BE, S SI: Oops...
Disclaimer/Author's Notes: Kim Possible and all the characters of the show are owned by the Disney Company. All other characters can be blamed on the author (he, however, is not responsible for all of their actions at all times, being barely responsible for himself most of the time….).
This is a strictly not-for-profit, just-for-fun work.
You can read this without reading the background stories, but I would highly recommend (shameless plug) Black Hole Deep, version 2.0 and BE, S 1: Blue Eyes, Shining. You'll enjoy this story even more, and this story will make more sense if it's read in context.
To everyone who has read thus far and continues to read and review: thank you: your reads and reviews continue to fuel me.
A/N Forward:
Question:
What's buried in your head so deep, what do you fear so much, that you would not want to share with the person that you love more than life itself?
Answer:
Kim and Jocelyn Possible, and Ron Stoppable and Wade Load, are all about to find out….
More fears and beliefs shatter, and some hearts are healed, and more deep learning experiences occur, as well.
This is a Blue Eyes, Shining Special Intermezzi:
Oops….
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Chapter 4: Friendship
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'You have learned what love means.
'Now you will learn friendship,' and Ron, Kim, Joss, and Wade all fell to the floor, unconscious, as the walls all dissolved.
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'Welcome, Wade.'
'Ron?'
'You are in my head, Wade.'
'Whazzup, Ron?'
'Welcome, Joss.'
'Kim?'
'You are in my head, Joss.'
'Welcome, Ron.'
'Wade?'
'You are in my head, Ron.'
'Coolio.
"Whazzup, Wade?'
'Welcome, Kim.'
'Joss?'
'You are in my head, Cousin Kim.'
And there was a chorus of
'oh, man…'
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(Ron, in Wade's body/head)
'Well, this is awk-wierd, Wade.'
'Not really, Ron. We've become better friends over the past two years, ever since I confided in you about my feelings about Jocelyn.
'You didn't laugh, Ron: Thank you.'
'Wade, as many times as you could have laughed at me and didn't, it was the least I could do.
'So, what's the sitch here?'
'Well, you know the drill,' and the dark brown walls disappeared to reveal Wade's bedroom.
'So,' and a hologram of Kim in the battlesuit appeared.
'WHOA, Wade! That's badical!' as the hologram walked over to the seated Wade and climbed into his lap, nibbling at his ear.
'Whoa, Wade? What's going on?'
'You'll see, Ron,' and a holographic Ron appeared, also in a battlesuit. He walked over to holoKim, pulled her off of Wade's lap, and kissed her passionately.
'I'm sorry, Ron, Kim,' Wade spoke quietly as they kissed and began to unzip their battlesuits, and the holograms disappeared.
'Wade, why did you stop?'
'I can't take it, anymore,' Wade said, standing up from his seat.
'I killed my best friends with untested tech, and I'm still here,' and Wade reached into his desk drawer and pulled out a knife.
'I let them down, and I don't deserve to live,' and Wade slit his wrist, the blood spurting as the scene dissolved into the dark-brown walls as Wade walked out, blood spilling onto the floor..
'Wade, what happened?' Ron asked.
'I sent you out with the new battlesuits, and I didn't test them fully. You both got caught in crossfire, and the invulnerability capability had a catastrophic failure.
'They found the two of you, holding each other, lying in a pool of blood.
'They buried you together: it was Kim's dad's request, and your parents agreed to it.
'They gave me a medal for all of the work that we had done together, but I knew:
'I'd let you down, and I don't deserve to even be in the same cemetery as you, Ron.
'I'm sorry. Please forgive me,' and Wade collapsed as he walked back into the dark-brown wall and disappeared.
'Wade, we know the chances we take,' Ron said as he hugged the sobbing super-genius.
'You will never let either of us down, Wade.'
'HOW DO YOU KNOW, Ron?' Wade shouted at his friend, and Wade's tears joined Ron's face.
'Because Kim would kill you herself if you did, Wade, my man,' Ron replied, and Wade looked up at him in disbelief, then grinned and started laughing at the same time.
Ron joined him in the laughter.
'She would, wouldn't she?' Wade observed.
'All 16 kinds, Wade: all 16 kinds,' Ron replied.
'Oooh, that could be a wonderful way to go,' Wade grinned.
'Death by Kimila,' and the walls disappeared and a totally tacky bedroom appeared, spinning glitter ball in the mirrored ceiling and round, rotating bed in the middle.
Kim came walking into the room, and she was leading Wade.
Wade was smiling.
'Well, lover, what do you want tonight?' Kim purred, and Ron's lower regions awakened.
'I just want to watch you, Kim,' Wade replied as he sprawled on the bed.
'Oooh, that could be fun,' Kim giggled, and she pulled off her green crop-top to reveal her sports bra.
'You like, Wade?' and she walked sensuously over to the edge of the bed, rubbing Wade's arm with her hand.
'Me like, Kim,' Wade replied, and Kim reached down and pulled off his shoes and socks, rubbing his feet after she had removed them.
Then, she stood and kicked off her tennis shoes and sat on the edge of the bed, and she pulled her socks off so sensuously that Ron thought his heart was going to explode.
She stood and wiggled out of her Capri's, revealing her bikini underwear, and her outfit concealed more than her swimsuit revealed.
Wade didn't care.
Kim came over and rubbed his cheek with her hand, then stroked his leg, and then leaned over and kissed him.
Before Ron could say anything-
'How about a little Cafe au Lait, Wade?' and Wade smiled as he looked up.
Ron's jaw dropped even lower when he saw who had entered:
MC Honey, Joss and Monique!
The two lovely African-American ladies escorted Joss in. Kim went back to them, and she stood between Joss and MC Honey.
'How 'bout a little 'double stuff,' Wade,' Joss asked, grinning, and Wade laughed.
Ron missed the cookie reference.
The new arrivals were all dressed in Kimitation Nation: green crop-top, black Capri's, and tennis shoes.
All three ladies that were dressed reached up and removed their crop-tops, and Wade smiled even more.
Then, they all three kicked off their tennis shoes and wiggled out of their Capri's, and they all stood there in their underwear, again showing less than a well-designed bikini.
Monique and MC each wore green panties and a sports bra that left little to the imagination, but covered more than the bikinis that Ron had seen.
That made no difference, however: Ron was wide awake.
Joss was dressed like Kim, bikini underwear that had Wade's full attention.
Monique gave Ron a come-hither look, and she called him with her index finger.
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(Joss, in Kim's body/head)
'Welcome, Joss.'
'Kim?'
'You are in my head, Joss.'
'Whoa, cousin Kim! This is spankin!' I get to be you!'
'Well, not exactly, Joss, and that's an appropriate word for you to use…' and the green walls faded to reveal a much-younger Kim holding a baby in her arms.
'Mom, why can't I have a baby sister like Andrea?' Kim Pouted, and Anne Possible laughed.
'Won't work on me, Kim: I'm a carrier of the pout,' she smiled and patted her belly, large with more than lunch inside.
'Besides, you said you wanted to have brothers,' Anne reminded her.
'But not at the same time! I wanted them to come along and worship their sister properly; this way, twins will try to gang up on me!' Kim moaned as she rocked Andrea, her cousin gurgling.
'You'll do fine, Kimberly Ann,' Sheri Nicole Possible told her niece, and Kim smiled.
'Sheri, how did you get rid of that baby fat so fast?' Anne groaned as she fell onto the couch. 'It took me months to lose that weight when Kim was born,' she bemoaned.
'Slim,' Sheri replied, and Ann blushed as she smiled while Sheri did the same.
'Honey, that man is a miracle worker: I lost 20 pounds in 4 weeks on the Slim Possible diet: Eat all you can, and work it off,' Sheri Nicole smiled, and Anne laughed out loud.
'LA LA LA LA,' sang Joss at the top of her lungs.
'LA LA LA LA LA; I am not hearing what I think I'm hearing,' Joss added.
'It's true, Andrea,' Sheri looked up and addressed Joss, and them Sheri smiled.
'Your father and I played 'Ranchhand and the Ranch Baron's daughter' far too many times, Andrea,' Sheri Nicole grinned. 'Where do you think you came from?'
The green walls faded in and out, and a five-year-old Kim stood at the front door, her arms crossed and a look of determination on her face.
'I don't need a babysitter,' she announced for the last time, and her mother smiled and shook her head 'no.'
'Kimmie, you father and are going out for our anniversary, and we are not taking the twins with us.
'Think of this person as their babysitter, not yours,' she added as the doorbell rang.
'She opened it to reveal.
'Marsha!' and Marsha Nelson Garcia came in and hugged Dr. Anne Possible.
Kim growled silently.
Marsha stood to the side, and two older people came in the door following her.
The 'older people' were a young man and woman, about 17 years of age, him with dark hair and her with blonde hair. They looked a lot alike to Kim, and she asked:
'Are you related?' and the girl laughed and knelt down in front of Kim.
'Yes, we are,' she whispered conspiratorially, 'but I don't tell a lot of people that: just the special ones, like you.
'He's my twin brother,' and the girl winked. 'He's going to take care of the Tweebs, and I'm going to hang out with you, if that's ok,' the girl added, and Kim nodded vigorously, then looked puzzled.
'What are Tweebs?' Kim asked.
'Twin dweebs: Tweebs,' the girl explained, and Kim grinned.
'Momma, is it ok if I hang out with this lady while he takes care of the Tweebs?' Kim asked, and Marsha grinned.
'Tweebs, Kimmie-cub?' Dr. James Possible came into the room, adjusting his cuffs on his shirt before he put on his suit jacket.
'Twin Dweebs, Daddy. Can I hang out with this girl while her brother watched the Tweebs?' Kim asked excitedly, and James and Anne both covered their mouths in surprise.
'Well, if it's all right with Cynthia…'
'Sure, Dr. Possible, sir. I've got some time to spare.
'Kim, I'm Cynthia Garcia. Marsha Garcia is my mom,' and Cynthia held out her hand, and Kim shook it.
'You don't look like your mom: why are you darker?' and Anne Possible almost sucked her face in, and Cynthia laughed.
'You noticed that! Well, Kim, Marsha Garcia is the wife of my father, Gordon Conrad Garcia, and she adopted my brother and me and became my mom.
'But, what happened to your first mom?'
'She died in a plane crash, Kim.'
'I'm sorry, Cynthia.'
'No big, Kim.'
'No big…I like that.
'Do you wanna see my room? It's kewl: it's a loft so the Tweebs can't get in now,' and Kim took Cynthia's hand and pulled her towards the loft.
'Drs. Possible: I'm Gerald Carlos Garcia, Cynthia's twin brother. We created Tweebs because we were a pain to both of our mothers and our father.
'Pan-Am 103 is the answer to your question, by the way, Doctors. Possible,' Gerald Carlos answered the question on both their minds, and Mrs. Dr. Possible covered her mouth in shock, and Mr. Dr. Possible extended his hand.
'Son, if you are Gordo's son, it's good enough for me.
'Fair warning, though: We've not been able to keep a babysitter for Kimmie-cub for more than one visit.'
'No big, Dr. Possible: I have a younger brother about her age that Mom had when she and Dad got married, and I'm used to taking care of him and leaving no blood trails,' Gerald replied, and James laughed.
'What's his name, Gerald?'
'Walter Nelson, sir,' and the green walls returned.
'Walter Nelson, huh?
'THE Walter Nelson?' Joss asked, and Kim blushed.
'Yes, the Walter Nelson,' Kim replied, still blushing.
'And, Joss, Ron never made fun of me about that: in fact, he called his mom to take us to the orthodontist to get separated, and he never told my Mom or Dad. That's how I knew he was the one for me, Joss,' Kim smiled, and her blush started to go away.
'Where are your babysitters, now?'
'Well, Joss, Cynthia is a detective senior lieutenant in the Go City Police Force, and Gerald left Global Justice to sign up for multiple tours of duty in Iraq.
'He said that Iraq would be a piece of cake after babysitting the Tweebs and me,' and Joss laughed.
'I just worry about…' Kim started, and the green walls dissolved to reveal…
'Kimberly!' Kim looked up from where she sat, thinking and crying, in the hospital hallway to see Justin Flanner coming towards her, and Kim's tear-stained face tried to smile.
'Kimberly,' Justine called softer and held out her arms, and Kim stood slowly, brushed herself off, and fell, sobbing, into Justine's arms.
Justine held her as she sobbed away her pain.
'All of them?' Justine asked, and Kim nodded as she held onto Justine for strength.
'Monique and Felix, too?' and Justine winced as Kim nodded again.
'Ronald?' and Justine cried with Kim as Kim nodded.
'Did you get the bad guys, Kimberly?' Justine asked, and Kim cried as she replied:
'There were no bad guys, Justine; it was a senseless accident, a drunk driving a gas tanker truck ran a red light.'
'I'm sorry,' and Justine wept as Kim began to sob, again.
'Come with me, Kimberly,' and Justine pulled her to the chapel, pushing the door open and pulling Kim into the quiet, empty room. Justine pulled her to the alter and pushed her down to her knees.
'OK, Kimberly, yell,' Justine commanded, and Kim looked up at her thru tears, confused.
'Kimberly: you lost your whole family: your husband, your parents, your brothers, your BFGF, her fiancé, and you aren't going to yell at Him?
'Well, then, let me start:
'WHY, GOD? YOU TOOK THE MAN THAT I LOVED FIRST AWAY FROM ME, AND THEN YOU KILLED HIM AFTER HE FOUND HIS LOVE AND MARRIED HER!
'HOW DARE YOU, GOD!
'HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?' and Justine fell to her knees, sobbing uncontrollably.
Kim stood and walked over to Justine, pulling her to her feet and hugging her.
Then, Kim fell apart.
'I've done so much for the world,' she started quietly, and Justine let her talk.
'I've saved it from Diablos, from global blackouts, from Drakken's idiotic schemes, from Dementor's rages, from Lucre's bargain-basement evil.
'I've done it all and asked for nothing in return except for a little help getting from one sitch to another,' and her voice got a bit louder.
'I put up with Bonnie's attitudes, Barkin's putdowns of Ron, and everyone's pulling me in every different direction except where I wanted to go:
'Into the arms of Ronald Dean Stoppable.'
'I finally get there, and I don't even get a honeymoon:
'You had to kill him on the way to his parent's house to get his luggage.
'Oh, and by the way, you decided to kill the rest of my family at the same time.
'You decided to leave me all alone on the happiest day of my life,' and now, Justine saw the real anger in the eyes of Kim Possible-Stoppable as she ripped off her wedding veil and threw it to the ground, stomping on it.
'I WORE WHITE, EVEN WHEN I DEARLY WANTED TO MAKE MY BOYFRIEND HAPPY, BUT NO!
'I had to be a GOOD GIRL, and I saved myself for NOTHING!' Kim screamed the last word as she ripped at the arms of her beautiful designer wedding dress.
'I WANTED TO HAVE HIS CHILDREN!' she sobbed as she fell to the ground in front of the alter, sobbing.
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(Kim in Joss' head/body)
'Hello, cousin Kim.'
'Joss?'
'You are in my head, Kim.'
'Just don't tell me I don't have to go thru puberty again, Joss.'
'KIM!' and she smiled.
'Been there, done that, Kim,' Joss replied, and the ice-blue walls faded to reveal Joss, outside of the bathroom while Kim was talking to Wade about Joss' fixation on Kim, and Joss' face began to fill with tears.
Joss ran towards the loft, but then stopped and headed out to the barn where Tornado was parked.
Joss slammed thru the barn doors and closed them, turning and staring at Tornado.
She leapt and landed on Tornado's back, activated him with the switch on the back of his neck, and rode out of the rear of the barn up the mountain, crying as she rode.
She reined up at a tree and dismounted, turning Tornado off and walking over to then tree, leaning up against it.
'Ah jus' wanted to be lak Kim: what's wrong wit' that?
'Ah know ah kin do it: ah kin do anythin'!
'And, gosh, that guy who claims to be her sidekick is kinda cute: it's the ears, ah think.
'But he's old: he's got to be at least 16, maybe even 17!
'Ah wonder how old that Wade is; Ah thought he was Kim's sidekick, and he's kinda cute, too.
'JOSS!
'What're you sayin'?
'Kin you imagin' what Daddy would say if you brought Wade home?' and she grinned and giggled at the same time.
'He's have a heart attack, that's for sure.
'And, Granddaddy, God rest his soul, would shake the earth when he rolled in his grave!
'Ah wonder how Kim found him: he's obviously younger than her….
'Or if Granddaddy knew about Wade?' and Joss grinned thru her tears.
'WHY?' she kicked the tree, and then fell as the tree won.
'Why did Kim have to say that about me?
'Ah wanted to be her; Ah even made a rope gun like her hair-dryer grappler, and Ah's even got some moves that Ah bet even stuck-up Kim don't have.
'If'n she'd asked me, Ah'd have told her why:
'Ah'm tared of bein' alone, and Ah thought that Ah could be a part of the team.
'Me, Joss Possible, a part of Team Possible,' and now Joss just laughed a sad laugh.
'Yeah, lak that's ever a'gonna happen,' and she was quiet for a few minutes, the birds making the only sounds, and then-
'AH'M SO TARED OF BEIN' ALONE!' she screamed into the trees, and she fell to her knees, then flat to the ground.
She rolled over and lay, face-up, on the bed of decomposing leaves and broken branches.
'Kin ah have someone, please?' she asked quietly.
'Even if it's for jus' a liddle bit, jus; someone I could care about.
'I didn't lak that ranch-hand; he was too busy trying to grope me, and Ah'm glad he left without Daddy having to git rid of him.
'Kin Ah, please?
'Jus' someone to lak me for me.
'If'n Ah can't have that, kin I git rid of my Christmas and rest-of-the-year nightmares?
'Ah so want to have a Christmas where Daddy doesn't end up holdin' me Christmas mornin,' me cryin,' and him doin' the same.
'And kin Daddy find someone who'll love him as much as Momma did?
'I'd settle for that, if Ah got nothin' else out of the deal.
'Daddy's sacrificed so much for me; it's the least Ah could do.
'Could you help mah Daddy, please, God?' and the leaves and branches clung to Joss as she stood and walked toward the two tear-filled ladies.
'Well, Ah'm older, so somethin' musta happened because Ah'm not all Goth-ty any more.
'Did Daddy find someone?' the younger Joss asked, and the older one nodded with a wide grin.
'She's gonna be Momma2,' the older Joss announced, and they both fell into each other's arms and cried tears of joy.
The younger Joss pulled back, saddened.
'Ah guess Ah'm still alone, huh? That was the deal Ah made,' and the older Joss grinned even bigger and shook her head in the negative.
'We found our only, Joss,' the older Joss replied, and a pair of hands covered the younger Joss' eyes.
'Guess who, my choc-o-holic?' and the younger Joss did the natural thing for a Possible woman:
She reached up, grabbed a wrist, and flipped the person over her shoulder and had that person land in front of her on the ground with a loud OUCH!
Joss looked down and saw a taller, slimmer version of-
'WADE LOAD?'
'It's me, Sweet Tea.
'In the flesh: what's left of it, that is, and it's all your fault, Joss,' and Wade stood, smiled as he brushed himself off, and hugged the younger Jocelyn Possible.
Joss was surprised, happy, confused, scared, and angry.
'How did you know about 'Sweet Tea,' Wade?' Joss whispered to Wade as she felt all of those emotions at the same time.
'Well, Andrea Jocelyn,' Wade whispered into her ear, and Joss gasped: she thought that no one alive knew her first name except her Daddy and the government!
'I've got a real problem, Joss,' Wade said as he let her go and walked back to the older Joss, 'and it's that I can't tell you a lot that makes me very sorry, but rest assured,' he smiled:
'All of your dreams come true: there's a lot of pain and angst in the process for everyone, but your dreams do come true.
'And, you'll be so very happy, Jocelyn,' and Wade took the older Jocelyn's hand, their fingers entwined, and they looked at each other and smiled.
'All of them?' the younger Joss asked her older self, incredulously, and the older Joss nodded with a huge grin on her face.
'Well, Wade,' the younger Joss smiled sweetly at Wade, 'do I rock your world?' she asked, and Wade sputtered as both Josses laughed at him and gave each other a high-five.
'Spankin'!' the younger Joss exclaimed, and she looked puzzled when both Wade and the older Joss burst into uproarious laughter.
The ice-blue walls reappeared, and Kim, with tears in her eyes, looked at Joss, herself looking at Kim with a hint of tears on her face.
'Joss,' and Kim grabbed her cousin and hugged her tightly
'I apologized for the statement,' Kim said into Joss' hair.
'I know, Kim; it's what happened afterwards that took me to that low,' and she lifted her head and revealed a huge smile, 'and it was after this all happened that Wade saw me for the first time, so I should really be thankin' you, Kim.'
'Especially for being here while I deal with this: I need you, cousin, especially for this sitch,' Joss hugged her cousin even tighter, and the ice-blue walls dissolved to reveal the Possible ranch living room.
Joss walked in from school, her Dad off on a trip with Betty on Global Justice business, and found Kim, Ron, and her Uncle James and Aunt Anne in the room.
What did it for her was Wade, standing there, with Supervising Agent Will Du, and they both looked sad.
Joss screamed and fainted.
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When she came to, the first thing she saw was Wade's face.
'Jocelyn, I'm so sorry,' Wade reached for her to pull her to him, and she released an ocean of tears.
'Miss Possible,' Agent Du began, and Anne Possible hush'ed him with a single glare.
'Both of them, Wade?' Joss asked sadly, and she cried even harder when Wade nodded.
'It was a bomb on the plane, of all things,' Wade struggled to get the words out, 'there was a double agent inside that GJ didn't suspect, and she planted the bomb to explode at 27,600 feet up.
'Joss, it was instantaneous, and they didn't feel a thing: the plane disintegrated in the air from the explosion,' and he held her, again, as she cried again, now having lost two mothers.
'Wade, let's get married, today,' Joss announced to him and a shocked room.
'I've lost three people that I love, Wade, and I can't bear to think that I could live a day alone after you were taken away from me.
'Kin we, Wade?'
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(Wade, in Ron's head/body)
'Welcome, Wade.'
'Ron?'
'You are in my head, Wade.'
'In the mind of Ron Stoppable: boy, do I have a load of question for you.'
'Starting with the bad puns, Wade?'
'Sorry, Ron.
'OK: first question: How is Kim as a kisser?'
'Bon-diggity, Wade.'
'Have you done any more?'
'Wade! A true gentleman never tells, even and especially if it's Kim Possible.
'Wade, she's my best friend, and we've only been dating for under a year, and engaged for less time than that.'
'Sorry, Ron, but I wanted to know, and I suspected that you wouldn't tell me: you are the personification of a gentleman.'
'Besides, Wade, I need her,' and the chocolate brown walls faded into a grassy field, and Kim and Ron were standing in the field, each holding a bouquet of flowers, and Ron carrying a picnic basket.
'Ron, are you ready?'
'I'm ready, Kim.'
'Are you sure? We don't have to do this today if you don't want to,' she stated.
'I'm sure, Kim. Let's go,' and the walked thru the grass, up the hill, and stopped at a small headstone.
RUFUS STOPPABLE
Beloved friend and companion
On a piece of paper taped to the headstone were the following words:
He saved the world with Kim and Ron. Thank you, Rufus - S.B.
All around the headstone were piles of flowers and Bueno Nacho coolers filled with food.
'Are you here to see Ruf- ohh, I'm sorry, Mr. Stoppable, Ms. Stoppable: I didn't recognize you when I came around the corner,' a tall man in a pair of dirty overalls and a 'Rufus for President' t-shirt came up to them.
'Good afternoon,' and he stuck out his hand after he cleaned it off. 'I'm Gary Allen, the new groundskeeper here. Bradley had to move four months ago, and I took his place.
'We've followed all of your instructions, Mr. Stoppable; I hope you are pleased with the level of care that we've provided here.
'I am, Mr. Allen, thank you,' Ron shook his hand as Kim unsuccessfully held in her giggle, and then Ron looked and pointed at the coolers of food.
'Are they still bringing food?
'Yes sir, they are, every day. Different people bring flowers and Nacos daily; I tell them that the food would be better served at the shelter, but they don't care: they leave it, anyway. I usually come around 5-6 times a day and collect it so the other animals in the area don't tear up the site.
'If it's fresh, I'm taking it to the shelter; if it's not fresh, we're disposing of it properly and returning the coolers to Bueno Nacho.
'Rufus would have liked that,' Ron replied, a bit of a choke in his throat, and Kim took his free hand and squeezed.
'Yes sir, those animals at the shelter really love Nacos: go figure,' Gary dead-panned, and all three laughed.
'Did you bring food, Mr. Stoppable?' and Ron shook his head 'no' and opened the basket top:
Eight naked mole rats jumped out and all yelled 'DADDY!' as they ran to the headstone and sat quietly; they were followed out of the basket by a ninth one who looked tired but happy. She looked up at Gary and said 'Hello!'
'Gary, this is Rufus' family: his mate Giselle and their eight kids,' and Giselle ran up Gary's pants, jumped to his shoulder, and kissed his cheek.
'Thank you,' she said, and she scampered back down to attempt to ride herd on the kids who had sniffed the air, yelled 'NACOS!' and attacked the coolers, opening them and pulling out the Nacos as if they were peanuts from the shell.
'Well, I won't have to worry about these coolers,' Gary laughed as the coolers were rapidly emptied, and the largest of the kids brought the biggest Naco over to Momma Giselle.
'And they have better manners than my kids,' Gary slapped his head and laughed.
Ron and Kim looked over at Ron and Wade, and the married couple placed the flowers at the gravesite as Gary helped Giselle take care of the kids, and the married Ron and Kim came over to Ron and Wade as the scene faded into the chocolate-brown walls.
'Hi, Ron,' Kim smiled as she walked up to Ron and kissed him on the lips.
'Hello, Wade,' and Kim did the same to Wade.
Neither of them complained, and the married Ron just laughed at his younger self and friend.
'Hey, guys,' and he hugged Ron and Wade, then stepped back and took Kim's hand.
'Do you want to know, Ron?' the married Ron asked, and younger Ron nodded.
'He went the way we all would like to go: in his sleep, after far too many years of missions and Nacos and Slurpsters. Giselle was with him when he passed, so I know he died happy.
'He actually met Giselle on a mission to the south of France, where we had to deal with Shego and Drakken, one more time, and they mated less than three months later.'
'I see that the engagement didn't fall apart,' Ron said, nodding his head at Kim, and the older Ron smiled and nodded.
'Ron, you are going to be so happy you're going to be sickening to be around,' the married Ron smiled, and Kim smacked him in the back of the head and grinned.
'Thanks for taking care of Rufus and his family, Ron.'
'Hey: No Big, Ron,' and the married couple turned and entered the fog that had come up in front of the chocolate-brown walls.
'I didn't think that Kim could be any more beautiful, but I guess I was wrong,' Wade commented, and Ron nodded.
'Kim, my friend, will only become more beautiful as you get older,' Ron replied, and the chocolate brown walls became transparent to sounds only.
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'Ron, you're weird.'
'But-'
'I like weird, Ron,' and the sound of kissing came across.
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'Here I am, Ronald Dean Stoppable.'
'My God, Kim you're beautiful.
'Can we get started?' another voice came across, and there was silence.
'Very well.
'Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here in the site of God and man to unite these two people in holy matrimony….'
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'Ron, are you ready?' and heel clicks came across the room, closer and closer.
'Ron?
'RON?'
'yea…
'Sorry, Kim, but you took my breath away in that negligee.'
'Then, you'll love this,' and the sound of clothing being removed could be heard, and Wade's heart was beating faster.
'boo, and yah…'
and the walls became solid once again.
'Wow,' was Wade's only comment.
'It looks like 'Wow' wasn't the only thing you were thinking, Wade,' Ron smiled, and Wade just grinned.
'Hey, sue me: what would you have me do about that last mini-narrative?'
'Not this,' and the chocolate brown walls disappeared completely to show one thing on the wall in front of them:
An American flag, but where the stars were had been replaced with a single swastika.
In front of the flag was a table with nine tall white candles burning, and the flames danced in the invisible breeze.
'I'm gonna need your help to get thru this one, Wade.
'I need real friends, like you,' Ron stated calmly, but he began to glow a light blue.
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(JnK)
Mike Cotton came in the door and walked towards Kim, but Justine held him back.
Finally, Kim raised her head and looked up to the alter, and she lowered her head as she began to speak again, only now in a much quieter and calmer voice.
'I'm sorry,' and she took a deep breath and continued..
'Please forgive me.
'I know that you didn't cause the accident, that we have that free will, and that because of that, sometimes bad things happen to good people.
'It's just that Daddy did so much for the space program that helped so many people.
'Momma was so gifted, and she saved so many lives.
'The Tweebs? They did so much as part of Team Possible, saving lives and helping people.
'Monique was so gifted, and she was my first real friend that liked me for me and didn't care that I was a redhead,' and Kim grinned thru her tears as she remembered her long talks with Monique about race and why it was such a problem for everyone.
'Felix: he stopped laughing at me when I realized that his 'handicap' was mine, not his, and I started to treat him a man and a friend, and I was so happy when I learned that he and Monique were engaged.
'And, Ronald, the center of my universe, without whom I have no reason to go on,' and Kim stood up, looked back at Joss and Kim, and turned, walking towards Justine and grabbing her as the chapel faded into the green walls.
Joss and Kim stood there and looked at an older Kim in a wedding dress and an older Justine, dressed in a sharp business suit, and all four stared at each other.
Kim finally bolted, running to her older self and hugged her, and the older Kim broke down in tears, again.
'Hello, Jocelyn,' Justine said as the two Kims cried.
'You remember me?'
'I'm in the same head, Jocelyn,' Justine smiled as she hugged the younger Possible redhead.
'Is your Kim gonna be ok?' Joss asked, with more than a few tears in her eyes.
'More than all right, Andrea Jocelyn Possible-Load,' a rich contralto voice came from behind Joss, and she whipped around.
The red-headed vision now smiling at Joss appeared to be in her mid-30s, but something told Joss that she was older than that. She wore a beautifully-tailored dark green, almost black, suit jacket with tiny grey pinstripes and the matching skirt, and the pink blouse was beautiful on her, complimenting her hair and wonderful skin tone. Her figure was impeccable, and Joss was glad that Wade was nowhere near:
'He'd be falling all over himself about her,' Joss thought as she grinned inside.
Her legs, covered in sensible yet beautiful off-white hose, were beautifully sculpted, and she wore sensible heels.
'I'm a woman,' Joss thought, 'and even I think she's drop-dead gorgeous!'
Even with all of this, what caught Joss' attention was the group of security agents around her: they didn't look like Secret Service, but they treated her like a head of state.
She looked deeply into the eyes of the woman, and she saw Uncle James and Aunt Anne. That's when the realization of who this woman was finally hit Joss like a kiloton of bricks, and Joss' eyes snapped wide open on realization and surprise as she stepped towards her.
'Well? Don't I even get a hug, cousin?' and she held out her arms.
Joss slammed the rest of the way into her like a red-headed Stinger missile, yelling 'KIM' so loud that the two Kims separated and stared at her and the older woman.
'Cousin Kim, you made it,' Joss cried as the older Kim hugged her and rocked back and forth on her heels, waving the security away with a slight head movement.
'Kims,' she held out an arm, and the two Kims came to her and joined the hug.
Justine stood there, smiling and crying as Mike wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to him.
'Madam Secretary-General, we're behind schedule,' one of the young women with her stated her case with the confidence that her word was law, but the older Kim waved her off.
'I only need five, Jessica,' and Jessica grimaced and turned away, pounding on what looked to Joss like a PosComm.
'Kim, I know it hurts, now, but you do get better,' the older Kim addressed the Kim in the wedding dress, and that Kim snorted.
'And, you know this, how?'
'Because I am you, Kim. I know you're thinking about killing yourself because I thought about it, but Justine saved me.
'Payback's a bitch, isn't it, Kim?' and an older Justine stepped out of the shadows, and Mike's drooling was audible, but only until the younger Justine punched him in the stomach.
'Yes, it is, Justine, and thank you.
'You convinced me that my life was worth living.
'Well, that, and the over ten thousand bouquets of flowers, plants and cards and letters, not counting the fifteen hundred proposals that you got on email and in the mail,' Justine quipped, and the older Kim laughed.
'Yea, there was that, too.
'But, Kim, I made it. There were some tough times, but I made it.
'What are you doing now?' Wedding Kim asked.
'I'm the first American Woman to head the United Nations General Assembly. Global Justice reports to me, and me alone,' the Older Kim smiled. 'That's why I need the security: there are still too many crazies out there, in here,' and she smiled for a moment.
'I still love that phrase….'
'And, the rest?' Wedding Kim asked, and the Older Kim smiled.
'You know the old saying about your past coming back to haunt you, Kim?' and a slender, slightly older man came out of the shadows and smiled, his Euro-Asian heritage barely showing, and Joss and both Kims dropped their jaws to the floor.
'Told you, love,' Will Du smiled and kissed her cheek.
'I know, Will, but it was fun, nonetheless,' and she leaned over and kissed him fully.
Their jaws went further into the ground, and both Kim and Will laughed.
'You never know where you will find love, Kim,' the older Kim said as she wrapped her fingers into Will Du's hand.
'Enjoy your time in your reality, Kim,' the older Kim addressed her guide, 'and kiss Ron for me,' she added as she leaned forward and kissed her guide on the cheek.
'For me, too,' Wedding Kim added, 'one last time for me, especially since I can't,' and she sniffled a bit as she, too, kissed her guide on the cheek, and the two Kims and Will Du turned and left with the agents and the older Justine and Jessica, still pounding on the PosComm-like device, leafing the younger Justine and Mike there with Kim and Joss.
'Well,' Joss said after several moments of silence, 'that was a surprise,' and Justine laughed.
'You mean you never saw it, Jocelyn? The way that Kim and Will fight: they remind me you and Wade. If it wasn't Ron, she'd have married him after arguing for several weeks and making up for several nights, as well,' and Justine grinned.
'And, they have some beautiful children,' and Kim the guide almost gagged as Joss laughed.
'Never give up Hope, Kim,' Justine said as she pried the fingers off of her waist and came over to give Kim a quick hug, then turned and walked away holding Mike's hand.
'Hope was always my favorite actor,' and she and Mike entered the green walls to the groans of Kim and the confused sounds of Joss.
'So, which were you more afraid of, Kim: losing Ron, or getting Du-Duh'ed?' Joss asked, grinning, and Km sputtered.
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(WnR)
The room had lines of chairs, regimented in 10 rows of 10 each, with an aisle down the middle so that there were five chairs on each sub-row.
The sounds of drums beating a martial beat started soft, and became louder and louder until the back doors flew open and the drummers entered, and the flag bearers entered carrying the five replicas of the flag on the wall. They marched to the front of the room and took their places as others marched into the room and peeled off onto their assigned aisles, standing at their assigned spots at attention as the room filled.
Finally, the leaders came in, and salutes snapped from all of the men and women standing in their spots, and a giant shipping crate was rolled in behind them. Muffled sounds were coming from within the crate.
One of the leaders turned as he reached the front of the room and threw his hand high in front of him at a 45-degree angle, palm down, and the people mirrored his salute.
'Be Seated,' he ordered, and the rears ht the chairs in precise time.
'Members of the New Order!' the leader shouted, and the response was unified.
'We hear you, sir, and we follow your lead to cleanse the unworthy from our presence!'
'I have a package for you, a very special package: our greatest enemy has been captured!' and the response was unified once again.
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Unknown to the room occupants, there were two others attending, in the rafters.
'Was I right?'
'Well, DCI was correct, Aggie: these idiots have her, and they're stupid enough to assemble in a single location. What can we do about it?' she grinned.
'Well, AJ, I still think that the direct approach remains the best,' Aggie responded with a smile, and he leaned over and kissed AJ.
'Later, lover, after we get her,' she smiled as their lip separated.
'How are we going to let him know we're ready?'
'Oh, he knows we're ready; he knows we're here, and he's waiting for the proper time to provide the proper level of attention to the sitch.'
'Why was she their greatest enemy?'
'She kept capturing them;
'That, and her husband.'
'Oh,' and they became silent once again, listening to the rants of the Leader.
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'Present the enemy for punishment!'
The box was slammed three times, and the walls fell to reveal a slender bald person lying on the bottom of the box.
'See how our enemy cowers at the mere presence of the flag of righteousness!' and, again, the unison response:
'We cannot be defeated! We will not be defeated!' and one of the leaders at the front of the room stepped into the boxed area and yanked the person off the floor, and the room fell silent as the face was revealed to them all…
…and then a thunderous applause came from the people sitting as the woman glared at them, and the leader slammed her in the stomach with a pole, making her double over in pain.
'Bow before your leaders and masters, Kimberly Ann Possible!'
'Not bloody likely,' was Kim's response, and she was struck again and doubled over in pain.
'We can make bloody,' the Leader smirked, and he swung his pole up and across her mouth, creating a splash of blood on the crate floor.
AJ growled.
'He's mine, Aggie,' she whispered, and he knew better than to argue with her.
'What shall we do with our enemy?' the Leader asked, and the response was unified, once again:
'Death! Death to all who do not follow the paths of righteousness!'
'Tonight, glass will break at the homes and businesses of all of those who do not follow the path,' the Leader shouted, 'and the cleansing will begin!'
'Now, AJ,' Aggie whispered, and AJ called down from the rafters:
'I don't think so, Tim,' came from a voice in the rafters, and all in the chairs, on the stage, and in the crate looked up to see the outline of two individuals standing on beams:
A loud thump, and the room was bathed in light to reveal:
The two individuals on the beams: one was a tall, slender red-headed woman, and the other was an African man, and they were dressed alike in suits that shimmered in the pale room candlelight.
'Who in the hell are you?' the leader yelled.
'Your Middleton and Montana nightmares, come to life,' and the pair shot lines at the wall with the flag, both hitting the corners of the flag, and they flew down the lines in perfect parallel precision, then landing on the stage next to each other and facing the leadership on the stage and smiling.
'And, just what do you two members of the sub-human race think you can do to 111 of the Leader's finest?'
'I don't know…kick you sorry asses into jail, maybe?' the woman responded as their clothes began to shimmer, and the Leader responded with a yell.
'Destroy-' but his yell was cut short by a shout from the rear of the room as one of his minions stood on his chair.
'This is wrong! She is not the enemy: He is the enemy,' and the minion pointed at the Leader.
'He had misled us all along, and for that, he should be punished!'
'What are you?' The Leader yelled, and a blue sword appeared in the minion's hand.
'A Son of God, Abraham, and Isaac,' he replied as he waved his blade, and the air crackled and waved his blond hair.
Kim looked up from the floor and caught a glimpse of the minion.
'Ron,' she whispered, and she passed out from the multiple beatings she had received.
'You ready, Ron?' Aggie called out, and Ron nodded.
'Let's smack some monkey, people,' Ron growled, and Kim picked that time to awaken and hear his comment.
'RON!' and, even in his current sitch, Ron blushed.
The people all around him pulled him down from the chair, but the Lotus Blade had converted into a shield, and Ron began to swing it at the people, knocking several unconscious at a time.
Aggie and AJ leapt from the stage and plowed into the leading edge of the crowd, stunning them with several hits from their hand-wielded shock devices, and they fell like trees in front of a buzz-saw.
None of the three saw the back doors open to reveal a joint team of Global Justice and Montana DCI agents, who rounded up the ones at the rear who thought that they could make a silent yet timely retreat.
Within 10 minutes AJ's announcement from On-High, the crowd had been reduced to groups of unconscious individuals throughout the room, the captured individuals at the back, a handful of five at the front, including the Leader, who were all standing with their arms crossed and watching the events, and Kim, who by now was sitting up in the middle of the crate floor.
'Well?'
'Your weapons will not defeat us, Son of Isaac,' and the leader held up a remote.
'We will all perish,' and he hit the button…
Or so he thought.
'Looking for this?' Aggie held the same remote in the air for a moment, and then tossed it into the air. As it arced and fell, Ron tossed the blade, and it sliced into two neat pieces as the remote fell to the floor, harmless.
The blade returned to his hand, grip-first, and Ron smiled.
AJ walked calmly to the Leader, but his team disbursed as they read her angry blue eyes.
'This is for Becky,' and she slapped the Leader.
'This is for Fletch,' and she slapped him, again.
'This is for all of the people you killed in the name of cleansing,' and she slapped him multiple times.
He stood there, wavering, and she said:
'And, this is for cousin Kim,' and she swung, and her punch floored the Leader.
He didn't rise to the occasion, and the flag on the wall behind him chose that time to fall, covering his face.
Ron, by this time, had reached Kim and had brought her to her feet.
'Are you all right, my love?' and she answered with a kiss that curled Ron's toes and toenails.
'Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?' one of the Global Justice agents said to another, and the speaker smiled at his female co-worker.
'Yes, Arnold,' and Rebecca Jane joined the kissing fest and curled Arnold's toes while the GJ and DCI agents removed the rest of the Leader's staff, and the Leader himself, from the stage.
Aggie looked at the two couples and smiled, but he paid extra attention to Ron and Kim, and AJ whacked the back of his head.
'Don't bother them, Aggie!' she scolded.
'I wasn't bother-' and his statement was cut short as AJ curled Aggie's toes with a kiss of her own, and the chocolate-brown walls slowly appeared and became opaque.
'You did it, Ron,' Wade turned to face Ron.
'No, Wade, we did it. I've never won before now.
'It was a team effort,' came from the w all as AJ and Aggie came through in their battlesuits.
'Hello, Wade,' AJ smiled as she walked up to Wade and kissed him deeply.
'HEY! NO KISSY MY WIFE, WADE!' came from Aggie.
'She's mine, too,' Wade replied and AJ released him from vertical CPR, and Wade took several deep breaths to bring his heart rate down.
'Besides, there's definitely enough there to share,' Wade grinned, and AJ whacked him across the back of the head.
'OWW'
'I love you too, Wade,' smirked AJ.
'Why AJ and Aggie?' Wade asked.
'Well, Jocelyn was too long, and Joss was too kiddy,' started Aggie.
'And, Wade was too boring, and Aggie fit him so well, being Agamemnon and all,' AJ finished, and they both smiled as they took each other's hands.
Then, Wade noticed the small symbol on the breast of the uniforms, and smiled.
'Glad to see that BlazeIt survived,' Wade smiled, and AJ whacked him again at the same place on the head.
'Eyes on my eyes, Wade,' AJ grinned, and she kissed his cheek.
'Be good to me, Wade,' and she and Aggie turned to walk back into the walls, then stopped; AJ turned around and ran to Ron, grabbing him and kissing him deeply.
The two Wades watched, envious for a moment, then both grinned.
When she broke the kiss, Ron had his goofy yet confused face on.
'Not that I'm complaining, but what was that for, Jocelyn?'
'Because I won't be there when you wake up: someone else will, and I wanted to get my licks in, so to speak,' and she grinned and blew him a final kiss, then turned and ran back to Aggie, took his hand, the two of them walked into the chocolate-brown wall.
'Now, I'm jellin, Ron,' Wade smirked, and Ron just smiled, confused, as he reached up and touched his cheek.
Lipstick came back.
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(KnJ)
Wade took her shoulders, squeezed them, and then released her and went back for his bag. He dug into it, and he pulled out a box.
He returned to Joss, lifted her from her seat, and knelt in front of her, opening the box to reveal a ring that he then removed from the box and held it in front of her placed on her finger.
'Andrea Jocelyn Possible, you are my Sweetest of Teas,' and Joss groaned while Kim and Ron laughed quietly, tightening the grip on each other's hands.
'I loved you from the first time I saw you in the Kimmunicator, I loved you when you told me about Sheri Nicole, and I loved you when I told you about Stephanie.
'AJ, you mean the world to me. I can't live another day without you.
'Andrea Jocelyn Possible, will you marry me?' and he placed the ring on her finger.
'Yes, Wade Agamemnon Load, I will marry you. I would be honored and blessed to be your wife,' Joss replied, and Wade kissed her again, this time with even more fervor.
'But, Joss,' Wade said with a sad tinge to his voice as they separated, 'I promised your father that we wouldn't do this until you graduated from college, and you haven't done that, yet,' and James Possible smiled and squeezed his wife's hand.
'I'd love to marry you right now, but I think that, especially now, we should honor your father's wishes,' Wade finished, and he took Joss' hand, kissed it, and smiled wickedly.
'Besides, I have a plan,' and he leaned over and whispered into Joss' ear. She listened, and as she did her face turned redder and redder.
'WADE!' she grabbed his face and kissed him quickly, then pushed it back and grinned in return.
'All right, we'll wait, but only if you promise to do that on our wedding night,' and Wade grinned and nodded, and James Possible breathed a sigh of relief.
'Besides,' Joss added with a wicked grin of her own, 'you're gonna have to be in real good shape if we're gonna do that on our wedding night,' and Anne and Kim Possible grinned while James Possible and Ron Stoppable grimaced, and the scene faded into the ice-blue walls.
Kim looked at Joss.
'You get pretty deep there for someone as young as you are, cousin,' Kim commented.
'After what I've been through, Kim, this is nothing. I'm not afraid of the past: it's the future that scares the snake muffins out of me,' and the ice-blue walls disappeared to reveal a thunderstorm in full progress, lightening and thunder and pouring rain.
Joss was walking in the storm, and the horse-person's phrase 'rode hard, and put up wet' did not do her justice.
She trudged thru the mud. The blood pooled with the mud and downpour of tears from the thunderstorms under her feet, no matter where she stepped, and she kept walking forward, trudging through the mud and the blood until she finally came to a small shed that wasn't totally destroyed.
She pushed the door open and entered, clicking a handheld light that bathed the entire room in light, and she saw a mirror at the other end of the room, broken into several pieces on the floor and a single piece remaining on the wall.
'Let's see just how bad I look,' she mumbled as she trudged toward the mirror, the light showing the multiple tears in her clothing and the scars on her arms.
She looked in the mirror and saw the damage: scars on both sides of her face and above her eyebrows, but surprisingly none on her chin or cheeks.
She checked the power reading on the battlesuit: 0.
'Damn,' she scolded herself for not paying attention to the chargemeter.
She pulled out her PosComm and checked its chargemeter: 55. She had enough for one more viewing of them all, and she started the player:
Wade, Slim, and Betty all appeared in front of her.
'Hello, Sweet Tea,' Wade smiled.
'Hi, gorgeous,' she replied automatically.
'It's that bad, huh?'
'Wade, it sucks big time: you and Daddy and Momma2 are all dead, and I'm here by myself.'
'I'm sorry, Joss. I broke my promise to you: I told you I'd never leave you, and I did. Can you forgive me?' and Joss suddenly realized that this was no player.
'You got it, huh?' Wade grinned. 'I built an emergency AI into each of our units, and seeded it with my brain engrams so you wouldn't be alone, Joss.' Then, Wade's smile disappeared.
'Who are you fighting, now?'
'Does it matter?' Joss snapped back.
'They've taken out the Tweebs, Aunt Anne and Uncle Jim: I watched them kill Ron and behead Kim. I saw them gut Momma2 and Daddy, and I saw them kill you, Wade,' and she broke down for the first time after this had all started.
Wade watched her cry, wishing he could hold her, but the best he could do was to place a holographic hand on her cheek.
'Joss, I'm sorry,' Wade spoke quietly, but Joss did not respond in kind.
'YOU LEFT ME ALL ALONE WITH THIS, WADE! HOW COULD YOU? I LOVED YOU, AND YOU LEFT ME!' and she broke down again, but then she looked up with a feral sneer, and Wade was frightened.
'Wade, what's the forced discharge power capability left in this unit and the suit?'
''200 petajoules, Joss,' and Wade knew what she was going to do.
'JOSS, NO! YOU'LL BE KILLED!'
'Does it matter?' Joss asked rhetorically. 'You're gone, and I'll never be able to hold you, to kiss you, to make mad, passionate love to you under the stars, ever again, Wade.
'They took my forever, so I'm taking them out, forever,' and she armed the PosComm and waited.
It didn't take long: they followed the massive spike in power readings, and they broke through the door to see a smiling Andrea Jocelyn Possible, standing nude with three holograms all holding particle weapons, except for her, PosComm brandished directly at them.
'I love you, Wade,' and she extended her hand.
'I love you, Jocelyn,' and his hand went thru hers as he tried to hold her hand, one last time. 'Goodbye, my forever.'
'Goodbye, Wade,' and as she felt the beams' heat touch her skin she punched the button on the PosComm and said, almost conversationally, 'goodbye, y'all.'
The resultant 50-megaton explosion reduced the immediate area to glass, and the ice-blue walls .held in the explosive force and the radiation and dampened the flash to the equivalent of a small flash-bulb.
Kim could say nothing, and Joss broke the silence.
'I told you, Kim: it's the 'possible' futures that literally scare the snake muffins out of me,' Joss added calmly, and Kim grabbed her and hugged her fiercely.
'Joss, how could you hurt this bad?' Kim asked the top of Joss' head.
'After being in the cage with my dead momma, Kim, this is nothing.
'I'm deathly afraid of being alone, Kim.
'I need Wade in my life, my forever.
'Kim, I need you to promise me that you won't put him in harm's way.
'I can't do that, Joss,' Kim replied sadly. 'Wade is a team member, not an employee. I can suggest that he not take dangerous sitches, but I can't tell him what to do and not to do.
'I'm sorry, Joss.'
'No, Kim, you did everything right,' Joss replied, coming up and smiling at Kim.
'If you had told me that you would stop him, Kim, I'd have known you were lying to me. By telling me the truth, you've told me that you trust me enough to tell me the real deal and not treat me like your little cousin.
'Thank you, Kim. I love you,' and Joss hugged her and stretched up to kiss her cheek, causing Kim to blush fiercely.
'Just, not like that,' Joss grinned as she took Kim's shocked face in her hands. 'I only swing one way, Kim, and it's for my shrinking hunk of rich, dark chocolate,' and she giggled as Kim started to smile and then joined Joss in a full shared laugh.
'Rich, dark chocolate, huh?' Kim smirked, and Joss smiled.
'And, he loves strawberry, Kim, but you should know that better than I,' Joss replied sweetly, and Kim blushed.
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(RnW)
Ron broke out of his trance then.
'WADE!' and Wade got up off the bed, walked over to the ladies, took Kim's hand, and they walked over to Ron together, followed by the rest of Wade's harem..
'Don't worry, Ron: I've never gone any farther than this,' and Kim smiled and reached out to touch Ron's arm.
Her touch was electric.
'I can't go any farther, Ron, because I love Kim too much to do anything about it,' Wade added, and Kim giggled.
'That's right, Ron: Wade loved me so much, he fitted me personally for the battlesuit.
'His hands were cold and trembling while he fitted me, but he couldn't look.
'Not that I didn't try to make him, Ron, just like I try to make you look,' and Kim slid one of her bra straps down onto her arm, smiling so seductively that Ron almost passed out.
'Now, if I was someone different,' and Kim moved to the side and revealed Joss standing behind her, dressed the same way, 'it could have been a whole lot different.'
'No, it wouldn't, Kim,' and Joss pulled both Wades into her arms.
'I love him; er, them, dearly, but he, er, they are worth the wait,' and Joss reached down and pinched both Wade's rears.
'Not that I won't have a little fun pushing him, them, into total distraction,' and Joss bent backwards, showing off her chest framed by her sports bra, and then turned around and bent forward, showing her panty-clad rear.
'We'll be back, Ron, in about 20 minutes,' both Wades yelled, and they both ran to the bathroom and slammed the door. Ron laughed as he heard the shower turn on and a pair of screams; they obviously had stepped under the cold water.
'Been there with you, Kim, far too many times,' Ron observed, and Kim and Joss and Monique and MC Honey all giggled.
'Well, Ron, it's just the five of us: any ideas?' and all the ladies struck a pose.
Ron's blood pressure spiked.
'Ladies, not that I wouldn't have killed a few moments ago for this chance,' and he reached down and picked up Joss' shirt and handed it to her.
'I love you, Jocelyn Possible, but too much to lose you as a friend, even if I miss out,' Ron grinned his goofy grin, and Joss hugged him tightly.
'I would never hurt Wade, Jocelyn,' Ron concluded, and Joss hugged him tighter.
'Thank you, Ron,' and Joss let him go, kissed his cheek, and walked back into the dark-brown wall.
'And, what about me?' MC Honey's voice was musical as she leaned over and nibbled Ron's left ear.
'And me?' Monique added, nibbling Ron's right ear.
'My Nubian goddesses,' Ron whispered, and they each bit his ear.
'OWWWW!'
'Nubian goddesses, indeed.' Monique pouted.
'Monique, I know I'm nowhere near man enough for you. I am only worthy to worship you from afar,' and Monique grinned at Ron's statement.
'I love you dearly, Monique, you know that, right?' and she nodded.
'Unfortunately, Monique, my main man Felix has a bad case of 'Mon's disease,' and I'm pretty sure it's incurable. As a result, I think he's got, oh, about 75 years to live,' and Monique laughed along with Ron.
'And, MC, what can I say?
'I did 'Naked Mole Rap,' but I'm sooo definitely not in your league.'
The two ladies smiled, and MC turned and walked away into the chocolate brown walls.
Ron turned and looked at Monique, then hugged her tightly.
'You tempt me to want to do so much more, Mon, but you are Wade's Monique, and I can't hurt him, either.
'He's had that crush on you ever since you landed in town.'
'I know, Ron, and don't get me wrong:
'I feel special when he treats me like a gentleman, but…' and Ron understood.
'Wait a year or two, Monique, and you and Kim and MC and Joss can torture the poor boy the same way you torture the rest of us poor mortal men:
'In Your Dreams,' and Monique laughed, brushed Ron's lips with hers, turned, and walked into the chocolate-brown walls, disappearing and leaving Kim with Ron and the Wades in the shower.
'So, what am I, Ronald: chopped liver?' and Ron laughed at Kim's use of his second-least favorite food, right behind meat cakes (although he still didn't know why).
'Kim, I love you, and you know how much I love you, but you're not my 'Kim': you're Wade's 'Kim,' and I never could take you away from him, nor would I want to. His imagination deserves to have you in it: that's how much he loves you,' and Ron kissed her on the cheek.
'Not even one for the road, Ronald Dean Stoppable?' and he smiled and pulled her into him, kissing her passionately and stroking the bubbles gently, eliciting a giggle into his mouth as they kissed.
'Thanks, Ron: I think that'll hold me until he hits puberty, and then I'm gonna really torture him,' Kim grinned.
'What a surprise,' Ron replied sarcastically and knowingly said Kim walked into the dark brown walls just as Wade came out of the bathroom, drying his hair and otherwise fully dressed.
'Did you have fun, Ron?' Wade asked with a grin.
'No more than you would have, my friend,' Ron replied.
'Well, this next is not gonna be any fun at all, Ron. I'll apologize, in advance,' Wade stood there with a sad smile.
'What could be that bad that Wade would get that look?' Ron asked, and the chocolate brown walls faded to reveal the answer in the form of two symbols, side-by-side, and standing in a large, empty well-lit warehouse:
a small, no more than one-meter in height, cross, glowing with the flames dancing over it, and a noose hanging from a gallows.
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The sounds of the fire crackling were the only sounds in the room.
Ron stared at Wade after he saw the fire and the gallows; he saw fear, anger, and sadness in his eyes.
The doors behind them crashed open, and the voices, both male and female, were loud and strident as they entered the room.
Ron turned, and what he saw caused him to glow a bright blue.
Several men and women in white ski-masks were dragging Dr. Ryan Load and Dr. Rachel Load into the room. They were bound, blindfolded, but not gagged, so Rachel's screams and Ryan's yells and screams could be heard above the laughter coming from the men and women in the masks.
Behind them was another group of ski-masked men and women, and they were dragging Joss and Slim Possible, also bound and blindfolded but not gagged, into the room.
The last group came in, pulling Wade, hooded so he could not see, and his hands were bound behind him. He appeared bulkier for some reason, but Ron could not tell why.
'Well, well, well, what have we here?
'A whole family of them, and some lovers of them, as well,' and Rachel, Ryan, Joss, and Slim were all stood up next with their backs to the wall and hooked to the wall so they couldn't move, and Rachel and Ryan's blindfolds were removed as the man speaking walked from behind the group pulling Wade, and Ron thought that he looked familiar.
Wade was unhooded, and he looked in shock at what he saw.
The man unwrapped a huge whip from around his waist, cracked it twice, and started to swing it at the four imprisoned on the wall.
'We tried to tell you when you moved in near, but you didn't listen.'
CRACK! Went the whip towards the wall, but no one was hit.
'We tried to tell you when you took that job from one of us at the College, but you wouldn't listen.'
CRACK! Went the whip, again, towards the wall, but no one was hit.
'We tried to tell you when you decided to try to adopt that girl of ours, but you wouldn't listen, so we had to stop that.'
CRACK! And no one was hit, yet again.
'We tried to tell you when you started working with Kim Possible that you weren't worthy to even carry her excrement 20 steps behind her, but you wouldn't listen.'
CRACK! And no one was hit, yet again.
'But, now, you're gone too far, 'Doctor,'' he sneered at Wade and CRACK! Went the whip, again, towards the wall, and Slim's hat was removed and shredded with a single swing.
'Our friends in Montana told us what you've done, and we can't allow that to continue,' he concluded and CRACK! Went the whip, again, towards the wall, and Slim's right arm began to bleed.
Slim yelped in pain, and Joss responded:
'WADE! I LOVE YOU!'
With that last swing and the yelp/yell, Ron glowed a brilliant blue.
'And, there's nothing you can do about it, 'Doctor,'' the man sneered again, and Wade just smiled and nodded.
Two things happened:
One:
Wade's bindings flew away from him, as well as his clothes, as a bright glowing-brown transparent ball appeared to surround him.
Two:
One of the ski-masked men calmly removed his mask, and Ron gasped when he saw that it was him!
The Lotus Blade appeared in the unmasked Ron's hands, and he smiled and uttered two words, very quietly:
'No mas.'
The man pulled a pistol, smiled and said, 'Die then, Jew,' and fired repeatedly.
Ron walked towards him, capturing all of the bullets with the Lotus Blade.
The brown transparent ball around Wade resolved to find his clothes in tatters on the ground and him standing, hands on hips, in a white, with dark-brown stripes, battlesuit, complete with a cowl that covered his entire head and face, showing only his eyes thru the glass-covered faceplate.
Several other men produced pistols and began to fire at Wade, but the battlesuit simply absorbed the bullets as he walked towards the first group, grabbing the pistols from their hands and tossing them into the rafters, then tossing the men in the same direction, as well.
Then, Wade wiggled a single finger at them, and said 'Next?'
The remainder of the ski-masked people dropped their weapons and ran for the doorway, where they were greeted by the police, sheriff's department, and Global Justice.
All except the one person that Ron was talking to and a single masked individual, now approaching Wade with a large-bore rifle.
He pulled off his mask to reveal Josh Mankey.
'Are you all right, Dr. Load?' Josh asked.
'I'm fine, Josh. What are you doing here, and in that garb with that bunch?'
'Undercover with Montana DCI, Wade. I work for Mel,' he smiled, and a yell made Wade turn and almost levitate to Joss, strapped to the wall and still blindfolded.
Wade went to remove the blindfold-
'NO, WADE! WAIT!' Joss yelled, and Wade paused.
'What's wrong, Joss?'
'He…hurt…me, Wade. I have to tell you, before you look' and Ron, holding the man by the neck and dragging him over to the wall, stopped in his tracks.
'WHAT DID HE DO, JOSS?'
'He…said…I didn't need to see…through eyes that loved you, Wade,' and Wade ripped the blindfold off.
Wade stared at Joss' face, felt the pain in his heart at what had been done to his beloved Jocelyn, and reached up and touched her face.
She shrank back, but he kept his hand on her, and he lifted her hand onto his, and she squeezed his.
He leaned forward and kissed her cheek, feeling the warmth of her skin and the trembling of her heart all the way up into her face:
She was scared: scared that he would leave her.
Wade knew that he always had loved her, still did love her, and always would love her, and he knew what he had to do to prove it to her.
He then kissed her softly and replaced the blindfold over her eyes.
'Thank you, Wade,' Joss sniffled. 'I'm sorry,' she added, and she started to cry.
'You have nothing to be sorry for, my Sweet Tea,' Wade pulled her head to his shoulder and started to cut the bonds holding her, letting her tears wash over his battlesuit.
'I should be apologizing to you, for putting you and your Dad in danger.
'Will you still marry me, Joss, even after what I've done to you?' Wade asked as he finished cutting the bonds that held her, as well as the ones that held Slim to the wall, and Joss fell into his arms, crying.
Ron released Ryan and Rachel Load from the wall, and they hugged Ron, then hugged each other and cried.
'Will you still have me, as damaged as I am, Wade?' she asked, and she still had her PDP as she turned her face up towards Wade's voice.
Wade smiled.
'I am your 'forever,' Joss, just as you are mine,' and he kissed her passionately.
'Wade, I knew you were special,' Slim said, using his blindfold to bandage his arm, 'but I never knew just how special you were. Welcome to the family, son,' and Slim hugged the two of them as they cried.
Ron glared at the man; he was much quieter with his followers captured and taken away.
'Tell me why I shouldn't end your miserable existence, now, Morleson,' Ron growled, dropping the man to the ground.
He looked up and smiled.
'Because, Jew, you follow the law.'
'That's right, and the law says 'an eye for an eye,' and the dark-brown walls faded in as the man screamed.
Ron still glowed blue, but it rapidly faded as he took several deep breaths.
The blade-wielding Ron passed thru the dark-brown walls, sheathing his blade as he walked,
'You didn't?' Ron asked, and the blade wielder shook his head 'no.'
'The law also teaches that vengeance is His, alone: so, I took it to the point that I knew I had his attention,' and he smiled.
'How did you know?' Wade asked, and the Ron with the blade grinned even bigger.
'When we had a change: lower clothing color, content, and odor,' he replied, and it took a few moments for the statement to sink in before they all understood, and the laugh filled the area.
The laugh transformed itself into a laugh and a cry, and both Rons looked at Wade, who had begun to shake and cry.
'Wade,' and both Rons hugged Wade as the young man cried deeply.
'We've got to get you some 'Scamper and Bitey,' or at least some 'Snowman Hank,' anything what you've been watching, lately,' Ron joked.
'No jokes, Ron.'
'The white-sheet brigade was in Colorado in the early 1920s, and there are still some pockets here, today. GJ picked up a descendent of that Governor three weeks ago for attempting to pass hate literature over the Internet.'
Wade wiped his face. 'I've never been able to stop them by myself, Rons. We all ended up dead every time until now, and it's because we had no Lotus Blade protector.
'Thank you, Rons, for helping me to break my cycle of fear,' and Wade hugged him again, even tighter.
'Awww, no big, Wade,' they both replied, and all three laughed, again.
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All of the conversations, discussions, and laughter ended suddenly when the voice spoke, again.
'You have learned what friendship means.
'Now you will learn about your relationships, but in a different way,' and Ron, Kim, Joss, and Wade all fell to the floor, unconscious, as the walls all dissolved, once more.
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"Wade, are you awake?"
'Wake up, Wade.'
Wade opened his eyes slowly, and he saw Rebecca Jane's smiling face. She reached down and hugged him, and Wade grinned inside.
'I saw that, mister. You really are as bad as I thought you were.'
'Kim?'
'In the flesh; or, rather, in the head, Wade.'
'Oh, man…'
'Whoa, Wade, we'd better go to the bathroom.'
'I don't need to go, Kim.'
'Then, what's that feel-OOOH!
'BAD WADE!'
'Hey, that's my line, Kim.'
'I know: where do you think I got it from, guy?'
"Wade, are you all right?" Rebecca Jane asked.
"I'm fine, Rebecca Jane.
"Where am I?"
"You're in the Bunker medical facilities, Wade.
"You're the first to wake up."
"The first?" and Rebecca Jane pointed, and Ron, Kim, and Joss were all lying in beds, hooked up to IVs.
"How long was I out?
"Five days, Wade."
"FIVE DAYS?"
"Hey, hold it down over there, some of us are trying to sleep," and Rebecca Jane ran away from Wade to the next person to wake up.
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'Like that view, huh, Wade?'
'Shut up, Kim.
'It's no bubble butt, but it's cute.'
'WADE!
'I'll tell her, Wade.
'Besides, that's no way to treat your partner in head, Wade.'
"RON!" and Rebecca Jane administered some CPR breathing practice on Ron.
'You'd better not tell Kim what you're a-thinkin,' Ron, or you're deader than a family of armadillos trying to cross Interstate 15 in the summer.'
'Jocelyn?'
'It's me, Ron.
'Ah sure wanted to get in hear with you: Ah had some things Ah wanted to find out, and to tell you.'
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'Joss?'
'It's me, Ron.'
'Well, at least it's not puberty again.'
'HEY!'
'But, you're still cute, Joss.'
'Thanks, guy.'
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'Wade?'
'Hello, Kim, and welcome to my humble head.'
'Isn't that an oxymoron, Wade?'
'Words hurt, Kim,' and Wade grinned.
'Are you ready?' he asked her.
'Ready for what, Wade?'
'To see how the tanned half lives, Kim.'
'Are we doing an episode of 'Relative Jumps,' Wade?
'Kim! I'm impressed that you even know of the show.'
'Of course I do, Wade.
'That leading man is a hunk.
'He's got a body to die for.'
'oh, man….'
'That's what I said, Wade, the first time I saw him on almostTrashHeap:
'Whoa, man.'
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Author's afterward:
This story is dedicated to Twila Starla: the four-way brain switch was her idea; I just expanded on it a bit.
Pharaoh Rutin Tutin for continued support and froggy-went-a-courtin' humor and opinions regarding direction, along with his ability to continually challenge me to improve with his North American-style buffoonery and humor.
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For all of you, you wonderful Jade fans:
Thanks for your continued support, and PM me if you have any questions about the JadeKimVerse. I respond to all PMs, emails, and reviews.
And, I'd be remiss if I didn't thank all of my readers for their support in the Fannies.
I was honored, humbled, and surprised when I was awarded by you, my readers, the recognition of Best New Writer of 2006 along with King in Yellow (a tie: you'll never get that in Hollywood!). I was also in the top three vote-getters in the category of Best Alternative Pairings for Joss and Wade: go figure.
This is our award, because I couldn't have done it without you.
Preview:
We're in each others' bodies and heads, and we're awakening?
Toto, I don't have a clue.
Chapter 5: Relationships is next.
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Thanks again for reading, and please review.
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