KP All Grown Up v2.0: Future Stoppable for Team Tri Stoppable
AN: Well everyone, here is the promised sequel to KP's "All Grown Up" story. Please enjoy the story:D
Chapter 8: Wild!
As the team Tri Stoppable stood in the very room in which the Director had been assaulted in, they took in their surroundings and noted grimly that whoever had done all of this damage just had to be stopped!
What had once been an animal lab was now complete destruction. There were computer monitors trashed, cages destroyed, lab samples thrown all over the place, animal droppings, everything could have been wrecked in some way was... it was a very grim picture indeed.
Even with the technology they had at their disposal, they did not expect to find very much in the way of any clues that could help them piece together what had happened in the animal lab.
The three of them walked around, being careful to avoid the animal droppings as much as possible when Rufina noticed that one of the laptops in the lab which had clearly been thrown against the far wall and having then bounced off a nearby support beam was still working as if by a miracle.
Even the screen had somehow survived the impact of being thrown against the far wall with only the casing clearly cracked to a splitting point which is probably why no one had thought it worked anymore until Rufina had on the mousepad which had activated the screen from off mode.
Jesse had made a mental note to investigate the model of computer that it was to see if it was usually that tough and if not, then he'd chalk it up being a miracle.
Once the computer was discovered to working, minus the cd drive which had also broken and apparently saved the rest of the computer from damage. They were able to figure out that the only person who was supposed to see the Director was an animal research woman by the name of Anne Mal because of a letter that she'd sent to him that was still up in one of the programs that were running.
As the trio explored the computer, they also found some vague references to a discovery on how to control just about any animal that could see or hear in the animal kingdom. And this made Jesse, Cindy and Mindy look at Rufina with great worry when they found out that part, as they didn't like the thought of having to fight her or losing her to a life of control by the Anne person.
Even Rufina worried and didn't want to have to fight her friends while the control of some mad scientist woman although if it came to that she hoped they would find some way of stopping her without hurting her or her hurting them.
Using Mindy's communicator, they downloaded the contents of the entire hard drive in hopes that it would further reveal more information about just what happened in the room until the Director woke up.
Mindy then uploads it to where Clarise started to go through it when they got a hit on the site. This time it was from a policewoman in the middle of Middleton Mall where they just happened to be having a petting zoo for the children going on.
Clarise says, "Looks like the police and mall security can't handle the woman who has showed up. She is calling herself Animal and seems to be controlling the animals of the petting zoo! The police are waiting on animal control to show up but you guys are closer. What do you three want to do?"
Cindy says, "I think this is the same woman as who trashed the Zoo and I bet she is after as many animals as she can get since she took almost all the ones from this Zoo."
Mindy says, "Let's go stop her! No one trashes my favorite hangout and gets away with it!"
Both Cindy and Jesse just blink and give her that look as if to say, "Are you nuts?" Before Mindy catches herself and says, "eh-heh, We should also save all the animals and stop her before she does any more damage."
Jesse picks up Rufina as Cindy says, "We're on it Clarise! Tell the policewoman we are on our way." After that they all run out of the building and to their ride.
(Middleton Mall)
Anne laughed evilly as she thinks, "Man! This is so much fun! I should have gone evil years ago!" She then directs one of the goats to ram a policeman who was getting a little too close for her liking, which makes him go flying in the air only to be caught by a woman swinging on some kind of grappling gun/hair dryer combination.
Anne looks at the teenage girl with her long red hair and says, "Who are you? Wait... I think I recognize you! You're..." Her words were interrupted by another redhead stepping out with a defiant look in her eyes and a teenage boy right beside her.
Mindy says, "That's right Anne! Team Tri Stoppable is here now! You should just give up if you know what's good for you!"
Anne says, "Call me Animal! I am the new mistress of the Animal Kingdom! Long live me!" before she laughs evilly very loudly.
Jesse looks at Mindy and says, "Yep, she's got the evil villain laugh down pat. You owe me a nickel because you said she'd be too new at this to even do a decent laugh."
Mindy sighs and pulls out a nickel from her pocket and says, "Fine, here you go Jesse." before she hands it to him.
Cindy says, "Get everyone out of here Jesse! Mindy and I will deal with Miss Animal over there!"
Jesse does a thumbs up with a grin before he says, "Gotcha covered CS!" and he starts to move before he is stopped by Mindy grabbing his arm and saying softly, "Be careful ok Jesse?" He can see some worry in her eyes so he says, "I will be, watch your back too ok?" With a brief nod from Mindy, she lets go of him and he dashes off to the nearest person.
Mindy thinks, "I have a bad feeling about this mission... I hope I am wrong." before she turns her attention to the woman that is surrounded by a variety of animals that were normally gentle but looking very hostile at the moment.
Anne shouts, "I don't care if you are Tri Stoppable, not even you can stop me from taking all these animals to add to my growing animal army through which I will rule the world!"
Mindy thinks with a smirk, "I just love it when the villain tells us their plans, it makes it so much easier to take them down."
The twins approach the woman, testing her animal defenses when a very large snake comes down from one of the hanging decorations and looks at them before opening its mouth to reveal fangs and looking very dangerous.
Mindy goes ghost-white at the sight and thinks, "S-s-s-nake! Why d-d-did it have to be a snake!" She remembered when she had not been afraid of snakes but as a young child she was very curious about everything and one day wandered where she was not supposed to and found herself covered head to toe in snakes before her Ron could use his monkey power to blast them all off of her as quickly as he could to save his screaming daughter.
Cindy knew of Mindy's fear of snakes and to see such a big one right in front of her like that... She knew she had to do something so she moves quickly and body-slams it so that it falls to the ground. She fails to see Mindy start to glow blue as the snake begins to wrap itself tightly around her body before she could move to escape it.
Mindy yells, "L-let go of m-my sister!" as she glows a bright blue and that's when Cindy notices and closes her eyes and begins to power up her own monkey power to force the snake off of her before her sister could do something regrettable.
Jesse was far away, getting the last of the people out to safety when he turns his head to check on the girls and sees the familiar glow of monkey power only for some reason it looked wild, out of control.
Jesse thinks, "What is going on? What has frightened Mindy so much?" before he remembers what her greatest fear is and why she adored her father so much. He remembers how shaken Mindy had been and how it had been her father who had rescued her so quickly using his monkey powers to blast them harmlessly off of her and at the same time not harming the snakes which they'd found were of the harmless breed much later.
Anne or "Animal" as she was calling herself was confused as her device was telling her that there were two strong monkeys standing before her while both teens were glowing that strange blue light.
Animal was thought she could actually even seen the monkey that somehow were part of the girls and she knew her device would not work on humans and she had no plans on altering to do so as she was more of a animal lover than a people person.
Animal wondered if she could even control the weird glowing monkey that seemed to engulf the two girls, almost as if they were part of it. She told the monkey that was fighting against her snake to freeze and was delighted to see it stop moving, and leaving the girl Cindy almost totally helpless under the power of the snake.
She found herself unable to control or even make suggestions to the other girl's monkey power as the fear was so high that it bordered on berserk levels and she know that she couldn't control animals at that level. With the kind of power that the girl was displaying, she did not like the way things were heading so she gives the petting zoo animals a few commands and starts to make a quiet retreat since she didn't want to get captured just yet.
Jesse looked on at the two girls glowing, one wrapped in the coils of a big snake and the other becoming increasingly out of control as she saw the life of her sister being slowly squeezed out of her.
He didn't know what to do and was about to charge in and just do something rather than just stand around and watch his two best friends become even more endangered with every passing second when he felt a pair of hands grab each of his shoulders.
Jesse looks back at the hands, thinking it that it was someone who had come back to help and is very surprised to find not just Kim Stoppable but Ron Stoppable as well! He wondered why Team Possible-Stoppable (They never bothered to change the name) was even there!
Kim says, "Jesse, I know that you want to help but I think Ron is the only one who is going to be able to calm her down." She has a longing look on her own face as she wants to be the one to help Mindy but she also knew what had to be done.
Ron was already moving ahead and glowing his brand of blue monkey power, which looked very focused and strong versus that of Mindy's, which looked like it, bordered on the edge of going totally out of control.
Kim says, "Come on Jesse, let's go help Cindy." She doesn't even wait for an answer before she moves, keeping up with Ron as she runs. She doesn't have to even look back to know that Jesse is following right on her heels.
Kim and Jesse jump up when they get close enough and grab at the snake, pulling at it and giving Cindy who was nearly passed out a chance to get some air while Ron runs up to Mindy and wraps his arms around her, pinning them down as he says soothingly, "It is ok Mindy, Father's here and he'll protect you from the big, bad snake..."
Under the combined efforts of Kim and Jesse, the two of them manage to free Cindy who collapses forward from its coils and Jesse manages to catch her gently as he can before lowering her down to the ground while the snake slithers off in retreat.
Meanwhile Mindy is still glowing as the vision of the snake crushing her sister still hangs in her eyes but slowly, little by little her father's words start to get through to her until she can feel herself once again in control. She finally rests her head on her father's shoulder as he runs a hand gently over the back of her head and says, "Father... the big..." before she hears his soothing words, "Everything is fine now... look, even your sister is ok."
Mindy opens her eyes to look at Cindy leaning on Jesse for support with her mother talking to her with no sign of the snake in sight. She says sadly, "I... blew it didn't I? I let the villain escape. I am sorry Father."
Ron softly says, "Don't worry about it, because if I had a dime for every time one got away from your mother and me, I could have... Grande sized for the whole family." He says the last part with a bit of a smile and Cindy finds herself unable to stop from smiling as she knew how many times the bad guy would get away because of her Father.
The two of them end up laughing for a while before they can finally stop and Mindy says, "Thank you, you saved me from the snakes again. I am sorry that you always have to come to my rescue."
Ron musses up his daughter's hair playfully as he says, "Don't worry about it, after all I am doing what any other good Father would do. Which is looking after his daughters when they need him in case you didn't guess." He is smiling at Mindy, which just went to prove how good-natured he was.
Mindy smiles and hugs her father as she says, "You're the best, Father!" before releasing him while Cindy smile and nods as she thinks, "We've got the best family in the world." Kim walks up and gives Ron a quick, loving kiss before she says, "You are the best husband and father anyone could ask for sweetie."
Ron blushes and jokingly says, "Boy, you guys sure know how to make a guy feel special." Everyone ends up laughing before Kim and Mindy hug Ron with Cindy hugging Jesse until she realizes what she is doing and blushes as she quickly releases him from the hug, leaving one puzzled Jesse.
Jesse looks at the family and thinks with a smile, "What a family, even after a scare they can still find something good and even find a way to laugh." He then looks at Cindy with a curious look to her as she hides her blush poorly from him and watches as she goes over to join her family before he thinks, "I wonder what got Cindy all bothered about the hug..."
Jesse shakes his head and joins his friends and their parents as they begin to answer why they had shown up on their mission, happy for the moment that the petting zoo animals seemed to be normal once again and not realizing the truth.
AN: Well everyone, I really hope you enjoyed you this chapter! It sure has been a interesting one hasn't it? Did you guys like the bet scene? What did everyone think about Mindy's big fear about snakes? I'll get around to revealing more about that fear another time. Do you guys think it was cool to see Ron coming to the rescue? Why do you guys think Kim and Ron were there at the mall? Any best guesses as to what Animal's commands are going to do:)
Next chapter info: Kim and Ron reveal what they were doing there in time to help! Are the animals truly free from control? Where was Rufina and Rufus during all this?