Three Weddings And A Funeral By Kim's #1 Fan.
Greetings once again friends,
We're back with more action, more comedy, and more adventure.
To those who've been reading, welcome back.
To those who've just joined us,
Welcome, and I hope you enjoy the ride.
As always, many thanks to my beta reader Data Seeker.
I do not own Kim and Co., or The Rescue Rangers, so please, don't sue, it's all in fun.
And now...
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Chapter 4: The Funeral
Part 5: The Fall Of Rat Capone.
Capone stared at the beautiful female mouse, his revolver in his paw;
The female mouse froze.
"Please don't shoot me." she pleaded in a small voice.
Rat Capone snapped out of his daze, and put the revolver away.
"Sorry Missie," he apologized in a stammering voice as he put the revolver back in his coat.
"Who are you?"
The female mouse relaxed, and put on a seductive pose.
"My name is Kimberly." she replied in a soft sultry voice.
"Are you Rat Capone?" she asked softly.
"Why uh, yes I am." he replied, turning on his charm.
"Oh wonderful," she squealed.
"You see, I'm close friends with your muscle boy, Arnold Mousenager, and he told me you were still in desperate need of a moll, and well, I just thought I could help in that area."
Rat Capone grinned evilly.
"Why sure doll," he practically purred.
"I'd love to have you in my gang."
"Great," the red headed mouse replied softly.
"Just call me Dolly."
"Great doll, uh, I mean Dolly," said Capone happily.
"Now, have you seen your pal Arnold? I'm still waiting for him and Sugar Ray to come back."
"Why yes, Ratsy Baby," she cooed touching his arm.
"As a matter of fact, he told me where to find you.
He wanted me to tell you that he and Sugar Ray, had the rangers all tied up, when they arrived for some interference or something;
And were ready for you to come and finish them."
"Great Dolly," exclaimed Rat Capone excitedly.
"Let's go."
The red haired mouse and the rat walked out of the hideout together.
"Ya know Dolly," said Capone, clutching her paw and leering at her attractive features,
"This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship."
The red haired female turned her head away slightly; disgust and something like guilt rippling through her.
"I hope not." she muttered to herself."
"What?" asked the rat, startled by her words.
Though mangled to be sure.
"Oh," exclaimed Dolly, realizing her mistake.
"I said I hope so Ratsy."
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They soon arrived at the spot where Gadget sat at a fire, watching over the two goons.
The minute Capone spotted the blond mouse, he gasped.
"BBBBut Yyyyyour..." he stuttered,
the fear of ghosts and avenging angels hitting him in full force.
"Dead?" asked Gadget with a grin.
Her light blue eyes gleamed with amusement.
"Nope, afraid not. Oh, and this is for my sister."
And she ran at him, and punched him in the stomach.
"Oof." he cried out, the pain in his gut, and his fear and bewilderment great.
"Dolly, save me!" he shouted.
"Right Ratsy baby." the red headed mouse replied.
She reached into her pocket, and grabbed what looked like a tube of lipstick, and fired a glue like material at him, binding him up.
"What the heck do you think your doing?" demanded Rat Capone.
His fear rage and confusion was so great, it was choking him.
"Helping my friend Gadget,
ratsy." Kim explained with a grin.
"Why you dirty little..."
Rat Capone never finished what he was saying, because Gadget went over and slapped him in the face.
Rat Capone looked at the young blond mouse in fear.
"This isn't possible." he stuttered.
"You should be dead! Or at least out of commission for a long time!"
"You see, Ratsy," began Gadget in a quiet menacing voice as she walked around him with a slight drama to her steps.
"The one you ruthlessly attacked
was really my twin sister from
Hawaii."
Rat Capone stared at her in disbelief.
"But How??" he asked.
"And you'll be glad to know, she's gonna be just fine, no thanks to you Ratsy." she told the rat contemptibly.
"Consider yourself lucky,"
Gadget suggested.
"I have half a mind to make you suffer, like you made my sister suffer."
Rat Capone glowered up at Gadget and Kim.
"We can still do it."Kim reminded him,
deciding to torture him a little.
"No! Please!" he begged desperately.
"You're supposed to be the good guys, you can't do this!"
Gadget stared at Kim.
And Kim, having her hands/paws
on her hips,
smiled and winked at Gadget.
Gadget nodded understandingly.
"Let's contact the others, and have them picked up later." suggested Kim.
"Right Kim." agreed Gadget.
"Oh, and Gadget," began Kim softly,
"Please don't tell Ron how I lured Rat boy here, into our little trap."
"Why? Will he get mad about the flirt trick?" asked Gadget crossing her arms.
"He really doesn't seem the type."
"No," Kim began to explain,
"Actually, he could handle the news better then I would if I found out he flirted with another woman, even if it was for a good reason." Kim explained reluctantly,
feeling a little ashamed of her one character flaw.
"I'd just rather that he didn't know, and what he won't know wont hurt him."
Gadget shrugged.
"O.K., but I still think your over reacting."
Kim felt uncomfortable, and decided to change the subject.
"How do you think the others are doing?" she asked Gadget.
"I'm sure there fine." she replied confidently.
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Meanwhile, just outside of Nimnull's secret lab, (which was a condemned building that wouldn't be demolished for some time.)
The rangers waited on top of the roof for Foxglove to return.
Suddenly, Zipper shouted and pointed.
"Zipper pally," exclaimed Monty,
"What is it?"
Monty was soon looking over the edge, with Dale and Chip beside him.
They all watched as Nimnull, got into his small car, and drove away.
"Oh great," complained Dale.
"he's getting away."
"Zipper," Chip whispered to the fly,
"Follow him, and find out what he's doing."
"Yeah," agreed Dale,
"While we wait here for Foxy, then have her turn us all into humans."
Chip nodded his head.
"Exactly." he stated.
"As soon as you know where he's going," Monterey Jack interjected,
"Come back and tell us."
Zipper gave a tiny salute, then flew off in pursuit of Nimnull's car.
A FEW MOMENTS LATER,
The rangers were waiting outside bored.
"I hope he hasn't left the country."
complained Dale.
"Don't be so negative," grumbled Chip,
"or you'll make the rest of us negative."
Dale grunted, crossing his arms, a frown on his face.
Just then, Foxglove arrived back with the penlight in her feet.
"Where's Zipper?" she asked, looking around in wonder.
"He's following Nimnull's car, to discover what he's up to." replied Chip.
"He'll be back soon hon,"
Dale explained to his wife.
"As soon as he finds out where Nimnull's going, he'll come back and let us know."
Suddenly, everyone was staring in bewilderment at Foxglove.
Her eyes were bulging,
her teeth were bared, and her body trembled with emotion as if she would charge at any moment.
"Darling," began Dale nervously,
"Are you feeling alright?"
"Am I feeling alright?!" she demanded angrily, turning on her fellow rangers.
"I'm gone for not five minutes, and you fools let that murderer escape, and you ask me how I'm feeling?!"
"Now just one cheese eatin minute luv," began Monty in their defense.
"Yes, Monterey?" she snarled very angrily, turning to face him.
"They let my mother's slayer escape!"
Foxglove's fangs couldn't grow, nor could her eyes turn red, like her mother's could.
But there was a deadly resolve inside her; vividly expressed through her voice, face and body language.
Monterey was taken aback by the rage he saw in little Foxglove.
"Dale," Chip whispered to his friend.
"Try to calm her down, she might listen to you."
"Uh..." murmured Dale, unsure what to do.
Suddenly, he remembered a song that his mother had always sang to him when he was upset, and it always helped him.
He quickly went over and hugged his wife, and began to sing softly in her ear.
"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,
How I wonder what you are."
Foxglove struggled, not wanting to lose her anger.
"Let Go of Me!" she hissed.
Dale continued singing.
"Up above the world so high,
like a diamond in the sky."
Moments later, Foxglove stopped struggling, and soon, she was returning Dale's hug, and humming along to the song that he sang.
Chip and Monterey stared at the scene in disbelief.
Finally, after a few moments of this she had calmed down.
Dale stopped singing, but held his wife close to him.
Then Foxglove straightened up,
and looked at the others.
"Sorry guys," she apologized shamefully.
"I guess I need to learn to control my anger." she explained softly.
"Don't worry sweetie," replied Dale hugging her harder,
"We'll all help."
"Yeah, agreed Chip,
"but first we need to be humans so we can follow Nimnull."
Suddenly, Foxglove remembered about the penlight, and picked it up off the ground.
"Oops," she said sheepishly, now just hold still."
She aimed the penlight at the other rangers, set it for human, and clicked the top.
A lavender beam emitted from the penlight, and turned the male rangers into their human selves.
They examined each other closely, then looked at little Foxglove.
"Tooraloo," exclaimed Monty, overwhelmed by the transformation.
"I'm never gonna get used to that ride."
"I guess that means you'd rather remain human, then go on that trip again." teased Dale.
Monty groaned,
"I hate it when your right." he murmured.
Chip straightened his fedora,
moved over to Foxglove, and took the penlight from her.
Then he quickly aimed it, and clicked the top.
Soon, Foxglove too, was her human self again.
She examined herself.
"I'll never get used to not having wings." she remarked out loud,
holding her left arm out.
"I feel naked."
"It could be worse," commented Chip, crossing his arms.
Since they had all taken to wearing clothes, nobody was naked.
"Your right Chip," she conceded,
gazing at the clothing she wore.
(Brownish, sleeveless shirt, rust colored pants, and no shoes.)
"Now, let's wait for Zipper."
"Ere he is now." cried Monty
upon seeing his little friend flying up to them.
Chip immediately turned, aimed the penlight at him, and fired.
In a flash of lavender, Zipper quickly turned human, and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Oof!" he exclaimed.
"Sorry bud," Chip apologized to the small middle aged man.
"My mistake."
Zipper murmured something as he sat down, rubbing himself.
"Where's Nimnull?" asked Dale helping him up.
"He's right behind me." answered Zipper, pointing at a small car coming up the street toward the lair.
"He had to do a little shoplifting at an electronic store."
Foxglove looked down at the car, and glowered.
"Take it easy sweetie." Dale told his wife, touching her shoulder.
She glared at him.
Dale gulped, and tried a gamble.
"Twinkle, Twinkle little Star."
he sang to his wife.
Foxglove's glare softened.
"Thanks dear." she told her goofball husband, calming down.
"O.K.," Monterey told everyone, "lets get that wackjob."
Monty's fists were clutched, and his face was full of determination.
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Norton Nimnull snuck into his secret lab and went to a table with a ray gun.
He removed a component from a case.
"Now once I insert this component, my counterfeit money ray will be fully functional, and I will be able to duplicate real money and be very rich.
Ho, Ho, Ho." he chuckled.
"Then I'll be able to buy more parts to make a powerful weapon
and commit greater crimes.
Then I'll take a vacation."
He paused dreamily.
"Well,you won't get very far scum." a gruff voice with an Australian accent declared from behind him.
Nimnull turned, and saw five people surrounding him.
One was a young man with brown hair, dressed in a jacket, pants and a fedora.
The second man was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and pants.
He had wavy brown hair and freckles.
The third was a short middle aged man with a bald head, dressed in a red shirt and pants.
The fourth was a burly man dressed in a shirt pants and trench coat, also a hat with goggles.
He had piercing green eyes, a bushy mustache and an angry scowl.
The fifth was a young woman;
She was slender, with long reddish brown hair, and was dressed in a sleeveless shirt, and pants; her fists were clutched, and her face scowled deeply.
"Who are you?" exclaimed Nimnull loudly.
"What's going on?"
"Norton Nimnull!" stated the young man with the fedora who seemed to be the leader.
"We accuse you of murder!"
"Murder?!" exclaimed a petrified
Nimnull.
"Yes!" the red headed female declared.
"You murdered my mother!" she cried.
She ran at him, and began punching him.
"Leave me alone!" Nimnull cried out trying to push her away from himself.
"Foxy!" Chip remarked.
"Stop that, right now!"
The angry young woman grunted,
and stepped back from Nimnull.
"I swear," stuttered a very upset and frightened Nimnull.
"I didn't murder anyone."
"What about these?" the big man asked in a heavily accented Australian voice, tossing the letter and the scrap of cloth from his lab coat at him.
"They were around the area where the murder happened."
"Did you, or did you not write that note?" the man in the Hawaiian shirt asked, his arms across his chest, scowling.
"Well, yes I did," Nimnull conceded reluctantly.
"But I..."
"And is that or is that not a scrap of your lab coat."
The middle aged man asked glowering at Nimnull.
"Yes, but..." Nimnull began.
"Then you murdered my mother!"
screamed Foxglove, and she ran at Nimnull.
Monty caught her in his huge arms.
"Let go of me!" shrieked Foxglove as she struggled in Monty's grip.
"Dale, can you calm her down?" asked Chip in a weary voice.
"Right Chip." replied Dale.
He went over to his wife, and began humming to her,
"Twinkle, twinkle.."
"Shut up Dale!" shouted Foxglove.
"I wanna hear his excuse."
"Well,...Well you see...uh..." stammered Nimnull.
"All right," he cried finally.
"Yes I wrote the note, and yes that's a piece from my lab coat,
and yes I did build the time bomb." he confessed.
"MURDERER!!" shouted Foxglove, struggling against Monty's hold on her.
"Listen to me Foxy," Monty told her as he held her firmly.
"I don't like this low life anymore then you, but this isn't right.
What would your mother say?"
Foxglove froze, her rage replaced with confusion and guilt, as she recalled her dream/vision.
"Don't taint my memory with murder."
Her mother's word's echoed in her mind.
"Sorry everyone." she apologized
sadly, slumping in Monty's arms.
Dale patted her head with his left hand.
"It's alright Foxy," he whispered lovingly.
"We're here for you."
"Please," Nimnull cried out, getting to his knees.
"She promised me a lot of money, but I didn't know what she would do with it!"
"Who did?" asked Chip suspiciously.
"Some French woman." explained Nimnull uneasily.
"She paid me two hundred for the bomb, plus another hundred to write the note as she wanted it.
I had no idea she was going to kill anyone! Honest!"
"French woman?" asked Monty skeptically, an uneasy feeling settling in his stomach.
"Can you describe her mate?"
"Yeah," replied Nimnull fearfully.
"Light brown hair, blue eyes, tall and well built.
Naturally she had a French accent.
She wore a yellow knee length skirt, and a pink button shirt."
"Wait a minute," interjected Zipper,
"Why would a French woman want you to build a bomb for her?
Who is she?"
"She wouldn't give me her name,"
Nimnull replied.
"She said something about getting revenge on this guy named Monterey Jack."
Monty gasped, his face turned pale.
"Desiree?" he exclaimed in shock;
Everyone stared at Monty in disbelief.
"That's impossible," remarked Foxglove frowning.
"She and her gang are locked up, he's just lying to cover his skin."
"No! I swear!" Nimnull cried out desperately.
"I only built the bomb, I didn't kill anyone!"
"O.K. Hold it!" Chip ordered everyone.
"I'm gonna make a phone call to the prison where Desiree was sent to, and see if she's still there."
"Sounds good Mate," replied Monty, uneasy at the idea of Desiree being loose.
"Yes, you do that." Nimnull agreed anxiously.
"You better hurry at it."
"Not so fast," remarked Foxglove.
"Even if you didn't murder my mother, you did do something unscrupulous that lead to her death."
"You can't hurt me!" he begged.
The rangers threw glances at each other.
Chip and Foxglove nodded.
Then Dale pointed at something on the table.
Nimnull turned his head and noticed Dale was pointing at a cage he kept around, just in case those pesky rodents showed up.
Then they looked at Nimnull.
"Don't worry," stated Foxglove, with a sinister smile as she took the penlight out of her pocket,
"this won't hurt a bit."
The lavender beam fired at Nimnull.
Suddenly, Nimnull felt like he was falling.
When he opened his eyes, he couldn't believe it.
He had become a Gopher,
with orange fur, a balding head, glasses and a lab coat.
Foxglove grabbed him before he could escape.
"Now," she began in a sinister voice,
"Let's see how you like being the little guy for once."
"Foxglove D. Fruit Bat,"
Dale began sternly to his wife.
"Put the bad little man in his cage, and finish this case."
"Yes Dale," she replied softly;
and went toward the cage, put the gopher in it, and locked him inside.
"Well, I'd better make that phone call," announced Chip,
"Everyone wait here."
Chip turned to find a phone.
Foxglove lowered her head, looking very sad.
Monty, Dale and Zipper noticed the deep sorrow on her face.
"Everything all right luv?" asked Monty kindly, touching her shoulder.
"I did it again," Foxglove confessed sadly.
"I can't control my temper."
"It's OK Foxglove," Dale assured her lovingly, wrapping his arms around her, and stroking her red hair.
"We all make mistakes."
"I'm... I'm sorry." she sobbed softly, tears appeared in her eyes.
She buried her face in her husbands chest.
Zipper looked at Foxglove
sympathetically.
Dale held his wife close, and began singing.
"Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are."
Foxglove laid her head against her husband's chest, her eyes closed, humming to the song that her husband sang.
"Like a Diamond in the sky,"
Dale continued singing.
"Twinkle, twinkle little star,"
"I don't get how Dale's method works Zipper," commented Monty,
"But I'm glad it does."
Zipper nodded.
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Well, there's your twist folks,
come back next time, for the return of Desiree Deluree.
Until then, thanks to everyone who's read and reviewed.
God Bless