I do not own Kim Possible, or any other Disney or DC character. I'm just borrowing them for my own view of alternative tales.
KP: Green Lantern's Light
By LJ58
Part 4: The Corps
"Hey, Posers," the massive Green Lantern from planet Bolovax Vik grinned cockily at the colorfully clad humans before him as he stepped into the ship. "So, who's wearing the ring?"
"That would be me," Kim said as she stood up only after shutting down the ship's active systems. "I'm Kim Possible."
"Yeah? So what? You got a date with the Guardians, little girl. After we take care of the Juggernaut….."
"You mean this," Ron asked, holding up the EM chamber holding the hovering sphere.
"Whoa? You monkeys trying to tell me that this is the most feared planet-eating monster in half the galaxy?"
"Yup," Ron grinned as the big Lantern eyed the small sphere held in the containment chamber. "Pretty cool, huh?"
"Kilowog," a lean, birdlike Lantern with a large fin flaring out from his bald skull called. "What is going on? Did you find the new Lantern?"
"I found her," he called back. "But I think she's shy of a few…."
Kim gestured to the box she took from Ron. "Go ahead, and scan it. The containment chamber won't interfere with your ring."
Kilowog frowned, and lifted a big hand to aim a shimmering, green light that emanated from his ring at the golden sphere. "Holy…..! Are you saying you posers managed to take out a monster that has terrified half the galaxy by turning into a Zoquk'n chewtoy?"
"It was no….."
"Agh! I swear, Princess, if you say 'no big,' I'm going to seriously hurt you," Shego growled, obviously starting to recover by then as she struggled to her feet between the GJ agents holding her.
"You are a princess," Kilowog asked as Tomar-Tu peered into the ship, and stared at them.
"No. She just calls me that," Kim explained as she set the containment chamber aside as the agents carried their wounded off the ship, followed by Team Go.
"Soooooo. Is she your captive, or your lover," Tomar asked, cocking his head as he studied the green-skinned woman.
"What," both women squeaked.
"Listen, bird-beak," Shego growled. "I like guys. Got it. Guys. Not stuck up, overly cocky women with delusions of…..!"
"Come on, sis. I think you'd better go cool off before you face a judge," Hego suggested as he helped the agents lead her to the hatch.
"Cool off," she sputtered. "Do you know what we just went through?"
Kim sighed, and shook her head as the woman was led outside. "She has a good heart," Kim explained at the two Lantern's frown. "She just can't decide which side of the law she favors."
"So, she is adventurer," a smaller, chipmunk-like Lantern hopped up into the shuttle to comment.
"Uh, something like that," Kim responded as she eyed the smaller Lantern on Tomar's shoulder.
"Is this your mate, then," Tomar asked as he eyed Ron, the only one left behind by then.
"Not yet," Kim smiled, "But soon, I hope," she said, eyeing Ron who studied the big alien somberly.
"Ignore him," Kilowog grunted. "Tomar gets obsessed with xeno-biology when he meets a new species."
"Uh, okay," Kim murmured, "So, now what?"
"Well. You supposedly beat the Juggernaut, little girl," Kilowog grinned. "That's pretty good for a newbie."
"Very good," Ch'p agreed.
Kilowog silenced him with a hard glare. Then looked back to Kim, telling her, "Still, you got an appointment with Guardians to clear up a few things. Now."
"I was just getting ready to go see them," she assured him.
"Uh, mates, or potential mates, aren't allowed," a very golden-skinned female with an otherwise human appearance said as she joined the other three Lanterns in the shuttle when it seemed they were not coming out.
"I guessed as much, and I was about to say goodbye to him when we met up with you guys."
"Then say it, and let's go," Kilowog told her impatiently, starting to turn to the hatch now.
"Hold on," Kim snapped. "I'm not leaving this ship behind. My people aren't ready for the kind of weaponry and technology it's got, and I'd rather not have the wrong people, or even the right people using it against anyone else on the planet."
"So destroy it," Kilowog shrugged. "It's not like we need it."
"Kilowog is always in rush," Ch'p told Kim in a soft chitter. "Rush, rush, rush. You get used to him."
"Watch it, furball," the big Lantern growled.
"Kimberly," Dr. Director shouted just then, her personal VTOL having just delivered her to where the world had seen four aliens appear just moments before Kim returned to land the alien ship outside the local GJ office. Cameras were already surrounding the block, but none of the journalists wanted to get too close after their experiences with previous visitors. Will had already called, and assured her the planet was safe, but now the army was headed for Upperton, and she preferred no one be left standing around when they arrived.
"That's my boss," Kim told her, and stepped past the sputtering Kilowog.
"Dr. Director. Did Will tell you….?"
"I got the short version. But you had better do whatever you're going to do, Kimberly," she told her as she tried very hard not to gape at the very alien Lanterns with her. "General Paxton has put the entire area Guard on alert, and is flying in with a strike force to take your friends, along with that spacecraft, even as we speak."
"I appreciate the warning," she said as she turned back into the shuttle. "We were just going."
"Guess I better go, KP," Ron said quietly, conscious of the four xenos staring at him as he lightly kissed her. "You be careful. And don't forget where you belong."
"Never, Ron," she said, and hugged him fiercely. "I'll be back before you know it."
"I'm already missing you," he said even as he stepped backwards out of the shuttle, missed the ramp, and landed flat on his back on the ground.
"Ah, maaaaan," he complained as the big alien snickered down at him.
"That's your bond-mate," Kilowog asked as she turned from closing the hatch, and took the controls to lift the spacecraft back into the air even as several Air Force jets flew by, and banked to intercept her. Even before they could finish a turn, Ron was still on his back, watching the spacecraft vanish in a burst of speed that no jet on Earth could have hoped to match.
"You okay, Stoppable," Betty Director asked as she offered him a hand.
He took it, climbing to his feet, and still looking up.
"I will be. When she gets back," he said somberly, and turned to go.
"You did good work out there, Ronald," she told him.
"We all did," he told her. "Even Shego. We might not have done half so well without her," he admitted.
The woman nodded. "I'll bear that in mind," she told him as he walked away, heedless of the first military jeep that rolled up toward Betty as they completely ignored the sandy-haired man in a dark blue jumpsuit that blended into the crowd before anyone even looked his way.
KP
"Okay, little poser," Kilowog asked as the spacecraft left the planet. "Can we dump this tin can now, and get on with it?"
"Just as soon as I finish programming the autopilot to fly this thing into the sun," she told him. "I'm pretty sure it can't do any harm once I crash it there."
"I'm surprised you didn't keep it for your scientists, since it is so advanced," Arisia remarked as she studied her.
"Are you kidding," Kim exclaimed as she rose from the command seat. "I've spent almost half my life keeping toys like this out of overgrown boys' hands. Something like this would only make things worse for most of the people on my planet. Not better."
"Interesting," Tomar-Tu remarked.
"Whatever. Can we go," Kilowog demanded curtly.
"Wait. I can't leave this behind," she said, and scooped up the containment chamber to slide it into the pocket dimension with her power lantern before she raised her energy field to protect her as Kilowog reached for the hatch controls.
"Why not," Arisia asked.
"There are still people on it," she told the blonde. "And as I understand it, the Juggernaut is some kind of living being, too," she stated. "Killing it would just be….wrong."
"You do know that thing has killed countless billions, and destroyed hundreds of planets," she told Kim.
"I….didn't know that. But….I still don't like to kill. It's not my way," she told her as they flew out of the spacecraft now on a direct course toward the sun.
Kim looked around her, genuinely stoked at floating in space under her own power like this, and then looked to the apparent leader and asked Kilowog, "So, what now?"
"Now we go to Oa, little girl," he sniffed.
"Okay. How," she asked, expecting to have see another ship rendezvousing with them, but seeing nothing.
He slapped a big hand over his own face. "You may be clever, but you obviously haven't learned everything," he said, and simply grabbed her waist to pull her close to him before she could react. "Just hold on, watch, and learn," he said, and held out his ring as Kim glared at his brusque manner.
Space warped around them even as he a shimmering green curtain swelled around them, and they seemed to explode forward so fast that even the streaks of the stars faded into a single, white blur around them as he carried her through space/time, and toward their ultimate destination.
"See, Poser," he mocked. "These rings can do a lot more than make you fly, or form crude weapons. They're an ultimate weapon, capable of literally anything. Which is why the Guardians gotta be real careful about who gets one. They gotta make sure only truly evolved, and worthy sentients get their mitts on one of these things. The only real limitation, after all, is your own mind and will. Like now. I just have to think about getting to Oa, and the ring takes me there."
"But you're talking about light years, and….."
"Who's the highly advanced sentient being here, and who isn't," Kilowog demanded as they erupted out of the white tunnel back into normal space, and she found herself looking down at a huge, desert planet she knew was far from home if the vague star map given her earlier by the ring was any indication.
"Oa," Arisia gestured as she flew up beside her as Kilowog released her. "Home of the Guardians, and the Green Lantern Corps," the amber-skinned woman told her.
"Spankin'," she exclaimed, taking control of her own flight again after Kilowog let her go, and she easily followed the four Lanterns in descending to the large planet that would have dwarfed Earth three times over.
The big Lantern just stared at her as if she were insane.
KP
"Kimberly Anne Possible of the Planet Earth," a small, blue man in a scarlet robe stated even as she landed on the large, circular platform adorned with the Lantern's symbol that Kilowog led her to as they descended down through the thick, but breathable atmosphere that let her drop her protective barrier even as her feet touched the center of the platform.
"Yes," she asked, looking up a circle of blue men with thin, white hair that levitated down to a narrow balcony that surrounded the platform. She got the feeling it was some kind of court. Or that was her first impression.
"Neither you, nor your world are entirely unfamiliar to us," another Guardian spoke as he raised a hand, and the containment chamber she had concealed in the ring's pocket dimension appeared, and hovered before the small, blue man before it was taken, and placed on a small dais that seemed to rise before him just for that purpose. "We have watched it, and you before now. Still, while we felt your planet not yet ready for direct contact, it is plain that you displayed both remarkable courage and wisdom in dealing with the threat to your world, and your system."
"Thank you," she smiled weakly, still not sure what was going on here.
"That said, we must now deal with the fact that your world has been exposed to the greater galaxy, and the implications it entails. As well as the passing of one of our own."
"You mean the ali….. Uh, other Lantern. He kind of…..got blown up when his ship exploded."
"I see," yet another Guardian murmured, and all of the little men focused on her.
"Show us," they spoke as one, and Kim gasped as she sensed what felt like tiny, stinging fingers in her very mind as she saw the past few days flit by her as if played out on a holo-screen as she chased down Drakken and Shego, found Abin Sur, and then received the charge to face the Juggernaut before it could threaten the Jovian moons. Or Earth.
She saw again the battle on the Juggernaut, and the daring plan she had came up with as Team Go and the Global Justice agents fought to give her time to find and exploit the planet-killer's main CPU.
"A most novel solution to a problem that has plagued the galaxy since the weapon masters unleashed this creation upon us," one of the Guardians murmured as he glanced to the displayed sphere. "What of the other sentients that accompanied it," another asked. "Surely not all were caught by the affects of diminutizing the Juggernaut."
"Most of them fled," Kim admitted, "But there are three still left on my planet. A Lorwardian, and two Zarqu are in my nation's custody."
"They shall need to be put into our custody once you are return to carry out your duties in your sector."
"Then you are sponsoring this female as Abin Sur's successor," another of the Guardians asked his companion.
"I am. All agreed?"
There was a silent murmuring just barely audible around her as the Guardian's eyes glowed faintly and briefly.
"All opposed," the one who spoke for her asked.
There was an equally brief silence, but no humming, and then the Guardian eyed her. "Kimberly Anne Possible, you are now formally accepted as a member of the Green Lantern Corps. Your trainer shall explain your duties and responsibilities to you in the course of your instruction prior to formally taking on the mantle as Green Lantern for your sector."
"That would be me, little Poser," Kilowog smiled a little too smugly for her liking.
"Not this time, Kilowog," another Guardian told him as a newcomer appeared on the platform.
Kim found herself frowning at the tall, red-skinned Lantern that eyed her with eyes black as night and a faintly devilish look that went beyond his pigmentation.
"Kimberly Anne Possible. This is Sinestro of Plantar Korugar in Sector 1417. He will be overseeing your training, and will ascertain your readiness to take up your new role."
"All right," she murmured, frowning at the tall, lean man now at her side.
"What's wrong, little monkey," the man smiled down at her. "Does the sight of a more highly evolved male intimidate you?"
"As if," she snorted.
"With all due respect," Kilowog growled, eyeing Sinestro himself. "I thought I had supervision over all the new recruits."
"In this case, we are giving the female to Sinestro to train, Kilowog. You are needed for an emergency that has just arisen in your own sector. As Sinestro's own sector remains stable, and he has proven himself a capable and efficient member of the Corps, we are letting him hand Kimberly Anne Possible's instruction."
Kim did not like the way the man smiled at her.
"So, what's up," Kilowog asked as he focused on his own duty.
"Follow me, little monkey," Sinestro told her with a faint sneer. "I shall soon learn if you are worthy of the Guardian's trust, or not."
"You guys have a real ego problem in this outfit, don't you," she asked as she took flight at his side even as the Guardians departed.
"You will find your backward little planet isn't unknown to us," Sinestro told her. "But neither is it very respected. You're a primitive, barely evolved species that can barely manage to take care of yourselves, and yet you already trying to fling yourselves out into the greater universe as if you were privileged to trespass by some divine right."
Kim frowned. "We might have our problems, but there are a lot of good people on my world. Just like I'm sure there are good and bad anywhere in the universe."
"Well said," the Lantern told her blandly as she was led not away from Oa as half expected, but deeper into a massive, almost fortress-like structure that made up the huge city that seemed to be the only structure on the entire planet as far as she could tell from her earlier descent. "We shall see how well your sentimental strictures hold up in the reality you are soon to face, though."
"So, what's the first lesson?"
"Education, little primate," he told her, and led her into a huge chamber when the very air seemed to vibrate and glow green. "Behold, the Heart of the Corps."
"Wow," Kim blinked, staring at the huge, green lantern like her own that glowed with power so intense it was literally radiating all around them. "Here is the source of the energy that fuels your power lantern, and your ring. The former you must return to recharge every six months. The latter must be recharged every twenty-four hours."
"Got it," she murmured, not bothering to tell him she had already learned part of that.
"The battery is not just a source of energy, though," Sinestro told her as he led her up to the very edge of the nearest open port. "It is also the source of knowledge for most of the known galaxy, and beyond."
"Really?"
"Really," the Lantern told her dryly. "If you are going with me to Korugar, you will need to learn about my sector. Hold out your ring, and focus on Sector 1417. The ring will teach you what you need to know."
"All right. Like…..a computer download?"
Sinestro merely eyed her as she raised her ring, gave her a dry expression, and grabbed her wrist. "This is not a sampling, female. It is full immersion," he growled, and shoved her ringed fist into the heart of the green fire before her.
Kim gasped, feeling as much as seeing the flood of knowledge that flowed into her brain, threatening to overwhelm her mind completely before she began to get a grasp on the flood that proved to have an order to it once she absorbed the sequence that sorted it into her mind.
She staggered back, shaking her head briefly as she eyed him coolly, but Sinestro only blandly applauded. "Bravo," he remarked sardonically. "Do you know the last primate that tried to link with the Battery without training fried his entire cerebellum? There might be some hope for you after all."
"Gee, thanks. You're all heart, aren't you, Sinestro."
The taller male only smiled. "If you listen to me, little monkey. You will find your sector soon as orderly as my own, and your duties lightened considerably…… What are you doing," he frowned as he watched her produce her power battery.
"Well, as I don't know when Abin Sur last recharged, it wouldn't hurt to make sure I've got a full charge before we leave. Right?"
"Hmmmm. Perhaps you do have…..some wit."
She smiled. "So, you admit even primates can be clever?"
"Reluctantly. And obviously only in….rare cases," he told her, and turned to leave the Battery chamber as she put her power battery away. "Very rare cases," he added as she joined him after recharging her ring, again, too, since it had been almost a full day since she had last charged it.
"You're not a real people person, are you," Kim asked as he led her past dozens of truly bizarre, to her, Lanterns that represented races from across the galaxy. Her father would be really stoked to see half of what she was seeing, and it sobered her when she realized just what the Green Lantern Corps represented, and what it had been doing since the Guardians had first formed the Lantern that fueled their paramilitary forces to patrol and keep order in the galaxy.
Sinestro eyed her with a single arched brow, and replied, "Every time I think you might have some redeeming qualities, you go and open your mouth."
She saw Arisia as they headed for the last door that led outside the great hall, and the golden Graxonite smiled wanly, and nodded, telling her, "Good luck, human. You'll need it."
Kim frowned at that as she looked back at the woman, and then as the dour Lantern beside her who was looking up.
"What did she mean by that?"
Sinestro smirked, and raised his ring. "Do try to keep up."
And then launched himself into the sky.
"You self-righteous…….!" With an indignant growl she flew up after him, and disappeared into the sky as Ch'p and Tomar-Tu stared after them from a nearby window.
"How long lasting," the small, furry Lantern asked.
"I give her two weeks. Maybe…..three."
"Is bet."
"What's your bet," Arisia asked them as she walked into the lounge.
"I bet two, maybe three weeks," the tall, beaked Lantern told her.
"Only one. No more. Sinestro hard master. Very hard."
"I'll take that bet."
"What's your wager," Tomar asked her with a squawk of delight.
"I'll bet she lasts. That she comes back a full Lantern."
"Her," both Lanterns gaped.
"Sucker bet," both declared in their next breath.
"We'll see," the Graxonite smiled. "But any female that can neutralize the Juggernaut the way she did might be more than even Sinestro can handle."
Both Lanterns frowned at that. Even Sinestro had been repelled by the Juggernaut not once, but twice.
"Not think of that," Ch'p realized, looking as if he already reconsidered his wager.
"That's right, furball," the golden-haired Lantern grinned. "It is a sucker bet. Be ready to pay up."
"Women," both grumbled as the woman sauntered away.
To Be Continued……