Disclaimer: The Walt Disney Company owns all rights to the characters and situations associated with Kim Possible. I borrow Kim, her family and friends for no monetary gain. I do this only to clear up the weather here in Colorado, I'm sick of all the cold and snow. It's time to move back to Florida.
The Closet II
Chapter 20
Save The World
Kim and Ron were greatly surprised, and a bit grief-stricken, when they reached the spaceship twenty-five miles outside the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The huge long, boxy-shaped ship had moved to hover over an area that wasn't rich in oil, just a strip of desert wasteland, but what was strewn across the normally desolate sands was what totally shocked them. They thought most of the countries in the area would've try to attack the enormous ship with conventional air and ground power, which they had, but the two teens also thought the battle would still be raging when they arrived.
It wasn't.
Thousands upon thousands of downed military aircraft cluttered the sands under the big ship either in total flames or utterly destroyed. The entire airpower of at least seven or eight nations along with aircraft from many other countries from around the world were wiped out and not a living soul survived. The wreckage strewn across the ground was massive. The downed aircraft littered the landscape amidst the carnage of tanks, ground-to-air missile firing platforms and other various assault vehicles. They could even see quite a few non-military personnel scattered about on the ground, dead. The decimated bodies appeared to be holding guns, knives and even rocks that they had been fighting with still clutched in their unmoving hands. The sheer carnage was devastating to the young couple but it set their resolve to fight to the bitter end to save the world.
"Wade, is there any way to talk to Warhok and Warmonga?" Kim angrily questioned as she piloted the Sloth around the huge ship hovering a mile above the devastation.
"I thought you might ask that so I've been working on opening up communications with the spaceship," Wade said as he furiously typed away at his computer. "Just give me a second."
Wade finished his hyper-typing with a flourish and the screen changed from that of him to that of the two aliens. "Ah, this must be the surrendering committee," Warmonga said with a gleaming but sinister smile.
"We're here to talk alright…" Ron growled to the screen.
"…But we talk with our fists and feet," Kim continued his thought. "Ron and I are here to challenge you in hand-to-hand combat, just us against the two you, winner takes all."
"Personal combat?" Warhok said, taken aback by the unexpected challenge. He turned to his mate and broadly smiled. "Why, we haven't been challenged like this since we defeated those ten Plaxar warriors on Plaxius Prime, nine gleens ago."
"That was a beautiful battle," Warmonga waxed in revelry of the fight, "and you were magnificent my beloved. The way you ripped those three Plaxian warriors apart with your bare hands…"
"And after the battle you were as wild as a Thorgoggle in our bed chambers," Warhok growled lasciviously as he wrapped his arms around his mate and roughly pulled her to him.
"Later Warhok," the large green female alien slyly said as she pushed away from his grasp. "First we do battle with these puny Earthlings then we can have some fun before we destroy all living things on this world and plunder its resources."
"You are right," Warhok said, trying to get his amorous feelings under control. He turned back to the screen, pushed a button on the long, gold colored gauntlet on his wrist and said with a sneer, "We shall fight you aboard this ship in the practice arena. Enter on the port side and say good bye to your world, you will never see it again after you board this ship."
The transmission cut out and Wade's image appeared again as Kim circled around to the left side of the spaceship and saw an open hatchway big enough to fly the Sloth in near the bottom of the ship. "Wade, we're going in!"
"Okay Kim," Wade said from the monitor, "but if you can, set up the Kimmunicator so I can watch the fight. I'll try to help you anyway I can."
"Thanks for the offer buddy," Ron said to Wade, "but I don't think there's too much you can do from your bedroom."
"I…" Wade started before he looked around at the myriad pieces of electronic equipment in his bedroom and realized that maybe Ron was right; There wasn't much he could do to help even having all of that equipment. "I guess you're right Ron sooo, I'll just wish you luck."
"You still rock Wade," Kim smiled as she landed the car just inside the hatchway and drove down the corridor. "We'll keep the channel open anyway so you can watch in case you do think of anything."
Ron estimated that they drove about three city blocks, making the occasional turn when a barricade suddenly popped up directing them down a different corridor. Finally they reached two large doors at the end of a hallway that opened automatically as they approached. Passing through the doors they found themselves on the floor of a large arena that was as big as a basketball court. Kim stopped just inside the doors, put the Sloth in park and turned off the ignition. She took out the Kimmunicator and set it on the dash, pointing out the front windshield so Wade could view the battle.
"I love you KP," Ron cooed as he took her hand in his.
"And I love you too Ron," Kim lovingly sighed as she leaned over and gave him a brief kiss, then giggled. "But don't you want to call me KS now that we're married? It's been almost two months since the wedding and you're still calling me KP."
"You'll always be my KP," Ron said with a sincerity in his voice that was truly believable if it wasn't for the lopsided, goofy grin he was sporting. Kim dismissed the grin as being only part of the overall "Ronness Package" that she loved so dearly.
"And you'll always be my Ron," Kim smiled back, patting his hand before she became serious again. "Now let's go kick some alien butt."
"Hey, that's my line!" Ron playfully yelped as they got out of the car and walked, hand-in-hand, to the center of the arena.
"I know," Kim laughed, "I read your mind. You've been trying to find a spot in our conversation to use it ever since we left Senior Island."
"It is always pleasant to see our enemy with a smile on their face," Warhok jovially lilted as he and Warmonga walked into the arena through a set of double doors at the other end of the vast space. "That means they have either made their peace with their Maker and are resigned to their fate or that they are overconfident and have no idea what they are up against."
"Perhaps we should be proper hosts and show them around the ship before we kill them unmercifully," Warmonga joked with a sly sneer.
"Hey that'd be badical!" Ron practically cheered. "And just to show that we're proper guests, I'll go get the beverages we brought along so you can taste what Earth has to offer." He raced back over to the Sloth, grabbed the Kimmunicator and hooked it onto his belt before he picked up the dozen extra juice boxes he'd brought along for the trip and ran back over to the group.
Kim smiled inwardly when she saw the Kimmunicator, with Wade diligently typing away on the screen, hanging from Ron's belt. She knew their tech genius was getting tons of information from the various scanners in the device and was collating and assimilating it as fast as he could. Kim also knew that if she and Ron failed in this mission, which she felt in her heart could never happen, that someone on Earth would use that info to stop the aliens and avenge their deaths. Thanks to Ron and his quick thinking, one way or another, the two Lowardians wouldn't be ravaging any other worlds.
"This is apple juice," Ron gleefully said as he held one of the small boxes out to Warmonga, "the juice that comes from the fruit of an apple tree. It's really quite delicious."
The large green alien took the small box between thumb and forefinger, her giant paw dwarfing the tiny box, and examined it. "It is something to eat?" Warmonga questioned before she popped the juice box in her mouth and bit down, then chewed. A smile crossed her face. "The inside liquid is quite refreshing," then her face soured, "but the outside hull is disgusting." She spat out the beyond crushed box.
"Well actually, you're suppose to open the box and only drink what's inside," Kim said as she took one of the juice boxes from her husband, deftly pulled off the attached straw and inserted it into the small hole in top of the box.
She offered the box to Warhok who quickly slurped the entire contents down. "Ack!" the big alien spat in revulsion and tossed the box away. "It is too sweet for a true warrior's taste."
"Yeah well," Ron said as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck, "I suppose a true warrior would go for prune juice or something like that."
"No, these are quite adequate," Warmonga said as she grabbed the other ten juice boxes from Ron's arms and proceeded to rip off the tops with her teeth, slosh the tiny amount of juice into her mouth then toss the empty carton away.
"So how about that tour?" Kim hopefully chimed.
"It would be a pleasant change of pace from our other conquests," Warmonga said as she wiped her mouth on her bare forearm after finishing off the last juice box.
"If it would make you happy," Warhok grumbled before he walked off, closely followed by Ron, Kim and Warmonga.
Rufus popped his head out of Ron's pants pocket and looked over to Kim who simply nodded as she used her Mystical Monkey Power and telepathically talked to the mighty mole rat. Rufus nodded his understanding, scampered down Ron's leg and grabbed the first juice boxes Warmonga has chewed on before he returned to the pants pocket and held it up so Wade could scan it and get a profile of Warmonga's DNA, just like Kim had wordlessly asked.
The tour went quickly. They casually walked through the engine room, bridge, and detention facilities, among other areas, as either Warhok or Warmonga told the teens about each place. Warhok's sour demeanor slowly changed as he showed off the amazing Lowardian technology until he was practically boasting about each and every piece of equipment in their vast arsenal. Kim asked the occasional question, distracting the two aliens while Ron diligently made sure Wade was able to scan everything.
After an hour the tour was over and Kim and Ron found themselves back in the middle of the arena facing off against the invaders. "Now that you've seen our awesome might do you wish to spare yourselves any further damage and surrender?" Warhok asked as he proudly puffed out his massive chest.
"Thank you for the tour of your spaceship," Kim kindly answered before she slipped in to a martial arts defensive stance, "but we're not impressed enough to surrender."
"We came here to beat you bad guys," Ron said as he got into a Monkey Kung Fu stance, "and that's exactly what were going to do." Rufus, realizing that the fight was on, quickly scurried out of Ron's pocket, grabbed the Kimmunicator and ran over to the Sloth to watch the battle from the hood of the car.
"So you still think you can defeat us," Warhok laughed derisively, "even after seeing our mighty weapons?"
"I know sixteen styles of martial arts," Kim growled as she sunk lower in her posture, "and I'm not afraid to use them to defend the Earth."
"Seventeen KP," Ron stated as he stood up out of his pose and nonchalantly put his hands on his hips with a goofy smile. "You know seventeen styles now that you've been trained in Tai Sheng Pek Qwar." He quickly set himself back into a Monkey style stance as his countenance grew firm for battle once again.
"You're right Ron," Kim grinned sadistically, not moving a muscle from her pose, "seventeen. And except for your battle staff and ray gun, all of your weapons are meant to attack planets, not someone in hand-to-hand combat."
"So be it," Warhok announced as he and Warmonga got into their own battle stances.
Warhok charged at Ron while Warmonga stepped toward Kim and tried to swat the redhead between her outstretched hands. Kim deftly launched herself high into the air, somersaulted twice and planted a kick to the back of the big green woman's head before landing and placing a side kick to the back of Warmonga's right knee. The leg buckled and the nine foot tall warrior woman fell flat on her face.
Ron faired just as well as he channeled up his Mystical Monkey Powers. Warhok swung a meaty fisted roundhouse at Ron who ducked under the haymaker, leapt into the air and came down, glowing fist first, into the warrior dude's face, sending him to the hard floor of the arena.
The two titan-sized aliens swiftly rose from the floor and struck again but both Kim and Ron were too quick on their feet to allow their foes to hit them. The young couple got in a few more good strikes before both Warmonga and Warhok backed off a step, each removed a two foot long baton from their belts and twisted the middle, activating the sticks. The baton extended into a six foot long battle staff with electricity dancing at each end and the two green aliens rapidly resumed their attack.
Kim was able to cartwheel and flip away from the first few strikes before she zigged when she should've zagged and was struck in the side by the electrified staff that sent her flying twenty feet. "KP!" Ron yelped in dismay sensing his wife take the hit and unceremoniously land in a heap.
The distraction was all Warhok needed to hit Ron with his battle staff who flew and landed in a pile next to Kim. The redheaded heroine slowly got to her feet and shook out her scarlet locks to regain her senses as Ron groaned and swiftly regained his footing, his MMP somehow damping the blow more than Kim's Mystic Powers did for her.
"I think it's time to teach these unwanted visitors some proper manners Ron," Kim growled as she held out her hand. In a bright blink of an eye, the Lotus Blade appeared in her hand.
"If they want to up the ante and use weapons," Ron gruffly agreed as he held out his left hand and the Lotus Stem flashed into view, "then I think we should do likewise, KP."
The two teen heroes leapt back into action, parrying battle staff blows left and right with their mystically enhanced weapons. Ron was the first to find an opening in Warhok's attack, severing the battle staff in half and rendering it useless before he lashed out with a MMP empowered palm strike that sent his opponent to the other end of the arena. In almost choreographed fashion, Kim preformed the same moves, severing Warmonga's staff in half and sending the giantess to land next to her mate.
"This isn't over yet," the large green woman growled as she rose to her feet, grabbed the ray-type gun from its holster and aimed it at the two teens. "FOR LOWARDIA!" she screamed as she fired.
Kim and Ron's reflexes were finely honed after more than a year of training and fighting together. They stood side-by-side, one arm wrapped around their mate's waist and crossed swords in front of them as the Lotus Stem and Lotus Blade changed into glowing blue shields. The blast from Warmonga's weapon bounced off the shields and ricocheted back at the aliens, hitting them in the chest and knocking the two aliens unconscious but also blowing the door of the arena off their hinges.
Suddenly the arena went dark for a few seconds before red emergency lights kicked on.
"Hey guys," Wade said from the Kimmunicator still sitting on the hood of the Sloth next to Rufus as Wade remotely drove the car up to the two teens, "thanks for including me on the tour. I was able to use the scanned information to find a way to hack into their systems. I now have complete control of the ship."
"Wade, have I ever told you that you rock?" Kim laughed as she snatched up the Kimmunicator from the hood of her car.
"I'm sorry that I dissed you earlier," Ron said as he picked up Rufus from the hood of the car and let the naked mole rat climb up his arm onto his shoulder. "I shoulda known you'd find some way to help us from your room."
"Hey," the tech genius waved off the apology, "it was no big. I took your comment as a challenge, Ron."
"And it was you who brought the Kimmunicator along on the tour," Kim added before she gave her husband a quick kiss on the cheek. "You must have thought bringing Wade along was a good idea."
"Oh oh!" Rufus loudly squeaked as he pointed to the other end of the arena. "Bad guys gone."
Sure enough, when Kim and Ron looked to where Rufus was pointing they saw Warhok and Warmonga were no longer laying unconscious at the far end of the arena and had disappeared.
"I think it's time we get outta here," Ron said as he swiftly slipped into the passenger's seat of the Sloth.
"I think your right Ron," Kim echoed as she got into the driver's side and started the car.
Kim drove back along the halls and kicked in the three jet engines when she saw the hatch appear at the end of the corridor in which they had entered the spaceship through. The Roth SL Coupe rocketed out of the portal and took to the skies just as the hatch began to close.
"Sorry guys," Wade sheepishly admitted from the monitor in the car's dash as he frantically typed away on his computer keyboard, "but it looks like either Warhok or Warmonga have overridden my override signal. They've completely regained control of their ship once again and I'm locked out of their system."
"That's probably a bad thing," Ron hesitantly murmured as he looked at the large spaceship hovering outside his side of the car, "right?" The hatches along both side of the ship opened and machines started to pour from the openings. The machines were each thirty feet long and pointed at the leading end and had a red glowing saucer shaped disk affixed to the other. Kim, Ron and Wade all recognized the machines as being three-legged, Lowardian Walkers they had seen during the tour. As soon as they left the hatches the alien machines started to fall to Earth.
"It is a bad thing Ron," Wade excitedly said from the monitor as he watched the machine fall on another screen in his room. "They've started the invasion!"
"We need to stop those Walkers before they can land and do some major damage," Kim growled in her full mission mode voice as she put the Sloth into a dive in front of the falling machines. She hit a button on the dash that retracted the roof and windows making the car a convertible. "Ron, you'll have to use the Lotus Stem to bring them down."
"You got it KP," Ron firmly said as he stood up in the now convertible car, held his hand out to the side and willed the Mystical Blade into being again.
The Roth SL Coupe flew down next to the lead alien machine and Ron swung the glowing blue blade at the saucer shaped head of the menace, slicing a gash in its armor. Kim quickly steered them away as sparks fizzled and popped from the damage before the whole Walker exploded. Pieces of the blown up machine flew everywhere, including upward causing the machines above it to become damaged and explode themselves.
The chain reaction was spectacular but it didn't catch all of the Walkers so Kim maneuvered the car beneath the next line of falling machines. Ron swiftly swung the Lotus Stem again getting similar results. The blade damaged the menacing machine which exploded and took out another forty or fifty alien Walkers. Their two attacks had destroyed a hundred of the deadly machines but there were just too many of them to fully halt the invasion.
"This isn't working Ron," Kim yelled to her husband as she maneuvered the car out of the way of the rest of the falling machines. We'll have to use the Lotus Triune Maneuver."
"But Kim," Wade said from the monitor, "the maneuver won't be able to take out the rest of the invading Walkers. I estimate you'll only be able to destroy seventy-five percent of them and then you'll be knocked out cold. Warhok and Warmonga will be able to make more and the world will be overrun by them."
"Not if we take out the whole mother ship," Ron said as he slide back into the passenger's seat, still holding the Lotus Stem in his hand.
"Wade," Kim began as she piloted the car to the front of the football stadium long spaceship and maneuvered the car until it was facing the boxy-shaped ship head on, "you'll have to take control of the Sloth while we do this." Both she and Ron rose from their seats and stood in the open, side-by-side with an arm wrapped around his or her mate.
"Wait Kim, you're too close!" Wade warned as he quickly snatched up his joystick and tried to back the car away from the hovering alien vessel.
The two teens raised their swords with their outside hands above their heads and joined the very tips of the Lotus Blade and Lotus Stem together as Rufus scampered up to their touching shoulders and extended the Lotus Petal into position. The joined tips of the Triune began to glow and expand brighter and brighter and then a beam of Mystical Energy shot out at the hovering alien ship.
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Author's Note: Yes, I'm stopping the story here for the obligatory cliffy. Go to the bathroom, grab a soda and an order of Nacos and then turn the page for the next installment of this thrilling saga.