I do not own the characters named herein from Disney, and am only using them for a tale meant for entertainment purposes only.
Kim Possible: Dark Destiny
By LJ58
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Kim staggered into the house after a very long, wearying walk home once she got out of landslide that had almost buried her.
One little night off before the rest of her life took over in the name of that blue moron, and then she had to end up getting stuck in the middle of the worst landslide since….ever. She couldn't help but secretly wonder if it weren't that moron's fault.
Not that she would ever call him that out loud. Others had been exiled into the Wastelands for less.
She might play the role of a careless, partying teen without ambition, but inside, she knew herself better than even her mother.
She knew the truth.
She knew everything.
She just couldn't prove it.
Because anyone that defied that blue freak's will was either brain-wiped, killed outright, or sent to the Wasteland that he created in the first place to test his stupid inventions.
Half the freaking country rendered a barren waste, just so he could have a private playground.
Talk about an idiot.
What she really, absolutely hated, though, was what he did to people.
Her dad vanished not long after Drakken first came to power. She knew he had something to do with it, too, but what could she do? She was one girl. Sure, dad liked to say anything was possible, and all that. Only what good did it do him?
Not much, apparently.
Her mom had even lost her place in medical school because of him, and ended up screwing losers just to keep them alive. And in the house the 'great one' magnanimously allowed them to keep. Never mind it was already theirs. She grumbled at that faux charity, and staggered into the shower, washed the mud off her, and then dropped into her bed, weary beyond belief, her head still spinning from one too many hits of someone's bottle.
Sure, she partied, but only to keep the façade in place.
She didn't want anyone to know she was actually sneaking off to the capital just to use the rare computer she found in a library to access taboo files most people didn't even realize still existed. Because, in her heart, she knew, absolutely knew, there had to be a way to steal Drakken's power.
Because if an idiot like him could take the world in virtually a single night, then so could anyone else.
Like her.
She sighed, and gave up, letting the lethargy created by her long walk after digging out of that landslide swamp her. Maybe tomorrow would be better.
If her stupid assessment didn't land her in vice, or worse, like it did every other shapely girl in the world just now. Like that was an accident.
Moron.
KP
"Kimberly Anne Possible," her mother's strident voice shocked her awake after a deep, nearly dreamless sleep that seemed to last a very long time.
Kim gasped, rolled over, and stared up at her mother.
"Mom," she sputtered, staring at the still shapely, still pretty redhead. "What are you wearing?"
"What am I…..? Young lady, get up, and get dressed before your brothers see you like this," Ann told her as Kim glanced down at her naked body.
"What? It's not like they haven't already…."
"What," Ann gasped. "Kim, you know your brothers are still little boys! Don't tell me you've let them…..?"
"Let them? Mom, since when can even you stop them from….."
Kim froze, staring at the name badge on her mother's strange, white coat. A badge that declared she was 'Dr. Ann Possible: Neuro.'
"Mom," she frowned, feeling a headache coming on that had nothing to do with partying, or the long night.
Ann sighed.
"Let me guess. Drakken zapped you on your last mission again? I've told Dr. Director you need more backup since Ron went back to Japan."
"Ron? Mission?"
"Hon, is Kimmie up," a gruff man called. "Breakfast is waiting, and we have a big day."
Ann sighed.
"Hurry up, and dress, Kim. You know your father has been waiting to show you around Middleton Science University all week. We have to at least placate him. Since I'm sure you'll do the reasonable thing, and attend Upperton Medical," Ann told her with a fond smile.
A lot of people might think Kim Possible was an empty-headed, party-girl, but she wasn't. She knew things that might surprise a lot of her peers. Even her occasional lez-friends like Bon-Bon, and Moni. She put two and two together, and quickly got five.
"This isn't my world," she realized, as impossible as it seemed.
"What's that, dear," Ann asked, on her way to the door by then.
She glanced back, waved off her mother, and went into the bathroom.
And stared at the muddy clothes in the hamper that did not look like the clothes she had taken off last night. Sturdy cargo pants, and a dark top. An equipment belt of some kind that was slung over the back of the doorknob. A belt that included….. A hair dryer?
Mission?
Was this world's Kim some kind of…hero?
She climbed back into the shower, turning on the water as cold as she could stand it to shock her to full awareness.
If she was here, was the other Kim now in her place?
Why?
And more importantly, how?
Because as different as things seemed, she could see how bad things might get for both of them if they messed up now. And even if this was….a semblance of her family, she loved her mother. Not this….weird copy.
True, she could do without her brothers. Tyrannical, little jerks. Just because they were geniuses, and assessed early to go into science, and support for that blue pretender.
She finished dressing in surprisingly modest clothes, and walked down the steps to stop and stare.
"D-Dad," she choked, staring at the lanky man with a carelessly combed head of hair that looked surprisingly very familiar to her despite the fact she had not seen him in years.
"Morning, Kimmie-Cub," he smiled over the top of his paper. "Ready for the big day?"
"S-Sure," she smiled, and heard her apparent mother say, "I should have known."
"What is it, honey?"
"That was Chief Hobble. Seems Kim saved a lot of lives on her way home last night when she used the Roth to hold back a mudslide, and keep it from swamping the traffic before they could block the roads. No wonder you're so tired, since he said you spend half the night helping search for survivors, too."
"You know me," Kim smiled wanly, and went to take a mug from a cabinet, and filled it with black coffee.
"Kim, you need more than that. Get you something to eat. We don't have to be there that early," James Possible smiled indulgently at her.
Kim, who was used to eating leftovers, if her brtohers left her any, stared at the heaping platters of food on the counter.
She smiled, and quickly made a plate of eggs, bacon, and several biscuits, and sit down to eat even as a set of familiar footsteps came racing into the room.
"…..did not," Jim declared pointedly.
"Too," Tim countered. "You wait, and see. When Barkin sees…."
"Sees what, boys," Ann demanded imperiously, and Kim actually gaped to see her quell the twin terrors.
"Uh, school project," they both deadpanned.
"No calls today, boys," Ann warned them. "I have a heavy day scheduled, and your sister is going to be with your father, too."
"It's not our fault," Tim sputtered.
"Yeah, Barkin just doesn't like us."
"Because he doesn't have Ron to pick on any more, so he picks on us," Tim concluded.
Ann only sighed, and shook her head.
"Eat your breakfast, boys. The bus isn't going to wait on you."
"We could take the Roth," the teens grinned.
"Not today, you can't," Ann told them.
"But if you're going with dad," Jim turned to eye Kim.
"It's buried under a mudslide."
They both stared at Kim, then at their mother.
"Under a what?"
"Well, a landslide, on top of a mudslide," Kim told them. "I barely got out myself. It was close."
"Closer than the time Drakken shrank you to doll-size, and stuck you in a tank full of piranha," the two sniggered.
"What about the time….?"
"Boys," Ann cut them off. "Eat."
Kim stared at the family around her as she ate, too, and realized they were different in a lot of ways. They looked the same. Sounded the same. Only they…. They seemed to have something else.
"So, I guess you beat that poser Drakken again," Jim sniggered.
"Obviously," Tim told his twin. "So, what was it this time?"
Kim took a stab in the dark, and told them, "I think he was tampering with dimensional interfaces."
"Again," they both whined.
"Man, that guy does not have an original idea in his head," Tim sputtered. "Now, if I were trying to take over…."
"Ahem," Jim grumbled.
"Right. If we were trying to take over the world….."
"Boys, there will be no taking over the world until you have your PhDs," James declared bluntly.
Kim just stared.
This, she realized, was very, very different from her world.
She needed to find out more. And fast. Before someone realized she didn't belong here, and came for her.
KP
Kim realized this James Possible was smart, but very scatter-brained compared to the father she remembered. It took a few subtle questions slipped in on the trip down to the Middleton University to start piecing together things.
Four years ago, when Drakken took over her world, she was stopped not by the army, or a, too her, defunct Global Justice. She was stopped by her. Kim Possible, and her longtime friend Ron Stoppable. Only she didn't know Ron. And she never became a cheerleader, or a crusader. She certainly wasn't there to stop him when he unleashed his robotic hordes on the world.
Then, there were other differences.
Kim, the other Kim, was a global hero that had actually faced off with aliens, as well as villains. She could fight Shego herself to a standstill, and won two out of three. That, she knew, was unheard of in her world.
She was liking this world more and more, and she began to realize the best thing for her world, was leaving the other Kim Possible in place. Because from what she was learning, that Kim was not going to stand quietly by while Drakken ruined what remained of the world. If anything, she was going to be facing off against her longtime enemies, and maybe, finally, freeing her world.
She hoped.
Which meant, she realized, she had to give that Kim time to do that.
Which meant, she couldn't let anyone know the truth. Not yet.
"So, what do you think," James asked her after he stopped his monologue over some vaguely recalled misadventure in his collegiate days.
"Well, it is kind of nice, dad, but….. I'm still weighing my options."
"But you will give it thought? I mean, MSU. I mean, after all," James smiled as if making a great point. "As smart as you are, Kim, it would be a shame if you didn't devote your life to science like your old man," he beamed.
"Funny, mom said the same thing about medicine," she said, though she was guessing there.
"Well, you know your mother," James chuckled. "But, seriously, science," he said in a rather comical aside.
Kim laughed, then impulsively hugged him.
"I love you, dad," she said, clinging to him, and feeling tears brim as she felt a knot in her chest that she had not felt in a long time.
For a long time she had felt nothing. She just went through life, and pretended.
Mostly, though, she just felt nothing.
Now, it was as if this stolen life she was living was slowly melting her frozen emotions. She couldn't help but smile at James' uncomfortable expression, and how he stammered when someone walked into the room just then to catch them.
"Uh, yes, Dr. Chen. This is my little girl….."
"Not so little, now, I think, James," the man smiled at her. "So, you're thinking about a career in science."
"I'm considering all options," Kim countered as she stepped back, giving James space to recover.
"Wise of you. But don't wait too long. I've seen promising minds lost because they didn't want to commit. You must choose a path, and then follow it, no matter what. That is the key to success in any field. Of course, who am I talking to here," the man laughed as he smiled at her. "I suppose you know that better than any of us, Kimberly."
"So, shall we continue with the tour," James smiled.
"Sure, dad," Kim nodded, smiling in earnest now. "What's next?"
To Be Continued…