CHAPTER 3
It was early morning as Ron left his house, dressed in a gray tank top, beige cargo pants, boots, fingerless striking gloves, two sets of dog tags, one set being an LCD set, and a weight belt. He went into the nearby forested area around the neighborhood and started his workout. He was running, leaping, jumping and flipping through air like a trained acrobat.
He was progressing in his workout, building up a great sweat as he climbed up to the top of a large and steep hill. Once he had reached the top, he sat down and took in the rising sun, thinking about what he had to tell the girls. And he knew he had to tell them.
As he was thinking, a strange ship suddenly exploded through the clouds and approached him on the hilltop. It landed on the backside of the hilltop as Ron rose up to face it.
It was bluish-gray and looked like a strange bird of prey from yet another series of Sci-Fir movies. (1) The ramp came down and Ron casually stood in front of it, tense but not overly anxious for what was to happen. He was prepared for anything.... except the 75-pound missile that raced down the ramp and slammed him into the ground.
"DADDY!" a sweet voice shouted.
Ron opened his eyes and looked at said 'missile', revealed to be a cute, little girl with long blonde hair, and tear-filled hazel eyes. She also had three blue markings on her face, (forehead and cheeks) she was dressed in a cute blue and white dress, white socks and flats. (2)
"J-Jessie?" Ron gasped, taking in the girl, his daughter with a goddess. He got up and held her in his arms. "How did you get here?"
"With the fleet silly." She giggled, Ron look at her.
"The fleet?" He parroted, "They're here?"
"Um hmm," she nodded. Ron looked stunned when he realized that she had come with the Free Worlds Fleet for no other purpose than to find her only relative left. Her father.
Just then six guards, all amazon-like women dressed in white outfits and bluish armor, came down the ramp towards them.
"Jessie-sama! You need to wait for us." the apparent leader said. She looked down and saw Ron as he stood up. "I'm sorry, sir. She got away from us again."
Ron smiled at the woman as he lifted his daughter into his arms.
"It's alright." he said. "But we should probably get back to the house." he said.
Loading up into the ship, Ron led them towards the Stoppable Manor.
(Stoppable Manor)
Kim and the others started to wake up, they had found Ron missing and were about to search for him when they got his note telling them that he went out for a jog.
Just then the entire house shook as if some large aircraft was passing over them. They all looked outside and saw a huge, high-tech spaceship, far superior to anything Kim's father had ever built, land outside in their backyard. The five women of the house, along with Rufus, rushed out to see the ramp come down and Ron walking down it, carrying an adorable little girl on his back, followed by 6 powerful looking women.
"We can have pancakes, with pure maple syrup and bacon, and your favorite, orange juice." He said to the little girl she giggled and squealed as she held onto him tightly from behind.
The girls smiled softly as Muriel went over to them. "Ronald? Who is this little cutie?" she asked.
"Well, mom." Ron said, scratching the back of his head as if embarrassed, "This... is my daughter, Jessica. Jessie, this is your grandmother."
Everyone froze as the little girl just leapt at her grandmother from Ron's back, and grabbed on to her. Muriel was in shock as she caught and held her granddaughter. She wasn't the only one in shock.
"His da...da...da...?" Monique stuttered.
"Who's the mother?" Tara asked.
"Where's the mother?" Bonnie asked.
"Ron, you better start talking." Kim said.
He nodded as he waved off the guard.
"Report back to the Ape. I'll call if there's trouble." He said. The woman saluted and went back to the shuttle. "Alright, let's go." he said to his daughter, mother, and the girls.
(Stoppable manor; kitchen)
Ron started to make breakfast while everyone settled in to hear what had happened to Ron. Jessie was playing with Rufus.
"Ron, just tell us, what happened?" Kim asked.
"Well, it started back when I was captured by the terrorists..." he said, noting his mother flinch as he retold his tale.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
(FLASHBACK)
Punch!
"Are you ready to talk now?" the arabic man asked.
No reply.
Punch!
"And now?"
"Go.... to.... hell...." Sgt. Ron Stoppable said, spitting blood from his mouth.
"You first! Infidel!" the man said, raising his hand to strike Ron again.
Just then the door opened and two men came in.
"Jodah! The general wants to see you."
"Now?" the interrogator asked.
"Yes!"
"Fine!"
As the men walked out of the room and shut/locked the door behind them.
With the men gone, Ron Stoppable started working at his bonds until he was eventually free of them. He looked around the rather empty room for either a weapon or a means to escape.
It was then that something happened that he didn't expect. A small tear in the middle of the very room flashed and opened wide as a forceful wind suddenly exploded, pulling Ron off his feet and into the tear itself. It closed before anyone knew what was happening.
When Ron woke up he found himself in what could only be described as the scariest, craziest, and darkest mad scientist laboratory in science fiction.
"What's this?" a blue faced man in a black coat asked.
"I'm not sure, Doc." a green-faced woman in a skin-tight black bodysuit said.
"Well.... Get Him!"
Ron was instantly on his feet as the woman attacked.
"What's going on Shego? How did you and Drakken get me out of there?" Ron asked, blocking the woman's attacks, not noticing her non-glowing fists.
"Shego? Who the heck is Shego?" the woman asked as she kicked at Ron's head.
Ron looked at her curiously. "I know you guys don't remember my name that well, but I didn't think you'd forget your own names." Ron said, dodging her kicks.
"The portal is closing! Drakina! I need you!" the blue-faced man said, his instruments going crazy.
"I'm coming Master Shekken!" the woman cried out, leaving Ron to go help the scientist.
Drakina? Shekken? Ron thought as the woman raced away from him and over to the mad scientist.
While they were distracted with their strange machine, Ron wasted no time in running away from them and out the nearest door.
Racing down the strange, almost alien-looking hallway (and by alien I mean the hallway looked like it had been carved out of a large insectoid creature) Ron paused at what looked like a series of prison doors where a woman's hand was reaching out of the bars.
"Help me! Someone help me!" a woman's weak voice said.
Ron paused, looking around as he searched for something to open the door. Either a key or a gun or a rock. Finally he decided to just try the door itself.
"Huh? It's open?" he gasped as the door opened for him.
"Yes. The door was locked from the outside. It could only be opened from the outside." the woman said.
She had long brown hair, pale skin, and blue facial tattoos on her forehead, her cheeks and her neck. Ron couldn't help but stare at the tattoos around her neck, which looked like a sort of necklace.
"I couldn't even use my magic's to open the door. The mystic seals were too strong."
Before Ron could ask about anyone else, the tromping of heavy footsteps down the hallways got the pair of them moving.
"We need to get out of here." Ron said, helping the woman stand as he lead her down the hallway.
But it was short-lived, as the woman started pointing him in the right direction.
"Through here! To the hanger." the woman said.
Ron helped the woman to the hanger and gasped when he saw what could only be the oddest-looking aircraft hanger in this or any world.
The ships, and he would use the term loosely, looked like giant insects. Some looked like spiders, some looked like scorpions, others looked like hornets. If Ron wasn't so used to the weirdness he had experienced as Kim Possible's sidekick, he might have thought he was in a sci-fi picture.
The woman led him over to a black hornet-shaped ship, saying it was the fastest, and quickly got inside it. Ron looked at the controls and quickly figured out what the steering and thruster controls were. The woman marveled as Ron started up the ship and quickly launched from the hanger. But as he did, he found out that he was 'not in Kansas' anymore as he looked back and saw that they were leaving a dark and twisted citadel, looking like someone had modeled it after the fortresses of Mordor from the Lord of the Rings movies.
All around the citadel were strange-looking factories and buildings, draped in darkness with only yellow and red lights to illuminate their existence. The woman pointed towards the sky as Ron turned the ship in her direction. It was only after they had left the atmosphere of the planet that Ron turned to ask her a question.
"My name is Ron. Sgt Ron Stoppable, US Marine Corps." he said.
The woman smiled at him. "My name is Bella Dandious, high regent of the Free Worlds Alliance."
"Free Worlds Alliance?" he asked, unsure what that was.
"You have not heard of it?" she asked, questioningly.
"No. I haven't." Ron said, fairly certain now where this was leading him.
"It is an alliance of the last free planets that are not under the rule of the Dark Principality of Vexx." She explained. "More than half our galaxy is enslaved by them."
Great. Sounds like I've stumbled into another war. Ron thought as the sensors on the ship started beeping. "What's that?"
"The ships sensors are detecting a fleet of ships approaching." Bella said.
Suddenly, a fleet of large white ships suddenly appeared around the hornet ship. Ron just stared at the ships, the whole thing reminding him of a scene from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, where the Rebel Alliance came out of warp just before their attack on the Second Death Star.
"Are they..."
"Free World Alliance ships." Bella said. "I will contact them before they start shooting." she said, and started typing the buttons on the console.
"Right. I'd rather not be shot at by friendlies." Ron mumbled.
1-Whitestars from Babylon 5
2-young version of Belldandy as daughter