"Big Time"
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
Fulfilling your action quotient for this particular week, another new chapter of "Big Time!" Almost to the end, I swear...
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 Fifteen - Can I PLEASE Kill This One Now? (07.12.07)
Underneath Noirish Pak, Inc. HQ - San Mateo, California
10 Hours Until the Senior Class Graduation from Middleton High...
"Red Alert! Level One battle stations!" proclaimed the voice of a woman over the PA system. "Possible intruders entering via the northwest elevator shaft. All security personnel in that area are requested to converge. Repeat... Red Alert! Level One battle stations!"
About a dozen Worldwide Evil Empire agents were taking position in front of the elevator doors of that shaft, all armed with laser rifles and ready to fire upon the opening of the doors.
"Don't even wait to see the whites of their eyes!" one guy yelled. "Or any part of their eyes, for that matter! Once those doors start separating, start separating them!"
"The car just reached the top of the structure!" another exclaimed. "It'll be arriving momentarily!"
The agents waited as the car arrived on the structure's ground floor entranceway. A bell dinged, signifying its arrival, and the doors began to creak open. Instantly, they all opened fire, shooting a multitude of laser-powered blasts into the car, car door, and the surrounding walls. After a sequence of about five of six rounds with no fire returned, they all stopped their blasting and peered into the now non-operative elevator car.
The car was scorched with laser blasts and various holes, but there were no dead bodies inside. Or any bodies at all, for that matter. The leader of the group quickly pointed to two of his subordinates and motioned for them to check the car. They went to it, creeping up slowly, as if expecting the possibility of an ambush. But after thoroughly checking it out from the inside, there was still no evidence that anyone was in there to begin with.
"All clear!" they shouted. "No intruders present!"
"What?" the leader screamed. "But ground-level security reported... somebody radio them and ask them what the hell is going on!"
As the group dispersed and the team leader wondered what was up, GJ Agent Will Du was busy cutting a hole on the roof of the transparent structure as the rest of his team gathered around him. Save for one, who was in the process of cutting the zip line that got them there from the elevator shaft.
Using his laser pen, Agent Du succeeded in gaining entrance into a storage room off to the end of the least populated sector of the fourth floor. Once the entrance had been completely cut open, he instantly beckoned his agents to jump in.
"Move it, move it! It won't be long 'til we're spotted out here in the open!"
The operatives quickly made their way in, landing safely in a storage room nearly filled to the brim with pillows and bed linens.
"Whose idea was it to come in this way?" asked one of them.
"It's the only room on the fourth floor that doesn't have security sensors plastered all over it!" remarked another.
"Cut the chatter!" Du ordered them, the last to enter the room. "We're on a deadline here... it may already be too late. But, we must press on until we're sure. Everyone sync their watches!"
The six agents synced up, then prepared to take on their missions.
"Remember, in and out in 15, at the rendezvous point in 25. We aren't coming back for stragglers, so don't screw this up!"
"Right!" they all said in unison.
"Good luck, gentlemen."
One operative quickly snaked a peering object under the door to check the hallway. Once he confirmed it was clear, he nodded to the guy next to him, who slowly turned the knob to open the door. Seconds later, the team separated, each out to fill their own objectives.
"This is Agent Echo to Security Control," one of the red-uniformed WEE agents radioed as his partner started searching the room. "Did you copy the previous message?"
"No, I didn't," replied the agent on the other end. "Please repeat."
"Very well... possible intruders in 212, with shots fired by us but not returned. This is Echo, with Kilo currently sweeping the room."
"10-4. Do you need back-up?"
"I think we got this one, little lady."
Echo's partner, Agent Kilo, was indeed sweeping the room, particularly around the area where the aforementioned shots had struck the computer monitor that the Kimmunicator had been hooked up to. But that device, along with the person who was using it, weren't there anymore.
"Find anything yet?" Agent Echo asked.
"Nuh-uh," replied Agent Kilo.
"What do you mean nuh-uh? There are only two ways out of this room... through the door, which I'm guarding, and the lone window on the opposite side, which I haven't seen open. They have to be in here somewhere!"
Sure enough, Kim and Ron were still in the room, hiding all the way back in the last row of computers, near said window. Kim had her left hand covering Ron's mouth, keeping him quiet... and from complaining about the small bald spot just above his right earlobe. One that Rufus was trying to cover up by combing some nearby locks of hair over from the unaffected areas with his feet.
Kim lifted up her other hand, where the Kimmunicator had also been dealt a laser beam strike that went through the screen and out the other side, rendering it useless.
"We're going to have to find another way to get to him," Kim said to Ron. "And without Wade's help to get us security clearance."
Ron reached up and removed Kim's hand from his mouth to utter a response.
"What about those goons? I'm sure they've got clearance!"
"But we've got to get it from them first! But how..."
"Use Rufus as a spy to figure out where they are!"
Kim looked in Rufus' direction and quickly agreed.
"Fine, but stay low to the ground."
Rufus nodded and scuttled off to pinpoint the agents' locations. Kim and Ron waited patiently as the naked mole-rat scrambled about, in and out of forest-like formations of computer wiring and equipment. After what seemed like an eternity, Rufus returned, quickly jabbering out the information he had gathered.
"Okay, you two stay here," Kim ordered. "I'll take care of them."
Kim crawled away from Ron and Rufus, hastily moving around the corner and sneaking over to peer down the second row. As Rufus had told her, Agent Kilo was facing the opposite direction and walking away. The teen heroine reached into her pocket and pulled out a very small container of lip gloss. She twisted off the lid, revealing that this was the one that had the stinky sock smell mixture, and threw it as close as she could towards the guy. Kim then quickly turned about and ducked behind the next row of computers.
"What the..." Agent Kilo wondered as he heard the noise of the container being thrown towards him.
"Is something wrong?" Agent Echo asked from his guard position.
Agent Kilo bent down to pick up the container, as it came to a stop around a foot or so in front of him.
"It's a traaaaaaaaaappppppppppppppp..."
Kilo just barely got all the letters out as he went down. But not quietly, as he fired one laser blast parallel to the floor as his body hit it. The laser beam went through two rows of computer equipment and wires and towards the far wall. But it didn't make it to the wall, as the beam hit Ron in the right foot as he was lying down in his hiding place.
"Yow! Ow OW!" Ron yelled, jumping up into visible sight, unable to mask the pain he was feeling as he hopped up and down.
"There you are!" Agent Echo, not even bothering to aim as he showered a series of laser rifle blasts in Ron's general vicinity.
Ron ducked back down as the laser beams raced above him, breaking through computer monitors and other parts, shattering the remains and sending them falling down on and around Ron. Ron and Rufus started crawling off as Agent Echo mixed up high and low shots, making the duo have to get creative to dodge them all and avoid being hit. It didn't help that the shots were increasing in frequency and power as the duo was being led to the end of the aisle, where Echo wanted them to go.
Luckily for Ron and Rufus, Kim was already thinking ahead, as she surprised Agent Echo at the edge of the next aisle over using a standing roundhouse kick. That knocked the WEE operative off his feet. Echo moved to fire a shot at near point blank, but Kim did a second roundhouse, with this one knocking the rifle out of his hand and several feet away. Kim then went for the knockout punch with a right hook. But Echo surprised her by catching her fist in his left palm, canceling out the attack. Kim retaliated with her left hand, but that too was blocked, leaving them in a grappling situation.
Kim, standing over Agent Echo, leaned forward as Echo tried to lift his back off the ground and push against her. The two seemed to be evenly matched, as neither could gain any ground on the other.
"Ron!" Kim yelled. "The laser rifle! Get it!"
Ron popped up from his hiding place and, without hesitation, ran over to where Kim and Echo were struggling with each other. But before he could get past them, the WEE operative changed strategies. Using all his lower leg strength, he raised them in a motion as if he was rolling backwards. It caught Kim off guard as Echo got all the leverage and tossed Kim over his shoulders. Kim landed on the floor, stomach first, and Echo had done a 180-degree roll, also landing stomach first but not looking in Ron's direction.
Agent Echo pushed up from the ground with his arms and quickly made a flying tackle at Ron before he could turn down the aisle and make a beeline for the rifle. The force with which he knocked Ron down was enough to knock the poor sidekick unconscious and send Rufus tumbling head over heels back to the wall. With Ron neutralized for the moment, Echo turned his attention back towards Kim.
But apparently not quick enough, as he turned around and was met with a fist to the right side of his face. It staggered him long enough for Kim to get past and make a dive for the rifle.
"Got it!" Kim yelled.
Kim also got a nose full of the stinky lip gloss that was still emanating from the container on the ground, as the air in the room had blown it towards where she was. Kim wheezed and coughed as she tried to get to her feet.
But she never made it, as the noxious fumes were too strong, and Kim easily succumbed to them, falling back down and losing grip on the laser rifle as she did. Agent Echo reached out and caught the rifle with his left hand, preventing it from firing another unintended wild blast.
"Time to take out the trash," he quipped as he pulled the rifle up and prepared to shoot it at Kim's head.
"Security Control to Agent Echo... if you have managed to not kill the intruders yet, DO NOT! I repeat, DO NOT!"
Agent Echo lowered the rifle and grabbed his radio to respond to the command.
"By whose order, Sierra?"
"From the top!" Agent Sierra shouted back. "And I'd be wary to defy his orders. He's in a baddddd mood right now."
Agent Echo shook his head. "I hate when he gets in a baddddd mood."
"He thinks they may be part of the Global Justice invasion force. Bring them up here... the boss'll deal with them, personally."
"Fine," Echo replied reluctantly. "But I'll need back-up. The perps are out, but they got Kilo before I could get 'em."
"Agent Lima's heading your way."
"You guys are gonna get it when Kim wakes up!"
Upon hearing her boyfriend's voice, Kim woke up to see Ron tied up to a swiveling chair on the opposite side of a posh-looking office, kicking and screaming at the young attractive women with her right hand perched on his forehead.
"Can I PLEASE kill this one now?" she asked sweetly.
"You know better than that, Agent Lima," Agent Echo replied, who was sitting a few feet away and staring right at Kim... who was now noticing that she was in the same predicament as Ron.
"Oh, it feels so great to be promoted!" Lima stated with jubilation. "It felt like months while waiting to no longer be called Agent Mike! You'd think the boss would modify the gender-specific names... I mean, I wouldn't mind being Agent Michelle, for example."
"Hey, hey, you've got no right to talk! There are a lot more male agents, and we all gotta go through being Agent Juliet at one point or another."
"Is there a point to all this rambling?" Kim asked. "Or are you all just baiting your time for the big boss?"
"So, you're awake," Echo smirked.
"Kim!" Ron shouted excitedly, until Lima decided to have some fun and spin him around.
"Don't push me, sidekick boy!" she squawked.
Suddenly, Agent Sierra stepped into the room, holding a clipboard in one hand and a radio in the other.
"So, these are the two that outwitted you, Echo?" she asked with a sly smirk.
"Mostly the girl," Echo answered. "And don't laugh... she throws a mean left hook."
"Very well, I won't. Well, at least not in public..."
"Sierra..." Echo growled.
"That'll be enough," exclaimed the leader of WEE, Tonio Louenthal, as he entered. "All of you, there's still work to be done. There aren't the only intruders."
"Yes, sir!" saluted the three agents as they quickly left the room.
Alone at last, Tonio took a look at his newest prisoners. Kim grimaced as she tried to wriggle out of her bonds, Ron was a bit loopy after his chair had stopped spinning, and Rufus laid unconscious in a very small cage on top of the boss' desk.
"You have three seconds to explain why you two are here..."
Tonio then pulled out Item J-seven-three-three from his pants pocket and aimed it right at Kim's heart, from about five feet away.
"Unless you think you can survive with a six-inch wide hole in your chest!"
Kim glared at her adversary, feeling that she now had the opportunity to finally get the answers she had been seeking for the last 36 hours or so.
But first... she had to survive the next three seconds...
To be continued in Part 16 - Coming in two weeks!