Classified Location
20 Hours Until the Senior Class Graduation from Middleton High...
"All you need to do is sign on the dotted line," Dr. Director told them out loud. "Once you do, you'll join the ranks of the most elite secret crime fighting organization in the world!"
On the other side of Dr. Director's desk sat Kim and Ron, each with a massive employee contract sitting on their laps. As they finished going over it, Agent Du observed them as he leaned against the wall to their left.
"It's an honor for me to be here to be the second to welcome you to the team, Agent Possible," Agent Du said. "And, yeah, you too... Stoppable."
Dr. Director and Agent Du then glanced at each other before she reached for her phone and dialed up another office in the facility.
"How are we doing on coming up with a codename for Ron Stoppable?"
"Not good! We can't find a last name that's compatible with his first name!"
"How about Ron the Invincible, a.k.a., Agent Invincible!" Ron suggested. "It's not that hard..."
Kim elbowed Ron in the arm.
"Tense moment here!"
Dr. Director held out a pen, which Kim reached for and instantly brought down on the top page of the contract. But once it got there, it froze in place! Kim looked as if she was ready to sign on the dotted line, but she couldn't move her hand to do it.
"I... can't... DO THIS!"
Suddenly, the sound of a tape being paused was heard, and Kim and Ron appeared in front of the screen, walking to the center.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Kim cried. "How did we end up at this part already? Shouldn't the readers know what I had to go through in the tryouts just to get to this point?"
"Yep," Ron sighed. "Moral dilemmas, you completely showing Agent Du up, me... losing my pants. I swear... the writer must think that NEVER GETS OLD!"
"Well, to be fair, this chapter was supposed to be released seven months to the day, today! The writer probably figured, being away so long, he needed something that would instantly grab the readers' attention again."
"Okay... attention grabbed! Now what?"
"We go back to the beginning."
"What? You mean this is a RECAP CHAPTER?"
"No. We're just going back far enough to cover what the readers don't know about yet."
"Oh. Couldn't we save time by just doodling it all on a piece of paper?"
"Ron!" Kim hissed, putting her hands on her hips. "Disney didn't bring us back so we can diss their other shows."
With that, Kim stomped out, stage left.
"Awww..." Ron whined. "But I have this great one-liner about how we replaced the..."
"Big Time"
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
KP's back, and so's this fic!
As we start Day Two, we kick off the resumption by showcasing a three-part arc surrounding Kim and Ron trying out to become the newest agents of Global Justice! Let's get started!
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 Six - When They Mean Comprehensive (03.08.07)
Middleton Park
26 Hours Until the Senior Class Graduation from Middleton High...
The sun had just risen completely over the horizon, and Kim was sitting on a bench in the midst of Middleton Park. Dressed in her mission clothes, she glanced down at her watch and saw that it was seven o'clock on the nose. She then began to tap her foot impatiently for several seconds...
Until a familiar scream filled the air. And it was getting louder and louder...
"AaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Ron rode into the park on his scooter, screaming his lungs out as he barreled towards Kim. Seeing her, he slammed on the brakes, skidding slightly to the left as he kicked up some small pebbles and dirt from the sidewalk and came to a stop just to the right of his girlfriend.
"Hack ack!" gagged Kim, as she tried to fan away the dirt. "RON!"
"Sorry I'm late, KP!" Ron apologized as he hopped off the scooter. "But, are you sure about this?"
Kim thought for a second, then nodded affirmatively.
"Yes. I have to."
"Whoa, whoa, I wasn't talking about you! I was talking about me! I mean, you think they'll let me tryout too?"
"And me?" squeaked Rufus as he popped out of Ron's pocket.
Suddenly, a hole opened up in the ground right underneath Ron's feet, sucking him and Rufus down, then disappearing in an instant.
"RonNNNNNNNNNNNN?" Kim wailed as the bench she was sitting on quickly fell backwards and through her into another hole that had opened up behind the bench.
Kim, Ron, and Rufus found themselves being whisked through a series of underground tubes, heading downwards and sideways and every which way for a minute or two before reaching the end of the chute. Kim and Ron landed feet first on the ground, with Ron catching Rufus as he fell out... after he had slipped from the safe confines of Ron's trousers.
"We're here," Kim noted as she took a step forward.
"And suddenly, I realize that's a mistake!" Agent Du growled as he stepped out of the shadows to meet them.
Ron gulped in fear.
"Uh... do those things go back up?" he asked, point at the chutes.
Seconds later, Kim and Ron were sitting in Dr. Director's office as Agent Du made a formal complaint regarding 'the sidekick' being present at an exclusive recruitment session.
"This is preposterous! The only person I recommended for GJ was Miss Possible! Her joke of a sidekick isn't worthy to even tryout!"
"Now wait there just a minute!" Ron objected. "Perhaps you have forgotten about... The Ron Factor!"
"I heard that was disproved," Du stated, glancing at Dr. Director.
"Yes," she recalled. "Yes, it was."
"Okay, so I'm not THE reason for Kim's success... but I am A reason! I'm still by her side every step of the way! Nothing's gonna ever slow me down, no, sir! I mean, ma'am."
"He does make an interesting point."
"But..."
"Kim," Dr. Director said, pointing the discussion in the heroine's direction. "Are you willing to vouch for Ron Stoppable?"
"Yes," Kim absolutely agreed, though her face looked a tad hesitant. "Sure, he's not perfect. But nobody is."
"He's as far from a perfect recruit as can be!" Du argued.
"You just don't know him as well as I do!"
"I'm sure you know each other quite well, Miss Possible. Especially through your escapades of romance..."
"What?" Kim and Dr. Director yelled in unison.
"Yeah, what?" Ron added. "I mean, what does that mean, anyway?"
"That was uncalled for!" Kim exclaimed.
Dr. Director nodded in agreement. "Yes. Let's not bring any agent or prospective agent's personal lives into this. You understand you will be written up for this?"
Agent Du sighed, then bowed to her. "I apologize for my choice of words."
"May I say something?" Kim asked, raising her hand.
"Of course."
"I was willing to forgive any worries about the ability of Agent Du and I to work together given our rocky past. But this? I won't stand for being insulted like that!"
"I understand your concerns, Kimberly, but despite his lack of tact, Agent Du is our best recruiter. Every person that he's guided through the recruitment process has become an agent of Global Justice! To be the best, you have to be trained by the best!"
"I apologize for what I said," Agent Du told Kim. "If it's any consolation, I will do everything in my power to make sure you pass the recruitment tests with flying colors!"
"You see?" Ron cut in. "Now that's what I'm talking about!"
"You, on the other hand, I have no business with."
"Oh, come on!" Kim objected. "Those words you're apologizing for stung Ron just as much as they did me."
"Hmmmm..." Dr. Director murmured. "Kimberly has a point. Therefore, I hereby decree that Agent Will Du, you will be responsible for guiding both Kimberly Possible and Ronald Stoppable through the entire process."
"Boo-ya!" Ron shouted as a smile appeared on Kim's face.
"But, Dr. Director!" pleaded Agent Du.
"I'm sure that's not too tough a task for my best recruiter, right?"
Agent Du sighed in defeat. "Fine... I'll train Kimberly and... him."
"Very well then," Dr. Director said as she stood up. "The tests begin immediately! Good luck to you both."
Thirty minutes later, after measuring and fitting for temporary uniforms, Kim and Ron joined Will as they made their way towards Sector B-12, where the recruitment check-in desk was set up.
"I've never noticed," Kim said as she gave her red 'recruit' uniform the once over, "but I really like this outfit! Well, other than it being red..."
"Standard issue for all... recruits," Will told her. "Once you become agents, you'll get the blue ones just like mine."
"Good to know, 'cause red doesn't look good on me!" Ron exclaimed. "And there's no pocket for Rufus!"
He pointed down at Rufus, who was reduced to holding onto the fabric just above Ron's right ankle.
"There's no place for animals in GJ!"
Ron shook his head. "Nuh uh. Rufus is family! Where he goes, I go!"
"And where Ron goes," Kim added, "I go!"
"Look, whatever! I guess we can make an exception."
"Yes!" Ron and Rufus rejoiced.
"Okay, first things first... we need to get you two profiled."
Agent Du led Kim and Ron to what amounted to a makeshift doctor's office. Several other recruits and their recruiting officers were there as well, already getting their check-ups.
"Wait..." Kim jumped in, "you mean we have to get a full medical exam?"
"Pretty much," Agent Du replied. "After all, what's the point of recruiting someone if they have some sort of disease that'll kill him in two months?"
"You mean we have to... STRIP NAKED?"
"You mean we have to... GET SHOTS?"
Kim and Ron looked at each other, then at Will, and then back at each other.
"You're still afraid of shots?" Kim smirked.
"Heh heh..." Ron laughed nervously. "I guess your... thing... would be much more scary. For you. I mean, I've dropped my pants so many times..."
"I really needed to hear that," Agent Du said sarcastically. "Thank you, Ronald."
Soon afterwards, Kim and Ron were standing behind their own individual white screens, with only their heads visible to the examiners on the other side. Good thing, too, because they had been stripped down to their 'essentials,' and only the nurse in their individual 'rooms' could actually see their whole bodies.
"Can we just PLEASE get this over with?" Kim pleaded. "This SO doesn't feel right!"
"And how come it's so COLD in here!" Ron yelled from his 'room,' about 300 feet away.
"Kimberly Ann Possible," one of the examiners stated aloud. "Recruit Number A-three-dash-two-zero-eight. Age? 17. Height? Approximately five feet, eight inches. Weight?"
"Hey!" Kim shouted.
"Ahem... okay, we'll just list that as 'unknown'..."
"Ronald Stoppable," another examiner exclaimed. "Wait a... Stoppable? Is that really your name?"
"Yes, and I would like it if you didn't make fun of it!"
"I'm not! It's just... it's so un-secret agent. We'll have to give you a new last name."
"How about... RON THE INVINCIBLE!"
Silence rang throughout the room.
"Note... needs new last name," Examiner #2 stated as he scribbled it on his clipboard. "Okay, age? 17. Height? Five feet, ten-and-one-quarter inches. Weight? 142 pounds."
"Wait a minute! I got on the scale this morning, and it clearly said 144! Get your facts straight!"
"Sigh... okay, 144..."
Next up, a doctor gave both of them a full medical check-up. Back in their full uniforms now, of course.
"We'll begin with a blood pressure check," he said as he attached a measuring cuff to Kim's left arm. "Now just relax..."
"Wheeze... uh... wheeze..."
Both Kim and the doctor peered to their right, where Ron's face was flushing red as the cuff attached to his left arm was ballooning out of control. And the reading on the machine was rising to astronomical levels.
"Hey, relax!"
Too late... the machine exploded, sending metal parts flying all over the place, and Kim and the doctor scrambling for cover. Ron finally was able to breathe again, though the shock of the blast had knocked him temporarily unconscious as he fell back onto the table he was sitting on.
Kim's machine suddenly began to beep, and she and the doctor looked up at the blood pressure machine she was hooked up to. It read 165 over 96.
"I suppose I can get a free retake, right?" Kim asked.
The doctor then began to check their reflexes, as he hit each of Kim's knees with a rubber hammer, one at a time.
"Normal..." he noted as he jotted the results down on Kim's form.
He then walked over to perform the same test on Ron.
"Now... just relax..."
He deliver a small tap to Ron's left knee, which responded by... shooting straight out and kicking the doctor in the gut. He then fell backwards to the ground, panting heavily.
"Oops... sorry, dude!" Ron apologized as Kim shook her head in disbelief.
Next up...
"Okay, Miss Possible, your immunization records seem to be up to snuff."
"That's great!"
"As for you, Mr. Stoppable..."
The doctor then pulled out a huge syringe and started inching towards Ron.
"No, no, AHHHHHHHHHH!"
Ron leapt up from his seat and started running around the room, with the doctor giving chase. Medical equipment started being tossed around the room, and Kim once again had to retreat to safety in the corner once again.
"You know this hurts a lot more if you DON'T RELAX!"
"The point is IT'S STILL GONNA HURT!"
And finally...
"Man, when they mean comprehensive, boy, heh heh, they mean it!"
"Yeah, Ron. Heh heh..."
Kim and Ron peered around the area to see if anyone was looking before glancing, out of the corner of their eyes, to the gray drop slot door to the right. Then, the two began to whistle as they turned their backs to each other, revealing that they were each holding a small container which they had been hiding behind their backs. They then simultaneously slipped them into the slot, which sent them to the facility's laboratory.
"Promise to never mention of this moment ever again?"
"Do what now?"
"RON!"
"I'm kidding, kidding... yes, let us forget this moment! And never speak of it again."
The two nodded in unison, then resumed their whistling as they strolled off, officially completing their medical exams...
To be continued in Part 7 - Coming in two weeks!