The ruined elevator doors lead out into a straight hallway where a bright light at the end forced Kim to turn off her night vision goggles. She kept her eyes closed for a few seconds more so that her eyes could get more easily adjusted to the lighting conditions before she opened them once more and stealthily made her way towards the light.
As she approached the end of the hallway, she could pick up strange chittering and clattering sounds that echoed all over her, sending an involuntary shiver up her spine. There was something disturbingly familiar about the sounds but she can't quite place it yet.
As for the light itself, it revealed itself to be another hole where a wall used to be. Kim carefully climbed over the ruins, her eyes darting around as she searched for the source of the chittering. Nothing at the moment but she was certain it would reveal itself sooner or later.
The hallway opened up into a large circular room that was surprisingly clear of any sort of debris. At every 36 degree, there was a door, but only one door was open and next to it was a placard marked 'QBFG' and a security console that was positively crawling with ants.
"Guess we now sort of know what this Antropy guy is after," Kim murmured to herself and she crept over to the door. As far as she could tell, there seemed to be no traps left behind so she walked through the door and headed in, eyes darting all over to make sure that there wasn't any ambush.
Beyond the door, she saw a man dressed in a black suit, complete with a bizarre mask that completely covered his head and it appeared to her that he was fiddling around with a rather science-y looking device that was the size of a car, pulling levers and flipping switches. It took her a brief moment to recognize what the mask was exactly: an ant's head. An involuntary shudder ran down her shoulder. Villains were definitely getting weirder as the years passed. On the other hand, this guy's a superhero's villain and the two Team Go villains she fought were plenty weird.
Time for her to make an entrance. Her legs tensed for a brief moment before she jumped to the left, firing a hooked line from her wrist Kimmunicator at the man. With a practiced flick, the line wrapped itself neatly around his waist and using the momentum of her leap, she pulled him away from the device, causing to shout a rather distorted cry of surprise.
"Feeling a little antsy today?" she said, her line rapidly reeling back into her Kimmunicator with a quick flick of her wrist. Okay, so far so good. This guy looked like he's a bit of a pushover, she thought as she watched him get back onto his feet. He turned to look at her, affixing her with a stare, or at least she think he was; it's hard to tell with the ant head that he was using as a mask.
"Kim Possible," he said, his voice sounding rather heavily distorted. Was it electrical or something else, she wondered for a brief moment before she took on a confident pose.
"You heard of me. I'm flattered," she smiled at him. "Can't say the same about you though. You haven't done this world domination business before, I take it?"
"There is a first time for everything," he replied, shrugging his shoulders. "You've never really heard of me before? Not even a bit?" he asked again, his hand reaching behind his back slowly. She noticed his action and pointed her Kimmunicator at him, the tip of her hooked line glinting.
"Well," he continued, pretending that she hadn't noticed his actions. "Since you don't know my name, I am Antropy, master of Vespoidea Formicidae. A billion ants for each human on this planet, their potential is beyond ours and mine to tap into!" he said, the excitement apparent in his voice despite the distortion. Apparently, ranting is a must-have for every villain, Kim noted wryly to herself.
"But first, before I can continue on the next phase of my plan, I will have take care of a little distraction in front of me," he said and lifted up his hands, revealing...nothing in them.
"Oh really? And just how are you going to..." her words were interrupted by a sudden increase in the volume of the chitterings and a constant trembling in the ground. A chill ran down Kim's spine and her head shot around as hundreds of giant ant heads began bursting out of the walls, ceiling and floors.
"With my army of giant Formicidae of course."
PB
She wanted to scream, but nothing came out from her lips, save ragged breathing. She was hyperventilating, she realized dimly in the corner of her mind. Giant ants...and each one roughly the size of a panther. Something that she should have expected but this time around she got a little cocky and she ended up treating Antropy like he wasn't a threat.
She tried to move; her body refused to obey. Fear paralysis. Ron had plenty of fear attacks in the day, he reacted by running around screaming, hers was apparently to freeze up in place.
"Wait...this can't be true can it?" she heard Antropy say as if from a faraway place. "The great Kim Possible is afraid of insects? No wait...you didn't have a problem with the normal-sized ones earlier so that means your fear is giant ants?" He started to cackle loudly at this realization.
She tried to slow her breathing down, tried to calm herself by thinking happy thoughts. It didn't really help much; fear was a lot stronger than positive thinking but it did help. Now she could at least move her limbs, even though they were trembling wildly. Not going to be able to fight in this shape. She was going to have to think of something to do.
"Okay Kim...you can do this...flick-able ants...flick-able ants...flick-able ants..." she repeated to herself as the ants began converging on her.
"Well, so long Kim Possible. I'd love to stay and watch you deal with your rather large phobia but I do have some work to finish up," Antropy said, sounding extremely amused by the whole matter, as one of the giant ant scuttled over to his side and pulled up the science device that he was fiddling with earlier from the ground with very little effort. It placed the device on its back and quickly scuttled away from the room down one of the holes that was made earlier.
"Now, my minions...attack Kim Possible and make sure she never leaves this place ever!" he shouted and turned to leave through another hole. As one, the giant ants scuttled towards her with startling speed.
Hundred of giant ants rushing at her and her instincts told her to not move so that this nightmare would go away. Bad idea. With a scream of anguish, she forced her body into action, leaping up into the air mere moments before the first wave of ants could hit her and they crashed into each other instead, emitting a shrill thrill of what she hoped was pain. Flipping through the air, she landed on the thorax of another one of the ants ("Ewww, ewww, ewww!") with a heavy thump, causing it to buckle and collapse to the ground under her weight.
"Wait! I'm not that heavy!" she protested, her fear momentarily forgotten. Another one of the ants lunged at her, its wicked looking mandible gnashing the air menacingly. Instead of telling her to freeze, this time her instincts pushed her to jump towards the ant and she soared through the air, both her feet landing on the mandibles. She jumped up into the air a third time, using the ant as a springboard and she threw her hand upwards wildly, launching her grappling hook towards the ceiling.
The hook slammed into the ceiling and held on tightly and quickly she reeled herself up into the air, as fast as it could get her away from the ants. Luckily for her, there weren't any more ants coming out of the ceilings although she could see that her luck was about to take a turn for the worse: the ants were now scuttling towards the walls and were making their way to her.
"Aaaaah..." she screamed, her voice taking a pitch towards the higher end; her heart thudding rapidly inside her chest...wait a minute...did the ants just paused in their tracks for a second there? Her mind worked rapidly...maybe, just maybe it might work...
She pulled herself up towards her Kimmunicator, just enough so that she could frantically push every single button on it. "C'mon Wade...please..." she muttered loudly as the ants skittered closer and closer towards her. She could practically feel their snapping mandibles drawing ever so closer with each fumbling push of the button she made on the Kimmunicator...
One button push later and her Kimmunicator begin to emit a high pitched whine. "Yes!" she cheered as the giant ants stopped closing in on her her, their heads twitching about in what appears to be pain and confusion. The whine continued on unabated and as one, the giant ants let out a ululating thrill and they turned away from her, retreating back through the holes that they originated from.
To play it safe, Kim allowed the whine to play for another minute before she halted it and she lowered herself onto the ground. "Thank you, hyper-sonic emission," she said as she simply sat down on the floor, not noticing that her knees were still trembling wildly from the scare.
"KP!" Her head jerked up almost immediately when she heard Ron's voice calling her name and she saw her boyfriend racing towards her. A wide smile broke up on her lips and she got up to her feet once more, pushing her fear back into her mind. "Ron!" she walked towards him and as he approached her, she reached out with her hand and flicked him on his forehead. "You're late," she said sternly.
"Late? Awww man...what did I miss this time?" he said, the disappointment apparent in his voice and his downcast look. "I was looking forward to busting out the monkey moves, KP."
"You'll get your chance. Hey...do you have a place to stay for the night?" she asked him. "This might take a while to fill you in."