Little info before we get back to the story. The rating is being dropped from M to T (Well since T is above M I guess it would be raised to T…but that's not relevant), I've realized there isn't a whole lot in this story (or planned for that matter) that warrants the M rating. All I'm doing is limiting who gets to read it, which is silly. Now let's get back to this…
Kim Possible
Fading World
Chapter 3
"Just a little more…"
Wade said out loud as he was working feverously on his keyboard, he was almost through when he heard his door open behind him.
"Wade?"
"I'm a little busy mom!" Wade said as he kept up his furious typing…
"Wade, there's someone to see you…"
"I'm in the middle of something; can it wait a few seconds?"
Wade's mother was about to protest when Bond shook his head.
"I'm really sorry…" She whispered.
"Don't be, for all we know what he's working on is precisely what I need…"
"Got it!" They heard Wade exclaim, throwing his arms in the air victoriously…
"I got it from here Mrs. Load…" Bond said as he walked in the room. Wades mother looked on before she closed the door…
Bond grabbed a nearby chair and dragged it right next to the kid before he sat down. The action did take Wade out of his moment of victory.
"I guess that means I can talk to you now…" Bond said with a smirk.
Wade lowered his arms as he leaned back in his chair, spinning it to face Bond in the process.
"So you're the famous James Bond, agent 007…"
Bond smirked as he put his head down slightly before looking back at Wade.
"You're skills are exactly as expected Wade…you don't mind if I call you Wade do you?"
"I'd prefer if you called me Wade actually…"
"Good, and since you already know why I'm here perhaps we can cut directly to the chase…"
Wade smirked.
"The mission came through her website in the usual order, Villain bent on ruling the world, evil scheme, weapon of mass destruction…you get the drift…"
"Go on"
"So they send us the coordinates and Kim and Ron both head up there to stop whoever it was…"
"They never said what villain was planning this?" Bond asked curiously.
"They didn't, although that's not usually a concern, most times when we get reports of villainous activity we can usually tie it in to a certain villain. They each have certain ways of doing things…"
"Of course…"
"So they're on this mission, and it takes slightly longer than I expected…"
"Did that alarm you in anyway?"
"It did, I usually take all the possible scenarios, add in Kim and Ron's skill set, and usually what comes back is accurate to the second…there's only been three other times when it was off, but even then it wasn't as far off as this one was…"
"How far off was this one?"
"Forty-Five minutes."
"So you suspected right from the start that something was wrong then."
"I did, plus the usual methods I use to track them went off like as they got to the location. The Sloth, the Communicator, even their chips went offline."
"Dr. Possible said you had them chipped, those chips never went offline?"
"Never, and it was for this exact reason why both of their parents insisted they get chipped."
"Do they know they're chipped?"
"No, it was leaded to reason if they didn't know they were chipped, then if they were captured by villains they wouldn't know they're chipped either."
"So when they finally got back to you, what happened?"
"When they finally contacted me they were cut it short, which is completely unlike either of them. They usually explain what happened in detail. But that didn't happen, it was basically 'hey wade we're back, we foiled their plan later'. It was very out of character for both of them…"
Just then a little pink rodent popped his head up from under a plastic chip bag on Wade's desk, looked around and then scurried off somewhere around the room.
"I take it that would be Rufus." Bond said as he watched the creature run off into the darkness of the room.
"Yeah, his acting around the two of them changed as well."
"How so?"
"He was hostile, very hostile towards them. So much so that he was sealed in one of those hamster balls on the trip back. And after that Ron's parents gave him too me until they could figure out what was going on with Ron…"
"But they never got the chance…"
"And neither did Kim's parents, shortly after they got back they both vanished and started pulling robberies…"
"Yes I've read the reports, robbing the very places they were once protecting from villains…"
"Exactly, and I couldn't track them or figure out what they were doing. But all the parts they stole were parts that would go to various villain doomsday devices."
"You think they're planning to take over the world?" Bond asked.
"Not them, but whoever's behind their drastic change."
"Dr. Possible told me that he doesn't think it's actually his daughter"
"With the drastic change they went through from that mission he probably isn't far off, but I can't prove anything right now. I'm just trying to find out where they are…"
Bond paused for a second, now he was going ask the tough ones, getting close to information he was positive Wade didn't know.
"What can you tell me about a secret Ninja School in Japan?"
"Yamanochi? That's where Ron went to a few times; they focus on Monkey Kung Fu. .."
"Tai Xing Pe Quar…"
"I see you've heard of it…"
"I've heard rumors of its existence, but I didn't know it was actually real."
"We've had a villain that specialized in it, well…before he turned into a statue anyway…"
Bond raised an eyebrow, looking at Wade quizzically.
"Long story, I'll tell it to you later…
"Anyway the school not only focuses on Monkey Kung Fu but on the ways of the Ninja warrior. Several of their students have worked side by side with them throughout the years…"
Wade trailed off as he soon realized why Bond had asked…
"This is about when Shego contacted me to find where they were going isn't it?"
"…partly. They kept mentioning a target out there, any idea what that would be?"
"The only things I know of are the Lotus blade and several scrolls related to Monkey Kung Fu…and of those two I'd say the sword was much more of a target then scrolls to places they've already defended."
"What is this Lotus Blade?"
"It's a magical sword that can only be used by those with Monkey Kung Fu, with it they could transform it into anything they wanted. And I mean anything…"
Bond jotted the new information down on a little pad he had, a pad that was quickly filling up with notes…
"Something happened in Japan didn't it?"
Bond quickly changed the subject…
"You said you were working on a means to track them, was that what you were working on a few minutes ago?"
"It was, just as you sat down I broke through the latest encryption they had in place to block me from finding them."
"So you know where they are?"
"Yes, they're thirty-five miles outside of town in a large underground lair..."
Bond quickly got up and reached for his cell phone, Wade got up as well…
"What happened in Japan?"
Bond ignored him for the moment as he dialed Felix; he motioned to Wade to hold on for a moment till Felix picked up…
"What have you got James?"
"I'm at Load's residence, he's just found out the location of their lair."
"I take it you're going to head out there?"
"Indeed, but I'm stopping off there first with Wade. You get a small team together to watch my back…"
"You want us to go in with you?"
"Negative, it's too risky…if someone else is behind this it might scare them off if they see all of your men there."
"What about the woman you brought it before?"
"I'll take her out there with me; she wants answers just as bad as I do."
"Alright, I'm not comfortable with this James but I trust your ability. We'll be watching…"
"I wouldn't want it any other way, see you in five."
Bond motioned for Wade to come with him.
"You're coming with me to the CIAs operations building, there you will work with their team in finding out any other new information we may have missed, and they'll also fill you in on what I will not tell you. Is that clear?"
"So long as you get them both back safe and sound. Let's roll"
Bond was glad Wade was following him out to his car, he didn't want him to see his expression. Personally after all the information he's gathered he doesn't really believe that Stoppable is dead, but there's still a tinge of doubt within him. It's always possible it could indeed be him.
As they headed to the car Bond heard another faint noise off in the distance. He turned towards it, only to see another lightly wooded area. By now it was late evening; the sun was just above the horizon making it tough to see into an area now blanketed with cast shadows…
He wondered about some of the information Wade had told him as he stared into the area…
"What are you looking at?" Wade asked, standing by the passenger door of his car.
He stood there for a moment longer before he turned back to the car.
"Nothing"
It was getting Dark out as Kim piloted her Sloth into the entrance of the cave…that's one thing she had to give to Ron; he was very good at finding a suitable place to call their lair. Plus the Supreme One had wasted no time in getting it outfitted like a lair in no time, complete with living areas and a kitchen.
Shame Ron betrayed me…oh well, he can't do that again…
She pulled the Sloth right outside the front door and exited, heading to the front door of the lair. Her day was relatively good, she was able to capture the items the Supreme One requested in no time at all, sure there were many guards and GJ agents to deal with but they were easily taken care of…most of them might even live.
She paused as she reached the front door, something seemed off to her. She couldn't say for sure but something wasn't right…she went back to the car and grabbed the lotus blade off the passenger seat. She looked it over, still shined like new…it couldn't transform anymore due to its user being dead and her not being a Monkey Kung Fu master but as a sword it was still a deadly weapon. The blood that still glistened on the blade a testament to that, she sheathed it and placed it on her back in easy reach before she headed back to the front door.
Nothing was done to the door so she entered her code and walked in the lair. The first thing that struck her was the complete darkness that surrounded her now. The only sign of light was coming from the now open front door, casting her silhouette in the middle of the diminishing light behind her.
Something wasn't right, the lights were on a automatic timer set to come on a half hour before the sun started setting, the only way to turn the lights on now was to walk into the room towards the left most wall to the lights. It left her exposed and vulnerable to attack, something she was now expecting…now she was glad the Lotus Blade was on her back. She left the front door open to at least provide her with some light as she cautiously made her way to the left wall and find the light switch. Her eyes scanned the darkness for signs of any incoming ambush but the light only helped so much, she could only see shapes of things in the room and not the detail she needed. Her right hand slowly started to rise up to the handle of the sword as she neared where the wall should be, her left hand reached out to find the light switch as quickly as possible. A few short moments later she found it and flicked the lights on…
"Was it a busy day Miss Possible?"
In the split second it took her to turn the lights on Kim realized she wasn't paranoid. On the couch in the center of the room sat a man in a fancy suit, looking exactly where she was standing. Then she was distracted by the sound of the front door slamming…
"I'll say it was…Kimmie…"
Kim narrowed her eyes, slightly relieved that she at least knew one person in the room.
"Shego, who's your new boy toy?" She snarled her hand mere inches from the handle of the lotus blade.
Shego moved her right foot back, preparing to spring forward at the redhead.
"I am not her 'boy-toy' as you put it Miss Possible…I'm a MI6 agent…" The man on the couch said, completely oblivious by the growing apprehension in the room.
Kim growled, she was warned by the Supreme One that other agencies would want to get involved but she distinctly remembered being told there was 'nothing' to worry about. The fact that her main foe and a MI6 agent were in her lair clearly showed there was indeed 'something' to worry about.
"So, how did you find me?"
"Your old friend Wade helped us out, nice place actually…still a short driving distance from Middleton…" The agent said trailing off…
"…it'd be really nice to take someone out on a date…" Shego added the venom in her voice obviously apparent.
Kim smirked, "Oh you mean someone like Ron right? Shame, he had so much potential…"
"…Until you murdered him…" The agent said his position and stance on the couch never changed. Kim surmised that this man, even though he showed no emotion was the real danger in the room. Someone who wouldn't second guess a decision like her own with Ron…she admired that.
"So, I take it that was you who was shadowing us in Japan…I should've known…" Kim said staring at Shego again.
"She is the least of your problems Miss Possible; now tell us what happened…"
Kim's eyes darted back and forth between the two, her hand still very close to the lotus blade as she worked out a plan for dealing with them.
"Well, since I'm obviously outnumbered here I suppose there's no harm in me filling in the blanks…since I take it that's why you're here."
"We're here for several reasons, but yes continue."
"We went to Japan to take this here…" Kim motioned to the Lotus blade on her back.
"A sword of unbelievable power, something we just had to have…course Ron wasn't too sure about it, so I had to take the initiative, again…
"…then the old man showed up, I did the only thing I could in a situation like that."
"So you killed him." Bond said with no emotion.
"That's right; he got in the way…just like Ron got in my way."
"You killed your partner, your best friend for 16 years, and your boyfriend for the past 2 years…just because he got in your way?"
"His heart was never fully into it. He was always too 'goody-goody' about everything…he was slowing me down. Plus when you pull the very sword your trying to steal on your partner you kind of forget about everything you've ever gone through together…"
"But the end result is that you're here, and he isn't…" Bond said studying Kim's stance…trying to anticipate what she was going to do when this conversation was over. He knew this was going to end in a fight, but the results of that fight were something he didn't want to delve into.
"He didn't have the courage to kill me, that's why he put the sword an inch to the right of my head. I told him if he missed I would kill him, and I keep my promises."
"Where did all the Villains go…?" Shego growled from across the room, her fists were shaking with boiling rage…
"Oh, them?" Kim chuckled slightly
"The Supreme One has them, don't worry, they're all fine and doing her bidding…"
Suddenly the story clicked into place in Bonds mind. The sudden change of sides, the escalation to murder, the stories Dr. Possible told him, the information he got from Wade…even going back to Felix's word back before he started on this assignment. It all came together…
"Oh dear, I seem to have told you more then I should have…" Kim sighed.
"Well, seems I'm just going to have to kill both of you."
"Over my dead body!" Shego snarled as her hands ignited into green fireballs.
"Precisely…" Kim said with a positively evil smirk.
Shego charged towards Kim, her arms extended behind her ready to unleash hell upon the redhead. Kim ducked the attack and raised her right hand right up into Shego's midsection and hurtling her over her head and onto her back. While doing this her hand grabbed the handle of the lotus blade and unsheathed it for the battle.
She brought the sword down right where shego was laying, but the woman rolled to her left moments before the blade came slashing through the floor. She was on her feet again; the green fire grew in intensity as she bared her teeth like a wild animal hungry for a kill. She launched at Kim again, using her power to deflect the sword away from what would be fatal hits, and they were deadlocked for several more moves till Kim brought the sword down right at her face.
She smacked her hands together right onto the blade, holding it in place. The two were putting all their muscle into it, beads of sweat dripped off of both their foreheads as they fought for control…
"Even with a deadly weapon, you can't beat me Kimmie…"
Kim laughed, it wasn't a cheerful laugh, and it was a maniacal laugh, a laugh that chilled Shego to the bone…
"I'm not trying to beat you Shego, I'm going to kill you…"
Kim shoved her right foot into Shego's stomach, sending her flying back on the floor. Seeing she was dazed Kim lifted the sword, ready for the final blow…
Then a bright flash filled the room and in an instant Kim felt the lotus blade fly out of her hands, followed by immense pain in her right hand. She immediately clamped her left hand around where her other was throbbing, looking at it she could see blood. She then turned to the man on the couch, throughout the fight he never moved from that spot, the only difference in him now was that he had a gun pointed at her. She could see the spent casing on the floor and the smoke curling out of the barrel.
"You shot me you bastard!" She yelled through her pain.
"I'm sorry, did you want me to allow you to try and kill us?" Bond asked, still showing no remorse in his voice.
Shego got up off the floor and took another fighting stance; she glanced over at Bond with a little resentment in her face.
"I could've handled her…" She angrily whispered.
"You could've, right to the point she was about to kill you…" Bond replied, keeping his gun on Kim.
"You're outmatched Miss Possible, if you give up maybe we could overlook this little fight here and show some leniency for your trial…"
Kim, still in pain laughed at the offer.
"Trial? What makes you think there will be a trial? The Supreme One will get me out, just like how she showed both Ron and I our true path…"
"Who is the Supreme One?" Shego demanded.
"Oh, like I'm going to tell you that…"
"You better, otherwise you aren't going to like your options…" Bond watched her closely, even wounded she was dangerous.
Kim smiled slightly before she started putting her hands up.
"Alright…you got me. Now all you've got to do is take me in!"
As soon as her hands were above her head her left hand moved quickly to her back and within a second she had two small throwing knifes in her hand ready to throw…
Then another bright flash just as the knifes were leaving her hands, she felt herself pushed back, like she was kicked in the stomach followed by another wave of intense pain. The throwing knifes missed their targets, but just barely. Shego jumped at the sound of the gunshot and almost didn't notice that the knife intended for her impacted a support beam just to her right, had it hit her she would've had a knife in the stomach. The one intended for Bond struck the pillow cushion just to the left of his arm, he was, as always completely emotionless for what was going on.
The look on Kim's face was one of complete surprise that soon turned to shock and pain. She fell to her knees as her hands grabbed her stomach. Her usual purple shirt was getting saturated in crimson…Shego started forward to help when Bond grabbed her, she tried to pull away but like a pit-bull he wouldn't release his grip on her.
"You…you son of a bitch! Do you know….who I AM?" Kim cried out as the pain overwhelmed her.
"You've just been shot in the stomach Miss Possible, a very painful and slow way to die; now I can call for a ambulance but unless they get here in the next fifteen minutes you're as good as dead."
Shego ignited her hands again and turned to Bond, her eyes full of tears.
"CALL THEM!" She demanded
Bond ignored her and continued on…
"Now tell me what I need to know Miss Possible, if you want to live…"
"YOU BASTARD! That's how you get your answers? You shoot someone and hold the help they need over their heads? I am going to…"
"YOU KNEW DAMN WELL WHAT YOU WERE GETTING INTO SHEGO!" Bond practically screamed at her, catching her off guard and scaring her.
"Now if you can't handle this I suggest you go to another room until this is done…"
Shego looked into his eyes, she saw the look in them…she saw his past in them, she saw what would happen now in them, she saw where this would end… and she saw that he was right…Her shoulders slumped, her glowing hands burnt out. She looked once more at Kim, she saw the look of fear in her eyes, but she saw that defiance, that hatred she saw moments ago still burning in those eyes. She turned her back to her and walked towards another room, she could feel the tears running down her cheeks. Even after seeing Kim kill her partner, and nearly being killed by her herself, she just couldn't be in that room to watch her die…it was too much for her.
As she entered another room she pushed her back against the wall and slowly slumped to the floor. Then a hand wrapped around her mouth and pinned her where she was…she couldn't see who her new attacker was but from the way she was being held, she could tell they didn't mean her no harm…didn't change the fact she was still angry with whoever it was…
Back in the main room Kim struggled to keep herself upright, her eyes frantically darted to find something to stop the bleeding, and something to kill the rat bastard who shot her.
"Who is this Supreme One working for? Answer that and I can call for the medical team to come and save your life…"
She felt herself going pale; she was getting light headed from the loss of blood. She fell to her right against a coffee table in the room, she used it to prop herself up as she let another laugh out, only this time she coughed up some blood at the end of it.
"If I tell you who she is, I'm as good as dead anyway…"
Bond smirked slightly…
"You've already told me who she is…"
Kim's eyes went wide; she was annoyed that she let that slip…although giving her current circumstances that wasn't a surprise.
"And you actually told me who she was before I shot you…"
"…w…What?" Kim was barely able to get that out of her mouth, the pain was still unbearable and she had a slight trickle of blood coming from the side of her mouth…
"I should thank you, because of your little slip up you made this whole thing quiet a lot more bearable."
Kim tried her best to look angry at him, but she wasn't sure she was pulling it off…
"I'm….I'm very glad to make shooting a teenage girl in the stomach that much bearable for you…"
"Except for the fact you aren't Kim Possible…"
Now Kim thought she was hearing things from the loss of blood. She tried to laugh again but just coughed up more blood.
"I could've sworn….you said I…..wasn't…Kim Possible…."
"You aren't the real Kim Possible, you're a clone…"
The words hit her worse than the gunshot wound she had in her stomach…there's no way I'm a clone…
"For the past five days, you and your partner Ron did a complete 180 as far as your lives went. All contacts you had didn't think you were really you, all means of tracking you suddenly didn't work, and you've got the knowledge to kill…these are all the things you have never done in your entire life. Then all of a sudden BAM, it changes.
"Plus this text I got back from my CIA contacts tells me the blood your old acquaintance collected from the murder scene of Ron, that the blood doesn't match Ron's actual DNA…it's close but it's not actually him..."
Kim's breathing was becoming more ragged; she didn't think she had much time left. And judging by the look on Bonds face he knew it too. The information he'd just given her was starting to sink in…memories were starting to flood back to her….
"If…if I'm not really Kim…then how come I remember everything from her past…."
"That, I don't have a answer for. For all I know your mind is that of the real Kim Possible, but it's being controlled by whomever the Supreme One is…"
"I thought you said you knew who she was"
"I did, and I do, but it's only a hunch. I can't prove it. And that's why I need you to tell me did this to you and Ron when went to Alaska five days ago."
Kim laughed this time,
"After all of that, you think that will help you?"
"I need a actual name, from you. If I report it then it's just speculation…if it comes from you without my assistance then we know who the enemy is…"
Kim shook her head.
"Your…enemy is someone you don't consider a enemy…"
"Who?"
Everything was slowing down for Kim now, her vision was blurring, the color was fading, even the pain was subsiding…
"The Supreme One….is Betty Director…." She gasped as she collapsed to the floor.
"Are they still in Alaska? Is that where they're keeping everyone else?"
Kim looked up at him, and slowly nodded.
"…at the base….of a mountain…maybe….150miles….east of Anchorage…"
Bond got off of the couch and kneeled beside her head, he put his hand on her right shoulder as she looked up at him.
"You…were never….going to….call…..the ambulance….where….you…."
"I never intended on it…"
Kim smirked slightly at that as the darkness was surrounding her…
"Give….give them hell….for what they've…made….me do….to Ron….please…."
"You have my word…"
Kim blinked once more as she looked up at him, she slowly nodded before she put her head back down and closed her eyes for the last time….
Bond sighed. He pulled a little vial out of his pocket and gathered a sample of her blood, just to be absolutely certain.
He looked back at the room Shego went into, he got that same sense he did outside the Space Center and again leaving Wade Loads house…but he also felt something else…
"You can come out now…all of you."
Slowly Shego emerged from the dark room, behind her another figure, clad in black had a hand over her mouth. Behind that figure another person, much shorter then Shego and the other figure, Bond could clearly see the ornate robe the person wore.
"I take it you were the one who was supposedly killed by Miss Possible in Japan?"
"Indeed, however I have not become the head of a Mystical Monkey Ninja School without learning a trick or two myself…"
The man bowed his head slightly.
"Forgive me, I am Master Sensei. This is my star pupil Yori…"
"I am very sorry for holding you against your will Shego-san; I hope you can understand why now." Yori said as she released her.
Shego quickly moved two steps in front of her captor and hunched her shoulders; she put her left hand on her right arm as she looked back at them.
"Some warning would've been nice…"
"It was you two that have been following me all day weren't it?" Bond asked.
"Indeed, you are correct Agent 007." Yori responded.
"So why did you follow us?" Shego asked.
"I'm afraid that answer will have to wait…"
Shego turned to face Bond; he was looking at his phone screen.
"We've got a Global Justice cleanup crew en-route. We need to get back to HQ now…"
Sorry for the delay there, hit a few snags with this chapter but hopefully I've sorted them all out to a understandable level. (I also hope I spelled Monkey Kung Fu the right way...well it's actual name anyway) At the rate I'm going this isn't going to be going on for much longer. Maybe 6 chapters tops. Just a FYI for you out there.