Sorry for the long delay, real life issues, then a sinus cold in August (bleh) cut into available writing time. (Plus I absolutely suck at writing when under cold medication…Half of this chapter had to be deleted because I couldn't understand a word of it…)
Kim Possible
Fading World
Chapter 4
"How long do we have?" Shego asked cracking her knuckles…
"Maybe a minute, maybe less…" Bond said.
"It is wise for us to flee and regroup Shego-san" Yori said calmly.
"Yeah, well I don't flee!" Shego said, flaring up her hands, ready for a fight.
"You want to risk all we've worked for on a fight with two Global Justice Hover jets who will be trying to kill you?" Bond asked as he checked his handguns magazine.
"After what they put me through, I'm looking forward to tearing them up…"
"That may be so, but it is wiser to store your anger for when we make the final push on them…rather than wasting it on a couple of foot soldiers." Sensei said calmly.
Shego stood there for a few moments; she relaxed her stance and let her power subside. Grudgingly the old man was right.
"If you don't mind, I'd like to insist you two rides with us back to HQ." Bond said.
"Of course Agent 007, it will be our honor to accompany you." Yori said with a bow.
"Good, but we have to hurry to the car, they're almost here…"
The four of them quickly headed for the door, Shego and Bond both paused to look back at the body of Kim Possible, well her clone.
"Are you going to be alright?" Bond asked,
"As soon as I get back at those bastards who are responsible for this hell…" She said clenching her fists, her gaze never leaving the lifeless body.
"You'll have your chance soon enough."
They exited the lair and quickly headed to Bonds car. He quietly thanked Q with supplying him a new Rapide for this mission; he wouldn't have the room if it had been his other Aston. They just finished getting into the car when the first Hover Jet broke through above them, the grapple lines already hanging from its sides.
"You are interfering with a Global Justice operation, stop what you are doing and you will not be harmed!" Blared from the Jets loudspeaker…its message fell on deaf ears as Bond fired up the car and took off down the road.
The three others in the car looked behind them as the second Global Justice jet came into view and dropped low to the ground, from its protruding underside four vehicles fell out and began pursuit of them. That jet also stayed on location while the original they saw stayed on their tail, shadowing their every movement.
"I hope this thing has some tricks up its sleeve to lose these clowns." Shego said as she watched the vehicles start to gain on them.
"Q has never sent me to the field without the absolute best." Bond said as he tapped a button on the center console, bringing up the offensive and defensive weapons equipped to his car. He checked his mirrors before deciding on doing a combo on the pursuing vehicles. With a quick press of a button a smoke screen started from the back of the car, the others watched as the pursuers were enveloped by the fog. Next he flipped the switch for the oil slick just before they hit the next corner…
As they cleared the corner they looked back just in time to see one of the pursuers lose control and smash into the guardrail with enough force to break through it and roll into some trees. The other three struggled to make the corner, smashing into the guardrail and each other but soon they were back on their tail and gaining fast.
"Well, one out of three. May I?" Shego asked as her right hand glowed with her green fire.
"Be my guest" Bond said as he focused on the road ahead.
Shego grinned as she lowered her window and leaned out of the car and started lobbing her plasma at the Global Justice cars.
In the back seat, Yori and Master Sensei exchanged a look and a nod before Yori leaned out of her window as well.
"Of course, it will be my honor to assist you Shego" she said as she grabbed her fans from Master Sensei.
"Fans?" Shego said, surprised by the girls choice of weapon.
"What are you going to do, cool them to death?"
"As you American's would say, something like that"
She eyed the approaching vehicles carefully, calculating every possible scenario that might happen before she flicked the fan's open and struck.
Shego wasn't sure what she just saw, but she did know she seen the fans open up and the Japanese girl extend her hand out quickly, but after that she wasn't entirely sure. Whatever it was had resulted in the nearest car suddenly veering to the left and grinding on the rock face before it darted across the road and rolled out of sight, down the steep hillside.
"Just what is the deal with those fans?" Shego asked as she firing at the last vehicle.
"Secret ninja secret Shego...let's just say it's more than meets the eye."
The two women focused their attack on the last car on their tail as they hurtled down the roadway, down towards civilization. Bond navigated the car through a tight right hand turn when he saw the battered car Yori sent off the road resting upside down in his path.
"Hang on"
He quickly applied the brakes and at the last possible second veered right and then left around the wrecked vehicle. He checked his mirrors and saw the pursuing vehicle slam head on into the obstacle, knocking itself out of the pursuit.
"Now all we have to deal with is this clown" Shego said motioning to the pursuing hover jet.
The two looked at the tailing jet trying to formulate a plan to bring it down when a compartment on its underbelly opened and a large device lowered down, a device Shego remembered clearly.
"Dr. Drakken's Gravatomic Ray, how they hell did they get that?"
"Perhaps that helps explain why all your friends are missing." Yori said as she watched the ray aim down at them, a pulse emitted from it as the beam shot down at them.
They watched as the beam impacted the asphalt behind them and immediately begin pulling up chunks of roadway. The chunks flew up towards the ray and just before they came in contact with the ray they disintegrated…seeing this gave Shego an idea.
"Hey, Ninja girl…you have something I can throw at that?"
"Of course…" Yori replied as she handed Shego a throwing star.
"I take it you know of a way to disable the ray?"
"Yeah, something like that…" Shego said.
With a whip of her arm she sent the star hurtling at the ray in the same way she remembered Possible throwing a license plate at the same ray all those years ago. The throwing star hooked around the beam and struck the ray on the side, the effect was better then she expected. The ray spun around wildly as its pitch changed to pointing straight up, when it finally slowed the ray was pointed at the very bottom of the hover jet. Within seconds the entire Hover jet practically ate itself, the nose collapsed inward towards the ray, pulling the rest of it into the beam and subsequently destroying the entire aircraft without leaving so much as a rivet on the ground.
"Impressive Shego, but how did you know it would implode on itself?" Yori asked as they climbed back into the car.
"I didn't, I just remember what Kim did when Drakken used that Ray on her the last time. The implosion was an added bonus."
"Well it had the desired effect. Although I think we're going to have to plan rather quickly as Global Justice definitely knows we know." Bond said as they sped down the road.
Will Du entered the office of his 'boss', the news he had wasn't favorable and he didn't know what to expect. But being the right hand man he had to report it.
He looked at the end of the room where there stood a large desk, behind the desk his boss was sitting in her chair, her back to him looking out the large glass windows to the center of their base with various agents and scientists milling about.
"Dr. Director?"
The figure in the chair slowly turned to face him; he wasn't really surprised to see the robotic cat lying on her lap with her petting it.
"What's the report Du?"
"Not good m'am. " He placed his folder on her desk and opened it up. He pulled out several images and handed them to her.
"Team one has found Possible, dead… a single gunshot to the stomach. Team two pursued the suspects who were fleeing when we showed up, however all three vehicles were rendered immobile and the Hover jet on last reports 'imploded'…"
"Casualties?"
"The entire crew on the Hover jet and at least 2 others from the vehicle accidents, so 8 all together."
She eyed the images on her desk; she pushed the one of Possible out of the way and looked closer at the image of the fleeing car.
"Please tell me you know who was responsible for this…"
Will pulled out a few more images and handed them to her, the first was of someone they both knew all too well.
"Shego…"
"Yes, but she wasn't acting alone like she was in Japan…" Will pulled another image and handed it to her. The image was of a man, sitting on the couch in Possible's lair with a pistol pointed towards what they suspected was Possible, given the location of the hidden camera.
"His name is Bond. He works with MI6."
She frowned.
"It appears that if he's on the case with Shego, then it's almost a given the CIA is investigating this as well."
"And that means we're going to have to speed our plan up if we want to avoid any further meddling…" She finished.
"Correct."
"How are the real Kim and Ron doing?"
"Physically they're fine; mentally we're not so sure. Given that they both ended up getting killed…correction…they both thought they got killed, we have no idea how stable they are or will be. The scientist in charge wants to put off any more direct transfers till he is certain they will be able to handle it." Du said, putting the images back into his folder.
"Are the new clones ready?"
Du audibly swallowed.
"They are, but I just said-"
"I heard what you said Will. And no I don't plan on putting them in the new clones…they're still too valuable to me right now to risk. Get Dr. Drakken to tell you what he used when he created his clones of them, and then do the same. I want them ready just in case."
"Just in case of what?"
Dr. Director stood up and walked to the window…
"Because with the CIA and Bond on the case, then we don't have much time. Get the plan rolling…"
"Understood M'am."
He gathered up his folder and walked out of the office and made his way towards the control center. As he did he reached into his pocket for his phone and dialed an important number.
"I'm really glad you didn't tell me what was going on…" Wade turned from the desk of CIA computers to Bond.
"And why is that?" Bond asked curiously
"Because if you outright told me I wouldn't have believed a word of it, at least now I have a much better back story to go along with it."
"So what have you found?"
Wade turned back to the group of computers he was once facing, behind him the group crowded in to look.
"First, the samples from Ron came back and confirmed that what Shego saw Kim kill wasn't Ron. It was a clone."
"Drakken always used Synthodrones, which were a knock off clone…that wasn't what Ron was." Shego said.
"Correct, this was a high quality clone. Had the same inner structure as a regular human, tissue and everything…but being a true clone the DNA is purposefully different in several key areas so scenes like you've witnessed aren't widespread."
"You mean so people don't make a clone to fake their death." Sensei added.
"Exactly, it's hard wired into the system. And after checking the sample of Kim's DNA you brought back it's the same story. They were both Clones."
"But how were they so similar to the normal Kim and Ron?" Yori asked.
"A Brain scan is the only way, and Global Justice has its own equipment to do such a thing…" Wade brought up another window on the screen, showing off a machine him and Shego seen before.
"The brain switch machine…Global Justice confiscated it after the last time Drakken used it."
"A side effect of switching brains is that the machine takes a complete scan of the persons brain and lays it out in its memory system for anyone with a computer to read, and then for them to systematically add and remove traits the person had."
"That explains the changes in Kim and Ron, it doesn't explain Kim's clone killing Ron though…" Bond said.
"I have a theory for that. Considering their past history with the two of them Global Justice could've just focused on changing Kim and not a whole lot on Ron that would explain the scene that Shego, Yori and Sensei have described. They left some of Ron's own personality in his clone, that explains his turn on Kim, and it explains why he didn't actually kill Kim when he had the chance."
Bond stood back up rubbing under his chin as he digested that information. It fit, but it was still a theory…then another one came to his mind. Something as a result of his conversation with a dying Kim clone.
"What if, the clones weren't just copied brain scans of the two of them? What if the scans only allowed or blocked key functions of their personality and forced them to act as if they were really the ones doing what their clones were doing?"
"You mean like if they were in full control of themselves and didn't know they were in the bodies of clones?" Wade asked, his eyes widening slightly.
Bond nodded
"The conversation I had with the dying clone spoke too much of the real Kim, not a clone with a modified mind. Something that merits the two of them still being alive…"
Wade typed away on his keyboard, running through all his scans to see if what Bond said could have indeed be true. As he did Felix walked into the room.
"The team I sent to Global Justice's HQ in Middleton has several of their troops in custody; they're the ones that dropped in on you at the mountain lair, no sign of Dr. Director or my mole."
"Then they're probably up in Alaska." Bond said.
"Where Kim and Ron were called too initially…" Felix added.
"Precisely, why else would they head up there and then come back completely different. They've got a big base hidden up there, something they've kept from the rest of us. Kim and Ron are there, and so are the villains…"
Shego's eyes darted towards him at the mention of villains; Bond caught it and decided to explain.
"If they were tricked into going up there, then that's where the villains have been moved. If they're already using villain technology for their own needs, then it explains why all your friends went missing. They need them for something big."
Shego rubbed her head as groaned…
"It's all so obvious now, Global Justice has all of the devices they've ever created, and they need them in order to get them to work. They want to take over the world using their creations!"
Wade turned back to them from his chair.
"Looks like you were right…"
"So they were in control of the clones?" Bond asked curiously.
"Indeed they were, I was able to dig into the Global Justice computer files at their Middleton HQ, and they've definitely had small remote receivers on them allowing the signal to get to them."
"They were broadcasting their brain into little receivers in the clones? How did they make sure they didn't go out of range?" Shego asked.
"The Middleton HQ was broadcasting the signal; from that signal I found at least five other locations broadcasting that same signal. Two of which were their new lair in the mountains and the Sloth, and the Sloths range dwarfed the one sent by the Middleton HQ."
"So they weren't able to lose the signal and have a catastrophic error happen on their hands." Bond surmised.
"Well, with all that we have, we're going to have to go after this lair of theirs in Alaska. They definitely know we're on to them, and they've put whatever plan they're working on in overdrive. " Felix said, Bond nodded his head in agreement.
"Wade…" Bond asked
"…you able to find their lairs location in Alaska? Possibly going off of the last known location of Kim and Ron when they were headed out there?"
"I got that done five minutes ago…" Wade said smirking.
Bond and Felix looked surprised.
"I also forwarded it to your tactical teams you already have set up to assault their lair. I got you guys covered."
"So Possible was right, you do rock nerd-linger…" Shego said crossing her arms.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's get this mission started."
Deep in the Alaskan wilderness a snow storm was starting, blanketing the picturesque scenery with the looming whiteout, many of the animals stayed sheltered. They knew better then to head out into an incoming storm. Over the gentle wisps of wind came the deep thumping the local wildlife heard all too often. Through the gray washout were three Blackhawk helicopters flying into the unknown, onboard were three teams from the CIA with a mission to shut down the Global Justice operation.
In the lead helicopter Shego adjusted her headphones before she decided to speak to her colleagues in the chopper.
"So it'll take over an hour to pick up reinforcements?"
"Affirmative M'am, with the storm rolling in it will hamper our arrival time, if it gets too bad then we won't be coming at all" The pilot stated as he banked to circle around the mountain in front of them.
"How long till we're there?"
"ETA, six minutes…"
"Do you have any music at least for the time being?"
"We do, but if we hear you start to complain we'll just toss you out of our bird." The co-pilot said as he plugged a device into the console of the helicopter. Music soon replaced the sounds of the engine and blades beating away outside the cabin. She couldn't do anything but smirk at the lyrics to what was currently playing. Fate has a funny way of working after all…
(this land) is ahead of it's time Oh but you know it's past it's prime In so many ways
(this land) is a miserable rock Stuck like a foot at the end of a sock Full of razor blades
(is mine) the right to defend at all (is mine) to fight to the end I know (my hand) can't hold back the seas no more But it's not from man that we need defending
As the song continued her thoughts looked into their current situation, and what they were going to be facing. A hidden Global Justice lair filled with some of the villain's best take over the world weapons, two heroes that have already gone through hell mentally and will probably have to go through some sort of therapy to make sure they're not screwed up from what they've gone through. Not to mention what they'll find of the villains, if they're here at all. She could hope anyway…
The song continued to play into her headset as the rest of them sat in silence. To her left was Bond, sitting there with a submachine gun hung over his shoulder looking out the left side window. To her right that girl Yori, peacefully sitting next to her enjoying the ride. The remaining eight spots belonged to Army Rangers who were in the other two helicopters, a small army going against an unknown force. Somehow she knew this wasn't going to end like most of the capers she was in on…this were going to end violently.
Unless they're packing stun bullets…
The device in her leg pouch began to vibrate, Wade had insisted she took Kim's backup wrist communicator so he helps if they needed him. She pulled her headphones off her head as she pushed the button on the device.
"What is it Wade?"
"Just wanted to let you know, you're almost at the location…"
"We could've figured that out on our own, any other reason for this call?"
"Actually because you're almost there I've been able to run a few more scans on the area. Thermal and Biometric readings both confirm Kim and Ron are in there, and so are all the missing Villains."
She leaned a little forward in her seat at that information.
"You have anything else of importance? Like how many guys we're facing and what we're armed with?"
"Why do you need to know what you're armed with?"
"Because I know you're not too big on the whole killing front, then again neither am I…"
"I thought of that already, and that Felix guy understood where I was coming from. So he already equipped the team your with appropriately with special ammo"
"Special Ammo? Meaning what exactly it shoots rainbows instead of lead?"
"Not exactly, but they do render the person getting hit by them unconscious for several hours."
"Swell…"
The helicopter pitched down, she looked out the front windscreen to see the cut out in the mountainside where they would be landing. It looked like the start of a cave in front of them, at least that's what its builders wanted you to think. She could've sworn at least half a dozen other villains build this same lair entrance in some snowy mountain side, couldn't they be original for once?
"Time to go Wade, you know the drill"
She turned the device off and stuffed it into her pouch again just before the wheels touched the ground. Within seconds the other two choppers landed on both sides and the men inside were spilling out.
"Remember, unless this storm dies down backup will not be arriving if things go wrong!" The pilot called out to them as they exited the helicopter.
"We got it, get back to base before you're stuck here with us!" Bond said turning towards the pilots.
The pilots saluted before the engines powered up and they started back the way they came, disappearing through the blizzard. Bond turned back to her and Yori…
"Hopefully they don't know we're here, but be prepared just in case."
The two of them nodded before they quickly followed the rest of the men under into the mouth of the false cave towards the rather obvious entrance door. Shego pulled out the communicator again and called Wade.
"We need you to open the door, but be discrete enough so they won't know we're here."
"Just hold it up to the lock area and I'll work my magic"
Within a few seconds of holding the device to the door, it swung open. Several men moved in cautiously and swept the area before the others moved in behind them.
"So how many guys are we looking at Wade?" Shego asked, realizing he didn't answer that when he called before.
"Being they have the cloning equipment, I can't say, although it looks like about sixty are in there now. Clone wise, it's a complete shot in the dark. I'd have to adjust the scanners to pick them up and it won't be simple…"
"With the way things have been going, nothings been simple…" She said dryly.
"Got it!"
"Huh? Got what?"
"There are currently 30 synthodrones in there as well, I read about 20 regular clones too."
"So you do work fast…" She rolled her eyes
"You get anything else or are you good for now?" Wade asked as he took a sip of a soda he held in his hand.
"We're good, I'll fill you in when we're done." She turned the device back off and followed after the rest of the group.
She wanted to save her energy and stayed near the back with Yori, if it came down to a epic fight like she suspected it would, she'd rather be fully prepared for that, let the team with their fancy bullets take care of the grunts. She heard several muffled shots already, and saw a couple of downed GJ agents as they moved forward towards the control room.
She wasn't a big fan of how smoothly things were going, she knew better then to be confident they're making progress. Having been on the other side of the situation, she knew she'd have an ambush of some kind set up. At least she would when she was able to clearly talk to Drakken. Looking at the Ninja beside her she could tell she was thinking the same thing. However they still pushed on…
Soon they came to what they imagined was the central control room. The fact it was dark raised everyone's suspicion. The lead man pulled his night vision goggles out of his pack and surveyed the room ahead before he whispered back to them.
"Looks clear, but something tells me it's a trap"
"No really? I thought they were doing their part to save ELECTRICITY!" She whispered back.
"Must you always be so sarcastic Shego?" Yori asked her.
She shrugged
"Its part of what I do, that and it's plainly obvious this is a trap…"
"Indeed it appears so, but if we know it's a trap, and we proceed anyway does that still make it a trap?"
Shego gawked at the ninja before she responded.
"Ok, have you been hanging out with Dr. Drakken when I wasn't around?"
Yori just giggled.
"You and your American style jokes, of course not."
"Ok, that doesn't even make any sense!"
"Ladies! If you would please keep it down?" Bond angrily whispered at them.
"Hey, she started it!"
"I don't care who started it, I will shoot both of you if you don't knock it off."
Shego crossed her arms as she stayed quiet.
The team slowly moved into the room, although she wasn't sure why. And she really wasn't sure why she followed them but they made their way into the center of the room.
And I'd turn the lights on in three….two…one….now
Just as she finished her own countdown the lights in the room came on. Within seconds she saw they were outmatched, just as she expected.
The GJ troops held the higher levels of the command center, their weapons all pointed at them. If they attacked in any way it would end quite badly for them.
"Right on time, just as I predicted"
The voice came from above them, almost directly across from the door they entered. It came from the woman she encountered quite a few times. Dr. Director.
Again, I apologize for the long delay between this and the last chapter. First it was a cold that lasted about a week, then some slight personal issues that have since been resolved and finally an issue of dealing with several plot holes I forgot. God I hate plot holes you don't think of. I know it's a little cheap to put some song lyrics in here, but the song did give me the name of this story, so I felt I had to give credit to the source of the title. The song is 'Fading World' by Malachi if you're interested. (My taste in music is all over the place)
Well some good news for you, this story will be at least two or three more chapters longer then what I originally said it would. I had another idea for a story but realized as a new story it didn't quite work out, however I could take the basics of that idea and they do work quite well as what I'll call bonus chapters for this story.
I've got maybe 1-2 more chapters for this story as it is, and with the new material that'll add another 2 or so to it. So don't lose faith in me, it shall be done. And I've updated my profile so those of you who've been following me for a while might want to give it a check. You may like what you see, then again you might not. Till next chapter!