Chapter 10

Duel

"Ron?"

"I can't let you do this, Kim" he said calmly. Kim shook her wrist until he let go

"Let, me, go!" she flung her arm around until he released her. She stepped back

"What are you doing here?" she demanded

"Kim..." he started "Come to your senses. This isn't you, this isn't who you are"

"People change, Ron" she stated bluntly

"I hoped not" he replied

"You still haven't answered my question, what are you doing here?"

"I asked Ronald to join me" Dr. Director said "I hoped that he of all people could talk some sense into you"

"WELL YOU WERE WRONG!" Kim yelled "I DON'T NEED SOMEONE TO TALK SENSE INTO ME! I haven't gone crazy, I'm not under the influence of mind control. Why can't you people just accept this?"

"Last chance to accept my offer, Kimberly. You know what happens if it expires" Dr. Director pointed out, Kim laughed

"HA! As if you could catch me. And even if you could, you can't stop me. I'm Kim Possible" Just to prove her point, she crosses her arms over her chest and then moves them down to either side at the same time her battlesuit begins to glow.

"Very well. Kimberly Ann Possible, you are hearby declared an enemy of Global Justice"

"Your middle name is Ann?" Shego chuckled slightly. Kim just glared at her "Sorry" Shego said. Dr. Director continued

"You are hearby placed under arrest"

Kim shoots Shego a look and the green woman knows what she must do. As Dr. Director lunges at Kim, Shego tackles her to the other side of the room. Kim turns her attention back to Ron, who has taken a fighting stance, though a totally defensive form rather than offensive.

As a GJ agent ran towards Kim, Ron kicked him hard, sending him flying across the room. The other agents get the idea and back off.

"Kim, don't make me do this..." Ron warned her calmly as the two moved in the circle

"Ron, please, we both know you can't win against me" Kim said bluntly "Even if I didn't have my battlesuit"

The two stand locked in their respective fighting stances for what seems like an eternity. Neither budging an inch.

Shego placed a hard kick into Dr. Director and sent the woman flying across the room, right between Kim and Ron. Ron is distracted for a second as he watches the GJ leader. Kim takes that opportunity and lunges, landing a successful first punch on Ron's hip. He stumbles backwards, but quickly manages to block her next salvo of attacks.

Kim threw a hard right at him, but he dodged by falling back and then swinging a leg under Kim, tripping her. She fell down, but got up quickly. Not wanting to be outdone, she turned around and flipped over his head, planting her foot on his back before she lands. Ron flew forward and slides on the deck.

He got up quickly and took a fighting stance, determined not to give up.

Kim lunged at him and activates her battlesuit shield. Ron knows what hitting the shield feels like, so he jumped to the side, barely avoiding being hit by her. Kim flies past but quickly manages to turn around. As she tries to land and strike on him, Ron turns around and manages to grab her arm and throw her across the room.

Up till now, Ron has held onto the belief that he can reason with her, find someway to stop the fight. After all, he loved this girl, he doesn't want to fight her, much less hurt her. He has done his best to try and find a way to win without hurting her. For now, he does his best to dodge her blows.

Kim isn't the total opposite, she doesn't want to hurt him to much, but she does want to win. She doesn't deny that she loved him, nor the time they spent together, but in her mind she has moved on and that is state of mind is reflected in her actions as she swings punch after punch with a great fury.

Kim quickly reazlized that as long as she kept throwing meaningless punches and kicks, Ron would do his best to dodge them. Kim was split. Part of her was glad and hoped that he would try and escape after he started getting tired. Part of her was incredibly annoyed. She had never really fought Ron, never seen what he was fully capable of and part of her was curious to see if they could really stand toe-to-toe and match up. Speaking of course of his monkey powers, she hoped maybe she could find a way to trigger them. The last part of her was locked in a proverbial cage. It was the part that was screaming for her to stop the fight and go back to the way things had been, or at least close, but the other two parts had put a piece of tape over that her mouth to shut her out.

Kim ceased her flurry of attacks and ran over to the wall. For a brief second, Ron had thought that he had managed to get through to her somehow. He hoped that it had just taken awhile to break through her mental barriers. He couldn't've been more wrong.

Kim picked up a large crate (with the help of her battlesuit), turned around and tossed it at Ron, who barely managed to dodge it

"KIM!" he yelled "COME ON! STOP THIS!" he yelled as he dodged another crate. Then another one.

In the end, at least for the moment, Kim's dark side won the battle in her mind. She lashed out at her ex-boyfriend.

"RON... YOU GONNA FIGHT OR JUST STAND THERE?" she yelled back as she tossed the last crate.

"Kim, I don't want to fight you" he stated softly. As he dodged the crate, she ran towards him. When he had moved back to where he had been and was looking back over towards where Kim had been, all he saw was her fist and then nothing.

He woke up after what seemed like an eternity. His head felt like it had been split in half. As he looked up, he saw the familer blue glow of Kim's battlesuit. He had forgotten what had transpired for a couple moments, but it came back to him just as Kim flung him to the other side of the room.

Two things he could be very sure of. First, Kim didn't want to kill him. If she did, he'd be dead already and that was proof that the old Kim was in there somewhere and second, she did want to fight. But Ron wasn't ready, try as he might, he could't even picture himself landing a punch on her.

He finally gave in when Kim managed to trip him and was about the land a hard punch right on his face, but stopped less that an inch short

"Well?" she demanded. Ron finally gave in. He didn't admit defeat, he simply wove his legs around hers and threw her to the floor.

He stood up and took his fighting stance

"Alright Kim. I didn't want to do this, but you forced it". Cursing at himself quietly for what he was about to do, he lunged. Kim had been caught off guard and brushed her hair from her face just in time to see Ron's foot connect with her side. Again she skidded along the floor. She got up quickly and barely managed to get into a stance before Ron attacked again. But this time she managed to block.

Ron wasn't savagly attacking her, but he was giving his all. Blow after blow not only tore at Kim, but tore at his insides. He hated doing this but kept telling himself that it was neccesary, and knowing Kim, he knew that she wouldn't back down, so why should he?

She hesitated for a second, knowing that she had forced him to fight and that he would keep going until one of them was down and she figured that it wouldn't be her. She backed off and then came at him again. Ron saw her incoming and managed to dodge the blow by moving to the side at the last second. When Kim passed by him, he locked her arms in a hold. His arms were spread out to the side by his going under hers and his hands clasped behind her neck. She didn't take this lightly and struggled to get free

"Kim..." he tried to say calmly, but holding the determined redhead was using up all his strength

"Kim, stop this. Please" she stopped moving, only to resume a moment later, but this time she managed to flip him over her head and down to the deck. He grunted as he tried to get up.

Kim's hair was a mess, mostly due to the hold Ron had put on her, but it had been a rough day and something told her that most of the days from now on would be tougher than she had been used to, but it didn't bother her.

She quickly turned her attention back to Ron as he landed a hard kick on the back of her leg, forcing her down to his level. She grunted and fell, her hands slammed on the deck to hold her up. Ron tried to land a hard hit on her back, but she managed to roll out of the way before he could hit. Quickly standing up she charged again, her fist reared up and ready tro strike.

Ron moved to dodge, but Kim was ready for him and moved in time to counter. Her fist landed squarely on the side of his face and he reeled back, slightly dazed. He quickly came fully back to his senses when he spotted a white, blue and orange blur coming at him.

Try as he might, he couldn't move out of the way in time to avoid her attack this time and her fist landed squarely on his chest and he fell back. Unknown to Kim, he knew what he was doing and quickly managed to contact her head with his foot as he fell back. Both quickly landed on the deck, slightly dazed. Kim was near unconciousness, but still holding on.

Both lay still for several moments longer. Then Ron was the first to rise up. He moved towards Kim who was still dazed and laying down on the deck. Before she could fully regain conciouness, he grabbed both of her hands and tied them behind her back with his own hands. He knew he wouldn'd be able to hold her for long and realized that he probably should have looked for something to realy bind her with before moving to grab her.

Kim regained full conciouness and quickly realized that her hands were bound behind her back, but not by rope of chain or anything else. They were bound by hands and she knew the hands could only belong to one person.

Ron had expected her to struggle to get free as soon as she fully awoke, but she did not and that set off an alarm in his head that told him that she was planning something. She was. Her body quickly went limp as he dragged her over towards the hatch that lead down to the sub Kim had stolen from GJ. As they moved over, Ron glaced over at Dr. Director, who was still going at it with Shego. Neither of the two women showed any signs of giving up despite numerous scratches a bruises on both of them.

"RONALD! BIND HER AND GET HER OUT OF HERE!" Dr. Director ordered. Though Ron wasn't a GJ agent, he proceeded to obey the order.

"ALRIGHT! I'LL GET KIM ON BOARD THE SUB AND TIE HER UP! CAN YOU HANDLE SHEGO?" he yelled back. Dr. Director managed to plant a blow on the green villianness, which sent Shego falling back. Dr. Director nodded. Ron continued to move. Kim, of course, had heard every word.

As they moved over to the entrance of the sub, Kim's body sprang back to life and her head flew back, knocking Ron right in the face with her auburn red hair. He let go of her quickly and clutched his hands to his face in pain.

He had expected her to make a move, but not like that. He had expected her to try a twist kick or something, but not knock her head right into his. He cursed himself for not expecting that.

Kim reared up and let loose several punches at Ron. All of them found their mark and he stumbled back. This is where she made the biggest mistake. She lunged at him, her foot extended out in front of her. It also found it's mark and he fell back into one of the crates she had tossed and shattered previously.

Jumping up, she bent her knee and aimed right at him. But as she was about to strike, a blue aura surrounded her ex-boyfriend and he managed to grab her and throw her to the hard, steel deck.

As she struggled to get up, she looked over and saw him get up. The blue aura was clearly visible yet beautiful at the same time. She didn't have to ponder what it was, it was obviously clear and if Kim had been able, half of her face would have shown absolute terror and the other half would have shown a smile of extreme satisfactory. She was finally about to get the fight of her life, the fight she had been wanting.

She got up as fast as she possibly could and charged, Ron did the same. Both of their fists met at the same place, though it was clear who was on the defensive for the moment, but that would soon change. Kim threw another punch. Ron blocked it with his fist, then threw one of his own. Kim didn't bother blocking it, but rather moved out of the way. She threw another. He moved his elbow to block it succesfully. Kim threw another. Ron blocked it. But she held her fist in place and moved her leg to kick at his side. Ron saw this and moved his other fist to strike her in the stomach. This worked two-fold. First, Ron's second fist struck her in the stomach and caught her off-guard. Second, she lost her balance and began to fall over. As she fell, Ron's knee moved up and stuck her in the same place his fist had just. She exhaled quickly. His fists landed square on her back and she landed on the steel deck very quickly and very painfully.

She groaned. She had wanted a decent fight, but she wanted a decent fight where she was winning. She rolled quickly and managed to avoid another blow by her superpowered ex. She figured that as long as he was superpowered like this, her chances of winning were very slim

Rolling over on her back, she managed to see Ron's fists coming again in time to catch them with her own hands. The two stayed locked for a few moments until Kim noticed that the blue strips around her hands on the battlesuit began to glow. They extended out to Ron's fists and almost immediatly, Ron felt his energy begin to fade. Not a substantial amount, but enough to feel it. Try as he might, he couldn't pull his hands away. It seemed like they were glued to her hands.

Kim grabbed his hands with all her might and began to stand up, feeling her energy returning to her. With her hands securely around his wrists, he was stuck. Unable to break free. She finally let go when she jumped and planted both feet on his chest, sending him flying and suprisingly enough, right into the hatch of the second sub that Ron and Dr. Director had used to board the station. He fell down inside the hatch and landed with a thump. Kim quickly realized that she had made a mistake as her hands began to glow brightly. She felt her energy quickly draining and quickly fell over.

What had happened was Wade had added a energy absorbtion device to the battlesuit, for when Kim came in contact with Shego, she could sap her power, if only temporarily, but it had never been used. When she had tried to absorb the energy frm Ron's Mystical Monkey Power, it had overloaded the suit and drained her own energy in the process.

Shego saw Kim fall over, her suit smoking, and managed to hit Dr. Director with a plasma blast, sending the woman flying back towards the sub hatch. Knowing she was beaten, the older woman boarded her vehicle along with the rest of the GJ staff that had been on the base. As the hatch slammed shut, Shego ran over to Kim and cradled the redhead in her arms. Kim was unconcious and her face severly cut and bruised. Shego carried Kim towards the crew quarters, A somber expression on her face.