Kim found what seemed to be the main latch… It was huge! You'd need some sort of machine to open it…
"Wade, big problem… that door isn't exactly small… and I'm not seeing any pass code interfaces…"
"The pass code slots should be about roughly forty floors estimate…"
"Forty? You're kidding! So I guess I need some sort of stethoscope to open this thing" she said sarcastically…
"Well, no… actually, a pretty big key…"
"A key? Where the heck in this place am I going to find a –"
Her words stopped abruptly when she saw lying on the ground in front of her, a large four-foot key.
"Guess you saw a key huh?"
"Man could they make this thing any weirder? Or heavier for that matter?" realizing the weight of it.
"Ok I guess I gotta use my grappler…" She reached for her trusty tool, but realized that there wasn't any… She didn't realize that this was really an imagination of sorts…
"Wade, how am I going to get to the pass code area?" She asked…
"There may be an area to enter the key at the ground level. Try and find it, then use the key."
"Man, this is complicated…and we never entered a girl's mind yet" she commented with sarcasm...
She searched and searched, till she did find a slot to push the key. This thing wasn't light at all, but not entirely heavy. She pulled it over to the slot and pushed the key in…with some effort, she turned it.
Then, suddenly at that…a large staircase began forming, in a zigzag pattern. Kim looked astonished at the entire expanse and mumbled…
"Sure… why make a key when they could make a stupid electronic key entry…now stairs when they could make an elevator! This is so the drama…"
After a long, long climb, she reached the top, only to be greeted with another challenge… a gauntlet of sorts. There were four slots of the same size, for the key to fit. However, there were four platforms…each was moving back and forth at different speeds. Between them, were large blades, which seemed to move almost randomly…
"Wade, a little help here"
"Sorry Kim, but I can't do anything about this… it's the natural protection of the locks. Think of it as a videogame stage…"
"Gee, thanks" she said sarcastically. "Ron would feel right at home…"
She reached for the first platform… easy enough… considering it was the slowest...
"What now" She asked…
"Take the key and line it up to the hole. The platform will stop near the entrance…"
And so she did… She held up the key. Surely enough, the platform stopped. She placed the key in the slot.
"Key's in the first slot. Now what?"
"Turn the key three to the left." She did as told. As she completed the third turn, she heard a click. First lock opened…
However, as she removed the key, the platform started to move again. Now she had to time the second platform, which was faster, as well as the side blades… She timed her jump perfectly… avoiding any trouble. Just as the first, she steadied the key to the lock. And fit it in…
"What now?'
"Three times to the right…"
And so she did. Then, the lock opened as well. This was going pretty good. But the third one was a problem… She timed the platforms, but the blade came out of nowhere… she wasn't able to properly clear it… Mid jump, the blade caught her, sharing a cut to her arm. She winced from the slice and found that she had lost her footing as she fell onto the platform. The key fell out of grasp and was about to go over the edge…as well as she…
("No! I'm too close…") she thought, as she slid to the edge…
Kim grabbed the edge of the platform as best she could... using her feet to brace herself from going over. But the key was almost over the side. Lunging at it, she was just barely able to hold onto it with her bleeding arm. Her cuts were not very deep, however it was bad enough to weaken her slightly. Holding a heavy, hanging key wasn't helping either. Gritting her teeth, straining to bring it back, she somehow managed to get it back on the platform. She was out of breath…
"That's was too close…" (Coughing)
"Kim, are you ok? Your body, s hyperventilating and coughing…"
"I'm…(coughing) I'm ok. Just a little scratch."
"Ok, but be careful."
Wade could not see exactly what was going on with Kim. But he could monitor her vitals and know if she was in a situation or not…Kim took a moment to catch her breath. Then she raised the key into the third slot.
"Key's in… which way?"
"Seven turns… left."
Success… third lock cleared. But the Fourth would prove the greatest challenge. This was the fastest moving platform. Even if she does make it, the speed it slows down could throw her off balance and off the ramp…certainly killing her. She decided it's all or nothing. She timed the ramp and the blade. She then threw the key into the air. As she did, she quickly did a somersault, to land on the ramp, just as it was beginning its return…PERFECT! The key was still coming. She caught it, then hunched onto the ramp. And as quickly as it was moving… it slowed to the point of the slot…
"I'm here Wade… the last one!"
"Ok… last one is four turns, to the right."
Kim's muscles tightened… one…two…three…four! Suddenly she heard this large noise. The platforms all joined, along with the stairs…then all turned to form a large slide. Kim lost her footing and slid down the entire side… rolling as she reached the bottom.
"In other circumstances, that would have been fun" She lamented. Just then, a larger noise of an opening door came about… The door had cracked open!
"Wade! Wade! We did it! We cracked it open!"
"Great! Now be careful. I figured that there would be a defense system in place to unlock the door, but I can't say for what's in the safe…"
"Got it…"
Kim quickly made her way to the entrance. But the reality of what she saw, made her heart drop… The door did in fact crack open, but it wasn't enough for anything to get out. She ran to the crack and realized she could barely fit. She actually wedged herself between the door and the safe-like structure, pushing with her legs. She strained and tried, but she was only able to manage moving it open another 2 feet or so…She was able to enter…albeit slightly. Then the sight she beheld…what a sight it was!
Kim Possible was not normally speechless for many things… but this could qualify as a TOTALLY speechless moment… Registers everywhere… she couldn't even see for great distances, but there were many shadows of things resembling registers… and weirder still… some of the registers were almost as high as the safe itself.
"Wow…Ron sure has a lot of memories… makes me wonder what's in my mind." Kim lamented…
And it was about to get even weirder still. She noticed that the registers were disintegrating into a fine mist and escaping through the door…
"Kim! Ron's activity is starting to increase… even if by .05 percent… it's still an increase. Whatever you're doing, keep doing it!" Wade complimented.
The families all were holding their breath… they wanted her to succeed… and she seemingly was. But Kim didn't know what was going on…
"Wade, I'm not doing it. The registers are disintegrating by themselves and going out the door…"
"Great. That's what it should do. The registers will scatter out of Ron's brain and in time will help him reform them. But we need to get as much out before time runs out."
"Well it's doing it on its own… can't we speed it up?"
"I wish it could, Kim. Remember the original ray would have been able to reconvert it back into the main brain area, but because we're doing it manually, the process is slower."
Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed something on the floor moving towards her. She turned in a fighting stance; however, as she faced it, she couldn't believe her eyes…
A little Diablo robot? Her eyebrow went up.
"Uhh, Wade, please tell me that this is some sort of prank…"
"What are you t… Kim! I'm getting a rather large disturbance forming at your position… whatever it is it's dangerous!"
The little robot suddenly grew in size… its hands turned to menacing weapons. Kim thought to herself…
("Is it Deja Vu? Or is Drakken really serious?")
The Robot began to attack Kim. Using its lasers, it fired a blast near to where she was standing at the door. She had to think fast. If those lasers were to hit the registers, there probably wouldn't be a need to worry about the timer. She then had an idea…
"Is that the best you can do?" seemingly taunting the behemoth… It took the bait. She ran for the door. The Diablo followed, firing its weapons at Kim, who was dodging as best she could. When she cleared the entrance, she taunted the monstrosity…
"Hey, I don't have all day, come get me!"
Her plan seemed flawless… the robot would force open the door enough, that more and more registries would escape through the opening… The outside was met with a thunderous row of explosive sounds…as the Diablo banged away at the safe door. Surely enough, the door opened. But strangely enough, was only opened slightly. Then in a fit of what was seemingly unbelievable, the giant machine suddenly began trying to close the door!
Kim couldn't believe her eyes. She had to do something… and fast. She ran back towards the safe, just in the view of the Diablo.
"Hey I just came all this way to get to you, now you're closing off on me? You're a lousy date!"
("Wow…that really sounded like Ron!") She thought…
But there was no time to dwell on it… the machine bared its arms down on her again. It threw its hands on the ground as if to smash Kim. Just as the first time she ever battled them, she ran up the arms and somersaulted over its head, landing behind it. Before it could fire, she ran between its legs, to its front. The Diablo powered up its laser and fired. Kim leaped backwards, just as the blast hit at the Diablo's feet…causing it to loose balance. It fell, striking the door full force. This caused the door to open much more than before, yet still not enough for everything to escape fully. With a damaged leg, the Diablo was somewhat unable to regain its footing, but it didn't mean that it was any less deadly. Kim found herself dodging another few blasts, before strategically placing herself on the machine's head. Of course a machine was programmed to destroy… not think about harming itself, so it fired its laser directly where Kim was standing… with disastrous results to itself. Kim vaulted away in time to see the head fully destroyed. The lasers powered down…an eerie echo sounded amongst the vast emptiness…then silence…
Kim stood triumphantly and shouted at the top of her lungs, bearing her fist…
"BOO YAH!" It echoed out for miles...
She was proud and joyous, but then realized everyone probably heard her say it as well…She turned all red.
"Um, Wade? For the record, you didn't hear me shout that…"
"I'll be sure to let him know…Miss Priss…"
That definitely wasn't Wade. That voice! Kim's eyes narrowed…she felt sudden anger grip her…
"Shego!"
"Oh hello Kimmie… seems like you're trying a hypno-styled rescue of your buffoon boyfriend…how touching. I really don't know why you put up with him… Or maybe misery loves company…"
"What have you done to my family and my friends?"
"Oh I wouldn't worry about them…seems like if I un-jack this thingy, you'll be stuck here and you'll be pretty…hmmm brain dead. I like that sound…"
"You won't get away with this!" Kim shouted,
"Oh maybe I already have… Anyway, see you around Kimmie. Enjoy the empty part of your boyfriend…Maybe now you'll be as dumb as him!"
Kim suddenly felt herself go numb…everything was going dark…she was loosing consciousness…
"Not yet… not yet! …I can't…..fai….fail…"
And all went silent.