Tian Cai

By mkusenagi2

The story concept © 5-19-2006
All Marvel characters are © Marvel Comics.
Kim Possible and other Disney characters
are © Disney Co.

Level 2: Ha Mu Lan (Woman Warrior)

Part III

Monaco-Ville
The Palais Princier
Ballroom
1930 hrs

"My Friends I Give You The God… Hercules!"

"Thank you Majesty! It has been a Long time since the Son of Zeus has walked these hallowed halls and upon the shores of this land! Truly my Sons and Daughters you have done well by creating such a beautiful land…" Hercules said as he looked at the assembled.

While Kim and Ron had been dancing, two men had slipped into the ball and now were weaving their way through the crowd while The Prince and Hercules spoke to the assembled guests.

One was Victor Creed of the Exiles, and the other was The Chameleon. Each of them had a score to settle with Ron Stoppable. One man; Victor Creed, known as Sabertooth was interested in 'kicking his butt', the other a Dmitri Smerdyakov, known to the world as The Chameleon was on a mission to assassinate Team Possible, Shego, The Prince of Monaco, and any others that got in the way.

The plot that Sabertooth had against Ron was understandable yet flawed; a fella's ticked 'cause someone 'stole' 'his' girl.

The Chameleon's attempt against our heroes was QUITE insane due to several reasons:

He hadn't factored in the presence of Hercules.

Ron's ever growing abilities hadn't been factored in either.

Don't underestimate Murphy's Law.

Although it's true that there's a small military force in Monaco, there's a TINY reason you don't attack its Crown Prince.

Don't come to ANY fight under armed.

As The Chameleon and Sabertooth 'stealthily' moved toward Ron from the right and left, our heroes sensed something…

"!" 'What's this? Two villains attempt treachery in the presence of the Son of Zeus? And BOTH are aiming at one worthy of my gift? Ha! This WILL prove to be great sport indeed!' Hercules thought as his combat honed instincts came into play.

'Smell Big Cat again… getting closer! Must warn Ron!' thought Rufus as he armed his blaster, crept off of Bobbi's shoulder and got on Ron's instead.

'Something's wrong,' Kim thought, 'Zola looks too bizarre to get into Monaco alone… he had help… who was it… and where are they? Glad I brought the Kimmunicator… might need it!'

'Why's the bo squeezing my wrist like this… uh oh!' Ron thought, 'Rufus just hopped on my shoulder with his blaster armed!'

'The hair's rising on the back of my neck,' Shego thought, 'something's UP!'

'The Chameleon's here… he's the ONLY one that could smuggle Zola in… watch it Girl!' thought Mockingbird.

In one split second… all hell broke LOOSE!

"BAM!" went Rufus' blaster.

The Chameleon tapped the comlink clipped to his belt twice to signal Arnim Zola to begin his stage of the attack… and lunged forward to shoot Ron, Shego, Kim AND The Prince with a flechette pistol!

"EEEEEEEEE!" a woman screamed from within the crowd.

Sabertooth leaped forward to protect Shego by taking several hits while his mutant senses alerted him of the danger…

Hercules 'tapped' the ballroom floor with his feet to create a shockwave that would render The Chameleon's aim harmless, unless you were the ballroom ceiling…

Shego shielded The Prince and powered up…

Kim went to mission mode…

Ron's bo projected an energy shield to protect himself and his friends…

This leads us to the reason that you DON'T EVER ATTACK Monaco's Crown Prince…

The country is CHOCK FULL of armed citizens that love and respect him as a FELLOW warrior, which is why the guests were whipping out a menagerie of machine pistols. MP5's to H & K VX-70 machine pistols were pulled out of various holsters. All weapons were trained on the would-be assassin.

That included a small molerat that had managed to get a shot off that severed the Chameleon's comlink from his belt.

---

While a Monegasque version of a Mexican standoff was being held in the Palace's ballroom Arnim Zola was on the now derelict Ludovic, a mini oil tanker docked outside the port of Fontvielle, waiting for a signal (that was unable to penetrate the hull) from his partner to activate his 'creations', to cover their escape and removal of their ill-gotten gains from Monaco.

"Since he hasn't given the signal I'll assume the worst…" he said while harvesting tissue from the GRU colonel he'd just pithed.

A metal port that rested between his headless shoulders clacked open to release a head-sized device that Zola called his ESP box. When the box was fully extended to head height, he released an energy pulse that caused several of his synthetic lifeforms that were seeded throughout Monaco to explode gas and power lines, and others to mutate into horrific forms that wreaked havoc throughout the tiny kingdom.

---

"?" thought everyone in the ballroom but the Chameleon as the lights went out.

"Someone stop him! He's getting away!" the Prince cried as the Chameleon made a break.

"I've got 'im!" cried Sabertooth as he pursued the Chameleon.

"How's he gonna catch him?" Ron asked, "Who's that guy anyway?"

"That's my ex… Sabertooth, when he says he'll get someone he will!" Shego said.

"Your EX!" 'AWWWWWW MMMAAAANNNN! Hey wait I… he thinks I stole his girl… Coolio!' "So… YOU DATED THIS GUY AND DIDN'T TELL ME?"

"Hon… I'm telling you now…"

"You SO don't know how to run a relationship! We're talking about everything when this is over!" Stony Serious Face.

'Wow! Ron's REALLY Pissed with her… Heh.' Kim thought.

"Majesty!" Col. Dupreé said to the Prince as the emergencies came on, "We're receiving reports of 'monsters' ravaging the countryside, especially around the Fontvielle harbor… your people… the militia ARE handling them there but they're threatened with being overrun…"

"Majesty, Team Possible, Hercules, and I will do everything we can to help! The Chameleon must be planning to escape there." Mockingbird said. "Col. Dupreé… tell your men to use incendiary rounds against Zola's creatures, they're protoplasmic in nature and are Very vulnerable to fire!"

"Pardon me Madam," Jenkins said as he walked through the crowd with a duffel, "But I think you need to change into your 'work' gear."

"You're right." And with that Shego tapped her watch and transformed her gown into a stealth version of her uniform.

Kim, Ron, Mockingbird, and Rufus did the same.

"How…" Kim said to Shego.

"When Reed Richards comes through on a favor sister, he comes THROUGH!" said Shego.

"Oh." 'What's that on the floor? I'll grab this for later!' Kim.

"Commander," Jenkins said to William III as he handed him a comlink, a spare Energy Cuirass and fusion powered MHD Turbine Gun from Stark International™, "would you do me the honor of wearing this before we fight side by side just like old times?"

"It's an honor and privilege, Gunny!" William said as he got 'dressed'.

---

The Chameleon morphed his features into those of a nondescript firefighter in the Palace guard and walked off site…

As he did this a hunter was stalking its prey…

---

"My Countrymen it is time to take the fight to the Enemy!" William said to the assembled, "All those that are combat capable should talk to Col. Dupreé for your assignments… Hercules your people need your strength in this most dire hour… will you lead the charge?"

"Majesty, the Son of Zeus stands with you!"

"My friends," William asked our heroes, "are you ready?"

"Yes Sir!"

"Then let's begin."

---

Monstrous abominations ran amok through the palace grounds and the streets of the Port of Fontvielle and other parts of Monaco.

The tide was beginning to turn against the Palace's defenders until Hercules dressed in a tux no less leaped forward, summoned his Adamantine mace and proceeded to splatter the monster's in the immediate vicinity.

Kim and Ron leaped forward as the Heart and Hammer and reversed their roles, with Kim being a nimble distraction while Ron burned them on the spot with blasts from his Bo.

'Coolio! So this is what she feels when we tangle with villains. I LIKEY!'

Shego provided cover while Jenkins and William waded into combat with the Carabiniers and burned and splattered the enemy with energy blasts from their Turbine Guns.

Rufus and Mockingbird teamed up, with Mockingbird slashing the monstrosities open with her bo and Rufus tossing nanocharges from her thigh pouch into their wounds and detonating them when she pole-vaulted them out of range…

Within minutes the battle was over.

"Col. Dupreé tell the fire and EMS crews to send all the wounded the hospitals can't handle here. And also tell the Palace physician to gear up to MCI (Mass Casualty Incident) status."

"Yes Sire!"

"My friends I thank you for your assistance…"

"Pardon me Majesty," Mockingbird said after talking to Ron, "but I believe we have a way to stop the other creatures."

"Go on."

"I have a company of Guardmen that can fight with you, while they're doing that we can try to shut off Zola's ESP Box. When we find Zola and shut down his Box the creatures should stop."

"So how do we find him?"

"Uh… Your Majesty I have an Idea." Kim said as she clicked on her Kimmunicator and pulled out the item that she found on the Palace floor from her pocket.

"What up Kim?"

"Hey Wade, I need this analyzed… I think it's a comlink that The Chameleon dropped in the Palace…"

"Stat?"

"Yes. Please and Thank You!"

While Wade ran a trace Mockingbird gave instructions to the Guardsmen's commander to link their forces with William's Carabiniers and transmitted codes to link them.

"Hmmm. I don't know Kim. It looks like they've got some HEAVY encrypt… GOT IT I'm in! Let's see… tracking the signal by pinging the IT functions on the link… tracking…"

"ZZZT!" which fried while it was being hacked.

"No!" Kim cried.

"It's COOL Kim… got your trace… flashing coordinates and schematics to you now!"

"Thanks! You Rock, Wade!"

"Wade's info says the link was trying to transmit to a Russian mini tanker…" Kim said as she used the Kimmunicator's holoprojector to display Wade's data. "…name of the Ludovic… owned by a retired GRU colonel… boarding her isn't a prob… getting there is."

"No it isn't Kim," a Catgrinned Ron said, "We can fly over."

"?" everyone thought as they looked at Ron.

"Ok. I'll bite," said Shego, "How?"

"I learned I can do this!" Ron focused and a cloud formed under his feet that levitated him off the ground. "Isn't it cool?"

"!"

"Hon… how… I mean… when?"

"I just knew how 2 days ago. I can make it any size I want."

"OK! THERE'S NO WAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO FLY ON A 'CLOUD' TO THAT TANKER… RON!"

"So it's true." Hercules said as he stepped forward. "You have the Mark of Hanuman. I trust you."

"!" Kim & Co.

"Sire." Hercules said, "The feats of Hanuman are legendary even among the Gods of Olympus, it's our BEST way to get warriors to the tanker!"

"And it's silent too, KP!" Ron added. Kim Glare.

"Hon… can you REALLY do it?"

"Yeah."

"Then I'm in… What about you Princess?" KIM GLARE!

"Ok, I'm in too." 'She's NOT gonna hold this over my head!'

"So am I." Mockingbird.

"Me too!" Rufus.

"Ok what about you Hercules? Jenks?" Ron asked.

"We're going to help the Prince clean up this Bloody mess, Sir. Keep an eye on the ladies, Sir."

"Ron," Prince William of Monaco said as he hugged Shego, "Keep an eye on my Goddaughter, ALL OF YOU COME BACK SAFE AND SOUND."

"I will Sir, and we will."

And with that our heroes climbed onto Ron's cloud and whooshed off…

---

Port de Fontvielle
The Mini Tanker
Ludovic
1955 hrs

Under the cover of darkness a new player dropped from a stealthed aircraft onto the deck of the Ludovic while our heroes were making their plans onshore and made their way to the storage hold…

"Whack!" "You Fool!" the Viper said to Zola after smacking him with her Dadao, "Where is The Chameleon?"

"I don't know… he never made it back… I've checked the cargo… they are PRISTINE… perfect for HIS needs."

"That will matter little if we don't account for HIS SON… HE'S bad enough when he's a pitiless monster… even WORSE about someone that he 'LOVES'. You have NO IDEA what he'll do to us if we fail to bring the Chameleon back!"

"You, my dear VIPER are the EXPENDABLE one here… you're nothing more than a common mercenary… I on the other hand am VERY useful to him… AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!"

"Now leave me… You must ensure that we do not fail."

---

While en route to the Ludovic Ron discovered he could make the cloud change colors or invisible…

"Ron! Stop playing around!"

"Heh. Sorry KP!"

"Everyone get ready!" said Mockingbird.

---

While our heroes were making their way to the Ludovic a hunter had cut off his rather ignorant prey and was preparing to pounce.

'Soon I'll rendezvous with Zola and we can leave this place with Viper.' The Chameleon thought. 'Why do I feel like I'm being watched?'

'This is gonna be TOO easy,' Sabertooth thought, 'It's one thing to take a frail from me, it's another ta try ta KILL one in front of me. I'm gonna take this out in trade!'

---

Meanwhile…

William the 3rd, Jenkins, Hercules, the Guardsmen, and the Carabiniers were burning or splattering any monstrosity they came across on the outskirts of Monte Carlo.

"We MUST hold the line! Do NOT let them pass!" cried William over his link.

"Paladin 1!" William said to the Guardsmen's commander.

"Yes Sir!"

"I need 10 of your troops to drive the enemy towards the cliffs west of Monte Carlo. Once there we can bury them in rubble."

"Yes Sir!"

"Ready Gunny?"

"Yes Commander."

"Hercules?"

"Yes my friend!"

They went west.

---

Ron landed the cloud on the deck in the shadows near the hold's deck hatch, dissolved it and put up a stealth field.

"Rufus, check the area in stealth mode." Rufus nodded and melted into the shadows.

"Everyone stay alert, the Viper's here somewhere." Mockingbird said over the link.

Ron and the rest of the team got video feed from Rufus.

"Good job Rufus. C'mon back buddy."

"Where's the crew?" Shego asked, "The place's picked clean, not even a roach."

"Zola probably fed the corpses to his creatures, and let them eat everything else."

'Gorchy!' Kim and Ron thought.

After Rufus returned they tried to come up with a plan.

"She's mined EVERY hatch," Kim said, "How do we get in now?"

"Since she knows we're here Princess," Shego said, "let's take advantage of it and turn the tables on her. No time like the present!" and with that Shego walked up to the hold cargo hatch and set off the charges on it.

Our heroes lowered themselves through the hatch on Ron's cloud, leapt off, and watched their surroundings.

"ZZZT!" Shego was thrown into a stack of crates by a blast of energy from Zola's ESP Box.

"Leave this place or Die." He said as he walked out of the shadows.

"Dude! Where's your head, and why's your face on a screen on your chest?" Ron cried as he beheld one of the other Beasts of Auschwitz.

"I put my brain into this armature to become immortal!"

"Yeah but how… y'know… can you… uh… the ladies…"

"To become immortal it was a small price to pay!"

"Turning yourself into a walking TV… that's SO sick and wrong… Nothing can replace being with someone you love… not that I'm an expert or anything… Hey can you get Satellite? 'Cause if you can…"

"Ron!" the ladies and Rufus chorused.

"Enough! DIE!" Zola unleashed a barrage of bolts throughout the hold.

Ron put up a shield.

Mockingbird used her gymnastic skills.

Kim and Rufus stood next to Ron.

Shego hard-tapped Zola with a small pulsar to his faceplate and knocked him out…

"I thought you said the Viper was here." Shego said.

"She is, we'll have to fan out. She WANTS us to hunt her. STAY FROSTY!" Mockingbird said as she melted into the shadows.

"Be careful!" Kim and Ron chorused.

"Jinx! You owe ME a soda!" Ron cried.

---

The Guardsmen had formed a phalanx, PUSHED the enemy back against the cliff face and backed off.

"Ready, Hercules?" asked William.

"Ready!"

"Now!"

Hercules sized up the area and let fly a DOUBLE HAMMER blow to the ground that shattered the cliff face and buried Zola's creations.

A cheer rose from the assembled warriors as the monsters were crushed beneath the earth.

Until…

"Sir! Look!" a humongous mass heaved itself up from the ruined cliff face and began to move towards William and his troops.

A noise was heard… a whistling…

"INCOMING! SCATTER!" Jenkins roared as napalm cluster bombs went off and formed a ring of fire around the heaving mass.

"Figured you boys might need a hand…" Col. Dugan said on the link as he flew overhead in a SHIELD Rattlesnake fast bomber. "What'd I miss?"

"Nothing old friend." The Prince exclaimed, "Good to see you!"

---

Mockingbird crept through the hold, sensed something and backflipped just in time to avoid Viper's swipe with her Dadao from behind a stack of crates.

"You've improved since your return. How was it… being dead?"

Mockingbird leaned against her Bo.

"Are you terrified speechless?"

"I only talk to those that have something to say. I know a molerat that has more on his mind then you'll EVER have."

"When I get through with you you'll wish you were in the shape I left you in LAST time!" Viper hissed.

"As Kim Possible says, 'Bring It'!" said Mockingbird as she formed the bo into Arnis sticks.

---

Shego and Kim backed into each other and simultaneously turned to attack.

"Sorry!" they chimed.

Rufus whistled as he jumped into Kim's pocket and pointed where Zola had lain. He was gone!

---

"Ron! Zola's missing… be careful!" Kim linked.

'Where would I go? Hmmm.' Ron thought as he leaped up to the catwalk above.

'Gotcha!' he thought as he landed soundlessly behind Zola and rapped his ESP Box with his Bo.

"Tag! You're It!" Ron cried as he pummeled his foe with a combination of Drunken Monkey, Systema and Bagua with a dash of Krav Maga.

Zola fell under the blows laid there and stood up.

'What's this guy made of?' Ron thought as Zola rose.

"I've had enough playing with you boy. Here's a treat!" At that moment Zola threw a blob at Ron's face and leaped to the deck below, "I hope you enjoy it. It's designed to kill beings like you by draining their energies. I was going to use it on Shego for her friend but you'll do."

'MAN THIS HURTS! UUUUHH! GOTTA GET IT OFF! HEY! I'M NOT FIGHTIN' FOR AIR, COOLIO! SHIT HE'S GOING AFTER THE GIRLS! GOTTA HURRY. Let's see relax and give it EVERYTHING I'VE GOT!' THE parasite burned off. 'Booyah.'

---

"You're a lot faster than last time I'll give you that!" Viper hissed as her blows were deflected by a combination of saltik, bunot kaluban, and bartikal strikes combined with straight and side kicks aimed at her attacking arm.

Mockingbird backed off and waited.

"What's the matter… afraid to die… again?"

"You Talk Too Much. Time To Break The Fangs Of The Snake." Mockingbird said as she walked through the Viper's defenses and stove in her lower ribs on both sides with the tagang San Miguel.

Viper for the first time in years was AFRAID. She dropped a smoke bomb and RAN!

---

Zola clipped Shego and Kim as he landed between them and backfisted Shego. While the girls lay dazed on the deck he pulled out a biopsy stake.

"I'll take a biopsy from Possible while he's occupied." Zola said as he leaned over a dazed Kim Possible with the stake! He felt a tap on his back… and turned to see…

"NO ONE TOUCHES THEM… EVER!" Ron roared at Zola with eldritch blue fire streaming from his eyes as he used the bo to crush and rip out his ESP Box.

"NOOOOOO!" Zola screamed as he went into deep shock. While Ron did this the remaining duplicates under Zola's control on shore died and oozed away.

Seeing the battle was lost Viper ran from Mockingbird and surprised Ron with a flying No Shadow kick and caused him to fly into a stack of crates.

She pressed her attack and slashed at Ron's chest with her Dadao. She managed to nick his right arm in the process…

"What!" they both thought as his blood hit the floor and 5 duplicates rose out of the small pool and converged on the Viper.

"!" she thought as she fought them, 'I have to escape… there is no way I can defeat this many foes!'

"Coolio!" they said as they drove her back.

The Viper backflipped through a hatch and hit the pressure release closing the hold's hatch behind her. As it shut she drew a smoke grenade and a self propelled shuriken from her belt and threw them at Shego, Kim, and Mockingbird as they rushed her causing them to duck for cover. The shuriken nicked Shego. Viper caught it and placed it on her belt.

"BAMF!" while the hold filled with smoke, Viper ran through another access hatch, hacked Zola's Braincase from his artificial body, removed a remote and raced up a gangway to abovedecks, snagged a line from her HYDRA transport and took off. As she flew off she activated the items that everyone thought were LMD's with the remote.

---

"Everyone Ok?" Shego asked. 'Feel… funny… it's gone now?'

"Yeah!" Kim, Ron, Mockingbird and Rufus chorused.

"Guys I've got a BAD feeling about this." Ron said as the smoke cleared and his duplicates merged with him.

"RUMBLE!"

Kim and Shego GLARED at Ron.

"What! I didn't…"

"BOOM!" Two figures were revealed in the dust…

"No… It can't be… God In Heaven No!" Mockingbird said.

They merged into one larger figure… and FLEW to shore on a cloud LIKE RON'S!

"It's back AND its got your powers Ron!" Bobbi said.

"What?"

"The Super Adaptoid."

End Part III