"Big Time"
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
So, it's Kim Possible versus Tonio Louenthal. Who will win?
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.
Warning: Reader discretion is advised.
Part Sixteen - We've Got a 309 (07.26.07)
Underneath Noirish Pak, Inc. HQ - San Mateo, California
10 Hours Until the Senior Class Graduation from Middleton High...
Kim found herself staring straight into the barrel of an experimental weapon that was sure to end her life if it were shot at her at such close range. But that was what Tonio Louenthal, the new leader of the Worldwide Empire of Evil, was planning to do in just a few short seconds.
"You wanna know why I'm here?" Kim asked. "Because you tried to ruin my life!"
"Me? Excuse me, young lady, but I'm not the one who decided to barge into the world's greatest organization of evil unannounced!"
"Greatest? Hardly."
"You dare mock the WEE?"
Ron snickered in the background, drawing Tonio's attention and getting him to turn his aim in the sidekick's direction.
"What's so funny?"
"Sorry... that was just asking for it," Ron replied.
"Maybe you won't to meet your maker first, little boy!"
"If you're gonna off us, then answer me one question first," Kim cut in. "Why?"
"Why?" Tonio responded, glancing over his shoulder and shooting Kim a funny look. "I just told you why... because you two are trespassing on my private property!"
"Not that! I'm wondering why you tried to ruin my life... by hacking into the Admissions Department of every single college I applied to!"
"Do... do what now?"
A little shocked at the accusation, Tonio lowered the experimental weapon in his hands.
"I didn't even know that you were the so-called Kim Possible until yesterday when you kept my top agent from eliminating that thorn, Agent Will Du!"
"You're kidding!" Kim and Ron gasped.
"I'm a megalomaniacal supervillain! I don't kid anything!"
"You mean you don't know about Kim's whole 'cheerleader who saves the world' gig?"
"Only what I've heard through the rumor mill and first-hand accounts from those under the employ of this organization's previous leader..."
"I guess supervillains don't exchange information about heroes and the like as much as I thought..." commented Ron.
"So you SWEAR you have no idea what I'm talking about?"
"No! Why would I do something like that? If I had a tiff with you, I'd be sending my men to kill you! What kind of fool would try to circumvent America's educational system just to make your life miserable?"
"Because that's what most villains... do?"
"Not me! Unless you have something I want, in which I'd gladly ask for torture. But in most cases... no. I like things quickly wrapped up... so the minute someone irks me the wrong way... I do away with them."
"Imagine that... a villain who's a forward thinker."
"You should talk to some of the other riff-raff we deal with," Ron suggested. "Man... most of them are just... pathetic."
"As... flattered I am for the compliment. Or, I think that was a compliment, anyway. I want nothing to do with any of the villains you tangle with on a daily basis."
"They're gonna be disappointed..."
"I want as much to do with them..."
"Oh boy!" Kim rolled her eyes.
"I think I know where this is going," Ron said, worried.
"As I want to do with YOU TWO!"
The leader of WEE raised his weapon again, this time immediately pointing it at Kim's head! Tonio fired, and Kim exerted all the strength she could muster to rotate the chair she was tied to to her right. She managed to do so just enough so that the shot went into the top left side of the chair and burrowed all the way through to the other side. Feeling it quickly get warm, Kim leaned forward as much as she could. A split second later, the top portion of the chair went up in flames, eradicating it in an instant. It then quickly started to spread to the rest of the chair.
But Kim had little time to worry about that as Tonio had fired a second shot at her... and there was no way she was going to be able to dodge this one.
Then, out of nowhere, somebody jumped in at the last second, armed with a hi-tech electricity-powered shield. The shield took the full brunt of the shot, shattering some of the neon tubing that decorated it and blinding Tonio, as well as Ron and Rufus, who were looking in that direction from their positions on the opposite side of the room.
Kim stared right at Agent Du's backside as he held the shield up with his left hand. He gritted his teeth as he was tried to keep on his feet long enough for the weapon's energy to dissipate around the shield, while at the same time, he pulled out his laser pen from his pocket with his right hand and aimed it at Kim's bonds. Amazingly, he was able to use it to free Kim, who quickly jumped out of the chair.
"Agent Du..." Kim shouted.
"Get down!" Will quickly yelled back, pushing Kim away towards the nearby table before diving the opposite way.
Once Du's shield was no longer holding the shot back, the last sounds of tubes shattering filtered away as what was left of the shot flew to the nearest wall, where it made a small dent. The blinding light disappeared, enabling Tonio to open his eyes and attempt to get his bearings straight. As he was, Agent Du made his way over to Ron and worked to free him as well.
"Once I untie you, take cover," Will whispered into Ron's ear. "Let me handle it from here."
"But..."
"If you wanna live through this, do what I tell you!"
With that, Will used his laser pen to free Ron. Ron quickly leaped for the cage Rufus was trapped in, grabbed it, and then went for cover underneath a couch near where he was.
By this point, Tonio's vision was coming back to him, and he noticed that his two captives, nor their would-be rescuer, were no longer visible. He reached for his belt buckle and tapped on it once, at which point it briefly lit up. He then slowly tiptoed his way in the direction of where Kim had been just a minute ago.
Kim was hiding behind an overturned table, in the midst of searching her pockets as she tried to find something to defend herself with. Unfortunately, as she had suspected, her pockets had been picked clean. No Kimmunicator, no gadgets, no... nothing.
"Great," Kim remarked sarcastically under her breath. "Just me and my hands tonight."
She then peered around the corner to her left, looking to see where Tonio was located in relation to her so she could plan her next move. But as she did, Tonio was on the other side of the table, and smiling as he took aim at a visible target... the backside of Kim's right leg.
Suddenly, Tonio felt a sharp pain go through his back, as he had two electricity-carrying nodes shot into there by Agent Du. Will then pressed a button on his wristwatch, sending volts of electricity to the organization overlord's body. But the jolting was short-lived, as the watch suddenly stopped working.
"Come on, come on!" Agent Du shouted, slapping the watch with his other hand. "I thought this thing was charged!"
Tonio pulled the nodes out of his back as he turned around and fired a shot at Will. The GJ agent rolled out of the way and bolted for the door. He went for the doorknob, but Tonio cut him off at the pass by shooting it, disintegrating it completely and leaving a hole where it had been.
"What's going on in there?" yelled someone from the other side.
"Shoot!" Will cursed under his breath.
"Give it up!" Tonio warned the GJ agent. "Accept that you've been beaten, and maybe I'll spare your life."
Tonio continued to have his pistol pointed at Will's head as the door opened as Agent Echo and Agent Lima entered, each of them holding an armed laser rifle that they both immediately pointed at Will's heart.
"Agent Mike!"
Lima rolled her eyes. "I'm Agent Lima now, sir!"
Tonio ignored her and issued his orders. "Find Kim Possible and her sidekick, and eliminate them!"
"With pleasure!"
Lima immediately turned her gaze to the overturned wooden table on the right side of the room and blasted it to pieces with her rifle.
"Leave them out of this!" Will shouted. "They have nothing to do with this!"
"They became a part of this when they decided to invade my home base!"
"You should've thought of that when your forces invaded my HQ!"
"We wouldn't have had to if you would've died out in the field like you were supposed to!"
Lima turned to the other side and disintegrated another table with laser fire. She smirked as she slowly walked towards the few remaining pieces of furniture in the room... including the boss' desk.
"Face it... your days as a secret agent are OVER!"
Suddenly, Agent Echo was hit by several laser blasts from outside of the room. One in the hand that was holding his laser rifle, two in his left leg, and two more in his left shoulder. He went down screaming in pain, dropping the rifle as he did. Agent Lima quickly ran for cover behind her boss' desk, but as she looked back at the incoming laser shots, she didn't see Kim jump out from the other side of the desk and deliver a flying kick to the jaw!
Kim quickly plucked the rifle from Lima's hand, as she had been KO'd by the surprise attack, and the plucky heroine quickly aimed at it at Tonio. In the doorway, Agent Du's five fellow agents ran in. All of them had gotten laser rifles of their own, and they had them all pointed at WEE's leader as well.
"Who's got the upper hand now?" Ron shouted as he popped up from behind Tonio's desk as well, with Rufus sitting on his head.
"Drop the weapon, NOW!" yelled one of the GJ operatives.
Agent Sierra then walked into the room, holding a laser rifle of her own.
"Behind you, BEHIND YOU!" Ron exclaimed in a panic, pointing to the door.
Tonio shot a look of disdain at Sierra as she flashed a creepy smile before slowly trotting over to Agent Du and handing him the rifle she was holding.
"Wha?" Ron scratched his head in confusion.
"Let me guess..." Kim thought aloud. "Undercover agent?"
"Very," Sierra nodded. "Sarah Jones, Global Justice Special Ops."
"She's been working on the inside for us," Du told Kim and Ron. "We had reason to suspect her cover had been blown, so we came to extract her to safety."
"Much obliged. I was getting tired of working for the crazy guy over there anyway."
"Very well played, all of you," Tonio applauded them, seeing he had been outdone.
"Hey!" Agent Mitchell yelled. "We told you to drop the weapon!"
Tonio turned to Kim and Ron and smirked at them.
"The writing's on the wall for you two as well."
"Wait, whoa... what does he mean by that?" Ron asked, looking at his girlfriend.
Kim, on the other hand, nodded, obviously understanding that her hunch had indeed been correct after all.
"This is your last warning! DROP IT!"
"Unfortunately, I won't be around to hear the inevitable truth."
With that, Tonio quickly lifted Item J-Seven-Three-Three up to his head and, before anyone could stop him...
He pulled the trigger.
"No..." Agent Du shouted, dropping his rifle and quickly running over. "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Kim, Ron, and Rufus were in stunned shock as Agent Du and some of his fellow agents quickly surrounded Tonio's lifeless... and now headless, body.
"Away Team to HQ," radioed Agent Mitchell to Global Justice. "This is Agent Mitchell. We've got a 309... repeat, a 3-0-9. We're gonna need help with extraction..."
Sarah made her way over to Kim, Ron, and Rufus and tried to snap them back to reality.
"Hello, Miss Possible? I know this isn't the best time to ask, but... we're gonna need your help to get out of here alive. The entire organization will be on us in two minutes, and they won't be happy when they find out what's happened here."
"But... but... he just..."
As Kim tried to come to grips with what had just happened, Ron and Rufus started to feel nauseated. They quickly bolted for the nearest trash can and started to puke.
"We just..."
"We didn't do anything, Kimberly," Will said as he got up and went over to comfort her. "He took his own life."
"But why..."
"We'll worry about why he did it or how we could've prevented it later. Right now, we need your..."
Agent Du's words trailed off as Kim slowly stumbled her way over to the window looking outside the underground complex. She was at a loss for words as she tried to come to grips with what had just happened.
And then, she slid down to the ground, sitting with her back against the wall, as she broke down and started to cry with distress.
To be CONCLUDED in Part 17 - Coming in two weeks!