SuperRonII

Disclaimer: If I had a dollar for every time I've owned anything in here I'd still be a poor college student.

Chapter Two: Unexpected

-One Month Later-

-The Mall-

"What do you think about this," Tara stepped out of the dressing room, "is it too much for a first date?"

Bonnie looked her friends' outfit of a button up short sleeved shirt and knee length skirt up and down before proffering her opinion, "it's definitely a cute enough outfit but I'm just not sure about the message that buying a new outfit for a first date period sends."

Tara frowned slightly and looked down at the clothes she was trying on, "but it's so cute and it's not like Felix would have to know I'm wearing a new outfit, I've got enough clothes and he's never been in my closet to know. That and I don't think he'd ask, men never ask about that sort of thing. But if I borrow those shoes Yori ran off to buy and wear this it wouldn't say I want to skip a few dates when he drops me off at my apartment when the date is over?"

"I don't think it would matter even if the outfit did say that," Bonnie tapped her chin thoughtfully, "Felix cares about you enough to let you set the pace for whatever you two decide to do and when you decide to do it. He hasn't said where you two are going yet though has he?"

"No," Tara shook her head, "but it's just dinner and a movie, a nice safe first date. It's nothing we haven't done plenty of times before just this time we're trying to see how it works if we do it as a couple instead of friends."

"You two will do fine," Bonnie said calmly, "if it was anyone else I'd worry about getting over the hurdle of you two not being sure how to be a couple after being friends but you two already act like a couple so much this is just finally admitting you two like each other."

"Felix and I do not act like a couple," Tara blushed furiously, "and we're not even technically a couple yet, you only become a couple when you agree to a second date."

"Really," Bonnie had a very skeptical look on her face, "so all those movie nights you just absolutely had to sit on his lap was absolutely nothing special then? And when you constantly steal his food and he's perfectly alright with it there's nothing between you two? And then that one time when Gill decided to attack I suppose it was just chance you jumped across three people to grab Felix's arm? And…"

"Okay," Tara interrupted, "I get the point we're close friends. But isn't that the way you want things to be before you try starting a relationship?"

"Yes," Bonnie sighed, "but what I'm saying is that it would probably surprise a lot of people to hear this is date number one for you two instead of anniversary number one."

"No it wouldn't," Tara said defensively, "I'll bet Felix is worrying about what to do for our first date right now."

-Ron and Felix's House-

"Die zombies die!" Ron shouted as he furiously mashed his control pad, "no, no, don't you die on me, no!"

"Ha!" Felix laughed, "I told you it was jump, jump, kick, spin, and then roll."

"I still say it's this darn controller," Ron sulked, "now would you hurry up and kill this guy so I can respawn already?"

"Yeah sure," Felix got his laughter under control, "just remind me when I need to leave to pick up Tara, I don't wanna show up at her apartment and have to run in to use the bathroom because I didn't have time to do it here."

"Can do," Ron grabbed his controller as the level boss screamed his death throes, "you all ready for that?"

"Yeah," Felix never took his eyes off the screen, "these clothes are plenty good and we'll be fine tonight."

"Cool," Ron was quickly becoming reabsorbed into the game, "hey Rufus you wanna go set the alarm on the clock so I can remind Felix to leave?"

Rufus pried his eyes open from where he was lying on his back in an empty box of pizza, slowly the naked mole rat got up and grumbling the whole way made his way to the clock where he set the alarm and then promptly went back to sleep.

"There we're good," Ron said almost robotically, "die zombies die!"

-The Mall-

Bonnie was about to respond to Tara but she felt a presence approaching and turned to see Yori walking up to them. For someone who was otherwise so extremely practical Yori had a strange obsession with shoes. Bonnie couldn't for the life of her remember the last pair of shoes the girl had seen that she didn't like and today was no exception. Yori had gone back to the shoe store to buy a pair of shoes that was on sale but rather than carrying one shoebox under her arm she was carrying a box under each arm.

It wasn't that Bonnie didn't like shoes, like any college aged girl she had a healthy selection of footwear. But compared to Yori's menagerie of sandals, shoes, boots, heels, and every other type of footwear imaginable Bonnie might as well have been Ron with two pairs of normal shoes and some dress shoes. Okay so if you wanted to count the boots for his battlesuit then there was one more but he never wore those except with the battlesuit so those couldn't be counted for everyday wear.

"I'm sorry it took longer than I said it would," Yori said bashfully, "but I saw this pair of red pumps and they just called to me to buy them. But there was also that adorable pair of navy sneakers, should I go back and get those too?"

Bonnie just sighed as Tara grabbed the box with the shoes she was going to borrow without Yori snapping out of her attempts to talk herself into buying yet another pair of shoes. It was something she was well used to by now, a lifetime of ninja training had given Yori precious little time to indulge herself in the more feminine aspects of life so it was only common sense that she would throw herself wholeheartedly into the few opportunities she got. And shoes were by far the biggest opportunity to let her more girlish side show that Yori had so while Bonnie was less than surprised that Yori had so many shoes it was still at the same time rather vexing because it almost always was up to her to find places to keep the ever growing collection.

"So am I gonna knock him dead?" Bonnie turned around to see Tara walk out of the dressing room now with the shoes she was borrowing from Yori on.

"I don't think you'll knock Felix dead," Bonnie smiled, "but he's probably going to have to knock a few heads when every guy who sees you starts panting like a dog."

"Bonnie's right," Yori snapped herself back to reality, "if you walk out of the mall in that you will get a great number of men in trouble with their girlfriends. Are you sure you are not trying to seduce Felix, if you'd like us to Bonnie and I would be happy to wait for you while you go to Victoria's Secret and pick out some appropriate items."

Bonnie thought that Tara had blushed furiously when she'd suggested that she and Felix were a couple already but that was nothing compared to the shade of red she managed to Yori's comment. The fact that Yori sounded entirely serious and that Bonnie thought there was nothing amiss about the idea was either incredibly funny or incredibly disturbing. Her opinions being what they already were Bonnie had to stifle a laugh into her arm rather than risk Tara's temper showing up and being turned on her. Trained ninja who had mastered control over earth or not Bonnie had a very healthy respect for just how terrifying Tara could be when truly provoked. Other than the two times Kim had directly tried to kill her the only time she had truly feared for her life was when Tara had lost her temper.

"I…" Tara squeaked before pausing and visibly calming herself, "Felix and I are not a couple and there is no way we'd do that sort of stuff after only one date."

Yori looked over at Bonnie, "did you remind her about all the movies?"

"Yep."

"The food stealing?"

"Yep."

"The arm grabbing?"

"Yep."

"That time when he said he was going as prince charming for Halloween and she instantly changed her mind to go as Cinderella?"

"No, she cut me off after the arm grabbing."

Tara fixed a withering look on both of her friends, "will you two cut it out already, what's it going to take to convince you that unless and until I say yes to a second date Felix and I aren't a couple?"

Bonnie and Yori glanced at each other and replied simultaneously, "nothing, you can't convince us."

"Can we go buy these clothes and get lunch already?" Tara had the beginnings of a puppy dog pout on her face.

"Fine," Bonnie relented, "but since I haven't bought anything today I get to choose where we do lunch."

-Ron and Felix's House-

"No not again!" Ron wailed as his virtual self met doom yet again at the hands of the zombies he and Felix were hacking and slashing their way through.

"Tough luck," Felix said while not slowing down his killing at all, "but not everyone can be the master at Zombie Mayhem Five that I am."

"Oh sure," Ron waved his controller about, "out here you and your mad skills are all that, but if we were in that game ourselves crazy wheelchair or no the Ronster would totally own those zombies."

Now that was of course leaving unsaid a few details such as the little insignificant fact of Ron being a Kryptonian and all the powers that came with it. Or the skill he had gained with the Lotus Blade in the last two years, not to mention the control of his Mystical Monkey Power that had accompanied his newfound skills.

Unlike most of the world Felix at least knew a little bit of the truth about what had happened over the last two years, he didn't know about Ron's powers or the full extent of what Bonnie and Yori could do. But he did know that Kim had been turned evil rather than simply dropped off the face of the earth to go do charitable works as had been reported to the media to spare everyone the accompanying drama. Not that he knew the full extent of what had been done to Kim either, that would have required answering more questions than Ron wanted in the open at that moment. Felix did know though that if he ran into Kim he should call Ron, Bonnie, or Yori and try to get the heck out of dodge as fast as his cyber-robotic wheelchair would carry him.

Just as Ron was about to respawn the Kimmunicator went off, "Ron we've got trouble."

"What kind," Ron reached over and grabbed the blue device off the table, "Kim trouble or normal trouble."

"Normal trouble," Wade answered, "But serious normal trouble, Mt. Rainer is erupting."

"Aww man," Ron groaned, "there goes the rest of the afternoon… I'm on my way. Felix when the alarm goes off it's time for you to go pick Tara up."

Before Felix could tear himself away from the TV Ron was already up and running towards his room and the battlesuit he had in the back of his closet. It was times like this that Ron felt bad about not telling Felix the whole truth, constantly having to run out and save the world as Superman and his own best friend couldn't know about it. There were times though he felt like Felix had figured out his secret, all the times Ron disappeared and Superman appeared, Felix was not a stupid man by any measure Ron knew. But that would have to come later; right now as Ron took to the air through his window he refocused his mind on the job at hand.

-JP Bearymore's Pizza Partytorium-

"Thanks for letting me borrow the shoes again," Tara took a large bite out of her slice of pizza, "I'll make sure to keep them perfectly clean."

"Do not worry," Yori said offhandedly, "Helping you and Felix get together at last is an honor and all the thanks I need."

"I need to decide if it's going to be my honor to eat another slice of pizza," Bonnie stared at the food, "I don't want to be full when we head over to Ron's for dinner tonight but this is such good pizza it's almost impossible to resist."

"You two are having dinner at Ron and Felix's house?" Tara paused her next slice of pizza on the way to her mouth.

"Yes," Yori answered, "he wanted to celebrate his being back in America for an entire month, Bonnie and I were perfectly fine with his suggestion that we make a dinner date of the occasion."

"Interesting choice of words there," Tara smirked, "just what is going on between the three of you. I know you both like Ron but you don't seem to be fighting over him at all. It's almost like you're sharing him or you're both his girlfriends."

"It's not like that," Bonnie blushed slightly, "I mean we both like Ron and he said he likes both of us the same. But no one is anyone's girlfriend or boyfriend. We've just got so much to deal with right now that we haven't had time to sit down and figure things out. And since we don't want to fight over him and he doesn't want to have to reject one of us we've all just decided to stick with how things are right now."

"Is that so?" Tara sounded not entirely convinced.

"It is," Yori said calmly, "True we have an… unconventional arrangement in our relationship but it is one that has served us well so far and though I cannot speak for the others I believe none of us have any complaints about us being Ron's not-girlfriends."

"I have no complaints whatsoever," Bonnie made her opinion known, "Yori is one of my best friends and I don't want to fight with her over anyone. Plus I like Ron enough that if I have to share him or risk not having him at all I'd be willing to share. Wouldn't you make the same choice if it was share Felix or not have him at all."

"I suppose," Tara looked down bashfully, "but it just seems so weird. I mean what if one day you all wanted to get married, I just can't imagine how that would look."

"You won't get the chance to find out," Tara turned with a look of shock on her face to see Fukushima drop out of the shadows, Bonnie and Yori though remained completely unruffled.

"I was wondering when you'd show your face," Yori said with a look of contempt on her face, "your talents as a ninja have always been sorely lacking and stealth is no exception."

"I don't seem to recall having much trouble beating you before!" Fukushima snarled as he shot a hand out and a ball of orange flame shot towards Yori.

His attack though never even got close since when the fire was still several long feet from Yori it smashed into a slab of rock that hadn't been there a few seconds ago.

"Tara," Bonnie called over her shoulder as she raised the rock out of the earth, "go hide yourself and then call Ron and have him get here as fast as he can."

Rather than waste time replying Tara simply dove behind one of the hedges that surrounded the outside eating area. As several more loud crashes sounded from where Bonnie and Yori were fighting Tara dug into her purse and pulled out her cell phone. Fingers flying over the keypad she punched in Ron's number as fast as she could and as the rings started she silently pleaded for him to pick up the phone.

"Hello," there seemed to be a lot of background noise wherever Ron was, "Tara, is that you?"

"Ron!" Tara tried to whisper very loudly in an attempt to not draw attention to herself, "Bonnie, Yori, and I are at JP Bearymores and some crazy ninja guy is here fighting them. You need to get here as fast as you can and help them."

"Tiny problem," a roaring in the background almost drowned Ron out, "a mission kinda came up at the last minute and I'm a little busy with that, be there as soon as I can. Tell Bonnie and Yori I'm sure they can handle it though."

Before Tara could respond Ron ended the call and Tara was brought back to her immediate surroundings as the sound of someone smashing through glass rang in her ears. Risking being exposed to whatever was going on Tara turned around and stuck her head over the hedge to see how Bonnie and Yori were faring against the mystery ninja.

It turned out the ninja guy was the one who had been smashed through glass, in this case the windshield of a parked SUV. Tara watched Yori leap into the air as the mystery ninja shook his head clear, he looked up with a look of concern on his face as at the height of her jump Yori snapped her fans open and made a downward slashing motion with them. Ninja guy rolled off the car and not a second later it was pancaked by what seemed to Tara was pure air.

As ninja guy rolled off the car he shot a hand up and a ball of fire sped towards Yori who made another slashing motion with her fans and blew the fire out well before it hit her. Barely a second after ninja guy hit the ground Tara turned her head slightly at a large noise to see Bonnie stomp the ground hard and make a motion with her arms. Tara wouldn't have been sure what it was if out of the corner of her eye she hadn't seen a huge slab of earth lift out of the parking lot and fold over threatening to crush ninja guy. He saved his own life by shooting another ball of fire up and managing to blast apart enough of the asphalt that it didn't crush him. He rolled back to his feet and faced Bonnie and Yori looking considerably more beat up than they did but still with a smirk on his face.

"Give it up Fukushima," Bonnie planted her hands on her hips, "you couldn't beat one of us and there's no way you win against two of us. Now you can either tell us what Kim's up to or we can beat it out of you, either way you're going to talk."

"I don't think so," Ninja guy now Fukushima laughed by way of reply, "my master knows your powers are lacking but I was ordered here to get a better idea of just how pathetic you are. Believe me, I didn't use a fraction of my power and next time you won't be so lucky. Until next time…"

Before anyone could respond flames shot up around Fukushima and obscured him from view, when they blew away the ninja was nowhere to be found.

Tara slowly got up from behind the hedge and walked over to where Bonnie and Yori were still standing, as she passed their table she saw amazingly enough for all the destruction that had been wrought the clothes and shoes they had bought were entirely untouched.

"What the heck was… that?" Tara gestured wildly at her friends.

"Um," Yori twiddled her thumbs about, "that was a ninja who has been working with Kim for the same master since senior year."

"That wasn't what I was talking about," Tara glared at the two, "I figured that out just fine. What I mean is what was with the whole thing where he was throwing fire and you were doing all that crazy stuff too?"

"That," Bonnie laughed nervously, "you know how Yori and I can do stuff right? Of course you do, well that's part of that just something we don't do very often, and it's not something we can really explain al that easily."

"It didn't look all that hard though," Tara said, "when Yori did that slashing thing it was like there was some sort of little glowing thing that went on and then all the air around her just moved."

As she spoke Tara mimicked Yori's motions when she had flattened the SUV Fukushima had rolled off of, however mimicking just the actions wasn't all that happened. As Tara finished the motion a wall of air leapt from her hands and smashed the table next to theirs. Tara let out a high pitched squeal of surprise at this and for all they had seen Bonnie and Yori looked at the table in utter disbelief of what they had seen.

"Tara you just… that's not possible," Yori stuttered.

Tara looked down at her hands in awe, "I… I'm not sure what that was, I just saw this glowy thing when you'd do something like that and then all that ninja stuff you were talking about."

"Did you only see it when Yori did it?" Bonnie said cautiously.

"No," Tara said very softly, "I saw it when you did that stomp thing too."

Tara only lightly tapped her foot on the ground but the fist sized rock it sent up into the air was all that Bonnie and Yori needed to see to know that something very odd was going on.

"What… what's going on?" Tara was on the verge of tears.

"I'm not sure," Bonnie wrapped her friend in a hug to calm her down, "but Yori and I can help you figure out what it is and how to control it."

-Somewhere over Mt. Rainer-

Ron let out a sigh of relief that his job was finally done. The lava had been diverted so that it would flow into the Pacific and not cover Seattle in a sea of molten destruction. And his battlesuit was still looking mighty fine for having been flown down into the heart of a volcano. But before Ron could have more than a few moments to relax his Kimmunicator went off and he let out a sigh that was of anything but relief.

"Hey Wade," Ron figured that Bonnie and Yori wanted him back so they could chew him out for not ditching the volcano sooner, "tell Bonnie and Yori to keep calm and I'll be back in a few."

"The girls are fine," Wade had a very serious look on his face, "but I do need you to start heading east. I got a hit on the site, it was Kim and she wants to talk to you."

AN: Well the evil-ness is back and so is the mob outside my door. I know it's terribly cruel of me but I am not apologizing for that double cliffhanger, you'll find out everything in the next three chapters so everyone keep those pitchforks and torches down. And a little advance warning, the end of the school year is coming up so I may become increasingly neurotic over the next few weeks, bear with me and I'll get over it. And just to sate you a little bit, next chapter has a very long overdue conversation.