Thanks to everyone who has reviewed. Got time to write, so expect to see the other chapters (11 in all) and completion soon.

And now, chaper 7

Everyone got moving…the plan was to head back to the Possible's house. But before that, Ron's parents took him back to their home, so he could clean up and have something to eat, before heading over to Kim's. While on the way, Ron spoke to them, who of course he didn't know….

"So you guys are really my mom and dad?"

"Why yes son…" His father said, "We would hope that you will remember us soon…"

"Uh, was I adopted or something?"

"Heavens no!" his mother lamented, "How could you say that?"

"Well I dunno, you say that and then you say she's my adopted sister..." Pointing to Hana.

Hana herself watched Ron, but with sad, almost teary eyes… She seemed to know that what she was watching, was an empty shell of who she knew…Rufus as well, tried to make contact, by doing his usual wave and saying "Hi". But Ron, not used to seeing a talking rat, screamed out…

"AHHH! That… that thing TALKS!!!!" He pinched himself again…"Please be a bad dream, please be a bad dream…"

"Relax Ron, it's only Rufus…. He's your pet naked mole rat." His mom stated.

"Huh? You named the thing… Rufus? Why the heck would I want a naked mole rat?" That statement hurt Rufus. Climbing back to Mr. Stoppable's shoulder, you could see the sadness in his face.

"Don't worry Rufus…He doesn't remember right now. He didn't mean it.

They arrived at the house. Ron felt like an alien. But he went inside anyway. At this moment, these people were being nice to him…so maybe he should just be mannerly. When he entered of course, he was taken by surprise… He saw many pictures of a little boy, which looked like him…wait a minute…that WAS him! Looking at some other recent pictures of him…especially the ones of him in a graduation garb, next to these people who claimed he was their son. Hold up…He graduated?

He then noticed a couple of pictures… with a red headed girl that looked a lot like this girl who he thought was stalking him earlier…

It was all too much to believe, but he did think that maybe, they were actually his family and that Kim maybe was telling the truth about being friends…

"Well, pictured don't really lie, so I guess that maybe I AM your son… And this Rufus really is my pet…that my name is Ron, who finds by the way that the name 'Stoppable' is all too weird…and that this Kim girl who's beem stalking me is really a friend."

His parents watched each other, puzzled… "Ron, she's more than your friend…she's your girlfriend."

"Uh uh… Hold the phone! I'm willing to believe that she's a friend, that's all. I don't like her that way…"

"But Ron, you all have been dating over a year now…" His dad said, trying his best to convince him…

"Hey if she 'WERE' my girlfriend, then I'd have had stuff that was hers… and I'd have had pictures of us kissing and stuff. I don't see anything here. So in my logical world, she is NOT anything to me! Nope, sorry... can't make me!"

Of course the parents had nothing to back it up with… Ron did take all of his things concerning Kim with him to Peakton. They could only look at their son and hope that for his sake, theirs and Kim's, that he would remember… and soon.

He spent some time cleaning up and changed out of his clothes…He found himself a brown hockey shirt and a cargo styled pants…

"Heyyy… Well, if for nothing else, I seem to have good taste…" he said, smiling. He tried to rest...

Back at the Possible's house, the driveway was full of cars, which would normally be parked in the garage. But that was being used for other, more important purposes. Inside, Mr. Possible, the tweebs and Wade, who actually came out to help, were busy rigging up a device, made from the remnants of Drakken's creation. It was centered between two seats, with two connectors that fit to someone's head. The problem was that the original machine was too badly damaged, to actually use it as a ray. But with Wade and the tweebs' ingenuity, they were able to create something that would be able to have the same effect, with different means… hypnosis. Kim was actually trying to get some rest, considering it took many hours to build. But she couldn't really rest. Anxiety was getting the better of her. She entered the garage and beheld the sight in front of her…

"That doesn't really look like the thing Drakken had…" She pointed out,

"We know that." Jim intervened, "But it was too damaged to rebuild it completely, so we modified it best we could" Tim finished…

"Anyway, we could tell you how it'll work…" Wade started.

"Someone will get hypnotized with Ron. Their brain waves would be digitized as it enters the host... in this case, Ron. Now to the person entering, it would appear as some sort of virtual reality. I programmed the settings, based on the component setup, with registries and others things similar. Everything will appear real…even to the point of reading the person's mind. But only the person entering will exist… not even Ron himself can… "

Jim and Tim intervened. "We were able to break down somehow, the way that the components work. Though we couldn't really make it work the original way it was supposed to, this should work just as fine"

"Beek a beek a boo?"

"Hoo sha!"

Mr. Possible finished the statement. "We seemed to decipher exactly how the ray was able to penetrate the brain, and figured out it would need some code to unlock the main memory. The trouble was that the ray was the entrant, the password and the expander, but we couldn't fix that. That's where the person entering the brain comes in. They will act as the ray, pretty much unlocking everything. But unlocking it and opening it are two different things. Ron would still need some stimulation to get him to remember the things he used to…and, there's something else…"

They all looked away from Kim for a moment, which obviously peaked her concern…

"What is it? Dad, Wade? What?"

Wade spoke up…"Well, we still couldn't figure out how to stop the system from completely erasing his memory…so whatever has to be done, must be done quickly… We already lost about 6 hours from since you got here… and if it took an hour to get here and another at the hospital… not to mention maybe 2 hours that you were out for. We're looking at maybe14 hours to try and get all if not most his memory back…"

"So there's a good possiblility that he won't remember a lot… like… us…" Kim said, toching her chest…

"We don't know… it could be anything… or nothing at all."

Kim was afraid to think about it, but she could very well loose the love of the one she was accustomed to… and even as the friend she once knew. Sure, she could maybe show him the ropes again, but it would never be the same. But nonetheless, she will always be his friend… no matter what. She knew he would have done the same for her…

"I want to go in…Let's get Ron."

The Stoppables were over in no time. Ron himself was amazed to see the entire setup of what they had done….

"Hey! It this some sort of cool videogame machine? Man you gotta let me try this! What does it play?"

Everyone else watched each other sarcastically and said… "Ron!"

"What?"

"Anyway, get in the seat… we're going to try and help you to remember something…" Kim said quickly,

"Uh so why didn't you just like… I dunno, hold a watch to my head and yell…'you are getting very sleepy…'

"Cut it out… this is important. You know, the old you was the same way…"

"Well maybe I'm still the old me"

Kim watched him, with a saddened look… "I hope so…"

"Hey, you got that stalker look in your eyes again…creepy…"

"(Sigh) …. Let's do this"

Everyone stepped aside, after Kim and Ron both were set in their headgear. Jim and Tim started the machine. There was a slight whine as it powered up. Wade was on his laptop, constantly typing info into the system. Kim would act as the translator to the code. At the press of a button, everything went blank….

Kim came to, moments later. She found herself in a vast, empty area. Nothing but a few registries were lying around…and remnants of files scattered few and far in between…

"Well, Wade sure likes to be thorough…" She commented,

"Why thank you…" Came a voice from nowhere, which of course startled Kim.

"Wade? Don't DO that! How can you talk to me in here?"

"The decoder can transmit everything I say to you and convert it through the machine…"

"Wade, you rock!"

"I'll rock, when we get Ron's memory opened…"

"Right. Where do I go?"

"The locked section is about 3 miles away from your position, but you may be able to see it…"

And wow, did she see it! 3 miles was far away, but that thing was HUGE! It was as if it was right there next to her. It took her some time, not because she couldn't run quickly enough, but every time, she would see a register and can't help but want to see inside… but she couldn't…

"Wade, I thought you said there weren't any registries here?

"Well actually, those are the new ones that Ron has been forming…"

"Can they be accessed?"

"Yeah, but only if he somehow was comfortable with you…if he wasn't close to you in this present memory, they won't open. And anyway, um, I don't think you should be going through his mind… It wouldn't be fair to him, that you try to read his private thoughts… not to mention that we have to unlock the main latch…"

He was right. She had to keep focused... they were running out of time. She decided that it wasn't right after all and moved on. But she secretly wished to know how Ron thought… how he felt about things… about her. If you were in the same position, you would have wanted to know that as well.

She kept going on for what seemed to be forever. But when she eventually reached, she saw something…gigantic.

This thing seemingly stood hundreds of feet upwards… and for miles across… Something wanting to resemble a safe.

Kim was awestruck… She was facing something that truly, words could not measure….

This is the place that held Ron's memories…