Chapter 9: Communication...With Fists!

Summary: Fed up with Shego's attitude, Dr. Drakken enlists the help of the other villains to put Shego in her place. But, when a battered Shego arrives on her doorstep, why does Kim feel so strongly about it?

Disclaimer: I own nothing that has to do with KP.

Warning: Violent lover's dispute ahead!

A/N: Whew. Sorry for the long wait everybody! Between finals and coming back home, I just haven't had the drive to sit down and write lately. But here it is! Kim's fight with Ron.

A/N: Oh, it was brought to my attention that it is apparently against the rules to address people's comments as I have been for previous chapters, so with the massive gap between updates, I kindda forgot whose comments I responded to or not. So, tell me if you mind or not, I love responding to comments and it makes me feel bad if I forget to respond to someone. In story is just easier for me. But, enough of my babbling, this is what you guys want:

.................................................................KIGO............................................................

Ron was seriously worried. Worried about his best-friend-since-pre-K-turned-girlfriend, Kim Possible. The destruction she had sown outside was something to behold. He doubted that even a the Justice League could do all that. That was a key indication that Kim had her Battlesuit on, but that didn't worry him. What worried him, was what waited inside the door, which by the way looked like it had been blown open with plastic explosives. An entire army of henchmen, all unconscious, were just inside the base. From the employ of Dr. Drakken, to HenchCo., and every villain in between. This didn't surprise Ron either since all the villains had gang raped Shego, so it stood to reason that they would bring their minions. What surprised and worried him was the fact that they were packing military grade weaponry.

"Why are they using guns now? And how did Kim not get shot? I know she's good, but to dodge bullets? I didn't think Wade made the suit that powerful," Ron knew he'd have to get serious to be able to get to Kim, but now he was going to have to unleash his full ninja training.

As he got further in, he became more and more worried about Kim's emotional state. The henchmen kept getting more and more severe injuries. Not ten feet in, and almost none of them had their entire skeleton still intact. Many of them had severe burns, which he attributed to Kim using them as shields against the occasional flamethrower he'd seen. Well, that hypothesis was blown out of the water when he saw a flamethrower-henchmen with his mask welded to his face in the shape of a clawed hand. He knew of only one person that could (or would) do that, and she was in the hospital, meaning Wade had given Kim that plasma upgrade they had talked about. The scary part being that she obviously wasn't shy about using it to cause serious injury, which may have actually saved a few of the henchmen since the heat automatically cauterized most of the wounds that she caused. Of course Ron doubted that Kim was thinking about this.

"Kim, what happened to you? This isn't like you. But don't worry, I'm coming!" Ron struck a heroic pose to emphasize his point, which Rufus gladly took part in. However, as he continued, his pose, and his face, fell into seriousness, "This isn't like you Kim, this is more like if Shego had come herself. Your not her Kim, you're a good guy...so why are you doing this?" Ron dashed off down the hallway when he heard a loud girlish scream come from deeper in the lair. That was definitely one of the villains, Kim didn't sound like that. If he had to guess, he'd say it was Junior.

What he came to down the hallway stopped him in his tracks, his face visibly paling, he blanched. There, strewn about the hallway, were body parts. Animal body parts, but not whole bodies nonetheless. He recognized the mutated hybrids of DNAmy's design, if only because Kim didn't tear them apart along the animal seems. Scattered amongst the mutant Cuddle Buddies, were Monkey Fist's ninja monkeys. Now while Ron still hated monkeys more than anything, despite his training, he still would never have wished this on any animal. Ron had been keeping the hope in hes heart alive that Kim was still in there somewhere, that she hadn't gone to her dark place. But she apparently had. And this was worse than last time, he only hoped he could do this like last time.

~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kim and Ron had just saved Bueno Nacho, and the world, from Dr. Drakken. Well, Kim had saved them by kicking Shego into the giant tower of evil. And for a split second she had enjoyed it. It was only for a split second because Ron had gone and stopped her from going to town on the rest of Drakken's forces, and Drakken himself.

Ron had seen the whole thing, and the twisted smile on Kim's face. It was a look he recognized from his ninja training, and from years of helping Kim fight villains. So, in a rare moment of emotional realization and support. Which, in retrospect, may have been why Kim had clung to him so much at the dance and subsequently fallen in love with him.

As Kim went to go to town on whoever was left, Ron popped up in front of her with a goofy smile on his face, "All right! We did it KP! High five!" Ron held up his hand in the standard high five position, hoping to draw Kim away from the dark thoughts forming in her head and back into their standard post mission antics. And amidst the wind from the GJ helicopters and sirens, Ron kept up his goofy pose.

It worked. The darkness in Kim's eyes lifted, and he saw the same light he had come to know and love in her eyes.

"Oh, Ron," Kim sighed as she slapped his hand and went to help Global Justice secure the infamous doctor, and find Shego's body. After all, that was quite the nasty hit. He never knew what happened while Kim was looking for Shego, but something big must have happened. Because after they closed the doors on the criminal transport truck, and were on their way in a limo that GJ was kind enough to provide to them for transportation back to Middleton, Kim broke down.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~End Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ron was pulled out of his reverie by an explosion deeper within the lair. So Ron ran faster.

As he came to a large set of doors, which had been blown apart, he was officially doubting that his usual goofy-ness was going to work. There, in the center of the room, was Kim and Drakken. Had the situation not been so dire, Ron would have been awestruck, they were standing under a sky light and looked like they were under a spotlight. It was really theatrical. Well, except for the fact that Kim had Drakken by the throat and was lifting him a good foot off the ground; a fair display of strength considering the fact that Kim was shorter then the malevolent doctor. Kim was also in her red and black Battlesuit, which was blue and white the last time Ron had seen it. Come to think of it, the last time Ron had seen the Battlesuit, Kim was also emotionally upset over the same emerald villainess.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~Another Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kim was crying. A very rare sight, and Ron should know, he's been with her through thick and thin since pre-K. And she was seriously bawling her eyes out. She had put up an amazing facade in front of Global Justice and a couple news cameras, but now, in the privacy of a limousine, with only her best friend and his naked mole rat, Kim let it all out.

"I-I-*sob* almost killed her," Ron could only assume she meant Shego.

Well, duh, I'm kinda surprised that she survived too. Probably only because of her comet powers, but Ron knew better than to back talk an emotionally distraught woman. Thank you soap operas. All he said was, "Well I-"

"And I enjoyed it! Oh God, what kind of person am I?!"

"Well, Ki-"

"I mean...I'm supposed to be a heroine for crying out loud! I'm one of the good guys! I can't enjoy bringing pain to other people," the tears were still streaming down her face as Kim wept. While Ron was used to being cut off, Kim's tears were definitely throwing him for a loop.

"Kim, it's not your fault, I mean-" Ron once again tried to form a complete comforting sentence and was once again shot down.

"I mean, I know their the bad guys, and I'm supposed to not like them, but 'You know what I really hate? You?' Isn't hate a little too strong? Isn't hating supposed to be for them, for the evil guys?"

"Well, I don't really know about evil, Kim. I mean sure, Drakken tried to take over Bueno Nacho, and the world. And Shego may be a world-class thief, but they've never really hurt anyone, or killed them, so I wouldn't call them evil," as soon as the words left his mouth, Ron knew he said the wrong thing.

"Oh! So I'm the bad guy? I'm evil? Is that what you're saying?" It seemed Kim had gone from depressed to angry. And Ron was in the dog house.

"I-uh...No!" It was really hard to concentrate under Kim's heated glare, "I never said you were evil, on the contrary. You're one of the kindest, most caring, and all around good people I know! You'd never do any of that stuff!" When Kim started tearing up again, Ron wasn't sure whether he'd done right or wrong.

"But I did! I almost killed her...Shego of all people! No one deserves to die, that's supposed to be the good guy code, or something, right?" Despite Ron's apparent confusion at the emotional display before him, Kim continued, "And I mean, this is Shego, one of the best. She's one of, if not the toughest villains I've ever fought, and I almost killed her, what does that make me? I-I....I mean....I just don't know...." At this point Kim decided to begin crying into Ron's shoulder. Now all the drama shows on TV would come in handy, Ron knew what to do now.

"Shhh, there, there, KP. It's gonna be alright," Ron proceeded to put an arm around her and gently rock back and forth. Quietly whispering, "It's gonna be alright,"'s and "It's okay"'s to her.

Finally, when they pulled up to the Middleton High School Gymnasium, Kim stopped crying. As they were walking up to the entrance, Kim turned to him and said, "Ron, thank's for being there for me. You've been my BF forever, and I-"

"Meh, it's okay, KP. That's what friends are for," as he said this he turned to her and gave her a friendly hug, but through it all his emotions for her seemed to be transferred, since when they came apart to enter the gym, Kim was still holding his hand.

The rest as they say, is history.

~~~~~~~~~~~Or the end of a flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~

"DIE!" That wasn't a word that usually came out of Kim's mouth. Nor was the red plasma something that generally came out of Kim's hands. Ron, was needless to say, shocked. Fortunately, his monkey ninja training helped him to take it into stride, and keep Kim from doing something else that she would doubtless regret for the rest of her life.

"KP, NO! STOP!" Yelled Ronald Stoppable as he sprinted towards his girlfriend and arch-enemy. He threw himself at her and tackled Kim to the ground, forcing her to drop the freshly fainted Drakken. They went tumbling for a good couple feet before Kim finally kicked him off of her. The both of them flipping themselves upright and facing each other. Each in a fighting stance...Well, Ron was. Kim was just standing there, like some sort of demon, calm, relaxed, yet looking like a coiled spring ready to rip his head off.

"Why, Ronnie, are you getting in the way of my vengeance?" It was very confusing how she could look so frightening and yet ask that question so innocently, as though she hadn't committed several crimes against nature that would sicken most people.

"What do you think you're doing KP? Your vengeance? I know these guys haven't been the greatest of pals to you, but isn't about Shego is it?" Ron needed to know what this was all about if he wanted to help his best friend.

"She-Shego needs me. The burden of her vengeance has fallen on me now that they," Kim looked down at the ground, a pensive, thoughtful expression graced her features. Her suit even brightened visibly, a good sign Ron was guessing. "She can't do it herself now, not after they killed her...I-" As Kim grew more and more somber, her suit shifted color, Ron assumed this was an indication she was calming down.

Just got to keep her talking, Ron figured, then she'll calm down enough so I won't have to fight her. But h-Shego!. "But Kim, Shego isn't dead yet, she's waiting back at the hospital, for you. This-"

"Hospital?" Kim's suit seemed to stop its color shifting. "That's right, they put her in the hospital, they raped her," the suit started shifting back, "Beat her," every word bringing her closer to the darkness she was almost free from, "Almost killed her, they took away her power, her strength, all that made her my greatest rival, the only one to make my missions worth my time. The thing that still gave me that rush. They'll pay for denying me MY SHEGO!" At that the suit darkened back to what it was when Ron had intervened, plasma springing to the hands. And in one fluid motion, she turned and launched herself at the prone cerulean villain.

Having no time to think, Ron used all his ninja training to dash across the room. He almost seemed to materialize out of thin air in front of her, catching her arm and using her momentum to bring her around him and throw her in the other direction. She, however, didn't go as far as Ron would have liked, as she flipped over in mid-air and skidded to a stop about seven feet away from Ron, and ten away from Drakken.

"Ronald! Get out of my way! I'm going to kill him for what he did to my Shego!" As she said this the suit slowly crept up her neck.

"Your Shego? Listen to yourself KP. You're talking like one of them! Her being the cause for your hero-ing? You do it because you can and it's right, not for the rush, remember? You don't kill, you save. An-"

"I did at first. But none of them could keep up with me like She could. Every time we fought, everything just felt so right. Like nothing else existed except for us...Caught in our deadly dance. We were connected on a level you could never understand! And HE took that away from us! And if you want to try and defend him, then you're my enemy to, Stoppable," that hurt. Kim never used his last name with that much disdain, ever. Not even when he royally screwed up. This was not Kim.

"KP, I-"

"SHUT UP, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU NEVER DID!" Kim lunged at Ron with her right claw flexed and aflame, a spitting image of Shego.

Ron didn't have time to think as he moved to grab her lunging hand just as he had before. However, she learned and instead used his hand holding her arm as an anchor and brought her right knee hard into his gut, knocking him away. As Ron flipped and skidded to a stop, looking at his girlfriend, his expression was one of complete seriousness. You're wrong Kim. I understand the bond between two true rivals in the martial arts, I mean I'm a ninja for crying out loud! What I don't understand is why you're taking it so personally, Ron really didn't want to think about what it would mean to have the woman he loved rather killing him to avenge some woman who tried to kill her multiple times, than listen to reason.

Thinking was no longer an option for Ron as Kim went at him yet again. He had to completely rely on his mystical monkey instincts to help him block and dodge. Ron was fairly certain that Kim was moving at superhuman speeds, well, more than normally. It was really disturbing, the fact that he couldn't find an opening to attack. Neither to hit back, or to defend himself from the verbal assault. All throughout the time Kim was wailing on him, she kept yelling at him all the things wrong he did as a boyfriend. Ranging from his scooter, to never leaving Bueno Nacho, even how he kissed too roughly, even her embarrassment at his mascot antics. She even went into his constant screw ups on their missions, going so far as to compare him to Shego almost every time. How Shego wouldn't keep losing her pants, wouldn't give away their position, wouldn't need to be a distraction to be useful. It was disheartening because Ron soon realized that Kim was letting out everything she had ever laughed off, or brushed off with a smile.

He also noticed that the suit seemed to grow further up her neck, stopping just short of her head. The suit! It must be messing with her head! Ron had a plan. Calling up what little mystical monkey power he could, he jumped over one of Kim's sweeping kicks just like he had dozens of times within the last minute, only this time he used her leg as a spring board and jumped over her head. As Ron flipped behind her, he locked his legs around her neck and did a little monkey flip to send her flying into a wall.

Kim had been completely caught off guard by Ron's spontaneous display of master acrobatics, enough so that she didn't really react as she slammed into the wall, merely landing on her feet and stumbling forward a few steps. Ron thought his plan was working until Kim moved to dash forward again, but stopped short and looked down.

Ron panicked when Kim went down. Not like she had been hit, but down onto her left hand, holding herself horizontally and looking at her leg where a pink hairless rodent was scampering down her thigh. As Rufus came to her calf, she folded herself so she was looking directly at the mole rat.

"Well, well, if it isn't the brains behind all of Ron's success, Rufus," When Ron had done his little throw, he had sent a brief flash of his plan to his little buddy through their mystical monkey bond, and the little guy had jumped out of his pocket and onto Kim in an attempt to find her suit's power source, he apparently didn't succeed. "Ya know, a lot more of our missions than I would like to admit worked because of you. And I owe you a lot, however, now you're just a nuisance," as she said this, Kim brought her hand up and flicked the poor pet towards his panicked master.

Ron had barely enough time to shout, "BUDDY!" as he dashed forward to catch his best non-human-friend. When Rufus collided with his chest, Ron's dash forward was cut short from all the kinetic energy Kim had put in his little body. As Ronald stood he looked down at his brutally flicked companion. Rufus had definitely seen better days. The unfortunate mole rat had severe bruising, and trouble breathing, Ron was willing to bet that there were a few broken ribs. Looking to his right, Ron noticed that there was a ball of mangled steel girders, with something furry sticking out. So, he placed Rufus there, where he could at least be somewhat comfortable while he brought Kim down. Hard.

Ron...was...PISSED, and royally so. Even more so because Kim's expression hadn't changed, at all, from the one she had one while she was wailing on him. That same bloodthirsty, but otherwise empty smile. His best friend was gone, and now his bestest buddy. It ends now! An ethereal blue started to surround the irate teen. The beast was unleashed, or monkey as the case may be.

~~~~~~~~~~~Half-way across the world~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The ninja of Yamanouchi were training hard just like every other day. Master Sensei was enjoying a nice cup of tea with Yori (conveniently enough), when he suddenly froze. Yori, not accustomed to having her sensei freeze up, looked at him about to ask what was wrong when she saw his face. Master Sensei's face was one of pure shock and fear, his eyes were open for crying out loud, that in and of itself told Yori something major was going on. However, before she could ask, she turned around to the sound of an explosion behind her in the school.

~~~~~~~~~~~~Back to the action~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kim was curious. She had never seen Ron do this. This must be the "mystical monkey power" I heard about from that ninja chick, I-

Kim's thoughts were interrupted as Ron was suddenly right next to her, with his fist trying to occupy the same space as her abdomen.

Kim was sent flying into a wall, yet again. However, this time she flipped and landed on the wall on her feet, coiling like a spring to jump at Ron and beat his face inside out. Ron had other plans. He was once again in front of her, quite a feat considering she was several feet up the wall. And he started to spin into a front flip in order to bring his foot in contact with Kim's head. Kim decided to, instead, catch his foot by the ankle. And proceeded to use that as leverage and pushed herself off the wall and brought her foot in on a collision course with the side of Ron's head instead. Ron countered this by swinging his other fist across his body and into Kim's shin. The force of the blow causing his aura to become a visible blue monkey. And, oh yeah, blow the two quarreling teens several feet from each other.

"Wow, Ronnie, pretty good. Never seen this side of you before," Kim complimented as they began circling each other. Ron said nothing, just looking even more serious (if that were possible). "Oh come on Ronnie! It's a shame you couldn't pull this monkey crap out of your ass more often, then you'd actually be use-" Kim's taunt was cut off as a glowing blue battle axe found its way through her upper torso. Ron gave a quick flick of his wrist and moved to catch the Lotus Blade as it came to him.

"Well well well, what do we have here? Seems my BF is full of surprises!" Needless to say, Ron was surprised to see that not did Kim survive having an axe go through her, but had caught it. As Ron's expression grew even, surprisingly, grimmer, he could see the gaping hole in Kim's chest mending itself. Ron made no move as Kim went to go decapitate him with the Lotus Blade. He merely moved his arm up to block it. Oh, and he willed it to change into a whip, causing it to harmlessly wrap around his arm. Kim's shock provided enough of an opening that he power kicked her away, keeping the mystic-monkey-power-charged weapon for himself.

As Kim landed from her most recent unexpected flight, she saw a brief blue flash where Ron was standing, before her head became detached from her body.

About a foot behind the now headless Kim, Ron stood with the Lotus Blade (in sword form) by his side as he calmed down. "I'm sorry Kim...But it's over." Ron said with finality. Of course, as Ron calmed down, his monkey powers left him. His eyes were also closed. It would have been really theatrical, for anyone watching. Well, would have been until Kim started cackling, something Ron was sure she shouldn't be able to do without a mouth, or the head attached to it.

Needless to say, Ron was a little disturbed when he looked to his right and saw Kim's head floating about five feet in the air. As he looked at where her neck should have been, he saw a tendril of the suit from the stump of her neck had shot out and caught her flying cranium. This, apparently, was enough to keep her alive. Ron watched in mounting horror as the suit brought Kim's head back to her body and re-attached it.

"Ron, Ron, Ron..." Kim shook her hung (and now re-attached head). " 'It's over'? Why, Ronnie, are you breaking up with me?" It was eerie at how innocent that question sounded. "Are you breaking up with ME?!?" Kim finally turned around, and Ron almost crapped himself. Where before there was just hatred and blood lust, it was just there. Now, it was directed solely on him. Ron gulped, he didn't like where Kim's latest tirade was headed. "Me? Kim Poss-I'm KIM POSSIBLE!! No one breaks up with me!" Ron barely had enough time to throw his hands up to block the devastating punch that was meant for his face. Though that didn't stop him from skidding back a couple inches. "No one breaks up with ME!!!! I can do anything! I'm PERFECT!"

Well, Ron thought, I guess that's what she really thinks of herself...fuck...Ron had to turn the Lotus Blade into a tower shield, Kim's blows (both punches and kicks) were coming in too fast for him to block on his own with out the mystical monkey power, which just wasn't coming back. Fortunately, Kim seemed to be too hyper-focused to be able to attack from any other direction.

"I only let that inbred dumbass Flagg dump me because we weren't even dating in the fucking first place! But YOU?!?! We were supposed to last forever, get our happily ever after together and all that shit! I'm the best thing that's ever happened to you! And you try to cut my fuckin' head off?! I'll kill YOU!" Her final shout was punctuated by an extra powerful, plasma charged punch. A punch which shattered the Lotus Shield, and connected with Ron's poor face. However, before Ron could go flying (as per usual), Kim caught his throat with her other claw and brought him to his feet, passed his feet and into the air even.

"Now you-" Kim didn't get to even finish her threat this time. Instead, she whipped around and used Ron as an unwilling meat shield from the ball of emerald plasma that her suit had just barely sensed in time. Who the fu- Kim's angry thoughts were interrupted, heck, all her mental processes shut off as she saw her newest assailant.

There, standing in the wrecked doorway, was the cause of all this. "Put the doofus down, Princess," Shego was there, in a black and green version of the Battlesuit, standing there with one plasma charged claw pointing at her, and the other on her hip.

"Now, now Princess, you're here clocking overtime. You can settle your romantic issues on your own time."

.........................................Kigo........................................

A cyber-cookie to everyone who guessed right (you know who you are). I'm trying not to specifically mention people, just in case.

Sorry about the spacing between the sentences, I think my word processor doesn't like multiple spaces. And I'm too lazy to go through all that in the FF editor.

See ya'll next time!

P.S. I'm starting to get the feeling that this story no longer belongs under the "Drama" category, what do you guys think?