Three Weddings And A Funeral.
By Kim's #1 Fan
Hi guys, I'm back with more.
Before I begin, I'd like to say thanks to my good friend, and beta reader, Data Seeker, without him, My stories would not be this good.
Many thanks to anyone and everyone still reading.
As always, I do not own Kim And Co. or The Rescue Rangers.
(Wish I did.)
And Now...
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Chapter 4 : The Funeral
Part 6 : The Return of Desiree
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Meanwhile, back at Ranger H.Q.,
Mrs. Possible and Monique were getting ready to watch their favorite t.v. Show, "Law and Order."
"Oh, that dreamy Sam Waterston,"
exclaimed Mrs. Possible softly,
"he can try my case any day."
"You can have him," replied Monique from the kitchen,
where she was fixing them a snack.
"Give me that dreamboat, Jessie L. Martin."
Just then there was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it Monique," Shouted Mrs. Possible, as she got off the couch.
"You just keep working on those sandwiches."
"Right on, Mrs. Dr. P." answered Monique.
Mrs. Possible went over to the door and opened it.
She blinked when she found a cute little squirrel with an armful of books.
"Hi," she said smiling,
"is Gadget around? I'm here to return these books I borrowed."
Mrs. Possible looked closely at the little squirrel.
She wore a pink baby tee shirt, a pair of jeans and no shoes.
She had her long red hair tied behind her in a long pony tail.
She reminded her of Kim when she was that age.
"Can I put these down somewhere?" begged the little squirrel girl.
"Oh," exclaimed Mrs. Possible, snapping out of her daze.
"I'm so sorry dear, follow me."
She led the squirrel into Gadget's workshop, and showed her to Gadget's bookcase, which was filled with medical books, psychology books, Science books and How To books.
She watched as the squirrel replaced all her books
"Hmm," she murmured picking one up.
"Animal Anatomy eh?"
"Yeah," the young girl replied.
"I'd like to be a doctor but..."
Suddenly, an idea hit Mrs. Possible.
"You know," she uttered slowly.
"What the rangers really need on their team is a doctor."
"Really?" asked the little girl.
"Oh by the way miss, my name is Tammy, Tammy Squirrel."
"Andrea, Andrea Possible." Mrs. Possible responded kindly.
Suddenly, the little squirrel's eyes grew to the size of saucers.
"You don't mean the Andrea Possible?"
"That's right." Mrs. Possible confirmed nodding.
"The famous brain surgeon?" asked the squirrel smiling brightly.
"Yep, that's me." Mrs. Possible replied with a smile.
"Oh Wow!" exclaimed Tammy shaking paws with Andrea energetically.
"I'm your biggest fan, I've read all your papers you've ever written."
"And you understood them?" asked Mrs. Possible curiously.
"Oh yes, mam." replied Tammy happily.
"See I've got a photographic memory, and I remember everything I see and hear."
"I see." commented Mrs. Possible, touching her chin thoughtfully.
"That's why I borrowed those books from Gadget, so I could study to be a doctor, like you, but for animals."
Just then, Mrs. Possible remembered what she had been doing before all the hero worship.
"As I was saying Tammy, the rangers need a doctor on their team for wounds and such."
"Well, if I could get my paws on a first aid book..."
"I'll mail you one when I get home." exclaimed Mrs. Possible.
Just then, Tammy realized something.
"Wait a minute," she declared in disbelief; looking at Mrs. Dr. Possible.
"You can't be Andrea Possible the brain surgeon, because she's a human, and your a mouse."
"Well," began Mrs Possible.
"That's a long story, but to make a long story short, Gadget shot me with a penlight beam, which changed, me, my daughter Kim, and her best friend Monique,"
"Hi there," Monique called out waving her wing from the kitchen.
"Into mice, and a bird?" Tammy asked slowly, her brain absorbing this info.
"Exactly sweetie." replied Andrea mildly.
"Oh, right," uttered Tammy mentally slapping herself.
"Gadget showed me that penlight, she even let me help to rebuild it.
I'm quite smart too you know."
"Yes," Dr. Possible replied.
"And having a doctor will help solve having to turn someone human to take them to the hospital."
Tammy eyed her.
"You sound like something happened." she remarked.
"Your right," Mrs. Possible answered.
"Someone named Lawhinee was seriously injured today, and we had to turn her human to take her to the emergency room."
Tammy frowned as she absorbed what she heard.
"So, because they don't have a doctor on their team, they took her to an emergency hospital?" asked Tammy as she was still trying to grasp the truth.
"That's right." Mrs. Possible replied.
"But she is an enemy." remarked Tammy.
"At least, that's what I heard from Gadget."
"Uh Tammy," Dr. Possible began in a low voice, her face carried a stern expression,
"The first thing you learn in medical school, is to help anybody who's wounded.
Be they friend or foe."
Tammy was silent as she considered that.
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Far away, in an abandoned apartment building, a French woman was sulking on a stool in front of a cardboard box with some food on top of it.
"Ooh," Desiree growled angrily.
"That miserable Kim Possible!"
She slammed her fist down on the cardboard box she used for a table.
"Turning me human, and then turning me over to the human police?! If I ever find her again, she will be very, very, sorry!"
She thought back to her time in prison; Locked in a complex cage
for female humans that broke the law.
The food was lousy, and the other inmates bullied her.
Calling her a freak and an alien, since she didn't understand how humans (criminal or otherwise,)
socially interacted.
Then she had to jump into the laundry shoot, and hide in the laundry cart, until it was emptied into a truck, and taken to town.
Then, when she arrived at the launder mat, she snuck out and stole a wine colored sweater, skirt,
knee high socks, and shoes, to replace her prison uniform.
She picked up a fork, and tried to take a mouthful of food, but her new fingers wouldn't cooperate,
the fork shook, and she couldn't pick up the food.
"Oh, zese stupid fingers!" she exclaimed irritably.
"How do humans eat with them?!"
She scowled, and threw the fork.
Then reluctantly picked up the food with her hands, and shoved it in her mouth.
She glowered.
Ever since she was human, she couldn't use utensils, and had made a fool of herself, since she had to eat with her hands.
She sighed, and tried to forget her troubles.
'Well,' she thought with an evil grin,
'At least one thing worked, Monterey Jack, and his rescue ranger compatriots are no more.'
She sat back on her stool, and giggled evilly.
' And that stupid Professor Nimnull will take all the blame, as I planted all the evidence against him, the note, and that scrap from his lab coat.'
She then grew thoughtful.
'And now, I must find that miserable little Kim Possible, and force her to turn me into a mouse again.'
Just then, she heard another police siren.
"Oh drat," she uttered in fear.
"Zey are still looking for Moi."
She got up and went to the window, and watched as the police car passed by the apartment building.
"Why did I have to steal that money from that store to pay off Nimnull!" she exclaimed angrily.
"Ever since then, they have not stopped searching for me."
She glowered. Never had she felt so trapped.
"How in ze world am I to find Kim Possible and force her to turn me into a mouse again, with the cops after me?"
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Meanwhile, back at Nimnull's lair,
Chip was talking into the phone.
"Thank You." he replied into the phone, then he hung it up.
He turned back to the others; his face grim.
"So, what did the police say?" asked Monty, noticing the grimness in Chip's face.
"It doesn't look very good." muttered Zipper.
"No it isn't." replied Chip shaking his head.
"Desiree has escaped the prison where she was being held.
"Escaped?" asked a shocked Dale.
"But how?" exclaimed an equally shocked Foxglove.
"I knew it." groaned Monty.
"I knew no prison could hold her."
"So, Desiree escaped prison, and is roaming around as a human," Dale rambled.
"Then she hired a mad inventor to build a bomb to destroy us, and only destroyed one of..." Dale stopped,
realizing that he had said too much.
Foxglove scowled.
Her anger swelled inside her.
"Take it easy luv." Monterey warned her kindly, worried about her.
Foxglove closed her eyes.
Clutching her fists.
Trying to resist the anger inside her.
Dale hesitated for a moment;
Then he hugged his wife, and sang into her ear.
Foxglove relaxed, she seemed to melt into her husbands arms.
"We should head back to H.Q. And figure out our next move,"
Chip told everyone briskly.
"Monty, grab Nimnull."
"No problem Chippah." remarked Monty, and grabbed the cage with the gopher inside.
"Let's go."
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Mrs. Possible and Tammy sat in the rangers living room discussing first aid.
"And thats how you make a splint for a broken leg or arm.
Can you remember all that?" Mrs. Possible asked curiously.
"Yes mam," replied Tammy happily, tapping her forehead.
"It's all up here."
Just then, the door opened, and Kim and Gadget entered.
"Hi Mom," Kim called out to her, then she noticed Tammy.
"Who's your cute little friend?" she asked nicely.
"Kimmie, I'd like you to meet..."
"Tammy!" Gadget interjected, and ran to hug her friend.
The mouse and Squirrel hugged.
"I take it you two know each other?" Asked Kim, eying Gadget and the squirrel girl.
"Yeah," answered Gadget,
"We're trying to find a way to bring Tammy into the rescue rangers."
"I think Mrs. Possible and I just found it Gadj," Tammy told her happily.
"Oh?" asked Gadget looking closely at her friend.
"Yeah," replied Tammy excitedly.
"I'm gonna study animal medical books, and be a doctor for the team."
"That way," Mrs. Possible interjected,
"If something like this should happen again, you won't need to go to the emergency room; you'll have your own doctor here."
"That's a great idea Tammy." exclaimed Gadget happily.
"What's a great idea Gadget?" asked a voice from the doorway.
They all turned to find...
"Chip!" Gadget exclaimed happily running to hug her husband.
"I've got news for you." she told him.
"O.K., but let's wait for everyone to get in here."
Soon Foxglove returned carrying the penlight, and behind her were Dale, Monterey Jack, and Zipper.
"Alright Gadget," began Chip,
"Now, what's a good idea?"
"Tammy wants to be a doctor on our team," Gadget told everyone enthusiastically.
"That way, if we get hurt..."
"Which we probably will," uttered Monterey.
"We'll have a doctor who can help."
"Wow," commented Foxglove,
"That is a good idea."
"Yeah," agreed Chip,
"Welcome to the team Tammy."
"You mean it?" asked Tammy seriously.
"Of course," replied Chip,
"We need a doctor on the team."
Chip then threw a glance at the others.
"Does anyone disagree?" he asked.
Nobody replied to the question.
"Then it's official." declared Gadget.
"Thanks guys," Tammy responded tearfully.
"I'm so happy."
"Oh Chip, how did things go with Nimnull?"
"A mixed bag," her husband told her grimly.
"We caught Nimnull, he's in a cage outside at the foot of the tree."
"In a cage?" asked Kim ponderously, her green eyes narrowed.
"We turned the creep into a gopher." Monty cut in.
"Chip, you said a mixed bag?" asked Gadget, wondering what the bad news was.
"He didn't kill Foxglove's mother, at least not directly." Chip told his blond wife in a low voice.
"Then who?" Mrs. Possible interjected softly.
"Desiree." Monty interjected again, his fists clenched.
"Desiree??" Kim, Gadget and Tammy exclaimed in stunned disbelief.
"But that's ridiculous," Gadget remarked in disbelief.
"Um, actually, it's not," Chip replied grimly.
"I just called the prison where she was being held, and well she escaped.
Then she hired Nimnull to build the bomb so she could get rid of us."
"But instead she took my mother away!" Foxglove added in a choked voice, tears swelling in her eyes.
"So, she's roaming around in the form of a human doing who knows what." commented Gadget, scratching her chin.
"And it's safe to assume that no prison can hold her."
a look of sorrow crossed her face.
She folded her front paws.
"Now we ave to find er." declared
Monty.
"Then what, turn her over to the human authorities?" remarked Foxglove, her old rage returning.
"She'll just escape again!
We should..."
She didn't finish the sentence recalling her mother's words:
'Do not taint my memory with murder.'
Everyone turned to Foxglove, wondering what she was getting at.
"We should what?" Dale asked his wife softly, touching her shoulder.
"Nothing." she replied softly, turning her back to him.
Dale hesitated, wondering if he should say something.
Everyone was silent, unsure what to do.
Suddenly, Kim blinked, as she got an idea.
"Guys, I've got an idea again," she exclaimed coolly.
"We'll find her, and when we do, we'll turn her into a mouse again.
Then I'll keep her locked up."
"No Kim," replied Foxglove, an angry look in her eyes.
"She knows how to be a mouse, and she'll escape again," suddenly, the look on her face changed into something smug, and sinister.
'we turn her into a fly, so we can swat her." Foxglove suggested with an evil grin.
"No Foxy," Chip told her sternly,
"we keep her in a glass cage, so she can look out, but she can't get out.
And maybe something different then a fly."
"Wait a minute," Gadget declared as she remembered something.
"What about Rat Capone, and his gang?"
"I take it they were the ones who went after Lawhinee?" asked Chip.
Gadget nodded, her face scowled.
"What did they want with Lawhinee, and what was she doing here?"
"It's a long story, and I'll explain later," Gadget explained to her husband.
"right now, we've got work to do."
"Wait a minute," exclaimed Dale as he realized something.
"with all these animal criminals, this animal prison will need a warden."
"I can take care of that." Kim answered with a smile, taking out her cell phone and dialing.
She put the phone to her ear, and waited a few moments.
"Hello Shela," she began to say,
"I've got a big, big, favor to ask you."
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Kim and Dale, ( in human form,)
walked through the hospital doors and made a turn.
"Do you know where you are going?" asked Dale throwing stares at the different people they passed.
"Yes, I do Dale." Kim assured him, and turned and stopped at an elevator.
She pressed the button, and she and Dale waited.
Moments later, the doors opened and they entered.
Kim pressed the button to their floor and up they went.
Kim threw a glance at Dale, and noticed something about his face and body language.
"You alright Dale?" she asked curiously, noticing that he kept looking around and flexing his leg.
"Huh?" he exclaimed taken aback by the question.
"Oh yeah," he assured her,
"I'm just never gonna get used to being so tall," he said, examining his surroundings as they walked.
"everything seems so small to me."
"Be glad your not 6 feet." Kim replied jokingly, flashing Dale an amused smile.
"Humans grow that big?" asked Dale looking questionably at Kim,
as the elevator stopped and the doors opened.
"Some do." Kim answered simply as they exited the elevator.
They walked down a hallway passed doctors, visitors, and patients, and soon reached the door to Lawhinee's room.
They looked through the door window, to see how Ron and Lawhinee were doing.
Ron was fast asleep in his chair,
while Lawhinee was resting comfortably in her bed.
Just then, Kim spotted Dr. Marx coming toward them, and waved to him.
"Dr. Marx," Kim called out as he approached them.
"This is my good friend, Dale Oakmont.
The doctor eyed Dale for a moment,
"Let me guess, he's an animal too."
guessed the doctor, his eyes not leaving Dale.
"Uh, I'm a chipmunk." replied Dale, a strange expression on his face.
The doctor eyed him for awhile;
The awkwardness in the room was thick.
"So Dr. Marx," began Kim softly, snapping out of her slight daze.
"How's Lawhinee doing?"
"Well," the doctor began to say snapping out of his dazedness.
"The transfusion saved her life, and her wounds are healing nicely.
I'd like to keep her under observation for a few more days;
Then I'll let her go.
But, she'll have to be under constant supervision for a few more days after her release."
Kim immediately thought of Tammy.
"Hmm," Kim thought out loud.
"This'll be good practice for Tammy. Thanks for your help doctor." Kim replied sweetly.
"Yeah," Dale agreed looking relieved.
"And thanks for keeping our secret."
"Huh," laughed Dr. Marx to himself.
"If I told anyone, I'd be laughed out of the medical industry faster then you can say medical insurance."
Then Dr. Marx went about his rounds, while Kim and Dale went into the room to wake up Ron, and tell him about their plans.
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Meanwhile, Chip and Gadget were also in human form, and making their way through the sewers, to where Kim had tied up Rat Capone and his goons.
"So, let me get this straight,"
Chip began to say, after Gadget had told him the whole sad story.
"Lawhinee is your sister, and your father never told you about her
because he thought she'd been eaten by a snake?"
"That's right dear." Gadget replied carrying the cage with a very confused looking Nimnull inside.
"And she came back from Hawaii to apologize for almost ruining our wedding?" he asked looking very skeptical about the whole ordeal.
"Exactly." his wife confirmed softly.
"And Capone and his gang attacked her, thinking she was you?" he asked just to make sure he understood.
"Yes," she answered, her blue eyes focused on her husband as they walked through the sewers.
Chip ponders this for a moment before asking his next question.
"And you believe her?" he asked doubtful about Lawhinee's sincerity.
Gadget thought for a moment before answering.
"Chip, everyone deserves the benefit of a doubt at least once."
"But after all that she's done..."
Chip began to argue, as they approached the spot where Capone and his gang were kept.
"Chip," Gadget interjected looking into his eyes lovingly.
"People can change."
"All right," Chip conceded,
"Until she proves us wrong, I'll believe her." he uttered uneasily.
"Thanks darling," Gadget told her husband, relieved that her sister would get a chance.
"Now, hold this." she told him handing him the cage.
She went to the spot where Capone and his mob were still tied up.
"Hi, remember me?" she asked in a mocking voice.
The gang looked up at the human in fear;
then they gasped as they recognized the purple jumpsuit, the blue eyes, and the blond hair.
She knelt down and grabbed Capone first;
He squeaked loudly and bit her.
"Ouch!" she shouted in pain, dropping Capone on the sewer ground with a thud.
"Are you alright?" exclaimed Chip, putting the cage down, and touching his wifes shoulder, his face full of concern.
"I'm fine Chip," she answered, looking at the bite marks on her hand, there was a little blood.
She glowered at the rat, tied up at her feet.
"That's gonna get you another five years." she told the rat menacingly.
Capone could only look up helplessly at this giant woman that had power over him.
Then she picked him up, (this time by the tail) and placed him in the cage with Nimnull.
Then she focused on the two goons.
"Now," she began to say,
"If you boys are nice about this, I can knock off a few months of your sentence."
She grabbed both the lizard, and the mouse, with no problem.
They looked up nervously, as they were put into the cage with Nimnull and their boss.
"Good." she told them in a soft and somewhat creepy voice.
"I'll put in a good word for you with warden Shela, the warden of our new animal prison."
All four animals looked at each other fearfully.
"Now," began Gadget thoughtfully,
"how are we going to find and capture Desiree?"
Gadget pondered this, then suddenly, her husband looked thoughtful.
"I've got an idea." he replied excitedly.
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What does Chip have in mind?
And how are they going to find Desiree?
And what about Lawhinee?
What's going to happen to her?
For the answers to these and more questions, be sure to come back next time.
Till then, thanks for reading and reviewing.
God Bless.