OK Readers… here's the last chap. of my first try at writing an episode-style story. Sorry for the small wait, so I hope it was worth it…
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Chapter 3
Wades voice came across the speaker of the Kimmunicator as the image of Shego stayed on the screen. "Kim… By my estimation, I think Shego is heading towards the Middleton Science Center." The image then change back to Wade, who was quickly typing on his keyboard, "At her current rate of travel, she should arrive in about 10 minutes. How soon do you think you and Ron can get there?"
"We'll be there in 9 Wade." Kim said, and the two young heroes rushed out of Algebra, stuffing their homework into their respective backpacks.
…x x x x…
"So tell me again why we're going to the Science Center Dr. D.?" The now 55 foot Shego asked her boss, who was riding along inside the pouch strapped to her left leg.
"Because Kim Possible will have no choice but to come to the center's aid, thinking it is in danger of being destroyed. Well, it will be her who is destroyed! Bwa ha ha ha ha!" At that point Shego's foot stepped down on the ground shaking Drakken almost to the point of losing his grip on the edge of the satchel he was riding in.
…x x x x…
As Kim and Ron got out of the green SUV, Ron said, "I just can't believe that Mr. Barkin let us take his car Kim! I mean neither of us even have a drivers license yet!"
"Probably because I got a B minus on my last Drivers Exam, and you received a D."
"But it was still passing!" Ron said, clearly disgusted by the fact that Barkin had put Kim in charge of his beloved vehicle.
Kim gave a sound of disgust and grabbed Ron by the hand to drag him into the Science Center. "C'mon Ron! We have less than a minute to get ready before Shego arrives! Dad should be in his office, and we need to evacuate the building.
Sure enough, as Shego arrived at the Science Center, people were quickly evacuating the building while a fire alarm could be heard echoing throughout the complex.
…x x x x…
"So Dad, you sure this is going to help?" Kim said to her father while the two of them stood near an empty launch pad.
Ron was walking up to the two of them as Dr. James Possible explained. "Of course Kimmie-cub! Admittedly this system was designed for a planet with lesser gravity than earth, but I see no reason why we can't just increase the amount of helium in the spheres to compensate so it will work here as well. The Inflatable Sphere Ascension System… or ISAS, if you will… will no doubt give you the ability to get up high enough so that you can look this 50 foot Shego right in the eye."
"That's 55 feet, Mr. Dr. P." The very high pitched voice of Ron said as he approached the two of them.
"You've been breathing the helium, haven't you Ron?" Kim said as more of a statement than a question, and Ron just answered with a thumbs-up and a wide grin. "You know you sound like Rufus."
"Hey…" Came the squeak of the little naked mole rat from Ron's pants pocket.
Suddenly the three of them felt a shudder in the ground beneath their feet. Kim looked over at a nearby puddle of water that still remained from a short rain the previous night, and saw small ripples appear that coincided with the next rumble. "She's coming."
"She's here." Ron said in a normal voice, as the helium effect had worn off.
Kim looked in the direction that Ron was pointing, and sure enough she saw the green woman's large head moving along behind a nearby structure. When Shego stepped around the corner of the building, both her and Kim locked eyes.
"I knew you'd be here, Princess." The green villainess said with an almost lecherous grin.
"Is that Drakken?" Ron said, pointing at the lower leg of Shego, and sure enough the blue scientist was hanging onto the lip of her leg pouch, looking like he was going to throw up.
"Umm… Shego… Could you…Before I…" A green gloved hand reached down to her left leg, gently lifted Drakken out, and set him on the ground where he seemed to waver for a few seconds before he regained his 'land legs'. He then pulled a small device out of his lab coat that Kim thought she recognized, but couldn't quite remember what it was called.
Kim then reached into her own pocket and pulled out the Kimmunicator. "Wade! She said before the young boy could even say 'Hello'. "Drakken has something that might have something to do with Shego's size. Can you detect anything weird?"
The young tech genius set down his Slurpster cup and quickly typed on his computer. "Good catch Kim! Looks like Drakken's using the Roflax that Dr. Acari invented. I picked up its signature right away. It looks like Shego's size is controlled by the Roflax, so…"
"If we shut down the Roflax, we shrink down Shego." Kim finished what Wade was about to say, but he wasn't really surprised. Kim had been doing this a lot lately. "OK then… Dad, on my mark, release the spheres… and Ron, you get that Roflax from Drakken."
Dr. Possible took the remote out of his pocket while Ron took off running towards Drakken. Kim started to run towards Shego, and shouted "Now Dad!"
The rocket scientist smiled as he pressed the button on his remote, and a large panel opened in the ground about half way between Kim and Shego. Normally used to raise small rockets up from an underground silo, the hole released a series of 14 floating spheres, or balls if you will, stacked on each other. Five of them made up the bottom row, then four on top of those, then three, then two at the top, making a sort of floating staircase.
Kim bound up on the lowest ball just as Shego started towards the teenage heroine. Kim jumped up to the next level and then the next. Just as Kim went to jump to the next and highest level, Shego swiped at the spheres with a hand, scattering them all around the area.
Looking around, for her little pain the neck, Shego didn't see Kim anywhere. She then heard what sounded like a whine of some sort of machinery next to her left ear, and sure enough, there was Kim possible, perched on her left shoulder winding up the cable of her grappling gun.
"Hi Shego." Kim said, as if this was a regular sized Shego she was addressing, and glanced down to see Ron sneaking up behind Drakken. "A little big for your breeches today, are we?"
With a growl, Shego tried to brush Kim off of her shoulder, but Kim just leaped out of the way, and on top of her head. Immediately the large green woman started smacking herself on the head in an attempt to flatten Kim, but only succeeded in smacking herself.
"Stop hitting yourself Shego. People will think your nuts." The green woman now heard in her other ear.
…x x x x…
While Drakken was distracted by watching Shego smack herself silly around the head and face trying to flatten Kim Possible, Ron was able to sneak up behind the blue scientist. Not knowing what else to do to get the small silver sphere from Drakken's grasp, Ron opted to just tap him on the shoulder.
Drakken turned around and saw … "The Buffoon? What do you want?"
"This." Was all Ron said, and quickly snatched the Roflax from Drakken's hand and took off running with Rufus on the top of his head facing Drakken and giving him a razberry.
Being in better shape than Drakken, Ron easily outran the blue scientist, and when he finally stopped and turned around, Drakken was a good 50 yards away leaning on his knees, panting heavily.
"How do I work this, HOW DO I WORK THIS?" Ron yelled while getting excited looking over the silver sphere in his hands. He chanced a quick glance up at Shego, who was now spinning around like a dog chasing his tail, with Kim hanging on to the end of her long black hair.
"Shrink her Ron!" He heard Kim yell in an attempt to get him to hurry up.
"I'm trying Kim!" He shouted back, and began to turn the sphere around in his hands trying to understand the controls. What he saw was a series of ring shaped dials, each inside the other looking like concentric circles. At the very center of the rings was a light, which was now green in color.
Ron quickly turned the outside ring to the right until it stopped, which made the light in the center turn blue. Immediately he heard Kim's voice. "Wrong control Ron!"
He looked up and saw that Shego's hands were now glowing blue, which was Hego's color. "Wrong one." Rufus squeaked.
He then turned the next dial in, and the light in the center became red. "Uh Oh." Came the response from Rufus, and Ron looked up to see not just one giant Shego, but four of them! He quickly turned that dial back, which made three of the green women disappear. The one remaining had Kim hanging on for dear life on the top of Shego's head, so Ron knew the correct Shego was still there.
"I'm gonna squash you like a bug Possible!" Shego roared and Kim was able to swing herself back around behind one of Shego's ears by hanging onto strands of her hair.
"OK Rufus…" Ron said in near exasperation. "Either the next control will shrink Shego with Mego's power, or it will make Shego bigger and even more strong."
"Look out!" Ron heard his little pink pal yell out, and he looked up in time to see Drakken leap at him in an attempt to grab the Roflax. Ron turned just in time to keep Drakken from grabbing it, and the blue scientist tackled Ron to the ground. The Roflax flew out of Ron's hands and smashed onto a nearby rock and then landed upside down in the grass.
Both Ron and Drakken quickly scrambled for the sphere, and Drakken was the first to snatch victory. He quickly stood with the Roflax cradled in both of his hands, holding it high in triumph. "In your face, Buffoon!"
"Dude… I don't think so." Ron said, and Drakken looked at Ron in confusion as the young boy sat on the ground, pointing behind him.
Spinning around while still holding the Roflax above his head, Drakken saw Kim Possible landing gracefully while hanging onto her grappling gun, the line attached to a nearby Rocket Gantry. He hadn't yet noticed what appeared to be a large green and black canvas heaped on the ground next to where Kim Possible had landed. Shego was no where to be seen.
Then he heard a muffled voice that wasn't near as loud as what it had been before. It was Shego, from somewhere underneath the green and black material.
"DRAKKEN!"
It was then he realized that the large amount of material on the ground was actually Shego's jumpsuit! For some reason it didn't shrink along with her body. Bringing the sphere down to eye level, as he was still holding it over his head in apparent triumph, Drakken moved the hand that was covering the indicator light. It was now purple, which was the shrinking power.
Immediately he tried to turn one of the dials, but a few sparks flew from the unit, and then completely shut off. It was now useless, and there was nothing to control the radiation that had made Shego bigger.
Drakken whirled back at Ron. "Without the Roflax there isn't anything to control the radiation of the meteor!" Sure enough, the comet piece back at Drakken's lair now was nothing more than it was before. A multicolored glowing rock that could do nothing without a control mechanism to focus it's energy. "You Buffoon!"
Ron dusted his hands off on his shirt as he stood. "Eh… I do what I can."
…x x x x…
Walking up to Middleton High School, students were greeted by the Marquis sign as it read, "Best Dressed: Vote Today!"
"You know Ron… I'm thinking I just might have a chance at this. I mean, I do look pretty spankin' in Mon's latest outfit."
Kim slowly spun in front of her locker. Today she was wearing a pair of dark gray pinstriped slacks, a matching vest, and underneath the vest she had on a maroon colored long sleeve blouse, which had the collar open, as well as the cuffs, which were rolled up off her wrists. Her hair was pulled back from her face in a business-like style with a high ponytail in the back, and two long bangs framing her face. For shoes she wore opened-toed flats which revealed toenails that matched her blouse.
"I agree Kim." Wade said from her computer after finishing up an entry on his system. "The preliminary votes are in and it looks like you should win by a landslide over Bonnie and anyone else who was entered for the vote. Even those two guys in the cafeteria agree with my prediction."
Kim beamed with pride as all morning whenever someone walked past her, they couldn't help but look in awe at what she was wearing.
Suddenly Ron's voice piped up next to her. "Kim? Have you seen Rufus? I know he was in my pocket when we arrived at school, but now I can't seem to find him anywhere."
"Sorry Ron, haven't seen the little guy. Have you checked the cafeteria? I hear we're having a 'Parade of Cheeses' during lunch. Maybe he's trying to sneak a bite." The first bell then rang for their next class, and just as Kim shut her locker to head out, she turned to once again almost bump into Monique.
"Hey Mon…" Kim said to her friend. "Love this outfit!" Then she saw the look on her BGF's face. "Monique? Are you mad at me or something?"
"As if you didn't know." The young African-American girl said with a put-out attitude. Kim just looked at her, confused by her friend's attitude. "I'm hearing more about you, than who you're wearing."
"Don't you mean what I'm wearing?" Kim responded, clearly still confused by her friend's behavior.
"You haven't said a word to anyone that I made these outfits for you Kim!" By now Monique had her arms crossed in front of her, standing with a huff.
"Oh wow… I'm sooo sorry Monique! I got called to a mission yesterday in the middle of first period, and haven't gotten back to school until today. I should be able to…"
"Take it off." Monique said in a manner that brooked no argument.
"Wh… What?"
"Off with the clothes, girl."
"Monique! I need to get to class, and so do you! And what am I supposed to wear for the rest of the day… My Mission Clothes?"
Her friend said nothing and just held out a paper sack, which Kim took and looked inside. There she saw a simple pair of Cargo pants, and a basic shirt with ¾ sleeves.
"You can change during lunch period, which is right before the announcement of the winning votes." Monique then stomped off, and Kim heard her friend mutter under her breath, "I may as well just design her mission wear. Maybe then I'll get some recognition."
…x x x x…
After the lunch bell rang, Kim dutifully changed her clothes as Monique had asked. She then handed her friend the bag with the other clothes in it when Kim found her and Ron sitting at a table in the cafeteria.
Just as Kim sat down, she heard Mr. Barkin's voice rumble. "Cafeterians, and students of Middleton High… I have here the results of our First Annual Best Dressed votes."
Ron leaned over to Kim and whispered. "I still haven't seen Rufus Kim. I'm starting to worry about him. I hope he's not lost somewhere."
Kim shushed her friend. "Quiet Ron, we're about to hear who's won Best Dressed."
Mr. Barkin, jack –of-all-trades at Middleton High, held up the envelope that contained the voting results. "As you know, there is no runner-up in this vote, only the winner… which I have here."
The entire cafeteria was now as silent as a graveyard as Mr. Barkin tore open the sealed envelope and opened the piece of paper. "Well I think we can all guess that the winner listed on this piece of paper is none other than Ki…" He then actually looked at the winners name, "…Rufus?"
Rufus then suddenly appeared on the podium that Mr. Barkin had been standing behind, wearing what looked like a simple white collar around his neck, and a black bow tie. After a few seconds of stunned silence, the majority of the crowd in the cafeteria applauded and cheered for the 'almost naked' Naked Mole Rat.
"Ron…" Kim growled at her now 'soon-to-be-on-the-end-of-16-kinds-of-kung-foo' friend. Monique was looking at him as well in a way that Ron knew he was in serious trouble.
"I only entered him in the contest as a joke Kim! A joke! I didn't actually expect him to win, really! I mean… he's NAKED! Mon… You believe me, don't you? Don't you?"
Kim and Monique advanced on the blond boy, whose shrieks of fear were drowned out by the rising applause for Rufus, who was now bowing on the podium throwing out kisses and thanking the voters of Middleton High.
The end…
It was suggested that an Episode Kicker be placed at the end of this "Episode", but I have placed this chronologically somewhere in Season 2 or 3, and there weren't any kickers at that time.
So I guess the big question is, would Bob and Mark (writers for KP) use something like this for an actual episode?
Thanks again to everyone for reading! (Now to commence the dodging of rotten fruit)
