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 7: Evil's Might!
"Hey, mom, what's up," Kim asked as she turned from packing for her trip to Hong Kong after a very long day. The university she had chosen was one of the best for medical studies. Colonel Black was right about that. It was why she chose it. That it was not going to be that far from her ninja boyfriend's secret second home was just gravy in her mind.
"You've got a call, honey," she told her as she grinned. "I don't think this one is a reporter," she added helpfully.
"They didn't say who it was?"
"Something about….owing you, and wanting to repay you?"
"Oh. Well, that could be…. Anyone," she realized as she reached for her extension as her mother left with a wave.
"Kim Possible," she chirped brightly. "How may I help…..?"
"Hello, Kimmie," a maddeningly familiar voice snipped in an all too familiar drawl.
"Shego? Since when do you bother calling? I think you'd be using your phone privileges for a better lawyer," she quipped.
"Who said I was still in the pen, Princess," the woman on the other end sniggered.
Kim sighed. "Look. Why don't you do us all a favor, and just….take another one of your vacations."
"Oh, this isn't about business as usual, Kimmie," she smirked. "This is an ultimatum."
"Shego, what are you up to now," she asked impatiently.
"Let me put it this way. I'm done playing around. You and I are going to come to an understanding, or you are not going to like the consequences."
"Oh, please. We both know I can handle anything….."
"Do you think I'm as loopy as Drakken," she snarled, cutting her off. "Not even close, Princess. But since I obviously need to get your attention, look outside your window."
She frowned, and walked over to the window of her room. Even as she looked outside, the shock wave shook the ground, and nearly knocked her flat even though she knew the explosion of green light had come from across town.
She stared at the fading green light that had briefly lit the night even as more typical smoke and flame rose from downtown, and she fought the ringing in her ears.
"Shego," she rasped, clenching the phone tightly. "What did you….."
"Just a warm-up, Princess," came the sardonic reply as the sound of sirens filled the air. "And a warning. Stay out of my way."
The line went dead as she stared at the rising smoke on the horizon, and she clenched both fists as a green aura sprang up around her, and her Lantern costume with it. "Mom," she shouted, "I have to go out."
She didn't wait for a reply as she shoved her window open, and flew up and away toward town.
*
She wasn't quite to the heap of flaming rubble she now realized with Middleton Mall when the bolt of sizzling energy knocked her out of the sky.
The attack came so suddenly that she wasn't able to stop herself in spite of her protective aura as a second bolt of deadly energy flashed out of the sky, and slammed into her again, ensuring she slammed into the ground hard enough to stun her.
She was just climbing to her feet when Electronique landed before her in a cybernetic battle suit that covered all but her smirking visage.
"Zzzzzo, ve meet again, Kim Pozzible. For zzza lazzzt time, I am zzzhinking," she cackled, and raised both hands that held some kind of emitters on the end of bulky gauntlets.
"I don't think so," she scoffed, and flew up and away before the woman could fire again.
Even as a burst of green flame slammed into her from behind, and knocked her back to the ground.
"C'mon, Kimmie," that sardonic drawl sounded as Shego walked out of the darkness to her right as she lifted herself to her hands and knees. "We're not even getting started yet, and you're already down? Guess you're not as tough as you……" Her shout of surprise echoed behind her as the green fist slammed into her, sending her flying even as two emerald vises clamped down on Electronique's emitter gauntlets as she shrieked indignantly.
"Zzzat is cheating," she howled, and she tried to pull free in vain.
Kim rose to her feet, and glared at the electronic engineer turned evil. "I think I've had about enough of you," she spat as the pinchers turned into snips, and cut the power pack from her side, leaving her trapped in her battle suit that froze in place, leaving her helplessly immobilized even as she turned to face Shego who was running back to face her with a furious glare on her green visage.
"You're going to pay for that one, Possible," she spat, and lunged at her.
Kim tensed, ready to intercept her and launch her offense, when Shego surprised her again.
She leapt over her head, landed in front of Electronique, and activated a mini-jetpack on her back as she glanced back to say, "Now, you can chase us, Princess," in a snide tone. "Or you can go find the second bomb I put under city hall. Your choice," she drawled sardonically, and launched herself into the night sky with the other woman in her arms.
"Wade," she called even as she lifted her Kimmunicator on her left wrist. "Did you hear….?"
"Already scanning, Kim," the young genius told her as he didn't even look up from whatever he was doing. "Got it. She wasn't bluffing. There's a small, unstable heat signature directly under the mayor's office. Kim, if it goes off, half the block goes with it!" "I'm on it. Meanwhile, try and track those two," she said as she flew up into the sky, and arched toward the local government building.
*
"That went perfectly, my lovely allies in crime," Senor Senior, Sr. smiled as they dropped down onto the plateau to join him as he gestured to the open door leading to the hidden lair he had built out of the shattered remnants of one of Drakken's hideouts. That he did so in a remarkably short time amazed even Shego, who had seen quite a lot of amazing things in her day.
"Never mind that. Did the gizmos get what we needed," Shego snapped as she all but dropped Electronique, and then headed inside.
The woman only glared, but said nothing as she followed with the old man who seemed to treat evil as a game.
"Oh, but of course. I did pay for the very best technology available, my dear woman," the tycoon smiled. "I might not understand everyting they recorded, but rest assured, they definitely registered an amazing amount of information."
"Leave zzhat to me," the pale woman now freed of her deactivated battle suit huffed. "Ve zzzhall zzzoon haf zzzhat buzzzybody'zzzz zzecretzzz, und vith zzzhem, her life," she crowed.
"Let's not celebrate till we pry that ring off her finger," Shego snapped. "I've seen that cheerleader win too many times when she should have been down for the count."
"You cannot underestimate the contributions of Mr. Stoppable," Senor Senior reminded her. "We were lucky he was not with her this evening."
"Why do you think I arranged the test while they were apart," Shego muttered darkly. "Just tell me Amy's about ready."
"She is finalizing her phase of the plan even as we speak," he nodded reassuringly. "If we get what we want from these scans, we may well finally achieve a means of defeating Kim Possible once and for all," he smiled pleasantly.
"Und ve have it," Electronique assured them as they saw her turning from the monitor she had barely even glanced at the way Shego saw it.
"You can already tell….?"
"There izz much to decipher, but zzhe spectral analyziz iz clear, my former rival," she smirked. "Zzhe energy devizze zzhe uzezz has a glaring weaknezzz! To all thingzzz employing a particular prizzmatic frequenzzy."
"Huh," Shego frowned.
"Anyzzhing yellow can pierze her barrierzzz," she grinned manically. "Not zzzo invulnerable after all," she cackled.
"Yellow," Shego muttered, staring at her gloved hands. "And I just had to be green."
"So, my dear, you are saying anything yellow can defeat her new weapon of choice?"
"Juzzt zzo," the woman smirked coldly.
"Excellent. Then all we need is a can of yellow paint, and we can use any weapon we want just by painting it the proper shade."
Shego couldn't help from rolling her eyes.
"Actually, he's right," Amy said as she walked into the room. "But you missed something, Sparky," she called Electronique.
"Vhat did you call me," she hissed.
"Look. Even if you break through the ringy, remember who this is. She's not going to just fall down, and give up."
"She's right," Shego grumbled. "Princess is notoriously stubborn about giving up, or giving in."
"So, Dr. Hall," Senor Senior cut off the latest confrontation between three stubborn women before it could begin anew. "What else did you determine?"
"Well, I had a little free time, so I watched some of the data downloading that your clever little suit collected. From what I could tell, that meanie Kim Possible's energy signature had a traceable gradient that suggested a limited time element in its efficacy."
"Of courzzze," Electronique shouted. "Zzhere izz no vay zzhat tiny ring could contain such energiezzz for unlimited periodzz ov time! Ve muzzt determine…."
"Twenty-four hours, more or less," Amy smiled smugly.
"How did you figure out….?"
"Hello. I may be a geneticist, but there is a lot of mathematics involved in any science," she told Shego.
"So, we catch Kimmie at a low ebb, drain her powers, and all we have are her usual tricks to deal with," Shego remarked.
"And those, we can and have neutralized before now," Senor Senior nodded firmly.
"Which is where my part of the plan comes in," Amy smirked. "Especially if we….amp things up just a little," she giggled. "This time, that meanie won't have a chance."
"I am all for zzhat," Electronique agreed. "Und vhen zzhe'zz down, ve will cruzh her on zzhe zzpot. Enough vith zhe zzilly trapzz. Juzzt cruzzh her!"
"Agreed," Senor Senior nodded.
"Absolutely," Amy Hall nodded eagerly.
"With….pleasure," Shego growled, her hands flickering ominously.
"Und zzhen….."
"You try to cross me this time, Sparky," Shego told her curtly, interpreting her expression from her own experience. "And there won't be enough of you left to bury," she warned, her hands flaring with superheated plasma.
"Ladies. Ladies, please. Remember, we are all on the same side this time," he reminded them. "And we must remain so if we are to have a chance against a common enemy. Do not forget, we could still face a formidable challenge in young Stoppable as well."
"He's right," Amy nodded sagely. "Oh, and that's my cookies," she beamed as a shrill beeping sounded.
"Cookiezzz," Electronique fumed. "You are baking cookiezzz in the middle uf our mozt evil plan?"
"Doy," Shego moaned as Senor Senior only sighed while Electronique stormed after Amy.
"Just think of the payday, my dear," the old man advised her with a smile.
"Don't you ever get tired of this crap," she demanded, and he knew which crap she meant.
"Why, Shego. It's all part of the game. And, honestly, I find it all rather amusing."
"You should try working with Drewbie," she scoffed, and started after the other two women even as the night sky over Middleton turned a bright green. A view that was caught on several of their extennal monitors.
She paused, looking at the monitors that caught the explosion, but even as the glare faded, a small, distinct smudge could be seen against the night sky flying back down toward the city. "Figures," she grumbled.
Senor Senior only smiled. "You didn't think she'd be that easy, did you, my dear?"
Shego's glare was eloquent before she stalked off after the other women.
*
"So, they just ambushed you, and then ran off? Weird."
"Not as weird as those two working together in the first place," Kim told Ron as they sat together late the next afternoon on the day before they were scheduled to head for their respective colleges.
"Well, yeah," Ron nodded, reaching for a chip in the bowl before them as they waited for their order to arrive. Lately, Bueno Nacho was busier than ever, and it didn't help that their presence seemed to bring even more customers in lately as everyone wanted to see the heroes more than ever since the days of the Lorwardian invasion had made them household names twice-over.
"It gets weirder. I called a contact in the DOC…."
"Huh?"
"Department of Corrections, Ron. Prisons," she added as his confused expression.
"Oh. Right. I knew that one."
"Riiiiight," she smiled. "Anyway, he said when Shego broke out last week, she sprang DNAmy, Electronique, and Senor Senior, Sr, too."
"Not Junior?"
"Just the old man."
"Hmmmm."
"What are you thinking?"
"That it's been over ten minutes. Ned is slowing down. Maybe he needs to hire more help."
"Ron. Focus," she sighed, guessing that some things just never changed with her fiancé.
"Kidding, KP," he smiled, but glanced toward the crowded counter all the same. "No, really. I was thinking, though, that it could mean Shego is up to something really evil this time."
"What makes you think that?"
"She didn't spring Drakken or Junior."
Kim sighed. Then frowned.
"Actually, that kind of makes sense."
"See? The Ron-Man does have something going on," he grinned as he tapped his blonde head.
"Yeah. Too bad no one knows what it is but you," a snide voice drawled.
"Hello, Bonnie," she sighed, not bothering to look up. If she knew anyone's voice, it was hers.
"K," the brunette drawled as she walked up to stand beside their booth.
"So, what's up," she sighed. They both knew Bonnie never showed up unless she wanted something these days.
"Junior wanted me to pass on a message."
"Junior," she and Ron both echoed as one.
"Yes," she huffed, glaring down at them. "He said to warn you his father was teaming up with one of their loopy bad guy friends to try to take you out."
"With several of them, more likely," Ron huffed.
"Okay, B. What's up," Kim asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Junior? Sending me messages through you?"
Bonnie's face went through several different comical expressions, then she sighed, and sat down next to Ron, staring at her with a bland expression. "Okay. Junior wanted to….show you that he was serious about giving up that whole evil thingy."
"That's why he helped his father try to take over the world's coffee crop," Ron asked.
"He didn't want to do that. He was roped into it. You know how that loopy old man is, K," she almost whined. "Junior wants out. Out-out. He wants to live an honest life. To….."
"Bonnie," Kim asked, cutting her off before she launched into a major whining fit. It wouldn't be the first time.
"We want to get married. But I told him he had to stand up to his father, and prove he was out of all that silly villainy for good," she pouted as she spilled that one.
"Let me guess. That's when he sent you here with the message about the obvious?"
"Well, I'd have called you sooner, but I got in really late after driving up to visit my little…. Uh, Junior. Besides, I really didn't expect them to try to blow up the city. I mean, who does that?"
"Bad guys," Ron stated baldly, Rufus pausing in stuffing his tiny cheeks to nod agreement.
"Here's your order, guys," Ned said as he delivered the heavily laden tray just then. "Oh, hi, Bonnie. Did you want something?"
"No" she shuddered. "I prefer healthy food, thank you. I just came to deliver a message, and….maybe you could….show up at Junior's parole hearing in three weeks, and….put in a good word," she asked with a faint smile.
Kim, who knew Bonnie quite well, sighed as she considered her options. "Look, I wasn't even around for that one, but….I promise. I'll talk to Junior. If I like what he has to say, then we'll put in good word for him with Dr. Director."
"Thank you," Bonnie surprised her by smiling, and leaping up to hug her. "I promise, he's really changed. Well, not that much. But he's changed regarding the….you know, bad stuff."
Ron rolled his eyes, and Rufus made a very good show of emulating him. Kim wisely said nothing as Bonnie hugged her again, and then all but skipped out of the restaurant.
"She does know you aren't the judge. Right," Ron asked. "You can't really just let him go."
"No, but if Junior is serious about going straight, we ought to give him the chance. After all, his dad really is kind of loopy at times. Just like she said."
"I'll say. I mean, whoever took me seriously before him. I mean, spinning tops of doom?"
"Let's not mention those again. Shall we," Kim frowned at that particular memory. "Besides, I take you seriously, naco-boy," she grinned.
Ron smiled back. Then reached for a greasy wrapper even as an explosion went off not three blocks away, and the shrill screams of people fleeing in fear reached their ears.
"Oh, maaaaan," Ron moaned, eyeing their order.
"C'mon, Ron. That sounded bad."
"I think that sounded worse," Ron said as they rushed out of the restaurant, and saw a car flying through the air toward a nearby park. Fortunately it was empty. What drew their attention, however, was the ominous roar of something very big that was coming toward them.
Even as they rounded a block, and almost got mobbed by a throng of fleeing people in full panic mode, they spotted the first creature.
"Oh…..snap," Ron groaned as he saw the massive creature that looked very much like a dinosaur built like a tank mixed with a rhino, and with extra horns protruding from a massive skull.
Even as Kim's ring flared, and her distinctive costume materialized around her, she focused on the three beasts and made a startling realization.
"Ron, they're yellow."
"They don't look scared to me," he grumbled as he glanced from the somber redhead to the three massive creatures bearing down on them. Rufus took one look at them, and made a strategic retreat deep into his usual pocket.
"No, Ron. Yellow. And my ring has problems with anything yellow."
Ron frowned. "Did they know it?"
Kim frowned. "I don't see how, but….maybe…. I mean, Shego was on that mission wiht us. Then, too, Amy is admittedly pretty smart, and then Electronique was pretty easy to beat this time around. Even Shego…."
"Look out," he yelped, and jumped to one side as Kim leapt another even as one of the bizarre creatures charged their way, seeing two targets not fleeing their presence.
"I get it," she realized. "All that equipment Electronique was wearing that night. It wasn't to fight me. It was to…..study me," she said, now hovering in the air as she eyed the yellow monstrosities that seemed to be focusing on her now that her green aura flared, and drew their attention.
"So, what do we do," Ron asked. "I don't think Justine is around any more. Her and that dimensional thingy went off to MIT by now."
"We do things the old-fashioned way," she said, and using her ring's power, she tore a telephone pole already leaning badly, and partially snapped in half out of the ground to dangle it in front of one of the beasts.
It charged, snarling as Kim flung it toward he park.
The creature, almost doglike, charged after it, smashing everything in its way.
"That's the old-fashioned way," Ron frowned, ducking another of the beasts as the third wavered, then ran off after the first.
"Lead it after the others," she told him. "We'll lure them to the canyon outside town, and box them in there."
"Gotcha," he nodded, and grabbed a much smaller sliver of a telephone post, and wagged it in front of the creature still focused on him.
"Here monster. Nice monster," he shouted, waving the stick.
The monster, naturally, roared and charged.
Ron turned and bolted, stick forgotten as he raced after Kim with the massive creature almost literally on his heels.
"Gotcha," Kim said as a green hand reached down and scooped him up before the bizarre animal could trample him.
"Well, one thing's for sure," he said, panting with a wide grin of genuine relief as they flew over the park with three yellow behemoths thundering after them.
"Yeah?"
"DNAmy is obviously working with Shego and Senior, Sr."
"I kind of picked that up, too," she said as they led the three beasts through the park that was going to need a lot of restoration, and toward the lane that led to the wide, deep canyons outside of town where Drakken had chosen to hide more than once when in the area.
She wondered about that, too.
This was twice Shego had apparently struck close to home, and without warning.
"I'm going to drop you off at the cliffs. Think you can create a landslide while I keep these guys busy long enough for you to create a barrier to hold them?"
"Consider it done," he nodded, his eyes starting to shimmer with mystic blue energies of his own even as he nodded for her to let him go.
"Good. I'll lead them in a little deeper. They might cool off if they have to start wandering around the canyons without anything to antagonize them," she told him as leapt free of her support, and landed nimbly on top of one of the high cliffs over the deep canyon below.
Ron stood atop the canyon, seemingly immobile for a moment before slowly raised his right hand, and closed his eyes, brow pinched in intense concentration. For several minutes, it seemed he was doing absolutely nothing.
Then a streak of blue flashed across the darkening sky, and Ron snatched it out of the air even as his entire body burst into flue flame. He leapt high, then arched his body so that he came down with the gleaming sword he now held leading the way. The mystic blade sliced deep into the rocky walls as he jumped down, then across, and back and forth as he moved up the canyon walls to start dropping more and more rubble until tons of rock soon formed a barrier even those monsters would have trouble getting through.
He had just sent the Lotus Blade back after relaxing his grip on the mystical energies he now embodied when Kim came out of the sky to land beside him.
"Well, that was easier than we could have hoped."
Which, naturally, was when Wade beeped.
"Go, Wade," she told him as she answered the call on her Kimmunicator.
"But if it's about giant dinosaurs, we already….."
"Not dinosaurs, guys," Wade told them uneasily as he cut Ron off. "Gorillas. Only no gorillas like I've ever seen."
"DNAmy," Kim grimaced. "Definitely, Amy."
"That would be my guess," Wade told him. "Three of them are attacking our houses. Your brother's containment field is keeping your house safe so far the last time I was able to check, Kim, but they're tearing mine and Ron's houses apart. I don't know about his folks, but me and mom are in the basement. But I don't think it's going to stay very safe here much longer. So……"
"Just hold on, Wade. We're on our way," she told him, and grabbed Ron. "I'll drop you on the way, and then head to Wade's house," she told him.
"Right," he nodded grimly, thinking of his family facing some giant monster.
They spotted the first animal even before they neared Ron's house. That was due to the fact it was as big as two elephants, and bright yellow. It also had the head of meat-eating dinosaur attached to the apelike body, and a long, deadly tail it was using to smash down the walls of his house at the moment.
"They definitely know about you," Ron realized.
"Never mind. Can you handle this one?"
"Consider it handled," Ron hissed, and let go even as she did.
She didn't hesitate, but flew toward Wade's house, knowing their new house wasn't completely fortified since they had only started rebuilding again in spite of Wade's contacts. The Lorwardians had overwhelmed a lot of the usual construction businesses, and the only reason her house was back so quickly was because her brothers and uncle were geniuses when it came to modular construction.
She spotted the second yellow dino-ape even as she arched down toward Wade's house. Like Ron's, the beast was using its long, thick tail to smash down walls, and had already collapsed a large section of the roof. Wade's mom was so not going to like this one bit, she knew.
She just hoped the tweebs really were holding off their own attacker.
Flying low, she tried to draw the dino-ape's attention.
Right before he flung a chunk of a shattered chimney at her, and smashed a neighbor's car when she barely managed to evade it.
"Okay, so it's not as dumb as the others."
The ape-creature roared, and lifted more large pieces of rubble to fling at her. Which it did in wild abandon without even trying to chase her.
"Definitely smarter," she grimaced, forced to intercept or deflect much of the rubble so it didn't endanger those still cowering in their own homes.
She tried to hit the creature with a chunk of rubble she slung back at him with her ring, but it only caught it again, and flung it right back.
Strike two, she thought grimly.
A hard, green fist slid ineffectually off the thing's thick, yellow hide, but she felt that very big fist when it slammed into her, and she was sent flying without benefit of her ring to smash into the side of a neighbor's house.
Sliding down the aluminum siding, she dropped to her knees, and looked up half expecting to see the creature charging at her. It was just standing there watching her.
Okay, she realized somberly. Much smarter than the others.
So, how did you beat something you couldn't hit. Couldn't outsmart. And couldn't…..
She smiled, and shot straight up into the air in a flash of green. Turning, and arching down in the same instant, she flashed down, circled behind the house, and came up behind the ape-beast before it could turn, clamping a green bubble down over his huge, lizard-like head before it could react. Just before she willed the sphere to suck out every molecule of oxygen.
The creature went into paroxysms almost immediately as it beat its own fists against the sphere that cracked and began to shatter as those yellow fists hammered her green barrier. She continued to focus, constantly reinforcing her weakening bubble as fast as it failed until the dino-ape slowed, dropping to its knees as it choked violently, and fell still. She kept the bubble in place all the same as it lay twitching, knowing sympathy was not going to help anyone just now. Least of all her.
"Thanks, KP," Wade grinned as her Kimmunicator lit up. "I knew you could do it."
"That makes one of us, Wade," she told him honestly. "Listen, I think Shego and company are in the canyons, using a base to launch their attacks from there. Can you….?"
"I think enough of my gear survived to find them. You go help Ron. I'll take care of things here," he said before the Kimmunicator went silent.
Even as she reached Ron's house, she realized the beast was down, and Ron was slamming a piece of marble twice his size into the ape's bloody reptilian skull again and again as he howled his displeasure at the beast.
"I think you got him, Ron," she grinned as she landed beside him.
"Yeah. I hope PETA doesn't come after me for this. Jeez, Kim, I just got my room the way Rufus and I liked it again, and….."
He gestured with a groan. The side of the house smashed in was his side of the attic room where his parents had made him a room after Hana moved in.
"What about your family?"
"They're in my old panic room," he grinned. "I guess it was worth the money I spent after all," he grinned. "What about your house?"
"I flew over on the way back. The tweebs have the last ape-thing inside a containment bubble. That one isn't going anywh….."
The sound of many feet filled the air just then, and Ron groaned. "What now," he groaned.
Both of them turned toward the dark streets, the last of the sunlight gone by now as the sounds of a stampede filled the air, and the ground began to shake.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me," Ron moaned, staring at the sight of a herd of four foot turtle-shelled crabs the size of ponies charging at them.
They were, of course, as yellow as the sun.
"This is getting so old….."
"What is it?"
"Ron. I think they know about more than the color weakness. I think they somehow figured out my time limits. I think they're trying to make me use up my ring's charge so they can…."
"Take you out? C'mon, KP. Even without the ring, you have beat all those losers before."
"Yeah," she frowned as she watched the weird crab turtles getting closer. "Separately. This is new even for us. We'd better see if they're as easily led as the first group, or if they're as smart as….."
"Okay, not smart," Ron said as she lifted him into the air again, and started to hover before them, causing more than a few to charge into the fallen dino-ape again and again as they tried to bull through the unconscious creature rather than turn around it.
"Wanna bet they key on you again," Ron asked as he eyed them, noticing more than a few kept trying to keep going straight toward them in spite of the obstacles around them.
"Yeah, but where we lead them? We kind of blocked off the canyon."
"I don't think that would be the problem with these guys," he murmured as he noticed the weird crabs were now climbing up and over the ape-beast, and kept climbing anything else in their way.
"Which is a problem in itself," she grimaced as she slowly retreated back up the street, the dozens of weird creatures definitely following her.
"Yeah. Because how do you block something that can climb over anything you put in its way?"
"I was thinking of something else, Ron."
"What," he asked, feeling Rufus still cowering in his pocket where he had stayed since getting his first look at the rhino-dinos.
"Well, how to stop then, yeah. But I was wondering what comes next? We can't do this all night. Every time we beat one of these things, something new pops up, and it's like they have us on….GPS, or something."
"Maybe they do," Ron suggested.
"What?"
"Well, if Electronique is working with Shego, maybe she put something in them that helps them….find you."
"Or…..my ring," she realized, looking down at the ring on her hand.
"What are you thinking?"
"I need to try something. But we need room to run just in case."
"So….."
"Back to the park," she told him, and flew there well ahead of the crabs.
Landing in the dark, she willed the ring to power down, and fade. Even as she did, she noticed the crabs were charging pell-mell into the park after them. She led Ron deeper into the dark, taking a zigzagging course as she circled wide around the bizarre creations now hunting them.
"They're acting…."
"Like they're lost," Kim nodded. "You were right. They were engineered to hone in on my ring's energies somehow. Much as I admire their cleverness, right now I just want to dropkick all four of those jerks back into jail. Hard!"
"You and me both," Ron grumbled. "But first we have to find them."
"I've got Wade working on that. Right now, we have to find a way to neutralize these guys before they take off and start blinding attacking anything if they can't find me."
"Too bad you can't send them home."
"Ron, if….."
He sighed even as he anticipated another lecture from his well-meaning but occasionally moody and short-tempered fiancee, but instead she grinned.
"That's genius," she said instead.
"It is?"
"Of course. Wade," she called her longtime friend again. "Tell me you found something?"
"Well, I am picking up some bizarre energy fluctuations at one of Drakken's old lairs."
"Any indications of where our new friends are coming from."
"Oh. Yeah," he nodded knowing. "They all seemed to come from the same general direction. I'm sending you a digital map now, but I think you already know where it's at, Kim."
"Right. The old lair near the river dam."
She raised her fist and smiled. "Time for a family reunion," She said as she let her ring flare, and the turtle-crabs roared instantly as if catching her 'scent' again.
"Ready," she asked as her green costume flowed around her.
"Always," he nodded, and let her carry him into the air once again.
"Good. Then let's go thank Shego for all her attention," she fairly growled as they flew off toward the dam, and the real threat facing Middleton just then.
To Be Continued……