"Big Time"
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
Whew... finally through the first day of two for this story (well, we will be at this chapter's end). As I write, the chances of getting this entire fanfic completed by summer's end continue to dwindle. There's a very good chance if this extends well into September, it may be put on the back burner for a few weeks. It does not help that the story is still not completely fleshed out in detail yet... only in bits and pieces.
Oh well... let me worry about logistics for the story for now, and you guys just worry about what happens to Kim next. Read on for Chapter 5!
Disclaimer: The characters and places of the TV show 'Kim Possible' do not belong to me. They are property of Disney and the show's creative staff.
Part Five - All That for Nothin' (08.01.06)
Classified Location
38½ Hours Until the Senior Class Graduation from Middleton High...
"Agent Charlie! Agent Delta!" yelled a stern, authoritative voice. "Get off of my floor this instant! I'm not paying you to kiss it!"
"Wha?" Agent Delta asked, confused as he got up. "How are we... where are we... weren't we just..."
"Item Q-one-three-five," remarked Agent Charlie.
"Come again?"
'Charlie' slapped himself on the forehead. "Remember when I said 'Aw... crap?'"
"You mean before we were taken out by the goons downstairs?"
"We weren't taken out, that was the experimental teleporter gun, remember?"
As they argued, the man who had awoken them seemed to be growing very impatient.
"So... we weren't blasted into a million pieces? Then... why do I feel like I have a headache?"
"Side effects... experimental, remember?"
"Will you two shut your traps!"
"Sorry..." the two apologized.
"And why'd it take you so long to get back? I gave you specific instructions on how to return after giving Agent Alpha the 'package!'"
"You did?" 'Delta' asked.
"Oops," uttered 'Charlie.' "I think we gave it to 'Alpha' by accident."
Their boss just shook his head in dismay. "Whatever. Regardless, you both made it back. Now you can make your report."
"Oh, yes," nodded 'Charlie.' "As per your orders, the 'package' was delivered 'Alpha' as scheduled, and he carried out the 'plan' as per the 'orders' you gave 'him.'"
He reached over and slapped the agent's hands down. "What's will all the air quotes? You can't make emphasis without them?"
"I'm just so used it to it... that's how I was taught to make certain words stand out in my speech."
"Were all grammar teachers two decades ago airheads? Sigh... whatever, just continue."
"Well, sir... that's it."
"That's it? What do you mean, that's it?"
"Agent 'Alpha' never contacted us after we left him at the bus station," 'Delta' said aloud. "I guess he failed."
"Failed? Agent 'Alpha' was our top agent! How could he fail to off one secret agent?"
"Well..."
"You're telling me that Global Justice's #1 agent was able to beat our #1 agent? How can you accept that? I will not accept that!"
The boss walked over to his desk and pressed a button on his speakerphone.
"Agent Tango!"
"Yes," rang a nasal-pitched female voice from the speaker.
"I need a feed of the last satellite camera that had Agent Alpha, starting at 300 seconds from the end and closing. When you've got that, patch it through to my screen!"
"It should be coming through in a second, sir. In the meantime, should I start upping everyone's rankings since the current Agent Alpha, I assume, is no longer in action?"
"Belay that order, Tango. But start the process up looking for a new Agent X-Ray, just to be on the safe side."
"Yes, sir."
She hung up, and a second later a video feed started streaming on the boss' computer. He pressed a button, and suddenly, the feed moved from his screen to a big viewing screen behind him.
"Now we can see what happened to Agent Alpha first-hand."
The trio watched as Agent Alpha was approaching Agent Du and the other hostages at the First Middleton Bank, ready to kill them. Then, they watched as somebody jumped out from the vents and ducked behind a nearby desk, just before she was hit by a laser beam that scorched that very spot.
"Very athletic," noted Agent Charlie.
They continued to observe as Agent Alpha began searching the desk area for the intruder. His search seemed to be in vain, until some object emerged from a desk. Luckily, Alpha saw it, caught it, and then tugged on it, pulling the intruder out from his hiding place.
Well, her hiding place.
"And very cute, too," smiled Agent Delta.
'Charlie' smacked 'Delta' upside the head. "She's not even your type!"
"Will you two zip it?" yelled the boss. "I'm intrigued at finding out who this girl is."
Speaking of said girl, let's check in with Kim back in Boulder, where her dad's station wagon pulled up to the house of the only remaining admissions council member.
"Okay," Kim said as she got out, "let me take care of this and we'll be heading home in no..."
"Not so fast, Kimmie-cub!" her dad exclaimed. "You're not going in there without me!"
"Fine," she said without argument. "Come on, Ron."
Ron hopped out of the car to walk with Kim and her dad to the front door.
"Okay, given the circumstances," Kim deduced, "there are only two ways that this James Crawley could be involved in this scheme. One, he's the mastermind behind this whole thing and he had all of the other council members kidnapped because they were gonna blab on his conspiracy to make sure I didn't attend their school."
Suddenly, they heard a window on the side of the house break. Seconds later, two masked men in blue form-fitting suits were running away from the house, carrying a third man, who was blindfolded, gagged, and tied at the limbs.
"Or two, he has nothing to do with it, and he's destined to be kidnapped like the others."
"Hmmm... given what we just saw," Ron said, "I'd say... two!"
"We have to catch 'em!" Kim yelled as she started to run. "This could be our only lead!"
Kim left her dad behind as she and Ron took off after the kidnappers. They glanced ahead as the bad guys ran through a wall of hedges, then quickly followed them.
The three men were watching Agent Alpha being embarrassed by Kim, who was gracefully dodging every shot he fired at her. Everything he was trying was failing, and she seemed to be running him ragged. They even noticed Agent Du, somehow having survived the laser shot to the heart, sneaking underneath a nearby desk without Agent Alpha spotting him.
The rest, as they said, is history.
Agent Alpha was tripped by and subsequently tied up by Agent Du. Shortly thereafter, Du led his apprehended captive out of the building as Kim went over to free the other hostages.
The video feed then went dead, as it had reached its end.
"Well, that explains it," the boss said. "Agent Du did best Agent Alpha. Too bad... he was the best second-in-command I ever had. But, we must move on... starting with finding out who that girl was."
"Agent Du's girlfriend?" speculated 'Delta.'
The boss man shook his head. "No. She's not wearing a GJ uniform or equipped with standard GJ armaments. And a GJ agent wouldn't openly be seen with a significant other. Heck, I don't even know if they are allowed to have them. This girl must be unrelated to him. A bounty hunter or a freelancer, something of that sorts."
"So what should we do, boss?"
"Search every record we can get our hands on. Find out who she is and if she's a threat to our organization."
"And if she is?" wondered 'Charlie.'
"Simple... we take her out."
Back in the streets of downtown Boulder, Kim and Ron were still in pursuit of the last councilman's kidnappers. Suddenly, one of them reached into his pocket and pulled out a small, silver ball. He dropped it on the ground, instantly covering an area within twenty feet of the object in smoke.
But that didn't scare Kim at all.
"They think I'm frightened of a little smoke grenade?" she asked out loud as she grabbed Ron's hand and headed right for it.
"Wait a minute, Kim," he yelped before they were engulfed by the smoke.
It only took a second or two to run through it, but once they were on the other side, they were surprised to see that the kidnappers had disappeared.
"They just went poof..." uttered Ron, "like ninjas!"
Rufus slithered out of Ron's pocket and peered around. Suddenly, he pointed to a nearby manhole cover that had been pried open.
"Hole! HOLE!" he cried, pointing to it as he got Kim and Ron's attention.
"Or maybe not," Kim said, running over to the open sewer entrance.
Ron watched with awe as Kim dived feet first right into the hole.
"Wait for me, KP!" Ron yelled.
"Hurry up!" Kim yelled back at the bottom, just as she heard an engine roar to life behind her. "They're going to get away!"
Not waiting for her partner, she ran ahead. Just in time, too, as she saw a fan-powered motor boat pulling away down a nearby canal.
"No time to wait for Ron," she muttered as she reached for her hair dryer and placed her last grappling hook in the shaft. "Here goes!"
With her aim true, Kim fired at the boat, which was gradually picking up speed as he it pulled further and further away. It looked as if the hook was going to hit its mark, right on the fan's protective grill. But suddenly, it took a nosedive right into the sewer water below.
Kim watched helplessly as the motorboat disappeared from view.
"I'm ready!" Ron said, finally reaching the bottom of the ladder. "So... where are they?"
"Gone," Kim sighed as she pulled out her Kimmunicator. "Wade... any way we can track them in the sewers?"
"Not without a tracking device, unfortunately. I could pull up maps of Boulder's sewer system and its exits and attempt to find enough traffic and satellite cams in hopes we can catch them coming out..."
"But they could be gone before we'd have them all in position. Okay, we'll give it a shot. Not like there's much else we can do."
Kim made her way past Ron and started climbing back out.
"So what now?" Ron asked, dumbfounded. "No chase sequence? I love them chase sequences! Uh... Kim?"
Kim hadn't responded at all, prompting Ron to give up and follow her back out.
After filing a report at the scene of the crime with the police, Kim and Ron met back up with Mr. Dr. Possible, and the trio headed back home towards Middleton.
"I knew there was something up!" Kim's dad shouted. "No way a girl I raised to be smart could be denied a chance to go to college!"
"The question is," Kim thought out loud, "is who wants to make sure I don't go to college?"
"Maybe one of your archenemies?"
"You mean like the Seniors, Duff Killigan, or Professor Dementor?" Ron asked, counting their villains off the top of his head.
"This isn't something a pair like the Seniors would do. It doesn't follow the so-called traditional rules of evildoers. And I doubt Duff is worried about my educational well-being, seeing as he still angry about me preventing him from creating the world's largest golf course. As for Dementor, well... that wasn't his henchmen we were chasing, that's for sure."
"So... do you think it's Drakken? If it is, well... at least he'll remember my name this time!"
Kim laughed. "I'm sure he'll never forget your name now. But I doubt he'd be serious about trying something again after what we did to him."
"If it's not Drakken, well... who do we have left?"
"I don't know," the teen heroine shrugged. "It must be somebody new."
"Well, whomever this guy is," her dad said, clenching his right fist in anger, "he'll pay for messing with my girl's future!"
"We're not catching him tonight, though," sighed Kim. "Wade hasn't gotten back to me, which means they're probably long gone by now."
"You sure they're not hiding in the sewers?" Ron suggested.
"They looked as if they were in a rush to get out of town. I sincerely doubt they're still down there."
"So what now?"
"Well... hopefully Wade will do everything he can to find them. In the meantime, I guess I'd better take GJ up on their offer."
Ron gasped. "You mean you're actually serious? What about the whole 'this is a hobby' stuff you were blabbing about?"
"I wasn't blabbing! And... besides, it's just basic recruiting."
"I'm siding with Ron on this one," agreed Dr. Possible. "I've heard fishy things about secret organizations."
"Dad, GJ's just like the FBI or the CIA... only more covert like the Secret Service. And I've worked with them a few times independently. They're on the level."
"But are you sure you want to commit to saving the world full-time? You could get so busy that you might not see your family for days, months... even years!"
Ron gasped. "Exactly! What about me? We've been through everything together! Who was by your side every time you faced off with Doctor Drakken? When you fought mutants and disfigured sea life? When you traveled into space, back in time, and into cable television? Who was the one... that always cared for you and stood by you? It was I, Ron Stoppable, and...
"Well, Kim... I can't imagine continuing to live in this world without you by my side."
Kim smirked smugly as Ron poured out his soul to her. But upon catching her non-reaction to him being gone... he caught on.
"You were planning on taking me with you to GJ to begin with, weren't you?"
"Of course!"
"Then what with all the making me plead and beg?"
"I just wanted to see the look on your face, that's all."
"You made me do all of that for nothin'?"
"Well... not exactly..."
Kim reached over and gave Ron a quick peck on the lips. Overjoyed over receiving an affection of love from his girlfriend, he began to beg for more.
"Oh, woe is me! I'd move mountains for the chance to continue to be your sidekick for the rest of my life!"
"Mountains?" Kim raised an eyebrow with some interest.
"Okay, knock it off you two!" Kim's dad interjected. "I understand you two are now steady, but that doesn't mean you can go all out. And that includes on this GJ trip."
"It's no big, dad!" Kim said, blowing her father's worries off. "Just because we're going isn't a guarantee we'll become full-fledged GJ members. I may save the world frequently, but I'm pretty much an outsider to them. I'm sure they've got a bunch of recruits that are way more talented and groomed to be secret agents than me. I just want to see how I stack up to the best in the world, that's all."
"And you and Ronald?"
"We'll be so busy going through the recruitment process, we probably won't have time for each other. But, if everything works out, by the end of the day tomorrow I'll be all past this GJ thing and I can worry about graduation and college and you won't have to worry about what Ron and I are doing by ourselves." Kim then rolled her eyes. "Besides, it's not like GJ's gonna hire me the moment I step in the door. Right?"
To be continued in Part 6 - Coming next week!