AUTHOR'S NOTE – Thanks to the people who read and reviewed Chapter Eight: Michael Howard, xyzisme, screaming phoenix & Kwebs! I hope the other reviewers of my previous chapters are doing fine and catch up with my story soon. Now, prepare to read the finale (you heard me!) of "Perfect Planning"… A special thanks again to my proof-reader Michael Howard for helping me improve my translation! Well now, enjoy Chapter Nine! ;)

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Chapter Nine: A Memor-able Ending

Slowly, the silver-gray hover-jet touched down on one side of the flat roof. Soon, it was standing exactly parallel to the black-and-green striped aircraft on the opposite side, from which Shego and Mego were watching the spectacle in awe. Standing on the roof between the two planes were Dr. Drakken and Ron, both too surprised to budge, both fixing a fascinated gaze upon the hover-jet. Every now and then, Ron briefly looked at Drakken out of the corner of his eyes to make sure he did not try to use the distraction for a new attack with the ability transferator. But Drakken's surprise and indignation about his plans seemingly being foiled by yet another unforeseen event were a lot stronger than his aggressiveness at the moment. And whoever would get out of that jet might actually be just as good of a target for the ray of the ability transferator…

As soon as the landing had taken place, a huge automatic door on the side of the jet that was facing Drakken and Ron slowly opened. Judging by the size of the jet, it could have transported a maximum of about thirty people. At the moment, however, only a single figure came into view behind the door – the sight of which prompted Ron to shout in a surprised, if not shocked manner: "WADE?!"

It was indeed Wade, in person, who was now facing them, wearing his mission outfit and a confident expression. While Ron just gaped, Drakken started grinning and laughing evilly again: "Ha, Kim Possible's computer kid! Now, isn't that wonderful! I do believe my collection could still use some abilities of that kind!"

That was when Drakken aimed the ability transferator at Wade, but the very moment he pulled the trigger, Wade quickly pressed a button on his utility belt – and immediately, he was surrounded by a blue glowing sphere that the energy ray could not get through! Drakken's jaw dropped in shock, and Ron could hardly believe his own eyes, either. Relieved on the one hand, confused on the other hand, he ran up to Wade, while Drakken was loudly cursing with anger, and stammered: "Wade, what…? I mean, how…? Say, you're not wearing Kim's battle suit, are you?! She won't like that at all! I mean, you were the one who made it, I give you that, …but I still remember how Kim reacted when…"

"No, Ron," Wade interrupted him with a grin. "I wouldn't dream of doing that! I just installed the same protective shield function into my utility belt."

"Aha…! Farsighted like always, Wade! But how did you even get here?"

"Well, of course I sent a warning to the GJ outpost in Mexico City right away. And when I explained to them what Drakken did to Dr. Director and the others, they were glad to make a little detour via Middleton and give us a ride."

"Ah, I see…" Ron said, but then he hesitated: "Uh, hang on a second… 'us'? Who do you mean by 'us'?!"

Without a word, Wade stepped aside to get out of the way, and in the next moment, as if by order, about twenty – if not more – red glowing copies of one and the same person stormed out of the jet in a matter of seconds – those were the Wegos! In a V formation, they got into line in front of Ron and Wade.

"Wade, are you crazy?!" Ron shouted in horror. "You've led them straight to Drakken!"

Drakken grinned diabolically, when he saw the crowd of Wegos in front of him and immediately aimed at the first of them with the ability transferator. He fired, the energy ray fully hit the superhero – but nothing happened! Wego did not even twitch when he had been hit, and the ray disappeared without making the pump flash. Drakken let out a cry of desperation, while Ron could only gape.

Wade grinned once again and deactivated the blue protective shield that surrounded him in order to explain to the baffled Ron: "It's not that simple for Drakken to steal the abilities of the Wego twins. Their abilities, especially their superpowers, are so strongly connected to one another – they virtually complete each other, so it isn't enough to zap just one of them. That way, the ability transferator doesn't even register them. The transference would only work if the ray hit both of the original twins – at the same time!"

"But… how did you know that?"

"I just ran a few tests on the computer, while the Wego twins and I were waiting for the jet to arrive."

Drakken did not hear any of this. He was busy zapping one Wego after the other with the ability transferator, blinded by his rage, but the result was always the same – nothing! Now the red glowing clones all rushed forward at the same time, forming a threatening circle around the villain. Drakken nervously looked around him a few times, then took the offensive, furiously firing green plasma rays all about him. The clones jumped up or to the side, they all managed to evade every single attack. Some of them ran up to Drakken, trying to attack him. But he warded them off with some well-aimed blows and kicks or let himself shrink with the purple glow, so that the Wegos missed him. A few times, one of them almost got his hands on the ability transferator – missing by less than an inch. The assault of the Wego clones did not stop, but neither did Drakken's defense.

Ron and Wade were sceptically watching. After the army of Wegos had been knocked down a few times already, Wade said: "If things go on like this, they won't be able to stop him for much longer. They need help…"

Wade wanted to signal the remaining crew of the jet – twenty-five GJ men from Mexico City – to come out, but Ron held him back: "Hang on, Wade… I'm not done with him yet…!"

Wade's questioning look was only answered by Ron's determined expression and a brief nod. Ron now looked back at the fighting scene, fixing his look upon Drakken and taking one deep breath. Fully concentrated, he went searching inside him, recalled the exact memory of how he had just used his Mystical Monkey Powers before – how they had come to him, when he had called for them. He was in control! Yes, he could do it – he would make it again! As soon as he could feel the energy again, he took a little run, bent his knees – and now, Wade was the one to gape!

With an almost monkey-like scream, Ron did a standing jump several feet into the air across the roof, rushed downwards, hands first – and struck Drakken's head! He pushed the villain down with all his might during the fall, propelling himself into the air again at the same time to land back on his feet behind Drakken with a small somersault, in the middle of the amazed Wegos. Ron whirled around, Drakken lay flat on his face on the ground, the ability transferator still in his hand. Quickly, Drakken turned on his back, fired an energy ray at Ron, but he evaded it just as fast, leaping high into the air again from a crouching position. Doing a somersault, he came rushing down again, feet first. As if on reflex, Drakken yanked his arms upwards, trying to aim with the ability transferator – but gasped, when Ron came crashing down on him like a flash!

"Oof!!" Too fast came the landing – Drakken winced in pain when Ron's feet hit his stomach with full force. For a moment, everything went black before Drakken's eyes, he only felt the weight of his attacker, even though he had jumped off of him again right away. Drakken almost thought he had lost consciousness – but when he opened his eyes again with a start, contorted with pain, and looked up, he noticed that he had lost something else…

"No!!" Drakken screamed with horror, when he saw the ability transferator flying though the air. He sat up, trying to jump up and run after it, but the pain made him wince again.

"Got it!" one of the Wegos shouted behind him, having caught the device. Still lying on the ground, convulsed with pain, Drakken did the only thing he was able to do from that position – he fired a green plasma ray. The impact of the ray knocked Wego over, and once again, the ability transferator went flying through the air. Drakken followed it with his horrified gaze, saw the red glowing clones running up from the other side to catch it. He swung his arm around, firing another plasma ray while doing so, throwing all the Wegos off their feet in one go. The ability transferator came closer and closer to the ground…

Ron took action fast. With an energetic jump ahead, he just managed to catch the device – even though that made him land roughly on his stomach. He briefly shook his slightly dazed head, then picked himself up off the ground and sighed with relief: "Alright! And now, back to Kim!" But as soon as he moved, he heard a growl and an infuriated scream.

"Ron, look out!" Wade warned him.

Ron looked up, saw Drakken furiously running up to him, firing a plasma ray – just in time, Ron managed to take cover by jumping to the side. But now Drakken had almost reached him, stood in front of him with green glowing hands, growling: "Give that back to me right now, you buffoon!"

Almost blinded by his rage, he headed for Ron, but did not get far – for all of a sudden, he could not see a thing! Confused and enraged, Drakken lashed out in all directions with glowing hands, thrashed about with his feet, trying to move. What was going on? There was some kind of a resistance – something that blocked his view, that stopped him …and even squeezed his nose. And no matter where he tried to turn his head, the barrier stayed where it was – on his face!

"Now you already have so many abilities and you still don't get it!" he heard a furious voice in front of him. "My name is Ron! Ron Stoppable!"

Ron's hand was the barrier! With incredible strength, he stood there, pushing Drakken away from him, stopping him from getting ahead. In his other hand, he was holding the ability transferator out of the villain's range, who now realized what was going on here. Drakken jumped back, evading Ron's grip that way and immediately fired a green plasma ray – that hit Ron with full force and sent him flying several feet behind. "Stoppable indeed…" Drakken mocked him.

With a pained expression, Ron landed on the hard ground, remained flat on his back motionlessly. But already a few moments after the rough landing, he opened his eyes with a start, looking down at his left hand – fortunately, he had not lost the ability transferator! He lifted his dazed head and saw Drakken running up to him. Soon, he would attack him and take the ability transferator away from him again. He could not let that happen! Ron gritted his teeth, trying to ignore the pain and reactivate his Mystical Monkey Powers. Only very slowly did the energy return to him – too slowly! It would not be enough…

Suddenly, Drakken abruptly stopped – no, he was pulled back! When Ron looked closer, he noticed four red glowing Wego clones who held onto Drakken's arms. That was his chance! He sat up, trying to pick himself up off the ground – but then he winced in pain, his back still hurt too much. Perhaps he should try once more to call for his Mystical Monkey Powers that always gave him so much energy to make the pain fade away. He focussed his mind… Drakken had already shook off one of the Wegos… and another one… soon he was freed, ran up to him again… That was when Ron noticed Wade was suddenly standing much closer to them than before.

"Wade!" he shouted to him. And then, he threw the ability transferator in Wade's direction, right over Drakken who stopped and stared as if on reflex. It was a perfect throw, Wade caught the ability transferator with ease. Drakken whirled around, shot a green plasma ray – only to watch how it was intercepted by Wade's blue glowing protective shield.

"ARGHHH!!" Drakken was on the verge of despair once again, which gave Ron enough time to fully reactivate his energies. He drew up his legs, pushed himself forward off the ground with all his might, so that his feet hit Drakken's back with full force. That threw the villain off balance, while Ron landed safely on his feet behind him. In the meantime, some of the Wego clones had gotten up again and made sure Drakken stayed on the ground. Now Ron was running across the roof to the place where he had left Kim's "hairdryer" behind. Wade was waiting there, still holding the ability transferator in his hand, both of them surrounded by the blue protection bubble projected from his utility belt. When Ron reached him, Wade deactivated the protective shield and gave him the ability transferator.

"Think you guys got him under control for now?" Ron asked him, looking back at Drakken and the Wegos once more.

"Don't worry about that," Wade said and pointed at the ability transferator in Ron's hand. "Better go to Kim first, before Drakken takes that away from you again."

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Down in the car, Kim was still sitting in the passenger's seat trembling. The whole time, she had been looking out of the opened window, but she had hardly been able to make out what was happening up on the roof – and if she had made out anything, she was not able to make any sense of it. Every now and then, she had heard something, but never understood what exactly it was. In any case, she was already exasperated. "What's happening up there, Rufus?" she asked the little rodent that was sitting in front of her on the dashboard and looking all around, her voice trembling heavily. "Where's Ron gotten to? What's taking him so long? I can't take it any longer!"

Rufus gave her a sympathetic look, uttered a helpless squeaking sound and shrugged. Gradually, he was driven to despair as well. For as long as they had been waiting here, Kim had certainly asked him all of this a thousand times already and wailed about things all the time. He really had no idea how to comfort her any longer. After all, she did not even seem to understand his squeaking! He could only hope that Ron would return very soon and put everything right again.

And then, finally, he saw something – it was Ron, who was coming down the wall of the building that very moment. Squeaking and jumping for joy, Rufus pointed out of the window. Kim could have sworn she had heard her name among the sounds of the naked mole rat and gave him a confused stare. But then, she clearly perceived from somewhere else: "KP!" And when she looked out of the window, Ron was just running up to the car.

"Ron!" Kim shouted, still in a more desperate than relieved tone, though.

"KP, I got it!" Ron beamed, holding up the ability transferator, when he had reached the car. Then he opened the passenger's door, took off Kim's seatbelt first and carefully turned her around to the opened door. "Everything's gonna be fine now!"

While he slowly put the ability transferator into her hand, a thought struck Ron all of a sudden: Would he ever be able to call for his Mystical Monkey Powers again, when he needed them? Without Kim's abilities that had made it possible for him to fully concentrate, to fade out his fears, to believe in himself and his own abilities…? But as quickly as the thought had occurred to him, he already rejected it again and let Kim have the ability transferator. He stood in front of her, ostentatiously spread out his arms and said: "Alright, KP. Fire!"

Kim just looked at him and asked: "And what am I supposed to do now?!"

Ron gave her a confused look first, then he briefly laughed in an embarrassed way and tried hard to make clear to her what she had to do: "Uh, yeah, first of all, you aim it at me, like this…" He took her hands in his and slowly pulled them up.

"…and then you pull that trigger." With that, he carefully lay the index finger of her one hand on the trigger of the device.

"Um, like this?" Without warning, Kim pulled the trigger, the energy ray hit Ron at close range and therefore so heavily that he was thrown off his feet. Kim was startled for a moment, but then she watched in awe as the ray disappeared again, made the pump flash and another ray emerged from the rear end and surrounded her. And that was when she felt her abilities come back to her.

"Aw man, brain pain!" Ron had sat up and put his hand to his slightly dazed head. But then he looked up and went back to his feet with one jump. "KP!"

"Ron!" Kim shouted with relief, jumped up from the passenger's seat and flung her arms around her boyfriend. Ron returned and enjoyed the tight hug.

And Rufus was glad as well. "Booya!" the little rodent squeaked, hopped out of the car onto Ron's shoulder and cuddled up to his face – his way of "hugging" him, so to say.

After a few seconds, Kim broke the hug and asked: "And what about Drakken? Is he still up there?"

Ron nodded and replied: "Wade and the boys are taking care of him right now."

"Wade is here?!" Kim asked in surprise. "And I thought he…"

When Kim did not continue, Ron asked: "You thought he'd let us down?"

"Huh, I guess really I did… Weird. But I wasn't even able to think straight before, was I…?" Then she shrugged and said: "Never mind – now I wanna see what's going on up there…"

They kept the ability transferator safely in the locked up car for now, then they both ran back to the building, where Kim's "hairdryer" was hanging from the rope that was fixed by a grappling hook up on the roof. Once there, Kim grabbed the "hairdryer" with her right hand, drew Ron close with her other hand to hold onto him. With a smile, Ron held onto her with his right arm and also lay his left hand on the "hairdryer", touching Kim's hand. Kim returned the smile and let herself and Ron be pulled up with the push of a button.

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Up on the roof, they had already been expected. "Wade!" Kim smiled when she saw him.

"Kim!" He briefly looked the other way, slightly embarrassed. "Good to see you're okay again…"

"Say, boys, what in the world did I miss here?!" Kim then asked, amazed by the sight that met her eyes: Drakken was lying on the ground, tied up from his shoulders almost down to his knees with a particularly thick and solid rope that was constructed to prevent him from using the Team Go powers. Behind him, the Wego twins and the GJ men were standing. Without the threat of the ability transferator, it obviously had not been all that hard for them to overpower Drakken.

When Kim, Ron and Wade approached Drakken, he was just brought to his feet by two GJ soldiers in order to be taken into custody. The villain looked quite strained, but when he caught sight of Kim, he held forth: "Kim Possible, you think you're all that – but this time, it wasn't you who beat me!"

"True, I'll give you that…" Kim said, then pulled back her arm with a clenched fist and threatened him with a grin: "But I could make up for that, if you want…!"

At that, Drakken twitched in panic, almost falling over that way. Even though Kim did not carry out her threat, the villain still kept his frightened look for a while, as he was taken away into the hover-jet. Team Possible now turned to face each other again, and Wade remarked: "All that's left to do now, is return all the other abilities to their original owners."

"That could take a while…" Ron said. "I sure hope we'll get to hit Bueno Nacho on our way!"

"Of course, Ron," Kim assured him and then pondered: "So, the last person whose abilities Drakken has stolen – before he stole mine, that is –, was Mego, …right? He didn't get hold of anyone up here, did he…?"

"No, he didn't," Wade answered and added with a smile: "…thanks to Ron."

"Nah…" Ron gave a dismissive gesture. "It's not like I did it on my own… kinda. I mean… well…"

"I saw you a few times!" Kim interrupted him, almost with a hint of excitement in her voice. "How you were jumping through the air – but I had no idea what was happening! You've got to tell me everything…"

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It had taken them until late in the night to fly to all the outposts of Global Justice that Drakken had attacked – in reverse order of his attacks – and return the right abilities to every single member of the respective outpost on the basis of the ability transferator's registry. Now they had made it to their last stop, the headquarters. While Wade made sure to explain to each of the members about the return of their abilities, Kim and Ron were standing off to one side. Only now had Ron gotten to tell her the details of his fight against Drakken to the very end. Kim could only gape and was tongue-tied at first. Actually, she found all the things Ron had told her almost unbelievable, but Wade had repeatedly confirmed some of his earlier stories. Finally, she did not know what else to say than: "I wish I had been there… But I know I couldn't."

A moment of silence passed, in which they both watched what was happening behind them again. Yet another one of the members was just zapping Drakken with the ability transferator, which caused Ron to comment in an amused way: "He's always been the target of ridicule, but this must be new to him…"

Suddenly, they heard a familiar voice behind them: "Miss Possible…"

They both turned around again, and Kim smiled: "Dr. Director!" Slightly ashamed, she said right away: "We're sorry you and your men had been attacked…"

Dr. Betty Director, who had her abilities back by now, gave her a nod and continued in a friendly voice: "Don't think about it. Thank you for catching Dr. Drakken and getting back the prototype."

"No big! But don't save all your thanks for me…" With that, Kim put her arm around Ron and added with a smile: "If it hadn't been for Ron, Drakken would've caused a lot more damage."

Ron gave Kim a grateful smile and then was surprised to see Dr. Director hold out her hand towards him and to hear her say in a sincere way: "Many thanks to you as well, Mr. Stoppable."

While Ron hesitantly shook her hand, he laughed embarrassedly: "Uh, he, he, you're welcome…"

After a few moments, Dr. Director explained: "As soon as all ability transferences had been reversed, we will immediately destroy the prototype to make sure it will never fall into the wrong hands again. We also might temporarily or completely stop this project and devote ourselves to other research programs again. Now, if you'll excuse me…"

When Dr. Director left the room, Ron also put his arm around Kim and said: "You know, KP, I think I never could've done all that without your abilities. I was able to concentrate like never before… somehow, that was like a whole new experience. Really, I've never experienced anything like that before – and I mean, I've been through a lot already! I've even been in your body once, but…"

"Ahem, Ron…!" Kim gave a little cough and quickly looked all around her.

"Whoops…" Ron grinned with embarrassment and stuttered: "Uh, what I… he, he… I meant to say… The time we were brain-switched… You know, you were in my body, I was in yours… But still, I wasn't able to do anything! Well… and when I had your abilities, …I kinda felt like, … you know …like …like I could…"

"…do anything?" Kim finished the sentence for him.

"Um… yeah… exactly," Ron replied hesitantly and then added in an excited voice: "I could even control my Mystical Monkey Powers! There was nothing to it, actually…" He lowered his voice a little again and sighed: "I hope I'll still remember how I did that later, because… Who knows? Maybe that really could be useful again sometime…?"

"Uh-huh… Who knows…?" After a few seconds of silence, Kim gently touched his face with her other hand and whispered: "You were amazing…"

Ron looked at her in a surprised way and asked: "I thought you didn't even see how I…?"

When Kim smirked at him and cocked one eyebrow, it finally hit him. With a goofy grin, he drew her closer and said in a low voice: "Booya…"

They looked deep into each other's eyes. And just when they were about to forget everything around them and kiss, suddenly someone cleared his throat behind them: "Ahem… excuse me… Miss Possible?"

Kim refrained a little from Ron again and turned around questioningly: "Uh… yes?"

The GJ guard who had addressed her pointed at the ability transferator he was holding in his other hand in a slightly embarrassed way and asked: "Well, uh, actually, I was the first one here whose abilities were stolen by that Drakken fellow. Dr. Director explained that all entries would be deleted, after the abilities had been transferred back to their owners, but the device still indicates some kind of a transference…"

"Well, then you just have to find out who's still missing their abilities…" Kim replied.

The man looked at the display on the ability transferator once again, took a brief look around and then went off in one direction. Kim turned back to Ron and exchanged a questioning look with him, when Ron said dryly: "And I'm sure he couldn't have figured that out on his own…"

"Huh…" Kim pondered. "I just remembered who's been without any abilities for a long time already…"

Soon after that, an infuriated voice was heard: "DRAKKEN!!"

Followed by a panic scream: "AHHH!! No, please don't! Shego, I'm so sorry!"

And then, the still tied up Drakken came running past them, as fast as his current position allowed him to. And behind him, the furious Shego followed, causing him to jump with a green plasma ray over and over again.

"HELP!! Please, lock me up! Just take me away from her!!" Drakken cried out fearfully, while Kim and Ron exchanged amused smiles at the sight.

End of Chapter Nine

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AUTHOR'S NOTE – Yeah, that was the memorable (pun intended) ending of "Perfect Planning" – I hope you enjoyed it! :) I also hope you got the little reference to "Graduation" in the last paragraph and you liked my take on Ron's Mystical Monkey Powers. As awesome as his powers were in "Graduation", I was always wondering how Ron was possibly able to control them like that all of a sudden! I was always under the impression that they just came to him as they pleased (usually when someone or something he held dear was threatened), but it seemed more like the powers controlled him, not the other way round. In my story, I kinda wanted him to "learn" how to control them, but of course, the powers couldn't already work the way they did in "Graduation". They're more like a "booster" for Kim's abilities here.
So, why am I writing "End of Chapter Nine" again and not "The End", if my story's over already, you might ask? Because there's a little Epilogue still to come! ;) As this story is set within Season Four, and every episode of Season Four had a little extra scene in the end, when the credits were running, I thought I might add such a scene to this story as well. It will be up pretty soon! Until then, take care & see you around! :)