Yono, My Yono: Part 4
As present-day Yono Fist looks at his future counterpart with both confusion and curiosity, he asks, "Just who are you supposed to be?"
"I think you already know the answer to that," future Yono Fist answered.
"I see," present Yono Fist said, "Then let me ask something else: How?"
"Do you recall our old friend…" future Yono Fist asked as he pulled the Time Monkey out from one of his pouches, "…the Tempus Simia?"
"Oddly enough I do, though I seem to recall that it was destroyed by that buffoon Stoppable," present Yono Fist said, "For that matter, how is it that I remember anything about it at all? I feel certain that I did not remember anything about what happened with it before you woke me up."
"That'd be correct," future Yono confirmed, "Our memories were re-written and the original, unaltered timeline restored when the Tempus Simia was destroyed. However, you'll find that the power of the Yono changes many things: our memories are no longer as temporally limited, and that which was destroyed no longer needs to remain so."
"You're right!" present Yono said as he looked at his hands while repeatedly clenching them into fists and opened them again, "I can feel the power coursing through me, and the untold potential it offers!"
"One thing that hasn't changed however is our destiny to be tormented by teen heroes named Stoppable," future Yono told him, "though mine had the first name of Hanna."
"Ah, yes. The Han," present Yono acknowledged, "I would have thought that I would have made eliminating her my first priority."
"I did," future Yono told him, "However, while I managed to surprise them and take care of Ronald and his plus one, as well as some other heroes who were foolish enough to get in my way, Ronald's parents were able to spirit the Han away along with Drakken's daughter, who proved more troublesome than I would have thought possible."
"Hold up, Drakken's daughter?" present Yono asked him in confusion.
Future Yono sighed and said, "Short version? Drakken and Shego give up villainy to become heroes, rejoined Shego's brothers on Team Go, got married, had a brat named Liego, then helped Ronald and his girl keep the world safe until the day I awoke and turned them all to stone. Except for Liego and the Han, of course, who got away and have been a pain in my side ever since."
"I cannot believe this!" present Yono exclaimed, "Did you come here to revive me only to tell me our plans are always doomed to fail!?"
"No," future Yono told him as he held his hand out, as if for a handshake, "to help you achieve them."
Present day Yono Fist looks down at the hand future Yono Fist is holding out, then he asks, "Are you sure you know what you're agreeing to?"
"Of course," future Yono acknowledged, "We've done this before."
"Yes, we have," present day Yono Fist replied as he took future Yono's hand and shook it, and the Yono symbol transferred from the hand of the present Yono to that of the future, then both Yonos began to laugh maniacally.
Back at the Possibles' home, Kim and Ron set their bags full of books against the wall just on the inside of the living room door as Ron calls out, "We're back, Hanna. How's it going?"
"Hi Ron, Kimmie!" teen Hanna said as she stood from the couch, "Yeah, we just finished, but I don't know how successful it was. I mean, I don't feel any different."
Kim had a huge smirk as she said, "I know how we can find out."
Kim then led Hanna out to the backyard, and Ron and her parents followed them. Then Kim turned around to face Hanna, assuming a fighting stance as she said, "Now, come at me."
Hanna looked rather uneasy as she asked, "You want me to hit you?"
Kim nodded as she clarified, "I'd like you to try."
Hanna was rather uneasy at the proposition as she said, "I don't know, Kim. I don't want to hurt you."
Kim places a reassuring hand on Hanna's shoulder as she said, "It's okay, I trust you. Just think of this as a sparring session." Kim then resumed her fighting stance as she said, "When you're ready."
Hanna hesitated for one moment more, then she bowed before she assumed her own stance. Then she began her assault. Hanna attempted a series of varied punches and kicks, but her heart wasn't in it so Kim was able to block them all easily. Kim apparently saw this too, for she tried to expedite matters with her own series of fierce counterattacks which Hanna found herself hard pressed to be able to defend against.
As Hanna blocked blow after blow, she found herself reliving her various battles against Yono Fist, those memories interspaced by those of someone she'd lost to him, and Hanna began to steadily grow ever angrier. Finally, Hanna felt the moment when Liego vanished before her eyes, apologizing for her being unable to stop Yono Fist. With Liego's words echoing in her head, telling her that it was "up to her now', Hanna returned to the present. Then Hanna focused on Kim, visualizing her as Yono Fist, and finally began attacking her in earnest.
As Kim was now the one forced to defend, Hanna had expected Kim to get angry too. Instead, Hanna was surprised to see a huge grin break out on Kim's face just before she leapt into the tree behind her. Hanna hopped after her, landing deftly on Kim's branch and aiming a roundhouse at her before Kim leapt out of the way, landing on a higher branch. Hanna pursued Kim from branch to branch, Kim dodging or blocking each blow before moving higher.
When they finally ran out of tree, Hanna pursued Kim to the roof of the house. There the fighting becomes more intense, Hanna's moves more complex, and Kim had to adapt accordingly. Finally, after a series of blows that failed to reach their mark, Hanna attempted to hit Kim with another roundhouse. Having seen it coming, Kim caught it easily, using the momentum to hurl Hanna towards the apex of the roof.
Kim was surprised, however, when Hanna converted the fall into a handspring using a move Kim had done herself many times before, immediately launching herself into a flying cross-arm tackle that knocked Kim off the roof and into the tree they'd come from. As the sound of breaking branches registered to her consciousness, Hanna realized what happened and cried out in a panic, "Oh my God, Kim!" When Kim finally landed on the ground below, she didn't move as her parents and Ron ran up to her. As quickly as she dared, considering the damaged tree, Hanna hurried down to the ground as well.
When Kim regained her senses, she saw her family, along with Ron and Hanna, standing around her and talking over each other as they called her name in concern. Hanna, who looked afraid to get too close to her, had her hands over her mouth as she said, "I'm so sorry, Kim, I didn't mean it! Are you okay? Please be okay!"
Kim couldn't help it. Her heart racing with the exhilaration and excitement she'd experienced, Kim's ribs and back began to ache as she doubled over with laughter. She saw her family and friends exchange looks as they appeared even more concerned than before, but Kim couldn't get herself to stop.
"Kimmie Cub?" her dad asked in a worried tone, "Are you alright?"
"That was awesome!" Kim exclaimed as she slowly sat up, gripping Hanna's hand in both of hers, before she could back out reach, as she added, "Hanna, you were….ow….amazing!"
"I….I was?" Hanna asked uncertainly.
"Kimmie, are you certain you're feeling all right?" Kim's mom asked in a concern that was both clinical and maternal as Ron and Hanna helped Kim back to her feet, "Any dizziness, nausea, double vision…?"
Kim began to twist and stretch as she answered, "I'm sure that…(grunts as she twists one way)…I'll really be feeling this tomorrow…(groans as she stretches her hands overhead)…but I haven't felt this good in quite some time. And yes, Hanna, you were outstanding! I haven't had this challenging an opponent since Shego."
"What about Warmonga?" Ron asked her.
"Well sure she had strength and stamina," Kim conceded, "but Warmonga's size made her a bit on the slow side. Compared with Shego and Hanna, Warmonga was practically clubfooted."
"You know, I do think I felt something up there," Hanna told Kim, her concern fading and giving way to the same awe Kim felt, "as if….if…"
"…you could do anything?" Kim finished for her.
Hanna nodded in confirmation as she asked, "Is this how you feel everyday?"
"I've had my moments of doubt, like when Drakken fooled me with Syntho-Eric, and of course the last few days, but otherwise yes," Kim told her, "You'll also have moments that test your faith, but if you hold onto your belief in your friends, your abilities, and yourself, then there's nothing that you cannot overcome."
Hanna gave Kim the first real smile she'd had since she arrived at Kim's home, but before she could say anything Kim's Kimmunicator sounded in the still air. Raising her wrist, Kim activated it and said, "What's the sitch Wade?"
"I managed to get ahold of Yori and she wanted me to patch her through immediately," Wade explained to her, then as the Kimmunicator's view changes to show Yori at the Yamanouchi School, Wade announces, "There, you're on."
"Kim Possible," Yori quickly asked her in a troubled voice, "Are you certain that the items your Wade showed us were what this Yono Fist has stolen?"
"Certain on one, reasonably sure on the other," Kim confirmed, "You know what they are?"
Yori nodded gravely as she said, "As Wade had guessed, these items do indeed form a lode stone. Crafted eons ago, the chosen one was meant to use it to guide the Han to her destiny."
"I'm supposed to use it to help Hanna?" Ron asked in confusion, "What's that mean, exactly?"
"Just as Yono and the Han are polar opposites of one another, so to are the places the lode stone leads to," Yori told him, "The light arrow points towards the hidden location where Hanna can come into the fullness of her abilities, whereas the dark arrow points to the current location of the Shrine of the Yono, where her final battle would take place. To preserve the balance, and to ensure Yono was not awakened before the Han was ready, the lode stone was divided in two, and its true purpose known only to a select few."
"You think that Yono Fist is looking to kidnap Hanna again, using the lode stone to take her to where he can turn her into his ultimate weapon?" Kim asked.
"That'd be my guess," Yori said, nodding, "If Monkey Fist truly already possesses the power of the Yono, then I don't know why he'd need to locate the shrine."
"Oh no, it cannot be!" Hanna exclaimed in horrified realization, "Even Yono Fist would not be crazy enough to do that!"
"Well let's see," Kim said as she focused on Hanna, "He had himself genetically altered to gain monkey hands and feet, trained a bunch of monkeys to become his ninjas, raised and tied his destiny to an evil mystical monkey in order to kidnap you as a baby, and traveled back in time to eliminate an entire family of heroes to ensure your friend Liego would never be born. I think it's safe to say he's capable of anything, so what do you think he's up to now?"
"The only reason I can think he'd seek out the Shrine of the Yono now….would be to revive himself," Hanna told them.
"Huh? Say what?" Ron asked looking confused, but this new angle caused Kim some concern as she asked somewhat anxiously, "You mean to say that we could be facing two Yono Fists now?"
"What!? Two Yono Fists!?" Ron exclaimed, "Wasn't one bad enough? How is it there's two now!?"
"Just as there's currently two of me here now, so too are there two Yono Fists: the one I chased through the portal to this time, and the one who, at least until recently, was a statue in D.N. Amy's collection," Hanna explained, "If my Yono Fist truly did seek out the Shrine of the Yono to revive himself now, then the best we can hope for is that we'd end up facing the two of them together."
"You're saying that facing two dangerously powerful Yono Fists is the best case scenario?" Ron asked Hanna with anxious tension, "What could be worse!?"
"You guys had pointed out that the changes Yono Fist has exacted on this time could be reversed by my returning to my time and defeating D.N. Amy, who had awakened Yono Fist," Hanna told them, "but if Yono Fist had awakened himself early, then such a severe and irreversible change to his own history…"
"…would result in a paradox that could tear the fabric of space and time, possibly resulting in the universe as it was, is, and could yet be being utterly destroyed!" Kim's dad finished for Hanna, a look of horror on his face.
Ron gulped, looking rather nervous as he said, "Yep, that'd be pretty bad all right."
Kim raised her Kimmunicator and asked, "Wade…?"
"I heard. Already on it," Wade told her as he frantically tapped on his keys, then less than a minute later he said, "Uh-oh."
"You know I hate when you say that," Ron complained to him.
"It seems that D.N. Amy posted on her blog that Monkey Fist has disappeared from her collection, and is offering a huge reward for his safe return," Wade said to them.
"Really? How much?" Ron asked him.
"Ron, focus," Kim admonished him, "This means that Yono Fist has likely already found and unearthed the shrine."
"If that's so, then there may be no longer any hope of defeating Yono Fist and restoring those whose lives he's taken," Hanna said morosely.
Kim placed her hand on Hanna's shoulder in assurance as she told her, "I know that it may be more difficult, but I feel my plan may still work."
"You may be correct about your plan," Hanna told her, "but in order to defeat Yono, and revive those who he turned to stone, we must beat the one who awakened him, and that person is now my Yono Fist. If we did that, then you Yono Fist would vanish and mine turned to stone, but without your Yono Fist min cannot exist. That would be the worst kind of paradox imaginable."
"What's more is that they may be tracking your Hanna down as we speak," Hanna continued, "You see, Yono and I are like Yin and Yang: eternally enemies, yet eternally drawn towards one another. I was counting on my presence here to scramble Yono Fist's signal, keeping my younger self hidden until I could stop whatever he was up to here. However, now that there's two of them, all they need to do is each follow one of the pulls until one of them comes across little me."
"In other words, 'you' may not be hidden for much longer," Kim summarized, "so we need to get going immediately."
As Kim started to head to go through the house to the vehicles parked outside, Ron placed a hand on her shoulder before she could enter as he said, "Kim, wait. What about…?"
"We can't wait," Kim countered, "Our top priority is ensuring little Hanna's safety, and your bike is probably faster than my car, so you take Hanna to where your parents are hiding at Dad's old school. I'll follow along to get them out of harm's way."
"Okay, but after that we wait for Wade and the others. Okay?" Ron asked, and after Kim nodded her agreement Ron kissed her before he and Hanna ran out and flew off on the CUB. As Kim went to follow, her mom placed a gentle hand on her shoulder as she asked, "Kim, please, try to be careful out there today?"
Kim turned around to hug her as she said, "I'll do my best, as always, but…"
The rest of what she had to say was lost as the twins rushed past her, nearly causing her to topple into her mom as they cried out, "Coming through!" Before they could get too far away, however, Kim caught Tim by the collar as she said, "Wait guys. I know Mom said to be home by dinnertime, but this work you're doing is extremely important. I'm sure that under the circumstances Mom would give you more time…"
"No need," Tim said as he shrugged his collar out of Kim's grip.
"We're done," Jim added as he turned to stand by Jim before Kim.
Kim was speechless. She knew the Tweebs were fast at this kind of work and all, but still… "Done!?" Kim asked them in excited disbelief.
"Done," Kim heard Monique say from behind her, and she turned around to see her best friend holding a case slightly larger than a case for a flute or fancy watch in her hands as she continued, "and even Wade agrees that this is better than the original in every way."
Even as the light of day began to fade, Kim's expression lit up as Monique opened the case and the neon purple glow from within illuminated Kim's face.
As Ron and Hanna pull into the parking lot of the Middleton Institute of Science and Technology, the elongated shadows falling over them are beginning to fade as the sun is nearly set and the quad's overhead lights begin to come on. Removing their helmets and setting them on the bike, which had changed back into a scooter, Ron and Hanna hurried across the quad as Hanna asked, "Where's Kimmie? I thought she was right behind us."
"She must have gotten held up or something," Ron answered her, "Don't worry, she'll be here."
"What's this? The cheerleader decided to sit out the game this time?" Ron heard the voice of Yono Fist ask casually ask from somewhere overhead.
"No…!" Ron said softly in dawning horror as he and Hanna followed the voice to its source. Looking up, they saw in fact there was two nearly identical Yono Fists floating overhead, one of whom said, "Probably a wise choice. If she stays smart then I may allow her to live as my pet and, by extension, her entire family that swears loyalty to me. Maybe one or two friends as well."
Ron looked over towards the dormitory they had nearly reached. There on the ground by the entrance, his parents were huddled together and looking too frightened to move, his mother holding little Hanna tightly as the Yono Shrine rose up out of the ground behind them.
"Ah, I've see you noticed," the first Yono Fist said to him, "Of course we knew that you'd figure out what we were planning, and would want to get little Hanna hidden better. So once we felt one Han moving towards the other, we simply made our way to the one that wasn't moving."
"It was my fault!" teen Hanna said softly in horror.
"Indeed," the second Yono Fist agreed as he turned towards Ron and said, "Of course I had wanted to eliminate them right away and end the threat the Han may pose to us in the future, but my future self had convinced me that threat would be just as easily dealt with and out revenge that much sweeter if we take the Han as we originally planned months back to raise as our loyal soldier."
"I had also considered offering you the same offer of clemency as your girlfriend, Ronald, that way you'd be together" Future Yono told him, "However, we guessed that you wouldn't stand by while we took over the raising of Hanna and eliminated her future self, good big brother that you are."
As Ron glared at them and got into his fighting stance, present-day Yono laughed as he said, "Well that answers that, so as an alternative we'll give you both the opportunity to fight us to determine Hanna's future. Succeed, and we'll obviously go away, everyone we've changed will go back to normal, yadda yadda yadda. Fail, and….well we don't need to remind Hanna here of what happens then, do we now?"
"Of course 2-on-2 is too much like a fair fight," future Yono commented with a cruel smile, "and what fun would that be?"
Present-day Yono then snapped his fingers, and Ron and Hanna found themselves surrounded by Monty's army of monkey ninjas, who looked just as mystified on what they were doing there. Then future Yono blasted the primates with his eye beams. But instead of being turned to stone, as Ron had expected them to, they instead began quickly growing in size, becoming ripped as they did so, and their teeth changed into fangs. Once they were finished changing, they looked less like monkey ninjas and more like demonic apes.
As the transformed monkeys eyed Ron as if they wanted to rip Ron apart, present-day Yono ordered them, "You guys get the doofus…"
"…while we deal with the Han," future Yono finished.
Then the foes charge Ron and Hanna who, at a nod of confirmation from one another, rush to meet them
As Kim flies low over the rooftops towards the Institute where Ron's parents were hiding, she sees the telltale flashes indicating a major battle was taking place there and, judging by the LoJack signal the Tweebs had told her they'd installed on the CUB when they built it, it appeared that Ron and Hanna were in the middle of it.
"Just hold on, guys," Kim pleaded with them as she flipped a series of switches in the car's interior, "I'm coming."
Then Kim hit a large red button on the dash, and the overdrive engine emerged from under the hood, causing the car to shoot forward even faster.
Back at the Institute, Ron is proving himself more than a match for the mutated primates, with a number of them already knocked out. However, while Hanna is managing to hold her own against both Yono Fists boxing her in, the intensity of the battle was taking its toll on her energy. In desperation, Hanna attempted to strike the Yono Fist in front of her with a roundhouse kick, but the one behind her caught her leg before it could connect, using the momentum to hurl her towards a park bench in the middle of the quad. Hanna used the same recovery move she used to turn the tables against Kim. As she landed and prepared to launch herself back at them, however, the Yono Fist she'd tried to kick hit her with an eye blast, freezing her in a crouched position.
"Hanna! No!" Ron cried out as he had knocked out the last of the super monkey ninjas. Kim, who'd just arrived in the quad herself, was likewise frozen in horror.
As Kim stared at the stone form of the young woman she had not known long, yet had still begun to think of as a good friend, the man who had so cruelly struck her down looked at Kim as he said disparagingly, "Well, it looks as though the cheerleader showed up after all."
"A little bit late though aren't you?" the other Yono Fist mocked her, "Really, what would your coach say about that kind of behavior?"
But their words barely registered in her mind, as the position teen Hanna had been frozen in brought back memories of the previous day, when she saw little Hanna in that very pose after she'd crawled into Kim's lap to cheer her up, patting her cheek and calling her sister.
"Oh well," the second Yono Fist continued, "Better late than never."
As Kim focused on these foes, she felt simmering rage and a grim determination to stop them from hurting anyone else as Ron exclaimed angrily, "That's it! You're going down!"
"No, Ron," Kim countered as she held her hand out towards him, her voice conveying a calm sh didn't feel, "Leave them to me."
"Kim, remember this afternoon when I asked you to not do anything crazy?" Ron asked her in a concerned voice as he closed the distance between them, "I'd say taking them both on alone qualifies."
Kim softened somewhat as she gave Ron a small smile and said, "Ron, please, I know what I'm doing. You need to protect your family, and I need to be able to focus on this fight." She then placed her hands in Ron's and said, "Please trust me, I won't let them win."
Kim saw the conflicting emotions rage in Ron's eyes before he hung his head in resignation, saying softly, "Okay, Kim. I trust you." Kim then kissed him softly on the cheek and slowly took her hands out of his again, revealing to him that she'd just slipped him the keys to her Sloth. When Ron looked at her questioningly, Kim just nodded in confirmation, trying to tell him with her eyes not to say anything.
When Ron closed his hand around the key she knew he understood, then he walked back towards his family as Kim turned as Kim faced the Yonos and said in a controlled, even voice, "I'm going to make you two pay for everyone that you hurt."
"I don't know whether you're being brave, foolish, or simply suicidal," one of the Yonos said dismissively, "but we'll end this quickly so that we can get back to the real fight."
Both Yono Fists then took to the air, their eyes glowing as they begun unleashing blasts at her which she dodged nimbly with a series of acrobatic moves. All too soon, however, Kim found her back up against the Institute's message board, the ground all around her pockmarked with craters caused by the Yono Fists' blasts. As they closed in, grinning in anticipation while they prepared their final blast, Kim couldn't help but let show a small grin of her own as she tapped the face of her Kimmunicator, causing a small glowing cylinder to pop out of it. Then she gave it a quick quarter turn and slammed it back down again just before the Yono Fist's beams struck home.
Ron figured that Kim was trying to buy him time, distracting Yono Fist so that he could sneak his family away, but there was no way he would let her face them alone. He would get them to the car and give his parents the keys so they can get away, but right afterwards he'd return to face Yono Fist by her side.
However, no sooner had he finished helping his parents to their feet had he heard an explosion louder than all those since this long night began. Whirling around, Ron saw both Yono Fists floating before a huge cloud of smoke and dust so thick it was impossible to see any light from the other side. No matter which way he looked, however, Ron could see no sign of Kim anywhere.
"Kiiiiiimmmm!" Ron screamed in anguish, fearing that his agreeing to let Kim face them alone, even for a little while, may have cost him her forever.
Both Yonos let loose mocking laughter for a moment before one of them said, "Well, that turned out to be amusing, but now that the preliminaries are over we can get back to the main event."
"I could not have said it any better myself," Ron somehow heard Kim's voice say from somewhere in the cloud of smoke, which prompts the Yono Fist who'd just spoken to whirl back around and angrily exclaim, "What!?"
As Ron stood, rooted in place by hopeful disbelief, he strained his eyes in the direction he'd sworn he'd heard Kim's voice. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, a sphere of neon purple light emerged from the cloud, vanishing before it completely came out, and Ron could make out a female figure, accentuated with glowing techno-style lines of the same shade of purple, silhouetted in the thinner edge of the dust cloud. Finally, once the figure was clear of the cloud completely, Ron could see her clearly, and heart leapt with both tremendous relief and excitement as he exclaimed, "Badical!"
It was immediately apparent that this was Kim who'd come out of the smoke, and that she was wearing a new battlesuit, but when she'd put it on Ron couldn't say, and this battlesuit was a different from the old one as night and day. It was so dark a black it would have blended into the shadows around her were it not for the neon purple glowing lines adorning it, the white palms of her gloved hands, and the fact that her face was well lit behind the faceplate of her motorcycle-style helmet. The protective headgear didn't take away from the toughness she usually projected, however. In fact, it made her look even more badass.
"What's this?" one of the Yono Fists exclaimed, "A new battlesuit!?"
"But that's impossible!" the other Yono Fist, apparently the one from the future, "Her battlesuit was destroyed in the invasion, and she never got a new one!"
"Guess that shows you shouldn't monkey around with time," Kim quipped with a confident smirk, "You'll never know what you'll end up changing in the process."
"It matters not!" present-day Yono told her, "Battlesuit or no, you won't stand in our way!"
Present-day Yono then unleashed a blast at Kim but she dodged it easily, leaping inhumanly high into the air in a forward flip that ended with a double-heeled kick to his jaw, sending him crashing to the ground.
"Whoa!" Ron breathed, for Kim hadn't fallen to the ground. After the kick had connected, some purple lights had flared on Kim's palms just before stabilizing jets hidden on her back and the soles of her feet fired and kept her airborne.
"Up! Up!" little Hanna squealed in delight.
Present Yono sits up then, when he sees Kim floating in midair, he becomes wide eyed and slack jawed. Future Yono looks no less flabbergasted as he exclaims, "You can fly now too?"
Kim nodded as she said, "The Tweebs' contribution to this project, puts us at a more level playing field, don't ya think?"
"Hardly," present Yono says disdainfully as he floats back up next to future Yono, then they both unleash their blasts at her. Before they could come close to connecting, however, Ron saw Kim's violet energy shield appear again, blocking the blasts as she pointed both of her palms at the Yono Fists. The purple lights there flared brightly for a fraction of a second before a blast was emitted from each one, striking both Yono Fists and sending them flying backwards head over foot before they could regain control.
As both the Yonos glared at Kim, she said innocently enough, "Did I not mention that my maneuvering repulsors have offensive capabilities as well?"
"Impressive," future Yono told her, "but it'll take more than that weak little blast and a shield to defeat us."
Kim then closed her hands into fists and put them atop one another, as if she were holding an imaginary two-handed sword. Then, as she slowly pulled her hands apart, Ron was amazed to see a white staff with circuitry-like purple lines appear between them. Kim then spun the staff around before holding it in one hand and along one arm behind her in a ready position and, as her other hand was held out towards the Yonos, Ron could see that the white area covering the palm was gone, leaving only a black glove behind.
"You can think Warmonga for inspiring this little addition," Kim told them as crackling balls of energy flared to life at either end of the staff, then twists her outstretched hand around into the 'bring it on' gesture, which the Yono Fists willingly oblige.
As the mid-air battle entered into a frenzied pitch, Ron felt himself getting excited, cheering Kim on as he yelled, "Yeah! Go super-suit Kim girl!" Apparently little Hanna was having a good time as well, punching and kicking the air in front of her as she grunted and yelled, and Ron thought the way she was mimicking Kim's fierce expression was simply adorable.
Kim had to hand it to Monty, both of them. They may have changed from madmen with delusions of grandeur to homicidal megalomaniacs, but at least they were giving it their all, not backing down one iota despite how ineffective their attacks have been on her thus far. Now they were trying to overpower her with physical blows, possibly hoping to stun her long enough to allow them to turn her to stone before she could activate her shield. However, this outstanding battlesuit Wade and the others made for her has proven up to the task, enabling her to dodge and block all their punches and kicks as easily as if she were fighting on the ground, all while countering with the same in addition to punishing them with blows from the energy staff.
After battering present Yono with both ends of the staff in front of her, Kim reversed her grip on it with one hand and swung it around like a baseball bat to strike future Yono behind her, knocking him hard to the ground. Then she resumed her assault on present Yono again. As she pummeled him, however, Kim saw in her Heads-Up Display that future Yono had regained his feet and grabbed a large boulder from a nearby rock garden and hurled it at her, so she knocked present Yono back with a one-handed smack of her staff while she pulverized the oncoming boulder with a repulsor blast from her other hand. Most of the fragments pepper future Yono, but a couple of fragments manage to graze and temporarily damage the fabric of Kim's suit before the nanotechnology repaired itself.
"Nice try, Monty," Kim called down mockingly to future Yono, tapping the back of her helmet, "but I've got holographic eyes in the back of my head." Kim then tags present Yono a couple more times with the staff before hitting him in the gut with a spinning kick, using the momentum to hurl the staff at future Yono, who was preparing to rejoin the fight. He was able to leap back out of the way, but the staff let out a shockwave when it struck the ground, knocking future Yono back even further.
As she continued to battle present Yono hand to hand, she saw in her HUD as future Yono, now completely irate, went to grab her staff, apparently intent on using it against her. Of course Wade had already warned her of the various security functions built into this new suit and its components, as well as how they functioned to prevent unauthorized access, but she still found herself cringing as future Yono screamed upon grabbing the staff, his body jerking around involuntarily as the staff sent a Taser-level electrical discharge into him when it recognized him as not being Ron or herself.
As present Yono stared in disbelief at what was going on down below, Kim grabbed him by his collar and pulled his face as close to hers as the faceplate would allow, telling him, "Yeah, sorry about that. Nobody can use my staff but my friends and me." Then she hurled present Yono to the ground just as future Yono finally slumped forward unconscious.
As Kim floated back down to the ground, Ron rushed her as he exclaimed, "KP!" Then he embraced her tightly, and Kim felt a thrill course through her as they kissed. Then Ron started speaking so fast that his words started to run together as he said, "Kim that was so amazing! With the forcefield and the flying and the hand blasts and that staff you pulled out of nowhere! How did they manage…?"
Before Kim could find a beat to get a word in to answer his queries, she caught movement out of the corner of her eye and turned to see present Yono standing up where she'd thrown him down. She and Ron both tensed up for a renewal of the conflict, but present Yono simply raised his hand as he said, "You think you've won Kim Possible? Though you may have defeated us, there will come a time that you discover you have actually lost this day. But for now we will part…" Then he wavers and turns into energy that flows into the Yono symbol on future Yono's hand even as present Yono's voice finishes saying, "…so decrees the Path of the Yono!"
Then the stone spell on Hanna is broken, and she groaned in discomfort and disorientation as Ron ran towards her yelling, "Hanna!" Kim smiled happily as she saw teen Hanna was okay again, but she restrained herself from greeting Hanna as enthusiastically as Ron at least until after she recovered her staff and Yono Fist's stolen artifacts. Still she saw in her HUD as Ron hugged Hanna and asked, "Are you okay?"
"I….think so," teen Hanna answered him before she asked, "What happened? Did we win?"
"Did we ever!" Ron told her enthusiastically, "It was all Kim! She and her spankin' new battlesuit just kicked some major Yono Fist butt!"
"What!? Oh no!" Hanna exclaimed in alarm as she ran towards Kim, leaving Ron to scratch his head in confusion for a second before he and his parents ran after her.
Once she finished stowing the Tempus Simia in her suit's pouch and hooking the lode stone on some hooks her suit produced to hold it for her, Kim turn to face Hanna who asked her, "Please, Kim, tell be quickly: which of the Yonos did you defeat?"
"Technically I beat them both," Kim told her as she gestured to the lodestone hanging on her belt, "but the one who'd knocked himself out by grabbing my staff had these things on him, so I guess that's make him the future one."
"Then the other one vanished into the symbol on this one's hand!?" Hanna asked, sounding even more alarmed.
"That's right," Kim confirmed, concerned over teen Hanna's unease, "Hanna, the battle's over now and you're okay, so what's wrong?"
"Don't you remember what we talked about with your parents, Kim?" teen Hanna asked her anxiously, "Since your Yono Fist is gone now mine can't possibly have ever existed, and that means…!"
Before teen Hanna can finish, future Yono vanishes from the ground where he laid unconscious and reappears atop the Yono Shrine as a statue. However, rather than sinking back into the ground as it had back at the Yamanouchi School, a soft rumbling is heard coming from it as it quickly grows louder, and cracks appear in both the shrine and the statue, out of which an iridescent light like the Aurora Borealis shines brightly.
"What is happening!?" Mrs. Stoppable cries out anxiously.
"It's the paradox!" Hanna cries out, sounding just as panicked, "It is creating a rift in the fabric of space and time!"
"And that means…?" Mr. Stoppable asked in a tense voice.
"It's time to run!" Ron told them in a panic.
Kim then scooped up Mrs. Stoppable, who was still holding little Hanna, and Ron picked up his father. Then, with teen Hanna running quickly towards where Kim parked the car. Before they got more than a couple yards, however, they heard a terrible explosion as Kim saw in her HUD the Yono shrine blow apart in a blinding, rainbow colored explosion. As the brilliant shockwave gained on then, Kim felt her entire body tingling in a bad way as Ron cried out, "We're not gonna make it!"
Just as it was about to envelop them all, the shockwave inexplicably stops, freezing in place in silence for a couple seconds. Then it sucks back down to its origin point and vanished, leaving the scene peaceful and serene again. In fact, the quad looked as though nothing had ever happened there. There was no sign of the Yono shrine, the message board was completely intact, the craters that had been blasted in the ground were gone, and even the boulder Yono fist had thrown at Kim before she blasted it to rubble was back in place and whole again.
As Ron and Kim set Ron's parents down and stared at the strange scene, Ron asked in bewilderment, "What….what just happened?"
"It would seem that, without a proper vessel for the Yono spirit, the Yono Shrine destroyed itself," teen Hanna told them, just as awestruck, "its explosion sealing the spacial rift created by the temporal paradox."
"You mean to say….it's finally over?" Kim asked teen Hanna.
"I doubt that this event will be without consequences, and we'll likely see those somewhere on down the road," Hanna answered her, "But for now, yes. It is over."
Back at Go Tower, the members of Team Go are now being released from their stone spell, with Mego returning to his normal size and the Wego clones pulling themselves back together until there were only the originals left. Shego shakes the cobwebs out of her head, then she blinks as she sees Drakken stirring again. Her lip trembles as her eyes fill with tears, then she rushes towards him as she cries out joyfully, "Doctor D!"
Shego then throws her arms around him and embraces him tightly. Drakken is startled and confused at first by this sudden display of affection, then he returns the embrace in earnest. As they kiss, a rapidly growing collection of light gathers near then and forms into a humanoid form, causing Drakken and Shego to pull apart slightly as they observed it cautiously. Then the light vanishes to reveal Liego standing there, looking disoriented and confused but definitely alive and whole once again.
When she sees them alive and in each others arms again, Liego sounds a little groggy, yet still tearfully happy as she asks, "Mom? Dad?"
"Liego?" Shego asks as Liego rushes to embrace them both, "What happened to you girl?
"I'm not sure," Liego admitted, "When Yono Fist struck you guys down, I guess I simply ceased to exist. But then…" Liego then chuckled as she realized, "Of course! She did it! Kim Possible saved us."
Shego found herself chuckling as well, though more at the thought that Kim would never let her live this down as she said, "Of course she did." Then Shego and Drakken embraced their daughter while Shego's brothers, who were observing this happy scene, placed their arm over the shoulders of the brother next to them.
The following morning, the Possibles. Stoppables, and Team Go are all gathered together in the Possible's front yard as Liego and teen Hanna prepare to depart.
"Must you guys go so soon?" Shego asked Liego sounding somewhat sad as she held Liego's hands, which seemed a bit strange and out of character to Kim, as if she was seeing Miss Go again, "I feel like I was just getting to know you."
"Yeah, I'm sure Kimmie wouldn't mind if you wanted to use her old room to extend your visit for a while longer," Kim's dad offered.
"Thanks for the offer, Mr. P, but we've been away from home long enough," Hanna politely declined, "Besides, we barely dodged the bullet with one paradox, so we wouldn't want to press our luck by staying here any longer."
"Besides, I have the feeling that we'll see each other again sooner than you think," Liego said to Shego, "Then you'll have my whole life to know me better."
"Hard to imagine," Shego said as she and Drakken hugged her goodbye, "Then again, I never imagined that Kimmie would hook up with Mr. Loses-His-Pants."
"Hey!" Ron protested loudly as he stood next to Kim, "Standing right here!"
Shego chuckled and smiled kindly at Ron, which again struck Kim as being weird, though she supposed the fact she was hugging a daughter she never knew she had had something to do with it. Teen Hanna then activated the Time Monkey to create the portal, walking over towards her parents as she said to Liego, "Be there in a sec." Teen Hanna then hugged her parents as she said, "Bye Mom, bye Dad. See you on the other side."
"You be careful over there now, child," Mr. Stoppable told her.
"I will," Teen Hanna responded, then she turned towards Kim and Ron, the latter who held up the lode stone as he said to her, "Hanna, I promise that when 'you're' old enough I'll take you to where this thing leads. In fact, I imagine I'm just waiting for you to get back to do just that."
"I'll be looking forward to that trip," Hanna smiled as she hugged Ron.
"Uh, Ron? Shouldn't those be going back to the museums they were taken from?" Kim said uncertainly.
"You need not worry about that, Possible-san," Yori said as she and Sensei walked into view, "Sensei here was the one who lent the lodestone halves to the museums in the first place. He had just informed them that since they failed to provide adequate protection for them in the first place, that the artifacts will remain in the protective custody of Dr. James Timothy Possible until further notice."
"So you can just hold onto them until you've completed you role in helping Hanna fulfil her destiny," Sensei told him, then he bowed respectfully at teen Hanna as he continued, "Besides, it does this old man's heart some good to see that the Han has blossomed into a beautiful young flower."
Teen Hanna smiled and returned the bow as she said, "It was good to see you again Sensei before I go." She then turned towards Kim and hugged her, saying, "See you later, Kimmie. Thanks for everything."
"You too," Kim responded, sniffing, "Be good now, okay?"
" 'Kay," teen Hanna agreed, a little teary herself.
Teen Hanna then turned towards Liego, who smiled and nodded before entering the portal ahead of her. Before teen Hanna could enter the portal herself, however, Kim cried out, "Wait!"
"Yes?" teen Hanna said as she turned back around, mild surprise coloring her tone.
"I know that you're afraid of giving us too much information about the future, but considering that the future's changed now what you know is likely kaput anyway, and there's something that's been bothering me," Kim admitted, "You said that when Yono Fist first struck he attacked me to get Ron to leave himself vulnerable, but I cannot imagine that I'd stand around to let myself get hit. So what happened, was I sick that day? Badly injured? Stuck in a wheelchair and unable to get around very fast?"
Teen Hanna chuckled kindly at Kim's concern as she assured her, "No, Kimmie, it wasn't anything like that, though from the way my brother fussed over you he'd likely have been happy if you were taking it easy in a wheelchair. No, I'd say that when my family and Team Go had arrived that day at your parents' place, in order to attend your baby shower, that you looked healthy enough to take us all on by yourself."
This statement strikes everyone speechless. It was Ron who broke the silence as he stammered, "B-b-b-baby shower!?"
Kim was equally shocked as she asked, "You mean that the reason I was unable to fight…?"
Teen Hanna smiled and nodded in confirmation, then she waved as she backed into the portal, saying, "See you later, sister-in-law." Then the portal vanished from sight, taking teen Hanna with it.
Kim was still in shock as she turned towards Ron, whose expression of surprise mirrored her own, as she said, " 'Baby shower'?"
" 'Sister-in-law'?" Ron said back in the same dumbfounded tone. Then they both laughed with joy as they hugged each other tightly, and Kim didn't even want to let go when she heard her mother sniff and say, "I'm going to become a grandmother!"
Out of the corner of her eye, Kim saw her dad tell her mom, "You know, hon, that could still be a good few years from now."
"I know," her mom acknowledged, "but still…"
"I know, dear," her dad said as he wiped a tear of his own from his eye, "I know."
Kim sighed happily as she let her parents guess what was in the future, as she was perfectly content with her present. This felt like it was the first time since graduation that she saw no dark clouds on her horizon. It may be that there's always going to be some megalomaniac out there looking to hold the world for ransom or some madman seeking to destroy it, but the future with Ron that she'd fought so hard for now seemed as if it was now secure, and as long as they were together they could handle anything thrown their way. Yes, the future looked as though it would be bright for them from here on.
Elsewhere, in a large and darkened cavern, there are no signs of life anywhere. Even the usual cave dwelling wildlife, like bats and bears, are nowhere to be seen. The only indication that anything may have ever lived here is the shattered ruins of what must have been once a majestic structure. Then, unbidden, a wavering light rose from the ruins before it solidified into the form of Yono Fist.
This Yono Fist, who from the lack of the Yono symbol on his hand is likely the one from the present day, smiled cruelly as he said, "Thank you so much, Ms. Possible, for you've done me a great service. And now that we're no longer encumbered by our curse, our real work can begin." Yono Fist then began to laugh evilly, and as he did a second light form rose and became the monkey Yono that Monkey Fist first unearthed, who joined in the laughter. They were then joined in by a third, much larger shadowy figure, whose deep, sinister laughter felt like it could shatter the world by itself.
