That night, they had a fun time at the Mucho Grande Bueno Nacho outlet, especially since it was only the two of them alone at that time. No employees except for a temp manager; the actual one was on a ship cruise with his family, minus his estranged sister. The best part was that Ron could just spend the rest of the night there since his stuff were already packed in the car and his parents were okay with driving his stuff there without him.
"Two days without the parents, Kim. How sweet is that?" Ron grinned at his girlfriend.
"And what are you proposing that we do for two days?" Kim asked, quirking an eyebrow at him. "And don't say two days here at Bueno Nachos with Bricks of Fury 10: Space Bricks in between meals."
"Kim, I'm shocked. What makes you think that I was even going to suggest that?" he said, pretending to sound hurt.
"Because that's what we did the last time the 'rents were out of town," she said dryly. "Okay...this time I'm making the plans," she closed her eyes and thought about it for a while as Ron picked at his naco a little sulkily and Rufus scurried about the table, stuffing his face.
"Okay, first thing in the morning, we meet up for breakfast in a cafe and then we're checking out the Go City Museum for Art, grab some lunch at the Sam You Chinese restaurant in downtown and after that, we're going to the Go City Mall to get some new clothes," she said with a bright smile, opening her eyes and looking at Ron.
"Wow...that's kinda sounds..." he started to say.
"Like things that I want to do?" she said innocently. He nodded in reply.
"Yes, they are. You don't have any problem with that, do you? I mean, most of the things that we do are the things that you want to do so I thought it'd be a nice change of pace if we tried something else for once," she said sweetly.
He sighed and nodded. "It's not going to be terribly boring is it?" he asked.
"Oh, just give it a chance, Ron. For me? Or else I'm going to give Shego a call and hang out with her instead," she said, raising her cellphone up.
"Okay...for you...and not because I can't stand the idea of you and Shego being so chummy," he said defensively.
Smiling broadly, she glanced at her watch to check the time. "Oops...it's getting late. I'd better get back to the dorm before my roomie notices I'm gone. I'll drop you off at the same hotel?" she asked.
"Sure. Catch you tomorrow, Kim?"
She nodded and leaned forward to kiss his cheek.
PB
Kim woke up the next morning at around nine to the sound of typing. Darnia was at the computer again, and apparently she was still going on at the Antropy and QBFG case.
"Hey, you," Kim said as she got out of bed. "Still working on it?"
"Oh...hey!" Darnia turned around and gave her a grin. "We've still got a few more days before college actually starts and it's nice to get something to pass the time. Speaking of time, where did you go to last night? Was it another mission?" she asked.
"Oh yeah. Fought Antropy's minions and stopped them from recreating the QBFG. You woke up last night?"
"Nope. Came out on the news an hour ago. 'Entomological Eruption!" according to the headlines."
"They couldn't go any further than that?"
"Alliteration is a lot harder than it looks apparently."
"I guess it is...hey, Darnia...can I ask you a favor?"
"Sure, what is it?" she stopped working at her computer and turned to look at Kim.
"If the dean ever asks you about whether I'm doing my hero business...could you just tell him that no I'm not...just in case?" she asked.
"Er...sure...but why would I say that?" Darnia asked a little suspiciously. "I'd thought that your hero business is good for the whole world."
"Not according to the dean. He wants me to stop and smell the roses, stay in college where it's safe," she sighed a little.
"Now that is one sick and wrong notion...okay, I've got your back, Kim. Just go about saving the world like you always do."
Kim smiled a little. "Hey...my boyfriend just got to town. Do you want to go and hang out with us or something?"
"Or something. Thanks for the invite though," Darnia smiled back. "I'll be fine here doing this. This is really quite exciting, being able to help a hero with her job."
"Okay...if you say so..." Kim said uncertainly. Her room-mate was definitely shaping up to be like a female version of Wade. She grabbed her towel and toiletries and left her room.
On her way to the bath-room, she bumped into Dean Mancuso, who stopped to look at her for a long while suspiciously. "Did you see the news for this morning, Ms Possible?" he asked.
She shook her head. "There isn't a TV in my room and I just woke up, sir," she said innocently. "Why? Did something happen?"
He just stood there for a long while before he shook his head. "No...nothing happened, Ms Possible. Have a good day," he said in a dangerously pleasant tone that said, 'I have my eye on you.'
"I'm planning on it," she smiled sweetly at him and watched as he left the vicinity. And score another one for Team Possible. "Booyah," she said softly under her breath.
PB
Ron was already waiting for Kim in front of the hotel by the time she had finished freshening up and drove there in her car. "Morning, beautiful," he grinned as he got in the car and kissed her cheek.
She smiled back at him. "Slept well, cutie?" she asked.
"Got a little itchy last night actually," he said, scratching himself absently. "But when I got up to check out what was causing the itch, I didn't really find anything."
"That's weird," she commented with an arched eyebrow. "Any hives that would make me worry about you?"
"Nah, it's cool. Nothing can stop the Ron-man from spending today with you."
"Okay. Buckle up then. There's this nice little cafe that I saw a few days ago and I've been dying to trying it out with you," she said as she drove away from the hotel.
PB
Hours later, they were at the Go City Mall, where Kim was perusing some clothes in the local Club Banana and Ron was sitting on a chair nearby, looking rather bored. He did his best to stifle a yawn but failed miserably. Rufus popped out of his pocket occasionally, looking equally as bored.
"Ron, what do you think?" Kim asked suddenly, showing him a soft pink top and a baby blue top. "Which do you think looks better on me?"
The question caused him to sit up straight and he stared hard at the tops for a minute. "Go with the pink one," he said finally. She smiled a little. At least he knew how to act interested, she thought before she went back to her browsing.
Beep, beep be beep.
"Yes!" He hopped up to his feet and pumped his fist into the air. Kim turned to glare at Ron. "I mean er...bummer! That Wade sure has terrible timing..." he said quickly.
Keeping her glare on him, she raised the Kimmunicator to her lips. "What's the sitch, Wade?" she asked.
"Bad timing?" he asked as he appeared on the screen.
"No. Bad boyfriend."
"...right. Anyways, so your room-mate and I did a little more digging into Antropy and the QBFG and we..."
"Wait...how did you know I asked my room-mate?"
"I tracked her down and asked her directly. Thought it'd be a bit more efficient this way so that we didn't have to search through the same info twice. So the two of us did some digging and we managed to find an interesting bit of info regarding the QBFG."
"Interesting in the doomsday device sort of interesting, or am I wrong and is Antropy really trying to end world hunger and create peace and goodwill on Earth?" Kim asked as Ron moved closer to her.
"Only if Snowman Hank were to become the next villain in our rogues' gallery. So anyway, here's the lowdown on the QBFG: remember when I said that its primary purpose is to stop cosmic radiation from harming people when used in space?"
"Yeah. What's Antropy going to do with a cosmic radiation shield? Go into space and make an antopia?" Ron asked.
"If that were the case, I'd say go ahead and do so, nut-job but it's a lot worse than that," Wade said grimly. "Now the QBFG is designed to be used in space, where there's no atmosphere and no living beings around except for those inside the space shuttle. The problem comes when the device is used inside a planet's atmosphere where's there a higher density of molecules to be affected by the QBFG's shielding properties. Now the Earth itself is too large to be affected by the QBFG's effect, but living creatures aren't."
"Meaning?" Kim asked, as a feeling of dread washed over her.
"Meaning that if this device is used within Earth's atmosphere, we're looking at the annihilation of all life on the planet," Wade said, staring hard at Kim and Ron.
"Okay...time out over here," Ron made a T-shape with his hands. "Really? Wipe out all life on the planet? Who'd be dumb enough to do that? I mean wipe out all life would almost mean wiping yourself out."
"In normal circumstances, I'd say that's true but on a hunch, Darnia made a check to see if there were anything that could possibly help to negate the effects of the QBFG and there is something that can be used to shield a small group of people in case the QBFG was accidentally triggered in the research center."
"Has it been stolen already?" Kim asked quickly.
"Not yet. It's being developed in another lab, this one being in a secret Japanese research facility located on an uninhabited island called Udone-shima. And no, Antropy hasn't been spotted anywhere within a hundred miles of the island so if you go there first and warn the researchers, we might be able to stop him from stealing the device."
"Or we could get them to make a large scale anti-QBFG instead," Kim said, as something clicked in her mind.
"Didn't think of that one. Good call, Kim. I've already made arrangements for a flight to Japan and I'll send word to the researchers at the facility. You have five minutes to get back onto the main road," Wade said with a relieved smile.
"Right Ron. You're off boyfriend duty," she looked up at him. "It's time to head to Japan."