Disclaimer: I don't any of the character, situations or locations from the television series Kim Possible. I reap no monetary gains from the use of those things. I write for the strict enjoyment of the process.
Author's Note: This story stems solely from the following quote: "Tell me, O Muse, of the ingenious Hero who traveled far and wide..." Homer - The Odyssey.
I was going to send our two teen heroes on four or five more consecutive mission before they confronted Dr. Director and then finally send them home, but the missions I came up with at the time were just too weird. (Even for my taste.) Ergo, here's the confrontation.
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Travel
Chapter 5
Global Justice
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Kim and Ron stopped at their Bueno Nacho in Middleton to eat, even though it'd been demolished during the invasion. (BN Corp always had a brand new modular building on standby, ready to be moved into place at a moments notice since that particular franchise had been damaged a few times in the past.) Then they walked over to the sidewalk portal that they knew would take them down into the bowels of the earth and Global Justice Headquarters. They were met at the end of the twisting turning trip by Top Agent Will Du and the leader of Global Justice, Dr. Betty Director.
"Good afternoon, Dr. Director... Will," Kim happily chirped with a huge, syrupy grin on her face. She knew just why she had that sappy, overly bright smile on her puss. Ron had put it there during their wet, wonderful playtime in the Australian Outback and it just wouldn't go away. (And she now had every intention of letting Ron keep putting that smile on her face as often as possible until the day they died.)
"Good afternoon, amateurs," Will curtly greeted.
Ron's normally excellent mood immediately soured and he gruffly asked, "Now why do you wanna put a damper on such a fine day by calling us amateurs and make it sound like it's a bad thing to be?"
Betty was a bit startled by the exchange before she remembered what she'd seen via satellite a few hours ago. She knew Ron was normally a bit protective of Kim, but after watching them in the Australian Outback she was sure he would now be overprotective to the extreme. Dr. Director turned to her subordinate and ordered, "Agent Du, take Ronald down to the detention level and brief him on the disposition of the villains they've recently apprehended and we took into custody?"
"As you wish, Dr. Director," Du stiffened and saluted, but with a tinge of disdain in his voice at the menial job he was ordered to do. He led the blond boy down a corridor toward the section of the complex that housed the villains in captivity.
"Congratulations Kimberly," Betty said with a wide smile as she turned to the redhead. "You got yourself a fine man there. When's the wedding?"
"Wedding?" Kim nervously laughed as she anxiously looked around to make sure no other GJ agents were around to hear this conversation. None were, they were all bustling about, deep into their work. "What makes you think Ron and I are getting married?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Betty asked as she ushered the redhead to an office door and led the way in. It must have been Dr. Director's personal office because she immediate sat down behind the desk with an air of familiarity and motioned for Kim to take a seat in one of the chairs in front of it. "You have that sexual glow around you Kimberly, and I know you would never go that far in a relationship unless you were certain that you'd be getting married to him in the near future."
"Well, Ron and I haven't talked about it much," Kim hedged, still a bit nervous but more at ease now that they were behind closed doors. "I mean we haven't set a date or anything just yet but..."
"But you decided to show your love for Ronald in the most beautiful, secluded, ideal setting you could ever imagine," Betty finished Kim's sentence. "If I had a boyfriend, I'd think that I'd just adore making love to him under a waterfall in the Australian outback."
"It was the perfect place, wasn't it," Kim sighed in blissful revery at the thought of the wet but wonderful love making that had gone on after Wade had disconnected his call.
Then it suddenly hit her.
"Hey, wait a minute! How did you know what we did and where we did it?" Kim's dander was rising at what she could fairly well guess had gone on at Global Justice. She only needed to confirm her suspicions. "Wade said that you contacted him via the website and he only knew where we were because of the location beacon in the Sloth." Logical quick thinking led her to the only possible conclusion. "Oh my Gosh! You spied on us using one of your satellites!"
"Yes, I did," Dr. Betty Director confessed with a wry smile. "But I only tracked your vehicle when it left the mine so I could contact and inform you that Duff Killigan was up to something in South Africa. I was just about to call when you stopped at the waterfall and started to strip out of your clothes. I was curious as to what you were doing so I contacted Wade instead, via your website, to call you in here. I must say you showed a lot of moxie by ignoring my summons for well over an hour before you left the area."
"But you saw us," Kim accused, getting even angrier with the woman. "You watched Ron and me make love for the first time! You violated both Ron's and my privacy! You tainted what had been a perfect moment in our lives that we can never get back!" Tears were streaming down Kim's cheeks and she was so distraught that she couldn't see straight. The redhead collapsed to the floor, bawling her eyes out as he anger swiftly turned to despair.
"Hey KP.! GJ transferred Senor Senior here from Hawaii and declared him as certifiably nuts," Ron happily said as he and Will Du casually strolled into the office. He saw his girlfriend sobbing on the floor and yelped, "Kim!" as he rushed to her side to see what was wrong and comfort her any way he could.
"Take me home, please and thank you," Kim weakly cried as she wrapped her arms around her boyfriend's neck. She leaned in and whispered in Ron's ear for a few seconds before she lovingly nuzzled her face into the crook of his neck.
At her words, the blond boy immediately stiffened. His head whipping around to glare at the two GJ employees.
"You bastards," Ron angrily swore, barely audible, as he picked Kim up off the floors and headed for the door. He yelled out loud to no one in particular, "I don't know why you did it but I should level this place for it!"
"You and what army, Stoppable?" Agent Will Du indignantly begged.
Ron heatedly spun on the Top Agent and said, face-to-face, "Watch your mouth Du-Duh or I'll crush you like a cheap taco shell!"
"Try it," Will returned with equal venom.
"Agent Du, stand down!" Dr. Director firmly ordered before she turned to the blond boy with the redheaded girl still protectively cradled in his arms. "Ron Stoppable, I don't think it would be a good idea for you to go up against my Top Agent. He's well versed in the martial arts."
"And you all stepped over the line spying on me and KP," Ron barked back. Kim had obviously told him about the spy satellite when she whispered in his ear. "That deserves a little justice on a global scale. If I mess up you headquarters or take down your Top Agent," the title dripped with disdain, "then maybe a little of Kim's honor would be satisfied."
Dr. Director thought it over for a couple of seconds before she began to smile. "Alright Ronald. We may have stepped over the line like you said but I'm sure Agent Du wouldn't mind defending Global Justice's position."
"It would be my honor, ma'am," Will confidently sucked up to his boss, even though he'd always wanted to take the obnoxious amateurs down a peg or three. This would be a perfectly legitimate chance to thoroughly humiliate one of them under his boss' orders.
Kim, having gained back most of her composure over the sitch, sat up in her boyfriend's arms a bit, patted his chest and said, "Please put me down, Ron." The blond boy obliged and she quietly asked him, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Ron held a blue glowing hand up between he and Kim so Betty and Will couldn't see it and said with a wicked smile, "Oh yeeeeah! Even I know they cross a line here so Willy Boy is about to get a new tutor."
Kim turned to the head of GJ, wiped the remaining tears from her cheeks, sniffled once and firmly said, "You're on."
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The foursome had adjourned to one of the training gyms for the bout. Will looked around and asked, "Why are we in this particular gym, Dr. Director? It's hardly ever used. It's so deep under the rest of the facilities and it's our most hardened room in the entire complex."
"It also doesn't have any surveillance cameras so no one else will see this impromptu bout," Betty Director said with a straight face. She had a fairly good idea what could happen. Betty was the only person at Global Justice who had read the final report on the downfall of the Lowardians since she was the one who wrote it. She alone was the only GJ employee who knew that Ron was the one who defeated the aliens. All of the other GJ agents had been deployed to assist in fighting the Lowardian Walkers in other cities and she was the only one to witness, via spy satellite, Kim's defeat and Ron's domination over the two menacing beings. All of the other agents thought Kim had defeated the Lowardians with a little help from Shego, just like the last time when Warmonga had shown up a half year before the invasion.
Dr. Director had picked this particular gym for the very reasons Du had pointed out. The gymnasium was deep underground, well below the rest of the GJ facilities, and reinforced to withstand a direct nuclear bomb blast. Therefore, it should be able to resist any damage if Ron stepped up like he did against the aliens. She wanted to witness Ron's new found abilities for herself. Watching it from a satellite's perspective in low-orbit, in black-and-white video with no audio no less, was one thing. Witnessing it up close and in person was another.
"How about we make this interesting,Willy Boy?" Ron jovially queried. He was dressed in a baggy pair of gym shorts and a tank top that were both two sizes too big for his slight frame, hastily provided to him from the supply stores of GJ for the match. He also was clad in protective sparring gear covering his feet, shins, chest, forearms, hands and head.
"You want to place a bet on our bout?" Will Du inquired, adjusting the straps that held his fighting gloves on. He also wore a complete set of protective gear. "That sounds like an excellent idea, amateur. If I win, you and Kimberly will allow me to call you both amateurs and won't grouse about it at all. Also, if we're assigned to any more missions together, I will be the undisputed leader."
"And if I win," Ron said with a devious smile, "you'll quit calling us names, give Kim the proper respect she deserves and she leads the missions."
"Done," Will simple said as he placed a mouth guard in his mouth and snapped into an offensive posture.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Kim quietly queried her best friend again as she checked the Velcro straps for his headgear one more time and noticed that he was becoming extremely nervous. "You don't seem to have your head in the game right now."
"Not really," Ron hedged, suddenly losing all of the confidence he'd been showing up to that point. "I don't like Will but I don't wanna hurt him. Besides, I'm not sure if I can use my MMP on a good guy. It might not work that way."
"This will be a no-holds-barred, mixed martial arts fight with no time limit," Dr. Director interrupted the couple as she briskly led Kim away from Ron and stepped off the mat. "Anything goes. Begin!"
The two combatants warily circled each other, looking for an opening. Kim was paying little attention to the fight as she turned to the head of GJ. "Why are you allowing this to happen, Dr. Director? If you saw any of the fight between Ron and the Lowardians, then you know he'll hurt Will." Kim reasoned that if Dr. Director had spied on her and Ron in Australia, then it stood to reason that she would've had a spy satellite focused on the most important fight in the history of the world.
"Not necessarily, Kim," Betty said as she watched Will launch a few probing punches and kicks to test the blond's skills which Ron either avoided or parried with ease. While his offensive skills were currently lacking, Ron's defensive, dodging skills were in high form. "Ron only took down Warhok and Warmonga after he saw you were down for the count. He prevailed because you'd been hurt. Ron is normally only a fair fighter according to the "Ron Factor" reports, but he turned into an excellent fighting machine to protect you during the invasion. This should be a fairly even match because you aren't in any danger right now and Will always relies on the technology we supply him with in the field, instead of the adequate martial arts skills he possesses. Neither of them will come out of this unscathed, but it should teach each of them a valuable lesson."
"But what if Ron taps into his hidden... potential, and wins?" Kim queried as she glanced over and saw Ron throw some weak punches that somehow got through Will's defenses but didn't do any harm. She wasn't sure if Betty knew about Ron's Mystical Monkey Powers. Kim knew most spy satellites could read a newspaper from low Earth orbit nowadays but Dr. Director may not have seen Ron's glowing powers or that they somehow didn't show upon the video feed. She hoped that Betty could only guess that he had some hidden kind of strength that he could tap into. "What if Will gets seriously injured?'
"Agent Du is an adequate agent with an extremely large ego," Betty explained. "He's more academic than street smart which means Will has his weaknesses in the field. He always prevails on the missions he's assigned to but it would be to his benefit to have someone knock him around a bit; if only to teach him that he's not the best in the world."
The head of GJ could see something else was bothering Kim so she asked, "What else is on your mind, Kimberly?"
"Well, I'm curious as to why Ron and I had to handle some of the recent calls," Kim diplomatically stated. "I was told you're men barely missed stopping Professor Dementor when he stole the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer at the lab, but you didn't send them in and arrest him at his lair. You also could've handled Motor Ed in New Jersey, the Seniors in Hawaii and Falsetto Jones at the mine. Global Justice is suppose to be the high and mighty Police Force of the World. Why were we called in instead of you?"
"It's very simple, Kimberly," Dr. Betty Director smugly answered as the two women watched Will and Ron continue to dance around the mat, neither landing any significant blows. "My 'Police Force of the World' as you call it, isn't very efficient. You and Ron are. As inept as Will was when you took down Duff Killigan the first time you worked with him, haven't you wondered how good the rest of my people are?"
Kim thought about what Dr. Director had said as she turned her attention back to the bout. Dr. Director was right. Will Du had been a clumsy, bumbling fool during the Professor Greene/Super Seed incident and inept would be a very good word to describe him during that sitch. Will's only shining moments during that mission were when he swiftly pulled up the information on the perpetrator and when he finally zapped Duff into submission in Japan. Both of those times he was using the technology he possessed. When it was time to lead and fight, well, he was easily tripped up by Duff in the castle, led them into the quicksand sand trap and been easily brushed aside when his stop watch didn't work the first time in Japan. If Will Du was Global Justice's top agent, then the rest of GJ's agents wouldn't last five seconds against Dementor or Jones' henchmen; let alone the out-of-shape, incompetent goons Drakken always hired.
Kim's thoughts turned to why this bout between Ron and Will was happening. Both she and Ron had been seen, naked and in the throes of passion, by Dr. Director and possibly most of GJ. The crushing embarrassment she'd felt earlier slowly turned to rage. Their privacy had been violated by people who were in authority; an organization who she'd looked up to before today. Her privacy had been violated specifically by one Dr. Betty Director who could've... would've been her boss because Kim had been strongly considering joining Global Justice after finishing college.
But not anymore.
Kim wasn't sure if what she was about to yell was true or not, but Betty and GJ had to pay.
"Ron," the redhead hollered as the two fighter backed away for a quick breather, "Will was in charge of the satellite!"
"I don't know how she knows," Will panted from the lackluster battle so far, "but Kimberly is right. Being GJ's top agent, I am in charge of tasking all GJ's satellite feeds."
That was all it took.
Ron's face swiftly snapped into a scowl as if a switch had been flipped in his mind. He realized what they were saying. Will was in charge of the satellites. He was the person who set up the feed that had spied on him and Kim in Australia. Agent Du, the big pervert, had more than likely saw his Kim in the nude and watched his beloved as she threw her head back and howled in orgasmic bliss under the waterfall in Australia... several times.
Ron couldn't care less if Will had seen him in the buff, he could never be embarrassed.
But Kim...
"I got your back, KP!" echoed in Ron Stoppable's mind as retaliation became his motivation to win the fight and maybe inflict a bit of pain on the bastard standing in front of him.
The room suddenly went dark as the overhead lights popped and sparked and swiftly winked out. An eerie blue glow and an unexpected wind picked up and swirled around the blond boy. Ron viscously growled, "Oh, you are so going down for that!"
Dr. Director, Kim and even Will (if he had remained conscious for any length of time after the lights went out) didn't know what took place next. It happen in the blink of an eye. One second, Will was standing a few feet from Ron getting ready for another attack run. And the next...
Well...
The room was a shambles as the overhead lights blinked back on after only being off for a second or two. Three of the four twenty inch thick, titanium reinforced walls of the gym were buckled in quite a few places as if the metal had been melted or struck by a heavy barrage of armor-piercing tank shells. Only the wall behind Kim and Dr. Director was unaffected.
Agent Will Du laid crumpled against the far wall, twenty feet from where he'd been standing. One eye was swollen shut and it was already starting to show signs of bruising around it. His left arm was hanging at a very unnatural angle, probably broken in at least two places and his previously pristine, well tailored T-shirt was ripped and torn in more than a dozen spots. (Not to mention his protective gear was also literally ripped to shreds.)
Dr. Director goggled at the spectacle for a few seconds before she regained her normal, in-charge composure, walked over to the phone on the wall and picked up the receiver. She calmly barked, "I need a emergency medical team in the sub-basement, gym six, stat," and hung up the phone. A sly smile graced her face as she watched three medics enter and quickly tend to her Top Agent.
Kim wasn't sure, but she thought she heard Dr. Director lightly laugh and muse, "Like a cheap taco shell."
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Kim sat in front of the desk in Dr. Director's office, nervously tapping her foot and nibbling on a fingernail, while Ron anxiously paced back and forth behind her. Betty was once again on the telephone.
The head of Global Justice heavily sighed and said," Thank you, Doctor Bishop," before she hung up the phone. She paused for a beat before she turned to the two teens in her office and curtly reported, "Agent Du has a black eye and the cheek bone beneath suffered a few major hairline fractures. Two ribs are broken and his left arm has clean breaks in two places. He also suffered a fractured right tibia and his left little toe is also broken. All-in-all, he'll be out of service for at least six months until he heals up enough to uncomfortably sit at a desk."
"I'm really sorry, Betty," Ron apologetically groaned as he stopped his pacing and faced the head of GJ. "I was mad at Will but I didn't want to hurt him that bad."
"It's my fault Will was injured so severely," Kim said as she got up and hooked an arm around her boyfriend's waist. "I set Ron off when I blamed Will for the satellite feed."
"Neither of you are to blame," Betty said as she sat up at her desk and concentrated on shuffling a few pieces of paper around. "I was the one who ordered the satellite to find your position. Agent Du only tasked the bird under my orders." She quickly held up a hand to stop anything the two teens would say. "And I switched the feed to my office so only I could watch it. You don't have to worry that anyone else saw what'd transpired in Australia."
"That's a relief," Kim sighed and cuddled up with her guy who was also glad to hear the news. Ron also sighed a breath of relief, if only for Kim's piece of mind. Then Kim perked up and asked, "But why were you spying on us via satellite? I mean, you normall contact us through Wade."
"Besides sending you after Duff Killigan, I had an offer for the two of you," Dr. Betty Director smirked at the obviously loving couple, now ignoring the paperwork in front of her. "How would you like to immediately enlist and work for Global Justice? The both of you."
"That's been my dream ever since I first found out about GJ," Kim automatically enthused before she really thought about it. She then wanted to immediately turn the offer down, but Kim also didn't want to hurt Dr. Director's feelings. Kim was taught by her parents to be courteous after all, so she went with a diplomatic line of inquiry. "But what about college? Ron and I are planning on attending Middleton University this fall and then there's the fact that you invaded our privacy. I'm not sure if I want to work for GJ if that's the way things are done around here."
"I understand all that Kim," Dr. Director said as she stood up and rounded the desk to talk to the couple face to face. "We'll allow you two to attend classes and we'll pay for your books and tuition. Kim, you'll earn a salary while you retrain my GJ agents. It's obvious that they're not up to your caliber of mission work so I need you to bring them up to snuff." She turned to the blond boy and said, "And Ronald, I want you to take over our cafeteria when you're not out on a mission with Kim."
"Free college?" Ron almost yelled in excitement, completely ignoring the job offer and what all it entailed. "A-BooYah!"
"I was also going to offer you two an all-expenses paid, one month vacation around the world before you head off to college. I know you never get to sight see on your missions, so after your graduation party was over I began sending anonymous tips to Mr. Load so you could round up the usual villains. They've all been taking advantage of the chaos caused by the alien invasion. After they were in custody, you would've been free and clear for at least a month."
"She's right, KP," Ron said to the girl standing next to him, still locked in his loving embrace. "It's always been 'get-to-the-lair -and-beat-the-bad-guys-so-we-can-head-back-home-to-get-ready-for-school'. I know you were eying the ski slopes when we stopped Dementor a few days ago in Bavaria."
"You're right," Kim wistfully answered. "And the beaches in Hawaii looked mighty inviting when we flew over them, too."
"So Kim," Betty coyly begged, "will you take my offer and join Global Justice?"
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A/N: I'm surprised that no one, at least from the stories I've read, has come up with the concept that if Will Du was GJ's top agent, then the rest of the agents couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. If it's in another story, I'd love to read it.
And one other question remains to be asked. What would you do with the offer? Would you work for a organization that you've wanted to work for ever since you found out about it; accepting a one month, all-expenses paid vacation around the world and then free college to boot? Or would you stick to your ethics and not work for a company that spied on your first naked dance with your lifelong partner?
Decisions, decision.
You'll find out Kim's in the next chapter.
2nd A/N: I just found out about the Kimvention happening this summer. It's going to be at the Long Beach Convention Center in mid June, the 16th thru the 18th and you can find out more at Kimvention2012 (dot) com or by googling it. Sounds like a lot of fun.