Kim sat for a moment... dazed. Drakken just wiped her teammate and boyfirends memory? She had to do something. Just then, the first thing came to mind, she acted on it…contact Wade! Kim activated a beacon that her car could trace. The car powered up itself and eventually found them. She then called Wade. Ron was totally oblivious to everything. He was taking in the place that surrounded him… and this lady that seemed to be talking to herself…
"Wade… we have a problem. I think Drakken wiped Ron's memory."
"Are you sure? this is bad. What do you need?" Wade said, quite concerned for Ron…
"Try and get in touch with mom and have her meet me at Middleton hospital. I hope she can help…"
"You look hurt too." Wade realized, "You sure you don't want me to get some other help on to you guys?"
"It's no big. I'm ok. Besides I need mom to check up on him and see exactly what the sitch is…"
"Well you could use the kimmunicator and search for basic brain activity…" He reminded…
"That's right!" She responded… holding up her wrist, she scanned Ron's head. However, Wade came in with some disturbing news…
"The scan indicates that he only has 3 percent physical brain activity… it's like his brain's been almost wiped clean, like a floppy disc."
Kim showed her worry… This really was bad. She remembered her own issue she experienced when she lost her memory… and Ron himself had begun to freak out… sort of…you'd freak if you thought your girlfriend could begin to remember everything else except your relationship too. Strangely enough, though it wasn't the time for it, she actually began understanding what he must have gone through at the time…
"Ok, catch you on the way back… just call mom and tell her the sitch." looking at a quite aloof Ron…
"Don't worry Ron, you'll be ok.
"Why do you keep calling me that? My real name is…is…" He couldn't figure it out. No matter how he tried. He began to freak out…
"WHY CAN'T I FIGURE OUT MY NAME!!!"
"RON! Take it easy."
"WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING ME THAT?"
"CAUSE IT"S YOUR NAME!!!"
"BUT IF I DON"T KNOW THAT, THEN HOW WOULD I KNOW YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO FAKE IT…?"
He did have a point… anyone could tell him anything and it could be perceived as a fake…. So Kim thought fast…
"Well, we… um, work together. We were on a job and we got into a little accident…"
"Accident? Oh, that'll explain why you were knocked out and my head feels all weird…Ok, so we're on a set or something"
"A set of what?"
"You know, a movie set… the place sure looks that way. Anyway so… uh… who are you anyway?"
"It's Kim…Kim Possible"
"Kim…Possible? That's a weird name. (Sees Kim's expression) uh, in a sorta cool way… So I've been working with you how long now?"
"Almost as log as I could remember… We grew up together…in Middleton"
Ron looked at her naturally confused…
"Man, you sure you're not making all this up…? You know, you might sound like you're trying to hit on me or something?"
Kim watched him, wide eyed. She remembered when the moment when she asked Ron the same question. She couldn't remember when they were dating until the very end. It was the belt that made her…
"Wait a minute!" she exclaimed, "Ron, your belt!"
Ron backed away startled… "Hey look, you may have your freaky side, but I don't go for read heads…"
She was thrown off by that comment… "That's not what I… What do you mean you don't go for red heads? We've been dating! I got you that belt as a gift!"
"Look, uh, you got some serious issues or something, or you may be some kinda stalker, but you're so not my type… personally, I go for those Asian kinda chicks…"
That comment made Kim even more shocked and furious... She wasn't his type? He liked Asian chicks? It made her remember Yori and how jealous she was of her Asian counterpart. Though she knew Yori honored their relationship, she was still human. But hold up… this wasn't Ron… she was reacting to him how she normally would. But it wasn't him talking… it's a brain trying to make sense of a seemingly new world. She swallowed her pride…
"Alright, look. I'm sorry. I thought you saw the belt, it may help you remember something…"
"Um, NO, I can see the belt right where it is. And anyway I think I better get outta here… You're beginning to freak me out."
Kim couldn't allow him to leave. There was no telling what could happen to him. However she didn't want to make him any more startled...She had an idea…
"I think this belonged to you." Handing him a small, round object. Ron looked at it puzzled, and opened it.
"This looks kinda girly… I wouldn't… w… uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
It worked. She handed him a full strength knock out gas.
Just then, the car made its way to where they were and landed. Before leaving, she noticed the remnants of the machine that Drakken used on Ron…how could he be so dumb as to leave something like that…
Check that… it was Dr. Drakken we're talking about. She grabbed the pieces and took it along. Maybe Wade could somehow fix it and help Ron.
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With the rockets and in flight, Middleton would take about one hour in Kim's car. She glanced at Ron, unconscious in the seat next to her. Then, Kim heard something that made her heart jump…
"…………….kim………………………………lov………………………….jinx…"
"Ron? RON!"
"What the! Who's… Ahhhh! What the heck is this? I don't remember going on a flight…! This has to be a dream…." He tried pinching himself.
Kim looked to the sky and said to herself, that even though it really wasn't him, He sure acted like him…
"Relax, you're safe. You're not in a dream either."
"Um, safe? Oh no, you again. Where are you taking me? Um… Poss… uh, what's your name again?
"It's Kim.. Kim Possible. Anyway, we're both going to the hospital…" A brief moment… one brief moment, it sounded as if he might have remembered something…but maybe she was expecting too much of him.
("Relax KP, it'll be ok…) she was saying to herself, before she realized that she called herself the way he usually did. The reality of it made her cry slightly… which Ron noticed.
"Hey, um, are you ok? I'm sorry… I guess I was being mean earlier… It's just I don't even know what's going on… I can't even remember my own name, or who anyone really is anymore… I'm so confused…"
"It's ok," She said, wiping her face, " I was just remembering some stuff. Anyway, forget it. At least let's go to Middleton Hospital and get checked up… "
Ron watched Kim, who looked back, showing her own worry and confusion…
"Hey, um, Kim.. Is it? You keep calling me Ron. That really is my name isn't it?
"Yeah. Actually it's Ronald, but everyone calls you Ron for short. Ron Stoppable…"
"Ron Stoppable? Who the heck would name their kid Stoppable?"
"Kim smiled slightly…"Well… you got me there…"
Then he realized… "Hold a sec…are we in a flying car?"
"Well, yeah" Kim replied…
"So then you're like… a secret agent! Oh COOL! So that means I work as an agent too! What's my call sign… 004?
"Sigh… you can take the memories out of him, but he really still is weird like the old Ron…"
"Huh?'
"Nothing…just talking to myself."
They arrived at Middleton's hospital, where the Possible and Stoppable families met them... Rufus was there too.. Wade alerted them to the situation earlier. Ron of course could not recognize anyone, or anything around… much to the two families' despair. But he did agree to accept that his name was Ron Stoppable…if everyone said so…
("Man…Stoppable?") He said to himself.
Mrs. Possible took Ron and set him for some tests. She then tended to Kim and her injuries. When all was done, they all met in a room to discuss the situation…
"I did a thorough check on Ron's brain. Every scan rendered the same result… 3 percent brain activity." Everyone stood silent.
Kim then stated, "I remember Drakken saying something about permanently in a day…
"Wade looked at many concerned faces through the screen. He looked down for a moment and then rose his head…
"Maybe his memories aren't really erased…maybe it's just that it's somehow locked off but in 24 hours, his memories may be completely erased…"
Everyone gasped… including Ron. He just did it cause everyone was as well…they all looked at him. Embarrassed, he turned away, looking at the outside window…
Mrs. Possible then came up with something interesting…
"Come to think of it, there once was a journal about a scientist who attempted to create a machine, where brainwaves and memory registers could be stored in a smaller size. It was a theory that once your brain has more free capacity, you can learn more. The problem was that you could not access those memories without the machine resetting them to their original size…"
Wade thought about it…" I see, it's almost like a zip file in a pc's recycling bin. Once it's inside, you' can't access it unless you fully restore it to its original folder..."
Kim looked up with a glimmer of hope…
"I remember the scientist. That's how I lost my memory the first time…Maybe we could find him and he could help…"
Her mother shook her head…
"Sorry honey, but while doing testing, the machine exploded, renering him brain dead. He passed a short time later…"
Though she tried to be cool about it, Kim was showing despair. Everyone could see it as well… Ron could be lost forever… and he already doesn't think his family or she were anyone important to him…well, other than a secret agent. She could very well lose the one person that truly loved her…
"But in the car, while unconscious, he said a couple things like my name and jinx…" Kim lamented.
"That may be natural." Her mother stated,
"If it's all as the theory states, there will be traces of memories he had… like loose paper laying around. But it's more like debris from removing the registers if you know what I mean… there isn't anything that would help trigger a register to open because it's not there."
Wade interjected with an idea… "What if we were able to somehow reverse it?
Kim came to her realization "Wait! I actually have the parts from the device in the car!"
"Drakken actually left that? Oh, ok forget I said that…"
"Maybe there's hope after all…" Kim said with a hopeful smile…
Jim and Tim both stepped forward… "We can help build it…"
"Alright… let's go…"