The night air was cool when Kim arrived at the Go City park. On an ordinary day, she'd figured she'd find a way to get Ron to bring her here on a date instead of Bueno Nacho but tonight they've got something else even better to do.

She made her to the hill indicated on the Kimmunicator as quietly as she could and craned her neck about for any signs of her boyfriend. Wade said he should be here by...

She saw something in the sky a moment later and she squinted her eyes to take a closer look. Hmmm...flailing arms against the moon. Yup, that's Ron, she grinned a little. Some things never really do change.

Without a moment's pause, she jumped up onto a nearby tree, spring-boarding from branch to branch until she was at the very top of the tree, which was about 50 feet up in the air. Standing on the highest branch, she held onto the top with one hand while she jabbed on the screen with her chin. "Ron, honey?" she called out before she lifted her arm up and fired a flare from the Kimmunicator.

"Was the bright shiny light you?" he screamed back. Terminal velocity still frightened him, it seemed.

"Free-fall towards it. I'll catch you before you crash to the ground," she said reassuringly.

"KP, what are you trying to do?"

She didn't answer him as she squinted into the air and watched Ron plummet to the ground faster. No big, she thought. Just time everything right and he'll be safe in my arms tonight, she thought again. She counted backwards from five as he fell and at two, she fired the grappling hook up into the air.

"Ron, grab the hook!" she shouted as the line fired up into the air at him. She didn't hear him answer but she did feel the line go taut when the line reached its limit. Grinning, she jumped up as high as she could, letting her body relax a little before she activated the reel-towards function of her grappling line, propelling herself against gravity towards her target: Ron Stoppable.

"Kim!" he called out when they could see each other a second before she collided into him. He let out a whoosh of air as she shoulder-checked him and they flew higher up into the air. The quick glance she spared at him told her that his primary and secondary parachute had both failed to deploy. "Kim, we're going the wrong way!" he shouted in her ear.

"Good!" she shouted back as she turned around while they started to fall once more. "More time to aim!"

"Huh?" his fear turned to confusion. "What's that suppose to mean?"

She fired her grappling line again and it propelled out once more into the tree that she had jumped from earlier. Again she felt the line go taut when the hook connected to the tree and with a practiced flick, she set the line to slowly reel them in while she twisted her body in mid-air so that she and Ron were going around in a loop.

With practiced timing, she looped the rope down and around the tree, neatly avoiding most of the branches on their way down before she released the hook when they were a few feet above ground, causing the two of them to fall and roll on the ground, Kim naturally ending on top of Ron.

"KP, did I ever mention how hot you are when you're saving me?" Ron asked as he stared up at her.

"No, but you could stand to tell me that more often. Girls like to hear that from the boys they love," she smiled at him before she got off and helped him up to his feet. "C'mon. We've got a job to do before we can have some fun."

"Right...right..." he said as he slowly got up to his feet. At that moment, Rufus stuck himself out of Ron's pocket and stretched for a bit before he noticed Kim and waved at her, before he pulled and tugged on Ron's pants, chittering in excitement.

"Oh yeah. Wade wanted me to hand you these," he reached into his backpack, pulling away the tangled remains of two parachutes and took out a dozen pellets from it before he handed them to Kim.

She quirked an eyebrow and called her tech expert. "Wade, what are these things?" she asked.

"Anti-bug smoke bombs. Just toss them at the bugs and Wade says that they won't be able to figure out where you are," he replied.

She nodded and slipped down into one of the pouches that hung from her belt. "Always good to be prepared," she said before she looked at Ron and Rufus. "Alright...let's get our show on the road, boys."

PB

The three of them found the entrance into Antropy hideout easily enough: a hole in the eastern side of the hill covered with tarp, dirt, leaves and branches to make sure that the average passerby wouldn't notice it.

Kim nodded at Ron, who immediately took point and went up to the entrance, poking his head through it. Now this was something different, she noted with a bit of pride as she watched him motion at her to follow him. The fight against the Lowardians had certainly boosted his confidence tremendously. She nodded to him and quickly moved in close, her steps quiet and light as she entered the hill, Ron having already entered the hill.

It was dark inside so Kim reached for her night vision goggles and slipped them on, looking around for Ron. He was about twenty feet ahead of her, with a pair of night vision goggles on as well and waiting for her. As soon as he saw her, he flashed her a quick smile and began to move down the narrow passage that they were in.

The walk down the passage was an uneventful one and the sounds of their footsteps was the only thing that reached their ears. After a while though, the faint strains of chittering and thousands of footsteps reached their ears; looks like there were people home. A shiver ran down her spine and she almost froze in place but a reassuring touch from Ron's hand calmed her down and she nodded at him.

After another minute of walking, the passage started to widen and the sounds that they've been hearing grew louder, mixed in with a different sound: metal clicking against metal, as if someone was building something. Kim gave Ron a curious look, who returned the look. Something weird was going on here.

Since it was still dark, they kept their goggles on and they kept on creeping down the widening passageway as it lead into a circular chamber. Before they could enter it, a giant ant walked pass the entrance and quickly Kim and Ron pressed themselves against the walls to avoid detection. The ant didn't notice them and it walked away, carrying what looks like to be a primitive looking circuit board.

She looked at him, arching her eyebrow. "Now that is weird..." she said. "Are they trying to make something?"

"That is just...weird and wrong...what exactly do you think they're doing?" he whispered to her. "Making a bigger version of the QBFG thingie?"

"Maybe. But it doesn't explain what it is that ants want to have a cosmic radiation shielding process for," she whispered back. Before he could answer her, she placed a hand on his lips. "Figure out later. Stop ants now," she pointed at the chamber where another ant passed them.

He nodded and poked his pocket, causing Rufus to crawled out. "Recon time, little guy," he whispered to him and took a tiny camera from his other pocket to hand to the naked mole rat. Rufus took the camera and scuttled off into the chamber with a flash of a toothy grin.

"New toy for Rufus?" Kim glanced at Ron.

"From Wade. Check out your Kimmunicator," he gestured at the watch. She turned on the screen and saw that there was a icon that read 'Rufus-cam' on the screen now. She tapped the icon and the screen changed to a shaky video of the chamber.

"Spankin'. Why didn't we think of this earlier?" she asked Ron, who simply shrugged and the two of them returned their attention to the Kimmunicator. The grainy camera view showed them a relatively large room, similar in size to the room that Kim first met Antropy in the previous night. Giant ants were scuttling around, half of them bearing some sort of item on their back, be it a circuit board or metal sheet or even what looks like a transistor made out of quartz that had a strange sheen to them whereas the other half are attaching those parts to something that she recognized as a large replica of the QBFG.

"Ahem." Kim glanced at Ron, who was giving her a victorious smirk and she rolled her eyes at him.

"Okay...he's trying to build a replica of the QBFG but that still doesn't explain why. Also I don't see Antropy anywhere," she whispered back to Ron. "Rufus, can you go see if you can find a weird guy wearing an ant head anywhere in this room?" she asked.

"Okay!" the camera nodded up and down and for a minute, Rufus ran about the entire room before shaking the camera left and right to say that he couldn't find Antropy.

"He probably just ordered the ants to build the device while he's elsewhere, making his own plans for world domination," Ron offered as an explanation to Kim.

"I suppose..." she said, although she doubted it. Super-villains aren't usually the type who leave things to their minions unsupervised. Something is a little weird here but she didn't know what it was.

She shook her head. It wasn't important right now. She'll figure it all out later, she thought as she turned her attention to Ron. "Anyways, now we're going to need a plan on how we're busting down this operation," she said, looking at the chamber with a slight shudder.

Ron nodded at her. "How about the usual plan then? Ron, distraction. Kim, blow up doomsday device. Never failed to work," he suggested.

"Okay but if they touch you, you'll need to wash off before I'm ever touching you again."

"KP, that is some serious giant bug issue you have there."

"Says the guy who still can't flick the little ones," she retorted before she adopted a serious look on her face. "You ready for this?"

"Always, KP."

"Alright...on three..."

"Three!" he shouted and charged into the chamber before Kim. She grinned and waited for three seconds before she ran in after him.

As Kim ran into the chamber, she could see that Ron was already doing a good job of distracting the giant ants, waving his arms as he jumped and ran in their midst. In fact, most of the ants had already turned in his way, their antennas twitching as they closed in on him. She spared a quick glance to make sure that he was doing fine before she returned her gaze to the ant's device.

The few ants that were still working on the device noticed her and started to converge in on Kim but an expertly tossed capsule in their midst released a strange-smelling smoke cloud. She gagged as she ran through the cloud but apparently the ants had it worse; they were thrashing around inside the cloud and a few even started attacking each other. She almost felt sorry for them; almost being the operative word here.

Since her vision was mildly obscured by the smoke, Kim nearly bumped into the device but she stopped herself in the nick of time and she made a quick circle around it, looking for what might be a weak spot or a particular sensitive location that she could attack to topple it. She didn't find any.

She grumbled to herself. Guess she was going to have to make her own weak spots in this device then. She pointed the Kimmunicator at the device and took aim at an unprotected piece of circuitry within the device. One push of a button and she fired a focused sonic pulse at the device, which appeared to be a very sharp sounding boom that slammed into the device, leaving a large hole where she had aimed earlier and sending her flying back a few feet onto her back, along with several large chunks of metal and quartz.

"KP!" she heard Ron call out to her as she slowly got up and she looked around, just in time to see a giant ant opening its mandibles to take a bite at her. She let out a tiny scream of fright but luckily her fighting instincts kicked in before her fear ones and she lashed out with her foot, catching the ant on its head and she used the force of her kick to launch her back towards the device, mere moments before Ron exploded in an aura of light that somehow didn't send Kim's night vision goggles into overload and launched himself from his previous position, landing on the ant with a loud crunch.

"Alright...nobody's going to get a bite out of my girl! It's monkey time!" he shouted as he got down on all fours, the aura around him coalescing and taking on the shape of a fiery monkey. Almost immediately, every single ant stopped in their tracks and stared hard at Ron, transfixed by his glowing aura.

"Err...KP...what's going on here?" Ron asked nervously, though he still maintained his monkey aura and stance. "This is seriously weirding me out here..."

"Not sure...but good distraction, Ron!" Kim flashed him a thumbs up and she reached into her pouch, pulling out three capsules and hurled them into the ants' midst. The effects were instantaneous and chaotic: the ants began thrilling about after their senses were deprived by the smoke and Ron charged the ants once more, kicking and punching them as hard as he could.

"Save boyfriend, check," Kim muttered to herself and she fired another sonic pulse at the device again. The pulse struck the device and caused it to explode with a loud bang, releasing a huge shock-wave. This time though she was ready for that and when the wave struck her, she flowed with the momentum, riding the shock-wave towards the giant blue glow that was Ron.

"Ron! You okay?" she asked, flipping through the air and landing on her feet next to her partner. He answered her by gesturing at her to duck; she did so and he punched the giant ant that was about to slam into her, knocking it back.

"Done?" he asked Kim. She nodded in reply. He grin and grabbed Kim, scooping her into his arms. "Let's get out here!" he shouted and he jumped over the ants in one single leap, landing in front of the hole that they came in from and he raced out of there with Kim in his arms, leaving the ants behind in their confusion.

When they were a good distance away from the hill and in a nice secluded part of the park did Ron put Kim down on the ground. "I can run pretty fast too, you know Ron," she said dryly, although there was a slight note of amusement in her voice.

"And let me waste the chance to hold you like that? KP, you wound me," he said with mock sadness. She laugh softly and took his hand in hers.

"C'mon hero. You're going out on a late date with me," she smiled as they walked away from the park.

"Abooyah," he smiled back, following in her lead.