked, "Wow Kimmy, you really know how to make an entrance."
"Don't I though? If only I could say the same for you." said Kim sarcastically
"You may have mastered the entry, girly, but I make for one hell of an exit!" said Shego as both her fists ignited in green plasma. "Should have stayed at home, buttercup!"
"Funny, I was going to say the same thing to you. Now hand over the artifacts!" Kim demanded.
Shego and Monkey Fist both laughed in unison.
"Sorry, but these artifacts are bought and paid for by yours truly." Shego sneered.
"You mean deceitfully stolen from Senior Senior Sr.? This is low for even you, Shego."
"You think that's low?" Monkey Fist yelled through the flame. "Try being banished to HELL like you did to me and my monkey minions!"
"Have you no sense of credibility?" said an offended Ron as he dropped in from above carrying the Lotus Blade. "That hurts dude."
"My sword!" Monkey Fist screamed.
"Correction; my sword. As in I hold ownership. As in it belongs to me!" Ron answered.
"Unless of course Shego robs another dying man and tries to buy it from you." Kim said viciously.
Just then, a loud stomping echoed throughout the halls of the temple. That's when Team Possible noticed Son Goku's golden staff on the sacrificial alter.
"Well, Kim Possible, it seems you arrived at a most convenient time. There is a close personal friend of mine that I would like to introduce; say hello to Son Goku, the Monkey King!" yelled Monkey Fist maliciously.
Kim and Ron turned behind them as a large muscular figure emerged from the shadows charging at them full-speed ahead! Shego took advantage of this distraction and readied to punch Kim while she faced away. The alleged Monkey King leapt into the light, kicking Shego square in the chest at maximum force. They all gasped as the light revealed the figure not as the legendary Son Goku, but Senior Senior Jr.
"Snego, You killed my father!" he yelled bitterly at the fallen Shego
"Aw, how touching." Monkey Fist interrupted as he spoke through the fire.
Shego chuckled, "Ya know, for a minute there you actually had me going. Here we all thought the Monkey King had finally arrived to retrieve his staff, when all along if was little ol' you." Her attitude suddenly grew dark, "Now get out of my way, Junior, or you'll be the next Senior in the obituaries!"
"This has got to stop!" Kim yelled, "Shego, look at yourself! You stole an old mans money and broke a family in half. For what? To fight some monkey god?"
"To fight?! Try again, princess. Once that Monkey King arrives for his stupid staff, I plan on offering him to Anubis in exchange for my Monkey Fist."
"Hold the phone, your Monkey Fist??" Kim inquired
Monkey Fist took it from there, as his voice echoes through the flame. "Yes, and once I am reborn onto Earth, me and Shego shall rule the world with an iron furry Fist!"
Shego did a kick-up and planted both of her green mits into Junior, sending him flying back down the very hallway he came in through. Before she could even crack a grin, Junior came flying right back at her, ramming into her like a walrus in mating season. Shego knew that there was someone or something lurking in the halls. They all looked through the hallway a second time as slowly another creature emerged from the shadows. This time it was the real deal.
"I knew you'd come, Son Goku. We've been expecting you." said Monkey Fist through the green flickering flame.
The Monkey King jerked his head quickly, as monkeys do, towards the talking fire. He cocked his head curiously, and then his eyes fell back onto the alter where, above the burning stool, laid a golden staff.
"There it is. Take it! Become reunited with your golden staff of power!" Monkey Fist insisted.
Unbeknownst to the others, Shego uttered the sacred script softly, to summon Anubis without being detected. Of course, she was banking on Goku to walk right into Anubis' clutches and the planned seemed to be working. The Monkey King paid her no mind and turned to examine the staff.
"Go on already. It's yours!" Monkey Fist said, persuading Son Goku to bite the bait.
The Monkey uttered a high-pitched laugh, common amongst primates. Then he spoke.
"Fool." He said grimly.
Monkey Fist began to worry. "Damn you, take the bloody staff already! What are you waiting for?! …Shego, do something!"
Shego dropped the Anubis Script and took a battle-stance. A frightful glare from Son Goku froze the woman in fear. The Monkey King turned to the green hell-fire, with a fang-revealing grin, and leapt strait into it. Goku disappeared into the jumping jade flame. Through the fire, they could hear Monkey Fist screaming hysterically followed by the Monkey King's triumphant roar. Fist's screams were quickly silenced as if his soul had been be completely absorbed. Then there was only silence.
"Wa- was that... supposed to happen?" Kim asked her sidekick.
"I ain't no expert, but I'm guessin' no." Ron said to Kim, who was just as wide-eyed as the rest.
Kim, Ron, Shego, and Junior all stared into the fire without a word.
From the flame, the Monkey King sprang free. The fiery portal to hell closed behind him.
"It's good to be back! Tell me you didn't miss me too much?" said Son Goku, casually popping his neck.
Goku seemed undoubtedly more energized, muscular, and over all competent, as if he had sucked the life right out of Monkey Fist.
Shego was dumbfounded, "What have you done to lord Monkey Fist!"
"Silence, pawn!" the ape shouted. "In a different age, I was drained of my power when Buddha encased me beneath the great mountain. For centuries I have been caged, buried alive beneath that godforsaken rock, waiting for my second chance at freedom!"
"But why are you going to blow it now? I'm sure you'll be spared from being buried again if you show a tude-adjustment." Kim said with convincing concerns.
"Child, you do not know the gods as I do. I am merely trying to gain back what was stolen from me in the first place. After my mystical energy was funneled from my very being it was found by humans who developed from it Tai Shing Pek Kwar."
"You mean that my Mystical Monkey Power is connected to you" Ron asked.
"Precisely. Though you have something else that belongs to me aswell." the Monkey King alleged.
"Dude, what are you talking about?" said Ron. "...look, if this has anything to do with that cheese book then I-"
"Your weapon, boy! Your weapon belongs to me!" the ape shouted.
Ron's eyes narrowed as he looked from his Lotus Blade to his opposer, "You don't want to do this, Goku. If you try and take away the Lotus Blade, things are going to get personal."
"Lotus Blade? Is that what you're calling it now?" the King asked with a grin. "I am disappointed in you, boy. The protector of the blade should know it for its true power. With my power-staff's ability to morph into any conceivable weapon, it has chosen a sword only as a facade. The Lotus Blade, in its original form, is none other them my extendable staff. Now hand over the Staff to its rightful owner!" he commanded, marching towards Ron
"If this is your staff then what is that golden staff over there?" said Ron peering behing the monkey at the alter.
"Hah, that? That staff is laced in gold and other metals only found precious by your race. It is a fake." Goku boasted as he began prepared an assault.
"Get away from Boyfriend!" shouted Kim as she jumped in front of Ron; game-face on.
"KP, Monkey-poo!" Ron yelled.
"Don't you mean 'Monkey-Fu?"
"No, Monkey POO!"
Ron tackled Kim to the ground just as a heaping pile of monkey muck was flung past them, splattering on the wall behind.
"Eww, can't you do your business elsewhere?" Kim trying not to gag.
"Don't provoke him, KP. I've seen what monkey's do when they rip a dook… and that was just a courtesy flush."
"Suddenly the acronym 'T.M.I.' comes to mind." Kim said in a discusted tone.
"Guardian of the Lotus Blade, you will not leave here without fighting me. I will take your weapon, your mystical energy, and your life!" the Monkey said as he sprang at Ron.
Ron slashed at him as the Lotus Blade took the form of a pole-arm for a better reach. The Monkey King swiftly dodged beneath the attack and knocked Ron on his behind.
"You're going to have to do better then that, guardian!" the monkey yelled.
Son Goku fought with incredibly speed. His experience in fighting was clearly evident.
"Tell me that isn't all the fight you have in you?" said a disappointed Monkey King. "Maybe a little Motivation will bring out your inner ape!"
Goku seized an unsuspecting Kim, who was about to attack Shego, by the throat and lifted her high in the air. Kim kicked at him wildly, gasping for breath. Ron watched the face of his girlfriend turn violet. Her kicking became slower and slower.
"Leave her out of this!" Ron shouted, as the pebbles of ruble around his feet began to levitate.
"That's it, boy. Summon your demons, awaken the monkey within you!" said the Monkey King as he finally released Kim.
Ron could feel his canine teeth begin to increase in size as a thick blue aura surrounded him. A monkey tail ejected from his aura as Ron gripped the Lotus Blade tightly.
"You just made the biggest mistake of your life, pal" said Ron as he bolted towards the Monkey King.
Ron jumped as his tail whipped around the arm of a giant monkey statue, sending him spiraling toward Son Goku. As Ron turned up the hand-to-hand heat, Kim and Junior tag-teamed Shego.
"You know Junior, why not just leave the fighting sitch to me?" Kim asked.
"I can never forgive her, I don't expect you to understand!" he screamed.
"Noble. Stupid, but noble." said Shego as she sent a flying ball of plasma into the chest of Junior.
The atrocity of Shego's deeds was to much for Kim to bare, "Oh that's IT!"
"Whacha gonna do, Kimmy? Summon your 'spirit fingers' and cheer me to death?" Shego said in baby-speak.
"Don't diss the spirit fingers!" said Kim as she unleashed a relentless assault upon the porcelain face of Shego.
As KP pounded away on her green-clad nemesis, the black-hearted villainess pulled from her boot a hidden dagger with intent to plunge it into Kim's back. Kim realized this too late. Just before the knife penetrated Kim's white and blue exterior, Junior kicked the dagger from Shego's hand.
"Thanks Junior, I owe you one!" Kim said graciously.
"As do I!" yelled Shego, sucker-punching Kim in the face. With Kim down, Shego fired a plasma ball at Junior "Hey Junior, FETCH!"
Ron kicked the monkey king hard into the stone temple wall and lept in time to catch the plasma ball just before it struck Junior. Ron chuncked it back at Shego, "Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!"
"The fight's over. It's three to two in our favor." said Kim, trying hard not to be distracted by the sudden metamorphosis of her monkey-infused BF.
"Three to two?" laughed the Monkey King as all ten of the large stone monkey sculptures encircling the shine suddenly came to life. "Say hello to my luming limestone lackeys!"
"They're sure to rock your world!" Shego said with a wink.
"Aye, and I thought Ron was king of bad puns..." Kim said.
"Yanno, limestone is a mineral most people take for granite." Ron added.
Kim lowered her head shamefully, "Guess I was right."
The ground shook as all ten of the large heavy statues inched closer to the heroic trio. The stone monkeys all bore various types of weaponry.
Ron wasn't amused in the least, despite his usual irrational fear of monkeys, "I've had about enough monkey-business."
"MINIONS, ATTACK!" the Monkey King ordered.
The chiseled pack of primates howled as they slammed their weapons at their foes. Kim, Ron, and Junior dodged the first Monkey, but with ten of these things surrounding them, it was becoming more and more difficult to keep up the pace.
"Kimberly, take Junior to safety! I can handle these guys." said Ron as his monkey-aura increased.
"Ron, are you sure? ...and when did you start calling me Kimberly?!"
"I said I got this! Now go!" he insisted.
Kim evasively led Junior away from the animated Monkey Statues.
"Ok Junior, stay close. I'll lead you to a safe area but you leave the fighting to me, we clear on this?" said Kim as she began jogging towards the exit of the temple.
"You do what you want to. I'm not leaving here until I avenge my father." said Junior.
Kim sighed sympathetically "Junior, I know how it must feel,"
"How could you? Your parnets are still alive. Shego killed the only family I had left, and I wont leave here until I watch her suffer!"
Junior suddenly spied Shego and the Monkey King together behind the chaos. The two villains made a run for it up a stone staircase. Junior impulsively snatched Shego's disguarded dagger and made a break for them, swiftly dodging Ron and the stone Monkeys and running the stairs three steps at a time. This behavior was rash and uncanny, even for him. Kim was left with no other choice but to follow in persuit.
"Junior, get back here!" Kim yelled as she entered the spiral stairwell.
Shego and the Monkey King were out of view, but Kim could still hear Junior shouting at them from a good distance above her. She estimated that they were at least three stories ahead.
Kim decided against running in prefference of her more time-efficient grapple-gun, "Why didn't I stick to baby-sitting?"
Kim zip-lined her way to the final story; the tip top of the hidden monkey temple. Her muscles ached as she finally pulled herself atop the Temple's flat stone roof. There stood the Monkey King with Shego at his side. Junior was standing next to Kim.
"I'm through playing games! Both of you just give up now!" Kim shouted. "I don't want anyone else getting hurt!"
Shego and the Monkey King both looked at one another and giggled.
"My dear, I am afraid I can't leave until I absorb ALL of the mystical monkey energy and retrieve my power-staff." said the Monkey King. "It is rightfully mine, after all."
"You mean Ron's weapon and mystical monkey energy." She said sternly.
"Your skills of observation no know bounds." Goku joked as Shego wrapped herself in the arms of the Monkey King.
"See? He's strong, royal, and has a sense of humor." She winked at Kim to further the humiliation.
From the abysmal area between Kim and the Monkey king, Ron smashed upward right through the stone ceiling holding the dismembered cranium of one of the monkey statues. He rolled the head across the roof; it stopping at the foot of Son Goku. Goku looked down at the head, and back up at Ron and started shaking with anger.
"You don't deserve that weapon. You don't even know how to channel your mystical powers into other objects yet. It's sad really, that such an incompetent novice like you was chosen to guard my magical staff."
"Channeling your mystical monkey power into other objects?" Ron asked rhetorically. "I can do even better."
"So sure of ourselves are we? Let go of the weapon and fight me one on one. The loser submits his power to the stronger warrior. Winner gains all of the mystical monkey power and the staff."
Ron's grip loosened on the sword's hilt.
"Don't do it, Ron! It's a trap!" Kim pleaded.
"I know what I'm going KP." He said, tossing the Lotus Blade aside.
Son Goku grinned, "So it begins."
The Monkey King and Ron squared off, tearing at each other like wild animals. Their speed was in a different league from the others. Ron's blue aura glowed vibrantly as he blocked the Monkey King's offense. Ron won first blood, as his claw tore through Goku's fur-matted rip cage. The primate roared in pain as fury overwhelmed him. The Monkey King fought like a raged beast, slashing at Ron with surpassing speed. Ron took a boot to the jaw as he hit the ground and skid along his back, ramming head first into a large uprooted brick.
Meanwhile, Junior dashed at Shego with his dagger drawn. She flipped over him with ease, landing low and tripping him with a quick leg sweep.
Shego stood over him, "Junior, when will you learn to leave the heroics to the big boys?"
"When you learn to stop being such a pain the ass!" said Kim, bringing Shego down with a powerful slide-tackle.
"I see someone finally extended their vocabulary. I approve." Shego sneered.
The two girls exchanged blows. Even with Kim's battle-suit upgrade, fighting Shego proved difficult. Blood streaked from Kim's cheek as Shego's finely sharpened nails graze by. Shego knocked Kim to the floor and, flattening out her hand, drove it into Kim's abdomen like a spear point. Kimberly winced in pain as Shego's hand knifed through her body. Shego ripped her flesh-searing fingers from Kim and flattened it out again, only this time she was aiming for the heart. Just as things looked hopeless, Junior soccer-kicked Shego's hand, cracking the bone in four places. Shego screamed tearfully, trying to keep her shattered hand from moving.
"Thanks Junior, looks like I owe you one…. Again." Kim said as she was helped up.
Junior smiled, but though he opened his mouth, no words came out. Then a trail of crimson began dripping from his the corner of his lips as his eyes rolled upward. Shego's good hand had punched completely through his chest.
"Say hey to your dad for me." Shego said sadistically.
Kim wanted nothing more then to burry her head in a pillow after what she had just witnessed, but today she had to set her emotions aside. Kim had to rise to the occasion, fight fire with fire.
"If that's how it's going to be, then you can say hey to Senior yourself!" Kim yelled, darting towards Shego with a relentless leg-combo.
Shego only had a single hand to defend herself as the two girls fought along the dangerously steep edge of the roof.
Kim was so enraged at nemesis, that she completely ignored the even bigger battle happening right next to her.
"I have waited centuries and for what? Is this how you control the most powerful energy on Earth? It's time I take back what's mine, Guardian. You aren't worthy!" the Monkey King yelled.
Ron's eyes widened as defeat loomed near. Ron was pinned to the ground by Goku. The Monkey King planted his open palm on Ron's chest and began absorbing all of his mystical monkey power! Ron could feel his body grow slightly numb.
"At last, I will retain all of my former power!" yelled the arrogant ape. His eyes suddenly widened, "WHAT? What is the meaning of this??" the monkey said in astonishment.
Only the tiniest bit of energy was pulled from Ron's being. Though the Monkey King could still sense the mystical power from the blonde boy.
"How are you doing this? Where are your monkey powers?!" Goku screamed
Ron grinned clutching tightly the Lotus Blade, "Learning to channel my energy into other objects, no big."
The Monkey King sighed in relief, "Foolish boy, though you may have stored all of your power within the Lotus Blade, without possessing any mystical monkey energy yourself, you can no longer wield it! HaHA!"
Ron stared blankely ahead. Finally, he cracked a smile, "Yea, you're right. Putting all of my energy into a sword would be pretty damn stupid."
"Are you pleading for your life?" the Monkey said, as he began tasting Ron's defeat.
"Hardly. Surely you didn't think Monkey Fist and I were the ONLY two endowed with your Mystical Monkey power?"
"Of course you are! I have the ability to sense the flow of that mystical energy and I can still feel that power within you and no other! You lie in vein! I know the power is inside of you, I can feel it!" the monkey insisted.
"Inside of me? Or inside of my pocket?" said Ron smoothly.
Just then, Rufus, fully empowered by Ron's transmitted Mystical Monkey Power, leapt from Ron's pocket. Performing a line of continuous high-flying flips, Rufus pummeled on the bewildered Monkey King.
"What trickery is this?!" the ape yelled.
"It's just a little thing I like to call the Rufus-Factor!" Ron yelled, "knock 'em dead, little buddy!"
Rufus' razor sharp teeth nashed at Son Goku so quickly that Rufus appeared merely as a blurry pink ribbon, moving at speeds unheard of. Goku sunk to a knee as the naked mole rat returned to his master. Ron retrieved his Mystical Monkey Energy back from the willful rodent and grasped the Lotus Blade in hand.
"You've waited centuries for this, huh?" Ron said sympathetically. "I hope it was worth it for ya."
The eyes of the Monkey widened as the Lotus Blade pierced his heart. His eyes glazed over as all of his god-like energy was sucked from him and into the blade. Ron's weapon gave off a florescent glow as he pulled it from the completely withered and dry corpse of the fallen Monkey King.
Rufus pulled on Ron's pants to bring Kim's fight to his attention.
"You've only got one hand, Shego! Give it up!" Kim yelled as the two women stood on the edge of the temple's highest tower.
"You first!"
Both gladiators hurled their fists forward, sending a shockwave through the stone structure beneath their feet. Kim and Shego hit the ground with a loud crack. Ron felt the impact and turned, spying his girlfriend as she lay on the rock-hard floor with blood spilling from her orange mane. Ron's eyes filled with fury as he lifted his blade to claim a second victim.
In a demonic-like dueled voice, Ron yelled, "You killed a man, broke a family, summoned a demon, and beat the girl I love. You are a dead-woman!"
Ron jumped skyward with his blade held high. Shego stiffened at the realization of what was about to happen. Just as the Lotus Blade fell to carve Shego like a thanksgiving turkey, it was stopped abruptly just above Shego's pale frightened face.
-CLANG!-
Metal hit metal, creating sparks and an ear-piercing reverberation. Kim blocked the Lotus Blade with the same dagger that earlier had been meant to do her in; Shego's dagger. It was all that kept her boyfriend from becoming a true murderer.
"Ron, listen to me! You aren't out for blood, you are out to kill! You won't be any better then Shego if you do this!" Kim yelled.
Ron took in a heavy breath as he looked up at Kim with admiration. Love and compassion was all that was keeping the poor girl afloat, as blood dripped down her trembling body. Ron's mystical monkey aura dissempated as he summoned nearly all of his energy into the sword. Ron stepped back and smashed the Lotus blade into the stone roof, shattering the legendary sword in to magnificent shards of glowing metal. With almost all of the mystical energy channeled inside of the blade, and the blade having been shattered, it was now impossible for anyone to retreive the power of the monkey. Ron had finally rid the world of the monkey king, his demonic monkey power, and his magical staff.
"How sweet of you to take your little girlfriend's advice, but you should have killed me when you had the chance!" Shego said as she quickly performed a leg-sweep, knocking Kim off balance.
Kim stumbled back, tripping over the ledge of the temple. Kim fell over the edge, flailing helplessly. She padded down her battle-suit looking for a grappling hook but to no avail. Kim experience a short moment of panic as she wildly searched for a life-saver, anything would do. Then it all made sense to her;
My dream, She though softly as she fell. It wasn't a 25 story building I was falling. It was a 25 story temple.
She saw blood and shreds of green shower over the distant top ledge of the temple as Ron finally peered over the edge, shouting what were likely words of remorse. Kim smiled faintly knowing what was next to come. She felt a thundering jolt as she slapped lifelessly into the hard rocky surface below.
Then it was lights out.