Three Weddings And A Funeral By Kim's #1 Fan
Well, we're done with all the weddings, and we now start the funeral.
Before we begin,
I'd like to thank everyone who's read and reviewed so far, your words inspire me to continue.
As always, I do not own Kim & Co. or The Rescue Rangers.
And now,
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Chapter 4: The Funeral
Part 1: Death of a Ranger
At Ranger head quarters, Monterey Jack took Rosie the vampire bat into his room.
"Well Rosie darling,"
Monty told the vampire bat in his most gentleman like manner.
"Now that we're alone, we can talk."
"Of course, Monterey," the black bat agreed softly.
"We must discuss our date for this evening, I've always adored Italian
food." she said with a grin.
"What ever you wish luv."
Monty replied, hiding his reluctance.
He would rather go to a Pizza joint, but he wanted to make Rosie happy.
Rosie eyed Monty with her yellow eyes.
She could tell he would rather go somewhere else.
"Thanks, here's a gift..." she cooed to him.
She put her wings around him and leaned her face toward his, her fangs bared.
"Don't worry, I won't bite."
She leaned forward and kissed him softly.
Monterey felt uneasy.
He hadn't experienced any romance like this in a while.
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Outside the tree, Foxglove and Dale were flying around.
Dale was using artificial wings on his arms to fly.
He had to practice a lot, but he learned eventually.
Dale noticed that Foxglove was flying a distance from a window.
He zoomed toward his wife.
"Foxy, what are you doing?"
He asked as he flew in circles around her flapping his wings.
"Uh, oh, sorry." Foxglove stuttered,
surprised and embarrassed, she turned and flew along.
"Oh, I was just trying to listen to my mother talk with Monterey.
I wish I knew what they were saying." she told her husband sadly.
"I thought bats had sonar ears?"
Dale asked, looking puzzled as he and Foxglove flew around the tree.
"Yes Dale," she replied sweetly, as if talking to a child.
"But that doesn't mean we have super hearing."
Dale pondered, and decided to change the subject.
"So," he began,
"how do you feel about Monty dating your mother?"
"Not too good Dale." she told him sourly.
Dale was silent for a moment.
"Why not Foxy? Don't you like Monty?"
"Of course I do Dale, but just as a friend, not as a boyfriend for my mother." she told him.
"Please understand, no one can replace my father."
Dale was silent, understanding what Foxglove was going through.
If Monty dated Rosie, there was a chance it would develop into something more.
"I understand," Dale told his wife carefully.
"but Monty could never replace your father. And I'm sure your mother and Monty wouldn't even try. And he makes your mother happy, doesn't she deserve that?"
Foxglove thought about this.
Her mood didn't change, but the logic was solid.
Her mother and Monty liked each other.
And no matter what, her father would never be replaced.
"I suppose your right." she said reluctantly.
She flew through the cool night air silently.
Then she turned to face her husband.
"How do you do that Dale?" she asked simply.
"How do I do what dear?" he asked taken off guard.
"Get me to see things from someone else's point of view?" she asked sweetly.
Dale silently flew through the air as he considered her question.
"It's what I'm best at." he told her proudly.
Suddenly, Gadget ran out of the headquarters and shouted,
"Foxy, Dale, come inside, it's important!"
Dale and Foxglove threw glances at each other.
With a shrug they flew toward the tree branch.
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The Ranger wing flew threw the night time sky.
Gadget ,Chip, Dale, and Monterey rode the Ranger Wing, While Foxglove , and Rosie flew through the air.
"Are you sure about the message Gadget?" asked Chip skeptically,
half convinced that this was a wild goose chase.
"Yes Chip," said Gadget calmly.
"The message said that something was going down at the midtown chocolate factory."
"But that factory has been shut down since we started our Ranger business." he said suspiciously.
"I know Chip, that's what's so weird, and also the message looked like it was from a human." explained Gadget.
Chip frowned, his eyes narrowed, his mind calculating what his wife had told him.
"I smell a trap." he told her.
"Funny," replied Gadget dryly,
"I smell a cat.
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Soon they arrived at the factory.
They walked in, and looked around.
"This don't look right mates." Monty told his team, his eyes looked around suspiciously.
"Yes" agreed Gadget, gesturing at the floor,
"Look at all this dust, this place hasn't been used in years."
Suddenly the front door slammed behind them.
Everyone looked around in shock.
"It was a trap!" shouted Dale in a shocked voice.
"Shh!" Foxglove gestured to the others to be silent.
"Mama do you hear something?"
Rosie listened for a moment.
"I think I hear a ticking, it's either a clock, or a bomb,"
"And no one would leave a clock around here." Chip replied, realizing what Rosie was getting at.
"Exactly." Rosie agreed.
"Take Gadget, and track it down, if it's a clock, leave it alone, if it's a bomb, have Gadget defuse it, if she can't, get it out of here any way possible."
"Right Chip." said both Gadget and Rosie together.
"Be careful, Rosie" Monterey told Rosie touching her shoulder.
"Do not Worry my dear," Rosie assured him confidently
"you will not lose me so easily." she hugged him tightly.
Meanwhile Gadget and Chip were also hugging, both worried.
"Gadj, if it is a bomb..."
Chip began to say, worried for his wife's safety.
"If it is a bomb, I'll defuse it." whispered Gadget.
"I love you Gadget Maplewood."
"I bet you say that to all the mice with mind bashingly high I.Q.s." she teased him, a grin on her pretty rodent face.
"Nope," said Chip.
"Only one."
Meanwhile, Rosie went over to Foxglove, and they both now hugged each other lovingly.
"Mom," Foxglove began softly,
"I'm sorry about the way I've been acting, I just..."
"Didn't want me to get married so soon?" Rosie asked her hybrid daughter.
Foxglove looked at her mother in surprise.
"How did you...?"
"A good mother knows her daughters feelings, before she does." she said with a grin baring her fangs.
"And don't worry dearest," she assured her child
"I'm not ready to be married again, but someday, maybe," she looked lovingly at Monterey.
"You could never find a better mouse, then him Mama." said Foxglove, finally giving her approval.
"Lets go dear." said Rosie finally pulling herself away from her daughter.
Gadget got onto Rosie's back, and Rosie carried Gadget to the area where she heard the ticking.
They searched the whole area, till finally they found a rug.
"It's down there." Rosie told Gadget.
Gadget got off of Rosie's back, and went over to the rug, and lifted it up,
at the bottom of a hole was a metal box
"Here it is," shouted Gadget,
"It's a bomb, and there's only thirty seconds until it blows!
I'm not sure if I can disarm it in time."
Rosie hesitated.
What if Gadget couldn't disarm it in time?
Fear and confusion filled her mind, then suddenly disappeared into certainty.
Rosie pushed Gadget out of the way, and with all her strength tore the bomb out of the floor.
"Rosie, what are you doing?" demanded Gadget, wondering if she had lost it.
Rosie turned to Gadget, her face grim.
"Tell my dear Foxglove that I love her."
She picked up the bomb, and carried it out an open window.
Suddenly the others showed up.
"What happened?" asked Dale,
"Where's Rosie?"
"Guys!" shouted Gadget,
"It was a bomb! Rosie just carried it out."
"Mama!!" shouted Foxglove and flew into the air, zooming out the open window.
BOOOMMM!!
Foxglove saw the explosion, and watched as a smoking object fell from the sky.
She flew down and found her mother lying on a patch of grass.
Her body was bent, and seriously burnt, and wisps of smoke came from her fur.
Foxglove froze in horror; her thoughts numb,
her feelings screaming, but her body wouldn't react.
Suddenly, Rosie opened her yellow eyes, and looked at her daughter.
"Every...one...safe?" she asked, her voice harsh, and weak sounding.
"Yes Mama, you saved us all." said Foxglove in a broken voice, hoping her mother would stay longer.
"Good...Good..."
Then she closed her eyes in rest.
"Do not Weep for me my child, I go to join our heavenly father, and to prepare a place for you as well."
Rosie lay there motionless; only her breathing visible.
Soon her breathing stopped.
"Mama?" asked Foxglove looking at her mother.
No response.
"Mama no, please god, no!"
She cried, her tears wet her mother's lifeless body.
Soon she felt a strong hand on her shoulder.
She turned to see Monterey Jack.
Amidst the turmoil in her heart, she couldn't believe that he had gotten there so fast.
"How did you..." she began
"You'd be amazed whatcha' kin
do with the right motivation." he told her.
Then he saw Rosie.
Sorrow and shock echoed like sound waves inside him.
He immediately turned to Foxglove, and hugged her.
Foxglove cried into his shoulder.
"Oh Monty," she sobbed.
"She was my only mother."
"I know sweetie" Monty replied, sniffing back his own tears.
"I know."
Monty and Foxglove hugged each other, and cried into each others shoulders.
The others soon found them, but Gadget held them all back.
"Come on guys," she said, a tear appearing in her eye,
"Lets leave them alone."
The Rangers all turned away from the sad scene.
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Hours later, Foxglove and Monterey, returned to Ranger Head Quarters.
Dale, Chip and Gadget heard them come in.
"Are you O.K. Foxy?" Dale asked his wife.
Foxglove never said a word, she just went to the room she now shared with her new husband Dale, and shut the door.
Dale got up, and went to the door, but Monterey put a strong hand on his shoulder.
"No Mate," he told Dale in a soft grim voice.
"She needs to be by herself, right now. She'll let you know when she's ready for ya."
Then Monterey moved over to the table where they all sat, and sat down, and placed his head in his arms, and began crying his eyes out.
Gadget moved over to him, and began patting his large shoulders.
"Oh, Gadj," he said through his tears,
"I was gonna ask er to marry me." he sobbed.
"I know Monty," she whispered softly.
Dale got up and went to the kitchen.
He soon returned with a plate of cheese hoping it would cheer Monty up.
"Here Monty, maybe if you..."
he never finished what he was saying, he noticed Gadget giving him a dirty look.
"What?" he asked confused.
"Not now Dale," Chip interjected softly, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I know your just trying to help pal," he said, turning him around, and looking at him,
"but it's just too soon."
Monty tried to get up with difficulty.
Gadget and Zipper helped Monty back to his room.
"Thanks mates." he replied softly, opening the door to his room, and then closing it behind him.
Soon they all heard him crying loudly from behind the door.
After that they heard Foxglove crying again.
Dale ran to his bedroom door, and started to open it, and Chip caught his arm,
"No!, She'll let you know when she wants you."
Dale was silent, feeling like a total idiot.
Gadget got up, and ran into her husbands arms and began crying her own tears.
"Oh Chip," she sobbed into his shoulders, her heart full of turmoil.
"She was like a second mother to me, now it's like I've lost my mom all over again." she cried.
"I know dear, I know." his heart ached, though he wasn't crying tears like his wife.
Dale walked over to the front door, and opened it.
"I need a little air." he told himself softly.
"Mind a little company darling?" asked a soft voice from behind him.
He turned to see Foxglove with red, tear filled eyes.
Dale looked over to Gadget, who simply nodded her head.
"Sure," he said, softly,
"if it'll make you feel better."
Foxglove ran over to him, and hugged him.
"Oh Dale," she sobbed, loosing control of her emotions again.
"I know dear," he whispered into her ear, as he led her outside,
"I know."
He shut the door behind them.
"Gadget," began Chip slowly,
"I don't know what to do for Rosie," he rubbed one of his eyes.
"What do you mean dear?" asked Gadget softly.
"Well, A ranger never died in action before now so..."
"We'll have a nice little service, for her." Gadget stated simply.
"Yes," said Chip agreeing sadly,
"She would have wanted that.
And maybe someone could say a few words for her."
"Chip," said Gadget,
"I think she would want Kim there too, and Ron and Rufus as well."
"Yeah," said Chip thinking,
"Hana too."
"Oh no dear," Gadget shook her head ,
"She's just a baby, she wouldn't understand, and even if she did, it would be too much for her."
"Your right." replied Chip sadly.
He turned to his wife, and they hugged each other.
"Chip," said Gadget crying,
"never leave me." she cried into his shoulders.
"Never my love," Chip assured his blond wife, his eyes becoming moist again,
"never."
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The next day, Kim Possible came home from her day of work for Global Justice.
Ron was out,
'probably at Bueno Nacho picking up dinner.' she thought.
'Well, that gives me a little time for a shower.'
She walked through their home.
Ron had bought the house across the street from her family home as a wedding present for her.
As she walked to her bedroom, she thought to herself,
"Someday, mom and dad won't like this, but for our anniversary,
I'm gonna give Ron a Jewish wedding."
When she opened her bedroom door, she noticed two chipmunks, two mice a bat and a fly, all sitting on her bed crying.
"Guys?" asked Kim, looking at them.
"What's going on?"
she noticed that everyone looked sad.
"Guys, what's wrong?"
Gadget reached into a pocket, and pulled out a smaller version of the penlight, pointed it at Kim.
Kim understanding, sat on her bed and waited.
Gadget clicked the button, turning Kim into a mouse.
Kim, now in her mouse form, was able to read the rangers faces and body language better.
And was shocked by the sorrow they were going through.
Particularly Foxglove, she was hugging Dale tightly, crying into his now tear soaked shoulder.
"What happened?" asked Kim, almost afraid to hear the answer.
"It's Rosie," Chip told her, his voice grim but firm.
"She's dead."
Horror and shock hit Kim like a tidal wave; her mind went blank.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." she whispered.
She immediately ran over to Foxglove and hugged her, now crying her own tears.
"I'm so very sorry, Foxy, what happened?"
Chip began to explain, while Kim hugged Foxglove.
"We got a message that something was happening at a downtown chocolate factory, so we went there..."
"Then," continued Gadget, after sniffling back her own tears.
"some one slammed the door behind us, and Rosie heard a ticking, so she and I went to investigate,"
"It was a Bomb!" cried Foxglove trough her tears.
"she died saving us."
"I think she would want you and Ron at the service," said Monterey Jack,
"she thought a lot of you two."
"We'll be there," Kim assured them, rubbing her moist green eyes.
"We'll also need your help, finding out who did this." said Dale.
"I want them to die!" Foxglove shouted angrily.
"Foxy!" Chip gasped, not believing what he was hearing.
"that's no way for a Ranger to act." Gadget interjected equally shocked.
"I don't care Gadj," screamed Foxglove angrily.
"they killed my mother!"
" I agree!" a voice commented.
Everyone turned to stare at Monterey Jack in shock.
"Monty you can't be serious" remarked a very shocked Kim.
"I don't care Kim, they killed the woman that I loved." Monty shouted, his fists clutched,
He looked at them, as if he was imagining Rosie's killer in his fists.
"Alright," said Chip,
"We'll straighten this out later,
for now though, can you and Ron come to the funeral?" he asked.
"Try and stop us." Kim remarked defiantly.
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Well there it is friends, I'm sorry if anyone disagrees with my decision to kill Rosie, but we had to have a funeral, and it was either her, or Monty, and I'd rather not kill one of the original Rangers.
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